Hallo! We are almost half way through season one, yay! I am planning to separate the seasons due to something called procrastination and the desire to make my beautiful readers wait. Sorry, not sorry hehe. Well… I would like to let my editor(s) have a life as well XD
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"Italics" Kiriko's thoughts
Let us go!
Irina vs Lovro! Wait…I am the target?!
After coming home from Kyoto, my body decided to reject whatever I ate during my time there. I woke up with a fever and the need to puke anything that I tried to digest. Three whole days I spent making trips from my brother's room to the bathroom and back.
When I woke up the first day of that nightmare, Karma took me to his room to keep an eye on me and take care of me. During those days, Ritsu joined the class. My brother gave me somewhat of a summary of what happened those days and how Ritsu, a machine, managed to gain free will in the end and Karma learned how to make soup as well.
Oh, Koro-sensei would come by to drop off get well cards along with a handmade kid's comic!
Today I am feeling way better! After Karma made sure I could keep my food down, we made our way to school. I get to meet Ritsu as well!
"I wonder if Koro-sensei ran the simulation with me in it…"
I decided that I would go to Irina's lesson for today to get back in the swing of things and I have to say, I was not disappointed. I sat with Nagisa to hear better.
"Say Nagisa? What is a full tongue kiss?" I ask while looking up innocently at Nagisa.
He blushed big time and tried to explain but instead of words, nervous sounds came out. Slowly a smirk started to form on my face.
"Y-you already know what i-it is, don't you?"
I nod and grin, "Yep, but nice try."
He pouts and grumbles, making me laugh, "You are just like Karma."
I chuckle at that comment.
"I don't mind being compared to the person I idolize"
Next morning, I spot Karasuma at the entrance of the old building.
"Why is he standing there?"
Karma leaves me with him at the entrance.
"Have fun Kitty~" he says while ruffling my hair and leaves for class.
I grin, "Certainly, brother," I watch him go in.
"Come kid," Karasuma commands, walking inside.
I run up to him and pulled a bold move, I held his hand which made him tense up a bit but then relax.
"Kiriko," he says, "don't leave my sight," he sounds serious.
I nod, "May I know why though?"
"He said my name~"
"Koro-sensei decided that it would be a good idea to make a game where I have to keep you from getting captured by Irina or Lovro," he sighs, explaining, "they have to either assassinate me and take you or take you without me noticing."
"Oh?" I blink, "but why me?"
He shrugs, "It's to prove a point to Lovro."
"Ah, makes sense," I stopped walking, "wait, who is Lovro?"
"A retired professional assassin who now trains assassins and books them all over the world," Karasuma answers.
"Cool," I go into the faculty lounge and drop my stuff on my usual desk but before that happens Karasuma grabs my things and place them on the desk next to his.
"Welp then, I guess that makes sense since I'm the supposed target instead of him"
Without questioning it I sit next to him and do what I always do, work on the assignments Koro-sensei gives me.
During physical education, I sat on Karasuma's shoulders. The whole class looked confused as to why I was in their class and not with Koro-sensei as usual. Karasuma starts explaining the reason why.
"So, there it is, expect a few disruptions today and hopefully it won't interfere with your studies too much," he concludes, "just carry on as normal alright?"
Everyone seemed to understand and felt some pity for us. While he was explaining I scanned the class and my brother was not here.
"I guess he is skipping this class"
Karasuma sounds a tad annoyed.
"Yoo-hoo," Irina calls, running towards us, making all of us look at her, "excellent work today, I bet you worked up quite a thirst huh?" her voice is overly sweet, "have a nice cold beverage."
We all deadpan at her attempt, I can hear Karasuma grumble.
"Oh boy, here we go"
"Here, go ahead and knock it back, it tastes like a rainbow," she tries to convince him, "I'll hold the little cutie while you relax."
"Ay"
Karasuma stared at the drink in her hands, "Probably some sort of muscle relaxant, immobilize and stab," he assumes, "oldest trick in the book."
Irina freezes up slightly as he sighs, "What do you take me for?" he glares slightly at her, "no man in his right mind would let you close enough to give him a drink."
She grumbles at her failed attempt but composes herself, "Well, why don't I just put it here so that you can take it at your leisure?" she bends down to place the cup on the ground and yelps as she falls forwards, "ow, pick me up Karasuma! Carry me piggyback please!" she cried.
"Uh no," Karasuma responds while walking away.
"Wow, her self-respect is on the floor today," I mention while looking around where the bushes are.
"Ah, there he is"
I found Lovro and stare at him. He is looking at me and I just smirk. I notice that he tenses up a bit.
Once inside Karasuma puts me down and puts on his jacket. We walk back to the faculty lounge with Koro-sensei.
"What do you think? Exhilarating being the killee, isn't it?" Koro-sensei joked.
"Oh, it's a barrel of laughs," Karasuma sarcastically responds then he realizes something and stops walking, "wait a second, what exactly happens if I manage to keep the kid away from them both?"
"Huh, I hadn't thought of that," Koro-sensei said thoughtfully, "I suppose in all fairness you would be the winner."
"What do I win?" Karasuma asks, turning to Koro-sensei fully.
"How about I agree to stand stock-still in front of you for an entire second? You may shoot and/or stab me at will," Koro-sensei suggests, "don't tell the others though, we don't wanna kick off a feeding frenzy, the pot might be a little too rich to keep everyone honest," he concluded and slither into the room.
"Hmmm, whatever you say," Karasuma watches him slither in.
"Does he realize that you can strike a few times in a second?" I ask, looking up at him.
He smirks slightly and motions me to go in.
It was time for lunch, so all the teachers were here. Karasuma was typing away, Irina was darting her eyes between him and me, and Koro-sensei was looking to what I assume were her breasts.
I can subtly hear some shuffling behind the door since all that could be heard here was Karasuma's typing. Suddenly Lovro bursts in and decided to take Karasuma head on but Karasuma grabs Lovro's wrist, slams it against the desk, making him drop the knife and then pulls him closer as Karasuma's knee stops near Lovro's shocked face.
"Ooooohhh," I clap, amazed, and I noticed a hint of blush on Karasuma's cheeks.
"With all due respect my friend, how straightforward did you think this was going to be?" he asks, "you got skill but frankly the years haven't been kind," he picks up Lovro's knife, "until recently I was in the elite special force."
I laugh, "Ya actually thought getting me was gonna be easy? That's cute."
Karasuma points the knife at Irina, "Hey! Wanna win? Step up your game, you've only got today."
Koro-sensei and Irina screech.
"Hold on a second!" she exclaims, and she looks at Koro-sensei who is trembling behind her in an attempt to hide, "why are you scared?!"
"Don't worry about it, just do your best and try not to lose," Koro-sensei encourages while trembling.
Karasuma motions me to follow, "FYI with a good knife, I can strike five times in a second," he mentions as he walks to the door behind me and turns to them with a smirk on his face, "so this should be fun."
That comment made Koro-sensei sweat big time. Karasuma and I went outside and sat by a tree. I sat on his lap for better protection.
"Dad, ya sounded like a promotional ad back there," I teased while taking out my lunch from my bag.
He blushes and flicks my forehead softly, making me laugh. He smiles softly and starts eating his lunch, careful to not leave crumbs on my head. Mid-eating, I hear Irina approaching.
"Oh?" I look up at her.
"Mind if we talk for a sec?" she stops next to us, "you and me."
"What now?" Annoyed, Karasuma looks up at her, "I'm aware that this is a pretend capture, but I'm done screwing around, you are not taking her."
"Aww come on don't be such a stick in the mud," she begins while taking off her jacket slowly, almost seductively.
"Uy"
Karasuma places me next to him, away from her.
"I'm a girl willing to do whatever it takes to stay here, you know that about me," she looks into his eyes as her hand goes through her hair, "no more screwing around," she smiles, "unless that's what you'd prefer in exchange, one good turn deserves another, yea? You just call the game, love."
"Woooow turning up the seduction"
Karasuma and I look at each other.
"Oh, he is thinking about it"
He closes his eyes "Oh alright fine, take her but you have to kill me first, just be quick about it though."
She gasps slightly, "You are a good sport," and walked around the tree to stand behind him, "okay ready or not here I come~!" She dashes forwards pulling on a string that was attached to her jacket which gets caught on his anklet, pulling him and catching him off-guard, making him fall on his back. And she runs, jumps, and lands on him, straddling him.
During all that, I was watching while eating the lunch my brother made for me. She is panting from the running and jumping. Then tried to stab him.
"Say good night!" she says, going for the stab, but he catches her hands holding them in place. Now it became a battle of strength. I drink my juice and watch.
"Take it easy huh?" Karasuma mumbles, struggling a bit to keep her hands in mid-air.
"Karasuma, let me kill you, pretty please," she pleaded in a soft, sweet voice.
That just annoyed Karasuma a bit, "Pretty sure it's bad for a killer to beg permission."
She tries harder.
"This is ridiculous!" he grumbles then sighs, "oh fine, better to get it over with than spend all day listening to you whine," he lets her stab him.
I chuckle, "Dad it's not like you lost anything," I look at him "Koro-sensei wasn't gonna let you shoot him without some sort of protection."
"You are right," he sighs again as Irina stood up.
I tried to help him stand up but I did not do much since I am too small and somewhat too weak to pick up a grown man up. He ended up standing by himself and ruffled my hair with a nice try. We went back inside a bit later to find a suit of armor.
"See?" I point at the suit of armor.
"Hey, the hell is with the suit of armor?!" Karasuma snapped.
"Nothing in our little bet prohibited basic self-defense!" Koro-sensei cried, making me sigh.
"Wow, just wow"
Next day I stayed home to do assignments and to receive our parents since they wanted to pay us a visit. My brother left some food made for me to heat up on the microwave for when I get hungry.
From my memory of the anime I knew that today Karma and Nagisa would go to see a movie in Hawaii and knowing our parents, they were not going to come at all instead they will probably send the usual monthly funds.
"Time to find those pictures that woman took"
My search for the family album started. Spent a part of the morning looking for it but to found nothing. The only place missing to investigate is my parents' room but it's locked. I stared at their door.
"I could try lockpicking, but brother hasn't taught me that"
I took my chances and tried lock picking. Afternoon came by and I was still at it. I growl and left to the kitchen to heat something up to eat and think.
"Those pictures better be in there!" I snapped to no one, an empty house.
After eating I went back to work on that lock. Soon night came upon me and I finally opened the annoying door and, in the process, learned a bit about lock picking. I turn on the light of the room and started looking everywhere. By the time my brother came home, I looked through every nook and cranny of the room and found nothing.
I yelled in frustration and smacked the bookshelf next to me, making a book fall on my head and my brother run in, worried.
"What happened and how did you get in here?" he questions.
I rubbed my head and looked at the book, my eyes widen at what the cover said, then turn to him, "Look, brother, I found it!" I show him the album.
"Is that what you wanted?"
I nod and sat on the floor with it in front of me and opened it. Karma sat behind me and pulled me onto his lap and placed the album on my lap. We went through it together, laughing at some pictures, making fun of each other in others.
We ate afterward, and he went off to do some homework. I got ready for bed. I looked at my bed.
"I don't wanna sleep alone again"
I go to his room and notice he is getting ready for bed.
"Um, brother?" I stood at his door with a stuffed dragon that he gave me last Christmas.
He frowns slightly and gets on one knee in front of me, "What's wrong?"
"Could I sleep with you from now on?" I ask, nervous.
He looks surprised for a second then smiles and picks me up, "Why of course Kitty," he puts me down on his bed.
I smiled and got comfortable on his bed while he lays down on the other side. Once under the covers, I snuggle against him with my dragon in between us and he wraps his arm around me.
"I love you brother," I whisper while looking at him, "you are the best brother ever."
He smirks "Well of course I am," he smiles and whispers, "Now sleep, Kitty."
I close my eyes as he kisses my forehead.
"Despite him being a troublemaker, without a doubt, Karma is the best brother"