Title: Til We're Ash Over Seas

Rating/Warnings: T

Word Count: 314

Character(s): Soul Eater, Maka Albarn, Black Star, Tsubaki, Liz and Patti Thompson, Death the Kid

Pairing(s): Black Star/Tsubaki if you squint really hard.

Summary: "I AM CALM TSUBAKI."

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Author's Notes: Sorry for flooding all of your e-mails with the notifications, but I wanted to get some of these up instead of having them sit around on my computer.


100. Relaxation


"Maybe calm down a bit?" Tsubaki calls to Black Star, who chases Soul, water gun in hand. "We'll be eating soon!"

"I AM CALM TSUBAKI."

"O-okay!" She calls, smiling faintly. Beside her, Liz snorts, a delicate eyebrow rising above her sunglasses. Tsubaki stares at her for a moment, frowning.

"How can you do it, Tsubaki? I mean, I have enough trouble handling Kid some days, and there are two of us," she motions to Patti and Kid, the latter rubbing sunscreen on the boy's back, singing about something. "But you've got to deal with Black Star every day."

"It's not all bad," Tsubaki murmurs, leaning back in her chair, moving her toes back and forth. Maka had painted them a pretty blue colour when they'd had a sleepover the other night, and Tsubaki notices they have glitter on them too. "He's a lot different when we're alone."

This gets Liz's attention as well as Maka's, who puts her book down and leans forward. "Different how?"

"I—well I mean…he's quieter. There isn't anyone he needs to impress. Yes, sometimes he'll get rowdy, especially when he's playing video games, but he's mostly just…Black Star. Was he not like then when you two were children?"

Maka stares at her for a moment, lip curling at the memories. "No, he liked bossing me around and pulling my hair. He's basically the same now."

"Oh," Tsubaki murmurs, turning away from the girls (and pretending she doesn't see the way Liz is grinning at her, because that surely cannot be any good) and looks at the boys.

Black Star had caught Soul and is holding him down while he shoots the water gun down the weapon's pants.

Relax, she thinks to herself, ignoring everyone around her and shutting her eyes. Relaaaaax.

She thinks maybe it's strange that it's Black Star's voice, but she doesn't want to question it.