Kidd turned to Maka and smiled at her while offering his hand for her to shake. She stared at his much larger hand with a look of confusion but she reached for his hand and shook it while he opened his mouth to speak.

"I'm glad you came back. Now I won't be the only smart guy in our class except a guy named Ox Ford." Kidd sighed and continued to speak as a look of confusion crossed Maka's face.

"Ox Ford is a condescending guy who thinks he's better than anybody and everybody. But really, it's nice seeing you again. After your parents… I thought you'd always stay with your mom and never come back." Maka frowned and nodded as her tiny arms wrapped around her smaller frame and she remained quiet as the footfall resounded in her ears and the sound echoed down the halls as Kidd led her back to their classroom. She looked around admiring the architecture, noticing the odd statues, in the form of skulls that transitioned immediately into arms with oddly large hands that formed the handles, which lined the hallway. She softly sighed wondering just why she had to return to this place when she felt nothing was truly here for her. Her thoughts drifted to when she and her 'Papa' came to see Mr. Death.

~Flashback~

Maka watched as her Papa extended his hand to the door and knocked loudly. After a few moments of mind numbing silence she heard an oddly silly and cheerful voice ring out from inside the office.

"Come on in~." Maka shivered and opened the door, wondering just what awaited her because even though she had met and spent plenty of time in Death City she couldn't quite recall a lot of her memories, especially those about the mayor who also moonlighted as the principle of the only school. The heavy door swung open and revealed a lean man with black hair that had a very smart sliver of silver hair. Maka internally chuckled and quickly bowed as low as she could to show respect, beside her Spirit cleared his throat and spoke up.

"Mr. Death, this is my wonderfully amazing daughter Maka Albarn. I've been waiting so long for her to come but her mother finally is allowing her to come stay here and enter our school~" He cooed at his daughter who scowled hearing her annoying father lie through his teeth- she knew the real reason she was here and it certainly wasn't because she or her mother really wanted Maka to attend, because Kami had been murdered unbeknownst to anyone but Maka and Spirit. Spirit looked at his daughter and nudged her forward.

"Hello, Mr. Death, I am Maka Albarn and I'm really looking forward to joining your prestigious school, although I prefer to focus on school and do not wish to take any unnecessary time to explore the school tomorrow so if at all possible I would like to do that today so that I can go to class right away and learn." Mr. Death hummed a ridiculous tune, then with reflexes that inwardly startled Maka he clapped his hands and nodded.

"Yes~ I think that would be fine after all you were always such a good little girl~" Maka cringed but smiled and bowed deeply again, with a small muttered thanks she left the room.

~End~

Kidd poked Maka on both of her small shoulders and smiled. "Are you okay Maka? You were kind of spaced out and we're already back at the classroom." Maka shook her head- clearing away the thoughts that she knew she'd never be able to talk about to anyone and smiled at Kidd.

"Yeah I'm alright, I was just thinking on the lesson from this morning- or I should say the lack thereof due to that kid… Black*Star?" Kidd shook his head in response and told her to ignore him if she wanted to get any kind of work done in the class. Maka nodded and went into the classroom and tried her best to ignore the annoying stares that she and Kidd received. Tsubaki ran up to Maka and threw her long slender arms around the smaller petite girl and cooed softly- almost motherly.

"Maka, are you okay? I really hope you weren't hurt too badly." Maka softly patted the taller girl, absently wondering why the girl felt so confident that she would hug an almost complete stranger.

"I'm fine Tsubaki, really. It wasn't too big of a deal. I promise." Tsubaki released the younger girl and smiled her biggest smile and nodded before heading back to her seat with a mumbling of gratitude to the gods.

Well it's been a REALLY long time since I wrote on this, and it was no where near as long as I hoped... oh well. I hope you guy enjoyed it!

Disclaimer in the first chapter... I'm lazy. .