Chapter one

Class was in session and all the students were listening intently as their teacher lectured to them on one of the varying theories of advanced calculus. The teacher wasn't your normal one either she had judging by her age just graduated from the Kuoh university majoring in Calculus and teaching, she was dressed in a pencil skirt that reached below her knees along with a pair of heels as well as a loose white blouse with a slightly ruffled front that was unbuttoned a little showing a slight amount of cleavage, she was standing at the front of the class using a pointer stick to point at various points on the black board that held some calculus formula and explaining what they meant.

The class meanwhile was mainly made up of girls which was understandable since up until about three years prior it had been an all-girls school and a prestigious one at that, there were some guys but they lacked quite a lot in numbers with in the class of thirty only 10 of them were guys. They were wearing a core uniform but each student added their own flare to it, the girls were wearing the same but with varying choices of having a cape, sweater or none at all. While the guys were a little more liberal being untucked, wearing trainers, no tie or their shirt unbuttoned with a coloured T-shirt underneath.

And all but one particular student at that very moment was paying close attention to their teacher, said student was sitting in the middle of class off to the side by the window, he had medium length white hair in two short bangs that fell to the same height as his ears with another being tip of the nose length that falls between his eyes from the middle of his fringe, the rest of his hair on top spikes up straight, while the rest, back and sides is spikey and gets progressively longer until just off the shoulders. If his eyes were open he would be revealing half lidded smouldering hazelnut eyes that had the unfortunate effect of making many of the girls blush and be unable to hold a lengthy conversation with him. He was wearing the normal school uniform but his shirt was untucked and had forgone the school tie.

He was currently with his head rested in his arms hidden behind a text book doing what he did in nearly every class ritually sleep through the entire class finding it to troublesome and annoying to actually try and learn a stay awake. It was then that his sleep was rudely interrupted by the ringing of the bell telling them all it was now lunch time. Scrunching his eyes in annoyance the once asleep boy sat up straight and glanced with smouldering half lidded eyes at the board at the front of the class before nodding to himself and yawning, closing his text book and exercise book that had an unfortunate smattering of drool on, he stuffed them in his bag, standing he stretched a bit getting a few snickers from his class mates as they had long gotten used to his habit of sleeping most of the day away. Walking to the front of the class with a few others that were heading out or wanting to ask their teacher another question or two picked up a bit of chalk and by the equals sign wrote down a number before placing the chalk down and trudging out the room with his hands stuffed in his pockets and slouched slightly.

Never noticing the slight smile of the teacher directed at his back since she had long gotten used to his habit of sleeping through her class since she started teaching him at the start of the year, but she knew he was soaking up all she was teaching at the same time add to the fact if he could answer questions of university level that she would sometimes place on the board at the end of class just before the bell went she was fine with his slightly off putting habit and his grades hadn't slipped from the A point grade average he had.

the boy walking down the hall to the outside where he would promptly head for his sleeping spot under a large shady tree near the tennis courts where he could drift of to sleep in bliss of getting various up skirt visuals of the girls playing tennis. Ignoring the odd girl blushing at him as he walked past something he had long grown used to that and his ridicules nickname that he had been dubbed with by the girls the 'Sleeping King' and second most desirable male in the school.

Reaching his sleeping spot he laid down in the shade of the tree escaping the summer heat placing his bag under his head as a pillow which he then placed his hands behind his head, Sighing in content he lazily watched with heavy eyes a game of tennis that was taking place, slowly letting his eyes follow the little yellow ball but also at the same time not being able to not notice the jiggle of breasts and flapping of skirt revealing all types of panties to him ranging today from innocent school girl white to one risky individual who was wearing a black lacy number with frills and almost becoming a thong.

His eyes were finally nearly closed when he caught a quick glimpse of very long black hair flash in front of him as they finally closed completely. Snoozing away contentedly for all of about 30 seconds before he was rudely woken up by a slight weight thudding onto his chest. Cracking his left eye open, he saw it was a bag, a familiar one at that as well. looking around with his half lidded open left eye he spied a person standing right beside him she was in the usual school uniform of a girl at the academy a white long-sleeved, button-down shirt with faint black vertical linings, a black ribbon on the collar, a black shoulder cape and matching button-down corset, and a short magenta skirt with white accents round the edges. if he looked further up he would note half blue rimmed glassess and hetrochromatic voilet and brown eyes.

But he was too lazy to and only made it to chest height where he saw a set of breasts he was well accustomed to seeing at this particular angle and add to the fact she was the only person with knee length black hair that was in that particular free flowing style said sleepily "Tsu-Tsu why did you wake me I have at least another 20 minutes of sleepy time..." just then Tsubaki or Tsu-Tsu in this case rose an eye brow and shifted slightly that gave the boy a perfect up skirt shot "...Hey Tsu-Tsu you updated your panty set I don't remember seeing that pair before they look good from down here."

Tsubaki hearing that blushed a little and proceeded to hold her skirt down and sit at the same time "Kaede you shouldn't say such things or look up they're without permission."

The now named Kaede finally opened his other eye and rolled onto his side "But Tsu-Tsu we've seen each other naked before and you weren't complaining."

Tsubaki again her blush this time intensified and tried to give her childhood friend a levelled glare that she was known for "We were 8 and we had been playing in the park and got all muddy, my parents were out of town and your mother refused to allow us to touch the carpet in our state so she carried both of us to the bathroom and stripped us before putting us in the bath remember Kaede and it was your fault to."

Kaede lazily smiled back and placed his hand on some of Tsubaki's hair "really...it would be to troublesome to remember that far back anyway...So why did you come and disturb my sleepy time."

Tsubaki groaned a little "Knowing you and your forgetfulness in the morning I stopped by your house on my way to school, before you got up and collected your lunch for you like every day, since you came to this school. I'm sure your too lazy to remember to even eat and would have someone feed you for you."

Kaede who was half listening had opened the Bento and was rather looking forward to what his mother had made for him looked up from his Bento to Tsubaki and back again and whined childishly instead of acting his 17 years of age "Tsu-Tsu feed me!"

Tsubaki who had stopped talking at that point and was eating her own lunch sputtered comically "BAKA! feed yourself besides we're not even in that sort of relationship."

Kaede shrugged "but the act of raising and lowering my arm is to troublesome to even bother."

Tsubaki having enough composed herself and levelled her gaze at him and spoke in a tone he only ever got when A) his mother was annoyed with him mainly when trying to wake him up or that one time she had found a stash of a certain type of magazines under his mattress when she was changing the sheets or B) in Tsubaki's case it was when he had tried her patience and pushed a little too far, the last time it had happened he still got phantom pains crawling across the back of his head. "Kaede Ho-Masubi Izanagi eat your food and stop being so lazy."

Kaede hearing his full name being used realised he should probably do as she says lest he end up on the receiving end of a slapping. "Hai, Hai Tsu-Tsu you so scary."

Tsubaki just sighed and continued eating in silence for a while before she reached into her own bag which Kaede had placed between the two of them after retrieving his bento from inside it pulled out a pink slip and held it out to Kaede "Soseki-sensei has given you another detention for sleeping through his class again... Kaede you really need to stop falling asleep in class and at least pre..."

Kaede taking the slip of paper with his free hand sighed at getting another detention, as he would be having to clean one of the classrooms. "troublesome I'm telling you Tsu-Tsu Soseki-Sensei has it in for me." he said cutting right through Tsubaki's little lecture on why he should be more attentive and not so lazy.

Tsubaki just gave him a levelled tone "Well if you didn't sleep through Soseki-sensei's class he wouldn't give you a detention in the first place."

Kaede just shrugged "Hmm Suppose so, Tsubaki?"

Tsubaki who heard Kaede's questioning tone looked at him and nodded, Kaede seeing this smiled "have you gone up a bra size because they look bigger than last time?"

Kaede after asking wasn't quite sure if Tsubaki's blush was from being embarrassed, angry or if she were coming down with something shrugged uncaringly and took another bite from his Bento giving a lazy and content smile at the taste, he then looked up when Tsubaki stood "You shouldn't be so crass and I thought your mum and dad told you not to say things like that to a lady. If you'll excuse me I have to get to a student council meeting for the last half of lunch."

Kaede smiled and lazily waved her off "Ma Ma you're to uptight Tsu-Tsu so what if your late to one meeting."

Tsubaki picking up her bag decided not to even dignify his question with an answer since she knew full well that underneath her friends lazy attitude was an extremely smart and perceptive man who when he wanted could be downright ruthless especially in business, Mathematics, science and she better not forget his martial arts his Ba Gua Zhang was terrifyingly powerful when he was of a mind to, she also knew that no matter how she sliced it her friend without a shadow of a doubt was one of the rare few who had accessed their Chi, having been on the receiving end of a Chi enhanced palm thrust to her chest mere weeks before Kaede's Sensei Kung Xin died. Turning and walking away "No this is an important meeting we're actually being graced with the principles presence for this one."

Kaede at her statement didn't show any surprise at all and continued munching on his food while watching the girls on the tennis courts, Tsubaki who glanced over her shoulder sighed internally at his antics knowing he only did it to get a reaction from her continued walking.

Kaede finishing his bento laid down again from his propped up position on his elbow and decided to get at least five minutes of sleep before the bell but it seemed that again not 30 seconds later he was accosted with high pitched shriek, sitting up and rubbing his right eye Kaede looked around and spied the dastardly demons who had prevented him from enjoying a blissful sleep, a bald kid and a spectacles wearing kid with chin length black hair Matsuda and Motohama also known as the perverted duo, two people who he never had much to do with well that was a lie he didn't have much to do with anyone hell he could probably only name 17 people by name in the entire school the person who sat in front to his right and behind him in each class since he sat in exactly the same spot for each of his five classes a day and the other two were Tsubaki his childhood friend who was slightly older than him and Souna Shitori the student council president and person he didn't like all that much as she took up in his opinion too much of his Tsu-Tsu time if only he had been born a month earlier then he wouldn't have been placed in the year below thanks to stupid school systems, but that was too much thinking and required a lot of energy to dwell on such matters so those thoughts were quickly dashed.

looking at his watch on his wrist he saw it was about time for class, sighing he stood up and dusted himself off and got ready for his last class of the day advanced chemistry which was going to be a drag as it was a practical and would involve him to actually be awake lest he allow his chemistry partner Katty, Catharine Kat somebody or other burn him with acid or set him on fire. Picking up his bag he stuffed his hands in his pockets and grudgingly trudged to class agonising over the fact he wasn't going to be able to nap for at least three hours or so thanks to class, detention and his self-assigned martial arts skill sharpening and honing session.

walking along he was nearly taken out by the perverted duo who were running from the kendo club and tennis club, turning his half-lidded gaze in the direction they were headed he shrugged before he was nearly stampeded by the near horde of girls but like usual they parted about him like the red sea did for Moses in the bible. Again, giving a slight shrug Kaede continued his way nearly stopping twice with the urge to lay down on one of the many sun covered benches that plagued his 300m trip back to the main building where again he would be nearly overcome with the urge to fall asleep at his desk.

Chemistry went as well as could be expected he managed to get top marks which in turn gave Kat or was it Katase yeah that's it Katase top marks as well which earned him a hug in which he was able to don't ask him how to get all three of her measurements B78.5-W65-H79 cm and discern what type of shampoo she used which was P&G Pantene Extra Damage Care Shampoo.

Walking out of class Kaede was almost to the bottom floor of the main school building when he felt a hand placed on his shoulder slumping he turned his head lazily and saw who the hand belonged to and just like he suspected it was none other than his Japanese teacher Soseki-sensei giving him his best old man stare, sighing he turned and followed his sensei back towards the classroom he would be cleaning.

While he was walking if he were any other person he would have found many of the passing comments thrown about him going to detention again for sleeping would be amusing but he found it just to troublesome and annoying to even do that. Making it to the class he would be cleaning he soon found that a mop, broom, cloth and spray bottle full of disinfectant thrust into his hands, looking lazily from the bottle of disinfectant to his sensei then to the class room he started to internally weigh up the pros and cons of pretending to be clueless and spray some of the chemical into his eyes on the one hand he wouldn't have to clean the messy first year class room who had just been doing art for the last period, he would get to go home and if Soseki-sensei was feeling nice he may forget about his detention and take it away but on the other hand it would be painful, he would never hear the end of it from his mother or Tsu-Tsu, Soseki-sensei would most likely be a bastard and just make him do the detention tomorrow that and he would have to have his eyes flushed out and live with a slight irritating itch that would last a few hour preventing him from sleeping yep that was the deal breaker.

Slumping even further he moved to the closest desk and sprayed some of the chemical on the surface and started wiping away. Meanwhile Soseki-sensei had left the room most probably gone to get a coffee from the staff room. Moving at a snail's pace to exert the least amount of energy as possible Kaede managed to wipe down all the desks all 30 of them in about 45 minutes in which Soseki sensei had returned and left again saying he was checking on other students with detention.

Kaede after another 45 minutes of mopping slowly found himself placing the items he had been given in a janitor's cupboard before heading down an empty hallway to the boys changing room by the gym. Getting there he changed into his training kit which was made up of loose-fitting traditional black silk Chinese styled baggy trousers, silk elbow length sleeved top with white Mandarin collar and left shoulder with the right sleeve and rest of top being black with a white Japanese bird of prey with a snake in its mouth, it also has gold trim and falls below the waist about to mid-thigh and somewhat angled covering his left thigh more, it has three gold frog buttons from left armpit to the base of the collar. Plain black thin canvas shoes.

Moving into the now empty gym with the kendo club having left about 30 minutes ago Kaede stood in the middle bringing his arms up in a circular motion he bought them together allowing only the tips to touch before keeping them touch and moving down in front of his before reaching just above his groin and bring his hands to his side and thrusting his arms with his right fully extended while his left was slightly bent with it nearly rest above the wrist and palm of his right and moving forward in a circular motion.

(much easier to think of Aang from Air bender, Neji from Naruto, Ling Xiaoyu from tekken)

Spending an hour or so going through the six sequences he knew of the Ba Gua Zhang, Kaede finally stopped when he heard his phone ringing from his bag placed on the grand stand seats. Stopping what he was doing he walked casually over to his bag and grabbed his phone and saw on the screen it was his mother calling, swiping across making the green phone symbol get bigger Kaede put the phone to his ear and drawled out lazily "Konbanwa haha-chan."

"Kaede dear where are your dinner is going to be ready in 20 minutes."

Kaede hearing that perked up if only a little which was only shown by the right corner of his lips quirking and slight straightening of his posture "I was just finishing some martial arts practice I'm heading out now, I'll see you in 15 minutes give or take."

"Alright dear see you then I cooked Gyudon tonight."

Kaede at that point near did a 180 in personality and headed for the front door of the building not bothering to change out of his training uniform "Alright Sayonara see you soon."

"See you soon."

After that Kaede hit the end call button put his phone in the drink bottle pouch of his bag and walked out the front door of the main school building never noticing Tsubaki standing on the roof smiling at her friend having watched him practicing it was one of the only things he did with 100% of his concentration and effort well that and teasing, flustering and embarrassing herself constantly, oh and lest she forget him and the love he has for his mother's cooking and her cooking that she gave him one time when she mixed up their bentos one day. Nodding to herself she turned and walked back into the building going back to her paperwork.

Kaede who had gotten halfway home and was on a bridge hands stuffed in the pockets of his baggy silk trousers and slightly slouch posture was knocked from his fantasizing over the coming meal by a voice calling out to him "Excuse me your Kaede Izanagi from Kuoh academy...or am I wrong?"

stopping and turning looking at her with his usual smouldering half lidded lazy gaze Kaede who wasn't sarcastic was blunter than anything else and usually got him in trouble especially when Tsu-Tsu and his mother were around "Obviously..."

said girl was wearing a uniform of the public school in the area and was rather cute looking he had to admit she was rather well endowed not as well-endowed as Tsubaki or that one white haired girl in the student council and that other girl that always hangs with his lab partner Katase but then again, his want to have his mother's cooking was making him impatient which was rare for him so his semi perverted and food enraptured thoughts were interrupted "Hi I ah..."

Kaede sighed a bit as she was blushing said in a lazy drawl "Hurry up already what is it?"

The girl hearing how rude he was pouted and frowned a little but continued "I just wanted to ask you a quick question. Are you seeing anyone right now."?

Kaede shrugged and still in his every lazy drawl "Nope."

the girl smiled and spoke softly "That's wonderful..."

'geeze thanks for that...meh who cares to much effort to even bother...I wish she would hurry up I want food!' were his only thoughts

"...Ah in that case since your single would you may be like to go out with me?"

Kaede hearing that sighed "You're not going to take no for an answer, are you?"

the girl nodded "Well I have been watching, you pass by here a lot and you seem...easy going and handsome and I would really like for you to be my boyfriend."

Kaede rubbed the back of his head "What's your name anyway?"

"Amano, Yuma Amano."

"Sure, why not I guess what's one date." he drawled out in an uncaring manner.

Yuma smiled "hears my phone number, how about we spend Sunday together."

Kaede nodded "sure fine nothing before at least 11 in the morning."

Yuma nodded and turned away waving as she headed opposite way to him with a breeze catching her skirt in the wind blowing it up. "Huh leather thong didn't take her for S&M... begs to wonder what sort of freaky she gets up to in her free time." with that he continued walking home. Never noticing a small white-haired girl in the academy uniform.

later in an old building at the edge of the academy grounds the same white-haired girl from before was stood in front of two elder and significantly larger in certain areas red and raven-haired girls both wearing the same uniform.

the red-haired girl was sitting on a Victorian couch in front of a chess board while the ravenette was standing between the two. "I see..."

"You were right 100%" the white-haired girl said without a hint of emotion.

"Yeah you totally called it. what do we do now." was the ravenettes reply?

"I'm just glad I asked you two to keep an eye on him...We need to make our preparations immediately that's all we can do everything else all depends on him." was the red-haired girls reply to the two others.

Kaede arriving home opened the door he lazily announced his coming home "Tadaima Haha-chan, Chichi-san..." as he said that he slouched into the kitchen dining room where he saw his mother just placing the last bowl in front of his spot down licked his lips.

His mother seeing him smiled "Okaeri Kaede"

His father looked up from his bowl of food and round a mouth full "Okaeri" that earned him a slap upside the head courtesy of his mother.

Sitting down he picked up his chopsticks "Itadakimasu" and dove into his food with lazy efficiency.

His mother who had sat down herself and said the same thing did what she did everyday "Kaede did anything good happen today?"

Kaede shrugged and swallowed his food and in a slightly less of a lazy drawl "Meh not much History was alright, so was Graphics, Calculus and Chemistry, ugh Japanese was boring as hell. Oh Tsu-Tsu gave me my lunch so lunch was good, hmm what else, what else, Tsu-Tsu got new panties and I think her boobs got bigger but that's not exciting...oh yeah on my way home I got asked on a date this Sunday afternoon."

Kaedes father hearing him comment on Tsubaki's underwear and boobs which he always found amusing as he knew Kaede only said it as a joke even if he made it come across as serious but it always managed to get a rise out of his mother which was always funny, but the last bit he nearly choked on his beef.

His mother however was looking at Kaede with a look "Oh really so who is this girl do we know her? since when do you have any friend's other than Tsubaki-chan and where are you going and when."

Kaede sighed "uhm I think she's from the public school, you may have met her when you visit for your counselling sessions with them, Harsh but true and got no idea she said she would contact me with details for Sunday afternoon."

Kaedes mother hearing that sighed it was just like him to do this leave everything up to the girl "You at least got her name, right?"

Kaede at that point scrunched his eyes shut pretending to try and remember the girls name in an attempt to wind his mother up "Ruruko...no that's not it Yuri, no oh it was Yuma Amano that's right." he then opened his eyes to their half-lidded state only to be graced with his mother having an eye twitch.

The next day at lunch time Kaede was snoozing in the library having found that no one was present at the time and he could quite comfortably commandeer one of the comfy leather couches, was jostled awake much to his annoyance by someone sitting on his chest opening his eyes lazily he saw it was Tsubaki sitting there with her eyes closed while holding a bento in her hands. Kaede wanting to get back to sleep "Tsu-Tsu you know there are like four other couches, right?"

Tsubaki who wasn't in the mood for his nonchalant humour spoke not moving from her spot "So your mother told me you got a date this Sunday."

Kaede if he could would have shrugged but winced slightly as she somehow managed to apply pressure to her bum and push down on his stomach. "Yeah what of it not like it means anything she was cute sure but she could never replace Tsu-Tsu."

Tsubaki turned her head away "humph here's your bento enjoy it." she then stood and started walking out of the library.

Kaede moving to a sitting position started eating his food ""Hmm I think Tsu-Tsu is angry with me...Meh troublesome I talk to her later. Right now, I got to sample this food."

After finishing his food, he placed the empty bento in his bag and laid back down on the couch and promptly fell asleep completely sleeping through the end of lunch bell and all of fifth period only being awoken when a bunch of noisy first years entered with their teacher.

Getting up annoyed that his nap was ruined and that he had slept through class Kaede decided he could be asked to turn up late and get a detention from Soseki-sensei again headed home.