A few days after the partner switch, Liz, Patty, Maka, and Tsubaki were hanging out after class.
"So, guys, what's it like having new partners?" The older gun asked.
Tsubaki sighed. "I don't know. He's nice and everything, but not as energetic. He doesn't eat too much so a lot of my food goes to waste. And we don't talk much… it's just not the same." She shook her head sadly. "I never knew how much I'd miss Black Star so much! What about you, Maka?"
Maka blinked. "Oh, Lyssa, she's nice. Quiet. Very clumsy though, and she's always apologizing for something or other. She's like a little puppy." She smiled at the image of a large-pawed purple-haired dog. However, the smile faltered as she remembered the first moment that she had started to miss Soul.
It was odd, really. That such a small thing was enough to nearly move her to tears. She had walked into the bathroom to brush her teeth, but when she opened the cabinet, she realized that Soul's hair gel was gone. Maybe it was because the gel was such a trademark of her partner's that she noticed it first. Even so, it was enough to send her running to his room, where she saw that most of his stuff was gone, only his furniture, some clothing, and his school books left behind. Her first thought was 'I should get those to him' and then she laughed at his carelessness. But it was one of those half-hearted laughs. All of a sudden she had felt the death-scythe's absence like a raw wound. Like Tsubaki, she never knew that she could miss her partner so much.
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"Yo, Soul!" Black Star yelled as he tossed the basketball to the juvenile death-scythe.
He caught it easily and passed it to Kid. The three were playing a scrimmage match, because they didn't have enough members for a real match since Black Star and Soul couldn't see Tsubaki and Maka.
"So, Black Star, how is the new partner?" Soul asked.
"What, you mean the sadistic bitch?"
Kid dropped the basketball, and both he and Soul stared at Black Star in shock. Never had he used such words so casually before!
"It's true! She's always harassing me to 'be quiet' or 'do this, do that', 'shut up', 'what kind of an assassin are you', as if she was in charge of a big person like me! She's always mad at me about something!"
Kid reached over to pick the ball back up. "Well, how many souls have you collected?"
Black Star blinked. "That's not the point."
"How many?"
"Okay, okay, ten, are you happy now?" Black Star caught the ball in his hands and threw it to Soul.
Soul smirked. "That's more than you have ever gotten with Tsubaki!"
"I don't care! I want her back! She was so awesome, and she never yelled at me for anything!"
The other two boys laughed.
"Oi, what about you, Soul?" Asked the blue-haired ninja.
Soul's expression darkened considerably. Kid and Black Star took a few steps back in alarm.
"The guy is an asshole." He said simply before throwing the ball so hard at Kid that it knocked him over. Then Kid realized that he now had a bruise on the left side of his face, which caused him to cough blood and pass out, and Liz and Patty had to be called to pick him up.
Soul wasn't lying. All that Jack had done since they had been partnered up with him is piss him off. "Dude, why do you wear gel in your hair?" "Dude, why do you wear an apron when cooking? You look like a sissy. Why are you cooking anyway?" "Dude, you play piano? What a pussy." "Dude, your scythe form is lame"
If he had to hear 'dude' one more time, someone was going to get set on fire.