"I know she's a cat, but eating live fish is still gross." Soul said sticking his tongue out and jumping back up on the counter opening the magazine. He flipped in a couple pages and began pretending reading. "So… We've got a pizza in the oven, about a half an hour."
"Hm…" Maka said loudly. She leaned over the opposite side and watched the magazine carefully. "So, you have interest in the music magazine, but you won't study?"
"No... It's just, I get this stuff easier. I grew up in a world where everyone spoke like this." Soul said. "I didn't have to do well in school unlike here."
"Why don't you ever ask me for help?" Maka asked a little agitated. "It's better if you pass then fail."
Soul stopped and set the magazine aside. "When have you ever known me to ask for help?"
"Does it matter? Grades aren't a thing you can just shove off, they're hard work." Maka said standing. She walked over to her things and grabbed the notes she made on the ballad and shoved them at Soul. "You'll still have to read the ballad, but they'll help make sense of it."
"Uh… thanks." Soul said and took them and skimmed them. "So…" Soul set them down and turned around scooting himself towards the edge right in front of Maka.
"So what?" Maka asked quickly.
"I'll be blatant, when it comes to things like thing, I don't like to toy around. Do you have an answer?" Soul laid his arms in his lap and looked straight at her emotionless.
Maka moved quickly and grabbed Soul face and kissed him. She pulled away quickly and pointed a finger in his face. "No matter what, this doesn't leak to anyone, not even to Blair because she'll tell Papa directly."
"What would you're dad do about it?" Soul asked sliding foreword more and dropping his legs off. "He has to ask your mom before anything happens to you." Soul fell off and landed in front of Maka. A little smile hit his face. "And I'm not really worried about me…"
They began to lean into each other when Maka noticed something and quickly hit him over the counter. Not a second later Black Star jumped into the window with Tsubaki in tow. "Hey Tsubaki, Black Star. What's new?"
"We've got that translation for Soul, where is he?" Tsubaki said pulling a small piece of paper out.
"I… am on the floor." Soul said putting a hand up on the counter and lifting himself up. "Slightly injured, but I'm alright."
"What did you do to piss her off?" Black Star asked quickly.
"Don't ask." Soul said grabbing his back. "Let me see." Tsubaki walked over and handed him the piece of paper. "It's like a Chinese fortune cookie."
"What's it say?" Maka asked, "I hope it's nothing stupid."
"It was actually a Chinese proverb, just written in Japanese. 'Set yourself as the standard.'" Tsubaki recalled. "It seems like whoever made this got confused on the culture."
"That's fine." Soul said and shoved the piece of paper in the trash. Soul quickly sniffed the air and turned and opened the oven. He looked inside quickly and looked at the oven. "I'm never cooking with Blair again… Setting the temperature at 700 degrees, that's ridiculous."
"Hey, can I have some?" Black Star asked jumping on the counter.
"Black Star, we have food at home." Tsubaki said slightly embarrassed. "And, you just ate."
"So?" Black Star turned around, "I have a high metabolism."
"That's not what a metabolism is!" Maka said chopping him down off the counter. Maka grabbed Black Star by the collar and handed her to Tsubaki. "Thank you for the translation, Tsubaki."
"No problem." She said and looked at Black Star. "Good bye, we'll see you in school." Tsubaki jumped out the window with Black Star in hands. Maka walked over to the window and shut it locking it. Walking back over she flung herself down on the couch. She sighed.
"Next time, don't throw me over the counter, alright?" Soul took out the pizza and set it on the oven top. "It kind of hurts, a lot."
"It was the first thing I could think of, sorry." Maka sat up and looked at him. "We need to come up with excuses."
"Excuses, that doesn't sound like you." Soul said and accidentally touched the pan and screamed. "Damn it! Am I attracting pain today?" Maka began laughing and laid back down. "You're not supposed to laugh at me, it hurts."
"I'm sorry it's funny." Maka said and heard knocking at the window. There was Black Soul pointing with both hands to his mouth. He rubbed his belly and smiled. "He's so annoying."
Suddenly he was ripped from the window and a loud crash was heard. "I don't get Black Star lately…" Soul said getting a knife out. "He's become really self absorbed the past few days."
"You mean more then normal?" Maka said. "Wonder what's been up with him?"
"As long as he leaves me out of it." Souls said and cut the pizza. Putting a few slices on plates he walked over and threw himself down next to Maka and handed her a plate. "He nearly got me sent to the office twice today in class."
"Maybe we should talk to Tsubaki?" Maka said and took a bite. The door opened and Blair walked in with a seen through bag of fish. "You're not going to eat in front of us are you?"
"Blair-chan is saving these for later." She said setting them down on the counter. "So are you two alright with the forehead kiss thing or is Blair-chan speaking too soon?"
"We decided it never happened." Soul said quickly shoving a piece in his mouth.
"Saves time and effort." Maka agreed.
"That's nice." Blair said and began poking at the goldfish bag. "Oh, Blair-chan is going to have an excellent breakfast tomorrow."
"Don't talk about that! That's gross." Maka said loudly. "No one wants to hear about you eating live fish."
"Maka-chan is so mean to Blair-chan." The cat said and jumped up on the back of the chair. "Blair-chan has to go to work early tomorrow morning and was wondering if Maka-chan wanted to get up and do hair?"
"Sure." Maka said looking up at the cat.
Soul finished his last piece and got up and tossed the plate on the counter. "I'm going to bed for the night. Later girls." Soul said and disappeared into his room.
Blair popped down and turned into a human and leaned in to Maka. "Don't tell Soul-kun," she whispered, "but Blair-chan thinks it would be cute if Maka-chan and Soul-kun we together."
"No!" Maka said standing and waving her arms. "That's a bad idea! Do you know how angry Dad would get?"
"Blair-chan didn't think of it like that." The woman said quickly smiling up and scratching her head. "Death Scythe-sama would be pretty upset."
