This is a series of one-shots depicting Kurogane in CLAMP School. The chapters should be able to stand alone, but it is always helpful to read the first chapter where everything begins and the characters are introduced.

Disclaimers: CLAMP school, the CLAMP school elementary student council, Fai, and Kurogane are all properties of CLAMP.

Because there was too much sugar in my dark chocolate and I have writer's block...

CLAMP School Kurogane

Suwano Kurogane

A first grade student and a Suwa ninja. He was sent by his family to CLAMP school because of a prediction of their resident dream seer Tomoyo that he would find his "one" there. Kurogane is a very talented fighter and athlete despite his age, but is somewhat short-tempered. He believes he is a strong warrior and hates it when he is looked down upon and treated like a child (or a puppy ).

Fai D. Flowright

A fifth grade student. He is a foreigner and is reasons for being transferred to the school are not clear. All that is known about his family life is that he was raised by a person named Ashura and Ashura's bodyguard and friend Yasha. Fai is shown to be brilliant in almost all arts from painting to culinary. He is well mannered and appears to be from a well-to-do family.

Imonoyama Nokoru

A sixth grade student and president of the Elementary Student Council. He and Fai are very similar in nature as they are both always ready with a smile and a kind word. He is the youngest son of the head of the Imonoyama zaibatsu. He is very charming and intelligent and is always ready to help a damsel in distress.

Takamura Suoh

Fai's classmate and Nokoru's long-suffering secretary. He is also a ninja and his "one" is Nokoru. He is shy and quiet, except when he is forcing Nokoru to finish his student council paperwork. He is almost always by Nokoru's side. He has a crush on a kindergartner named Nagisa.

Ijyuin Akira

A fourth grade student and Nokoru's treasurer. He is (not so) secretly the thief 20 faces at night. He is very cheerful and seemingly naïve. He always supports Nokoru's exploits and is a very talented chef.

Meeting at the Gates

Elementary Student Council...Elementary Student Council...

Suwano Kurogane (1) looked up from his map and scanned his surroundings with a trained eye. The campus was large and the map was somewhat confusing, but he should be able to get around just fine. He was standing right inside the large gates of CLAMP school, getting his bearings. He was a new student, after all. He should get a hang of the place.

Kurogane grunted unhappily as he resumed studying his map and comparing it with his environment.

He couldn't understand the reason why he was sent here. As talented a ninja as he was considering his age, he still had quite a ways to go with his training. Being away from the Suwa clan house and training was not going to help him improve his skills.

The voice of the fifteen year-old dream seer seemed to speak to him in his head, reminding him of the purpose of his transfer, "You have to find your "one", Kurogane, the one you will protect with your life. Then, you will learn what true strength is and nothing will stop you from getting stronger."

Stupid Tomoyo and her stupid predictions.

Kurogane did not need anything to get stronger. He was determined to be the strongest ninja in the world. That was enough. He did not understand why he would need some weakling cowering behind him to become strong. He couldn't understand it; he needed it much less.

"Good morning!" a cheerful voice greeted Kurogane dragging him away from his thoughts. A blond head popped out of the window of a black limousine, which had stopped alongside the young ninja. It was a rental. Kurogane could tell from the license plate he had caught a glimpse of earlier. Why would someone come to school in a rented limo? He thought the person in the limo was calling out to him, but Kurogane didn't know anyone in that school, so opted to ignore the blond. "Hey, little blackie!" the blond called out again.

"Who're you calling little?!" he growled at the boy in the car. "And don't call me blackie, I'm not a dog!" He stomped up to the limo's window. Kurogane was a skilled ninja, but his temper still needed a lot of work.

When he got closer and got himself a closer look at the blond idiot, he found himself in an odd state of breathlessness. This boy was a few years older. He didn't look Japanese, but Kurogane had already guessed that he wasn't from his accented speech (noticing little details like that was part of Kurogane's training, after all). But what truly got Kurogane was the fact that this boy was incredibly beautiful. If Kurogane was in a manga, which he was not, the blond's face would be surrounded by roses and sparkles. It was literally a manga doki-doki moment. (2)

A moment that blondie had to ruin by talking. "Well, I see that got your attention," he drawled, opening his door. "Come on in, won't you?"

"Why?" Kurogane asked, scrutinizing smiling blue eyes with his red ones. Beautiful as the blond was, his smile made him look like a hentai and the Suwa boy decided that he found the smile annoying. He wouldn't take the offer without a good enough reason. Kurogane would be able to defend himself, if the idiot tried anything, but it wouldn't be smart of him to get himself in an easily avoidable situation where he would have to defend himself, in the first place.

"Because," the other boy said, holding out his hand for the Suwa boy to take. "You looked a little lost and you're almost late."

Somehow, there was something in those sky blue eyes that Kurogane could not refuse. I'm being an idiot, he reminded himself as he climbed into this stranger's car.

Inside the car was a man with long black hair. His eyes were hidden behind dark-glasses and he was wearing a suit. The boy was wearing the CLAMP school uniform much like Kurogane's. "Do you think this wise, sir?" the man inquired from where he was seated. "You don't know this boy."

The blond's eyes widened adorably, "But Yasha-san, just look at him! Don't you just want to hug him?" He punctuated his sentence by glomping onto Kurogane who, naturally, tried to escape. At this, Yasha sweatdropped and left things at that.

This guy is a hentai! the young ninja screeched...er...concluded in his mind as he tried to wriggle free of the arms surrounding him. Only his mother hugged him, no one else (okay, sometimes Tomoyo hugged him, but that was beside the point)! The only other times he got hugged was during defense training, and that was not affectionate. "Get off me!"

"I don't think he likes it, sir," Yasha pointed out.

"You think?" Kurogane growled as he struggled. The hold on him was too strong. This guy was more powerful than he looked.

"But he's so cuuuuute!"

"I. Am. Not. CUTE!"

At that moment, the car stopped in front of one of the buildings and the glomping ended as quickly as it had began. "We're here!" the boy chirped. Yasha was out of the car in an instant and had walked to the other side to open Kurogane's door. Kurogane got off and the boy hopped off after him. "You were going to the Elementary Student Council Office, right?"

"But, how did...?" the young ninja began to ask, but Yasha and the strange boy were busy talking. As it wasn't his business, so Kurogane didn't listen.

This was an interesting start to his day.

Introductions

Great. Just what Kurogane needed: another blue-eyed blond with an infuriating smile. And this one had a fan! He regarded the white fan with the characters for "Welcome" in front of the new blond's face with irritation.

"Welcome to CLAMP School," another boy, also wide-eyed and all smiles, albeit with black hair, greeted Kurogane and the strange boy from the gate. He gestured towards the one holding a fan, "That is Imonoyama Nokoru-kaichou, sixth grade."

"Kaichou?" the blond boy from before looked thoughtful, as if contemplating the word.

"It means 'puresidentu'," Nokoru replied, reciting the English word for his title. (3) The student council president used his fan to point at a quiet blue-haired boy. "That is Takamura Suoh, fifth grade and our student council secretary." Suoh gave the newcomers a cursory nod. And then Nokoru finally motioned towards the one who had introduced him, "And this is Ijyuin Akira, fourth grade and our treasurer." Akira smiled sweetly at Kurogane and the still nameless blond.

The student council president smiled brilliantly, "It's a pleasure to meet you!"

"It's a pleasure to meet you. I am Suwano Kurogane, first grade," Kurogane announced, bowing slightly. He couldn't help but glance at his companion to see how this foreigner would act.

But, the other's manners were flawless, smiling and bowing and returning the greeting (4), "It's a pleasure to meet you. I am Fai D. Flowright, fifth grade."

Furowuraito? Kurogane mused. What a strange name to give to a child. (5)

"So your family name is 'Flowright' and your given name is 'Fai', am I correct?" Nokoru clarified.

Fai nodded. "Yes. Sorry, I should have introduced myself as Flowright Fai. I'm still not used to this."

Ah...so his name is Fai, the young ninja scrutinized the owner of the name. It suits him somehow, he decided.

Weapons

"You're allowed to carry weapons in this school?"

Suoh blinked in surprise at the question of the first-grader he was leading to class. How could a young child notice? Then, he remembered from the file Nokoru had shown him earlier that Kurogane was a ninja, as well.

"You walk around like it's nothing, but I can tell that there is something hidden under your clothes. The sound your shoes make on the floor is a bit off, too, so you probably have a hidden compartment in there," Kurogane explained, mighty proud of himself for noticing and catching the older boy off-guard.

"I only carry what is necessary," Suoh answered tersely. He made a mental note to make adjustments to his shoes so as to minimize the difference in the sound of his footfalls. As far as he could tell, there were no weapons on the child with him, but he found himself becoming cautious. "Why do you ask? Do you have weapons with you?"

"No," Kurogane replied, sounding a bit frustrated. "I should have brought some, at least, had I known that I could. It's a good thing I haven't found my one yet or else it would be bothersome." The last part was muttered in a very subdued, but annoyed tone.

But Suoh's trained ears easily picked up the quieter words. His one? Now, Suoh was curious, but he didn't want to press it. This boy was looking for his one, but didn't seem too happy about it. He thought about how he first met Nokoru and how he realized that the president was the one he would protect for the rest of his life. He couldn't help but smile fondly.

"What's wrong with you?" Kurogane broke into Suoh's reverie. "You're smiling like an idiot. And here I thought you were better than those guys!"

Suoh stared down at indignant red eyes and found himself smiling even more. "Weapons aren't allowed in the school," he answered an earlier posed question. Before Kurogane could point out that he was carrying weapons, himself, he added, "You can bring them if you can hide them and not use them unless it's absolutely necessary."

"And what would 'absolutely necessary' mean?" the Suwa ninja inquired.

"It means you will only bring out your weapons when you need to protect someone," the Takamura ninja replied.

The younger boy thought it over, for some reason, the older ninja's words made him think about Fai. He frowned at that thought and said, "It isn't a good strategy to reveal yourself unless absolutely necessary, anyway."

Author's Notes

Yay! That's how Kurogane's first day at CLAMP School. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Now, here are a few notes.

1 Kurogane in TRC is from Suwa. Suwano is from "Suwa no" so Kurogane's name is literally Kurogane of Suwa.

2 Doki-doki, if I remembered correctly, is the sound of the heart beating. In some manga, when the hero sees the person he likes, doki-doki is usually the sound effect.

3 Let's say they're speaking Japanese. "Puresidentu" may be one way a native Japanese speaker would pronounce the word "president". I'm not absolutely sure about this.

4 I'm not entirely sure about proper manners when meeting a person in Japan, but I figured since Nokoru is the sempai in this whole thing, Fai and Kurogane have to bow to him. The "It's a pleasure to meet you" is how I translate the Japanese "Hajimemashite."

5 Kurogane is in first grade here, so we can forgive him for being naïve.

6 Sorry if Yasha is a bit OOC in your opinion, I'm not very familiar with his character because he was a minor character in TRC.

Ah, reviews are always welcome. Please feel free to be critical. It helps me improve. Thank you very much for reading this fic. I'm also open for ideas as to what can happen to Kurogane and Fai as Kurogane searches for his "one".