A Hatori Sohma Love Story

"Sohma Ayame."
"Here, good sir."
"Sohma Shigure."
"Here." It was my first day of my first year at Kaibara High School. It was my first class of the day, and I was incredibly tired from waking up early after a long summer break. And attendance was taking a while.
"Sohma Hatori."
"Here."
"Kaneko Yukiko." I turned my head from looking out the window and faced the teacher.
"Here, sir." The teacher finished the attendance and started passing out papers.
"These are tests to judge how much you remember from 9th year, and how much I have to go over with you. Don't bother complaining or disagreeing, because i've already made up my mind." Most of the kids still complained anyway, muttering and grumbling as they got their papers. The teacher gave me mine and I looked it over. It was standard 9th year algebra stuff, pretty easy actually. I grabbed a pen from my bag and set to work, breezing through the test without any problems. It was maybe 15 minutes before I was done and, as I got up to go set it on the teacher's desk, only one other person had gotten up. It was Sohma Hatori, one of the 3 Sohma kids now in our class. We both went up and set our papers on the teacher's desk, and after a moment or two looking at eachother, we headed back to our seats.
Seats were assigned according to name, so mine was right beside the window, and Hatori's was two seats over in the same row. Ayame's was on his other side, and Shigure's seat was between me and Hatori. I had no idea why we were seated like that, though I suppose Hatori may have had somehting to do with it. Before class, i'd seen Ayame and Shigure having quite the time, and Hatori had to calm them down. It was amazing how one smart guy could get caught with two idiots as both family members and friends.
By now, a couple of people had handed in their papers, and had either begun talking to their friends or doing other miscellaneous things. I'd taken out my small leather-bound notebook and continued writing a story i'd been working on for the past 6 months or so. I'd kept throwing it away and rewriting it a lot, and this was my 4th time writing it over again. I intended to keep this copy so I could eventually type it up and get it published.
More people had finished now, almost all of them, and there was about 30 minutes left in the class, and Shigure and Ayame had finished as well. They came back and, instead of sitting down, kneeled by Hatori's desk and began to bug him while he was reading a book. "What do you idiots want now?" Ayame prtended to be offended while Shigure said "We just want to spend some quality time with our favorite friend, is all. Is that so much to ask?"
"Yes."
Ayame over-dramatically said "A rejection of our brotherly love is like a knife to my heart, Hatori-san. How could you so cold-heartedly shut us out like that, when all we wanted was to be loved and accepted by our favorite member of the family..." I laughed quietly to myself, and Ayame hadn't heard me through his melodrama, but Hatori and Shigure had. Shigure moved to my side and Ayame then followed. Ayame said "What should a beauty like yourself be doing listening to the mindless ramblings of men like ourselves?" Shigure said "Yes, that is right Ayame-kun. She should be busy doing something much more womanly and flattering." I smiled begrudgingly at them both and said "I think I should be doing something i'd like to do, which doesn't include being faux-flattered by a couple of players like yourselves. Okay?" Ayame went into another melodramatic rant and Shigure played along with him annoyingly. Hatori came up beside them and said "I think Miss Kaneko-san would like to be left alone Ayame, Shigure." "Yes Tori-kun."
"I told you not to call me that..." They moved away and Hatori took the seat beside me and introduced himself quietly.
"Sohma Hatori at your service, Miss Kaneko-san."
"Kaneko Yukiko, or Yuki for short. Thanks for saving me from those brutes Sohma-san."
"It's my pleasure, Miss Kaneko-san. Yuki is an interesting short name...I have a small relative in my own family with that same name. He's very young."
"Well, at least I will know you won't forget my name now. Is there a story behind why the melodramatic twins listen only to you?"
"I've just been the most serious of us, so they tend to listen, I guess. It could always be one of their childish reasons. They're like 7 year-olds in 15 year-old bodies."
"I guess it must be nice for them to be oblivious to anything and everything..."
"So it seems...But their childish antics can be quite annoying sometimes."
"I've noticed. How do you deal with it on a constant basis? I've been in here for less than an hour and can barely take it."
"It's somehting i've learned to live with, I suppose. They bother me so constantly it's unavoidable." The bell rang then to go to next class, which for me was Art. I got up to say goodbye to Sohma-san, who was gathering his things.
"I guess i'll be seeing you, Sohma-san. I don't think we'd have any classes together..Probably not..."
"May I see your class schedule Miss Kaneko-san?"
"Sure." I handed my schedule to Sohma-san and he looked it over.
"Unbelieveable as it is Miss Kaneko-san, we have all of our classes together."
"Really?" "I felt sudden elation, until Sohma-san said his next words.
"Unfortunately, that means you also have all of your classes with Ayame and Shigure as well."
"Ah, damn..."
"I wouldn't worry so much Miss Kaneko-san, I don't think they will try anything. At least, not anything too brash, after what you said to Ayame-san."
"Well, that's good I guess. Shall we be going?"
"After you, Miss Kaneko-san." I walked ahead out of the classroom, where Ayame-san and Shigure-san were already waiting for Sohma-san. They saw me walk out with Sohma-san and were all melodramtic again, spilling some love garbage.
Ayame said "So the loving duo is now together, how wonderful. May your days be filled with as much happiness and love and can be, and may you never feel sad and lonely." He fanned his hair out behind him and twirled around, looking like a woman for a few moments. He and Shigure-san mocked being a loving couple, following behing me and Sohma-san. Shigure-san then came up on my shoulder and Ayame-san on Sohma-san's shoulder, hugging the four of us closer together.
Sohma-san said, annoyed, "Shigure, Ayame, will you please get off of us? It's quite crowded enough without you being in that close of contact."
Ayame-san hugged him even tighter and said "Oh, please don't be mad with me Hatori, I only wanted to wish you the best of happiness with Kaneko-san..." I shook my head and laughed, and Sohma-san looked at me oddly.
"They are quite annoying Sohma-san, I agree with that. But once you get a little used to it, it is kinda funny."
"Please, Miss Kaneko-san, call me Hatori." He smiled a little, making me blush a lot.
"Then, Hatori-san, you may call me Yukiko-san. Or Yuki-san, whichever you prefer."
"Yukiko-chan then."
Shigure hugged me tightly then and said "See, you're already using eachother's fist names, how wonderful! In only a short time, you'll be without the honorifics and on your way to being the loving couple I can only envision..." I laughed again as we went into art class and took our seats, now able to choose them. I sat beside Hatori-san and Ayame-san and Shigure-san sat across from us.
I whispered to Hatori-san "I think I take back what I said about them not being so annoying."
He whispered back "I agree."
As class started, I felt kind-of good that I already had 3 nice friends, even though two of them were complete idiots. And one looked like a woman. Hopefully they'd be much better friends than what i'd had in middle school, who'd abandoned me as soon as summer had started. I didn't think these 3 would do that, but you never know...