First Day

(REWRITTEN)

Sao: Nope. Don't own Yu Yu Hakusho, and therefore do not own Kurama (sighs)

Karuri: I bet you just wish you did though.

Sao: How did you guess?

Kurama: sighs

Sao: KURAMA! (glomps) you came!

Kurama: ack...

Karuri: Why did you answer her invitation if you knew she'd be like this?

Kurama: Well for starters I didn't know she'd be like this...


First day in a new school. A little unnerving by anybody's standards, but when you've just escaped being caught by the underworld and being stuffed in Makai and had to come to a whole other COUNTRY and enroll in another school just to stay away from them, well, hey! Not to mention when you just managed to get into the country most notorious for having other demons, and therefore lots of underworld-lings.

Specifically, Karuri had come from America. She was an elemental kitsune, one of, no, scratch that, the last of her kind existing. They weren't hunted out of existence or anything. It's just that, often enough, they died while learning to control their powers. Generally it was their own that killed them. It was too much power for any body. Look at her, she already had reached seven tails, and she wasn't even two hundred. It wasn't uncommon, in the past when there had been more of them, for children to be born already with two, or even three tails.

And now she was in Japan, after having made it through the barrier between worlds somewhere in Russia near the European border. That had been three years ago. Even in that short time, the underworld-lings had chased her across five countries. Five! I mean, she had expected to be chased, but five different countries in three years? It was a good thing kitsunes enjoyed a challenge.

The last country had been America, and that time they had nearly caught her, causing her to just grab whatever flight was available, damn it, and get her out of there as soon as possible! After all that jaunting, she spoke at least six languages. Four for the different countries she had been in, the youkai language, and, of course, Japanese. She had to admit that her favorites were her native youkai tongue, Japanese and English. She had acquired quite a hoard of stuff in America, all of which she had managed to get on the plane with her, and miraculously none of it had gotten lost. Ningens and air travel and getting luggage to the right place did not mix.

"Karuri-san?" the voice of the principal of the new school cut into her musings.

"Hai?" she responded immediately.

"Here is your schedule. Would you like someone to show you around the school?"

"Ano... sure." she said, shrugging and brushing some of her long, dusky, nearly black hair out of her face.

Never mind that she had it up in a clip. It didn't all fit, leaving the front to grace her face, bringing out her fair skin and bright blue-green eyes, with the yellow starburst ring around the pupils.

The elegant blue-rimmed glasses she wore made her look older than she really was, but she rather liked that. Not to mention they matched her new uniform.

The skirt was extremely short, a fact that, as a kitsune, she wasn't too worried about, and the neckline was wide and low, showing off the tiniest bit of cleavage on all the girls. It had a dusky lavender double stripe following the v-neck and around the sleeves. The skirt was a blue almost the same shade as her glasses.

She had noticed the principal and several other male members of the staff staring at the girls when they thought they wouldn't be noticed. However, under her human illusion she wasn't likely to be molested. It wasn't that she was ugly, quite the opposite. Her figure was merely modeled on a slim, childish scale, not looking as mature as some of the others did, or for that matter, as she herself did in her real form.

"Well, you're in luck, we have just the person here, he even has all of your classes." the principal told her. "I'll just go get someone to get him."

"D'accord." she said nonchalantly. ((French, hehe. Guess where she spent half her sophomore year? Cyber brownies if you do! Shouldn't be too hard tho ))

He sent her a sideways glance, not sure what she was saying ((A/N if it isn't mentioned otherwise, they're speaking japanese, ok?))

"Ah, here he is." he said, distracting himself from the strange girl in front of him. A young man in a dusky blue uniform a slightly lighter shade than her skirt came into the office. He had long, bright red hair that she could almost swear had to have been dyed, and stunning emerald green eyes. ((WHO CARES WHAT SCHOOL HE WAS IN BEFORE I'M CHANGING IT! grr I like my uniform!))

"Konnichiwa." the young man said. "Did you need me for something, Numeka-san?"

"Yes, Minamino-san, I would appreciate it if you would show this girl around the school. She has all of your classes so it shouldn't be too much trouble. Arigato." the principal said and turned back to his desk, indicating that indeed it wasn't an optional activity to show Karuri around. She rolled her eyes at his audacity and received an amused smile from the redhead.

"Ano... konnichiwa?" she offered, smiling hesitantly at him from under the curtain of her long bangs.

"Shall we get to class?" he asked politely.

"Sure." Karuri shrugged. "Where are we going again?"

"That would be Calculus."

"Blah..." she muttered, and received another amused glance.

He led her down a crowded hall, around a corner, up a staircase and through another hall. She noticed a lot of glares directed at her from the female population in general. As they finally made it into a classroom, which was mostly empty except for one or two guys and the teacher, and sat down in desks next to the window, she sent him a sidelong glance and asked,

"What was with all the freaky vindictive people in the hallway?"

"Oh... you noticed that? I believe they are members of the "Minamino Official Fan Club," or something ridiculous like that."

She burst out laughing at that, and the slightly embarrassed look on his face.

"Official?"

"Hai, apparently so."

Just then a group of aforementioned fan club members entered the classroom, sending poisoned glares at Karuri for being in the desk next to the redhead. Ningens were so amusing like that. It wasn't like they were courting him or anything.

But then, ningens didn't do things that way exactly... she couldn't help but wonder if one of them was actually his girlfriend. Even after three years in Ningenkai the things still seemed strange. This one was no exception, but, hey.

"All right, class. Today we will be starting on page 105 of your textbooks, from where we left off yesterday. You should all have the homework done, yes?"

There was a general murmur of assent from the class.

"Ah, we have a new student today. Karuri-san, stand up, douzo."

Karuri stood a little bashfully. Why did teachers always insist on drawing attention to the new student? Maybe it had something to do with them being ningen. The small ningen needed their attention focused for them.

"Class, this is Ayashika Karuri. She transferred in from America."

"Douzo yoroshiku." she said hesitantly, bowing to the class. They all did likewise, though she noticed some more glaring from the girls. Ningen. So amusing.


Kurama couldn't get over the way she seemed so uncaring about the fan club. Most people were rather unnerved by the viciousness of the girls. But she seemed hardly fazed.

She was just a slip of a thing, her long dark hair framing her face, with the glasses that made her look so much older than her body suggested. Sitting in the desk with her face resting on one hand and chewing on one finger, she seemed ultimately frail and defenseless.

/What are you looking at her for? There are many more attractive around. And there are those who don't break when you touch them./ Youko's voice sounded in his head.

/I am not looking at her like that/ Kurama protested.

/Yes you are. Anyway, she's ningen. There's no partner material there./

/That's typical. Did it ever occur to you that a girl could be a friend/

/Friendship leads to much better ends./

/I can't even talk to you anymore, can I/

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Sao: yeah, short chappie there I know... eheh, sorry... but, hey...

Karuri: she's just stalling and wants to switch scenes because she can't write this bit right now...

Kurama: And because she's extremely distracted due to the fact that she's watching Inuyasha.

Sao: Hey, I love ze ears! And all the pretty tails!

Karuri: Well, he has tails... sometimes points to Kurama

Sao: Yeah, SOMEtimes. Anyhows, pleez review!

Karuri: Yeah, or else she'll go really psycho.

Sao: HEY!

EDIT: For anyone who doesn't know or isn't familiar with the small amount of Japanese being used, Douzo yoroshiku is basically, "pleased to meet you," literally more like "please look after me."
Douzo is please,
Ningen is human,
Ningenkai is the human world,
Reikai is the spirit world (If you're reading this story, you better have known at least that one...)