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"We'll go look around the area, and hopefully we will find some water and a good place to settle down." Tsubaki said.
They all decided that Black*Star and Tsubaki would go scouting while the rest of them cleaned up the area and put out the fire.
"Yeah, and knowing me, I'll find the best place EVER!" Black*Star shouted, fist-pumping into the air.
"Alright, but don't do far. We don't want you to get lost." Kid warned.
"Pshh, I don't get lost! Come on, Tsubaki!" The hyper-active boy grabbed the girl's hand and ran off.
"I feel somewhat worried…" Kid sighed.
A little ways away from the place where the rest of the gang was, Tsubaki and Black*Star were walking among the trees, looking for a suitable place to live for the time being. Tsubaki looked lost in thought.
Black*Star glanced over at his troubled girlfriend, "Hey Tsubaki, what's on your mind?"
Tsubaki was quiet for a few seconds, and then she said, "I'm worried about Maka. I can tell her leg is really hurting her, and we don't have the correct medical equipment or supplies to make it heal!" She shook her head in frustration.
Black*Star took her hand and held it, "Don't worry about Maka; she's a pretty tough person. I remember this one time when she was seven and I was ten, and I said that she couldn't climb a tree taller than I could."
He chuckled at the memory, "Man, we were up so high! Maka slipped from one of the branches andbroke her arm when she fell. She didn't cry once, although she did bite down on my hand pretty hard…" He looked over at Tsubaki, "You shouldn't worry about her. She'll get through it!"
"I know you're right Black*Star, it's just that her skin around the cut looks so red and irritated! The bleeding has pretty much stopped, but what if it got infected!" Tsubaki was very distressed. She was so worried about her best friend. "She could get really sick if it is!"
This concerned Black*Star a little. Maka was like a sister to him after all, since he knew her when they were little kids.
Plus, he never saw Tsubaki get so worried like this. "We'll keep an eye on it and we'll just keep spreading that cleaning stuff on the cut to make sure it's won't get infected."
"Yeah I guess…" Tsubaki looked at his other hand, "Did Maka bite you there?" Tsubaki pointed at a faint scar, just under his thumb.
"Yup, she left a scar. That girl may be small, but she can really hurt someone when she wants to." He grimaced, imagining the pain he felt when he was a little kid. "I think the bite hurt more than Maka's broken arm…"
Tsubaki looked confused, "But I remember you telling everyone that it was a dog that caused that scar."
Black*Star scoffed, "I'm not about to tell everyone that a mere girl caused it. That would lower my awesomeness level!"
Tsubaki giggled at his statement, immediately feeling better. Black*Star was right, Maka would be fine!
They continued to walk along the cool overcast of trees until they heard a soft trickling noise. The two both stopped and listened intently.
They both followed the sound until they came across something that made their eyes widen.
Even Black*Star was impressed by what he saw.
"Whoa…"
XxXxX
The rest of the gang was currently done with cleaning up the area, and was now waiting for Tsubaki and Black*Star to come back.
Soul and Maka were lying on the ground, saying pointless facts at each other. Kid, Liz, and Patty were just listening to them, bored out of their minds.
"Lake Eerie caught on fire in 1969." Maka stated.
"It's physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky." Soul said.
"Maine is the only state that has only one syllable."
"It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open."
"Your stomach has to produce mucus every two weeks, otherwise, your stomach will digest itself."
"Toilet paper was actually invented around 851 AD by the Chinese."
Maka sat up and faced him, "Okay Soul, exactly how do you know that?"
"How do you know that the stomach will digest itself if it doesn't make mucus?" Soul retorted.
"How do you two know any of those things?" Liz exclaimed, looking exasperated.
They shrugged and went back to shooting random facts at each other. They are now trying to see who knew the most facts. It's sort of like a game now, a contest.
"Wow, you guys, just wow." Liz shook her head.
Minutes later, they heard Black*Star blaring out some random nonsense and Tsubaki was yelling at him to slow down. Sometimes, Soul thinks that Black*Star has a megaphone taped to his face.
Once they reached the rest of the gang, they told them what they found with excited and eager faces.
"You will never believe what I just-!" Tsubaki nudged Black*Star. "Uh, I mean, what we found!"
"We were just expecting to find a little clearing, one where we can live easily!" Tsubaki continued.
"Yeah, we found a really cool looking cave next to a creek! Now we don't have to worry about water!" Black*Star exclaimed. "And it was all thanks to me!"
Tsubaki smiled, "Come on, we'll lead you to it!"
The group walked through the forest and fell upon a beautiful creek with a stone cave encrusted in cliff near the creek. At the mouth of the cave, there was gray, stone ground, sort of like a porch of a house. Surrounding the cavern was soft, jade grass with little, purple flowers littering the ground.
The creek itself was a clear, deep blue and was teeming with fish of different sizes. There was also a large, stone platform that rose just above the water, so that someone could just dip their feet into the water.
It was a survivor's paradise.
"Wow, this is so cool!" Patty exclaimed as she ran to the stage-like rock to look at the fish.
"This place is so pretty too!" Maka said with delight. She was staring in awe at the beauty of the creek.
Soul chuckled at Maka's reaction and casually walked to the mouth of the cave. He peered inside it apprehensively.
Kid was impressed with the site as well, but asked the question that was on Soul's mind, "Did you guys check the cave for any wild animals?"
Liz's crystal, blue eyes widened at Kid's question. She looked fearfully at the cavern, frightened that a bear or something will pop out at any minute. Did cougars live in the mountains as well?
Liz was not meant for the camping life.
"Oh yeah, that was the first thing we looked at when we came here! I probably should've told you that first, huh?" Black*Star shrugged and walked over to Soul.
Liz sighed with relief and walked over to her little sister, Maka and Tsubaki following in suit. Kid shook his head and went over to the guys.
"Dude, I can't believe you didn't make a move on Maka yet! I thought you would have done something by now!" Black*Star exclaimed.
"Yes, I agree with Black*Star. With the time you two spent in the plane, I thought you would've asked Maka." Kid agreed.
"You really wanted me to ask Maka out on the verge of death? No thanks." Soul deadpanned.
"There's no need to be all dramatic about it…" Black*Star mumbled, rolling his eyes.
Soul sighed and over his shoulder, "Look guys, I just want to do it when the time is right. I'm not going to just walk up to her and just say it. It's not cool."
"Dude, if you keep on staring, she's gonna find out anyways!" mentioned Black*Star.
He saw Liz animatedly talk about something and then wildly pointed at him. His crimson eyes widened as Maka was slowly turning around.
He swiftly turned the other way as a very light pink tinged his cheeks, but it went unnoticed by the guys. They were too busy laughing at his expense.
"Ha, told ya!"
Soul face-palmed, "This is so not cool…"
*With the Girls*
"So, did anything happen while I was gone?" Tsubaki asked with curiosity.
"You didn't miss anything interesting, just Maka and Soul shouting weird facts at each other." Liz said while dipping her bare feet into the creek.
"Did you know that a duck's quack can't echo, no matter where it is?" Maka mentioned pointed out as an example.
"Yeah, stuff like that." Liz stated.
"That's a pretty interesting fact though!" Tsubaki said, "I never knew that about a duck!"
"Yeah, and no one knows why the quack can't echo either." Maka added.
"Alright guys, enough with the facts!" Liz exclaimed. She looked at Maka with knowing smirk on her face. Maka had a puzzled look on her face.
Why is she looking at me like that? It's kind of creeping me out with that look of hers… oh no, she's giving me the look!
"So Maka, what's been going on with you and Soul lately? You two have been all touchy-feely ever since the plane crashed!"
And there is the question on my love life… wait did she say Soul? Does she know? Does SOUL know! Oh no, oh no, oh no! This is NOT good!
While she having a mental panic attack on the inside, she remained calm and collected on the outside and decided to play dumb, "What do you mean Liz?"
"Oh, cut the crap Maka! I've seen how he's constantly around you and he's always there to help you every time you are injured! And by the blush in your face right now, I can tell I'm right. Something's up."
Apparently Maka wasn't doing a very good job of playing dumb if Liz saw through her façade.
"I have to agree with Liz, Maka. You have been closer to Soul ever since the accident." Tsubaki gave Maka an apologetic smile.
TSUBAKI TOO!?
"…I have no idea what you two are talking about…" Maka figured that she would keep on playing dumb and then maybe they would give up.
"Are you kidding me? How can you not notice that Soul is always staring at you? He's looking at you right now, look!" Liz pointed towards the cave that the boys were at.
Geez, she's persistent.
Maka sighed and looked towards the guys. All she saw was the back of Soul's head and the other two boys laughing their heads off, seemingly at Soul.
Although Maka was faking it before, she actually was confused right now, "Um, he's not staring at me…"
Liz faced palmed.
"But, I mean… I do admit I kinda like him a little bit…"
"Whoa, Maka likes Soul!" Patty exclaimed.
"Shh!" Maka clamped her hand over Patty's mouth. When she was sure that Patty would be quiet, she let go.
Liz's face lit up, giving the younger girl a knowing smile. Or was that a smirk?
Maka fidgeted under Liz's gaze.
And as nice as Tsubaki was, she was quite amused with how Liz was reacting. She did feel bad for her other friend's discomfort though…
"Okay, I like him a lot! But you can't tell anyone though!" Maka gave a look of caveat at the other girls.
"Who are we going to tell? And you know, about 80 percent of the guys out there would be really glad the girl made the first move…" Liz said in a sing-song voice.
"No Liz! You know I can't do that!" Maka frantically said. She was blushing furiously now. Her face was so red, a strawberry would be jealous.
"I'm just joking Maka! Man, this definitely makes up for the rude wake-up call!" Liz gave Maka a glance, "You still didn't tell me about what happened to your finger."
Maka then muttered something about how really stupid knives were and turned away from the rest of the girls, staring at the creek.
They then heard a loud, cracking sound coming from the dense foliage. The guys must of heard it too because they peeked their heads out of the opening with a confused look on their face.
Maka looked around, "What was that?"
Heh heh, cliffy! *Smiles evilly*
You know, this is a real stress reliever for me because I have my civics finals on Tuesday and I have an 89.4% in the class and I need an 89.5 to get an A in the class... I am going to sue my teacher for causing me emotional distress of I don't get an A. Or I might to myself in Chrona's emo corner. My 4.0 GPA depends on this final exam!
Okay, I act so much like Maka, it kinda scares me.
So yeah, I hope you liked this, please review, yada yada yada. Now if you'll exuse me, I am going to study my butt off for oh so many subjects.
Oh, and I don't own Soul Eater. I probably should have mentioned this before but... oh wells! :)