Inspiration comes in the weirdest places, or it does for me. Thought up this snippet this morning when I was trying to get some sleep on the bus and once I started writing when I came home I couldn't stop until I finished it.

A little warning, the characters are ooc but I don't they are that far off...then again I'm biased lol

All mistakes are mine so it would really help if you guys can point them out.

Enjoy! I know I did writing it ;)

Kuon Hizuri smiled gently as the student got up and walked out of his office.

Once the door shut close behind the teenage boy, Kuon jotted down some notes into the folder in front of him and put it away.

He grabbed the next folder in the pile on the right side of his desk and opened it up.

Minutes later he pressed a button on his desk phone to connect to his secretary.

Said secretary told herself for the millionth time that she must not swoon at the smooth sound of Hizuri-san asking her to send in the next person because she was currently working and no matter how appealing a man was work ethics were important, or so she told herself.

Taking a small breath to calm her nerves Ms. Takeshita softly called out to the next student.

A Ms. Mogami Kyoko politely knocked on the counselors' door and waited to be called in.

Slightly surprised at the knock, seeing as how students rarely ever knocked before coming through his door, Kuon called out for her to enter.

Looking up to the senior entering he motioned for her to take a seat.

She bowed low and timidly she took the seat in front of him.

"Hello Kyoko-san," he said in his smoothest voice hoping to put the nervous girl in front of him at ease. Although somewhat unorthodox, Kuon liked to call the students by their first names, just to keep things on level, or perhaps that's what he told himself because he could not get rid of the American habit of calling people by their first names. Either way, it seemed to work most of the time, students were more willing to open up to him if familiarity was used.

"Hello Hizuri-sensei " she replied politely.

"How are you Kyoko-san?"

"I'm well Sensei, how are you?"

Kuon smiled at her politeness and answered as truthfully as he could "I'm as well as I can be Kyoko-san, though a little tired."

She smiled back and Kuon knew that there pleasantries would get them nowhere so he decided to head straight into it.

"Why do you think you're here today?"

"Umm...well they told me to come; this isn't the wrong day is it?" She asked worriedly.

Kuon chuckled inwardly and told her that no, she had not come on the wrong day.

"Can you think of any reason why would need to come here Kyoko-san?" Kuon prodded lightly.

"No, not really" she said slowly shaking her head with the most expressive eyes he had ever seen.

"I see" stated Kuon slowly and a moment of silence descended upon them.

They stared at each other before Kuon broke the silence.

"You threw a biology book at Fuwa Shotaro and were it not for him ducking you would have hit his head, seriously injuring him" he specified without preamble.

She answered without missing a beat or letting anything show on her face.

"Yes"

"You also tried throwing your bento at him before the teacher interfered."

"Yes"

Kuon looked into those unchanging eyes and knew that she would be a challenge, a challenge not because it would be hard to crack her exterior but because of what she wasn't showing. He wasn't interested in making children into "good kids"; he would much rather that they let out feelings that never did anybody any good locked up in the soul.

"I have a report here stating that you threatened to cut off Nanokura Mimori hair with a razor that was in your hands at the time"

"I didn't threaten Mimori-san, I told her…politely."

Now it was his turn to give a simple answer "I see."

"You slapped Vuiguru Reino."

"Sexual harassment"

Kuon gave her a pointed look, secretly amused by her response. Not because of Reino clearly flirting with her, but because of the way she saw his flirting.

"You made the freshman, Ishibashi Hikaru, cry."

"Scaredy cat"

"And you refused to work on a group project with Fuwa-san because as you put it 'he is far too lazy and stupid to keep up with you', which resulted in a heated discussion between you two that completely disrupted the rest of the class period right?"

"Yes"

He observed her some more as she stared back wide eyed. There was no remorse in those golden spheres. He wondered why and he decided to take a shot.

"You know I always find it funny when people take revenge."

He could see the battle in her eyes trying to decide if she should ask him why. Her curiosity won over, or so he thought.

She snickered so softly that he almost missed it, "Is it because revenge is bad Sensei? Or are you going to tell me that I should not do such things because it's not 'nice'? Or perhaps you will tell me what my punishment will be if I do 'bad' things?"

Now it was his turn to laugh, and laugh he did.

His laugh caught her off guard and she watched him warily.

"No" he said once he was done "I won't tell you any of those things Kyoko-san, I think you misunderstood my previous statement. I meant that when people, especially younger people, take revenge they never do it properly."

He leaned back in his chair, appearing as if he was at home without a worry in the world, but he was watching her like a hawk, better yet he was watching those spirited eyes.

"I know how to take revenge on someone and it's not some sappy concept where I smile my life away and that is the perfect revenge because it shows the person that they're not worth your time" she huffed, clearly displeased at his explanation.

He raised an eyebrow, letting his face give all the answer she wanted.

She glared back and in an instant her eyes become even more electrifyingly brighter. A shiver ran down Kuon's body, a slow shiver that sent him a warm feeling. He ignored it as he tried to catch his footing, the glare threw him off track and he did not need the shiver to add on. He miscalculated.

Perhaps it would be better to say that he had underestimated the girl sitting in front of him.

Clearing his throat he questioned "What exactly to you think you will accomplish with being this childish?"

Daggers were being thrown at him, and Kuon knew he stepped on a time bomb. It was clear that some things about this topic set off Mogami Kyoko, top student in her grade.

There are always events or an event that forces people to completely fall off the road they are taking. He found it hard to believe that Kyoko woke up one day and decided she would piss off everyone that came into contact with her. According to her files the teachers, until these instances, had nothing but praises for her and her behavior was nothing short of extraordinary.

That was why he had gone with the revenge line, it was obvious from the incidents that she retaliated to everybody when they did something to her but in the case of one Fuwa Shotaro she acted without reason, or very little reason. An off handed comment was loudly made by Fuwa to his friends before the biology book came sailing straight at his head. The bento incident was abrupt with no prodding, according to the students she had opened up her bento and had gotten up abruptly and like before her eyes locked on to a laughing Fuwa. Somehow the teacher who had walked into get something she had forgotten saw Kyoko and knew that there would be a repeat of the biology book. Sure enough Kyoko picked up the bento and raised it back over her shoulders, aiming in Fuwa's direction.

"It's none of your business what I want to accomplish Sensei" she said coldly bringing Kuon back from his musings.

"You're right it is none of my business, but Kyoko-san when you start disrupting classes and causing harm to your fellow students then it becomes the school's business and in turn it becomes my business," he said gently.

She scowled and looked away.

"Why did you try hurting Fuwa-san?"

She refused to face him or even reply, so he continued.

"You know you could have done far worse things to him outside of school and you would have gotten away with it too, considering how smart you are."

Head jerked back to face him and he felt a weird pleasure at unbalancing her like this.

"What do you mean?" she asked eyes narrowing.

He shrugged "I'm just saying that for someone who's supposed to be so smart you sure picked a rather dull way of taking revenge."

Flabbergasted her mouth opened and closed trying to say something back to the man in front of her.

Not waiting for her reply Kuon went on "I mean honestly this is why I said before that people don't know how to take revenge properly, and no I don't mean the crap you said about smiling your life away. Revenge should be revenge, not something that makes you feel satisfied for about a few minutes tops and it disrupts the other person's life for about five minutes. Revenge is when you hurt the person just as bad as they hurt you, to the point that they never forget for the rest of their lives just what you did to them. Let me ask you a question Kyoko-san?"

She nodded, letting his words wash over her.

"Do you ever think you will forget whatever it is that Fuwa-san did to you?"

"No!" she replied instantly and vehemently.

"Exactly" he pointed out "Now answer this, do you think he'll remember forever that you once threw your biology book?"

"He….might" she said weakly.

Kuon grinned "Yes he just might, but in what context? Will he be angry when he remembers or will he look back and laugh? Treat it as one of those things that seem bad when they happen but years later it's just a funny incident that makes a great story?"

"He'll probably call me a baka…and then laugh at me…." she said gradually, in a low voice, looking down at her lap.

"Yes, he probably will but Kyoko-san when you remember what he did to you, how do you feel? I'm sure you don't see it as some joke."

As expected the downcast eyes shot up and the atmosphere in the room got decidedly heavier and colder.

"It pisses me off!"

"So wouldn't you want Fuwa-san to feel the same way when he thinks of your revenge? A biology book and bento are rather silly things to remember in anger" he explained.

A silence followed as both persons sat thinking about different things.

This time it was Kyoko who broke the silence.

"Then what am I supposed to do?" she demanded.

"How does Fuwa-san make you feel?"

"Hate"

Kuon chuckled "Kyoko-san, it's more than hate. People usually don't go around doing things out of character when they hate someone. It usually requires more than just hate as an emotion for people to go out of their way and into the extremes.

"Let's just say he was a jerk to me okay."

Kuon raised his eyebrow, waiting for her to continue when she did not he said "Care to elaborate?"

"No"

"Kyoko-san I'm trying to help you here."

Eyes glinted dangerously at the word 'help'.

"I don't need any help."

"Fine then, if you don't want my help in carrying out your revenge you know where the door is. Let's not waste any more of our time," he said exasperatedly.

"Why do you even want to help me Sensei, shouldn't you be telling me the exact opposite."

Throwing her a mischievous grin he answered "Because life can be so dull sometimes Kyoko-san."

She gulped, evidently agitated by his splendid smile.

Kuon wondered if he could make her blush, he had a feeling that her blush would look just as cute as her agitated look.

Mentally berating himself to focus on the topic at hand and not the young lady in front of him he rallied his thoughts. Seriously what was wrong with him? He was having improper thoughts about a student while on the job!

While Kuon fought it out with his conscience Kyoko looked into her lap and fiddled with her school skirt. It would seem that she was having an internal battle as well.

"Sensei? Have you ever been in love?" she whispered and Kuon almost fell of his chair. Could she read his improper thoughts?

Deciding that it would be better actually listen to what Kyoko was saying instead to jumping to drastically idiotic conclusiona Kuon replied in affirmative. Silence followed his answer once more.

Kuon could see that she was struggling, fighting her inner demons.

Perhaps it would be better to do this another day, thought Kuon but just as he was about to voice his opinion Kyoko looked up at him and started speaking.

"I thought I was in love once Sensei, but now I'm not so sure that it was love. If it was love why did it hurt so much, why did I feel like somebody shattered my body and every little bit that cracked was as painful as shards of glass cutting into my skin? I thought love was supposed to be a good thing so then why was it never good? I gave him everything I possible could Sensei. Is it just me Sensei? Is something wrong with me? Can love not work for me?" She pleaded with him.

He didn't know when but somewhere along the line the young woman in front of him had started crying. When the first tears fell down onto her hands she looked down at them in unfamiliar surprise. As if she couldn't fathom how they got there or even if they were her tears. She paused a bit just staring at those tear drops on her hand but then she continued on between hiccups and sniffles and Kuon's heart truly went out to her. Was it the greatest tragedy ever? No it was not but to the girl hurting in front of him it was and at the moment it was taking every little bit of life from her soul.

"Why couldn't he love me Sensei? I know I'm not the most beautiful, smartest, or the most fashionable girl out there but I could have tried Sensei. I thought he might have felt the same since he asked me to go to all those places with him but it was just his parents telling him to take me along with him," she finished bitterly, still with tears running down her puffed up cheeks.

"When I heard him speaking to those girls I knew that this couldn't have been love, love doesn't make it so painful that you can't even breathe. It's probably me…sniff…I couldn't make my mom love me and now I can't make Sho-chan love me either."

Without realizing it Kuon was kneeling by her side and he turned her chair around so she could face him properly. He gingerly he took her small dainty hands in his and rubbed them steadily as he spoke to her.

"Kyoko-san please listen to me, you can't make people love you but that doesn't mean they are worth you're love. Sometimes there are people who don't deserve your love, it's not because there is something wrong with you but rather there is something wrong with them. If they can't see your true worth then Kyoko-san they don't deserve the right to be loved by you. Cherish yourself more Kyoko."

She looked down at him with big golden crying eyes and he looked back just as intently trying to convey a strong message to her, a message she so desperately needed.

Before he could continue talking she had slid down the chair and he had enveloped her in his arms without a second thought. Was it improper behavior? Would he get in trouble if any of the school staff were to come in right that second? He would answer yes to both questions but he would also say that sometimes words don't work at all and that's why actions are much better. Comfort comes in many forms and right now Kyoko didn't need him to talk, she just needed him.

Wah, it's funny the way plans just go down the drain sometimes. When I initially brainstormed about this while in school I completely wanted this to be a light read with a full dash of humor but I don't know what happened...maybe it can still be considered a light read?

Thanks to all those who will read, review, follow, favorite this!