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Maka's POV

A few months have passed since we defeated the Kishin. Soul has been quiet recently. Normally he and Black Star are loud and annoying, but lately, he's locked himself up in his room. Even Blair can't get in. I talked to Tsubaki about it, but she just said let him stay there and he would come out eventually. Death the Kid, Patty, and Liz are all still the same as usual. Chrona and Ragnarok are officially students here at Shibusen. I'm glad to have her around. Ragnarok is a bottomless pit like normal. He's beginning to bug Blair, and well, it's surprising.

I was sitting in Cid's class when Black Star poked the back of my head with his pencil.

"Psst! Maka!"

"What!?" I asked. Midterms were coming up and I needed to pay attention. Since Soul wasn't here in class with me, I needed to take notes for him.

"Soul still in his room?"

"What do you think? Yes he is, now shut up!" I said getting back to my note taking.

"Geez." Black Star mumbled.

I sighed and paid attention to Cid.

Another hour passed and the bell rang for lunch. I jumped up from the desk, ran down the stairs and out of class. I sprinted down the hall and out the main door to the apartment Soul and I shared. He comes out of his room to watch TV and eat at lunch time.

"Soul?" I asked when I opened the door I was huffing and puffing from the run here.

He was sitting on the couch stuffing his face. "Maka?" He asked, bread fell out of his mouth onto his lap.

"Don't talk with your mouth full." Blair corrected from the stove. She was frying fish again, ew.

"Sorry." Soul muttered getting up from the couch.

"Soul, I took notes for you in Cid's class." I said handing him the paper.

"Thanks."

"When are you going to come back? Black Star won't shut up about it." I asked.

"Right now, I don't know." Soul started heading for his bedroom. His attitude has done a 180. I stretched to reach his hand. I grabbed it.

"Soul, what's wrong?"

"Nothing okay." He muttered. His red eyes looked, tired and also a little scared.

"You know you can tell me. You're my partner after all, okay?" I was starting to think about the black blood, but it was taken care of a while ago.

Soul gave me a crooked smile. "Okay." He said pulling his hand free of mine and walking into his room.

I sighed and walked over to the table and sat down. Blair sent a plate of burnt fish flying at me.

"Blair, I'm tired of burnt fish." I muttered stabbing it with my fork.

"Well, don't complain. If you don't like it, make something for yourself, nya" She was in her cat form.

"Fine." I said standing up and pulling cheese and ham from the fridge and making a sandwich.

Soul's POV

I lay down on my bed with a sigh. To be honest, I didn't know what was wrong. I keep having a dream of Maka being killed. I'm kinda scared to go out, fearing we will have to go on a mission or something. I looked out the window and the sun was huffing like normal. I looked back over at my door making sure it was locked.

"I need to go back to class." I thought. "I ain't a hermit." I flung my legs over the side of my bed and changed out of my basketball shorts and tee-shirt into my red jeans and black and yellow jacket. I pulled my shoes on and flung my headband onto my head. Even though I was worried to go out, I needed to. I walked out of my room and into the Kitchen . Maka looked up from the counter where she was making her own lunch.

"Coming back to school with me?" She asked.

"Sure." I muttered.

"Nya, Soul, Try my fish." Blair chimed from the table. She used her magic and flung one into my mouth. It was burnt and I didn't even like fish. I pulled it out of my mouth and threw it back at her.

"Blair! I told you, I don't like fish, let alone burnt fish!" I yelled at her. I heard Maka laughing.

"Maka, What are you laughing at?" I asked. She laid down the bread and ran over to me. She flung herself at me, hugging me.

"Glad to have you back, at least, for now." She said.

I didn't move or wrap my arms around her. Blair just looked at us, wide eyed. Maka pulled away and went back to making her own lunch. I sighed and looked back at Blair.

"I'm heading to class." I said walking to the door.

Make cut her sandwich in half and handed me part of it. "Let's go." She said walking out the door.

I couldn't help but grin at her. I threw my half of the sandwich into my mouth and left the apartment. I heard Blair yell goodbye from inside as I shut the door.

Maka's POV

I was glad to have Soul back to his normal self, even if It was just for the day. We were heading to Dr. Steins class next. We passed the mission board and Black Star, Tsubaki, Liz, Patty, Death, and Chrona all stood looking up at it.

"What's going on?" I asked walking up behind them.

Black Star turned around "SOUL!" He yelled trying to hug Soul. Soul put out his hand holding Black Star back with the palm of his hand.

"4 missions have been issued for the day and we each have one to take care of." Tsubaki explained.

"Oh." I said looking up at the huge board.

Death ripped one out from under a tack and showed it to the Thompson sisters.

"YAY! This should be easy!" Patty chimed.

"Let's go." Death said walking away. I just watched him and the sisters walk down the hall. Next Chrona grabbed one.

"I-It shouldn't be too hard." She stuttered looking down at the slip of paper.

"It will be okay." I reassured her. Shinigami-sama made sure that Chrona's were first year level. She normally goes with a few first years but this one was her first one, alone.

Ragnarok popped out of her back.

"Chrona you idiot, let's go!" He said pulling on the corners of Chrona's mouth.

"Rag-nar-ok." She choked out.

"Let's go!" He said taking one of his little white hands and pointing to the doors.

"Go, you'll be fine." I told her.

She nodded and left. Now, Tsubaki and Black Star had theirs to choose and Soul and I had to pick ours.

"Black Star, let's do this one." Tsubaki said pulling one down. Third year level was written in the right hand corner.

"YAHOO!" He said grabbing the paper slip and the back of Tsubaki's shirt pulling her down the hall. I giggled and grabbed the last mission. 3-4 year level was written in its corner. I showed the slip to Soul. His red eyes were normally relaxed but now, his pupils were huge.

"Soul?"

"I'm not doing it." He said turning his head.

"We have to." I said.

"But I-I ain't."

I was concerned. "Soul, you are normally excited to get the higher level missions. What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing's wrong… I-I-I just don't…" He stopped talking and looked at the mission.

It read:

High level Kishin egg soul. Eaten approximately 89 human souls and two witches.

"We can't do that one." Soul said taking the paper and pinning it back up on the board. I ripped it back down.

"We can!"

His eyes shook with fear. Since when is Soul afraid of something like this? Something is wrong, worse than I originally thought.

I grabbed his hand. "It's okay." I reassured him.

"I hope your right." He whispered. He didn't pull his hand from mine as we walked out the Shibusen doors into Death City to head out for the mission.

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