AN: Things are getting intense, Muhwahahahahah.

Disclaimer: I do not own soul eater or the book I mentioned. blah blah blah.

Chapter 5

Soul's pov

Black star and Kidd were sitting on the couch watching TV when we walked it, the girls were already in bed asleep. I turned to maka without looking at her. "You can go to bed first maka, I need to talk with Black star and Kidd, you know guy time." I could tell from the look Kidd was giving me that he noticed my change toward maka, it seems that maka noticed too.

"O-okay soul, I'm here if you wanna talk." She turned and went into the room we had shared, I laughed inwardly, not even 24 hours ago I had slept peacefully holding her and now ...

Once the door dividing maka and us clicked shut, Kidd turned to me "Mind telling us what that was about? What was so urgent?" I took a deep breath, and motioned for them to follow me. I lead them into their bed room and shut the door before it began to speak.

"I - Maka doesn't love me," I blurted out with out any kind of explanation

Black star was the first to recover from my out burst, "Soul man that ridiculous, what got you thinking this way?" Kidd finally recovered, "I never thought I would say this but Black star is right soul, Maka is crazy about you."

"Your god is always right!" Black star shouted at the top of his lungs. I hit the back of his head, the girls room was right next to ours."Dude keep it down or do you wanna wake the girls?" As if on Que there was a knock at the door.

Liz barged in not bothering to wait for a answer "What the hell are you idiots yelling about at 1 in the morning!" I sighed, "Liz please just go back to bed."

"I don't think so soul," She and patti sat down next to kidd on his bed. "what is this blue monkey yelling about at 1 in the morning." Tsubaki rushed over to Black star trying to calm him and to keep him from pouncing on Liz for the "Blue monkey" comment.

I groaned inwardly "Fine, I guess you'd find out soon enough anyway" I shut the door. "As I was saying, Maka doesn't love me, she wants to be with my brother wes, he was right after all."

"who was right about what, and why on earth would you think that maka wants to be with him? Liz asked now just as confused as Kidd and Black star.

"Wes was right, I-I didn't want to believe him, and at first i didn't but now..." I could feel my black blood acting up, it was making me feel crazy, but Kidd interrupted my rambling. "Soul take a breath and tell us what he said to you."

"He said maka would realize that she is to good for me, and that she would soon leave me for someone better for her, someone like himself." Liz scoffed, "Soul he was clearly trying to push your buttons."

"No liz he was right, I caught them Kissing. Maka was running her hands along his arms and over his chest. Wes then looked directly at me, he smirked at me. It was like he was saying 'look I was right', she looked into his eyes and then they kissed. Maka didn't fight him, she kissed him back. I left before I was forced to watch them make out." The room fell into silence.

Tsubaki was the first to brake the silence, "That... doesn't sound like maka."

It kinda does tsu; maka likes strength, and power. She told me on more than one occasion that she admired Kidd. I was shocked when she ended up dating soul, I was sure she would have tried to get with Kidd... no offense soul." Liz crossed her arms, she looked like she was trying to piece together a puzzle.

"Kiddo and Wes actually have something in common," Patti jumped into the conversation. "They are both rich." My eyes widened.

"Maka never struck me as the type to care about money patti." Kidd stated.

Black star sounded disgusted, "She didn't seem the type to cheat either Kidd. I mean with all the crap her old man put her and her mom through, I thought better of her, hell we all did."

I was choking on the breath that was caught in my throat. "Sh-she didn't tell me how she felt until after she learned my last name!"

"Damn you think you know a person," sighed liz. "So what are we going to do? More importantly, what are you going to do soul?"

I... can't compete with wes, it's pretty clear that maka wants to be with him. So I'll let her go, but I can't be her partner anymore. I cant trust her anymore, besides that if we stayed partners then wes would be able to rub the fact that he stole maka from me in my face." I fell onto the bed next to black star.

Liz nodded "Okay, so your going to need a new partner."

I groaned "it's not that simple Liz, I have to find someone I can resonate with. Plus maka and I have missions coming up remember, we have a group mission in 2 days. It would be so uncool of me to let my team down just because of personal shit."

"Liz groaned, "Fine! But don't expect me to talk to her! And promise me you'll start looking for a new partner at school on Monday."

"Yeah, I promise... " I felt sick. 'Why is it that I lose everything I love?'

Kidd cleared his throat, "It's getting pretty late, and we have to check out by 10:00. We should get at least try to get some sleep."

Maka's POV

The next morning I woke up to an empty bed, 'strange, soul never wakes up early.' I got dressed, and pulled my things together before heading to the living room. To my surprise I found soul sleeping on the couch, I went to wake him. "Sou-" My hand was grabbed by a pissed looking Black star.

"Don't touch him... he just fell asleep." His glare continued as he walked to the kitchen. I left soul to sleep and followed Black star to the kitchen. Liz and Patti were there as well eating waffles. "Morning guys" I smiled at them, I got a grunted response from Patti but liz didn't even acknowledge the fact that I was in the room. 'was everyone in a bad mood today.' We all ate in silence, Kidd and Tsubaki walked in after we had finished eating.

Tsubaki eyed soul sleeping on the couch. "don't wake him tsubaki, he just fell asleep."

"poor thing," She mumbled. Once everyone finished eating we all gathered our bags and I went over to soul, but before i could even touch him Black star yelled at me.

"MAKA, I thought I just told you not to wake soul, he just fell asleep, I was planning on carrying him down, why don't you grab his bag?" I jumped when he started yelling. Black star never yells like this, did I upset him in some way? "o-okay sorry black star." I grabbed my and souls bags and headed for the lobby with black star following behind carrying soul on his back.

The car ride had been long and quiet, soul slept the whole ride. Black star carried him to his room. "Thanks Black star. I would have had a hard time trying to carry him on my own."

"Yea, it's whatever maka, see you at school." With that he left and I was alone, I decided to finish reading 'a shade of a vampire'. Soul stayed in his room for the rest of the day he only came out when I made dinner. He wouldn't look at me, and he wouldn't say anything to me either. "Is everything okay soul? Your quieter than usual, you know you can talk to me." he just shrugged "s'not important, I'll do the dishes if you wanna take a shower first."

"Thanks Soul." I stood and went to the bathroom, 'he'll talk to me when he is ready.' When I got out of the bathroom soul was already back in his room. I went and knocked on his door, "soul, the bath room's free, i'm gonna go to bed, night." I was barley able to hear the muffled 'Kay.'

The next morning I woke up later than usual, "Crap, It takes forever to wake soul up when I'm not rushed. Soul! We are lat-" I stopped short, Soul was already up, I ran to the kitchen to tell him I would just need a minute. "Soul!?" His keys to his motorcycle were gone, he left for school already? "double crap, I'm really going to be late now."

I got dressed as fast as possible, grabbed some money for lunch and rushed out the door. I ran the whole way to school, I was at the bottom of the stairs when the 5 minute warning bell rang. I took the stairs 2 at a time and some how by the grace of death made it to class just as the bell rang. I walked to my seat, "soul, why did you leave so early?" I asked him gasping for air. "No real reason, just needed to talk to kidd and I didn't wanna just sit around at home." He said not bothering to look at me.

I rolled my eyes "You know it's so uncool to leave your partner with out a ride." I said jokingly He now turned to me and glared. "Your point?" He got up and walked out of class, leaving me sitting there with my jaw on the table. Was he mad at me? what did I do? Stein started class not caring that soul was skipping, I tried my best to focus but I couldn't pay attention to the lesson. My mind kept wandering to soul, before I knew it the bell for lunch rang.

"Remember class, unless you have a mission this afternoon there will be mandatory training for meister and weapon teams." I face palmed myself, how could I have forgotten that today Soul, I and our resonance group would be hunting a powerful kishin egg. If I remembered correctly the kishin egg went by the name Lecter. I ran to the lunch room to meet up with my friends, I was to anxious about soul to try to eat anything. "Hey guys, I totally spaced about the mission today, do we have a plan or anything?" Everyone was quiet, until Kidd sighed. "No nothing is planned yet." I was getting annoyed with everyone's bad attitude, i mean really what was with everyone. Tsubaki was the only one who was acting even remotely normal, "Are you not eating maka?" I shook my head, "no I'm not hungry." I just sat there while everyone finished eating.

We were all gathered around lord deaths mirror, Kidd was going to transport us to Germany where the kishin Lecter was last seen. "Is everyone ready?" Kidd asked, everyone gave a silent nod "Okay, everyone hold hands so we can phase through the mirror together." Tsubaki held her hand out to me and black star, I took her hand and then I reached for soul, he reluctantly grabbed hold of my hand. "Once we get there it would be best if the weapons transformed, this one has been said to eat body and soul, we need to be prepared." After Kidd's instruction, we set off to collect Hannibal Lecter's soul.

AN: feeling bad for soul? That may change very soon.