HEY! Thanks for the awesome review (notice the singular... hint hint) this chapter is gull of kick ass! yay violence! sorry i couldn't update yesterday, i had an anxiety attach...

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Disclaimer: To ****ing sick to say it... *Stein*- sigh ok Spawny doesn't own us only her OC Arusa.

The New Professor – Death the Kid Fails by Default?

Arusa sat on the edge of her desk reading through some of the papers Lord Death had given her. She sighed. It had been three days since they'd let her of Dispension; Stein hadn't let her do anything since then. Lupis was still being tended to, the stress was overwhelming, and she was almost ready to threaten to skin someone if she didn't get some solid results on his condition soon.

Her muscles ached so that's why today she had decided to do some martial arts training, most of her students were well acquainted with it but not what she was going to teach. The creaked open and Maka poked her head in.

"Umm…" Arusa stood up putting the papers down on her desk.

"Come in." A wave of students followed Maka inside. There were no desks in the martial arts classroom so the students all sat on the floor. Arusa waited for them to get settled then stepped up awkwardly to the front of the classroom.

"Ok, so my name is Arusa, I will be your new martial arts and soul wavelength control teacher. I…"

"What if some of us already have martial arts training?" A dark skinned student asked.

"Yeah a master like me doesn't need to learn something that I've already mastered!" Black Star shouted. Arusa smiled.

"You haven't learned what I'm going to teach you," She surveyed the looks of confusion and apprehension before continuing. "Now before we get to our first lesson I would like to get to know at least some of you." She glared at Kid as she said this; he looked taken aback at suddenly being singled out.

"Alright since I really suck at this teaching thing and I have no other options we are going to go around, you'll say your name and something about yourself. I'll go first; I'm a meister and I…"

"Are a deranged psychopath!" Black Star shouted. She glared at him.

"Perhaps you'd like to go next, loud one."

"Ok! My names Black Star, I'm a meister and I'm gonna surpass God!" He held up his thumbs and beat a fist against his chest proudly.

"I can tell you and I are going to get along smashingly." She muttered.

"Yeah everyone loves Back Star." 90% of the class groaned.

"It's called sarcasm you obnoxious brat." Arusa growled and then turned smiling at Maka. The girl sat up straight.

"My names Maka Albarn, I'm a meister and I am going to make my partner Soul into a death-scythe." Arusa nodded.

"Hey I'm Soul, I'm a weapon and uh… well I guess I'm gonna be a death-scythe."

"Umm… hi I'm Tsubaki, I umm… I'm a weapon and Black Star is my partner, umm… I like… umm… I like…cooking?"

"Hey I'm Liz and this is my sister Patty, we're Kid's partners and I like nice nails and shopping."

"Giraffe!"

"Hello I am Death the Kid, I am a meister as well as a grim reaper, and I enjoy symmetry." And so the class progressed until all students had introduced themselves. Arusa sighed leaning on her desk.

"Well that was relatively boring," she grinned. "Hows about we get down to business?" She stepped forward putting her hands on her hips.

"First of all I need a volunteer," she pointed at Black Star. "How about you brat? Ready to get your ass kicked again?" the blue haired meister jumped up.

"Hell yeah! Except it isn't gonna be me getting their ass kicked freak!" She grinned.

"Alright. Show me what you've got." He rushed her, jumping to the side and sticking her foot out she tripped him. Back Star face planted into the floor.

"Damn you!" he charged at her again. This time she didn't move. Her hand shot out and her palm slammed into his forehead. He froze, and then fell backwards onto the floor. He clutched at his forehead. "Ow! Damn it that hurt!" Everyone looked shocked. Black Star didn't get hurt easily and running into her hand at that speed would have either broken her arm or caused her to buckle, but her arm remained straight and she hadn't budged at all.

"Alright, first lesson. Never charge straight into battle without thinking. Second lesson, I am going to teach you how to concentrate your energy into a single part of your body." She clapped her hands. "Alright form a line!" Everyone stood up and Tsubaki went over to Black Star helping him up.

"Ok so I want each of you to come at me once at a time, give all you've got into one blow, try and focus on the point at which you hope to strike, focus all your energy into that part of your body." Soul had been pushed to the front of the line. She waved a finger at him. "I'm waiting." He swallowed, and then ran at her. She didn't move, he was aiming for her shoulder. Not even attempting to dodge she let his fist collide with her shoulder.

"OWW!" He stepped back cradling his hand, she hadn't budged. "Are you like made out of cement or something ow…"

"No, you're just not focussing hard enough. Next." Liz was next.

"Umm… I don't…"

"Just hit me." The girl swallowed hard.

"Ok." She stepped foreword cautiously. Arusa easily caught the girl's punch.

"Keep your wrist straight and don't hesitate so much." She nodded quickly moving to the end of the line. Before Arusa could do anything Patty was flying through the air towards her. She made a high-pitched squealing noise as Arusa caught the girl's foot letting her tumble to the floor.

"Much to enthusiastic." Maka was next. Arusa watched her, she the same calculating look on her face that her mother had. After a moment she charged. She was aiming for Arusa's shoulder. Focusing on that point she braced. At the last second Maka changed targets and Arusa barely had time to catch the girls hand before it hit her stomach. Her feet slid back a bit and she hunched into the blow. Maka pulled back standing up. Arusa straightened a huge grin on her face.

"Very good Maka, you made it look like you were aiming one place but attacked another, surprise is always a good tactic. Plus you aimed for a weak spot, and you focussed your energy very well." She put her hands on her hips, Maka blushed at the praise. "Although I wouldn't expect less from Kami's daughter, your mother was exactly the same, very focussed." Maka nodded awkwardly and scuttled to the back of the line. Soul laughed calling her a teacher's pet and was immediately swamped with a textbook. Kid stepped up.

"Ah, the reaper's boy," She said 'reaper' the way one might say cockroach. "This should be interesting, I don't want any holding back show me what you've got." She was glaring at him as she stepped back into a ready position. As his fist came forward she grabbed it pushing him back. "Oh come on you can do better than that." His eyes narrowed and he swung a foot at her head. Arusa slammed her arm into his leg knocking him over. He continued to strike at her but she dodged each time. finally she ducked under his arm and grabbed him by the throat. Everything was quite, leaning down she whispered in his ear.

"I know you've noticed me singling you out," She threw him to the ground.

"Yeah I have." He whipped his mouth and stood up. "Why is that exactly?"

"Why don't you ask your dear daddy? Next." She turned her attention back to the other students.

When class was over most of the students left groaning. Arusa sighed leaning against her desk. Most of them were way to soft.

"Umm… Excuse me professor?" She turned and saw Maka standing there awkwardly.

"Yes?"

"Oh I was just wondering if you knew my mom? And if you could tell me something about her?" Arusa raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, I went to the academy with Kami, what would you like to know." A determined look crossed her face.

"Everything." Arusa laughed.

"Everything is a lot."

"I know." Sighing Arusa gestured for the girl to sit.

"Well Kami was a very, strong violent woman." She shuddered subconsciously rubbing the top of her head. "She showed affection through violence sometimes. I think she calmed down a bit after her and Spirit got together, although that's just what Marie said."

"She was calmer after she met Papa?"

"Yes apparently Kami had grown up in a very tough family, her dad was a drunk and her mom was never around, so she was very… strong, I guess, in all senses of the word."

"Really?" Maka frowned.

"Yeah, I don't know how Spirit put up with that but I guess she had to put up with a lot as well." Arusa smiled. "Kami was a good friend though, slapped me into shape more times than I can remember."

"But why did she put up with Papa cheating on her all the time?" Arusa laughed.

"Yeah I guess that was an issue, well when we were in school Spirit wasn't really like that, sure he'd flirt and look at other girls but Kami was his girl everyone knew she had him wrapped around her finger." She sighed. "They were a perfect pair, I was sometimes jealous of how easy it was for them."

"Easy?"

"They were always fighting, but then forgiving, it was like it never happened. They'd argue about something the other did, then it would usually be Spirit apologizing even if it wasn't his fault." She laughed. "They were quite a show sometimes." Maka smiled.

"But were they together when Professor Stein was Papa's meister?" Arusa nodded.

"Yes they were." Maka frowned.

"But why did Papa and Professor Stein stop being partners, did they have a fight?" Arusa shrugged.

"I guess you could say that."

"What happened?"

"Well you see Spirit and Stein were very close, like even though they were complete opposites; Spirit was a flirtatious, party animal and Stein was a quiet, calculating, well scientist." She smiled thoughtfully. "No one could understand why they were partners, but they weren't just partners they were friends too. Even Spirit may say that he thought Stein was just using him as an experiment he doesn't actually believe that." She paused.

"When they had finally gotten their 99th soul they were ready to fight a witch. But when it came to it, Stein purposefully messed it up and let the witch get away. So that they had to start over."

"But why would he do that?"

"Spirit asked the same thing. Though Stein would never tell him why he just said that he refused to make him into a death-scythe."

"But why?" Maka looked confused.

"Well you see if Spirit had become a death-scythe then there was a possibility of him being sent away, and they would be partner anymore. Spirit could never understand, but Stein didn't want that to happen. Spirit had been one of the only people that had wanted to be around him, that had made an effort to be his friend."

"So Professor Stein didn't want make Papa a death-scythe because he didn't want to lose a friend?"

"Exactly, but Spirit didn't see it that way at the time, so they had a big argument and Spirit became Kami's partner. That's when Stein left the academy."

"Oh." Suddenly a bell rang, Maka jumped up. "Oh I'd better go or Soul will yell at me, thanks professor!" she ran out of the room. Arusa shook her head.

"So much like her mother."