AN: I haven't written for Soul Eater since I was, like, 14. I reread the series recently and fell in love all over again, so now the next logical step is fanfiction. Hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: Don't own

"Wait a second…you mean they aren't dating?" came the baffled voice of Liz.

It had been a few days since Death the Kid and his demon pistols came to the academy, and the three were adjusting fairly well (or as well as Kid's OCD would let him, but she digressed). Liz had never really been to school before, having spent her time on the streets making sure there was food for her and her sister, so the change of scenery was rather nice.

The students of the DWMA were an interesting lot too. Only a day into their time here and they already made it into a social circle.

It was during a break in class activities one day that Liz decided to try and get to know her new friends. And of course the main topic she really wanted to know: what, exactly, was the relationship between Soul Eater and Maka Albarn?

The answer definitely shocked her.

"Nope." Black Star said matter-of-factly, popping the "p" sound of the word.

Liz gawked. "Seriously? They seem so close, though. I've seen middle schoolers in puppy love less affectionate than those two…"

Just to challenge her words, there was a distinct yell of "MAKA-CHOP!" before a sharp cry of pain. The group looked down to the row of seats below them in the classroom and saw Soul hunched forward, a dent in his head caused by the offending book spine in the hands of Maka. The pigtailed blonde huffed before opening said book back up to read, her weapon unresponsive, presumably unconscious.

"Yes…quite affectionate." Kid deadpanned, Liz's eye twitching as she realized her meister was being snarky with her.

"Oh shut up, you know what I mean! They stand so close to each other and hold hands even when it's not necessary. Of course I'd think they were a couple!"

"Meisters and weapons are supposed to have a bond with each other," Kid informed like a professor lecturing his disobedient students. "It is not unusual for partners to show affectionate gestures. From my standpoint, Maka and Soul have a healthy working relationship. There doesn't have to be any romantic undertones to it."

"Basically," Black Star butted in, "that's just Soul and Maka for you. They do this stuff all the time. It's not new for them."

Tsubaki nodded in agreement while Patty giggled as she tried to lean forward to poke the still unconscious Soul with a ruler. Liz rolled her eyes.

"Alright, fine, I get it, they're just super-best-friends-forever or whatever."

The bell rang, signally the end of the period. The group of friends watched as Maka leaned forward to shake Soul awake.

"Come on, lazy butt, we got a mission to prepare for."

Soul came alive (yelping in pain when he felt the ruler Patty was still holding poke into his still sore cranium), and glared at his meister, "Lazy? You freaking assaulted me! I could get brain damage one day, you temperamental woman!"

Maka rolled her eyes, "If you don't want a Maka Chop then stop saying rude comments to me. Simple as that." She then pulled him to his feet before bounding down the steps, "Now come on! We need to head home so we can pack and be ready for our flight!"

"Yeah, yeah…" Soul grumbled, following along after Maka out the door.

Once the two were out of earshot, Liz piped up with one final comment.

"Okay, I can accept they aren't dating…but you can't argue with me that they so act like an old married couple!"

No one objected.

"I swear guys, I think Maka and Soul finally did it!"

Kim rolled her eyes, lazily leafing through a magazine. "This again?"

Black Star huffed. "Oh, come on, Kim. You gotta admit something has shifted. Those two are finally out of the friendzone—I can feel it in my bones!"

It had been a couple of weeks since Spartoi returned from their Salvage mission into the Book of Eibon to rescue Kid. Everyone was affected in some way thanks to the book, but it appeared none more so than Soul and Maka, who—if at all possible—became more attached to the hip than their usual norm.

It's caused quite the debate among the group of 2 star meisters. Was it true? Had it finally happened? Were Maka Albarn and Soul Eater…dating?

Black Star thinks so.

The others…not so much.

"What makes you so sure?" Liz asked. As much as she would love it if her two friends were an item, she had learned her lesson that first time around. Maka and Soul's bond was just very strong, as any meister/weapon partnership should be. Just because they're a little more touchy-feely with each other shouldn't necessarily mean they had a relationship bump.

"My God-like senses tell me so! It's like a 6th sense." Black Star haughtily said.

"I thought you had a 'dull' 6th sense." Kid said, not in the mood to bring back the age-old debate of his friends' relationship status.

The assassin scoffed, "That was back then, when I was still young!"

"It was almost a year ago…" Kid deadpanned.

Black Star ignored him and continued, "After my training and my status as a big star evolved into the God of a man you see now, my senses have all sharpened, and that includes the most important one—the sense to tell when my best friends are getting it on!"

Tsubaki facepalmed, "Black Star please…"

"Putting aside the possibility of…that piece of information," Ox said, "I have to somewhat agree with Black Star. Maka and Soul do appear to be more in-tuned with each other than usual."

"See, Ox, you're smart. You understand your God well!"

"But," Ox interjected, "since Maka and Soul don't seem like the type to hide things from their friends, it's logical to say that they are, in fact, not official. At least, not as official as me and my darling Kim!"

Kim kicked her (kinda?) boyfriend away before he could smother her with kisses, eyes never looking up from her magazine.

"Sorry, Star, I gotta agree with the rest." Kilik said, waving his hand in an apologetic gesture, "Soul and Maka would have told us if they were a thing."

Havar and Jackie nodded in agreement. Even the twins and Patty who had been in the background playing stopped what they were doing to voice their own agreements. Black Star rolled his eyes.

"Tssh, nonbelievers. You guys just like to believe what you see. You don't feel it! But that's okay, it's to be expected I guess, since you guys aren't as finely tuned to your senses as I, the great Black Star, am! I'll take pity on you mortals now, but when the truth comes out and Maka and Soul announce they've been together all along I expect full compensation. Preferably you guys bowing and kissing my feet as you beg for forgiveness." He said as he cackled, pointedly ignoring the annoyed looks on his friends' faces.

"Oh come off it already!" Kim said, throwing down her magazine, thoroughly fed up with the loud teen's ramblings and laughter. "Everyone and their mother's know that Soul and Maka are, have been, and always will be just friends! For crying out loud, they've been holding hands with each other since day one but have made it painfully clear they 'aren't like that.' Whatever happened in that stupid book hadn't changed a thing because those two morons are too dense to see that their mutual attraction toward one another is not, in fact, Soul Resonance. So kindly shut up and accept the fact that Soul and Maka are still friends and any 'progress' you see is just your pea-brained mind playing tricks on you!"

By the end of her rant, Kim was huffing, Jackie patting her back as she tried to soothe her meister's ire. Everyone else in Spartoi swiveled their heads to Black Star, eager to see what he would do next.

Black Star stared down the young witch, his eyes hard and fists clenched. Tsubaki was saying silent prayers that he wouldn't attack their comrade, no matter how much she insulted his pride…

Instead Black Star grinned, put his fists on his hips and leaned down to match Kim at eye level, "Wanna bet?"

Spartoi blanched.

Kim grinned back, her tanuki features giving her an almost feral look, "Hell yeah!"

Spartoi facepalmed. This could not end well…

Black Star's grin turned menacing, "200 bucks, same as our weekly allowance. That good to you?"

"Yeah," Kim agreed, "but to make it even more interesting, how about we increase the wages for every month those two don't come clean—if they are dating that is, which they aren't! And if they make the announcement that they just now started dating, then you Mister God Boy have to pay up. Deal?"

"Black Star, maybe you shouldn't—"

"You're on, Diehl!" Black Star said, ignoring his weapon's pleas as he shook Kim's hand. He turned to the rest of their group, "Anyone else want to cash in on this?"

They all shook their heads "no". No matter who won in the end it wouldn't be pretty for the members involved or their wallets…

And thus started the great "SoMa Bet" (named by Black Star of course).

Kishin Asura had been defeated for approximately 2 weeks before Kilik snapped.

"Arrrrgh, I can't stand it anymore! I gotta know!"

Life had returned to normal in Death City (or as normal as it could get in a place like this). EAT students were still hunting pre-kishins, but at a more relaxed pace since madness had been contained. And the stress of finding and defeating a witch for your 100th soul was no longer an issue thanks to the new alliance Death the Kid formed with Maba the Grand Witch. Classes resumed and things were finally peaceful.

Except for the biggest mystery left to be solved…

Were Soul Eater Evans and Maka Albarn dating or not?!

If Kilik thought the madness on the moon was bad, it seemed to pale in comparison to the madness sparked by those two. All over the DWMA people were whispering and gossiping about the famous meister/weapon duo, all questioning and debating whether the teens really were in love or were they just overly affectionate in a general platonic sense?

Hell, even the teachers were sparking debates about it. Marie even made a powerpoint about it for Death's sake! It was getting ridiculous!

And of course Maka and Soul were none the wiser to the stress they were causing. They just seemed to be in their own little world, doing their own thing and not caring that people actually made fanclubs dedicated to their possible romance.

And then there was that stupid bet Black Star and Kim made all those months ago…

"Where's my money?!" came Kim's screech.

"The terms haven't been met yet! Like hell I'm paying up!" shot back the assassin.

Kim felt ready to pull her hair out, "It's been months and nothing is confirmed. Face it, asshole, they aren't dating! Now pay up already, I'm so sick of this!"

Black Star snarled, "Nuh-uh, no way. You made the terms and I agreed with them: we wait for them to fess up. You can't go back on it now. It's not honorable!"

"Honor, schmonor, I WANT MY MONEY!"

Kilik flinched as he watched Kim lunge at Black Star, only to be held back by Jackie and Ox. Black Star on the other hand was giving Kim "come on" gestures as he egged her on, Tsubaki by his side as she tried to calm him down. Kid, Havar, the twins, and the Thompson sisters were off to the side with Kilik observing the entire spectacle.

The newly appointed Death God sighed in exasperation and rolled his eyes at his friends' antics. "How troublesome…" he muttered, Patty on the floor laughing at his feet.

"Woah, what did Black Star do this time to piss Kim off?" came a new voice. Kilik turned around to see the couple(?) in question come up to them.

"Whatever it is, he probably deserved it." Maka replied to Soul, rolling her eyes in regard to her childhood friend.

Kilik felt like crying. His saviors have arrived! Finally they can end everyone's turmoil!

In the beginning nobody wanted to straight up ask the duo about their relationship status because they didn't want to be rude and make things awkward between them (also the fact they still had a Kishin to worry about and that kind of takes precedence over teenage romance…). However, now that peace had been achieved, Kilik had to say screw politeness! He needed to know if Soul and Maka were dating and he needed to know now!

"Maka! Soul! Thank goodness you're both here!" Kilik exclaimed, alerting the attention of the rest of their friends. "Could you two settle a debate for us?"

Soul raised an eyebrow while Maka smiled, bouncing on the balls of her feet, "Oh, a debate? I love debates! What are we debating about?"

Bingo! Kim and Black Star forgot their almost fight and ran along with the rest of Spartoi to Kilik's side, anticipating what was to come.

"You see the topic involves you two." Kilik started.

Soul scowled in unease, "Us?"

"Yep, particularly your relationship, and whether or not you have one or not." Maka and Soul stared at the pot meister for a brief second before Kilik went in for a final elaboration, "What we're asking is are you guys boyfriend and girlfriend? We're quite literally dying to know."

Spartoi held their breathes as they waited for the answer. Would they be mad? Would there be blushing and stammering? Would Maka just kill them all with Maka Chops? The uncertainty was killing them!

Instead of any of those things, Soul and Maka just stared at them. And stared… And stared… And stared some more before turning their gazes to each other, more than likely having a silent conversation with each other.

Kilik frowned as he shifted from foot to foot. This was not what he expected. Why was it taking so long for them to answer a simple yes or no question?!

Everyone was becoming impatient and Black Star would probably have had a meltdown had the two's gaze on each other finally broke and they turned back to Spartoi with sheepish looks on their faces.

Soul rubbed the back of his head, "Uhhh, you mean you guys didn't know?"

…

"Know what?" Liz asked giving her friends a scrutinizing stare.

Maka gave an embarrassed giggle as she scratched her cheek with one hand, the other holding up her and Soul's intertwined hands.

"We've…kind of been together for months now…"

There was an intense silence as all of Spartoi looked at the couple's(!) hands. After an awkward few beats everyone's jaws dropped to the floor as all hell broke loose.

"I FUCKING KNEW IT!" Black Star screamed, cackling like a madman. "YOU ALL DOUBTED ME BUT I—YOUR GOD THE GREAT BLACK STAR—KNEW IT!"

He then shoved his hand palm up in Kim's face, "Pay up, Diehl!"

Kim's jaw dropped as she squealed an offended noise, "Bullshit! This is absolute bullshit!" she then glared at Maka and Soul, "Why didn't you guys tell anybody!"

Soul averted his eyes away from the questioning looks, shrugging his shoulders as he muttered, "Thought it was obvious…"

Before Kim could screech anymore and throttle everyone in her way, Maka interjected, "There was a lot going on when we decided to get together! We didn't want to pull the focus away from the Kishin just for something as silly as this. So we figured we'd…be subtle about it?" she then gave a laugh, "I didn't think we were doing a very good job, but I guess we really were subtle after all! Whoops?"

Whoops?

Whoops?!

"That's it! I'm so done with these two!" Liz said as she grabbed her sister by the arm and drug her away, "Come on, Patty, I need a massage after the bullshit they put me through."

Patty giggled as she hopped along after her older sister, "Okay!"

"My money… All my money gone to him!" Kim wailed, Jackie and Ox on either side of her as they tried to console her. Havar rolled his eyes as he followed along, not knowing why he even bothered with this nonsense in the first place.

"Congrats on the sex guys!" Black Star called out to them, which caused Maka and Soul's faces to illuminate red and protests to fly from their lips. Their blue haired friend ignored them of course as he set his sights on the retreating witch, "Come on, Tsubaki, let's follow Kim to make sure she keeps her end of the deal. Afterwards, tonight, we dine like Gods!" he continued his cackling as he ran after Kim. Tsubaki bowed her head to Soul and Maka in apology for her meister's crude remark before running after him.

Soul and Maka blinked, still trying to process what just happened.

"I'm...confused." Maka said, "I mean, yeah we weren't that big on PDA, but I thought it was obvious we were…together-together," she said this with a blush on her cheeks.

Kid sighed, taking pity on his friends, "Basically your bond as a weapon and a meister was so strong that your affections as a couple were mistaken for that of a regular healthy partnership. Needless to say it's caused a bit of a stir among the DWMA."

"A bit of a stir?!Dude, they openly hold hands and people would get into freaking fistfights on whether or not it was platonic hand holding! Hell, they hold hands so often I sometimes don't even realize they're doing it!" Kilik said, gesturing wildly to Soul and Maka's aforementioned hands.

"Anyway," Kid said ignoring Kilik's frustrated huffing, "as a Death God and a bringer of Order, Maka, Soul, I suggest you make a public announcement of your courtship so things can go back to being in an orderly manner. Understood?"

Soul and Maka nodded, the formality they're not really used to using with Kid coming to the surface, "Yes, sir."

"Good, now if you excuse me, I have to get back to the Death Room." With that he went along his way.

"Yeah I gotta go too. All this debate bullshit gave me a headache." Kilik said, herding Fire and Thunder with him, leaving Maka and Soul alone.

Once they were the only two left Maka turned to her boyfriend.

"What…just happened?"

Soul shrugged, a lazy grin spreading on his face as he pulled his girlfriend to their next class.

"Not sure, but they all definitely took the news better than your creepy dad."

AN: Maka and Soul seem like the type to just ease into a relationship since they're so comfortable with each other. However, because they already act like a couple it's impossible for other's around them to discern if they're really romantic or not. That's the basis for this fic.

Honestly I could have ended this in a number of ways, but thought Maka and Soul being in a relationship and not bothering to tell anyone–just letting their actions speak for themselves–was the funniest of the outcomes.

Hope you were entertained. Review if you liked it!