"So this is my new school?"
A girl wearing flannel, leggings, and runners stood at the entrance of Kunugigaoka Junior High. She was supposed to go to the headmaster's office before going to her classroom, but being the person she was, she had already known how to get there, and needed no damn assistance.
Going around to the back, she found a rocky pathway that lead up the large mountain and began her trek. The scenery was nice, and the quiet was very much pleasant after all the looks and whispers from the students she overheard during her way there.
Arriving at the end, she was face to face with a shabby wooden building, the sign in front saying the words: Old School Building. 'How ironic.' she thought. Walking to the entrance, she slid the door open, looking through all the shoe cubicles.
'If what I was told is true, then I should have one already...' Her thoughts trailed off as she found her name, next to 'Akabane Karma'. Normally, she wasn't one to change her shoes, but she decided to be nice for once.
Taking her runners off, she grabbed the pair of inside shoes and slipped them on, seeing as to how they were a perfect fit. When she had tried to put her shoes inside, she found that there was something blocking their way.
Reaching in, she found a rubbery knife, a gun, and a package of bullets. Further inspecting them, she found that they were quite chalky and dusty, as residue covered her hands. Placing them into her bag, she walked down the hallways, running into someone.
"I presume that you are the new student?"
Looking up, the girl saw a man standing in front of her. He had a very serious look on his face, and was carrying a laptop with him. "Yes. It's nice to meet you...?" she trailed off, gesturing for his name.
"Karasuma Tadaomi, but call me Karasuma."
"Of course, Karasuma-sensei."
"I assume that you know all about your task here?"
"Yes. If you would guide me to the classroom?" Nodding, Karasuma started to walk, and the girl followed right behind, her hazel eyes looking around as she tucked some of her black hair behind her ear. Stopping in front of a door, Karasuma slid it open, making all the members inside stop what they were doing.
"Everyone, please go back to your seats. I have someone to introduce to you." he said, and everyone scrambled back. Once they were situated, Karasuma led the girl to the front, where she bowed to everyone. "This is the new transfer student."
"My name is Shigure Reiko, but you may call me Reiko instead of Shigure. I hope we can successfully kill our target before he destroys the world." Scanning the classroom, she smirked slightly and sighed, shoving her hands into her pockets. "It seems like you don't have enough talent. You're too focused on something." Everyone stared at the girl, confused at her words.
"Does anyone have any questions?" Many people raised their hands, and Karasuma chose a person. "Yes, Kurahashi?" he said, gesturing to a girl with orange and blond hair.
"What do you mean? How are we too focused on one thing?" she asked, and everyone nodded with her, as if she had just asked the big question they wanted to know.
"You're too focused on the assassination at hand. What if someone else killed the target? You would be stuck in this class, unable to do anything because you didn't focus on your studies. You need a second blade, and that is your education." Everyone was blank, trying to process the information that she had said. A few people got what she meant, but most of the class didn't understand.
"Where do I sit?" Reiko asked, and Karasuma pointed to the empty desk next to the boy who had red hair. Nodding her head, she walked over and sat in the seat next to him. Reiko assumed that this was the Akabane Karma she saw from the shoe cubicles.
"Oho? It seems like we have a new student here."
Jerking her head up, Reiko saw a large, yellow tentacled octopus of some sort at the front of the class. There was a small hat on his head, and he was wearing some long robes, a tie with a crescent moon around his neck. With two small, beady eyes, there was a large smile on his face that didn't seem to disappear.
"She has already introduced herself to the class, so you can start right away." Karasuma explained, and the creature nodded.
Walking up to her, she was face to face with the creature. "Hello there, I am your target, but you can call me Korosensei. What is your name?" he asked.
"Shigure Reiko."
"Well then Shigure-san, I do hope that you and your fellow classmates can manage to assassinate me before the due date." he said, sticking one of his tentacles out for her to shake.
"I hope so too. And please, call me Reiko." Moving her hand to shake the tentacle, what happened next shocked everyone. As her hand came into contact with the tentacle and when she went to tighten her grasp with it, it exploded into yellow goo, filling her nose with chemicals as her desk became covered with the goo.
"Oh my. It seems like you've destroyed my tentacle." Korosensei said, slightly surprised by the fact.
"I'm very sorry for that, Korosensei. It was an accident." she quickly said, dusting the goo off her desk.
"Oh no, it's perfectly fine. I encourage that anyways." Walking back to the front of the class, Korosensei started roll call, Reiko now added into the list, and started the first lesson, math. However, Reiko didn't do that.
Instead, she was given a bunch of workbooks to go through, as Korosensei had said that they were to see where she was, due to the fact that she was a transfer student that had no previous schools written down on her record. To her, they were quite easy, and she finished them with ease. They were on their third period, English, so Reiko decided that she would join in. Taking out a notebook, she started to jot down whatever she thought was important, knowing that it would be needed for later.
Soon enough, lunch time came, and Reiko handed in all the workbooks that she was given, going outside with the others to eat lunch. Finding a shady place to sit, she watched the others talk with each other, until she was approached by 5 classmates, 4 boys and 1 girl.
The girl had greenish hair, while the boys and black, orange, blue, and red hair. "Excuse me Reiko-san, do you mind if we sit with you?" the boy with black hair asked, and she shook her head.
"Not at all. Go ahead." Taking a seat, they sat and ate in silence, before the same boy broke it.
"I almost forgot. You don't know our names, do you?" he asked, and she shook her head, gesturing that they could go and introduce themselves. "My name is Isogai Yuuma, one of the class representatives." Nodding to the orange haired boy, they went in a circle to introduce themselves.
"I'm Maehara Hiroto!"
"Nagisa Shiota. It's nice to meet you, Reiko-san."
"Kayano Kaede! I'm sure that we'll be great friends!"
"Karma Akabane."
"And you already know my name. I'm sure that we'll do a good job in assassinating our teacher."
They started a bit of small talk, chatting about what they liked and disliked, until the bell rang, stopping their lovely conversation. Retreating back to the building, they had Socials Studies and Japanese Literature before having their gym lesson.
"Reiko-san, aren't you coming to go change?" She looked up to see Kataoka Megu, the other class representative, and nodded.
"I'll be there soon, I just want to finish my things before hand." Nodding, Kataoka left, and Reiko sat in her seat. In reality, she had already handed in her work, and was just waiting for everyone in the girls change room to leave.
She didn't want them to see her secret.
After a few minutes, she looked outside to see that most of the girls were gone, so she deemed it safe to go and change. Just as she entered, the last few went out, so she was alone. Quickly changing into the provided pants and t-shirt, she ran out and joined the others, following Karasuma's orders.
"Find a partner and we'll work on knife work for today. When I call the two of you up, if you are able to hit me, then I'll allow you to leave early. If not, then you'll stay for a few more minutes to practice more." he said, and everyone replied.
"Reiko. You'll will be the only exception and work alone, for I need to test your skills. I'll give you till everyone has gone against me at least once, so start practising."
"Of course."
Grabbing her knife, Reiko stretched a bit before starting a few warm ups. After completing those, she started a small battle with her own invisible opponent, dodging randomly as she slashed the air.
Panting, she stopped to take a quick break, seeing as to how she was almost up against Karasuma. As she watched the others, she kept a close eye on the man, as he looked familiar to her. The eyes, and how he was in the Ministry had made her suspicious.
He looked like one of the people who-
"Reiko-san, you're up next."
She was jolted out of her thoughts by Karasuma's voice, and she nodded, walking over. "You may start whenever you're ready." he said, and she took her stance. Seeing as to how he wasn't going to make the first move, Reiko decided that she would instead, and rushed forward.
Everyone stopped what they were doing to see their battle, and was it intense.
No one has lasted so long with Karasuma, as they would always get thrown to the ground in the first few moments. None had taken any hits, so Reiko decided that it would be best to make her move now. She wanted to get out of school early, and she needed that extra time.
Gracefully moving around, she dodged an attack from Karasuma and feigned an attack to his left, making his right open. In a flash, she threw her knife at his cheek, grazing it. Though because it wasn't a real knife, it didn't make a cut, but Karasuma had felt it, and there was a red mark there as proof.
"I underestimated you. Good job. You may change and leave." With a bow, she retreated, but not before her classmates surrounded her, congratulating her victory.
"You were amazing! No one lasted this long with Karasuma-sensei!" a girl with short hair, who she was introduced as Hinata Okano, exclaimed.
"It was nothing." Reiko said, and that only made them spout out the compliments even more.
"You were so graceful! Like an angel." Maehara said, and she froze slightly before faking happiness.
"Thank you. People always say that when they see me, even if I'm not fighting." she said, smiling, when in her mind she was reminded by something she hated.
"Oi! What are you doing! Leave Reiko alone and get back to work. Isogai, I know the issues that you have going on, so I'll allow you to leave as well." Karasuma said, and Isogai bowed to him in thanks.
The two went to the building, changed, and walked down the mountain together. It was in a comfortable silence, but Reiko was a bit curious, so she asked Isogai a question.
"Isogai-san, if you don't mind my prying, but what's the issue that Karasuma-sensei talked about?" she asked, and Isogai smiled.
"Oh, it's nothing. You see, my father died when I was in my first year of middle school, so I had to take care of my family by myself. My mother became ill awhile ago, so I need to work so that I can take care of her and my two younger siblings. Of course, students aren't allowed to work, so that was was how I landed in Class 3-E." he explained.
"That must be hard, having to deal with such hardships. I'm the same as you. My mother died when I was young, and my father disappeared shortly after that. I had to take care of my younger sister by myself. For the first few years, we lived with my grandmother, but she died of an illness, making us alone again. Luckily for us, she had given us her place in her will, so all we needed was money to live on.
"I started to work at an café, using the things that I was taught from my mother and grandmother to temporarily home school both me and my sister. I was suddenly accepted into Kunugigaoka, but only Class 3-E. I had managed to negotiate with them, allowing my sister an education in one of the public elementary schools, letting her join before I would. I'm going to pick her up right now."
"I see. What school does your sister go to?"
"Yagihata Elementary, Year 5. Her name's Yuki."
A surprised expression appeared on Isogai's face. "Huh, it seems like our siblings go to the same school. My brother, Shun, talks about a Yuki in his class a lot, and my sister, Emi, talks about a Yuki, and says that they're good friends."
"Now that you mention that, your siblings names do pop up a lot when my sister talks about her day at school. Please don't tell me you work in a café."
Isogai chuckled. "I do. Chateau Mairieux?"
"Yup. Now that I look back, I think I've seen you a few times during shifts."
"I have too."
As they were talking, the two had made it to Kunugigaoka station, boarded the train, and arrived at their stop. Soon enough, the two reached Yagihata, and they walked over to their siblings' class, where they waited for the bell to ring. Once it did, kids flooded out, and Reiko easily spotted her sister's figure in the crowd. "Yuki! Over here!"
"Shun! Emi!" Isogai called out as well, and all three figures came over to them, giving their respective older sibling a hug.
"Eh? Nee-chan, why are you with Shun and Emi's brother?" Yuki asked, and they nodded, agreeing with her statement.
"Yeah! Nii-chan, are you dating her?" Emi asked, and that caused the two of them to blush slightly, waving off their question.
"Of course not! We're just classmates. Reiko-san just arrived today, and it just happened that we went the same direction."
"Aww! But you look like a couple!" Gesturing for her sister to come closer, Yuki put her mouth next to her sister's ear, whispering something that the others couldn't hear.
"Shun, Emi and I always talk about you two, and we all agree that you two are perfect for each other just by how you two act, so get to it!" she said, and the blush came back. Lightly smacking the top of her head, Reiko tched.
"As if that'll happen."
"I bet it will!" Yuki called out, running off to Shun and Emi, where they were already on their way home.
"So, what did your sister say?" Isogai asked after they were on their way, keeping a close eye on the three troublemakers.
"Apparently all three of them have been shipping us ever since they started to brag about their older siblings at school. As much as I love my sister, she can be quite the devil." she said, grumbling.
"Agreed. Shun and Emi are a handful."
As they walked, Reiko suddenly had an idea and whispered it into Isogai's ear, which he nodded and agreed. "Yuki! Come over here for a sec!" Running over to her sister, Reiko crouched down to her height.
"You know how you normally come with me to the café to do your homework? I asked Isogai, and he's agreed that you can go to Shun and Emi's house while we're at work. Would you like that?" she asked, and Yuki nodded her head vigorously.
"Just make sure that you don't bother their mother much, okay? She needs lots of rest. Don't forget to do your homework, I don't want you come home and stay up late finishing it. Don't forget to eat as well and have lot's of water! Don't eat too much candy, and if you want to go out, make sure to tell their mother first and stick close!"
"Alright Nee-chan. You don't need to worry, okay?" she said, and Reiko ruffled her hair. Letting her run back to her friends, she took out her phone and cursed.
"Isogai! We need to hurry, now! Our shift is starting soon!" she yelled, grabbing his wrist, shocking him as Isogai was suddenly pulled by Reiko. "Stay safe!" she yelled to the three kids before pulling Isogai to the direction of the café, which was just a few blocks away after a quick left turn.
Arriving at the café, the entered through the back and changed into their clothes, getting started. Orders were taken, smiles were shown, meals were delivered, and by the time their shift was finally over, it was 7.
Saying their thanks to the owner and manager, they changed back and went to Isogai's house, where Reiko thanked his mom for taking care of Yuki before the two headed home.