"You'll need to keep very still, Sempai." Stein said pulling a needle out of a medical kit and yanking a length of dissolving medical string free. "If you want, I can put you under."

"No… I'm afraid of being asleep around you when you have a needle in your hand. Last time I did I came out with flipper-hands remember." Death Scythe said. Stein leaned over Death Scythe's head and stuck the needle into the cleaned wound that was still bleeding some. Death Scythe clenched as it went in and jolted a bit. "It helps if you numbed it though."

Soul walked into the room holding the tissue up to his nose which had since stopped bleeding. Stein looked up after he completed the first stitch. "How's your nose, Soul?"

"It's completely broke, Sensai. When you finished would ya have a look at it? I think something's out of place." Soul said pulling the cloth away to reveal the large swelled area.

"Looks like a Hemotoma too." Stein quickly turned back to Death Scythe and kept working. "I'm afraid to ask what you two were doing out at four AM."

"We were just having a talk, then we decided to have a foot race and I tripped and injured my head. Then Soul carried me back and I tossed him into town to let him win and he broke his nose." Death Scythe said grunting.

"Spirit-Sempai, you seem to cause everything don't you." Stein said quickly.

"It was my fault." Soul interjected. "I snuck out and went out to the desert, he followed me to make sure I didn't get hurt, he was only looking out for me." Soul turned his head and sat down and watched Stein who eye slid over to him. "I'm not lying, Sensai."

"I'm just surprised… a little. Spirit-Sempai never really gets along with anyone that well." Stein said and looked up at Death Scythe. "I'll get the full story out of one of you at some point."

"Do you really want to know that badly, Franken? We had the race to see if Soul could keep…." Death Scythe looked over at Soul who shrugged. "Um…"

"Oh, so you finally found out he was dating Maka? I thought it was really obvious but it looks like Justin Law and I were the only ones who noticed." Stein said quickly in a happier voice. He quickly finished and cut the string. "And you're actually getting along?"

Both went "eh…."

"Alright, you can get up, Sempai. Come have a seat Soul." Stein said as they swapped out. "This is particularly nasty." Stein said adjusting the lamp to see better. He went over to his desk and changed sterile gloves. He wheeled his chair back over and looked at the nose turning the bolt in his head. Quickly he grabbed it and rest the cartilage into place causing Soul to scream. "Your nasal cartilage was way up near the base of the nasal bone. It'll be a while until it heals completely. And nose bleeds will be frequent."

"Warn me the next time you decided to reset a bone without consent." Soul said sourly feeling the pain in his face. Stein then quickly took out what looked like a thick need and held it up. "Warning?"

"I have to drain the blood. Sempai, can you get the gauze off the table?" Stein quickly and stabbed the side of Soul's nose and squeeze the blood out quickly..

"WHERE WAS THE WARNING?" He screeched.


Maka yawned lightly and opened her eyes to see out into the empty side of first class. She blinked a bit more and sat up stretching. "Uh… what time is it?"

"Three." Wes said looking at his watch. He stopped and thought a bit, "well, it is back in London."

"So it's seven A.M. School's about to start." She said and looked over to Justin who was curled up in his robes with he ear phones still blaring. "I wish I was at school, I need to see how I did on my test. It's Wednesday right?"

"Yes, it is." Wes said scratching what of a beard had grown in the past couple hours. The curtains opened and a stewardess came in and asked them for their breakfast orders. "Waffle please."

"Eggs. Justin." Maka said pulling one of his ear phones out. "What are you ordering for breakfast?"

"The usual." Justin said loudly and put his head phone back in and sat up to yawn. The stewardess quickly wrote it all down and went back

"You have a usual?" Maka asked.

"I do fly on this thing all the time." He stopped to yawn. "Europe isn't all connected like Africa or Asia."

"What about Madagascar? And Japan?" Wes asked. "They're not connected."

"They…" Justin just stopped and waved the argument off. "It's too earlier." The stewardess quickly came back gave Maka her eggs, Wes his waffles and gave Justin a platter with tea, baked Salmon and sometime of soup. Wes was about to take a bite when Maka couched and pointed over to Justin who began praying. "Dear Lord…"


"So… you're expecting major problems with the headlines?" Death the Kid said walking next to his father. "I thought it was quite believable."

"It's just now they might think that someone's trying to attack them. The last thing we need is panicking people, riiiight, Kid?" Shinigami said playfully. "Anyway, it seems there's going to be some problems and retaliation from the hidden covens."

"Hidden covens?" Kid asked and stopped in the main foyer. "I thought the main coven dispersed them when they stopped following witch law."

"Apparently not." Shinigami said. "According to the early findings that were sent to me, a human was turned into a witch in one night. It's a practice that calls for the death of the witch who did it in the main coven. The main coven only supports born-witches."

"Don't worry Father, I'm perfectly capable of handling of handling anything that might come our way."

"Well good! Then I'll have you there when Maka and Justin come to report, Okaaaaay? I'm putting you in charge of the task force to confront the problems, Kid." Shinigami said and turned to look at him. "Awe… your stripes are just so cute today."

"They're imperfect..." Kid said and clamped his hands on his head. "I'm such a useless piece of shit… I can't even die my hair, they come back!"

"Come now, Kid, they're cute!" Shinigami said trying to calm him down. Patti and Liz finally walked out and saw him in the fetal position. "The stripes look nice, they dooooo."

"Patti, the Napoleon hat quickly!" Liz said and Patti rushed away and brought back a blue Napoleon style hat. Liz grabbed it and quickly shoved it over his head. "What stripes, I can't see anything unsymmetrical under this perfectly symmetrical hat!"

"Really?" Kid said straightening out and checking himself in a mirror. "It's amazing… I'm perfect!"

"Crisis averted." Liz said holding up a thumbs up to Patti who shouted 'yeah!' and spun in a circle clapping.

"For some reason I'm glad I'm not home more often." Shinigami said to himself watching the three ringed circus. Shinigami shook his head, "come on, let's get to Shibusen!"