A/N: YEAH ANOTHER REAL ONE! EDIT! I redid this chapter too (after I fixed chapter 2 XD) Maka is most definitely not in kindergarten like I said before (I changed that in my mini AN as well), she acts way too young to be in school. For some reason, I made Maka much younger than anyone else, it's kind of random, the ages that I had the characters at for their chapters. The way I see it: Maka's around 3, Black*Star is either 4 or 5, Soul is a year older than Black*Star, whichever that is, Tsubaki is 6, Patti is 4 and Liz is 6, and Kid is either 4 or 5. :P I'm so specific, huh? …I just realized I wrote that when Maka went in the bookstore that she went to the book section…

Alsarnia: D:
Maka: What's wrong?
Alsarnia: None of my stories are uploading! I download the documents on but they won't add to the fanfictions that I already have up! I feel so bad, I haven't updated them in forever and I have a lot of watchers and reviews lately. Please forgive me everybody!
Maka: Don't worry, I'm sure they forgive you
Alsarnia: Maka, you truly are a good friend, even if you are a bit of a Mary Sue
Maka: Say what?
Alsarnia: Nothing!
Maka: T-T
Alsarnia: Heheh…don't you want to know what this story's about?
Maka: Yeah! :D
Alsarnia: It's about you! When you were all cute and squishy!
Maka: Really? How old am I?
Alsarnia: I don't know :D
Maka: I_I
Alsarnia: Sorry. I don't think you're old enough to be in preschool yet, just barely, you act really young, but I'm not an expert on kids. But, your mom leaves you in the market place alone so you can't be that young...
Maka: sure I can, Mama trusted me even as a little girl
Alsarnia: She let you buy candy from a sketchy looking guy in an outdoor market!
Maka: I'm sure she was watching me the whole time!
Alsarnia: Oh yeah, that's why it took her a minute to figure out that he ripped you off.
Maka: Diss my mom again and you're getting a face full of Death Scythe
Alsarnia: _ fine. I'm writing these short chapters of all the main characters of Soul Eaters lives as children.
Maka: Maybe you should let us all have a play date!
Alsarnia: Sorry, no. I'm going off the manga and trying to make it as loyal to that as possible, and before Shibusen you guys had never met as far as I can tell. Maybe Black*Star and Kid crossed paths on the streets at some point, but I don't think any actual interaction occurred between any of you.
Maka: That's too bad…
Alsarnia: Suck it up. Oh, and by the way, before the readers ask, you live in Japan.
Maka: ? What? When was that ever…
Alsarnia: It was a small remark by Black*Star when they went to visit Tsubaki's parents and he mentions that you lived in Japan for a little while, so I suppose Spirit-kun is Death-Scythe of that part of the world.
Maka: I'm so cute!
Soul: Soul Eater © Ookubo Atsushi

"Maka, Maka dear. Wake up."

A gentle touch shook Maka, trying to wake her up. Little Maka only grumbled and moved deeper under her covers, trying to get away from the light of day. It was much too early for a girl her age, and drowsiness kept her from waking, even at her mother's soft touch.

"Let me handle this," came a deeper voice and a pair of hands reached under the covers, searching for the little girl huddled underneath them.

"Tickle, tickle, tickle~."

As Spirit rubbed his fingers across his daughter's belly, Maka giggled herself awake until she had wriggled out from the covers; where Spirit proceeded to blow on her stomach. Kami laughed and tickled Maka as well, who giggled helplessly in her bed. The young family happily spent the first few moments of the morning in bliss and laughter.

"But, mommy!" Maka cried over her giggles, "I don't have school today!"

"Oh," the older woman said, stopping with a serious look and putting her hands on her hips, "Well then, it looks like Daddy's going to have to eat all the pancakes I made."

Spirit grinned widely. "Mmmm~!"

"No Daddy! You can't eat all the pancakes or else you'll get fat and lazy! I'll eat all the pancakes!" Maka said, jumping out of bed and to the kitchen. Kami and Spirit (after his wife convinced him he wasn't getting fat) helped Maka get her pancakes and put syrup on them until their daughter commented on how it looked like a swimming pool.

"So, what do you want to do today?" Spirit asked his daughter as they all sat at their small kitchen table.

"I wanna read a book!" Maka said enthusiastically.

Kami laughed. "We can stop by the bookstore then when we're out shopping, sound okay?"

"Yes!" she cheered, splattering syrup all over the table.

"What are you doing today, Spirit?" Kami asked, turning to her husband with something like suspicion in her eyes.

Spirit was either oblivious to the look or was just stupid enough to try and pretend it wasn't there. "Hmm? Oh, just business around town. I'll go check the docks later to see how things are going with the Kishin egg delivery, I'll probably look around the coffee shop for evidence of that Kishin sighting, maybe I'll contact Shinigami-sama and see if there's any Death Scythe work that needs doing."

"Oh, alright, will you be home by afternoon?"

"Maybe, I'm pretty sure I will," he leaned down to Maka with a smile. "Now you be good for mommy, okay?"

She grinned, syrup all over her face. "Okay, daddy!" Spirit left with a wave after they were done with breakfast and headed off for the docks. Kami paused a moment, watching him leave, before sighing and smiling at her beloved daughter.

"Do you want to help me clean up?" Kami asked her daughter, who excitedly helped put the dirty dishes into the dishwasher. "Alright, now go get dressed while I make a shopping list."

"O-kay!" Maka changed into a light pink dress with long white socks and cute brown shoes. As she dashed around the house for no apparent reason other than to burn energy, as young children tended to do, Kami caught her up, gave her a sippy cup full of juice, and started to do her hair.

"You're so energetic, Maka," she cooed as she ran her fingers through her daughters hair and put them into pigtails. As soon as she was set down again, Maka tore across the house, cup teetering in her fingers as she paused every once and a while to take a long swallow.

"Maka, let's go! The fish won't stay fresh forever!" As she picked up the shopping list and her purse, Kami realized that something was written on the list in bright yellow crayon. She knew it was a real word that her daughter had written (since she had picked up reading and writing so quickly), but due to it being in yellow and the font of an over excited young girl Kami couldn't make heads or tails of it.

When Maka's frenzied, juice induced, race towards who knew what had stopped by her mother, she pointed to the drawing.

"Can we get some?"

"What does it say?"

"Candy!"

Kami laughed. Even though Spirit liked to exaggerate it sometimes, their daughter really was adorable. "Sure, we'll get some candy while we're out. But you have to be a good girl and not get into any trouble. Okay?"

Maka nodded happily, only thinking of lollipops and sweets. It was a warm day out, so when they left the house Maka was giddy with happiness at being able to go shopping with her mom. They went to the outdoor market with Maka skipping the whole way, holding her mother's hand, and keeping a look out for the shops she wanted to inspect.

As her mother was buying some fish she noticed a candy stand nearby. With wide eyes, Maka suddenly tugged on her mother's sleeve, pointing excitedly at the colorful stand. "Oooh! Oooh! Mommy, look!"

Kami reached into her purse and took out some yen. "Go get something nice."

Maka already knew what she wanted. She wanted 3 suckers that she could get with the small amount of money and that would last her for a while. She always liked suckers because she could share some with her friends, even though her mom said it was gross and that she shouldn't. But kids may as well be kids.

The man across the counter was gruff and dirty but Maka didn't care, she was focused on the colored sugar. After all, someone who sold sweets must be sweet!

"What do you want, kid?"

Maka set the money on the counter. "3 lollipops please!"

He took the money and handed her a bag that she opened quickly to see what flavors she got. She looked devastated. In the bag were only 2 candies.

"Mr? Where's my other candy?" she asked.

"Who knows, I don't care, now scram."

Little tears dotted Maka's eyes and she went crying back to her mother. When she buried her head in her mother's pants, Kami looked away from her bargain shopping and down to her daughter, sporting a deeply concerned look.

"What's wrong, Maka?"

"That mean man wouldn't give me my candy!"

"What?" Kami usually was able to keep her temper, but when someone hurt her daughters feelings, be prepared for an angry meister to attack. Really, it was incredible luck for the greasy man that Spirit wasn't around or else that soul delivery would have another on board, whether it had been on purpose or not.

When they were done with their shopping, Kami held a basket with plenty of food for the week with all the bargains she got and Maka held a bag filled with candy that would last her at least a month.

"Well, that was eventful," Kami said, smiling sweetly down at her daughter.

"Yeah!" Maka smiled back with an equally sweet smile, though hers in a more literal sense.

"Let's go home now, shall we?"

"But mommy, what about my book?" Maka pouted slightly and looked up with big doe eyes.

"Oh, that's right…We spent a long time shopping though, I have to get home and start on dinner. Maybe we can get it tomo—"

"Kami! Maka!"

The pair turned to see a red head jogging towards them.

"Ah! Perfect," Kami said and, as Spirit caught up to them, handed off Maka to him. "Spirit do you mind taking Maka to the book store? I have to start on dinner."

In one swift motion the Death Scythe picked his daughter up and set her on his shoulders. "No problem! C'mon Maka, let's go find a book about puppies."

Maka excitedly tried to bounce on his shoulders as he held her in place and gave Kami a kiss.

"Eww," Maka giggled.

"Don't be late for dinner," she warned.

Spirit laughed. "Right, okay."

When Kami was gone, Spirit stood there for a moment, staring at the spot where she had just been like a lovesick teenage boy. Suddenly, something was shoved into his mouth.

"Mmph," he tried to say and Maka laughed.

"That one's for you!"

Spirit moved the lollipop to his cheek and sucked on the blue flavor. "Raspberry, delicious!"

Maka took hers out. "I have that too! Papa and I are the same!"

"Haha, good for you. Now hang on, I'm going super speed!"

Maka shoved the lollipop in her mouth, held the bag tightly and grabbed onto Spirit's hair. Spirit leaned forward and moved into a jog, which, to a little girl, was indeed like going super speed. As Maka cheered and tugged on his hair, Spirit directed them to the nearest bookstore.

"Sccrrreeecchh!" he said dramatically as they stopped in front of the store and set her down. "Bardy's Books stop!"

"That's where I'm going!"

"Please unload." Spirit made train noises as he set Maka down and 'turned off'. Maka ran into the store and went straight for the kids section. Before she could grab one, Spirit took the candy out of her hands and replaced it with one of the wet wipes from nearby. Bardy kept the store stocked with wet wipes. He didn't like his books to be touched by soiled hands.

"Don't get the books dirty."

"Oh, okay!" Maka wiped off her hands and threw away the napkin before she started fingering the books.

"Ohh! Look at this one! Ooo, or this one! Kii! Look papa!" Maka gushed over the potentially amazing books around her, going from puppies, to kittens, to stars, to food books.

"Spirit-kun, and Maka-chan," said Bardy, coming out from behind the counter. "How are you doing?"

"Ah, Bardy-kun, I'm fine, just fine. We're here to find a book for Maka again."

Bardy laughed. "She sure loves it when you read to her, huh?"

Spirit laughed. "Yeah, she does. Is there anything new she might like?"

Bardy's eyes lit up. "Actually, we just got some American books that I think you might enjoy too. Let me go get it from the back."

"Alright." Spirit watched Maka coo over pictures and fonts as Bardy was in the back until he came back out with two books in hand.

Spirit blinked, then laughed.

Maka looked up and was enraptured by the pictures. "Papa, what's that?"

Spirit picked up the first one of a little girl standing in front of a big school adorned with skulls and candles called "Suzy and Stem's Big Meister Adventure".

Spirit read the back: "'Little Suzy came to the DWMA to become the worlds best Meister. But when her weapon turns out to be a flower how will she be the world's greatest Hero?'".

"What's that?" Maka asked, pointing to the school.

"That's the DWMA, it's where your mother and I learned how to be a Meister and Death Scythe."

"Ooooh! Hehe, it looks really funny!"

Spirit laughed. "Yes, the principle of the school, Shinigami-sama, looks funny too, and he has a funny voice too."

"Like what?"

Spirit turned to the first page and tried to mimic the Reapers voice. "Howdy~ Hello kids~! Whaaaattss up? I like tea, so sit down and we'll have a cup!"

Spirit took a moment to digest what he had read before concluding that this really was a book written by Americans.

Maka could only grin, wide-eyed, at the book as she thought, Cool!

"So, what do you think, Maka-chan?" Bardy smiled. "How about I give you a two for one price? Just for today."

"Really!" she squealed.

Bardy laughed. "That's right. What do you say, Spirit-kun?"

"Sounds good to me!" he said, putting the cash on the counter.

"Come back when you want more books," Bardy called as they left the store and Spirit handed the candy back to Maka.

"Will do!" he answered as they turned home.

"Mommy! Mommy! Look at the books papa's going to read to me!"

Kami looked at the books and laughed. "That's amazing Maka! Did papa do his Shinigami voice for you?"

Maka giggled. "He's so funny!"

They looked over to Spirit who was flipping through the Shinigami book. "There's nothing about his Shinigami-Chop in here…well it is a kids' book I suppose."

"Mama, what's a Shinigami-chop?" Maka asked.

Kami smiled and picked up a pan. "Like this. Kaaaammmiiiii—" she swung the pan down on Spirit's head "—Chop!"

Spirit, after remembering how to breath, looked to his wife with watering eyes. "Oww! What was that for?"

"One: for getting a probably violent book about the DWMA, and two: for spending a straight hour flirting with Machela."

"What? Who told you that?"

"Machela."

"We were talking about the Kishin problem at the docks!"

"And what did you find out?" Spirit was silent. "Uh-huh, Kami-chop!"

Maka scowled at her father, seeing her mother disappointed, and picked up the "Suzy and Stem" book.

"Maaaakkkaaaa Chop!" she said, hitting his leg with the book.

"Not you too Maka!" Spirit cried.

Kami laughed. "It's obvious whose side Maka's on."

"Maka, Kami… Daddy loves you, you know that, right?"

Kami smiled and kissed him on the cheek. "Yes, we know. Now come eat before dinner gets cold."

After dinner, Maka got into her pajamas and sat down to wait for Spirit to read to her.

"What book did you choose for tonight?" he asked, lifting her onto his lap as he sat down.

"This one!" she held up the Suzy and Stem book. Spirit sweat-dropped. I hope it's not violent or else Kami will kill me. He opened the book to find that Maka had colored over the pictures.

"Maka, what did you do? You know better than to color in books."

Maka pointed to Suzy and the pigtails she had scribbled. "It's mommy!" she pointed to the flower that she had elongated and drawn a deformed thing on the top. "And daddy!"

Daddy doesn't look like that, right? "Haha, very nice Maka, but color on regular paper, not your books." The book turned out not to be violent at all. Suzy and Stem defeated the Hippo-Kishin with the power of love before any human souls could be devoured. Spirit sighed in relief. Not violent at all.

"How did you like the book? Maka?"

Maka had fallen asleep halfway through the book and now snored lightly on Spirit's shoulder.

Kami came in and smiled. "I'll take it from here, Spirit."

He smiled as the sleeping girl was lifted off him. Kami undid her hair and set her in bed as Spirit turned on her night-light and closed her closet door.

"Good night Maka," they whispered.

"Good night mommy…daddy…" she muttered in her sleep, and her parents closed the door.

Maka: ...
Alsarnia: What?
Maka: Why'd you have to choose that day? When papa was doing all that…
Alsarnia: Lol, Maka, everyday was like that when you were that age.
Maka: I-it was not!
Alsarnia: Cha, it was. I see you as kind of spoiled when you were a kid, because you always had your parents there since Spirit's lazy and during this time there wasn't much kishin activity, so I think Death Scythes and their Meisters were laid back during this time.
Maka: T-T
Alsarnia: Shut up, the readers like it so you'll like it too. Now give your daddy a hug!
[Alsarnia pulls a curtain open to reveal Spirit]
Spirit: MAKA!
Maka: Maka-chop!
Kami: Kami-Chop!
Shinigami: Shinigami-CHOP!
Spirit: -dies-
Alsarnia: -holds up debate sword- darn, he died before I could have my turn…
Kami: Maka, you were wonderful in that story
Shinigami: Almost as cute as my Kiddo~!
Kami: What do you mean almost?
Alsarnia: -grabs popcorn- I see a chopping battle coming on here soon.
Maka: Why don't we do the end now?
Alsarnia: fine –sighs- Next time up is Maka's partner!
Soul: Me?
Alsarnia: Yeah, but you act a lot older than Maka I think you're a year older or so
Soul: That would explain why she's got such a flat chest
Maka: MAKA-CHOP
Kami: KAMI-CHOP
Spirit: -strangles Soul- what did you just say about my little girl?
Soul: -dies-
Alsarnia: Looks like the manga Soul Eater is now going to be changed to Death the Kid on account that the actual Soul Eater was just chopped and strangled to death. Don't insult Maka when her family's in the room XD