"Ahri." James breathed as he leaned over the girl underneath him, her clothes messy from being pushed roughly onto the bed. Ahri let out a small moan as he started to lay kisses leading up her neck, anticipating what came next. "I love you, Ahri."

"I love you too, James." Their lips locked and their legs intertwined, a burning desire pounded in Ahri's heart as she pushed her tongue into her partner's mouth, searching for his. What she got was the sound of his mother yelling and the room suddenly shaking.

"Get up, get up I say! You're going to be late for your first day!" Ahri sprung out of bed like someone had lit a fire underneath it and rolled to her feet, snatching her clothes off the ground and slipping her shirt on. "Bra too."

"Thanks Marry." Ahri said gratefully as the woman tossed her a bra. She slipped on a pair of pants and jogged to the bathroom, seizing her brush and starting on the tangled mess on her head.

"You're welcome. Breakfast is on the table with your bag." The woman walked down the hall, smiling to herself. "I put the papers you need in the bag, just in case someone causes trouble."

Ahri laughed at the last part of that comment. "You mean we're not trying to cause trouble?"

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James would give anything just to be able to turn invisible and run, but he feared even that would not save him from the headache that was sure to hit him any minute now. The day had started normal, with him waking up and slipping silently out of bed, getting dressed, and leaving the house before anyone else could know better.

But today would not be so easy. The clearly flustered teacher was having a hard time not staring at the new "transfer" student as he introduced her to the class.

"Class, I would like to introduce you to miss Ahri, who the government seems to deem fit to put in our class. Seeing as she is a foreigner, she is here to learn more about a culture. From where she came from I have not been informed, so please treat her as just another student." The teacher coughed and glanced at her out of the corner of his eye. "Ahri, could you take a seat in the back next to James? Your tails would make it hard for the rest of the class to see."

Ahri strut to the back of the class and put her bag on the table next to James's, the look in her eye telling him that the seating arrangement hadn't been chance. Everyone in the rooms eyes followed her as she passed them, a lot of them giving her looks that James did not approve of. They turned back to the front reluctantly as the teacher started class.

"Why are you here?" James whispered, not looking away from the board as the biology teacher started up a slide show of the day's lesson.

"Government came by and found out that I was unsupervised. They were going to open fire but I stopped them with overwhelming intimidation. So now I have to go to school with you." Ahri explained with a smile.

James couldn't argue with the logic, but he still didn't want this to happen. Not many people had originally believed the rumor, but now there was no way he would get away with just the whispers and the occasional question.

The class progressed as close to normal as possible given that a extremely hot fox girl was sitting in the back of the class and was being privately tutored by her table partner every five minutes. The class took to her immediately, surrounding their table as soon as the lesson finished and a blue work sheet was passed out. James didn't react much to them except for when a guy started to hit on her, rarely stopping his work to deliver a stern word or a dark look.

"Cut them some slack, chief." Ahri told James after he scared away a rather flirty teen. "Their hardly Spartan material. You don't have to feel so threatened by their advances."

James ignored the sudden surge of jealous glares and comments as he continued on his work. "There is no respawn and rewind here. If something happens, there is no undoing it." He glanced over at her blank paper. "And you best get started on that. If your going to be so happy about attending school with me, you better do your school work." He said it firmly, but he still let her cheat off of him.

The rest of the day followed by much of the same pattern, the introduction at the front, the constant eyes throughout the lesson, and the crowd that popped into existence whenever the lesson finished. By the time lunch rolled around, James could use a break.

Lunch was separated into four different parts to accommodate the size of the school. Unfortunately for James, not only did he have C lunch, he also had math on the third floor. Each day he would wonder unnoticed to the door when the lesson ended and take off at high speeds down the hallway and stairwell and could usually make good time. At least, that's how it used to work.

When James got up and stood by the door Ahri decided to follow him, bringing along the flock of followers she had gathered for the hour. The girls had formed a ring around her to keep the guys out, but in the process they blocked the door. James said nothing, but Ahri could tell he was getting mad and broke the group up.

"Girls, we can talk about whatever later, but I want to spend some time with my boyfriend." The girls went wide eyed and let her through, opening up a path to the door. On the flip side, they began to scrutinize the teen in sweatpants and sweatshirt harder.

"Thanks for the assist." James told her, nodding his head in approval. Ahri smiled and offered her his hand, her tails wagging slightly. James pushed the hand away and shook his head, checking his watch quickly. "No. I'll need this hand for what comes next." Ahri lowered her hand, not asking questions as James got ready to run. "If you're hungry, keep up."

The bell rang and James was off like a hoarse out of the starting gate, Ahri following close behind. They broke the speed limit all the way down the hall way and and dashed down the stairs, completely jumping the last flight. At this point there were already some people from the first floor heading to lunch. James calmly blended in with the crowd and made a run for the line through the locker banks. Ahri decided to take a more flashy route and jumped over some people and bounded across the locker banks, sticking the landing next to James.

"Show off." James said, dodging around a group of people and grabbing a tray before running into the line for lunch. Today it was hotdogs.

James usually sat with only two or three people. Needless to say, when Ahri sat down with him the spots filled up as if there was a pile of money on each of the seats.

James didn't speak once during lunch, eating his food quickly before he dumped his tray. Upon return he saw his spot was taken, so he continued walking and sat down on one of the stone decorative blocks that was stationed near the end of each table. It didn't take long for Ahri to come and sit next to him.

"Annoyed yet?" The girl asked, shooing away her following. A good deal of the lunch room was looking at her, and many of the rest were spreading the word like fire. When people kept coming up to them, she grabbed James's hand and promptly began to ignore them. After that the number dropped a little.

"I will admit, I have a headache." James said, intertwining his fingers with hers. He smiled as her tails perked up along with her ears. "For a chick with so much curve appeal, you get me when you act cute."

"I know." Ahri said, leaning on him.

"Careful, the teachers are watching." He told her friendly, pushing her away. "Public displays of affection are not not really allowed around here." Ahri responded by kissing him on the lips, which was accompanied by whoops and groans, but very few awes. Sort of disappointing.

"Do I look like I care?" She said, her voice charming everyone that heard her. But not James, and he found that very pleasing.

"Did you just try to charm me?" He asked smiling at the fox.

"And if I did?" She leaned in closer, her eyes drooping as she invited him in.

"It means I'm immune to it. Don't know why, don't know how, but it definitely gives me the upper hand." To prove the point, he bopped her on the nose. With that moment, every boy around them started to blink and look around in confusion. "And it looks like their free too."

The two waited for the rest of the time for lunch, a bit more separate since Ahri understood that she didn't have control over him. Once the bell rang, they raced up the stairs laughing like a pair of hooligans as they tried to get ahead of each other on the way up. Ahri stubbed her foot on the last step, losing about a second as she stumbled. James used it to his full advantage and and sped down the hall as fast as his feet could carry him, almost making it through the door when Ahri appeared in front of him, causing him to stop in his tracks to avoid colliding with her.

"That's cheating!" Ahri just laughed at his outburst. James couldn't help but smile too, not getting mad at all by the out come.

"All's fair in love and war." Ahri said, her brilliant smile flashing.

"And which was this?" James chucked as he walked up to her, grabbing her hand.

"Well, I'll let you guess." Ahri wrapped her free arm around him and pulled his head in, kissing him on the lips. This time James kissed back, pulling her closer to him. He felt a feeling of amusement rise in his chest when her eyes widen with surprise. They held position for a few more seconds before James broke off, both of them longing to continue.

"Do I win again?" James asked teasingly as he walked back to their seats, immediately getting to work on the homework as the first students came back in the room.

"I'd say so." Ahri sat down next to him, pulling up her own paper. James raised an eyebrow as he watched her fill out the problems faster than he could. For such a ditz, she seemed to take to this subject rather well.

"I thought you were new to this." James commented as they packed up.

"The history, culture, and science are different, but you have to remember our language and math are pretty much the same." Ahri said with a shrug.

"Eh, fair enough. At least you weren't around when I had to take Spanish." Ahri gave him a confused look, and he just waved her off. "Learning a different language is hard. I studied it for a year and I still don't know the language much at all. I can speak very little, and I can't understand most of it, but I recognize enough to get my way around and read a bit of it."

The bell rang to dismiss them from class and everyone started going to their last class of the day. And for James and Ahri, that was gym class.

It took a while to explain to Ahri why she had to go to the girls locker room (somebody teach this girl sex Ed, seriously.) James let out a sigh as she walked away, hoping she took his warning about hurting anyone would get her in trouble. He was not surprised one bit when the sound of girls managed to leak through the shared wall of the locker rooms.

James stripped out of his shirt and changed into his gym one, trying to make sense of the noise coming through the wall. It didn't take a genius to figure out a lot of it was oh my god.

"What's up with them?" James turned to the left to see Kyle looking at the wall in confusion.

"Ahri happened." They both cracked a grin as they imagined just what was going to happen during this hour. "What do you recon? Unfair advantage to which ever team she is on?"

"I don't know, I'm pretty good at dodge ball." Kyle said, scratching his chin. James responded by punching him in the shoulder, the pair of them started to play fight, exchanging punches like there was no tomorrow. Only the sudden appearance of a teacher broke up their match.

"Okay meat bags, listen up!" Tank barked, calling the room into order. "There is a new girl in the class, and I expect you to treat her like you would anyone else. That does not mean touch her butt, you helpless pervs." The class laughed at the joke. The teacher was nicknamed tank after his all around athletic skills, but he was still a pretty fun guy to hang out with. "We're in gym B, let's go people!"

The boys flooded out of the room, pushing and jostling each other as they amped themselves up for another day of dodgeball. They were on the final week, and the team standings was intense. The class had about 70 people and had been divided into teams of 7. James's team was on top, seen as he and Kyle were so competitive they virtually got all the kills. They were scored on the game win, how many they hit, and how many times they got hit. Both boys had a near perfect streak.

Of course, that was until today.

When the girls came in, jaws dropped and boners rose. James was unaffected since he saw her everyday, but everyone else was completely entranced by the sight of Ahri. The girl in question noticed and enjoyed the attention, taking the long way around before sitting down on the ground next to James.

"Ground rules." James told her, doing his best to avoid all the hostile gazes that were aimed at him. "No special skills and abilities during this class. Just physical abilities."

"Understood chief." Ahri said teasingly, her ears swiveling when she heard the footsteps of the Tank when he walked in. "By the way, fair warning. Their changing your team." A mischievous glint in his eye told him he probably wasn't going to enjoy this change.

Turns out, it wasn't actually that bad. Because of safety issues, they put him on a two man team with Ahri. They were put into team 11, a completely blank team. They then set them up into their respective matches and began.

"Ahri, your goal is to hit them, not injure or kill." James said, dropping into running position. "And don't get hit."

"Understood." They waited for the teacher to blow the whistle. The gym was separated in two courts, the winning team on each court getting to face off against the next team in line.

The whistle blew and they were off, Ahri and the enemy team rushing the middle, James moving into an open space. "Ahri, take out the second left and mirror my position!" James barked, watching as she made it to the line faster than the rest of them. Ahri did as she was told, taking one of the five balls and throwing it at her target before she grabbed a second and sprung back. A loud smack sounded out as her aim proved true, nocking the poor guy to the ground. "Third right!" James called, side stepping a ball as it flew past him. Another smack and another one down. James ducked as another ball flew at his head, rushing back to grab one of the balls that had already passed over him. He passed it to Ahri and grabbed the other ball, rushing forward and chucking it as fast as he could, his rubber missile narrowly being dodged by his target only to hit a girl hiding behind him. James cringed as the force of the hit nocked the poor girl to the ground.

By the time James got another ball, Ahri had taken out three more people. James waited for the guy to dodge one of Ahri's balls before throwing at his leg, receiving a satisfying sound of rubber on leg.

"I win." Ahri said, pretending to dust of her hands.

"I'll get more next time." James told her, offering his fist. Ahri bumped it, the pair grinning like fools.

Unfortunately, James didn't get more the next game the score came to three to four. This was because Ahri nocked his ball out of the air on the last kill and scored it for herself, at which point they began to chuck the balls at each other, both showing off their skills with Ahri doing her acrobatic supremacy and James extremely fast and accurate throws. They were stopped by the teachers when they were getting out of control when a stray ball managed to put the Tank on the ground.

By the end of the class, Ahri and James had become the most efficient team out of the entire class, and because the two were competing against each other as hard as they could, each of their matches didn't last more than a minute. The class was lead back to the locker rooms where they changed and waited for the bell.

For once in his life, James knew what it felt like to be royalty. They had jumped from the bottom of the standings right to the top, and all the opponents they had faced had been flawlessly defeated without scoring a single hit.

I have won a lot of respect today. James thought to himself as he watched the seconds tick by on the clock.

The bell rang and he was the first one out of the door, jogging down the hallway to meet Ahri as she exited the locker room. After extracting her from a group of girls, they walked down the hall to the main entrance. Normally James would take the bus, but his mom was going to come pick him and Ahri up from now on.

James opened up the car door for Ahri before taking the front seat. "So how was the first day?"

"It was hell." James said, leaning back in his eat and looking at Ahri in the mirror. "But my policy is feet first into hell, and I'm pretty sure we will gladly go again."

"I'll agree with that." Ahri said, saluting. "School is nothing for ODST's." The pair laughed as Marry rolled her eyes, already looking forward to tomorrow.