Chapter 16

As the two walked home from Kid's house everything was peaceful and quite. Maka held onto Soul's hand entwining her fingers with his. She leaned her head onto his shoulder and let out a long sigh. Soul turned thinking that his meister wanted attention because she sighed, but she wasn't looking back at him.

"Is something wrong Maka?" asked Soul, curious of why Maka had sighed. Her eyes made their way up to his. She could see a little worry in his eyes. But she shook her head, smiled, and leaned her head back on his shoulder.

"I'm fine Soul...I was just thinking of how things were before. Before we came together, as partners, as a couple.". A bunch of memories passed by of when they met, when she first held him in his weapon form, when Soul finally admitted that he had liked her. She smiled at the thought.

Soul worried that Maka was going to bring up how guilty she felt about the battle with Crona. "Well was it better before or after?" asked Soul not worried one bit about the answer.

Maka gripped on to Soul's hand tighter. She finally noticed that they where only a few feet away from there building. She stopped infront of Soul, her hands in his, her eyes staring into his. "Well what do you think?" replyed Maka with a small smile upon her lips.

Soul grinned back at her glad that she didn't mention about the battle and lifted her upon his shoulder. "...Better after, because I can do this.". When his warm hands touched Maka's cold thighs, it sent a shiver throughout her body. As he finally reached their apartment Soul let Maka down off his shoulder and opened the door. After letting Maka in first he followed her, turning on the lights, and threw his keys onto the table.

Maka threw off her jacket onto the couch revealing her soft, pale skin. Soul plopped onto the couch next to Maka's jacket and turned on the tv. It didn't pain his back as much as it did yesterday seeing that his sun burn was quickly healing. When he turned to Maka he saw her smiling back at him, she seemed a bit excited for some reason. "...What?" asked Soul.

Soul just stared at Maka as she turned off the tv. She sat on top of his lap and rapped her arms around his neck. "You couldn't have forgotten about what we talked about earlier today, have you?" said Maka in the cuttest voice she could of made. Soul stared for a moment trying to remember, and when it finally hit him he gave her a 'you weren't kidding?' look.

She shook her head, "Only the kissing part for tonight!". She planted a kiss on Soul's lips which caught him by surprise. He placed his hands on her skinny waist and kissed back. He nibbled on her lip causing her to part her lips. With that he slipped his tongue into her mouth and begun his exploring. With that sensation going on Maka's hands made their way up to Soul's soft white hair, gently pulling on it. As they parted for air, a thin line of saliva connected from each others mouth. Soul attacked Maka's neck after he had caught his breath, causing noises to slip out of her throat.

Soul had to resist biting or sucking on her neck because thay didn't want to be tortured with questions by their friends, but the noises coming out of maka's throat made it harder for him. His hands began to roam among her skinny body, causing her to tug more and more at his hair. He then began to lick her neck causing Maka's eyes to open, and when she looked at the time she pulled away. A familiar confused look was written on soul's face, "What's wrong!?...did I hurt you" asked Soul.

Maka got off of Soul's lap and made her way to the bathroom. She pointed to her wrist where a watch should be, "It's a school night Soul, and I gotta take a shower.". Soul looked back at the clock to see what time it was, it wasn't that late but it also wasn't that early. Maka had already dissapeared into the bathroom locking the door behind her.

"Really Maka!?...well at least can I take a shower with you?" realizing that Maka had already left. But as he heared the water in the bathroom turn on he heard a "no!" also. He shook his head and went back to the tv. As he turned it on and flipped through the channels he quickly got bored of the shows that were on. "Uhhhh!...fine I'll go listen to some music!". He grabbed his phone and plugged it into the mini speakers he had so it would louden the music. He chose a random song, and laid back on the couch. He nodded his head to the beat of the song as he closed his eyes.

After about 10 minutes Maka was finally done with her shower. As she stepped out of the tub she realized that she had forgotten to grab new clean clothes. She cursed then wrapped her self in one of the towels. Hair still dripping and body soaking wet, she didn't dry herself because she thought she would be able to quickly grab her clothes and run back in. "It's only Soul right?" whispeared Maka to herself.

As she slowly unlocked the bathroom door, and slightly opened it she heard one of Soul's favorite songs being played. Maka stuck her her head out and seeing that nobody was in sight she quickly ran to her room and grabbed her clothes. Now when she left her room and opened the door to the bathroom she heared a chuckle, "So are you trying to tease me now, or?..." asked Soul as he crossed his legs and stared at Maka from the living room. From where he was sitting he was able to see the bathroom, and a naked Maka.

Maka turned back to him while she pushed back all her wet hair that was clinging on to her face. She showed him her clothes saying, "I forgot to grab my clothes." and dissapeared into the bathroom leaving their conversation at that. When she finally had some clean clothes on she made her way back into her room to throwing her dirty clothes in with the others, and went back out to the living room. Soul was no where in sight but his music still played. She landed on the couch she was sitting on earlier closing her eyes and leaned back letting out a long sigh.

When she opened them there was Soul standing over her with a chip in his mouth. "You want some Maka?" asked Soul barely understandable. Maka shook her head but motioned for him to come sit next to her. As he did Maka finally saw that he had a big bottle of pepsi, and a bag of doritos.

Maka turned her head so that she would be facing him and said, "You're still hungry?". She was answered with a nod, because Soul was chomping on a chip. He had pulled out one and held it infront of Maka's lips.

"We only had breakfast, so of course i'm hungry!" said Soul still holding the chip to Maka's mouth. "Now eat.". Maka opened her mouth and took a bite out of the chip causing her to quickly raise her hand up to her mouth to catch the crumbling remains of the chip. After eating the remains Soul pushed the bag of chips into her lap and took a drink of the pepsi, "here you eat the rest I'm done.".

Maka pushed the bag of chips back to Soul and got up off the couch so that he wouldn't pass it back to her. He sighed as he was passed back the chips but still stuffed his mouth with the chips. Maka smiled, but soon left the room returning with her phone that had it's ringtone going off. She took a look at the screen then held it up to her ear, "Hello?".

"Who is it?" asked Soul with his mouth full of chips. Maka motioned for him to be quiet, as she was being answered.

"Hi Maka! it's your papa." said Spirit on the phone.

"Papa?, what do you want..." replyed Maka as she made a face at Soul which made him chuckle, causing him to choke on the chips.

"Oh I just wanted to ask you something...something caught my attention yesterday and I love you so much as your father..."

"I don't consider you as a father of mine!" whispeared Maka.

"What was that Maka?"

"Oh nothing, so what did you want to ask me?"

"I just wanted to ask...Are you and little octopus head in a relationship, or something?" asked Spirit holding up a paper that had Maka's name on it.

Maka froze at the question. "How the hell does he know?" thought Maka as she turned to Soul. Soul looked back at her wondering what Spirit had said to her that made her look like that. "Um, sort of...yea" replyed Maka, she heared crinkling of paper in the backround.

"Oh ok, just so you know papa loves you very much. I have to do okay Bye." said Spirit before he hung up.

Maka looked at the phone then back to Soul. "He asked if we were dating, and I told him yea." said Maka as she threw her phone onto the couch. She stretched then leaned against the wall that lead to her room.

Soul threw the empty bag of dorito chips into the trash, and put the infinished bottle of pepsi into the fridge and went up to Maka. He pressed her against the wall, "Well he's not going to be too happy with that is he..." and kissed her lips.

She slipped easily away from him, but kissed his cheek. "Goodnight Soul..." yawned Maka as she creaked into her room and jumped into bed. Soul replyed good night back and went into his room.

As Soul jumped into his bed he couldn't fall asleep quite easily. He stayed up staring up at the ceiling. He thought about what he said earlier, about how spirit is not going to be happy with him dating Maka. "He can't do anything...it's Maka's decision." thought Soul as he closed his eyes and soon drifted off to sleep. Quickly the night passed and it was Monday morning.

Maka of course had awoken early, already ready and waiting for Soul to get up. "Soul...wake up!" said Maka as she gently shook Soul, he groaned and hid his face within the pillow. After a couple more shakes he finally opened his eyes, but instead of a more sleepy looking face he had a grumpy expression on his face.

"What Maka?." shouted Soul as he looked up at Maka with his eyes. Not getting replyed he turned to her to see her holding out a plate of eggs, bacon, and rice. Maka looked a bit irratated by his tone but she didn't take his tone personal. "O-oh, sorry Maka..." said Soul as his grumpy expression melted away. And with that Maka happily sat next to Soul and handed him the plate.

Before Soul placed a piece of the bacon into his mouth, Maka kissed his forehead and left. Soul always ends up feeling much better with Maka around. Soon he finished his meal and took his plate outside to the sink. After dropping it in he changed into his usual yellow and black jacket and his dark red jeans with his headband that said Soul.

The two finally left for school on Soul's motorcycle. They also weren't late this time. When they stepped up the steps of the DWMA they were greeted with Black Star and Tsubaki, then later Kid, Liz and Patty. They all made their way to Dr. Stein's class and took a seat.