Like any other day after school, Sawada Shin and the other 3-D guys were hanging out.
Not exactly like any other day after school, they were not really doing anything in particular, waiting for something to pop up, all of them feeling extraordinarily bored.
Not exactly like any other day after school either; Shin was treating the others to ice-cream in a rather expensive ice cream parlor.
"Uwah! That's it; my brain's going to die!" Uchi wailed as he plonked his head onto the table, narrowly missing Kuma's waffle.
Minami yawned, "As if you have one. I can't believe it. For once we're bored since Yankumi came along."
Noda chirped in, his head resting on one hand, "God knows what family events Yankumi had to attend. I need some fun. Let's go camp outside Yamada Private Girls' School…"
"Are you joking? Those girls are the most stuck-up prissy princesses around! And none of them are even worth looking at, right Kuma?" Uchi smacked Kuma across the head.
Kuma looked up, disrupted from his record-breaking ice cream consumption speed, "Huh?"
Minami face-palmed, "He's not even listening! Ahhhh!" Minami threw himself onto Shin. "Shin-chan, call up your sister and arrange a goukon or something!"
Shin gave an appreciative eye-roll. He was listening to the entire conversation without much interest, "Shut up…"
Girls? None of the girls nowadays appealed to him. None of them could stand up for themselves, except Yankumi. He laughed silently in his head. If only she wasn't a teacher…
The other boys continued to rattle on and on about which girls' high had the best chicks. Shin yawned and took a sip of his ice coffee. He started looking around the parlor.
Near their table sat a mother with two young kids. The three were laughing about something one of the kids had just said, and then the mother wiped her children's cheeks clean with a loving smile. Shin's eyes moved on. A young couple sat in a deep corner, making out. Shin rolled his eyes and looked on.
By the windows, sat a girl around their age, or slightly older, but she wasn't in school uniform. There was an air about her that interested Shin. She was looking down at the menu, the blond highlights in her short, slightly spiked hair standing out amongst the black. She was wearing a leather jacket over a white T-shirt, a dog tag sort of necklace hanging from her neck. She had long, slender legs, unnatural of Japanese girls. A charm bracelet hung from one of her wrist, which was supporting her head. He couldn't see her face clearly, and didn't get a chance even when the waiter approached her, as she was sitting with her back to the light.
Something clicked in his mind. Why am I so interested in her?
He shook his head. Nevermind. He continued to swirl his coffee around mindlessly. The other guys were now playing some weird game which he had no interest in.
If only Yankumi was here…
He hasn't told anyone about his secret addiction to Yankumi's everything. Her spirit was something different from the other girls'. Somehow, he was looking forward to graduation. After graduation, he wouldn't be her student. After graduation, he could finally ask her out. After graduation…
"Oi, Shin, you're smiling mindlessly to yourself," Noda's voice broke Shin out of his trance. He looked up and saw the 4 boys' faces hovering near his, devilish expressions on their faces.
"Is it… a girl?" Minami had a lovey-dovey expression on. Almost immediately, the others launched their assaults.
"C'mon Shin! Who is it? Which school?" Uchi latched himself onto Shin's arm.
"What?! I didn't say anything?! Let go!!" Shin pushed Uchi off, but were helpless under the attack of 4 very persistent boys.
"Fashion sense? Style? Hair?"
"Bra size?"
"What?!" Shin stared at Minami with the most WTF expression he could muster. "There's no girl damnnit, ge'roff me!"
When he looked up, he saw the girl from just now looking at him. Well, all the restaurant patrons were looking at them, but she was the first one Shin saw. When she met Shin's eye, she rolled her eyes and looked back down, a small smirk playing at her lips.
Shin suddenly felt a shot of pleasure through his veins. It was a brief moment, but he saw her face. And she was looking at him. And she smiled.
He shook his head more violently this time. There was definitely something wrong with him today. Maybe it's cos Yankumi wasn't here.
The others continued to throw random guesses. Shin just put on his usual bored expression, and observed the girl by the window silently.
A while later, a man in a tux with a pot belly showed up and walked over to the girl's table. They shook hands, and the man laid out some papers in front of her. They talked for a while, and the girl handed him a thick wad of cash. They shook hands again, and the man left. The girl finished the rest of her melting ice cream, and looked up to meet Shin's gaze again.
She smirked again. Shin raised an eyebrow ever so slightly.
Shaking her head, she picked up her black leather sling bag and walked out of the parlor, the heels of her boots clicking across the tiling. His eyes followed her out. She didn't turn back.
"So that was her…"
Shin flinched. The others were staring after the girl too.
"What the hell?"
"Oh, the glory of first love!" Noda went into dramatic mode. Shin sighed and finished his coffee. He left a deck of notes on the table and stood up. "I'm heading back now. Bye."
As he strode out of the parlor, he heard the others whispering behind him.
"Should we follow him to see if he went after that girl?" Kuma's voice was incapable at being soft.
Uchi snorted, "Naw, it's Shin. The day he's interested in someone is the day Kuma gets above 40 for an exam."
"Hey, minna," Shin could imagine the smirk on Noda's face. "Bet you 500 yen he's actually going for the girl…"
Shin walked out of the parlor. It was somehow uncomfortable for him to hear all those words now. He made his way home slowly, his thoughts wandering to the times he spent with Yankumi…
He was the first to discover her identity. He was the one who got to spend the most time with her. He even got invited for dinner. He just needed to get rid of the teacher-student bond that held him back from telling her.
He didn't notice when he reached his apartment. He walked up the stairs to his near-to-empty apartment. He remembered the time when Yankumi came here to cook dinner for him. He laughed at that memory.
He longed to see her now. Her cheery smile was drifting in and out of his mind, and he wanted to hear her voice cheering him on.
Sawada Shin flopped down on his bed, dreaming of a girl, like any other high school boy would.
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AN: Hey guys, my first attempt at a Gokusen fic. One thing first- I'm not even done with one season of the drama, I watched a tad of the anime, and have not touched the manga at all. I definitely WILL when I finish my exams. It's definitely one of my fav dramas/stories/manga of all time. R&R yea! Shin is the love! I may or may not finish this fic, fyi, but I do appreciate reviews :)
