Disclaimer: Nope, don't own ANE! It would be bloody hectic if I did! Why would I write fanfiction if I owned it?! WHY?!
AN: Heyoooo! Dear mother of god, this is a late update! As are all my stories, I am actually so saddened! I have no time, what is time even oh my lawdy ;_; I am so sorry, but it will be very slow allllll agonising year long, and you will see my sanity disintegrating even further than it already has! AWESOME :D But dayuum if I didn't want this chapter out, so I certainly hope you enjoy!
"Man, that one-man clown act is late!" Rin complained, peering into the distance. "And Yukio's not here either. Tch, that clown better not have done anything to Tai." He stood on the sidewalk, looking around in his casual hoodie and pants, sword slung across his back in its red cover. Deep in thought about his dog and little brother, he shoved his hands in his pockets, oblivious to the oncoming traffic, that is, the conspicuous pink limo approaching at break neck speed.
"Hey!" A voice rang out and he was suddenly pushed, or more accurately, tackled out of the way of the car that would've had his face embedded in the windshield.
"Whoa!" he cried a little too late, hitting the concrete hard and a memory instantly resurfacing.
"Haha, here! Yukio, pass it here! C'mon!" Rin shouted, jumping up and down in excitement.
"Uh…" Yukio adjusted the ball in his hands, shying away from the black pup jumping excitedly, trying to get the ball.
"If you don't hurry up, Kuro-chi will get it! Come on! Do you even know how to play piggy in the middle, Yukio?" Rin chortled, clapping his hands in impatience.
"I do! But we have to go back soon, Father will know we're playing with it if we stay out too long…and we shouldn't be here with it to begin with…"
"Grr! Don't call her 'it'! I don't get why you and Dad are so against Kuro-chi! She's such an awesome dog!" Rin grumbled. "Fine, just throw the ball, it'll be the last one, okay?"
"O-okay!" Yukio hurled the ball in Rin's direction nervously, throwing it too far and over Rin's fingertips as he jumped. Kuro immediately came bolting towards him excitedly and Rin yelled, running off in front of her.
"Ah, too high, Yukio!" he snickered, running for the ball that was bouncing across the road. His shoes pounded against the road asphalt and he heard the approaching scrabbling of Kuro's paws after him. "If Kuro-chi gets it you're still being the piggy!" He snatched the ball up, grinning as he tightened his grip on it victoriously.
"A-ah! Nii-san! Don't run onto the road!" Yukio cried, just as a loud honk of a car rang out right by Rin's ear. He barely registered the large hunk of metal and screeching of tires that was the car in the corner of his eye before squeezing them shut and bracing for the impact…that came from behind him instead, sending him flying forward out of the car's way and onto the asphalt in front of him. A horrible crunching of metal and the sound of glass shattering filled the air, and Rin didn't dare open his eyes because it was accompanied by a heart wrenching yelp and Yukio yelling-
"Kuro!"
Rin shook his head, clearing it of the memory and ruffling his hair.
Geez, what a thing to remember…that was right before the old man let us take Kuro-chi…well, Tai now, into our home and we gave her a proper name. Why did we change her name anyway? Something about the old man saying it was unoriginal or taken…
Finally coming back to real time, he slowly sat up, slowly registering the ache in his back from the impact, the humming of the car engine and the girl sprawled in his lap.
Wait. Girl sprawled…
"Holy crap!" he exclaimed, hands flailing as he looked at the tangled but unmistakeably female body slowly pushing herself off his lap. She crawled backwards a little, kneeling between his legs and readjusting the blue cap-have I seen that hat somewhere before?- underneath the similarly coloured hood of the baggy jacket she had on that was zipped up, making it so that barely any of her face could be seen. A small part of him noted her weird white hair colour that was showing slightly.
"Hu…" she sighed in relief. "Are you okay?" she leaned forward and asked in a concerned and slightly husky voice, a tiny glint of yellow and something sharp catching Rin's eye, from beneath the cap.
"Y-yeah…" Rin tried not to get flustered, sneaking peeks underneath the cap. She jumped up energetically and dusted herself off, the cap angle indicating her eyeing the pink limo a little angrily. "Uh, are you?"
"Huh? Oh, yup! …B-be more careful, please? I-I'm not always going to be here to get you out of the way! Though I'll try my best," she said light heartedly, offering a hand and a grin, her nervousness only obvious through her slightly trembling hand and stutter. When she met his eyes, he felt like she was a lot more happy than a normal person was supposed to be, and grabbed it with a slight tentativeness and mild embarrassment.
"…Thanks…" he cracked a bit of a grin, just before she yanked him up so hard he thought she ripped his arm out of the socket.
Not a lot of people had managed to almost dislocate his shoulder before, but he'd say that this random girl probably came the closest. He rubbed his arm in confusion, because normal people weren't supposed to be that strong. He knew that first hand.
"Who are you?" he asked curiously, and she immediately stiffened, a little flustered as if she had never been asked that before.
"Um, well, my name is…" she finally raised her head enough that he could see her face properly, and Rin blinked in surprise. Her eyes were a buttery yellow, a little golden, and a little familiar. She had sharp canines that rested like fangs on her lower lip that refused to stay inside her mouth, but he didn't feel threatened at all as she smiled. Even though the fangs were sharp and looked dangerous, nothing about her scared him.
She's…she's kinda cute…
"Hakurou Fujimoto, I'm so happy to finally meet you! Please just call me Haku, though!" And then she gave the widest smile he had ever seen, and it was honestly quite easy to believe she was genuinely ecstatic to meet him, and it put a slight blush on his face. Who had ever greeted him with such enthusiasm before?
"I'm Rin, Okumura Rin!...Wait, isn't your name…"
"A boy's name? Oh my, what a sunny day!" Mephisto cheerfully exited the pink limo, adjusting his conspicuous purple hat. "A beautiful clear day to accompany you on your new journey!" With over familiarity, he placed both hands on Hakurou's shoulders and pulled her in front of him. "The person who named her had a sense of humour, obviously."
"Hah…you mean you, Pheles-san…" Hakurou mumbled tiresomely, readjusting the cap on her head.
"You guys know each other?" Rin asked in surprise.
"Why, of course! I make an attempt to know all my students!" Mephisto replied jovially, shaking Hakurou lightly.
"Students? Where are we going?"
"To True Cross Academy, of course!"
"True Cross Academy?"
"Exactly! You know, to the general public, I'm the principal of the Academy! And thus from today both of you will be students of Academy as well." Mephisto leaned over Hakurou's shoulder to come uncomfortably close to Rin's face.
"Sorry for the wait! I'm glad I don't have to separated from my dear nii-san!" Yukio called out, walking up to the car. Rin caught a sudden movement in Hakurou's jacket, furrowing his eyebrows in confusion at the weird movement at the back of her jacket, when she dashed out of Mephisto's hands and ran to Yukio, jumping up and down on the tips of her toes.
"Yuki! Hello!" she said excitedly, to the point where she almost ran around him in circles. Yukio smiled kindly and waved, readjusting the skewed cap on her head from beneath her hood.
They know each other? Really well, too…I should know most things about Yukio, and definitely if he met a girl! What else has he been hiding?
"Hello, Haku-san! Thank you for going through all this trouble, Faust-san."
"Faust? Weren't you Mephisto?" Rin and Hakurou both turned to Mephisto with confused expressions.
"Johann Faust the Fifth, it's the name I use in public," he whispered dramatically to the two of them. "Now let us head to my True Cross Academy!"
AN: WHAT THE SHIT WHO THE HELL IS KURO-CHI AND HAKUROU heheheheh it's Tai. Sorry for the confusion, but I guess it was time for some background on how Tai actually got accepted into the family! It's a long, slightly stupid, slightly serious, slightly ifoa;sfinan story, but I hope you'll like it :D
Hakurou means something along the lines of 'White Wolf' or 'Spirit Wolf' kekekeke Mephisto is a twisty clown with an equally twisted sense of humour (hence the Fujimoto last name too XD) Ahhhhhh Tai is super mega nervous to meet Rin! Stoopid gurl XD
In any case, thank you so much for reading! Thank you to the alerters, fav...ers..., and reviewers! Reviews really help with feedback and inspiration and motivation, and most of all, a lot of self confidence, so thank you so, so much! But don't get me wrong, I love my lurkers too, and I see every story alert and fav too, I love you all very much! I'm just happy you guys like the story! Until next time, keep onnnnnnn smiling!
