"Hey."
Karasuma called out to Korosensei who turned to the door to make eye contact with the one who called him, with an annoyingly cheerful tone asks,
"What's wrong Karasuma-sensei~?"
Karasuma shuffled a little from where he was standing and walk over to the where Korosensei is standing with a book and a chalk in his octopus hands. The stern man faces the students with his usual serious look. "I have an announcement to tell. A teacher from another school will come to visit and see this class. She is known to have raised many successful students. She will be here to see what she can help with this class' students. This is by her own will even though the principal refused at first."
Karma looks over to the girl beside him to see a disgusted look on her face when Karasuma told them the name of that teacher that will visit them.
"Her name is Akiyama Ayako-san."
KriiiIIINNNG
"Ah! Karasuma-sensei! You took my last second for this period~!"
With an annoyed swing of his sword, Karasuma exclaimed "Don't be such a spoiled octopus!"
"Nurufufufufu~! Anyway, remember to give hospitality to the guest~!"
But, Karasuma seems to want to hurt the slimy octopus with an order, "You will be forbidden to come anywhere near."
"Karasuma-sensei!" Korosensei exclaimed in a flurry and cling to Karasuma probably all the way to the staff room. Poor Karasuma who needed to put up with this kind of annoying octopus.
After the teachers went out and the bell rings, Isogai called out to everyone to have a brief meeting about how to welcome this guest-teacher.
"Should we show them each one of our talents?"
Nakamura sit on one of the desk and suggested, "I will blow her mind with my English skills!" and Isogai just smile it off and note it on a notebook.
"I want to show Akiyama-san some of my experiment... It might be boring though." Okuda said hesitantly. Megu tap Okuda's shoulder and a reassuring smile on her face to give Okuda confidence.
"How about I give her a serving perfect for a lady~?" Hinata hit the back of Maehara's head with an annoyed look on her face.
Kayano confidently stood up and made a fist pump, "Let's give her snacks!" with her eyes gleaming, Kayano suggested.
"How about we ask Karasuma-sensei to let us do some tricks?" a certain blue-haired boy step closer to Isogai. "Oh, sounds like a nice idea." Isogai continue on noting the others' ideas and suggestions. "Michiko-san?"
The handsome class rep look at Michiko, who is still sitting idly on her seat with her eyes hidden under her long bangs since she is turning sideways so the others can only see the right side of her face while she only put on a hairclip at the left side.
"Miss Perfect there seems to hate the whole idea~" the owner of a mop of red hair stood up in front of her , what Karma sees next is a terrifying glare of hatred and grudge on the usually cheerful or just plain witty girl. "I like the idea~" even her tone of talking shows how dangerously near the cliff her emotions are. "If we show that woman how we go for the actual kill."
The whole class turns quiet after her words that ooze with dangerous poison.
Realizing what she did, Michiko stood up, takes her bag with her and exits the class with a harsh bang of the sliding door. Some of her classmates that weren't ready for that loud bang flinched before they quickly avert their eyes from Isogai to the door and then to Isogai again.
"Ehe~"
Nagisa look at Karma who is smirking, "Karma-kun?" Karma took his bag and walks all the way from behind the class to in front of the class to exit through the door, but before he did, "Hey, Class Rep! Tell Korosensei that Michiko and I skip the next classes~!"
The clouds are dark and gloomy, ready to pour the world with tons of water but they are nice enough not to pour down now. It's a good thing that rain doesn't always attack the earth to make it wet everyday but only a few rare days during the time of changing season. But when it does, it rains heavily.
Michiko's plum lips might get injured by the way she's biting it and she might got a wrong step that will strain her foot, making that bad foot unable to help her down this mountain but know what? She doesn't care about it anymore; get herself injured, make herself hurt, get sick, as long as she doesn't attend school for the next few days.
"Miss Perfect~!"
She grit her teeth and force the 'sweetest' smile she can come out with.
"Yes, King of the Underworld~?"
Karma's eyes went wide and he quickly reaches out his hand.
"Eh?"
She's falling... oh, don't ever look behind when you are still walking on unsteady ground.
Michiko didn't scream nor does she shriek but she is silenced.
Processing the new information that she is falling... seems a bit too slow for her fast reflex.
It's like the time slowed down as she sees in her eyes that Karma run towards her and hurriedly encircle her petite body in a tight security hug but it was a little too late to stop not only Michiko but also Karma from falling down and because in a fast few seconds thinking, Karma twist his leg to make them roll on the grassy part of the mountain instead of the rocky road that they usually use to descend the mountain which made the injury lesser than it would be if they roll on the rocky road.
Michiko groan once they stopped rolling but Karma's hug hasn't loosen up yet, she haven't realize that Karma is holding her head to his chest with his right hand while his left hand is tightly hugging her around her waist.
She didn't mind it at first; actually it's pretty comfortable that she actually bury her face in Karma's chest. The scent of the fresh and slightly wet grass that her mother likes so much. She can hear his heartbeat fast beating and slow slightly ragged breath from the adrenaline rushing in his veins.
"Do you like my chest? Want to see more~?" Michiko finally realizes what she just did and pushes Karma away. Karma smirk upon seeing her bright red face, both of them sit up on the grass. Michiko sit curtly while Karma sit Indian style. "I asked you, did you not hear? Do you want to see more~?" Karma's smirk grows wider as he start unbuttoning his shirt, Michiko's blush become brighter and while hiding her face with her hands, "No!" she exclaimed.
Two to three hands reach at her hands, "You're still peeking through though~" with what Karma said teasingly, a foot tried to kick him but was caught with his fast reflex. "I can see your panties if I lift this a bit more." He rose Michiko's left foot and her hands quickly do their work to cover what Karma wants to see with her skirt before it is raised up along with her foot.
With one hand still pulling the end of her skirt down, the other hand hit Karma's shoulder.
"Ugh..."
Michiko's eyes slightly widen when she noticed it, Karma is hurting... "K-
Karma-kun?"
"Ah~! You noticed it." Michiko's eyes focused more if there are more injuries, and then her eyes notice the few scratches on his elbow. "Don't fret... Anyway, what can you do?"
Michiko suggested that they should go to the main building's infirmary but Karma turn it down flat since he doesn't want to be anywhere inside of the main building if it's not an official issue like that usual yearly thing or festivals.
The boy button up his shirt again before Michiko offer him up.
So... they are now walking down the mountain again while Michiko glance at Karma's face from time to time to make sure that the taller male is not in much pain. "Umm... between my house and yours, which one is farther?"
"Oho~? It seems that Wakahisa-san is blending in quite well in Class E!"
The black-haired girl turned her head abruptly to see who is addressing her. Oh... She just wanted to ask, why in the world does the Five Virtuoso always grouped up together. Do they have any other so called friends?
"Seems like you got beaten by her." Tomoya said with a smirk. "It seems that you are not only smart and beautiful but also very strong~." To be honest, Michiko is not amused even the slightest by Ren's flirt also his usual gesture to brush a few strands of a long haired girl's hair between his fingers.
Michiko gasps when suddenly a hand pulled her away from those boys whose face always decorated by a smug look. "Mine." Karma answered to Michiko's previous question but somehow that one word sounds like it means something else entirely, he sound possessive...
Karma leads her out of the school grounds by pulling on her hand. That is when Michiko can see more of Karma other than from when she is beside him or in front of him. His back is broad like how most boys change through puberty and he really is tall, there's no denying to that and he look stronger like this probably because she feel like she is being protected while he is confronting whatever is in front of them.
"But I'd rather go to your house..." he finally said something after the awkward silence that have been hanging between them.
"Eh..?"
"I don't want to have my parents see me like this and make them think that you are a bad influence on me or vice-versa. It'll be hard to explain and too much of a bother."
The girl behind him can only nod while trying to remember her parents' schedule. "As I remember, my parents won't be back until before dinner. My sisters will be spending the day at their friends and my little brother has practice at school."
The walk to the train station and even the wait was awkward, the walk towards Michiko's house is also awkward but once they were inside the Wakahisa family's residence, Karma whistled in quite awe.
Michiko's house looks like the average house but it is not Japanese, it's a Dutch styled house painted in white and a few other colorful color. The location of the attic can be seen easily since the place has stained glass which makes a picture of colorful flowers rather than the usual transparent window. Knowing Michiko since seventh grade, Karma guessed in his mind that Michiko might actually clean that place and turn it into her own bedroom.
The last time Nagisa and Karma visited, she was sharing her room with her sister.
The garden is wide and large, there's a florist shop connected to the house, probably her mother order an addition to the house herself, the garden has more colors than the house, giving more cheerful and bright impression to it.
There are an old cherry blossom tree and plum blossom tree near the entrance but they are not blossoming in this season sadly, there's also a part of the garden especially for chrysanthemum and other flowers like camellias, morning glories, magnolias and other colorful flowers. A road is paved as to not trample on the flowers. Most of the flowers are not in full bloom
Even the wooden door to enter the house is carved elegantly and painted in light gray. Michiko reach to the metal knob which is also carved but stop midway as the knob turn and the door opens to reveal a tall old man, taller than Karma himself.
"Oh, grandpa!" Michiko squeaked in surprise.
The tall old man in front of them is Matsuoka Daichi, a wise and great man with equally high intellect which he passed on to his grandchildren and of course to Michiko.
He is thin, too thin, his bones and veins might be clearly seen if he is not tanned enough to hide it, his hair is grayed but his appearance doesn't ruin the impression and vibe he gives.
He gives the vibe of someone superior, in higher nobler place than Karma and Michiko combined, someone who can decide something and nobody can interrupt, his wisdom and experience is uncountable, he's been alive even before the World War II started.
Matsuoka Daichi has gone through the time when the world is at its weakest and the time when it is recovering from its past mistakes. But this old man can still walk with his own feet, can feed himself with his own hands and can see clear enough and still sharp enough to remember those memories from decades ago.
He can still survive on his own even without his daughter occasional help but even this old man has his own limits. He is starting to get very forgetful about the present.
"Oh my, Yuki?"
Michiko broke out a forced smile, how many times has her own grandfather call her that, "Grandpa, I'm the oldest one, Michiko, not my little sister Yuki. Yuki is out with her friends."
Mr. Daichi chuckle huskily and said sorry to his granddaughter, "At least I remember which one is Yuzuki and which one is Akiko." Michiko laughs along and step back a bit to let the old man walk out of the house with his cane gripped in his weak yet strong hand.
"And who are you young man?" Karma was taken aback a little and with a little bow, introduced himself. "Akabane Karma, sir."
"Quite fitting with your appearance. You seem to be a strong boy. Do me a favor and protect this weak granddaughter of mine, can you~?" oh yeah, forgot to mention this but Mr. Daichi also has great humor so he is not that kind of strict and stern old man.
"That's what I struggle with everyday~" Michiko give Karma a harsh jab on his sides which made the latter hiss in pain. "Are you going back to your house?" Mr. Daichi nod with a gentle smile and tap his cane, "Well I should get going."
"See you soon!" Michiko said in a chirpy tone. "Now, let's go inside."
Michiko step inside the house but before she let Karma in, she turned her head for a second and said, "Also, I don't need your protection." Karma smirks just the right time when Michiko turned around, "Anyway, thanks."
The two steps inside and Michiko let Karma rest on the sofa. While the black haired girl leave him there to search a first aid kit.
Inside of the house, there are more classic things that decorate the house.
Most of them looks old, even this sofa that Karma is sitting on is old. The dark purple colored sofa has scratch marks on it which probably comes from a cat's claws.
Mark me wrong, not only one cat but four cats, to be more precise, it is three kittens and their mother.
The mother has pure white fur with some mix of black and light orange around her ears and eye but her tail is a mixed stripe of white, black and orange. The kittens inherit their mother's fur.
All of them have a white fur underneath but each one has different mix of furs, one has a light gray fur, the second one has light orange while the other one is fully black furred with white underneath.
Karma was able to see what their names are from their collars, the mother is Matilda, the light gray one is Frida whose locket had a star carved on it, orange light one is Anfisa and her locket is shaped like a flower, Shun is the black kitten and his locket has a carving of a lightning on it.
Frida's and Anfisa's fur has stripes like a tiger and these stripes are colored in a darker hue of their main color while Shun is just a normal black cat.
The feline family that relaxing in their cozy basket that fit all of them is now down three kittens since the kittens are looking at him. The basket is put near the short hallway to the kitchen and connected to a room and the family's usual gathering place. Karma might actually get a glimpse of that place if it's not for a tall shelf that contains thick albums and some other books. On top of the shelf are vases that are decorated in a colorful way.
The seats opposite of where the dark purple sofa looks a lot more like benches but if you don't know, Mr. Daichi and her daughter really likes meubels which is house interiors and furniture made out of strong woods and are polished until they shine and these furniture usually has carvings on them and usually they have them with carving of floras.
Furniture like these is painted but doesn't ruin the image and 'fingerprints' of the woods.
There are arts on the walls and a family picture is hanged on the wall by Karma's left side, from there he knows that has six children, five sons and one daughter. Michiko plus her cousins and siblings makes 18 grandchildren. Some of those arts have signing on them and one of them has Michiko's sign.
Karma knows this at least, judging from the lined trophies and achievements in a shelf at the short but wide hallway, has shared his intellect along to his children and grandchildren equally. Somehow, seeing how 'perfect' her family is making him wanting to find a soft spot and weak spot in the most talented one, Wakahisa Michiko.
Karma feels a light pressure on his thigh; he glances down to see Shun staring at him, slowly even Frida jump out of the basket to approach him.
"Cute." Karma gently stroke Shun's black fur.
A loud screech from Matilda makes her kittens flinches and quickly goes back to their mother's protection.
"Matilda, keep your kittens away from that redhead devil." Michiko's accent in calling her cat's name is surprisingly good. Matilda's response sounds like she is agreeing with her owner.
"Now, let's tend to those scratches. Remove that blazer." The girl point at his black blazer and Karma obeyed because what can he do against a girl that knows the basic of martial arts while he is injured even though it's just a little.
Michiko tends to his injuries with care. Even though Michiko looks like a girl who will tend to you with careless hands once you know her, her touches are actually gentle and with consideration and whenever Karma would hiss from stinging pain, she would stare at his mercury-gold eyes and stop before continuing.
"Done."
But... she did not stop there. The slap to his knees were not exactly harsh or rough but still quite gentle, he flinched and clench his teeth while his eyes narrowed. "Roll up your trousers." Michiko ordered, her eyes narrowed and she bit her lips. "Should I just remove them~?" it was not really the time to tease her but she did not react much, "Do it, as long as I can look at your knees." Michiko is serious.
Karma sighed and rolls his trousers up, there's a few scratches that ooze blood and shows pink meat because the skin was peeled off. "Why didn't you tell me? I could've help you walk..." her pale white hand clean the blood and dirt that have latch itself on the wounds with a wet cotton before she applied antiseptic as to prevent infection later on. She covered it with a Band-Aid.
"That's better. That's all, isn't it?" Michiko asked again to make sure and Karma nod as an answer. "Good."
She turn around to put the first aid kit back to its place, "Time to ea-" the cat and kittens entangle themselves around her feet which makes her kind of lost her footing and remember something... the stinging pain on her feet that was not caused by any injuries but maybe because she strained her ankle from the sudden fall but pushed herself.
Luckily she put her good leg to use to avoid falling on the ceramic floor.
Maybe they should agree that they are both very stubborn in rejecting to show weakness.
"It's blue..." the redhead point at a spot on her thigh, right above her socks and slightly below her skirt. That and also her ankle are strained...
"I'll just search for i-"
"My injury can heal themselves even if I move but yours needs to be rested and also its internal rather than external." Michiko is raised into the air as a pair of hands swept her up bridal-style. "W-what are you d-doing?!" Karma decided that a flustered Michiko is rather sweet and cute. "Returning a favor. Where's your room?" Michiko reluctantly point upwards, "Up..."
"I thought it was the attic."
"It was but I begged my mom to let me use it."
Karma chuckle and carried her upstairs using a hidden stair that needs to be revealed by opening a hidden door on the wall that separates Michiko's grandfather's room and the living room.
It's a pretty nice room which she herself decorated with paint and brushes. A self-made sofa out of a few piles of pillows covered with a colorful blanket is near the stained glass. Karma put her down on her bed and he himself plopped down on the piles of pillows that are supposed to be a sofa.
"I see why you want this place to be your room."
The lamp is in the middle of the roof. There are two long shelves, one is filled with Michiko's tools and materials to make handicrafts and the other one contained her collection of books and some are even rarer because of their old age.
A short small table is between those shelves, a study lamp is put on it and an ocean blue laptop resting near a monitor which it is connected to along with a pair of speakers and a keyboard and a mouse.
On top of the shelves are picture frames and dolls she hold dear also a beautiful jewelry box to put her beloved mementos or shiny jewelries.
A wooden wardrobe just like all the furniture in her house, it is carved and decorated.
"Karma, you can go now..."
But the boy has seen her collection of games.
"No way~"
Michiko sighed and just lie down on her bed. "What do you want?"
The boy point at the television on a modern shelf opposite of where he is sitting and in the shelf is few pair of controllers and a PlayStation along with a few other gaming equipment, "I want to play those."
Michiko smirked even though Karma might not see it. "I even have games installed in my computer."
Karma stood up and walks to the LCD television, he sits down Indian style in front of it and turned on the television. "What do you have~?"
The girl did not answer him so he just goes through the series of games. "Grand Theft Auto?" he smirked and Michiko giggled, "It might be perfect for you." She sits to the edge of the bed and look at him. "What if I go 'there'~?" upon his teasing question, Michiko's cheeks turn bright red. The black haired girl buries her face in her soft pillow while Karma is laughing mischievously.
"Ahaha~! Oh, you also have Alice Madness Returns. I never really finished this game." Michiko gets off her bed and slowly crawls to where Karma is sitting.
"Oh, look. A big baby." The so called 'big baby' pouts while Karma pats her head teasingly.
Karma continues on looking through the different games while Michiko connect the game equipment. "Wario Smooth Moves?" Karma asked and Michiko perked up, "Yes!"
Michiko gets the game ready but maybe their game will be postponed...
"I can't believe it... You haven't done your Math homework."
Michiko scoot away from Karma who is staring at a pile of papers doodled and scribbled. "I'm going to bring something to snack on..."
"Oh goodie~" the younger male look at a box filled with many snacks and there's also a whole packet of candies and lollipops. Now, where will she run to?
Michiko's Weakness #1
She hates Math
Michiko's Weakness #2
She likes sweets
On
"Let's finish our homework first and then we play."
Michiko gave up and let Karma rummage through her bag and also his own bag to search for their homework.
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"Gyah!"
The girl beside him shriek, the skull always scares her so much. It's just a chase, it is also clear as day that she is weak to horror themed games.
"Hey, why did you get mad there?"
"Class? Ah... Akiyama Ayako is not exactly my favorite teacher."
Karma just hummed, at least now he know why she got angry back at class
"Oh yeah, about that confession from Isogai. Have you think about it?" she is blushing now and fidget. "I'm thinking of accepting it..."
'Don't...' it echoes in his mind and his eyes became fixated to the girl's figure.
Another jumpscare that made her hide under his hand, bad move there Michiko dear. That hand that she is hiding under is now finding it's way to the back of her head and pulling her closer to him and he find himself staring at her, his other hand pushing her down with a push on her shoulder. The girl staring at her with a wide eyed stare and the idea of having the boy pinning her down made her blush.
With a blush on his cheeks and a redder hue of red on Michiko's cheeks, he stare back at her. Michiko's hair is scattered around the floor like black shiny ribbons, her eyes looking at him with surprise and confusion in them.
She already changed her clothes when he was bringing back more juice to drink. The white long sleeved t-shirt is tight around her body, the blue shirt with the pattern of green vines which three upper buttons are buttoned up is making it hard to look at the curves of her body. She is wearing denim shorts.
Karma inhale and exhale deeply before looking at the girl under him, dead in the eyes. A hand tracing her lips and he lower his face near to hers. Karma's nose and forehead touching Michiko's. The girl closed her eyes and... she felt his lips on her cheek before retreating back."What if I say don't?" Karma's eyes stares at her midnight blue orbs.
Michiko is dumbstruck, what in the world just happened?
"I'll go back now. Thanks for the treatment." he said as he move the strands of hair that are on her face.
Karma left shortly but Michiko is still in front of the television while sitting and thinking about what happened again and again.
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"Well, it seems that Akiyama-san has some business so her visit will be postponed."
Karma glance at Michiko, she is relaxing with a smile on her face. He also realize that Megu is approaching her.
Megu approach Michiko with a concerned look, she went to the point and ask her what has been bothering her since yesterday. "Michiko-chan, why did you say that yesterday?"
Michiko was fast to find a reason and laugh softly. "It was a joke, sorry~" Megu sigh and smile at her. "You should try to make better jokes next time."
The two girls laughed for a few seconds before Megu leaves Michiko to her own business. For now, Michiko is just happy that she won't be meeting that female teacher anytime sooner.
But, there's also a dead giveaway for Nagisa. Karma and Michiko found it awkward to talk to each other and when one of them look at the other, they would only quickly look away.
'I wish Karma-kun luck but then I want to cheer for Isogai , Karma is my friend since two years ago but Isogai is so nice... you guys are making me have a conflict with my own mind...' a civil war starts in Nagisa's brain as he sweat-dropped.
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4.723 words! YESH! MUAHAHAHAHAHA! I DON'T CARE ABOUT HOW MANY TIMES I NEED TO CHECK THIS THING BECAUSE OF A CONFLICT IN MY OWN MIND ABOUT HOW THE STORY SHOULD GO!
Yes, I've calmed down... I hope you liked that~!