It was second period, Language Arts. This was the only period where Tohru's best friends all had a class together without any of the other Sohma boys. With individual desks placed in boring rows of six, the three sat in an L shape near the back of the classroom.

"What a mornin huh?" Uo-Chan said, leaning back in her desk closing her eyes.

"That was quite a show that new transfer student put on" Hana-Chan said solemnly.

Tohru was still quite speechless, blushing at the memory of the recent incident involving the new student, 'Call me Hiroko'. Tohru gave a timid glance at Hiroko who was talking to the teacher.

"So you okay Tohru?" Uo-Chan said, coming out of her revere.

"Oh, yeah. I'm fine! Just…startled, that's all" Tohru tried to give a sunny smile to hide the embarrassment covering her face.

"You really shouldn't have let him do that though, although…" Uo-Chan gave a little laugh, "It's totally worth having him here if he'll make Kyo always look like such a moron, even though he is anyway" she gave a little roll of her eyes.

"I…W-well" Tohru stammered.

"No need to explain Tohru" Hana-Chan said calmly. "There's something about him, he's very powerful, and your sweet little waves didn't' stand a chance. Why, I'm sure his waves could easily overpower many others if he tried. I wonder…" Hana-Chan was thoughtful, another set of unusual waves…interesting…

"Okay class" the Language teacher called out, "Time for assigned seats"

This was met with incredulous protest, they were fine with their seats and were in no mood to give up their comfort and security just for the new transfer student.

"I know what you're thinking, but I'm not doing this just for our new transfer student, it's now a mandatory regulation so we have to" the teacher gave a helpless shrug. "But in any case, we are going to have to incorporate our new student into our seating" the teacher glanced around for any signs of rebellion (classroom style), seeing none, he continued. "Now Honda-San, Dai-"

The transfer student interrupted him, "I don't go by that name" he said, "Just call me Hiroko"

"Oh, okay then, um…Hiroko, has brought it to my attention that you are his unofficial guide around the school, so I'll be placing you two together, at least for a while. Okay?" and without waiting to hear if she did have any objections, he proceeded to tell everyone to get their stuff and stand while he assigned the seats.

Hiroko grabbed Tohru's arm and directed her towards the back of the room. Shocked from such brazen contact from the stranger in public, Tohru followed him diligently, to shocked to protest. After the two sat down in their seats (Tohru was sitting in the desk in front of Hiroko), Hiroko lightly tapped her on the shoulder.

"You don't have a problem with this? Sitting in the back?" he asked, watching her curiously. "I took you for the kind of idiot who sits in the front of their classes, writing down every single thing the teacher says, but it looks like you're not all goody-goody" he grinned wolfishly, "Makes you much more interesting"

Tohru was surprised and couldn't think of anything to say. When she could finally tear her gaze from his, she glanced to her right where her two best friends' were sitting and saw them glaring daggers into the back of Hiroko's head.

Hiroko followed Tohru's gaze and saw her staring at the weird Yankee and the goth girl. He noticed their merciless eyes, if looks could kill…he thought slightly scared, staring at him relentlessly. Despite the sudden fear that replaced his teasing demeanor, he gave a little two-finger wave, and an innocent little smile, which would've looked more innocent (innocent at all) if he didn't show all of his teeth and had such an un-innocent gleam in his eyes. To his surprise, he saw the tall blonde one blush slightly, she give him an extra venomous glare and then turn around in her seat, still blushing.

Shrugging inwardly at the strange thing that just happened, he turned back to Tohru.

Hana-Chan took notice of all both things. Seeing Uo-Chan was a rare occurance, even rarer was the infamous 'Yankee' being shy. Usually Uo-Chan was loud and unspoken, if anyone messed with someone she cared about, she'd beat them into a pulp without so much as an explanation. But that wasn't the only thing that Hana-Chan took mental notice of. She also noticed in the beginning of class when Hiroko was correcting the teacher. He seemed to have a strange resentment to Daihiroko 'I don't go by that name'. He had a smile when he said it, but his eyes were serious, a great contrast to his usually taunting demeanor. She also felt dark waves from him. She had never felt waves this dark from anyone but her brother. Hana-Chan took a mental note to keep watch of him, especially if he's going to be with our Tohru. Strange things are dangerous, and something about him is very strange…

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I know it's been a while, but after reading the wonderful reviews I got (and being incredibly bored), I decided that I must update this…after two months. I wanted to smack myself in the head for neglecting this for so long. By now, all the people that did read it have forgotten. Fortunaltey, my chapters aren't that long so if they have to read the whole story again it won't be so bad. Well, off to play with my office friends in the library, they've been snacking on candy and I've been prisoner in the computer lab. So Toodles!