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I thought I'd try a disclaimer, for fun. (not really). Navy?

Navy: Sure. Grinn does not own Soul Eater or any of its original characters or plotline and makes no money off of this story. How was that?

Perfect. Now let's get going, shall we?

Navy woke in a bed in what he presumed to be a nurse's office. He tried to sit up, but he felt a pain down in his midsection and stopped halfway. He propped himself up on his elbow and looked around. The room was mostly white, and held a number of hospital beds. He saw that one of them was occupied by his weapon. As far as Navy could tell Tserubii didn't have anything wrong with him, he was just sleeping. He was sleeping a lot heavier than normal though. In fact, he looked like he was sedated.

"I'd lie back down if I were you," a voice said from his right. It sounded perversely cheerful, but just slightly. "Unless you want some of what your friend got." Navy turned to his right and saw the teacher that was at his battle earlier! Navy wondered how long ago that was. He also saw that said teacher was holding a rather large syringe filled with a light purple liquid. He promptly lied back down.

A woman walked in from behind a curtain and sighed, "Stein, don't scare the boy. Sometimes I wonder why you're even allowed in here." Navy thought she looked a bit odd. Her entire upper body was wrapped in bandages, save for her eyes and left arm, which had a peculiar looking tattoo on it. She was also wearing a white lab coat and Camo army fatigues with combat boots. "I'm sorry about him," she said to Navy with a slight smile. "If you decide to stay, you'll get used to him. Oh, you probably want to know our names, right? I'm Mira Nygus, but most everyone just calls me Nygus. And that man with the screw is Franken Stein, more commonly known as Stein or Dr. Stein."

'There is simply no way that man can be a doctor' Navy thought. Just then a new figure stepped quietly through the door. Navy recognized her as the girl that was with Black*Star when they fought. 'She was his weapon,' he remembered. 'What was her name again? I think it sounded a lot like Tserubii's name... I've almost got it..!'

"Hello, Tsubaki!" Nygus greeted. "Coming to check up on the new students?"

'Ah!' Navy shouted in his head. 'I almost had it!' He shook his head and smiled at Tsubaki. No use getting agitated over something as nonsensical as that.

"I hope we didn't hurt you too bad," Tsubaki said with a nervous smile.

"No worries," Navy reassured, smiling. "We wouldn't have come here if we didn't expect a little pain; I just thought we'd get to look around first." Tsubaki let out a soft laugh and her smile widened slightly, but she didn't seem to relax at all. "No really, we're fine," Navy smiled. "The only bad thing that I think came out of that battle is people getting worried." Navy saw Tsubaki's shoulders slump a bit, and he wasn't sure whether to congratulate or berate himself. She smiled again and looked over at Tserubii. 'Well I hope I didn't make her sad,' Navy thought. 'But at least she calmed down a little bit.' He turned to Nygus and asked, "When are we going to be able to get out of bed and begin taking classes? And why is he asleep?" Navy motioned towards his weapon.

"Well," Nygus began, "before you start taking classes you would have to sign up and register for the school. And to do that you need to have an interview with Lord Death himself. You should be able to do that in about a day or so. Your weapon-I'm sorry what was his name again?"

"His name is Tserubii," Navy told her. "And I'm Navy. Nice to meet you!"

"It's nice to meet you to," Nygus said. "And Tserubii should be fine once he wakes up. He woke up earlier and started asking question after question, and he wouldn't go back to sleep. Eventually Stein had to sedate him, because he needed bed rest. You should be able to walk around after another day in bed. Black*Star hit you pretty hard, you know."

Navy glanced down at his midsection and discovered that it was bandaged quite tightly. 'Yea no kidding,' he thought. He looked around a bit and asked: "so where is Black*Star anyway? I thought he'd like to come see me and brag a little about putting me in the infirmary."

Nygus smiled. "Black*Star means well, Navy. He just gets carried away sometimes. Actually, he hasn't been quite as loud lately. I don't think it's because you tied with him, it's probably because he has to wear a neck brace. I keep telling him it won't be on for to long, but he won't listen. At first, he kept ripping it off, but he stopped after awhile." Nygus gave an exasperated sigh as she recalled the memory of Black*Star ripping off his brace and gripping his neck in pain. Eventually, Stein had to put a special lock on it to keep it on him. "Well," Nygus said, "I think we'll leave you alone now. I'll come and get you when you can get out of bed, and I'll have Stein show you to the Death Room.

Navy nodded as Nygus and Stein left the room. He sighed. He was glad that no one got seriously injured, but now he had to lie in bed for another day, and there was no one to talk to. He wished Tserubii would wake up, but that didn't seem likely.

So there Navy lay. There was absolutely nothing to do to pass time. All he could do was wait and hope that either Tserubii would wake up or that someone would come and visit him. Eventually, after he had been laying there for about two hours he looked up as two new faces walked into the room, a boy and a girl. The boy had white hair with a black headband, an orange shirt covered by a black jacket, grey pants and black shoes. The girl wore a black trench coat over a white shirt and yellow vest, a red skirt crisscrossed with black lines, and black boots wrapped in white bands. Her hair was up in two ponytails.

The boy spoke up first. "Who are you?" he asked. "And why did you come here?"

Navy looked confused. He had never seen this boy in his life. "I-My name's Navy," he stuttered. He wasn't expecting to be questioned as soon as he met a student.

"Stop it Soul," the girl scolded. She looked a little worried. "What's wrong with you?"

"I've seen this guy before," Soul growled. "I know it." He looked off to his side and began to think. The look on his face wasn't mean or angry, more thoughtful and frustrated.

The girl sighed. "Don't mind him, Navy. He hasn't gotten a lot of sleep the past few days." She glanced over at Tserubii sleeping in the other bed. "Is he your weapon? Oh I'm sorry, I'm Maka Albarn." She extended a hand towards him.

Navy smiled and shook her hand. He was still a bit confused as to Soul's behavior, but he accepted Maka's explanation and kindness. "Yes he is," he said. "His name is Tserubii. I hope he wakes up soon. It seems unnatural for him to stay still for so long."

"Is he really high-energy?" Maka inquired.

"I'd say so," Navy responded. "But I'm sure you'll find out for yourself once he wakes up. For now, I'm just glad I have someone to talk to."

Maka smiled. "Actually, I was wondering a few things."

Navy looked a little surprised. "Oh?" he said. "And what were they?"

Maka launched right into her series of questions. "How did you deactivate Black*Star and Tsubaki's Trap Star?" She asked. "Every technique has a weakness, but none of the new kids are normally able to figure it out."

Navy thought for a little bit. Honestly, he hadn't tried to figure anything out; he just tried something that he thought might work. "Well," he began, "If Black*Star hadn't used his 'big wave' attack, I don't think I would've been able to get out. I think I just reacted and let his soul energy pass through me and around my soul. His energy had to go somewhere, so I transferred it into Tsubaki. I think she must've been tired from a night of studying or something, because she wasn't in the battle long enough to become exhausted and collapse like Tserubii over there."

While Maka and Navy exchanged questions and information, Soul was back by the doorway, combing his brain for an explanation as to who this kid was and why he didn't seem to recognize Soul.

'He has to be lying,' Soul thought. 'I'm sure that was him. It couldn't be anyone else! Could it? I guess it was dark, and I was pretty tired, but he just looks so familiar!' Soul sat there for a few more moments pondering the question as to whether or not this guy was who he said he was. 'His name might not even be Navy! I wonder if Maka's soul perception can detect a lying soul… Even if hers' can't, Stein's probably can. If it's possible to detect lies with soul perception, he'd be the one who can do it. He gives me the creeps, but he's got skill'

Maka and Navy had finished talking, as it was apparently time for her and Soul to be off to class. "Come on Soul," she called. "We've gotta go! Bye Navy! Come find us when you can get out of bed! And bring Tserubii along!"

"See you around!" Navy answered.

Once they were far enough down the hallway so that Navy couldn't hear them, Maka said: "Soul, what was that all about? He's a new student in the infirmary! The least you can do is be civil! I should Maka chop you right now!"

Soul sighed. He really didn't feel up to a chop from his meister right now, but there was a question he needed to ask her, so he decided to let her calm down a bit. And nothing helped calm Maka down more than Maka-chopping her weapon. She always seemed a bit happier afterwards.

"MAKA…" Maka readied her book, which happened at this moment to be The Chronicles of Narnia. A good read to Maka, but 766 pages of hardcover fury to Soul.

'Oh God here it comes…'

"CHOP!" Maka brought the book down on the crown of Soul's head with a resounding thud.

Soul stopped for a moment, holding his head in agony. But he resumed walking when his meister moved on. He couldn't talk for a bit due to the pain, but when he could, he decided to voice his question as politely as possible.

"Hey Maka?" he decided to start off slowly.

"Yes Soul?" She answered. Either she had gotten over his behavior earlier, or she was so mad that she was faking happiness.

Soul decided to voice his question as quickly as possible, just so he could get it out there without interruption. "I was wondering, does your soul perception let you see a lying soul?"

Maka sighed. "Soul, I'm not sure exactly why you think that guy is a threat. If he had some sinister plot, it will probably be discovered by Lord Death in his interview. And if he does have evil in his soul and he somehow still manages to sneak past Lord Death's questioning, then I think we'd have a powerful enough enemy on our hands that we couldn't do anything about him right now if we tried. Just relax, Soul. I'm not sure what you're so worried about."

Soul thought for a moment. "Yeah," he spoke up. "You're probably right. You still didn't answer my question though."

"I don't think it's possible, because in order to detect something like that, lying has to be in their very nature, something that's impossible to fake," Maka said after thinking for a bit. "If lying was in someone's soul, then we could probably sense it, but soul perception can't be used to detect if a person is lying about a specific thing."

"Ah, I guess that makes sense," Soul responded, his mind put to rest for the moment.

And so the pair walked back to class crescent moon in a comfortable silence, and took their normal seats and returned to their day.

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Tserubii slowly opened his eyes to the world around him, and found that he was sitting in something akin to a hospital room, with small beds everywhere and white walls. He felt extremely groggy, as if he had been asleep for days. Looking about the room, he spotted his meister, who was sitting up in a bed similar to the one he was in. His eyes scanned the pages of a large book, and he seemed to be focusing rather intently on it.

An idea took root in Tserubii's mind, and he decided that now would be the perfect time to scare the living daylights out of his partner. He took a deep breath and shouted at the top of his lungs: "HEEEY YOU GUUUYS!"

Navy freaked out, throwing the book up into the air in the process. It then came down straight onto his head. "Tserubii!" he shouted in surprise. His "What the hell was that? It's 11:30 PM on Thursday! You probably woke the whole of Death City!"

"You know," Tserubii remarked, "Rants like that don't work as well when you use phrases like 'the whole of.' And is it really Thursday night?"

Navy decided to ignore his weapon's first comment. "Yes Tserubii, it is Thursday night. You were sedated when you got up and started running around causing trouble and asking questions. At least that's what Dr. Stein told me."

Tserubii looked puzzled for a second. "Was he the creepy guy with the screw in his head?" he asked.

Navy smiled. "Yeah. He showed up yesterday to do some tests while you were still asleep. He freaks me out a little bit."

Tserubii gave a nervous smile back. "Me too. Did anyone else come visit?"

Navy thought for a moment. "Well, there was the school nurse Nygus. She seemed nice, but she was to busy for me to really talk to her at all. Tsubaki came and talked for a bit. She's Black*Star's weapon. She was really nice, almost motherly, but she seemed really tense, like she felt as if us being in the infirmary was all her fault. I told her not to worry, but she still seemed a bit high strung."

"She seems like the complete opposite of Black*Star," commented Tserubii.

"Maybe," Navy mused, "but I think that's part of why they work so well together. Oh, Maka and Soul visited too."

"Who are they?" Tserubii asked.

"They're another team at the academy," Navy answered. "Maka's the one who beat the Kishin, you know."

Tserubii's eyes widened. "No way," he said. "What type of weapon does she use?"

"Soul's a scythe," Navy said, "But Maka beat the Kishin while Soul was unconscious. She's nice, and she's also the one who lent me this book." Navy held up The Chronicles of Narnia.

Tserubii peered at it for awhile. "Definitely too long for me to read," he said. "Hey, is that blood on the spine?

Navy flipped the book around and examined it. Sure enough, there seemed to be a few little drops of blood near the top of the spine. "Hm." His eyebrows furrowed. "I wonder what that's about I suppose we can ask her about it tomorrow after our interview with Lord Death."

Tserubii brightened. "You mean we get to enroll tomorrow?" he asked, though Navy knew it was more of a statement than a question. "Yes!" Tserubii seemed to calm down a little bit and asked: "Hey, you told me about Maka, but you didn't say much about Soul. What's he like?"

Navy thought for a moment. "I really don't know. He seemed sort of distant whenever I saw him. Maka says he normally isn't like that, but I don't know how he acts most of the time."

Tserubii and Navy thought for awhile, and then Navy announced that he was going to sleep and rolled over. Tserubii did the same and shortly after, the motion activated lights winked off and navy and Tserubii and Navy both drifted off into a peaceful sleep, awaiting their enrollment the next day.

And, done. I apologize for taking so long to update. Hopefully the next chapter will be out sooner, because I was actually going to put it in here, but the chapter would be too long if I included it. Yes Jared, I had you in mind when I typed out Tserubii's yell. I am planning to post an Easter one-shot by Easter, so look out for it. Keep Grinning! (decided to keep the cheesy catch phrase)