My Teacher My Caretaker: Chapter 2

Cars rushed by on the road, birds chirp cheerfully on the tress and children played happily in the park. That, combined with the beauty of the sun setting, creating a peaceful and tranquil environment.

All of the above were currently lacking in Suzaku Kururugi's car. Suzaku glanced at the student for the umpteenth time, finally gathering courage to break the uncomfortable silence.

Now that he though about it, Suzaku knew nothing about the student. So maybe... self-introduction first?

"Lelouch Lamperouge, is it?"

"Hn."

Suzaku frowned at the monosyllable, emotionless, meaningless, sorry excuse for an answer. Hell, even a 'yes' would be so much better.

"How old are you?"

"16"

'Direct answers, this kid really don't talk much,' Suzaku thought. Still, Suzaku pressed on, determined to make the student form at least a full sentence.

"What class are you in?"

"3-A"

"Oh... Last year in high school, huh? Wha-... Wait, I though I was teaching that class!"

"Yes."

Suzaku's mind was racing now. Suzaku don't know whether he was a good teacher or not, but he was confident to say that he wasn't a bad teacher. He remembered ever single student of his, if not the name then the face! And he swore he had never heard the name 'Lelouch Lamperouge' nor had he ever saw his face before. It would be really hard to forget Lelouch's comely face if he did.

Wait... what? Comely face? What am I thinking?!

Lelouch, seeing the internal struggle - not so internal anymore - written on Suzaku's face, decided to enlighten the teacher.

"No, I have not seen you before either."

Suzaku's face showed pure confusion, and Lelouch almost chuckled at how easy it is to read the teacher. Keyword being almost.

"I skip gym class."

"..."

"..."

"But at least I should have your name on the name list!" Suzaku frowned. Great, so he had a problematic student under his care now.

"I cancelled out my name on your name list."

What...? However, before Suzaku could respond, a loud 'honk!' sounded. Suzaku struggled and fortunately managed to avoid crashing into another car.

"Concentrate on the road, damn it!" Lelouch chastised the teacher.

To say Suzaku was just speechless was the understatement of the year.

He was dumb struck.

That was the longest sentence the student ever said to him.

...

Suzaku Kururugi entered his apartment, stumbling while trying to carry four bags of luggage - that were certainly not his - while a certain someone who owned said four bags of luggage waltz into his apartment empty handed.

Oh, wait. Not empty handed. As the certain someone defended himself: "What? My duty is opening the door while you carry the luggage!"

(Suzaku noticed that the student would form longer sentence when trying to defend himself)

And at the look said certain someone got from Suzaku, he merely replied, "What? You are the coach and gym teacher and all, right? You are supposed to be good at physical activities, no? What... you are telling me you cannot handle that?"

(See? Defending himself again)

"Your room is there, second door to the right. A bit stuffy and dusty, but live with it. Clean it if you want." Suzaku pointed out, before ignoring the student. Lelouch stood there for a few minutes as if waiting for Suzaku, before shooting him a glare and promptly started dragging his luggage into his room. One by one. With both hands. Across the floor.

...

Suzaku clicked the 'stop' button on the stopwatch - which he, being a gym teacher and a coach, have plenty - after Lelouch disappeared into his room with his last luggage.

20 minutes and 28.8 seconds

Approximately... 'Shit," Suzaku thought as he pressed on the calculator - which he also had scattered around his house because - 'I really suck at maths.'

"Ah..." Suzaku sighed as he looked back at the answer shown on the screen of the calculator.

20 minutes and 28.8 seconds for four bags of luggage, approximately 5 minutes and 7.2 seconds per bag of luggage. Extremely normal for a physically healthy, mentally questionable but still functionable, 16 year old Britannian youth.

WHAT THE HELL?!


Thanks to lazybastard, pft980811, crazy anko, SailorKickass and Guest for reviewing. Hmm... I have quite some Fukukaichou-wa Maid-sama! readers here huh... I'll update it soon enough. Well, my aim is to update it before the year ends.