"Maka." Soul calls out to the blonde as he pops his head out into the living room from the kitchen. He sees his meister, still wearing her school clothes, heading angrily toward the door with books in hand, stopping in the living room to grab a bag. This isn't good. He had just got her back to level-headed. "Girl, what are you doing?"

"He's late!" she yelled, thrusting the books into a messenger bag across her chest. Soul looks to the clock. "By like fifteen minutes! Maka! Take a chill pill, he-"

"No he won't! I knew he would do this!" she rebutted, stomping to the door. Soul groans at her. "So I'm going to go over there and-" as she reaches for the door, suddenly it shoot into her face. "GAH!" crying out in pain, Maka falls to the floor. Soul blinks in an almost terrified face.

"HAYHOO!" called out a voice through the apartment. Soul grinned, if not a bit nervously. At least he'd showed up.
"Sorry to keep you all waiting! I know how badly you wanted me to show and here I am! Me! The Great BLACKSTAR!" said STAR let out a loud laughter as he walked it and stumbled over the girl who was in pain. He looked down, confused.

"Maka? Why are you on the floor?" he asked, blinking. Soul groaned. Maka groaned as she got up. Her groan rolled into a growl as she spun her face into BlackSTARs, making him lean back slightly.
"WHY ARE YOU LATE?!" she cried out him.
"I was heading on my way here and some dude thought he could take me in a fight! So I showed him what for!" BlackSTAR flexed his arm with a smug grin. Maka blushed lightly as she huffed and crossed her arms. She hated when he did this macho crap. Soul chuckled lightly. "Maka, go wash up, I'll make you and BlackSTAR some snacks before I run off."

Maka opened her mouth to say something as she turned to Soul but he gave her a look. One with a raised eyebrow that just said 'Come on girl, you know I'm right'. Maka soon smiled and nodded. "Make yourself at home." she said as she skipped into the kitchen to her room. BlackSTAR blinked as he looked to Soul. "Behave." he whispered as he returned his gaze to the kitchen. The STAR boy shrugged as he hopped into the couch, relaxing with a content sigh.

—

After changing into a shirt and loose pajama pants, and pulling her hair into a bun, Maka soon returned to the living room to find Soul placing down a plate of cookies and tea for the two as he held a light conversation with his best friend. Seeing Maka back in the room, Soul smiled as he stood back up straight.

"Alright." he began, walking toward the door, passing his meister. "I'm gonna head to my guitar lessons. You two play nice."
"No promises." said Maka as she swatted BlackSTARs feet off the couch, making him groan, sitting up. As she took a seat, Soul smiled and said his goodbye to them both as he walked out the door, leaving them both alone.

For a moment the two sat in silence. It was awkward, considering what occurred earlier that day. But Maka finally sighed, breaking the silence.
"Look…I'm sorry for yelling at you before. It was rude of me to think of myself before you."

BlackSTAR looked to her with a calm, if not amazed expression. Guess Soul was right. "But-" hold that thought. "You do need to get good grades. At least passable grades." she said, looking to the blue haired boy who gave an annoyed pout.
"Whatever, let's just do this. I got training to do."
Maka sighed once more, this time more annoyed. This was going to be a long night.

—

Hours passed. BlackSTAR looked to the clock on the wall to see it was not seven on the dot. It felt more like ten.

"Okay." Maka began. The STAR gave a pained look. "If two souls opposite each other what does that mean?" Maka then looked to the STAR. Oh shit they had just gone over this. Putting on a pained thinking face, BlackSTAR sat and hummed loudly as he thought. And in a blink of an eye he was on the floor doing one-finger push ups "One, two, three…"

"BLACKSTAR!" and with a swift Maka chop, BlackSTAR was back on the couch, arms crossed with a dent sticking out of his blue hair. Maka growled lightly, gripping tightly to the book she held. "You have got to stop doing that!"
"It's punishment for not getting it right." explained the STAR.
"But you didn't even try to answer it!"
"It was the wr-"
"How do you know!? You didn't answer it! You just assumed it was." she then sighed. "Just try! Please…?" her tone was more pleading. And for some reason, BlackSTAR hated to hear that. Her begging him to try. She shouldn't have it. He was a big guy, and a big guy like him shouldn't have to have a lady like Maka beg to him. So he looked to her, looking away for a moment to think again then his eyes fell back to the blonde.
"What was the question again?"

This made Maka smile. Opening the book, Maka read the question once more. "If two souls opposite each other what does that mean?"

Once again, BlackSTAR went into his thinking pose. His body wanted to react like before. But this time, he would try.
"Is it…they…work better together?"

Maka was silent but then nodded. "Close. It means that they complete each other."

BlackSTAR sighed. "See? I got it wrong." His body began to turn before Maka grabbed his arm, making him jump a bit. He looked to her.
"No. I didn't say you where wrong did I? You were close, very close! And I'm proud of you for trying BlackSTAR." her serious face returned with a soft smile with made BlackSTAR's face heat up slight. Just…
"What does that mean? They complete each other?" his body turned back to her. This made Maka grin widely. He was actually going to listen!

Leaning back, she began. "Alright…What it means is that the two souls, which are opposites, most of the time complete each other. Like me and Soul for example. And you and Tsubaki and-"
"Me and you?" BlackSTAR interrupted. Maka at first blinked but then smiled. "Yes. Like me and you." her hand then slipped from the others arm, forgetting it had been there the entire time. The two meisters stared at each other for a moment, which seemed to be never ending before Maka coughed, breaking the gaze. Her eyes went to the clock. "Look at the time! It's getting late!" She then stood up, BlackSTARs gaze followed her.

She then leaned over, picking through the books she had. "I'm going to let you borrow these books, alright? I want you to take them home and study them. We'll do this again on tomorrow after school. That sound alright?" she asked, turning to him with the books.
"Huh? Oh! Yeah!" he then grinned, taking them from her and standing. They both stood, looking at each other.
"See you then BlackSTAR."
"Yeah."
Again, they stood. Looking before once more, Maka smiled and began to gather the plates on the coffee table. Taking this as a chance to leave, BlackSTAR made his way across the living room and walked out.

Now alone, Maka stood up with plates in hand and look toward the door. "…I wonder when Soul will be home…" she said softly after a few moments, walking to the kitchen.

—

The door to the residence of Tsubaki and BlackSTAR creaked open. It was nice that they actually found an apartment that could make Tsubaki feel more at home but that damn door. Regardless, BlackSTAR closed the creaky door behind him, books under arm. Tsubaki was of course in the living room awaiting his return.

"So, how did it go?" she asked, looking up toward him. Brushing his bangs out of his face, he smiled to her.
"It went fantastic of course! I mean, a big guy like me? Not being able to beat a few books? What did you expect Tsubaki?"

She of course chuckled. "Of course. I left your dinner in the kitchen inside of the oven." saying this, Tsubaki stood up, fixing her nightgown as she rose. "I'm going to head to bed. See you in the morning alright?"

He nodded. Once his partner had retired to their shared bed room, BlackSTAR looked at the books he held in his under arm. After a moment of thought, BlackSTAR placed them on the small table in the living room, retried his food from the oven and returned to the books. As he ate the food left for him by Tsubaki, BlackSTAR looked through the first book. "Soul Symmetry…" he munched out loud, looking at the information in front of him.

—

Tsubaki rose from her and BlackSTARs bed, stretching with a yawn. "Wake up Bla…" she said softly as she looked over to see BlackSTAR not asleep beside her. But she simply shrugged. "He must have decided to go for his morning run." she gathered. Fixing her side of the bed, the weapon of the STAR boy walked out of their room to find-"BLACKSTAR?!" she screeched out as she found the boy, eyes droopy and black, sitting at their table reading the last book Maka had given him. He grudgingly blink and looked to her with a tired smile.
"Oh hey morning is it Tsubaki already?" and with a tired laughter he fell face first into the book that he was only half way through.