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Previously...

"B-Black Star. I can't..." His face fell. "I just can't reject that. You have one month to make me fall for you." He grinned, looking so happy. I smiled back at him, warmth spreading in my chest. What the-my gosh. I giggled.

"Oh look, I'm already falling for you." He laughed a proper laugh. Not the one he did after declaring himself above god, but a gentler one. Then he reached forward and hugged me.

"I swear, I'll make you the happiest girl in the world."

Maka POV

It was the day after I'd become Black Star's girlfriend. I blushed at that word. Girlfriend. He was my boyfriend. The thought gave me butterflies in my stomach. I didn't like Black Star an awful lot romantically, but I had to give him a chance. And who knows, maybe with this I would be able to get over Soul. After he had asked me out, we hadn't done much; just talked really. After that he had left. I smiled out the memory, then rolled out of bed and groaned. Yawning, I groggily stood up and slowly walked to the bathroom. Because of Black Star, I'd stayed up way later than I'd thought I would. I took a quick shower to wake me up, then got dressed. Yanking a brush through my hair, I pulled it up into my signature pony-tails and continued my morning routine. Soul wasn't here, since he was still at Kid's house. Absently, I stepped outside and was immediately hit by a wall of heat.

xXx

"Maka!" I turned in surprise and saw Black Star sprinting towards me. "Phew, I got you before you started walking. I guess it's no surprise; the godly me is an amazing runner!" He proclaimed proudly.

"Yeah...what's up? Did you run all the way here?"

"Yup! I wanted to walk to school with you!" He grinned widely and I couldn't help but smile in reply.

"Aw, that's really sweet, thanks."

"No problem!" We started walking in companionable silence. After a moment, I thought of something.

"Um, Black Star. You didn't...go back to your house yesterday, right?" I grimaced at the thought of what would have happened if he had shown up at his house that had three girls at night time. To my surprise, he laughed loudly.

"Of course not! A god has to have brains after all; I went to Kid's."

"Oh, um, do they know about...us?"

He glanced at me side-on.

"Nope." I sighed in relief; I would have time to prepare myself. My stomach fluttered at the thought.

"Let's hurry! It'll be fun!"

"Huh?" Without replying, Black Star grabbed my gloved hand and began to run in the direction of school. Caught off guard, I stumbled, then began to pick up my pace. "Black Star, why are we running?!" He grinned at me over his shoulder.

"It's fun!" We had reached full sprint now and I was struggling to keep up with Black Star. It wasn't that I was too unfit, it was just that Black Star was a faster runner than me. I remembered that time in class when we had timed how long it took us to sprint one-hundred metres. I'd had the best girl's time and Black Star had the best for the boys. I'd managed to run it in eight seconds, but Black Star had run it in five. I snapped out of my thoughts and concentrated on the feeling of running; it made me feel free, like I could out-run any problem. I could feel his tight grip on my hand, and I smiled. We zig-zagged through the streets, and made it to the bottom of the stairs, with our school at the top. Leaping up them three at a time, I pumped my legs harder in order to keep up with Black Star. There was a small burn in them from this running, but I revelled in the feeling; it felt good.

xXx

We finally reached the top of the stairs and skidded to a stop. I sucked in a few deep breaths. My breathing was normal since, to be a Shibusen student, you had to be really fit, but I'd still enjoyed that a lot.

"My my, you two seem close." Glancing at the voice, I smiled at Kid and Soul who had just appeared.

"What do you mean?" He indicated our intertwined hands and I let go of Black Star with a blush; I hadn't realized we were still holding hands. I glanced at Soul shyly, to see if he'd react, but he didn't seem to.

"Of course we're close, Maka's my girlfriend!" I looked at Black Star in shock as he slung an arm around my shoulders. I could see the surprise on Soul and Kid's faces.

"W-what?" Spluttered Kid. I hadn't really expected Black Star to just yell it out like that and so it took me a moment to react. I could feel my face burning as I nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, we're dating now."

"W-wow." Hearing a female voice, I turned and waved to Tsubaki, Liz and Patty, who had just appeared up the stairs.

"Wah, congratulations you two!" Came Tsubaki's soft voice. I smiled.

"Thanks." I was quite embarrassed, so I tried to divert the attention elsewhere. "Um...we should get to class..."

"Yay! The giraffe came!" I raised an eyebrow at Patty, and saw the others' confused expressions. We headed to class and I took a seat in between Soul and Black Star. It was kind of strange, since Black Star didn't usually sit here, but I didn't mind. Hearing a squeaking noise, I looked at the door just as Professor Stein shot through it on his chair. Unfortunately, the chair wheel caught on something and he collapsed to the ground ungracefully. I sweat-dropped at his appearance and Black Star burst out laughing. As Professor righted himself and pushed his glasses up his nose in an attempt to retain some of his dignity, he sat backwards on his chair and cleared his throat.

"'Morning class. Today we will be dissecting an endangered monkey." With a glint in his eye, he pulled the cloth off a table under the blackboard, and revealed a small monkey with what looked like a mane. "It is called a-"

"Will Maka Albarn, Black Star, Death the Kid and their partners please report to Lord Death's office." Came a voice over the school speakers. I frowned in confusion, and stood up along with the others.

We all walked down the twisting halls, and finally arrived at Lord Death's office. He turned around and gave us a peace sign.

"Yo, wazzup everyone?" I sweat-dropped at his...informal greeting and said hello. "Well. I have a very important mission for y'all. You guys are getting transferred to another school for however long it takes for you to complete the mission! The mission is just establish good ties with the school, as we don't know them that well...or at all...but yeah! So don't make enemies! You guys leave next week! Dismissed." My jaw dropped open. Going to...another school? Huh? This...couldn't be real. He would have given us more than a week's notice if it were true. Then again...this was Lord Death we were talking about...As always, Black Star was the first to break the silence.

"What?! No way! You can't send a god like me away!" Lord Death replied in a chirpy voice.

"Too bad Black Star; I am."

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