Hey people! Houseki here! Your wonderful, amazing, perfect, beautiful, charming, lovely, and modest authoress here! (I'm not THAT egotistical by the way) As some of you Inu-chan fans out there may know, I am obsessed with the doggy-boy and proud of it! (But Miroku's hotter! Heehee!) And as some of you others may know, it takes a lot to get me obsessed enough to write a fan fiction. And obsessed with Furuba I am!!! I loooooooooooooooooove Haru!!! He's so cool! Anyway, enough of my blabber. Here's the story.

Oh, and sorry if I write something that screws up or contradicts the show. I've only read the first three manga and the second one didn't even count because right after Haru and Kyo's fight it repeated the entire first part and then skipped ahead to Momiji talking to Tohru about Hatori and Kana so I am VERY VERY sorry if the people go OOC or I mess up something, but technically, you can't blame me! failed attempt at innocence. Ok, blame me. :p

Standard disclaimers apply. Duh.

Hatsuharu took his seat in the back of the class silently, as usual. He stared straight ahead, not ready for another day of school. He vaguely heard the teacher announce the arrival of a new student, some foreign exchange kid from the states. He sighed and leaned back in his chair, trying to relax, when he saw her come in.

"Class," the teacher announced as the girl made her way to the front desk to stand near the teacher. "This is Miss Kassandra Herb, from the United States. She'll be joining us here for a few months courtesy of the foreign exchange program. I hope you will all do your best to make her feel at home while she's here."

"Kass, please. Nice to meet y'all."

His first thought was, 'She's beautiful.' His second, 'She's awesome.' His third, 'She's beautiful.' And she was. Her long natural blonde hair flowed down to the middle of her back and her long bangs nearly covered her deep brown eyes and framed her face wonderfully. She was dressed in black jeans ripped off at the knees with a black tank that read "Like I care," in bold red letters. She was wearing about five chains, all silver, two of which had been strung with silver rings. Half of each lower arm was concealed by bracelets and two brown eyes hung from her ears. She smiled brightly and moved to take the seat next to Haru, which was the only empty seat in the room.

"Hiya!" she beamed. "I'm Kass... well, duh you already know that. Never mind. What's your name?"

"H-Hatsuharu," he stuttered out. Her Japanese was nearly perfect. "Call me Haru."

"Kay! Haru," she said, testing the sound of his name. "Cool!" She beamed again. "So, is that natural?" she questioned, leaning back slightly to look at the back of his head.

"Yes," Haru said in monotone.

"Awesome!" Kass beamed yet again.

"Kass?!" the teacher called. "Just because you're new doesn't mean you can break rules. Now sit up and pay attention or you'll be staying after school on your first day here."

"Yes'm!" she shouted back. Then she looked over at Haru and winked. He was a little confused, but she didn't notice, as she was busy taking out a Sharpie to draw on the parts of her arm not covered b y her bracelets. He stared at her for a while and almost jumped when she suddenly whipped out a pencil and paper and scribbled hastily on it. Then she crumpled it up and tossed it at him. She began watching the teacher again like she was actually paying attention the whole time.

Haru reached out and uncrumpled the note. 'Do you wanna hang after school?' it read, in perfect kanji. 'You're my first friend an' I need someone to show me around. What do you say?' Beneath that she had doodled a happy face saying "Please!" over and over. He slowly wrote "Sure" and tossed it back at Kass. She read it quickly and grinned, then went back to staring straight ahead.

The rest of the day passed without incident. Haru met up with Yuki, Kyo, Tohru, and Momiji after school ended with Kass tagging along behind him.

"Who's the girl?" Kyo demanded.

"Howdy!" Kass said in English, not even bothering to see if Haru would answer for her. "I'm Kass! I'm from the USA. Nice to meet ya!" She beamed again. (A/N: Happy person, huh?)

"Hello!" Tohru smiled. "I'm Tohru Honda. This is Yuki Sohma, Kyo Sohma, and Momiji Sohma." Tohru beamed back at Kass.

"Brothers?" Kass asked.

"Cousins," Yuki answered.

"Him, too?" she gestured to Haru.

"Richtig!" Momiji interrupted. "Sehr hubsch!" Kass giggled.

"Danke!" she replied, still giggling.

"Sprechan ze Deutsch?"

"Ja!"

"Wunderbar!"

"Um..." Tohru interrupted.

"He said, 'Correct.' Then, 'You're very pretty.' I said 'Thank you.' he said 'You speak German?' I said 'yes'. He said, 'Wonderful.'" Kass explained. "My mother was German."

"Can we go?" Kyo said, annoyed at the delay.

"Yes!" Tohru replied happily. "Let's go!" She took Yuki and Kyo's hands and they began walking off together. Momiji followed after them, shouting, "I'm gonna visit, Sensei, Haa-chan! Alright?"

Haru didn't bother yelling back.

"So? You gonna show me around or just stand there?"

Next Chapter:

"Haru!"

"Stupid! You let Haru show you around?!"

"We got lost."

So, what do ya think? Is everyone in character so far? Oh, I hope so! gets REALLY worried If they aren't in character it ruins my story! Nooo! I am very sorry if they're OOC!!! sob Review please?