Are You Dead?
By: Bittersweet Laughters
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN SOUL EATER IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM.
A/N: So, Laugh failed to meet your expectations, she wasted her day offs to read Magi. Forgive your worthless writer and her lazyness.
Soul and Maka bid goodbye to Tsubaki and Liz, after several more girl topics, Soul just couldn't wait to go home. He hopped to his bike enthusiasm and invited Maka to sit behind him like usual. She did as he told her to and they both drift away from the outskirts of Death City back to the center of the city.
"It's not that dark, you want to grab something?" Soul asked her, half shouting to make sure Maka heard him.
"I'm not hungry, let's go to the library first. I'm still curious about Black Star." Maka said to him from behind his shoulder. Soul winced. He never liked libraries, but his best friend was the complete opposite of him. In fact, he had expected her wanting to go to the library.
"Right, library it is." He nodded to himself and drove his orange motorbike to the library, which was located a few blocks away from their homes.
A few minutes later, they both arrived in front of the library. The library was huge, painted in burnt sienna paint and it had a wonderfully decorated double door. Tough the building was old, it wasn't rotten. It was well-maintained by the government, and it had one of the largest book collections in the world.
Maka hopped down from behind Soul and motioned him to open the large double door. Soul parked his bike and pushed the handles of the door.
"Well-well, isn't this the young Evans?" A voice rang from behind a wooden desk inside the library. The library was divided into two levels, and both levels were filled with large bookcases that stored books from old to new. Right now they were on the first level.
"Ah, Old man Joe?" Soul replied to the man's greetings. When did he last visit the library? Eight years ago? No wonder Joe had gotten, well, old? He used to have a really cool hair style, and now he was half-bald. But one thing he knew, Joe would still have a cup of coffee beside him.
"I heard your buddy, Maka passed awa-" Joe cut his own sentence as he spotted something weird behind Soul.
"I know that." Soul shrugged.
"H-hey, Evans. Do you see something behind your back?" Joe pointed behind Soul's back anxiously. His eyes carefully traced the outline of the shadow, and he found it quite familiar. He recognized it as Maka.
"Eeh, you can see me, Uncle Joe?" Maka perked up from behind Soul as she placed her transparent fingers on his shoulders.
"Here we go again. This Maka was supposed to die, but she reappeared in front of my door the next day." Soul explained shortly.
"I'm a ghost now, Uncle Joe." Maka threw a smile at him.
"Oh, okay, I get it now. My ex-girlfriend would be happy if I tell her I see a real-life ghost." He chuckled lowly at them.
"Your ex? You mean Ms. Marie that you liked to talk about long time ago?" Maka said cheerfully to him.
"Yes, yes! It's her!" Joe said happily at her.
"Okay, okay. Cut off the reunion, we've got some business here." Soul stepped between them impatiently. He was hungry and now Maka was having this reunion that he swore would last really long.
"Right, okay." Joe and Maka regained their composure and turned back to Soul.
"This chick here, Maka wanted to know about the incident that happened six months ago." Soul explained shortly.
"Yes, I'd like to know the incident that occurred half a year ago, the disappearance of Black Star, two star hunter, class weapon expert." Maka said to Joe.
"The Spartoi case book it is, but you must have a hunter's pass to access it." Joe seemed not so pleased as he spoke to Maka.
Maka fidgeted with the hem of her skirt. At this rate she couldn't help Tsubaki.
"Hey, if I'm not a hunter but I have the pass, can I still have it?" Soul pulled out an i.d from his pocket. It was Tsubaki's.
"What, Soul? Did you steal? And the hell it might not be valid!" Maka frantically asked Soul.
"Well, it's not like I steal. I will return it back to her. And didn't you remember, as Tsubaki waved to us, she said she would end her contract with Spartoi after the next search? She was just being inactive, but it doesn't mean the card isn't valid." Soul explained to her.
"My, my, youngster nowadays are sure expressive…" Joe chuckled as he accepted the pass.
"This should do. I know you guys won't do such thing." He continued.
Joe browsed through sections. He took out a big, brown book with the title engraved on the cover. He handed it over to Maka. She browsed around it together with Soul. There weren't much explanations about his case. It stated that he was missing in a mission to track the kishin that went by the name Al Capone. His partner at that time was Mifune, a two star hunter with the same class as Black Star's. They weren't accompanied with any medics or sensors. In the middle of their search, they were separated. Mifune was searching for Black Star for over four hours, but managed to find nothing. At the end, he saw a blood written message on a tree trunk that read 'Witches'. Mifune assumed it was Black Star's since he saw tracks of Tsubaki's butterflies that only Black Star could use.
The investigation team that investigated the case several days later discovered the meaning of Black Star's last message. He discovered the base of witches when he was separated with Mifune, and was assumed died when he encountered a witch, though it wasn't confirmed.
"Well, it didn't really helped much." Maka closed the book.
Before Soul managed to speak some more, a knock was heard from the door. Soul and Maka both decided to hide behind the shelf for safety reasons. Joe went back to his previous position and welcomed the guest. The door revealed a young man around the age of 24 to 25 years old. He was tall with a very pale complexion. His eyes were in wonderful golden shade. Lines went across his hair, which was quite odd, but he was handsome, in an awkward way.
"I'm here to return these." The man dropped a couple of books on Joe's desk gently.
"You never changed, huh, Kid? Still obsessing for symmetry?" Joe chuckled softly as he put away the books.
"Not as hype as I used to be, but yes. Symmetry is perfection for me." Kid smiled and he handed an i.d card with a shinigami symbol behind it.
Soul shot up from behind the shelf. This man, was no ordinary man. How could he have the shinigami i.d? Could this man be Shinigami's son, the head of the Spartoi unit?
"So, how's going with your girl?" Joe asked him.
"You mean Patti? We are now engaged for more than half a year. I want to ask her to marry me sooner. I'll just wait until the date is perfectly symmetrical." Kid explained shortly.
"Soul, wait a minute. Did he mentioned Patti? As in Liz's younger sister?"
A/N: Okay~ I'm quite satisfied with the appearance of Kid here… Don't forget to review
-Laugh