Chapter 1

"Soul." He turned from the group of students he was talking to and found a familiar woman and man standing there.

"What...?" He looked shocked.

"Death scythe eater, so can we?" One student asked making Soul look back at them.

"You know very well you can't. You realize doing that would get you killed." He said as he pushed his hands in his pockets. "What the hell is wrong with kids these days."

"But you and Professor Maka did it and you were younger than we are." Another argued. "It's in all the books."

"I don't care what's in the damn book. You'll die if you try to face anything like that. It's a two-star mission at minimum, you guys are barely passed into the beginning of EAT." He sighed. "Look, get going to class. Professor Maka will kill you if you're late. And if you even think about skipping and going at that mission, Maka and I will make you regret it." He called as they turned and started to run off to class. He sighed heavily as he turned back to the two people watching him. "What are you doing here?"

"We thought we'd come visit. I wanted to make sure my son was being taken care of." The woman smiled brightly making Soul look at her, trying to figure out her agenda.

"It's been a while since I've heard anything from you." He crossed his arms.

"Well since you refused to tell us much about anything going on here, ever, we decided it was time we come and find out for ourselves." She smiled. "We hear you're a big shot around here."

"Listening to that conversation it sounds like you're a boss or something." The man smirked. "How good do you really have it, little brother?"

"Pretty damn good." He smirked earning a look from his mother at the curse word.

"So, where's this meister you told us about?" His mother asked.

Soul rubbed the back of his head. "She's teaching a class. Those kids were from her class." He sighed. "Maka told them they couldn't do a mission, so they thought they'd try me. Damn kids are stupid."

"What did they want to do?"

"They wanted to go after a Kishin egg that is running wild about an hour from here. It attacks at night and levels building. Ever since the fight on the Moon these eggs have been getting stronger and stronger. They'll end up dead just looking at the thing."

"Is it really that dangerous?" She asked worried for her son.

"It can be." Soul nodded. "We have levels of meisters for a reason but sometimes we get stuck in situations that could and sometimes does kill a meister or weapon, sometimes both." He touched his chest remembering the times he and Maka were nearly killed over the last seven years. "So, what's the real reason you've ended up here?"

"Mother told you. We wanted to see for ourselves. After all these years of being told as little detail as possible we managed to make it here." Wes smirked as Soul eyed them. "So show us around before we meet that meister."

Soul shook his head. "Fine." He said as he led the way down the hall and farther into the school. He and his family never really saw eye to eye, especial with his parents but they all still managed to stay in contact occasionally. Soul never told them details or big events, he tried to avoid as much as he could, they didn't need to know everything. He showed them around the school, they watched as Soul was stopped by students to be asked questions, they watched as Soul answered them and seemed to be completely different than the boy who ran off to join the school after finding out he could transform. As the kids swarmed the halls Soul led the two to a classroom.

"Stop lurking!" They heard, watching as Soul chuckled as they walked into the room to find Maka leaning over her desk going through papers with her back to the door.

"Not lurking." Soul smirked as he walked over.

"Yeah right." She scoffed.

"Don't be such a dork, we have guests." He told her making her stand up and look over seeing the two standing by the door as Soul walked over to her. "Apparently they're not happy enough to know its good here and everything's fine." He said as Maka looked from Soul to the two as they walked a little farther into the room.

"Margot Evans, Soul's mother." Margot held her hand out for Maka to shake. "This is my other son, Wes."

"I've heard a lot about you." She smiled shaking Wes' hand. "Our one friend will freak when she hears you're wandering around here." She smiled. "I'm Maka, it's great to finally get to meet you."

"It's good to finally put a face to the name." Margot smiled glancing at Soul. "You never said how gorgeous she is. I hope my son is treating you properly."

"For the most part." Maka looked at Soul.

"Well I hope he isn't too much trouble, I'm sure your boyfriend wouldn't like that." Margot said watching as Soul laughed making his brother and mother look at him confused as Maka glared at him.

"No guy would come near a book worm like her." He grinned.

Maka narrowed her eyes. "Then what are you?" She asked, putting her hands on her hips. "I seem to remember a certain scythe weapon acting so uncool, waiting until we were alone after the treaty celebrations to ask me out and to be his girlfriend." Soul looked at her as Maka smirked.

"Yeah, yeah." Soul smirked at her, remembering how nervous he was when he had finally decided to pool his courage and finally tell her how he felt.

"Wait…" Wes looked between the two before he gave a small smile at his brother. "Maka is your girlfriend?"

Soul grinned and nodded. "Yeah. Not my coolest moment." Soul shrugged and glanced at Maka who smiled and shook her head. "Been together for 3 years now."

"And you didn't feel like this was important to share?" Wes asked as Margot looked between the two as Soul just shrugged again.

"I'm sorry he never told you." She gave Soul a look. "How long are you in town?"

"We'll be here for two weeks. We figured that since we were here, we would look into the concert halls here in the city." Margot explained as she watched Maka glanced at Soul who shrugged at her.

"Why don't we have dinner, so we can talk some more?" She offered.

"That would be great." Margot smiled.

Maka turned and wrote down their address. "Here, come by about six." She smiled as the two nodded. Maka and Soul led them back out of the academy before saying their goodbyes for now. Maka looked at Soul. "So, what's going on?"

He shrugged. "They said they wanted to see what everything was like here. They were determined that's all. They didn't like that I didn't tell them all the little details of my life." He wrapped his arm around her shoulders.

"Like the little fact about us?" She looked up at him as he grinned at her.

"I didn't want to share you." He watched her smile and shake her head as she leaned into him as they continued to their apartment.

"Can you clean up? I'll make dinner." Maka said as they walked into their apartment and she put her books down. Soul agreed and started to work on straightening up the apartment while Maka got to work on dinner for them to share with his brother and mother. When he was finished he walked over and wrapped his arms around her middle. "All done?" He nodded as he dropped his head onto her shoulder.

"Need any help?" He asked as he placed a loving kiss on her neck making her smile at him.

"No." She shook her head. "I'm all done." She turned in his arms and rested her arms on his shoulders as she smiled up at him. "I know you're not exactly close with them but maybe this will be good. To get to know them and let them see just how amazing you are."

"I don't know." He sighed. "I'm not really sure that's why they're here but you're going to make me anyway, aren't you?" Maka grinned up at him making him chuckle. "You can be the coolest and the worst girlfriend."

"But you love me." She smiled making him return the loving smile as he nodded, leaning down to capture her lips. They shared a deep loving kiss before the knock on the door broke it apart. "I'll get it." He gave her another kiss before he pulled away from her to answer the door and let his mother and brother into the apartment.

"Glad you found it okay." Maka smiled as she walked over to greet them. "I hope you're hungry."

"Maka cooked way too much." Soul commented making her look at him before leading them to table where Maka had set four settings. They all sat down and started talking about everything, Wes and Margot asking questions about what Soul had told them, to make sure they got all the details now that he couldn't just walk away from the question. Margot asked about how they met, and how the became partners. Soul rolled his eyes as Maka retold the story. She smiled as she looked at him when asked how they fell in love.

"Well I think I felt it when we first started working together but it really didn't sink in until our mission in Italy went wrong." She looked at Soul sadly as he reached over, resting his hand on hers beside him. "We completed our mission and then because of my abilities we were drawn to a church where a lot of souls just disappeared. As representatives of the DWMA it was our responsibility to check on what happened. But when we did we found an opponent that we just couldn't match. He was able to hurt Soul when he was transformed. I tried to get us out but I couldn't get the doors to open."

"She refused to use me to block and nearly got herself killed." Soul continued as Maka started to tear up. "So when the guy attacked I took the attack in human form."

"I didn't understand everything at the time, but it was when I realized that I couldn't live without him." She smiled at Soul. "I realized how much he really meant to me and not just as my weapon or partner or even a friend. So, I promised to become stronger so that nothing like that would ever happen to him again." She smiled brightly, "And when we were trying to save our friend we made a deal that we would become stronger together. We decided that trying to be stronger on our own wasn't going to work and we were always stronger together anyway."

"You nearly died?" Margot asked Soul who shrugged.

"Wasn't the last time and still wont be. I'll always protect her." He said making her look between the two as Maka looked a little unhappy about it.

"So you've been together for a while." Wes said changing the subject. "How does it work, working together and being a couple? Thought that was bad for relationships."

"It could be great, or it could destroy the partnership." Maka explained. "In our case, our bond is strong enough that we are able to push through and find it even better on the other side. We've had our issues but we always managed through them."

The four sat talking for a while longer before they moved to the Livingroom. Maka set them up with tea while she worked on the dishes quickly. Margot and Wes talked between themselves when Soul said he'd be right back and went over to Maka in the kitchen. Wes grinned and nodded to get his mother to turn and watched as Soul leaned over Maka's shoulder, talking to her low. She smiled at him as she finished the dishes. Soul took the items from her hands and set them aside making her look at him as she said something else. She smiled up at him before giving him a quick kiss and the two walked back into the Livingroom. Margot watched Soul smiled a real smile as he followed Maka. It was a smile she hadn't seen since he was a little child and his Grandmother would play piano for him. It was the smile of pure joy. She was glad to see that smile back on her son's face.