(A/N: I DON'T OWN SOUL EATER! I ONLY OWN THE CHAHACTERS SPIRIT TAKER AND DIAMOND (DIA) WHO IS MENTIONED IN THIS CHAPTER!!!!)
A Name for the Nameless
As Maka went into the room, the vampire was looking out his window, which was pretty high. He got a chair, and he was standing on it.
"Um, hi," Maka said, "How are you?"
The vampire then got off of his chair. And that's the last thing Maka saw before he was right in her face, sniffing her.
"OKAY, okay! Not so close, please!"
He backed away.
Then he put his hand around Maka's skirt…
"NO! HEY! DON'T GO-"
But he just got something out of her pocket.
"Oh. That choker, yeah, I found it around where we found you, is it yours?"
The vampire stared at Maka for a while, and gave her a depressing look.
But, he put on the choker.
"You know, I still do not forgive you for hugging me and almost killing me!" a calm and eerie voice said.
But whose was it?
Maka realized it was a voice from her dream.
As she looked up at the vampire's face, she noticed that he was gone from the place he was standing and was now sitting in his chair.
"Was… that voice…. Yours…?"
"Maybe," the vampire answered, angrily.
"Why are you so-- BESIDE THAT, how are you speaking when you don't even have a voice???"
"Ah, you see, this collar contains the needs for my soul."
"Well, you had most of those things. So, there was only your voice, right?"
"Yes. Anything else to complete my soul is this collar."
Then Maka came closer, the vampire not minding it.
"Wow, that's cool…" Maka gawked.
The vampire looked at her again with his icy-blue eyes. She blushed at the sight of him, she thought nobody couldn't fall for those eyes.
"Hey, I can read some of your thoughts, so do not get all feeling like that." The vampire scolded.
"AH?! Then, what was I thinking?!"
"You were thinking about some ramen. Why are you thinking about ramen?"
Maka was silent for a minute, and then she realized: only some thoughts.
She got annoyed, too. So she hit him in the face. No effect.
"Huh?"
"What? Did you just think that would hurt? Well, you already have hurt me…" the vampire said as his voice trailed away.
Maka realized that that hugging thing hurt him, but how? Normally, people like hugs. Well, some people…
"I'm really sorry; did I really hurt you from before?"
He pierced Maka's eyes with his, "Mentally."
"? Mentally?"
"In your dream, you just wanted to wake up. Not really caring about anything. The black-haired girl worried for me when I cut my finger. You just wanted to get the hell out of your dream."
"Oh…" Maka said; she never realized this. A dream as scary as that, you would have wanted to get out of it, but to him, maybe, it was normal…
"Huh? You did not protest. Why?"
"What? Protest? Oh. Like: 'It was just a dream, how the heck could I know?'"
"Yes."
"Well, I know, I should treat people more gently, right?" Maka said as she looked at the vampire directly.
When Maka did this, the vampire's eyes widened.
And then he smiled a nice, calm, friendly smile.
"Yuki." He said with a calm tone.
"What? What about 'Yuki'?" Maka asked.
"That is the name I am giving you."
"You mean a nick-name?"
"A nick-name…?" he paused for a second; he didn't know many English traditions.
"A name that people use for fun, or for short." Maka explained.
"Oh. I get it now."
Then Maka remembered something.
"You don't have a name!!!" Maka exclaimed, getting in the vampires face.
"… And is there anything else you would like to say?" the vampire asked, very confused.
"I want to give you one! Okay?"
"What did you just say?! I do not think there is a way for that to happen, right?"
"What? Oh, of course. You call me Yuki; I call you by something else, a nick-name!"
The vampire stared for a moment. He didn't know how to respond he only remembered his partner talking to him like this.
"What does 'Yuki' mean anyway?"
"Oh, it means courage. I remember when you fought Ashura-chan!"
"You knew Ashura?! How?!"
"Do not think just because I was locked up in an orb means I cannot see things of the outside world."
"BUT HOW DO YOU KNOW ABOUT HIM?!"
"He is the first Kishin. How can nobody know about him? Once he was revived, I put all thinking on him. Then you destroyed him, which made me happy. I thought I remembered those eyes, and I remember that courage in your soul."
"Oh… Okay… Good point, even though there were a lot of details."
"I do those things sometimes…"
"But back to the name business…"
"Oh, okay, you can do that, Yuki-san."
"Oh, now you put on the '-san'?"
"Is that not good?"
"No, not really, actually, I like- I'm getting off topic."
"Yes…"
"Well, then…" Maka tried thinking up a name for the vampire, but he looked like a person that could have two names at once…
"So, what about Tomas?" Maka asked excitedly.
"… That was a joke. And I can actually see that. You just cannot think. And please give me a sensible name. That would be cool." The vampire replied.
"Okay, don't say cool, it doesn't fit you… Quit it with the details…" Maka said, and then she got an idea. "But, your body and attitude is cold…" she said placing a finger on the vampires face.
"Come on, do I really have an icy attitude?"
"That's it, how about Ice!"
"No. Never."
"… You're so hard to deal with."
"Uh, I'm sorry; my anger gets over my head at points of time."
Then Maka studied his features on the physical side. His eyes were really something to show off, his teeth were… creepy, his grayish-blue hair was awkward and uneven -and if he was Kid, he would have used a good haircut!-, then about his collar with weird designs, and then there's a purple pattern.
"What about Purple?" Maka asked.
"That was a joke, right?"
"Um… no…" She thought harder.
Grey got a 'no way'.
Blue got a shake of the head.
"Why are you suggesting colors or something like that?" the vampire asked.
Maka studied his face, not answering the question. He didn't have much of an expression on him, as if he was see-through. Crystal-clear, not being able to see any emotion. As if it was a diamond… a type of stone… like the one on his collar…
"Oh! How about Diamond! That's different, right?" Maka exclaimed, very sure of herself.
"Uh…" the vampire didn't know what to say. The name did seem a bit nostalgic, but he didn't know why. "Um, okay, Yuki-san…"
"You don't have to put '-san' at the end of my nick-name, okay?"
"Sure…"
"Well, I'll see you later, Diamond!"
Diamond paused for a moment. "… Yeah. Bye, Yuki…" he said with a weak smile.
Maka went out the door, and then everybody else asked about how it went. As she explained it, everyone was amazed that a collar was a dude's voice. AND THAT HE SPOKE TO MAKA.
Tsubaki didn't say anything to anyone about what happened to her. Only his smile.
She thought Maka could say things like this a bit better than her…
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(A/N: … Yeah. His name is Diamond. He has a nickname, just wait.)