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Pumpkins

Several years back, Maka with her billowy red coat spun and fell into a pile of leaves in colors of deep reds, burnt oranges, and vivid yellows. They crunched as the little girl marched around in circles waving her arms around, humming the tune to a catchy seasonal tune. The wind had begun to pick up as it was that time of the year when the weather adjusted according to the season which was autumn.

It was October and Death City, as the name implies, were beginning their preparations for the holiday that was Halloween. People everywhere were busting out their old, animatronic zombies and orange tinted lights. For the new folk, they had begun assembling haunted houses everywhere. Fliers for parties were plastered on every street lamp. With all of the sinister and odd combined it made for very interesting scenery. Like any normal adult with children, Spirit didn't like his Maka being exposed to all of this general spookiness. Of course, the town itself was eerie, but this amplified what was already there. Not to mention that there was always an uprising in crime.

Across the road, the man saw two teenagers—one in jeans and a skull jacket, the other a girl in jeans and what he figured to be her uniform top. They were griping about their newest mission that was simply walking around town on the 31st. He felt honestly bad for the students at the DWMA who reluctantly agreed to patrol the town instead of hitting up parties or even getting candy. It was a mandatory part of their grade. When he was still at the academy, he and his meister had been forced to wander aimlessly around the city hoping for a something to happen. All the students would bet whatever candy they had on finding a criminal and what not and every year it seemed like everyone found a criminal of sorts except him. He hated Halloween…

But Maka didn't.

In fact it was her favorite holiday. She loved the dressing up and running around for little bits of her favorite treats. This year she and her mama had decided that she would go as Alice from Maka's favorite classic book. Spirit had approved of the costume as it was adorable, but despised the idea of her going out and fraternizing with strangers for candy. What if there where razors in the nicely wrapped candy apples? What if the candy was poisoned or past the expiration date? After a few arguments in Maka's favor, she was going trick or treating. Today, meeting in the middle, the two had arranged to go pumpkin picking for the awaited day.

"C'mon papa!" Maka teased. The static from her black beret had caused her ash blonde hair to stand slightly on end. She rubbed her pale red nose with the crook of her elbow.

Spirit was huffing along behind gave a thumbs up to tell her that he would be there in a second. Or give or take an hour. Maka outstretched her arm making an O shape with her mouth. The red headed father had finally caught up to his energetic daughter and scooped her into a hug half because he wanted to and half to make sure that she wouldn't run off again.

After walking a considerable distance, Maka tugged on her father's red hair and shot one of her famous puppy dog faces.

"Please please pleeease let me down."

"Hmm," He smoothed down her fly away hair. "You gonna stay close?" She nodded. "You're not gonna run off?"

The young girl giggled. "Nope." With an overly dramatic sigh, the man set down his daughter and she promptly scampered off to crunch more leaves.

The duo had finally arrived at a cute place just a few miles out of Death City to assemble a league of pumpkins to bring home to carve grim yet innocent pictures of cats into for the approaching Halloween. Spirit watched as Maka ran and twirled in the leaves. He watched as she gave a million watt smile as the tractor passed by, her arms waving wildly to catch his attention. He watched as she stumbled through the fresh corn maze faster than he had when he was her age. He watched as Maka named her pumpkins and tripped a few times. However, for that one he was there to catch her thankfully. He watched as the sky turned from a creamy shade of blue to a golden yellow. Pretty soon it would be dark.

He just watched.

But that was okay. Being with Maka was better than anything. At times he feared that she may grow up and leave him someday, but that would never happen right? The more he thought about it the more it became a possibility and that was frightening. Maka and her mama were the most important things to him. It was then that he swore to himself that he would never do anything to interrupt their happiness. As long as they were content, so was he. Maka was currently in a small petting zoo, rubbing a small goat's head. She motioned for Spirit to come in but he shook his head casually and smiled. Goats were disgusting and he made a further mental note to have Kami give her a thorough bath when they got home.

The little blonde chomped happily on a popcorn ball as she strolled back over to her papa. "You want some?" She asked shoving the half eaten treat into his face. He declined and sat Maka on his knee.

"Did you have fun today?"

"Mhmm! I love you papa!" She threw her little arms around his neck.

"And papa loves Maka," Spirit shifted his arms so that now they were face to face. "promise you won't grow up and leave me?"

"Nope!" She chuckled, turning back to her popcorn ball.

"Good because then I would forbid you from ever getting married!" He flicked the girl's forehead.

"Good!" She nodded in agreement. "Because I want to get married now. I saw this boy yesterday with pretty blue hair and,"

"Oops," Spirit interrupted. It was too early to be talking of that word… "We're out of time! We better get going!" He hopped up, daughter in hands and set her down beside him.

"But I wasn't finished telling you about him,"

"Come on Maka, we don't want to be late do we?" The red haired father tugged at her hand as she nodded once again.

"Papa?"

"Yes, Maka?"

"I was just kidding." The two giggled at each other as they took turns skipping back towards home in the moon light.

Author's Note: Two posts in one week? Okay so the first one wasn't for this, but hey. Today is Soul Eater Saturday guys! Technically, Sunday is actually when it starts where I'm at but that's okay. I'm hoping to write a new chapter and post it every Saturday, but I don't know if that will happen. I apologize in advance. I wanted to do something else with this but like I mentioned, I'm trying to update regularly. I kind of fudged the information about the students and Halloween, so I'm sorry. I don't know if Spirit hates goats or not. Another thing I added… I'm sorry again. ANYWAYS

Extra Note: I wrote my first SoMa this week. I'm proud of myself. (My OTP)

I hope you enjoyed reading! Review if you want. I love hearing from you.

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