Spirit albarn let his hand remain on the knocker for another agonisingly long minute, he had been stading at the door of a rather large house for almost two hours but he couldn't bring himself to knock on the door knowing full well who would answer. "you know it does get boring waiting for you to announce your arrival, you still have no tact." A woman with flowing greyish-blonde hair that reached her lower back in waves jumped from the three story balcony landing with cat-like grace let than three feet from spirit.
He turned around with a look of awe on his face letting it melt into determination "haruko, I need your help" the woman cocked her head to the side "have you no shame spirit? You come to me, breaking your promise to leave me in peace, only to ask for my assistance, give me one reason not to force you to leave my sight right now" spiritlet his eyes narrow, he loved haruko with all his heart and would normaly be deterd by her hatful way of adressing him ,but spirit was not here for himself, he was here for maka.
"Soul has become the kishin, maka now must defeat him, but to do so she must go into his mind which as you know leaves her body 100% defensless, I want to help defend her, I'm one of the only people not affected by the insanity, but sadly shinigami-sama cannot leave he death room, and stien has been lost to insanity. I don't ask you to forgive me fro breaking my promise, I will accept anything you deem as suitable punishment, but I will not allow our daughter to suffer without even tryiong to help her"
Haruko looked spirit over she could see the man she fell in love with hiding under all his perversion and now it was clear before her, he was risking everything he had to protect what he felt was precious. Haruko smiled "I will aid you, but only for maka's sake" she walked inside the house leaving the door open, taking the hint spirit followed her inside. The door closed behind him as if by magic "you've been wprking on your skills I see" spirit chided softly
"I've been away for seven years of course I've improved what were you expecting, the same woman you cheated on?" spirit hung his head lightly "he had torn his family apart and for what, a couple ladies who were beautiful? He hated himself each time he cheated, and knowing maka ha seen only increased his inner loathing. "are you listening spirit?" spirit looked up from his silent revire to see haruko staring at him with a pointed glare "goodness, you never change" she turned to walk away but was shocked when spirit gripped her hand in a vice-like grip.
"I have changed, you just weren't around to see it happen…maka's changed to you know" spirit released her "is she well?" haruko question turning away from spirit so he would not see her saddened missed maka more than anything else she had left in shibusen, she wouldn't deny it if asked but she tried not to show any feeling for her formor family for fear that her numerous enemies would use them against her.
"sojiro has taken a liking to her….." spirirt confided "the okuni boy?" spirit noddedd solemnly "didn't we destroy the clan and turn him over to a former shibusen member to take care of him?" haruko asked turning to once again face spirit "how is he with maka?" spirit rubbed his temples and let out a heavy sigh "even I don't know that" haruko nodded "can he be trusted?" "he almost cut off his own hands protecting maka when soul pulled a blade on her, that boy grabbed the blade bare handed and pulled untill the blade was embedded in his bone, he will have scars on his hand forever"
Haruko let her face melt into awe, the boy had more than proven himself if what spirit said was true, although she wasn't really sure she trusted him. "I'm going to pack, get food if you need it, I'm sure you're hungry" with that said haruko acended up the staircase leading to a flurry of rooms, she enter the furthest to the left shutting the door behind her.
Spirit watched the door for a second almost expectiong her to open it and yell at him for dawdling like she used, he knew she wouldn't though, she had never acted the way she had when they ha been happily married, when maka was still a baby. Spirit went into the kitchen finding the bread, sandwich meat and cheese easily, haruko always did like to keep things organised. He heard the creak of the door above him opening an foot steps, spirit peeked his head out of the kitchen.
As soon as spirit saw his wife the sandwich fell from his mouth, she looked stunning. Her dark red eyes stood out againt her ashen blonde hair that had been pulled into a high turquoise ponytail that trailed along the small of her back staying strait at the top with lazy curls at the bottom. She was wearing a rendition of the old shibusen uniform, she had on a teal pleated skirt with two white lines tracing the bottom hem, a no sleeved white shirt with a the collar of a dress shirt, he top two buttons undone, showing light cleavage.
The shirt opened up at the bottom two buttons aswell letting her bellybutton show as the two ends split off into a W form, the back dipping even further down almost like a coat tail. Her tie was teal with a white cloud at the end but opened up so that it hung as low as the shirt did. Instead of the knee high socks most students wore, haruko had thigh high stocking in white with a moderately sized teal ribbon on the outter side of both legs, her shoes were traditional mary-jane shoes, in black and spirit thought his jaw would fall off if it dropped further.
Haruko had always been the cutest girl in school but now that she had become a woman the unfirom did way more for her looks than he cared to admit. Haruko grinned at her husbands reaction to her outfit, if she recalled correctly this uniform had always been his favorite outfit on her, and judgin by his reaction, she had recalle coerrectly, this was even better she decided as she watched her husband pass out on the floor with a nose bleed. "I guess I gotta clean that up."
