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Once in the teacher's lounge, Koro sensei looked to each and every one of them. Nagisa kept his head bowed knowing he did wrong but was thankful that at least they were given the chance to explain. Karma was kept outside as he knew that the red haired demon would cause several heads to turn and piss several people off in the process. It wasn't something he thought the others would want so Nagisa remained adamant so that Karma couldn't directly refuse him.

"I think you ought to explain from the beginning Nagisa because that demon shouldn't be here."

Blinking, Nagisa nodded and began.

"Well everyone thought I was rather weak minded and couldn't do it so I thought if I succeeded nobody would-"

"Nagisa who called you weak minded?" Koro sensei asked abruptly. Nagisa looked in confusion but didn't want to rat anyone out and remained silent.

Koro sensei sighed.

"You are most definitely not weak minded and aside from a few issues with your studies you are a good student. It takes a lot to stay in this class and have a scholarship that hasn't been taken away just by being in E class alone."

"There's a but in there because I did go home and summon a demon," Nagisa voiced what he felt the teacher was thinking.

It was obvious too. Why else would Koro sensei call them into the teacher's lounge. Karasuma and Bitch sensei jumped out of their seats at that but their octopus like teacher firmly shook his head.

"You could have been killed Nagisa. What if the demon got out of the pentagram before you were able to do anything? Remember our lessons on taunts and trickery of demons? What would you have done if that demon hurt your mother?"

Nagisa stilled, hunching his shoulders and looking down in shame. He felt Koro sensei sigh but he knew the teacher was right. It hadn't been only his life on the line and he could've caused other people in his apartment unit to suffer if he had done it wrong. Even though by some miracle he had done it successfully, it didn't change the repercussions of what he did.

"I shouldn't have done it, I know but I didn't want people looking down on me so much. I thought if I proved to them I could do it, they'd leave me alone. Doesn't change the fact I did it though and you are right. It was a stupid thing to do."

There was silence as some of the other students suddenly felt bad for pushing the blunette into doing what he felt was the only way to prove himself. Terasaka on the other hand snorted and sighed when some of them glared at him.

"It's not like we gave him the candles and said have at it. He definitely didn't have to listen to either one of us either. What he did wasn't allowed. So what? Give him a slap on the wrist and make him realize why he was wrong."

Koro sensei shared a look with the other teachers before sighing.

"It's not that easy I'm afraid. If I went about this the right way then I'd have to inform the chairman that a student summoned a demon out of the confines of the school. If I did that Nagisa would either be expelled or lose his scholarship for doing something as bone headed as this."

The students felt the dire of the situation but none of them was feeling as bad as Nagisa. He knew he shouldn't have done it but he went ahead and done it anyways. His mother was going to kill him if she heard and if she didn't kill him it was damned right certain that she was going to use this to prove to him that he should have never gone to a demon hunting school in the first place. After he lost the scholarship the first time for landing in class 3 E, he fought to get his grades up so he could get it back. All that hard work was going to be for nothing if he got expelled and he wouldn't be able to prove to his mother that he'd be the best demon hunter ever.

"Well I won't do that," Koro sensei finally said. "But I'm going to punish you still. Every one of you were involved in some way or another and therefore is responsible in their own way. You have to write up an essay explaining why supervision is needed when summoning a demon in school and why it should not be done in the comfort of ones home. Also since Nagisa was the one that summoned the demon, I'm afraid you'll be getting a month's worth of detention. Maybe if you stay after class enough times it'll sink in that just because somebody calls you something you obviously aren't, you don't have to rise to the bait. It just makes a fool out of you and those people. I hope everyone learned their lesson and we don't have a repeat of all this-"

"How are we going to explain the demon then?" Nakamura asked.

"Where is the demon now that you mention it?"

Nagisa sighed.

"He is hotheaded so I made him wait in the hallway. He just doesn't care when he pisses someone off."

Koro sensei nodded and headed out to the hallway being met with the red haired demon they were just talking about.

"I take it you're the demon."

"You must be the legendary Koro sensei. You killed a lot of demons in your demon hunting days," Karma told him. "Of course I didn't think you'd look like an octupus."

"Too true indeed. Guess not all you demons are interconnected. So Nagisa summoned you and did remarkably well for a first timer."

"True. I know plenty of pros who get it wrong all the time so I wouldn't necessarily praise the effort of a first timer when we don't know how it could have turned out, can we?"

"Indeed, well you are contracted with him so I take it there haven't been any problems?"

Karma stared at Nagisa long and hard but at the silent shake of his head his smirk dropped.

"No there aren't any problems. He just took me to school so that I wouldn't cause mischief while he was away."

Koro sensei just chuckled.

"Obviously Nagisa felt you'd be much better off at school with him then home alone. Not a bad choice but I don't see you in a school uniform."

It was true. Despite being a demon, Karma sure had some nice close. He wore a long sleeve maroon button up with a nice pair of slacks and converse shoes. It was fine when they were at home and he wasn't seen by anybody but now that he was, he had to wear the school uniform.

"Do I really?"

"It'd be rather helpful if you fit in as an ideal student. Nagisa is going to be spending his detentions learning how to bond with you after all."

With a snap of his fingers, Karma was in the school uniform instead. He wore a black cardigan over his shirt and despite his annoyance at having to be in the school, he spiffed up rather nicely.

"There but I'm not doing PE. I'd rather skip."

Nagisa sighed but nodded.

"Okay I guess it's acceptable."

"Now that everyone has been sorted out, let's not miss class students. Remember not to issue any more challenges as you get into far worse trouble. Nagisa a word if you please."

Nagisa stayed back and let his classmates go first. Luckily English was his best subject so he wouldn't miss much if he talked to Koro sensei for a few moments. Once it was just them in the hallway, Koro sensei started.

"Why do you have that bruise? I know you're young and all but you don't seem the type to be rather clumsy-"

"I wasn't watching where I was going and I hit into a wall. I know it seems unreal but concrete against your face hurts. I tried icing it but I don't think I did a well enough job."

Koro sensei seemed a little disappointed at that but when Nagisa went to question why he would be, the yellow octopus sighed and put one of his tentacles on top of Nagisa's head.

"If you were in serious danger would you come to me first."

Nagisa blinked but nodded.

"You bet. If something were wrong you'd be the first to hear from me. Besides you're a great teacher."

"Hmm. Just remember if you ever need any help whatsoever I'm here. So are Karasuma sensei and Bitch sensei. We will listen to whatever you have to say even if it sounds ridiculous okay?"

Nagisa nodded.

Besides having teachers like them was part of the reason he wanted to stay in E class anyways. D class didn't have really have that great of a teacher staff and he when he had been punted down, his D class teacher obviously hadn't cared.

"I can't believe I had to staple so many packets together."

Karma snickered at that.

Sure Koro sensei did say his time in detention would be educational, he still gave him packets to staple together for the hour he stayed after classes had ended. They were in the bulk so he spent the whole time stapling and wondering when the yellow octopus was going to do something other than grade papers but it seemed today wasn't going to be one of those educational days. No it was purely a punishment and Nagisa withstood it because he had to.

"You shouldn't laugh at me. I can make you do all my laundry as payment."

That stopped the red haired demon from snickering but he still smirked.

"Like I care what you make me do. You act like everything is okay when even the teachers know something is up. Koro sensei is not stupid and once he finds out you're getting beaten, he's gonna report it. If he doesn't who knows what would happen. He's all about keeping his reputation as a teacher though so you may want to start covering all your bruises-"

"Mom usually doesn't punch me in the face too often. She forgot the rules because she was angry-"

"Well my bad then. You should maybe remind her that you got a talk from the teachers today. Maybe she'll even apologize before she hits you again."

Nagisa halted to a stop.

"I'm sick of you treating my mom like she's bad. She only does the things she does out of anger. I don't anger her and she is fine. She used to be happy. Dad made her happy but he's gone and got another woman leaving her in the state she is now. I feel for her because it's bad having feelings for someone you know isn't going to return it."

"Humans and love, huh?" Karma asked. "I never understood. People get hurt for the sake of love and even though they set themselves up for heartbreak, they still allow themselves to fall in love. Maybe they should forgo love. They'd feel a lot better."

"There's different kinds of love you know," Nagisa corrected him as he began to walk again. "There's love between friends. There's love between siblings. Sometimes you can't help who you fall in love with. I bet Satan never expected to fall in love with a human-"

"She died so what did it do for him exactly?" Karma was seething now and Nagisa could only guess why. "He's been depressed for a decade now and he forbids any other demon from following him down the path of falling for a human. Not like many demons can anyway because most are just petty demons but it's now against the law."

"I'm sorry if I said something that made you mad just now."

Karma had to blink because a human just apologized to him and he couldn't say he had that before.

"It doesn't matter because you don't understand yet. One day you will and maybe you'll change your mind."

Karma chuckled.

"Fat chance of that happening. I don't do love."

Nagisa smiled back just as he reached the door to his apartment. Making sure Karma knew to keep hidden, he opened the door already expecting his mother to be in one of her moods.

"Where were you?" she asked and Nagisa saw that she already had dinner on the stove. He felt bad for her because she must have had a bad day at work.

"My teacher kept me after class. He's starting this month long lecture to keep those who need extra help from falling behind."

His mother nodded.

"Why did your teacher send me a notice saying that you had detention for a month then? Are you trying to become a delinquent Nagisa? Are you lying to your poor mother in an attempt to get out of punishment-"

"No that's not it mom, there's a good explanation for it and I swear I didn't mean to lie-"

Yanking his arms, Hiromi knocked him forward and not being able to use his arms to catch himself, he fell face forward into the burner and right on his cheek. Nagisa let out a grunt of pain before he could stop himself and saw in the corner of his eyes that Karma's fist had tightened and were shaking slightly like he wanted to hit something. He blinked but next instance his mother was placing him into a chair and gently prodding the reddened area with gentle fingers.

"Are you okay Nagisa? How could you be so clumsy?"

She ignored any protests the blunette had and instead fished for an ice cube which she placed on his cheek. After a moment she checked to see if the redness had lessened some and found it to be a nice pink shade.

"Hold it to your cheek for a little while more Nagisa. I don't want you anywhere near the burner for a while. We'll talk later about your detentions okay?"

Nagisa just nodded even though Karma looked pissed as hell. Maybe he was already in a bad mood about having to school, he didn't know but he did what his mother asked and kept the ice cube firmly in place even though upon first contact, the tempeture of the ice cube burned because she forgot to put something over it.

"You okay?" Karma asked after a few moments of silence.

Nagisa didn't trust himself to speak right now and just nodded his head. Seeing Karma seem worried was new because he thought he didn't care about him.

He waited for Hiromi to deem it fine until he went to his room and closed the door behind him. Karma was still in a mood so he felt it best not to mess with him, especially since he seemed to want to make him order him to kill his mother. It wasn't going to happen but Karma had tricks up his sleeves.

"I'm calling my dad," Nagisa said aloud as he went for his phone.

Karma rolled his eyes.

"You gonna tell your dad that your mom threw you into a burner and blamed it on you?"

Nagisa glared at him.

"She did no such thing. She pulled me and I accidentally went forward into the said burner. Wasn't anyone's fault and I'm fine."

"Keep telling yourself that."

Nagisa had it up with his attitude. Turning to tell him off for his anger, he paused as he remembered the reason why he would be so angry in the first place. His cheek may still be tingling in pain for a little bit, but he didn't get a whole lot of damage this time.

"I've had worse," Nagisa reminded him. "Mom's temper sure seems to be getting the best of her lately."

"I just think you should let go of the notion that you owe her when your dad could have custody of you."

"I don't want dad to have custody of me. If I went then what would happen to my mom?"

Karma sighed but Nagisa ignored him as he dialed the number he had memorized in his phone. It rang a couple of times before his dad picked up, to Nagisa's delight.

"Hey dad," he greeted happily, not allowing Karma's bad mood to bring him down.

"Nagisa, how have you been lately. Is your mother treating you alright?"

Karma scoffed but Nagisa shook his head before answering with the affirmative, "She's mom so she's gonna be strict either way right?"

"I just wanted to make sure she isn't crossing any lines. She does have quite the temper."

Nagisa silently agreed.

"Dad I was wondering if we could meet later sometime this week. We always do something once a month and I haven't seen you a whole lot-"

"Nagisa I would love to but I can't."

Nagisa's heart dropped at hearing that.

When did his father actually refuse to meet with him? He usually was okay with it and would pick the place even. He knew that their time spent wasn't long but it was something that Nagisa looked forward to all month. Why was he saying no now?

"Son, the baby is due to come sometime this week so I can't say I'll meet you and then not be able to do it. I don't want to set you up for failure."

Baby?

His dad was replacing him with another kid that he got from the other woman he married? Akari he belived her name was but he wasn't sure. He had only met her once anyways and she really didn't seem to like him all that much either. So to find out there was a baby that would be coming. Did he really not want him anymore?

"Ah, I'm sorry I called. I didn't realize you were so busy so maybe we can hang out next month and-"

"Nagisa what-"

Nagisa hung up the phone before the tears started to fall. If he was having a son would he further forget that he had another son? Apparently he already stopped paying child support because if his mother was yelling about it, there was some truth to it but he thought his dad was above all of that.

"You look extremely unhappy," Karma said with a frown. "Did he say something wrong?"

"He can't meet with me because of the baby being due this week."

He desperately tried to not cling to the idea of being replaced but he couldn't help it because that's what it looked like and Karma seemed to pick up on it at once.

"So the baby is coming, he could meet up with you next week then."

"He'll want to be with the baby though wouldn't he?"

Karma sighed.

"Why would he replace you? He obviously loves you or he wouldn't meet up with you at all. You have have to mean something to him-"

"Sorry Karma but I don't want to talk about it anymore. I don't think I take hearing that right now."

"You think you're situation is bad? I haven't seen my father in a whole decade except when he wanted to punish me. Mom's been dead for about that long and my brothers aren't that good either. I guess my sister is okay but she has the time of her life causing father distress. He's afraid she's gonna get herself killed by a hunter with all the things she gets up to."

"At least you know they love you."

"Demonic family dynamic isn't carved into stone you know. I can't stand my brothers most days and my father is even worse. He's always so glum."

"Why are you cheering me up again? You made it obvious that you don't like me."

"If I didn't like you then I wouldn't have wanted to devour your soul kid."

Nagisa huffed.

"You like me because of that. It seems rather backwards don't you think.

But he couldn't keep the small smile that made its way onto his face.

Thank you Karma, he thought. You may want to devour me but I think first and foremost we could both use a friend.