I'm freakin excited about writing this story! It been in my head as I'm drawing the two together! There's other stuff I should be working...but I don't want to lose this idea!

Enjoy reading!

(C) characters belong to Matsui Yuusei! Genderbend description and plot are mine.

(C)Various manga artists who own the characters I will add as cameo since I'm practically out of OCs to create.

"Hurry up!" Said a girl who was gripping on a tall boy's sleeve of his sweater and dragging him behind. "Have you always been this slow?!" She asked in a somewhat pissed tone.

"If you please...!" Lashing his arm out of her grip to finally be free from being dragged down. "Stop grabbing me and forcing me to bend down as we're walking to whatever you want to go." He complain as he stretch his back backward to stretch out his vertebrae. And gave the girl the glaring eyes.

She just laughed off his threat. "Just because you can use your height as an advantage doesn't mean I'm scare of you." Smiling wide as the Cheshire Cat.

And she walk ahead of the boy.

'How did I end up with this problematic girl?' He ask himself in his head the hundredth time.

"I'll drag you again if you don't catch up!"

"I'm running alright!"

So this is the story of the introverted boy and the troublesome girl— The story between Mano Okuda and Karmen Akabane.

Mano Okuda is the usual quiet guy who likes to be by himself. Pretty anti-social but is actually likable by many of his classmates, but haven't officially made a single friend.

He mainly focus on schoolwork than being social. He thinks he's better off not making friends, thinking they would cause a distraction for him. But he at least have the decency to remember his own classmates' names and help out others with schoolwork they don't understand.

Always appear in short somewhat ruffle black hair that's never been gel or brush up, eyes of amethyst, with a pair of thin black rectangle rimmed glasses in front of his face at all time.

Karmen Akabane is pretty... Let's just say she's very passionate in certain things but have an abusive way of showing it. Her action are always excessively aggressive, that scares away a lot of people so she couldn't make any friends either, makes her pretty anti-social in a different way than Manako.

Known to be one of the most beautiful girl in the whole school, any guy who try to hit on her have to be a transfer student. Otherwise, everyone steer away from her.

So let's rewind in time, shall we?

-A WEEK AGO-

Everyone was just enjoying their time before spring break have arrived. Girls talking about shopping or eating at a cute pastrie shop and guys hanging out at an arcade shop. Smiles and excitement filled the classroom.

But one student wasn't really looking forward to the break at all. And he was sitting in a desk right in the middle of the room. Reading a book and just bored out of his mind with one hand holding a page and the other holding up his chin. Looking down at the published page blandly.

"Yo, Okuda-kun." Said a male classmate of his.

Looking up with dull eyes but held an emotion of shyness.

"Yes?" Torn his gaze away from his book to meet a boy with messy orange hair and light sugar brown eyes.

"A teacher wants you real quick." He tells the him the message, but why does he have a creepy smile stretching across his face.

"Why d-do you have that s-smile?" Manako stutters out of his shyness and creepiness of the messenger.

The orange hair boy put a hand on the blackette's shoulder and have his expression change into an expression that makes you wanna hit him.

The orange hair face had a smug player-like facade.

"You so damn lucky...!" But been ruin with two eyes streaming down tears like two water faucets.

"WHAT." Manako was so lost right now. "Can you tell me which teacher and why he/she wants me?" But all he can get out of the messenger was a lot of sniffles. He ended up comforting the crying guy before leaving to meet up with a teacher.

As Mano approach the office. He walked pass a couple of guys who were a major wreck.

Bandages, blood, and ugly dark bruises were covering majority of their faces. But they still had the deadly glares shone through.

The ravenette eyes widen at the view as the two pissed off guys kept walking, passing him by. But he heard a couple of complaints along their way.

"Goddammit! Did that midget thinks she can win?!" Complain guy #1. Seeing the injuries, it's no puzzle to know who lost.

"All we wanted was those two girls number... It went well til that bloody redhead came and beat us up!" Said the second who was pissed equally as the first guy.

'What kind of girl would do that?' Manako panickly asked himself as he was standing in front of the office door.

He was about to raise his hand from his side to slip into the handle. But it suddenly open from the other side by a girl.

"Ah," She stopped before bumping into me. "Sorry didn't see you there." She look up with bored eyes of mercury.

Most of the girls are short compared to my height, but this girl is actually beneathe my nose. Pale skin that look smooth as marble...and hair of red as a red apple's skin. She wasn't exactly wearing the school's uniform, she had the gray skirt and white thin layer, but worn a thin black sweater as a top, and black spandex underneathe the skirt.

But I was staring directly at her hair... And then some bruises on her face but way less than the two injured guys.

'Bloody redhead...' Remembering who the two buys were pissed about. Can't be... A lot of our student dyed their hair in different colors.

"Um, you're kind of in the way." She pulled the ravenette back to reality.

"O-oh, sorry." He said as he move aside for her to get out of the office.

"Did you need something? Mr. Saeki?" He found the teacher who requested Manako to be here.

"Yes." He answered as he was stacking some paper neatly. He was a pretty large built man for being a teacher, black spiky hair, and always had a look of boredom. "It's about someone I need you to look after. I know that you're not much of a social person and can't make any friends that well," That hurt Manako's heart, even though it was sadly true. "But I think only you can pull this off."

"Uhh... I know my traits," The raven student replies blandly. "But I don't think I'm suited for this. Isn't there anyone else to take the job?"

"NOPE. It's only you." Mr. Saeki replies making a face of bluntness.

Knowing what kind of teacher the man was. Only he could sigh and give in to do the order.

"So who do I have to be with?"

"Well, she actually a classmate of yours. Her name is Karmen Akabane, ring any hell?"

Manako wasn't sure. Processing his memories of each of his classmates name and face. No appearance of Karmen showed up. He can only shake his head a no.

"Really? She was actually the girl I talked first before I asked you to come here."

Nothing.

"Short red hair," Mr. Saeki try to remember the color to describe her eyes. "...Golden, I think, and short height."

Then a chill went through the student's spine and face shades in blue of finally putting the pieces together.

"She just left the room a couple of seconds ago."

"Yeah...her..." Manako finally speaks. "I should get going, my last class is almost over, and I think we're going over some new materials." Turning around to leave.

"Well thanks Okuda." The man replied in glee and slapped the young boy's back in appreciation. Ended up slamming Manako to the floor.

"Ah, sorry about that."

"It's fine..." He replies, weakly raising his hand to give the OK signal of a thumb up.

'I should probably find the girl.' He thought as he do so.

It was the end of the school day and the Raven student thought by walking through the hallway and look out through every window to search for the redhead.

There were no sign of her.

'Why me out of all the people?' Mano ask himself of why it have to be him. 'I never seen her in class, she got to be the one to beat up those two guys, and I've never notice her.'

Thanks to himself being so deep in thought. He found himself in the back of the school, near the track field.

'She probably headed home already.'

As he turn around, he fell down and crash front face on the grass. Trying to get up, he couldn't due to someone weight on top of him. Struggling to flip himself. He succeeded and found a student all bloody and close to passing out.

"Oh..." The very hurtful boy spoke noticing who soften his landing. "Sorry about that..."

"Hey! Are you okay?!" Mano ask in a panic. Changing his position to help sit the poor guy up. Slipping underneathe and raise his upper body, raising the guy's head to rest on his prepared knee.

When he look up from the injured boy to the direction of where he came flying from.

With the sun a little down and only shining the outline of a person. The shining outline revealed a girl who was wiping off some saliva off her lips. Standing straight and with an emotionless expression.

But this girl was none other than Karmen. Fore the lighting darken her hair but not enough to hardly know it was red.

Violet eyes widen in fear. But they show a glint of admiration for her strength.

Footsteps walking in Mano's direction. A chill ran down his spine as she stop and crounch down to see the guy who's still ready to pass out.

She slid her hands underneathe his armpits and slowly moving him off Mano...

and then spin a 360 to gain leverage, just to throw him away with the rest of the other people who she fought.

'OH MY GOD!" The ravenette mentally screaming his mind out at the number of seven male students, either second or third years.

Then his heart stopped for a millisecond when he didn't realize Karmen was standing I front of him, reaching her hand out.

"What brings you here?"

SO MANY STORIES SO LITTLE TIME! (￣□￣;)!

I know I should be working on my other story! But this just randomly came to my head and... THIS. NEEDED. TO. BE. PUBLISHED. ASAP!

Plus this will be a collection of one-shots but that a somewhat connection that makes it a series... But I honestly don't know. Aren't they call interconnected chapters?

So once I have some chapters out, please leave a review to see if more of a series, collection of one-shots, or other.

Thanks for reading and reviewing!