Karma stood at the usual corner, waiting for Nagisa. He stared into the sky, deep in thought. A smile crept across his face. He has been thinking over a clever little plan to get back at the girls. All he need was a little help from a certain blue hair boy.
"Morning Karma!" Nagisa ran up to the red head and gave him a tight hug. "I'm sorry..." Nagisa started to apologize for a reason unknown to Karma.
Karma return the hug. "Sorry for what? If it's about the other day, then relax. I forgive you already."
"No, it's not that. My mother found out I skipped school and I can't leave the house for the next few weeks." Nagisa stepped back from the hug. "I knew how much you were looking forward to this weekend."
"I see, we will find a way around that predicament later." Karma grabbed a hold of Nagisa's hand and started to walk. "So Koro-sensei called your mother for missing one day of class. I'm not surprise, you never missed class before so he probably panic or something like that."
"It's not that, but apparently someone told him that I was skipping class with Kayano. So that must mean she never went to class yesterday." Nagisa stated.
"I guess she didn't feel like going to class after what happened. I'm also wondering who knew that she was with you, in order to tell Koro-sensei."
"It was most likely Nakamura, she and Kayano both walked to school with me the first day you were gone." Nagisa replied.
"Well, what ever did happen, I can't let this go unpunished." Karma grinned.
"Eh? What do you mean?" Nagisa became concerned about the look upon the red head's face.
"Not only did she nearly destroyed our friendship, but she also got you in trouble and now I have to wait longer till we can hang out after school." Karma placed his chin in his hand as he pondered. "Now what would be the best way to get pay back."
"Can we let this one slide?" Nagisa said with a worried expression. "All these revenge schemes just seem to be making things worse."
"You may stop me from doing it, but you can't stop me from plotting it." Karma said as he playfully pushed into Nagisa as they walked.
All Nagisa could do was sigh as he felt another long day ahead of him.
Later that afternoon.-
Koro-sensei was standing before the class, writing notes on the chalk board faster then his students could follow. He looked over at the clock. "Oh my, the day sure rushes by." He laid down the chalk and turn to face the class. "I hope you all learned a lot today, and remember to study for Friday's test." He picked up a folder off his desk. "Now then, will the following students please remain after class; Nagisa, Karma, Sugino, Kayano, Nakamura and Okuda. The rest of you are dismissed and I wish you a wonderful evening."
The students looked back and forth at the several classmates whose names were called. It wasn't unusual for Koro-sensei to talk to one or two of them after class to help them with any trouble they had with a lesson, but for so many to be called at once was strange. Everyone packed their bags and headed home for the evening. When outside a few of them begun to talk about those who had to stay.
"So what do you think that was all about?" Terasaka pondered as several others walked past him.
"I don't know, I wonder what happen to have the octopus to have them all stay." Okajima replied.
"Want to listen in? The window is cracked open. I'm curious to see what is going on." Yoshida suggested. A dozen other students nodded in agreement as they began to sneak into position under the window. They all remain quiet as they listen to the conversation inside.
Meanwhile inside the school building, the six student stood before their teacher. An uneasy feeling crept through all of their spines.
"So does anyone here want to take a guess as to why I kept you after class?" Koro-sensei asked while looking over the group. They all just looked at him with semi guilty expressions on their faces, they all knew why, but weren't willing to admit it out loud. "Well, let me start from the beginning then." He coughed to clear his throat. "The other day I conducted the monthly maintenance on Ritsu, and I found a batch of missing surveillance recordings and her inner supply stock almost depleted."
"Huh? Wait, what surveillance recording? You mean she records everything that happens around her?" Kayano asked with a panic tone.
"Of course. Judging by the genuine shock on your face, and the fact that there was a few recording of you talking to her after school, leaves me to suspect it wasn't you." Koro-sensei nodded. He pulled out a piece of candy from his pocket. "Kayano, I do believe you are the one response able for using up Ritsu's inner supply cache to make these little candies." He begun to unwrap the sweet.
Only three of them knew what those candies contain. The others looked over and gave her a questionable look, wondering as to why she would have the A.I make her candy.
Koro-sensei plopped the candy into his mouth. Causing Kayano, Karma and Nagisa to panic.
"Don't eat that!" Kayano screamed out at the teacher.
"Huh? Whats wrong, it tastes perfectly fine." Koro-sensei said while he watched as some of his student panic at the sight of him eating the sweet.
"Sir! Those candies Ritsu made are laced with a potion, you shouldn't eat those!" Kayano continued to scream out.
"Kayano, you know that I'm immune to all poisons, so there's no need to worry." the octopus laughed at his student's concern for him.
"'It's not poison! It's a love potion! Spit it out right now!" Kayano exclaimed.
"Oh? So is that why you guys have been doing? And here I thought that several of my students were making some sort of recreational drug." Koro-sensei mimicked the act of wiping sweat of his brow. "Well, that relieves a few of my fears, and don't worry, I'm still immune to almost all side effects of drugs. Even so, this candy is from my personal stash, all I need was to trick you into confessing to what you guys were doing." Green horizontal stripes appeared on his face,
Kayano dropped to the floor, relieved that her teacher didn't eat any of the tainted candies.
"Kayano! You made love potion candies?" Nakamura asked as she looked down at the green hair girl next to her. She only received a nod in response.
"So wait, if that was it, why were the rest of us called here?" Karma motioned to everyone else in the room.
"Well, she may have used Ritsu's supply cache, but she wasn't the one tampering with Ritsu's surveillance logs. If I'm not mistaking, the only clue I could find was that after the moments that were erased there was a brief glimpse of a red head walking out of the room as her recording system restarted."
Karma's smug grin left his face. He was so careful to erase everything that could reveal anything that involved Nagisa and him. He knew that the surveillance would resume recording after several seconds after he deleted the video of him walking up to the machine, but he swore he sprinted out the door fast enough to avoid being caught.
"Well, what is your reason for deleting the surveillance videos?" Koro-sensei focus his gaze upon the red head.
"Well," Karma began to rub his neck, "let us just say something embarrassing happened and I didn't want anyone to find out. I knew Ritsu saves all the recordings from the classroom, so after class I deleted them so no one could find out what happened."
"I see." Koro-sensei rubbed a tentacle under his chin. "So what did happen, no one is allowed to leave until I find out."
Karma stepped forward. "Well there's no hiding it now." He turned and pointed and Kayano. "She wanted Nagisa to go out with her but she couldn't convince him. So Nakamura got an idea to trick him into it. So she got Okuda to make a love potion and they tried to give it to Nagisa."
The others that were listening in from outside were all shocked at what they heard.
Karma took a deep breath from the long explanation he was giving to Koro-sensei. "When she gave him the love potion he was temporarily head over heels for her and kissed her. After Sugino and I manage to separate the two, I had the girls leave as I tried to talk some sense into Nagisa. He was quite embarrassed with what had happen, so to comfort him I told him I'll make sure no one would find out about what happened, so I manage to convince everyone involved to keep it a secret and I deleted the security footage since I knew that Ritsu has a twenty four-seven hour surveillance system. As for what happened yesterday, I can't say since I just got home last night." Karma looked over at the others. "That pretty much sums it up.
"Oh my!" Nakamura exclaimed as she glued the pieces together in her head. "Kayano you gave Nagisa love potion candies and that is why you two missed class the other day!" A wide grin spread across her face. Her mind wondered at what could of happened between the two.
"I did eat the candy, and after I found out that it had the love potion in it I skipped class to wait for the effects to wear off." Nagisa said while trying to prevent the blond from spouting any wild accusations.
Kayano nodded her head in agreement, playing along with Karma and Nagisa's cover story.
"Well, with that out of the way. Time to list out your punishments." Koro-sensei said as his voice became more serious. "I don't approve of my students drugging each other. Okuda and Nakamura, you will be on after school cleaning duty for the next week for helping to create the initial potion."
"Yes sir." The two girls said as they bowed their heads.
"Kayano, you will be joining them, but your punishment will last for two weeks for creating the candies you made with the potion and for causing you and Nagisa to miss class yesterday."
"I understand." Kayano replied.
"The rest of you won't be punished as you were wither a victim or bystander. Karma, I'll over look the fact you deleted the video this once, but tampering with Ritsu is a strictly forbidden. " Koro-sensei looked over the group. "Now that this is all settled, I don't want anyone using any potions on anybody. You all may leave now, I'm in a bit of a rush to catch the big game, I would normally lecture a bit longer but I'm late as it is." He walked toward the window and slide it open, he was about to take off but notice a few students hiding on the other side. "It seems we have a few guests."
A few worried faces appeared on those still in the room.
"Great, now everybody knows what happened." Nakamura said as she looked over at her classmates that were starting to stand up outside.
"So we got a bit curious and decided to listen in." Okajima stated. "So did anything else happen?"
"Nothing happened, and if you want to keep it that way, I suggest you all head home and stop asking questions." Karma gave the crowd a sinister glare. " Or if you prefer, I can always use someone to taste some recipes I picked up during my vacation, how about you Okajima?"
The group outside shivered at the evil intentions of the red head.
"Oh look, it's getting late, I think I better head home." Okajima said as he turn to leave, he walked away at a brisk pace. Several others soon followed.
As the group walked away, they could be heard talking among themselves about how much they wanted to know more, but no one wanted to call Karma on his bluff.
"I'll just be on my way then. No more crazy stunts, okay?" Koro-sensei stated right before he took off.
"Man, what a mess this all turned out to be." Karma sighed heavily.
"Wait, so what did happen between you and Kayano yesterday?" Nakamura asked Nagisa.
"Nothing really, Like I said earlier, I went home." Nagisa replied.
"And what was going to happen if Nagisa didn't find out about the potion in the candies?" Nakamura turned to Kayano.
"Um." Kayano just gave a nervous smile and shrug to the blond's question. Nakamura gave her a judging glare.
"I'm glad you all played along with the story I made. It still stands that no one is to talk about what really happened, also I had no clue that you tried to give him the potion a second time." Karma said as he pretended to be surprised. "Well, enough of all this. I'm going to head home, its getting late and I have a bit of classwork to catch up on."
"Same, I just want to forget about all of this soon as possible." Nagisa started to follow the red hair out of the room.
"Guess all the fun is over now." Nakamura turned to those that still remain. "Anyone else noticed that Nagisa and Karma have been closer then usual since this whole thing started?"
"I think you're just imagining things." Kayano gave a nervous smile.
"Are you hiding something still?" Nakamura looked over the green hair girl unusual reaction.
"No, what makes you say that?" Kayano replied.
"Because you have been acting weird all day, something had to happened to make you do that." Nakamura gave an inquisitive look over to Okuda. "Maybe someone can make a truth potion."
"No! I'm not making any more potions for you two!" Okuda gave the blond a stern look. "We're in enough trouble as it is, I'm not going to play along with any other bright ideas you come up with."
"Let's just go home, It's already late." Kayano said in an attempt to prevent this discussing for carrying on.
"Fine, but I still think something is going on between those two, and you're hiding something still." Nakamura followed the other girls out of the classroom.
Sugino stood there for a few moments. With a thought tugging at the corner of his mind. 'How did Koro-sensei know he was there if there was no video evidence left?"
Several minutes later, a few blocks away from the school-
"So," Karma rubbed his chin, "now that I can't use the threat of telling Koro-sensei about the potion to blackmail, what should I do instead?"
Nagisa took a hold of Karma's free hand. "Why don't you just drop the whole revenge plan? They already got punished by Koro-sensei."
"Nagisa, I am a man of my word. When I say that I will get back at them for what she did the other day, I will." A menacing grin grew on Karma's face.
"Can I at least persuade you to not do something drastic?" Nagisa gave a teardrop expression.
"But that would take away the fun." The red head let out a laugh.
"If you do anything that I don't approve of, that will be the only fun you will have for awhile." The blue hair boy gave his own little sinister grin.
Karma hesitated for a moment. "Well, with your current status with your mother. It appears to be like that already."
Nagisa sighed. "Ya, just my luck. You finally returned home and now we can't hang out after school or on the weekend."
"I believe we could find someway around this, just let me think up of a way." Karma rubbed his chin again.
"Please don't make things worse." Nagisa pleaded.
"Don't worry, I already have an idea. But I'll wait until tomorrow before trying it." Karma gave a reassuring smile.
"What do you have planned?" The blue hair boy wondered.
"You'll see." Karma said as they approached the corner in which they each go their own way. He leaned over and gave a quick kiss on the other's forehead. "See you tomorrow."
The Next Morning-
Nagisa waited at the their usual meeting spot but Karma didn't show up, so he decided to continue on his way to school. As he made his way up the hill to the classroom, he saw Karma talking to Kayano. As he got closer, the red head noticed his approached.
"Ah, there he is right now, running a little late today?" Karma gave a welcoming smile.
"I thought you were running late so I waited for a few minutes." Nagisa replied with his own warm smile.
"Sorry about that, I wanted to get here early to have a little chat with our friend here." Karma gestured towards the green hair girl next to him. "Also to discuss the whole 'love candy' incident that everyone now knows about." He gave a slight sigh. "As of right now everyone believes that Kayano is currently trying to..." Karma hesitated as he pondered a few words in his head. "seduce you. Speaking of which, care to explain why you gave him those candies in the first place?"
"I was," Kayano looked away from the two boys and started to kick at the dirt. "I was jealous okay?" She blurted out. "There, now you know, I was jealous that he chose you when we gave him the first love potion." She paused for a moment to clam down. "I didn't think that you two would hook up after that. I thought I would have a second chance to ask Nagisa without the use of some silly gimmick as a catalyst to start a relationship." She let out a breath as she felt the burden of keeping all of her emotions bottled in, lift off her shoulders. "I'm still surprised that you two got together without hesitation."
Nagisa and Karma gave a quick glance at each other before looking away. They both been wondering about that last part themselves. They just accepted what happened so fast they didn't stop to wonder what it really meant for them.
"I don't know what to say to make you feel better about what happen." Nagisa spoke up, breaking the silence that had overcome the three for what seem like an eternity. "But I'm happy with Karma, and I'm sorry if we hurt your feelings."
"You shouldn't need to apologize, I was the one being selfish, wanting you for myself." Kayano gave a faint smile back. "I'm just glad you two made up after what I did."
"I'm still concerned about the rest of the class though." Karma said as he stared up the hill towards the E-class building. "Half of the class eavesdropped and heard the cover story I made up and about the 'love candies'. I don't know how they will react to that."
"I don't see why you're worrying, you're not the one that was caught making love potions." Kayano replied.
"She is right, we will be the ones that everyone's attention is focused on, and the faster today goes by the better." Nagisa sighed. "Come on, class starts soon."
Sure enough, Karma was right. As soon as Nagisa and Kayano entered the classroom, they were bombarded with questions about what happen. Both of them spent the rest of the day telling them that nothing happen and to just forget about it, Karma even stepped in several time to help 'convince' s few people to follow that simple request.
Later that evening after class ended.-
Nagisa was only a block away from home before he spotted a familiar face.
"I thought you went home early today?" Nagisa said as he approached the figure.
"I said I was going to leave early, didn't say I was going home." Karma replied as he started to walk alongside the blue hair boy.
"Why are you carrying those text book?" Nagisa motioned towards the two large books the red head had under his arm. "I never seen you take those home before."
"These little things are going to help me stay with you after school today." Karma gave a mischievous smile.
"Eh? But you know I'm grounded, how are those going to help?" Nagisa asked as he notice they were only a minute away from his house.
"You'll see, just let me do all the talking." Karma rustled the blue hair.
"Hey, you're going to tangle up the hair bands." Nagisa said as he pulled his head away.
"I'm sorry," Karma gave a little teasing chuckle.
Nagisa gave him an annoyed glare as they walked up to the front door.
"Just don't make things worse for me, okay?" he said sternly.
"Relax, If it doesn't work, there shouldn't be any repercussions." Karma gave a reassuring smile.
"I hope so." Nagisa muttered as he opened the door. As they walked in they could see his mother sitting down at the table. "I'm home, Hello mother."
"Hello dear," said as she looked up from her work, " I thought I made it clear that you weren't allowed to have friends over for the next two weeks."
"Hello, Ms Shiota. Nagisa made that aware to me earlier but I've been assigned as a class tutor and I'm here to help him study for tomorrow's test." Karma explained to Nagisa's mother while motioned to the text books which he was carrying. "I hope you can make an exception to his punishment for educational purposes."
"Well I don't mind that Nagisa is getting additional help to improve his grades, I do wish to get him out of that E-class so he can get a chance at a proper education." wiped the lock of hair dangling in her face to the side of her head as she stood up and walked toward them. "Now I don;t believe we ever met, Hello, I'm Hiromi Shiota, Nagisa's mother."
"It's a pleasure to meet you." Karma gave a courteous bow. "I name is Karma Akabane, I go to the same class as Nagisa."
"It's nice to meet you, Nagisa never really talks about class or his classmates." She looked over to her son and then back to the red head. "Now, I don't want to sound rude. But if you're also in the E-class then what can you offer to help tutor my son? As far as I'm aware that class if full of trouble students."
"Well it is true that the E-class is the bottom class of the school, most of use work just as hard, if not harder than those in the upper classes to work our way back to where we once were." Karma gave a persuasive grin. "I do hold the highest grade in our class and use to be the top of my old class before I was sent to the E-class."
"So how did you end up in the E-class if it wasn't for your grades?" gave an approving glare to the redhead. Believing that someone like him sounded like he shouldn't be around her son.
"It was..." Karma faltered the slightest bit, this question taken him aback a bit. "I uh, didn't get along with a certain student and things just ended up landing me in E-class."
"I see." She looked over the two boys standing in front of her. "I do appreciate the offer to help my son, but I don't approve of him being with someone with questionable personality."
"It wasn't his fault, he just got caught up in it. Please, I can really use his help." Nagisa gave a small plea to his mother, he could tell she was no longer in the mood to humor Karma's story.
They stood in silence for a few moments before sighed and gave in.
"Alright, I'll allow you two to study for an hour and a half before I start dinner. You will also have to use Nagisa Desk in his room since I got a lot of papers to go over for work still." She motioned towards the dinning table covered in files and paperwork. "But if I hear anything other then studying I will have you leave early, understood?"
"Yes ma'am." Karma and Nagisa said as they headed off to his room.
"Wait." said suddenly, making both boys stop and turned to look at her. "Nagisa grab a chair from the table for your classmate."
After Nagisa grabbed a chair for Karma they made their way back to Nagisa's Bedroom. They sat down at the desk and placed their school work down in front of them.
"So that was your plan this whole time?" Nagisa asked.
"Yep, and it worked too." Karma gave a childish grin. "For a second there, I thought she was going to kick me out."
"She will if we don't actually study." Nagisa glanced down at the books Karma brought with him.
"I did say I would help you with the work you missed the other day, didn't I?" Karma proceeded to open up one of the text books.
"You did, and I do need help in science." Nagisa looked back up.
"Then let's start studying before your mother kicks me out." Karma replied.
They began their studies and time past by a quick pace, every twenty minutes Nagisa's mother checked in on them and was satisfied that they were working hard and putting effort into their school work. Before too long they manage to go through every subject and were about to complete the math homework that was assigned that evening.
"Hold on." Karma said as he placed his on top of Nagisa's to stop him from completing the final problem. This caused Nagisa to glance down at the hand sitting on top of his and he gave a slight blush.
"You skipped a step near the beginning, erase that and start again." Nagisa replied to him with a quick nod as he did just that.
"Oh, I see now." Nagisa looked over the equation as he notice where he made the previous mistake.
"Nice, you catch on quick." Karma complemented to boy sitting next to him. "And here is your reward." Before Nagisa could react, Karma leaned in and gave him a quick peck on his cheek.
"Karma!" Nagisa silently hissed at the red head. "Not here, especially when she is home."
"Sorry." Karma said as he held back a laugh. He couldn't help but enjoy the sight of Nagisa's mixed expression of embarrassment and worry. He gentle placed a hand on the other's upper leg, causing him to respond with that same intense look.
"Stop, she might be back soon." Nagisa worryingly said.
"Don't worry, I would of heard her walk down the hall, just like all the times before, she isn't that stealthy."
"Really now?" said as she walked into the room. Both of the boys jumped as neither of them noticed her walking down the hallway. "Sounds like you two finished your work early."
"Yes, we just got done just a few minutes ago." Karma said as he stood up. "I'm guessing that I will have to leave now since we're done?" Both of the boys waited for a few moments as they watched look over the both of them.
"Well, seeing how well you two behaved and you both kept your promise to study, I'll let you two talk for a few minutes until dinner is ready." She then proceeded to walk out of the room and down the hall.
"I didn't even notice her until she spoke." Karma said as he turned toward the blue hair boy sitting next to him. "Is that were you got it from?" He said jokingly.
"You have no idea." Nagisa said as he sighed, he was relieved that she didn't walk in a few moment sooner.
"Well, I guess we have time for this then." Karma leaned in and planted a heavy kiss onto Nagisa's innocent lips. He saw the other's blush was renewed across his face once again.
"Karma!" Nagisa hissed, "What did I just say?!"
Karma only replied with a smug smile.
"If you keep doing that I'll..." Nagisa was abruptly interrupted from a shout from down the hall.
"Nagisa, dinner! Time for your friend to leave." shouted.
"What was that you were saying?" Karma said with a grin as he stood up.
"Never mind." Nagisa stood up aswell. "I'll walk you to the door."
As Karma turn to walk out of the bedroom door he felt two hands suddenly grab his rear, this nearly made him drop the textbooks he was carrying. He turned around to see a the smug look he was once wearing now on the blue hair boy's face. He couldn't help but give an annoyed yet amused smile back.
As they walked to the front door, stopped them.
"I'm glad to see you two study hard like that. So how well do you believe you will do on the test tomorrow?" She asked.
"With how well Nagisa did today, I'm certain he will pass it with flying colours." Karma replied.
"That's good to hear. Well, it was nice to meet you Karma." said as she opened the door for him.
"Same here, Ms Shiota." Karma responded. "Guess I will be on my way then, Have a pleasant evening." He said as he walked out the door.
"You too." replied as she closed the door behind him. She then turn to Nagisa. "So I called up your teacher to ask him about this assigned tutoring."
Nagisa froze in horror as he listened to what his mother had to say.
"I was surprised that he said he did assigned Karma to help you." walked back to the kitchen to finish cooking. "For a moment I thought you two were trying to trick me in order to hang out, but seeing how you two actually did work and your teacher confirmed the assignment."
"Y-you didn't trust us?" Nagisa asked hesitantly.
"Well, you did lie to me about skipping class the other day, and right now I want you to focus mainly on your school work, so I do wish to see the results of that test tomorrow." She turned towards him. "Now go wash up for dinner."
"Yes mother." Nagisa turned away. He sighed in relief that Koro-sensei somehow knew to back up Karma's story. Whether Karma had that planned out or Koro-sensei just did it on a whim, he didn't know. But he was glad either way.
Is Koro-sensei not telling us all that he knows? How long can Karma and Nagisa keep their love a secret? The next exciting chapter of Red and blue makes Purple is just around the corner!
A/N-I apologize for the extremely long wait. I got a bad case of writers block, and a small case of procrastination. I rewrote parts of this chapter several times each, I just had trouble finding a way in the middle to progress the story. There was more but seemed like it was just repetitive so I shrunk it down to a small paragraph.
