The Thin Line
By Nocturn Sadist
To say, in the least, the school day had started horribly. That's why you could find a bobbing mop of flaming orange hair coming down the street. The street was deserted, meaning, the orange mop was skipping school. If the orange mop was skipping school, then, that didn't exactly mean he was hailed as student of the month. In fact, this was the second school he had to attend after being expelled from the All Boys School From Hell.
It wasn't that he was bad; or that he was even rude and smart to the teachers. It wasn't the teachers that were the problem. It were the students that attended the school. It always was the students that attended the school. The orange mop had thought that all that had stopped after an insane, yet enjoyable, year. That it meant things were going to be different. Of course there were those who still made fun of the orange mop. But, it was a different kind of fun.
That is, until today, of this new and clumsily jump started year.
They got several new transfers. Kids expelled from the same school together for some misbehavior done to a teacher. It couldn't possibly be a coincidence that Kyo Sohma was well acquainted with the six boys.
That morning, the bell blared the start of class.
"...morning, students."
"Good morning, Schizaeaceae-sensei!"(A/N: Don't ask. I was about to name the teacher Shouseki when that showed up in the proper spelling box.)
"Morning, S-sensei."
There several other murmured 'good mornings' and then the students settled down. They looked at the greying man expectantly. Not knowing what the wily man had in store for them.
"Today," S-sensei said, "we are getting several new transfers. I would like you to welcome them as you welcome your closest classmate. Please, make them feel comfortable however short or long their stay may be. You may come in."
The last part was apparently directed at the people standing just outside the classroom. The door slid aside and revealed seven more of the school's most handsome and good looking students. Well, they would have been handsome and good looking if they didn't wear expressions of barely hidden contempt.
Schizaeaceae-sensei inspected his new students, "may I introduce Niwa Sohma, Himatari Shouseke, Heero and Yuki Ekoku, and Riku Azuzi." Schizaeaceae-sensei pointed to each arrival in turn, "please take your seats."
The transfers shuffled to their seats. Yuki and Heero Ekoku sat on either side of Yuki Sohma, Riku Azuzi sat behind Hanajima, and the other transfers sat in other empty desks around the classroom. Although they shouldn't have been talking across the room, all six arrivals murmured greetings to Kyo. Yuki silently noticed the tense set of his cousin's shoulders as the orange top accepted the greetings with a cold 'hey'.
"I see you seven know each other," commented S-sensei, "I'll leave you to show them around, Sohma-kun."
Instead, Sohma-kun promptly skipped his next class, which he shared with Niwa Sohma.
"Falling back into bad habits, are we, Kyo-kun?"
Kyo recognized the voice without fail.
"I thought you would atleast acknowledge me, Kyo-kun. I didn't think I hurt you that bad."
Kyo swung around at Yuki Ekoku's words. They did their job and caught his attention, the evil bastard. Kyo glared at his classmate, "get bent, asshole."
Yuki seemed genuinely hurt by Kyo's words, but, he quickly recovered, "you never spoke to me, like this, before! You must be coming around!"
Kyo didn't give Yuki the satisfaction of rolling his eyes. He just turned on his heel and tread the familiar steps to his destination.
"Bye! See you tomorrow!" behind Kyo, Yuki twirled lazily in the opposite direction.
Author's Note: This is what I need: the names of all the girls in Yuki's fan club, and the names of their friends. I simply cannot continue without those names. Thanks for reading(and helping me out)!!!
To help you out a little, I'll be sure to make sure you know which Yuki is talking. While Yuki Sohma doesn't use a lot of exclamation marks, Yuki Ekoku will have a flamboyant personality and use a lot of exclamation marks whenever someone insults him...like Yuki gone OOC...or demon Aayame incarnate.