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The sunlight that entered the room through the small gaps in the blind at the window caused Kenshiro to wake up as they landed on his face. He moved his head to the right, protecting his eyes from the light before he opened them slightly. Confused after the first look at the slightly illuminated room, he had to ask himself where he was before remembering it. The day before was the day he got accepted as a shinobi student of Hanzo and this was the first morning he got to spent in his new home.
After remembering it all he decided it would be the best to stand up and to begin the first day of his new live. But as he tried to move even a single bit he noticed that his body didn´t do as he wanted. In addition it felt slightly heavier than it normally did. To find out what was wrong he moved his head so he was able to look at his body as he noticed a big bulge under the white blanket that laid on top of him. Too big to be his regular morning wood.
He moved the blanket away only to see a person. A girl with long blond hair who was lying on top of his body and as soon as the sunlight touched her body looked up from his chest to his face with her blue-green eyes.
"Good morning, master." she greeted him with a smug smile on her face.
"Katsuragi-san?" he asked irritated, not sure about what was going on.
"You can call me Katsu-nee." Katsuragi suggested.
"Katsuragi-san." he denied her suggestion before returning to the main problem. "Can you tell me what exactly you are doing here?"
"Betting debts." she answered while sitting up. "You won yesterday. So you can do with me whatever you want."
"I see." he said after remembering the whole deal a few seconds later before he took a better look at his new classmate. "And that outfit is there to help you with that?"
She was wearing a black-white maid-uniform. And to top it all brown lop-ears and a brown tail of a dog were attached on her body.
"I thought it would increase the mood." she explained before she moved her hips a little bit only to notice something that widened her smile. "At least one part of you seems to have nothing against it."
"That´s a natural reaction and you know that."
As soon as he finished the sentence someone outside of the room knocked on the closed door before they heard a well known voice from the other side.
"Kenshiro-san?" Asuka´s voice said before she opened the door without waiting for his answer. "I thought I should wake you up because it´s your first da..."
She stopped in the middle of her sentence as soon as she had entered the room and saw her two classmate with Katsuragi still sitting on top of Kenshiro in a more than questionable position. The blonde shinobi´s outfit was only the tip of the iceberg at that moment.
"Good morning, Asuka." Katsuragi greeted the brown-haired girl as this whole situation was the most normal thing in the world. "Do you want to join the fun?"
She watched them for a few seconds, before her face turned glowing red and she started to panic.
"E... Excuse me!" Asuka yelled before storming out and shutting the door behind her.
"Not the best start, huh?" he asked after letting out a deep sigh as he showed a slightly forced smile. "This will need some explanation to clear the problem. But I kind of guessed something like that would happen sooner or later."
The day before:
"He will what!?" was Ikaruga´s shocked reaction after Kiriya explained that the newest member of the class will be living with the girls in the same dorm.
"I know that this is not the best solution." the teacher explained. "But it´s not like we have another choice right now. It´s the only building we have for you and we can´t exactly let a shinobi live in the same dorm as the normal students of this school. Or do you want him to sleep outside?"
"Wouldn´t be the first time." Kenshiro muttered but was ignored immediately.
"That´s not what I want to say." the black-haired girl said worried.
"Hanzo-sama reassured himself that he can be trusted. So I as a teacher trust him and I also trust you that you don´t do something inappropriate." He gave a short look to Katsuragi who only looked back confused about why he looked at her. "You are all here to become strong shinobi. So something like this should be nothing for you if you compare it with everything that awaits you all in the future."
Ikaruga wasn´t able to say anything against it after these words. But that didn´t mean that she was completely convinced.
"I have nothing against it.", Asuka said to her upperclassman´s surprise. "I think it´s a good chance to get to know each other to become an even better team for the future. And I also don´t think that Kenshiro-san will do something inappropriate."
"Same here." Hibari agreed. "I trust him and I want to know him better. So I have nothing against it, too."
"As long as Hibari has nothing against I also have nothing against it." Yagyu stated. "And even he thinks of doing something to us, together we should be able to do something when that happens."
"I´m not sure but when you say this I think that you only wait to be able to do something about me." Kenshiro stated with a forced smile.
"I don´t know how you get this idea." the white-haired girls said but without looking him in the eyes.
"I guess you´re right." Ikaruga confirmed her underclassman´s suggestion before looking at Katsuragi. "What do you think, Katsuragi-san?"
"I don´t see any problem with it." the blonde girl answered. "We are one class and we are shinobi students. So I don´t see a reason why we shouldn´t be able to live together without something happening."
Her words were showing an unfamiliar adult side of her character. But no one was able to see her inner thoughts about what she could do with him if he would live at the same dorm. She had to be careful not to grin while thinking about that.
"Well... If you aren´t against it I shouldn´t be the one to act childish in this situation." Ikaruga said before giving Kenshiro a sternly look. "But at the first signal of you doing something inappropriate you will be thrown out faster than you can guess."
"Don´t worry." the black-haired boy said. "I swear on my honor that I won´t do anything to you."
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That´s what he said to her. And even though this was supposed to go in the wrong direction he never guessed that it wouldn´t even take 24 hours before he kneeled on the ground for an apology. At least he wasn´t alone as Katsuragi was kneeling right next to him while an angered Ikaruga stood before them, looking down on her two classmates with stern look on her face. All members of the class were already wearing their school uniforms.
"I can´t believe it." she said with her hands on her hips. "No. I actually guessed it. But I had hoped it would take at least longer than one night for something to happen."
"To my defense." Kenshiro said with an uneasy grin on the face. "I was asleep most of the time. So I couldn´t really control the situation."
"Be quiet!" she told him making him twitch. "What you two did is no way for a shinobi student of Hanzo to act. That... That..." She wasn´t able to say it and turned slightly red before shaking her head to make the new color and her thoughts disappear. "What I want to say is that this can´t be overlooked."
"I didn´t do anything wrong to earn this.", Katsuragi muttered.
"I said be quiet!" Now she made the blonde shinobi student twitch.
"I think you´re overreacting, Ikaruga-san." Asuka said from behind her where she stood together with Hibari and Yagyu. "At the end it was my misinterpretation. So you shouldn´t be harsh on them."
"You stay out of this!" Ikaruga told her making the brown-haired girl twitch before she sighed to calm herself down. "I get that in the end you did nothing wrong, Kenshiro-san. But with you being part of this situation, even if you were sleeping it doesn´t make it better. As leader of this class I can´t just overlook it. And I don´t even want to start with you, Katsuragi-san. I hope you understand that this case won´t be dropped just like that."
"Yes..." they both said depressed while lowering their heads.
"Now that this is cleared we should go." Yagyu suggested. "Or we all have to listen to one of sensei´s lecture instead of only the two of them because we´re too late."
"You´re right." Ikaruga confirmed.
"Seems like they already decided that Kiriya-sensei is going punish us for your little stunt." Kenshiro stated.
"Doesn´t surprise me." Katsuragi said before looking at him. "Seems like we have to move our little game to another day."
"Is this really the moment to be saying something like this?" the black-haired boy wanted to know.
A few minutes later the group was already outside on their way to school. It was still early in the morning so the town was still rather empty outside as they walked along the streets while talking.
"I´m sorry that you had to witness this, Asuka-san." Kenshiro apologized. "Wasn´t the best first impression I could have given you."
"It´s okay." Asuka said, still slightly red while thinking about what she saw but with a smile on her face. "It´s not like something bad happened. I´m rather sorry that you were lectured after you just moved in."
"I just can´t understand why we have to be punished." Katsuragi said. "I just wanted to have a little fun. You really should have joined us, Asuka."
"Again! Stop it!" Kenshiro told her while Asuka´s face became even redder.
"I don´t really understand what happened." Hibari said irritated and looked at Yagyu. "Did Katsu-nee und Kenshiro-kun do something bad?"
"I wouldn´t say that they did something bad. Rather something that can be misunderstood very easily." her white-haired friend explained but only was able to confuse Hibari more. "You don´t have to understand it if you can´t yet. You will learn about it sooner or later."
"I find it interesting that you are saying that we did nothing bad but still are implying that we will get punished by Kiriya-sensei." Kenshiro stated.
"This and that are two different things." Yagyu told him. "I only said what is highly to be expected."
"I never met a person with such a mysterious personality like you, Yagyu-san." the boy said with a slightly forced smile on his face while lowering his gaze what made the other girls laugh.
The only one not joining the conversation was Ikaruga. She was a few steps behind the rest of the group following them while watching the black-haired boy with a stern look on her face. She just wasn´t able to trust him completely. Something about him didn´t let her be calm and it had nothing to do with the situation that morning. It was her instinct telling her to be careful about him.
"You unusual cautious." she heard Yagyu´s voice saying beside her who slowed down a bit to match her upperclassman´s pace while the others were still talking in front of them. "Do you think we shouldn´t trust him?"
"I´m not sure myself." the black-haired girl answered. "Hanzo-sama and Kiriya-sensei are trusting him and I can´t think of him as a bad person. Not to forget that he is a capable shinobi. But... I just don´t know. Something about him just doesn´t seem right."
"Like you´re not able to read him as easy as others?" her underclassman tried.
"What do you mean?" Ikaruga asked confused.
"It´s a little difficult to explain. But as I look at him I am able to slightly sense an aura which I haven´t experienced yet. It´s not bad but I can feel a darkness, hidden deep inside of him. As if he has something what he doesn´t want to talk about."
"I don´t say it quite often but you have some amazing talents." Ikaruga said, not sure what to think about her words for a few seconds. "But if you are able to feel something like this, don´t you want to know more?"
"Not really." Yagyu answered. "And even if we would force him to tell us, it wouldn´t bring us any good. Especially for him. If he wants to tell us one day it´s okay. But until then we shouldn´t enter his privacy against his will."
"Maybe you´re right." Ikaruga said but still wasn´t able to leave that thought behind.
Minutes later they all were assembled inside the hidden room of the abandoned school-building. Kneeling in a row on the ground in front of their teacher, they were listening to his instructions.
"As I said yesterday Kenshiro will now be an official member of our class." Kiriya explained to them. "Like Asuka he will be a second-year student. So I want you to look a bit after him as he gets used to be here."
"I´ll count on you, Asuka." Kenshiro said to her brown-haired classmate with a bow.
"I´ll try my best to help you. So just ask me if you have a question." she replied smiling.
"The training-sessions are going to be slightly different now." their teacher continued. "Partner-exercises will automatically be done in pairs of class level if not told otherwise. That means Ikaruga works with Katsuragi, Asuka with Kenshiro and Yagyu with Hibari. Other changes are going to be explained in time. That should be all for now. Does anyone have a question before we start today´s lesson?"
No one was even raising a hand let alone raising a voice. After waiting a few seconds to be sure that there really are no questions left he started with his lesson for the next hours before they went to the gym for practical training. As they entered it, they noticed multiple wood boards as big as skateboards in different heights in the air fixed with ropes from the ceiling so they don´t fall down.
"For today´s training you will play a little game of tag in mid-air." Kiriya explained his students. "One is the hunter and the others are the targets. As soon as the hunter touches one of the targets or one of them touches the ground that target will be out, staying on the ground and isn´t allowed to enter the game unless one of the targets who are still in the game touches the target without touching the ground itself. The game ends when all the targets are out at the same time or if five minutes after the start there is still at least one target left in the game. Any questions?"
"What happens if the hunter touches the ground?" Ikaruga asked.
"All the targets that are out of the game are allowed to enter it again. Other questions?" No other question was asked, before the teacher turned around and started to leave. "Then I will leave the rest to you. I still have some things to do and will come back when the lesson is finished."
"Is it normal that Kiriya-sensei doesn´t supervise the training?" Kenshiro asked after their teacher left the gym.
"Normally not." Asuka told him. "But it happens at some times. Rarely he doesn´t give us any instructions for training and leaves it completely to us. But that happens only once or twice a month if it even happens."
"As future shinobis we should be able to handle situations like this without any problems." Ikaruga explained after her classmate was finished speaking. "It shows that the sensei trusts us."
"And there is much less pressure compared to when he watches us nonstop." Katsuragi said with a big grin.
"If you just wouldn´t take advantage of it almost every time." her black-haired classmate admonished her.
"I still do what I have to do." the blonde shinobi tried to remind her. "I´m just faster than normally."
After a short moment of chuckles from everyone they returned to the given task and after a short game of rock-paper-scissors it was decided that Kenshiro was the first hunter while the girls became his targets.
"So... Should we just start?" Hibari asked after the roles were decided.
"I say that I as the hunter decide on which of these boards I want to start before you can decide your starting points." Kenshiro suggested.
"Seems to be fair." Ikaruga agreed. "Then we wait until you are in the air, Kenshiro-san."
"Okay."
The boy turned his attention to the wooden boards in the air and thought about it for a few seconds before he made his decision. He walked to the other end of the room before jumping to the most left board in the last row. As soon as he made contact, said board started to shake very strong, making it difficult for him to keep his balance.
"Because the boards are fixed in the air by ropes from the ceiling they are a very unstable, giving this whole game another challenge." Kenshiro told himself before he was able to stand properly on it and turned to the girls. "I´m ready!"
"And here I thought he would decide on the middle to be closer to everyone." Asuka said slightly irritated.
"I bet he has his own strategy to win this." Ikaruga told her. "He won´t hold back. So we shouldn´t do it either."
"Yes!" the other girls replied before they decided on their starting points and jumped to the air.
Asuka chose the most right board at the first row and Ikaruga a board two rows in front of her. Katsuragi starting point was a board most left in the fourth row, making her the closest target to the hunter. Everyone knew that she wanted to challenge him. Yagyu and Hibari chose two boards right next to each other on the left side in the last row.
Hibari almost lost her balance was threatened to fall down on the ground only seconds after getting up. But Yagyu next to her helped her to stay on the board.
"You should be careful, Hibari." she told her friend.
"Thank you, Yagyu-chan." her pink-haired friend said. "It is really difficult to keep standing on these."
"It will be even more difficult to move around like this." Asuka said trying her best to keep her own balance.
"The same goes for the hunter." Ikaruga told them. "If possible we should work together to avoid him."
"This time you won´t have it that easy!" Katsuragi said to Kenshiro. "I´m about to get my revenge for yesterday!"
"So much for working together..." her black-haired classmate muttered to herself before speaking directly to her. "The meaning of this exercise is to avoid the hunter! Not getting in contact with him! It brings us nothing if you just want to brawl!"
"Don´t worry!" the blonde shinobi said to her. "I will make sure that we will win this!"
"As if I talk to a wall..."
"Are you ready?" Kenshiro asked after they were finished with their discussion.
"Yes!" Ikaruga told him. "You can start!"
"All right! Here I come!"
Kenshiro started jumping from board to board diagonally across the field. After a few jumps the girls started to move, too. Each one of them chose a different direction. The boy kept his course until the last seconds, watching each of them move as if he didn´t know who to hunt first until suddenly changing his course by turning slightly left and improving his speed. His first target was Asuka who was still in the process of jumping at that moment.
The brown-haired girl was slightly shocked about that sudden and as soon as she landed on one of the boards she immediately jumped backwards to the board she was before. Unfortunately she didn´t have the time to look and jumped back a bit too strong, flying over the board. She wasn´t able to recover and was about to fly to the ground. But she was stopped by Kenshiro who instead stood on the board and held her hand to prevent her from falling down.
"You should look around before you start to move." he told her with a grin. "Especially in situations like this."
"I´ll try to remember it." she agreed slightly embarrassed before he let her go and she was able to safely land on the ground.
"So that´s the reason why he chose that position." Ikaruga said as Kenshiro turned to the other girls. "He was able to keep an eye at all of us. And because we stood so close to each other the possibilities of evasion were almost zero. Asuka didn´t have another choice but to jump back and he used that to his advantage. He truly is one of a kind."
"What should I do now?" Asuka asked while standing on the ground. "Just stand here like this and wait."
"I think it´s okay for you to move around as long as you stay on the ground." her black-haired upperclassman told her. "Try to get into positions so we can get you back into the game."
"Not that it will be easier for us." Yagyu continued to the other girls surprise. "There are only a few points low enough that we could touch her without hitting the ground ourselves. Katsuragi-senpai!"
"Yes?" the blonde shinobi asked.
"Try to get Asuka-senpai back at the corner in the first row!" the white-haired girl told her upperclassman.
"As you which!" she answered before jumping forward into the direction of Kenshiro.
"Too easy..." he muttered before jumping forward himself while looking at Katsuragi.
"I don´t think so." he heard a familiar sounding voice of a girl saying to his surprise.
While he was in the air he noticed that the board he tried to land on started to move to the side. The cause of it was Yagyu who grabbed one of the ropes of the board and pulled it towards herself before she started to move to the position she told Katsuragi about herself, making him live through the same situation as Asuka a few seconds earlier.
But Kenshiro already considered that. Instead of the moving board he flew towards the board in front of it even thought he was never able to land on it with his feet. So instead he grabbed the board and swung himself around it like a gymnast at the horizontal bar before launching into the direction of the white-haired girl.
He wasn´t able to reach her with that launch but instead he kicked the board behind her, making it clash with the board she was standing on causing her to struggle and trying her best to not fall down. That was his chance to get near and to lay his hand on her back.
"Nice try." he said to her. "But just not fast enough."
She said nothing and only looked at him before letting out a sigh and jumping down to the ground where Asuka was already.
"And the next one." he said as he turned around to the other three girls afterwards. "Any volunteers?"
"It´s really a game for him." Ikaruga said slightly frustrated. "Even though I knew he is strong I still underestimated him."
"Seems like I have no other choice." Katsuragi told the girls and jumped in front of them. "I´ll take care of him somehow. You two concentrate on getting the others back into the game. Got it?"
"Normally I would say something about your risky style." her black-haired classmate said. "But it seems to be the only way. But make sure to keep enough distance so that he can´t get you!"
"Of course!" the blonde girl said before jumping forward to Kenshiro´s position.
"So she really wants to do this that way." the black-haired boy said to himself.
He was about to jump forward, too. But as soon as he crouched down for the jump Katsuragi turned around in mid-air before delivering a strong kick with her right foot causing a wind strong enough to shackle the boards in front of her, including the one he stood on.
Kenshiro struggled a little before jumping upwards in the air. The blonde girl followed his course in the air with her eyes before being able to see where he would land. With another kick she hit exactly that board making it move backwards before she looked up to him only to be shocked by the fact that his objective was not to land on that board.
With the board moving forward the ropes attached to it were close to him now. So he gapped it with one of his hands and swung himself into her direction. She tried to move away but was not fast enough as he touched the top of her head while flying over her before he landed on the board behind her.
"Oh, come on!" she yelled while looking at him angrily. "Is there something you can´t do?"
"Still looking for it." he answered while shrugging with his shoulders. "Tell me if you find something."
She stuck out her tongue at him before jumping to the ground and joining Asuka and Yagyu. Afterwards he looked at the two last targets while thinking about what to do next.
'Hibari-san seems to have trouble with even just standing on the boards.', he thought. 'As hard as it may sound for her, she shouldn´t be a big problem as long as I keep her in check a little. The bigger problem is Ikaruga. From what I was able to see already I can say that she is the smartest of the five. It shouldn´t be a problem for her to think of a plan if I give her time. So I should just attack her.'
As soon as he finished his thoughts he started to jump to Ikaruga who didn´t know what to do and just started to run away. Hibari who watched that scene from the side was starting to panic therewhile.
"I... I help you!" she told her classmate ignoring the fact that it would have been better for her to bring the other girls back into the game, especially if she had known what would happen afterwards.
After a few jumps Hibari didn´t watch out and stumbled over one of the boards. Kenshiro who wasn´t looking at her for one second and only noticed her when it was already too late. The two of them crashed into each other before they flow at Ikaruga who wasn´t able to react to. They crashed into her, too before they crashed on the ground shortly afterwards.
It took a few seconds for Kenshiro to realize that they were all on the ground now. He felt a light weight on his back so he knew that one of the girls was lying on top of it. But the problem was not about what was on his hand. It was the soft feeling he had inside his right hand.
Hibari who was the one lying on his back grunted in pain while rubbing her the back of her head while he looked up only to see Ikaruga´s shocked expression on her face as she looked at him. His right hand of course was lying on top of her left breast. It took a few seconds in which the three of them didn't move even an inch and before he was able to apologize a loud slap was heard through the whole gym.
Kenshiro may have won the game as he was able to touch both Ikaruga and Hibari because of the accident before they landed on the ground. But he wasn´t sure if the price for it was worth it as he had to go through the next rounds while having a red glowing imprint of Ikaruga´s hand across the left side of his face.
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Ouch! That sure didn´t go as Kenshiro planned it. But not everything can go smoothly. Bad for him. But good as entertainment for you.
Before I get to the comments I want to apologize first. I don´t know what happened but for a short while after I uploaded the chapter last week it became unreadable. I was able to clear the problem but I want to apologize for it properly.
Now to the comments.
ClyxicRyse: First of all thank you for telling me about the problem. I haven´t noticed it myself so I would have left it just like that if you hadn´t told me. And I´m glad that you liked the chapter nonetheless. I´ll try my best to keep it up.
Shadow Joestar: Glad you liked it. And yes. There will be more than a few situations to deal with. And not all of them will bring the team closer.
Guest: I´m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the review.
Itsuki Minami1: Wow! Thanks for that great review. To be honest I´m not that new to this scene. I already wrote a few stories but in German like Boku no Hero Academia or Strike Witches. Maybe I´ll translate them in the future. But for now I want to concentrate on this story. For your suggestion... I already had something like that in mind but I have many other ideas I want to write, too. I´ll see what I can do but I´ll remember it.
That´s it for this week. It´s a little bit earlier in the week but I was already finished with this chapter and didn´t see a reason to wait. Hope you like it and see you next week.
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Preview:
The first training ends. But not as Kenshiro hoped. He is still not able to gain her full trust and their accident didn´t really help. And to make the situation worse as soon as he gets the chance to talk to her mysterious figures appear and they don´t have nice intentions with the two students.
Next time: Trouble Approaches