Hello, I welcome you to a story which I got the permission of Oathkeeper24 to make. This story follows a different path of her original story "Behind It All", hence the title "Behind It All: A Different Route" which follows her original Idea of making Harima fall into Class 1-D. I'm just a real Amateur at this but hopefully it becomes a wonderful fanfic. Please review the story afterwards to know your thoughts and make some changes in my style of presenting the story. Please Enjoy!

Yagami High: First Day of School

Today is the first day of school for every High Schooler out there. But most importantly, today is the beginning of class for our main character. Important in every meaning of the word.

"Hey, who is that?"

"Probably a new teacher. Our school has been running short on teachers for the last two years."

"He gives off an aura that he doesn't want to be talked to, but the way he walks is so cool"

"Tell me about it. His bangs hide his left eye and his hair looks so soft. He actually looks dreamy."

All the students, who have either finished looking for which class they will be in or who just arrived, took notice of a particular adult. If you were thinking it was Harima, then you were sadly mistaken. This guy is new here and goes by the name of Akuma Haibara. He just got accepted by the principal of the school during the new teacher recruitment.

"So noisy this morning… but then again it is the first day. I will let it slide just this once," The man replied quietly. He was just recruited so this was new to him, but don't mind his personality.

On the other hand, our motorcycle riding hero, Harima Kenji, just arrived to the school grounds after beating up the punks who want to get back at him. He parked his bike near the entrance where the other students were checking which class they were assigned. The students felt an ominous presence and all turned their heads at once. Shock ran throughout the entire crowd as the delinquent made his way to the boards. Every student made sure not to interrupt this guy's aura by clearing a path for him and his killing intent pressure.

It wasn't long before the sunglasses wearing boy caught the attention of an older man.

"Are you Harima, Kenji-kun?" Akuma asked walking towards the black haired boy. Harima only glared at him. He assumed that this guy was someone his age.

"Yeah, so what bub?"

Akuma became pissed at that remark. Before he got out of control though, he held himself from starting a scene. That wouldn't have been good on his reputation as a teacher, beating up a student on the first day.

"You reap what you sow, Harima-kun." He left with those final words as Harima continued to look for his name. He already saw Tenma's name at class 2-C but failed to find his. He checked the other classes again and again, hoping to find his name SOMEWHERE on one of these lists, but to no avail.

"What are you doing here, Harima? You skipped a year so you got held back, remember?" The teacher said to Harima whose shock and covered his face in shame.

"Oh, yeah..."

He made his way to the principal's office to beg his way into his grade.

"Oh please, please, please get me promoted!" Harima, for the first time in his life, begged to get an exception for repeating a grade.

"But, Harima-kun, you skip most of the days in school and you definitely need to repeat a grade to catch up…" The principal tried to explain but Harima was persistent. At the time, as if right on cue, Akuma-sensei went to talk with the principal to relay some news.

"Ah, Mr. Principal, I came to report that Harima-kun arrived…" The principal already knew of it and Akuma-sensei didn't bother to even look at Harima.

"Ah! It's the guy from this morning!" Upon that remark, you could definitely see Akuma's veins popping out.

"You shouldn't talk like that to your Sensei, Harima-kun. He is in charge of class 2-C this year." The principal told the boy with sterness. Harima was definitely shocked to learn about treated his Sensei like a total stranger and nobody and now this bombshell exploded in his face.

"Like I told you before, you reap what you sow." He said as he began stepping out of the room, but was abruptly stopped by Harima.

"S-Sensei, p-please! Help me out here!" Now he was asking the assistance of the teacher who would have been teaching him if he was ever accepted.

"Harima-kun, you DO realize the error of your grades don't you?" Akuma turned around to reveal a folder containing Harima's name.

"What's that?" Harima asked as his sensei opened it.

"I had special conditions for repeaters to get into my class. They will have to go through an exam of hell." Akuma gave the folder to Harima who looked at the questions. His eyes couldn't believe the words that were written there.

"I-I can't answer these!" He shouted to his Sensei who merely played an indifferent facade.

"But they are just Elementary grade level questions. If you can't even get THESE right, then there is no reason I should accept you. Now, since you failed, you will have to fill in at class 1-D and try again during the end of the year." Thus, Harima found himself residing in class 1-D which was full of nothing but freshmen. He looked down in shame for not doing his studies.

"Are these questions really Elementary level?" The principal asked as he looked studiously at the sheet Haibara grasped.

"Yeah, it would have been a perfect excuse to get him in. But since he also failed at that, I will have to make another test for him to pass." He said as he got his folder back and went back to his own class to start things off.

"Really, the young sure wish to be adults so fast. They should learn to enjoy life while they are still young," The pricipal replied to himself in thought.

We now find Harima walking into his class quietly sulking in his own misery.

He couldn't do anything about that test; he was just too ignorant with his studies because he was busy with all his delinquent duties. Now he knows the consequences of ignoring the educational system. Life isn't that easy for him like he thought it was. With thoughts clouding his mind he took a seat that was parallel to the end corner of the window.

Now, the history of Harima since his High School debut was well-known by the whole student body, except for a few who are too green to know anything about it. Because of that, most of his classmates were distant to him, save for some who are genuinely kind or just don't know him.

"Dammit all…" He mumbled to himself. He was still angry about not getting into class 2-C and getting stuck with the freshmen year.

"Umm… excuse me…" A female voice came up in the middle of his sulking as he looked up to find a blond haired girl.

"Yes?" He didn't give off his delinquent attitude since he was generally crying himself to sleep.

"You're in my seat… err… what's your name again?" Usually, people who don't know who they are talking to find that rude, but Harima kind of understood since he really wasn't within this year group.

"I'm… Harima, Kenji…" He said as he returned to his sulking.

"Ano… Harima-san, that's my seat." After hearing that from her, Harima stood up and trudged to another seat. This time it was unoccupied and just for him.

"Sorry about that…" He said as he returned to his morning depression. After a few minutes, he finally went to sleep, ignoring the fact that he needed to study for the exams at the end of the year.

Lunchtime… somewhat…

Harima wearily woke up to find out it was already lunch break. To his disappointment, it ended too soon for him to even begin to buy his lunch.

"No food and no Tenma… could things get any worse?" Harima should know not to tempt fate. Sadly for him, it turned for the worst as Akuma-sensei walked in.

"Alright class, a surprise POP Quiz!" He said surprising the students and causing various face falts and jaw dropping.

"Damn it!" Hopefully Harima now knows not to tempt fate as he tried to answer Akuma's quiz. To everyone's surprise, it turned out to be too easy not to pass, except for Harima whose brain overloaded and blacked out after finishing the test.

5 hours later

Harima opened his eyes; the scenery was orange as the sun was setting. He cursed himself for going to sleep for the whole school day. What he didn't know was that this was an after school event that would change his life forever…

"Finally, now I can leave," He said with a yawn. Though as he got up, he found another female student who was sound asleep and sleeping rather comfortably.

"Huh? Why is she sleeping? Doesn't she know what time it is?" Out of the kindness of his heart, Harima began to wake the girl up.

"Hey, wake up! Class is over and you can't stay here during this time of the day!" He said but she didn't move which worried him.

"Hey, come on! Wake up already! You can't stay here all night! Who knows what would happen to you if you did!" Harima said as he shook her awake, this time it worked because she slowly opened her eyes blearily.

"Oh! Well, it's about time sleeping beauty," Harima said with finality causing the girl to blush a bit by his comment.

"Huh? What time is it?" She asks as Harima looked at his watch.

"It's about 5:40, you must've fallen asleep around the time I did. I just woke up 5 minutes ago though so I'm in the same situation." He said as he grabbed his things.

"I better escort you out of school. You don't know how dangerous it is at this time of the day. Too many weirdoes would flock to you like wolves," He told her as she got her things ready.

"Why are you doing this much for me?" She asked confused. That caused Harima to think about it for a moment.

"You're my classmate. And you are pretty much my responsibility, since I found you there. So… you know…" So much for thinking about it Harima…

"Oh, gomen… I didn't mean to-" Just then, they heard someone call out for her.

"Yakumo!" They turned around to find a blond-haired girl which Harima was all too familiar with.

"Ah, it's the girl from before!"

"Sarah!" She waved at her as the blonde came to them, out of breath.

"I was going to wake you up, but it seems Harima-san beat me to it." She said which made the two sweatdrop for a moment.

"You do realize what time it is right? You girls should really take care of yourselves." He said as they walked through the hallway.

"You talk as if you're a delinquent." Sarah said not knowing he is.

"That's because I am."

"Eh?"

"I told you right? I'm Harima, Kenji and I'm a delinquent, that is, until today." He told them as they walked quietly beside him.

"But what is your motive for going to school?" Sarah asked out of curiosity. Harima wouldn't tell them that it's because of love because that would, in his opinion, bring his rep down, so he had to fool them and keep his delinquent facade.

"Hmm… let's see… maybe I will give an answer next time? After all we are not well acquainted." He said making both of them blush embarrassed. Though it was true this scored him some factor as a man in a journey towards love.

"By the way, I didn't catch your names earlier… can you tell them to me?" The three were talking to each other on the way that they didn't realize that they were already at the gates.

"I'm Sarah, thanks for warming my chair for me." She said as Harima scratched the back of his head.

"…Yakumo…" The black girl was too shy say her name to him but to her surprise, his feelings were only of happiness to know them.

"Nice to meet your acquaintance, Sarah and Yakumo. Well this is where we part." He told them as he cranked his motorcycle and left in a swift motion. The girls walked down the road having a little chat. It seemed that the delinquent peaked the interest of one of the girls.

"Harima, Kenji… what do you think, Sarah?" Yakumo asked her best friend who kept pace with Yakumo.

"Who knows? But he seems like a good guy… he did escort us… although he is a bit scary."

End of part 1

Well that's the first chapter of the story; I hope I got this right since I'm not good at making Harima like himself.

Special Thanks to: Oathkeeper24 (The original Author) and MegaDarkly (Who proofread it for any mistakes and did a lot of improvements for it.)