Hazel eyes scanned the halls for any sign of Seiko, from the moment she had seen him the first day Stein introduced him to class she had been head over heels for him. Though he was the mad dissecting crazed scientists son he seemed almost nothing like him except for well a few scars on his skin, and the glasses.

Finally she had spotted him in the crowd, his golden colored hair stuck out against the dull white walls. He was slouched against the wall, golden eyes skimming through a book.

"Hey! Maemi!"

She squinted to see what he was reading, small print but it looked like some form of text book. She sighed Stein was probably making him read anatomy books again in hopes to take him to the dark side.

"Yo! I Heard you got a partner."

She tried to read his face how he was taking the text in. He seemed calm bored, as if he'd seen it all before. He lifted one hand to scratch his neck, as Maemi let out a sigh. She hated herself for watching him like this but, she could never EVER work up the courage to even talk to him.

"You okay?"

She had tried a couple times, when he picked up her pencil and she had tried to say thank you but only let out a squeak. If it wasn't for Stein calling Seiko up for a demonstration she would have died from embarrassment.

"MAEMI!"

Maemi looked away from Seiko and back at Ann who seemed to be fuming at her. Ann quickly glanced at where she was looking and sighed, "What's with you and weird kids?"Maemi blushed and smiled nervously at her, giving her the old dopey "please forgive me" look. Ann shook her head and looked back at her. "As, I was saying, I heard you got a partner yesterday. Is it the guy you mentioned before?"

"Yeah, his names Katsuro he's really loud but he can play guitar and our wave lengths match so now we're a team." Maemi smiled glad that both her and Ann had found partners she was even happier to find out that he forced her to be her real self, It was causing a whole hell of a lot more trouble for Kid. "Is Daijiro treating you okay?"

"You tell me," Maemi looked at her a bit surprised, "When your not staring down lover boy over there you're making sure Daijiro and I are doing okay. You need to start taking care of yourself more girl." Ann gently punched her shoulder and smiled at her.

"What about you?" It was Ann's turn to give her a confused look, "Ever since Takumi died…" Maemi stopped seeing her friends face start to become depressed, "I'm sorry I shouldn't have mentioned him, I know your still struggling over him and your parents, but this year don't you think…."

"No," Ann said quietly "It's not really something I want to celebrate anymore. Once I become a master again you know what I have to do."

"Then let me do it with you, let me help." Maemi said gripping her hand, "He was my brother, I have the right to!" Ann looked up and shook her head.

"That thing was trying to get me, it killed my parents and then it followed me to Takumi" She took a deep breath "It's my responsibility, and besides I already took up the deal with Lord Death." She smiled at Maemi, "You're the only family I have left, you and Crona, and well I guess that crazy Grandfather of mine." She laughed a bit, "I guess I always wondered why Mom never wanted me to visit him now." She shrugged while Maemi giggled and nodded. "Speaking of Lord Death, I gotta go me and Daijiro actually have to go see him today, any chance I'll get to see your partner?"

Maemi bit her lip, "I'm supposed to go over his house today and practice with him, I don't think he'll mind if you and Daijiro come with." Ann nodded and took a glance over at Seiko who was still reading and suddenly gave a smirk. Maemi's eyes widened as she watched her friend walk over to him and begin to talk to him gesturing over at a panicked blue haired girl. He nodded and said a few things back to her and Ann walked off waving to the two of them. Much to Maemi's dismay Seiko had begun to walk over towards her.

Maemi pulled her hands behind her and wrapped her pinkies together, something she always wound up doing when she was nervous. 'Ann, what did you say….' She could almost picture her laughing at her later and telling her that's what she got for snooping.

"Hey!" Seiko said raising his hand and giving a small wave like gesture. "Maemi Star right?" She nodded and blushed. "Your friend Ann just invited me to join in on your training session this afternoon, I just wanted to make sure she wasn't imposing by doing so" She couldn't help but smile, he was so polite.

"No…" She looked up realizing how it had sounded, "I mean it's no problem, the more the merrier, and well my partner actually has training grounds where he lives so no big."

"Okay well then thank you," he said smiling warmly at her "I haven't really had the chance to meet anyone here yet, it would be nice to make a couple of friends." Maemi almost felt herself explode with Happiness, he was shy like her! "Well I'll see you after school then!" She nodded unable to speak again and he walked away.

Today was going to be a good day.

Katsuro was leaning against a wall outside of the school, looking up at the sky watching the clouds pass by as his sister and her partner bickered at each other.

"Look you can't just expect us to get our aim perfect every time without a little practice, Sage" Riise said thrusting her arms in the air, she was clearly getting to her limit.

"Oh come on, you make arrows with your energy you can control them" Sage said looking up at her from his cross legged position.

"Once it's out of me I have no control over it," she responded crossing her arms.

All of the sudden Katsuro could see his blue haired partner coming through the door, followed by a bunch of people… 3 to be precise. He sighed remembering how shy she had been and how Ann was one of the few people who could actually get her to talk, he just hated her attitude now. Before she had partnered up with Daijiro she had been kind and sweet, now she was blunt and well a rebel. And that was Katsuro's job. He didn't have all these piercings on his ears for nothing, his dad almost killed him for it. Then there was his clothes and obviously un-symmetrical outfit. For Christ's sake he was the only strict musician meister around, well at least he thought so until Maemi informed him Ann was her partner before too. He shook his head and sighed, she wasn't his partner so he didn't have to worry about, might as well get over….

"Maemi…"

"Yeah?"

"I think your partner hates me."

Katsuro face went, within split seconds, from shock to anger, to sadness, to shame. Daijiro and his sister watched with mild interest, the two of them had known the drama queen for quite some time.

"Ann, don't jump to conclusions…."

"But he stared at me and just well, made all these faces and they kept getting angrier and angrier…. Maybe me and Daijiro should go." She looked back at her partner but he only shrugged in reasponse.

"But….." Katsuro looked back at his beloved partner and watched as her eyes fell upon Stien's son and he sighed... she need Ann for Seiko.

"Now he's staring at me making faces."

Again Daijiro and Riise watched as his face changed at the speed of sound. Another blunt guy Katsuro had to deal with! Would it ever end? He eventually got himself to calm down. "Let's just go practice okay?" He walked over to Maemi and rubbed her head a little bit.

"Okay" Maemi said smiling up at him.

Ann sighed practice had been going pretty good so far, she had to admit Katsuro and Riise's house had been huge. It was built like a dojo or some sort of temple, and had screen doors and swords on display. Her and Daijiro had been taking a short break when she had decided to ask about the place. "Hey Katsuro!" He looked up from playing Maemi in guitar form.

"Yeah?" he asked seemingly over whatever hatred he had for her before.

"How did you guys get a place like this?"

"Our dad built it."

"What is he an architect?"

"You haven't heard of him?" He actually looked surprised at her.

"Well I don't even know your last name so…"

"Oh it's Toshiro"

"As in Mifune Toshiro?"

"Yup"

"Guess who has some son and daughter issues…" Riise said firing and energy arrow at a target.

"Master swords men can't teach his skills to his kids" Katsuro said sighing.

"He complains almost every day about it"

Ann laughed a bit, "Reminds me of Maemi and Takumi"

"What about them?" Katsuro asked looking down at her giving her a furry of sad and hurt expressions.

"Oh well…" her voice came loud and clear as he continued to play a song. "My Dad's well um…."

Ann stood up and quickly leaped on to the closest table and pointed to the celling as if she was intimidating someone. "BLACK STAR! THE GREATEST GUY TO EVERY LIVE THE ONE WHO SURPASSED GOD AND SOME HOW MANAGED TO MARRY HIS REALLY NICE QUIET WEAPON AND RAISED TO WEAPONS INSTEAD OF ALL POWERFUL MIESTERS! AHAHAHAHAH!" She gave a small smirk and laughed a bit as she jumped off and returned to a laughing Daijiro's side.

"Professor Black Star?" Katsuro said laughing at Ann's spot on impression.

"Yeah" Maemi strummed meekly.

"Let's just say Maemi couldn't get to many words in around dinner time." Ann said sighing.

"No wonder your so shy," Seiko said sighing as he sat down near the rest of them.

Suddenly Maemi's music became a bit louder and almost more joyful.

"Hey bro!" Riise said as she let Sage return to his human form. "Since you had so many people over today mind if I invite some of my friends to come next time?"

"Sure," Katsuro replied sighing "Tavi and her partner?"

"Hideki, yeah" She said smiling.

"I guess we have a group going now." Daijiro said to Ann.

She nodded and smiled at him "Guess so."

Okay so I just cranked all of that out in one sitting… damn boredom can be inspiring sometimes. Hoped you guys liked it! Please Comment and tell me what you like and what you would want to happen next! I have a plot set up but I need a couple more intro chapters (maybe 2 or 3) before I can really kick things into gear and reveal who Ann's Parents are as well as her past and who killed them and her partner (trust me shit's gonna get epic!). Any way please feel free to draw some of the characters and send me a link to it! More to come If I get more comments, and well spelling and grammar shall not be included until I get a chance to edit everything as a whole so mind my night typing.

Thank you!

-Sami