Disclaimer: I don't own YYH or the characters.
They didn't get back until late that night. All of the new students were asking questions about the campus and the teachers (the usual). When they got back to the dorm, Kara said goodnight to both Kurama and Kuronue who entered their own rooms.
Everything was fine until later that night (or early morning) when a thunderstorm hit. The storm was loud and actually shook the ground. It surprisingly only woke two people up, Kara and Kuronue.
Hm? Kuronue thought. I wonder how Kara is doing with this storm. If her fear is as bad as mine, I should go check on her.
Kuronue left his room and walked down the hall to Kara's. He knocked on the door but she didn't come to answer it. He tried the handle and found that it was unlocked. Mentally sighing at how unsafe it was for her to leave her door unlocked, he walked in to find her curled up in a ball in the corner under a blanket. He quietly closed the door and walked over to Kara and placed a hand on her shoulder. He heard her gasp and watched her fight her way out of the blanket.
"What are you doing in here?" she asked. He could see the terror in her eyes, thankfully not of him being in her room.
"I came to check on you because of the storm and the door was unlocked," he answered.
"I could have sworn I locked that," Kara whispered. She looked up sheepishly at Kuronue. "Thank you."
"No problem. Now let's get you back into bed."
The terror returned and Kara viciously shook her head. "I'm fine right here," she said. "You don't have to worry about me."
Kuronue looked at her is disbelief. "Even I don't admit to being fine when I'm not. Come on. I'll stay with you, okay?"
Kara peeked out from her blanket again and nodded in defeat. Kuronue managed to pick her up and get her to the bed. He got in next to her and covered them both with a blanket before he finally fell back to sleep.
An hour later the storm still wasn't over and Kara was still awake and shaking. A loud boom of thunder rang through the room and she hid deeper into Kuronue. He woke up at the feeling of the wind getting knocked out of him to see Kara hiding in him and shaking. He just hugged her and rubbed her back.
"So why'd you come to this school again?" Kuronue joked.
"Shut up," Kara muttered while giggling.
"You know there's going to be a lot of storms, right?"
"Yeah, but I had been getting better with this so I hoped it wouldn't be too bad. And what about you, Mr. twenty-hours-in-a-car? If the trip back home is going to take that long, why here?"
Kuronue frowned, but Kara didn't see it. "I'm not going back home," he said seriously. "Kurama might, but I'm not."
"Why?" Kara asked.
"Because there's nothing really to go back to," he answered. "I mean, I'm sure you want to go back home to see your friends and family, but it's not like that for me. Kurama is my best friend and the only other friends I had were his friends. Hiei trusted me enough, but we're more the online friend kind of friends. Kurama's other friends irritated me to no end." He sighed and then continued, "Other than them, I had no friends at school because of my family. My mother died a long time ago and I haven't seen her family since. My father is involved in organized crime which is why I was always labeled a 'rebel' or the 'bad boy.'"
"That sucks," Kara whispered. "And I'm sorry, that's not fair. I can understand why you don't want to go home."
"You don't even know the half of it," Kuronue stated.
"Why don't you tell me?" Kara asked causing Kuronue to look down at her in shock. "I'm serious. I'm your friend and I'm nosy, so yeah…you can talk to me and trust me."
Kuronue smiled. "I know, but right now I'm tired and it sounds like the storm is slowing down now. Let's just get some sleep. Tomorrow is the last day before class starts and I'm sure we all have a lot to do."
"One more thing. Kurama said that it takes twenty hours to get here, but you said you left home two months ago. Where the heck did you go?"
"Anywhere but that crazy town," he answered. "No more questions for now, okay?"
Kara nodded and snuggled deeper into Kuronue and fell asleep.
There was a banging on the door. "Kuronue, wake up. I know you're in there," they heard Kurama's voice call out. "We have a lot to do today."
Both Kuronue and Kara groaned as they moved to get up. Kuronue answered the door. "May we help you?" he asked.
"What are you doing in here? I checked your room and you weren't there."
Kuronue mouthed "thunderstorm" and looked over to Kara who was picking out an outfit for the day. Kurama smiled and shook his head.
"She's very lucky she met someone she already knew or she would have had a problem," Kurama stated.
"Tell me about it," Kara spoke up. The two boys sweat-dropped and got nervous. "Don't think I can't hear you talking about me over there," she teased. "Anyway, I'm sure we all pretty much have to do the same thing today. You know, student ID's, grocery shopping, school supplies, mailbox assignments?"
"Wow, she's good," Kurama joked.
"Well, let's go get that stuff out of the way," Kuronue said. "I want to be ready for tomorrow."
A/N: Probably nothing of this story makes sense right now, nor does it seem like it's going anywhere. If you think that, then you're probably right. I was bored and in a bad mood so this is the product. It'll continue for I don't know how long and will probably not have some type of life lesson, but hey...sometimes the best stories come from not knowing where you're going :)