Stranger

Maka POV:

Black*star drove me home that night. We sat there in silence, I stared out the window on my left, staring at all the trees and bushes we went past. We hadn't said anything to each other the whole ride back, there wasn't anything to say.

He opened his mouth to speak but before he had a chance to say anything, I spoke for him "Why didn't you put me down?"

He sighed deeply "You could have gotten hurt…"

"It wasn't going to hurt me!" I exclaimed spinning my head to face him "It stopped growling the moment I stepped towards it"

"You don't know what it was doing!" He started to yell back.

I shook my head "You should have let go of me"

"And what!" He yelled once again "Got you killed?"

The streetlights roamed over us, looming in the shadows of the treetops and shinning through the front window screen.

"Why do you care so much?" I asked closing my eyes then opening them again.

"Because…" He stuttered as if changing his sentence "You're one of my best friends, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if anything ever happened to you"

I turned my gaze onto something else, looking back out the window at the dazzling moon. It looked like its expression had finally changed, it looked like mine. It looked weak, sad, broken, lost, it didn't look happy anymore.

Black*star pulled into the driveway of my house and turned off the engine. Without hesitation I opened the car door and stepped out slamming it behind me leaving him alone in the car, not looking back.

I didn't think there were wolves in Death City.

As I walked up to the front door of my house, I saw someone out of the corner of my eye, I turned my head to stare at them completely. Soul… it was just Soul, staring at me through his window. He smiled lightly and lifted his hand to wave, I waved back at him not smiling, I really didn't feel like smiling right now.

I opened my front door and stepped inside closing it shut behind me. I switched the light on, causing the darkness to run away and be replaced by the light.

"Where have you been?" A voice lingered through the air.

I spun around startled, but my heart rate started to slow down when I noticed it was just my dad.

"You're home?" I questioned "Did Chupa Cabra's finally run out of booze?"

He chuckled trying to stand up and as he did he stumbled "Yeah!"

I watched him move towards me stumbling with every step he took "You're drunk"

"Maybe I am, maybe I'm not, but I choose the first one" He had a wide smile spread across his face "Now tell me where you were"

"Tsubaki's party" I quickly moved towards the stairs stepping out of his reach.

"What's wrong?" He slurred "Come give your papa a hug"

"Leave me alone!" I exclaimed hitting against the wall realizing there wasn't any space to step back again.

"Don't yell at me like that!" He continued to stumble closer until he was just an inch away.

Fear filled my entire body, I hated seeing him like this, the first time I had seen him in weeks and he looked like he wanted to…

"Bitch!" He yelled as his palm hit against my cheek.

A gasp escaped my lips as I reached up and grabbed hold of my face and winced in pain "Dad!"

Suddenly the front door burst open and the sound of footsteps running echoed through the room.

"Leave her alone!" A familiar voice shouted.

A pair of arms grabbed around my dad's stomach as they started to pull him away from me towards the opened front door.

"What the hell do you think your doing?" My dad tried to fight their grasp off, reminding me of when I tried to fight off Black*stars.

They pulled him to the front door and pushed him outside "Go back to Chupa Cabra's!" And with that, they slammed the door shut behind him.

I was sitting on the ground leaning up against the wall still holding my face, as if it would get rid of the pain.

"Hey are you okay?" The white haired red eyed boy crouched down in front of me "Let me see your face"
It wasn't really a question because he took hold of my wrist and slowly pulled my hand away. A red mark was revealed once my hand was completely out of the way, no wonder why my face hurt so badly.

"You're going to need some ice on that" he slowly stood up and turned to walk to the kitchen.

He returned with a bag of frozen peas and he placed them on over the red mark on my cheek.

"Thanks" I murmured taking the peas from his hand "I don't know what I did"

"He was drunk, don't worry about it too much" He smiled tracing the red mark with his finger "My parents get like that sometimes, it's why I moved out"

I looked up at his red eyes and saw my reflection. I was taken back to the image of the wolf staring at me with its golden shimmering eyes.

"Are you sure you're okay?" He asked noticing my sudden flinch.

"I'm fine" I opened my eyes slowly "I'm fine…"

Death the Kid POV:

The morning forest was always so bright and so cold. I lay in the snow staring up at the morning sky, the birds flew above me, landing in treetops then flying out again, there just like me, they don't know where to go, they don't know what to do. The sun beamed down on me melting the snow I lay in, prickling at my skin.

Footsteps crunched against the snow from behind me. I turned my head just slightly to the sounds direction, two boots stood beside me followed by a pair of strong legs covered of by trousers.

"Hey there's a kid over here!" A man shouted "Bring a blanket, his covered in a load of blood!"

A police man crouched down in front of me, my vision was blurred so it looked like there were two of him. I shivered as the cold wind pushed up against my bare skin.

"You're going to be okay, we'll get you out of here"

Maka POV:

I locked myself away in my room. Watching the snow flakes fall merrily as always, it was the only place I felt happy, watching snow. People could call me crazy, a freak, depressive but all I've wanted to do is, nothing. I've only wanted to be alone, and I didn't exactly feel like going into school after the thing with that wolf, everyone would probably look at me strangely and tell me the same thing that Black*star did, so I stayed at home and stared out of my bedroom window at the outside world.

My phone vibrated on the bed in front of me, lightening up the screen. I slowly reached over and grabbed it in the palm of my hand. New Message.

"Liz…" I mumbled checking the screen.

I clicked on her message, opening the full text she had sent to me.

Why aint you in?

Anyway everyone's going crazy about that wolf from Tsubaki's party,

They won't stop going on about it,

But you saw something in that wolf and I wanna know what it was.

I slid my phone shut, completely ignoring her text. I brought my phone close to my face and held the plastic to my lips, inhaling and exhaling through the speaker. I turned my gaze back outside to the snow. It wasn't snowing that much anymore, but it was still enough for me to wish that I was outside enjoying it, but I was too weak to move any bone in my body at all.

Death the Kid POV:

It was dark out when I finally got let out of the police station, after they can gave me some clothes and a very kind man gave me some money for food and stuff. I buried my hands in my pockets, gripping hold of the fabric inside and keeping my hold of it. I was walking back towards the forest, walking back to where I belonged, but I had to be quick because the moon would be out soon.

Why not get a job?

I had often asked myself that question over and over again, but I had never considered it. I bowed my head and continued to stroll down the path getting closer and closer to the forest.

Her house…

I stopped walking and turned to face the house that stood beside me. The solid brick walls, the see through glass door with matching windows. I looked up at her bedroom window and it was there, there that I saw her looking helplessly out of her window and the snow floating calmly in the dark sky. She had her head resting against the glass and her eyes were drawn directly to the forest.

She's so beautiful.

Maka POV:

I could see something out of the corner of my eye looking towards me, I tried to turn my head to look to see what it was but I was so dizzy and weak I didn't have the strength to look to my left.

Suddenly my stomach growled, telling me that it was dying, begging for food. Immediately I threw my hand over my stomach as if it would stop the rumbling, but it made no difference at all.

You haven't eaten in two days, you need to eat something.

"I'm not hungry" I whispered wincing in pain from not eating "I'm not hungry…"

I caught movement out of the corner of my eye and span my head around as fast as I could. Panting I looked around to see where the movement had come from, then when I noticed what it was my shoulders relaxed. I leaned forward a little more towards the glass as I watched Soul walk through the front door of his house, but he wasn't what I had saw, what I saw was black and Soul didn't seem to be wearing any type of black clothing whatsoever.

Must have been my imagination.

I slowly turned my head back to the forests direction, still looking around for anything that could have caught my eye, but I had no luck, I couldn't put anything in place to what it could have been.

And it was then that I saw, two golden lights. Golden lights staring completely at me coming from the bushes in the forest. They shone so bright, lighting up the leaves and branches around then, but I couldn't see what was causing them.

I slowly turned my head around again to stare at the snow but something caught my eye yet again, I stared at it for several moments in confusion till I noticed what it was.

Why is there a pile of clothes at the end of my path?