Well, here's a short, but revealing chapter! Wait up and you may get a double update; finally had a writing spark!
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Chapter 5: Insider
Soul marvels as he watches Maka work. She actually looks so much like a detective, it's like she was truly made for this job. Rubber gloves cling to her hands as one holds the strange metal and the other holds a magnifying glass. As Maka's green eyes look at it, she notes that is actually curved and appears to have rusted, hence why it may have broken. The triangle of it is very irregular and it's almost bent into a pointy curve, like a curved triangle into a very very irregular square. Her brow furrows somewhat cutely; what the hell was this damn thing? Soul stifles a chuckle and tries to not blush at how freaking adorable she looks right now. What the hell was going on with him? He sighed and went to get a glass of water. The pair had gotten up much earlier than usual to examine this thing on their own before going to their actual work, hopefully with an idea of what it could be.
Maka is standing in a below knee black velvet skirt and a pink short sleeved version of a cardigan in a silky fabric. It hangs loosely, untied, and very adorably over a teal tank top, perfect with Maka's new thing with tying her blond hair in that ribbon and the pair of black flat sandals on her feet.
"I don't know what this damned thing is!" cries Maka in some form of depression and frustration as she bends herself onto the countertop and moans with aggressive aggravation.
Soul walks over to her and puts a hand on her shoulder softly. He feels bad for even bothering to show the object since she now is so determined to solve the object's meaning to this case.
"Come now Maka, it's cool. Don't worry so much, maybe it's useless. Sit up; your hair is loose again, so let me fix it."
Maka sighs and sits up with a sight blush that Soul doesn't see. He undoes the ribbon and redoes it for her, refusing his urge to tell her just how adorable this new hair thing of hers is.
"There, that's cool."
Maka sighs, "Thanks Soul. I'm sorry...I wish I could figure it out."
"Like I said, maybe it's just useless."
"No Soul! I don't think it's useless at all and I will figure out why!"
Soul backs up and holds up his hands, "Okay! Okay, sorry!"
Maka giggles, "I wasn't going to 'Maka chop' you! Calm down."
Soul sighs in relief and walks back forward to her side. Before anything else is said, the apartment phone rings shatteringly and Soul groans.
"That would've have woken us. Let's be glad we got up early," Soul growls as Maka stands.
He picks up the phone, grins at Maka, and hits speaker phone. Wordlessly, the two best friends decide to play it as if they had not gotten up early and had been well asleep.
"What the hell are you doing waking us up!" yell Maka and Soul at the phone in unison.
"Seriously, do you two crap in the bathroom in unison too? I, Black Star, command you to get off of your lazy butts and meet your godly friend and his other followers in the office! We got a lead!" screams the 'godly' Black Star
"Shut up Black Star, we do not have bowel movements in unison you moron! And it better be worth waking us up!" bellow Maka and Soul.
"I, the godly Black Star, command you to get over it and move it!"
"Screw off! We'll be there, so shut up!"
Soul and Maka allow some time to elapse since they have to fulfill their facade, so they look back at the metal item, which Maka has placed back in the bag.
"It's important Soul, I just know it," murmurs Maka.
"Okay...okay, I hope so."
Soul gets another glass of water and, seeing that Maka's lips look slightly dry, he brings her a glass too. She smiles at him gently.
"How did you know?"
Soul shrugs oh-so-innocently, "Best friends know that stuff. Especially cool friends, like me."
Maka laughs and sips at the water with a soft light in her green orbs.
"Yeah Soul, cool friends like you. I got really lucky," she whispers softly, looking into the distance aimlessly.
They soon leave and head to the SLR office, where Liz, Patty, and Liz sit in their places yawning while Black Star looks as awake and prideful as always.
"Where's Kid at?"
"He refused to get up since it was an asymmetrical hour, plus he has a meeting or something today. So we're on our own today," Liz answers.
Maka and Soul groan at the stupidness of it.
"That asymmetrical, symmetry-freak, ditching leader! When did he become the lazy one?" they protest in unison.
For once, the group gets a laugh out of Maka and Soul's unison. This time, surprised by the reaction, Maka and Soul turn to one another.
"Did we say something funny for once?" Maka asks.
"Not sure. Must have," Soul replies.
They laugh in unison, once again creeping their friends out, and they sit down on their couch.
"What's up?" they ask.
"My mother called me to tell us about that guy whose weapon my Dad wouldn't fix. She says he had a temper and so forth. So we have to go over and talk to her about it," Tsubaki explains.
"Great," moan Maka and Soul sarcastically.
The group sets out on the bland and weary streets of Death City, which is likely dreary from all the rain it has received recently. SLR, without it's administrator, begins the decent and hopeful walk. As they pass by that major alley, Black Star's eyes drift to see that man he saw there last night before he beat the crap out of Tsubaki's attacker!The blond hair is actually a light brown and his eyes are brown too, but it doesn't change that he's slightly muscular and a bit creepy. The strange man doesn't see him, but Black Star sees him grin with shark-like teeth nearly as sharp as Soul's set of shark-like teeth. Something in it all makes the god feel some form of unease.
They soon arrive at the dojo and Black Star eases himself as Tsubaki looks down at him. Her mother and sister meet them at the gate.
"Tsubaki! Yay!" cheers Ari cutely.
Unable to pick her up, Tsubaki settles for smiling and waving at her darling sister. Her mother smiles and leads the group into the main garden of the dojo, where they head into the building that they've been using for questioning.
"There was this man with slight muscles, brown hair, and brown eyes. He wanted my husband to repair his chainsaw, but he refused since it wasn't a sword and that was his only specialization. I really didn't understand why, but that man flew into a rage! He swung at my husband with that chainsaw and nearly sawed his head off, but my husband slashed him with a sword, just enough to give him a minor cut in the torso, not major damage."
Maka tilts her head and hums. A chainsaw huh...? She pulls her cell phone out and pokes Soul with it, mouthing to him that she needs to make a phone call.
"So a crazy nutcase with a chainsaw had something against your husband?" asks Liz.
"Yeah. He left, screaming that he'd get him, he'd get him somehow."
"Do you know what the problem with it was?" Soul inquires.
"It was really rusty and little pieces of the chain part kept breaking off. It almost made me wonder what the heck he'd been using the thing for."
"So we need to go find this jerk and question him!" exclaims Black Star.
"Yay!" cheers Patty
"Oh grand," sighs Liz.
"My arm and leg really hurt," sighs Tsubaki.
"Should one of us take you home?" Black Star asks, suddenly worried.
She shakes her head, "And miss the solving party? No way!"
The group laughs before Soul looks over to where Maka stands, right outside next to Ari, who is prancing around her singing Maka's name and laughing. Tsubaki follows Soul's eye of sight and laughs.
"That's been her favorite game since she could talk and walk. Circle people and repeat their name," she sighs.
Soul laughs slightly, "Maka and I share our favorite game with each other everyday; unison and play off one another to have fun and annoy people. Except it's not a game and we don't plan it out. It's just natural and really freaking cool."
"You two are cute," Tsubaki chuckles.
Black Star keeps yelling about his godliness and Liz keeps yelling at him to shut up while Patty jumps around yelling about shut and up. Nanita is now laughing about it too, until she remembers something.
"Wait...he also said something about Lila referring him or something..." Nanita murmurs
Suddenly, Soul looks outside to see Maka too focused to notice Lila walking to her suspiciously. Ari has stopped circling and has ran off to play in a garden. He sees a blade and suddenly screams.
"Maka!"
Maka looks up and then over to find Lila glaring at her.
"Give me the piece of metal!"
"Hell no!" yells Maka.
Soul darts towards the pair as Lila lunges. Maka dodges and breaks into a full run down the path. Lila gives chase, but Soul jumps on her back, tossing her to the ground as everyone heads outside.