What can I say? I have fanfiction ADD.

So K.O. kinda got me to watch Soul Eater, and I kinda fell in love with it, and so my new favorite pairing maaaaay be SoulMaka... and since my attention span with writing is terrible, I wanted to write stuff for it.

However, and this might be a good thing, I couldn't really think of a plot that didn't stink for a legit story. So I was sad.

Until I remembered drabbles.

So now I'm assaulting your computer with a book of drabbles for Soul and Maka! Proving that I need to get out of the damn house, and that I am a cheesy person! Yaaaaaay! :D

Soul Eater (c) Atsushi Okubo

Thunder

Maka woke up with a jolt. She wondered vaguely what made her wake up in the dead of night.

The room was suddenly illuminated by a flash of light, followed by a loud crash, causing the girl to jump and squeak. Now that she was awake, she could hear the rain hitting the roof like a barrage of bullets. Maka got out of her bed and wandered to the window, peering out at the storm. Another flash of lightning lit up the city like a spotlight, and the resulting rumble of thunder shook the window in its frame.

"A thunderstorm? ...great." Maka mumbled, flinching as the sky roared again. At the same time, Maka heard a loud 'thud' in the room next door, followed by Soul's swearing. Sounded like the thunder had shocked him so bad he fell out of bed.

Silently, the meister moved away from the window and out of her room, taking note that Blair was no where to be seen. Was she afraid of the storm?

Out in the living room, the storm sounded louder. Lightning continued to dance across the sky, thunder being the music it danced to. Maka wandered over to the couch near the window and plopped down in it, pulling her knees to her chest and hugging them, her back to the storm. After a minute of sitting in the dark listening to the rain assault their roof, she heard footsteps and Soul soon joined her.

"Storm woke you up?" He asked, sitting next to her.

"Yeah. You too?"

Soul sighed, and rubbed the back of his head. "Not exactly. It woke up Blair and she freaked out. Ran into my room and scared the crap out of me."

"Is she still in your room?"

"Yeah. She ran under the bed after clawing at my stomach, I think."

Maka was about to reply that she didn't even know Blair was afraid of thunder when a particularly loud crash made both weapon and meister jump.

"It's pretty bad out there..." Soul commented, eyes on the window. Maka groaned loudly, resting her chin on her knees. Soul raised an eyebrow. "What's your problem?"

"It's two in the morning." She mumbled. "I didn't get to bed till midnight."

"What were you doing up so late?" Soul pressed, not at all bothered by the fact that he was asleep before Maka was.

"I was doing that diagram of an Aye Aye's blood circulation for Professor Stein." Maka said, yawning.

"...What the hell is an Aye Aye?"

"Maybe if you actually did your homework once in a whi-" Maka's sentence turned into a shriek as there was yet another loud crash outside. The sythe master scooted as far away from the window as possible until she was practically on top of Soul. It didn't help that Soul was smirking in the most rat bastard-y way possible.

"What!" Maka hissed.

"I didn't know you were afraid of thunder, Maka."

"I am not afraid of thunder." Maka said, puffing up indignantly.

"Then why are you on top of me?" Soul asked, still smirking. Maka flushed, slightly grateful for the darkness. "Well?"

"I was surprised!" Maka defended. "The thunder was so loud it surprised me! That's all!"

"Are you suuuure?"

"Hey Soul, how you'd like to be a lightning rod?" Maka growled. She was telling the truth, thunder didn't scare her. It may have back when she was little and she could go to her dad for comfort, but things were different now. She was old enough to know that thunder was just noise and it couldn't hurt her. And her dad could go get struck by lightning for all she cared.

Soul was still snickering. "You wouldn't do that."

"Watch me." Maka said evenly, hand reaching for a textbook that lay conveniently on the table. Soul immediately shut up, grabbing the girls hand before it reached the object that would leave a dent in his skull.

"Alright, I'll stop."

Maka grinned smugly. There was another thunder clap outside, and the rain seemed to get louder too. Maka's smug look turned to one of despair as she groaned again, her head falling.

"This is going to go on for the rest of the night, won't it?"

Soul patted his partners head. "I don't think anyone is getting any sleep tonight. ...Except maybe Black Star."

Maka picked her head up to stare at Soul with a 'You're not helping' expression. Soul rolled his eyes, but couldn't help but notice the bags under Maka's eyes. Between all their recent missions, and all the work she put in to stay at the top of her class, it was no wonder she looked exhausted.

Slowly, the weapon reached over and pulled the girl closer until one ear was smashed against his chest. He then wrapped his arm around her in a way so his hand could cover the other ear, muffling the thunder and rain. Maka, caught off guard by his actions, turned to look up at him, confused.

"Just go to sleep." Soul mumbled, leaning back and keeping his eyes on the window. Maka blinked for a moment, and seeing that Soul wouldn't let her move, curled into a more comfortable position against him and let her eyes close. She could still hear the crashing and banging of the thunder, and the pounding of the rain, but it was all muffled and became meaningless noise as she subconsciously focused on the only other thing she could hear.

Maka drifted off to sleep, the steady beat of Soul's heart being her lullaby.

-headtable-

It drives me nuts that I'm able to be this corny.