Title: Still searching

Author: Words Are Redemption

Disclaimer: I do not own Soul Eater, the OC is my own though.

Also if the text is presented like so – 'italics and apostrophes'- it means thoughts and whatever crosses the character's mind.

Also bold letters means shouting or emphasising an aggressive emotion.

Author's notes: The plot moves forward!

Chapter 6 – The Albarn residence

After Maka's final period of lessons had finished for the day, she remembered – as she was walking towards the exit of the classroom – that she now had three new additions to the 'Maka family' as she liked to call it. Maka felt like she was drowning in a whirlpool of emotions, she was excited that she could potentially make three new friends, terrified that Onyx and his weapons would find something wrong about her house and leave and finally; she felt nervous, Onyx was a grown man – probably around his mid twenties and he always had two women following him. Maka could not shake off the lurking suspicion that she may walk in on the trio doing something indecent and be mentally scarred for life.

As Maka found Soul and walked out of the classroom, she saw the trinity waiting for her – Onyx was standing there with his hands in his pockets, Hime was waving at Maka and smiling and Samantha was leaning against the wall with her arms crossed.

Maka returned Hime's smile and said, "Sorry for the wait guys, we can go now."

Soul suddenly looked as pale as his hair, "wha…what the hell are you doing here?" Soul pointed a shaking finger at Hime – who was now showing her face.

"E…excuse me?" Replied Hime, confused as to why Soul would be so visibly frightened of her.

"Soul! That's rude, her name is Tenshi-hime and she, along with Onyx and Samantha will be staying with us for a while," Maka scolded Soul and the motioned with her hand to each respective person in correspondence to their names.

"WHAT!? No, no,no,no, no Maka, you don't understand, she's unstable and dangerous!" Rebuked Soul, still pointing at Hime – who still looked confused. "She's just playing innocent, she's actually strong enough to K.O Black Star with one punch!"

While Soul and Maka were arguing about the likelihood of Black Star being knocked out in one hit, Onyx leaned over to whisper in Samantha's ear, "So, does Hime actually remember doing what she did?"

"Nope, an' I sure ain't gonna remind her," replied Samantha, still slightly shaken from the cateen food fight.

Onyx only gave a soft hum of agreement and resumed his original position.

"We can talk more about this when we get home, it's getting late," said Maka, abruptly ending the argument – Hime still looked confused, much to Soul's chagrin.

(-)

Onyx was on edge even before Maka opened the door to her multicoloured house. There was a soul inside that was coloured purple – the same as a witch's but it didn't feel right; it doesn't have the ominous presence of a witch soul and it wasn't using soul protect either – something was wrong.

When Maka opened the door, Onyx looked at Samantha and performed a downward gesture with his eyes; Samantha knew what this meant and changed into her katana form.

"I'm home!" Shouted Maka, apparently to nobody because there was no answer.

Suddenly, Onyx felt the purple soul move quickly, it was coming up from behind him. In a flash he spun around and pinned something soft to the wall and had his katana at it's neck. Upon closer inspection, Onyx sees that the purple soul belonged to an unnaturally busty woman with yellow eyes and a cat like mouth. Upon even closer inspection, Onyx regrettably notices that the soft thing he grabbed was actually the woman's left breast. Onyx let go immediately and said sorry in a very timid voice, to which the woman laughed at and then dropped her towel to the ground and stated jumping.

Onyx thanked his inhuman reaction time because he turned around just in time to see nothing, Soul on the other hand, wasn't so lucky and was rewarded with a nosebleed.

Chaos ensued. Hime was appalled at the woman's openness and clear promiscuity, Maka was screaming at said woman to put on some clothes and upon seeing Soul's nosebleed; threw a tissue box at his face.

Samantha was the only one looking at the busty lady, 'HOLY COW! Look at those tits! This bombshell has to have every man in Death city hard for her!' Samantha was mesmerised by the bouncing jugs, so much so that she didn't even realise that the lady had stopped and was no looking at her.

Samantha moved her vision upwards and saw that the lady was twirling a strand of her wet purple hair and waving in her direction. Samantha tried to hold back a blush of embarrassment, she failed miserably. The purple haired lady walked up to Samantha, still butt naked and introduced herself, "Hi there honey, I'm Blair."

Samantha needed water, her throat was all dried up suddenly and she couldn't stop staring at Blair's cute lips. Samantha cleared her throat – which hurt like hell – and replied, "Hey, I'm Samantha… and this is my sister Hime and my meister Onyx." Samantha tried to look casual but she fooled no one.

Noticing that Samantha's voice was rather hoarse, Blair went to the kitchen and got her a glass of water, 'Wow, this Samantha girl looks like she'd be fun to play with. Her skin is so beautiful and she's so lithe, sorry Soul but you can take a time out; Mama's got a new toy to play with.'

Blair came out with a glass of water and handed it to Samantha, the tanned Goddess took it graciously. Blair purposely brushed the tips of her fingers against Samantha's and was very surprised that she felt some sort of heat or electricity when their digits touched. Samantha on the other hand, almost let go of the glass but ended up regaining her composure and smiled at Blair instead.

"umm…ok guys, I know this house isn't anything special but please, make yourselves at home," Maka said, Onyx could see that she was by default, a modest person, but he also saw that she was nervous – due to how her soul was slightly shaking.

"It's not the house that makes this place so special…It's you." Onyx said this without thinking causing Maka to snap her gaze up at his purple eyes, only after seeing Maka flush a heavy red did Onyx realise what he actually said and how it can be taken the wrong way. Thinking on his toes Onyx managed to stammer out very quickly, "And Soul and Blair of course."

"Oh…um, thank you, it means a lot to me," Maka recovered from staring into Onyx's eyes – they were like purple galaxies, so infinite, so beautiful, so scary. Maka noticed Soul grunt, "Soul, thank Onyx too, you're being really stubborn today…"

"Thank him? Why the hell would I do that? In case you missed it, he attacked us and pretty much damn near killed you!" Shouted Soul in anger, his razor sharp teeth bared like a rabid dog.

Maka only managed to shout Soul's name in retaliation before Onyx was looming over him. Maka thought a fight would break out and was extremely scared for Soul's health, Hime and Samantha just stood there smiling – like they knew nothing bad was about to happen. Blair was right next to Maka but had very different emotions – she was more curious than anything; wanting to see if anything interesting would happen in the usually docile household.

What Onyx said next surprised everyone save for his two weapons, "I'm sorry for hurting Maka, truly sorry… but you also need to take into account that you guys attacked me first and without warning. I was reading your battle techniques and soul condition at the time of the fight, everyone was aggressive towards me, which is understandable… but you; you were out for blood, you actually had a killing intent radiating off of you." Onyx stopped for a second and bent down to look into Soul's red eyes – the collision of demonic purple and feral red caused tension to engulf the room. "Now, let me ask you one question; why were you trying to kill me?"

Soul was at a loss for words, "I…I don't know, I don't know OK! I just suddenly felt extremely angry at you, I can't explain it. I'm sorry." Soul apologised in a barely audible voice, looking down at the floor – his red eyes surrendering to the overwhelming purple.

Something clicked in Onyx's head, "Something tells me that your emotions weren't your own, or at least forced onto you somehow," Onyx took a couple of steps away from Soul, "Please stay calm, this may feel like your soul is being touched and rubbed… SOUL REDUCTION!" Onyx's eyes suddenly took an unnatural orange tint, and Soul suddenly doubled over and started coughing.

What Onyx saw surprised even him; he saw Soul slumped over a huge black grand piano. Onyx also saw that there were two spotlights; one was on Soul and one was on a small red creature, the creature looked like a cross between the devil and an imp. Onyx's deduction skills ran into overdrive; the creature was wearing the same pinstriped suit as Soul was – this represented some connection between the two. Also the appearance of the imp somehow unnerved Onyx, like something unnatural but still there. Then it turned in Onyx's direction and started nibbling on his huge red fingers… 'wh…what the FUCK!? THE MADNESS! IT'S IN THIS BOY!' Onyx was shocked, paralysed. This boy was infected by the black blood, but how?

Onyx snapped back into reality, Soul had stopped his convulsions and was now lying on the couch; Maka was looking worriedly at Soul and shaking him.

"Black blood…how did you get infected with the black blood? SOUL! TELL ME!" Onyx shouted, obviously panic stricken; he couldn't believe that the black blood was still in existence and within a boy!

Onyx started walking towards Soul and Maka, worried for Soul's safety quickly spoke up, "Wait! Wait! Soul was cut by a boy wielding a demon sword, um, that's the only wound that he's received recently!" Maka was very scared, Onyx looked like he was about to maim Soul and Samantha and Hime weren't doing anything to calm him. Needless to say, Maka felt like she was ganged up on; out numbered and out powered.

"This weapon; what was it called?" Asked Onyx, trying to remain calm, tying to force his heart to stop smashing against his chest.

"Umm, I don't remem-" Maka was cut off by Onyx's next words.

"Ragnarok! Was it Ragnarok?" Onyx couldn't hold back his anticipation, losing his cool was the furthest thing from his mind.

"Ye…yes." Maka replied timidly.

"The boy who used Ragnarok; who is he and where can I find him?" Asked Onyx

"His name is Crona, I don't know where he is as of now." Maka was glad when the tension in the house started to fade.

"OK, thanks, I'm sorry for the outburst," Onyx paused and motioned Samantha and Hime forward. "Can they use your washing machine?"

Maka was surprised by the sudden change in topic but complied nonetheless, "Yes, I'll show you two how to use it."

Samantha, Hime and Maka went into the kitchen – where the washing machine was located.

Onyx looked at Blair who was looking at Soul's half conscious body, "Blair, tell Maka I'm going out for a while." Blair could only nod in response.

(-)

Onyx only managed to walk down the street until the soul trailing him finally spoke, "So, witch, why are you in my Maka's house?" Onyx turned around and saw the red haired death scythe looking at him with scrutinizing eyes.

"No, weapon… the question is; why aren't you? Are you not related to her?" Both Maka's and the man's soul wavelengths were similar so Onyx assumed that they were relatives. His assumption was correct.

"That's none of your business…" rebuked the red haired man, his voice low and regretful in tone.

"Your right, clearly you did something you regret, well whatever… I have two questions for you; one, where can I find Crona the demon sword wielder? And two;" the tension in the air suddenly broke, "What's Maka's favourite type of treat?"

"Huh?" The red haired scythe had a look of utter disbelief.

"Y'know, a cake, cookies, sweets. I'm being allowed to stay with her so I thought that I might repay her back somehow." Onyx almost gagged when the man closed in on him and spoke, his breath hitting Onyx's face.

"If you do anything to my Maka-" the man was cut off

"I'm not interested in Maka in a sexual sort of way if that's what you're implying, my eyes are set on someone else. Now, what's her favourite treat?" Onyx knew this man was stoned, getting information of him would be easier than usual but it still required a bit of coaxing.

Spirit told Onyx everything about Maka, from birth to when she was her age as of now. Even after Onyx got the location of Crona and Maka's favourite treat, Spirit still kept talking; gawking at how cute and perfect Maka was – so much in fact, the grotesque moon cringed even more than it usually did, it looked like it was in pain due to Spirit's rambling interrupting the silence of the night.

(-)

Samantha and Hime were sitting on the couch. Maka was in the kitchen getting drinks ready. Samantha was reading a fashion magazine and looked over at Hime, who was looking out of the living room window at apparently nothing.

"Hey, sis, ya been lookin' out the window for about an hour now, sparky'll come back when he does. Just chill for a while," said Samantha, even though she was touched at how loyal her sister was towards Onyx.

Hime took her eyes off the street she was looking at to say something to Samantha, but was interrupted by Onyx opening the door and walking in. Hime and Samantha saw that Onyx had a big white bag in his hand.

Onyx smiled at the sisters and took a big red box out of the bag and set it on the table.

When Maka walked out of the kitchen – she had decided on cleaning up some leftover dishes that Soul and Blair left out a few days ago – the petite meister saw something that made her go into a state of paralytic shock.

Onyx, Samantha, Hime, Blair and Soul were sitting in front of the wooden table in the living room. On the table was a huge cake the size of three heads, the cake was pinkish and had lots white sprinkles on the rounded side of it's cyclinder shaped body. When Maka finally approached the cake, she also saw that the edges of the top part of the cake had lots of grapes decorating it and there was also a message written in icing; THANK YOU!

"It's strawberry sponge cake with vanilla sprinkles and a hot chocolate center…I ran into your father, he told me that you ate this cake once when you were six in France and you asked for it every birthday, but he could never get the exact one. So here, as a thank you… enjoy!" Onyx smiled at Maka and the conflicted meister was at a loss for words.

"How?" Was all Maka managed to say.

"I had to go to a couple of confectionary stores to put this cake together, they never had the exact one at any so I decided to just get each store to make a section of the cake and I have to say it turned out quite well." Onyx held out a knife and flipped it; catching it on it's blade and pushing the handle towards Maka.

Maka took the knife and tried to hold back tears – she was touched that someone would go as far as Onyx did for something as trivial as a cake. "Thank you, so, so much. Your so kind…" Maka couldn't even find words to express the happiness at what she was feeling.

"Think nothing of it," Onyx said with a smile, this girl was so cute and sweet; no wonder Soul was in love with her. Onyx smiled at his thoughts… 'time to play matchmaker'

"Kindness is one hell of'va rare thing to come across, at least for us… and I'm sorry for threatening you in the classroom the other day, I was too quick to act… I hope you forgive me." Samantha looked away from Maka and quickly said, "but I don't really care if you do, I'm just sayin'"

This caused Maka to smile softly and say, "Of course I forgive you Samantha, I was never actually angry to begin with."

Samantha was at a loss for words at how genuine Maka was. Hime – who had went into the kitchen to get plates and utensils – returned to the table and set the plates out and gave everyone a fork.

Maka was going to cut the cake, her hands trembling from holding back tears of joy. Onyx looked at Soul and made a gesture of a hand holding another hand and then shifted his eyes towards Maka and then back at Soul.

Soul got the message, he gripped Maka's hand tightly but not forcefully making Maka look Soul right in his eyes. "Hey now, no need to get all emotional; it's just a cake… here let me help you." With Soul's hand gripping Maka's, they brought the knife down to cut the first piece of the cake.

When all the pieces were evenly divided, Maka finally could not hold back her tears and started weeping openly while saying 'thank you' multiple times.

"Awww, don't cry sweaty, here take this," Blair said trying to comfort Maka and handing her a napkin.

Maka wiped her eyes and said a silent prayer in her head about finally having something that resembles an actual family after being devoid of one for so long. Soul laid his hand on Maka's shoulder gently and gave it a light squeeze. Maka who was in emotion overdrive, bravely grabbed Soul's arm – causing him to tense – and hold it tight with her arms.

"Thank you, all of you, I'm so happy." Maka sniffed twice and then picked up her fork.

A soft growl ripped from the air and Hime shifted awkwardly, "s…sorry." That was all Hime could say, she was far too embarrassed to say anything else – having been sitting next to Onyx, who was now smiling softly.

"Here," said Onyx to Hime, Onyx had a piece of his cake on the end of a fork and holding it out to Hime. Seeing this, Hime flushed a burning red and hesitantly opened her mouth a little – trying not to show teeth – and consuming the cake piece.

Onyx couldn't help but notice Hime's soft rose tinted lips slide across the smooth metal of the fork, he couldn't deny that he was slightly aroused – ok lie, he was deeply aroused.

"Huh… guess dieting did help her, who would'a thought." Samantha chuckled lightly until she saw a fork with cake on it dangle in front of her, Blair was holding out the fork and smiling.

"Open wide," Blair said in a sing-songy voice, making Samantha flush a slight pink. Steeling herself she took a bite of the huge piece of cake on the fork, eating it whole. "Oh, my… you have quite the mouth on you," Said Blair, the sexual innuendo hitting Samantha right in the face and causing her to look back down at her plate after saying a soft 'thanks.'

Onyx used the same fork that he used to feed Hime to pick up a piece of his cake a as soon as he was about to put it in his mouth, Hime shouted at him, "Wait! I think I got my saliva on the fork!"

"So?" Questioned Hime, he actually knew what she was concerned about but wanted to have fun with her – as he rarely got to relax like this.

"Well…um, it's just that, its like we're um… oh…" Hime started to blush a fiery red – even her neck was slightly pink – at the thoughts in her head, "It's like we're indirectly kissing…"

"Oh, do you not want to kiss me? Sorry I'll swap forks with you." Onyx loved teasing Hime into submission, but the next few words that came out of Hime's mouth surprised him.

"No! It's not that I don't want to but… kissing leads to arousal and arousal leads to…" Hime couldn't stop herself from talking, it was a defence mechanism for when she was nervous –only when she nervous because of Onyx though. Her next words mad her light headed at the mere idea, "It leads to…sex and I don't think I'm ready yet, we haven't even been on a date or anything…"

It was Onyx's turn to flush red, he loved Hime but didn't wasn't to soil her with his blood covered hands; the things he had done…he was just a murderer… but she felt like the one, the one that he could fall in love with and forget the evil to focus on the good. "Well, do you? I mean would you like to go out somewhere, anywhere? I don't really have a destination…"

Hime couldn't believe Onyx's words; she thought that she would have to ask him out, not the other way around. A small 'yes' was all she could manage.

Onyx's response was a soft 'good' and then he picked up another piece of cake to feed Hime, this time she smiled and ate it graciously; but her burning blush was still fresh on her face.

Samantha was watching this scene play out and was appalled by how fast their relationship had develops; from good friends to people who were preparing to have sex with each other is quite the development.

Maka and Soul was enjoying the cake and chatting about the school day and Blair had retired to take a bath, knowing Blair; Maka had told the trinity that she was going to study with Soul. And so, only Onyx and his weapons were left in the living room.

The atmosphere in the room suddenly turned dense, "Listen, you two. I didn't only go out to get Maka a cake…I visited Stein, I found Crona's location and me and him conversed; we came to the conclusion that there's suddenly a huge fluctuation in madness wavelengths. It makes sense, that was the reason why Maka and that kid attacked so recklessly five days ago; they were under the influence of madness, it affected their emotions and perception." Onyx unzipped his coat, "However, there is one variable; that blue haired child, he wasn't influenced because he didn't put his allies in danger… it could have just been because he didn't get the chance… but if he was somehow able to bypass the madness… I need to find out the reason; this could be my ace in the hole. Stein agreed to look into it for me...but umm, in return, we have to…um,"

"Just what? Spill it!" Samantha was curious to say the least.

"We have to become instructors at the DWMA." Onyx was smiling innocently, trying to cover up his disappointment.

"That's all…that's not so bad," said Hime, genuinely confused as to why Onyx was so hesitant.

"No, that's not what I meant; I meant that Stein managed to out-negotiate me, damn…" Onyx covered his face with one hand.

Samantha and Hime only looked at each other and started laughing.

After a few more hours had past, Onyx heard Samantha try and stifle a yawn; to no avail.

"Looks like you're tired Samantha, go to sleep." Onyx took his coat off and laid on the pink felt couch, he took a small pillow and laid it below his head to rest on, "I'm tired too, well… goodnight ladies, have a nice rest."

Samantha looked at Onyx like he had gone insane, "Huh? You ain't gonna sleep with us?"

"Ahh, nope. I really doubt the bed is big enough for three people to sleep on without touching each other, so umm, I think I'll just sleep down here." In all honesty, Onyx was just grabbing any excuse he thought off; he really didn't want to share a bed with women like them – Hime cuddles a lot and it turns him on to no end, and Samantha just gropes anything that makes contact with her hands. Onyx was afraid that he would do something he would regret, especially since his him and his weapons have not been able to sleep together since they were still kids for Medusa's experiments – and as of now, none of them were kids, they had grown so much.

"That lame ass excuse ain't cuttin' it, we haven't slept together in years, so drag ya ass up those stairs and get ready for bed." Samantha sounded a lot like a mother warning her child to go to sleep.

"Yes, please master, I miss all three of us in the same bed… we might not be able to do it ever again. Can we just enjoy it? Please?" Hime pleaded in a foreboding tone, the tone sent shivers up Onyx's spine and broke his heart. If Hime was referring to them dying in the near future… Onyx wouldn't let that happen, he wouldn't let his most loved people die, if he did; it would be unacceptable and he'd let his soul slowly burn for ever to save their lives.

"Ok, you girls go and clean up, I'll be there I promise." Onyx picked up his coat and walked up to their assigned room.

(-)

Everything was quiet in the Albarn residence, Onyx was laying on the surprisingly big bed – however, as big as it was; it could only fit two people on it – when his two weapons walked in. Without a word the sisters – now clad in pyjamas; Hime wearing a button up sleeping shirt and matching trousers which were both light blue and Samantha wore a black tube top and green shorts – turned off the light and closed the door.

Hime got on the right of Onyx, which caused him to shift away. Then Samantha got on the left of Onyx, which was massively inconvenient because Onyx couldn't shift anymore.

"Are you girls sure y-" Onyx was cut off

"Yes." Both sisters said in unison as they got ready for bed.

Hime cuddled up to Onyx's arm and instantly fell asleep, Onyx could feel Hime's large breasts push against his arm and he had no complaints. That is until Samantha cupped his ass roughly, she was obviously asleep due to her light snoring, which was very cute in Onyx's opinion. Onyx shifted Samantha's hand of his butt and laid there for a while.

'Wow, this feels so right. Tomorrow a beginning starts, hopefully we can make it through the DWMA students without any permanent damage done; mentally or physically.' Onyx looked at Samantha and lightly pecked her forehead, "I love you…sweet dreams my Goddess."

Onyx was then pulled to his right where Hime was looking at him like a neglected puppy. Onyx leaned over a kissed her on the lips – as brief as it was, the heat still lingered like after a supernova explosion – Hime was stunned, she only wanted a peck on the forehead like her sister; she had no complaints though, she actually wanted more but she was scared, scared of going to fast.

Onyx wrapped his free arm around Samantha and pulled her in to rest against him. Onyx also wriggled his other arm out of Hime's grasp and wrapped it around her shoulder, pulling her in to rest on his shirt clad chest. "The first kiss was personal…" with that said, Onyx kissed Hime on her forehead and whispered, "I love you…sweet dreams my angel princess." And with that the trinity now had their long overdue rest.