I came up with the idea for this story after seeing my friend's son comfort a complete stranger. Now said son is only seven, but Hunny's personality fits the same bill. Though Hunny won't show up till chapter three. There's a kind of perceptiveness children have and it comes in the most innocent form. I am not sure if I am even close to everyone's personalities, so we can just say this is rather OOC and AU.

I do not own anything except for the computer I am using to write with. I just like the characters.

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All It Takes Is One

Kasanoda Ritsu walked through the grounds of his home with a frown on his face. It was a beautiful day and he actually looked forward to going to school. Even though the girl, Fujioka Haruhi, had turned him down, he now had friends both at school and home. He noticed Sendou Tetsuya raking dried grass from around the vegetable gardens he had so meticulously started working on. The man was a good worker; polite and gentle. What's more, he was a friend with whom Kasanoda had learned to cherish.

"Kasanoda-sama!" The young worker called out, dropping the rake and walking toward the high school student. "Are you ready for school today?"

"Uh." Kasanoda grunted. He was ready, but was the girl in the room down the hallway ready?

/GG/

Kasanoda knocked on the door and waited for a response. It came in the form of a sigh.

"Are you ready for school?" He asked shyly. Why his uncle had to marry a foreigner was beyond him. What's more, why did said foreigner need to travel from Colombia to Japan just because her mom and step-dad were having a verbal spat?

The red haired young man looked at his new step-cousin's clothes. "What are you wearing?"

She looked herself over, then she pointed to her shirt. "Clothes." She pointed to her jeans. "Clothes." Then she pointed to her jacked. "Clothes." She looked at her new cousin with her eyes raised, "Looks like clothes to me Ritsu."

"You should wear that." The young man said as he bowed his head. He would never get used to her calling him by his given name without any sort of honorifics. The thought embarrassed him to no end and he was sure quite a few people in the school would be hounding him when she didn't use proper etiquette.

The girl looked at the dress. "That tent there is not touching me. I don't care if it is the proper uniform. I am going to rebel until I can go home."

Kasanoda understood where the girl, Linda, was coming from. It wasn't her choice to travel clear across the globe only to be dropped into the laps of a family she had never met. The fact that his family were yakuza didn't seem to bother her. The first night she had been in his home he could hear her crying for hours in her room. It took a lot of strength not to go and sit with her, for although she knew Japanese from his uncle, she was calling out in Spanish.

The boy didn't want to be a bother to her and his being shy didn't help anything. She wasn't exactly shy, but she was completely turned in on herself for the moment. What he wanted to do was introduce her to Fujioka and see if that little ray of sunshine could help his new cousin heal.

/GG/

The ride to the school was silent and Linda was perfectly happy that way. She didn't blame her new cousin for her predicament. In all honesty she felt bad that he was bearing the brunt of her unease. After that first day she had made a vow to make it up to him when she could.

Had she been almost anyone else the sight of the school looming in front of her would have caused her to all but pass out at the shear immenseness of the construction. That wasn't in Linda's character though, she was more interested in how elaborate the place seemed. Who in their right mind would build such a monstrosity that was completely economically unfriendly?

"Jesus H. Christ Ritsu, what in the hell is with this place?" She asked.

"This is Ouran, our school." The boy replied as he stepped out of the car and held out his hand for her. Surprisingly she took it and exited the vehicle.

"Where is everyone?"

"We're late because you had to argue over wanting to take your own lunch to school rather than just buy it." That response was completely out of character for the timid boy and he was waiting for some sort of verbal backlash. It didn't come.

"Whatever."

He led her into the school and dropped her off at the chairman's office. It would only be one short class day before he was able to speak with Fujioka. Then maybe his new cousin could become a little more amiable. As it was she scared even his father.