Hello everybody! Welcome to my new fanfic Ouran Host Club Kitsune, the third fic in my 'Youkai Realm' series. I don't have a CLUE where I got the idea for this fanfic or how the idea even came about. All I know is it just kinda popped in my head an' I thought it'd be fun. XD Anyway so, just a little FWI for you guys, here are the ages that everybody currently is in the fic.

Mitsukuni Haninozuka: 18
Takashi Morinozuka: 18
Tamaki Suoh: 17
Kyoya Ootori: 17
Kaoru + Hikaru Hitachiin: 16
Haruhi Fujioka: 16
Byakuya Shirotsuki: 16

Rating: T
Genre: Romance, Supernatural, Comedy
Pairing: Haruhi Fujioka X OC

Anyways, hope you enjoy the fic!

Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran High School Host club OR its characters. I only own my Youkai OC Byakuya Shirotsuki, any other OCs created along the way, and any part of the plot NOT a part of the anime or manga.

Chapter 1-Eyes of Blood, Hair of Snow

Haruhi Fujioka yawned as she leaned up against the hallway wall. She hadn't slept very well last night and when she woke up she had accidentally misread her clock. School started at 8:00 and she has misread her clock for saying 7:43 instead of 7:23. So, in the end, she'd flown out of bed, rushed to the school, and still arrived a full fifteen minutes early. Letting out another yawn, she looked back down at the book she was reading. It was titled Legend of the Youkai. God knows why Kyoya-sempai had given her the book yesterday! The four-eyed shadow king had made it very clear that she was to read that book, or else! Sighing tiredly to herself, the young girl continued to read.

'Youkai are a class of supernatural creatures in Japanese folklore. The word youkai is made up of the kanji for "otherworldly". Youkai range eclectically from the malevolent to the mischievous, or occasionally bring good fortune to those who encounter them. Often they possess animal features (such as the Kappa, which is similar to a turtle, the Tengu which has wings, or the Kitsune which has a fox tail and ears), other times they can appear mostly human, some look like inanimate objects and others have no discernible shape. Youkai usually have a spiritual supernatural power, with shapeshifting being one of…' (A/N: Disclaimer! I do NOT own this little bit on Youkai! All credit goes to Wikipedia!"

"Haruhi!" cried two voices in unison.

The young girl's head shot up immediately as she recognized the voices of Hikaru and Kaoru. "Hey you guys. What's up?" Haruhi asked.

"Oh, nothing much. About to head to class the same as you, I guess." Kaoru said in a bored tone.

"I see…" the young girl replied.

"Hey Haruhi," Hikaru suddenly asked, "Whatcha' reading?"

"Hmm? Oh this?" Haruhi said as she held up her book, "It's a book on Youkai legends that Kyoya-sempai gave me. He said that I should read it, and when I said that I really wasn't in to this kind of stuff, he told me that if I didn't have it read by the end of this week he'd double my debt!"

"That's strange." Kaoru mutterd, "I'd never have pegged Kyoya for a ghost stories guy."

Haruhi couldn't help but let out a small laugh as she tried to imagine Kyoya-sempai setting around a campfire telling ghost stories. "Yeah," her brain mused sarcastically to herself, "And I suppose tomorrow a giant whale is gonna magically leap out of the gym swimming pool and swallow the academy whole…"

"Anyways, that's beside the point." Interrupted Hikaru, "Have you heard the big news?"

Haruhi looked at her classmate in bewilderment. "What news?" she asked.

Hikaru looked like he'd just done a mental face-palm as he huffed, "You mean to tell me that no one told you that the heir of the Shirotsuki family is transferring here today?!"

"Shirotsuki family?" the young girl said slowly, for she was beginning to get more confused by the minute.

Before Hikaru could begin to chew her out, Kaoru decided to be nice and answer in his place. "It's not surprising that you haven't heard of them, for they prefer to have a more private life and are almost never seen in public. But the Shirotsuki family literally holds the same amount of wealth, power, and influence in Japan as the Suoh family!"

Haruhi looked at him incredulously. "They're as powerful as the Suoh family?" she asked in shock.

"Yeah, and that's not all!" Hikaru chipped in, "The heir of the Shirotsuki family, who's transferring here, has never been seen in public before! So, this is a big first!"

"That big, huh?" Haruhi asked with a raised eyebrow, "So, like, about how old is he?"

"Well, I'm guessing he'll be about our age," Kaoru replied, "since he's in our class."

Haruhi's book clattered to the floor as she gaped at the twins. "HE'S IN OUR CLASS?!" she all but screamed.

"Well, yeah!" Hikaru said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, "Why else do you think we're bothering to tell you?"

The young girl groaned painfully. Seriously, the last thing she needed right now was for another 'Tamaki figure' to come prancing in.

Hikaru and Kaoru were just about to ask what in the world was wrong with her, when, the bell rang.

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Haruhi sat miserably in her chair. Hikaru and Kaoru were setting desk by desk two rows in front of her, and an empty desk sat parallel to her own. The only damn empty desk in the class! Just her luck! The young girl knew exactly what was going to happen. The teacher was going to walk in with an annoying, overly cheerful, ridiculously optimistic, Tamaki copy behind her. Then, he'd have to set by her, because 'lucky her' that was the only empty seat in the class.

Suddenly the door opened as Momozono-sensei walked in. A chorus of girly love-struck squeals followed as the new transfer student walked in behind the teacher. Even Haruhi's breath caught in the back of her throat at the ethereal being that had just entered the room. This was definitively not what she'd been expecting.

His height and body build were about the same as Kaoru's and Hikaru's. His shoulder-length, straight hair was a pure, snowy white and his long bangs fell elegantly in front of his face. Like Kyoya, his eyes were slightly narrowed and possessed a keen calmness too them. However, instead of being dark gray, his eyes were a mysteriously beautiful blood red.

Suddenly, Haruhi found those very eyes staring straight back into her own. The young girl found herself unable to tear away from his piercing gaze. She could have sworn she saw a small smirk flicker across his face as he finally broke eye contact and continued to walk forward until he stood in front of the whole class.

Momozono-sensei cleared her throat. "Class, I'd like you to meet your new classmate. He's the next head of the Shirotsuki family. So, I trust you will treat him well." she said with a little bit of an edge to her tone. Turning so that she was facing the newcomer she asked, "Would you like to please fully introduce yourself?"

Giving the teacher a nod in confirmation he turned and looked at the class. "It's a pleasure to meet all of you." He said with a small, calm smile, "My name is Byakuya Shirotsuki."

Another deafening roar of girly squeals erupted from the class as 99% of the girl's eyes went heart shaped. Haruhi, on the otherhand, simply examined the newcomer with curious interest.

"And so another day at Ouran begins…"

Fifteen minutes ago…
Byakuya's P.O.V.
I leaned back into the comfortable seats of my car as my chafer' drove me to the new school I'd be attending, Ouran Academy. After a good deal of bickering, my grandfather, who was the current head of the Shirotsuki family, had finally convinced me to attend a human school. The Shirotsuki family had always done its best to keep to itself, since technically, we didn't really belong out in the human society. Why? Because the Shirotsuki family was actually a clan of pure, White Fox Youkai.

Very few people knew of this secret. In fact, the only two people at Ouran who knew of my true race were the principal, Yuzuru Suoh, and my best friend, Kyoya Ootori. Most humans knew us as simply being one of the most powerful families in Japan. Youkai, on the other hand, looked at us with both fear and respect, for the Shirotsuki Clan was one of the last clan of Nobles in existence.

In Youkai society, you have two classes. First was the common class which consisted of a vast variety of minimum strength Youkai. Then, you had the nobles. Nobles were a class of extremely powerful Youkai who belonged to a certain clan. This was the class that I belonged to.

"Byakuya-sama, we have arrived." A voice interrupted my thoughts.

Opening my eyes, I gazed out the car window to take in the view of the academy. Saying the place was huge was an understatement! Stepping out of my silver 66 AC Cobra, I waved my chafer' off before looking down at my watch. "7:47 a.m. Good!" I thought to myself. I was a little over ten minutes early. So, I had plenty of time to get situated.

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I stood calmly outside the Third Music Room door. If my memory served me correctly, this was where Kyoya told me to meet him. And indeed he was in there, for even though I wasn't actually in the room, it was quite easy for me to sense his presence. I opened the door and walked it.

"Ah! Byakuya!" Kyoya greeted me with a smile.

"Yo!" I replied as I nonchalantly shuffled into the spacious room. I immediately noticed that he was the only other person, other than myself, in the room. "It's been a while hasn't it?" I stated more than asked as I graced him with one of my rare 'true' smiles.

"It has at that…" the four-eyed boy replied as he stood up and walked towards me. Upon noticing me still glancing around the room he added, "Like what you've seen so far?"

"Of the school or of this room?" I chuckled back.

"Either." He replied simply.

"Well, if it's the school, I haven't really seen that much of it yet. But if you're referring to this room…" I paused, "It's nicely laid out but it absolutely reeks of the scent of females and, I dare say, a tinge of arousal?"

Kyoya let out a light laugh at my last comment. "Yes, well about that-" he said, "this is where the Ouran Host Club hosts its customers. I myself am the Vice President of the club."

"Now that you mention it," I replied thoughtfully, "I think I remember you telling me about that before."

"Yes, well, to get straight to the point-" Kyoya said with a smirk, "I have an offer to make you."

I immediately had a bad feeling about the expression on his face. "Oh yeah? And just what might that be?" I asked suspiciously.

"To put a long story short, I want you to join the club." The Shadow King replied promptly.

I couldn't help but mentally face-palm. Yup! I saw that one coming from a mile away. No, make that two miles. "You're saying that you want me to set around for several hours after class and entertain a bunch of crazy love-struck human girls?" I asked with a laugh.

"That's exactly what I'm saying." Kyoya replied letting his smirk twist its way into an amused smile, "I won't disagree with you on your view of our customers, but overall, I think you might actually find it all quite amusing."

I cocked an eyebrow at my best friend's statement. "Oh, hell!" I finally huffed, "I guess if it's my best friend asking me, I can't say no. Can I now?"

Kyoya chuckled knowingly as he stacked a few papers. I was just about to head for the door when he suddenly added, "Oh, and I just thought I'd let you know that three of the other club members are in your classes."

Turning back around I asked, "Who are they?"

"The first two are the Hitachiin twins, Kaoru and Hikaru." He told me, "And the third would be Haruhi Fujioka. She's the only commoner in the school. I think you'll find her quite interesting."

"I will, will I? We'll see about… WAIT! She?" I suddenly sputtered.

"Hmm? Oh, yes. Haruhi's a girl." The raven-haired genius said nonchalantly, "Due to a certain 'incident' she was forced to join our club so as to pay off a massive debt she owed us."

I couldn't help but chuckle at Kyoya's tone. "You can really be a bastard sometimes, you know that?" I laughed teasingly.

The Shadow King chuckled back as he shrugged his shoulders innocently. It looked like he was about to reply to my statement, when, the bell rang. "That's your queue." He said instead.

"Yup, I guess I'll see you after class." I replied as I walked away and waved over my back. First day of school and my best friend had already dragged me into one of his messes. "This ought to be interesting…"

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Luckily, I happened to run into my homeroom teacher, Momozono-sensei, on my way to class. So, I didn't get lost. It wasn't long before we were at the classroom. Opening the door, the young woman led me in. My ears were almost instantlyassaulted with an almost deafening roar of girly love-struck squeals. Trying my best to suppress the urge to cover my sensitive ears with my hands, I began to walk over to the front middle of the room. Suddenly, Kyoya's words replayed in my mind.

"And the third would be Haruhi Fujioka. She's the only commoner in the school. I think you'll find her quite interesting..."

"Haruhi Fujioka, huh?" I mused silently as I paused in my step to see if I could locate her. "There she is!" my mind spoke with satisfaction. It hadn't been all that hard to find her. After all, all I had to do was look for a girl in a boy's uniform. She sat in the far left back of the room and, lucky me, the only empty desk in the class happened by be right beside her. The young girl was studying me intently and I managed to briefly catch her eye. I caught her blush ever so slightly and couldn't help but smirk to myself as I continued to walk the rest of the way into the room.

"Class, I'd like you to meet your new classmate." The teacher said suddenly. "He's the next head of the Shirotsuki family. So, I trust you will treat him well." She added with a little bit of an edge to her voice. Turning back to face me she said, "Would you like to please fully introduce yourself?"

I gave Momozono-sensei a slight nod in confirmation before turning back to face the class. Plastering on my trademark smile I said, "It's a pleasure to meet all of you. My name is Byakuya Shirotsuki." I almost regretted introducing myself as yet another deafening roar of squeals assaulted me like a bomb. If my fox ears were visible, I swear they would've been plastered down to my head as tight as possible. My sensitive ears, however, did manage to pick out a few of the phrases that were being whispered(ish) underneath all the squealing.

"Oh my gosh! Look at his hair!"

"Do you think it's dyed?"

"I wonder if he's wearing contacts! His eyes are so dreamy!"

I felt a bit annoyed at the fact that they seemed to think I wore contacts and dyed my hair, for I was very proud of my lineage. The whispering and squeals finally came to a halt as Momozono-sensei finally cleared her throat. "Shirotsuki-san, there's an empty desk sitting beside Fujioka-san. You can sit there if you find that acceptable."

I barely refrained from letting out a frustrated sigh. "No duh, it was acceptable! The desks are all the same!" Despite my irritated thoughts I simply said, "That's quite fine Momozono-sensei." as I flashed her yet another one of my deceptively cold, trade-mark smiles.

Haruhi's P.O.V.
True enough, I didn't go gaga over the newcomer and oogle him like a piece of fresh meat, but I couldn't help but continue to stare at the ethereal being. He just seemed to have a certain way about him…

"Fujioka-san?"

My thoughts were instantly shattered as the Momozono-sensei addressed me.

"Yes ma'am?" I replied quickly; perhaps a little too quickly.

"Since Shirotsuki-san won't have his books until tomorrow, would you mind sharing your books with him?" she asked.

"Umm, yeah… that's fine." I said.

Momozono-sensei gave me a grateful nod before motioning for Shirotsuki-san to set down. I watched silently as the white-haired boy walked down the row and seated himself in his desk.

"Here." I said, leaning over a bit so he could take a look into my book, "We're right here, in the solar heating section."

"Thank you." He replied softly, gracing me with a smile, "I believe the teacher addressed you as Fujioka-san. Yes?"

"Ah, yeah." I replied, feeling myself being drawn into his red orbs. For since we were leaning over the same book together, our faces were only a measly few inches apart. "Uh… but if you want, Haruhi is fine." I spoke up before I knew what I was saying. Perhaps I was just desperate to break the silence in order to avoid drowning in those blood red depths of his.

"Haruhi it is then." Shirotsuki-san replied calmly, a calculating expression appearing in his eyes, "As for your addressing of me, Byakuya is quite preferable over Shirotsuki."

"Byakuya, huh?" I mused quietly, "Got it."

"All right class! Let's begin!"

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