R.S. :This is my first Rurouni Kenshin fic. Well my second... but you know what I mean. It's about some of the things that go on in schoo life.

Kaoru Kamiya goes to Maxson High. A school where there is everything. Popular crowd, badasses, geeks, sluts and whores and skanks, all of it. She is one of the popular kids. Then she meets the new boy and he begins to show her a new light on everything. Friends will be hurt, people will curse and fight, crushes will come out, it's the whole nine yards. This is based on my school adventures. So I hope you like it!

It's always that one person

by Rampaging Sorrow

Prologue: Kaoru and the Kamiya family

Kaoru Kamiya sat down on her window seat in the kitchen as her brothers and sister ran about the house, trying to make it tidy before their father came home from his trip. She had already did her part, so why should she help them? In her mind, she didn't She wanted to help them because she warned them already. She sighed before blinking and looking back outside as the sun began to set, her mind deep in thought.

Kaoru was sixteen years old and she was the middle child of Shinji Kamiya's five children. She had long thick raven hair in layers and she had light blue eyes of the sky that turned navy like the ocean at night. She loved to dance and that was why they called her 'Wild Tanuki' when she went to the clubs. Not a name she's 100 proud of, but it stuicks to her. She also had the name of 'Mix it up Kamiya' because anything that somebody did, she would mix it up and she would turn it into her own way. And that was why people liked her. Because she didn't try to be like anybody else. She just tried to be unique. And that was what she truly was. Unique. And with all the things that had happened to her, she was lucky that she had a strong heart and she didn't let people put her down.

Her parents were Shinji Kamiya and Annalise Loire. Shinji Kamiya was a world known business man who made different things that people could use. He just didn't make one thing. He was also a family man who loved them very much. Kaoru saw her father as the person to come to when she was in trouble. He was her best friend. He would playfight with them, hang out with their friends, just curse with them at times, and just do anything a normal teenager would do. He did this because he didn't want them to think he was all strict. He wanted them to be comfortable around him so they wouldn't rebel like most rich teens did. Everybody would say that Kaoru looked like her father because he had the same eyes and the same hair. It was like Kaoru was his sister other than his daughter and sometimes he treated her like that. Kaoru loved him for that and if her mother were around, she would be the same way with them.

Annalise Loire was the loving mother that everybody wanted. She loved her children, she loved her husband, she loved her life, and she knew how to go wild. She was the odd one of their little family because nobody had her exact features. Only the minor ones. She was a world known singer for her mix matching and she was an idol.

She was beautiful and her looks made men just drop and drool over her body. She had light brown hair that was at the middle of her back and her curls were natural. She also had ruby-brown eyes that made everybody she looked at fall into her eyes and just day dream or go into daze. She had curves out of this world and her walk made all the men turn their heads and watch her go down the street. She was that beautiful and when she met Shinji, everybody thought it was just a two month fling. But suprisingly, her love for him grew and she and Shinji were married happily.

Annalise was very fiesty, but she was a kind person with a good heart. She loved to give more than she loved to receive. She would fight for the underdog and make sure that nobody got hurt. There was a time in Greece where she had fought a very big man for a sick young girl and her mother. She had turned when she heard a yell of pain and she saw it was he who he had pushed aside and hurt her greatly. She did get hurt, but she showed him a thing or two and she and the mother became good friends. Her mother wanted her to adopt her daughter, Genia, because she wouldn't be able to help her. Because they were good friends and she was the person she was, she adopted Genia. She was four at the time when she was adopted. Genia had been told by her mother to thank her always be grateful and she had always been greatful since she didn't have a family before.

That was how Annalise was. If you needed something, she would give it to you, no matter how mad somebody else got. She couldn't stand to see somebody down without anything.

Annalise had a disease that couldn't be cured. It was a rare disease and sadly, she was one of the million people that had it. But that didn't bring her down. In fact, it made her more happy to know she was living life good with a sickness that couldn't be cured. She felt that she had been graced by God because she wasn't dead yet and other people with the disease had passed away.

She and Shinji were what people called 'True Lovers'. They weren't just together in the spotlight just for publicity. They really loved each other a lot. They began to make a family and they lived in happiness. Annalise was most happy with Kaoru because Kaoru was talented. She had everything that Annalise had in musical talent. But the main reason she loved Kaoru with all her heart, was because Kaoru was the first one to see her crying over her sickness and she went and she hugged her tight and told her everything was going to be okay because she was going to fight off the 'mean old germs' for her. And every since that night, Annalise did everything she could to make sure Kaoru wasn't left alone and her talent wasn't wasted. She didn't want Kaoru to be in her shadow. She wanted her to have her own light and to shine on her own.

That was why Kaoru was so close to her mother at times. Because her mother would tell her all the time that she loved her dearly and if she were to go, that she would be in her heart forever along with her other children. Kaoru was always under her mother and she was always around her. In the music booth, watching a game, and sleeping close together on the couch.

But sadly, Annalise's sickness got worse in time and she passed away. One of the reasons that Kaoru is paid so much attention to at times, is because Kaoru was there when her mother died. Kaoru was sick that day and she was crying because she felt awful. Her mother was dying and she knew it, but she wanted to make her feel better one last time. So she had called her in and gave her back a rub and hugged her close as she got tired. 'I will always love you Kaoru. I always will.' 'I love you too.'

Annalise died in her sleep while holding Kaoru. And from there, Kaoru was never the same. She had to go to counseling for years, and at the moment she still does. She was more depressed, and she was only four years old. She didn't do as much as the other kids in her age group did and she practiced on her piano and her music for hours because that was what her mother wanted her to do. To excel and to achieve whatever she wanted to be. Kaoru didn't want anything and at night she would cry her heart out because she wanted her mother and she didn't want anything else. At five, she had skipped a grade, but she rebelled against her teachers and her tutors for piano. She didn't want to go to school and she would have panic attacks and go into shock from dreams in her sleep. Her father was scared and he didn't know what to do. But in time... she suprisingly got better. It was as if somebody had came and told her to move on and be strong for her mother. And that was what Kaoru did and soon, she was back to normal.

Kaoru has two sisters and three brothers. Her oldest sibling was a boy named Shuichi. Shuichi had his father's hair, but green eyes. He was in his second year of college and he was the second man of the house when their father was gone. He was always looking out for them and that was why he was the most mature.

The second oldest was Genia who was now eighteen. She had light green eyes and dirty blond hair that was thick like Annalise's and down to the middle of her back. She was the woman of the house and to her, it was nothing but exciting. She was the one that they had to have permission from if their father said to 'go ask your mother. She was a party girl, but she always controlled herself and she helped the family in times of need. It was like she didn't think she was adopted, but just lost and found. Her accent was still there, but it was so light now that they didn't feel it at all.

But Genia was the one to always get lost while looking at something new to her. That was why they always just had to look for a ruby and indigo ribbon. It was the only thing she always wore because Annalise gave it to her.

The third oldest was another boy named Aoshi. Aoshi had green eyes and brown hair with long bangs in his eyes. He was muscular and he was an athlete and as some people said 'A sports god'. He did almost any sport and he would excel at it and master it, no matter how hard it was. From baseball to volleyball, Aoshi could do it. He was also the silent one of the group. He liked to keep to himself at times and he had an ice cold shell to people he didn't know. But still, he had a good heart and he was very caring, something that made everybody he knew feel like he was an older brother.

Then there was Kaoru as we all know right about now.

Then there was her sister Tara. Now Tara was the odd one of the Kamiyas because Tara didn't have any of their hair or eye features at all. She was a natural dark blond with hazel and green eyes. They didn't know what happened and why she came out like that, but they just ignored it and let it be. Tara was the sports player as well and she was a beauty at that. Her favorite sport was basketball and she did everything that they had taught her and then some. She also loved to just relax which was why she was the lazy one as well. But even with all those traits, she was a good sister to have.

And last, there was little boy Yahiko. Yahiko had eyes like his mother and hair like hers only darker. He was the only one who had it. He was four years old, and he was very happy. He had everything he could possibly want and he didn't want anything else. He was into the drums and he loved to tap things. He was also into soccer and for his age, he was pretty good. Yahiko also loved attention and did everything to get it, which got him into trouble at times. But overall, Yahiko was a sweet little boy. Even if he only got to see his mother once in his lifetime, he still held what she always had. A good heart.

Yahiko was different because he wasn't necessarily born in his mother's stomach. After a few years, Shinji had wanted another child, so with the help of science and the help of an egg that she had donated, Yahiko was born. That was why he was so young. But even with that, he was still like any other boy. Just made differently.

"Sister!" Kaoru turned to see Yahiko jumping up and down to be raised up. She gave a smile before she picked him up and let him sit in her lap. He looked out the window.

"Kaoru, are you sad again?" Kaoru looked down at him before smiling.

"No Yahiko. I'm more happy then sad today."

Kaoru may not be like other kids, but she was her own self. And as her father pulled her up into a big big hug, she could only smile and think on how lucky she was at the moment.

Yet little did she know... it was all about to change.