HiHIHI! so, technically, my excuse for not having it up by Monday is that my religion celebrates easter 8 days after the day (which is totally true, btw)

however, the technical truth is that word decided to be a noob to me monday evening and deleted the entire story. So i had to rewrite it from scratch. now if you're upset, just let me tell you that word also deleted my 10 minute seminar and the 6 articles that i had to rewrite for religion class.

i'm thanking the Gods I even got this far

ah, well, hope y'all don't hate me too much

have fun!

Disclaimer: I do not own Soul Eater

Easter:

"I don't get it."

Maka sighed, frustrated. "You don't have to get it, Black Star," huffed Maka, "No one asked you to butt in."

"Yeah, but if you're gonna tell a story, then you might as well tell a story with me in it. I mean, if this story is as awesome as you say it is, then I should be a part of it."

"This happened a really long time ago, Black Star, so there's no way you could be a part of the story. When Jesus rose from the dead, it was a miracle. And besides, he was God's son. There's no way that-"

"God had a son?"

"That's what it says in the story..." said Maka, her eyebrows furrowing, "But that's not the point. The point is-"

"The point is that God has a mini-God son that I can beat! And when I beat him, I will beat God once and for all!"

"I'm pretty sure you'd have to beat God, and not his son if you actually wanted to beat God," said Maka slowly, "but we don't even know if the story is real. Besides that, I don't know if Lord Death has a son. We've only seen him at the entrance ceremony and we haven't seen his son yet, if he ever had one."

"Well, if he had a son, I wonder what he'd look like," said Black Star, choosing a new crayon for his drawing. "Lord Death's never shown us his face before."

"I think he doesn't want us to see his face," said Maka, "That's why he wants to wear a mask."

"Um, Maka?" Tsubaki tugged on her friend's sleeve shyly, "About the Easter eggs-"

"Right," she said, concentrating hard to remember where she had left on in her mini-speech about Easter. "Eggs mean new life because they have baby chicks and stuff. It used to show, sometimes, Jesus' empty tomb because he rose from the dead. So the Easter egg is a way to remember the empty tomb and how he became alive again."

"Wow," breathed Tsubaki, "That's really-"

"Lame," Black Star cut it, "It's really lame."

"Like I said before," said Maka, glaring sharpened crayolas at the boy, "You don't have to get it, Black Star, you just-. Ugh, you're just like Soul," said Maka.

"Who's just like me?"

"Soul?" The three of them turned to see Soul walking through the door, handing Ms Mjolnir a small note. She took it was a cautious smile before continuing to chastise a young, blonde boy for getting glue all over his clothes. Soul went to the back, hung up his jacket, and slipped back to Black Star's side, pulling Maka's pigtail as he passed.

She let out a yelp at the pull and clutched at the piece of her hair tightly. "SOUL!"

He chuckled and hi-fived with Black Star, grabbing a crayon and starting on his own drawing. "Sorry."

"Sorry?" she frowned, "You did it on purpose."

"No, I didn't!"

"Yeah, you did!" she said, "And I'm going to tell on you!"

"Wait, Pigtails-!"

"MS MJOLNIR!" The young teacher glanced over, and frowned at the sight before her. Tsubaki and Black Star were at the same table, alone, and Maka and Soul seemed to have completely disappeared. Odd, she thought, I was sure they were right there. She shook the thought from her head, and instead started to sort the loose papers on her desk that had managed to get into a rather haphazard state.

Meanwhile, Tsubaki and Black Star were peering underneath the table, where Soul had dragged the young girl. "Hush up," he snapped, "You can't tell Ms Mjolnir!"

"Why not?" she hissed back, quickly re-doing a lose pigtail. "You deserve to be scolded."

"Wha- No I don't! Besides, if I get in trouble with Ms Mjolnir again, she told me that I'd get the next 5 sheets in the handwriting book we got at the beginning of the year."

"Then that's your fault," she sniffed, getting ready to crawl back out from under the table.

"Come on, Pigtails, do something nice for once. Do me a favour, and I'll do you a favour. I promise."

She raised an eyebrow, thinking carefully about his proposal. "You promise?"

"Yes."

Tsubaki tapped Maka's shoulder carefully. "Hurry up, Maka, Ms Mjolnir said she's going to announce something."

Maka nodded to Soul before nodding hurriedly. "Yeah, okay. It's a deal." He grinned that sharp-toothed grin of his, making her giggle slightly. The crawled out from beneath the table, and took a seat beside their respective friend just as Ms Mjolnir turned to make an announcement.

"Alright kids, you're going to have an Easter egg hunt." A variety of questions being simultaneously shouted out caused Ms Mjolnir to shout to call her class to order. "Children, listen up. You're all going to be sent outside to the yard to search for Easter eggs. Our grade 4s have been very kind in putting them out, so I expect all of you to search hard for these eggs, understand?"

"Why should we look for eggs?" asked Black Star rather loudly, "It's not like we're getting anything from them."

"As I was saying," she said, giving Black Star a sharp look that he promptly ignored, "you will each have the task of finding 5 Easter eggs. They're empty inside and the Grade 4s have be sure to put snack in them that you can keep."

"Free candy? Never mind, this is a genius idea!" cheered Black Star, making many of his classmates laugh.

"Yes, yes, Black Star, it's all a very good idea," said Ms Mjolnir with a smirk on her face. "So I'd all of you to head outside right now. And don't come back before you have 3 eggs!" She added, but she needn't have bothered. Most of the class had tuned out and had started to head to the back to slip on their coats. Only Maka, Tsubaki, Ox and Harvar still sat in their seats, patiently waiting for the crowds to disperse. Maka grabbed a dark red crayon and finished shading in the top portion of her egg drawing before putting it down with a satisfied noise.

When the crowds appeared to have cleared, Maka and Tsubaki, as well as their other two classmates, grabbed their own coats and ran outside.

Their classmates were scattered everywhere. Many children peered through the iron gates that lined their yard and through bushes. Maka heard many cries of joy as children pull colourful eggs from small hiding places and she was determined to find her own.

Tsubaki and Maka set off at once to find the treasured eggs, searching for them high and low. Oddly enough, Tsubaki's eyes were sharp and she was able to find three eggs quite quickly. Maka did not have as much luck, and the girl slaved away, trying to find her third and final egg that would finally complete her mission. Most of the students had already returned to the classroom, having found their three eggs and Maka felt a pang of jealousy; especially when Ox was able to find his faster than her.

However, this jealousy only fuelled her determination to keep searching, and search she did, until she spotted a small, polka dotted egg that sat on a high up branch on the maple tree. She reached up, trying to grab it, but she couldn't reach it. She huffed, frustrated, and started in a half-hearted attempt to climb the tree.

"Maka, are you sure that's a safe thing to do? I mean, you're trying to climb a really tall tree."

"I'll be fine," she said, hissing when the bark slipped slightly, cutting into her hand.

"Come on, Maka, don't be like this. We can go find another egg. It doesn't have to be the one in the tree."

The little girl gritted her teeth and continued to climb up. However, the likely hood of a little girl of Maka's strength to climb all the way up the tree was very low. And it was proven when she fell from a rather slight height.

"Pigtails, what are you trying to do?" Maka opened her eyes wide and looked up to see Soul and Black Star staring down at her.

"What do you want?" she said angrily, "Haven't you found your 3 eggs yet?"

"As if," laughed Soul, "Black Star kept shouting whenever he saw one and then all the other kids went to grab. He's only got one. I've got my three, but I promised Black Star I'd help out."

"Except you're not really helping me," huffed Black Star, "You're talking to her."

"Hush up, Black Star," he said, before turning back to Maka. "Don't you think it's about time you sat up?"

Maka pushed herself up off the ground, ignoring Soul's stretched out hand. "Like I said, what are you guys doing here?"

"We saw you fall and wanted to know why you fell."

She fidgeted. If she told them, would they go after the egg itself. "It's another egg, Soul," said Tsubaki shyly, trying to ignore the way Black Star was rambling off at her side. "She was trying to get it."

"ANOTHER EGG!" shouted Black Star, and Soul smacked his forehead at his friend's foolishness. A few of the kids in the playground turned around quickly, and were soon racing across the yard to get to the egg.

"Black Star!" hissed Maka, "Why would you do that?"

"My bad?"

Soul was totally ready to leave without another word when the look on Maka's face stopped him. She really wanted this egg. Maybe it was just a girl thing, to care so much about the little things, but maybe Soul felt obligated to help her. Just a little.

"This is the favour," he said to her, before placing his hands on the long trunk and beginning to scale the tree.

Maka watched in awe as he climbed up it, his jeans catching on the rough bark occasionally. But he ignored it, continuing to climb until he sat on the thin branch that held the egg of her choice. With a determined puff, he reached over, grabbed it, and threw it down to her, laughing when she went into a scramble to catch it. A groan resounded through the children that had gathered at the tree's base for the egg and they slowly walked away, continuing to search.

"I've got all three, Tsubaki," she breathed, happily, "all 3. THANK YOU, SOUL!" She said, throwing her arms around him once he had clambered to the bottom.

He gasped and immediately pushed her away, red eyes wide. "Don't scare me like that," he said, eying her warily, "And don't take this the wrong way, Pigtails. I did this because I owe you, not because we're friends or whatever."

"Aw. Are you sure you can't just say that we're friends and that that is why you did it?"

"No."

"Oh, okay," she ginned, "Thanks anyway, Soul." The boy shrugged and pointed to the far end of the yard.

"I think I saw an egg over there, 'Star, let's go check it out before you get in trouble for not finding your 3."

Black Star nodded enthusiastically and patted Tsubaki's head. "Later, Tsubaki. Pigtails," he said, acknowledging her as an afterthought, before running off with Soul to the far end of the yard.

"We should head inside too, Maka," said Tsubaki with a shy smile, "It's still kind of cool out and Ms Mjolnir told us to come back in once we're done."

"Yeah, okay," said Maka, placing the plastic eggs into her pocket. They walked over to the classroom door, and stepped inside, feeling relieved.

But Maka couldn't help but throw a glance back, and smile at Black Star's loud shouts and Soul's tired smirk.

please R&R hope this wasn't as bad as i thought it was :3