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Chapter 1: The Oeda Heiress returns!
How did she get herself strung into this kind of situation again?
Yamaguchi Kumiko, fourth generation heiress to the Oeda family, math teacher and otherwise known as Yankumi found herself standing in a very familiar scenario. It happen in Shirokin, it happen in Kurogin and now it would happen here... in Akadou. Why did this always happen to her?
She tried to take attendance but as she expected no one listened. Even as she stood here before three late students she found herself being ignored even after she introduced herself as their new homeroom teacher.
"So I was thinking about that new teacher, Takano. She's really cute!" one of the three spoke as if Yankumi wasn't standing there. His friend jumped up out of his seat.
"But what about nurse Sakura? She defiantly has a nice body!" the second one remarked and all three laughed in agreement.
"That's true but what about the new nurse? Supa Kango-shi-San? I think her body is way better!" the first chuckled pervertedly. Supa Kango-Shi-San? Miss super nurse? Head teacher Sawatari did mention, before his hasty retreat, that the chairman had assigned 3D its own nurse because they were such a problem. Yankumi was due to meet this woman before she met 3D but she was apparently running late, this, according to head teacher and the rest of the staff, was to be expected from this unknown woman. Apparently she did this often but because she was so good at her job, and the fact that no one else was willing to take it, she had been successful in keeping it. However Yankumi had little to no time to wonder when she would meet the class nurse for it was less than a second later that a fight between two of the students looked to be itching to happen. The rest of 3D began chanting 'fight' in hopes of egging the pair on. Yankumi sigh a tired sigh, time to get down to business.
Just as she stepped to get between the two students the door to the classroom slid open.
"Ohayo gozaimasu!" a female voice called over the chanting and just like that it stopped. Yankumi gazed at her new students as they all whipped their heads towards the door forgetting their confrontation a second ago.
"Supa Kango-Shi-San!" they united in calling. It seemed apparent to Yankumi that there was secretly another reason why this nurse still had her job if she could get a reaction like this by simply entering the room. Yankumi turned slowly to face the class door as she heard it slide close. The woman with her back to the room had long, earth brown hair that reached down to her mid back and she wore the white nurse's coat. She didn't look to be that short but that's probably only because of the wedge shoes she wore.
"So sorry I'm late!" the woman chirped as she reached up and tucked hair behind one of her ears "did your new homeroom teacher come..." the woman turned to face the classroom with a bright twinkle in her brown eyes and a sweet smile to go with it. She seem to notice Yankumi quickly, she had to have after spending so much time with these boys, and when she looked the teacher over and Yankumi did the same the polite smiles they had prepared for one another faltered and looks of bewilderment touch both their faces. This young woman, this Super nurse with the better body compared to nurse Sakura stood as none other than... No! I-it couldn't be! The woman blinked looking Yankumi over twice "O...O-O-Ojou?" she practically yelled out as if her eyes were failing her. Yup, it was. Yankumi allowed herself a moment to take in the now very mature looking young woman once called 'Uki-Chan' by her all male classmates. This was indeed Matsushima Umeki and she just called Yankumi Ojou in front of all of 3D. Yankumi winced.
"Ojou?" the boys all chorused together. Umeki also winced bringing her hands to her mouth when she realized what she had done.
"h-h-hin! Ojou-hin! Your new teacher looks like such an elegant lady!" the woman spoke with a nervous chuckle at her own self correction. The boys seem to accept this for they went back to what they had been doing before the near fight. Yankumi moved through the mass of students to the nurse who stood at the door.
"Umeki..." she looked her former student over a couple of times. Umeki smiled from ear to ear lowering her hands as she did.
"Yankumi" she spoke in a low tone so only Yankumi heard "I didn't know you were back. I would have dropped by to welcome you home" the way she spoke and even her appearance was so different Yankumi was beginning to wonder if she had been away for much longer than she thought she had been. Umeki had changed so much! "So, you're the new homeroom teacher?"
"Hai" Yankumi said nodding "and what about you? A school nurse?"
"Actually" the young woman beamed with pride "this is a part-time job, since I only really tend to 3D most of the time, I'm actually a hospital employee now." Yankumi felt such a smile spread across her face at the news of her student's success in life. It was always a heartwarming moment for a teacher when they learned that their students were on the right path especially for Yankumi considering the background Umeki had come from. The two were taken from their happy moment when one of the students approached them.
"Kango-Shi-San!" he grinned like a fool and things felt like back at Kurogin again for Yankumi only Ume didn't scowl and tell the boy not to call her that. She smiled sweetly and nodded to the boy "you have to check on my eye, remember?"
"Did you put that ointment I gave you on it like I told you Taguchi-Kun?" Umeki questioned and Yankumi watched her follow the student to the back of the classroom and all who she pasted follow her with their gaze. Well almost all, there were two boys who glared at each other from each side of the classroom. Both, from what Yankumi had witnessed so far, held authority in the classroom but who was the leader?
"Ogata Yamato and Kazama Ren…" Yankumi muttered after Umeki had returned with the two files and set them on the teacher's desk. She nodded tucking her hands into the pockets of her white coat.
"These two are the ones you have to look out for" she informed her former teacher who now looked between the two files. "Ogata-Kun and Kazama-Kun have been butting heads and causing most of the trouble in 3D"
"They were bound to" Yajima-Sensei entered the conversation and approached Yankumi's desk.
"What do you mean?"
"3D is made up of all the delinquents of first and second year" Yajima-Sensei explained "they're all the students none of us could handle". Umeki nodded, it seemed like that was always how these kinds of classes formed. Couldn't handle was the nice way of putting it but those boys weren't stupid, they knew being in 3D meant they were considered hopeless and such thoughts only made them worse because now they didn't care what they did. No one expected better from them so why should they put in the extra effort and prove them wrong?
"Ogata-Kun and Kazama-Kun were both the bosses of their own respective groups before this year" Umeki explained as the rest of the staff seem to be shifting to this desk to join the talk about 'that' 3D. "Now that they're both in the same classroom they fight with one another."
"...so" Yankumi stared at the open files "it's almost like the feud between two heirs of one family" the curious looks the teacher received from her coworkers went unnoticed by her.
"Yamaguchi-Sensei" Baba-Sensei, who oddly enough somehow ended up here at Akadou like head teacher monkey-...head teacher Sawatari, addressed Yankumi "3D is a lot to handle, if you need any help I'll become your assistant teacher!" he flashed her a grin but Umeki fought the urge to roll her eyes. Apparently an assistant nurse assigned to that one class wasn't enough help. Yankumi shook her head.
"No, this is my turf and I want to handle it on my terms" the pig tailed woman obliviously gained arched eyebrows.
"Turf?" the other workers muttered under their breaths.
"Yamaguchi-Sensei!" Head Teacher spoke with a shrill sound of horror. Judging by Yankumi's expression she was just now realizing her slip up. Some things just didn't change Umeki guessed.
"hahaha you sure love Yakuza movies don't you Yamaguchi-Sensei?" Head teacher Sawatari pushed his way through to stand at Yankumi's side. The woman immediately nodded wildly in agreement. Takano-Sensei, the bob haired new teacher, turned to her notepad with her pencil.
"Yamaguchi-Sensei likes Yakuza movies" she muttered as she scribbled on the paper.
"...you don't have to write that down..." Yankumi muttered.
"This promises to be an entertaining year" Umeki sighed turning away from the chattering teachers and leaning against Yankumi's desk.
Later that night the staff shuffled from their desk in the teacher's office to the local bar to celebrate the arrival of their new employees.
"Cheers!" the group chorus clanking their glasses against one another as their feast began.
"Takano-Sensei, do you have a boyfriend?"
"No I actually don't..."
"Nani? But you're so cute! What about you Matsushima-Sensei? Surely you've been taken off the market" Tsurouka-Sensei shifts his gaze from Takano to Umeki who smiled politely to this blunt come on. Not since high school had anyone ever been so direct.
"Sensei" Umeki hummed politely "you're going to make me blush" of course she was lying, a craft she had perfected since Kurogin, but even if she wasn't really going to blush she was proud of the show she put making the man think she was going to. "So Yankumi" Umeki turned to the woman beside her eagerly "why did you come back here? I thought you loved it up there."
"Ah.." Yankumi grinned slightly "when head teacher came and found me I just felt that I had taught those students all I could and it was time to move on" her smile showed she was lying, she probably got fired...
"Matsushima-Sensei" Yajima spoke up
"Hai" she turned away from Yankumi towards the man sitting across the table from her as she took a sip of her drink.
"I noticed that you call Yamaguchi-Sensei Yankumi" he pointed out "do you both know one another?"
"Mm" Umeki nodded "Yamaguchi-Sensei use to be my teacher"
"Eh?" Ayukawa sounded from her end of the table "really? But Yamaguchi-Sensei I thought you've only dealt with students like 3D"
"I did" Yankumi confirmed
"I was in Kurogin's 3D class" Umeki remarked casually with a fond grin on her face as she thought back to the days in that class. "It had only been for the last few months though"
"Yes but you caused trouble just the same as the others" Yankumi chuckled gently swatting Umeki who chuckled in return.
"I remember head teacher monkey face always catching me when I was late or cutting class" Umeki laughed to herself slightly, those had Bern good times.
"Monkey face?" Takano repeated
"Matsushima" Sawatari's stern voice grumbled making the female squeak at her slip up.
"I-I mean Head teacher Sawatari..."
A few downed drinks later the women of the staff perched themselves at the bar away from the table of men who were now drinking themselves into a stupor at the table with their neckties wrapped around their heads. Umeki watched with an arched brow, were some of these men really married? She turned away from them and turned her drink round in her hands.
"There aren't any good looking men in this crowd" Ayukawa sighed with a depressed aura to her.
"Yea" Takano mused "so there's no chance for an in work relationship..."
"But at least we have a bunch of good looking students" the other nurse spoke cunningly smile on her face. Yankumi gaped at the comment.
"Relationships with students is forbidden!" she almost yelled. Umeki snorted slightly at this.
"How if Sawada Shin doing these days Yankumi?" she asked subtly pointing out the math teachers hypocritical moment. She had dated one of her students for a short amount of time before said student went away; if Umeki remembered right he went to Africa, so Yankumi really had no right to say much against Ayukawa's suggestion.
"h-how do you know about that?"
"People talk" was Umeki's simply reply as she tipped the liquor content of her glass to her lips.
"Come on Yamaguchi-Sensei" the nurse nudged the math teacher "if you keep talking like that you'll never get a man!"
"She's right" Takano muttered "I can't find a guy either..."
"You can't give up!" Yankumi encouraged "You can meet people anywhere! You know, it happens in movies all the time." the teacher gained a small smile on her face indicating that she was off in her own little world. Wonder who she was thinking of... "two people bump into each other on a street corner. The moment their eyes meet, they fall in love! Just like Romeo and Juliet!" she gushed dreamily.
But...didn't they die in the end because of their love?...
"Yamaguchi-Sensei" Ayukawa spoke "that only happens in movies" and the other two females nodded in agreement. There was no such thing as love at first sight, it was always just two people who just so happen to grow fond of one another. In most cases the two just hate each other so much that they fall in love or at least that's what the dramas on TV like to make it seem.
"Sure it does!" Yankumi persisted but her comrades, Umeki included, waved a hand if dismissal.
"Maybe not" the chorused
"I think it does!"
"GEEZ!" Umeki hissed almost knocking her glass over when Baba-Sensei appeared out of nowhere and scared the life out of her! The four women wiped around to look at the man whose gaze was fixed on Yankumi. Aw poor Baba, he must have a thing for Yankumi from the last time they worked together.
"It does, doesn't it?" he spoke with hope in his eyes, hope Yankumi coldly dashed with a shake of her head.
"Probably not..." Umeki tried her best not to laugh at her former teachers blunt rejection of Baba-sensei. She sighed pushing away from the bar setting her drink down a she did.
"i think it's about time i head home" she informed the three women getting nods in return "Oyasuminasai..."
Mornings after such heavy drinking were always the worst. Even though Umeki had the advantage of age on her side, since she was so young she bounced back easy from hangovers, that didn't change the fact that waking up to feeling like someone took a hammer to your head was hell. Blaring alarm clocks didn't help either...
Umeki groaned reaching around for the device without lifting her head from her pillow. She took a few wild swings in the air before her hand found the dresser and eventually the clock. With a slight grunt Umeki chucked it with deadly force. The sound of it hitting the door to the room echoed through the room before silence followed.
"...I think you broke It." was the remarked that broke the silence two minutes later and the nurse cursed into her pillow. Now she would have to go and get another one when she got off work today. The woman pulled her arms back under the comfort and warmth of the blankets with her face pressed so hard against her pillow she could have smothered herself. "How are you feeling?" a hand rubbed her back in an attempt to comfort her.
"Like my head is being used for batting practice" the woman groaned enjoying the soothing motion of the hand on her back "I definitely drank too much…"
"Don't go to work then, stay here with me. I'm off today"
"I can't. 3D has a new homeroom teacher, you know how that goes" a deep chuckle rumbled through the bed that made Umeki grin and then sigh "I should get up" she spoke lazily pushing the hand on her back away and sitting up "if I stay in bed like this I'll be late again" ever since the former Kurogin girl had gotten the part time job at Akadou she had become infamous for her daily tardiness and though her coworkers could only guess what was the cause of such things, most thought Umeki lived far from the school, the real reason was the lump of flesh still laying in the bed.
"A couple of minutes late won't hurt" Umeki felt a strong arm go around her waist and she yelped as she was easily pulled back down onto the bed. Umeki was left to struggle in vain as limbs became tangled from under the blankets and within minutes she was pinned.
"Oi!" Umeki tried not to laugh at the cheesy grin she was faced with "get off me you big fool"
"Give me a good reason"
"I'm 3D's nurse!"
"If they're anything like we were they're going to get into fights weather you're there or not"
"Hayato!" Umeki squealed "I'm going to hurt you!"
"Try it" he dared
"Argh! You're such a jerk..."
"You're having fun" the males grin never strayed as the female pushed against his hands but he easily pinned her down on the bed by her wrist. "You're laughing"
"Am not-ah!" Umeki cackles loudly as the male began tickling her. This was a normal routine now a days. It was safe to say that Yabuki Hayato and Matsushima Umeki had a fairly...stable relationship since leaving Kurogin academy. It wasn't the best relationship to be had, it wasn't smooth sailing down a peaceful stream, but they made it work. At least they were at a cohabitant stage more or less. Hayato didn't officially live in Umeki's house, technically he still lived with his father and younger brother, but as life would have it he spent enough time here that he even had his own key to the house and almost half the dressers in the house had his cloths in them. The only thing that was left was a formal invitation to move in and Umeki, never once giving maturity her stubborn streak, had yet to do such.
The pair often drifted between the two homes anyway. They had dinner at the Yabuki residence with Taku, since Yabuki-San was always away for work, and then the two spent the night at Umeki's...if only to be decent when it came to the minor and considerate to the fact that as aware as Taku was there were just something's he probably didn't want to, and would be very much better off if he never, end up hearing if he could help it. Sometimes his brother just had no control or shame...
The sound of Umeki's cell phone vibrating against the dresser reached the couple in the middle of their playing around. She reached out from under the blankets for her phone but of course Hayato pulled her back.
"It could be from work!" Umeki laughed trying for her phone again in vain.
"The boys aren't going to die from a few bruises" Hayato argued
"What if it's the hospital?"
"Fine" the male finally grumbled releasing his girlfriend who quickly crawled from under the sheets to get her phone.
"Hello?"
"Matsushima-Sensei" it was Ayukawa "how are you?"
"A bit hung over but otherwise fine..."
"Are you on your way here?"
"...yes... Why?"
"Well the police have arrived at the school and I could have sworn I saw Kazama-Kun called into the chairman's office..."
That had Umeki up in a flash despite the lazy male in her bed protesting her to stay there with him. Scrambling to get dressed Umeki pulled her hair into a messy ponytail and stumbled about the room looking for her shoes.
"Since you're not working today do you mind picking up your clothes?" she glanced over her shoulder at Hayato "you know... Make yourself useful for once" judging by the way he lazily proper himself on his elbow and watched her with that stupid smirk of his face he probably would be staying in bed most of the day.
"Do I get a reward if I do?" he curved a brow, Umeki didn't miss a beat.
"If you consider me not kicking you out of my house a reward..."
"Fair enough." he found his motivation to sit up fully "be careful out there, you saw the news paper. Those muggings by Shirokin tunnel are becoming frequent. They said he targets pretty girls like you Uki"
"Thanks for the thought but you know I can handle myself"
"All too well." Hayato chuckled.
"They said that Kazama-Kun is a suspect in the mugging down in Shirokin Tunnel." Ayukawa-Sensei trailed behind Umeki as she made her way towards 3D. "Kazama-Kun couldn't prove where he was last night so the chairman suspended him"
"Did the police arrest him?"
"I don't think so"
"Wagata, arigato" Ayukawa stopped all the way at the entrance to the messy hall leading to 3D as if it were too dark a force for her to cross but Umeki paid this no mind. She quickened her pace as the label '3D' caught her eye. Suddenly the suspected boy himself darted out of the room angrily almost running into Umeki. "Kazama-Kun" Umeki mused as the boy stared back at her briefly before brushing past her and running down the hall ignoring her calls for him to come back. She watched him until she couldn't see him anymore and sighed. These boys, accuse them of something and they get all upset and run off like that still…. Umeki couldn't blame Kazama-kun for being upset. There was nothing she could do now so it was better to head into the classroom. The woman sighed turned around and continued down the hall where 3D was a rowdy as ever from the sounds of it, she approached the open door.
"How can you still be smiling?" Yankumi's outburst cut through the noise in the room and made Umeki stop just outside the classroom. She pressed her back against the wall beside the door and crossed her arms listening. "A comrade who didn't do anything wrong was just suspended!"
"Comrade?...We happen to be in the same class. That's all" Umeki clenched her hands into tight fist at Ogata Yamato's words. Umeki could almost feel her former teachers bewilderment and it cause her to feel confused herself. Did Yankumi expect everyone to be just like Kurogen or Shirokin?
"Even so" Yankumi's voice floated into Umeki's ears "Don't you feel anything? Don't you think anything of it?" She was laughed at for this.
"Not really"
"It happens a lot"
"That guy was falsely accused and then tossed out!" Umeki had finally listened in enough, she pushed off the wall and stepped into the doorway of the messy classroom and despite how upset Yankumi looked it was easy to tell none of these boys were taking her seriously at all. They snickered on as she ranted "don't you think it's wrong?"
"Man, she's fired up!" more laughter came all around except from Kazama-kun's friends they remained quiet as Umeki was with her arms still tightly crossed. Among any of the boys Taguchi, his highlighted blond hair pinned back today, laughed louder.
"Who cares if he got suspended" he laughed on "he probably did do it! Even if he didn't it's all the same yea?" he looked to Ogata who laughed with him nodding his head.
"Why not rebel at a time like this-"
"Enough with the sermon dammit!" Kuraki-kun finally had enough standing up from his seat and shouted at Yankumi "It's not like you danm teachers ever listen to what we say anyway"
"Is that why you're telling me to drop it?"
"Yamaguchi-Sensei" Umeki finally spoke up entering the room
"oh by the way" Taguchi didn't appear at all finished "he was near the Shirokin tunnel" Yankumi turned her head to look at the boy who now held a smug look on his face. Taguchi-Kun… he never liked Kazama-Kun. "We saw him" he nodded his head towards Ogata who nodded in response.
"…Really?"
"Yea" Ogata replied, 'that doesn't matter' Umeki couldn't help but think with a small smile coming to her 'that won't stop Yankumi; she won't believe that for a minute'. She glanced towards Yankumi but was surprised to find herself staring at a troubled Yankumi. With Ogata at the lead, the class slowly filed out of the classroom not paying either woman any mind as they brush past them both. Soon only they were the only ones standing in the room. Umeki checked her watch; she might as well head to the hospital considering 3D didn't look like they would be coming back. She let her arms loosen from their tight hold and turned towards the class door.
"Umeki" Yankumi's voice stopped her from walking out the door but she didn't look back at Yankumi. "They can't really be like this…can they?"
"Yankumi…" Umeki sighed no longer trying to hide it. When she had realized Yankumi was the new homeroom teacher of this 3D she had felt joy, she had been a part of Yankumi's last 3D class and labeled hopeless but look how she turned out. Finally, she had thought, finally these boys will stand a chance but now… now Umeki turned to her former teacher her expression etched with disappointment. The women frowned at one another "…Yankumi… you didn't expect everything to be the same did you?" Yankumi frowned at this and for an instant Umeki scowled deeply "if you're going to treat every delinquent like they're all the same… don't bother being a teacher anymore" she turned on her heel and stormed out of the room leaving the pig-tailed woman to her own thoughts.