All heads turned as the silver-haired teen stepped into the room as the bell rang.
"He's so pretty!", "He looks like a girl. How adorable!", "He's like a prince!"
"Eh? Hikaru, who's that?"
"Isn't that the new guy, Kaoru?"
At the back of the room, the Hitachiin twins were observing Yuki with a lot of interest. Their homeroom teacher smiled at the perfectly composed newcomer.
"You're just in time. Please introduce yourself."
He strode to the front of the room and gave a respectful bow without appearing silly. When he stood upright again, everybody noticed how...feminine his face seemed. His gray eyes were large and his hair was a little on the longish side; his smile could only be described as princely. But even though he was slender, he had a strange kind of strength surrounding him. Was it his posture, or was he naturally like that? All in all, this new guy had a very mysterious air.
"I am Yuki Sohma. Please take care of me." His voice was soft like silk or velvet, and they had to strain to hear him. Haruhi suspected it wasn't because he was shy, but it was naturally like that. By that time, all the girls (except Haruhi) fell a little bit in love with him.
"Alright, Sohma-kun, please sit besides Hitachiin-kun, over there."
A teen with hair that reminded Yuki of Kyo's, waved his hand and grinned devilishly. Yuki went over and sat down at the empty desk on the right side. Glancing to his left, he saw Hitachiin-kun, a boy with brown hair and eyes, and...another Hitachiin-kun? Twins, huh? The second Hitachiin-kun looked exactly like the first one, but his hair was swept to the opposite side. Yuki decided he would make friends later and pulled out his school supplies. Even though he wasn't staying here permanently, it was best to stay on top of things.
Haruhi, set her book bag down and chose to ignore the somewhat condescending tone and content in their words. "Apparently he's—popular," she said.
"If you ask me, he looks frail," Hikaru criticized, sitting on the edge of Haruhi's desk.
"Hikaru!" Haruhi scolded, giving him a stern glance.
"Have you seen him though? He's thin and scrawny," Kaoru agreed. "If he weren't wearing a boy's uniform he could be taken for a girl."
"Of course, as Haruhi has proven, wearing a boy's uniform doesn't make you a man," Hikaru snickered, a wry smile curving the corners of his mouth.
"For all we know, he could be a gender confused girl," Kaoru suggested with a matching smile of his own.
"Hikaru, Kaoru," Haruhi sighed, saying their names to get their attention but not sure what to scold them for first; their over criticism of the new student or odd way of teasing her. "What's his name?" she asked, deciding against berating them for anything at the moment.
"Sohma Yuki," the twins recited together. Their voices were in perfect harmony as always. "Like we said, apparently his family is rich. Actually, I have heard a little about the Sohma's, but as to who they are and what they do," Hikaru began, then he and Kaoru finished with a shrug, "we don't know."
"Maybe Kyoya knows more about him," Kaoru added. "He seems to know something about everybody."
"All right!I have a lesson to teach!, take your seats!"
Haruhi did as she had been told, and was finally able to glimpse the transfer student as she did. He was exactly as Hikaru and Kaoru had described—thin, feminine, and frail in appearance. Despite this, however, he was very handsome and—elegant, Haruhi thought for lack of a better word. The first thing she noticed about him was the unusual shade of gray hair he had.
As he looked over at her, Haruhi was able to see his gray eyes, which matched his hair in color, were like large orbs, and quite gorgeous to say the least. The female student handed him a note, leaning over to whisper something to him. As she spoke, what she said Haruhi couldn't hear, he watched her with a curious, attentive expression. Smiling warmly, he took the note from her and mouthed 'thank you.'
The girl blushed slightly before quickly turning forward facing in her desk again. Haruhi watched Yuki as he held the carefully folded note in his hand, staring at it as if it would tell him its contents. He placed it in his pocket without even opening it. Haruhi first thought it rude, but then considered that maybe he wanted to read it later when he had more time or wouldn't get into trouble. But she couldn't help but think of his smile as fake.
Haruhi noticed out of the corner of her eye that Hikaru was watching her. Realizing she'd been caught starring at the new comer, she quickly dropped her gaze to her open notebook and pretended to write something down.
"Haruhi," Hikaru whispered as he leaned slightly toward her. She gave him a sideways glance that conveyed the messages 'what', and 'shut up' at the same time. "See? I told you he was frail. What do you think?" he asked.
Haruhi shrugged. "Frail, maybe, but all the girls seem to love him," Kaoru whispered, leaning in on her other side, "What about you?"
"Shh!" she told both of them firmly yet quietly. She turned her attention back to the lesson at hand. Throughout the class though, she couldn't help glancing over at Yuki every once in a while if only to satisfy her own curiosity about him. Within the fifty minute time frame, he received at least four other notes, two of which had lip shapes kissed onto them and one with a large heart scrawled on it. Haruhi had even been asked to pass one of the notes up to him as it had come from the back of the class room. Not only was she amazed at how popular he was on his first day, but how oblivious the teacher was to the goings on of his own class.