(A/N: I DON'T OWN SOUL EATER! I ONLY OWN THE CHARACTERS DIAMOND (DIA) AND SPIRIT TAKER!!! I'm calling Maka's dad (Spirit) DeathScythe, because that's the nickname for my OC. I never realized that…)

You Take Him as a Friend?

生命は短いです、従ってそれの価値を持って毎日に作って下さい-Life is short, so make every day worth it.~

"He is…?" Black*Star questioned Tsubaki, not knowing who the boy was or even IS.

"H-he's… th-the b-boy…" stuttered Tsubaki, "From… m-my d-dr-dream…"

"What?!" Maka exclaimed, ecstatic and scared at the same time, "Really?! Then I'm going to see what-"

Before they even noticed, the boy- known as 12/24- lifted his head and was staring at them, looking confused.

His misty, icy-like, blue eyes stared at them as they spoke pretty much the whole time. They didn't notice. Tsubaki kind of blushed at the sight of his face, even though she was scared. He was just cute, and handsome.

"Um…" Maka started to speak, "That's very… freaky…"

"Wait, wait, and wait, this is the vampire dude?! He looks harmless!" Soul screamed, sounding really gloomy. He wanted this soul-eating vampire to look more powerful, or something. He was disappointed. He was really disappointed.

Liz walked over to him, and as she walked, his eyes followed her.

"Hey, there! What's your name?" Liz questioned.

The vampire didn't respond. He only gave her an even more confused look.

"Let me try." Kid declared, sounding as if he would be successful. "Hello. What is your name?"

The vampire glared at Kid with intimidating eyes. Kid got scared by that. How scared? Well, let's just say he might have been scared enough for new pants.

"Oi, oi, let me try, guys." Soul said with determination in his voice. "Heys, how 'bout your name?"

The vampire stared blankly at Soul without blinking for a couple seconds. Then Soul backed away slowly. How slowly? I'm not telling YOU.

Then Black*Star tried. He got an F-, as in test grades (I know, you're like, WHUT?), after Patty tried, she got a little origami thing to play with so she wouldn't annoy the vampire.

"Um, can I try?" Tsubaki asked with a hint of liking the fact that he rejected everybody.

"こんにちは。 私を覚えなさいか。 私はツバキである" (Hi, remember me? I'm Tsubaki.)

As the vampire looked up at Tsubaki, he tried to remember her face or voice, but nothing happened.

"Aw, darn… I swear that would've helped…" she moaned.

"Well, Maka…" Soul said evilly with a grim smile on his face, "Since you're the only one left, you should ask."

"Okay. And I will, thank you very much." Maka said in response.

She approached the vampire very slowly, almost as if she was scared completely -but she was a bit scared- and sat right next to him, very closely.

"Hi." She said in a happy tone, "My name is Maka, and you are…?"

He looked at her, not so confused, but apparently looking happy, for once. But his smile faded and he shook his head, looking back down.

Then he felt something wrap around his hand. As he looked at his hand, he saw it was Maka's hand.

"Well, it's okay if you don't have one. Well, then, can you speak?"

He lifted up his head and opened his mouth as if he was going to say something, but nothing came out. After he realized nothing happened, he put his hand over his mouth, eyes widened in disbelief.

"Well, maybe you lost your voice or something, right?"

He shook his head up and down slowly in response.

"It's alright. It doesn't matter if you do or don't have some things, it just matters on who the person is, right?"

He shook his head a bit faster with a small smile on his face.

"Well, then, you wanna be friends?" Maka said as she held out her hand.

He looked at her hand for a moment, and then reached for it, but, suddenly…

-CHING!-

Everyone looked to see what the noise was from, and, oh boy, did they see it.

They came to see that the vampire was in chains from his hands, his neck, and his mouth was covered in a muzzle.

"Yep." A familiar voice said, "This is the vampire."

It was Stein with all the chains in hand. Next to him was none other than Maka's father, DeathSycthe.

"So, what are you going to do, again, Stein?" DeathSycthe asked while looking down at the chained vampire.

"Ah, take him to Shinigami-sama and see what he wants to do with him."

Then DeathScythe took a glance at his daughter who was staring at the chained up vampire.

"Hey, Maka, are you alright?" He asked while putting his hand close to Maka.

Maka slapped his hand saying "Why are you doing this?! He's just a harmless person! Look at him! What has he done to US?!"

DeathSycthe then looked up at everybody else who was there. Soul, Kid, Black*Star, Liz, Patty, Tsubaki, then back to Maka. No harm done, but why did Black*Star have an F- on his forehead? He forgot that, because that was also his test grade.

"Well?" Maka yelled with tears in her eyes "He may not be human, but give him a chance, please?"

Stein looked at DeathScythe, DeathScythe looked at Stein.

DeathScythe sighed, and then said with annoyance, "Let him go for a second, 'Kay, Stein?"

"Aw, I wanted to dissect him…" Stein said with a whine. He undid the chains, but didn't do anything about the muzzle.

"The muzzle ,too, Stein."

"But, isn't that dangerous, senpai?"

"JUST DO IT, YA SUNNUVA –bleep!-!!!"

"Fine, fine, I'll do it!" Then he took the muzzle off.

The vampire didn't really do anything about it. Everyone waited for a couple seconds, staring at him, so he just stared back. And then he yawned, and again, no trace of a voice was there.

"Why did you want to do that, Maka?" Asked DeathScythe with a serious tone, "He is dangerous, he's a…"

"Papa," Maka responded as she got up, "He's almost like us."

She walked over to the vampire, eyes followed as she walked. Once she got near him, she sat down next to him.

"And also," Maka said with a smile, "I count him as a friend!"

And, after she said that, she hugged the vampire. He blushed, looking at Maka.

"Aw, that's so cute~" Liz said with her voice enlightened.

"That is a cute couple, even though we don't even know the guy!" Black*Star laughed.

Soul stared. He didn't want his technician to hug this creep.

DeathScythe stared as well. He didn't want his daughter to be hugged by a life-threatening person… creature… thing.

"Oh, you two, shut up!" Maka yelled, very annoyed.

"Hey, has anybody noticed that the vampire-man fell asleep?" Patty asked in a childish voice.

"Fell asleep?" everyone else asked, turning their heads to the vampire.

Indeed, he looked like he was asleep, but he wasn't.

"Did he die?" Black*Star asked. Dumb -bleep-.

"No, he still has a pulse," Maka answered with a slight amount of fear in her voice.

"Well, then, is he in a coma, or something?"

"… He's very cold… he was the whole time… that's scary…"

"MAKA, GO TO THE POINT!"

"Oh. I think he passed out or something…"

"Ah, that's right." Stein said with the cold voice of his, "He can't be overheated. No wonder his tomb is an ice cave…"

"WHO THE HECK CARES, HAKASE!?" screamed everybody.

(A/N: "… Wow. Lots of people interrupt me. Why is that, author?" Stein asked me. "Meh. It's funny that way." said a voice that came out of nowhere.)

"Well, Maka, if you don't want him to die, then you should let go of him."

"O-oh, that's true…" Maka responded as she put him down.

Then Stein chained him up again, with saying "Okay, ikouze, mina-san!"

Everyone stared for a second. Then they left with DeathScythe and Stein.

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