Chapter 6: Lessons and Bell Tests
Their stares hurt, their disappointed looks hurt. They hurt more than the jabs from the other students. They were his family but at some times he felt as if they hated his every being. He was a failure he was suppose to be elite but he wasn't.
"Why can't you be more like your brother?"
"He's what an Uchiha should be,"
"Why are you the dead last?"
"You should be at the top of your class,"
"You're an Uchiha. Act like it,"
"-Ack, Black, Black!"
"Huh," I looked up from the table.
"Black I've been trying to get your attention for the past 5 minutes," Professor Greengrass said.
"Sorry," I apologized.
"-Sigh- Whatever Black, here's your timetable," She handed a piece of paper which I took. I looked at it.
Monday
9:00 – 10:30 Double Potions with Gryffindor
10:40 – 11:50 Double Charms with Hufflepuff
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 Double Transfiguration with Ravenclaw
2:30 – 4:00 Double Arithermancy with Gryffindor
4:00 – 7:00 Free Period
7:00 – 9:00 Dinner
Tuesday
9:00 – 10:30 Double .A with Gryffindor
10:40 – 11: 50 Free Period
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 Double Ancient Runes with Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, and Hufflepuff
2:30 – 4:00 Herbology
4:00 – 6:00 Care of Magical Creatures
7:00 – 9:00 Dinner
Wednesday
5:00 – 8:00 Muggle Martial Arts with all of 3rd year and Gryffindor and Slytherin from 4th year
9:00 – 10:30 History of Magic
10:40 – 11: 50 Double Transfiguration with Ravenclaw
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 Double Arithermancy with Gryffindor
2:30 – 4:00 Double Ancient Runes with all Houses
4:00 – 6:00 free Period
7:00 – 9:00 Dinner
Thursday
9:00 – 10:30 Double Potions with Gryffindor
10:40 – 11:50 Double Charms with Hufflepuff
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 History of Magic
2:30 – 4:00 Care of Magical Creatures
4:00 – 7:00 Free Period
7:00 – 9:00 Dinner
10:00 – 12:00 Astronomy
And so on the list went. I had signed up for CoMC along with Runes and Arithermancy as my extra courses. It looked as though my first class would have Akira in it.
…
I sat in my usual seat at the back, and watched the rest of the class fill into the room. I saw Akira sit with the Joel twins, one had light brown hair in a braid that went half way down her back, she was the younger of the twins her name was Alyssa. The other had dark brown hair in a ponytail and grayish blue eyes, she was the older of the twins her name was Aryssa. I had been suspicious of Alyssa for quite some time it seemed as though she appeared out of nowhere in the middle of November of my first year and yet everyone remembered her from the beginning of the year.
"Mr. Black sit with Ms. Mitarashi, Ms. Joel, and Ms. Joel. You will be paired with Ms. Mitarashi. So sorry Ms. Mitarashi but you're new and you don't have a potions partner and no one else will pair with Mr. Black," Slughorn said while apologizing to Akira. I moved to the front where Akira was seated. At least I know what to expect from her, or at least what not to expect from her.
"Hello, Mitarashi Akira," Anko said.
"Regulas Black or in your language Black Regulas, Nice to meet you Mitarashi," I said politely. I held out my hand for her to shake, she didn't, I let it drop and shrugged my shoulders. Oh well I wasn't really expecting her to shake it was just polite, I didn't want to anger her, no way, because if she decides she hates you right off the bat she'll never let you have a moments peace. I caught her staring at me.
"What," I asked.
"Nothing," she said hotly.
"Yeah well pay attention," I said.
"Fine," she said and turned her attention to the front.
"Today we will be doing the Shrinking Potion," Slughorn said then tapped the board and the ingredients appeared.
Shrinking Potion
Chopped daisy roots
Skinned shrivelfig
Sliced caterpillar
One rat spleen
Dash of leech juice
"What the hell, it's like some little kid got bored so they decided to make their special 'Potion of life' or something," Anko said. She was right of course. It sounded, would look, smell, and taste like some little kid got bored so they decided to go to the kitchen and make a special 'Potion of *insert name here*'.
"Huh," everyone in the room said.
"Sometimes Muggle children get bored when their left alone at home so they will go into the kitchen and dump random ingredients with random amounts of random stuff into a container of random sizes and they would call their concoction random names but they usually start with 'Potion'," I said. Everyone stared at me. (A/N I actually did this when I was 8-10 years old, it's how I found out how baking powder works)
"What?" I asked.
"You're a Pureblood," Someone said.
"And?" I asked.
"How do you know what Muggle children do when they're bored?" another asked.
"I read it in the library," I said.
"Now, now children get your ingredients and hurry, and Black if you disrupt my class again you will get detention," Slughorn said. Everyone got their ingredients.
"Mitarashi, chop the daisy roots, chop them evenly okay. I will skin the shrivelfig," I said.
"Okay," she said grudgingly. Great what did I do now to upset her?
We started our potions but it didn't take 10 minutes before Akira did something wrong. Akira was about to put the leech juice in but it was too much. I looked around Slughorn was busy with Lacey's and Alex's potion so I turned to Akira, she was about to put it in.
"No, that's too much," I whispered.
"Black what did I saw about disturbing the class," Slughorn said.
"…." I said nothing it would just make it worse.
"Detention, Friday night 9:00 I expect to see you here," He said. Ugggggggg, the first day and already detention! Everyone except Akira, the Joel twins, Lacey, Alex, Cody, Alice, and Eric snickered.
"Fine," I said. Slughorn turned away. I wrote on a piece of paper and passed it and an eyedropper to Akira.
She read it then nodded at me.
….
It was Wednesday the day that we had our MM class. I woke up at precisely 4:30 got ready then preceded to wake up the rest of my roommates.
"Hey Zelda, Zelda, ZELLLLLDAAAAAAAA," I yelled.
"Whoa," Zelda jumped out of bed.
"What the hell, Black," Zelda said.
"It's Wednesday," I said. Then walked over to Eclipse's bed ripped the curtains open then ripped the cover off of him.
"Wake up Eclipse," I said, then pushed him off the bed.
"Bloody hell, Black," He said.
Then I went to Lacey's bed opened the curtains pushed her cover to the floor then shook her gently. When she didn't wake up I said, "Lacey it's time to wake up, Lace. ALICE WAKE UP," she still didn't wake up. So I went to the bathroom filled a cup with water went back to her bed put my hand in the water then sprinkled it on to her face. She stirred but didn't wake up so I put the cup over her face then tipped it over so all of the freezing cold water fell onto her face.
She jumped up.
"What the bloody hell Black," she yelled. I started walking out the room; I had opened the door and was halfway out the room before I stopped.
"It's 4:45, you have 15 minutes to get ready and be down at the grounds before you're late. It's Wednesday, remember?" I called over my shoulder before I closed the door.
"Oh Thanks," she said in a sheepish voice.
…..
We were all on the school grounds, most of the kids were late the latest being a group of Gryffindor boys, surprisingly not the marauders, they were 17 minutes late. In fact the only ones on time were Akira, the Joel twins, Lacey, Alex, Cody, Sev (who I had also woken up), Lilly, Will, and me.
"Mitarashi Akira, Joel Aryssa, Joel Alyssa, Prewitt William, Evans Lilly, Snape Severus, Zelda Alexei, Eclipse Cody, and Black Regulas 25 laps around the lake now," Professor Yume said as she appeared out of nowhere, I had noticed she had been there the whole time. Everyone else snickered thinking we were being punished. 25 laps around the lake, eh. Easy.
"And the rest of you 50 laps, what are you staring at you were late. I don't take well to tardiness. Now all of you," Professor Yume said.
It was easy but I had to pretend that it wasn't. The first one done was Akira, the next Alyssa, then Aryssa, then I finished.
When everyone was done Professor Yume started talking again.
"Now everyone started doing 40 pushed ups, then do 40 sit-ups, then do 40 crunches," she ordered.
A Hufflepuff girl raised her hand.
"Yes,"
"What are push-ups, sit-ups, and crunches," The girl asked.
"Does anyone know what these are," Professor Yume asked. A few hands rose all of them muggle borns.
"Okay everyone, watch Evans Lilly, Stone Allen, Joel Aryssa, Joel Alyssa, and Mitarashi Akira," she said. They demonstrated all three.
"There now everyone, do exactly what they are doing," Professor Yume said.
30 minutes later
Everyone was finally done.
"Okay now that the warm-up is done…" Professor Yume was interrupted by Potter.
"Warm-up that was no warm-up that was torture," Potter said.
"Potter that was not torture back home kids under 10 did more than that," Professor Yume said.
"You're kidding," Potter said.
"I am not and you're a pureblood right?" Potter nodded. "And Black is one too?" he nodded again, where was she going with this? "Well he didn't seem to have any trouble with waking up on time, getting down here on time, he even finished in fourth place in his laps, and he didn't have any problems with any of the warm up. How exactly is it torture when someone younger than you had no trouble with it when he did almost the same amount as you," she said.
"…." Potter didn't have an answer for that.
"As I was saying now that we're done with the warm-ups we will have a test," She said. Everyone except for Akira, the Joel twins, and me groaned.
"I will put you into groups of three. Joel Aryssa, Joel Alyssa, and Mitarashi Akira please come up here," they did as told, she gave them something. "Each of them have 4 sets of two bells in their hands, I have 6 sets of two. Each group can only take two bells." they showed us their bells. "The ones that manage to get the bells win the ones that don't have to do 50 more laps around the lake." She finished. She was going to split us into 13 groups by calling our names.
"Group 1 – Zelda Alexei, Prewitt Alice, Pettigrew Peter,"
"Group 2 – Evans Lilly, Black Cissa, Lupin Remus,"
"Group 3 – Stone Allen, Sutherland Levon, Malfoy Lucius,"
"Group 4 – Black Sirius, Potter James, Black Regulas,"
I stopped listening when I heard my name; I was in the same group as Potter. I knew the bell test was specifically to pit teammates against each other and to see if they could use teamwork. But really did you have to put me with Potter. It was like being paired with Kakashi all over again except I didn't have a crush on Potter s it was a million times worse.
"You have till 7: 30," that was only an hour.
"Okay, go,"
Everyone tried to get the bells but it never worked.
I pulled Potter and Sirius away from the other idiots.
"What the bloody hell, Black," Potter said.
"Oh shut up Potter. You two are idiots," I said.
"How exactly are we idiots," Sirius said.
"Why do you think we are in a team of three when there are only two bells?" I asked.
"Don't know, don't care. I just don't want to have to do more laps," Potter said. Honestly Potter doesn't even use his brain for anything except bullying/pranks.
"You idiot you can't honestly expect to get a bell form someone who has been trained in the martial arts since she was a kid, by yourself, honestly," I said.
"Okay fine I get your point. So what are we going to do," He asked grudgingly.
"This,"
….
I crept up behind Akira while Potter and Sirius were distracting her. I watched the bells that were tied around her waist.
Just a little longer.
Just a little more.
Ah got ya. I closed my hand around both bells and yanked. Then I set off at a run circleling around Anko to where Potter and Sirius were.
"So you managed to get the bells but you teammates didn't," she said.
"Watch closely," I said, and then I handed one to Potter and then the other to Sirius.
"So now you don't have one," she said.
"Actually all the teacher said was we had to get a bell, I did and then I gave them to my teammates. The whole purpose of this test was to see if you could work together and not fight over who got a bell or not because if you have teamwork you can beat any opponent," I said. She looked at me dumbfounded.
End of Chapter
Merry Christmas... Depending where you are.
I have realized two things.
1. Christmas is the only day of the where my whole immediate family (meaning my mom and siblings) are all in one room together all at the same time.
and 2. even though your grandmother may buy you clothes nearly every time she gives you a birthday/Christmas present does not mean she knows what kind of clothes you like or your size.
so how did you like the chapter, love it hate it tell me, oh and under no condition will Akira and Obito/Regulas get together.
I'm going to be writing a valentine's special for Valentine's day, so two things.
1. please review and tell me who you want paired with who, you can even pair Regulas with some one but he will not stay with them for more than a year. they can be Gay or straight pairings I don't really care.
2. You can't Akira with anyone from the muraders except for Remus Lupin.
please review.
Bye :D
