Chapter 4 – Four souls are better than one

Well hello there!" said a strange pitched and goofy male voice as Yuka and Maka entered the main part of the death room

A strange man-like figure moved across the room and halted in front of the two young girls. Maka just looked up the way she normally would toward one of her elders; respectfully and as if everything were normal. But with Yuka there was a different story; she looked up with curiosity and confusion at the person in front of them who wore fully covering, black cloak and unusual, spiked, white skull mask.

"Hello, Lord Death" Maka answered pleasantly, giving a light smile then looked to her side to see Yuka who was staring, making Maka raise a brow. Yuka snapped out of it when she felt Maka's green eyes looking in her direction, she shook her head and regained a normal look on her face.

"So who might this be?" Lord Death asked, looking toward Yuka which made her look curious. "I'm... My name is...uh... Yuka...Shikimoreu" Yuka stuttered nervously, and then looked over to Maka to help her out of the bottomless pit she had stumbled into. "She was saved by Kuro Miyuda from the kishin egg; 'Mike the Molester' but he was hurt, so then Kid turned up and saved them." Maka explained thoroughly, making Yuka a bit surprised. Had she really remembered that much?

Somewhere in Death City:-

Kid, Liz and Patty were shopping for random little things when suddenly Kid started to sneezed aggressively. "What's the matter, Kid? You are coming down with something?" Liz asked, turning her head from a fancy blue laced top she had been debating about. "Yeah, Kid! You got the flu or something?" Patty exclaimed, sounding worried but still hyper as usual. "No, I'm alright. Someone is probably talking about me somewhere, that's all"

Back in the Death Room:-

"Thank you, scythe meister Maka. Now, hope you won't mind but could you please wait outside while me and Yuka have a little chat?" Lord Death asked and Maka nodded and said "sure" with that she gave Yuka a reassuring smile and walked back out of the death room.

Lord Death went over to a table that seemingly appeared from nowhere and offered for Yuka to sit. Yuka exhaled unconsciously and walked over to the round, skull shaped table and sat down. She bit her bottom lip lightly, frightened about being alone without Maka or Kuro again.

"Well, a lot seems to have happened to you. Luckily, you don't have to worry about being alone now, if you accept the idea I have. How would you like to be put into Maka's care and for her to mentor you for a while?" he proposed his random idea.

Yuka's face lit up instantly and she smiled deeply with a positive nod.

"Since neither you nor he has anywhere to go, I think it would probably be best when Kuro is feeling better to have you both stick together and have an apartment" again he explained "well, you run along now. It wouldn't be good manners to leave Maka waiting too long." Yuka nodded again and left with a smile and short bow.

"Me and Kuro … will be living together?" She blushed at the thought of being alone with Kuro.

As Yuka walked out of the death room with a smile on her face, she noticed Maka standing just outside. "How'd it go?" Maka asked curiously. "Lord Death said I'm have live with you for a while and that you're my senpai" Yuka gave a big, cheerful grin. Suddenly Yuka reached out and gave Maka the biggest bear hug of all time, positively embracing her official 'senpai'. Maka gasped at the sudden action and sighed as the younger girl let go wow that was one hell of a hug... she thought. "Soul's getting out today so we can go home together, okay?" Maka's words made Yuka smile more - if possible - and nod, following her back to the infirmary.

As the girls entered the room, they saw Soul and Kuro with their shirts off, trying to see who had the deepest scar.

"Soul, what the hell are you doing?" Maka finally spoke after a few minutes staring at a bad memory.

Another few moments went by in silence; Soul realized that Maka had started to feel bad about the scar on the front part of his torso. To take Maka's mind off of it, he decided sacrificed another few brain cells by replying "hey Maka, me and Kuro were just hanging, waiting for you and your flat chest to swing by."

"Maka-Chop!"

Without much time to think, Maka swung the spine of her hard-cover book onto his cranium, scrambling his brains once again. Yuka matched intently at the so called Maka-Chop, an idea popping into her slightly empty head. With one swift movement, she pulled out her own book and hit the spine against Kuro's head lightly, barely tapping him while making a *PLOP* "Yuka-Chop." She pulled her book away and looked at Kuro blankly then toward Maka "did I do well?" she asked cautiously, Maka gave a slight giggle and patted the top of Yuka's head "only hit them when they do something wrong, my young student." Yuka nodded and smiled warmly. The unusual event left the two boys dumbfounded, giving one another confused side glanced

"If she ends up like Maka; good luck, Kuro" Soul said quietly so the girls wouldn't hear.

Kuro sighed, rolled his eyes and thought out loud "great..."

"So who's Maka junior?" Soul asked teasingly, making the two girls look in his direction.

"I'm Yuka Shikimoreu, Kuro saved me" Yuka answered in a more confident tone than earlier.

"So you're the girl he saved?" Soul said in a lower tone, making Kuro look away slightly.

"Yuka and Kuro are going to be staying with us for a while until they can get on their feet, Lord Death's orders." Maka then turned to look directly at Soul. "Don't" get your boy crap into her head." Soul sighed and muttered a "whatever" and then he and Maka walked out of the door. Yuka walked closer toward Kuro and gave him a sweet peck on the cheek and spoke happily.

"I hope you get better soon, with every part of my heart and soul" she smiled and waved goodbye as she rushed out the door to go catch up with Soul and Maka, Leaving Kuro with his thoughts and a faint blush.

"She kissed me …"

Thanks to all who have been reading this far. The usual shout out to graphic horrors who puts up with me and my madness. I'd like to point out that BLAIR will be in my next part so keep on reading if you like her ;D signed: Dark