A/N: It has come to my attention that I failed to give credit to my good friend LastOfAll for all the hard work put into the last chapter. LastOfAll is the creator of Shade's character and has taken him over due to my in ability to convey his character correctly to you good readers. LastOfAll will continue to write for most, if not all, of Shade, and if you are starting to like this character you should give credit were credit is due, please let LastOfAll know in your reviews. Thank you to all of you who have and continue to review, they make writing pleasurable and I enjoy reading them, they mean a lot.

One more thing, this is the largest chapter for this story, so big infact that I had to split it up into two parts when up loading it for some reason so look at it like you get two chapters for the price of one. Hope you enjoy.

Back to the Beginning

Soul's P.O.V.

I wake up to the faint sound of beeping, my left arm is dead, I can't feel a thing with it, so I use my right to find the source of the sound. It finds it's target in the form of Maka's cell phone. I quickly hit the snooze button and try desperately to go back to sleep. I have the weight of Maka's head on my shoulder, her hand on my chest, her leg over one of mine, but theres something else, my mind can't figure it out. It's warm, and...fluffy? My forehead wrinkles in confusion, I try and wrap my still sleeping brain around whats laying across my stomach when all of a sudden it moves.

A chill runs across my skin as the furriness of the thing twitches, almost like Blairs tail does when she sees a bird in cat form. My eyes open wide at the thought, Blair hasn't been home the last couple of days, she said it was because of our new house guests, little did she know that Rin had sent Kuro back to True Cross, not wanting to upset our room mate.

The thing moves again and I'm almost to afraid to look, knowing that what my brain was thinking was probably right. Theres movement beside me, Maka starts to nuzzle closer to me, while her fingers lightly dig into my chest, her breath comes out a bit breathy against my neck before she hums.

All at once her body moves and I'm free to get up, that is if my left arm really was dead, but it's not, it's just asleep and trapped under not only Maka but Rin as well. How do I get myself into theses messes?

I feel movement again and wish I was the one moving, away from whats happening. There is no way they are about to get all touchy feely with me here.

"Do you guys mind?" I ask.

"Soul, what the hell?" Maka asks.

"I'll leave..."

"Please do."

"I will as soon as you guys get off my arm!" I yell.

"Oh..." Maka says as they both sit up.

I make a quick exit towards the door, stopping before leaving. "By the way, when the alarm goes off again, Rin will have about twenty minutes to get back to the dorms before Yukio opens his door."

"Thanks." Maka says.

"Don't mention it. And thats not just a figure of speech this time, I really mean don't mention it, to anyone. I don't want them all knowing that I slept with you guys." I say.

Maka giggles as I shut the door behind me.

Rin's P.O.V.

I pull Maka it a bit closer to me, missing the closeness we normally have.

"I'm sorry I needed Soul..."

"It's ok, I get it. Believe it or not there was a time that Yukio and I shared a bed when we were young, it's a comfort thing."

"This is also a comfort thing." She says as brushes her lips over mine.

I smile and kiss her, it starts off as a little reassuring, good morning kiss but quickly turns into something else. I fight the urge to roll her over, putting myself on top of her, but instead she pushes me, throwing her leg over my hips and straddling me. Her hands are on either side of my face while mine are at her hips begging for her to close that last bit of distance and grind hard against me, my groin aching for it.

I put more pressure on her hips and she fights against it for a second before giving in and sliding her hips forward. I thought I was going to come undone right then and there but when I don't I push her hips back, this time she complied without hesitation, I don't even have too ask her to rotate them forward again.

I can't help it any more, I hold her close to me and flip us, pushing her hips into the mattress with my own, deepening the kiss as I grind against her.

She breaks the kiss with a wonderful sound, but just as the good is getting better with her hands under my shirt, fingers scratching at my back, the alarm on her cell goes off.

I stop with a groan, my forehead against hers. She reaches over and turns it off.

"It's probably good that we stop anyway." She says with her eyes half closed, as if I would see the truth if she looked at me.

"I hope you know that you're driving me crazy."

"I'm sorry."

I smile. "But as crazy as you drive me, I wouldn't trade these moments for anything."

She kisses me lightly. "Just know that they drive me just as crazy."

"That's good to know." I smile.

"You better get going, I have a feeling Yukio might wake you up early to ask how our training went."

I nod. "You're probably right." I kiss her again, and again it turns into a deeper kiss.

My hips move on their own, she pulls away.

"Rin..." It's half moan, half warning.

"Sorry." I say kissing her forehead. "I'll see you later today."

She nods.

I get up grab my things and exit through the window.

Maka's P.O.V.

I sit for a while trying to slow my blood, and calm my breathing. I decide that the best distraction is to just get up. Besides I wanted to thank Soul again for staying with me last night, it was a bit awkward.

I get up and head down the hall to the rest of the house, I find Soul laying on his back on the couch, sleeping again. I sit down in front of the couch and lay my arm and head on his chest. He grumbles a bit.

"Thank you again for last night." I say.

He yawns. "Thats what partners do, even if it means getting molested by their boyfriends tail."

"He didn't molest you with it..."

"Maybe not purposefully..."

I laugh. "Trust me it wasn't."

"I believe you. Isn't it weird though, I mean..."

I laugh again. "Most of the time he has it wrapped around his body, but it's kind of like a cats tail, it has a mind of it's own, meaning it stays out of harms way."

"You've never rolled over on to it or anything?"

I laugh. "Nope. And it doesn't bother me when it does what it did to you, to me. It's just another part of Rin."

He nods at me in understanding. "Who knew that it would be a tail that my Meister would be attracted to."

"Why do you say that?"

"How many guys have you been attracted to other then Rin?"

"Well... None."

"And how many of them had tails?"

"None, but that doesn't mean..."

"My point."

"It's not the tail..." I say hitting him lightly.

He laughs. "Oww, ok..." He laughs again.

"What do you want for breakfast?" I ask.

"About fifteen more minutes."

I glair at him.

"I don't care. Whatever you feel like making."

"Eggs and bacon it is." I say getting up from my spot next to the couch. "And I'll even let you sleep while I cook."

Soul rolls over mouthing the words, "thank you."

I smile knowing I have the best partner ever. I get to work cooking in the kitchen, cooking three pieces of bacon each and making four scrambled eggs. I pop in two pieces of bread in the toaster and mindlessly stir the eggs while I wait for everything to cook.

What Rin said this morning about being a tease hit home, I didn't want to do that to him even though he said that he enjoyed every minute of it, I knew it wouldn't stay that way forever. Rin was male, and eventually he would want what every male wants. That thought scares me, what if I wasn't ready when he came to the end of his rope? Could I toss aside my intimacy issues, and just go with the flow like Soul said I should?

The spatula is being ripped from my hand, pulling me out of my thoughts.

"If I would have known you were going to burn down the apartment I would have said cereal." Soul says trying to save whats left of our breakfast.

"Am I a tease?"

"Huh?"

"Am I a tease?"

Soul stops messing with the burnt eggs and looks at me. "No, I don't think your a tease. I think your conflicted."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, if Kid hadn't told you you couldn't be with Rin, and if Shade hadn't made such a big deal about your relationship would you be having these issues... Ok you'd still have issues but would they be this bad?"

I think about it for a second. If no one had said anything then it would have just been myself holding me back and I think that by now I could have convinced myself that I wanted Rin. I smile. "No."

"Then stop letting everyone else decide what happens, I've told you this before."

"I know."

"So stop dwelling on the same shit and get laid already." He says putting his hand on top of my head.

"I'm not saying I will any time soon..."

"That's fine, but don't let everyone else hold you back from something you want."

"OK."

"Now can I get some decent breakfast?" Soul grumbles.

"Get dressed, we'll stop and get something on the way to school, I'll pay."

"Oh burrito truck here I come."

I watch as Soul runs to his room.

Kid's P.O.V.

Who should I send this time? The choice is obvious but some form of doubt still settled in the back of my mind. What if sending them on this mission gets them killed or worse brings them closer together, bringing an even bigger risk that they might make a mistake. Shaking my head, I mentally scolded myself, they are my friends and know the dangers they might face, and I have to trust Maka, and Soul.

Settling back into my office chair, I pull over the file that had been delivered to me. Inside were first hand accounts and even a reconnaissance squads reports on the activities taking place in an old monastery in Russia. A few demon priests seem to have gathered there and formed some sort of cult, numbers were impossible to tell but it was definitely enough for me to send three teams. The final note on the page came from the only living monk from the monastery, he claimed that within the compound a terrible demon was trapped in behind a door, with the remains of his last victim, the head monk.

This really worries me, from the notes it appears to be a named demon, however which one is impossible to tell.

"Would you like me to notify Maka's team?" Liz asks calmly, but I could tell that the notes bothered her just as much as they did me.

"Please, but also notify Black*Star and Shade's as well." I was not willing to send anyone but the best. Maybe sending Stein and Spirit wasn't a bad idea either, but that would leave me with basically no one here incase something else happened. No Maka and the others would have to do, I hoped that they would be enough.

"Isn't that a bit much?" Liz was smart but she couldn't understand the full severity of the situation.

"Reports hint that there maybe a named demon within the monastery, I hope that my best teams will be enough."

With that dark note Liz just turns away, picking up the phone to contact the others and set up a time for a meeting where I may discuss the situation and give them the gear they might need.

"How soon Kid?" Liz was holding the phone away with one hand over the receiver.

"Meeting in a couple hours, the assignment in three days. This must be dealt with and quickly."

Shade's P.O.V

The dreams, or memories just kept coming. This time I couldn't make out where I was, but I could feel more than one set of hands trying to pull me away. I was screaming and crying, trying to get into a darkened doorway. To the side of the door a dark man appeared, he carried a key and chalk and was chanting as he reached out, shutting the door and locking it with the key. I felt one set of hands leave me, but before I could rush towards the door, the other set encircled me, pulling me away from my escape.

Now the dark figure was joined by a second and they began to draw symbols on the scarred wood of the door, all the while chanting endlessly. As they worked the symbols began to glow, getting to an intense white light before settling down. Slowly everything went black and I slept in darkness.

The sound of the phone ringing wakes me up, but I just lay there expecting another memory to soon play out. Finally realizing I'm awake, I scrambled for the phone, catching it on the last ring.

"Hello?"

"Shade? It's Liz, listen we have an assignment for you, please report to the Death Room in two hours."

With that, Liz hung up the phone and I stood there not sure of what was happening. With a possible battle ahead, I felt the old thrill of the adrenaline, and I began my morning routine, before checking my arrows once more and finally sharpening my short-bladed katana. Whatever they had for me, I was glad for the distraction it provided.

Liz's P.O.V.

As I hang up the phone after calling Black*Star I can tell Kid is worried about this assignment, he's not one to doubt his teams but this time I can tell he's worried.

"Kid why don't you ask Yato and Yukine to go with them, if this demon is a named one, wont it be a good thing to have a god on our side?"

"I have thought about that option to Liz but I have also been doing some digging in my fathers library of records and this Yato doesn't seem like he was always such a good guy. In fact I remember my father telling me about a god who almost turned kishin merely from the hate his employers fead him, he was a god of calamity, often used as an assassin, unlike our Black*Star though, Yato didn't ask questions. He caused so much chaos that my father almost had to take him down. But before the assignment was dealt out, Yato disappeared, only to resurface as the Yato we met."

"But he's changed, he has no will to go back to what he once was." I say.

"Yes but can I trust him to follow our elite teams into battle and not have them come back to us dead with stab wounds in their backs?"

I don't know how to answer that question so I simply say. "I don't know."

"Call Maka and tell her of the meeting, then I want you to find Yato and Yukine and bring them to the Death Room, I have some questions for him."

"Will do." I say picking up the phone again and calling Maka.

Maka's P.O.V.

I feel my phone vibrate in my pocket before the ring tone sounds. Soul is to busy stuffing his face to notice. I pull the phone out and answer.

"Hello?"

"Hey Maka, it's Liz."

"Oh, Hey Lizzzz..." I say in a teasing voice towards Soul, who stops eating and looks at me.

"Kid would like you and your team to be in the Death Room in about an hour."

"Ok, see you then." I hang up the phone.

"I take back what I said this morning, you are a tease." Soul says.

I hit him in the arm. "We have a meeting in a hour so eat fast."

"No problems there." Soul smiles before he continues to ravage his tortilla wrapped breakfast.

I text Rin. "Meeting in Death Room in an hour."

"See you then." He text back.

"How was your morning?" I ask not able to leave the possibility alone that we had been caught.

"Fine other then Yukio barging into my room at the ass crack of dawn, waking me up from a great dream."

I smile and realize he can't see it. "Sorry to hear that, I hope you get to relive it tonight."

"Me too."

"Who you texting?" Soul asks, bumping my elbow with his.

"Just letting Rin know we have a meeting."

"Are you sending him one word at a time? Because thats a lot of messages for just telling him we have a meeting."

"I asked him how his morning was."

"We still in the clear?"

"Yep."

"Good to know your extended teasing didn't get us caught."

"Shut up. Now who's the one teasing?"

"I'm just saying that if a girl..."

"Liz..." I interrupt."

He glares at me. "...teased me like that, I would have to return the favor until she was begging me to give in."

"Ah huh and how many times has this happened?"

"Liz doesn't beg, she demands." Soul says with a smirk.

I laugh a bit dumb founded. "Wow. T.M.I."

Soul finishes his breakfast and we head towards the academy, and towards the Death Room.

Yato's P.O.V.

Yukine and I had just turned a corner in one of the many halls in the academy, just another day of wondering.

"Yato!"

I hear a girl call my name and it saddens me that when I turn around it's not Hiyori.

"Ms. Liz, was it?"

"Yes." She says. "Lord Death would like to see you and Yukine."

"I knew this would happen sooner or later. Lead the way." I say.

Yukine and I follow Liz down the halls and soon come to the Death Room door.

"Do you think we'll get to go home today?" Yukine asks.

"Maybe."

"You know you two weren't being held hostage or anything, you could have left whenever you wanted to." Liz states.

"Yes, but I had a feeling my services would be needed."

We walk down the final hallway and into the Death Room.

"Good morning God Yato."

"Good Morning Lord Death, how may I and my weapon assist you?"

"Don't try and flatter me, I need to know your intentions at this academy, are you friend or foe?"

"Have I done anything to suggest that I am anything but a friend?"

"Cut the crap." Liz says.

"Look I'm just a god trying to change his stars. I'm not the god of calamity that I once was, I help people, trying to make up for the lives I cut short without question, without hesitation."

"And your weapon?" Lord Death turns to Yukine who has been standing behind me silently. "How does he see you?"

I step to the side.

Yukine takes a deep breath. "He's an arrogant asshole, who has a spending problem, but Yato does take care of me. He has given me a home, a purpose, a chance to change as well. He is no longer who you think him to be, for me, he has never been that God, He has only ever been the arrogant asshole, with a spending problem, who doesn't have any fashion sense."

"You just added that one!" I yell.

"Well it's true, who wears a track suit when they're not running on a track?"

I see Liz and her sister laugh behind Lord Death.

"In that case I would like your assistance. Would you both please stay for the meeting?" Load Death asks.

"Of course we'll help."

Kid's P.O.V.

I look about the room seeing my greatest teams and their equally great add ons.

"So you have an assignment for us or what?" Black*Star asks.

"I do." I say.

"Well?" Soul pushes.

"There is a monastery that has been taken over by pre-kishin priests, however some ground has been recovered."

"Then what do you need us for?" Black*Star questions.

"They have been able to capture a demon, we are needed to go in and rid the monastery of this demon. You exorcists will be doing most of the work however I need my Meisters and weapons to assist in anyway, may that be taking out more pre-kishins or whatever else might stand in the way between the exorcists and the demon in question."

"So where we going?" Shade asks.

"Russia. You will depart in three days, I need you all to get your cold climate gear together. The monastery is on a mountain..."

"When aren't they." Black*Star dead pans.

I glare at Black*Star. "Right now that area is getting a large amount of snow, in good weather the trek would only take a day, but in these conditions you will be needing to stop at the half way point. There is a small cleansing hut, so there will be shelter to get you all out of the weather while you rest for a night. Take the next three days to pack, Meisters I want you to assist your new group members in collecting the items they will need. Black*Star this mean you too, don't push all of it on Maka. Shade, I assume you know what you need, Izumo, you too know what is needed for a cold climate assignment.

"Yes Sir." Izumo says.

"Alright, any questions."

"Yeah, why are you not sending my brother with us?' Rin questions.

"Would you like me too?"

"Not really." Rin chuckles.

"Alright then, I am not sending your brother, or the other three exorcist because I don't want to send you all to the same place, what if something else happens and I need an equally good exorcist but I have sent them all to one location? It's the same reason I am not sending Stein and Spirit with you guys. I trust you all to be able to handle this, however I also expect you all to come back."

"Don't we always?" Black*Star says.

"You are dismissed. See you all in three days prepared and ready."

Liz's P.O.V.

I notice that as everyone is starting to leave that Maka is smiling at me and has been through out most of the meeting, as if she has something she is holding back. I want to ask her what it is but decide that nows not the time. I'd have to do it later, at a less formal setting.

Maka's P.O.V.

"If you keep smiling at her like that, Kid is bound to catch on." Soul says.

"I can't help it, I'm so happy for you two."

"It's not like it's a relationship, it's just, well it's not a boyfriend girlfriend relationship."

"I don't care, I'm still happy for you guys."

"Drop it, please." Soul begs as the rest of the group stops to let us catch up.

"Ok." I whisper.

"So who all need cold climate gear?" I ask.

Shiemi shyly raises her hand, followed by Yukine.

Alright, thats one for each of us Black*Star." I say.

"Wouldn't it be easier if you just took both of them Maka, I mean look at them, if I pack their supplies are they even going to be able to carry it?"

"Fine, but you owe me." I say knowing he was probably right. Black*Star did have a tendency to over pack, making his gear heavier then needed. And although Yukine looked strong, he was still a kid. Shiemi just looked fragile all around.

"Well that settles it, Tsubaki lets go pack."

"Ok, Black*Star."

"I'll come with you." Rin says to me.

"Ok, Soul..."

"I'm going home, I didn't get much sleep last night, and I'm feeling kinda famished."

I roll my eyes at him. "Whatever." I shake my head. "Shade, Izumo"

"I have my own things to pack." Shade says.

"I'm going and taking a hot bath, who knows when the next time I'll get a chance to do that will be." Izumo says.

"Yato?"

"I think it would be good for Yukine to socialize without my presents, how else is he going to learn to do it on his own?"

Yukine growls.

"Ok then, Soul I'll see you at home in a couple of hours. Don't sleep the whole time."

"No promises." Soul says.

Soul's P.O.V.

Just as I sit down on the couch I hear a knock on the door. I sigh frustrated that I can't seem to catch a moment of peace. I haul my ass off the couch and walk to the door, opening it to find Liz standing there.

"What do I owe for this visit?" I ask.

"Where are the two caged love birds?"

"Free, her and Rin went to the store for assignment supplies. Would you like to come in and wait for them?" I ask

Liz smiles and walks in. "So how long do you think they'll be gone?"

"Twenty minutes give or take." I say, shrugging my shoulders.

She nods, turns and walks towards my room. I smile to myself before following after her. Once in my room, I close my door, watching Liz peel her shirt over her head. I do the same in a quicker motion before walking over to her and pushing her to the bed. She giggled with the little bit of bounce she gets, but as my hand grazes her skin, my mouth kissing the top of her breast the giggle turned into a strained moan.

My hand makes it's way down her body to her jeans, quickly working to get the button undone and the zipper down. I don't waste any time putting my hand down her pants, fingers finding the wetness a comforting feel.

"Been too long." She sighs.

My fingers push inside her, my palm working her clit.

She moans.

"I can tell." I say against her skin.

"Shut up, we don't have a lot of time." She says breathily.

I pull my hand way from her and she makes a sound of disappointment. I smile at her as I take a hold of her jeans and underwear, she raises her hips allowing me to pull them down. I get them off her ankles and toss them to the floor. I take a second to realize this is the first time we have done anything on my bed. She looks at me and I snap myself back to the task at hand. I lower myself between her legs.

"We don't have time..." She starts to say but as I lick, her jaw drops, and her head rolls back into the pillows as she takes in a breath.

I find her clit and begin to play with it, circling and flicking it with my tongue. I look up at her and find her eyes closed, lips parted, chest rising and falling with rushed breaths. I move my tongue to her opening licking at it, sticking my tongue in as far as it will go, I make room for my thumb to rub at her clit working her even closer.

"I-I see my lessons paid off" She moans.

I can't help the smile that creeps across my face but then it's right back to work. She's right, the first time I had tried this I had no idea what to do, but like any good friend she talked me through it and all though she didn't cum before my tongue got tired the first time, eventually I was able to do it, this time was no exception.

"Fuck!" She breaths and I know it's time to back off.

She looks at me as she's coming down from her orgasm. I use my thumb to wipe the corners of my mouth, licking off any leftovers. She sits up, her hands are at my waist, undoing my jeans. I start to lend a hand, pushing them off my legs.

"Condoms?"

"Side table."

She reaches over, opening the drawer and finding them quickly. By the time she has the package and has opened it I'm there on my knees waiting. She quickly rolls it over me and lays down.

I know she's not one for kissing, it being to intimate and all, but in that moment I wanted to kiss her, for being awesome and not making this awkward. I steady myself over her, she reaches between my legs and guides my into her.

My body reacts, as if being welcomed home, I thrust in. Her breathing is halted, but then quickly she regains her composure.

"Way to long." I say, adding to her comment earlier.

She moans, as I pull back, only to quickly thrust in again.

"Fuck." I say.

"I'll second that." She moans.

My lips are on her throat, kissing the skin openly, licking it as I move about. Her hands are at my hips pulling me into her harder with each thrust. Her body is starting to tighten and I can feel myself being drawn towards the finish line as well.

"Soul! We're home!" Maka's voice rings though the apartment.

"Shit..." Liz says.

"She already knows about us." I say.

Liz looks at me.

I thrust harder and I watch her worry melt away. She moans loudly as I continue to pound into her. Her body comes undone and mines right behind her. Her breath is hot and ragged against my shoulder as mine is to hers.

"That better be Liz in there with you Soul Eater Evans, or you'll be on my shit list." Maka calls from the kitchen.

I start to pull away from Liz and as I free her, she closes her legs with a bit of a laugh.

"You better answer her, or she's going to kick down the door." I say.

She laughs again. "It's me Maka!" Liz yells.

"Good!" Maka yells back.

"How long has she known?" Liz asks.

"Apparently awhile, Tsubaki also knows."

"I kinda figured that if Maka knew Tsubaki would too."

Maka's P.O.V.

I smile at my two friends, caught red faced as the exit Souls room. Rin and I sit waiting for them on the couch.

"I'm so glad you stopped by Liz, Soul's been a bit, uptight lately." I say.

"I actually came to talk to you about the look you were giving me during the assignment meeting, but Soul answered my question."

"I bet he did." I hint.

"Oh shut it Maka. It's not like I don't cover for you when Rin's here."

"Yeah speaking of, how's that going?" Liz asks.

"Um..."

Soul laughs. "They haven't done shit."

"How would you know?" I ask.

"Because if things would have happened you two wouldn't be sitting here on the couch waiting to interrogate us for our actions."

"Now, now you too. Don't go getting your souls out of alignment. I'm sorry I asked." Liz laughs. "I better be going, Kid is already going to be asking where I was."

"Yeah, alright. Have a good night." Soul says.

My eye brows raise wondering if thats always how their encounters end or if it's just because Rin and I are here.

Liz walks to the door. "Have a good night you guys."

"Yeah you too." I say to Liz.

"Night." Rin says.

The door closes.

"Is that always how you guys say good bye after..."

"Why?" Soul questions.

"Just curious." I say.

"What did you think was going to happen?"

"I don't know maybe a kiss go bye or a call you later...something."

"I told her to have a good night."

"Friends tell friends to have a good night, I tell you to have a good night."

"Yeah, and?"

"I just thought that since you two were you know sleeping together that there would be...more."

"Well, theres not."

"Oh." I say. "Not even a kiss..."

"No, can you drop it? I don't think someone who has done little past first base should be teaching me how to play the game."

Some how this conversation has turned for the worst, why did Soul become defensive?

"You don't have to get mad, I'm not attacking you..."

"Yeah well, it seems that way. Just leave Liz and my relationship alone would ya. We're friends with benefits, nothing more, as much as you would like us to be, and because I know you're going to push until you find out, the reason I don't kiss her good bye is because we don't do that, it's to personal. Sometimes sex is just about feeling good with someone you trust, it's not always about love. You have a lot to learn about the grown up world little girl."

"What the hell Soul! That is the most fucked up thing you could say to me!"

"It's the truth." He says under his breath.

I feel the heat well up in my eyes. I get up off the couch and quickly walk to my room, closing the door behind me.

Rin's P.O.V.

I stand up. "Dude..."

"Yeah, I know. I'll give her a few and then come talk to her."

This isn't the first fight I have seen them have and it probably wont be the last. I know they are a good team and always talk things out in the end so I'm not to worried when I walk down the hall to Maka's room.

I knock first, lightly raping my knuckles against the wood.

"Come in." She says.

I walk in and close the door behind me. She's sitting on her bed, eyes just a bit red from crying. I don't really know what to say so I just lean up against the door.

"Am I a little girl?" Her voice is low and shaky.

I look up at her and watch her get up off the bed, she walks over to me putting her hands on either side of my face, she kisses me hard. My hands go to her waist still leaning against the door.

She pulls away. "I don't want to be a little girl."

"You're not." I say.

"I feel like one. Souls right."

"He said those things in anger."

"But he's right, I don't know anything, who am I to question him and Liz's relationship when I haven't had any of my own?"

"Don't make this about him."

"No, not about him or anyone else. This is about me..." She looks at me, seriousness in her eyes. "...and you." She kisses me again and this time something has changed, I thought before when we kissed she was really kissing me but I can tell now that she still had been holding back, but in this kiss there is nothing holding her back.

I let go of her waist to push us off the door. Her hands are at the bottom of her shirt, quickly she pulls away from the kiss to remove her shirt. She's walking backwards towards the bed, kicking off her shoes and grabbing the bottom of my shirt, I pull my Katana strap over my head my shirt soon following as I too kick off my shoes taking two more steps closer too the bed. I put my katana on her bed side table.

Our lips meet again and still no holding back from her. She's undoing my jeans, once the bottom and zipper are free her hands move on to her own zipper on her skirt. I let my jeans fall to the floor and step out of them taking that last step closer to the bed. Her skirt falls to the floor. Her hands are at her back, next thing I know she's standing there as topless as I am. My hands find her waist again as I pull her close to me feeling her body heat against my skin.

I don't know who made the first move but I find myself laying on top of her on her bed, my body between her legs. She's pulling the covers over us, her breathing is quick and her actions are full of sureness. Her hands move from the covers to under them, pulling me closer to her. She breaks the kiss needing air, I want to feel more of her under my lips. I start to kiss her neck working my way to her collar bone, My hands have yet to leave her sides where they are helping to stabilize my weight.

She moans as my lips move lower. She smells so good and her skin is soft. Her hands push at the waist band of my boxers and I help to slide them down, kicking them off my ankles. Her hands are at my waist working there way to the small of my back, gently pulling me closer to her, until I'm hovering right above her. Her fingers dance up my back finding my spine then sliding all the way down until they reach the base of my tail.

I can't help the growl that comes out just above her neck, nor the hard grinding thrust against her center. Her hips thrust back at me with a moan that rings clear in my ears. Just one more piece of cotton... My right hand moves down her side to her hip, thumb catching the waist band, I start to pull. Maka's whole body stiffens as she takes in a deep breath.

I pull back to look at her, all the sureness from before is gone. "Are you ok? Did I..."

She shakes her head. "No, you didn't do anything. Please." Is all she says. Before she kisses me again, but it's not the same kind of kiss and I pull away.

"Are you sure?"

"No." She says. "But it would be wrong to stop you."

"What are you talking about? It would be wrong for me to continue. Maka, I'm not going to do anything you're not ready for, ok?"

She starts to cry again and I end up moving to lay beside her, pulling her in close. I kiss her forehead and she snuggle into my chest.

"I'm sorry I'm such a tease."

I chuckle. "It's ok. The longer I wait the better it will be."

She laughs through her tears. "I hope so."

"Just do me a favor, when you are ready you'll tell me."

"Who else would I tell?" She asks.

"Hopefully yourself."

She kisses my chin, then stretches and kisses my lips lightly.

"Is it going to be to hard if I don't get dressed? I'm kind of enjoying the skin to skin." She says.

"Are you implying that I have no self control?"

"Good. I just had to make sure you weren't like all other males."

"What does that mean?" I ask.

"Most guys can't lay naked next to a girl without wanting to do other things."

"I never said that I didn't want to, I just won't push you, that all."

She smiles at me, leaning over and kissing me again. She pulls back. "How goods your self control?"

"You can trust me." I say knowing that she's about to make this a heated moment yet again and wanted to make sure I would stick to my word. And I wouldn't push, no matter how close she wanted to push it.

For the second time that day I found her straddling my lap. My hard on gently being stroked by dampened cotton. Her mouth was sure again as her hips moved. I groan into her mouth, pulling her hips against me once more. I thrust against her and as she returns the gesture I stop her hips.

She pulls back from the kiss. "I thought I could... But." I shake my head. "This." I squeeze her hips. "This is to much. The sensation is to close, and yet not close enough. I'm sorry. The kissing I can do, but if we keep this up I don't know how long my control will hold."

She smiles at me and moves, slowly pulling her leg back over my body. I follow and end up on my side almost on top of her, she pulls me close and kisses me.

Maka's P.O.V.

I can feel him hard against my leg and I am so close to just saying "fuck it." I pull back and moan in frustration. His lips are on my neck, I can feel his tongue start to lick my skin. I find his hand, pulling it up and onto my chest, placing his palm over my breast, him touching my breast isn't to much is it? His fingers start to message and I melt into him. Death I want more. My hands are feeling the muscles in his back move, I let a hand drift lower, back to the small of his back where the base of his tail is.

He growls again and I feel him twitch against my leg. I do it again and his hips stiffen as if he's fighting against his body. His hand leaves my breast and skims down my skin, over my stomach. No not there, I stop his hand just as it hits the waist band.

"Sorry, I'll play fair." I whisper.

"Maybe we should stop." He breaths.

"That sounds like the smart thing to do..." I nod. "But for once I don't want to be the smart one." I say kissing him again. His hand is back on my breast, my hands are again at the small of his back feeling his hips slowly begin to move.

"Rin." I say it in a way to get his attention, nudging his leg with mine. He moves his leg so I can slide my to the outside. Once again he's grinding against me and I want more. I want to know what it will feel like while he moves like this inside me.

His lips are again at my collar bone, his hand gently working my breast, his manhood grinding against my core that is aching for more. I reach up to the bed side table ready to hand him the protection I know we need, when theres a knock on the door and for once I want to yell at Soul to go away.

I feel Rin stop, waiting for my lead. He looks at me, his eyes follow my arm to the side table.

"Were you going to..." He pauses.

"I was..."

The knock comes again.

He lowers his head into the crook of my neck and makes a frustrated sound, half way between a groan and a whine.

"I could tell him to go away." I say.

"No, you two need to fix this fight of yours before this assignment, and I need to cool off."

"Rin." I say worried.

"Hey, we're ok. Nothings changed." He says kissing me and then lifting himself off of me.

I instantly want to ask him to come back, the coldness that hits my skin really points out how close we were. I watch Rin pull on his boxers only catching a glimpse of the top of his ass and realizing that he wears his boxers lower, allowing his tail to rest on the waist band.

I sit up using the covers to hide my bare upper half. Theres another knock on the door and I have lost my patience. "Just a fucking minute!"

Rin leans over and kisses me. "I'm going to go for a walk. I'll be back by bed time." He slips his shirt over his head and exits out the window.

A lighter knock reminds me of my annoyance. "Come in." I say.

"Sorry, where you taking a nap? I thought Rin was in here?"

"No I wasn't taking a nap, and he was."

I shift a bit in my bed trying to hide my naked back.

"Oh..." Soul notices my movement. "OH! I'm sorry if I interrupted anything, you could have told me to go away."

"I was going to, but Rin said that we should fix this before we go on this assignment."

"Were you really..."

"Yeah."

"I hope it's not because of what I said."

"It was at first, but in the end it was because we both really wanted to."

"Damn now I feel really bad."

"Soul..."

"I'm sorry Maka, I shouldn't have said that to you."

"But it is true."

"Even so, I shouldn't have said it."

"I'm glad you did."

"So are we ok?"

I smile. "Yeah. Now can you get out so I can put some clothes on?"

"How close were you?"

"Lets see, My hand was on the drawer handle and all I have on is my underwear."

"And Rin?"

"Why do you think it took so long for me to tell you to come in."

"Again, I'm sorry."

"Don't tell me, apologize to Rin the nest time you see him, if he hand't had insisted that we patch things up, I would have told you to go away."

"So is he coming back tonight?"

"Now who wants to be in the others relationship?"