Zane kicked the apartment door closed and threw his keys on the table, "Yo, Maka! You home yet?" he slipped off his shoes and jacket and grabbed a soda out of the fridge, "I'm sorry 'bout earlier. You know… I tried telling you but you wouldn't listen." He sat on the couch and threw his feet up on the coffee table in front of him. He took a drink of the can in his hand and looked around. It was a little to quiet for Maka to even be home right now. Where would she go? He saw her storm back this way. Zane shook his head and grunted as he got out of his seat and started walking towards his room.

He stopped at his door as he heard someone shuffling through his things on the other side. He pushed the door open a tiny bit and looked through the crack. Furring his eyebrows at his unexpected guest his pushed the door open all the way and leaned on the doorframe, "Black Star?" Black Star stopped looking through his stuff and gave Zane a small glace before going back to looking through his things.

"What'd you doing?" he stepped into his own room and the first thing that caught his eye was the big, waist high Rottweiler tied to Black Stars ankle that was sitting on Zane's bed, "Holy…. Shit! Dude!" the dog growled at Zane which cause his to beck up to his closet door.

"Relax Zane, he won't hurt you. Check this out, I found him in the street." Black Star yanked on the dogs leash and pulled him off the bed. Zane took a deep breath and cautiously set his drink down on his night stand.

"I hate dogs." He stated as he inspected his bed for dog fur, "And why did you bring it in my room? On my bed?" Black Star laughed at Zane's concern and took the dog off the leash. Zane held his hands out in a 'why?' gesture and threw his head back in annoyance. He wondered how Soul put up with this guy every day.

"Oh, yeah, hey? Did you see Maka come by sometime?" Black Star shook his head as the dog ran out of Zane's room.

"Not that I know of. Why? Did you two get into another fight?" Zane shrugged and sat down on his bad with his soda in his hand.

"I don't know…," Black Star sat down next to him, "It seems she's starting to lose her concentration or something. Every time I do somethin' stupid, she goes off on me like it's the end of the world."

"Zane, dude. I know exactly what you need." Black Star slung his arm around him and dragged him out of the room into the kitchen.

"Sit down." Black Star said as he forcefully pushed Zane into a seat and wandered over to the fridge, "No looking either!" Zane folded his hands on top of the table and placed his forehead on them.

"Why the hell not? You better not be stealing our food again Star. You know how much it cost to get all that back?" he didn't respond but chuckled lightly. What seemed like over an hour to Zane he finally heard Black Star slam something down on the table beside him and sat down in the chair next to him.

"Thought I lost you there for a moment. You looked dead. Here" He slid a cup full of strange lumpy orange liquid in front of Zane. He raised his eyebrow and looked into the glass from the top.

"What is this?"

"This my man, will get all your worries off your chest. I call it Black Stars disaster…" Black Star said in a little too confident tone in his voice.

"I'm not drinking this." Black Stars eyes widened.

"Why not?"

"It smells weird. I wouldn't be surprised if it crawled out of the glass and across the table!" Zane pushed the glass away from himself with his index finger.

"Dude." Black Star argued with him.

"No-,"

"Dude come on. Just drink it." Zane shook his head and gapped at Black Star.

"No. I'm not drinking it." Black Star crossed his arms and pouted.

"Why not? It took me forever to make. I promise-,"

"Black Star-,"

"I promise it won't crawl around in your stomach."

"Oh, yeah that sounds very promising. If you're so confident it won't crawl around, then you drink it first."Zane looked over at him, "Black Star?" Black Star was looking straight ahead of them at the hall way from Maka's room. He pointed and Zane followed his finger.

"Uh… Zane…He's got the book…" Zane swallowed and placed his hand on Black Star arm.

"I'm in enough trouble as it is… if he chews up Maka's book…" Zane didn't finish his sentence as he and Black Star looked at each other.

"Count of three, we get up slowly and walk cautiously towards the man eating dog and get the book from his teeth?" Black Star suggested. Zane nodded and silently counted to three.

"One… two… three." They jumped up out of their seats and ran towards the dog. Zane jumped up on top on the table and let Black Star run after the dog. Chuckling, he watched the dog chase Black Star around the living room and into Maka's room. Zane's face went white and he stopped laughing.

"Black Star!?" he hopped off the table and into Maka's room with the dog and Black Star. He stopped as he saw Black Star on top of Maka's desk and the dog lying on the floor ripping the books pages out one by one, "Get the dog. I'll get the book…" Black Star smiled and climbed down.

"Now!"Black Star jumped on top of the dog and Zane dived for the book between the dogs paws.

"Zane?" Maka came into the apartment backwards holding a couple bags of groceries in her hands and turned around. She was greeted by Zane a few inches from her and his hands behind his back.

"Hey Maka. I was wondering where you were." He grabbed the bags out of her hands and left Maka confused at his sudden urge to help her, "Listen… I'm sorry about earlier. I didn't know he was that important to you still." He shouted from the kitchen. Maka shook the confusion away and slipped off her shoes before coming into the kitchen.

"It's fine. It's my fault mostly. I should have told you about him sooner." She sat down at the table and fiddled with her hands in her lap. Zane finished putting away the food and turned around to look at his meister.

"Anything… else you wanted to say? Ask me?" Maka thought about it for a moment.

"You weren't lying about you 'psychic abilities' were you?" he shook his head and gave her a lopsided grin.

"Not really… that's not something I would lie about." He stretched his hands over his head and yawned. Maka took notice of his arms beneath his sleeves when they slipped down when his hands were in the air.

"What happened to your arms Zane?" he pulled them down quickly and shoved his hands in his jacket pockets.

"Nothing." She got up and walked over to him. Maka held out her hand for him to show her. He sighed and placed his arm in her hand and she slid his sleeve halfway up his arm.

"What happened? You didn't have those before we left!" he snatched his arm back and rolled his sleeve down.

"No. I found Black Star in my room… I thought… he was a… burglar?" Maka shoved past him and walked into the living room. Zane's eyes widened as he spotted the vase the fell on the floor when Black Star was being chased by the dog. He rushed past Maka and quickly picked the vase up.

"How did that get on the floor?" Zane asked as if he didn't know how it did get on the floor. Maka took it from his and set it back in the table.

"I don't know… how it got on the floor Zane?" she copied his tone. He swung his head in her direction lazily and rolled his eyes.

"Black Star…" he mumbled, barely audible for Maka to hear.

"What was that?"

"Black Star brought. A dog. Into the apartment." Maka set the vase down and looked around the room.

"Really?" she scoffed, "How… big was it?" Zane could tell from the tone in her voice, she didn't believe him.

"You don't believe me?" threw himself down on the couch and rested his hands behind his head.

"Not really, no. unless you have some proof that a dog was here." She crossed her hands and waited. Zane took a deep breath and let it out in a yell.

"Black Star!" the dog came running out of Zane's bedroom, barking and growling as it jumped on top of the sofa and laid on Zane's lap calmly.

A/N sorry for the late update... ive b een busy with soccer games and stuff. hope you enjoyed this chapter because im starting to write the next!. it should be up by thursday of friday... read and reveiw!