Annoying shrills of the small alarm clock woke Kineko; she flipped over in her queen size bed, her sleepy eyes landed on the object of her annoyance.

"7…..40.." She muttered, hitting the off button for the alarm. She stared at the clock and slowly read the clock again, "7:40…"Slowly the time accrued to her as she shot up in her bed and screamed, "Shit!" She made a dash around her room over to her closet and quickly through on a pair of dress pants and green collared shirt and ran down the stairs while brushing her hair. When she reached the door she was throwing on her boots and putting on her black trench coat. When she reached the street she ran to her car and jumped in, racing towards the university.

Meanwhile

"Hello class, I am Professor Mixy." Mixy beamed as she stood in front of Kineko's class as they all started at her, "I'm here to learn you." Slowly someone was brave enough to raise her hand, making Mixy lightly twitch her eye.

"Yes?" Mixy questioned as the girl stood up from her spot and asked," Where is Professor Yoku?"

"Let's not go into that." Mixy forged a sad sniff, turning to write "the" largely on the board, though spelling it wrong on purpose.

"This is how you spell "the"." Mixy commanded as she turned back to the class that stared at her as if she was crazy. She knew that she was really going to enjoy this.

Kineko had finally made it to the school and now was in a hurry to get out of her car and

lock it then run up all the steps to the school in her high hills. She finally made into the school and made her way to her class that just happen to be on the other end of school.

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"Well, we are glade to have you as a new professor Mr. Manamion(sp?)." the dean of the school smiled as he shook the redhead's hand. Kurama nodded thanks and turned to the door making his way to his new classroom, his green eyes staring down at the map of the school as he memorized it. He was finally found the hall his class room was in, though before he made it to his class and woman ran into him sending both to the ground though she quickly was up again and kept running.

"I'm sooo sorry!" She yelled quietly over her shoulder making Kurama lightly smile as he shook his head and went to his room, making sure everything was in the right place.

Kineko finally got to her class room and felt really bad for leaving that poor guy on the floor like that. Though it quickly left her when she opened the door to see Mixy standing in front of the class talking about something. She glanced to the class to see them all ready to either kill the teacher or themselves. With a groan she walked up to Mixy and pulled her way from the class.

"Okay I'm sorry I'm late, I hope Ms. Mixy (she doesn't like being called by last name) kept you interested," The class started cheering as Kineko brought Mixy over to the door.

"What are you doing here?" Kineko questioned angrily, as she closed the door to the room so the kids couldn't hear her.

"You slept in so I came instead." Mixy blinked, playing the role of innocent.

"You should have woke me!" Kineko groaned as she rubbed her temple, this is not what she needed today.

"Well, you need to sleep." Mixy began though Kineko waved her hand to stop her.

"Thank you for coming though how about you leave and try not to get in trouble." Kineko requested as she went back into her class, leaving Mixy with a nod.

Mixy let out a yawn of boredom as she wonder into the first class that was for lawyer type people, "Stupid people." She growled as she closed the door not caring that a few people looked over at her. She then made her way to the next-door and slowly wondered into the white room.

"Wow." She muttered as she wondered over to the white board and wrote "Professor Mixy" then turned to the empty room and began to speak as if there was a class there.

"Hello, I am Professor Mixy and I'm here to learn you today." Mixy grinned and picked up a bottle and pour it into a bowl. She then poured in more bottles of stuff until she picked up this red bottle that was labeled, "Danger"

"And now you put this in here." With that she put it in the mix and the room went black and so did she. Her luck some red head came in and also got cover in black dust.

"Who are you and what are you doing in here." He muttered trying not to get angry.

"You must be new." Mixy grinned innocently as she turned to make her escape to find Kineko slowly walking into the room.

"Oh lord!" Kineko gasped covering her mouth, "What did you do?" Kurama blinked and looked over at the new person in the room and smirked, it was the same girl that hit into him.

"What are you doing here Kineko?" Mixy smiled sheepishly as she looked from Kineko to the guy. Kurama blinked and slowly answered Kineko's question, since the other girl seemed to be changing the subject.

"It's okay." He politely answered as he made himself visible, though he was covered in black dust too, "She just put some stuff that shouldn't be put together, together." Kineko groaned as she turned to Kurama.

"I'm so sorry sir!" Kineko apologized, "I have to get back to my class, so how about my friend Mixy clean up the mess she made and we'll figure this out after class." Kurama lightly nodded as Kineko quickly made her way back to her class as Kurama smiled at his new information, she was named Kineko and she worked here. He slowly turned to see Mixy smirking at him and he rose an eyebrow at her.

"You have fun with that cleaning," She smirked as she went to the door, "Oh and tell Kineko I helped." With that she left and wondered over to the different classes, one of the "danger" bottles of liquid in her pocket. Kurama let out a long groan and just went to work. A hour later a bunch of students came out of the class room and Kurama was greeted by the professor.

"Hello again." She smiled as she glanced around the room; it looked as if he just finished. As her eyes glanced around the room something accrued to her.

"Where is my friend?" She questioned the new professor, who was still covered in black.

"I'm sorry, but I don't know." Kurama explained and Kineko let out a sigh as she decided to go find Mixy later.

"It's just fine." She laughed and then looked him over, "Shouldn't you do something about that." She muttered talking about the black that covered him.

"I need to go wash it out however, I can't really do that cause I don't have a car and I don't think I want to ride the bus like this." Kurama laughed as he scratched the back of his head.

"I could give you a lift." Kineko smiled as she laughed at how he looked, his hair reached his shoulders and was black though you could see some red. He wore a trench coat that looked as if it was maybe brown and a pair of dress pants with nice shoes. And his shirt use to be white and only some of it got hit so it looked like he had a black strip on his shirt.

"That would be nice though I live kind of far away." Kurama explained as he grabbed his briefcase.

"I live not so far from here, you can use our shower there and if you like I can wash your clothes for you. Kurama smiled and nodded in thanks as he walked over to Kineko.

"You know I haven't asked for your name yet." Kurama laughed as he looked over at her," I'm Kurama Manamion." Kineko let off a smile and raised a hand for him to shake.

"I'm Kineko Yoku." She laughed as she glanced over to the back of hall, "May I check my classroom before we leave?" Kurama quickly nodded and they wondered to the back off the hall to her classroom to see Mixy doodling on the board. However just as they reached the room there was a blast from the room next to her's and all the class in there ran out coughing.

"What was that?" Kineko questioned as Mixy came up behind her and shrugged, "I don't know." With that she left for her own car. Kineko sighed and turned back to Kurama who only thought in his head is what he got himself into.

"Well, I found what I needed to get," Kurama glanced down at Kineko as she finished her sentence, "so let's get going."

"You lead the way." He laughed as she smiled and walked in front of him leading him to her car. When they reached the parking lot, she went up to a dark green convertible. She unlocked the door and Kurama got in and she got in the drivers side. With a click they were on their way to her house, with the sound of the radio blasting from the windows.

"So you live with your friend?" Kurama questioned remembering seeing Mixy in the parking lot yelling see you at home.

"Yes," Kineko answered her eyes on the road ahead of her, "She's been my roomie for years." Kurama nodded in response and leaned back in his seat, looking over at the black interior. He sighed and listened to the music playing.

"We like the same music." He laughed as he hummed along to the song that was playing.

"Well now that's interesting." Kineko laughed as she glanced at him as he started humming along to the song, it only took a few minutes tell she was singing along.

"Oh but I think she's leaving,

uh yeah she's leaving

And I don't know what else to do

I can't go on not loving you

Cause it's all in my head,

I think about it over and over again

I can't keep picture you with him

And it hurts me so bad."

Kurama glanced over at Kineko who happily sang along with the passion of the song, he just couldn't help but smile. He had to say she was pretty and she had a lovely voice, though he wasn't one for relationships or anything. He had never even been on a date, always said no to all the girls. All girls were annoying though Kineko was different, it confused him and he didn't like to be confused. Everything that happened had a reason, however, what was the reason of meeting her? Kurama sighed and pushed the thought from his head as she pulled over in front of a pent house.

"Here we are." She smiled as she slowly got out of the car grabbing her bag from the back seat as he followed her. When she made it to the door she quickly unlocked it and let him in. He slowly looked over all the tan walls and the redwood flooring and noticed that the place had an earthy feel to it and it was covered in plants. It reminded him of his home when he lived in Japan, though he left years ago to go to college here and now it's been over 6 years.

"You can use this bathroom." She smiled as she pointed to the door by Mixy's room and he nodded and went in, as Kineko went into Mixy room and made sure the door there was closed and locked. She then went back and lightly knocked on the door, "Can I have your clothes, and would you like some tea?" The door opened a bit and Kurama handed her his clothes through the door and said tea would be nice. Kineko nodded and threw his clothes in the sink and quickly washed the cloths making sure that the black came out then through it in the dyer, so that it would be done when he came out. She then turned the water on for tea, once the kettle started to shriek the bathroom door clicked and slowly opened though she didn't notice as she stopped the kettle and poured the tea into two couple she turned around to get sugar to see Kurama standing only in a large dark green towel and she could feel the blush coming though she pushed it back down.

"Do you like sugar or milk in your tea?" She asked in a soft voice her eyes now very interested in the holder of sugar.

"2 spoons of sugar and milks okay." He answered as he sat on one of the stools that sat on the counter that blocked the living room from the kitchen. Kineko nodded and grabbed milk from the firige(sp?) and did both teas. Kurama actually found it very fun and cute that Kineko wouldn't look at him and her face was now a light red. Another beep was heard and Kineko went to the room behind the kitchen (the pantry) and went to the dyer.

"Your clothes are dry." She yelled over to him as she grabbed them and went to walk back out though hit into Kurama on her way there.

"Well, you hit into me again." He laughed as she handed him the clothes and he helped her off the ground. Kineko blinked as what he said came to her.

"Oh no," She muttered with a bright blush, "You're the one I hit into this morning!" Kineko groaned and slapped her forehead.

"It's okay," Kurama laughed as he turned to walk back to the bathroom, "I looked different when I was covered in black" He then closed the door and Kineko let out a sigh, she was now complete embarrassed though she had to say he was very hot. However she didn't notice that Mixy had just watched that whole thing.

"So," Mixy grinned from her spot on the couch, "Why is there guy walking around in one of your towels Ducky?" Kineko face grew red again.

"It's the professor form the school, the one you turned all black." Kineko explained glaring at her teasing friend.

"Wow." Mixy laughed sitting backwards on the couch so she could look at Kineko, "Seems like your having fun. I think I picked the right room." Kineko was now a bright, bright, and dark red as she tried to attack her friend that just laughed evilly and ran to her room locking the door.

"Damn you!" Kineko yelled as she kicked the door, just as Kurama came out of the bathroom you.

"Now what did I miss?" He questioned making Kineko stop her attack of Mixy door, as she turned even darker. What was with this today!