Maka waits irritatedly and occupies herself by making a mess with the syrup, whip cream, and butter.
As she continues to play with the food Crona just watches.
And Asura sings obnoxiously while making pancakes.
Maka can not take it anymore and explodes. "Shut up!" She yells. "You woke me up at 7 am to eat pancakes that look disgusting and now you are singing the most horrid song-"
Asura interrupts her by covering her face with his hand. "Just shush and eat my food." he gives her a new plate and gives her two pancakes.
She stabs the pancakes with her fork and pouts. "Only two?"
Asura laughs. "How many more do you want?"
She drowns her pancakes with syrup and whip cream. "At least 5 more."
Maka looks up at Asura getting a little suspicious about the way he is acting.
She has been faking laughs her whole life which makes her an expert at it and she knows for sure that Asura was faking.
"Here you go." he adds 5 more pancakes on her plates with a fake smile and sits in his seat to eat.
Maka also drowns the rest of those pancakes in syrup and whip cream and starts to eat.
In the middle of her second pancake Maka has had enough and stops eating. "Why are you staring?"
He shakes his head. "I'm not." he continues to eat and Maka does so too.
But soon again he stares at her again.
She stops eating and stares at him back.
They have a stareing match and after a long time Asura looks down and timidly speaks. "Yesterday when I was looking in your mind I saw something."
"What was it?" she gets worried, because she hasn't told him everything.
He looks over at Crona not wanting to say it in front of him.
"Just say it, I don't care if Crona hears." She rushes him.
Asura takes a deep breath. "How many of them did you kill?"
Maka clenches her fist tight hoping it wasn't going to be this. "57." she states bluntly.
Maka gets up and gives a fake smile. "I have to go to the restroom." she heads to the restroom.
Once the door is closed she falls to the ground with her knees drawn up to her chest and her head laying on her knees trying to get as small as she can.
She bangs her hands against her head rapidly trying to get the memory out of her head, but no matter many times he hit her head she can not stop it.
All she can remember is how that little kid begged for his families lives.
He couldn't have been more than 6 and he was willing to sacrifice his life for his family.
She gets up washes her hands and then splashes water on her face.
Maka gets out ready for any questions Asura may have.
She sits back down and she notices Asura has finished his food and his plate is gone. "Maka can I cut your hair?" he asks normally acting like nothing happened.
"Really?" Maka leans forward.
"Yeah." he nods. "Do you mind if I also die it."
She shakes her head excitedly. "I don't mind, but why?"
"They are going to start looking for you so if they can't recognize you they won't find you." he opens and cabinet and grabs scissors and a box of black hair die.
Asura drags Maka's chair in front of a mirror which makes a loud obnoxious noise.
He first cuts her hair and starts with the length.
He cuts it to her belly button and then he moves to the top of her head to cut layers.
Maka looks down at her hair. "That's all your going to cut?" she questions.
"Yeah, I like it long." he concentrates on her layers making careful cuts. "Long hair suits you."
She looks at her hands and starts humming a song.
"Oh." Asura says almost like he was offended.
"What?" she looks up at him.
"You get to hum, but I can't."
"That is because you were humming peanut butter and jelly time."
He finishes cutting her hair and starts to die it. "And it is a great song."
"Sure."
After he finishes Maka looks in the mirror and doesn't know whether or not she likes her hair.
It is really dark compared to her skin and he added so many layers that is makes her hair look like it has some volume.
At least he didn't cut her bangs because for some reason she likes them the way they are.
"How do you like it?" Asura asks.
"Its fine." she looks over at Crona. "Do you like it?"
Maka waits for an answer, but all she gets is silence.
Crona stares at her not hearing what she said because or her eyes.
They are so bright to him and seem almost glowing.
He snaps out of it. "W-What did you say." he looks back to where he last saw Maka, but doesn't see her.
"I asked if you liked my hair." Crona jumps in shock not realizing that she was next to him.
He blushes at the way she stares at him and nods.
Maka leans forward and inspects his face which makes him very uncomfortable.
"U-Um Maka?" he asks
"Yea?" she says and continues to stare at his face
He looks away from her and Maka grabs his face turning him back towards her and she points out something.
"What this?" she pokes a scar that run down his cheek.
Crona shakes his head. "It is n-nothing."
Maka watches him and by his body language she knows it is not nothing.
She starts to trace his scar with her finger.
This action makes Crona have a hard time breathing and turn make a pink tint appear on his cheeks.
"I can make it disappear if you like." Maka says casually.
"You can do that?" Asura questions.
"Yeah, last year a kid got cut and while the teachers went to get the nurse I was told to put pressure on it and when I removed my hand the cut was gone."
"But can you heal a ghost." he leans in to her touch loving the way she makes him feel.
"I can't heal the ghost you, but I can with your actual body." she drops her hand realizing she is still touching his scar.
"Okay." he gets up after Maka and start to leave.
"Are you really going to leave like that?" Asura asks.
Maka looks down and remembers this morning she changed out of her dress into Asura's clothes that were ten sizes to big.
She goes into his closet and find something that fits a little better.
After she changes she looks down and the clothes are still to big on her but she rather wear this than that dress.
Asura laughs at her appearance and tucks in the shirt that goes to her knees. "Lets get you some clothes too while we are out."
"I can do it myself." she pushes his hands away and tucks they shirt in herself.
When she is done they start walking toward the mall.
Fortunately Asura only lives a few blocks away from it.
Once at the mall Asura drags Maka into one of the most girly stores he can find and makes Maka try on so many dresses.
"Do I really have to try these on?" she looks at the dresses thinking about all the work she has to do to put them all on and all off again.
"Yep." he pushes her into the dressing room.
Crona stands behind Asura awkwardly not knowing what to do or to say.
He wonders if it would be better to not say anything at all.
"Why you?" Asura asks with his back still to Crona.
Crona doesn't know what he is asking and stays silent.
"What makes you so special that would make her kiss you." he turn around to look at Crona.
Crona looks down. "I d-don't know."
He has also been thinking this.
Maka confuses him so much because at times she can be so affectionate with him and then she will act coldly.
Its like she is at war with herself.
"Do you l-love her?" Crona asks Asura.
Asura turns a little pink at this question. "Yea I love her." he takes a deep breath. "But I don't know if I love her like a sister or as something else."
They both stand there awkwardly both not knowing how to continue the conversation.
Then Maka comes out in a pink striped sundress that shows the little curves she has.
"Can I take it off now." she squirms in the dress.
Crona can't help but stare at her.
Asura get closer to her and put his hands around her waist.
"What are you doing?" she questions him.
"You have gotten so skinny." his hands almost touch when they are on her waist. "Have you been eating."
"I have been eating a lot, it's just that my metabolism is very fast and burn up all the food I eat." she pushes his hands away. "Can I not try on anymore dresses?"
"Sure." he looks at her with a worried look.
"Don't worry about me. It is not like I can die." she walks back into the dressing room and changes back into Asura's clothes.
The rest of the mall event is uneventful.
They get Maka clothes that she feels comfortable in and before they leave into the hospital Maka changes into her clothes which is an oversized hoodie and black jeans.
As they walk to the hospital they get to the street that is crowded and Maka gets scared.
She tightly grabs one of Crona's and one of Asura's hands.
They both look back at her and the only one that is surprised is Asura.
Crona remember last time how she was, but Asura never knew.
"Maka what's wrong." Asura asks.
She shakes her head gripping harder on their hands.
Asura sighs and carries Maka and instead of pushing him away as she usually does she pulls him tighter and hides her head in his chest. "You don't always have to be strong." he softly strokes her hair while walking toward the hospital.
At this moment Asura knows that he loves her and not only as a sister he loves her more than that.
Crona follows after just watching.
Wishing he was the one that Maka would hold onto like that.
Once they get out of the crowd of people Maka pulls on Asura's ear to get his attention. "Can you put me down now?"
"Yeah." he smiles at her and puts her down.
"Maka?"
Maka looks at Crona wondering whats wrong.
"I don't think we should go to the hospital." he doesn't look at her.
"Why?"
He looks at her. "H-He might hurt y-you again."
"That's not going to happen."
"You can't be sure about that."
Maka puts her pinky infront of Crona's face. "I pinky promise that he won't hurt me or you."
Crona stares blankly at her finger not knowing what to do.
She gets his pinky and puts them together. "If I break the promise them you get to cut of my pinky."
Crona pulls his pinky away horrified. "I-I don't want to do that."
"I am playing that is just what they did a long time ago."
Before they know it they are at the door of Crona's room, but when they open the door the first thing Maka notices is that Crona's body is missing.
They all walk inside wondering what happened when Ragnarok comes out of hiding and punches Crona.
Maka sees this and before he can hit him again Maka hits Ragnarok causing him to fall to the ground.
He looks at her for a while not recognizing her, but then he remembers the green eyes.
"You're the girl from last time." he gets up and takes a swing at her.
She easily doges it and kicks him in the gut.
He tries to attack her again but Asura goes behind him and grabs his hands and crush them.
They all hear the crack of Ragnaroks knuckles breaking.
"Let go." he attempts to kick him but Maka grabs his foot which makes him land on his face.
"What happened to Crona's body." she nudges her foot to his head.
He sits up. "She took it." he spits.
"Okay." she starts to leave realizing they have no purpose to be there.
"Ragnarok why are y-you following us?" Maka hears Crona ask.
"I can't stay at the hospital anymore so where do you expect me to go."
"A-Any where beside with m-me." he walks faster trying to get away from him.
As they continue to argue Asura whispers to Maka. "Shouldn't we try make Ragnarok move on?"
"Not unless Crona wants us to." Maka watches arguing with each other and she knows its only what siblings do.
She realizes that Crona would be upset if Ragnarok was gone.
"Hey girl, I know I'm good looking and all but stop staring." he yells to Maka.
"Have you seen yourself because I wouldn't consider a person with no nose or mouth attractive."
"I have a nose and mouth, right Crona?"
"No y-you don't Ragnarok. You have a b-big X across your face." he points to the X.
He puts a hand on his face in not believing them, but he does feel it. "How?"
"It is because all the anger you have." they get back to Asuras house and thankfully since it was later the street wasn't too full.
"Can I go back to normal?" For some reason they are all surrounding her while she is looking through her bag.
"If you get rid of all the anger." Maka stops looking and thinks. "I might be able to... nevermind."
"What can you do?"
"Nothing." She finds what she was looking for and shows it to Ragnarok.
It is a drawing of what he looks like now.
He stares at it in disbelief.
Ragnarok grabs her by the neck. "I know you have another way to change me back so do it, or I will kill you."
Asura and Crona start to make Ragnarok let her go, but Maka put her hand up telling then to stop.
"Try it." she gasps.
He crushes her neck and they hear a snap and Ragnarok drops her corpse to the ground. "Should have told me."
Asura and Crona both look mortified and run up to Maka.
They lay her on the couch and wait for her to heal.
Ragnarok watches then wondering what they are doing.
Her neck slowly starts to get fix and then she opens her eyes breathing.
She walks up to Ragnarok and looks him in the eyes. "Thanks, I really enjoy dying and then coming back to life."
He looks freaked out and asks. "What are you?"
Maka looks down almost sadly. "I don't know." she starts yanking on her hair. "I don't know what I am, or if I am even human. Maybe I am a monster as he said."
Ragnarok just stares at this girl who looks so fragile and vulnerable.
She looks nothing like the girl he saw at the hospital or the daring girl who told him to try to kill her.
Maka stops her self-pity and goes outside.
Crona and Asura both follow concerned.
They sit next to her watching her as she stares at the moon.
"Am I really a monster?" Maka asks quietly.
"No." they both say at the same time.
"You're special." Asura says trying to comfort her.
"I don't want to be special. I want to be died." she stands up takes a deep breath and puts on a smile. "Lets go inside." Before she opens the door to go back inside Crona hugs her from behind.
She looks back at him a little shocked.
"Crona?" she questions.
"Stop being so strong all the time. It is okay to cry, I will comfort you like you comforted me." he hugs her tighter.
Maka smiles at his words. "I want to cry. I want to cry so much, but I can't. I didn't cry when I saw my brother died, when I killed all those people, or when they experimented on me. I don't think it is possible for me to cry." She turns around and holds his hands. "But if I do you'll be the first person I go to."
They walk in to the house and Ragnarok is a sleep on the ground.
The three of the also go to sleep Crona waits until he thinks Maka is a sleep and kisses her on the cheek. "Goodnight Maka." he whispers.
She opens her eyes and looks at Crona who turns red at being caught.
He turn the other way not wanting to face her.
"Goodnight Crona." she whispers and kisses him on the cheek.
He falls to sleep with a smile on the face and doesn't have any nightmares that night.