The next day…
As Tohru was walking through the halls on that Monday morning with Kyo and Yuki, all around, they heard the ceaseless chatter and whispers.
"Did you hear about the new transfer student?"
"I hope I'm in the same class!"
"I hope it's a girl! Do you think it is?"
"They better stay out of my way"
"Do you think that they're really smart? I sure hope not!"
Kyo gave a discontented sigh, "What is up with these people? Why are they so excited about this new kid?"
"Well…I guess it's because we've never had any new students from London so they have no idea what the person will be like" actually, this was Tohru's reason why she was so interested. She'd never seen anyone from London before, but she's learned about it in Geography, it seemed like a really exciting place with bunches of exciting people!
When the three turned around the corner, Tohru was nearly run over by Momiji.
"Tohru! You'll never guess what I found out! Come on!" and he dragged Tohru to the boys bathroom.
"Er…I can't go on there. That's the men's' bathroom!" Tohru said scared that Momiji would try to take her inside. But Momiji just laughed.
"I know that silly! I wasn't going to take you inside" he said with a grin, "Haru-" Momiji tried to stifle an excited giggle, "Oh! Goody! It's Haru!" and Momiji ran to his cousin with arms open (…what's that about?).
"What?" Haru was pretty confused, he heard his blonde cousin talking about him to Tohru and then Momiji tries to hug him as soon as he got out of the bathroom!
"Haru! Come tell Tohru-"
"This is about the new transfer student isn't this? Haru interrupted, looking a bit annoyed.
"Well…sort of. I'm just really curious" Tohru said blushing.
"Aww, it's okay" Haru said shrugging. "What do you want to know?" he said bored.
"Oh, well…" Tohru started but was too shy to continue. She looked up at Haru's face to see if he was upset, but saw black pupils-dilated-with a wicked and mocking gleam, and a grin that had hidden intentions. "H-H-Hatsuharu-Kun?" Tohru said fearfully taking a step back.
"Hmm, I can promise you that I'm much more interesting than the new transfer student" he said pinning Tohru against a locker and leaning close-an inch away-to her face.
"GET AWAY FROM HER!" Kyo yelled, and grabbed Haru's head back away from Tohru's. Haru did a quick turn and smacked Kyo's hand off his head; he then turned back around a placed a small kiss on Tohru's lips. Tohru gasped and then ran behind Momiji (who was still standing by the bathroom) while Haru was preoccupied by Kyo, and now Yuki. People had started to gather now, wanting to see a famous fight of the Sohma family.
"You wanna piece of me?" Black Haru taunted, grinning at Kyo and Yuki.
"Eep!" Tohru squeaked (Hey! That rhymed!) and then hurriedly covered her mouth when Haru then looked at her and gave another not-good grin. Kyo took this opportunity to swing his legs under Haru's and drop him on his butt. Yuki then quickly stepped over his cousin and have him two quick punches to the face.
"AH! Is he okay!" Tohru flew to Haru's side and looking down at his face.
Kyo and Yuki just shrugged as if this were just another ordinary thing in their everyday lives.
"Yeah, he's fine, we always have to do this when he goes black" Kyo then glared at the crowd that had grown around them, "What are you looking at!" and the crowd slowly dispersed.
But Yuki had other matters to attend to, "Are you alright?" he asked Tohru, she was slightly trembling; she'd never get over the intense, but frequent, fights they had.
"…Yeah. I wasn't hurt or anything but…" she reddened when she remembered the kiss Haru had given her in his 'Black' state.
Yuki looked at her with caring eyes, "Come on, it'll be okay, this always happens" and he delicately patted her head.
"Tohru! Tohru!" Momiji was about to jump in her arms when Kyo stopped him, "Oh don't be mad at Haru! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to-"
"Oh it's okay! Of course I'm not upset" she started to blush a little, but continued; "Besides, I've bothered Hatsuharu-San enough about the new student" which was purely of Tohru's imagination because the only time she inquired about him was at lunch.
"I haven't even been here for 10 minutes yet and there's already been a fight over me" an unfamiliar voice said.
Everybody's eyes turned towards the voice, in the back of the crowd, leaning against the wall, was a boy. The boy was about Kyo's height, and had midnight black hair that was so shiny and sleek that it had a faint hue of blue (Hey! I rhymed again!). He was slender and muscular, and had a relaxed air of a person who was perfectly balanced and wasn't disturbed easily.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!" (As usual) Kyo yelled.
The boy picked an imaginary piece of lint of his immaculate, yet bedraggled, uniform and looked up "Don't you know? I expected you to tell them all about me Haru, I'm disappointed" something about his character and attitude reminded Tohru and the Sohma boys of Ayame; the same dramatic flair, the same enigmatic energy and personality, the same mischievous gleam in his eye.
Tohru glanced at the now conscious White Haru with perplexity, "Hatsuharu-San…do you know him?" something about the way the boy acted, the familiarity he had shown with Haru wasn't right.
"WHAT! You know him!" also sensing that Haru's and this boy's relationship was strange.
"Come on" Yuki said, carefully lifting Haru off the floor, "We have to get to class" and with that, Yuki and Haru began to walk down the hallway. With Momiji diligently following them, Kyo waited for Tohru who was watching the new student.
"Let's go" and Kyo gave her a small smack on the side of her head. For some reason, watching Tohru watch the new student that she was so fascinated with really pissed him off. He uncomfortably shifted his hand through his orange hair, and shook his head, Man, what's wrong with me? He's just the new kid, he's no threat. But then why am I over reacting so much?...whatever. Kyo just shrugged it off and started walking down the hallway, leaving Tohru by herself.
Tohru was utterly fascinated by the foreigner. While the Sohmas' were walking down the hallway, she remained behind so she could watch him. Lost in her own thoughts about him, she realized that he noticed her staring at him. He winked at her, and when a deep blush spread across her face, he gave a playful, but by no means innocent, grin.
Tohru started to walk away, blushing furiously to herself at her getting caught. Lousy spy I am, she thought resentfully. When she felt a tap on her shoulder, she turned around, at it turned out to be the new student! Her face was now a complete shade of umber. Expecting him to be mad or something about her staring at him, she looked sort of dazed and confused when he said: "Here, you dropped this". She looked at what he was holding out to her, for a moment she didn't recognize it, "Mom!" she burst out, and then grabbed the picture, "Oh mom! I'm so sorry!" Realizing what she just said to a complete stranger, she quickly thanked him for going through such trouble.
"No problem" and he grinned, Tohru recognized it now. It was the grin of a rascal, like when Kyo gets excited about something, or when Shigure was up to something.
"T-Thank you" Tohru said again and bowed.
He just winked again. "See you around!" and he started walking off.
"Wait!" she shouted after him, "What's your name?"
But he was far down the hallway now and didn't' hear.
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There, it wasn't a cliffhanger so now you guys can't get all mad at me again. Sheesh! Anyway, I'm sorry it took so long to update, I'm having a real bad case of writers block and indecisiveness (not a good combination). And I'm trying to balance out another story that I'm writing at the same time. Thanks too all who left reviews…though I probably would've updated faster if I'd gotten more nagging me! Ahem. Anyway, I hope you liked this chappie! I took your ideas (Those who reviewed) and tried to make the new kid hot. (I didn't want to overdo it or he'd be too good to be true…well…more anyway) If he's not hot enough for you, you can still review and give me ideas to make him more intriguing in the next chapter.