"A New Tutor"

"That's it! I give up! I quit!" yelled a very old woman. Her grey hair that was once in a tight bun was loose and stuck out everywhere.

"What? But you just started two days ago!" remarked a surprised and irritated headmaster.

"Your Day Class students don't think of anything else except your precious Night Class," the old woman snapped. "And speaking of the Night Class, they are just snobby little know-it-alls!" And with that she stormed out of the room.

What am I to do? wondered the confused Headmaster. This has been the fifth tutor this month! Are my students that wretched?

"Headmaster," Kaname beckoned interrupting the headmaster's thoughts, "you called me here for a reason, did you not?"

"Of course Kaname-kun," Headmaster smiled not noticing the slight flinch and irritation in Kaname's eyes. He was just simply glad that he had a prim and proper student despite the fact that he "murdered" Shizuka Hio and turned his adorable adopted daughter, Yuki, into one of his own kin. "Kaname, our latest tutor has quit. So I would like your opinion of a tutor that won't make your fellow classmates … 'scare' away their teacher."

"If I were you, I would stop hiring countless tutors and evict the most troublesome students that lower the academy's average."

"*gasp* that's just plain harsh!"

"Well, if you don't like the idea…"

"I despise that idea!"

"Okay… like I was saying, a kind woman…"

"Why choose a woman?"

"A woman is more patient and kind to her students then a man, now will you let me finish?"

The Headmaster nodded.

"Back to what I was saying, she must be young and understand her students. That is the kind of tutor that would best fit the other student's ideas."

And with that Kaname left. He left because he knew that a person that could understand anybody the moment they met was simply impossible.

But you know what? The air head Headmaster, Kaien Cross, found the perfect person.

The next day, there was huge gossip. Today, there was a new "girl." And notice I didn't say "student." This new girl was beyond gorgeous … well, that's what the boys said. The girls said she was beyond evil. "She caught the eye of Aido too much," one girl would pout crossing her arms.

But this girl wasn't beyond evil … nor was she beyond gorgeous. Well, she wasn't ugly, she was normal looking is what you would say. Except when you first look at her and you would think she was one of the prettiest boys you would have ever seen. But don't worry; things will clear up when you learn that her name is Astin Lin Baltimore and the fact that she is the niece of the oh-so-popular pop star, Lady Isabel Baltimore.

Note: Astin in French means "star-like" it's a unisexual name.

So the rumors of the beyond gorgeous yet beyond evil girl were just what rumors are, pathetic lies.

What the boys actually saw was a very lanky, skinny-to-the-bone, insult-to-all-boys boy. The girls saw a super hot, kind hearted boy.

But this girl mistaken as a boy (and didn't know it) really did look like a boy. With that mess of super short charcoal black hair of hers and how flat as a board she was if you didn't read her student ID and looked at all the (very little) beauty products she had you would diffidently think she was a complete "dude."

But the Day Class figured out that she wasn't a "he." You see, unlike the Night Class, these people actually care on what you look like and what gender you are. So the moment they looked into Astin's eyes that were like the clear blue sky or more specifically, quote on quote, "…the color of the deep blue glittering sea," they were positively, absolutely sure that this person that looked like a total guy was a girl that just didn't care about her appearances. And no, she wasn't it's-the-inside-that-counts person. She was I-don't-care-about-how-I-look-because-that's-my-problem-not-yours type of person.

After three days time, Astin was very close to getting canned. And it started with the Headmaster, his office, and Kaname Kuran.

"She's too young and she doesn't know what she's doing," Kaname remarked.

"But I thought you wanted a 'young' tutor," Headmaster scoffed beaming at the very young (17-year-old) tutor.

"I meant younger then that 80-year-old hag."

"Hey! She was only 75-years-old!"

"No difference. She. Has. To. Go!"

"Look Kuran, she helped us a lot and we owe her a lot. Just because we have the school's average raised doesn't mean that we should just … fire her!"

The young girl stood up. She looked at first Kaname then the Headmaster. She then closed her eyes and took a deep breath in. "Okay," she finally sighed, "I didn't want this job in the first place."

She looked at the two men again waiting for them to interject with a question or a stupid remark. She took another deep breath. "But that doesn't mean I want to leave the school. My … aunt … got me into this mess and I don't think she's expecting back at the estate until after the end of the school year."

She pointed at Kaname accusingly. "Besides, your sister needs my help if you want her to … um … 'rule' the vampire world. Otherwise your best chance of marriage is Lady Sara."

The headmaster stared down at his coffee knowing what this lanky, skinny-to-the-bone girl, who looked like a boy, was right. This task, as a tutor, was "forced" on her.

Kaname, he too was silent. His lips were pressed so tightly that they were white. This mere weakling of a human talked back to a "pureblood prince" that was soon to be king. Yet he couldn't help but not "object" her "sayings" for the words that came out of her lips were true.

Kaname walked towards the door but he stopped next to Astin and gripped her shoulder until she winced in pain. He leaned close to her ear and whispered, "I'm giving you one more chance. But if you ever talk back to me again I will make you wish that you were never born."

"Don't worry Ms. Baltimore," Headmaster smiled warily when Kaname exited dramatically (breaking the door), "I'm sure he didn't mean it."

"He sounded like he meant a lot of what he just said," Astin muttered rubbing her aching shoulder.