Hello everyone! ionica01 gave these prompts for me to write on Tumblr and combing them it became a two shot fanfiction! Lo, this small piece of work is dedicated to you and your amazing stories with lots of love from me!
Disclaimer: Assassination classroom and its characters do not belong to me!
Prompt: 1. "If my day gets any worse, I'm asking hell if they're having an exchange program."
Prompt: 2. "I am one of the few people in the world who can murder you and leave no forensic evidence behind."
Chapter 1: When bad day ends with a Smile
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Chapter 1: When bad day ends with a Smile
Manami yawns. She has been preparing reports and observations since morning. Her fingers felt stuck and her head ached. She pulled her glasses off her face and rubbed her eyes. Cleaning them carefully, she put them on again.
Three more reports to write.
The moment her fingers hovered over the keys of laptop again, her phone rang. The screen displayed Karma-kun in bold letters. Her fingers involuntarily grabbed the cell phone and swiped against the screen to accept it.
"Hello! Karma-kun?"
"Yo. Okuda-san." The weariness in his voice was visible even over the phone. She could even imagine him rubbing the bridge of his nose and temple in irritation.
"Yes, Karma-kun. Are you alright?"
A short laugh reaches her ears and then he says, "Never mind me. But are you free tonight?"
I need someone to talk. Was left unsaid. But thankfully for him, she still heard it.
She looked at the files and folders strewn across her table.
Three more reports, right? She should to be able to finish them if she skips her breaks and works half hour extra.
"Yes I am."
"Great! I'll come to pick you up, kay? When should I come?" Maybe it's just her assumption but he sounds a little glad.
"Can you come at 6:45?" she finds her lips curling into a smile. His excitement is a little contagious.
"Okay! I'll be there!" A second later karma hangs up.
…
When her work is done, it's almost 6:50. She pulls her stuff up and races down the stairs, only to be met with the sight of him leaning against his car, blazer gone and sleeves rolled up to his elbows. His careful hairstyle had become slightly messier. He held a coffee in his hands and his golden eyes were focused on the road.
Knowing him, it was an act. To let the females on this side gushing over him, that he was not interested. Manami almost exits the lab when a hand falls over her shoulder. Her head swivels and she comes face to face with her senior – Hijikata-san.
"Okuda-san? Are you done for today?" the older woman smiles.
"Yes Mam."
"That's great to know! Normally, we'd have to drag you out of the lab to send you home." She laughs and Manami smiles awkwardly, shifting on her foot repeatedly, wanting to get out of here as soon as possible.
Maybe the woman notices her discomfort and gasps, "Oh my god! He's here! Isn't he?" then poking her head out from her side she sees Karma.
"Shoo! Girl. Go!" And a second later Manami finds herself out of the labs.
s when Karma notices her and his nonchalant expression transforms into a big grin and Manami finds herself returning it as well.
"I'm sorry! I expected to finish up a little earlier." Manami says as she hands her bag to him which he throws on the back seat carefully.
"No big deal! I'm just happy to see you here, honestly."
As Manami laughs whole heartedly at his response he looks comically offended, "Hey! I missed you, you know."
"Seven days, karma-kun. We just met a week ago!" she shakes her head in amusement at his antics.
"But I still missed you, even though you didn't." he pouts like a petulant child.
"Well, I never said that I didn't miss you." She tells him smiling softly.
"I know." He grins.
…
When they reach their favourite restaurant, it is packed full. The place was not actually huge or high class but the food was delicious and staff was welcoming. The environment was cosy and friendly. Manami sincerely loved it here.
They're led to their table which was thankfully empty by their normal server. Jin-kun was bright and brilliant child but with poor background and in need of money. To Karma, he reminded much of Isogai, who currently has been doing well. Both of them always made sure to leave a little extra sum to help him, even though it was little.
"So, the usual?" he asks with a big smile, one hand holding the notepad and other ready with a pen.
"Yes." They nod in response to his query.
And he bounds off to the kitchens for getting their orders prepared.
"So," she leans a bit forward to brush off some of his red locks out of his eyes out of instinct. His eyes were beautiful and she didn't like it when she couldn't see them. Though, he looked a little surprised at her actions and she suddenly gets flustered and pulls her hand back.
"I-I mean how was your day?"
"Bad." He replies in one word but Manami does not ask any more questions because she knows that he won't talk in public.
"What about yours?"
"It was good! But I'm just sort of nervous." She doesn't understand but somehow words flow out of her mouth when she's with him. She knows that she is a far cry from the socially awkward child she was once but with Karma – it was different.
"Nervous?" he looks at her with his brows raised and suddenly blinks, "Oh yeah! Tomorrow the first results of pre-clinic test of Rh slither blood would be coming up, right? You mentioned it earlier. Takebayashi's been dealing with it, right?"
"Yes, I'm just worried about what if it fails? All of our work would-"
"Okuda-san." He doesn't let her continue. The sensation of his warm and large hand over her own sends a tingle down her spine, "you put your day and nights in it. I know you've worked hard and thought of it from every possible angle. You're going to be fine and it passed the previous tests with flying colours. So, please don't worry."
She doesn't know but when karma says things like this – she cannot help but believe him. His reassurance always works magic to calm her nerves. So, she gives him a smile which he returns.
That's when their food arrives. The sight and delicious smell of food reminds them both of how much hungry they both were. Their stomach growls and they grin and start digging into their food.
Soon they're done with it and almost leave the restaurant when suddenly Jin-kun stumbles and falls, spilling all the curry about to be served over Karma's white dress shirt. Manami gasps. And Jin looks horrified as everyone looks on in apprehension.
"S-sorry!" the boy almost sobs.
A sudden sound of snicker reaches their ears as Manami sees a group of boys laughing at the situation. The boy sitting on the edge of seats pulls his leg inside the booth grinning at them, saying, "Oops, Sorry! Hahaha!"
That's when Manami realises the amount of killing intent that was oozing out of Karma! He helped Jin to his feet and sauntered over the table of those boys. Manami straightened herself, lest she should've to intervene to stop karma from killing people.
On the top it, he already had a bad day. Oh no!
Although, she could see that Karma's potent blood lust was actually creeping those guys out. Then Karma tilted his head to look at the owner of the restaurant, "Oji-san, you know, there's a law that says denial of service is completely acceptable if a customer insults a good employee and crates trouble for some another valued customer."
"Is that so, Akabane-kun? Thank you for informing me. And please, you all may leave because we will not be serving you anymore." The old man states firmly. But the boys try to glare up at him which was responded by Karma's increased blood lust.
As they try to leave, the one who had tripped Jin falls flat on his face and Karma grins devilishly, "Oops. Sorry." The boy hastily jumps to his feet and they immediately run towards the exit followed by Manami and Karma who had waved off Jin's apology saying that it was not his fault.
Sometimes, Manami feels proud of Karma's development but never says anything. Pointing it out might upset him.
They enter his car when she suddenly screams, "Take off your shirt Karma-kun! The curry was scorching hot! You burned yourself!"
He hesitates for a second but obliges when Manami glares at him, "Now."
"Okuda-san." He teases, "Do you understand the implications of me being shirtless with you inside my car?"
"I don't care!" she tells him defiantly, her eyes never leaving the red spot of burned skin on his chest, feeling slightly guilty. Nonetheless, he picks up the blazer from the backseat and puts it on his shoulders, hiding the burnt area from her eyes. She speculates that he must have read her.
"We're going to my house." She declares, "And I'm going to patch you up."
Thankfully, for some reason he doesn't object.
…
"But seriously, I swear that if my day gets any worse, I'm asking hell if they're having an exchange program."
A giggle escapes her mouth as she applies a homemade cooling and healing jell on his chest. Only he would say things like this. It's premium to him alone.
"What happened?"
"Those old tweezers. What else? I swear they've lost their minds. They think they're too wise because they're old and I believe that old age has rotten off their brains. They reject every suggestion that the young new comers put to protect their damned overblown ego. They have been making me mad lately, especially that old bastard Nifuji."
"Hm, do you want me to threaten him for you?" Manami asks with a light smirk on her face and a mischievous glint in her eyes.
"Oh?" he looks at her in interest, "Can you do that?"
She grins, "Of course I can. I'll say – 'Nifuji-san. If you annoy Karma-kun one more time, be prepared. I am one of the few people in the world who can murder you and leave no forensic evidence behind."
Karma laughs heartily, "I won't argue with that! So, Okuda-san, I'm counting on you to save me, okay?"
Manami nods, a light smile on her face, glad that she could help Karma, in her own little way. Because seeing him genuinely laugh is one of the most beautiful sight on earth for her and she will not deny the warmth that spreads through her chest essentially when she is the reason behind it.
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