Summary: A new student was sent to their class for the same reason some of them had: bad behavior. Apparently, someone as barbaric as her shouldn't be amongst the chosen students of the prestigious school. But the thing is, she was sent with orders not to help in the assassination.
"Now why would you walk in an area like this, where abduction is a piece of cake?"
"All you boys have to do, is leave the women here and go home."
"This place is really well hidden. Oi, grab the women."
Kanzaki and Kayano winced as they were thrown to the ground of the abandoned place, unable to soften their landing as each had their wrists bound together. Kayano was slightly annoyed that they didn't even bother to deposit them on what felt like a sofa that they were leaning against, but didn't bother to voice it out as she wasn't in the position to complain against their kidnappers. She noticed a pair of legs between her and her classmate, glancing up to take note of what seemed to be another kidnapped student with unusual pink hair.
She slightly elbowed Kanzaki, motioning towards the other captive student. Both turned to look as the student seemed to be asleep, motionless aside from the continuous rising and falling of her chest. They took in her form, torso straight and head slightly lolled to the side and knees together, wrists that were tucked behind her probably bound together just like them. She had her eyes closed.
She was probably a student from the area, seeing as her uniform wasn't familiar.
They turned to their abductors as they laughed in a taunting manner. "If we're gonna play, then it's best to have a big audience, so we're calling some buddies over." One of the high school students said, pulling out a phone. "We're setting up a commemoration photo all proper-like, too. Let's have a real good time messing shit up." One that appeared to be their leader said as he faced them, smiling wickedly before walking away.
After a moment of silence as their current situation dawned on them, Kayano decided to break the silence in an attempt to calm herself as well as Kanzaki. "You know… That picture before was a bit surprising. So the diligent and serious Kanzaki-san had a phase like that too, huh."
Sakura was inwardly beating herself up.
Her wrists were bound together so sloppily, she could've easily freed herself. But just as she was about to, her captors decided to come back—with two other junior-high students much like herself.
Which brings us back to the matter at hand.
She pretended to be asleep as she surveyed the two students by her feet, peeking through her eye lashes. The whole point of her allowing herself to get kidnapped was to find out if there were others kidnapped before her so she could free them, not get kidnapped first then finding out they were just about to kidnap more. If that were the case, she should've beaten up the high school students before they even thought of abducting more. But, she rationalized, it wasn't like she could've asked them just before they took her if they had other captives. And she didn't even have the charm girls were known for to use in those sorts of stuff.
But she couldn't find the right timing to escalate her plan, the part where she saves the two girls.
Sighing, she decided to wait. Her fellow abductees seemed sure of back-up coming for them, so maybe she could initiate her saving-the-day plan then.
As Kanzaki and Kayano began to calm themselves with the thought of their group searching for them and with the small chat about the former's gaming life, the leader of the high school students came up to them. He told them about their previous actions, and how they call themselves missionaries of ruination. Sakura wanted to get this over with and kick the living daylights out of them.
Kayano couldn't help herself. "Awful." She muttered.
She was immediately grabbed by the neck, slowly choking her as she was raised in the air, causing Kanzaki to let out a small gasp of alarm. "What's with looking down on us as if you're so elite, huh?! We're gonna drag you right down to our level." The male threatened, strengthening his hold as the female in his grasp gasped for air, before harshly throwing her on the sofa beside the 'asleep' pinkette, causing Sakura to slightly move away. The pinkette was barely holding herself back as she watched through the corner of her eyes, eyelids barely lifted to preserve her act. She heard more than saw, but nonetheless wanted to punch the man who dared lay a hand on the student she was going to help.
Hearing a creek, the high school student turned towards the door that opened. "Ooh, there they are." He smirked. "Our photographers have arri-" Instead of the expected photographers, a beat-up male was shown.
A new voice began to talk from the entrance behind the unconscious student that was now on the ground. "School trip guidebook, page 1243: What to do when a member of your group has been abducted."
Sakura let out a silent amused huff. Now that's a handy guide book.
"You're here!" The green-haired junior-high student exclaimed. Both her and the other girl she was with sitting upright in relief at seeing the new kids.
She listened as the questionably male continued reading what was written in the book, watched with interest as he, along with a very familiar redhead and other students that were probably the group the two abducted females were with before getting taken, walked towards them. She decided to close her eyes, smirking slightly as she waited for what was going to come next.
"What the hell kinda guidebook is that?!" Most of the high-school thugs yelled in disbelief, looking flabbergasted.
What the hell, indeed. Sakura snickered, drawing the attention of the two females close to her.
Kayano and Kanzaki exchanged glances to make sure they heard the same thing. Seeing as the other had the same surprised look, they turned to the pinkette who still pretended to be asleep.
"So? What's your next move, my friends? I mean, you've done so much already! I'll be happy to take you on a guided tour—" Raising his head, Karma paused as he finally took a look at their abducted classmates, noticing the pink-haired female beside Kayano. "…straight to the hospital.." The last part of his threat lacking its edge as his eyes widened, finally taking in just who the pink-haired stranger was.
Damn it, Sakura inwardly cursed. She didn't think of the possibility of encountering someone who knew her, especially Karma Akabane of all people.
He didn't know her, per se, but Sakura and Karma had a one-time thing in the past. That 'one-time thing' being Karma seeing Sakura beat-up some thugs in an alleyway when he was in the middle of his seasonal-quests of scouting for delinquents. He followed her that day, introducing himself and trying to make her tell her name, to which it escalated to him trying to abduct her since she was ignoring him, resulting in him receiving a bloody nose and him being just a tad bit smitten after the encounter.
Oh, and they were previously classmates. Last time she heard, he was sent to the 'garbage class' after defending her from a top student.
"How'd you manage to abduct her?!" He couldn't help but ask, disbelief laced in his voice as he pointed towards the captive pinkette, momentarily forgetting his groupmates. Last time he attempted, he wasn't even able to grab her wrist, ending up on his back for his efforts and mind blank with what the hell just happened in mind and realizing moments later that he was knocked down by a tiny girl-who he previously saved from a bully-with pink-hair.
He saw her, once, maybe twice, before the alley-incident. She was being bullied by a top student for having higher grades. She was also the reason he got roped into joining the assassination class. She left after the incident, no one knowing where she went.
But now she's there, asleep and captured. Unlike the fiery pinkette that was shown during their meeting. His pride stung a bit, seeing the person he saved—who knocked him down a few days later—bound and helpless. After besting him, she shouldn't even be possible to kidnap. She made him look pathetic now, even though no one else knew what happened between them.
The leader turned towards the person in question, "Her? It was pretty easy. Just went up and told her to come with us. She was willing enough to follow."
Sakura mentally shrugged as she was still listening to the conversation. It was all part of the plan, after all.
Nagisa and the others sweat-dropped, looking between the sleeping pink-haired girl and Karma who looked to be in a state of incredulousness. Just as the redhead was about to speak up, a voice from behind them cut-in. The boss of the abductors looking unafraid as he smirked. "Hmph! You junior-high brats sure think you're tough. Here come the buddies I called." As they turned to the 'buddies' mentioned, the high-schooler continued, "They're badasses the likes of which you do-gooder brats have never.." He trailed off, seeing his back-up knocked-out with what looked like tentacles around their necks.
The group of junior-high students, with the exception of Sakura and the still-stupefied Karma, sighed in relief as they saw just who came in.
The previously gutsy leader was dumbfounded.
"Korosensei!" As the others turned, Karma remained in his stock-still form, just barely turning his head to glance at his sensei.
"Sorry I'm late, I had a detailed investigation of my own to take care of."
Sakura still maintained her act, despite wanting to open her eyes wide to take in the action in front of her that was just so fascinating.
An octopus, or their teacher—as he was called 'Korosensei'—was fighting off the high-schoolers with his tentacles with incredible speed. Each thug falling before they even realized what hit them.
Sakura was almost trembling with excitement, wanting in on the fight, but held herself back and waited for the right moment to strike.
Honestly, she pitied her abductors. Clearly, they were constantly looked down upon by those they deemed above them, which made them who they were today. The blame doesn't entirely fall on their shoulders, but it was their own fault for pursuing the path they were currently on. And it was their mistake for kidnapping the wrong kids.
She stifled a laugh as the kids brought down their ridiculously thick guidebooks on the high-schoolers heads. She was still impressed by how the guidebook tackled every possible problem they could encounter, seemingly having the solutions to their problems, with guides in confronting each possibility.
The boss was barely conscious as he fell, looking on the verge of giving up. But Sakura knew better. This was her time to act, and she already freed herself long before the back-up arrived.
Just as he moved to take the closest girl to use as a weapon against the octopus, Sakura gripped the edge of the couch as she quickly slid down to kick the male on the face before he could reach for his target's ankle, leaving him unconscious. Jumping up swiftly, she rolled her wrists before grabbing both females by their bound wrists and tugging them free from their restraints. The two students let out a gasp of surprise before slowly looking down on their wrists and, noticing the lack of rope, turned to the pinkette to thank her—only to find her gone.
"Fast!" Sugino exclaimed, barely seeing the pink-haired girl move before disappearing.
They turned to Karma who let out a grunt of annoyance, eyebrow twitching.
"Do you know her, Karma-kun?" Nagisa asked the question plaguing everyone's mind.
Karma shrugged, "Kinda."
They turned to their sensei—only to find him in his liquified state at a corner of the roof with a blank face. "Sensei?" Kayano called out, confused. What was their teacher so scared about?
Sheepish as he regained his form, Korosensei waved a tentacle to ease their worries. "Better not see her again anytime soon."
His students were puzzled, thinking back to the pinkette. What made her a threat, so much that their teacher practically warned them not to seek her out? Kayano and Kanzaki rubbed their wrists, unsure of what to feel. She freed them, after all. And putting two and two together, they realized that she was only pretending to be asleep to be able to strike at the right moment. She held herself back for the sake of the element of surprise.
They all glanced back to the spot where the pinkette had been standing before disappearing without a trace, unsure of what to make of her presence in the overall scheme of things.
Sakura was repeatedly hitting her forehead on the wall just outside the place she was previously held captive.
Of course, of course she just had to run into those kids and that sensei.
They weren't part of her plan, and she didn't even realize who those other students were before the redhead showed up with their other groupmates and the realization only dawning on her when everything was done and- she fucked up.
Before getting cornered and ordered to follow the high-schoolers, she was actually in the middle of a mission to scout the very kids and teacher she encountered on her side-quest and those she was told not to get in direct contact with. And, well, she just saved two of the student-assassins and came in contact with three more and to add more icing on the cake, even came in contact with the teacher they were tasked to assassinate. The very people she was told to just watch.
Yes, she knew very well of the task given to the students of Class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Junior High School, and just who this 'Korosensei' is.
Sighing for the nth time, she took out her phone to report to her shishou, preparing herself for the earful that was going to follow.
"Isn't there any way to deal with him?"
"Rest assured, several of our allied countries have pooled their technologies and are conducting research."
"As for the application of their findings, they reached an agreement with Japan's ministry of defense some time ago."
"Two special assassins will be sent to that classroom. They possess abilities which surpass the limits of human intellect through the power of science."
"When you return to the classroom, you'll certainly be surprised, Mr. Karasuma. One of them still needs time to adjust, but, the other already completed their preparations during your trip."
"Oh, and another student will be joining you." The higher-ups of every country tensed, including those inside the meeting room. Karasuma turned to the monitor that held a shadow. None of them, not even those from the other countries or even their own, knew who was behind that monitor. Whoever was on the other side just popped up one moment during one of their meetings around the same time the moon-destroying octopus showed up, and provided information about said threat. It was too much of a coincidence. Despite being threatened and removed numerous times, they still managed to come right back without even a hint of who they were. But they were invaluable, and thus, were kept.
That didn't mean they weren't surprised at what the voice said. "Another assassin?"
There was a slight laugh from the edited voice. "No, nothing like that. Just a new student with behavior problems."