The amazing Kurayami-9 suggested I write more of the PoT characters as teachers, so here it is. Hopefully this will be fairly long, with many chapters. I'll do Seigaku first, because I know them better.
Verb Murder: Because this happens. Ryoma's a Japanese teacher in America. I only used kanji I know, gomen. -Rin
Verb Murder
Echizen Ryoma-sensei stood at the dry-erase board in the front of the classroom with a purple marker in his hand. He turned his back to the class and wrote an example sentence.
"へやに何がありますか。" He asked, turning back to face his students. What's in the room? A boy in the back raised his hand.
"へやにいすがいます。" There is a chair in the room.
"Wrong verb, Mark-san. Arimasu is used for nonliving things. Imasu is for living things. A chair is not alive." Echizen-sensei corrected him. "Try the next question. このきょうしつにだれがいますか。" Who is in this classroom?
"Uhhh...きょうしつにAshleyさんがあります。" Ashley is in the classroom. Mark didn't even try to pronounce her name in Japanese. Ashley gasped theatrically.
"Sensei, he's killing me with verbs!" She pointed accusingly at Mark. Echizen-sensei sighed.
"No, you still have the verbs mixed up. Ashley is alive, so you use imasu. Say it with me, class." Everyone grinned and turned to face Mark.
"Mada mada da ne."
