A/N: Hello, old chapter. This one was written a long time ago, but I never found the place to put it. While looking through almost forgotten chapters, I spotted this one and thought, "Eh, why not?" It's short and sweet. Enjoy!
11. Fortune
They were all sitting down to dinner in one of Death City's more casual restaurants, chatting about the recent events of the day. Soul was struggling with a plate of udon noodles, cursing every time they slipped from his chopsticks. When it became too painful for Maka to watch, she handed over a fork with a slight shake of her head.
"Cool men don't eat with chopsticks," Soul muttered, spinning the noodles onto the silverware before scooping them into his mouth.
"A big man wouldn't succumb to using a fork!" Black Star argued, viciously chopping at his own food with the two sticks. "No matter how frustrated."
In the end, before Black Star's food could resemble a sloppy mush, all of them, with a few exceptions, were given forks. Maka and Tsubaki regularly used chopsticks and were familiar with navigating food onto them. As for Kid, the shinigami explained that having two chopsticks was soothing.
They soon finished dinner and were all happily crunching on fortune cookies and sharing fortunes when Maka noticed both Kid and Black Star gloomily pushing their neglected, sugary treats around empty plates.
"Hey, you two didn't eat your fortune cookies," she observed, giving the assassin and reaper a disapproving look.
"Yeah, that's the best part of the meal," Liz added, sparing Patty a helpless glance when the younger weapon slurped up the thin slip of paper like a noodle. "Don't you like knowing your fortunes?"
"We don't look at our fortunes anymore," Kid replied, sounding on the verge of being ill.
"Yeah," Black Star agreed in the same weak tone.
"Why not?" Soul asked distractedly while giving his own fortune a disgusted grimace.
"Because of Excalibur," Black Star and Kid spoke in unison, gazing despondently into the bewildered faces of their friends. "Now the only thing our fortunes ever say is 'I'll always be waiting for you.'"
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A/N: It's probably true…