Chapter 4: Toning Things Down?

"Okay then!" Negi said getting everyone's attention before turning to Kanade, "Pleased to meet you Kurosaki-san. Take your seat alright?"

"Sure, but sensei, call me Kanade ok? Or unless you got a better pet name for me…" Kanade said slyly.

"THAT'S MORE THAN ENOUGH KANADE-SAN!" Ayaka erupted from her seat and stomped over to Kanade, who was now sitting cross-legged on Negi's desk, "You have no way to talk to Negi-sensei in that manner!"

"Oh shut it, brat." the girl replied harshly, "I really don't care."

"W-WHY YOU….!" she was held back and muffled by Asuna and Konoka while Kanade huffed with a blank annoyed expression.

"Geez Iincho, calm down. She's new." Asuna said.

"You're right, we should have an initiation for entering Class 3-A…" Ayaka mumbled to herself getting out of Asuna's grasp and heading over to the twins.

"Anyways, welcome Kanade-chan. I'm Kagurazaka Asuna." Asuna introduced while she held out a hand. Kanade glanced at it for a while before meeting with a firm handshake.

"Hehe, you don't look that bad. Pleased to meet you Asuna." She looked behind her and saw Konoka idly standing. "And you must be Konoe Konoka." she said as she carefully hopped off the desk, "Nice to meet ya!" she greeted with a grin and a wave as she went to the back row where Zazie Rainyday was sitting. Everyone was catching glances at the odd girl, but it was Evangeline who eyed her suspiciously. Kanade looked at Zazie and she looked at her, both nodded at each other while Kanade silently sat herself down.

"Moving on now, everyone turn to page 45 in your books…" Negi said the class groaned again as he wrote some stuff on the board, then he turned back around, "Today we are studying Edgar Allen Poe, a famous poet known for writing some of the most tragic poems in English Literature. Here we begin to read an excerpt from 'The Tell-Tale Heart'. This poem is written in first person where the narrator has a growing blood thirst for one man and it is all leading up to his murder. Poe uses much vivid language during this poem building up suspense throughout the whole thing. Now who will start…" he wondered aloud as he scoured through the many faces that were avoiding his eyes, "Kanade-san! Why don't you begin?" he called out to the girl who was lost in thought, she tore her gaze from the window and back to Negi looking expectantly at her. She stood up book in hand, took a deep breath, and began,

"TRUE!" she shouted, startling everyone, Kanade continued on with a fluent creepy tone," -nervous -very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses -not destroyed -not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily -how calmly I can tell you the whole story.

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye!" she said pointing at her own, "Yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture -a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees -very gradually -I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever." Kanade stopped eyes closed, when she opened them again, the class was staring at her AGAIN. "Ok this is gonna get annoying really fast…" she grumbled inwardly.

"Thank you Kanade-san! That was beautiful!" exclaimed Negi "Who's next? Asuna!"

"W-wha! Er…. I … FINE!" she managed to get out, "N-now this is the point….. You f-fancy me m-mad. M-m-madmen know nothing. B-but you s-should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I pra-pro-ceeded -with what caution -with what f-f-foresight -with what dis-dis-imu-la-ti-on. AHHHH! I CAN'T DO THIS!" Asuna screamed out loud, they didn't call her Baka Red for nothing. All the while, Kanade watched the sight enfold before her; Asuna marched up to Negi grabbing his shirt and asking why he picked something so hard to read then Ayaka went up to her to pry 'The Monkey' off of Negi who looked like he was getting dizzy. The rest of the girls were betting meal tickets on both girls who were now fighting.

Kanade looked around the room, taking her eyes from the cat-fight to see Chachamaru, a girl with green hair with weird metal ear pieces, "Must be the robot then…" she thought. Then she looked at the blonde girl behind her, she took a whiff of the air, "Hmph, the Dean told me about the Robot but not about this… Well, as long as she doesn't get in my way, I won't hurt her." she then turned to the girl next to her, Zazie, "Huh, she's pretty cool, I didn't even know you can juggle those…" She turned her gaze back to the display in front of her to see more fighting and debate.

"This is gonna be one hell of a first day…" Kanade said in a monotone, secretly getting out her mp3 and choosing a song.

"Mmm…" Zazie agreed next to her still juggling. Both locked eyes again Zazie, giving a welcoming ghost of a smile, Kanade returned the gesture.

"Hm, maybe things will calm down for me here…" Kanade smirked at the thought as her music drowned out the noises of her classmates.

AN: CUT! That's a wrap! Well? What did you think? The first 4 chapters was actually one large chapter but I decided to split it up a little bit. So so far this is the longest chapter of the story! So how will Kanade fare in her new class? well you'll just have to continue reading! I already got the next few chapters but I want to see what you guys think of the first four before I move ahead. Maybe 5-10 reviews for these for chapters? :) BYE THANKS! :D