Disclaimers: Not mine. Don't sue. No money. I swear.

Notes: another reincarnation fic featuring (tadadadaaaaaa) our beloved Emperor. I've noticed that Nuriko's mostly the subject of most reincarnation fics and I'm about to break the rules! Well, not really, he still plays a HUGE part in this being…well; you'll just have to find out, ne?

Oh yeah, I used different names for them. I dunno, just want to.

Migoto Hisoume—Hotohori reincarnation (name means beautiful lonely eyes, roughly^_^)

Seikou Youshi—Nuriko (delicate figure…still rough)

TAKYOU, KONDO

(Another Place, Another Time)

PART ONE

"Hisou! Hisou-chan! Wake up!"

Bright light emanated from the blinds. Of all the times to leave that thing open…

"HISOU! Come down here! You're gonna be late!"

Hisoume squeezed his eyes shut, forcing himself to wakefulness. Closing his hands into fists, he stretched languidly across the bed, ruffling the sheets at his waist. Relaxing for a few seconds, he finally slid his legs on the side of the bed, again stretching his arms upward.

"Hisoume! Are you awake?!" his mom called from the kitchen.

"Yes, mom. I'll…I'll just take a shower!" He looked at his bedside watch, 7:00am. Enough time.

"Okay, hurry up and come down for breakfast."

As he slowly walked toward the chair where he left his unused towel from last night, he could hear shuffling from the bathroom he shared with his sister.

"Houki? Are you almost done?" he asked around a yawn, while leaning on the doorframe.

More shuffling could be heard from inside, then the door opened to reveal his sister, dressed in their school's required uniform: white long-sleeved blouse, plaid skirt that reached to the middle of the thighs and long, knee-length socks. She grinned at her brother's present state, "Rough night?"

Hisou grinned back, shoving his sister to the side and closed the door to the bathroom.

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Thirty minutes later, he was dressed in a white dress shirt and black pants, tie and blazer on one arm, knapsack on the other, hair impeccable as always.

"Nice of you to join us, honey. Did you sleep well?" his mother asked, handing him a plate stacked with pancakes and bacon.

Houki giggled at her brother's wide eyes, Hisou just grinned and winked at his sister. He slumped at his place beside his father, taking a bite out of his food.

"Hisou, hurry up with that, I have to get to school early," Houki said, her attention fully on tying her necktie.

Hisou gave her a stern gaze that said, 'then why haven't you gone yet?' but quickly gulped the last of his juice and grabbed his stuff before kissing his mom goodbye and waving hurriedly to his father.

~*~

Hisou and Houki arrived at school 15 minutes early. Houki quickly grabbed her stuff and hopped off the car after kissing Hisou on the cheek. Hisou, on the other hand, after finding an appropriate parking space, walked at a more leisurely pace. He still had a lot of time to kill before class started. Besides, he loves the sun in the morning.

As he was nearing his locker, still in a serene mood, a strong force sent him stumbling backwards.

"Ah! I'm sosososo sorry! I wasn't watching where I was going!"

Hisou smiled, he was in a pretty good mood that morning, a little bump couldn't ruin that. "It's okay, I wasn't watching either."

Standing before him was a purple-haired…guy, also dressed in the same dress shirt and slacks, with intense eyes, purple still, but about two shades darker. "Well, okay. I have to go, sorry again."

RRRRRIIIIIINNNNNNGGGGGG

Students flooded the hallways, running left and right. People were pushing past him in an attempt to get to their respective homerooms. On ordinary situations, the fact that he was being pushed would royally piss him, but he was on an unnaturally good mood that day to even care.

As he reached his own first period class, the PA system cracked to life and the headmaster's voice could be heard.

"Migoto Hisoume, please go to my office immediately."

Usually, a student gets called to the headmaster's office because of an offense or possible failure, but in his case, it was different. For him, Migoto Hisoume, Class President, it always means errand. He groaned, nothing like an errand to put a damper on my day.

He made a full 180 degrees, went up a flight of stairs, and entered the headmaster's office, fifth door to the left. He was greeted by Alice, the secretary. She, like every other female in campus had a crush on him, he doesn't mind. He's beautiful, nothing's wrong with that. He smiled back, "Mr. Johnson called for me?"

"Yes, he's inside, just go in." the girl gestured to the door, golden curls flying at every single turn of her head.

Hisou opened the door slightly and peeked in the office, it was, as usual, impeccably kept, the headmaster sitting at the table right across from the door, a picture of the school's founder on the wall behind him. "Sir? You needed me?"

The man, in his early sixties, pushed his eyeglasses from his nose and smiled, "Ah, yes. Come in. Migoto Hisoume, I'd like you to meet Youshi, Seiko Youshi. He's a new student, just transferred from Japan, I'd like you to show him around."

Hisou looked over the person sitting in front of the headmaster, vaguely trying to remember where he saw that distinct hair color. The person turned around. "Ohayo, boku wa Youshi." Smiling in front of him was the person he bumped into earlier.

He held out his hand and introduced himself as politely as possible, "Douzoyoroshiku, boku wa Hisoume."

Youshi laughed and accepted his proffered hand, "I'm so glad you can speak Japanese, I'm totally lost here!"

The exact moment their hands met, a sudden familiar feeling struck Hisou from the core of his being.

AN: as I was researching for a name for Nuriko's reincarnation, I found out that Ryuuchou in English means flowing. Isn't it sugoi? Hehe. The title means "another place, another time" again, a rough transliteration. I'm not that knowledgeable with Japanese, so any unfamiliar Jap. words here came fresh form the dictionary.  ^_^

Douzoyoroshiku—nice to meet you