Please note, I will probably never give Crona a specific gender in any of my stories. It does not mean I will make Crona act more like a boy sometimes and more like a girl sometimes. Crona will have no gender for this story.I want that known to all my readers. The ending may surprise some who think of Crona as a girl, but again Crona has no gender so Crona can be whatever Crona wants to be! I will leave the deciding up to you guys!

I am not certian where I am going with this story either. I plan to upload a chapter almost every night. I will eventually figure out a plot by the third chapter but this is it so far. The ending was the most of a hook I could manage since my writing skills are not that great.

"Christmas?" Echoed Crona looking at Maka.

"CHRISTMAS BREAK!" Maka screamed aloud from the balcony of Shibusen. Soul and Kid flinched slightly. The two boys exchanged glances and shrugged. Why was Maka acting all giddy?

"Oh Soul isn't it great? We get the whole month of December off! OH JOY TO THE WORLD!" Maka jumped down from the edge of the balcony, grabbed the sleeve of Soul's jacket and swung him around once before he flung her away.

"Maka, you crazy?" Soul wiped off the wrinkles from his orange t-shirt with both his hands. "It's not cool to act so girly and stuff."

"Soul this year is different. For some reason, I can't tell why, I feel extremely lucky."

"Yeah, whatever. Just don't get me involved in this. I just wanna go home and eat."

"That reminds me, Maka, are we still having dinner at your house this year?" Kid walked casually over with both his hands inside his black jean pockets.

"Can't." She replied. "Too busy. Soul would eat it all anyway before you guys could make it out your front doors."

Soul grinned and nodded. Crona faintly emitted a smile, while Kid frowned.

"Oh too bad." Tsubaki came out of the school's archway and onto the balcony. "I was really hoping for some Peppermint cake and Roast, -er, whatever it is you were serving last year "It was good". Tsubaki smiled trying to be nice about Maka's legendary drop-dead roast duck she had made last year.

"Just about as good as that medicine we all had to take after eating it." Soul laughed.

"That's not nice." Crona whimpered. "I liked it."

"Thanks Crona!" Maka smiled brightly. "Why don't you come over this evening and help me make tonight's dinner? Tsubaki wanna come too?" Both Crona and Tsubaki shook their heads. Crona had become a regular at Maka and Soul's house, always helping Maka when she needed help. Tsubaki loved to come over too, especially since Black*Star had taken on a new girlfriend. Tsubaki seemed a little relived to get away from the house. All three friends walked in the archway again and down the stairs.

"Okay then." Soul shrugged as he turned to face Kid. "Do you want to catch a movie? There's this new cool one about a wolf boy."

"Eh?" Kid pivoted where he was to face Soul. He had seemed to be facing outwards upon the city as if in deep thought. He pushed his striped hair out of his eyes. "A movie about a wolf boy? How trivial to a Christmassy theme. It is only twenty two days away you know."

"Christmassys not a word." Soul put his hand on his forehead and shook his head. "Y'know you're so stupid sometimes. Not cool."

"I'm not in the mood for jokes. Or movies for that matter." The shiningami moved his hand around in the pocket of his pants. Obviously, something was bothering him. Soul had noticed this for the past few days. "But," He breathed. "I guess seeing a movie would take my mind off of things."

Soul wanted to ask what "things" stood for, but shook it off. He smiled broadly letting his sharp teeth glisten.

"All right. There's a night show at seven, we can go buy us some tickets, hang out around town and then head to the movie."

"That sounds fine." Kid merely looked up to the sky.

The two boys walked out of the theater with their newly purchased tickets. They were going to see a movie about a wolf boy who went insane and ended up in a mental hospital, but for some reason choose an action movie about two twins who fought demon food.

"Geeze. What will they think of next?" Soul snickered. "Phantom teriyaki? Maybe a Romantic Yakisoba flick."

"Is that all you can think of for a title? Food?"

Kid and Soul were now walking down a dark alley. They were supposed to be going to the newest nightclub in town that they were allowed to go to. A newly polished lounge with a dance floor and coffee bar had just opened. No alcohol though, it was more of a DWMA Club for older teens. Maka, who was on the council for opening the club, had insisted on that.

"Kid, you seem really down." Soul finally murmured, still looking forward.

"Well, I think I may be onto something serious. A plot, really. Something that is happening in secret at the academy. I think my father might have something to do with it."

Soul's eyes widened a bit, and his heart pounded at the thought of a exciting secret mission over Christmas break.

"So that's what you were so worried about before, I thought so. So tell me what it involves." Soul and Kid stopped suddenly.

"HIYA!" Black*Star marched in front of them cutting them off from their path. They were now directly in front of the nightclub's entrance. The sign on the front read, Miester Weapon Night Club.

"God, Maka, couldn't you have thought of anything more simple for a name." Muttered Soul, looking up.

"HEY! Weren't you listening? I said HIYA! I spoke to you. YOU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL!" Black*Star slapped Kid on the back.

"Do that again and I'll kill you."

"You guys goin' inside too? Me and Myuki were just going inside!" A small girl with a light skin tone stepped out from behind Black*Star. She was a tiny thing with short white hair and black eyes. She wore a light blue dress that bore a faint yellow star pattern. On top of that she had a wool jacket and a scarf. This girl must have been Black*Star's girlfriend.

Soul gasped. He was sure she was a distant cousin of his or something. He could not remember all of his family and he did not care.

"So that's your new girlfriend. How does Tsubaki feel about her?" Kid glanced disapprovingly at Black*Star.

"Tsubaki acknowledges my existence at least, and I acknowledge her's. Is that not enough?" Myuki took a step forward to Kid and looked slightly larger than before. "What does that half-wit have anything to do with this conversation anyway, who are you?"

Kid took a step back as if he were really terrified of this girl. Soul was scared. He wasn't sure that they were really having a conversation before for that girl to be talking to Kid like that. Soul looked away to the window of the club. He could see a faint flashing light from inside.

"Shall we go in?" Soul motioned Kid to go in first, then Black*Star, then the little white haired-viper. Black*Star stomped in first, holding Miyuki's hand. Since she was still waiting for an answer from a very shocked shiningami. Kid slowly followed keeping his distance, he must have still been shaken by the fact that he had just been frightened by a girl half his size.

The room was fairly spacious and was bright. The ceiling of the dancefloor and lounge was painted as black as the sky outside and had little twinkling lights all over the place. They looked like stars. The drink bar looked like something of a retro magazine. It was bright orange and had little square stools to sit on. Chinese lanterns of all colors were hung everywhere by strings.

"This'l be intresting. Soul slinked over to the counter and ordered a large cup of the most caffeinated thing on the menu. Whatever it was, Soul never did find out, he chugged it down and went to a window seat where Kid looked out onto the street.

"Some girl, huh? Black*Star sure is a lucky guy." Soul joked.

"Did you see her? She was like something out of a Phantom Teriyaki film you were talking about!"

"That's not nice. Are you comparing Black*Star's new girlfriend to some Japanese Food?"

"Yes, like that type you order at a café and your too scared to try it because it looks so strange. So you move it to the side of your plate with your chopsticks. Then, it turns out to not be symmetrical so you have to find an identical chunk of-"

"Kid." Soul placed his hand on Kid's shoulder. "Why don't you calm down and then tell me what it is you've been tracking this past week. You know, the secret plot in the academy?"

"Ah, yes I told you didn't I." Kid paused and signaled for a waitress. "Blueberry pie slice please." The waitress nodded, smiled, and headed to the counter. She seemed to think Kid was pretty cute.

"You are now sworn to secrecy, you may not tell a sou- person. Got it?"

Soul shrugged, acting cool, but leaned in closer because he wanted to hear whatever Kid had to say.

"I think the academy is planning to build an asymmetrical addition to Shibusen."

Soul's jaw dropped and his hands fell to his sides, just as the waitress brought the pie out and set it on Kid's lap.

"SERIOUSLY? KID! I've been wondering for the past few days about what dark and evil secret you've been hiding and that's it? Some asymmetrical crap is NOT what guys like me are supposed to be worrying about. It's just not cool!

"That" Kid sliced up a small section of the pie and put it in his mouth. His golden eyes narrowed. "That, and the fact that Crona is going to make a move on Maka tonight."