A/N: Written for the GX bingo – the non-flash version, #134 – Obelisk Male Dorms, and for the Diversity Writing Challenge, b72 – write a school scene.
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As the New Dorm Master
Asuka wonders if the assignment is, at first, a mistake. Yes, she's been a student at Duel Academia for three years, and a teacher for another two, but that doesn't mean her quarters are suddenly inadequate enough to push her into – the Obelisk male dorms?
She blinks, then realises there's another envelope and opens that one, hoping for an explanation. There is. And a personal note from Chronos-sensei, explaining that the Principal has chosen to retire, left him as the replacement, and therefore the position as dorm master for the Obelisk males is suddenly open. And dropped in her lap.
Why couldn't it be Nurse Ayukawa retiring instead? she wonders. Not that boys, in general, are unbearable. She has a brother and quite a few male friends after all. But they still lived in a male-oriented society, and the fact that she had so many male friends might exemplify that instead of alleviate it, actually. And, aside from Nurse Ayukawa who teaches gym on top of her infirmary and head of dorm duties, she's the only female teacher on the payroll. And as she teaches academics, she gets the larger brunt of biasness. Claims she hasn't earned her position. Or she can't handle it. Or she can't duel (she's a Duel Tactics professor, for Obelisk's sake, and she fought against the Seven Stars in her first year. And was one of few of the hundred students who didn't wind up zombies when Yubel swept them off to another dimension…). Or that she's interested in a relationship with a student, which she's not. She's not interested in a relationship at all.
Not that there aren't good sides to them. Or all round good kids. Or kids with shot confidence who stutter their way through her classes like she remembers a certain blue haired friend doing (and she should really see about getting him to drop by. Juudai did wonders for her Orisis class).
And now she's going to be a dorm head. And she doesn't even get a chance to say no.
She sighs. At least the Obelisk dorms have excellent living quarters.
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She expects the outcry. And the trouble in the first few days, where they think that just because a young and female professor is their dorm head, they've got a free reign. And a free road into the girls dorms.
The few who make it to Nurse Ayukawa vow to never speak of their embarrassment again. The ones who don't… Well, she lets her machine angels loose anyway.
She's got ground rules. She'll be a strict dorm master and she'll enforce her rules with duelling, like she's always done and always will. And she can hold her own. She graduated as one of the Academia's top student's, after all. She won't say it's impossible because it's not, but strength can be recognised even if she loses and she hasn't lost in front of them yet.
It takes a couple of weeks, but she's got their respect sort of like the king of the playground gets their respect, but that's okay. Because she'll also listen to their problems – so long as they aren't of the romantic variety, and those are rerouted to her brother – and advise as best she can and she's a little newer to that than to duelling and even newer at being a teacher and a dorm master but she can do it. She can do anything, and she knows it, after her years at Duel Academia, and all they've faced there.
And she wonders belatedly if this is Chronos-sensei's way of helping her grow a little more as well. Or whether he's simply enjoying the show of "taming the Obelisks" now that he's not in charge of them.