A/N: sorry been busy so it took a while to get this chapter out to you guys, hope you like it ^-^ again kinda short but I'm trying to not discourage those who don't like reading a lot all at once, believe me, the chapters may be short but there's gonna be a lot of them XD

Disclaimer: I WISH I owned this stuff XD

Chapter Two: A Family Reunion (She's what?)

As Taria walked up the stairs toward the academy with "that pervert" as she had taken to calling Hero in her mind, she wondered how the real greatest student the academy had ever seen was doing. When they reached the top of the stairs there was a strange man with white hair in a stitched up lab coat sitting on a rolling chair, he seemed to be waiting for them, he had a giant screw sticking out of his head and stitches all over his body, hell everything about him seemed stitched up from his black shoes to his purple shirt and brown pants.

"Hello there, my name is Doctor Stein" The stitched up man with the screw in his head said to them as he took a drag off of his cigarette.

Taria smiled her piranha like smile and introduced herself to the man, "Hi there, I'm Taria," then after a moment she continued, "are you a pervert too?"

Stein chuckled as he replied, "No thankfully, I'm sorry you had to deal with Hero, I really hope his behavior didn't upset you too much."

"Well I suppose it doesn't matter much, after all perverts are everywhere no matter where you go, kind of like cockroaches." Taria stated the metaphor in a cheerful voice forgetting Hero was still there listening. Hero became depressed at this statement and walked inside the academy building leaving Stein and Taria to talk.

Stein smiled as he rolled his chair over to the girl and said in a more serious tone, "I've been asked to escort you to the office of Shinigami-Sama, he knows you're here and is very eager to meet you."

"I need to find Soul though," Taria replied as she curled her lips into a pout.

"Don't worry he will be there, him and all his friends." Stein said with a smile making the girl's pout disappear instantly.

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Taria walked down the hallway following the man named Stein in his rolling chair, so far he had fallen off of it three times and it seemed to Taria that this man was incredibly clumsy, but the moment she thought that her own clumsiness showed as she tripped over a crack in the floor and fell face first onto the floor barely catching herself with her hands and instantly bounding off her hands back onto her feet beside Stein.

"Seems like I'm not the only clumsy one around here," Stein chuckled, "although it seems your reflexes are even better than my own."

"I've been training my reflexes for years, as well as my flexibility and acrobatic skills, they all come in very handy in a fight." Taria replied with a smile.

They finally arrived at a door that the man in the chair opened, behind it was a corridor of guillotines with what appeared to be a blue sky with white clouds all around it and at the end was an open space with people in it. Taria seemed to immediately recognize one of the people in the open area and began to dash down the long corridor as she shouted as loud as she could "SOUL!"

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The white haired boy with the headband and yellow and black jacket froze when he heard his name shouted in a voice he recognized all too well. A chill went up Soul's spine and he began shaking which his companions thought was very out of character for him.

"Soul why are you shaking?" Asked a brunette girl with a black tail-coat and skirt on.

"Because she's here Maka." Soul replied still shaking with what appeared to be fear.

"Who's here, it better not be someone who thinks they're better than me." Said a boy with blue hair and a star-shaped mark on his shoulder.

"Black Star don't be silly I'm sure that's not what this new person thinks." A tall girl with black hair in a pony-tail and a tan dress-like outfit on said nervously knowing that if that was in-fact what the person thought it would probably lead to a fight.

"Of course that's what they think Tsubaki," Black Star said to the black haired girl, "everyone wants to be better than me cause I Black Star am the best there is."

"Whoever it is I really hope their appearance is symmetrical or I'll have a lot of adjustments to make." Proclaimed a black haired boy with a black shirt and black pants, the boy had three white lines in a half circle on the left side of his hair.*

"Oh would you stop being so crazy about symmetry Kid." A girl with light brown hair muttered standing to one side of the black haired boy wearing what appeared to be a cowgirl outfit.

"Yeah Liz is right it's getting to be a pain in the ass." A blond girl with the same cowgirl outfit stated bluntly. "But I do really hope this person is fun." The girl continued in a giggly voice.

"Patty be nice to Kid you know he's sensitive." Liz said to the blond girl.

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Taria charged down the hallway as fast as her legs could carry her and flung her arms around the silver-haired boy's neck practically choking him in her embrace as she shouted, "Oh Soul I haven't seen you in so long, I've missed you sooooooo much!"

"Umm Soul, who is this?" Asked the brunette girl seeming a little annoyed.

"She's… my… sister" Soul managed struggling to breath with Taria's arms nearly crushing his neck.

"She's WHAT?" Everyone in the room collectively shouted.

*the side of his head the lines are on is meant to be from kid's perspective