The class erupts into a chorus of whispers, until the teacher coughs and sternly says, "Talk with yourself later. Now, does anybody have any questions for Kiana?"

Multiple hands raise up, making the teacher sigh before randomly pointing at a student in the back seat, "You."

The male student quickly gets up before smiling at Kiana, "Where did you go before here?"

Kiana blinks before smiling as well, "The Philippines, Italy, and others!"

The male student nods before sitting back down. The teacher picks a female student this time.

"What is your favorite food?"

"Ummmmmmmm… I don't have a favorite food; I'll eat anything really."

The teacher claps his hands, "Ok. That's enough introduction. Kiana, go sit over at that empty spot near the window." He points at the third lane of five, coincidentally one lane in front of the guy with a max coffee, who is now face planted into the desk with max coffee in hand.

"Ok." Kiana bows before heading for her seat. She sets her bag on top of the desk, pauses, then looks at the purple bow tie female and the max coffee holder. She shakes her head before plopping down on her seat.

"Ok class. Turn to page sixty-nine, no laughing, then pass up your homework…"


The bell rings throughout the school, making the teacher sigh in relief, "Class dismissed."

Everybody immediately gets up to go talk to Kiana… Well, almost everybody. The max coffee holder quietly gets up to stretch before noticing the crowd gathered in front of him.

"Oh, yeah we got a transfer student… Meh." He shrugs before heading out, along with the purple bow tie female with her own group. Kiana notices this and tries to politely tell everybody off, yet her attempt is drowned by the others' voice.

"Hmmm… Cafeteria or snack machine," The teenager muses while idly throwing his can into the dust bin, "I still have enough money to buy the groceries if I eat cafeteria but…"

"Wait!" Kiana's voice rings out behind him, yet he merely continues to walk, thinking that it isn't meant for him like always.

"I said wait!" He feels a hand on his shoulder, prompting him to look back and see Kiana glaring at him, "Geez, you could have waited for me."

"…Erm, can I help you?" The teenager awkwardly asks while glancing at the hand then to Kiana, "Can you let me go first?"

She lets go of him while her expression relaxes, "Do you know where did that polka dot bow tie girl went?"

"Um… Do you mean Mei?" His answer is in the form of a shrug, "I'll assume so since she's the only one that wears it, she went that way." He points to the opposite end of the hallway.

"Ah!" She looks back, only to see the female nowhere in sight, resulting in her to sigh, "I can't catch up to her now… Hey, what's your name?"

"Hikigaya Hachiman." He curtly nods.

"Ooooh, nice name." She nods with her eyes closed, not noticing the slight flinch from Hachiman, "Hey, can you show me around the school?"

He flinches again, "Why?"

"Um… I, you're the only one I know here, so…"

"…Maybe later. Right now is break period."

"Oooohhh. Then, can we eat together?" Kiana innocently asks with a smile, making him flinch again.

"Why?" Hachiman takes a step back as he suspiciously looks at her.

"Um, why what?"

"Why would you ask me?"

"Why not? We can talk as we eat, with you telling me the general places of this place."

He looks away, not being able to trust the innocent-like sentence, "Maybe you should get somebody else to help you. I am just a loner who hates this society filled with liars who would do anything to save their own image and it hates me back. Source: Me."

She takes a step forward to hold his face, not caring for his dumbfounded expression, "Stop it with the negativity. You are more special than you think you are, no matter what anybody says," She resolutely declares.

He flinches and tries to get out of her hold, "Nope. Now please get your hands off of me." He puts his hands on top of hers, only to feel the latter tightening her hold.

"Nope, not until you quit your self-deprecation."

"So you want to hold me forever you gorilla?!"

She opens her mouth but gets interrupted by a gasp behind her. Turning around, she sees that some of their classmates are looking at them.

Hachiman looks behind her and his face erupts like a volcano, "Please let me go," He almost begs her. Luckily for him, she does but snags his arm with hers.

"Come on, let's go get some food," Kiana resolutely says before walking away with him in tow.

"Wait! Why are you trying so hard for me?!" He desperately asks as he tries to pry himself away from her hand.

Her steps slow down, yet still manages to keep an iron hold on him, "You looked more honest than everybody else." Without hearing his response, she hastens her step.


*A...N*

So, just for clarification, I tried to search for info on how Mei and Kiana first met... The result was various of different information with the wiki being zero help in that regard. With that, my plan of just following a bit of canon route just got crushed to death. Also, Hachiman might seem a bit OOC but keep in mind that this is before oregairu happened, meaning that this is the more awkward self loathing him and with Yukino not being here with her blunt honesty that resulted in him fighting back with almost 0 regards... Well, I had to improvise.

Now on to the comments:

bluecookie420 - apologies if I don't live up to your expectation of Hachiman in this story (though I would still continue regardless)

Renashi-RE012 - Yep, this is a Harem fic with me planning on bringing the female cast of oregairu (Sorry Totsuka but...)

A Reverse Weeb - Thank you, and for Komachi, I got something planned for her (Insert generic villain laugh)

ArmantusCumPinnae - Thank you and I hope you won't be disappointed. Now regarding the latter part, to truly trigger my spite would be to just act dumb and act you're better than me regarding my ideas, though too much and I'll just drop this fic due to the hate (it has happened before.). But, I genuinely had a good laugh reading it so it helped a bit in pushing this chapter earlier than planned.

Motivation - He will get some girls before he dies single! (Unless somehow the plot demands it.)

Taida-kun - Thank you and I hope you won't be disappointed in my ideas.