Chapter 7! Now let's see what happens to the duo next!
Also I might or might not change this to be Humor. 'Cause it's like the show: it's funny but there's serious stuff too...
Oh well!

Also... well, this chapter's kinda, really late... Sorry...

I do not own Soul Eater.


Tsubaki; or the meeting of the scentless flower with the cocky boy

The first rays of the Sun awoke me. It was shining right in my eyes... though, I most certainly remember falling asleep with my back facing the window...
Oh, well!

Then again... what is this soft stuff against my chest? Don't tell me I hogged Maka's pillow or somethin'? Hopefully she doesn't get angry for that... though it's oddly heavy to be a normal pillow...

I cracked my eyes open. I was laying on my back, with a distinctive, yet not disturbing weight on my left side.

I looked down and... my blush traveled from my cheeks to my ears before flooding my whole face.

Maka was laying on my chest with her mouth slightly open, smiling in her sleep. I noticed that her hands were holding onto my t-shirt, like as if her life depended on it. Her hair was spread out on my chest... it was shiny and looked as soft as silk... WAIT A MINUTE! Stop daydreaming idiot! What the good hell is she doing on my chest?! ( Yes, sleeping, but how the cheese cracker did she get there?!)

How did we end up sleeping like this? I mean... I can't say I DON'T like this position, because I DO like it. ... Why did I just admit that?! Wait! What if she wakes up?! After what I said yesterday that I'll do nothing, she'll definitely get the wrong idea! ...But this is a sorta... heartwarming feeling. NO! DO NOT wake her up!
I smiled and somehow found myself stroking her head gently.

Her eyelids started fluttering and she looked up at me with her half open pools of emerald. Shoot! Now I did it! Quick! Be cool, be cool! ( I'll get Maka-Chopped anyways no matter the circumstance.)

" Slept well, Sleeping Beauty?" I asked her, grinning

I felt amused, relieved and yet just a tiny bit hurt by her reaction. She jumped up from my chest and looked away. Even though she was quick, I still caught the bright red color invading her face. I grinned even harder and sat up.

I got off of the bed and stretched, the events of last night invading my mind.

Ugh! I was so lame back then! Blushing like an idiot, not in control of the situation at all!

And then, I remembered what happened yesterday... WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING?!

Did I want to kiss her?

I thought about it a bit.

To tell the truth, I don't know. I might have wanted to...

Man! I only spent a day with her and I'm already at this! I'm not even supposed to feel this way to begin with! I can't believe how her pink lips are calling for me. Those small, light pink lips... STOOOOOP RIGHT THERE! Before you get further away in your thoughts! What the hell am I thinking! Cool guys like me don't rush things!

I glanced over to her... she was still sitting on her bed, face flushed, looking away.

" Y-you know... I-if I wasn't too good hearted, I would have already Maka-Chopped you..." she mumbled, almost imperceptibly

I couldn't help, but grin at this.

" Oh! So you, oh kind hearted princess! Will spare my poor head!" I said, jokingly... earning the said Maka-Chop

"Ow..." I said... smashed on the floor

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" Oh! Maka!"

"YEAH?!" she asked, still furious

We were in Death City's city center, walking.. Well, Maka stomping ahead, while I was trying to catch up.

" How do you think we should start fixing your personality problems?"

She twirled around, facing me with the scariest expression I've ever seen.

" ISN'T IT YOUR JOB TO DO THAT?!" she boomed

" Well... yeah." all smiles that could have come on my face faded away, though I HAD to admit that her angry face was just as cute as her flushed one...

" Listen, Maka. I'm sorry. I didn't do that on purpose! I mean, I was sleeping too! " I restrained myself from saying something that might aggravate my already bad situation... since she was on the verge of getting my ass Maka-Chopped in the next century

" Hmph! You could have waken me up!"

But... That's just what I did...

" What? You would have preferred waking up by getting pinched or kicked or anything else painful?!" is she masochistic on top of having personnality disorder?!

At this, she was out of things to say and by the second I could feel her anger dying down, which was for the best for both of us... well more for me than her. ( If she's not angry it's less likely for me to earn a book in my skull...)

" I-I'm sorry..." she finally uttered out

" Sorry... About what?" a voice came from behind

I twirled around and saw a girl.

She was tall... maybe a bit taller than me, though she was not wearing heels. She had long black hair tied up in a high ponytail and she wore a long summer dress which came down to her ankles. She was beautiful, that's for sure... and I kinda felt intimidated by how much taller she was than me... maybe about half a head...

" H-hi Tsubaki!" Maka exclaimed jumping in a straight position... a lot like soldiers. Shoulders stiff, expression too forced to seem natural.

" Hello, Maka." the girl, Tsubaki answered with a gentle smile "And who might you be?" she turned to me

From the corner of my eye I saw Maka's expression change like by magic. She was no longer angry at all! She had a sheepish smile on, looking like some obedient good girl... which was definitely out of character, different that she was just a moment ago. She was different then when she was talking to me : she was no longer relaxed, saying and acting as she wanted to do... she was like some puppet.

I grinned to Tsubaki, trying to make it look like a smile, to be true, this is all I could manage that at least resembled to a it ( I have sharp teeth, remember? It's not easy to smile with these!), hoping that I'm not just scaring her away with my unusual teeth...

" My name's Soul Eater. Nice to meet you."

" Nice to meet you too. ... Are you one of Maka's FRIENDS?" she said the word 'friends' like some kind of a threat... did she know about Maka's problem?

" Yes, yes! Soul is a very good friend! See?" Maka came and out of nowhere, grabbed onto my arm, which somehow made my face feel warm; on instinct I turned my head away, feeling that I would be unable to maintain eye-contact with anyone

At this, Tsubaki relaxed and the threatening smile transformed into a friendly one.

" Oh, Maka! I didn't know you had a BOYFRIEND!"

I didn't either.

Though this made me feel weird and somehow small... d-do we kinda sorta look like one?... My legs somehow shook and I slowly glanced down to see Maka blushing wide-eyed. I don't feel cool at all at this moment. I feel strange and I find it scary. I feel... vulnerable.

" N-no! T-that's not it!" she half shouted

" Y-yeah! We're n-not dating!" I added... in an extremely un-manly and un-cool way

Tsubaki smiled even wider. Clearly not believing the truth.

" Don't worry, I won't tell on you." she winked " I'm sure you have a reason to hide it. Maybe overprotective parents?" she doesn't know Maka lives in an orphanage?! Maka doesn't even trust her?!

I saw Maka shake a bit, trying hard to tell something, but in the end smiling ( a FAKE smile that Tsubaki didn't see through) and said:

" Yeah, that's it. My parents are overprotective.. hehe..."

Tsubaki's smile turned a tiny bit down on the corners, but it turned up in less then a second after.

" I see..." she said " Would you like to come for tea to my place? I just came shopping, since Black Star was coming... I wanted to invite you, but you don't have a cellphone, you didn't give your home number, you don't have an e-mail address and I don't know your house address." wow...

Maka lives so shut-in on a so modern planet! I wonder, is it a result of her rough past? She DID tell me how there's MORE than the fact that her parents lost their lives in a car accident...

I wonder...

What happened?

" I'm sorry Tsubaki. And yes, we'd like to come."

I just nodded in agreement.

" Then let's go! Come! I'm afraid if we don't hurry a certain someone might kick my door down..."

Oh, okay... WAIT WHAT?!

Maka just giggled, knowing who the person was.

What have I gotten myself into?


Just as Soul's thinking : ' what have I gotten myself into' writing such a weird story?! It'll probably be jumping from Maka's to Soul's point of view... with a lot of random stuff...