Chapter 10: The Miss-understanding

The next day Maka was running through the corridors of the academy, heading for the library. Rushing past a number of students until she reached the door. She opened it up and looked around. A few people are already in the library looking through books and studying. Maka then found who she was looking for. A pinked haired boy in the corner of the room, Maka hastily walked across to him.

"Sorry I'm late Crona I got lost heading over here, Black*Star forgot to wake me and…" Maka said, but stopped when she was Crona. He was wearing different clothes. He had his shoes but he was wearing black trousers with a white shirt done up smartly.

"Wow Crona… your clothes", Maka said with a smile.

"Yeah… I was talking to Patty and she asked me if I was a boy or a girl. With the clothes I had on she couldn't tell. I don't think I can deal with being called a girl, so she got Liz to help me with picking new clothes", Crona nervously said.

"You look great Crona, they suit you perfectly. Although, let's see what you look like with your top button undone", Maka said reaching over and started undoing his top button.

"Ah…it's fine…I don't think I…can deal with my…", Crona protested but Maka undid his top button.

"There, wow, you look even better Crona", Maka said.

"You really think so?" Crona asked.

"Definatly, heck with your new outfit girls may even start to notice you a lot more", Maka said.

"Oh…I don't think I can deal with that…", Crona said nervously.

"No I'm sure there's someone you like, right, maybe you could ask someone to the Christmas dance coming up!" Maka said cheerfully.

"Ah, no really, I don't now how to dance, I won't be able to deal with something like that", Crona hastily said.

"Come on Crona, you can't turn something down because you think you can't deal with it, you won't know until you try. And even if you can't dance, you could learn, there's still time. Only…seven days left", Maka said.

"R…really?" Crona asked.

"Sure, but is there a girl you want to ask out? You can tell me", Maka asked happily. Crona looked very nervous slowly leaned towards Maka and whispered in her ear.

"PATTY!" Maka burst out. Crona waved his hands to cover her mouth.

"Keep it down!" Crona tried to quiet Maka.

"That's so adorable though!" Maka said quietly.

"She was nice to me and she gave me a nice smile…", Crona said smiling to himself.

"Awww, but anyway I've wasted too much time, I've got to mentor you so…", Maka started.

"Oh Maka, your jumper and shirt, how did it rip?" Crona asked. Maka froze, the memory of last night echoed in your mind.

"It's…its nothing Crona, nothing to worry about", Maka said, as happily as possible.

"Oh, okay…", Crona said and opened a book infront of him.

"I can trust you can't I Crona? You're my friend right?" Maka asked.

"Trust me?" Crona asked.

"As in what I tell you, you don't tell anyone else, only just me, can I trust you?" Maka asked again.

"Yeah...yes Maka", said Crona. So Maka told Crona everything, when she talked Kid into being the new Lord Death. When she was with him in the death room, and Soul's drunken attack.

"I still can't believe he would do something like that to me, I haven't told everyone everything, only my friends know about the attack last night. Everything that's going on, is it pity? I don't know anymore… I just don't know what to do…", Maka said tearing up again.

"Wait…no…don't cry, I don't know how to deal with people crying…please don't", Crona said placing his hand on her back. Maka sat up straight and wiped her eyes.

"Sorry about that Crona, here, let's get this mentoring done", Maka said with a smile. Crona nodded and Maka started her mentoring with Crona. Not speaking about anything else throughout the lesson.

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Kid was sitting on the side of the bed, now with a shirt on. Lucy was looking out the window.

"Say Lucy, what type of weapon was your friend?" Kid asked.

"Huh?" Lucy turned to Kid.

"Your weapon, what type of weapon is he?" Kid asked again.

"He's a Halberd", Lucy confirmed.

"Hmm, I thought so…", Kid then said.

"What?" Lucy then asked.

"I was cut open and impaled by Galorphar wielding a Halberd. I think he's somehow enslaved your friend to become a summoned weapon of his", Kid explained.

"How is that possible, there's no way Galorphar's soul is compatible to use Lewis!" Lucy asked in a raised voice.

"I don't know. Unfortunately we won't be able to do anything while he holds brew. With that damn tool, no one can hurt him", Kid said.

"…how are you coping by the way, about him being your father", Lucy asked. A cold chill filled the room with that question spoken.

"I don't know, I feel that there is no point in anything I try to do now. I'm an embarrassment here if I'm the son of someone that could become a Kishin", Kid admitted.

"Well…it's not like you have to follow in his footsteps. You can do what you want with your life", Lucy said. Kid turned to look at Lucy, about to say something. But something caught Kid's attention, and it was all wrong…all wrong. Lucy's ginger hair came over her shoulder on one side, but remained behind the other shoulder. She was unsymmetrical. Kid wanted to blurt it out. But he's now the Lord Death, he mustn't let things like that distract him.

"R…really?" Kid said, trying not to look at her unmatched shoulders.

"Yeah, if I followed in my parents footsteps I would never had been a meister", Lucy said, smiling. Kid's fingers began to twitch, holding in the urge to correct her hair.

"Oh r…really…H...how did you bec…come and meister…t…then?" Kid stuttered out.

"You all right?" Lucy asked.

"Yes…perfectly…symmetrically…f…fine", Kid said, forcing a smile. He then started to scratch his head, gradually getting faster.

"Ooookay, well I was alone, surrounded with people I couldn't relate to, when I sat next to someone that I knew from a school. He just seemed a nice person to relate to and it turned out he was a weapon", Lucy explained, she turned her head to the side, her hair flipping over her other shoulder. Becoming symmetrical again. Kid sighed in relief at this. Lucy then turned to the window revealing that her hair behind her was now crooked, and unsymmetrical. Kid struggled to not notice it.

"N…no kidding?" Kid replied to her, twiddling his thumbs for a distraction of her hair.

"Yeah, and he slowly looked at each other and it clicked at the same time that we knew each other", Lucy added. Kid couldn't take it anymore; he slowly got to his feet. He turned to Lucy and slowly began to walk towards her, arms extended to correct her hair. Lucy then turned to face Kid who immediately lowered his hands and looks innocent.

"You sure you okay?" Lucy asked again.

"Yes! Positive!" Kid said, nodding quickly. Lucy sighs and scratches her head with both hands walking towards the bed near the door. She the grabs her hair and pulls all of it over one shoulder and not the other.

"Is she torturing me on purpose!" He thought.

"We bonded and...I ended up loving him. And now he's with that madman!" Lucy stressed. Kid was using all of his strength to hold back the urge to correct her hair.

"Well… he'll be free from…Galorphar…when I..I…I…I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!" Kid roared and tacked Lucy down to the floor, Kid looking down at her.

"How can you have all your hair over one shoulder! It's disgusting! It's not symmetrical! You need your hair split in half going down each side of your shoulder! I mean at first I thought it was an accident with the hair going down one shoulder than the other! Then I thought the same with the crooked hair at the back of your head! But this is just torture! I must correct it for you!" Kid yelled at Lucy. She looked obviously terrified at this madman. Kid then sat up a bit, Lucy still under him. Kid then had his hands together, now begging.

"Pwease! Pwease! Let me corrected it PWEASE!" Kid begged.

"…all this over my hair?" Lucy finally said. Kid continued to beg.

"As long as you get off me…fine…", Lucy answered.

"Oh thank you thank you!" Kid said then started immediately pulling her hair about.

"Couldn't you get off me fir…" Lucy began to say.

"Can't talk, working!" Kid said. Kid began to divide her hair in half. He got one half sorted and over one shoulder, now he was gathering the rest to go over the other shoulder. Kid groaned and leant forward to inspect the amount of hair he's got on this side. At this point the door opened.

"Hey Kid, just came to che…" Maka began then saw that Lucy was on the floor with Kid on top of her and his head very close to the right side of her neck. Kid immediately shot his head up.

"Maka…" Kid said.

"Oh sorry, I didn't mean to disturb you… sorry for my intrusion", Maka said, keeping her head down and shutting the door.

"No wait Maka!" Kid exclaimed rushing to his feet and to the door. He was then stopped by a very sharp pain in his stomach and fell to his knees. Lucy rushed over to his side and helped him up and to the bed.

"Careful, your not fully healed!" Lucy stated.

"But Maka…" Kid complained but was sat down by Lucy. Kid then slammed his face into his hands.

"Arrrgh!" Kid groaned, frustrated. Lucy just looked at him, she couldn't help, so she just went over to the window again and looked out. Maka on the other hand rushed away from the Nurses room, crying as she ran.

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Soul walked down the corridor with a splitting headache and with everyone looking at him and whispering to one and another. Soul kept his head down as he walked by everyone talking about him. Of course this was going to spread across the room, and sadly he remembered every detail of what happened last night. It was the beginning of lunch and Soul headed over to Stein's classroom. He stood in front of the classroom door for a moment. He knew who he'd face in there so he took a moment to prepare before finally opening the door. There was a load of students inside including Black*Star and Tsubaki. Everyone then went quiet as they stared at Soul. The frowns were like Medusa's arrows to him.

"Where's Maka?" he finally said. No one answered him, some even shook they're heads. Black*Star drank from his drink through a straw.

"Where's Maka?" Soul asked again.

"Not here", Black*Star answered.

"Tch, fine, I'll look elsewhere", Soul said turning to leave. Suddenly a drink hit Soul's head, on impact it opened up and soaked Soul's head and shoulders.

"How about you stay the hell away from her you rapist!" Black*Star yelled. Tsubaki knew she wanted to hold Black*Star back but she couldn't.

"I'm…not a rapist!" Soul shouted as he turned around. Suddenly with a blink of an eye Soul was punched across the face by the fast moving Black*Star, Soul hit the floor.

"You have no right to talk me or anyone of my friends after what you did to her, left her bleeding like that!" Black*Star shouted, now kicking Soul repeatedly in the stomach and chest area. The room was echoing of Soul's grunts of pain with each kick. Black*Star showed no signs of stopping.

"Black*Star, stop it now", Tsubaki finally said, but it was more of a whisper as she watched on as Black*Star kicked on. Soul then spat out blood from his mouth and started coughing, still Black*Star wouldn't stop.

"Black*Star your killing him!" Tsubaki yelled. Finally something grabbed Black*Star's arm and pulled him away from Soul and to the ground. Black*Star look up to see Stein looking down at him.

"I think that's enough Black*Star, Class you may take your seats while I send Soul here to the nurses room", Stein said and picked up Soul into his arms and carried him away to the nurses office.