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~Karma's POV~
Y/N and I watch our classmates drill knife techniques from afar, observing their actions intently. "Hmm..." I hum, analyzing their every motion.
"What is it, Karma? Notice something odd?" Y/N asks me, her E/C eyes never leaving the students below our perch on a small hill. I shake my head. Y/N doesn't even look at me, but she doesn't question me further, so I'm assuming that she's acknowledged my answer. "Well, come one then," She says, turning around to walk down the hill. "We should go introduce ourselves."
We walk to the front of the school quickly, and while we wait for someone to notice us, Y/N opens her bag and pulls out a juice box, tossing it to me. I catch it without any problem. I pop in the straw easily enough, and turn back to watch our classmates walk up to the building.
The first people to notice us are Nagisa and a kid who he's walking with, I think his name is Tomohito Sugino. "Nagisa," I say. "'Sup. It's been a while." My words are drawn out and relaxed, as if I was greeting an old friend after a few weeks of not seeing them.
My tone has the desired affect, because Nagisa's face is shocked as he says, "Karma, you're back?" I smile at him in agreement, while Y/N grumbles next to me. This seems to draw Nagisa's attention to the H/C haired girl next to me. "Oh, Y/N, you're back, too?" He says with just as much shock.
I look up to see a large yellow creature that kind of resembles an octopus. "Oh, hey." I says as I begin walking towards him. "That must be the notorious Koro-sensei." I cut through a crowd of students, walking straight towards the alien.
"Wow." Y/N mumbles behind me. "He really does look like an octopus." Koro-sensei hasn't seemed to notice her yet, so she walks behind him quietly, hiding from the view of everyone else.
"Ah, Mr. Akabane, correct?" Koro-sensei says, lifting up a tentacle. "I understand your suspension ends today. Welcome back." His yellow face suddenly turns purple with a large "X" of a slightly darker shade on it. "That said, tardiness is a no-no."
I chuckle. "It's kinda tricky gettin' back into the swing of things." I tell him. "Oh, feel free to call me by my first name." I casually say. "Anyway, I've heard some good things, Teach. Nice to meet ya." I say, sticking out my hand to shake his tentacle.
"The pleasure's all mine." Koro-sensei says. "Should be a fun and educational year." He sticks out a tentacle, and I grab it, squeezing it tightly. The tip of the tentacle is torn off, making Koro-sensei gasp and jump back, where Y/N skillfully strikes with a knife. He avoids her knife easily, but appears to be flustered.
"Ah." She says, lowering her knife. "You are fast, aren't you?
I laugh. "And who would have thought these knives actually work?" I reveal my right hand has strips of a knife taped onto it. "I just cut one up into strips and tacked 'em on. Pretty elementary stuff, chief. I'm disappointed that's all it took to catch you by surprise."
"It was a pretty good jump, though." Y/N said, stepping next to me.
"If you don't mind coming off like a 'fraidy cat." I respond. "What, are ya scared of me?" I hear students whispering about how I'm the first person to have ever hurt him. I smirk.
"I heard that your students calls you 'Koro-sensei' because you're supposed to be unkillable." Y/N says while I walk up to him.
Kuro-sensei mumbles something unintelligible. "Oh, come on." I say, leaning my head in to look at him better. "No way you can be this big of a pushover!" Koro-sensei growls at me, his face red.
I walk back to the school, performing some parlor tricks with Y/N's knife, which she had given me. "Stick around next time, Koro-sensei. We'll show you what it's like to be assassinated. You won't want to miss it."
As Y/N and I walk back to the classroom, I feel our classmates eyes trace Y/N's every move. That's pretty understandable, because while Y/N is normal looking enough at first glance, in fact so normal looking that some people completely miss her for a second, once you notice her, it's hard to un-notice her. Her every move radiates a calm confidence, and at a closer look, that confidence shines through and gives her an undeniable beauty that captures the eyes of anyone who she walks by. It's that confidence, plus the fact that she was never intimidated by me, that makes Y/N L/N my best friend and a formidable ally.
-Time Skip-
"Are you sure you know what you're getting yourself into, Karma? The jellyfish is really mad at you two." Terasaka asks me in the middle of taking a quiz. His lackeys agree, but Y/N and I just smirk at each other.
"Of course he's upset." Y/N says, leaning back in her chair. "Who wouldn't be if someone made an attempt on their life?"
"And of course, if the would-be assassin got upset, too." I pitch in, causing Terasaka to get angry with the two of us.
"That attitude is gonna give you some problems-" Terasaka starts loudly.
"Quiet, please!" Koro-sensei exclaims, raising a tentacle in the air. "No noise during a quiz! Continue to talk, and I will assume that you're cheating!"
"Sorry, Koro-sensei, my bad." I say apologetically. "No worries, though. I've already finished. I'm just gonna eat this gelato is that's okay." I tell our teacher, pulling out some light pink gelato on a cone.
"Not so fast! No eating in class!" Koro-sensei says, an irk-mark appearing on his forehead. Suddenly, Koro-sensei appears to be upset, and he exclaims, "Hey! That's the gelato I brought back from Italy yesterday!"
I feign surprise. "Huh? Sorry, I don't know where this came from, Y/N gave it to me before the quiz."
"My bad, I just saw it chilling in the faculty lounge." Y/N explains nonchalantly. "This Karma's favorite flavor, so I figured I would grab some for him."
"This won't do, young lady! I flew through the coldest layer of the stratosphere to keep that delicious treat from melting!" Koro-sensei scolds Y/N.
"Yeah? So? What ya gonna do?" I taunt, licking the gelato. "Hit her?" I ask teasingly.
"Of course not!" Koro-sensei says determinedly. "I'll simply have it back and finish what's left, thank you very much." He says while walking towards my desk. He pauses when his tentacles explode, stepping on Anti-Koro-sensei BBs. Y/N is quick to pull out a gun and aim at him, of course missing despite her flawless technique.
I laugh at the yellow octopus. "Wow, that's twice in one day, Teach." Y/N stands up and walks closer to Koro-sensei as I continue my speech, pointing the gun to his head. "We're gonna keep pulling the old tricks. Class'll get interrupted, our grades'll slip. Let's be straight up, though. If you want this to stop, you can just kill us or anyone else in this class for that matter." Y/N lowers the gun and walks back to her seat as I end. "You just gotta let go of wanting us to see you as our teacher. Give us a taste of your ugly side. Or you can make peace with all of this. Accept that we'll be the ones to kill you." I hand him my quiz and walk out the door, Y/N close behind.
"Here's my quiz." Y/n says as she drops it in his hand. "Goodbye for now, Koro-sensei. What do you say we play again tomorrow?" She asks coldly as she walks out behind me, leaving the door open.
"So, what do you think of our first day back in class?" I ask Y/N as we walk down the hill to get back home.
"Hmm, well, I thought that it'd be a bit more difficult to make him tick, but I guess you really do know how to get on anyone's nerves." Y/N replies, tucking the government assigned gun into her purse.
"Yeah, I really can, can't I?" I say, laughing. "Do you think we made an impression on the other students?"
Y/N scoffs. "Heck, yeah. You're clever. You're manipulative. You're ice cold. You can see what makes someone tick, and exploit it. Me, I'm skilled, confident, and quick on my feet. I know how to come up with plans, but also to bend with my partners ideas. If anyone can do this, it's us, and if they can't see that then they really do belong in E-Class." Y/N tells me as we walk through the center of the town. Suddenly, my ears perk up as I hear two students talking about me and Y/N.
"Hey, did you hear the news? Now that his suspension's over, they shoved that Akabane nut over to E-Class."
"Ooh, dude! No kidding?"
"Yeah, and that freaky girl, L/N followed him as usual. Seriously, what's with her always following that red-haired jerk around?"
"I'd rather be dead than stuck in a classroom with those two!"
I smash an empty glass bottle on the pillar behind the two of them, the bottle shattering in half, glass flying everywhere. "Seriously?" I ask the two of them, holding the bottle up again. "Because I can help you out with that. It'd be messy, but real quick." I taunt.
"I'd rather live, thanks! Run away!" One of them shouts and they both run in the direction of another bus stop.
I turn around and laugh, Y/N giggling along with me. "Like I'd actually do anything, right?" I ask her as Nagisa walks up to the to of us.
"Pfft, yeah, you would never just kill them for a reason as silly as that." Y/N agrees, stepping closer to me. "You're not gonna risk another suspension with the once-in-a-lifetime deal they're giving us in E-Class." We walk up to Nagisa as he greets us shyly.
"Yeah, hey, Nagisa." Y/N greets the blue haired boy.
"Is it cool if we pick your brain for a sec?" I ask our old friend casually. Nagisa nods and we all walk together to he subway.
"Word is that you've been keepin' notes on the octopus." I say as we step through the gates.
"Um, yeah, well, I kind of have." Nagisa answers, walking behind us.
"Does he hate that nickname? Octopus, I mean?" Y/N asks Nagisa thoughtfully.
"Now that you mention it... Whenever he draws himself it's always as an octopus. And that's the skin he picks for his characters in every video game. And there's this thing he does in the sandbox. So, no, I don't think he minds at all. In fact, I think it's like his personal avatar or whatever, y'know? He loves it." Nagisa answers, fulfilling my suspicions.
"Does he?" I muse. "That's good. Oh, this is gonna be friggin epic."
"I know that look." Nagisa says suspiciously. "You two are cooking up something really dark."
"We might be. It's fun, right?" I say.
"He was into this when he thought Koro-sensei was just a monster, but... now that he knows what his personality is like..." Y/N says to calmly, my violence not a bit bothersome to her.
"I finally get to kill an honest to goodness teacher!" I exclaim as a train runs behind me. I let out some broken laughter. "I've been dreaming of this. Ever since my last teacher up and died." I explain, and Y/N rolls her eyes, tired of hearing the same thing over and over again. Nagisa gasps at our easy approach to something as serious as murder.
"Come along, Mr. Teacher Killer." Y/N says, tugging at my arm. "We've got to get going if we want to put this latest scheme of yours into action." I oblige and my partner and I walk off to prepare for the next bombardment to come.
-Time Skip-
"Good morning boys and girls. Koro-sensei says cheerfully as he walks in, despite the fact that his precious gelato funds had been snatched away. Our classmates sigh in response, the mood dark. "Huh? Why the long faces?" Koro-sensei asks, having yet to notice the little gift that Y/N and had left him on his desk. "Has something-" Koro-sensei's words stop short as he notices the large octopus, stabbed through the head and pinned to the table with a screw driver.
"Oops! That's on me." I say, gesturing to myself and Y/N.
"Yeah, totally thought it was you, innocent mistake." Y/N explains.
"I stabbed it, so I s'pose I should get rid of it?" I question, offering to dispose if the corpse.
Koro-sensei sighs, picking up the dead thing. "Yes, you should." He says, walking towards me to hand me the octopus.
'Bring it on, Koro-sensei. No worries, I don't plan on killing you physically, yet. It's more fun to watch your spirit die first.'
Suddenly, Koro-sensei appears in front of me, holding a few ingredients and a missile. "Observe, if you will, Karma m'boy, the versatility of these tentacles, and the firepower of this missile yoinked from the Self Defense force! If you think I'm gonna let the new kids get away with murder, think again." He says while cooking something in a bowl.
"Don't you know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day? Your complexion tells me you haven't eaten. So please, help yourself to some of this delicious takoyaki, I insist." Koro-sensei says, shoving one in the direction in my face. Before I can understand what's happening, Y/N's laying strectched out across my desk, the food coming towards me stuffed in her mouth instead.
She spits it out, and says defiantly, "Actually, I'm the one who hasn't eaten breakfast. So why don't you come shove that at me instead?"
Koro-sensei doesn't miss a beat, placing his food on Y/N's desk. Y/N slides off of mine and winks at me while throwing the food behind her.
"You see, I'm giver. I take care of things. Hungry students, would-be assassins, troubled teens. Every attempt on my life is an oppertunity for me to play my part. So by all means, keep at it." Koro-sensei explains to the class. "By the end of the day, if your body and mind aren't aglow with health and knowledge, I haven't done my job."
-1st Period-
I watch from the corner of my eyes as Y/N pulls out a gun and fires at Koro-sensei. However, he pulls the gun out of her hands and decorates her nails, not allowing her to make her mark. "Y/N. It takes an anti-me BB far too long to reach its mark." He explain, holding up the gun. "I had time on my hands. Hope you don't mind if I prettified yours."
"No, not at all. I was planning on getting my nails done, so thanks for saving me the trip." Y/N says coolly as she sits back down in her chair, examining her nails. "Ooh, octopi." She exclaims in false awe. "Well done, Koro-sensei."
-4th Period-
I knock over the girls soup as I swing my knife to strike at Koro-sensei. Instead of landing a blow on him, he dresses me up in a frilly pink apron and cap. As I growl over the misfortune, Y/N tosses me her plain black apron, motioning for me to give her the pink one. "Come on, Karma. Just trade aprons with me already." She stresses, getting impatient.
"B-But then-" I stutter, but relent, giving her the pink apron and cap.
"Don't worry. I'm a girl, I'm expected to wear things like this." Y/N laughs as she ties the around her neck.
-Time Skip-
Y/N and I sit on a tree hanging off the side of the cliff that E-Class is built on, when Nagisa walks up to us and says, "I'm tellin ya not to sweat it. We'll do it together as a group. You could have the sneakiest, most foolproof plan in the world ready to go, but if Koro-sensei's got his eye on you, forget it. He's not like other teachers." Nagisa says, trying to convince us to quit our solo attacks.
"Other teachers, huh?" I muse. "No."
"I'm with you a hundred percent, Akabane." My teacher walks beside me and Y/N as we make our way to class. "Yes ,You've had problems. Yes, you have issues respecting authority. But you're absolutely in the right. Not a question. And I stand by you."
"You don't understand. We wanna do it on our own." I say. "Let me ask you, would it tick you off to die in some random place?" I ask, getting a startled look from Y/N.
"Oh Karma..." Koro-sensei sings as he walks up to us. "I feel that I've taken exceptionally good care of you today. Keep trying to kill me if that tickles your fancy. I certainly don't get tired of spiffing you up."
I stand up, turning to Koro-sensei. "Just so that we're on the same page here. You pretty much consider yourself a teacher above all else?" I question.
"That's right." Koro-sensei agrees.
"Cool. And you wouldn't think twice about putting your life on the line to save a student?" I continue.
"What kind of teacher would I be if I did?"
"That's awesome. Good to know. So I can kill you." I say while aiming my gun at Koro-sensei and falling off the tree. "Knew there had to be a way."
"NO! KARMA!" Y/N shrieks loudly. I hear Nagisa shout, "No, Y/N, don't jump after him!" I hear Y/N struggling and she keeps shouting my name over and over again.
'I'm sorry, Y/N. Ha ha, that stuff they say about your life flashing before your eyes is true! '
I see the conversation that led to my suspension.
'He said he'd stand by me. So much for that I guess. Darn. I'm totally gonna die. This is it. This is how it's gonna go down.'
Instead of the impact with the ground I was expecting, I hit a soft net, and Koro-sensei tells me, "Well done! A splendidly premediated assassination attempt! Full marks! Neat, huh? I knew your body couldn't take being plucked out of freefall at the speed of sound, and I if I had moved any slower, you would've shot me." I try to move but my limbs are stuck to the net. "What a tangled and sticky web we weave, eh?"
"What the heck! Is there anything these tentacles aren't capable of?" I grunt, struggling to pull myself free.
"Can't shoot me now, can you?" Koro-sensei laughs. "Oh, and for future reference, students do not die on my watch. Ever." Koro-sensei pauses and then adds, "Plus, you shouldn't worry your friends so much. Take that to heart the next time you jump."
Once Koro-sensei takes me back up to the top, I see Nagisa hugging Y/N, her body heaving with sobs, but she was still trying to break free. "Hey, guys." I greet, Y/N's head snapping back quickly. Nagisa lets her go, and she runs towards me, surprising me with a hug.
"You jerk!" Y/N cries, leaning her head against my chest. "You promised that it would always be us against the world!" I hug her back.
"She tried to jump off after you." Nagisa explains. "It took every ounce of my strength to keep her from following you."
I look at my friend, petting her head. "Why would you do that?"
Y/N smacks me lightly, saying, "Because there's not a world without my best friend that worth living in! Plus, you know me. Always trying to save others."
I chuckle and start walking in the direction of the town. "Well. Let's head back, Y/N." I say, tossing a small coin purse into the air as I walk by Koro-sensei. We can grab some food on the way."
"Excuse me! That's my purse!" Koro-sensei yells at me and Y/N as we walk.
"Come on, Teach." I start.
"You've got to stop leaving stuff unattended in the faculty lounge." Y/N finishes for me, smirking.
"Give it back!" Koro-sensei exclaims.
"Here you go." I toss him the pouch without protest.
Koro-sensei opens it and sees that the purse has been purged of its contents, saying, "Uh, hey, uh, this is, uh, empty!"
"There wasn't much there to begin with." I say apologetically. "Call it a donation!" Koro-sensei screeches in protest.
~Nagisa's Thoughts of the Day~
Karma, Y/N and I were in the same class our first and seconf year. He was violent, so violent they finally expelled him, shipped him here. Y/N wasn't expelled, but she dropped out of school for the time that Karma was suspended. E-Class is where they send you when they don't know what else to do with you. Thing is, under the circumstances, they may end up being star students. Weapons and blood are Karma's passion. Y/N has hidden skill, and she's fast, so quick that she beat the fastest guy on our track team with over thirty seconds of a slow start. Trust me, if anyone can kill our teacher, it's those two.