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Karma and Nagisa were walking up the hill to go to their classroom. Nagisa was telling Karma about the lesson he had skipped the previous day. “Oh, I also forgot to mention that there is a new student coming in today,”
Karma of course was intrigued. Every Time they had a new student they were either super weird with power-like abilities or just not even human. “I bet you that this new kid is gonna have three heads or something,”
Nagisa let out a chuckle, “ya probably. Koro-sensei was making a huge deal out of it, more than normal. He went on a rant saying that we can't do anything to them and if we do the whole class would have to do some hardcore training,” he sighed.
They were in the classroom, brainstorming about what the new kid would be like, what skills they would have that will help with assassinating Koro-sensei, what they look like, etc.
“Alright class, settle down and go to your seats,” The disgusting octopus-like creature said. Everyone did as said and took their seats. “As you all know, we are getting a new student because you guys can’t kill me. And no, he is not who you guys think he is-”
Most of the female students got excited that the new student was a ‘he’.
“Shush now. As I was saying. Please treat him with respect, because if you don’t I might not be able to ever get a raise. You may come in now,”
Everyone stared at the door waiting for him to enter. It's like time slowed down when the door opened, and walked in the boy, now standing in front of the chalkboard facing the class. He has short strawberry hair, his eyes were a gorgeous violet, perfect skin, a neat uniform, great posture, and an extremely bored facial expression.
The classroom was completely quiet.
“No goddamn way,” Karma broke the silence, and he laughed out.
“The class then erupted into screams. Some students were yelling at Koro-Sensei, others were yelling at Gakushuu, and others just stared at him.
‘SIT BACK DOWN!” the creature yelled, no longer yellow but now red. Everyone took their seats again except for the strawberry blonde.
“I told you to be respectful,” he lectures. “As you all know, this is Asano Gakushuu. He is here because all of you clearly need more help to kill me,”
“But why him of all people?” Yuma asked.
“Because he is skilled in most everything, a great athlete, a great student, a fast learner, an amazing strategizer-”
“Yeah Yeah, he's amazing we get it. But no one wants a suck-up in this class,” Ryoma pointed at Gakushuu to which the class agreed.
“Again, be respectful.” Koro-Sensia sighed. “He will help benefit this class. After all, it was his father that recommended this choice,”
“Why would Sir Asano want him here? I thought he hated this class, after all, were either dumb or Karma,” Kirara slumped down at her desk. Karma smiled at the remark.
“Again, it's to help kill me,”
“But why couldn’t we get a different student?” whined Hiroto.
“Enough questions class, Asano please have a seat to the left of Karma,” Koro-sensei kindly said.
The entire class gasped at this. Even Karma. Gakushuu just sighed and made his way to his seat feeling uncomfortable with the stares he was getting.
“Eyes up here! We need to start the lesson,” Koro-sensei had a smirk. The class slowly turned their heads to the board.
During the lesson, everyone was taking glances back at Gakushuu. He got a lot of side eyes.
And finally, lunch came. Everyone ran to Gakushuu’s desk, asking him a bunch of questions at once.
“One at a time please,” Gakushuu said, overwhelmed by the noise.
“Why are you really here?”
“To kill the teacher,”
“Do you even know how to use a gun?”
“I'm decent at using one,”
“Have you ever killed someone?”
“Of course not,”
“Do you even know how to kill him?”
“I do,”
“Do you even want to be here?”
“I don’t”
“How is your skin so clear?”
“I drink a lot of water, and eat healthily,” replied Gakushuu.
“Only if,” Rio shook her head.
“Ask serious questions!” Megu scolded her.
“Oh right,” Rio cleared her voice, “Do you know how to fight hand-to-hand combat?”
“I do,”
“Do you think I'm handsome?”
“Yes, you are conventionally attractive,”
“Hear that guys? Asano Gakushuu thinks I’m handsome,” Karma brags.
“Karma, shut up! We're trying to get some questions out of this guy!” Megu said once more.
“Answers? Why would you need answers from me?” Gakushuu asked, confused, tilting his head to the side slightly.
“You might know some important information,” Hinano crossed her arms.
“Though I am my father’s son, I am still a child. All the information I know is the same as you know,” Gakushuu tapped his finger on his desk, irritated that he has to go through this.
“The only issue with that is that you are your father’s son. You're probably plotting something against us,” Taiga slammed his hand on the desk Gakushuu was sitting at.
He was starting to get pissed, “Why would I do that? I have so much shit to do that I don’t even have the time to have such a thought. I couldn’t care less about such a pity thing,”
“You're just trying to cover your ass,” Ryoma said, starting to raise his voice.
“Why must you insist on this?” Gakushuu was trying to calm himself down so that he wouldn’t start a fight.
“Because you're a prissy bitch who doesn’t belong with us. We’re the bad class and all you are is a stick up the ass,” Ryoma was starting to get in his face.
Gakushuu was trying to think of a way to deactivate this situation because it was clear this dude wants a fight.
“I am here to kill a teacher, that's it. As soon as he is dead I will be out of here. Okay? I have nothing other than that,”
Ryoma just let out a grunt and walked away. Gakushuu was just glad that he didn’t retort back.
“Woah, never seen him give up so easily. You just defused a bomb!” Karma smiled looking over at the kid with anger issues begging to eat his lunch.
“I'm used to situations like that, it's a daily occurrence,” he sighs.
During the banter, most of the students crowding the new student’s desk walked off not wanting to be a part of that. The rest of the students walked off because they got bored. all of the students were eating outside, most definitely talking about Gakushuu, leaving the two redheads alone.
“So why are you actually here?”
“I was already asked this twice now,” he pulled his lunch out.
“Yeah, but there has to be more than murder,” Karma was sitting at the desk in front of the other boy having his chest to the back of the chair.
“That’s the only reason,”
“You sure? Are you failing but too embarrassed to admit it? Tell me! I can keep a secret”
“Again, the only reason why I'm here is to kill that teacher,”
Karma put his head on Gakushuu’s desk. “Booriing!” he whined.
“Boring? Maybe you're used to it but killing your mentor? That sounds extremely thrilling,”
“Ya. I was super excited when my suspension ended and found out I could kill one of my teachers. I always wanted to kill my teachers!” Karma raised his head.
“Concerning, but relatable. Teachers would always make me do their job, always made me want to stab them repeatedly,”
“See? You get it!”
“I read the reasons why you were suspended and was shocked,” The strawberry blonde opened his bento.
“Oh? Didn’t think I was that much of a celebrity,”
Gakushuu nodded, “Rumors about a student beating up a teacher went around the school,”
“Glad to know I got my fame.”
“Left the teachers on edge for a while,”
Karma chuckles. “So what's up with you? Still gonna be president and all that other stuff?”
“Indeed. No one else would be able to do it, not to brag. I found a way to balance everything and do things efficiently,”
“I bet I could do it easily,”
“Oh don’t make me laugh,” Gakushuu rolled his eyes with a small smile on his face.
“What? I totally can! Anything you can do I can do better,”
“Riiight,”
“I bet I can do a Boston accent better than you”
“What a random thing,”
“Fine, I bet I can fight better than you,”
“Now that’s something I can do,” Gakushuu glanced out the window to see everyone staring at them. They seemed to not notice so they kept staring.
“How uncomfortable,” Gakushuu whispered.
“They're staring, aren't they?”
Gakushuu put away his bento, too uncomfortable to eat it. “Of course they are,”
Karma looks out the window to see everyone quickly turn their heads. He looked back at Gakushuu to see that he was also looking out the window. “Quick question, why does everyone hate me so much?” Gakushuu turned to look at Karma.
The redhead rested his hand on his face, leaning his head on it. “Because they're jealous,” He simply said.
“Jealous? What is there to be jealous of?”
“Well, you get good grades, a bunch of girls like you, your rich, and bla bla,”
Gakushuu just rolled his eyes. Then all of a sudden the was a gust of wind and then there was Koro-sensei
“I hope you all were kind to our newest student while I was in China!” The creature shouted. He scanned the area to see the two redheads alone in the classroom. “Karma. You better not pull anything,”
To that, Karma only had an innocent smile.
“You guys have seven more minutes to finish up until you battle to the death. Good luck.” He shouted once more then blasted off to who knows where.
“What does he mean by that?” Gakushuu asked.
Karma just let out a groan, “It's where we all fight each other until there is only one winner, It’s literally the worst”
Gakushuu was so confused about this class.
Seven minutes passed and a teacher with a serious expression showed up. “There is a new student today as you all know. I want all of you to show him what class E is all about,” he looked directly at Gakushuu, “This won’t be as easy as you think it will be. The stuff that you're about to see is way out of your level. Maybe with enough training, you'll be able to crack up to them, but that's unlikely,” The teacher sterned.
Gakushuu felt uneasy. It was like talking to his father so that didn’t leave a good feeling in his stomach.
The teacher looked away from him and told everyone else to get with their sparring partners.
Gakushuu watched as the students threw punches and kicks at each other. Some students are even being thrown. After one of the two kids is beaten, they sit away from the battle area and watch. The rule was to make sure your back doesn’t touch the ground for more than three seconds. And of course, the last one standing was none other than Karma.
“Great work Karma, but you're not done yet. You still have one more opponent to face,” he turned to look at Gakushuu.
“Great plot twist Karasuma, love to see it,” Karma laughed.
Gakushuu walked up to Karma, he was sort of nervous to do this. “Don’t worry I'll go easy on ya,” Karma mocked.
Gakushuu just clicked his tongue.
Karasuma yelled to begin and as soon as he did Karma threw a right hook at his face. Gakushuu was able to swerve it and as soon as he did one was coming for his stomach. He pushed the fist out away from him, then one went straight to the nose.
Karma was constantly attacking so Gakushuu was on defense which needed to change. He grabbed his wrist and moved his head. He changed his footing so that their legs were tangled, throwing Karma off balance.
This sent Karma flying forward but he used his hands to spring himself back to his feet. “Woah, good move! I wanna try that out later,” Karma chanted.
Then he launched himself towards Gakushuu, sending a punch for the nose again. He jumped out of the way and sent a kick to Karma’s side, it almost landed but Karma rolled out of the way. He quickly got up and sent a right hook to his face. Gakushuu ducked. “What’s up with you and aiming for my face?” Gakushuu questioned while dodging a hit to his nose.
“Your face pisses me off,” Karma then aimed for the stomach which landed. Gakushuu grunted but quickly grabbed his fist and threw him over his shoulder. Karma hit the ground with a loud thud. He stayed on the ground longer than three seconds, making Gakushuu the winner.
“I did not expect that at all,” Karma groaned. Gakushuu held his hand out for the other, he grabbed his hand and got up.
“How’d you do that?”
“You just-”
“WOAH! THAT WAS SO COOL!” A bunch of the students ran up to Gakushuu.
“Sit back down everyone,” Karasuma ordered. “Asano, you're better than I thought. You're going to get the hang of this in no time,”
“Thank you, sir,” He replied.
The school day ended and now the students were allowed to leave. Gakushuu grabbed his stuff and left. “Wait for me!” Karma shouted.
He waited and Karma caught up to him. “What are you doing after this?” Karma asked, crossing his arms behind his head.
“Volunteer work, then I have to lead a study group, study by myself, and finish one of the paintings I have to do for art,” Gakushuu said, looking overwhelmed just by the thought of his schedule for today.
“You're still doing your old classes?” Karma questioned the overworked boy.
“Mhm. I'm going to get used to it though. I'll figure out a way to balance all of this stuff,”
“You sound like an underpaid 40-year-old worker,” Karma chuckles. “What are you doing tomorrow then?”
“Having a council meeting, helping save puppies and kittens, studying, finishing reading a book, and building a table for one of my father’s friends,”
Karma just stared at him. “All in one day?”
“All in one day,” Gakushuu responds.
Karma blinked, “All the other stuff is sort of reasonable, but building a table? What kind of bullshit is that?” Karma gave a chuckle at the thought.
Gakushuu rolled his eyes, “You think I want to? All I want is some sleep for god’s sake,”
“Can you build me a table? Pretty please. I want a matching chair set with it too,” Karma poked.
Gakushuu rolled his eyes once more.
Karma went home and immediately started to think about a way to mess with Gakushuu. He came up with a plan that would slowly progress over time. First, he’ll make snarky remarks, then completely poke fun at him, after that it is petty pranks, and last but not least will be huge pranks. Gakushuu on the other hand knew Karma somewhat and definitely knew to keep his guard up around him at all times. He wasn’t dumb after all.
“Welcome back, class!” The creature threw his tentacle around, attempting a wave.
Gakushuu was already in his seat when all the other kids made it up the hill. They took their seats. While they were, they couldn’t help but spare a glance at the strawberry blonde.
The class was starting but got interrupted by the other redhead entering. “Karma, you're late,” Koro-sensei put his tentacles on his waist.
“At least I showed up today. Didn’t plan on it until I remembered that Asano Gakushuu was also in 3-E with me, let alone sitting next to me. Just had to make sure if it was a dream or not,” Karma snarked. Gakushuu just sighed, knowing that his new class was this scummy place.
Koro-sensei just went back to teaching.
Gakushuu felt the stares of everyone. It made him feel like something was wrong with his appearance. Is my hair messy? Are my clothes stained? Do I have bad eye bags right now? Do I have acne? These thoughts kept running through his head, making him feel self-conscious about his looks. But, of course, he acted like it didn’t bother him.
Of course, they weren't full-on staring at him. Just small, fast glances. You wouldn’t even be able to tell. But Gakushuu knows the feeling of being looked at constantly, so I guess you can say that he sensed it.
He was snapped out of his thoughts when a folded piece of paper landed on his desk. He looked to the right of him where Karma was. But Karma just pretended to pay attention to the lesson.
He hesitantly opened the paper. Written in red ink was ‘today you finally meet Miss Bitch,’
Discarding the insult to her, Gaksuhuu tries to think back to another teacher that the school hired. He did some snooping in his father’s file and studied some of the class 3-E stuff. Like their teachers' background information, the government's secret, etc.
Then he remembers a blonde with blue eyes. Right, he remembers seeing her at the assembly as well. Though he can’t recall her actual name right now, he writes on the blank space paper ‘the blonde teacher?’ with a black ink pen and neat handwriting.
He folds it back up and tosses the paper back on Karma’s desk. He opens it and reads it. He turned his head to Gakushuu and nodded. But then he had a puzzled face. He quickly writes, folds it back up then throws it back to Gakushuu.
Once it lands on his desk. He opens it once more and reads, ‘how tf did you know??’
Gakushuu just wrote that she saw her at the assembly and tossed it back. He didn’t get any other notes after that.
The class finally ended and Karma turned to Gakushuu. The other kids that planned to go to his desk backed off since Karma was there.
Karma started going into detail about Miss ‘Bitch’
“Y’know when we first met her, she made out with Nagisa,” Karma lets out a dry laugh.
Then a bluenette barked into the conversation they were having. “I was so confused that I just stood there and did nothing,” Nagisa laughs.
Gakushuu turned his attention to this stranger. The other student kept speaking, “Ah, sorry! I haven't introduced myself to you yet have I? Well, I’m Shiota Nagisa, but call me Nagisa.” He let out a smile at Gakushuu.
“Nice to meet you Nagisa, I’m happy that people are now deciding to talk to me and not stare at me. It’s great to have a conversation without being interrogated,” Gakushuu says, loud enough for anyone that was listening in on their conversation.
Nagisa broke eye contact with Gakushuu and did an awkward chuckle, “Ya, sorry about that,”
“Oh no! It's completely fine,” Gakushuu gave his fake Asano smile. “I understand, frankly I would have done the same thing!” He lets out a laugh.
Nagisa smiles, “Thank you for understanding where they come from. A lot of stuff has happened in this class so they just want to be sure,”
“Of course-”
“Introduction over. Back to what I was saying,” Karma crossed his arms.
The two other boys divert their attention back to Karma.
“Anyways, she is the worst, and the best at the same time,” Karma brings his feet onto the desk. “It’s hard to explain,”
Nagisa nodded, “You’ll warm up to her Asano,” reassuring Gakushuu that she wouldn’t be too bad. “She isn’t that bad, it's just shocking at first,”
“Oh, alright,” was all Gakushuu could muster to say. So his first impression of her isn't good. So he is kinda worried about what she'll turn out to be.
Just as soon as he had this thought, a tall woman with blonde waves strutted into the classroom. Her heels clicked and clacked with every step she took on the creaky wooden floorboards.
“I’m assuming that’s her?” Gakushuu speculated.
“Mhm,” Karma and Nagisa both hummed in unison.
She put a hand on her hip, “Everyone sit down” she announced.
“But Miss! We still have four minutes left of break!” Sousuke professed.
“I don’t care, my class, my rules. Everyone sit your asses down,” Miss Bitch shouted.
Everyone mumbled as they sat in their respective seats, calling her a bitch under her breath. She scanned the classroom and spotted a new face, Gakushuu.
“And who are you? What do you have that can kill that horrid octopus?” She sassed, “I swear to god if you're as useless as everyone else in this class I swear to god I’LL-” She started raising her voice but was cut off.
“This is Gakushuu Asano, y’know, the principal's son?” Karma empathized.
“Way to put it out there,” Gakushuu mumbled.
Miss Bitch was frozen for a couple of seconds. “Wait, wait, wait. What is a straight-A student like you doing here? You're just an ordinary kid,” she questioned, raising her eyebrow.
“Sir Asano thinks I can contribute to killing Koro-sensei,” spoke Gakushuu.
“And what can you possibly do that is better than everyone else here?” She asked, staring daggers into Gakushuu.
To this, he simply just shrugged.
“Your father is the most confusing person on this planet,” she sighs.
“He certainly is,” ushered Jr Asano.
And with that, Miss Bitch started teaching the class. If you could even call it teaching.
“She wasn’t so bad,” Gakushuu spoke to the pair.
“It’s either she’s in shock, she's tired, or she likes you,” Karma leans on Gakushuu's desk. “It’s up to you to figure it out,”
Nagisa taps his finger on his arm and refuses to make eye contact with Gakushuu. Of course, Gakushuu and Karma caught on, “Nagisa? You cool?” Karma asked.
“Oh yeah, I'm fine. It’s just that I and a few others decided it would be a good idea if they met Asano. If that’s fine with you, that is,” Nagisa looks at Gakushuu.
“I would love to,”
Nagisa let out a breath he was holding and looked towards the doorway where three students were peeking their heads out the corner. He waved his hand over and they came following along.
“These are my friends Hinano,” He points to a short girl with short, wavy orange hair with green eyes. She had large eyes with a soft smile on her face. “Touka,” A pretty girl with a brown ponytail and light purple eyes. “And Yumma,” A boy with black spiked hair and pale gold eyes.
“Hello everyone, it’s great finally meeting some of you,” Gakushuu had a smile on his face, presenting himself as a friendly person.
“It’s great meeting you too! Sorry for staring at you so much, I was just so shocked that you of all people are now in this class. No offense of course!” Hinano shrieked.
Gakushuu was a little irritated by the comment but decided not to dwell on it, “None taken,”
Hinano let out a sigh of relief and then asked Yumma, “How are you liking the classes so far?”
Gakushuu lets out a little chuckle, “Certainly interesting. Is this how things always are up here?”
The five students kept continuing the conversation, leaving Karma just sitting there, bored. He saw at the other end of the classroom that the ‘Terasaka’s group’ was whispering to each other taking glances at the group. He could practically see the dark aura surrounding them.
He, of course, walked to their circle and buts in the conversation, “What's y'all talking about?”
“We're talking shit about that redhead nerd,” Kirara pointed at Gakushuu.
Karma fake frowns, “Hey! I’m a redhead nerd!”
“The other one you idiot!” she whisper yelled.
“So? What's the tea?” Karma smirked.
“There have to be more reasons other than ‘to help kill Koro-sensei’ he might be trying to sabotage this class,” Taisai professed.
“Me too! I thought the same thing! I’m trying to get close to him to trick him into giving me information,” Karma played along. “Maybe he’s going to try sneaking videos of us doing embarrassing stuff so he can laugh about it with his snotty friends,”
“That’s also another reason why we don’t want him in this class!” Takuya started to raise his voice but got shushed by the rest of the circle.
“Y’know, he won't tell us anything right now. But if we try to befriend him, he’ll trust us enough to get comfortable. Then BAM! We ruin his reputation,” Karma told his mastermind idea.
The smiles on the rest of the circle's faces were sinister. “That’s the first good idea you’ve ever had!” Ryoma announced, once again being shushed.
Karma felt satisfied with the situation he had just created and looked back at the other group. As soon as he did he made eye contact with Gakushuu. It gave Karma a shiver.
Did he know what we were talking about? No way, his hearing can't possibly be that good. Was he watching the entire time?
Karma brushed these thoughts to the side and just smiled and winked at Gakushuu. In return Gakushuu narrowed his eyes at him then his whole facial expression changed. He just went from a death glare to a normal, happy face in not even half a second.
Karma was thrown off by this but, again, brushed it off.
He diverted his attention back to the group he was just speaking to. “How are we going to get him to trust us? Because of this idiot-” Kirara points to Ryoma “-he already has a bad impression on us,”
The group was silent and pandered for a bit. Then Karma broke the silence, “Through me. I talk to him the most so already I'm building a relationship with him, then I slowly introduce him to you guys, we start hanging out, we get him out of his comfort zone, then we film something or do something humiliating to him, boom, he's gonna be crushed,” Karma offered.
The rest of the group was supportive of the idea and started doing their ‘evil’ chuckle to each other.
Karma didn’t really understand why they hate them that much but he doesn't mind. After all, this will keep things exciting, and that's all Karma wants.
School ended and the students were leaving. The only students that stayed behind were Gakushuu and Karma.
“Oh? Are you staying Akabane?” asked Gakushuu.
“Yeah, just don’t feel like walking down the huge hill right now,” Karma lied. The truth was that he saw Gakushuu not get up so he also stayed. But of course, he can’t let Gakushuu find out so he asked the question back to him, “What about you?”
“I am, I have a meeting to be at in 25 minutes, so I’m going to walk down in ten minutes,” Gakushuu said.
Both of them were sitting at their seats but Gakushuu got up and went over to Karma’s desk. “I have another question to ask if you don’t mind,”
Karma felt a bead of sweat start to down his face, “uhuh,” was all he could say. He felt trapped.
Gakushuu leaned on the desk, slightly lowering himself to Karma’s level. “When you left the conversation to go talk with those other kids. What were you guys talking about? Sorry to be nosey, I’m just so curious,” He asked, having an innocent look on his face.
“We were just talking about how we planned to invite you over to hang out with us. But they’re kinda shy and the big guy was embarrassed because of your first impression of him,” Karma lied through his teeth.
Gakushuu squinted slightly, trying to read Karma’s face but let out a small laugh. “Oh, that’s good! You guys just kept looking back at me so I thought you all were talking bad about me or plotting something. Frankly, I feel kinda dumb now!”
The way he said it convinced Karma that he knew exactly what was going on. He just doesn’t know what it was exactly. And the way that he stood up to him like that even when knowing his background history? Trapping him at his own desk and forcing him to talk about it. This was going to be way more fun than Karma thought.
“Yeah, sorry about that. I know you're a busy person and all, but when are you available? I wasn’t kidding when I said that we wanted to hang out with you,” Karma stood up to be at eye level with Gakushuu.
Gakushuu narrowed his eyes once more trying to read Karma’s face. Karma had only a smirk on his face.
“This Sunday,”
“Hmh?” Karma hummed.
“This Sunday I’m free,” Gakushuu went on.
Karma pulls his phone out of his pocket and hands it to Gakushuu, Gakushuu got the memo and put his number in. He handed the phone back to Karma.
“I’ll text you the time, place, and who’s coming,” Karma listed
“I can’t wait,” Gakushuu smiled his classic Asano smile.