The Boy

An Azumanga Daioh fanfic By:

Chison

School today was like any other, Tomo, being loud as usual, Osaka spacing out, and Chiyo-chan hard at work, with Sakaki-san staring out the window. "Everyone we have another transfer student." Miss Yukari said to the class, who paid attention: it was their second transfer this semester. "The new addition to the class comes from the northern city of Yamagata." Sakaki was still spacing out the window, when something black from the front of the room caught her attention: The student, had on a black hat! He was a foreigner, "probably from America…" Sakaki whispered to herself, he had brown hair, and green eyes. He had the black boy's school uniform on, and introduced himself to the class as Bironu Sumisu.

"Ok Bironu, its time to take off the hat." Yukari told him, pointing to the hat.
His hands moved to his hat and he said, "I can't take it off." Yukari got wide eyed and said, "what how come?" Bironu moved to her ear and whispered something. After, she shooed him to his seat, and the class resumed. What seemed like a long time, the bell finally rang, signaling lunch. All the girls crowded around him, commenting on his American features, and his strange hat, but he lost track of who was talking, and watched Sakaki-san looking out the window. They kept on asking 'how come he couldn't take off the hat' but he pointed to Sakaki and said, "who is that?" They all looked at her, who was still looking out the window.

Kaorin spoke up and said, "That's Miss Sakaki! She is the coolest ever!" Bironu looked at Kaorin, then back to Sakaki, then he started to pull his lunch out, when he noticed a child running around the room. Bironu got up from his chair and walked over to Yomi, and pointed to the child and asked, "uh…what's a child doing here?" She looked and said, "Oh, you don't know yet, that is Chiyo-chan, she's really smart, so she was allowed to go to high school with us." "Oh really?" Bironu said to himself, "That's cool." he said with a smile on his face. Then he walked back to his desk, and started eating his food, sushi, and nothing but. After he was done, he sat and stared up at the ceiling, wondering "I wonder if I will fit in…even with those…"

His attention came back when Yukari stepped back into the room, with her lesson book. "Bironu you are from America, you probably have a better understanding of English, please explain what tenses do." Yukari grinned, however Bironu got up to the front of the class and started explaining that they respond to what people have done, or what people will do later on in the future. Yukari nodded her head and Bironu took his seat and the class went on, until the final bell of the day rang, and clean up came around.

The students started their cleaning duties, Chiyo-chan was in charge of moving all the desks into the corner, and Yomi was sweeping the floor, and Osaka was patting off the chalkboard erasers. Bironu was washing off the desks. "In America we typically don't have to clean off our desks at the end of the day…most of the time there are janitors to do it." Bironu said to his peers as they cleaned, most of them responded with a 'really?' and went back to their work. After all the work was done, Bironu found himself walking home and noticed a black cat sitting on the wall.

The cat instantly looked at him, and he put out his hand for the cat to smell, then he petted him on the head. A smile came across Bironu's face as his hand moved across the little head of the cat, who got up and wandered away. This seemed to make him confused, but he started walking toward his house again. That was until he saw Sakaki down the street, looking like she was about to pet another black cat, but instead, the cat bit her hand! Bironu quickly walked to Sakaki and said, "are you all right?" holding her hand. She gasped a little and then said, "no, I'm fine." taking back her hand, he turned to look for the cat, but he couldn't find it, he turned to her and said, "did that hurt? Getting bit by the cat?" She looked at him and said, "no…" and she started walking down the street. Bironu just stood there after she left, "I don't know what it is about her…" He then started to walk back to his house, opposite of Sakaki's home.