1,000 apologies for not updating but I've been sick for a good week and crazy busy with all of the birthdays this month, including mine. masterchan21 and Bored here's the chapter with both POVs so let me know if this is better! :3 Again very sorry for not updating in a while!

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The Ball

Soul's POV

I hear a commotion in the clearing of my village and run out of my house to see my brother, Nygus, and Jack running into the entrance. "What's up?" I ask and Wes grins at me, holding up an envelope. "I'll tell you what's up. We're going to a ball at the palace." My jaws practically drops, "What are you mad? I say we don't! That place is bound to be crawling with guards who will capture and kill us on the spot, what you expect us to just walk into the ballroom completely vulnerable? I mean you can't necessarily bring knives and other weapons into a ball." I cross my arms and raise an eyebrow, "And how the hell did you get that envelope if it's from the palace?"
Wes' grin widens, "We robbed another carriage. It must've been delivering more of these letters out of the Kingdom. Besides, it's a masquerade, no one will recognize us 'cause we'll all be wearing masks and sounds to me that you're scared, little brother." I clenched my fists, "I told you to never call me that! And when you put it that way . . ." I trail off, my real fear wasn't the guards but running into her. For some reason just the thought of seeing the girl I saved that day got me nervous. But since it was a masquerade it couldn't hurt to go . . . could it?

Maka's POV

(A/N Maka's POV takes place a while before Soul's) I was called into the Death Room where Lord Death mostly rules from. I'm rarely called there so I was a little worried. Soon I was standing before him with Kid at his right, staring down at me with his golden eyes. I kneel on the stairs in a bow and look at Lord Death, "What is it you called me for, sir?" Lord Death looked down at me, "Maka, as you know you're fifteenth birthday is approaching and as princess, you are required to find a future husband at this age." My jaw dropped, they still see me as a princess even with my victory from a while ago! I folded my arms like a five year old child and scowled. "Come now, Maka." Lord Death said, "It is time but you know what? We'll make it your choice to choose your future husband." I dropped my arms, this sounded interesting, and Lord Death went on. "We'll make the party a masquerade so you won' be able to recognize any of the boys!" I looked at him, "But what fun would it be for me to not recognize the boy I will later marry?" Lord Death wagged one of his abnormally large white fingers, "Silly, Maka," I made a face, "you'll be able to find the right boy for you, trust your gut ok? Think positively! True love will find its way!"
I sighed and agreed, and then as I walked down the hall I thought about what would happen at the ball. The boy with the red eyes, I closed my own, smiled and clasped my hand over my heart, he is the one for me. I just have to look for those red eyes. The invitations were immediately sent out.

Soul's POV

Our village had two girls who were better in crafts and preparing weapons than fighting but they could definitely snap a bone when they needed to, their names were Kim and Jackie. They started on our masks after we persuaded them it was ok we went to the party and Marie worked on our tuxedos and dresses. And by 'we' I meant, me, Wes, Sakura, Nygus, and the Thompson sisters, yes it wasn't too many people but we weren't taking risks like when our groups went to rob the palace. It was moon rise and we were all dressed up. Many of the village girls crowded around Wes, swooning. I heard heels clopping on the ground, turned around and was completely in awe and shock. There, standing in a knee-length white dress and white heels was Sakura. She was looking at the ground, blushing a little. "You look very . . . nice, Soul." I rubbed the back of my neck, "Thanks . . . you too, Sakura." "Aw, how cute." Liz teased and Patty giggled and I glared at them, "Shut up."
"All right now everyone," Nygus said, "Are you ready?" "Ready." we all replied. I smirked and glanced at Wes who was surrounded by about fifteen girls screaming like they were face-to-face with Justin Bieber. "Yeah, let's go while Wes is busy." Wes by now was actually trying to free himself, he glared at me, "I'm gonna kill you, Soul!" I laughed and waved at my brother, "See ya, Wes!" My brother freed himself and charged at me, I just laughed and ran into the dark forest, leaving my friends sweatdropping behind us. Liz sighed, "Man, do those two every quit?" Patty giggled, "Haha! Look at em go!" Sakura giggled and Nygus just shook her head, then she looked at the girls, "Come on, girls." Sakura, Liz and Patty nodded.

Maka's POV

I stood in my room with Tsubaki, and looked at my reflection examining my outfit. I wore a knee-length purple dress and heels as well as a black choker around my neck. My hair was in half-pigtails that were curled at the end. "You look beautiful." Tsubaki smiled then I did. "Thanks, Tsubaki." She wore a long white dress that fell to the middle of her lower leg. I picked up my mask and examined it; it was quite a nice mask, purple with a few sequences that glimmered in the light. "Nervous?" Tsubaki asked me and I sighed placing my mask back on my table. "I don't know, Tsubaki. It's just I'm not sure I'll find the right boy for me." Tsubaki smiled, "I think you're more concerned that that boy who saved you won't be there." I looked at her, "How do you know?" "Maka, you always talk about him and I can tell when you daydream, you dream about finding him." I shook my head, smiled and sighed/laughed, "When are you ever wrong, Tsubaki." She giggled, "Well come on, the party will be starting shortly." I grabbed my mask and walked down the hall with her.
I entered the ball room and immediately saw Black*Star, Kid, Lord Death, and Papa. "MAKAAAA YOU LOOK SO PRETTY!" Papa said as he pranced toward me, arms wide open. I side-stepped and he tumbled down the stairs. "Hello, Maka." Lord Death said then he clasped his palms together and leaned to one side, "Oh don't you look nice." I smiled and curtsied, "Thank you, Lord Death." "Well feel free to chat, the party will begin soon." I looked at the dance floor, basking in the elegant light of the enormous chandelier, from the balcony. "Hellooo? Earth to Maka." I heard Black*Star say and I turned around, "Huh what?" He wore a, no surprise, sloppy tuxedo and his tie was messed up. "HOW DARE YOU IGNORE THE GREAT BLACK*STAR!" I whacked him with a book and let him whimper for a few moments.
"Where's your mask, Black*Star?" Tsubaki asked and the blue-haired assassin sprang to his feet. "What's the use of a mask when my godliness will just shine through? HAHAHAHAHAHA!" I whacked him with the book again and he fell to the floor. "Hello, Maka." Kid said. He was wearing a tuxedo and purple dress shirt underneath. "Hi, Kid." "You look quite nice." I looked at my dress, "Oh, thanks it was my mom's." I shot a glare at my father who was crawling back up the stairs, "Don't look at me that way, Maka. I loved your mother very much." "Yeah so much that you cheated behind her back." I snarled and Papa went to his corner, "Maka-chan is mad at me." He whimpered to his Maka doll as tears streamed down my father's face. How scary is it when your father has a doll version of you. I struck him with a book and he fell over, crying and blood spewing from his head.
"Attention everyone!" Lord Death sang, "It's time for the party to begin!" Kid and I stood on the balcony and Black*Star was already running for the food, Tsubaki scurried after him, "Black*Star! It took me forever to prepare that save some for the party!" Black*Star sighed, "Alright fine, but even gods need to eat too." Tsubaki sighed. Kid and I rolled our eyes, "She should ask him to dance." I say and Kid looked at me, "Why?" "Because she likes him and I know it's a little out of the ordinary for a girl to ask a boy to dance, but I just think she should." Kid and I looked at the enormous door as they opened, and party guests flooded into the ballroom.

Soul's POV

Liz, Patty, Sakura, Nygus, Wes, and I stopped, near the ballroom that was attached to the side of the palace, behind a patch of trees and shrubbery. We looked at each other, brushed our tuxedos and dresses and put on our masks. Liz and Patty wore pink dresses and their masks were fuchsia with glittering sequences on them. The sisters looked at each other, "Whoa." Liz said after a pause, "Pretty!" Patty said in awe, "You look so nice, sis!" Liz smiled, "You too, Patty." Patty giggled. I was surprised; you'd never know it was them! Wes's mask was black, like his soul T_T, and Nygus looked nothing like herself! Normally she is covered in bandages to conceal scars from previous battles and burns from an unfortunate fire that struck the forest as well as our village. She wore a green dress and green mask. "Well someone likes the color of grass." I smirk and she looked at me, "We had no other colors when Jackie and Kim were making our outfits, unless you wanted to look like a leprechaun and wear a green tux and I a black dress." I immediately shut up, "That would not look cool, man."
"Where's your mask, Soul?" I turned around to see Sakura, standing in her white dress and her mask was white and glittery, she sort of reminded me of a swan. "Well the ugly duckling has changed." I smiled but she frowned, she knew I meant her missing eye. "I'm sorry, Sakura. That wasn't cool of me." "No kidding." She retorted and I flinched, she stormed pass me, I let out an exaggerated breath and I put my mask on. "Ooooh wow, Soul-kun! You look amazing!" Patty cooed and I rubbed the back of my head, "Uh thanks, Patty." Liz smiled, "Come on; let's go the party's already started."

Maka's POV

Soon, the room was filled with party guests; I blinked in surprise as to the volume of people. "What's wrong?" Kid asked, "Nothing it's just . . . I didn't expect to see this many people!" Kid laughed, "Well you should've I mean only a fool would deny an invitation to a royal party." I shrugged, "I guess." "Fool!" We heard and looked around; I looked back at my reaper friend. "Did you hear something?" "Fool! Of course he did you stupid girl." Kid and I looked next to me to see a demented . . . penguin? No. Some kind of white creature thing. "Father." Kid said to Lord Death, "Who is this?" "Hm?" Lord Death replied looking at the thing standing next to me, "Oh . . . hello, Excalibur." "Hello! Quite a party eh?" Lord Death sweatdropped and scratched the side his head with one large finger, "Yes, but I do not believe you were invited." Excalibur pointed his cane at him, "Fool! Number 500 of my 1,000 tasks clearly states that I am invited to all royal events even without invitation."
Kid and I just made a face then we shrugged it off and placed our masks on our faces. Kid's was black, grey, and white, a mask that very much suited his attire and reaper self. "Ready, Princess Maka?" He smiled mischievously; I felt my eyebrow twitch but controlled myself, "You are sooo gonna get it tomorrow." I say through gritted teeth in a plastered smile to the crowd below. The guests below whispered to each other for silence and Kid stepped up, "Ahem. Thank you all for coming to our humble party." He places a hand over his heart and the other behind his back, I smiled. Kid was always a great public speaker, he continued. "As you know this party is dedicated to our lovely Princess Maka."—he gestured to me; I waved at the crowd as they cheered—"By the end of the night she will decide on one lucky boy here to marry in the future." The boys in the room cheered but I plastered on another smile, I already had my heart set on one boy, no other.

Soul's POV

On the balcony in the huge ballroom was a boy my age. He had black hair with what appeared to be white lines on the left side of his head; he wore a pitch black tux and a black, grey, and white mask. Next to him was Lord Death and Spirit, the former king. Yes my village and I know about the whole ordeal with Spirit Albarn: his womanizing, cheating behind his now ex-wife's back, his depriving from the throne and his daughter, still, retaining her position in the royal line. We don't live under a rock and we have sources that help us keep updated about what goes on in the Kingdom. "Who the heck is that guy?" Liz asked behind me, "He's actin' like the head honcho." Patty giggled next to her, "I dunno who he is but he's pretty cute isn't he, sis." Liz protested, "Don't be ridiculous, Patty! Besides I can't even see his face so how can you judge?" Patty smiled, "I just know, kay?" I looked at them, "Ssh, be quiet guys." I smile a lopsided smile, "Besides, it's not cool to interrupt peoples' speeches, take a look at that guy." I point to the spiky blue-haired guy in the corner, wolfing down food at the buffet table.
The black-haired boy on the balcony struggled to contain his anger as he continued his speech through gritted teeth, then the blue-haired boy burped and the emo kid snapped, "BE QUIET, BLACK*STAR! YOU'RE RUINING MY PERFECT SPEECH!" He and the other boy began to wrestle, "I RUINED IT! DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHO YOU'RE TALKING TOO! THE GREAT AND ALMIGHTY BLACK*STAR THAT'S WHO AND I WILL SURPASS GOD BUT FIRST I'LL SURPASS YOU!" Then I noticed a girl on the balcony in a purple dress and mask, she was sweatdropping and let out a sigh. She took two books in her hands and tossed them at the two fighting boys who immediately ceased their bickering. "Kid, Black*Star, stop acting like idiots and shut up or next time I'll be sure to use my extra-large encyclopedia!" The emo boy, Kid I assume, got up and brushed off his tuxedo then he dipped his head, "My apologies, Maka." Black*Star stood up next and pointed to him, "Yeah, his apologies, Maka. It was all his fault." That deserved another book to knock him out.
I looked at Maka on the balcony; she had one hand on her forehead and the other on her hip. "Tsubaki, please take him to his room and be sure he doesn't come back into this party." I looked back at the unconscious Black*Star to see a tall girl, sighing, with black hair in a bun take him under the arms and drag him out of the room. Poor girl to have to handle with an obnoxious guy like him and I could tell that Maka was mortified, her hand was hiding her eyes and her head was bowed, poor her, too, and poor emo kid. I chuckled. "Man it must suck to have to deal with him." "Ssh." Nygus whispered and I obeyed. It was silent; all eyes were on Maka and Kid who had joined her side again. "Yeah, Maka!" Cried one boy from the massive crowd as he punched the air, "Way to take charge!" other cries followed and I found myself joining in. Wes and the others stared at me then, Maka lifted her head, clearly taken by surprise then she giggled and waved. She had such a cute smile. Then, I think she looked my way. Her emerald eyes met my crimson ones; she smiled again then looked at the crowd and spread her arms out, "Well without further delay let the party begin! Enjoy everybody!"
Music began to play, friends began to socialize and food and drinks were served. "Well . . ." Sakura said looking confused, "now what do we do?" Nygus looked at her, "Socialize, blend in with the crowd." A look of horror came upon Sakura's face, Nygus smiled and put a hand on her shoulder, "It's alright, Sakura, you're wearing a mask, no one will recognize you." Sakura nodded, looked around unsurely then walked into the crowd. Nygus and Wes broke away as well leaving me with Liz and Patty. They looked behind me, I turned and gasped. I heard the sisters clop away in their heels, leaving me with her. "P-Princess Maka." I stammered and she cocked her head with an absolutely adorable smile. "Haha no need to be nervous I won't call the guards unless you were a thief haha." I forced out a laugh that hopefully was believable. "That was pretty cool how you handled those guys back there." Maka smiled, "Thanks, I've known them since I was pretty young so I know how to deal with them." She gestured her hand to the buffet table, "Want to get a drink?" I nodded with a grin, "Yeah, sounds good." Maka led me to where all of the drinks were; I poured her a glass of orange soda and did the same for me. "Oh, thanks." She said as she took the glass. "No prob." I replied and we walked to a white pillar nearby.
"What's your name?" Maka asked, "Soul." I replied and she smiled, "It's very nice to meet you, Soul." I took a sip of my drink, "Same." "So, Soul", Maka said, "where ya from?" "Not around here." The song playing ended and everyone paused to clap for the band. Maka continued when the next song played, "You're parents here?" I bowed my head and stared at my glass that I swirled in my hand, the orange soda churning. "Nah, they were killed." Maka frowned, "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean—", "Don't worry 'bout it." I smile at her, "It's cool. It's the circle of life know what I mean?" She smiled, "I guess." "Maka-chaaaan!" I heard someone call and Maka whipped her head around, "Oh no, it's my father! He expects to me find a future husband tonight!" "Makaaa!" He called again; I took Maka by the wrist and guided her behind me. The red-headed man walked up to me, "Oh, hello there." He smiled, "Have you happen to see my daughter?" I shook my head, "Can't say I have, sorry." He nodded. "Alright thank you for telling me." He walked away and I side-stepped to see Maka facing the pillar.
"Hm?" I say and stepped in front of her, "Hellooo." I say waving my hands. Her eyes were wide then she shook her head, "Huh? What?" I raised an eyebrow, "What was that?" She looked at me, "What was what?" "You just like zoned out when your father came by." "Oh!" She bowed her head, "It's nothing but I'm just wondering"—she looked up at me—"why did you do that? How did you pick up that I am not quite fond of my father?" I smirked a little, "Well you're practically an open book, and I could tell you feel that way about him by how you reacted when he called you." She hit my head with a book, and I fell to the floor, "Ow! Hey what the hell was that for?" She put her hands on her hips and walked away. "Geez what's her deal." I heard a giggle and turned to see Liz talking to Kid. I just had to eavesdrop. "So how are you enjoying the party?" Kid asked coolly. "It's pretty cool I guess." Kid flinched, "Wh-whaaat! You guess! I took precious time out of my days to make this party perfect!" Then he fell to the floor pounding it with his fist saying this like, he was garbage and scum and blah blah blah.
I let out a snort of laughter and Liz caught my eye then mouthed: "Help me!" I snickered and mouthed back: "You're on your own." Then quickly walked away before I could see her reaction, I kept walking and suddenly ran into someone, a big blue man. "Hey." He said and looked down at me. "You ok?" He offered his hand, "Uh, yeah." I replied and got to my feet. "Sorry, I didn't mean to run into ya like that. Wasn't cool of me." The man laughed, "It's ok don't worry about, I don't hold a grudge, back when I was alive I was always forgiving." I blinked and raised an eyebrow, "Right." Then to my surprise the person he was talking to was Nygus. "This is Sid, the head guard." I stepped back and saw a look in Nygus' eyes that said: "Its ok, Soul. But lose it and we're all screwed." I held out my hand, "Nice to meet you, Sid." He shook my hand, "The pleasures all mine . . ." "Soul." I conclude.
Sid nodded, "Right, got it. We'll don't let us get in your way in socializing with other guests." I nodded, "Yeah." Then walked away looking around, "Huh, wonder where Patty, Sakura, and Wes are. Not to mention Maka disappeared." Then I heard a loud laugh and knew immediately who it belonged to: Patricia Thompson. I finally found her and saw two others she was talking to, a bald kid my age and another with dark hair in a spiky ponytail. "Haha! So how long have you known Harvar, Ox?" Patty asked. "A while." The bald kid replied. I walked away to leave the trio to socialize, wondering where Wes and Sakura were. Then I saw Sakura talking to a bunch of guys. "My, my" said one, obviously they were all drunk, "aren't you a pretty girl." Sakura twirled and giggled, "Thank you." Another one seemed like he was drooling and I shuddered, "Hey, sweetheart where ya from?" Sakura winked, "That's for me to know and you boys to find out." What was she doing? Why would she lure them? A third snickered, "Mind if I take you home with me? We can have some fun." Sakura help up a hand, "Oh no thank you, I'm not interested."
Then the same guy pinned her to a wall hard, his face inches from hers and he took off his mask, it looked like he had a piece of metal on the bridge of his nose and he had ear piercings as well. "Then at least let me give you kiss my dear." Sakura was trembling now and I was about to jump in to help her but my feet seemed to be stuck to the floor. Sakura's oppressor was leaning closer and closer, his mouth drooling then my jaw dropped when Sakura puckered her lips, inviting his slobbery mouth to press against hers. Then she grabbed a fork from the table next to her and stabbed his eye. The man pulled back in a screech of pain. "That's what you get for assaulting me you damned perv!" Her oppressor glared at her before running out of the ballroom, his friends looked at Sakura, panicked, and followed after him. "Giriko! Wait up!" When I could no longer see the group of drunks I smiled and punched the air, "Yeah! Nice one, Sakura!" I shouted and she looked at me, "Soul-kun." "But one quick question." I said walking up to her, "Why were you luring them?" She hardened her gaze on me, "They were drunk and it's a party, I wanted to tease them a little now excuse me." She said pushing past me, I looked at her. Guess she was still upset with me from before we entered the party.
I'll talk to her later. Someone was clapping and I looked at the balcony to see Spirit getting everyone's attention, "And now! Gentlemen grab a young lady and lead her to the dance floor for our final song! And one lucky lad in this room will be asked to dance by our darling Princess Maka." A spotlight shown on Maka and she smiled at everyone, the boys started murmuring to each other. "I bet Maka's gonna want to dance with me." "Haha, no way man! You're a horrible dancer!" "No she's gonna wanna dance with me." I just sighed then looked away and saw Kid talking with Liz again. "Wanna dance?" He said offering his hand, "No way!" Liz protested then looked away, "Unless you want to look like an idiot dancing with an oaf like me." Kid smiled, "Well I won't know how much of an idiot I'll look like if I don't dance with you." Liz blushed and I snickered. Now I could be wrong but I think we may be witnessing the beginnings of love here. (A/N Kyoya from the first episode of Ouran High School Host Club which I also sadly do not own.) Liz finally gave in and took Kid's hand, the emo boy smiled and I chuckle a little. He was a good head shorter than Liz. Then again Liz was one of the tallest girls I knew.
I looked around to find Maka who walked up to me, "Hi, Soul, I'm sorry about earlier." I smiled, "It's cool you do pack a good blow though." She smiled and examined her fingers . . . was she blushing? Uh oh. "Listen uh, I don't really know you too well but it seems like we've known each other for a while which is funny since we first met tonight." I gasped. Does this mean . . . she doesn't remember me saving her that day? She looked up at me, "But I just wanted to ask you, Soul . . . do you . . ." She gasped and her eyes widened. "It's you." She murmured and time froze between us.

Black*Star: LET ME OUTTA THIS ROOM, VAMPIRENINJA101!

Me: YOU'RE RUINING MY PERFECT CLIFFHANGER, BLACK*STAR!

Kid: Welcome to the club.

Black*Star: I'LL GET OUTTA HERE AND WHEN I DO YOU'RE BOTH DEAD YA HERE ME!

*Hears window open* Maka: Makaaa-CHOP! *Black*Star faints and window closes again*

Me: Thank you, Maka.

Once again my apologies for not updating! Wow this was eight pages! I think this makes up for the time :) please review!