"Hi Soul!" 5 year old Maka said to her new friend, adjusting the hem of her pink dress, holding something behind her back.
Soul looked up from his sheet of piano notes. "Hi Maka!" He said with a smile of his sharp teeth. "Look, I'm getting farther in my piano lessons!"
The little girl smiled again, being her usual sweet self. "That's great Sharky!" She called him by his special nickname. "I got something for you!" She said as she presented him a bundle of daffodils. "They didn't really smell, but I still thought they were pretty!"
Soul accepted the gift with a smile, but then looked down at the ground from the bench in the park he was sitting at.
Maka sat next to him with a concerned look on her face. "What's wrong?" She said as she adjusted the bunny hear tie that secured her left pigtail. He said nothing and only sighed.
"I didn't get you anything" the small boy said with a frown. "But you got me something." He though of maybe getting her a stuffed animal from his collection in his mansion. "How could I have been so mean to someone who got me a present."
Maka's smile turned into a laugh. "Oh Sharky, there's no need to get so worked up over something so simple as a few flowers!" She exclaimed, talking in her adult-like tone. "Its OK, I mean it!"
Soul smiled at her for being so nice, even if he did become so distressed over a little something like this.
She laughed again. "Come on Sharky, let's play!" Maka said as she grabbed his chubby little hand in hers.
Soul smiled and started laughing, playing a game of tag that had no rules, but just became a never ending game of chasing each other, neither knowing who was really 'it'.
Spirit peered over a bush, almost stalking little Maka as he watched her run around on her chubby little legs. "Awww! My Maka's such a little charmer!" He said, controlling the urge to run up to her and wrap his arms around her and pull her into a big embrace. Of course, he didn't want to spoil her cute game, he would much rather watch than getting himself his own 'Maka chop', as she called it. Even if it didn't really hurt, that girl can sure pack a punch! She didn't know he was here because of insisting that she goes to the park by herself, 4 blocks away. Being the over-protective father he is, he couldn't let a little girl like that wander the streets by herself, so he followed her.
Maka knew all too well that her father he'd followed her to the park. Not trying to spoil his fun of staring at her with his over-protective eyes, she said nothing. Both her ad Soul collapsed on the ground in exhaustion. She stared up at a cloud and pointed a finger at it. "That one looks like a dog!"
Soul cocked his head at the cloud Maka was pointing at, but at no angle did it look anything close to a dog. "It looks more like a train" he corrected her and pointed at another one. "THAT one looks like a dog."
Maka squinted at the cloud that Soul was pointing at, but to her, it looked like a daisy. She shrugged her shoulders. "I guess it does"
Soul smiled. He used his arms as a pillow as he put them behind his head. They sat in silence, as Soul listened to her steady breathing. This is what he wanted. What he would always want.