Hi All! If you've never read any of my work before, welcome! If you have, yes, this is a new choice for me! I recently discovered Onegai! Teacher and it has become one of my recent favorites. Yes, there are some drawbacks that hold the show back from being five-star from a critical perspective (occasional B-level English dubbing, especially at a couple of key scenes, the alien concept needing to be explored more), but what works really works, and that for me is most of the humor and its core essence. This show has a good fantasy premise anchored by raw emotion, intriguing psychological and emotional themes, and one of the sweetest and most genuine romances I've seen in any anime, show, or movie. I hope I capture the true feeling of the material, some laughs, and the inherent (but loveable) schmaltz it has to offer.

"Cheers!"

The seven people in the room collectively clinked and raised their drinking glasses, then all took hearty swigs of their sweet beverages.

"Hoo boy, that's good stuff!" Hyosuke remarked, letting his body shudder as his drink sent tingles throughout his limbs. "I could drink it every day."

Kaede raised an eyebrow at him and roughly rubbed her knuckles into the boy's blonde-haired head. "It's just Ramune, Hyosuke," she said with a smirk. "And you do drink it every day."

"But being with all my friends like this makes it that much better," Hyosuke chuckled, reaching his left arm around the redhead and pulling her close, whispering, "and that much sweeter."

The two smiled at each other, and everyone else—Kei, Mizuho, Matagu, Ichigo, and Koishi—started laughing.

"Ever the romantic, Mr. Magumo," Mizuho said, closing her eyes. She took another sip of her drink and draped an arm over the back of her living room couch.

Kei also smiled. He hadn't felt so happy in quite a long time. He quietly sidled up to their homeroom teacher and said, "It's the theme of this group, after all."

He and Mizuho slowly inched their hands toward each other, when Ichigo interjected, "Even more so for you two, huh teacher's pet?"

Both Kei and Mizuho jerked back, their cheeks shifting from light pink to beet red.

"Wha…wha…what?!" Kei sputtered, jerking his head and making his glasses nearly slip off of his face.

"Ms. Morino," Mizuho gasped in a slight authoritative tone. "You shouldn't make comments like that!"

Ichigo just stared at the couple on the couch, keeping her tone deadpan and her gaze unwavering. "But you are husband and wife. And I bet Kei likes to be petted."

Mizuho opened her mouth to retort, but Kei clasped her shoulder and said, "Yeah, ha ha, funny, Ichigo. But we're not like that."

Mizuho looked over at Kei. She was furrowing her brow and clenching her fists so hard they were turning as white as her light sweater.

Koishi giggled at the scene and said, "Aw, come on now, guys. Let's not make fun of each other today."

Matagu, who was sitting right next to Koishi on the carpet connecting his computer to the flat-screen TV, nodded as he opened a bag of potato chips and drew one out to chomp on. Hyosuke laughed and quietly said, "Not too much, anyway," prompting a high-five from Matagu, a chuckle from Koishi, and a playful slap to the back of the head from Kaede.

"You know, I'm still your teacher, guys," Mizuho said crossly. "You'd best mind your manners.

"Of course, Ms. Kazami," Hyosuke conceded, bowing his head and reaching into the chip bag, chewing as he talked. "We don't want to disrespect our gracious hostess."

"Mrs. Kusanagi," Ichigo reminded.

Koishi shrugged one shoulder and said, "I think her maiden name sounds better," prompting Kaede to say, "I agree." The Herikawas' daughter quickly spun around in her seat and gritted her teeth for just a second, but Matagu noticed and quietly sighed.

Kei stifled another laugh. He also liked Mizuho's maiden name a bit more than his own when he thought of her.

"But yeah, everyone," he began. "Let's get to the fun! School's out for now! What did you want to show us, Matagu?"

Matagu instantly took his eyes off of Koishi and went back to the wires, pulling some off of his dark school coat.

"Well," he started, his soft voice rising bit with excitement, "Tonight's Movie Night is gonna be a double feature. I've been watching a lot of documentaries on space activity, astrology, and our old friends the UFOs lately so I can truly find them one day. So I've got some stuff on aliens."

"Hey, cool!" Hyosuke exclaimed, pumping his fist. "You got the one where the aliens race the Formula-1 drivers at the volcano?"

"When don't I?" Matagu quipped, selecting the film on his computer.

Kei and Mizuho felt chills run down their spines and cold sweat down the back of their necks at the talk of extraterrestrials. That's when Hyosuke gripped Kei by the collar of his green t-shirt and yanked him to the ground, saying, "Come on, Kei! Get back in the guy pit!" Ichigo then stood up from her spot on the soft floor, adjusted her blue boy-shorts, and went to join the teacher on the couch. She looked at Mizuho and smiled, and the partial-alien returned the expression.

"Whoa, that one sure looks friendly!"

A green, goblin-like alien appeared on-screen, baring its fanged jowls and pressing the throttle of its spaceship toward the Earth, lurching the craft forward in the abyss of space.

The group in the Kusanagi living space talked and ate and carried on, but not everyone was happy. Far away, another Kazami was watching the festivities, keeping an eye on the movie and everyone's reactions via sophisticated surveillance gear.

Maho Kazami tapped her foot on the steel floor of the cockpit of the family spacecraft. She saw Kaede pointing at creatures on the TV and laughing along with the boys, Kei having made the earlier comment. She then slammed her foot on the floor and reached for the controls, her eyes burning and a growl escaping her throat.

"What a mockery!" she screamed. "I'll show them!"