"Well I don't care who she is! If she thinks she can just act all high and mighty then she needs to think again! If she even TRIES to be bigger than me then I'll show her what for!" Black Star huffed down the side of the street next to his friends, who had long ago given up in trying to calm him down.

Maka yanked her book from her jacket for the fifth time and slammed it down on his head, growling unecissarily. "If you don't shut up I WILL bust your head open!"

Black Star rubbed his head and grumbled under his breath, glaring angrily at Maka, who only returned a vicious snarl.

"Well I think she seems really nice, she did help us against the Kishin." Tsubaki smiled and looked at the others, hopfully making Black Star see that he should at least be thankful.

"She didn't help us, she was only there because of Kidd... prissy little rich freak." Soul muttered, making sure to keep that last comment to himself.

"You weren't even there! You didn't see what she did!" Black Star balled his hands into fists and yelled in Souls face, steam coming out of his ears.

Maka screamed and yanked out her book and her spare, which she was thankful she had, and wailed on both of them, each recieving four good chops. "I am SICK and TIRED of you two COMPLAINING! SHUT THE HELL UP!" When Maka had finished yelling at the two idiot boys she calmly returned the books to their places and ignored both of them.

Tsubaki sighed helplessly, knowing full well that no matter what they did boys of the group were always going to be particularly difficult. "What do you think of her Maka?"

Said meister blinked and looked up at Tsubaki like she hadn't been there for that last fifteen minutes. "Huh?"

"What do you think of Bryn?" she repeated.

"Oh." Maka thought, wanting to be honest but not entirely mean. "Well, I don't really know her so I can't make a very good judgement... But she seemed nice enough." She nodded to herself, approving of the opinion she had come up with.

Tsubaki smiled and nodded her head slightly, a smile playing across her face. "I think so too. What do you think Soul?" She turned her head around and stared at the scythe child, waiting for him to notice.

Once Soul finally looked up and noticed her wide eyes he vaguely recalled her question. "Eh, I don't particularly like her, but it's like Maka said, we don't know her yet."

Maka smiled, then suddenly gasped as her hands flew to cover her mouth. "Oh no!"

"What?" Tsubaki and Soul looked at her worridly.

She turned to them and her eyes wodened. "Didn't Kidd invite us over for dinner tonight! I totally forgot!"

Soul rolled his eyes and scowled at her. "Maka, he's got weird things goin' on in his house, I don't think the dinner is still on. Besides, that means dinner with that Bryn chic, which I don't look forward to."

Maka smacked him on the back of the head. "Soul! Don't be rude! We don't even know her!"

"I don't want to go to dinner with that freak either!" Black Star, who had recently shut up, decided that it was safe to speak again, soon finding he was oh, so wrong. The Maka Chop left a thick dent on top of his head, which at one point he was sure it was fuming.

Tsubaki sighed and shook her head. "Black Star, you're gonna have to learn to be more accepting of people, espeacially if you don't even know them!" She then tunred to Maka, smiling again. "I don't think Kidd would cancel dinner plans because of his guest, he's too much of a gentleman to do that. I'd still love to go if you're going, Maka."

"Of course I'm going, whether Soul is or not." She turned to him and gave him the evil eye, silently threatening to blackmail him with the picture of last summers sleep over when he got caught falling asleep on Black Star's lap, courtesy of Patti, if he didn't go. "He did say it was just semi formal, right? Because otherwise I'd have to go shopping and it's almost four."

Tsubaki nodded. "Yep, you can wear that cute skirt and top you wore to last months dance at the academy!"

Maka put a finger to her chin, trying to decided if that was too much or not. "I think I could, yeah." She looked at the street branching off to the right, notincg Black Star and Tsubaki heading in that direction. "Well we'll see you at dinner!"

They waved to each other, Black Star and Tsubaki walking slowly towards the buidling two blocks down the road while Maka yanked Soul down the sidewalk, shouting a final goodbye.

Soul yelled at Maka to slow down or at least let him go, but she either said no or ignored him, never stopping until she had flown up three flights of stairs and was in front of their apartment door.

Maka dropped him and fished out the house key, jamming it into the deadbolt and opening the door. Once the door was open she sped off to her room and slammed the door shut, ignoring the half naked purple cat in the kitchen.

"Nya?" She turned to Soul and then looked back at Maka's door. "What's wrong with Maka-chan? Did you upset her again?" Blair glared at Soul, her ears folding back angrily.

He shook his head. "No, she forgot about the dinner Kidd had invited us to tonight and she's convinced it's still going on even though Bryn has officially invaded his house."

Blair's ears lowered farther. "Oh." She ignored Soul and finished fixing the small pile of tuna fish on her plate, pouring herself a glass a milk before making her way to the living room. She sat down next to albino, making sure it was too close for comfort for him.

"Um... Blair? Why aren't you wearing any clothes?" Soul leaned away, reaching his hand out to the tissue box, horrified when he found it was empty. When he looked back over he could instantly feel the hot liquid enter his nose.

The cat twitched her ears happily and swallowed her mouthful of tuna, taking a sip of her milk. "Well," she started, sliding her tail under Soul's chin. "I was wearing a mini skirt and my leather vest, but while I was walking home I got really hungry and the butcher wouldn't give me any free fish and I had no money, so..."

At this point Soul was well past the gushing of the blood phase, now laying backwards across the back of the sofa while a fountain of blood spurted from his nose. "I need a tissue."

Blair twitched her ears again, looking around. "I think we're out..." She heard Soul groan in frustration before getting an idea. "I know something thay'll work just as well!" She manifested two super plus tampons and shoved one in each of Soul's nostrils, clapping her hands together in pride.

Soul bolted upright and kept very still, wiggling his nose from right to left. "Blair, what's in my nose?" He glared at her, hoping that the horrible vision he had was wrong. She only giggled as Soul's face bleached, his mouth falling open.

As he started to protest he saw Maka, fully dressed except for the skirt that she could never get to zip up herself, pop into view. "Soul, could you-... Soul... WHY THE HELL ARE THERE TAMPONS UP YOUR NOSE!" Maka nearly dropped her skirt to the ground, having to grab fistfulls of it in order to keep it off the floor.

"OH MY GOD!" Soul went to reach for the tampons, yanking them from his nose forcefully, bringing at least a half pints worth of blood with them. "Blair! I asked for a tissue dammit!"

After Maka had gained her composure and figured out the situation she turned to Blair, holding up her skirt and flicking the zipper. "Blair, do you mind? I can't reach."

"Oh sure!" Blair reached for the zipper and gently pulled it up, tugging the skirt down so it rested snugly on Maka's hips. "Bu-tan loves your outfit, it brings out your curves."

Having recovered from the bloodloss, Soul allowed himself to snicker. "What curves? Remember, it's tiny tits we're talking about here." He ducked Maka's fifth edition encyclopedia and sprinted for his bedroom, laughing the whole way.


"What do you mean you're gonna cancel the dinner? What happens when everyone shows up?" Liz cocked her hip to one side and rested her wrist on it.

Kidd rolled his eyes, irritated that she obviously didn't understand that he had a solution for everything, a perfect solution. "When they come I'll just tell them I still don't feel well."

Liz scoweled at him, leaning in closer for effect. "So you're just gonna lie to everyone? That doesn't sound very polite to me."

"Yeah! Besides, I'm sure everything will turn out fine!" Patti came up behind him, nearly scaring him half dead. "What could go wrong?"

Kidd twisted in anger and began to fume. "Way to go, Patti! You just jinxed everything! Now no matter what happens it'll all go wrong!" He balled his hands into fists as the smoke floated from his ears.

"Oh please," Bryn peeked in from around the archway, raising an eyebrow. "You of all people should know not to believe in any of that nonsense, you're a Shinigami for Witches sake! Luck is a myth."

"Nobody asked for your opinion!" Kidd pointed an accusing finger in her direction, grinding his teeth in frustration.

Bryn's eyes narrowed to slits, her tail flicking out from behind her. "Oh, so unwise." She slowly slid her head out of view, jabbing a finger towards Kidd once she couldn't be seen anymore. "You'll be sorry, Reaper Boy."


The doorbell rang as the grandfather clock chimed eight, making Kidd's eyes light up with happiness, he loved when things turned out perfectly. He strode down the foyer and adjusted his evening jacket, making sure he was presentable for his guests.

Once the door was opened all Kidd saw was a flash of purple before he felt the hardwood flooring greet his back. "BLAIR!" He wriggled underneath the fluffy monster, trying to get a free hand.

As Blair was about to pull him into one of her boob hugs a voice yelled at her from down the hall. Bryn leaned backwards from the dining room into the hall, pointing a finger. "Hey, get off." She swiped her finger and glared, watching the kitten huff and stand up.

"How come Bu-tan had to come to Kidd's stupid dinner?" Blair crossed her arms and pursed her lips, popping her hip out to the side. "It's not like I was invited anyways, I have no reason to be here."

Soul glared at the kitten and balled his hands into fists. "The last time we left you home alone we came back to the apartment and witnessed beastiality in more than enough ways! You are NOT staying home by yourself!" His eye twitched when his mind began to replay the goat scenario.

Blair blushed furiously with anger and fully turned to him, her eyes narrowing dangerously. "You said you'd never speak of it again! I told you I was DRUNK! And from far away that goat looked like a really big albino himalayin!"

"Blair... IT WAS A GOAT!" Soul's arms flew into the air as he emphasized the wrongness of the whole situation. As he opened his mouth to say more he felt a sense of awkward float by. He turned and saw a very well illustrated WTF expression upon Kidd's face.

"I'd ask if you guys are ready for dinner but I've lost my apetite..." he said in a monotoneous voice. Before his ears happened across anymore of Blair's eventful nights he turned his back and walked back into the dining room.

Maka saw Soul's mouth reopen and smacked her hand across his face. "Dinner sounds great, let's move away from this topic. I still have nightmares, let's just go." She grabbed the back of Soul's jacket and proceeded down the hall, dragging him with his heels on the ground. She made a mental note to either clean up the skid marks or make them symmetrical later.

The group took their places at the dinner table, the gentlemen seating the ladies after Kidd had scolded them about sitting down and leaving Maka and Tsubaki standing by their chairs. Once Kidd approved, and ignored the glares of annoyance from Soul and Black Star, he stood from his seat and clasped his hands together.

"Before we start I'd like to take the time to thank you all for attending. I understand that the events that have transpired lately have been a little overwhelming, but-"

Black Star leaned forward, slamming his forehead against the table and making the silverware clatter and chime. "UGH! Come on Kidd! Where's the FOOD!"

Soul snickered and bumbed his fist against Black Star's head. "Come on Black Star, don't you know it's rude to interrupt?"

"Thank you S-... don't be sarcastic. And you know that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, and you executed the use of it very poorly." Kidd closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "As I was saying-"

"Yeah really, where's the food! I'm hungry!" Bryn pulled her legs out from under the table and rested her heels on the edge, crossing one foot over the other.

Soul and Black Star instantly shot their eyes over towards the girl, their mouths pulling apart into grins. They raised their hands and gave her a thumbs up, simultaneously agreeing, "We approve, she can stay."

She smiled back with an equally large grin, putting her hands behind her head and snickering. "As if I needed your approval."

Soul's and Black Star's faces lit up even more. It was rare to find a rebellious and rude girl these days, but one that was a total bitch? Those were even harder to come by.

"I'm trying to give a speech here! Do you mind?" Kidd fisted his hands and put them on his hips, glaring down at the demon girl.

Bryn looked up unimpressed, quirking a brow at him, and scoffed. "Yeah, acutally I do mind. I'm hungry, where's the food?" She watched happily as Kidd's face reddened with anger as he began to lose him temper.

"Well you're new here, so I'm going to cut you some slack, but-!" He stopped where he was, suddenly afraid for his life. The look Bryn gave him was so slasher and evil he thought he was going to pee his pants. "Bring out the food!"

Soul, Black Star and Bryn all smiled with satisfaction as the plates were brought in by various servants, all on beautifully crafted silver platters and in ornate serving bowls encrested with gems and precious metals.

The group quietly helped themselves to the dinner, looking in awe at the unusally lavish display. As they picked and prodded at the various plates and dishes the room grew deathly quiet and uncomfortable.

Bryn took this opportunity to take another stab at Kidd. "You better get used to listening to me, Reaper, less you want to wake up in a ditch missing an arm." She then shoved an entire meatball into her mouth and chewed, knowing she was out of talking for as long as she could make that meatball last.

However, Patti had not taken too kindly to her little comment and abruptly stood up, slamming her hands onto the table. She ignored her sister's complaints and orders, deciding to lay down the line. "Hey! Listen missy, I don't know who you think you are, but-!"

Without missing a beat Bryn lifted her spoon, swifty positioned a single pead and, with amazing force, launched it at Patti, having it knock her on the bridge of her nose. "I'm his Demon... And don't ever call me 'missy'."

Patti, being overly hyperactive, to nothing into consideration and flung her entire plate of food at the evil girl, covering her in mashed potatos, spaghetti, cottege cheese and a whole corn on the cob, whitch Bryn missed by an inch.

"Oh, so you wanna play dirty huh?" Bryn sneered hatefully at the weapon, snatched up her glass of sparkloing grape juice and tossed it towards the other, coating the front of her white blouse in pruple liquid.

At this point everyone had refrained from saying a word or mocing a muscle, but the blue-haired idiot just couldn't resist himself, throwing Kidd's hopes of a nice dinner down the public toilet.

"FOOD FIGHT!"

He and Soul immidiately pitched in, catching both Tsubaki and Liz square in the face. Kidd ducked under the table to shield his suit from disaster while Maka yelled at everyone to stop, threatening them all with the Maka Chop of a lifetime.

The fight didn't cease in the least bit, and Liz had eagerly joined in when Soul ruined her shoes with his tuna. Tsubaki sort of stepped in, but only throwing small portions at Black Star, knwoing she wouln't feel bad about it later.

Soul picked up the cherry pie, grinned slyly and swiftly dove at his meister, nailing her square in the face. He didn't stick around to find out what her face looked like, knowing it was priceless. She, however, decided to wait until the opportune moment to strike back.

Kidd, who was still cowering under the table, continued yelling at everyone and tried to warn them about what might happen if Lord Death were to find out. But he was ignored completely, which he thought was almost a good thing.

As the fight raged on the food on the table began to migrate from person to person, eventaully ending up on the wall in some form or another. Black Star stashed up with the meatballs and took refuge on the chendelier, throwing meat bomb at everyone below. Liz and Patti were going at each other while Soul and Tsubaki had engaged in a serious battle.

Maka decided to take her chance, reaching over to the ice bowl where the drinks were kept and filled the rather large cup with crushed ice. She then hid the cup behind her back, giving Tsubaki and wink. When she recieved the OK Maka hurled herslef Soul, pulled open the back of his pants and poured the ice down his boxers. He let out a yell of pain as he danced about the room, spreading the ice to unspeakable places.

With a thundering laugh Black Star fell from the chandelier, meatballs flying everywhere, and rolled around on the floor until he was sure he had broken a rib. Once he was done having a fit and was able to stand on both feet he was knocked into the table by Soul, who continued to dance around in a bad imitation of the funky chicken.

Through all of the madness and food slinging, Kidd had managed to stay clean and dry under the table, however, he was getting quite fed up with how his dinner was turning out. He woundn't have minded a small argument... but an all out food war? He was sure he hadn't done anything to deserve this!

"ALRIGHT!" Kidd jumped to his feet and yelled until everyone had stopped, save for Soul, and glared diaprovingly at the group. "I... am very disappointed in all of you. You know better than this... well," he turned to Bryn who had Patti by the hair while the blonde held a knife at her throat. "You're an exception I suppose, but simple maners are not too much to ask!"

Tsubaki, Maka, and Liz stood up and looked at their feet in shame, knowing that there would be a price to pay. Pattie, Bryn and Black Star, on the other hand, scoffed at Kidd's "hear-felt" speech and rolled their eyes, never moving from their spots.

Soul had finally been able to strip his pants and shake out his boxers before anything started turning blue. As the ice either melted or was dumped to the floor he sneered at Maka, though she couldn't see him, and began plotting ways to get her back.

Kidd looked everyone over and put his fists on his hips, sighing to himself. Then he lifted his head and addressed his guests, taking a mental note that Blair, who had been hiding under the table with him and was currently trying to sneak away, was not going to get out of the punishment. "Now, since you all took part in making a mess of my dining hall you may all take part in cleaning it up."


Bryn: Tch, you are so sadly mistaken.

Author: Well... this was fun to write. I should have the doodle for this chapter I drew at MegaCon up on my deviantART soon, I'll post a link somewhere...

Kidd: You! You completely RUINED my dinner! UNSYMMETRICALLY!

Author: ... would it be possible to do that symmetrically?

Kidd: I would find a way...