This is my 1st fanfic, so I'm happy anyone is even reading it. :P oh, I don't own the Ronin Warriors or anything like that. But the other characters are mine! Enjoy!

~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~° ~

Delilah sighed, she didn't want to be here. It was her first day in a new school and she couldn't find her class! She sighed again and looked back down at her schedule, Mr. Tei's chemistry class room 212. She was concentrating so hard on her schedule that she failed to notice the young man in front of her until she ran straight into him. They were caught off guard and lost their balance and toppled to the floor.

Delilah fell on top of the young man and they hit the floor with a short "oof" of air. She immediately rolled off the young man and apologized. He rolled over and the first thing Delilah noticed was the shock of long black hair falling haphazardly in his face. When he looked up and he took her offered hand she noticed his shockingly blue eyes hidden behind his bangs. She continued to apologize as he stood up and dusted himself off.

"I'm so sorry! I wasn't even paying attention to where I was going. I didn'…" The boy cut her off with a wave of his hand and a smile.

"It's fine, no harm done." He paused to push his hair out of his eyes. She watched as it fell persistently back into place. "My name's Ryo Sanada. Are you new? I don't recognize you from around school."

Delilah smiled embarrassed. "Ya, I'm new. The name's Delilah Kynoko. It's my first day." She extended her hand again and shook Ryo's. "But you can call me De."

They shook hands and then De realized she still didn't know where she was going. She looked at Ryo. "Um, Ryo?" He looked up from where he was picking his books up from the floor where they had fallen when the collision occurred. "Hrm?"

"Heh, do you think you could show me where I'm going? I've been walking around this school for 15 minutes and I still can't find my class!"

Ryo laughed and shook his head slightly. "Ya sure, lemme see your schedule. Maybe I can help." Delilah handed Ryo her schedule and he scanned it quickly. "Hey! We have 1st hour together. My friend Cye is in there too." He was quiet for a moment. "You have 2nd hour English with Cye… 3rd hour Algebra 2 with Rowen… 4th hour Home Ec. with Kento and Rowen, god help you. Neither of them can cook." Ryo said with a laugh. "They've blown up the oven 3 times this year."

Delilah shook her head. "Well at least I know I'm not the only one who's kitchen challenged. But I know I haven't blown up my oven 3 times, I'm not that bad of a cook."

Ryo chuckled. "Ya, they're pretty bad. You'll have to watch out for them." He paused again looking back down at her schedule. "You have 5th hour AP History with my friend Sage." He looked up at her. "You'll have to look out for him too. He's notorious for his flirting. He's got his own 'fan club' that runs around following him everywhere."

De grinned. "Oh he won't flirt with me twice. I'll make sure of that." She said with a grin. Ryo didn't like the tone of her voice. He might have to warn Sage before he messed with her. Then again it would be more fun to hear about it later. It was decided, Sage would have to find out the hard way.

Ryo chuckled. "Right on, he needs to be put in his place every so often. Let's see, you have 6th hour Gym with all of us. That should be cool. And you have 7th hour Study Hall with Cye and Rowen. Not too bad of a schedule. I can introduce you to Cye in class and he can show you to your second hour. I think you'll like him."

"Cool." They both headed off to class. By the end of class the three of them, Ryo, Cye, and Delilah, had become pretty good friends. The first half of the day passed quickly and soon the bell was ringing for lunch. Delilah headed to her locker and put her books away then headed for the lunch room.

As she walked into the room she could feel all eyes were on her. She knew her long blonde hair with purple streaks was not the norm. but they would get over it. She walked to the line with her deep violet eyes lowered, not really looking at anyone. She walked through the line and got her lunch. She looked up to look for a place to sit when she saw Ryo look at her and wave her over. "Delilah! Come on over here!"

De smiled and walked over to the table he was sitting at. He scooted over and she sat down. "Thank you." She said with a smile.

"No prob. I wanna introduce you to the guys. I know you've already met Cye." She smiled and nodded. He pointed to a young man with shaggy blue- black hair. "This is our human garbage-disposal, Kento. Kento, this is Delilah." Kento glared at Ryo then smiled at Delilah. "Nice to meet you."

Delilah smiled. "Likewise."

Ryo continued. "Next to Kento is Sage. The biggest flirt in Diamond High." He pointed to a handsome blonde with light violet eyes. One of his eyes was covered by a stubborn piece of blonde hair. He smiled a flirtatious smile and took her hand and kissed the top. She raised her eyebrow and took her hand back.

Ryo laughed and rolled his eyes. "Told you." Delilah just looked at Sage for another moment then rolled her eyes at him.

"You know how old that is hun? I didn't even think people did that anymore!" She said with a smile. Sage's mouth dropped open and Ryo burst out laughing. Kento and Cye, who hadn't been paying much attention, stopped and looked at Ryo, Sage, and Delilah.

Ryo paused in his laughing for a second. "Did I just see what I think I just saw?! Did I just see the flirt king get dissed?!" At that he burst out laughing again.

Sage glared at Ryo. "It's not funny Ryo, you can stop laughing now." When he didn't stop and Kento and Cye had grins on their faces, Sage just glared at them all. "It's not funny you guys."

Delilah chucked. "Ryo seems to think so. I'm guessing your charms don't fail too often, eh?" She gave him a smile. "Don't be upset. I didn't mean anything by it. I just don't appreciate men looking at a girls as if they were a piece of meat without a brain, because we are anything but that. And because of your reputation here, it seems that that's what we are to you." She tipped her head to the side slightly. "Then again I don't blame you entirely. Now that I think about it most of the girls here aren't much in the brains department. So I don't blame you that you had to sink to that level."

When she finished he just looked at her. Next to her Ryo was laughing his heart out. Kento and Cye were trying unsuccessfully to hold back fits of laughter behind their hands. Sage finally seemed as though he had gotten his voice back. He straightened himself up in his seat.

"Guys', it's not funny so you can stop laughing now." He glared at Ryo, Kento, and Cye until they stopped laughing. But all three still had smiles on their faces. "Thank you."

Ryo grinned and looked at Delilah. "That was great! I've never see Sage's face turn that shade of red before! Then again I don't think I've ever seen any woman resist his charms before either. You can't even begin to understand how hard it is to get a date around here with Sage around. Every time a pretty girl comes around Sage gets them all. It's quite frustrating you know."

Delilah chuckled. "No offense Sage, but you're just not my type. I didn't mean to insult you if I did."

Sage smiled. "It's cool, no harm done." De smiled back. At that moment another young man walked up to the table and sat down next to Sage. He had blue hair that hung over his eyes. It was cute the way that he blew it out of his eyes, which were also blue. "Hey guys, sorry I'm late. Had to get the homework from last class 'cuz I wasn't there."

"No prob. Ro, I want you to meet Delilah. Today's her first day." Ryo turned to De. "This is our resident bookworm Rowen. Rowen this is Delilah."

De smiled. "Ya, we have Algebra 2 together right?"

Rowen smiled and nodded. "Ya, so you're new? How do you like Diamond so far?"

De shrugged. "It's nice so far. I just have to get used to where I am. I keep getting lost." she said with a lopsided grin. Rowen felt his heart flutter for a second when she smiled. 'What was that?!' he thought. 'I've only known this girl for a second and I'm already falling for her. Sage must be rubbing off on me.' De continued. "But it's pretty nice. A lot less crowded than my last school was, which is nice."

"Where are you from?" Ryo questioned.

"I moved here from Alaska, I was living up there with some friends when I decided that I needed a change."

Ryo's jaw dropped as he gaped at her. "You moved from Alaska to Japan!"

She shrugged. "Why not? I knew the language because one of my friends that I had been living with is fluent in it, so she taught me all I know."

Kento looked up from his lunch. "Did you live in an Igloo?" Cye smacked him in the back of his head from his seat next to him. "Hey! What was that for?"

"Of course she didn't live in an igloo!" Cye said incredulously, shaking his head.

Delilah laughed. "It's okay Cye, I get that a lot." She turned to Kento. "But no Kento, I didn't live in an igloo. We live in buildings the same as here. Anchorage, where I lived, is exactly the same as any other city around the country. We have a lot of souvenir shops, but it's actually a pretty nice city."

"Then how come you left?" Sage spoke up from across the table.

"Like I said, I needed a change. Living in the same place your whole live gets boring, ya know?" Delilah smiled. "Plus I always wanted to see Japan and my friends kept telling me I never would. So I took that as my motivation and moved here."

Rowen frowned. "Why would your friends think you wouldn't ever make it here if they knew you wanted to?"

Delilah grinned guiltily. "Heh, I have a tendency to exaggerate. They didn't really take me seriously when I said I was gonna move up here. So I had to prove them wrong and do it. You should have seen their faces when I showed them the plane ticket!" She laughed at the memory. "They about died." She paused and frowned. "Then they about killed me if I remember correctly." She shook her head as if to clear her thoughts and smiled again. "So that's how I got here."

Rowen chuckled lightly. "That's cool. I've never met anyone from Alaska before. I hope you like it here though. It's not too bad when you get used to it."

"Thanks, I think I will like it here." She said with a smile. "Man, I wish Vi were here though, she would love it here."

"Vi?" Cye asked confused.

"Ya, she's like my best friend in the entire world. She would die if she saw me sitting here with a bunch of hot guys on my first day!" De slapped her hand to her mouth and her eyes got wide. "Oops, did I say that out loud!" she said as her cheeks turned a dark shade of red.

Ryo cracked up at her embarrassment. Cye and Rowen were blushing as well while Kento and Sage had grins on their faces. "So we're just a bunch of hot guys are we." Sage said with a smirk.

Delilah was still blushing hard as she answered. "Yes you're all hot guys, though I'm sure there's more to you than that." She said still looking totally embarrassed, but recovering. "It's just that I tend to speak my mind and sometimes things like that slip out when they're not supposed to." She smiled lopsidedly again and ran her hand through her hair pushing the stray hairs away from her face. Rowen watched transfixed as she did this. "My friends got used to it after a while, though they still teased me about it because it got me into trouble a lot."

Everyone laughed and continued talking 'til the bell rang signaling the end of lunch. They all said their good byes and headed of to class. The rest of the day went off without a hitch…unless you count Home Ec which Rowen and Kento proved they could blow up and oven for a 4th time.



~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~°~° ~

author's note: Ah!! I finished the 1st chapter!! ::jumps around her room ecstatically:: yay!! I hope you liked it! I'll try and get the 2nd one up as soon as I can write it! ja ne!