Crazy trouble with love

Azusa and Soul

Series: Soul Eater

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-DWMA-

Soul groaned as he trudged down the hall and towards Lord Death's room. Now you're wondering why he's heading to Death's door step? Well the thing is that, he fought Black Star, again, and actually broke his arm and some ribs in the process. Something that spells trouble for a student like Soul, who never got into fights involving such...brutality.

'Wonder if it's gonna get me expelled?'

"Soul." Spoke Lord Death as Soul walked into his chambers. "You understand the severity of you're actions?"

"Yeah." he nodded feeling nervous.

"Then," he sighed before giving him a Reaper Chop. "You know that such fighting is unacceptable at DWMA."

Soul winced and held his head while giving a slight nod and tried rubbing the pain away.

Death then sighed again. "I have no choice but to suspend you for the next six months, meaning no missions or anything." He then reaper chopped him again. "However, I am assigning you a tutor so that you will not laze around during this time without the missions or classes."

'Dang it, there goes my chance at an early summer.' thought the weapon.

"Azusa," Death called out as a familiar woman came out from behind a pillar. "Meet Soul Evans, a weapon like yourself and for the next six months, your student and his roommate."

"Hmm, I've heard about you from Lord death." she adjusted her glasses. "Remember that I won't tolerate laziness, so trying to escape from this will only make things difficult for both of us."

"Yea yea," Soul frowned. "And you better remember that I'm a cool guy that hates seeing women act like stiff logs."

That got him a third reaper chop. "Behave yourself or I will make you her student much longer. Now I expect you to show respect to her and let her help you. Or would you rather be held back from all the homework and failed tests you might get after six months?"

Soul nodded while rubbing his head. 'Damn that hurts. It's even worse than Maka's chops.'

"Now Azusa," Death said turning to her. "Try not to repeat what happened to Spirit and Stein when they were 'tutored' by you when you were younger."

"I hold no promises."

Death sighed. "Then I leave Soul in your care Azusa," he then realized something. "And also Maka is going to be with Marie for the six months so don't do anything," he chuckled loudly. "Perverted while she's gone."

"LORD DEATH!" Both blushed as Azusa walked farther away as Soul muttered something as he walked behind her.

-Soul's and Maka's apartment-

"So," Soul asked while both walked into the building. "What do you want to do now?"

"I need to make sure there are no objects which will distract you. If you have anything hidden away, I'd suggest telling me now."

"Like what?" Soul asked confused. "I have nothing hiding, if anything the only thing I have is a book on piano composers."

"Show me which of these is your room."

Soul sighed before showing Azusa his room, which was surprisingly clean, even by his standards. "This here is my room, and as you can see there's nothing here worth hiding."

Azusa walked in and started looking around the room for possible hiding spots. And she found something under his bed…..a magazine about pianos and female composers that played them.

"See," Soul smirked. "Nothing to hide."

Azusa looked through the magazine for any possible hidden porno magazines, but found nothing like that.

Soul sighed with a toothy grin. "I told you, I'm not that kind of person. Besides if I was that uncool, Maka would use her 'Maka Chop' on me."

"Sounds like she's taking after Lord Death."

"Yea." Soul said before taking a seat on the bed. "So teach? What's my first lesson going to be? Maybe the easiest way to get a Witch's soul?"

"When it comes to gathering souls, especially a witch's, it's never easy." she frowned. "If it was that simple, do you think we'd have a low number of Death Scythes? Trying to get a single one of those most likely ends in death."

Soul tried not to sleep from the talk. "So you have experience with witches, right? So what was it like finally tasting it? Did it have a sweet or bitter taste?"

"Bitter considering I had seen all manner of evil turn into Kishins." she frowned. "So if you don't take being a weapon seriously, than dropping out is what I'd recommend."

Soul frowned. "If that's your opinion, it's flawed since I won't stop until I reach my goal of being the coolest weapon on earth."

Azusa looked at Soul while seeing an apparition of a younger version of herself. "Fine, but don't come crying back when you find out that being a Weapon is more difficult that you initially imagined."

"Heh," Soul chuckled. "Like a cool guy like me would ever cry from something like that." He then looked that Azusa. "Um Teach? Want me to cook something? You look a little hungry."

Azusa was surprised at the offer. "Well, I did skip out on lunch to travel here, so maybe I could go for a bite to eat."

Soul got up and walked towards the door. "Hope you enjoy having a nice warm flambayed fish with a salad on the side." He said before closing the door and leaving the woman alone in his room.

'I didn't expect him to know how to cook.' She thought before getting up and checking the place for anything else. She found it in the form of a picture of….a woman with a cat's tail and a witches outfit. 'What the? A witch with a cat's tail?'

"You want something to drink!" called Soul from the kitchen.

"Just some water thank you." She said while putting the picture down and decided to read the magazine.

(Two hours later)

"The fish is ready!" Soul called out while finishing setting the table.

Azusa walked out of the room and took in the smell of the food.

"Why not take a seat?" He offered while moving a chair out for her to sit on.

She nodded and took the seat. "Your file didn't make you out to be a gentlemen who knew how to cook."

"Well," Soul said while setting the chair in. "I don't usually cook because Maka thinks I would 'ruin it' and as for being a gentleman." Soul then brought in the fish and the salad and placed them on the table before sitting down opposite to Azusa. "I'm just a cool guy."

"I swear, that's the only word in your dictionary." smirked Azusa.

"Well it's better than boasting about greatness." He chuckled while cutting up his fish with his fork and knife and started chewing a small piece of it.

Azusa frowned before she started digging into the fish as well. And found the fish delicious, heck it was better than a five star restaurants!

"I see that you like the fish." Soul smiled. "You're the first person to really like my cooking, not even Maka likes them, even if she puts too much salt into everything she cooks." He shuddered at the thought of using salt in pancakes. 'What was she thinking?!'

"You should be a little more firm in cooking like this and she might have second thoughts."

"I tried one time and…." He looked away nervously. "Maka kicked me right out the window while screaming bloody murder."

"Oh? She sounds more violent than what her file says."

"Well not everything in one's file is accurate." Soul said while finishing his fish. "Plus, you can better know a person by interacting with them."

"It's true." Said a purple cat with a witches hat as it came on to the table. "Having an actual conversation, face to face, with them really helps with social interactions."

Azusa blinked and looked at Soul. "Who is this?"

"That's Blair." Soul sighed in annoyance. "And a magical cat who's soul I ate by mistake, well Maka told me to eat her soul since she thought it was a witch's soul."

"Well if she can become like a human and wears that hat with magic, it's no surprise to be mistaken. I've met up with several magical creatures in my life."

"Well," Blair smiled before, in a poof of smoke, turned into her human form….naked. "That makes things easier since you met some magical creature like myself."

Azusa's jaw dropped before standing up. "Where are your clothes?!"

"I can just make them appear." She said with a snicker. "Plus it's fun to see Soul have a nosebleed, especially since he landed in my bathtub when we met, though it was Maka's idea not to knock at the front door."

Azusa's eye twitched. "So you and Soul have a rather…..close relationship?"

"Like big sister and little brother." Blair said while magically putting on her clothes. "Nothing more, nothing less."

"Well a big sister would at least have clothes on." she adjusted her glasses. "Try not to do that when I'm teaching Soul."

"Fine," she said while getting of the table. "But please don't be hard on Soul, he's had enough problems with Maka's constant anger issues." She then walked away leaving the two alone at the table.

"Just how often does she go around naked?"

"Twice a day." Soul sighed.

"That ends these next six months."

"Good luck trying." He chuckled. "Maka tried doing that and it failed every time."

Azusa grinned with a glint in her eyes. "Trust me, I have my ways."

Soul shivered a little but steeled himself. "So, want dessert? We have cheesecake."

"I'd love some."

Soul chuckled while he got out of his chair and towards the kitchen before grabbing some chocolate cheesecake from the fridge and returned to the table before placing it on said furniture. "Want me to cut it?"

"No need." she took the knife and looked at the cake before her arm moved too fast for him to see and he saw the cake cut perfectly into several slices.

"Wow," Soul exclaimed. "Now that's cool. It's better than when Kidd comes over and tries to cut it….it took ten hours to get a single slice."

"I can only imagine the look on his face if even one dab of frosting was off center, right?"

"It happened." He admitted. "And he almost blasted it with Liz and Patty." 'And the apartment as well.'

"Perhaps I should recommend self control classes to Lord Death."

"And maybe anger management classes." Soul suggested with a snicker while seeing Azusa's face lit up from the taste of the cake. "Never knew you liked sweets. Must have not been in your files." He joked while seeing her face blush from the redirecting of her own words.

"Oh ha ha Mr. Evans."

"It's Soul." He frowned. "Evans is my family name and personally I don't want to talk about them."

"Sorry."

Soul sighed. "It's fine." He then looked at the time. "Wow, it's 8:45 already? Time really flies when one has a good time right teach?"

"Well, seeing how it's gotten this late, I'll leave you so you can get some rest. But tomorrow, I won't be so easy going."

"All right." He grinned. "But if you want to sleep here, I suggest not to go into Maka's room, it's kind of a mess with all the books in there."

"Thanks, but I have to get the stuff needed anyway to teach you." she replied standing up. "The meal was good."

"Well thanks." Soul smiled. "Those words are really worth cooking for an acquaintant such as yourself. Say, want me to make pancakes tomorrow?"

"You're free to, but that won't change my decision to be firm."

"Wasn't planning to," He said while taking the dishes and walking towards the kitchen. "Professor Azusa."

She turned and walked to the door with a small smirk.

(Time skip)

"Soul, that's wrong." frowned Azusa looking over the paper.

"Well," Soul said while looking down. "I kind of don't know what the topic covered is, since it's kind of a three star meister kind of subject."

"I thought you looked at the book I lent you?"

"I did but," Soul sweated. "It's was boring, I couldn't get heads or tails out of that book on Kishin anatomy."

"What part didn't make sense?"

"The part about how a soul would get digested if they don't even have a stomach." Soul said while Azusa sighed.

"Due to their bodies, when a soul is engulfed by them, their bodies quickly absorb it into their own being, giving them a more hungry feeling."

"You know." Soul said as the information started making sense to him. "You're way better at explaining this than any book I have ever read." 'Especially when Maka tries to teach me, I end up getting whacked with a huge dictionary.'

"Well Spirit and Stein were the same way, course with them I had to be more….persuasive."

"How persuasive are we talking?" He asked nervously and really wishing he kept his mouth shut.

"Let's just say there's a reason Spirit doesn't try flirting with me."

Soul gulped at that before snickering. "Well at least you didn't have to hear his corny puns right?"

"Every single lesson." she replied with a straight face.

"...I feel bad for you." Soul said sympathetically. "Really I do."

"Don't worry, I made him write me ten essays for a week straight as punishment."

"You should have made it twenty essays for ten weeks." Soul laughed. "That would have been a better punishment for that guy."

"Be careful, back then I was much more harsher than I am nowadays."

"Really?" He asked surprised. "You, a strict woman of your caliber, harsher back then but mellowed out in the present?"

"Yes, back then I was more headstrong than calm enough to think things through. That's because after seeing so many deaths, I decided to be strict, but fair."

Soul was shocked at that but chuckled after the initial shock. "Heh, that sounds like me before getting sliced by Crona's black blood."

"I read up on that incident. I assume your wound healed over time?"

"Not exactly," he sighed. "It was more like I became a Weapon that can use Black Blood while in Soul Resonance. Heck, I almost lost myself once time in battle and that was with Crona."

"So you were close to falling into madness?" she raised an eyebrow.

"Almost but I always come back after, you might be surprised at what I'm saying, I stop playing my piano in my madness room." He pointed to his head. "And it doesn't help that there's a devil in a suit trying to tempt me every time I play that music of madness."

"Well if you ever feel like you're falling into insanity, tell me or Lord Death or any of the faculty."

"Thanks Professor." He grinned while feeling better that he told someone about his problems.

(Time skip)

"Good work Soul, glad to see you're improving."

"Thanks Azusa." He grinned.

Now you're thinking, why the change in attitude? Well after a few months of being in the same apartment, they became quite closer. Heck they acted more like best friends than teacher and student now. Even Azusa started to relax around her student but as with all things in this world there is always a price to pay. And that price well….you'll find out.

Azusa marked a passing grade on the paper and put it with the others Soul had managed to get. She was surprised how much he had come from just a few months past and really was proud of Soul's progress.

"Azusa," Soul called out from the front door. "I'm about to head out to get some food, want anything?"

"No thanks."

"Alright." He said as the door slammed shut. As she made sure that no one was around Azusa got up and walked towards Soul's room and opened the top draw, grabbed a pair of red and black boxers, and….placed on her head?

'I still can't believe I keep doing this!' She said before moving on to the bed and proceeded to do a little dance while singing a song. However, she didn't hear the front door open or the sound of footsteps coming towards her direction.

"Ok, now where was my wall-" Soul thought out loud before stopping and looking at the now dancing Azusa, who was still wearing his lucky boxers. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING AZUSA!?"

Said woman jumped before turning to Soul with wide eyes. "S-S-Soul! W-What are you doing back here?"

"I came back for my wallet but now," Soul said sternly. "Explain why you were wearing my lucky boxers while dancing and singing the national anthem?"

"...no reason?"

This didn't cut it for Soul as he now had an expression similar to Azusa's when she was dead serious about something. "Explain now or no dessert for a month, and I know you love my cheesecakes."

Azusa groaned and took them off her head.

"Now," Soul said as Azusa took a seat on the bed. "Tell me why you just did this and for how long. And don't lie, or the cheesecakes are history."

"Fine. You could say I grew curious on what sort of underwear you had, so I…..decided to see how they felt when you went out."

"By putting them on your head?" Soul said confused. "That makes no sense even for you Azusa."

She blushed and adjusted her glasses. "Well, let's just say I took a rather…..less than professional interest in you."

Soul blushed at the statement. "So you have a crush on me? Is that what I'm hearing correctly Azusa?"

Azusa blushed brighter and looked away.

"Well…." Soul blushed while moving himself on to the bed. "That's surprising. I thought you would be crushing on someone your ag-"

"Soul, name several males around my age." she spoke in a firm tone.

"Stein, Spirit, Lord Death?" He sweated while looking away.

"One is obsessed with dissection, one is a womanizer, and the other can't leave his room. Care for me to continue?"

"Nope." He said before calming down. "Look Azusa, I know you have a crush on me, and I'm fine with it, but if we start a relationship, let's first start out as friends then see how it goes."

"So you don't want to have sex?"

"Maybe when we're more intimate." Soul blushed while holding back a massive nosebleed. "But that doesn't mean that we can't have it when we get more acquainted with each other first."

Azusa smiled. "Good to hear. If you were that easy to go for sex when offered, I would have thrown you out the window."

Soul paled. "Y-You would do that?" 'Note to self, never get Azusa pissed off. Ever!'

"Well, more like make you do twenty essays in ten weeks."

Soul chuckled. "Using my own words against me. Now that's funny."

"Of course, I'm a funny girl."

Soul smiled. "Since we have time before dinner, want to go see a movie? Or maybe head to the local bookstore?"

"Bookstore sounds nice."

"That's good because," Soul chuckled. "That was where I wanted to spend my time with you, Azusa."

She blushed before chuckling. 'This is going to be interesting.'