Choice of words

"Where's the others?" Kid asked the only girl left in the basket ball court. It was one of those weekends were the gang decided to forget kishins and work and just be a normal teenager, which is playing basket ball.

"Black*Star and Patty saw the ice cream truck and went to buy, Liz and Tsubaki went with them in case those two do something... reckless. Soul also went to buy and I stayed to watch our stuffs." Maka said nonchalantly, engrossed in the book she's currently reading.

"I just took a potty break and everyone left to go get some ice cream... They didn't even ask if I want one." Kid said in a depressed yet playful tone, puffing his cheeks out and flopping to the bench were Maka sits, arms crossed.

Maka giggled at his childish demeanor. "Aww liwwle Kiddo wants some ice cream too."

"You got that right! No one really cares about my feelings." He said dramatically.

Maka laughed more, this wasn't the normal Kid she knew, she thought. "What is happening with you, haha. You come back from potty break and you're... this! Hahaha"

"This? What this?" Kid asked looking around.

"You're funny and acting like a child." Maka wiped the 'laugh tears' from her eyes, regaining her composure. "You're Kid with the stoic expression, the crude face dude, mister straight lace, the dude who girls fawns over with and stuff." She made faces to amplify her descriptions.

"What crude face?" He narrowed her eyes on her only to receive a smirk from her, "Well to let you know I'm always this funny to begin with. I'm stoic 'cause I need to, being the Shinigami's son of course. Might as well add, your description is really not accurate." He said, nose point up and arms crossed seemingly affected by Maka's choice of words.

"Haha, ok ok. I'm sorry, pfft, haha" She couldn't contain her laughter even though the reaper was serious.

"Stop laughing! Now you need to say sorry and say descriptions that really fit me." The reaper demanded. Kid was having fun with her, they didn't get some alone time that often and it was nice for them to talk for a while, plus a part of him wants to know how she describe him the last description really did affect him in a strange way.

"Woah woah ok there mister straight laced.." Maka teased, the look Kid was giving her made her laughed again. "Ok ok, hmmm. First of all you're an OCD freak, no offence."

"Non taken"

"You're powerful, which I kinda envy." She said, clenching her fists.

"You're powerful as well." Kid reassured.

"Yeah right, you're also good at soul perception."

"But your's are way more better." Kid smiled at her.

"You are really an eye catcher."

Kid was shocked at that comment. "How?" he asked.

"How? Well first of all is your sanzu lines," She said pointing at his hair. He gasped and said, "Don't look at it! It's hideous!" grabbing his hair and pulling it quite roughly.

"No it's not! Get your hands off of your hair this instant! The lines are cute." a faint blush crept on his face, Maka and her choice of words, he thought.

"Next are your eyes. Who wouldn't be intrigued by your eyes! Just look at them! They're gold for pete's sake!" She said flailing her arms, exaggerating her comment.

"You're eyes are beautiful too..." Once he said that, an awkward silence break in.

After minutes of silence Kid finally talked, "What's taking them so long."

"Yeah, maybe Black*Star and Patty caused trouble again? I remember the old ice cream vendor quit on the spot when they made him cry."

"Oh I remember that. Poor guy..." Then another round of silence.

"Kid... How do you know when you love someone?" Maka asked out of the blue. Kid's eyes went wide at her question but he answered nonetheless.

"When you're in love you feel all happy and giddy inside, it makes you cheerful just thinking about your loved one, happy when you talk to him, excited to see him. You feel like you have butterflies in your stomach." He ended pointing at Maka's stomach, making the girl giggle.

"Wow, never thought you're the love guru."

"Not me, the love guru should be Liz, she said those words." Kid explained.

"Well... how do you... confess?" Maka asked blushing, not looking at his face.

He went silent for seconds, raking his mind for the right words to answer. Then she looked at her and said, "You look into his eyes, from there, with all your heart, you say..." He said seriously.

She looked up at him, eyes on eyes, she continued, ".. I love you."

He was dead silent at that moment. Is that a confession?, he thought. Kid was fascinated with her at the start due to her perfect symmetry, but fascination turned into unknown attraction when he saw her claw her way up to the top. He saw her fire, her courage, her strength, her weakness, he saw her.

He opened his mouth to say something when a panting Tsubaki came into the court. Tsubaki was clearly worn out from running.

"Tsubaki! What happened?!" Maka asked standing up and went to aid Tsubaki.

"Black*Star... Patty... chase... Ice cream..." Her friend gasped out. As if on cue, a man pushing a stroller passed by them then a wild Black*Star and Patty running to the same path the man was going, then Liz and then Soul.

"Dear death..." Kid muttered. "Maka, you take care of Tsubaki. I'll handle this." Maka nodded in agreement, but before he left he looked at Maka and said, " We'll still talk later, 'kay?" Without hearing her reply he left.

Maka smiled at his retreating form, giving Tsubaki a bottle of water. She giggled at the thought that he'll be getting his ice cream now.