Me: Sup, here's a new chapter with some character development. Sorry there's no Maka or the twins or any trace of the witch in this chapter...
Maka: Why don't i get to see my youngest child.
Me: Because story reasons...
The sun laughed as it hung in the sky. Sem opened his eyes. He looked around his room. Where was he again? This looked nothing like Gallows Mansion. Nothing in this room was symmetrical. He looked around, warm off-white walls, a light brown carpet, it looked like something out of a TV show or magazine. The walls were pretty bare. He looked at the window.
"Oh that's right." He yawned. "I'm living with Mika and her dad." He walked over to the brown dresser, he hadn't really unpacked, but enough to be considered living there. He looked over his clothes: Suits, street clothes and a few uniforms from the school catalog. He yawned again before glancing at the clock. "7:05, it's a good thing dad changed the school start time to 8:00 or I'd be late…" He stretched.
"Yo, Sem you up?" Mika asked knocking on his door.
"Just got up."
"Breakfast is ready when you are." Mika said. "Don't take too long, Dad has to be at the DWMA early for a meeting or something."
"Got it." Sem closed the white drapes. "They really like neutral colors here, don't they? I don't see much black here…" He looked back through his clothes. He finally decided on a white button up shirt, blue jeans and a black jacket with Shinigami's mask on the zipper and pockets. His finished with regular tennis shoes before tidying the room up a bit and leaving.
"Sleep well?" Mika said from the couch. It seemed her and Soul were watching some TV show.
"Do you two ever eat at the table?" Sem criticized.
"Not since mom left." Mika drank a bit of her milk. Her outfit today was very simple: a white t-shirt with air brushed wings on it, an old black leather jacket Sem assumed belongs to her dad when he was younger, an orange skirt and black leggings with and old pair of combat boots. She tried her hair in its usual low pigtails with Shinigami masks on the bands. Soul himself was wearing a button up shirt, slacks and dress shoes.
"What are you even watching?" Sem asked glancing at the TV.
"Monster Truck Rally, came on after the BMX tournament." Soul said.
"Can I get a motorcycle yet?" Mika asked.
"Not until you get 10 souls." Soul said before turning to Sem. "Hey you better eat something we're leaving soon." Sem sighed and moved into the kitchen. He heard a crash come from the TV. Sitting at the table was a cat.
"So you're Mika's partner." The cat said smiling.
"Hey Blair." Sem said unphased.
"So are you a scythe like Soul or Spirit."
"Chainsaw." Sem said.
"I thought Mika was gonna follow Maka and Maka's mothers tradition of being a scythe meister." Blair said. Sem seemed irked.
"Unfortunately not many weapons have the option to choose their form like that." Sem said. "I actually should have been a meister like Mika, but I'm a weapon along with being a Shinigami."
"I don't get it, but you better take good care of Mika for me." Sem looked at the cat confused. "You don't think she's became girly because of Soul's influence did you? She's like a niece to me, kay? Take good care of her or you'll pay." Blair left the kitchen.
"Oh great another threat from Mika's family. I wonder if I'll get one from Spirit as well." Sem wondered aloud as he got his breakfast.
"Sem hurry up, we're gonna be late." Mika announced as Sem washed his dishes. "It's gonna look really bad if we're late on our second day, unlike other students we both have family reputations to uphold."
"Your dad regularly skipped class to be an idiot. And Your Grandfather would do the same to hit on woman."
"Oh look a book." Mika shut said pointing to the counter.
"I don't see these happen to other people." Soul mumbled.
"Mikaaaaaaaaa…" Mika slammed the book on Sem's head. "CHOP."
"What the hell?!" Sem yelled.
"Mom use to use that on dad."
"Brings back memories." Soul shuddered. "Painful, horrible memories."
"What did you do to get hit so often?" Mika shot her dad a questioning look.
"I did nothing wrong." Soul said ruffling Mika's hair. There was a moment of silence before the pair burst into laughter.
"I feel like I'm missing an inside joke." Sem mumbled.
"Alright, kiddo's. Time to go to school." Soul said leading them out the door.
Sem sat uncomfortably in the car. Mika was stretched across the back seat reading a book on motorcycles. Her feet were on Sem's lap.
"Can't I just have your old bike?"
"That death trap?" Soul asked remembering his old mode of transportation.
"Come on you and Mom used it for years."
"Yeah, so I know how dangerous it is now. It hasn't even been into the shop in years."
"I'd be a total bad ass riding your bike with a flaming chainsaw in my hand." Mika mumbled.
"Both the things you just mentioned require two hands to use." Soul chuckled.
"Why are you so fixated on a bike?" Sem asked. Soul glanced back.
"Oh, I saw it once in the garage and a picture of my parents riding it when they were our age and all I could think is 'Man, that's make me look bad ass'." Mika said. Sem looked at her confused. "… Truth is my dad used to take me one rides when I was younger. Eventually my mom told us to stop, something about not wanted dad to get into an accident… 'specially with me on the bike… Then mom went missing and we stopped using it." Sem felt more awkward than before.
"So how is having your father and grandfather doting over you at all times?" Soul joked.
"I love dad and Grandpa, but they are always hovering over me!" Sem groaned.
"Do you even get to take poops alone?" Mika said laughing.
"…Now I do." Sem half joked.
"Let's make a deal, the day Sem here becomes a Death Scythe, Mika you can have my old bike, and Sem I'll convince your dear Father and Grandad to let you move out on your own." Soul said smiling.
"Really?"
"Yeah."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~At the School~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Soul hugged Mika before leaving for his regular work. All the students were now staring at the two.
"Now time to enter hell, officially." Mika whispered.
"What do you mean enter? I spent all my childhood here." Sem said back. A girl with long blond hair smiled and grey-green eye's covered by round glasses ran over to the pair. She smiled cheerfully. Her hair was tied back into a pony-tail, she wore a white lab coat with stitches at the seams. Under the lab coat she wore a yellow t-shirt and a black pencil skirt. She was a few years older than them, probably a year or so older than Fate and Karma.
"Hey~" The girl said cheerfully.
"Hey, Rosalind." Sem said waving. Mika took the moment to process the name.
"Wait, Rosalind Stein?" Mika asked.
"It's been years hasn't it?" Rosalind said smiling. "To be fair my dad did ask your parents if he could dissect you…"
"So why are you here?" Mika asked.
"Oh, I work with the witch Angela to study magic and its medical purposes and-"Sem raised his hand as if to quiet her.
"She works with her dad as the school Nurse and Scientist." Sem summed up.
"Mostly because people don't trust my dad not to dissect them in their sleep. However, I was raised by and lived with the man for many years and I never was cut up."
"Because you mom probably threatened to divorce him." Sem mumbled.
"Any ways I never expected you two as partners… Sem's family has a history of being anal and Mika was raised by her dad who is super laid back…"
"Where's our first class?" Mika asked.
"Are you guys in the EAT class or NOT class?"
"What do you think?" Sem asked sarcastically. Rosalind his Sem on the head gently.
"Don't be an ass. You might scare off your partner." She stated matter of factly.
"You should stop hitting people, you'll scare off future dates." Sem retorted.
"You guys sound like a brother and sister." Mika stated warmly.
"That's what happens when you grow up around someone like Sem."
"I was about to say the same thing about you!"
Suddenly Rosalind held Sem in a headlock. A girl with blue hair and eye's marched over. She looked like a ninja.
"Sup, Aoko." Rosalind said unphased by Sem's struggling.
"… Why are you strangling the headmaster's son…. Again?" Aoko asked. She turned to Mika for a moment. "Hey, Mika." She turned her attention back to the pair.
"I'm not gonna hurt him bad. He just has to say uncle and I'll release him."
"You're gonna kill the kid."
"No, I'm not we do this all the time." Aoko rolled her eyes then turned to Mika once more.
"Have you finally got a partner? Or are you here to finally accept me as a partner?" Aoko threw her arms around the younger girl.
"Don't you have one already?" Mika asked.
"Yeah but you're adorable."
"Sorry Aoko, but Sem's already my partner." Aoko pouted but shrugged.
"Alright." The pair stared at Sem and Rosalind again. Now the two were wrestling on the ground.
"Say uncle!" Rosalind yelled.
"NEVER!"
Finally, a shapely girl with waist length light blue hair with midnight blue streaks tied in a fish tail braid and turquoise doe sized eyes, wearing a black and white skull t shirt with a light denim vest black leggings and a pink plaid tutu with white converse low tops came over and grabbed Aoko.
"Elisabeth…" Aoko whined.
"Stop butting into other people's business." The other girl stated dragging Aoko off. Mika waved slowly.
"Are you two still not done?!" Mika shouted. Sem and Rosalind looked up at Mika.
"Nope." Sem said flatly.
"We still have like 15 minutes to wrestle." Rosalind reasoned. "Don't worry I'm not gonna damage him too badly."
Mika sighed in defeat watching the pair wrestle. She just knew it was going to be a long school year.
Me: Thank you to Lucille Perished for letting me use Elisabeth. Also, Rosalind is the child of Stein and Marie because its canon in the manga and I ship it.
Rosalind: The author would also like us to say she WILL take bits and pieces from the Manga, however the story is placed in the ANIME because she started the story after watching the anime, then read the manga and now there are to many main plot points of when the anime broke off to say this happened after the Manga. Again she will throw in stuff from the manga so if you haven't read it and something seems a bit off like let's say Soul mentions him and Maka used to fly after he became a Death Scythe knwo that's something from the Manga.
Aoko: Enjoy the rest the story