Soul Eater Revamped! (Dead may become fan fic)

[restalaan]

"It doesn't exactly work like that." Sakura has an uncomfortable look of her face. "I have forms I inherited from the past generations. Nobody in my family was ever a guitar." She says in an almost apologetic tone.

4 years later:
Bass: Sakura's family sprung for the accommodations, as such you are staying in a two story house. Sakura lives up stairs, and you down. The kitchen is also on your floor, and a training center upstairs. Sakura does as much cooking as you let her. It seems to be the only time she is truely stress free. Her food is unbelievable. That seems to be her natural gift the one thing she doesn't have to work toward.

(Back to the plot!)
Class just dismissed for the day. Sakura in her usual fashion answered all the toughest questions. You are all walking to the meeting spot. "So, why do you think Stein wants us to meet?"Sakura asks to nobody in particular.
"Dunno." Serah answers uninterested as she slings her bag over her shoulder. "Any of you guys have an idea?"

Bass has really practiced hard in order to utilize Sakura though it was still hopeless even after four years, he learn how to fight with her form but in terms of actually soul resonance with her he was still now where there. Not really helped was that Sakura was a straight A student while he was average below.

Made worst was staying with her so he has no excuse for not training, everyday was more and more training.

Walking down with the rest of his group mates, he didn't notice the book falling off from Serah until Reyn and Gregor picked the book up.

"Hmm, i just hope it's not a test. One that's administered personally by Stein. It would be a nightmare."Bass said offhandedly as he turned around to wait for them to finish before continuing their journey to Dr.Stein.

[EndZoner]

"Alright, see you later.", Brandon said as he waved Serah off before going to class.

[center]------4 Years Time Skip------[/center]

Years has passed since Brandon has entered DWMA and he has been living a decent life so far. He has been living in an apartment with Serah for the last 4 years and it has been a struggle. Serah is stubborn as hell and demand to cook half of the food those two eat. She is a terrible cook and Brandon has lost some of his sense of taste because of her. Aside of being a bad cook, he has matured and respects her greatly. He likes to think that they're best friends.

He has also been keeping contact with his mother while attending DWMA, though he regretted telling her that he was living with a girl. As the doting mother that she is, she has made several reference of coercing him to go out with Serah and to take things slow. Which annoyed him greatly. For God's sake, he's barely a teenager and he's been busy killing Kishins. The thought of romance never came to his mind, but he has to admit that Serah is attractive. However, he didn't want to make any advances towards her because he's afraid of ruining the relationship that they had made together.

Besides, he's happy with the way things are. Although, he's still annoyed about the fact that Serah still do not trust him enough to tell him about what she's looking at when she's "studying". He understands that she doesn't feel comfortable about telling him and understands, but what makes her uncomfortable to tell him?

Meh, Serah must have a good reason not to tell and is more than willing to wait until she's comfortable about it. In school, he's making mostly B's in class and an occasional C's in some. He also kept his promise of never calling Serah a bitch ever since she impressed him on the first day in the DWMA. To be honest, he always thought that Serah's cool.

Class just dismissed for the day. Sakura in her usual fashion answered all the toughest questions. You are all walking to the meeting spot. "So, why do you think Stein wants us to meet?"Sakura asks to nobody in particular.
"Dunno." Serah answers uninterested as she slings her bag over her shoulder. "Any of you guys have an idea?"

"I don't know, what that guy wants. We're doing good so far, maybe we have a common issue that we never think much about?", Brandon suggested to Serah's question.

As Serah throws her bag over her shoulder a book falls out she clearly didn't notice...Reyn walks up to the book picking it up, and giving it a quick glance "Hey, Serah you dropped this."

"Drop what, Red?", Brandon asked his fellow teammate. He never stopped using the nickname that Serah indirectly created on the first day of the DWMA. After turning to Reyn, he notice that he was holding a book. "Oh, that must be one of those books that Serah study with.", Brandon concluded logically, "What's the subject, Red?", he asked Reyn curiously.

[Nexous]

Serah turned around. "I dropped something?" When she saw the book in Reyn's hand she immediately responds"I've never seen that book in my life! Keep that smut away from me." On the front cover was a woman wearing leather armor with a bow drawn, and a shirtless burly man welding a giant axe. On the back cover is an image of the two of them embracing nude, their positioning the only thing maintaining the decency. The title of the book is "Love, Blood, and War." It's the first novel in a popular "romance" fantasy adventure series. There are scenes in it that can only be described as pornographic. It's a first edition copy signed by the author Pinn Nami.

[Drack]

Reyn slightly cringed as Brandon called him "Red" he had continued to call him that for the last 4 years and Reyn didn't approve of it. Reyn had decided to ignore it in hopes Brandon would stop using it, however that proved futile.

Serah's odd response shook Reyn back to his senses as he looked down at the book finally realizing what it was...."Love, Blood, and War" a signed first edition. Reyn had heard of this novel, but had never seen a copy up close until now and based on the cover the rumors were true. It was obvious now that Serah is embarrassed by this and denied ownership of the book, and this left Reyn in a tough spot. He mentally kicked himself for being so thoughtless, had he looked at the book before revealing it to the others this might of been avoided.

Reyn decided to keep from embarrassing Serah further and play it off "Oh, right I must of not been paying attention...it was over in the grass and you couldn't of dropped it. I will take it to the lost in found after we meet with Dr.Stein."

[Heero]

upon seeing the book in detail while all that was going on Gregor shook his head at Reyn as, "Dude don't lie i've seen you read that when you think i'm cooking or asleep. it's ok i don't judge." he says patting him on the shoulder and steps back grinning.

[EndZoner]

Brandon doesn't believe a single word coming from the mouths of his comrades. He has been lied to before and he got a sixth sense for these kind of things. Especially when you can tell your own Meister that she's lying to your face. After denying the accusation of reading a piece of literature that was not educational in any way, he noticed the tell tale sign that she's lying. The moment that she denied any knowledge of the book, he clearly saw the signs that she's lying! There's no doubt about it. That erotic novel belongs to Serah! The revelation was shocking, but at the same time he kind of seen it coming. She has been reading that thing for years right under your nose and still thinks that she can brush it under the rug.

"You pervert...", Brandon suddenly muttered to no one in particular. For all Serah knew, he could be referring to her, but he's not stopping there. "Carrying a erotic novel in your bag during school? Were you actually reading that during class? My God, you have some issues.", he stated as he continue to not being specific to who he was talking. "Get a damn girlfriend, Red. It's fucking embarrassing knowing the fact that you carry smut with you at all time to get some excitement going on.", he stated as he decided to allow Serah to think that he's not aware of her hobby. It might ease her in fact. "And dear lord, you had it autographed? Now that's just plain sad. Do you know that out of this group, you're the 'cool one' by some of the girls in class? You're lucky you didn't get caught until now. What the hell would happen if you got caught reading it in class? Your life here would be over, Red!", he stated to Reyn. Hopefully he would get the hint and take the fall for Serah. Gregor is doing a good job so far.

[Drack]

Reyn gave Gregor a harsh glare, for being his partner Gregor sold him out awfully fast and this left Reyn rather annoyed, but perhaps it's better this way as Reyn wanted to protect Serah from being embarrassed. Brandon then started to speak and began berating Reyn for possessing the book, however as Brandon spoke Reyn got the feeling that Brandon knew the book wasn't his, but he wasn't completely sure. At this point his only option was to take the fall for Serah and accept responsibility for the book.

Reyn let out a sigh and shrugged "Alright-alright, you got me it's really my book. Normally, I don't take it to class with me, but today I packed it by mistake and tried to pass it off as something I found on the ground. I'm a fan of the novel's...um, romance and passion I'm just a guy that's in love with the thought of love.", This of course was a lie, but he might as well commit to it in order to avoid suspicion. "I hope each of you can forgive me for lying to you it's not an easy thing to admit, and I also hope you don't judge me...if the roles were reversed I wouldn't judge any of you.", Hopefully with that Serah will not feel bad for her secret, and if the others decide to keep berating him over the book, Reyn can deal with that.

[Nexous]

Serah looks guilty as the blame seems to fall on Reyn, and more so as Brandon spoke. Once she realized he was also talking about Reyn she began to get the feeling he was on to her, but decided not to push her luck. "Hey, don't be too hard on him. Boys will be boys right? Let's hurry, and meet professor Stein."
"Yes, we have wasted enough time." Sakura added as she continued toward the meeting place.

[Heero]

As the started off to meet the prof. Gregor walks up next to reyn, "Hey buddy i was just joking around i know that book wasn't yours, i would have read it already if it was hahaha!"

[restalaan]

Bass only grunted through the entire ordeal, tapping his fingers on his arm impatiently. A similar sentiment shared by Sakura, thankfully.

"Come on, enough dilly dallying. Otherwise Stein will try to operate on us secretly."Bass commented as he quicken his pace.

[Drack]

Reyn stayed silent as the group kept moving to to meet up with Professor Stein as Gregor tells him that he knew the book wasn't Reyn's he whispers so the others don't hear him talk. "Yes, the book isn't mine, but not everyone needs to know that so just play along for now. I will handle it after we deal with whatever Professor Stein has planned for us."

[EndZoner]

Serah looks guilty as the blame seems to fall on Reyn, and more so as Brandon spoke. Once she realized he was also talking about Reyn she began to get the feeling he was on to her, but decided not to push her luck. "Hey, don't be too hard on him. Boys will be boys right? Let's hurry, and meet professor Stein."
"Yes, we have wasted enough time." Sakura added as she continued toward the meeting place.

Brandon frowned from the fact that Serah continued to hide the truth. He had thought that she would confess to save face, but apparently it's too embarrassing for her to do so. He let out an annoyed sigh as he continue to follow his friends to Prof. Stein's location. "Yeah, yeah, just trying to change the atmosphere.", he stated, which wasn't a lie since it managed to change the focus of their current objective temporarily.

[Nexous]

"About time." Stein greeted. "So, you must be wondering why I called you here. Well you are the only group that has yet to achieve soul resonance. That being the case I have prepared a remedial lesson for all of you."

Sakura clutched her hands to her mouth, and gasped as though she received truly grave news. Sarah just responded with "Are you fuckin cereal?"
"Yes I am quite ahem cereal" Stein retorted. "It's simple there is a cave on an island. There is an item in that cave I want you to get... from the witches in that cave. They meet every full moon."
"WE HAVE TO GO TONIGHT?!" Sakura practically shrieks.

[Drack]

Reyn remained silent as the group reached Professor Stein and he announced that they would be taking part in a remedial lesson. Sakura and Sarah both freak out at this news, but Reyn remains calm only chuckling a bit as Stein says "cereal" as it was rather odd. Once Stein goes over the details Sakura freaks out again this time screaming about going tonight, Reyn wondered why...perhaps she already had plans for tonight, but he shook that from his thoughts to focus on the task at hand. It was obvious there was more to this than Stein was saying, but without more information all he could do was guess.

Reyn crosses his arms looking in deep thought "Alright, sounds interesting, but could you please go into a bit more detail on what exactly we are looking for, or is not knowing part of the lesson?"

[restalaan]

"...Well, that's quite a pickle."Bass muttered, too shock and scared to properly show it on his face as his mind was already blazing with the amount of bad scenarios this could lead too. He personally never seen Sakura this panicky before.

Hearing Reyn asking for more details, he was slightly grateful for it and added."I don't suppose we could have some backup at least?"

[Heero]

Gregor holds back a laugh at the professor as he says cereal. and humming 'a hunting we will go' as he listens.

[EndZoner]

Brandon turned his attention to Sakura, "Why the hell are you panicking?", he asked before continuing, "Do you have plans for tonight or something?", he asked further. He was not fazed by Stein's response to Serah's question since he's still thinking about Serah's novel. Is it really that hard to confess about something that simple. Sure reading isn't his hobby, but he understands that everyone enjoys doing hobbies. Apparently Serah's hobby is reading romance novels.

[Nexous]

(I was working on updating the appearance of the characters when I received the news about my sister. I will work on that again soon."
"I can't believe it... remedial class." Sakura muttered.
Stein just shook his head. "I'm sure you'll recognize what you're looking for when you see it, and no backup."
"I'm sure remedial classes aren't a big deal to you, and Serah, but my mother will disown me!" Sakura snapps at Brandon.
"Hey!" Was Serah's only response to Sakura's jab.
"Well you guys better hurry, the boat leaves in an hour." Stein says walking away.

[Drack]

Reyn remained quiet as Stein refuses to give any extra details he expected as much, and let out a sigh as Stein walks away and Sakura continues to lose it over having a remedial class. Reyn then tried to calm her down "Relax, it's only one lesson...all of us are going to ace this and all of us try our best to achieve soul resonance Professor Stein did note that is why we have this lesson, and never have to do another remedial lesson again."

He pauses his tone going from confident to serious as he looks to everyone in the group "Only if we focus on the task at hand and leave all the negative stuff behind. If you didn't notice Professor Stein said "witches" that means we don't have an exact number of how many we are going to have to deal with...I don't think he would ask us to do something we couldn't handle though."

[EndZoner]

Brandon frowned at Sakura's jab. He was somewhat hurt by the tone she's giving him. "Wow, you got some issues. You need to straighten things out with your mother. This isn't healthy for you. Especially since you just snapped at me for no apparent reason. Not to mention how unlikely your scenario was. I'm pretty sure a mom wouldn't disown her own child just because they're taking remedial classes.", he added. "No one perfect you know.", he finished.

Reyn remained quiet as Stein refuses to give any extra details he expected as much, and let out a sigh as Stein walks away and Sakura continues to lose it over having a remedial class. Reyn then tried to calm her down "Relax, it's only one lesson...all of us are going to ace this and all of us try our best to achieve soul resonance Professor Stein did note that is why we have this lesson, and never have to do another remedial lesson again."

He pauses his tone going from confident to serious as he looks to everyone in the group "Only if we focus on the task at hand and leave all the negative stuff behind. If you didn't notice Professor Stein said "witches" that means we don't have an exact number of how many we are going to have to deal with...I don't think he would ask us to do something we couldn't handle though."

"See? Red understands this crap. Just calm down and think realistically here. I'm pretty sure it's going to be difficult for Bass to resonate with you when you're having a panic attack.", he commented. "So calm down I bet your dad will have something to say even if your mom want you disowned.", he stated. Throughout the time spent with Sakura, he had always felt sorry for her. Having an overbearing mother isn't good for anyone. All it does is cause unnecessary stress. He was just glad that Sakura's dad is the type of guy who would spoil his children. Then again, he's married to the overbearing mother... Brandon just hopes that things get better for her soon. Sakura doesn't deserve this kind of stress.