Chapter 19

The following week was probably going to be another living hell for Soul, since Maka was in a coma. The one he loved so much and needed to be protected, would always get hurt. Soul had fallen asleep inside the nurse's room next to Maka in a chair. "mmh...Maka...don't go" mumbled Soul in his sleep, but then was awakened by a loud clattering noise. Soul quickly awoke and jumped forward trying to open his sleepy eyes. "Wha-What the hell?".

"Sorry Soul, I didn't mean to wake you. But class is going to start soon." said a familiar voice. Soul would've recognized the voice easily, but he was half awake and half asleep. When he finally opened his eyes he saw the figure of the school's nurse Medusa. Medusa bent down to pick up the things she dropped, which were bottles filled with weird-looking medicine.

"Class?" replied Soul as he stretched, causing a cracking noise from his back, "man these chairs...". As he placed a hand on his face he noticed that there were a couple of band aids over his face. Medusa laughed at Soul's reaction.

"Stein...when you fell asleep, Stein came back in to hook everything else up in Maka and he saw the scratches on your face..." said Medusa as she placed a medicine bottle on the night stand next to Maka's bed. Soul finally took his sight off Medusa and on to his unconscious meister his eyes widened a bit still trying to fight falling back asleep. There was a tube going into Maka's mouth instead of the oxygen mask, and he could tell her bandages were changed but blood was still slowly seeping through them. "And yes class. Now go, you can come visit Maka later." said Medusa as she began inject something into Maka's arm.

Soul shook his head, but still listened. He walked up to Maka on the side Medusa wasn't on and laid a kiss on Maka's forehead. He whispered "I love you" then pulled away, as he walked toward the door he gave a glance at Medusa. She smiled back as she noticed Soul looking at her and she finished injection the medicine into Maka's arm.

After closing the door Soul took a deep breath, then let out a sigh. As he walked down the empty hall he looked for a clock to tell him what time it was cause Medusa told him it was almost class time. As he turned the corner he was joined by one of his friends, causing him to jump.

"Are you feeling any better from last night?" asked Kid as he gave a concerned look at Soul remembering how he felt last night.

Soul placed a hand over his racing heart. "Damn it Kid, you scared me...jeez" replyed Soul "Yeah, I'm feeling a bit better although my face and back hurt now. But I'm still worried about Maka.". He leaned against the wall still talking with Kid when they were joined by Liz and Patty.

"Hey Kid we got what you asked." said Patty as she handed Kid some folded clothes and a towel. Patty smiled and waved at Soul, while Liz gave a smile.

Kid nodded and took the clothes and handed them to Soul. "Here i asked Liz and Patty to sneak into you're apartment to grab you clean clothes. Since it seems you didn't go home yet after you're mission." Kid chuckled at Soul's reaction. "Class starts in 15 minutes so go to the showers and wash up." said Kid as he pointed to the towel laying on top of the clothes. Soul smirked.

"Thanks Kid...Liz and Patty." said Soul. Kid patted Soul's shoulder and left, while Liz and Patty stayed for a bit.

Liz smiled, while Patty began to laugh. "I hope Maka wakes up soon..." said Liz as she turned to leave with Patty. "oh and Soul...".

"Yeah?" asked Soul, wondering what Liz was going to say.

Liz glanced back at Soul, "nice underwear..." and began to laugh with Patty as they walked away. Soul's face grew a shade a red, but then he quickly brushed off what Liz said and made his way to the showers in the gym's locker rooms. Not many students were here yet, they were probably out getting breakfast or just still sleeping at home.

As Soul entered the locker rooms and went into one of the private shower stall. The entire room was empty but Soul kinda hated taking a shower without walls to block him. Remembering he had the band aids on his face he placed his clothes on a bench inside the shower stall shower where the water wouldn't hit it and left the shower and went to the nearest trash can in order to dispose of them. When he was done with that and its painful stings he went back into the stall, and locked the door. He began to strip off all the clothes he was wearing, placing them next to his clean clothes, and discovered unknown scratches and bruises on his body. There were also small blood stains on the inside of his clothes.

A cold wind rushed through the open door of the locker room, hitting Soul causing him to shiver. "Geez, why is it so cold?..." asked Soul as he immediately reached for the shower knob that said hot and turned it on to full blast. The water slowly changed from cold to hot but Soul didn't care, he let the water rush over him. Washing away all his thoughts, and all the dried up blood. When he was finally soaking wet he realized that Kid didn't give him and Soap. "Really Kid? tell me to wash up and give me no soap..." soul whispered to himself as he pushed his wet hair out of his face.

When Soul thought he was clean enough from the water he dried himself off with the towel Kid had given him, and then changed into the clean set of clothes which was long black jeans, and a golden-colored shirt. Soul decided to lock his dirty clothes in his locker for gym cause he didn't want to carry them all around school, he'd look so un-cool. As he left the locker room he was still drying his hair, taking only the towel and his headband from his other clothes. Since he didn't have Maka or Black Star with him he just decided to go to class early, and as he walked into Dr. Stein's classroom he was greeted by some random girl.

"Hello Soul, i'm Nova. I've heard so much about you and Maka, i'm sorry about Maka I hope she'll quickly recover." said the girl. She was a bit shorter than Soul, had blue eyes and was as thin as Maka but her chest was bigger. And she had medium length black hair and on the ends were a shade of blue. Soul gave a confused look at this girl. "Oh sorry if I startled you. I'll be you're meister until Maka finally recovers.".

Soul's eyes widened as Nova placed her arm around his. He quickly pulled away staring at Nova. "What? a new meister?" shouted Soul. Nova gave a confused look like the one Soul gave to her.

"Yes a new meister." said Dr. Stein as he rolled toward the two. "Well just until Maka wakes up. Soul this week we are going to be doing alot of weapon and meister training, and since Maka is injured and unconscious you need a new Meister.". Soul disapproved of this plan, Maka was his one and only meister and now he had to go with someone else. "Don't worry Nova can easily match soul wavelengths with anyone so just think of this as training in becoming a death scythe.".

Soul glared at Stein and Nova. "What if Nova turns me into a death scythe by the time maka wakes up? I want Maka to turn me into the most coolest Death scythe ever, not her." thought Soul as he heavily sighed. "Okay fine..."said Soul as he held out a hand toward Nova.

"So then were partners, right?" asked Nova as she shook Soul's hand. She got a bit excited because she was going to temporarily be his partner cause he was the coolest guy in school...well to her.

Soul simply grumbled "Yeah I guess." then walked off toward his seat. Acting like he didn't give a shit if Nova was his new meister now. Nova glanced back at Stein and let out a sigh.