Declaimer: Swiggity sweeter, I don't own Soul Eater— /shot

I need to stop, omg.

Anyhurdoo, welcome! After putting this story off for over a year, I've finally gotten its shit together, made major edits to it, improved character development, fixed the entire plot, and now it came out just the way I wanted (งಠ_ಠ)ง

So, hopefully this will be very different from most Kid x OC stories. I tried to stay away from the most cliché OC stories with the dark, brutal, death involving, out of the ordinary pasts. Sometimes ordinary is good if you can really get a good understanding of ordinary.

Also, just a warning, I do love to hint at things that may not show up for twenty or more chapters, so pay attention?
Note: There is a high chance of this story rating changing from T to M later on.

xD Enjoy~

One: Encountering

The small boy stared down at the small blonde girl sitting in the grass and smiled. She looked up to him and smiled back. He let out his hand, which she gladly took, and helped her stand up. "Thank you," she thanked.

"No problem," he replied. "Wanna play again?"

She giggled. "I'll always play with you! Let's always play forever, okay?"

He nodded. "Of course! We'll always be good friends."

Her smile quickly formed a pout. "Not just friends! We're going to get married one day, remember? You're going to be my prince and I'll be the princess and we're gonna live in a big castle and have a family and—"

He suddenly blushed lightly. "Y-Yeah, married…" he stuttered.

She stared up at him. "You do want to marry me, right?" she asked, almost in a slight demand.

"Of course! You're really fun, sweet, and symmetrical! But… Getting married is really far away. Let's just play for now, okay?"

Though she wasn't completely convinced, she smiled anyways, trusting his word. "Okay! Tag, you're it!" she exclaimed, touching his arm and running away. The little boy grinned and chased after her until they were completely out of the sight of their fathers.

The sun was laughing like always as it rose into the bright sky, indicating the beginning of a new day. In the small apartment of the infamous Scythe Meister and Death scythe pairing, Maka stretched as she stepped out of her bed, ready for the day to start. She went and knocked on her weapon's bedroom door. "Soul, get up! Class starts soon!" she called through the door.

There was no answer.

With a huff, she began pounding her fist on the door. "Damn it, Soul, wake up!"

Still, there was no answer.

Maka opened the door and saw Soul; his lower half of his body on the bed and his upper half sprawled out on the floor. She roughly snatched up a pillow and chucked it at his face, causing him to finally wake up.

"W-What...? What's going on?" he sputtered, quickly standing up. His white shirt and boxers were messy and wrinkled from sleeping uneasily and there was a little bit of drool still hanging from the corner of his lips.

This was a typical scene for Maka. "School. Let's go, you're not cutting today," she ordered, walking out of his room.

Soul groaned and rubbed his head. "Okay, okay, sheesh..." he muttered.

Maka walked out and slowly opened the door to Crona's room, who had finally moved out of the dungeons of the academy and took refuge in her and Soul's apartment. "Crona? How are you feeling?" she softly whispered, poking her head into Crona's room.

Crona slowly lifted his head from his pillow and coughed. "N-Not so good... I-I don't know how to interact with being sick," he answered hoarsely.

Maka smiled warmly. "Well, we have to go to school. Will you be okay before we get back? Blair's around here somewhere just incase," she said before muttering, "Not like she'll be much help…"

"Thank you, Maka." Crona managed a smile as she closed the door.

Soul was found hopping out of his room on one foot while he tried to put his shoe on the other. "By the way, did you hear the rumors?" he asked.

Maka sighed. "What is it this time?" she asked.

"We're getting two new students; a meister and weapon. Two kids who just stormed into the Death Room and demanded to be enlisted," he answered.

"Oh, well that sounds interesting," she replied sarcastically. "We'll be seeing them in the NOT class."

He scoffed and grabbed his bag off of the couch. "You're no fun to gossip with."

She followed him out the door and pouted. "Well, sorry to disappoint you. It's just going to be another pair of students with an attitude or something."

He shrugged. "Whatever you say, bookworm."

She rolled her eyes and decided to continue the argument. After a not so quiet walk, they met up with Black Star, Tsubaki, the Thompson sisters, and Death the Kid in front of their classroom.

"Ah, it's too early for you two to be arguing!" Black Star groaned, placing his hands over his ears.

"It's not my fault he's an idiot," Maka replied, pointing at her partner with her thumb.

"Hey, dumbass, you shouldn't be talking," Soul retorted.

"You're the dumbass here, dumbass!"

They growled in each other's faces and Patty began to laugh loudly.

Liz sighed. "I don't know what to do with you, Patty..." she muttered.

Tsubaki glanced at Kid and she tilted her head. "Kid, are you okay?" she asked. "You look out of it."

Kid was indeed staring into space and he didn't seem to even hear her. Liz arched a brow and slapped the back of his head. "What…?" he uttered, snapping out of his thoughts.

"Exactly."

"Sorry, I just didn't sleep well last night..." he replied.

She smiled. "Oh, I see. I hope you feel better."

He smiled. "Thank you."

"Hey, did you guys hear about the two new students transferring in?" Black Star suddenly interrupted.

Maka sighed. "What's the big deal? It's not the first time we got new students in the middle of the year, and judging from the way they just marched in, it seems that they're pretty reckless."

"No, there's actually a catch," Kid said. "According to my father, they've never had proper training before. They've only taught themselves, but they're up to our level. Very impressive..."

"What!? People are trying to steal the spotlight from me again?! We'll just see about that!" Black Star shouted, stomping into their classroom. Everyone followed, taking his or her seats.

"What else did you hear?" asked Soul.

"Evidently, they just strolled in and asked if they could enroll in the academy in the EAT class without going through the NOT."

"So your dad just accepted them?" Maka asked in shock.

Kid nodded. "When I asked why, Father said there something 'special' about the meister that got them through, but he didn't tell me what it was."

Soul folded his arms over his chest with a smirk. "Sounds pretty interesting..."

Black Star cracked his knuckles. "I can't wait to give them a warm Black Star welcoming!"

Soul gave him a high five. "That's how we roll!"

Maka frowned. "Shut up, class is starting."

"You shut up!" he shot back.

"I've been quiet, you helpless dimwit!" she countered.

"Why you little—!"

"Problem, Maka and Soul?" Stein called from below, giving them an intimidating glare.

"N-No..." they responded simultaneously.

He eyed them suspiciously before nodding. "By the way, Lord Death would like to see the seven of you," he said, pointing to the group and then to the door.

"Ah... Okay, let's go," said Liz, standing up. They all then piled out of the room.

Stein sighed as he watched them leave. "They don't even know what they're about to walk into..." he murmured quietly.

"Guys, please try not to make a scene in front of my father," Kid commanded as the group approached the door to the Death Room.

Maka huffed, her arms folded over her chest. "Sure, I'm fine with that. But Soul might have a problem keeping is fat mouth shut," she said.

"Bu quiet Maka! You're so freaking annoying…" Soul growled.

Tsubaki sighed. "Please, can't we all get along?" she asked quietly.

"Tell it to Maka!"

"Tell it to Soul!"

"BE QUIET!" Kid shouted. They all shut their mouths and stared at him. "You're all giving me a headache..." he muttered. 'I just want to go to the library...' he thought.

Liz groaned. "Can we just head in already?" she asked impatiently. They entered the Death Room and began to trail down the path under the guillotines.

Finally making it to the platform, they were greeted by non other than Lord Death. "Ah, there you all are. It took you long enough to stop arguing," he said.

Maka cocked her head to the side when she saw a tall boy standing next to Lord Death. The first thing to catch her eye was how handsome he looked. He had orange, side-swept hair that slightly brushed over his hazel eyes, complimented by his black glasses. His hands were dug into the pockets of his black dress pants, going along with his black dress shoes and a green, zipped up turtle neck jacket.

"I take it this is one of the new students?" Black Star questioned, eyeing the student suspiciously.

Lord Death nodded. "Indeed— Wait, one you say...?" he turned his head to the boy and sweat dropped. "...Where's Sai?" he asked the boy.

The boy blinked and glanced behind him, but no one was there. "God damn it..." he growled.

Feeling the presence of another soul, Kid glanced behind them and turned his attention to one of the tall guillotines. "Is that who you're looking for?" he asked, his eyes directed at a young girl sitting on top of the guillotine, her legs swinging playfully below her.

The girl's bright ruby eyes were glowing when they met his golden eyes and a smile formed on her lips.

"You look so cool!" she spoke in a melodic voice.

Kid narrowed his eyes at her. "Excuse me?"

"I said you look so cool!" she continued. She pointed to her head. "Those stripes in your hair! Those stripes look wicked! Did you dye it or something?" She gasped. "Whoa, dude, are you a scene kid?"

A confused look washed over everyone's faces and the handsome redhead brought his palm to his forehead. "That dumbass..." he muttered before sending her a cold stare. "Get down from there, idiot."

The girl giggled and hopped down from the guillotine, making her way over to the boy. Maka took note of her appearance as well as she walked past her. She was pretty—No, beautiful was a better word. Her soft, dark brown hair went down to her waist, her bangs stretching across her forehead and curving inward to frame her cute face. A red beret covered her head and she wore a white t-shirt with an unbuttoned red vest, a short black skirt, and knee-high dark gray combat boots with two metal hinges on each.

"Everyone," Lord Death began, "This is meister Sai Jones and weapon Samuel Bertrand. Sai, Samuel, these are half of the members of Spartoi."

"Call me Sam…" Samuel muttered.

"Spartoi?" Sai questioned, glancing at her weapon. "Dude, isn't that the name of the Internet meme...?"

He sighed in annoyance. "No, you idiot. That's Sparta, which is a city in the country of Greece."

"Whoops!" she chuckled, scratching the back of her head.

Maka sweat dropped. 'Wonderful, there's actually someone who's as stupid as Black Star...' she thought. She still smiled though and held her hand out to them. "My name is Maka Albarn, the leader of Spartoi." She shook both of their hands. "Welcome to the academy."

Sam smiled charmingly. "A pleasure to meet you, mademoiselle," he replied. Soul's glance slightly turned into a glare. "Thank you for the kind welcoming from such a lovely young lady."

Maka lightly blushed. "O-Oh, um... Thank you...?"

Sam turned to his partner, expecting her to thank Maka as well but her attention was still locked on Kid. "Will you quit staring at me, please?" Kid asked, his arms folded over his chest.

Sai giggled. "Sorry, I just really like those stripes!" she cocked her head to the side. "Why didn't you dye it all around your head, though?"

His eyebrow twitched and he gritted his teeth. "It isn't dyed, it's natural..."

"Get out!" She rushed over to him and began to stroke his hair, invading his personal space. "That's so awesome! I've never seen something so cool in my life!"

Maka stared at the strange girl as Kid tried to pry her off of him before noticing she something. The brunette's left eye color was white. 'Was it like that before...?' she asked herself. That thought was shaken out of her head when Sai turned around and both of her eye colors were red. 'I must be seeing things...'

"I want you seven to split up and show them around the academy," said Lord Death.

"Why us?" Tsubaki questioned.

"Because they shall be the newest editions to Spartoi."

Soul's eyes widened. "Seriously? Why?"

"The meister here, Sai, is agile, defensive, and has incredible hearing. She has nearly perfect balance and coordination. Like a gymnast, she can freely turn her battlefield into her own playground. Without a doubt, she can cartwheel her way out of danger.

"Sam here is better with close combat. He is very good in a battle whether it's offensive or defensive and he has an impeccable way of coming up with good strategies. Yes indeed, his intelligence and strength will be of great aid to Spartoi."

Sam smiled cockily and Sai rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly. Black Star scoffed. "They have to prove that they're good enough to join us, especially to hang around me!" he announced.

Tsubaki sweat dropped. "Black Star..."

"Can we prove to be worthy in a game of cards or something?" Sai asked hastily. "I'm kickass in card games!"

"I think a battle would be more appropriate..." Sam muttered.

Lord Death shrugged. "I don't see why not. I'll gladly advise it."

Black Star smirked. "That's right! They can battle me!"

"No, they can fight Maka and Soul."

His jaw dropped. "What? Why them?" he whined.

"Because you fight every single new student we get," the Reaper said. "Let's make it different this time."

"That's the point, though!"

Maka turned her head away. "No way! Soul is irritating me too much today and I don't want to work with him!" she said.

"Right, Maka, because I'm actually enjoying your constant nagging!" Soul countered.

Lord Death shook his head. "Okay then, Kid, Liz, and Patty, you take on Sai and Sam," he said.

Kid shrugged, still fixing his hair. "I'm fine with that. Liz, Patty, transform," he commanded.

"Right."

"Okey dokey!"

Everyone else sat back and watched Kid twirl his weapons, placing his pinkies on the triggers. Sai cocked her head cutely and studied him. "Guns, hmm..." she murmured.

"They're called pistols," he corrected, annoyance in his voice.

She giggled. "Okay, we can handle this!" She grabbed her partner's hands. "Let's do this, Sam!"

Sam sighed. "Let's just make this fast..." he said, glowing and turning into two long, white cleaver swords, one in each hand. The metal arched over and curved sharply at the end, the blade gave off a bright gleam. Sai slightly crouched back, firmly holding her weapons to her sides.

"Kid, look!" Patty perked up. "Her eyes!"

Kid looked up and narrowed his eyes to be taken back. "What the…?" he muttered in confusion. Sai's left eye was no longer red, but now violet. "That's not normal… And now she looks asymmetrical..." he growled.

"Get over it," Liz told him.

He huffed. "Fine."

Him and Maka tried to read their souls, both closing their. Sam's soul was white and had little glasses on. His soul shared the same bored expression. 'Not much of a people person, huh?' Maka thought.

Sai's soul was pale red, but the face was covered behind a white, expressionless mask. The mask also had the number ten carved in red on the forehead.

"You saw their souls?" Tsubaki asked her.

Maka nodded. "Sam has the deepest need for simplicity in his own life… To be independent and self-reliant," she answered, opening her eyes. "He doesn't want to depend on anyone."

"And the meister?"

She furrowed her eyebrows. "I... Don't know. There are too many emotions running around... It's hard to give a good description. The only response that I can currently pinpoint the most is the urge to fight..."

Kid eyed Maka. "You see it, too?" he asked. She nodded. "The emotions in her soul were different before her eye color changed."

Maka motioned her head to the battle. "We'll figure that out later. Pay attention to your fight."

"And don't doze off!" Liz said.

"Begin!" Lord Death exclaimed.

Kid immediately began shooting at Sai, but each bullet she dodged swiftly with cartwheels, regardless of having weapons in her hands. She grinned. "Your aim sucks!" she called.

Kid growled. "I was going easy!"

"Yeah, sure!"

Kid began shooting faster this time and with better aim. Sai stopped cartwheeling and began running in circles. "What's she doing?" Maka muttered to herself. Kid shooting in the same spot from her constant circling caused dust to rise from where she stood.

"Kid, stop, you can't see her anymore!" said Liz and she was right. The brunette was nowhere to be seen in all that grime in the air. Kid stopped shooting and kept his guard up. Suddenly, one of the cleavers came flying out of the smoke to his left. He ducked just in time and the cleaver stuck to the ground right next to Black Star's foot.

"Shit!" he shrieked, jumping back. Tsubaki giggled in response.

"Kid, your right!" Patty shouted.

Kid arched a brow. "I'm right about what?"

"No, look to your right!"

Right when Kid looked, Sai smashed her foot right into his side, knocking him over but he quickly rolled back up and swung his leg around to kick her. She flipped backwards before he could counterattack. He began shooting at her again, finally landing two bullets through her left arm. Light smoke rose from the wound and she released her weapon with a hiss. "Fuck!" She began to jab her arm in different places and it became limp.

"She cut off the nerves in her arm," Maka inquired.

Soul looked at her. "Why would she do that? That's a terrible move," he said.

"No, it's a smart move. It's most likely temporary so she can't feel pain in that arm," Black Star added.

They returned their attention back to the fight. Sai charged herself at Kid with a cleaver in her right hand. When he shot both guns, she jumped and flipped over him, throwing her weapon to the side and landing on her right hand for balance. She pushed her feet out and tried to kick him down, but he grabbed her leg and flipped her over onto her back, making her gasp for air.

Thump-thump.

Kid stiffened when he suddenly felt a small but dark wave emit from her soul. It was a similar kind of dark feeling he felt when he fought Crona long ago…

Before Kid could process all of these thoughts, Sai had punched him in the face as hard as she could and rolled away from him. "Kid, I told you not to doze off!" Liz snapped as Kid stood back up.

He wiped the blood away from his lip. "Sorry… But that presence is gone, now…"

"What?"
"Nothing."

Sai began to move her left arm again and she shook it off. "Oof, your lip is bleeding, dude," she said cautiously. "Sorreh!"

"Sai, mind getting me back?" Sam asked impatiently from the other side of the room.

"Yeah, yeah, quit getting your panties in a knot!" she responded, dashing over to where each cleaver was and swooping them up. She then crawled up the guillotines, dodging each and every one of Kid's bullets.

Scowling, he chased after her and kicked through the concrete of the guillotine, causing it to tumble down and her with it. The blade on the guillotine nearly cut through her body and she jumped back onto the other guillotines. Kid kept kicking through each and every one of them all the same.

Lord Death sweat dropped. "He's damaging everything my room…" he said.

"This is really amusing," Black Star added.

Sai quickly cartwheeled away back onto the platform they were originally on and as Kid chased after her, Lord Death grabbed him by the back of his shirt and lifted him up. "What?!" Kid yelled.

"Stop destroying my room."

"Yes, Father."

Before he could be placed back down, there was large wavelength erupting from Sai's soul and he turned to see that she was right in the middle of a Soul Resonance with her weapon. Her soul grew large and had a tint of purple, though it went unnoticed by everyone except Lord Death, Maka, and Kid.

"Oh, how interesting…" Lord Death commented in wonder.

"Father, put me down!" Kid demanded. Lord Death cackled and dropped him. "Liz, Patty, Soul—"

"Yeah, yeah, we gotcha," Liz intervened.

"Rude."

His soul swelled up as it resonated with Liz and Patty's and small, black reaper snakes began to appear. As the Death Cannons reached up his arm and formed out of the light, he watched Sai's two weapons morph into one large cleaver sword that was nearly Lord Death's height. Her eyes became cold as she glared at him and he returned the informal look.

"Resonance factor stable. Noise, zero point three percent," Liz said.

"Black needle soul wavelength charge complete," Patty spoke.

"Feedback in three…"

"Two—"

"GET ON WITH IT, ALREADY!" Black Star yelled. Maka struck him in the head with her book.

The light was released from Sai's cleaver sword and she made no hesitations to charge forward and attack Kid with a roar. "Death Cannon!" he exclaimed, aiming his cannons right at her and firing. By the time they hit her she was already at a very close range to Kid. Smoke and grime hovered into the air from the explosion, engulfing everyone in the room with a large whirl. Maka bowed her head from the dust flying into her eyes and Soul held her close to prevent that from happening.

Lord Death was laughing. "How delightful!" he cheered, standing perfectly still in place.

The smoke from the explosion finally became still and remained in the air for a few seconds before fading away. "There's something wrong with you," Black Star said to Lord Death. Tsubaki kneed him in the hip and pointed back to the battle.

Sai laid on her stomach, heavily wheezing while Kid rested on his back, trying to catch his breath. The two had dropped their weapons long before and had scratches and bruises staining their skins.

Liz and Patty transformed back into their human forms and towered over their meister. "Man, Kid, you ran out of steam really fast," Liz pointed out.

"I told you…" Kid breathed. "I didn't sleep well last night…"

Sam altered back into his human form and stayed lazily sprawled out on the floor. "Hey, someone help my meister," he said apathetically.

"I think she's perfectly capable of standing on her own," Kid muttered, slowly standing up and brushing his pants off.

"Not when she's having an asthma attack."

"Asthma attack?!" Maka shouted, running over to Sai and kneeling beside her. She noticed her hands were on her chest and she was gasping for air. "Does she have an inhaler?!"

Sam nodded and took the item out of his pocket, rolling it over to Maka. Maka scowled after she snatched it up and handed it to Sai. She placed it to her lips and pressed down, taking in a gasp of air. Maka rubbed her back comfortingly. "Are you okay?" she asked.

"That was fun!" Sai laughed, lifting her head back up. Maka sighed and face palmed.

"I think you two should head to the infirmary," Lord Death said. "Just to bandage up the scratches. Everyone else can show Samuel around the academy."

Kid sighed. "I'm fine, Father, but if that's what you want…"

"Just make your old man happy and do it."

He held his hand out to Sai and she gladly took it, standing up. He blinked, noticing that her left eye color was back to the same ruby color from when he first saw her but he said nothing. "Hey, what's an infa-mary?" she asked.

His eyebrow twitched in agitation. "Just shut up and follow me," he ordered, heading out the room. She frowned and sighed as she accompanied him with Liz and Patty.

Once they were gone, Black Star jumped in front of Sam. "All right, Samuel, just follow me like all people should when a god walks in front of them!"

Sam arched a brow. "I doubt you're a god."

"That's because he's not," Soul commented.

"Yes, I am!" Black Star persisted.

As they left, Lord Death turned back to his mirror. Not too much later, Spirit came walking in. "Sai and Sam were enlisted in Spartoi like you requested, Sir," he said.

"Thank you, Spirit."

"May I ask why you want to put them in of all students? They rudely wandered in like they owned the place. If anything, I figured you would've kicked them out or put them in the NOT class at most." The Death scythe eyed him suspiciously. "So, why?"

Lord Death turned to face him. "If you could read souls, you would understand. There's something very strange about the meister, Sai. I guess for now we can just call this special training for Spartoi."

Spirit narrowed his eyes at him. "Just what are you up to…?" he muttered.

The hallways of the academy were nearly empty, counting out the large handful of students that take pleasure in skipping class.

"Hey!" a random boy shouted across the corridor towards another girl. "You're the student council prez, right?" The girl's head was covered by a panda hoodie, her back faced to him. Though she slightly turned her head to the side to acknowledge him, her face still wasn't visible.

He scowled. "So, you think you can just stroll into this academy mid-year and take up all the missions?!" he demanded. She didn't respond. "Answer me, bitch!"

The girl sighed. "It's none of your business..." she replied quietly.

His scowl turned into a wide, hideous smirk and she felt disgusted without needing to look at him. "You think you're tough shit just because you were recommended here by Lord Death's son?" he questioned.

She turned around to completely face him while her hand pulled her hood over her face more. That certainly gained her attention.

His hand formed a fist and he quickly charged at her. "I'll make him regret that decision—!"

In a flash, she had blown a punch right in his stomach, sending him onto his knees. He coughed and crouched over, curling up on his side and groaning in pain. The students that had skipped watched and stared in shock.

The girl sighed. "I hate you all…" she muttered, turning around and walking away. The few in her path only cowered away.

EOC.

Ugh I hate this first chapter so much and even the second chapter irks me. I tried to put a few stuff in the beginning and ending that would make it more interesting.

I see lots of stories with either OCs are dark and have terrible pasts that have to deal with deaths, they're either just like Kid, or the author's make Kid a complete pussy-tsundere.

No.

Kid is badass, cool, calm, and collected and his OCD is currently under control for the most part, so he's not gonna go pissing his pants over everything now.

The tsundere part, I may slightly put in. But it's a manly tsundere (I hope).

My goal is to create certain pasts and feelings that many people can relate to. I wish there was a feels genre ;-; I mean, I already hate using the cliché "new students" idea ugh but it was all I had that could fit.

Anyways, stay awesome~! Black Heart War is coming out in a few days!

See ya'll next chapter !

Today Is A Beautiful Day~

-Strengthx3