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Chapter 10

Soul's POV

This was getting ridiculous, ...what did maka run off with wes or something? It's been two weeks sense she has been to class. 'Maybe she got into a fight with a kishin, she doesn't have a weapon, she could be dead... No, soul stop thinking that way. If she had been hurt or worse, they would have announced it to the class.' What's weirder is that it seems that I am the only one to have noticed that she is missing. Stein doesn't even call her name during attendance any more. In a way it seems like she never existed.

"Black star get down now!" Speaking of weird, the normally calm and happy tsubaki has been moody with all of us especially black star. She had yelled at black star to get off the desk, "I am not going to tell you again!" It's like her patients with everybody has reached its limit.

Black star jumped down, "What's gotten into lately tsubaki? You never lose your temper or yell."

"I have a feeling you'll know soon." That caught my attention, tsubaki was hiding something from us? Just then I saw a small dark figure sneak into the classroom out of the corner of my eye. It was Crona, he looked over at me. I was sitting next to mary with my chin resting in the palm of my hand. His eyes widened slightly when he saw mary sitting in maka's spot next to me. He then continued to scan the room clearly looking for maka.

"Um I- Wh-where is maka?"

"That little slut?" Liz sneered.

"I-I thought you were friends with maka." Crona stuttered, he was clearly mad about the way Liz spoke about his friend.

"Not likely I don't stay friends with cheaters." Liz snapped at him.

"Can anyone tell me where she is? She is still My Friend." I was impressed by crona speaking up like he was.

Kidd looked up from his book, and then looked around the room, he shrugged, "She's on a mission I guess."

Tsubaki scoffed at him. She actually scoffed at kidd. "How could she be on a mission kidd? She doesn't have a weapon partner."

Crona's eye got huge and turned his attention back to me, "Wha-, isn't soul her partner?"

Mary laughed, "He ditched her skanky ass weeks ago. I am his meister now."

Crona managed to sound disgusted even while stuttering."P-Poor maka... So if she's not on a mission where is she?"

I glared at the floor while I spoke, "Why don't you go ask her father, or better yet go ask my brother she is his little pet now."

Tsubaki jumped up and rushed over to me. The next thing I knew my cheek stung like crazy, I placed a hand on my cheek and looked up at a glaring tsubaki. 'D-did she just slap me?'

Stein had rolled into the room just in time to see tsubaki hit me. "Tsubaki... you know the rules if you want to fight soul a teacher needs to be present." He didn't sound all to concerned that he had caught her breaking the rules, in fact he seemed amused.

"Professor, it's time... Crona was the one to notice and ask." Stein nodded and rolled over to his desk and unlocked a drawer. She walked away from me with out sparing a glance in my direction. Stein called for the classes attention even though it wasn't necessary everyone's eyes were glued to tsubaki.

"Tsubaki has something important that everyone needs to hear."

She grabbed a decent sized stack of white envelopes from steins desk. Standing in front of everyone she opened the first one and began to read.

"Hey everyone,

If your hearing this that means that someone finally noticed that I'm gone. I can only wonder what it was that tipped everyone off, was it the fact that stein didn't call me for attendance? Or was it you crona? Did you finally come back from your mission to find me gone?"

My blood ran cold. Tsubaki had know that maka was gone, and this letter was clearly from her.

"Well what ever the reason, it must be clear by now that I am gone, and no I am not coming back, at least not any time soon. I wrote this note to everyone so they could hear my side of the story, I have been called a whore, slut, gold digger, cheater and various other names buy most of you. But you need to know that I NEVER CHEATED ON SOUL! He was my very best friend, my partner, and I loved him. I had never betrayed his trust, I found out from wes and tsubaki that soul had seen wes kiss me.

I was struggling to keep myself calm, my breathing hitched in my throat. My body stiffened as tsubaki continued to read maka's note.

Yes WES kissed ME, but I shoved him away and told him to stay away from me, shortly after that everyone turned on me. But I don't blame any of you, I was weak. I let myself fall into that position, I was to weak to face all of you. I was holding you all back, so I left setting you free from me. I may return one day and when I do I will be stronger I promise you that.

Please don't look for me, I need to do this for me. -Yours truly Maka Albarn."

The entire room was frozen, you could cut the tension with a knife. Being the first to break the silence. "What!? If she was innocent then why didn't she say so? Why would she leave?"

Black star stood up, "More importantly tsubaki, you knew? Why did you keep this from us?"

She glared at him, "Yes I knew, I was there to say goodbye before she left for the airport. and I don't know, maybe because she asked me to keep quite until someone noticed she was gone. Or maybe it's because none of you cared enough to listen to her."

Black star ran to the front of the class room, "We need to find her!"

Stein threw a scalpel at him, "You will do no such thing! She asked you to leave her be in her letter."

"What about her father? doesn't her care?"Kidd asked. Just then death scythe burst into the room.

"Well lets take a moment to stop and annualized the situation. It has been just over two weeks sense she left, and you are just now caring that she is gone. You all hated her for a false accusation, kicked her out of the resonance team. And to top it off she was betrayed by her partner." He walked over to stein and sat on top of the desk. "So Kidd, why don't you or anyone else try to say that I don't care about my daughters well being. She was suffering here and I wanted her to have a chance at happiness so I let her go."

After death scythe got done with his lecture all protests about maka leaving quieted. I didn't know what to believe, 'I-Iwatched them kiss and she didn't push wes away. Did I make the worst mistake of my life? No! I know what it was I saw.' While I was having my internal struggle Tsubaki handed out individual letters to to each of us. I couldn't open mine yet, I slid it in my bag to read when I was alone.

Normal POV

Tsubaki had opened her letter the night maka left for France. It read:

'My dear sister Tsubaki,

I promise to keep in touch with you, so please don't be to upset with the others. I did this for me and the baby. I will return when I am ready to face my past, please forgive me for being selfish and leaving like a coward. -Maka'

Tsubaki handed out the letters to Liz, patti, kidd, black star, crona, and soul. Liz didn't hesitate to rip hers open.

'Liz- I want to start with letting you know that I am not mad at you. I understand how you and the others must have felt. You were one of my closest friends. Never let your fighting spirit die, it's what makes you so eunice. Keep an extra close eye on kidd. Make sure his OCD doesn't get out if hand. And Watch out for patti you know how she can get over excited. Until next time your friend -maka.'

Patti Opened hers as liz was reading.

'Dear patti- you are like the little sister I never had, I hope you get to see a real giraffe soon. Help your sister keep Kidd in check in that special way you do. I will miss you - love maka.'

Liz and patti finish reading their letters, liz looked as though she might cry and patti held her sister for comfort. They both ended up a mess because of the kind words maka had written. Kidd watched his weapons grow more and more upset by maka's letters. He wasn't quite sure who to believe, soul had been so positive about what he had seen, but it never truly seemed like something maka would do. Kidd was curious about what his letter would entail.

'Kidd- I will try to keep this as symmetrical as possible. I want you to know that I have always looked up to you, you are the most powerful meister here at DWMA. Please do your best to keep liz, patti and everyone else in line. Don't let your symmetry get the better of you. If you could do me a favor, please look after soul, I don't know how well his new meister will work with him. until later then - Maka.'

Black star didn't waist any time he tore open his letter.

'Dear black star,

You will always be like my brother black star, even if you would rather not have me as a sister. Please don't be upset that I left, I am sorry that I didn't say anything to any of you. This was just something that I had to do, Please keep your eye on everyone and please don't be upset with soul, I don't blame him. Your little sister- Maka

Black star stared at his letter he was furious with soul, but more furious with himself. How could he be so stupid, he had known maka forever. She was his little sister, he knew maka inside and out. Why did he judge her so fast he knew better. Black star started to shake in anger, and the worst part was that maka was gone he couldn't apologize to her now, he wouldn't be able to make things right with her.

Crona was just staring at the letter tsubaki had given him, "I-I don't know how to deal with maka leaving me a letter." Ragnarok popped out of crona's back and swiped the letter form him. "If your going to whine like a little baby, then i'll read it!"

'To crona and ragnarok, -I am so sorry that I left before you got back form your mission, please don't worry about me too much. You are such sweet person crona, keep your head up, and I promise that I will keep in contact with you and tsubaki.'

'Oh and ragnarok, if I find out from tsubaki that you have been picking on crona, I wont send you any candies, keep everyone safe for me while I'm away! I will miss you guys like crazy. -Your friend, Maka'

Soul watched everyone going to pieces after reading the letters. Black star eyed soul. "Your not gonna read yours soul?" He just shrugged. He wanted to wait until he was alone, if his friends were reacting this way, then what would his reaction be like? What would be in his letter? "Maka" he whispered her name as he fingered the envelope in his bag.

An: Thank you to all who have reviewed, I love that you all have responded so well to my first fanfic. I am enjoy writing every chapter and I promise I am trying to make my posting times a little earlier then they have been.