Rei sighed as she walked through the halls of her new school, unsure exactly why she chose to go here rather than one much closer to the other senshi. Oxford University, possibly the most prestigious school in the world and yet she didn't want to be there.

Somehow, she felt as if she had betrayed Usagi and the others by coming here... heck, she could've been like Ami-chan and let go of her dreams for their princess but she was here.

Poor Ami, giving up on being a doctor like that...

Still, her mind was only on them for the moment only because her henshin stick had fallen out of her bag, bringing back memories of when they were all together.

She felt selfish because while they were constantly sending her emails, text messages, thinking about her, she couldn't say that she did the same thing. In fact, it was quite the opposite. Most of the time, they weren't even on her mind. She could effectively say now that her brain was often in the cloud, thinking about a certain red-headed male, a handsome one, in fact... one that she didn't trust in the slightest.

She bit her lip as she thought about him. No need to be presumptuous about his stand in this world but it worried her... could this be why Luna told her to take the offer to Oxford?

Kurama, otherwise known as Shuichi Minamino, walked across campus, talking into a cell phone in one ear, a book in hand. "No Kassan, yes Kassan, I'm fine Kassan." There was a pause, "Yes, I'm sure. Mom this place has a botany division, you know how I want to be a botanist..." not that the demon needed to learn MORE about plants...

He continued to read from his book while he walked, finally saying good-bye and clicking the phone. He hadn't wanted the cell-phone, but his mother had insisted, so that they could keep in touch. Shuichi could never deny his mother anything.

He almost walked into a girl and swerved around, just barely avoiding her, he looked back and saw it was Rei. She, however, felt him swerve and jumped the other way, her back hitting the wall. "Ah! Rei-san! I'm sorry if I hit you..." he rubbed his head and closed his book, "I got too absorbed. I guess I shouldn't read and walk at the same time..."

Rei's hair had flew across her face- she had been in deep thought when they nearly collided. Truthfully, she believed that it was partially her fault that they bumped (he didn't, she hit the wall) though she would never admit it. She took her hair and laid it to the back of her ears and combed with her finger as she listened to him apologize but felt somewhat distracted by his aura.

She smiled lightly, her features pretty and posture dignified. "Shuichi-" She spoke softly and looked to the green eyed boy, seeming to be looking for something or an answer to a question she never asked. "-san, its alright. I wasn't paying any attention, myself. So, how are you?"

She hurriedly took her henshin pen and put it in her pocket as she smiled nervously.

Kurama smiled back bowing his head a little and putting the book into his bag. "Ne, I've been busy. Very busy, but it's worth it because I'll be doing something I love for a living. I'm here for botany, I've always had a fasination with plants. Since I'm here doing work for that, it may keep me busy all day long, but I'm happy here."

Plants. Youmas could never love such things and enjoy them the way he did, and she knew he wasn't lying. He may not have known of her before coming to this college, but she knew of him. Ami spoke fondly of him because of his intelligence, being the genius she is. Furthermore, Rei had watched him for some time before coming here only because Luna had told her to watch him and the midget.

He ran a hand through his long red hair and smiled brightly, he looked a little tired, but it didn't show through his actions. "What about you Rei-san? How are you?" he seemed so natural, like he could be an actor and no one would know.

Strangely, she had started to enjoy watching him in the shadows, seeing who he was when no one was around. She smiled lightly, "Shuichi-san, I'm doing quite fine. Actually, I was transferring to the botanic class you're in... would it be alright if you were my partner for awhile in that class?" She asked, flipping her hair over her shoulder, something she remembered Minako saying it was a sign of attraction from a female to a male when done properly, and she did it better than properly.

"Ah." Kurama's smile only seemed to get wider as this went on. "Of course, I'll be your partner. You're a smart person Rei-san, you'll definitely be an asset to the class." He had, of course, noticed the slight hair flip but didn't think much of it. It was Rei-san. Rei-san was an individual, different from anyone else he'd met here.

Shuichi knew Rei-san wasn't a normal person, but he didn't know exactly what she was. He had heard of Sailor Moon. Demons would occasionally give word of her and her senshi, but Kurama had never met one before, and thus wouldn't know unless he was flat out told.

The demon readjusted his bag strap on his shoulder and motioned for Rei to walk beside him, "I was going to botany class now, why don't you walk with me?"

Rei nodded in a somewhat affair of shock that he'd ask her to walk with him but applauded his actions in her mind and walked to his side, side-by-side. It took a moment to take in all that had happened, not that it was important but she felt that she needed to keep notes of everything in her mind. "Arigatou, Shuichi-san..." She said, her tone soft and gentle, graciousness very evident.

"No need to thank me, everything I said is true. You'll definately be an asset to the class." Kurama smiled his trademark smile as he walked, keeping speed with Rei. Within his bag his phone rang and he sighed, reaching in and taking it out, looking at who was calling and pressing the button for voicemail. He'd call Yusuke back later.

"If it's not too rude of me to ask Rei-san, why are you switching to Botany? Is there any specific reason?"

Rei should've known that question was going to come up especially seeing that she didn't exactly seem to have taken any interest in it before though she did truly love nature.

Her left eye twitched for a moment but she quickly laid hand over the twitching area.

"Honestly, I've always loved nature," she said honestly as she tried to think of an honest lie, "well, being a priestess... some people expect for us to know the plants and animals very well and what plant extracts would be best for a medicine..." She smiled lightly at him, her pearly whites showing only the slightest.

"Besides, I saw that you were in it and assumed that it had to be interesting." She lied but kept a straight face as she had suddenly felt a surge of energy throughout the school then the aura suddenly disappeared.

"Ah?" Kurama looked behind and around him as he too felt the aura. As soon as he felt it, it was gone. "Strange..." he mumbled a bit to himself. The redhead would have to check it out later.

"Hm, people may expect you to know the best plant concoctions, but you may or may not learn that from a botany class, it depends on what kind of teacher you have." Kurama pointed out after recovering from the aura surge. "And as to my being in the class, yes, to me, it's interesting, but that doesn't mean it'll be interesting to everyone. In fact, most of the people I know would find it quite boring..." Yusuke was a good example of this although the teen might just stay awake so that Kurama wouldn't kill him after class.

"But, I will admit loving nature is a good thing. It gives us so much. It deserves a bit of thanks every once in awhile from us humans who are abusing it so."

Rei frowned lightly, unintentionally looking around, trying to figure out where that aura possibly could've came from and it was obvious it wasn't from her nor him. "What's strange... my reason? Rei asked, that being the only thing she had paid attention to when he was speaking.

Looking at Shuichi, she smiled, "well, then, could you teach me about that if the teacher doesn't? I know you know much about that..." She paused upon realizing that she may have started up some suspicion. "I read an essay you wrote before I met you in Japan that appeared in a Tokyo paper..."

A pretty female walked by and grabbed onto Kurama's arm lightly then looked at Rei curiously, her smile seeming friendly yet vixenously. "Yo Shuichi," the girl said, obviously not from Japan but probably from a European country. Rei couldn't put a name to the accent, "the professor already started... c'mon." She tugged him closer to herself and smiled grandiosely, "Who's your friend? Did we ever meet? If not, I'm Anastacia."

"Hai..." Shuichi said, pulling his arm out of Anastacia's grasp. "This is Rei-san...but I don't believe I've ever met you because Anastacia-san..." the professor had already started? That wasn't good, that meant they were late..

.

He turned back to Rei, taking a step away from Ana, he'd had women be a bit forward with him before, but not that forward... "And no Rei-san, I didn't think your reason was strange...it was just that I was sure I had felt something behind me when there was nothing there."

The redhead moved onto her next statement, "And I didn't know one of my essays had been published, they usually tell me something about that...but Meiou was a prestigious school...maybe they forgot." He was open to things like that. Other possibilities.

Rei looked at the other girl in a complete shock that she'd pretend to know him and how close she kept him to her bosom as she spoke nonsense quietly and trying to make Rei read her lips about her relationship with Shuichi.

She smiled uncomfortably, "Have fun with your girlfriend... need to get to the class..." She waved and walked off to the other class as she suddenly remembered he did look nervous when she felt that great aura of energy when he said 'strange.'

Frowning slightly, she moved onto the class and noticed the professor wasn't even in there.

Kurama stepped a bit more away from Anastacia, "I have to go, I don't want to be any more late than I am." His speech was polite as always and the redhead backed away and almost ran down the hall, Ana gave him shivers, to be so forward with him...he didn't want to be near her alone, and also he really didn't want to be any later than he was. He hadn't really lied.

He came into the classroom, "He's not even here..." he whispered very quietly. Had Anastacia lied?

Rei sat at the desk, in the classroom, questioning why there were so few students and then saw Shuichi walk into the classroom.

Finally, a thin man had walked in, briskly... a subtle frown, more like a sad look in Rei's opinion. The man wasn't the professor at all. He looked at her then at Kurama. "You are students for this class?" The man asked, his tone sad and polite.

"Hai." Rei said immediately, unlike her normal self.

"Well," The man said, "this class is no longer... not until we find another teacher. He was found dead last night, wrapped up in vines..."

Rei let out a loud gasp.

Author's Note:

Thank you for reading. Please review. This is a collaborative effort between Charmkeeper and I. She and I always do epic RPGs and this is one of them for you to enjoy.

I have edited it to flow better (my parts were the ones that needed the major work, lol.)

Please check out my other Sailor Moon/ Yu Yu Hakusho crossover called " Fiery Rose: Forbidden Love."

Disclaimer:

I don't own any of the canon characters of either series. I do own Ana and the teacher though.