Disclaimer: I own nothing, other than this plot line. Did I get it right?

AN: This is AU, where Vakama and all of the Metru Nui cast are in grade school. Only meant for laughs. If you have a request or prompt, please review or PM me. Constructive criticism is greatly appreciated, as this is my first time writing a story. And I'm still not sure how Takua got in here, but it's AU right, so that should be fine.

Thanks for reading!


Vakama Metru hated the bullies.

They were cruel and mean, always picking on the ones younger than them. This included Vakama and his classmates. Everyone tried to avoid Makuta Teridax and his motley gang of fourth-grade followers, tagging at his heels like dogs.

The teachers never noticed, with Teridax always acting like a sweet little angel in front of them. They never believed that "such a nice little boy" would ever bully other. So when you were backed into a corner with this menace, you never expected any help, only got ready for a world of pain.

Being the hesitant boy he was, Vakama's method of dealing with problems was to avoid them in the first place. He never had much trouble with Teridax – well, at least until now…

Staring into the face of his fear, glaring green eyes filling his vision, Vakama wondered, How the heck did I get into this mess?

Oh yeah.

The new kid, Takua had quickly become Vakama's friend, despite one boy being bright and adventurous and the other shy and hesitant. Being a bundle of positive energy, he had taken a liking to Vakama's gentle kindness. It seemed that Takua hadn't taken the warning about Teridax seriously (and now Vakama was internally bashing himself for not stressing the importance of not angering Teridax – or maybe Takua just acted like this all the time).

Anyhow, Takua had somehow managed to anger Teridax. And instead of apologizing to the black-haired tormentor, like any sane person would, he snapped back at Teridax, saying "It's your fault, not mine that you walked into me!"

This led to Vakama jumping in front of his friend and trying to stammer an apology.

"W-we're sorry t-that we bumped into y-y-you T-teridax please e-excuse us."

"Don't apologize to him Vakama! It's his problem!" yelled Takua.

Damn. Takua just ruined any chance of them surviving this. Watching Teridax sneer, Vakama braced himself for a one way trip to fist when…

"Hey! Stop picking on those students!" yelled a child's voice.

Everyone turned (It seemed like the entire schoolyard had been watching, breaths held) to see a young teacher being dragged along by a blue-haired young girl.

Arriving at a stop, the teacher glared at Teridax, and in a scolding tone, said "You shouldn't be picking on other kids young man. Stop bothering the first graders and go to class."

Teridax scowled, but unwilling to get into more trouble, he left, muttering under his breath. After all, he had a goody-two-kanohi reputation to uphold, at least until he no longer needed the teachers of Metru Elementary… (AN: Fee Fi Fo Fum, is that an prank war I smell :P Bwa ha ha!)

"Are you all right? My name is Nokama. This here is my mum, a new teacher. You guys are from Class 1A right? Let's be friends!" *1) said the girl with cobalt hair.

All Vakama could do was stare. No one stood up to Teridax – well, not until today at least. Yet she didn't even look frightened! Amazing!

The teacher merely chuckled.

"Sorry about Nokama here. Nokama, we better stop bothering these students. After all, it's not good for a teacher to be late for class!" exclaimed the teacher.

"Alright!" grinned Nokama "See you guys around!" and promptly ran off with her mum, dragging her off by the arm.

"Wow," said Takua "Now they were cool – hey Vakama, are you blushing?"

"I am not!" grumbled Vakama.

"Oh I know! You like her don't you!" teased Takua

"Do not!"

"Do too!"

"Do not!"

"Do too!"

"Do not!"

"Do too!"

The second bell rang, signally that it was time to go to class, unless you wished to be incredibly late.

"Looks like you're saved by the bell, Vakama," said a grinning Takua, flashing him a giant smile, "but don't think that this conversation is over!"

Vakama mentally groaned. And it had all started out as regular day, and before the first class he had already faced up to the school bully, met a teacher that made sense *2), and apparently had fallen in love.

Really, how did he get into these situations?


*1 Nokama's a bit of a chatterbox, but she just came out like that.

*2 I have only met a few teachers that I could truly connect with, or a "sensible" teacher. Any ideas on her name? I may be using her in future chapters.

So, how do you like it? I think I'll be writing one about Nuju next. If you have any prompts, please review, as I have few muses that are worthy of being published. It'd be really nice if you could review, but I'm not forcing you to. If your going to flame this, please at least tell me what you didn't like so I can change this.

Another thing - would like to have any slight implications of pairings, or just keep it pairing free. I'm leaving it completely up to the readers, as I have no idea what I'm doing.

Again, thanks for reading this junk I call fanfiction.