Title: Match Made In Outcast Heaven

By: Sound of Raindrops on Water (Ukume)

Rating: PG: 13 for language, themes, and violence

Disclaimer: Do you really think a teenaged North Carolinian girl owns Power Rangers and Degrassi THG?

Full Summary: Hunter's a criminal. Kira's a cutter. They've moved in and now will have to deal with their problems daily. Each one can only keep up the lies and the secrets for so long. Questions are beginning to arouse. It may not be possible to have a healthy relationship which also happens to be hidden. Their relationship will have its ups and downs before they both finally come clean. They'll have to face their fears unwillingly before anything gets better. So it's all going to get worse before it gets better.

A/N: Hello this popped into my head a while back and I just had to write it. I got some of my ideas from a few episodes from another show I like called 'Degrassi: The Next Generation'. This story takes place after 'Thunderstorm Part 1&2' and I'm saying that the Ninja Rangers were able to keep there powers to help the Dino Rangers. Oh and that Blake never got on Factory Blue, and no one became a teacher. This was originally going to be three short chapters but instead I turned into one so I hope you guys like it…

Match Made In Outcast Heaven

Chapter 1 Hunter's Life/Kira's Life/Collide

By Sound Of Raindrops On Water

Lonely. Brooding. Bored. Angry. Criminal.

Those five words described Hunter Bradley perfectly…at least that was the word on the streets. That was his label…a lonely, brooding, bored, angry criminal. Not that any of his friends knew what people said about him. The word about him hadn't gotten to them yet, but it would soon.

But it wasn't his fault that he had to steal to keep himself and his younger brother alive. After all working in a store only gave a pay check every two weeks. Working seven hours a day and getting paid only five an hour. That was only seventy dollars put together with his brother's check (a day). Rent was five-hundred and forty a month and that only left four-hundred-forty for all the other bills. After the bills every month they barely had money left over for food and clothes.

Perhaps the thing that Hunter did have the guilt in was the gang-activity he was involved in. He loved to spray paint words on the walls of stores. A few times he had almost gotten caught. But thanks to his ninja-powers he had gotten away, but he knew that other people weren't so lucky.

Thankfully his brother and friends fell for all the lies he gave on how he got the extra money. Still there was one problem that he had that his friends did know about. That problem had been cocaine. It had been his 'test' to see if he could become part of the Wolves gang in Blue-Bay-Harbor. Hunter had simply told his friends that he had been 'curious' about drugs and they believed him. Now it had been nearly a year since he touched any kind of drugs. Mostly because he couldn't mess his job-up as a ranger.

Today he was at 'home' lying on the couch since he and Blake couldn't afford a bed. Usually they would take turns sleeping on the couch and floor.

Hunter had been lying on the couch since eleven in the morning and now it was four-thirty in the afternoon. He had been thinking about how everyday was the same.

He would get up brush his teeth and take a shower, with cold water. Get dressed, skip breakfast since he and Blake couldn't afford three meals a day. Go to work which was extremely boring. He actually enjoyed the days he had to fight aliens it was the only thing that made his life interesting. Going to the Wind Academy was ok but he wished that the Thunder Academy hadn't been captured all over again, he felt more at home there. If he had time at the end of the day he'd go to the track. Come home, maybe read something, go to sleep, wake-up in the morning and start all over again.

His weekends were the most interesting sometimes. He would go and spray paint with his Wolves friends or go to the beach with his ninja friends. Other times he'd stay home in nothingness. His life could be described in one word: Blah.

"Hunter!" Blake said breaking into his older brother's thought, "Hey, you wanna go chill with everyone? Wait! Before you say no let me tell you where we're going", Hunter raised an eyebrow, "We're going to meet the Dino rangers at their school. Reefside High School…I don't know somethin' like that. You know could be more interesting cuz we don't seem them everyday."

Hunter thought for a moment and got-up and left with Blake.

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(This one's about Kira's vida (duh). It relates to my life in some ways…)

Kira's Life

Lonely. Misunderstood. Quiet. Goth. Cutter.

Those five words described Kira Ford perfectly…at least that was the word around Reefside and Reefside High School. That was her label…a lonely, misunderstood, quiet, Goth. No one knew about Kira's cutting problem, not even her parents, mostly because she always wore long sleeve shirts, arm warmers, sweaters, and jackets. There was no doubt that soon 'cutter' would be added to her label.

Though, Kira's dad didn't live with her. He lived with another woman and had three kids with her and he only visited every now and then. And when he did he would usually leave Kira in tears. Leaving her thinking that he hated her. Few times he came and they actually had a good time.

Her mother was a drunk basically because she loved Kira's father and hated that he had left her for another woman. Kira never had anyone to talk to about her problems. Her friends were too immature. It would be too weird to try to talk to an adult, not even with Dr. O, mostly because adults never really had as much pressure as do the teenagers of this time. Kira didn't believe that counseling worked; she thought that counselors only made things worse; especially after seeing some people go up for help and end-up in trouble. Every time she tried to talk to her dad he would walk out angry that she was putting her problems on him. He would especially get angry when her problems included him in them. So she had stopped trying to talk to him. With her mother, well put it this way, she'd be better off trying to talk to a doormat rather than her mother. She had older brothers and sisters but they all thought she was 'perfect and happy' and she didn't really want to change that.

At school she only had three friends, Conner McKnight, Ethan James, and Trent Mercer. Even though she was friends with them, she felt like that the only reason they were friends was because they had to save the world together and that had required them to get along.

Kira's passion was singing. She knew what she wanted she just didn't know how to get there. She would play gigs at mall, small coffee shops, and the list would go on and on.

It was four-thirty in the afternoon and Kira was laying on her bed. Starting at her ceiling and listening to her mom puking.

Her day hadn't gone so smoothly. She had woken-up late, been late for all her classes, during lunch a girl who was jealous of her singing ability had throw a cup of hot chocolate at her and they had gotten into a fight and they both had been suspended. She had had to show her dad the suspension paper so he could sign it because she obviously couldn't ask her mom. Her dad had been angry enough to call her 'useless'. Dr. O said that he was 'very disappointed'. And to top it all off her boyfriend had broken-up with her because he had realized that he was gay.

Kira was considering the knife under her mattress; she had many scissors, knifes, compasses, pocket knifes, hidden all over her room, but right when she was about to grab it her cell phone rang.

"Hello, who's this?" Kira asked in a bored tone.

"Hey, Kira it's me, Ethan", Ethan said.

"Oh, hey, what's up?"

"How do you feel about going to school and meeting the Ninja Rangers there?"

"Sounds cool, I guess. I'll meet you guys in a few. Bye Ethan", Kira said and she hung-up.

For a second she reconsidered the knife but decided to wait until after the gathering.

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Collide

Everyone had met at the Gym.

"So how have all you been?" Tommy asked all the Ninja Rangers. All of them but Hunter said fine but Tommy didn't notice.

Hunter and Kira were standing ten feet away from each other as they watched each other's friends collaborate. Cam was talking with Dr. O. Ethan and Dustin were goofing around. Conner and Shane were no doubt debating on who was hotter. Blake and Trent were talking rapidly in Spanish. Tori, Hayley, Marah, and Kapri were talking among themselves about 'girl-stuff'. Hunter and Kira were the only ones standing by themselves.

Kira saw Hunter standing there by himself, he looked like an enigma just by standing there by himself; mostly because he had on a black hoody and blue jeans.

She walked to him and said, "Hey".

"Hey", Hunter said uncertainly, "and you are?"

Kira was shocked that he didn't remember her, "Kira, remember?"

"Yeah, I know I said that sarcastically…it's just I didn't recognize you at first", Hunter said making a motion on her new look and putting his hood down.

The last time he had seen her, her style had been punk and now it was Goth more than anything else. She had dyed her hair black and had put it in yellow (not blond – yellow) highlights. Today she had it in braided pigtails, and her bangs now reached to her chin and were put in a middle part so they didn't get in her face. She was wearing black leather boots the reached up to her knees, she had on a black and white checkered skirt. Her yellow tank top said 'Rebel', she had on black arm warmers, fishnets, and she had gotten her chin pierced.

"You wanna walk?" Kira asked and Hunter nodded.

"Tell me that your life is better than mine", Kira pleaded.

"I could but I don't know how your life is so I can't really give you an answer", Hunter said smiling.

"Wow, I'm impressed, most idiots would say, 'Yo! Dude my life is da bomb, yo you should check out my pimped-out crib' or something like that", Kira said pretty much impersonating Conner.

Hunter smiled, "Yeah, well my 'crib' don't got shit in it so it can't really say that." They walked out of the Gym over to the basketball court.

"Do people label you?" Kira asked.

"Lonely, brooding, bored, and angry", Hunter said purposely leaving out 'criminal'.

"Lonely, misunderstood, quiet, Goth", Kira said purposely leaving out 'cutter'.

"Wow…looks like we both have reputations to live up to", Hunter said sarcastically. Something about the way Hunter said that gave Kira a warm feeling.

"Do you feel like an outcast sometimes?"

"No…"Hunter said picking up a basketball that had been on the ground.

"Oh…" Kira said disappointed that she thought that she and Hunter could relate to each other, but had been wrong.

"I feel like one all the time", Hunter added shooting the ball threw the hoop.

"What?"

Hunter turned around and looked he then said, "I don't feel like an outcast sometimes…I feel like one all the time."

"I do too. I mean at parties everyone will be celebrating about whatever and I never feel like I'm part of it…I just feel like I'm there…you know?", Kira said wondering why the hell she was opening up to a guy she had only known for about six months and not only that she didn't know him well either.

Hunter nodded, "After we defeated Lothor, everyone seemed to be with someone but me. Blake and Tori. Dustin and Marah. Cam and Kelly. Shane and surprisingly Kapri. Hunter and no one", Hunter said shooting the ball again.

"My ex dumped me because he realized he was gay", Kira burst out and Hunter dropped the ball mid-way of throwing it.

"That's…that's…that's…different", Hunter said giving her a look that made her laugh, "What?"

"No, it's just that you made me realized that my first boy-friend in a few months is going to go around kissing other guys and sleeping with other guys. And I was the first girl he ever dated. I probably scared him away from the whole gender", Kira said laughing hoping that Hunter had thought she had said it in a joke.

But unfortunately for her Hunter was able to see right through her mask, "You know it's not your fault he likes dudes. People are born that way. Even though you were the only girl he went out with…it doesn't mean you're the reason he's like that", Hunter said having a hard time finding the right words in the right order.

Before Kira could answer Blake motioned them to come back to the gym, "As much as I would love to continue this conversation – it looks like we have some aliens to destroy, I'm not done with you yet, Miss Ford", Hunter said and they both went to catch up with everyone.

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Ok it wasn't that long but tell me is it an ok start? Please review.