The Exchange Student
This chappie's a little different because this is what an exchange student in fanfics would be if he was gasp! actually believable!
Wayne Daniels didn't exactly get the warm greeting he expected from Meiou High School. The wiry teen hailed from Wyoming, and was a little claustrophobic; there were more people in his classroom than back in his hometown!
Nonetheless, he remained polite and respectful. His momma raised him right.
"Douzo yuroshiku," he muttered with a deep bow. This sure threw off the students, who suddenly lost hope in their English teacher. They breathed in their side-conversations, leaning from one row to the other.
"Why, he doesn't sound like an English speaker at all!"
"Maybe there's a group in America that speaks another language."
"Really? It must be really ugly-sounding."
The teacher announced that there were expectations the school had, and that Wayne was an "ambassodor" for his country. It was the teacher's way of embarrassing students in advance, and It certainly works. Wayne took his seat at the front, and everyone behind him had to duck to the side to look at the blackboard.
"I thought the exchange student was supposed to be a girl!"
"Oh, with the green streaks in her hair?"
"Stupid, students aren't allowed to dye their hair!"
"What about Minamino?"
"That's his natural hair color!"
"That's so weird!"
"Oh, but she was fluent in Japanese! She was visiting with her parents for a few months."
"That's what foreigner schools are for."
"Man, I can hardly understand a word he's saying."
His accent was one thing, his size and stature was another. As time went on throughout the weeks, students would whip out their cameras and take a picture of his curly red hair and freckles dotting his body when the teachers weren't looking. They called him "Nopo," meaning "giant." The poor boy wasn't quite proficent enough in the language to know that it wasn't a compliment. He just smiled and replied with a "thanks."
The only other redhead smiled at Wayne, who waved back enthusiastically. The strange beautiful heartthrob and the foreign oddball. In a fair and just world, Kurama decided, their places would be swiched.