A.N. I wanted to say that the Rin mentioned in this story isn't the same Rin that's in the magna. I just recently realized that there is one in the magna because I've only seen the anime, but I'm going to keep the name because I selected it for a reason.

Kaibara High School; home of some of the most hateful teachers in the world, and the world's stupidest club; the Prince Yuki Fan Club. I swear, he's kinda cute and all, but who cares? Lots of guys are cute; you don't see a Hikaru Sasaki Fan Club running around. No, I don't have a crush on Hikaru, but he would definitely fall under the category of 'attractive;' he's kinda muscle-y, but not overly ripped like some guys strive to be, and he's cocky at times, but in an entertaining way, and he definitely isn't the kind of jerk who would be mean to anyone, no matter how hateful they were toward him; that is, unless they made fun of Hikari. If they made fun of Hikari, he would pound their face in so fast they wouldn't have time to say 'mercy.' Twins don't take things lightly when it comes to their twin.

Still, there are plenty of attractive guys here, like the new first year, Hatsuharu Sohma; he's pretty cute in his own way, yet, no Hatsuharu Fan Club in sight. As I was thinking about this while zoning out after a few seconds of the twins babble, when I ran into someone. I'd never seen him before, which was strange, since I knew most of the people in the school, even though most of them had never noticed my existence.

I looked up and was about to apologize when I saw the panicked expression that covered his face like a mask as he completely tensed up, as if he expected to explode or something. It was kinda hard not to laugh because he looked so panicked; it was practically comical, with his orange hair sticking out all over his head, and his copper-brown eyes almost the size of saucers.

"I'm so sorry! I wasn't looking where I was going! My bad," I stuck out a hand. His expression went from panicked to shock to completely confused. He ignored my outstretched hand and just looked at me.

"Yeah, whatever. Watch where you're goin' next time, will ya?" he said, and finally seemed to notice my hand which was still stuck in his direction.

"I will. I'm Arisu Takahashi. And you are…?" I questioned, shaking his hand.

"Kyo Sohma." He then turned around like I was never there, which kinda pissed me off, but then I noticed who he was talking (actually, it looked more like arguing) with; the beloved Prince Yuki Sohma! Notice my sarcasm?

I wonder if they're related. Sohma isn't an uncommon name… I thought, as I walked away toward my class and the ever-hateful Ms. Kurosawa.

I couldn't tell you why Ms. Kurosawa (A. K. A. Ms. Hateful) hates me if I tried. Ever since the beginning of the year, she's been giving me the stink-eye and doing everything in her power to make me go insane. Sometimes, she's told me to stay after because she wants to talk to me, then makes me wait until the next class has already started, then asks why I'm just standing there, and won't write me a note for my next class. Luckily, my next teacher understands what a bitch Ms. Kurosawa is. Mr. Johnson was a teacher who had transferred here from America for two years. He seemed to catch on to what people were like pretty quickly. He's also one of the few people who I don't repel, so he's quickly become one of my favorite teachers; not only because he's nice to me, but because of him, I'm able to communicate with Tessa better (did I mention he teaches American English?).

Any who, as I ducked in Ms. Hateful's classroom, managing to go unnoticed by her demon-glare, I quickly sat down, just in time to see the Kyo and Yuki walk in together. I wasn't surprised to see Yuki, I've been in this class with him all year; it was his friend Kyo who I was surprised to see. Now that I actually had a chance to look at him without worrying about apologizing, he was pretty cute, even more so than Yuki.

Hmm… I may have to do something about that, I joked. Like that would happen! No guy would be interested in me. It's not cause I'm ugly or anything (I don't think I am), but like I said earlier, I tend to repel people. I doubt it's because of how I look; I have black, slightly A-lined hair, with a splattering of sky blue on the front of my bangs. Tessa says my hair is styled exactly like someone named Keri Hilson. I don't really know who that is, but I didn't really want to ask, or I'd probably get a lecture on American pop-culture.

While I was wrapped up in my thoughts, I didn't even notice who just so happened to be walking my way.

"Hey, this seat taken?" I looked up into the face of Kyo. I realized he was gesturing to the seat in front of me.

"Oh! No. Go ahead," I responded; trying to ignore the death glares I received from half the girls in the room, since Yuki was right next to him. As Kyo took the seat in front of me, and Yuki took the one next to him, a certain pair of twins crept up behind me and whispered in my ears.

"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" I tensed at the unexpected breath on the sides of my face, as the twins took seats on either side of me.

Once class started, they both passed me identical notes with identical hand writing:

Spill…

His name is Kyo Sohma and he asked if the seat was taken, I said no go ahead, he sat there, and Yuki sat next to him. THE END. I sent back to both of them. I actually got different replies from them.

He's cute! :) Replied Hikari.

R they related? Asked Hikaru.

I responded to Hikari: I noticed :) and to Hikaru: I don't know.

They continued to interview me about everything that happened with Kyo and Yuki until class got out. Luckily, I didn't have next period with them, since the twins didn't have the attention span to learn a foreign language. I did have it with Maiko though, who did have the attention span for it, and was really good at it. We conjugated verbs, which was surprisingly easy, since there are very few differences. The rest of the day went by fairly quickly, which is a good and a bad thing at the same time. It means school is over, but it also means I have to go home. To my mother. To her poisonous words and cruel hands.

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It had to be about 1 AM. I slipped out the window in my room with the bag I kept for times like this. The blue bag held a sleeping bag, aspirin, a mirror, a couple rolls of gauze, and tons of band-aids. Back when we were young, Maiko, Rin, the twins and I built a tree-house of sorts in the woods behind my house. It wasn't really a tree-house; it was more like a platform, set upon top of the tree. Who-knows-how-long-ago, someone had cut off the top part of the tree, so they had decided (with Maiko's dad's help) to build a tree house on it. It was a square platform, with a 6 foot column on each corner which supported the roof. Between each column was a 3 foot board, which worked as a wall, but still allowed a great view. It also allowed them to climb to the top, since they were taller than they had been so long ago, and to star gaze, and relax. It also gave me a place to fix myself up.

I always came out there when ever me mom roughed me up pretty bad; I used to run out here just to cry myself to sleep, but as I've gotten older, I've been picking up extra supplies whenever mom send me to do the shopping, like a small package of band-aids, or aspirin. It was kinda depressing to think about as I wrapped my hand and wrist where my mother's beer bottle hit when she threw it at my face, so I decided to look at the house in the woods. It was kinda in the middle of nowhere, but I could see the top half of the house and the roof from my vantage point. I continued to assess myself and began wrapping my calf where a second bottle hit me.

When I finished, I looked back up at the house, and noticed the roof wasn't just any empty blue-grey roof, anymore; there was something on it, and to be more specific, someone on it. I've seen this roof many times before, and no one's ever been on it before, at least not to my knowledge. I never knew who, if anyone lived out there. I always assumed there must be some road leading out to it, but I never really cared enough to find it. Now, at least, I knew who lived out there, because there was only one person I've ever seen with hair that shade of orange; Kyo Sohma.

I pulled out my phone.

Ring…Ring…Ring…

"What do you want Ari-chan?" a very sleepy Rin asked.

"Hey, you know how you said you owed me one?"

"Sadly."

"Well, by tomorrow morning, you will have paid me that one. I need you to come over to the old tree-house right now. And bring a sleeping bag."

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"I cannot believe you are making me do this with you!" Rin whisper/yelled at me, as we walked down the street... for the fourth time. "This isn't like Tessa's American song, Call me Maybe!"

We were walking down a road near my house where the house's drive way might be. I was quite determined to find the way to that house.

"You do realize we could just walk down through the woods to the house and follow it back to the road?" Rin stated.

"But that would be weird!"

"And this isn't?" I was just about to say that it isn't when I ran into someone for the second time in just two days.

"Oh my gosh! Sorry! This is the second time in two day that this has happened. I'm not normally this clumsy!" I apologized, as I looked up into the face of….Yuki? He had the exact same expression as Kyo did; panicked, shocked, and confused all at the same time, before he composed himself.

"No harm done, Ms. Takahashi," he replied with a smile for Rin and me. "May I ask where you young ladies are going?"

"The market," Rin suavely answered. Did I mention she's an excellent liar?

"What a coincidence. I am as well. Would you mind if I joined you?" It was up to me since Rin had her phone out, texting somebody.

"Sure. Fine with me," I replied hoping it sounded believable. What I was a little more worried about, was hoping that he wouldn't notice mind slight limp from last night; I could walk pretty normally, but it hurt more than limping. As we started walking to the market, my phone vibrated in my pocket. I pulled it out, it was from Rin. I quickly read it.

Commoner's supermarket! Commoner's supermarket!

I had to pretend to cough to hide my laughter at the Ouran High School Host Club (A. N. if you haven't watched it, watch it! It's good!) Hitachiin twin quote. Yes, Rin and I watch anime. We happen to enjoy it, and OHSHC is one of our favorites! Wow, I am so off topic right now, so I'm gonna stop talking like an awkward person…

As we were walking, I almost had a panic attack, when I realized, since we were going to the market, we would need money; then I realized (and was so grateful) that I had grabbed 2000 yen (A. N. about $25) on my way out. Then, I realized another thing. You know how when you see people walking together, you can kinda tell, like by how close they're standing? Well, I don't think anyone would have thought Yuki was walking with us; it looked like we weren't walking together, but like we just happened to be walking at the same speed in the same direction. While Rin and I were only about an inch apart at our arms, he was a good 2 feet (A. N. sorry, I only convert $, not distance) from me, and he was tense as a cat who'd had a bucket of water thrown on him. It ended up turning into an awkward silence, or it did for me anyway. We weren't too far from the market though, so it ended quickly. Rin and I bought a few things to keep appearances up, because we didn't exactly want to seem like stalkers. I was pretty sure he was still somewhere in the store shopping, so I grabbed Rin's hand and ran into the girl's room.

"Should we-" I started, before Rin covered my mouth with her hand. I waited as she checked under each stall door, and finding no one, gestured for me to go on.

"Should we follow him home? I mean, he came out of the right area of road, and both their last names are Sohma…" I trailed off, not really knowing what else to say.

"If I was your friend, I would say no, cause then you'd no better than the Yuki fan-girls. But, as your best-friend, I say what the hell. Why not?" I grinned and hugged her, then grabbed her hand and our bag of goodies and quickly peeked out the bathroom door.

"I think I see him leaving!" I whisper/yelled. "Let's go!" We slowly walked out and could see him through the windows of the store. We pretended to still be shopping on the off-chance he turned around, until he was almost around the corner. We quickly power-walked then peeked around the shrug that encased the market's parking lot, and sneakily retraced our steps back to where I ran into Yuki, when he turned down a dirt road. We waited a minute until he was far enough down for us to sneak across the road and hide behind the trees that surrounded and obscured the lane. I turned to Rin and began facial-expression/ hand gesture-talking:

Should we follow?

I don't know! This is your thing!

Well I'm asking you!

Whatever you want.

Ugh. Fine; let's go.

We're creepers, aren't we?

Yep.

We scurried along the path, staying far enough away so he'd be unlikely to see us, but close enough so we could sort of see him. It didn't take long to reach his house; and it was the house. The house I saw every night and always wondered who would live out there.

Suddenly, there was a flash of orange, and Kyo was there; it was like he'd jumped off the roof or something.

"'Bout time you got home you damn rat; I'm starvin' over here!"

"I wouldn't have take so long if you hadn't waited until late morning to say you wanted breakfast, you stupid cat," Yuki responded, coldness coming off him in waves. I'd never seen him like this, he tended keep himself at a distance from everyone, but he was always nice. The other thing I noticed, was that the words, "cat," and, "rat," didn't really belong in that context. Super weird nicknames, maybe? Rin and I both gave each other, 'What the hell?' looks, and continued to watch their exchange. They continued to rant about whose fault it was, until something I really didn't expect happened; Kyo threw a punch at Yuki, and Yuki dodged then kicked him in the face! Kyo fell back, while Yuki acted like nothing happened, and went inside. You could tell Kyo was seething with anger; but it made me mad that I couldn't see if he was ok, not without looking like a stalker anyway. I really hated it, because I'm one of those people, where if everyone else isn't ok, then I'm not ok. He sat up; put his elbows on his knees and his hands in his hair. He mumbled something I didn't catch, but you could feel the frustration rolling of him in waves. He got to his feet, turned around, and looked like he was heading towards the woods, but a different part than where we were hidden.

This time, it was Rin who grabbed my arm, and we ran back down the road.

"What the hell was that?" Rin yelled, both of us catching our breath from the up-hill run.

"Why are you asking me?" I paused to take a breath. "And what was up with the 'rat,' and 'cat,' comments?"

"I don't even know, and I don't think I want to know," Rin replied, who was still catching her breath. Rin isn't tubby or anything, she's just out of shape, like she's thin, but in an I-eat-healthy-ish-but-I'm-really-lazy kind of way.

"Time to head home?" I offered.

"Yes," she replied. "Time to head home."