Maka glanced at Tsubaki. It wasn't like her to ask such personal questions. "W-well, you know how Stein and Marie are getting married? Well, Marie wanted me to go with her to pick out a wedding dress. Most of the shops she wanted to go too opened late since it's extremely rare for people to get married in Death City." Of course it was a lie, but Tsubaki seemed to have brought it, only just.

"That's nice to hear. Soul doesn't remember you going out. You should've seen him. He was so worried about you that he worried himself out and collapsed on the sofa." Maka gave her a quizzical look. "He invited me and Black*Star over an hour after you'd left."

Maka nodded and looked forwards, catching Souls eyes. "She tried on every single dress in the store. She also made me try some dresses on. Marie wants you and me to be her bridesmaids. Patty and Liz are going to be the flower girls. Isn't that nice?"

Tsubaki smiled. "That is. What about the boys?"

Maka thought for a moment. "I think Soul is going to be best man and then Kid is going to be the ring man and Black*Star is going to be… going to be the um… another best man, I think."

"Hurry up ladies! I'm starving!" Soul called from the canteen doors, waving at them like crazy. He watched them giggle slightly before racing each other towards him. He smirked and stood in-between the girls, holding his arms out. "And the winner is… Tsubaki!"

"Only because you have longer legs than me…" Maka mumbled, making Tsubaki and Soul chuckle. Noticing their friends sitting at the usual table, they smiled and waved before joining the queue to get lunch. "That's a first. Kid, Liz and Patty are sitting with us today. Ever since Kid became Death they never sat with us."

They each grabbed a few things and placed it on their trays, walking over to the table and sitting down. Tsubaki sat next to Black*Star and pecked him on the cheek and Maka and Soul sat next to each other on the opposite side. Taking this opportunity, Black*Star whipped out his piece of paper from earlier and started whispering in Tsubakis ear and pointing things out to her. They both laughed slightly at the end and stared at Maka and Soul, making the pair nervous. Liz and Patty played a game of cards whilst Kid ate a perfectly symmetrical salad with number 8 shaped tomatoes. Kilik tried to feed Fire and Thunder. Emphasis on tried. He completely failed as food went everywhere, staring a food fight amongst the whole school.


Cleaning up killed the gang, but they had fun whilst doing so. Black*Star used the tables and a broom as a drum kit, Soul and Kilik used their mops as guitars and the girls used their brushes as microphones, singing along to a song everyone knew and loved. In the process, they drew in a crowd of around ten people who didn't have lessons, cheering for the group and saying how they should start a band. A few of the boys commented how the girl's voices were amazing, making the drummer and guitarists jealous. It wasn't like Soul to become jealous. He could understand why Kilik and Black*Star were jealous, but HIM? "Okay, okay! Show's over! Get a move on." The boys growled, pushing the crowd as far away from the girls as possible.

"What did ya do that for?!" Patty pouted, sticking out her bottom lips as far as possible and crossing her arms over her chest. "We were famous for a few minutes!"

Liz sighed and smacked Patty over the head with the dustpan. "No, we weren't."

"Aw! We weren't?!"

Tsubaki and Maka laughed at the sisters, watching their crazy antics. Black*Star decided to stay close to Tsubaki, wrapping a protective arm around her waist. Soul was about to do the same to Maka, but quickly thought against it. I'll get a really bad Maka-chop if I did anything like that…

The doors suddenly swung open, revealing a furious Kid and a bubbling Crona and Ragnarok. Maka noticeably stiffened. This only went noticed by Soul, however. "We think that someone here, in this room right now, were the people to have killed Ox and Harvar."

Everyone stared at Kid wide-eyed. He was insane. Why would anyone in this room kill Ox and Harvar? They were all friends here, so what would be the motives?

"We think this because of the results that came in from the forensics." Crona explained, eyeing each of them. "The problem is, they don't know which of you did it. The results show that all of us are the murderers."

"But before they died, they hung out with us all the time, so obviously our DNA would be on them. Or have you both forgotten that?" Maka reasoned, staying as close to Soul as possible.

Kid punched the wall as hard as he could. "Then that means that we're back to square fucking one! I just want to get this murder over and done with!"

"So you blame one of your best friends?! You've got to be kidding me!" Soul cried, running his fingers through his hair.

This wasn't getting anywhere. No leads, no culprits. Nothing. Pointing fingers wasn't going to solve anything. They could understand where Kid was coming from, though. There could be another murder at any time. He needed to solve this case fast before anyone else gets hurt. "Sorry." He apologised. "Liz, Patty, let's go." The three left, Crona following close behind. Everyone else said quick farewells and departed.


"I can't believe Kid accused one of us…" Maka mumbled, intertwining her and Soul's hands together. Soul blushed lightly at the sudden contact but happily accepted it, the two walking home hand in hand.


"What's Kid so afraid of? Doesn't he know that I'm going to surpass god? It's only natural that I'd defeat this murderer." Black*Star huffed, showing off a few karate moved to prove his point. Tsubaki just giggled and pecked his lips.