Secret Assignment

First Period

As the class found their way to their seats, they noticed a piece of folded paper on each desk with their names printed on the front.

"Do not open them yet class," Korosensei said, "These are your new class assignments and we will be explaining them to you first," As he said this, a tentacle whipped out and snatched the paper out of Karma's hand. "That includes you Karma!"

Karma smiled his most innocent looking smile, which still looked scary, "Well it was worth a try,"

"Ok class, this is the assignment," Irina Jelavic smiled, "I came up with it so obviously it will be amazing, although the octopus had final say in the assignment tasks so don't blame me for their weirdness! As we discussed in a previous class, being an assassin is not all about straight out killing, sometimes you have to use your wiles to make the target change their behaviour or so things you want them to do, without them knowing they are being manipulated. It is my specialty, as you know. On the paper in front of you is an assignment, a different one for each of you. Your target is to carry out the task without the target knowing. The first one to get their target to do what they want, wins. Oh, and you are all each other's targets. Easy Peasy!"

Mr Karasuma interjected, "No one gets to kill anyone and we will be monitoring things, if I see anything that I don't think it safe, I will stop it immediately, am I clear?"

"Yes sir," the class muttered.

"Ok then class, open your papers. Read what is on them, memorise it and then destroy it. You cannot discuss your assignments with anyone else, if you do so you will fail the assignment." Korosensei added.

There was a rustling of papers being unfolded and followed by a few gasps and shouts of "Are you kidding me?"

Nagisa slowly opened his assignment and read the words written across the page. He re-read it twice because he could not quite believe what he was reading. Who the hell had decided to give him this, he wondered. He looked up and saw Korosensei grinning at him. "Yeah, should have known, it would be him.' Nagisa thought.

Printed on the paper in front of him were the words, Admit your true feelings to the right person. The right person has been decided by Korosensei.

Nagisa raised his hand, "Erm Korosensei, I have a problem with mine. I think I need to discuss it with you!"

Korosensei smiled innocently, "Sorry Nagisa, the assignments are final and all the information you need is on the paper in front of you. I designed them based on careful observation of class dynamics and, if I am honest, spying on you all and maybe reading the odd dairy and listening at keyholes. You are assassins you will not always get a say in what you do! You have one week children, get working!"

Nagisa looked at Korosensei in disbelief, what is class dynamic had suggested this was a good assignment for him. He had no idea what true feelings he was supposed to admit and who he was supposed to admit them to. This was an impossible task .

After allowing the class a few minutes to let their assignments sink in, Korosensei whipped the paper out of each person's hands and into the hands of Mr Karasuma. "I was going to get you to destroy them but this way, your teachers can monitor each assignment more easily. You have the rest of this lesson to make your initial plans and then we are back to normal lessons after break. Get to it!"

Kaede Kayano sat deep in thought. She was not exactly happy with her assignment but an assignment was an assignment and she did not want to fail but she was not sure she wanted to succeed either. The words on the piece of paper were imprinted on her brain, Make Nagisa and Karma realise they want to be together. The following people all have the same task and so you may discuss it with them – Sugino, Rio, Isogai, Kataoka, Kayano and Terasaka, but Nagisa and Karma must not know. Did they have a crush on each other? Or was this a weird idea that teacher had come up with for the fun of it. Did he know she had a slight crush on Nagisa? If he did, the assignment felt slightly cruel to her. But Korosensei had said that the assignments were based on his observations so she thought he must know something she didn't. First things first, she thought, lets find out if either of them actually like men!

Staffroom

Karasuma flipped through the pieces of paper in front of him, shaking his head in disbelief. He glared over at Irina,

"You seriously thought this was a good idea? What the hell were you thinking? This is a school not a dating agency!"

Irina looked at him confused, "What the hell are you on about?"

Karasuma passed over the sheets of paper to Irina, "This is what I am on about! This group of assignments are all the same , or at least variations of a theme! Get Karma and Nagisa together!"

Irina read through the papers, "These are not the ones I sorted with the octopus! I spent all night writing them with him. Not one of them mentioned getting students into relationships! I did not do this!"

At that moment, Korosensei walked in to the room to be met by two glaring faces.

"What the hell Octopus? These are not the assignments we did together!" Irina yelled.

"Are you sure? Hmmm I must have misunderstood what we agreed to." Korosensei said, trying to look innocent and failing miserably!

"Why Karma and Nagisa? Why not one of the girls with one of the boys?" Irina demanded, "This makes no sense."

"Actually, it makes all the sense in the world. The boys and girls who like each other are more than capable of getting themselves together but these two will never admit to each other they like each other! Nagisa especially is in denial, Karma not so much. It is not healthy to keep these feelings repressed, I am helping my students! Repressed feelings and their skills could lead to them becoming psychos. Also, as I have allowed some of the class to work together on this, it will be a good test of their ability to work as a team, whilst not being obvious about it."

"Yeah, helping your students," Karasuma said, "Not meddling in their lives at all. You have reached an all time low here." He shook his head. " I am not sure I approve of this. And you do realise that you messed up right? Or did you do it on purpose? Pretty sure one if that group was not meant to have it!"

"I do everything on purpose." Korosensei said smugly, "The group was carefully worked out"

"So you gave Karma the same assignment as the others 'On Purpose'?" Karasuma asked

"I did not!" Korosensei spluttered. "His assignment was something totally different."

Karasuma waved a piece of paper at Korosensei, "This is Karma's assignment, it clearly says he has to make Nagisa fall in love with him."

"What? No!" Korosensei grabbed the paper and read it. "That is not right, Oh no!"

Irina was chewing the end of her pen thinking, "Actually, I am ok with it. There is no harm and it will be a tough task even for Karma. Both of them are extremely strong so it will a challenge, I don't think Nagisa will be a pushover. And they will be soooo cute together!"

"I give up," Karasuma said. "But if I had to put money on it, I would say you are both wrong about this. No way either of those boys are in love with the other."

Irina grinned, "Ok well if you are wrong and we are right, you have to take me on a date. You still confident in your opinion on this?"

"Ooooh the plot thickens!" Korosensei giggled.

"Fine!" Karasuma said, "But you are wrong so there will be no date!"

Lunch Time

Isogai, Kataoka, Rio and Sugino were sitting together under a tree eating lunch when Kayano wandered over the join them.

"So did you all get notes saying you could discuss the assignment too?" Kayano asked

"Yep" Isogai said, "But I have no idea how we are going to do this without either of them noticing what we are trying to do! I mean it is not like they have every said they like each other! Even if we work it out, our chances of success are low! You have known Nagisa a long time Sugino, is he even into guys?"

"No idea," Sugino said. "Not something we have ever talked about. Doesn't come up in conversation much really, Hey Nagisa do you find Karma attractive? Why would we ever talk about that?"

"You ok with this Kayano?" Kataoka asked "I thought you had a thing for Nagisa."

"She does, it is obvious." Rio said

"We are just friends," Kayano said. "IF and it is a big IF, he does like Karma like that it would be pointless me attempting to get in the way!"

"I dunno," Terasaka said as he threw himself down beside the group, "Your chest is as flat as Karma's hahahaha. That might tempt him!"

"Shut up," Kayano yelled. "You are not funny!"

"Ok so we need a plan. I think the first thing we need to do is find out for sure if either of them actually does have a crush on the other one!" Kataoka said.

"That is not going to be easy, Karma especially is too clever to just ask questions about crushes and stuff. He will see through it in a heartbeat and if he sees through us, we fail." Isogai said.

"I think the best thing is to split into two teams, one to deal with Nagisa and the other to try and deal with Karma." Sugino said. "Me, Rio and Kayano should take Nagisa as he will not think that is too strange and the rest of you can have Karma. Although I have no idea how you will work that out. You will need to be careful. Do not rush into anything and try not to make it obvious."

"I can't believe we are seriously considering doing this! It is an insane assignment. What if they are not into each other? We can't force them to be gay!" Terasaka said

"We can only do our best! Ok, so after school we will get Nagisa to come for coffee and Operation Matchmaker is a go!" Kayano said

"Glad I have Nagisa and not Karma, I don't envy you lot having to get him to talk," Rio laughed.

The bell rang for the end of lunch and they trooped back into the classroom, each caught up in their own ideas on how to get Nagisa and Karma together.

Karma

Karma sat on the stairs outside the school and watched the other people mentioned on his assignment talk. It was weird that his name was not on the list of people it was ok to talk to, if they all had the same assignment. It did not take a genius to work out the Octopus had made a mistake and he was not supposed to have the assignment that he did. So what did he do? Go along with it or scupper the chances of the others? Well whatever happened, he was not going to make it easy for them and as his name was not listed, they did not know he knew. In a way, it worked in his favour. He had liked Nagisa for a long time but there was no way in hell he would ever admit it and ruin the friendship they had. This way, if it worked, he could claim he was in on it and if Nagisa was horrified and ran a mile from the other's plans, he had not lost anything. Win, win really he thought with a smile. But deep down, he had never wanted his classmates to succeed more than he did right now!

Nagisa

This assignment is stupid, Nagisa thought. How the hell am I supposed to know who I am supposed to be expressing feelings to? Are they positive feelings? Negative feelings? Right now, I could quite happily tell Korosensei my feelings about him! But I don't suppose that is what he meant. If I get the wrong person, do I fail? Nagisa angrily stabbed a rice ball in his bento and decided he had not choice but to try and find a way to get Korosensei to let slip who he was supposed to be expressing his feelings to and once who knew who, he could probably get an idea of what the feelings were! Nagisa thought that there was a strong possibility that this might be an assignment that he could not pass and the thought annoyed him but he had no choice but to give it a go. What the hell kind of assignment was expressing his feelings for someone. It was supposed to be making someone do what he wanted, that was what Professor Bitch had said. It made no sense at all. Nagisa put his head on the desk and groaned. This week was really going to suck!