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About Time (Soul Eater, Soul)

"Just three more souls left!" my partner shouted, jumping around like an idiot. Sometimes I felt like he was worse than Black Star was. Well, personality-wise anyway. As a meister, he was an amazing partner. If his soul wavelength wasn't so inconsistent, he could have worked with a weapon much better than myself.

"Come on, Haruka!" he called back to me. Like always, Fluffly had run off ahead of me. I swear if I hadn't agreed to be his partner, he would never have found anyone who could put up with him. But he wasn't all that bad if you got to know him. "Don't you want to hurry up and get back so you can see Soul?"

He got me. Just the mention of his name was enough to make me run up ahead of my partner. Soul was the reason I was always so excited after a mission. This time we were going to meet up with him and his partner Maka.

Maka was pretty cool, but I kind of suspected that Soul had a thing for her. Obviously, that made me jealous. But Fluffly had a major crush on her, so I made sure to get along with her.

We were late meeting the other two, but none of us seemed to mind. Seeing Fluffly standing there and smiling like an idiot, I began pushing him towards Maka. It was about time he told her how he felt. "Do me a favor and keep this idiot busy and away from me for a while," I told her, leaving the two.

As the two walked away, it dawned on me that I was now alone with Soul. I almost wished they'd stayed. Knowing him, this could either go really well or end badly. I wasn't sure I really wanted to know what was going to happen. "Guess it's just you and me," I heard him say, not even looking in my direction.

"Yeah... fun..."

"Hm? You okay?"

I realized just how bored and disappointed I sounded. "What? Oh... Sorry, I was just thinking." Now I was the one smiling like an idiot. Soul looked me over slowly and grinned.

Did I even want to know what thoughts were going through his head? I decided I was better off not knowing. "I know a place that's pretty cool. Good for thinking," he said, making the goofy smile on my face get replace by a curious one. "You coming?"

Soon we found ourselves sitting in a nice quiet place overlooking Death City. From there, I spotted Maka and Fluffly sharing a kiss, which I pointed out to Soul. "About time those two got together," he said, moving a little closer to me. "Which reminds me of two people who still need to..."

I'd been too absorbed in looking out at the city below us, that I didn't notice just how close he was. Without even realizing I was doing it, I laid my head on his shoulder. Before long the sun was setting and I was watching it as I sat there in Soul's arms.

When I felt his hand moving on my waist and starting to go lower, I realized how we were. Instantly I moved away from him, feeling my face get hot. "What? Did you just realize what you were doing? You've only been sitting like that for an hour."

Had it really been that long? Why would he let me cuddle with him like that for so long? Unless... That couldn't be possible. I looked over to find him staring at me and imitating that dopey smile that Fluffly had had earlier with Maka.

I laughed and pushed him over. Springing back up, I found myself being tackled to the ground. "You're too cute, you know that?" As he spoke, his face got closer before lightly kissing me.

"About time you two got together," I heard Maka and Fluffly say, drawing our attention from each other.

"Funny, we said the same thing about you two."