Hello, Bastion speaking.
Well, maybe some of you...no, all of you are not familiar with me, since this was my first fanfic ever to be published.
But i've putted quite lot of effort in this one, and my longest story so far.
Building comments and criticsms are welcomed, but please go easy on a newbie like me Enjoy then!
Disclaimer: Even tough i want to, Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu belongs to Kenji Inoue.
(words in italics means what were they thinking in their minds or talking to themselves)
CHAPTER 1
Winter, competition, and...mission?
It was another ordinary day at Fumizuki academy, except it was covered in snow as it was winter season already. Yuuji Sakamoto, the representative of class F, Just arrived at school with his childhood friend, Shouko Kirishima, who's clinging tightly into his arm. Following behind them is the person with unknown gender, Hideyoshi Kinoshita. As usual, he came early in the morning to have a practice with the drama club,
It seems that Kirishima-san is always clinging to Yuuji, huh? Hideyoshi thought.
"If you clinged that hard, you'll break my arm. Will you please let me go already?" He asked, irritably.
"No." was all the answer he got from her.
"Really, now. It's hard to move around if you clinged to that-"
"Ahhhhhhh!" A loud scream echoed throughout the building, cutting Yuuji's at the middle of his sentence. Along with the scream, the person known as "The Punishment Bearer", Akihisa Yoshii, ran across the hallway with horror on his face.
"Oi, Akihis-" Yet again, another scream cutted his sentence. But this time, there were two shoutings.
"Come here, Akihisa-kun!"
"Get back here, Aki!"
And two familiar figures follow up, seems to be hunting down the person who happen to be passing by. It was Mizuki Himeji, the one with the long, fluffy pink hair with a bunny clip on the side, and Minami Shimada, the one with the maroon red hair in ponytail.
"…why is Himeji and Shimada chasing down Akihisa?"
In the middle of the hallway, another member of class F, Kouta Tsuchiya, who's also known as 'Mutsurini', was about to enter the classroom. But his action was interrupted by the panting Akihisa behind him.
"If *pant* Himeji-san *pant* and Minami came looking for me, please don't tell them that I went *pant* straight ahead, got it?"
"Got it."
"Okay, then I'll go on ahead." He said as he continues his escape. A moment later, the girls Akihisa was talking about shows up.
"Tsuchiya-kun, did you by any chance see Akihisa-kun coming this way?" Mizuki asked.
"Yes, he went straight ahead."
A faint shouting can be heard in the distance. It sounded more or less like this: "You're not helping at all!"
"Thanks, Tsuchiya-kun" With that, the two girls continue their chase for Akihisa. Meanwhile, Kouta was thinking hard of something.
How come he managed to hear what I just said to the girls from such distance?
"Keh, because I was thinking Mutsurini would give them the wrong direction, I slowed down a bit! Now they're catching up with me."
Just as he finished his thought, a pair of hands grabbed his shoulder tightly. Tight enough to crack his bone. Suddenly, he can feel an intense killing aura behind him.
"Akihisa-kun…."
"Aki…."
"Eh, can we talk about it, PEACEFULLY?" he said, underlining the last word. "No can do, Akihisa-kun." Mizuki said, making a creepy smile on her face. "Peace is nowhere to be found in my idiot-beating dictionary." Minami continued. Both of them are dead serious.
A moment later, yet again a scream broke through the whole building. This time was a boy screaming in pain that cannot be described with words.
That was the third scream of the day.
And it was still early in the morning.
"Bad luck right from the start, eh?" Yuuji said, smirking to his beaten up classmate.
"Shut up, Yuuji."
"I'm terribly sorry, Akihisa-kun1 I'm sorry! I didn't know if that was your older sister back there!" Mizuki said, apologizing to Akihisa while treating his injured body. Minami was nowhere to be seen in the classroom.
"But there's a thing I'm still confused about." Hideyoshi asked. "Why did you and Shimada start chasing him at the first place?" Hearing this question, Mizuki could only blush.
Basically, this morning, Akihisa's older sister, Akira, dropped Akihisa at the school. At about the same time, Mizuki and Minami was also just arrived at school. Unfortunately, before leaving for work, Akira kissed Akihisa on the cheek. Unluckily, the girls didn't know if it was Akira. Seeing this, Mizuki and Minami simply got jealous, and start chasing Akihisa, not bothering to ask about the girl that kissed him before. Of course, they won't admit the fact that they're jealous.
"Can we change the subject please?" Akihisa started.
"Eh, I have something to ask you, Sakamoto-kun." Mizuki spoke.
"What is it?"
"Can you do s-something to make this room warmer? I-It's freezing in here."
No one can doubt that. With the glass being broken and full with holes, the cold winter breeze can easily get in to the room and lower the temperature in the classroom.
"Now that you said that, it really is cold in here. But I hope you guys can bear with it. There's nothing we can do about it since our class fund is not enough to repair those broken glass. Wearing a jacket is the best we can do." Yuuji said.
Mizuki than moved to the back of the classroom and sat there, hugging herself to keep her body warm. Why did I have to forget to bring my jacket at times like this? Mizuki said to herself. If only someone could lend me their jacket…
God seemed to be listening to her wish. She could feel a pair of hand putting a jacket over her back and shoulders. Curious, she turned to see the person kind enough to lend her a jacket.
"Akihisa-kun?"
"It must be cold without using a jacket, isn't it? Here, you can use mine."
"Eh? But, what about yourself, Akihisa-kun?"
"Well, it sure is cold without a jacket, but your frail body needs the jacket more than my body does. I don't want you to be sick from the cold breeze. School's boring without you, you know!" He said, smiling to her.
Hearing what he just said, Mizuki's face turned bright red. "T-Thanks, Akihisa-kun" She thanked him while trying to hide her red face from Akihisa. He knows that his body would be freezing without a jacket. But still, he lends me his jacket…that's very nice of you, Akihisa-kun...she thought with a smile on her face. She then putted on Akihisa's jacket.
No wonder I could have a crush on you…she added to herself.
The bell rang, meaning the lesson is about to begin, when suddenly, the intercom made an announcement.
"Good morning, students and teacher. Before we start our lesson, I would like to inform you about a school contest. To bring up the Christmas spirit, our school seasonal committee agreed that we will be holding a Christmas class decorating contest. So for today, all class is dismissed and you may take your time to decorate your class as good as you can."
"Can't we just go home? I don't want to be at school at times like this…' Akihisa pouted, not even bothering to listen to the announcement.
"The winner of this contest will receive a FREEclass trip to the well known onsen resort." The speaker added.
Akihisa's eyes suddenly sparkled. "We must win that special trip, NO MATTER WHAT!" Well, it is a common reaction, tough. Who doesn't get excited after hearing the word 'free', 'trip' and 'onsen' in the middle of the winter season?
And just like that, class F decorated their class with all the Christmas ornaments they have. Socks, bells, and mistletoe can be seen in the entire classroom. Everybody is busy looking for decorations, or where to put decorations on. All of that took at least 3 hours to get it done.
"Phew, nicely done guys. With this, we could possibly win!" Yuuji said.
Mizuki's eyes lit up in excitement. "This is the most beautiful classroom I've ever been to in my entire life!"
"It sure is, Mizuki." Minami responded, just as excited as Mizuki.
"We will win for sure!" Akihisa said with confidence.
The next day was somehow different than any other day. Maybe it was because the sun who chose to show up despite of the the falling snow. Somehow this made the temperature to rise, making that day relatively warm compared to the other day.
Along the way to the school, a wide smile spreaded across Akihisa's face. His mind was fully loaded on his imagination about the special trip. He was expecting his class to be the winner of the competition. No, he was thinking that his class had won the competiton, and he already made the list of activites to do there. Sadly, all he got from going to school early that day was a shocking news.
"What? We lost to class A?" Yes, this was indeed a shock for class F, especially for the overexcited Akihisa, since they have used all their might on decorating their class the day before, and they still lose to another class.
"What a pity. It seems like luck is not on our side this time."
"Agreed, Hideyoshi. Luck seems to have slipped from our hand indeed."
In the middle of the class, lied the now spiritless Akihisa. The news of their lost was just to shocking that he cannot bear it anymore and his spirit gone loose. It was a good thing that Mutsurini caught his spirit and put it back to his body before it flew any further. "Cheer up Aki. At least we got second place." Minami said while she patted Akihisa's back, trying to comfort him.
"Second place gets nothing! Why in the world I should cheer up?"
Just as Minami was about to break Akihisa's spine (she thought that it could cheer him up, which actually it would kill him instead.), the principal entered the classroom.
"Ah, excuse me, but I need the people whose name is on this list to come with me: Akihisa Yoshii, Mizuki Himeji, Minami Shimada, Yuuji Sakamoto, Hideyoshi Kinoshita, and Kouta Tsuchiya. That would be all." The six of them then followed the principal to her office.
"So why do you want us to come with you?"
"It's simple. I want the six of you to go that onsen along with class A."
And suddenly, everybody became silent.
"Wh-wh-wha-wha-what did you say? You want us to come along with class A to that onsen? Akihisa's jaw dropped in disbelief.
"You heard me loud and clear. And you will also get the same treatment as class A."
"But there's must be something else, isn't it, principal-san?" Kouta asked as if he already knows that there is something behind all this.
"You will know when the time has come. I'll give you a hint: it's a mission."
"Mission?" they asked, dumbfounded.
"Yes, and I have also asked some students from class A to be in this mission too, such as Kirishima Shouko, Aiko Kudou, and Yuuko Kinoshita." The principal explained. "I bet you guys already familiar with them, so there won't be any difficulties in working together, right?"
"But why do you pick us, members of the class F, of all students? There is a lot more students with better grades than us." Minami spoke up.
"Reliability."
"Huh?"
"The nine of you, including the three from class A, is the most reliable students in the whole school. I knew that from all of your actions. The truth is, I've been watching all of you since your first day at this school."
And there came the silence again.
"Okay, that is all I want to say to you. You may go back to your class. Remember, all of you will be going there on the 23rd of December, along with class A."
"Now that was a bit shocking. We decorated our class, and we got a mission in return. How weird." All of them agreed to what Yuuji have said.
"But we get to go there together. Isn't it great to be on a trip with your friends? I'm really excited!" That's what Mizuki said. But at the back of her mind, there is one main reason why she is so excited. I will be going on a trip with Akihisa-kun (and the others)! Yay!She is indeed the type that couldn't hold in her excitement. Just like a kid on the night before his first day of elementary school.
And Minami?
She was at the girl's toilet, blushing hard just from thinking about what might happen between her and Akihisa on the trip. "Me, Akihisa, the others, onsen, Christmas…" Smoke emitted from her ears. It was just too much for her brain to handle.
"What can we do about it? It's the principal who gave us that mission."
"You're right, Hideyoshi. All we can do now is preparing ourselves for that mission. We don't want to dissapoint the principal, right?" Everyone nodded after hearing Yuuji's statement.
And just like that, time flows by. It was the 23rd of December already before they could realize it.
Somehow, the weather seemed to be preventing them from going to the onsen. Altough it was the middle of the winter, the rain poured heavily that day, soaking most part of the town.
"Is everyone here yet?"
"No, we're still missing Mizuki."
Then, speak of the devil, Mizuki came to them, her clothes soaked wet and her body almost visible through her clothes. Seeing her now-soaked-in-water figure, both of Kouta and Akihisa almost died from blood loss, thanks to their perverted minds.
"Mizuki, look at yourself! What happened?" Minami helped her with her bag, which was also wet from the rain.
"Well, actually I already headed here way ahead from our meeting time, but on my way here suddenly the rain poured and i had to look for someplace to wait until the rain stopped. But since it was almost our meeting time, I decided to run through the rain, resulting this to me."
"I suggest you quickly change your clothes or you'll get sick if you keep wearing those wet clothes any longer."
"That was what I was going to do now, Shouko-chan." She grabbed another pair of clothes from her bag and headed to the restroom.
Not long after that, she returned to where the rest of her friends are.
"Sorry for making all of you wait."
"Okay, since all of us has gathered here, shall we get going?"
And all of them went for train and headed towards their destination.
END OF CHAPTER
Just in case, onsen is a hot spring bath in japan.
Again, building comments and criticisms are welcomed. Hope to hear a lot from you guys.
~Bastion~