A/N- Haha. Been a while hasn't it. Last time I updated was… May? Damn, sorry about that. I had some other fanfics I needed to focus on. Anyways, please enjoy!

I do not own Soul Eater, 'Tom Sawyer' by Rush, Magic the Gathering or 'Up the Wolves' by the Mountain Goats.

Maka sat in her room listening to music while doing homework. She had a bag of potato chips next to her, occasionally eating one after she finished a question. Her ear-buds hung from her ear as a song from the Mountain Goats played.

I'm going to get myself in fighting trim
Scope out every angle of unfair advantage
I'm going to bribe the officials, I'm going to kill all the judges
It's going to take you people years to recover from all of the damage

Our mother has been absent
Ever since we founded Rome
But there's going to be a party
When the wolf comes home

As the song ended, Maka began to hear a sound coming from outside. Pit…pat…pit…pat… She went to the window to see what it was, setting her book and pencil on her bed. She took her ear-buds out and opened the window. There, on her front lawn, was the shark-toothed boy she's just met three days ago, holding a handful of pebbles. Next to him, was his best friend Black Star.

"Hey, Maka! What took you so long?" Soul asked.

"I had ear buds in." Maka replied. "But just out of curiosity… WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? YOU ARE SO LUCKY MY DAD ISN'T HOME YOU IDIOTS!"

"What does your dad have against two teenage boys chucking pebbles at his house in order to get the attention of his daughter?" Black Star asked.

Maka face-palmed. "Everything about that, you jackass!" She took a deep-breath, and tried to act a little more calm. "Anyways, what do you guys want?"

"We're gonna go shoot hoops. Wanna come?" Soul asked.

"Can't." She replied. "I've got homework."

"Maka, it's Friday." Soul frowned.

"Yeah, so?"

"Homework is a Sunday thing!" Soul shouted. "Come on! You know you wanna come. Kid is gonna be there. This new kid we met named Crona will be there…."

"Hmm." Maka muttered. "I suppose it couldn't hurt. I just have to be home before 7:30. That's when my dad gets home."

"Will do!" Soul said, saluting her.

Maka rolled her eyes. She walked downstairs and put on her shoes and a jacket. She walked outside to find the two boys waiting for her at the end of her driveway.

"Let's go!" Soul exclaimed, grabbing Maka's hand and racing down the street.

The trio arrived at the basketball court in the park soon enough, and found a Tsubaki and Kid to already be there. There was another boy there who wore all black clothing and had long pink hair.

"Maka, this Crona. Crona, Maka." Soul said, introducing them.

"Hey there!" Maka said extending her hand.

Crona looked anxious, and quickly shook her hand. "H-hi."

"Alright!" Black Star shouted. "Let's play ball!" He chucked the basketball at Soul's head, and it bounced off and went into the hoop."

"OW! You idiot!" Soul shouted, tackling Black Star to the ground.

"Oh brother…." Maka sweatdropped. She turned to Tsubaki. "Is this normal?"

Tsubaki sweatdropped as well. "You have no idea."

"Both of you stop fighting!" Kid said appearing out of nowhere. "You're running your symmetry!"

"Shut up, Kid." Soul and Black said in unison, continuing to fight each other playfully.

"I'm not sure I can deal with these two fighting…" Crona whimpered.

Maka giggled to herself. 'I'm pretty sure I'm going to like it here.' She thought happily.

"Well, that was fun." Soul stated. The sun was setting and the group was about to split.

"Yeah, we should definitely do this more often!" Maka said.

"We do." Black Star said. "In fact, this is pretty much how we spend our weekends."

"All you do is play basketball?" Maka asked.

"Well, no." Soul said. "We tend to walk to the record store a lot. They've got some really good stuff there."

'I good get used to these guys.' Maka thought to herself. "Anything else?"

"We usually head to the comic shop, too." Kid said. "A couple days a week they have trading card game tournaments. All of us here play Magic the Gathering. Do you?"

"I saw some kids play at my old school in the cafeteria, but I never figured out how to play…" Maka replied.

"We can teach you!" Black Star said. "I've got a green and blue lifegain deck I could give to you."

"I have no idea what you're talking about." Maka replied.

Soul chuckled "That's alright. We can teach you."

Maka smiled and then realized something. She frantically checked her watch and looked at the time. "Damn it!" She exclaimed. "My dad's home! He's gonna kill me!"

"Go home now." Soul said, not wanting her to get in trouble.

"But Soul-"

"No really." The shark-toothed boy said. "Go on ahead. We'll talk later."

Maka beamed. "Thanks Soul!" She sprinted off down the street, running as fast as she could towards her house. It was getting dark out, and only a hint of the sun was left on the horizon. 'What's Papa gonna say?' Maka thought. 'It's okay… I can just tell him I was hanging out with Liz. He'll totally buy it!' The blonde girl ran up to the front door of her house and quickly opened the door, sprinting in the house.

Spirit was sitting in the living room and saw Maka come in. "Where have you been? I was worried sick!" The man said.

"Sorry, papa. I was hanging out with Liz." Maka waved off.

"Oh really?" Spirit asked. "Because Liz stopped by fifteen minutes ago to see if you were home."

Maka's heart sank. "W-what?"

Spirit nodded. "I'm also one hundred percent sure you've been hanging out with that octopus-head, Soul Evans."

Maka looked at her dad in astonishment. "Soul is a good person!" Spirit shook his head, which angered Maka. "He's nice to me!"

"Maybe to you, maybe for now," Spirit replied, "But I've heard… rumors about him."

Maka snorted. "Like what?"

"Well, for one, I hear that he once tackled a deer to the ground and used his shark teeth to rip it apart and eat it's guts."

Maka frowned. "Soul would never do that!" She exclaimed.

"Of course he wouldn't!" Spirit retaliated, taken Maka aback. "But he clearly has to be messed up in the damn head if people would even think of him doing something like that." Maka stared, awestruck by her father's judgmental attitude. "I don't want you talking to him. He's a freak." Maka angrily ran up to her room, ignoring what her father had to say. Spirit put his hands over his face and sighed. "Am I being too harsh on this Soul kid?"

Maka sat on her bed, hugging her legs to her chest. She was listening to the Bob Dylan. She felt her phone go off beside her. It was a text from Liz.

'Why were u hanging with Soul?'

Maka picked up her phone and began writing back to her.

'He's a little crude, but he's still a nice person deep down. So are the rest of his friends. You should hang out with him sometime.'

She went back to listening to her music and waited patiently for Liz to respond.

'K'

Damn, she hated when people did that.

….

Soul walked up towards his house to see Wes sitting on the porch.

"Hey, hey, little brother." Wes exclaimed. Soul avoided eye contact and walked past his older brother. "You and your friends playin' basketball again?"

"Yeah." Soul muttered. "What's for dinner."

"How about a deer?" Wes joked.

Soul groaned. "That rumor is still going around?"

"Apparently." Wes chuckled. "I'm just pulling your leg. But it's your turn to cook tonight."

"Whatever." Soul muttered, walking into the house. He walked into his room and walked over to a shelf and pulled out an old record; 'Rush- Moving Pictures'. He put the vinyl onto the record player, and music began to play in his room.

A modern-day warrior
Mean mean stride,
Today's Tom Sawyer
Mean mean pride.
Though his mind is not for rent,
Don't put him down as arrogant.
His reserve, a quiet defense,
Riding out the day's events.

"Tom Sawyer." Soul muttered. "At least there's one person I can relate to."

A/N- Again, sorry for the short chapters. I really want to get to at least 5k words per chapter. I just really wanted to get this up because I haven't updated in forever.

Anyways, please review.