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Rated: T
"What do you want?"
The question was asked in exasperation and slight irritation and it had the handsome blond flailing for a bit, surprised that he had been caught spying (though he had not done a covert job of doing it, in her point of view.)
"Oh, umm, Higurashi-san! Fancy meeting you here!" The handsome blond, Suoh Tamaki, as she thought his name was, flushed a bit under her scrutinizing stare with those intense blue, "H-how are you this fine day?"
"Please, cut the act," Kagome said bluntly, eyeing the male suspiciously, "Why are you following me? Is this some kind of dare or something?" She narrowed her eyes as he visibly stiffened while the flush quickly faded from his face.
"Of course not, Higurashi-san!" Tamaki blinked violet eyes, surprised at the question, "Why would you think that?" He asked with both curiosity and concern.
"Don't play stupid," Kagome rolled her eyes, just wanting this conversation to end and for him to stop following her on some strange whim, "We are both aware that I'm not exactly a normal student here."
It had not taken long for her to fall to school outcast in the short time she had starting attending Ouran Academy for one obvious reason.
"I know," Tamaki rubbed his blond hair, "And I don't understand it myself," He admitted, "As to why your classmates scorn you just because you– you...!"
"Am a girl who openly wears the male uniform?" Kagome finished dryly, "Because I don't fit in with your perceived standards?" She sighed at Tamaki's flustered expression, "The female uniform is simply unpractical in the real world."
Besides, her 'real world' consisted of stray Youkai attacking her often enough and there was no way she could fight in that yellow thing.
"It is also your appearance!" Tamaki blurted out, having heard the clients of the host club whispering among themselves, "You are... very attractive." He felt his face heat up, not knowing why he was so embarrassed when he said the same thing on a daily basis to said clients.
"Because some people are jealous of my looks?" Kagome looked both surprised and skeptical, "It really doesn't matter for the reasons," She shrugged, "I didn't exactly come here to make friends."
It had strange enough that some anonymous benefactor had paid for her tuition, but she had reluctantly decided to attend Ouran because there was no way a decent public high school would accept her terrible grades and attendance record.
"You should leave now," Kagome suddenly said, causing Tamaki to jump, "I'm sure you don't want to be seen with me. It might harm your image if you're seen talking to the school loner."
Tamaki had to resist the urge to wrap his arms around her in comfort (though she did not appear upset by her own words) and mentally lamented the fact that she was not placed in the twins and Haruhi's class, despite being in the same year, "But I want to be friends!" He said forthright, faltering at the sight of Kagome's widened eyes and stunned expression, "So cute~" He could not help but to mumble to himself.
"Don't worry about about it, Suoh-senpai," Kagome gathered her books, knowing lunchtime was almost over, "I'm used to this sort of thing." The looks she received from her current classmates were not much different from some that she had gotten at her middle school for being the 'diseased girl'.
"But that isn't right!" Tamaki almost shouted, causing Kagome to quirk a brow at him, "I don't want your years at Ouran to be lonely if I can help it!"
"That's... very kind of you," Kagome smiled at him and he was in awe at how the simple motion made her look that much more beautiful, "But I don't want to drag you down in the mud with me," She patted him on his shoulder as she moved past him, "Thank you, Suoh-senpai."
Tamaki sighed, watching her disappear from his sight before a determined look appeared on his face, 'I won't give up!' He thought resolutely, 'We will be friends, Higurashi-san! All of us will!'
It was a promise.