A CHANGE OF HEART, A CHANGE OF MIND

(A Gokusen and Wallflower crossover)

(Note: I don't own the animes and the characters. I am just a super avid fan.)

Chapter 1: The new teacher

The four guy friends and housemates were at the door of this large mansion when one of them, Kyouhei, shouted at the top of his voice.

"Oi, Sunako! Better get on your shoes or we will be late for our first day of the second term!" he shouted.

The cutest of them, Yuki, chided him a bit for being rude to Sunako. Of course, Kyouhei was always rude. And he was even rude that morning because Sunako did not cook the fried dumplings he had been begging her last night.

"You should not be like that to our dear Sunako-chan," Ranmaru the lover boy told his friend.

"Yeah, stop acting like a baka or Oba-chan will get angry at us for being rude to her niece," the brainy Takenaga said.

Kyouhei only scoffed at his friends. Then, an eerie aura came from the stairs, and the four boys swore that they saw Sunako floating down the stairs, her feet not touching the ground. Her hair was unkempt, and her bangs covered her face. She was just a monster.

"Ima wa gakkou e ikimashou ne (let's go to school now, shall we?)," she said to them with that ghostly voice of hers.

The sound of her voice left the guys shivering in fear. She should stop doing that, Yuki complained. Even Kyouhei promised he would be nice to her. Just then, a lively voice greeted them, thus shattering the ghastly atmosphere of the house.

"Minna ohayou (good morning everyone)!" Noi-chan greeted.

The guys felt relieved to hear a human voice that they were so glad to greet her back.

"Ohayou," another girl greeted them. It was Ranmaru's fiancée, Tamao. "Everyone, it is my pleasure to let all of you ride in my limo."

Everyone except for Sunako shouted for joy. Whoohoo! Another free ride! Tamao-chan was always gracious. She was beautiful, intelligent, and rich, and she was every girl's envy. Everyone hopped in the limo, and the chauffer drove off.

In the faculty room….

"Yamaguchi-sensei, what are you doing in your jerseys?" Principal Sawatari asked.

"Eh?" Yamaguchi-sensei aka Yankumi asked innocently.

"You won't need it, you will be handling good students," Sawatari told her.

"Shimatta!" Yankumi complained as she hit her head with her hand.

"But, Yamaguchi might need it, right?" Baba-sensei told the principal.

Sawatari looked at Baba as if he were the most difficult test in the whole wide world. He really couldn't understand that stupid Baba at all.

"There are a lot of cute students now, right?" Shiratori-sensei said to her co-teacher, Takano-sensei, who nodded excitedly.

Even the nurse Ayukawa nodded in delight. Despite their delight, the music teacher, Wanibuchi-sensei rolled her eyeballs and got back to her work. Even the science teacher Shinji-sensei growled in disgust to hear noisy teachers.

"I saw four cute guys in the hall this morning," Ayukawa said to her colleagues. "One of them was the ever-famous Takano Kyouhei!"

"K…Kyouhei?" Takano-sensei asked.

"Are you by any chance, related to him?" Shiratori-sensei asked.

"Hai, he is my cousin!" Takano-sensei replied in disgust.

Sawatari rolled his eyeballs in disgust. Shiratori, Takano, Ayukawa, and Yamaguchi were all new faculty members who started their first day at the start of the school's second term. However, the first three ladies mentioned acted like a bunch of high school girls falling in love with high school kids. As the three ladies were swooning over cute guys, Yankumi laughed to herself. Definitely, Ayukawa and Takano didn't notice that Dr. Natsume was also the school doctor. Both of them met this morning, and Yankumi was so inspired to see the handsome doctor again. Sensing that Ayukawa and Takano had other agenda, she thought she can have Natsume to herself. She laughed impishly to herself and Sawatari noticed her laugh.

"What is with that laugh?"

"Nothing," she grimly answered as she dragged herself out of the faculty room and into her classroom where she was homeroom teacher.

"I've heard our teacher is pretty and sexy," Ranmaru told his friends.

"You always look for a sexy girl," Kyouhei scolded him. "Tamao-chan might get jealous."

"I go for the cute type," Yuki said.

"I don't need anything. I have Noi," Takenaga bragged.

Sunako heard their conversation, and she was breathing heavily. She noticed blood dripping through her nostrils. Their teacher is pretty? Not another shining creature! No way! She is going to melt again! The noise was broken when a teacher in jersey came in and went to the desk. All the students' eyes focused on her, and it left the guys dismayed. They thought she was a joke, for, aside her jerseys, she wore her signature nerdy glasses and two ponytails.

"She's not pretty!" Ranmaru complained.

"Yehey! She is not shining!" Sunako mused to herself.

Yankumi smiled when she saw her new students. They were so unlike her usual class 3-D in Shirokin, Kurogin, Yambaru, and Akadou. She could at least rest in peace.

"It makes me lax, I might get stupid being here!" she said to her imaginary camera.

When she looked back at her students, she saw them curious of her strange habit. Then she introduced herself to them.

"I am Yamaguchi Kumiko, your homeroom teacher and math teacher for this term. I am new, single and available! Yay!" she squealed.

"Huh?" the students asked. Good students or delinquent students, they all have the same expressions.

"You can call me Yankumi," she said.

Ranmaru got out from his seat and went to Yankumi. He held out his hand like he usually did when he chases after women.

"Will you be my girlfriend?" he asked. "I prefer older women, you know." This sent the whole class laughing.

"HUH?" Yankumi asked. She didn't expect a student to court her in front of the class. She thought it was only Tsuchiya who happen to like older women.

"Stop that, Ranmaru," Kyouhei told his friend. "Stop treating our teacher like that."

Yankumi looked at Kyouhei and thought, he must be the class leader. She still hadn't get over her class 3-D experiences. And because of Kyouhei's prodding, Ranmaru got back to his seat. Just as Yankumi was about to discuss house rules, four girls with altered school uniform in Gothic style came in and floated to their seats.

"Make way for the Goth-Loli Sisters!" said the one with the blue hair.

"Goth-Goth-Loli-Loli!" all of the four chorused.

Yankumi snapped her hand to the desk and reprimanded them for coming in late and disturbing their class. When she asked for their names, each of the Goth-Loli sisters gave their name. When Yankumi checked her class attendance, she saw that the sisters weren't in her list. And so, the embarrassed Goth-Loli sisters exited.

"Damn, what do they think they are doing?" she said to her camera.

She continued with their homeroom and continued with math class afterwards. All those time, she kept her eye on Kyouhei. For the first time in her high-school teacher career, she didn't encounter being distracted with gambling students. All of her students, including Ranmaru and Kyouhei, were attentive.

After their class, Yuki commented that their teacher wasn't that bad after all. And of all their math teachers, only Yankumi had made math easy to understand. But then, they noticed Sunako flopped to her desk and blood flowing down.

"Sunako-chan!" Yuki and Takenaga freaked out.

"Math…math….so difficult…" she said weakly.

"Wanibuchi-sensei, have you handled a class with Takano Kyouhei in it?" Yankumi asked.

"Yes, I have. His grades aren't quite that good, but he isn't like the Class 3-D that you usually handle, so you'll do fine," Wanibuchi-sensei assured her.

Yankumi breathed deep and contentedly. At least.

"Ano, Yamaguchi-sensei?" a student said.

"Oh, Nakahara-san, please come in," Yankumi said to Sunako.

Though most of the teachers still resented her scary looks, Sunako was the most polite of all the students that they know. Yankumi was oblivious to the eerie aura of Sunako, and she was deeply touched by the sad eyes and the blood-streaked nose.

"Why, Nakahara, did you go out brawling with other students?" Yankumi asked.

"Yamaguchi-sensei!" Sawatari called out. Yankumi had forgotten again that she did not have a single Class 3-D student anymore.

Yankumi realized her blunder and apologized. Then she asked Sunako what on earth had happened.

"I didn't understand the math lessons for today," Sunako said. She sucked at math.

Yankumi knew she had taught math the easiest way possible, as she had done in the past to get her students' attention. And despite the ease, Sunako was struggling. Yankumi was willing to teach her again. And so, she tutored the poor student.