Please note Yaya was drunk!

Maka smiling and holding Ikuto's hand as they walked around the mall. Not that far from them a yellow haired boy watched them and scowled at them.

Maka asking, "Ikuto, I know you said Amu never worked but there must be some place I could!"

Ikuto smiling, "She worked part time with Utau, my sister, sometimes. Utau might be able to get you that job. it's not always stable though, with her flying out a lot."

Maka now bouncing "Let's go! The sooner I get working the sooner I can pay you back!"

As the yellow haired boy steps in front of them Ikuto pulls Maka behind him says, "Tadase, we don't want any trouble. Just helping a friend shop that's all."

Tadase, the yellow haired boy spat, "Oh no? Then why have you replaced Amu already? Not any fun once you had her?"

Maka glaring now, "Actually Amu is in Death City and I am here. Some little interdimensional portal or something. So Ikuto is being kind and letting me stay with him till I can go home."

Ikuto adds, "Maka assures me Amu and Dia are safe. Soul is taking care of them."

Tadase laughing like a mad man, "Oh sure. you really expect me to believe that load of crap? Amu is in ...what another world? I bet she's just at a hot spring for the week and you're just getting a girl on the side right now, you cheating cat!"

Ikuto looking hurt, "Whatever you wanna-be-prince. I was there when Amu was taken. Ask the Charas if you want!"

Ikuto starts pulling Maka towards the door; Maka uses her soup perception on Tadase and gasps at what she sees. Maka yelling, "I don't know who you are but you must be scum of the earth if you think Ikuto would cheat on Amu. And I am from another world! I live in a town called Death City or Death Vegas depending on who you ask! I am a mister and my partner is a guy named Soul Eater Evens, a scythe soon to be deathscyth! I have the ability to see souls and yours dude is what in my world we call pre-kishin! That mean you are evil! If I had soul we would kill you so you wouldn't infect anyone with your madness!"

Tadase standing there opened mouth looking evilly at Maka, "You stupid bitch! You really believe what you just said. He has you brain washed!"

Ikuto turning around, decks Tadase before yelling, "You just can't get over the fact Amu found out you were cheating and left your sorry ass!"

Ikuto pulls Maka to the car; the Charas had grabbed the bags and already packed them in the car. Once at the car Maka says, "That guy is just an ass! What is his problem?"

Ran saying, "That was Tadase, he and Amu dated for a while but then she broke up with him when he got clingy and then found out he had cheated on her with a good friend.

Miki adding, "Tadase had thought Amu had cheated first so that's the reason he cheated he said."

Suu sighing, "Ikuto had confessed his love to Amu and asked her to be his girlfriend, but Amu was dating Tadase and seemed happy about it."

Yoru meowed, "Ikuto left there broken-hearted-nya."

Ikuto explained, "Tadase thought Amu was sleeping with me but she wasn't, I never even thought of us like that. I mean yeah I slept in her bed a couple years ago when I needed a place to hide but that was it. When he found out I had been over he freaked out and forbid Amu from talking and hanging out with Utau and me. Of course Utau had stopped by at that time... she blow up at him for yelling at Amu over something that didn't happen. Amu took that chance to call me and I swung by to help her out of it. Once I arrived Tadase started in all over again but this time at me. Saying it was my fault he cheated on Amu with Yaya, so I told Amu. Amu then got off her bed and throws him out and ended the relationship, telling him that she had always been faithful. Even though she wanted to kiss me she wouldn't cause of her love to him."

Maka speechless, "...wow... so he had been cheating the whole time. She was the faithful one... I can't stand guys like that!"

Ikuto started the car and started to drive away from the mall when Maka spoke again she was slumped in her seat hugging her knees, "Actually papa was like that. I hated him for hurting mama...but i hated him more for hurting me. I told him over and over I hated him and that he wasn't my even my father. it broke his heart but I didn't care. He promised to love me...but he couldn't even keep that!"

She stayed like that till Ikuto parker the car at home, and then he heard it. The sound he couldn't be sure he heard, till he looked over and saw Maka crying. Cursing himself for not realizing it sooner, he grabbed her and pulled her head to his chest, whispering, "Maka... not all men are like that. From what you told me, Soul would never do that. I wouldn't, I could never do anything like that to hurt a lady. I promise you not all men are pigs.