A/N: This is not the chapter that was originally going to be here. This was going to be something which now will happen later on in this story. Now i'm going to explain why I've changed my mind to making more than a 2 shot: Although the chapter that would originally was going to occur here, I felt it was wrong to make 2 chapters worth of Kid and Maka interaction and have them be clumped together because to me, some things didn't make much sense and I LOVE character interaction work. So, it's going to be longer. The other reason as to why it's going to be longer is that the idea sprung with a poem that I wrote just for this. That poem's really long though and I didn't want to change the segments it had been put into because 1, it's awkward, and 2 I don't have enough attention span to promise that if I use that poem this story will be completed. THUS I created a shorter version which I adore just as much as the first.
Read on at will!
It was just another Sunday for Maka Albarn, a teenage girl with sandy blonde hair. The sun was smiling down at the world, a light breeze played with the leaves of the trees, and it appeared to be a great day for reading. Unfortunately, she may not get the chance to even read a line within her current novel for her weapon and friend, Soul, a boy with razor sharp teeth and spiky white hair, was dragging her off to the basketball court to play a few rounds with the rest of her friends.
This wasn't exactly a problem in the slightest for Maka. She loved playing with her friends, but last time they played Maka had to go on a date with her father as a penalty game. Hopefully Liz would come this time to play so that Maka wouldn't have to, she probably won't though, but there's nothing wrong with hoping…right?
"Soul! Maka! How dare you get here late and ruin my awesome entrance! I have to do it all over now so that you can see it!" a boy with lots of muscles and spiky blue hair shouted once Maka and Soul reached the court.
"You're here," a tall girl with long black hair tied up in a high pony tail smiled at them.
"Liz decided to not come again Maka, so it looks like you're playing!" a girl with short blond hair giggled.
"So much for hope," Maka mumbled and placed her book on the bench. "But I refuse to be captain again."
"Aw come on!" The boy with blue spiky hair whined. "But I feel so bad about making you play, you have to take captain!"
"If you really felt bad for me you wouldn't be making me captain, now would you?"
"It's all right Maka," a boy with black hair with three horizontal stripes on the left side of his hair only came up and placed a hand on Maka's shoulder. "I'll be captain if you be captain." He smiled slightly. Maka frowned.
"Fine, but I don't want the same penalty game as last time."
"Why don't we have the captains decide what the other captain has to do if their team losses?" the girl with black hair suggested quietly.
"Nah, that's boring Tsubaki! They'll go easy on each other!" the boy with blue spiky hair announced.
"If Maka losses she has to go on a date with Black Star." The boy with black hair stated suddenly with a smirk.
"W-WHAAAAAAT!" Both Maka and the boy with blue hair screeched.
"Why do I, the great Black Star, have to go on a date with boring flat chested Maka?" Maka growled and grabbed her book from the bench and whacked Black Star with it.
"Maka Chop!" The black hair boy looked at Black Star with no pity, only annoyance.
"You know, there's more to a girl than just boobs, right?"
"There's also her ass." Soul nodded.
"That's not what I meant!" the boy hissed.
"It's alright Kid." Maka smirked slightly.
"No, it's not alright!" Maka chopped Black Star's head again with her book. "Why are you so abusive?" he cried. The girl with blonde hair cackled at them all.
"It's okay, because it will only act as an incentive to make you work harder, and Kid's team too, because if Kid looses, he has to go on a date with Soul."
"W-WHAAAT!" Both Soul and the boy with black hair screamed.
"Maka, how could you do this to me?" Soul cried. Maka's evil smirk grew into a smile.
"If I have to suffer, then so do you." The girl with blonde hair continued with her cackle and even pointed at Kid.
"Quiet Patty! It's not THAT funny!" Kid shouted.
"I say that it's only fair." Maka stated. Kid challenged her with a glare.
"Oh it's on now." Soul growled. The game commenced, both sides playing fiercely. But no matter how hard they tried, it took over two hours just to get to five points, twenty being their cut off.
"Okay, this is taking forever and I'm getting tired." Everyone else nodded.
"Let's change it to ten." Tsubaki suggested.
"Make it eight." Everyone looked at Kid. "What? It's symmetrical." Everyone sighed. The battle continued on, but after another hour of playing they gave up with a tie.
"So does this mean that I don't have to go on that date with Maka?" Black Star asked with his arms crossed behind his head as he and everyone else walked to a nearby cheap restaurant (on Kid, naturally.)
"Yeah, let's just call off the penalty since neither team won or lost." Soul suggested.
"AWWWWW!" Patty whined. "But I wanted to get a picture of Kid on a date with Black Star!" everyone stopped and looked at Patty as though she suddenly grew a second head.
"Note to self, do not to do anything that Patty can construe as me being gay." Soul muttered to himself. Kid tried to hide his embarrassment.
"I wish you wouldn't say things like that Patty. You know that none of us are gay."
"No I don't." Patty smiled back.
"Sometimes I don't know whether Patty's playing stupid or if she's for real." Maka admitted. At the restaurant they all chatted about whatever came to mind. The game, how creepy Dr. Stein is, they even commented about Patty's weird but awesome ability to make paper animals while watching her create a pig.
"Hm?" Tsubaki hummed when she notices a postcard sticking out of Maka's book. "Maka, is that from your mom?"
"What?" Maka grabbed the postcard and smiled. "Yeah, she's in Africa right now." She showed Tsubaki the postcard while attempting to keep it away from Black Star.
"Really? How is she?" Kid asked. Everyone turned to Maka…except for Patty who was now wresting her paper pig.
"She's great. She met this weapon that she really likes and right now they're hunting Kishins to make him into a death scythe." Soul whistled.
"It seems like your mom really likes to fight." Maka nodded.
"Well, it is for multiple god causes so there's no real problem with it." Maka's eyes became worried filled and she turned her head downward. "But I wish that she would come to visit. I haven't seen her for years and I can't go home because she won't be there. Sometimes I even wonder if she has died because she doesn't send postcards all that often.
"To be honest, I don't know what I would ever do without my father." Kid spoke up after taking a sip from his soda. Tsubaki and Maka nodded.
"At least I have papa, but sometimes I have to wonder if I really am related to him." Kid chuckled.
"Same here."
"I just think that you guys are lucky, I mean, you still have at least one parent to rely on. I don't even remember what mine look like." Black Star surprisingly chimed in.
"Neither do Liz and I. We were actually living in an orphanage before we realized that we were weapons." Patty, equally as surprising (if not more), spoke up completely serious.
"I like to think that we all are family, even though I have my own. " Tsubaki spoke up with a warm smile. Everyone else smiled at the thought of it.
"We'll always have each other." Kid muttered in agreement.
The group fell into a brief silence. During the silence Maka took a look around at her friends, no. She looked at her loving family. Black Star the annoying cousin. Tsubaki the doting mother. Patty the…. let's go with crazy aunt. Liz the other aunt. Then there's Soul and Kid. Who would they be? She wondered. Who exactly is Soul, my weapon, and Death the Kid, the ever mysterious friend, to me?
NYEH! So corney. And it onl gets worse. But that's what happens when you end up wrighting what's suppose to be a romance. I hope it didn't get too mopey or ooc, but meh, author's liberties. And I must say LE GASP! I did not know that I was gonna add in that triangle of sorts! Did you? I didn't. But that's because the chapter for this original had suddenly been pushed back and changed. It only means more character interactions for everybody! And who doesn't love those?