Here's an alternate to Strawberry Skies! (This is gonna be a mini-series!)


The green eyed girl stared. And stared. Her hands twitched, as though longing to jump to a weapon; or, as Ichigo watched, in amused/scared silence, maybe Keigo's neck. 'I mean, he does tend to blather, but this is ridiculous..'

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Hayate Gokudera was torn- she wanted to be there for Tsuna-sama, but she also wanted to listen to Reborn's advice: splitting the Decimo Generation up to teach them independence, and make an allowance for their individual interests. She was really interested in music, and in the occult. Reborn had given her the choice between two schools, Ouran Academy- where Tsuna-sama was enrolled because he was an heir, and, technically she was too, but it was too.. much.. for her tastes; the other was Karakura High, which was smack-dab in the middle of the ever-changing psychic zone. The choice was simple, really. Hayate jumped at the chance to document any supernatural case she could. Now, however, she was almost regretting that hasty choice. Almost. She discovered a classmate of hers could interact with ghosts, when he asked her why her father was following her everywhere.

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Ichigo Kurosaki was used to being the weird, delinquent kid, but this girl almost upstaged him. From her silver- holy hell, silver- hair, vibrant green eyes, smoking habit and general disrespect for authority, which hid a genius intellect, the teachers assumed the two of them were no-good thugs. The idiot teachers were mostly wrong, of course, but the only good choice they made concerning the two, was introducing them.

He and Hayate got along like a house on fire. They shared a general bad attitude about disrespecting the dead, though he was a bit wary of her vehement interest in the occult/supernatural/paranormal, which she pursued with a dogged ferocity that had Keigo making jokes he shouldn't make, and Chizuru harassing the so-called Yanki girl.

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It was an interesting picture the four of them made- Tatsuki Arisawa, in detention for punishing Chizuru, when the twit got too handsy with an oblivious Orihime; Ichigo and Chad, in detention for whaling on a couple of high school thugs who thought some classmates were easy pickings; and Hayate, in detention for mouthing off to a teacher, who was wrong, and making the attempt to put the fear of women in Keigo- and awkward silence reigned, until Hayate finally busted out the questions she really wanted to ask: "Kurosaki," she began, "Is it true that you see and interact with ghosts?" The three Karakura natives choked on air, or laughter as the case was. "Yes," the three chorused, slightly out of unison, and in various states of amusement. "It's as true as the ghost of your father, who's been following you around." Hayate's face adopted a poleaxed expression, "Father?" she stumbled, "My father isn't dead-" she cut herself off, and a look of annoyance crossed her face. "G!" she hissed, "Come on, Oyaji, no use hiding! Old man, seriously!?" Chad, Tatsuki and Ichigo shared a look, before startling, as a ghost or something began to materialize. The apparition shared features with Hayate, and it would be easy to see them as parent and child.