Author's Note: Okay. I have decided to make this a crossover since I'm using the Fae. You will possibly see Fae and Fey interchanged throughout the story. I haven't decided but this is definitely a crossover.

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"Hey, Whirlwind." Akatsuki said as he walked up to the girl as they were on their way to class.

It had been two days since their fun in the woods, which they both got in trouble for. Kaname had found out (more like felt it when it happened) and told them not to be so stupid next time. What if the Day Class had found out? What if one of them was out there when they decided to act like children? They got the third degree. For the first time, Hanabusa smiled broadly because he wasn't the one getting in trouble. They had decided to cool it for a few days.

Those two days had been painful. Usually, Akatsuki would wake up to Boston nudging him. After he got dressed, they'd go out by the creek and read for a little bit. Sometimes they'd goof off and swim or just go for a hike. They were just together and that was something he cherished. After Ruka had basically had her heart broken, he thought that staying beside her would be the best since he truly loved her. Now she was seeing someone else and that made him a little irritable.

That was until Boston dropped into his lap. She was fiery passion while he was calm in everything he did. She could go against Kaname and live but the only reason behind that was she was human yet she was Fae. They couldn't decide if she was full Fae or if she was human. Nothing in her smell gave it away. Except when she was unleashing the wind. Then her smell changed. But in all of that, she was one of a kind.

When she turned to look at him, the wind that she wasn't controlling grabbed her hair and jerked it all around her head. It looked as if a fire had erupted around her, giving her a certain glow he had never seen. Her eyes were bright as if she had found something really cool. As he looked down, he noticed she had the book Kaname had given her open and was reading it. Something had snagged her attention.

"What's wrong with you, Akatsuki?" she asked as she turned to walk when he fell in step with her. "You look like you've seen a ghost."

"Nothing's wrong. I just wanted to ask you something." He replied with a hand through his hair.

"Well, ask away."

They were coming upon the gates and the screaming fan girls could be heard from where they were. He sighed. "I'll ask later."

She frowned up at him. "Okay. Whatever you say but…." She lowered her voice an octave so only he could hear. "I found something interesting so we have to meet soon. Okay?"

"Yeah, sounds fine."

She smiled then bounced away to talk to Hanabusa who was slightly ahead of them. For someone who hated vampires, she was sure at ease around them. Well, mainly him. She could talk easily with him just because he wasn't prone to showing much emotion. She was still slightly scared of Senri because of his one red eye but they still talked from time to time. The only person she really fought with was Kaname and that was only when he tried to tell her what to do.

As they walked by the girls of the Day Class, he could hear their murmuring about how Boston got moved to the Night Class. There were a few who thought she was sleeping with Kaname and the headmaster or that she had paid some sort of price to get there. In essence they were jealous. He looked forward to see her shoulders had hunched over. She had heard them as well but she would never say anything.

"Why do you let them do that?" Hanabusa asked as they walked away from the Day Class. "We can see how bad it hurts you."

She shrugged then. "It doesn't hurt per se. I've been picked on all my life so I'm used to it."

"You shouldn't be. It's not right. Just because someone's different doesn't…"

"That's not it, Hanabusa. The only reason I was transferred was because of what I'm connected to or what I possibly am. That's the only reason. They can think what they want. I know why I'm here." She left them as she continued on, taking up walking beside Senri.

Once they were securely in their classroom and Yagari was teaching class, Boston began pouring over the two books Kaname gave her. She sat in the corner of the room and ignored the rest of them. Every now and then she would look up with this quizzical look on her face then look back down at the book. All the while, she was scribbling stuff down in a notebook. It was the notebook she used when she worked here but not when she was with Akatsuki.

She was mumbling something when Kaname walked over to her. She lifted her head, not really looking at him, and ticked off some things in her head. She squinted thoughtfully then a thought hit her and she scribbled something down. She jumped up and moved down the steps to the blackboard. She started off with a simple name in the middle of the board. Soon the entire board was filled with names in a completely different language.

"Boston, what's it all mean?" Kaname asked. He had been staring at everything she had written down with interest. In all his years he had never seen any of this put together this way. It somewhat made sense.

She looked at it for a moment then shook her head. "I don't know."

"What do you mean you don't know?" Ruka said. "You nearly knocked me over to get down there and you don't know what you wrote said?"

"Leave her alone, Ruka." Kaname scolded. She deflated instantly. "It seems you are on the right track. Keep up the good work. I'll check in on it in a few days."

The troubled look that came upon her face as he walked away told Akatsuki she wasn't looking forward to what he was asking from her. She wanted to find out her heritage but she didn't want to do it this way. She would rather have her family tell her what she was rather than have something attack her before she found out what she was.

She looked up at him and the look on her face unnerved him. He hated that look. He'd seen it once and he swore to himself that he never wanted to see it again. When she went to sit back down, she wasn't her normal happy self. This spiral of energy was bad.

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As the sun was coming up, they got ready to go back to the dorm. As the others started leaving, Akatsuki noticed Boston was still on the window sill she had taken up residence after being talked to by Kaname. That look hadn't disappeared from her face and it was kind of getting on his nerves.

She had quit reading on her heritage and just stared out the window into nothing. It was her defense mechanism he was coming to learn. She did that when she didn't want to say anything. She had adopted it after the first night when Kaname had tried to tell her what to do about the crest burn that had ultimately scarred her skin. Whenever she sat like that, he knew he had to do something.

He crossed the room to her, resting his chin on her shoulder so he could see what she was looking at. She didn't move with the pressure; just continued to stare at….something. He finally sighed and ruffled her hair. That got her attention.

"Sorry." She whispered.

"Nah. Don't be. I understand completely." He replied.

She slid off the sill and stretched to get the kinks out of her body. "What did you want to ask me earlier?"

"I just wanted to know if you'd like to go camping."

"When?" He was taken aback and apparently it showed on his face. "What? Did you think I'd say no?"

"Well, no. I just thought I'd get the twenty questions game before the answer came."

"You're forgetting. I'm attracted to nature."

Akatsuki made a face. "I forgot."

Boston gathered her books and headed for the door as the sun started creeping over the timberline. "You didn't answer my question, Akatsuki."

He had been staring at her since she smiled. "Hmm? Oh, sorry. I zoned out."

"So I noticed. I said you never answered my question."

"Which happened to be…..?"

"It was when are we going camping?"

"I was thinking after everyone went to sleep for the day."

"You know Kaname will know when we leave."

"Yeah, and I don't really care. You need to get away from him." She shrugged. "No, that's not the answer. No shrug. You need to have a few hours away from him. If camping in the middle of the day helps you, I'll do it."

"What about the sun? You burn too easily."

"We'll be under the canopy so I should be okay."

She wasn't convinced. She walked over the bridge towards the dorm. When they got inside, they stopped in the foyer. She looked up at him, searching his face for something. Not finding it, she ascended the stairs with him at her heels. When she got to her door, she smirked.

"Go get some things and meet me out back. We'll go when I'm changed." She ducked into her room and closed the door in his face.

He laughed and turned to go to his room. He would do as she asked because she was going to run this show.