Disclaimer: I don't own S.C. in any way! David Weakes is mine, but you can use him if you're into that kind of stuff...

Fuu covered her mouth as she let out a big yawn. She rolled over on her blow-up mattress to look at the alarm clock that beeped loudly at her. It read four. She shook her head, got up from bed to stretch out the sleep in her body, and did her daily routine for school, heading out of the door at five. She looked up at the sky, dawn was beginning to lighten the sky but the sun still didn't feel like coming up yet. She stifled another yawn and walked to the city bus stop three blocks away. She sat at the stop and finished some homework. After she wrapped up a few calculus problems, the bus's brakes let out a satisfied sigh as the bus came to a halt. Fuu gathered her things.

"Hello Fuu!" He smiled warmly at her. She smiled back and took a seat, falling back to sleep for the bus ride to the next stop, where she had to walk another few blocks to get to the school bus. As she walked in the warm morning sun, she stared up at the sky and fell into her thoughts.

"He's alive." She told her.

"Who's alive?" Fuu asked. "What? Why didn't you tell me sooner?" But she was weak and with a frown, she gave into her sickness, leaving Fuu completely alone and confused. The school bus came to a screeching halt and Fuu climbed on it quietly. She took her seat at the back and stared out of the window, the only thing she did on her way to school.

She rested her head on the cool glass of the window and sighed heavily. She looked out of the window and saw a kid sticking his tongue out at her in the backseat of a minivan. She smiled and started making faces back at the kid by crossing her eyes and sticking her tongue back at the kid. She uncrossed her eyes and realized that the kid and the minivan pulled away, instead, a handsome looking boy was blinking at her. Fuu bit her lip and quickly threw herself on her seat, out of his view. Her face felt like it was on fire. She waited a few minutes and made sure the coast was clear before she sat upright in her seat. She sighed and slumped.

"I'm such an idiot!" She smacked her head. She clenched her fist and prayed that she would never meet that boy again.

The bus pulled to a quick halt in front of the school. Fuu collected her things and followed the slow beeline exiting the door. As she approached the steep bus steps, a fellow classmate yelled at her from the back of the bus.

"Wait! Fuu! You dropped this!" He held up a notebook. Turning her head to make sure the notebook was hers, she completely forgot about the steps, missed the step, and proceeded to fall down the stairs. Luckily, the force at which she had fallen was stopped by helpless passerby. She looked up at the person that saved her from eating the pavement and also to apologize for abruptly. Once she recognized the face, her cheeks felt like they were on fire for the second time that morning.

"I'm sorry." She squeaked at the boy. He was the same boy that she had accidentally made faces at earlier. He looked down at her, startled by her for a moment. He regained his placid composure and picked up the bag she had droppedfrom her fall. Fuu smiled nervously as she also straightened out her clothes. He held the bag out and she took it from his grasp.

"Thank you." She looked away from his piercing gaze behind thin glasses. His lips tightened then he walked off like none of this happened. Fuu stood there, watching his retreating figure, a little hurt and a little sad. She threw the bag angrily over her shoulder and walked off. Once she entered the school, she leaned against the wall and thought about the handsome boy. Who was he? Where did he come from? She began pondering all the possibilities, like he was a quiet poet that was secretly writing her love ballads and could not bear to let her know his secret. She sighed hopefully and headed to her first class to start her day.

By the time Biology rolled around, she found out that her poet of love had a name and it was Jin. She sat the whole time in Biology doodling on a paper. She was writing Fuu + Jin in hearts in all sort of different ways, to help her decide which one looked best.

"Who's Jin?" Mugen asked, raising an eyebrow. Fuu glared angrily at him and tucked the paper away from his view.

"None of your business!"

"Oooooh, sounds like a big crush!" Mugen teased.

"You really are just insensitive, aren't you?" She crossed her arms and scooted her chair to the far end of the lab table.

Once lunch began, she sat with her friends, eating quietly while they chattered. She searched the cafeteria for the love poet but gave up to eat from a cup of pudding. She really enjoyed the invention of the pudding cup, especially the Jell-O Sundae cup which really didn't taste like a sundae to her. She quickly shoveled in the top layer and started the layer of vanilla when her friend nudged her gently. Unfortunately when she nudged Fuu was when Fuu had the spoon hovering before her mouth causing the spoon to fly away from her mouth and lodged the pudding all over her cheek. Fuu turned to her friend about to scolded her when she caught sight of Jin walking by. Her mouth, instead of releasing harsh words, hung open. This time, Mugen was nearby. He leaned over with a mischievous grin.

"Oi! Isn't that your boyfriend?" He asked her. Fuu's cheeks turned red. Jin stopped walking and looked between Mugen and Fuu.

"N-n-nono." Fuu stammered.

"Well didn't you write this?" He pulled out the paper that had Fuu + Jin written all over it.

"Mugen! Where did you get that!" She shrieked and tore it from his fingers. Jin raised an eyebrow at her. She turned to Jin and chuckled.

"Heheheh. It's just a joke Mugen was playing, see." She laughed nervously. Jin nodded.

"You've got something on your face." He said before walking away. Once Jin was out of earshot, Fuu picked up the nearest book, the huge biology book, and began pounding Mugen with it.

"You (fwap) are (fwap) such (fwap) a (fwap) JERK!" She threw the book at his head which made a nice thump noise that seemed to satisfy Fuu for now. She threw the rest of her lunch in the bag and stomped off while everyone watched.

Fuu leaned against the wall, waiting for her ride to work. She thought about her horrible day and how she completely bombed it with Jin. She sighed miserably as she heard the giggling of girls broke her from her misery.

"I got a big car, I mean, a REAL big car if you know what I mean." It was Mugen, laying it on thick with two freshmen girls that did not really know what he meant but giggled anyway.

"Oh Mugen, there you are, I guess this means that your herpes out break cleared up?" Fuu asked sweetly. The girls looked at Mugen like he was infected with the plague and hurried off.

"You," He pointed his finger angrily at her "are cruel!"

"Me? Cruel? You are the cruel one!" Fuu spat out. "You humiliated me in front of Jin!"

"It's not like you had a shot with him, you aren't even that cute!" Mugen yelled back. "Who would want to date you? Someone blind and deaf wouldn't want you!"

"Is that so?"

"Yeah?"

"Really?"

"Yeah?" They were inches apart, both faces tomato red with anger.

"Excuse me." They turned to see Jin. "Fuu?" Fuu backed away from Mugen and gave Mugen a sharp look before smiling at Jin.

"Yes."

"I have this for you." He handed Fuu a letter. Fuu graciously accepted it and clenched it tightly in her hands and smiled hopefully at him, her love poet to the rescue!

"Thank you." She said slowly trying to make her point to Mugen.

"You're welcome?" Jin's eyebrow raised slightly again and he walked away. Fuu quickly unfolded the love note to read it, Mugen looking over her shoulder. Just as she thought, it was filled with love poems dedicated to her.

"Look, not just a love letter, love poems." She turned and grinned smartly at Mugen.

"Yeah, from David." Fuu's eyes dropped to thebottom to see if Mugen was right, unfortunately he was right. David Weakes was a scrawny, runt of a nerd that even the nerd clique thought he was below them. "There's lover boy. Apparently, I was right about the blind part." David adjusted his glasses and waved excitedly at Fuu. Fuu's mouth dropped open. She turned to Mugen and threw the note at him.

"I hate you." She hissed and stormed off, walking right by Jin that blinked at her then Mugen.

"Is she always like that?" Jin asked Mugen. Mugen smiled while watching her storm off.

"Always. She's a pain in my ass." Mugen looked at who he was talking to and glared at Jin. "And so are you." He walked off in the opposite direction, leaving a confused Jin.

"This has been a really weird day." He noted.

"Tell me about it." Said David who was stuffed in a garbage can nearby.

Jin did everything he was told, everything. He ate his spinach, he cleaned up his toys, and he even scrubbed behind his ears like his mother would tell him. As a child, his obedience and his reticent behavior came to be a relief for his young parents. Everyone who met him told his parents that they were lucky to have a child like Jin. But his parents did not feel lucky to have Jin. Sure, they were happy about having Jin but sometimes his perfect behavior was a little too perfect. Somehow, next to Jin, they felt that they were not good enough, that their flaws would pass onto their perfect son. So when they met Mugen they took a naturally liking to his brash behavior that once it mixed with Jin's, it seemed to ignite something in Jin. Jin hated Mugen from the moment he met him. Mugen had so many flaws and got him into so much trouble that he was afraid he wouldn't be perfect and he was afraid that his parents would not love him anymore.
That's why he never understood Fuu, she loved Mugen and him. Perhaps at times, she loved Mugen more and he was so imperfect. His parents would tell Fuu's mother all the trouble he is and yet Fuu would hold his hand and always wanted to sit next to him. But when Mugen would hurt her or make her cry, she would always run to Jin and that was what he was grateful for.
A/N: Another chapter! I was in Hawaii for awhile and couldn't write, I wanted to update before I left but had squeezed the last bit of creative energy out for ch. 1. Well, I hoped you guys enjoy this chapter, it's really embarassing what Fuu went through, reminds me of my own HS days, it's where I tapped into my own humiliation as a teen. I just want to remind you guys that this is an AU so they might be a little OOC at times. I know right now it seems very Fuu x Jin but I'm not revealing what the pairings are...yet.

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youigy hunter: I tapped into my own childhood of fights with my brother. I'm glad you enjoyed that. I'm not revealing the pairings quite yet.

Neko-Yuff16: Thanks for the review, I did feel bad for his abandoned gift but I also don't want to reveal too much.

Shomei-chan: Thank you, I knew that soon a hugh load of S.C. high school fics were bound to happen so I decided to get my toe in while thetrend is hot.

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nania: I tried to introduce him a little differently than Mugen and perhaps with more humor.

amylovestakuya: I'm not going to reveal the pairings but I love Fuu x Mugen as much as Fuu x Jin, it's hard for me to even chose.

PegasusRider: I was aiming for typical American HS and I'm glad you're enjoying it so far. Thank you for the review.

christine: Don't worry, this story will go on for a lot more chapters.

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