Soul Eater
I wasn't planning updating today, but out of nowhere I did. Then, I told myself that this story would only have two thousand words and somehow it ended up with four. I'm glad I updated since I don't know if I'll have to update during the week.
Well, I hope you enjoy chapter 14! By the way, I am very grateful to all the reviews I have recieved thus far! It makes me really happy! So a big thanks to all my readers, reviewers, subscribers, ect.!
P.s. Listening to the Soul Eater ending 3. I absolutely love it!
Untouchable
Chapter 14 – Handshake
After their trip to the lake, Soul took Maka somewhere to eat. Maka had insisted that she wasn't hungry, but her stomach gave her away, rumbling at the wrong moment. They ended up going to a quick fast food restaurant to get something. At the time, Maka couldn't help but feel embarrassed because Soul had paid for her food. She didn't have any money and she was hungry, so what choice did she have?
Maka felt worse after that. Soul, instead of taking her home like he had promised to after eating, took her to the bookstore. He wanted to buy the book she didn't get to buy because they had bumped into Crona. Maka, once again, tried to tell Soul that it was okay and that she would buy it some other day with her own money, but Soul wouldn't listen to her. They argued about it for awhile before Maka finally gave in and grabbed the book for Soul to buy.
Sighing, Maka dropped herself on top of her bed while she looked up at the ceiling of her room. She had just finished taken a shower and she felt more refreshed than ever. The feeling of Soul touching her still had erased from her skin, though. She could still remember clearly how he had held her hand while they were sitting together on the lake. Even though she didn't want to admit it, that had been one of the greatest moments of her life. No guy had ever held her hand like the way Soul had.
She turned sideways, leaning her body against her arm. She stared out into her room while she let out another sigh. Kid had left and yet, she didn't feel as sad as she had expected herself to be. Instead, Maka felt calm, relaxed and possibly happy. In that day, she did and experienced manynew things. All that put together overpowered her feelings of sadness that she felt for Kid. Then she also discovered a few things about Soul.
The question that she always asked herself appeared in her mind; Why? Why did Soul do all that for her? He had told her many times before that he liked her, but Maka never believed them and considered him to just be fooling around with her. She thought he was just teasing her and joking around. How could she believe that now? He had shown his feelings to her. He had played the piano just for her, letting her know about his wonderful talent. Maka couldn't forget that. His beautiful playing was still vivid inside her mind.
Should she just believe it? Should she believe that Soul has feelings for her? Maka twitched on top of her bed and sat up rapidly. Placing her hands over her cheeks, Maka could feel them getting warmer and warmer. She never thought Soul would ever have the capacity to twirl up her feelings. She never thought Soul could have such an affect on her. Just weeks ago, Maka didn't even talk to him.
Then, there was the chance that she could be wrong. Maka placed her hands on her hair and tried to make up her mind. She felt so torn about everything that she didn't even know what she was thinking anymore. Maka stood up from her bed and walked over to a small mirror she had hanging on the wall. She looked at herself and tried to understand what Soul could possibly see in her. She was about to list down in her head her good qualities when she heard someone knock on her door.
Maka looked toward her door and waited for a couple of seconds. Then, when she heard the knocking again, Maka walked to the door and opened it to find her dad standing right in front of her. Maka sighed and placed her hand over her forehead. "Hey, Papa. What are you doing here?"
"What? Is it so wrong to come say hi to my little girl?" Her dad said with the most idiotic smile. Maka crossed her hands, but was suddenly surprised to see her dad stiff and serious. Maka gulped as she started to feel a real fatherly aura coming from him. "Can I come in, Maka? We need to have a little talk."
Maka hesitated, but ended up nodding in response. Her dad came in and looked around her room with awe. Maka couldn't really blame him since the last time he had come into to her room was years and years into the past. Without saying a word, her dad sat down on the chair she had in front of her desk. Maka, on the other hand, sat on her bed, far away from him. "So," Maka began, breaking the silence. "What is it that you want to talk about?"
Her dad didn't say anything and instead gave her a suspicious look. Maka flinched while a chill ran about her body. For some reason, she was starting to get worried. Her dad had a really serious face. It was odd to see her dad acting that way. Clearing her throat, Maka looked away from her dad and decided to stare at something on the ground. "Are you going to tell me or not?"
"Alright. Fine." Her dad, Spirit, crossed his hands while he closed his eyes. Sighing, Maka wished he could just get straight to the point. "I got a call today from your school."
"Oh, really?" Maka's body stiffen when she heard the word school. The memory of her entire day suddenly flashed before her, making her remember that she had skipped school for the very first time. "What did they want?"
"They told me that you didn't make it to school today." Her dad started to sound a bit angry and Maka was starting to get even more nervous. Her luck wasn't on her side and her dad was close to discovering that she had been with Soul the entire day. If he figured that out, he would, without any hesitation, choke Soul in a snap. "Tell me why that is? Why did you skip school today?"
"I didn't really skip school." Maka lied, scratching the back of her head and feeling a bit embarrassed. She gulped before looking down to avoid her dad's gaze. "You see the thing is that Kid left town for who knows how long and I wanted to be with him till the end, you know? I ended up going with him to the airport and I stayed there with him for awhile."
"Kid and his father were going to leave early in the morning so that's no excuse to why you didn't go to school right after." Her dad told her, raising his voice just a little so that his words could be heard nice and clear. "So I'll ask you again. Why did you skip school today."
Maka wasn't fixing to answer that. If she lied, her dad would know right away since he was good at detecting her lie. Still, Maka decided to give it a shot. "Well, you see," Maka began nervously. "The reason that I didn't go to school was because I couldn't stop crying after that. It was pretty big impact to see Kid leave so suddenly. We have been together for a long time and he is my best friend. He's important to me. If I would have gone to school, I wouldn't have stopped crying. There's memories of me and Kid everywhere."
Her dad didn't looked too convinced and leaned a bit closer to Maka. He squinted his eyes while he looked at her. "You seem fine now."
Rubbing her eyes, Maka nodded and gave him a light smile. "Yeah. I'm better now. My eyes don't have the strength to cry anymore." Maka closed her eyes while she silently congratulated herself for making up such a story. "I'm going to miss Kid so much. He was one of my only friends. I really hope he calls me soon."
Her dad got up from the chair and walked over to her. He placed his hand over her head as a way to comfort her. "I'm glad you're feeling better." He paused. "Maka, there's something else I have to tell you."
Maka, surprised that he father wasn't finished, looked up at him, baffled and confused. She blinked several times as she looked at her dad's serious face. This was all too surprising for Maka. She wasn't sure how to handle it. "What's going on?"
"I have to go to the same trip as Kid's dad." Her father told her with a somewhat depressed face. "They just told me today and I ended up accepting without thinking. I have to go help Kid's dad. I'm sorry, Maka."
"I want don't want to leave Death City!" Maka suddenly exclaimed, jerking up from the bed in utter desperation. It was true that if she traveled with her father, she would end up seeing Kid again, but the cost would be leaving Soul behind. Maka busted into tears thinking about that. How was she suppose to make up her mind about Soul if she was going to leave? She still didn't know if she liked him or not. "Please, Papa! Don't go! I don't want to go! I want to stay right here."
"I know. I know." Her father replied with easiness, much to Maka's surprise. He patted her head one more time before he held his hands in the air triumphantly. "Your wonderful Papa prepared himself for this reaction and that's why he planned ahead! I won't force you to come along with me, Maka! I will not let my daughter go through such distress! No! So I'm going to let you stay right here until I come back!"
"Really?" Maka replied, calming herself down a bit. There were several things that she wasn't understanding from her father. It was also weird to her how he had went from depressed to cheery in a matter of seconds. "Are you really going to let me stay here?"
"I am! Of course, that doesn't mean that I'll be letting you stay in the house all by yourself." Her father shook his index finger back and forth. Then he placed his hands on his hips and talked to her like if he was lecturing her or something. "I'm going to look for a guardian to take care of you while I'm gone."
"A guardian?" Maka said a bit disgusted at the sound of having to live under the same roof with a stranger. "I'm not a child anymore! I can take care of myself. I don't need someone to look out for me. It's so embarrassing. You never care about me so why would you hire someone to look after me?"
"I'm going to pretend like I didn't hear that last sentence." Her dad stated placing his hands over his ears. Maka couldn't believe how childish her dad could be. "There will be no no excuses, Maka. I'm leaving tomorrow evening and I will get someone to watch over you 24/7. Got it?"
Maka stayed in silent while she watched her dad walk to the door. Before he left, he waved good-bye and blew her a good night kiss. Maka sighed and closed the door to her room. There was nothing she could do to change her dad's mind. It was true that she was going to stay, but under the condition that she was going to be watched over by someone chosen by her father.
Maka gulped while she placed her hands over chest, a strange feeling suddenly possessing her body. She hoped that her dad wouldn't pick any of his close friends to watch over her since they had the reputation of being crazy drunk heads.
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Soul nearly choked on his sandwich when Maka told him the big news she had been talking about earlier. Since Kid was gone, Maka was hanging out with him, much to his joy, outside beside the basketball court. They were eating their lunch on the soft grass while they watched Black*Star and the others have an intense game of basketball. It was Black*Star's team against Liz's team and if Soul had counted correctly, Liz's team was winning.
"Are you going with your dad, then?" Soul asked her as he stared at her intensely. Maka was looking down at the ground, her hands pulling on a few strands of grass. The sadness that was reflecting from her face was starting to worry him. "Maka? Are you leaving with your dad just like the way Kid did?"
This was were things were starting to get messy for Soul. He obviously didn't want her to go. He didn't want her to leave him behind after everything they had went through. Soul would never get used to the idea of having her apart from him. How would he handle her absence? Without him realizing it, Maka had become something so important to him that he couldn't really recall what he was like without her. Then he remembered. Before Maka came into his life, he was really a lost soul. He was always womanizing and causing grief to half the school.
"No. I'm not leaving with my dad." Maka told him in a shy quiet voice. She looked up at him and much to his surprise, she gave him a small smile. "He told me that I could stay, but he's going to hire someone to watch over me."
Soul let out a sigh of relief while he took another bite of his sandwich. He was glad to hear that Maka wasn't leaving. Hearing her words made him feel like something had just been lifted off his shoulders. Even so, the look on Maka's face was sad and Soul wanted to know why. Could it be that maybe she wanted to leave him in order to see Kid? Soul shook away his insecurities and decided to focus back on Maka. "That's good, then. You should be happy that you're staying, right?"
"Oh, I am happy. I wouldn't want to leave here and enroll into another school for who knows how long. That just wouldn't make sense. I love being here." She told him, her mood becoming a bit more cheerful. "Even though, it would be nice to see Kid. It's barely the first day without him and I miss him already."
"Ouch. That stings, Maka." Soul told her, but out of impulse. He hated when Maka talked about Kid. Things were even worse now since she was constantly reminding him how much Kid meant to her. Why couldn't she say things about him that way? If she had to choose between Kid and him, what would be her choice? Soul didn't even want to think about the answer. "So what? Am I not good enough for you? If that's the way you feel you should have said so earlier."
"That's not it!" She suddenly exclaimed, her fingertips grabbing on to the rim of his sweater as if to halt his thoughts. Soul looked at her and to his mistake, made eye contact with her green eyes. They were almost pleading for him to listen to what she had to say next. "It's true that Kid is very important to me, but you are—"
"Am I interrupting something here?!" Black*Star's face suddenly got in between them, making them jump back in surprise. Realizing what he had just done, Soul fought the urge to beat Black*Star up right on the spot. "Seems to me like you two are getting to be pretty close?! Are you having a picnic without me, Soul?! How dare you exclude the man that is going to surpass god!"
"Shut up, Black*Star!" Soul got up from the ground and shook the dirt off his pants. If Black*Star said one more stupid thing in front of Maka, he wouldn't hesitate to choke him. Maka was so close to saying something nice about him and Black*Star had ruined everything. "Why don't you go back to playing your little game?"
"It's getting boring! There's no way those weaklings could ever compare themselves to an athlete like me! I surpass them all! Ha! Ha!" Black*Star started laughing like an idiot. All Soul could do was stare at him and watch Maka silently giggle at his annoying friend. "Maybe it would be more fun if you guys join the game. What do you all say? Wanna play basketball with us, Maka?"
Maka, surprised by his offer, shook her head politely. "Oh, no. It's okay. You guys go on and play without me. I'm not very good in sports. I'm not sure if I can even dribble the ball across the court without getting lost."
"I'll teach you! Trust me, Maka! I'll make you be almost as good as me!" Black*Star, ignoring Maka completely, grabbed Maka's hands and pulled her up to her feet. Maka, with a scared face, tried to tell Black*Star that she didn't want to play, but he wouldn't listen to her. "Don't worry about it! You'll have fun!"
"Hey, Black*Star! She said she didn't want to play, so leave her alone." Soul said through his teeth. If Black*Star didn't stop being an idiot in three seconds, he would send him flying off of school campus. "I'll play with you, okay? So just shut up and leave her alone."
Black*Star let go Maka and triumphantly walked over to Soul. Then a crooked smile appeared on his face. "That's more like it, Soul Eater! I'm glad to see you're not intimidated by someone as powerful as me! Ha! You should be trembling in fear! How about we have a one-on-one game?"
Soul gave him one of his famous smirks while placing his hands inside his pocket. "I like your thinking, Black*Star. I accept your challenge."
Black*Star laughed evilly and was shortly followed by a laugh from Soul. When Black*Star stopped laughing, he gave Soul a sly smile while his eyes shined with delight. "How about this Soul?" Black*Star began while he crossed his hands with confidence. "If I win the game, you'll do my homework for an entire month."
"If I win, you'll keep your mouth shut for an entire week!" Soul declared. He was trying to get him back for interrupting him and Maka earlier. Next time, Soul will make sure to hang around with Maka where there are no people around. Soul held out his hand in front of Black*Star with a smirk. "Deal?"
Black*Star grabbed his hand and shook it firmly. "Deal!"
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Maka walked home silently while her hands gripped tightly onto her books. She had been so close to telling Soul that he was also important to her. If Black*Star hadn't appeared in that moment, what would have happened? If she would have told Soul that, he would have probably gotten the wrong idea. All she really wanted to say was that she was really starting to accept him as friend. Or was it something more? Maka shook her head. She wasn't about to believe something like that.
Then her mind flipped over to the basketball game Black*Star and Soul had. Maka really didn't understand the game of basketball, but she did notice how Soul and Black*Star took their game too seriously. It was like neither of them wanted to lose to each other. In the end, none of them ended up winning since Liz and Patty were having trouble keeping up with the score.
Even so, Maka had to admit that Soul looked pretty cool playing basketball. His beautiful white hair flowed with the wind as he ran up and down the court. He looked so amazing and the entire time, Maka couldn't get her sight off him. His charm dazzled her and secretly inside her heart, she was kind of cheering for his victory. She hated admitting things like those to herself, but she also couldn't deny them. In a weird way, Maka was glad that Soul talked to her.
Shaking those thoughts from her mind, Maka stood up straight while her home came into view. She didn't want to feel anything more than friendship toward Soul, but recently, her emotions were just too strong for her. Still, Maka wasn't going to let her emotions get the best of her. She was determined to suppress her feelings and to see Soul as only a friend. Whether he liked her or not, Maka was going to force herself to see Soul as a friend. That's what he was to her. Soul was a friend.
When Maka finally made it home, she was surprised to see her father talking to someone outside the front the door. Maka walked into the yard, but her father didn't seem to notice her. He was too busy talking to some person. Maka couldn't really see who it was because of the setting sun. After taking a few more steps, her father and that other person turned to look at her. That's when it clicked to Maka that the person next to her father was probably her guardian.
"Oh! Maka! You're home!" Her father ran over to her and gave her a big hug. He squeezed her so tight that Maka was having trouble breathing. She pushed him off him, but her eyes wavered to the person that was standing behind him. "I'm going to leave in a couple of minutes! Papa is going to miss you so much! Maka! Oh, Maka! I'm gonna to miss you so much! Please don't forget about your dear father who loves you so very much! Maka!"
Of course, Maka wasn't listening to her father. She was looking at the man that was standing behind her father and who in return was staring back at her. He was tall with crazy brown hair sticking up from all over the place. His eyes were scary and a bit intimidating. To top things off, his clothing were weird, but that was the least of Maka's concerns. What really creeped Maka out was his grin which made her take a couple of steps back. She really hoped that he wasn't the person her dad had hired to take care of her. "Hey, Papa?" Maka asked quietly, enough for only him to hear. "Who is that guy?"
"Maka! Don't be rude!" Her father told nudging her on the elbow. He gave out a smile before walking over to the creepy looking guy. Then he introduced him to her vaguely. "Maka, I'll like to introduce you to your new guardian for the next couple of weeks that I'm gone! Try to be a good girl and not cause trouble!"
The guy held out her hand for her to shake, but Maka hesitated. She couldn't help but be afraid of the guy. Did her father not see how scary he looked? Then again, looks could be deceiving. Maka gave the guy another look and decided that maybe the theory didn't apply to him. "Hello." Maka said nervously, extending her hand. "I'm Maka Albarn. It's nice to meet you."
The guy's smirk widen and grabbed Maka's hand tightly. He grabbed it so tightly that Maka thought her bones would crack any second. He's was doing it on purpose, trying to scare her and to Maka's displeasure, it was working. Without her father noticing, Maka pulled her hand from his grasp, scared and frighten.
"Nice to meet ya' too." He told her, placing his hands in his pocket while giving her another smirk. "Guess I'll be taking care of ya' for awhile. Looking forward to it."
Maka didn't know what was crossing through her father's mind when he got this man to watch over her. She would have probably been better off on her own than to be in the hands of some strange guy that looked like he wanted to eat her. She couldn't help, but being scared and she really felt like running away. She couldn't tell her father what she was feeling because she knew that he wouldn't listen to her. He would probably just tell her that it was all her imagination.
"Don't worry. I'm sure we'll have a great time." He told her, but Maka could hear the sarcasm coming out of his voice. "No need to be scared."
Maka nodded, but she wasn't sure she could believe him.
"Just call me Giriko."
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