Unintended Medicine

by PuppyNoelle

Description: Maka goes on the Pill to help alleviate her troublesome menstrual symptoms, but things become skewed when Soul finds out about her new prescription. SoulxMaka, multi-chap, Lemony!

A/N: I seriously love this story as much as you guys do. I'm really letting loose as a writer more than I ever have before. And, just to let everybody know, I have already written the final scene of this story. No need to be alarmed though, since I still have a lot of plot to get through before I get there. :3

Love, Ash~


Chapter 12

Maka and Soul were sprawled out atop the new bed with textbooks and notebooks spread out around them. Soul had retrieved his boxers and put them back on, but Maka still wore only her bra and black pleated skirt. Maka was lying on her stomach with her feet up in the air near the headboard.

"You know," her weapon said casually, "you might wanna put some underwear on, because from here I can see pretty much everything. It's really not the best environment for studying."

The meister reached a hand back and smacked his leg. "Well, as I recall, it was you who destroyed my underwear in the first place. You owe me a pair of underwear."

Soul chuckled, "Well then I'm replacing it with another one of those lacy ones. Is that pink one the only one you have?"

Maka rolled her eyes. "Yes, that's the only one I have. I got it when I went shopping with Tsubaki the other day. We went into Victoria's Secret and she had some coupons."

"Well well Maka Albarn, I never would have thought... But you are starting to turn into quite the little vixen now, aren't you?" As his hand began making it's way up the back of her thigh, she twirled around and smacked his hand.

"Bad Soul. Study. Now. We have two written midterms tomorrow. Need I remind you of your terrible track record on written exams? If it weren't for practicals and group assignments, you'd have dropped out years ago."

He shrugged. "What can I say? I'm not book smart like you are, I'm street smart."

"...Says the rich, little mama's boy."

"Shut up, Maka," Soul replied darkly.

His meister growled and slammed her notes down on the bed. "Okay, that's it, you're gonna have to stop shutting down whenever your family comes up. I may not know all that much about your life with them, but eventually I'm going to meet them, and someday, with someday meaning several years from now, they'll end up being my family too. So grow up and talk to me."

Soul heaved a sigh. "You wanna know about my family? Okay, fine. The Evans family is full of cold, critical, rich assholes who think they're so much better than everyone else. My father is no different than the rest of them. He married my mother for love, unlike most of the family, but if my mother hadn't happened to come from a rich family, I'm sure the match would never have seen the light of day.

"And, although he does love my mom, he never gave a damn about me and my brother. To him, we were just a means of carrying on the family name. He only tolerates Wes because he's the one with everything it takes to be successful in the eyes of the Evans family. He's got impeccable talent, he's charismatic, and he's got the shrewd business sense too. I'm just a lesser version of him.

"Wes is different though, he's more like Mom. Mom's side of the family was always very warm and accepting. She's an only child though, so when my grandparents were gone, there wasn't anybody else left. But Mom and Wes, they didn't care that I was different. Mom was really disappointed when I decided to leave and come here. She wanted me to stay and continue being her protege. Wes was the one who convinced her to let me leave. He was there when I found out I could turn into a weapon, and he was the only one who saw how much I hated my life there.

"So that's it in a nutshell. My life, pre-Maka."

Said girl sat up and scooted closer to him. "So, your dad, did he ever... hit you or anything?"

Soul shrugged. "Not really. I mean, there were times he did get really mad at me when I was little. I was always really curious, asking him tons of questions and stuff, and he'd get pissed and yell at me, telling me to shut up. He never touched me though. I just ran away crying. Eventually I just gave up."

Maka's face wrinkled in disgust. "That's still considered child abuse! Geez, he makes my good-for-nothing Papa look like 'Dad of the Year' or something!"

Her partner quietly chuckled. "Yeah, I guess so. Your old man may be a dumbass, but he really does love you, Maka." Soul pulled his knees up to his chest and rested his chin atop them. "I guess that's part of why I'm so much happier here. I've sort of made my own family here: with you, and Black Star, Tsubaki, and Kid, Liz and Patty, and everybody else. I mean, we're all pretty dysfunctional, but at least everybody cares."

The young woman leaned closer and wrapped her arms tightly around his frame. "No matter what Soul, I'll always love you."

He smiled. "I know. Me too."

"Okay!" his meister said, releasing her hold on him, "No more distractions! From here on out we study study study!"

Soul chuckled. "Gotcha."

The next morning when Soul and Maka arrived at school, it appeared that nothing was out of the ordinary. Soul's fangirls still peeked at him sheepishly in the halls. His locker was still flooded with love notes and partner requests, which, as usual, he promptly threw out. No other students even looked at them twice. As the partners walked to their classroom to take their first midterm, it appeared that no one had any idea that they were dating now. Soul raised an eyebrow at Maka. She simply shrugged.

As they entered the classroom, both emerald and crimson eyes latched onto spiked blue hair. However, before they could say anything, Professor Sid was ushering everyone into their seats for the exam.

After their first midterm was over, students began filing out of the classroom, ready to go to lunch. Even Soul had rushed out and disappeared amongst the throng of people, leaving Maka to walk to the cafeteria alone with Black Star. The female meister allowed him to babble on about how he was too big a guy to fail the test, while she mustered up the courage to ask him why he had kept his mouth shut about her and Soul's new intimacy.

"Hey, Black Star?"

He stopped his ramble, and looked at his companion expectantly. "Yeah, what is it, Maka?"

They entered the cafeteria, and found their way to the back of the line. Maka's face tinged pink as the words escaped her lips, "Why didn't you tell anybody about me and Soul?

The blue-haired ninja stared at his friend blankly. "What? Did you want me to tell people?"

"No!" Maka huffed, pissed that he would even think that. "So why didn't you run off telling the whole school?"

Black Star grinned at her. "What kinda guy do you take me for, Maka? If you do something idiotic, then of course I'm gonna spread the word, but you're like my little sister. And big brother's don't gossip about their little sisters."

Maka was touched, until she realized... "Black Star... I'm four months older than you!"

Black Star burst into laughter. "But you're definitely smaller than me! I'm so big, age doesn't even apply to me!"

Just then, Kilik strolled up behind them in the food line. "Gossip about Maka? I gotta hear this!"

Maka tensed up, but when Black Star smirked at her, and began to open his mouth, she glared daggers at him. She made to lunge at him, but it was too late. In the middle of the cafeteria, the words were already out of the ninja's mouth. "Maka's dating Soul now."

The blonde meister was blushing furiously at this point. The heads of all the girls near them in line turned, wide-eyed and slack-jawed for a moment, then immediately turned around and started whispering. Soon the news was traveling up the line in a wave of shocked faces, stares, and whispers.

Just then, Soul strolled up, hands in his pockets, and cut in front of Kilik in line to stand by his girlfriend and best friend. It took him a moment, but he soon chimed in, "Hey guys, why are all the girls staring at us?"

Maka sighed, resigned to her fate as a punching bag for all of Soul's disappointed fangirls. "Black Star just outed us."

"Oh," the scythe-man replied dully, then his expression changed into a smirk. "Well, might as well give 'em a show."

With that, he grabbed his meister's hands and planted a kiss to her lips. Behind them, Black Star and Kilik were jumping around in mirth. They high-fived, Black Star continued whooping, and Kilik whistled and announced, "Get a room!"

The moment Soul released her lips, Maka flashed away and both Black Star and Kilik sank to the ground, clutching their skulls. Soul grinned as he saw the textbook slide back into its place inside of Maka's school bag. He loved it when someone else was the Maka-chop victim. He slipped a hand into one of hers and laced their fingers together. His girlfriend smiled sheepishly at him, before taking a more serious tone.

"So what took you so long to get here? You walked out of the classroom pretty quickly after the exam, I figured you'd be here already," she inquired.

He looked her in the eye briefly before returning his attention in front of him. He shrugged, "Nothing much. I just gave your dad a heads up before the rumor mill started. I don't want him showing up at the apartment trying to break down the door at 1 am again."

"Oh, that was probably a good idea."

Black Star chimed in, "Why was your creepy old man banging on your door at 1 am? When did this happen?"

Maka froze, but Soul smoothed things over, "It was last weekend. He just misunderstood something Maka and I were talking about, and flipped out. You know how he's always blowing things out of proportion."

Black Star and Kilik both nodded, neither interested in the idea of hearing an account of another one of the red-headed Death Scythe's overly-emotional displays.

Maka and Soul exchanged swift glances. If only they knew...

The written midterm for Stein's class had been a real doozy. Maka had barely finished the exam in time for the bell. She peered beside her and noticed that Soul was scrambling to write something down before time ran out. She started to feel guilty. They really should have spent more time last night studying instead of wasting so much of their precious time sexing.

She sighed as the timer went off and Stein announced the end of the exam. Her partner's head smacked into the desk. She gently pulled the paper out from under his face, and sympathetically brushed her thumb along his cheek in the process. He peeked over at her, giving her a small smile, before clearing all emotion off his face and leaning back in his usual nonchalant manner.

"And class, don't forget that your midterm practicals will be held at the dueling sites on the school grounds," Stein announced as the bell rang, "Don't forget to look at the sheet on the board outside the classroom to see what your team's time slot is. Keep practicing switching out weapon partners with your teammates. This isn't the final, so I'm not expecting perfection, but since you're about to graduate, I don't want to see any rookie mistakes. Okay. That's all."

Maka navigated her way through the crowd of classmates, and waded up to the list on the wall. Her finger trailed down the list until she found herself, Black Star, and Kid, and their partners listed in the noon slot. They would be eating a late lunch tomorrow.

Just as she turned around, she saw Kid coming up to see the list. She waved at him and gave him a thumbs up, telling him that she already got their time. He looked a bit dazed for a moment, but nodded at her, and turned back around. She raised an eyebrow at his curious behavior, but continued moving out of the mess.

When she was finally clear of the mass of students, the blonde meister approached her teammates, who were all waiting on her: some patiently, and some, like Black Star and Patty, less so.

"Noon tomorrow," she announced to them, as her partner's arm snaked around her waist. "We're on dueling court number 2, Stein's our exam proctor. Since we'll have the morning open, I think we need to decide if we want to practice now, or get up early tomorrow and use the morning to practice."

"Are you kidding? No way are we waiting 'til morning to practice! The great Black Star needs his sleep just as much as any regular mortals!"

"Translation: You'd rather spend the morning doing Tsubaki than doing homework," Liz chimed in teasingly.

Tsubaki flushed while her boyfriend laughed and replied, "Maybe, but no queen of mine is going to take an exam without getting plenty of fun and relaxation in first!"

Everyone laughed as Black Star led the way toward the practice grounds. Maka and Soul hung at the rear of the pack, casually holding hands, and laughing at Black Star as the Thompson sisters continued to poke fun at him. Liz was teasing that Black Star was probably more submissive in the bedroom than Tsubaki, when Soul nudged his meister, and pointed at Kid.

"Is something up with Kid?" he whispered quietly enough that no one could hear.

Maka turned her attention to their black and white haired friend, and noticed that he was looking a bit distracted again. The young reaper didn't seem to be paying any attention to the conversation, and was instead quietly watching the back of the eldest Thompson sister.

The blonde whispered into her boyfriend's ear, "I'm not sure... he seemed kind of distracted earlier too. He keeps looking at her." She said, discreetly pointing at the tall blonde a ways in front of them.

"Hmm..." Soul murmured curiously, "You don't think...?"

His meister shrugged. "Well, all the rest of us have been pairing off as of late..."

Then her weapon nudged her, "Go and save Tsubaki from the girls' wrath, I'll see if I can figure anything out."

Maka nodded, and glided up the front and interrupted the Thompson's teasing spree. Soul hung back, falling into step with Kid, who seemed to have been brought back from his trance by Maka yelling, "Leave Tsubaki out of it!" in front of him.

"Hey," Soul said casually, "You still in there, Kid?"

"Huh? What do you mean, Soul?"

"You just looked like you were spacing out, that's all," the silver-haired man replied, shoving his hands into his pockets. "Just wondering if everything's good with you and the girls. You're not really laughing at their jokes like you usually do."

Kid's face filled with the briefest hint of embarrassment, but he recovered in an instant. "No, everything's normal, perfectly normal. Not a thing is out of place. I'm just worried about the exam tomorrow, that's all."

"Oh, yeah. I'm sure we'll do fine. Even Black Star and I have been able to match our wavelengths better recently." Soul wasn't quite ready to give up on the subject though: "Plus Maka and Liz are starting to make a great team too."

Kid visibly twitched a bit at the sound of the elder sister's name, but replied smoothly, "Yes, and Black Star is starting to do well with Patty too. For the longest time he hated the idea of using guns, but I suppose that was just hubris from his ninja heritage."

"Yeah, and hey," Soul nudged his friend in the arm, "You and I are making a pretty cool team too. I told you that my symmetry isn't that bad if you're looking at the right angle. And I was the first one of us weapons to become a Death Scythe anyways."

"Yes," Kid admitted, "And it took me the longest to turn Liz and Patty. Despite the fact that I'm a Reaper, I'm always the last one of us to accomplish anything."

He had the scythe's complete attention. Maybe they were finally getting somewhere.

Kid continued, "I was the last meister in our group of friends to turn my weapons into Death Scythes; and then there's Black Star and Tsubaki, and now you and Maka..."

Soul placed a hand on his friend's shoulder. "Hey, don't feel bad about any of that stuff. It only makes sense that you would take longer to make Death Scythes than Maka and Black Star. You have two weapons. Plus you had a real hard time in the Book of Eibon and lost a lot of time there. It's not your fault. And as for the rest, don't worry about it. You'll find someone eventually. And don't be an idiot and rush into anything just because you feel like you have to keep up with me and Black Star."

Suddenly, as the group arrived at their favorite training spot, another loud argument broke out. Kid hesitated for a moment, but decided to take this opportunity to get something off his chest.

"Soul... if I tell you something, will you promise not to tell anyone?"

Now the scythe-man was very curious. He raised an eyebrow and slowly said, "Okay. I promise."

Then Kid leaned a bit closer and quietly whispered his secret into Soul's ear.


~End Chapter 12

I wasn't planning on doing anything about it this soon, but since so many of you guys expressed the desire for Kid to get a little lovin', I caved much earlier than anticipated. He's not getting a happily-ever-after yet though.

Anyways, I bet you guys already have a solid idea what Kid's secret is. But you'll have to wait for Chapter 13 to see if you guessed everything right. :P

Love, Ash~