Chapter 11: Teach Time
"Lets see...what else do we need here..." Nagisa mentioned as he was looking through all the supplies they had there. Supposedly, they would have a new gym teacher coming in today. In other words, likely a professional assassin to teach them combat moves. Nagisa had been sort of managing that area, but he was more stealth based, so it made more sense for someone else.
They had considered Karma first, but he was preparing for his run at Prime Minister and was too public of a figure. Which meant they needed to get someone different.
"Hey, didn't I see you in here two days ago? You have been doing quite a bit of shopping lately".
"Actually, it was three days ago. But it can't be helped, I keep needing food supplies" Nagisa said.
"Huh. Well, here you..."
Suddenly, before the interaction could be concluded, multiple police cars seemed to come out of nowhere as police swarmed out in droves.
"You can't catch me Toko!" Shota shouted as he ran away. The name of the game was knife tag. There were three people it, and they had to successfully assassinate another student who was not it in order for them to be it and not them. It was supposed to train not just their abiltiy to chase and attack while moving, but also to train their ability to sneak up on others.
And so, Shota kept running...when Toko jumped out of the tree in front of him and slashed him. The slashed had to wait ten seconds before they could move again, so this let Toko get away.
They were doing this as their scheduled excercise for today, since Nagisa called and mentioned he would be late.
"Hey, Toko!" Aria shouted, running up next to him. "You see any sign of Nagisa-sensei yet? I would have thought he would be here by now at least".
"He said he would be late, but this is weird...I wonder if he is okay".
Something like that was said, when they heard the whistle back from the campus.
"I guess thats game!"
"Ahhhg! I was so close!" Shota said, standing above them now.
""Shota?!""
"YOu are not the only one who knows how to climb trees Toko! I taught you how after all!"
"...well, thats true...either way, come on, we should get back".
With the whistle used, everyone started to head back to the campus.
HOwever, the one there that was waiting for them when they returned to the campus was not Nagisa-sensei, but rather someone else. Someone bigger and tougher looking. Definently not Nagisa-sensei. And the way he looked...he seemed like a soldier.
"Hello kids!" the man said as everyone approached him. "I am your new teacher, to help teach your gym class! My name is Kaito Oshikawa!"
"What is all the fuss about, every..." Leo started to say as he arrived last, when he spotted the teacher. He instinctively hopped back, but by the time he had, Kaito had already moved to his side and delivered a kick into the side of Leo's body. Leo had just barely managed to brace himself in time for it, but was still sent sprawling across the ground.
"What the hell?!"
"What was that for?!"
"Now now, don't try to skip out on class, Leo-chan" he told him, with some disdain in his voice. "Anyways, since Nagisa excels more at stealth then strength, it was deemed that you would need a better gym teacher to come in. And that would be me".
Leo looked up at him with a mix of emotions in his eyes, as Haruyo, Cynthia, and Katsue ran over to see if he was okay, or maybe they just wanted to get away from the man who had sent Leo sprawling.
"Besides, as a professional assassin, I am sure he is used to it" he remarked, as Cynthia got out her medical kit to help treat the scrapes a bruises that Leo recieved. "Especially for killing my brother, an innocent man".
Leo suddenly lost the childish playful happy kid appearance he usually had, and appeared more like when he was fighting someone, serious and deadly.
"He was anything but innocent" Leo countered, as the class looked back at him with confusion. "He was smuggling weapons from the Self Defense Force and selling them to warlords, warlords who use child soldiers and do unspeakable crimes. And to cover it up, he killed that one boy who witnessed his crime".
"Lies! Don't you go spouting lies to your new teacher, brat!" the sensei shouted, stompinng his foot into the ground. "I have been given permission to train you as I see fit, for the sake of saving the world! So prepare yourself for a whole new level of hell, because there is no way I will be making this easy on you!"
Suddenly, everyone got concerned as Kaito's words rung through their ears. Intense training, with a guy that attacked one of their students already? Granted it seemed there was some history between the two, but something about this guy still scared the crap out of them.
"Now, first things first..." he said, looking around...when suddenly, his eyes went on Toko next. He immediately took a swing at him and sent Toko sprawling next. "You are only as weak as your weakest link!".
"Owww!" Toko yelled, as Aria, Fumiko, and Shota went to go help him.
"Are you okay Toko?"
"Toko-kun?!"
"What the hell was that for?!"
This guy...I didn't hear anything about him. Someone changed it up...
"Damnit...he is one calculating bastard" Toko muttered.
Aria just gave him a puzzled look. "What does that mean?"
"It means, he is using this to understand who cares about who. Understand their personalities. He now knows based on reactions who the medic is, who is friends with who, who feels what about who".
"He punched you for that?"
"And to make a point. Look, there is still no Nagisa-sensei. He is probably trying to isolate us, make us feel like he is the only one. Makes me wonder how he got rid of Koro-sensei..."
"Alright, you brats! Injury or no, its time for a five kilometer run! Unless, you want to do endurance training like they did..."
The entire class moaned as the teacher turned up the fear.
Koro-sensei meanwhile was watching the police station. The new teacher who had arrived had quickly told him the situation, which then caused Koro-sensei to rush off in fear. After all, Nagisa was being detained for being the suspect of multiple murders at a research laboratory ten years ago. AN annonymous tip, but as a result, he was somehow detained, supposedly for forty eight hours. But something about that didn't quite sit right with Koro-sensei. Aside from the obvious fact Nagisa was framed, where did the call come from? There were all sorts of various concerns.
"So you see here, based on the recovered data, your height, weight, general build, all aproximately match what we before believed to be a female culprit, but now was clearly you".
"I am telling you, I am innocent!"
"I don't know about that. I am sure we can find some motive for you to have commited those murderers".
"And once we do, we can get warrants, and investigate every little inch of your life until we have more then enough proof to lock you away".
"And then those families will finally have justice".
Koro-sensei was listening in, and contemplating all the ways he could help Nagisa, or break him out of there, when someone else caught his attention. Someone drove into a parking spot in the lot, going at speeds above the norm, but parked perfectly. It looked like it was some sort of minivan, but Koro-sensei had never seen a minivan before move like that. And, if his instints were right, the entire Minivan was coated with Anti-sensei material.
A woman then got out of the minivan, and almost seemed to skip into the building. Using his vision to see through the windows and cracks at his angle, as there was no way he could enter the police station itself without being caught, he saw her head right towards the interrogation room Nagisa was in, showing anyone who tried to stop her a piece of paper.
"Nagisa-sensei! I have come here to help you!"
And it took a rather unexpected turn.
"Come on! If you re exhausted after only this much, how are you ever supposed to save the world!" Kaito shouted at them as half of them were collapsed and panting, and the other half were not much better. The one in the best condition was Shota, due to a lack of wind resistance and the fact he regularly practices parkour anyways. "Especially since this is without ankle weights. If you do not learn pain, then you will never be able to succeed! Do you want to blow up with the rest of the earth?!"
His threats and words came round and around, intimidating the entire class into submission.
"If you really want to prove you dont need this, then all you have to do is challange me and beat me in a one on one fight".
"Fine, I will do that" Ryosuke said, stepping up. It only made sense he would be the one to step up first. He prefered direct fights, though because of that he also held the title on most consecutive fails against Koro-sensei since he kept challanging him to a fight. And since Koro-sensei cannot harm the students, ultimately that was impossible. Plus Koro-sensei was too fast and superior physically.
"Heeeeh. Alright then, come at me" he challanged. Ryosuke approached him while wary, but then made his move. However, the soldier immediately countered, grabbing his arm and twisting it around before forcing him into the ground. However, to many they were sure he used way more force then necessary, causing Ryosuke great pain. "I admit, you do seem skilled...but, I am a professional soldier. So you are not as skilled as me, who fought other people in real combat".
"I will go next" Akira mentioned, the other direct fighter aside from Ryosuke. He went against Kaito next, only...he was hurt even more badly then Ryosuke at the end, in an even more brutal way.
"Remember kids. To save the world, anything goes" he said with a gleeful smile on his face. Only at that point, he felt a chill go up his spine, and felt himself freeze up for a moment as he wanted to pee and run.
He turned to where it came from, and it was the brat he had hit earlier. Toko Kiragime, who was giving him a defiant and angry stare. And what irked him more was that brat, Leo, was next to him. Seeing him really pissed him off.
"What, you two got a problem with me you stupid brats?! YOu should listen to the person trying to save you!"
"Save us? More like you are taking your anger out on...ouf?!"
Leo spoke out against the teacher, only to get punched in the gut and get sent sprawling again. Cynthia, who had just finished helping the first two, quickly ran over to help him. Meanwhile, Kaito looked back at Toko.
"What brat? You got a problem? You are one of the reasons they need this, a useless shrimp like you is holding the class back".
"HOw about you shut up!" Susumu yelled in rage. "You spout your garbage, and then bully everyone into submission? Beating the crap out of people for doing a job?!"
"Yeah!" Junko agreed, showing her own aggression. If it wasn't for the fact she had to leave Guila-chan in a locker while in Gym, she probably would have had this guy attacked already. "Why dont you shut the fu..."
"You dare disobey your superior, your guardian, the one who is your greatest ally! Let me show you what happens to your friends when you do this!" Kaito shouted in rage, and went for a punch at Toko again...and was knocked to the ground. However, it hurt less then he expected. He opened his eyes and looked around, and saw that Fumiko had pushed him out of the way at the last second, and got hit in his place.
"Awww, so the little brat has a lover huh? How sweet..." he said, tossing a knife into the ground in front of him. "How about I made it easy for you. All you have to do is touch the blade of that knife to one of my vital areas, and you win. How is that?"
After Toko saw that Fumiko was okay, his own rage and bloodlust began to boil over, as he stood up and picked up the knife.
"Wait hold on! Toko, let me do it!"
"You are still hurt from before! Let me do it!"
"I want to take a crack at this guy!"
"No, I think this should be fine" a voice spoke out, and with it hope did as well. Everyone looked towards the source of the voice, and saw Nagisa-sensei there with Koro-sensei and someone else as well, some woman.
"So, you made it back already huh?"
"Yeah. They were convinced they got the wrong guy. They had confidence in their tipster though, almost like he was some guy from the army or something".
"Well, no matter. The government already put me in charge, so thats that. You cant get involved. Now, come at me, brat".
Toko picked up the knife. Fumiko, Aria, and Elliot all remembered a story of something that happened in a similar way, about Nagisa. But, there were no words that needed to be said here. Or rather, no one was sure words could even reach Toko.
He just started casually walking towards Kaito, catching him off guard. Several others were confused, but not Shota, who instead tensed up as he knew what was going to happen. Nagisa did too, to some extent, and Leo noticed the oddity. Others were clueless though, but Elliot and Jiro roughly figured it out in the sixth step.
Unlike the original story though, Kaito did not wait around. The moment Toko came within range, he made his first punch. A clean, direct hit...is what it should have been, but Toko was not there. Rather, he was elsewhere, with a look of bloodlust that sent shivers and shocks through his body. Toko then kicked him in the arm he raised instinctively to defend, and Kaito felt serious damage. He then tried to push Toko forward and away from him, but he had dodged again and kicked the man in the shin. Between the fear, and something else, Kaito found Toko constantly disappearing from his vision, as his second shin and right arm were kicked, before his gut was kicked next and forced him to the ground.
And then, all that terror, all that rage, all that violance, found itself behind him, holding the knife to his neck.
"Gotcha".
Everyone stood in shock for that moment, as they processed what had happened. Only a few people were able to comprehend what happened, and less understood the full picture. Nagisa had everything though.
It all started the moment he began walking forward. He intentionally took smaller steps, tricked his opponent's mind into believing his movement was lower then what it really was. Then, the moment he tried to land a hit, he accelerated his movement speed. Rather then Toko disappearing, Kaito's mind was used to him moving at a slower speed and so the sudden change was percieved to him as Toko disappearing and re-appearing instantly. His senses were also dulled by the sudden rush of fear felt from Toko's bloodlust.
Shota was also able to understand what had happened as well, as he explained it to Aria and Fumiko.
And then, there were the attacks. Toko's fear caused him to lose focus and defensive ability in his arm. In other words, to put it in gaming terms, each attack Toko made was promoted to a critical hit. His accelerated movement and ability to control spacing came from the parkour training he did.
And of course, Koro-sensei understood as well.
And then, he brought him down, moved around the back, and went in for the kill. However...he could have done that at the start. Toko could have ended it right then and there, but he intentionally delayed it and delivered multiple strikes on Kaito in that situation to hurt him, to make him suffer like they had. Unlike Nagisa, he is more open to the idea of someone deserving to suffer and be in pain for what they have done. Not only does he have Nagisa's natural talent, but...he is far more likely to decide to become a professional assassin as an adult as well.
While Koro-sensei had some worries, he immediately ran over to Toko, and took away the knife while seperating him from Kaito.
"Now now, Toko-kun. Please do take care not to go too far, or else I may have to groom you excessively" Koro-sensei said, breaking the tension as he ate the knife. "And you, Kaito-sensei! Treating students like this! Giving them real knives! That is not allowed here!"
Kaito was still panting and in shock, while the others came and gathered around Toko.
"That assassiantion was brilliant! Where did you learn to do that?!"
"I love how you went all 'Gotcha' at the end there!"
"Damn Toko! You did really well remembering that lesson on pacing steps!"
Fumiko then came over to him as well.
"Are you okay, Toko-kun?"
"I think I should be saying that to you, Fumiko-chan. Are you okay?"
"Un...yeah, I am fine".
Nagisa, who was watching this, felt good that his daughter was okay. To be honest, there was another reason he let Toko fight. He himself was about five seconds away from railing on the guy, when Toko came with his own bloodlust.
However, he was feeling some complicated emotions now. Aren't they sort of acting the way he and Kaede did when they first met? Is Toko...is Toko and Fumiko crushing on each other?! Is his beloved daughter getting a boyfriend?!
Nagisa ultimately shut down with all these complicated emotions swelling up inside of him. Which is why, he could not react in time as Kaito got up and charged at Toko while screaming bloody murder...that was, until the woman got in the way. He managed to use his expert martial arts prowess and physical ability to plow through her though...not?
Rather, she grabbed his arm, twisted it around as she flipped him over her shoulder, twisted it back around to make him eat the dirt, and successfully restrainted him. He, who had defeated Ryosuke and Akira with ease, who showed clear dominance, was beaten by this unknown woman.
"Who the hell are yo...u...wait, are you?!"
"That is right" she said with an optimistic smile that countered even Leo's. And Leo was one of the most cheerful people they knew, despite being a pro. "My name is Reika Hayashi!"
Most of hte people there didn't seem to know her name, but two exceptions were Akira and Ryosuke.
"Wait..that Reika Hayashi?!"
"That famous martial artist?!"
"Akira, Ryosuke, you know her?"
"She is considered one of the best martial arts fighters in all of Japan, and maybe the world. An ultimate athlete, though some consider her an ultimate cheerleader also due to her cheerful personality".
"She and her husband are so great, many SWAT and special forces captains recommend learning from and sparring with her to improve their abilities".
"Rumors has it that the Japan Secret Police have many people who learned directly from her..."
"And that its easier to join the SDF if you have learned under her".
"Woooah..."
"Thats amazing!"
"She must be really great then!"
"Aww, thank you everyone!" she replied with a smile, which caused almost every boy there to develop a crush on her from the start, much to the ire of some of them.
"Hold on, you cant just..."
"You have already been dismissed. The principle agreed with us that you lacked the...methods, to properly teach the students" she commented, as she handed him a paper. "That is your notice of dismissal! By the way, I am now the new official gym teacher of this class! Yay!"
"Woo hoo!"
"We got a nice person!"
"And she seems normal too!"
That comment couldn't go unnoticed by Nagisa.
"Hold on! How am I not normal!?"
"Well of course, thats because you are an eternal chibi" Karma mentioned, walking up behind him, patting him on the back.
"Did you appear in this chapter only to deliver that blow to me?!" Nagisa whined.
"Well, that and one more thing...it looks like your class is getting its final students. The paperwork just went across my desk. Which means, you should be expecting those people to arrive shortly".
"I see...I guess things will only get more interesting from here".
And so, another day ended for the Assassination Classroom.
AN: Wowza! That was exciting! I hope everyone enjoyed! Also, think I will go and close OC submissions for anyone who has not already messaged me about it or submitted ones, since we got a good number now! But feel free to keep reading, and leave reviews!