It's been a week since Beel's Night Crying kept everyone awake. Luckily, he stopped and everyone was able to get their much needed rest. Everything was pretty quiet…well, quiet as it was going to get. Anyway, Kaito, Tatsumi and Furuichi, along with the rest of the students at Ishiyama High were staring wide eyes and their jaws wide open with disbelief and horror written in their faces.
Now, I bet you're wondering what caused them to show up at school like this. Well, in front of them was a huge yellow banner written in bold black writing:
ATTENTION! TOMORROW WE WILL HOLD ABILITY ASSESSMENT TESTS! – TEACHER
"Ability Assessment Tests?" Furuichi muttered.
"Did we even have tests in this school at all?" Tatsumi wondered.
"Here's a better questions. Who and where is this so called teacher anyway?" Kaito asked.
"My ability to stare people down ain't second-to-none!" One of the students shouted as he passed by them while getting entangled with another student.
"Don't underestimate my evil-eye ability, buddy!"
"Ability? Is that the kind of ability it means?" Tatsumi asked.
"At our school? I can believe it." Furuichi answered.
"Well then, Tatsumi, you should pass these tests no problem." Kaito teased with a grin.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"If you can't figure that out, then you are dumb." Kaito teased.
"SHUT UP!" Tatsumi growled.
"Dabu!"
Tatsumi looked at the direction Beel was pointing at and said, "Guys, look at the subjects for the tests!" Kaito and Furuichi looked at the notice board to see what they were to be expecting.
"There are four of them!"
"Japanese?!"
"Arithmetic?!"
"Science?!"
"Good night…I mean Social Studies?!"
"The teachers are being serious here!" Tatsumi said.
"Uh, aren't those elementary school subjects?" Furuichi wondered.
"I don't think so." Kaito said.
"Well, I suppose we've got to do it. After all this is…" Furuichi trailed off.
"ISHIYAMA HIGH, WHERE EVERYONE HATES STUDYING 180%!"
"I guess I might as well try to study a little bit." Tatsumi said as he walked towards his desk with Baby Beel on his shoulders.
"You study? Now this I got to see." Kaito laughed a bit while lying on top of his bed with an opened textbook in front of her.
"Well, not all of us are book smart like you."
"I wouldn't consider myself book smart. If I was, then I wouldn't be at Ishiyama High and we wouldn't be dating due to long distance relationship. Besides, it's not that I don't mind the studying, I just choose to do it as a late night crash-course." Kaito stated with a shrug.
"Whatever. Let's do this 'studyin' for a test' thing."
"Da!"
The couple watched as Beel jumped on top of the desk and opened one of Tatsumi's textbook to a random page.
"Oh! You may be a baby, but you are a baby Demon Lord. Do you understand how to study?" Tatsumi asked.
"Dabu!"
Baby Beel grabbed a pencil in each hand and made some marks before revealing a drawing of a monster over the actual picture. Beel was pleased with his work.
"I'm not surprised with what he just did. After all, he is just a baby." Kaito stated with a sweat drop on the side of her head.
Tatsumi glared at Beel as he shouted, "This ain't time for foolin' around!"
Beel turned his head around…only for one of the pencils to poke him in the forehead pretty hard. Tears began to form at the corner of his eyes.
"Uh oh." Kaito slowly got up with the textbook in her hands and quickly ran out of the room. "Nice you knowing you!"
"TRAITOR!" That was last thing Tatsumi had say before being struck by Baby Beel's lightening.
Kaito rested her back against the door and muttered to herself, "Better him than me."
Once everything was calmed down, Kaito and Tatsumi were studying in his room with Kaito helping Tatsumi on stuff he didn't understand…which is pretty much everything while Baby Beel was listening to heavy metal music with a pair of headphones to keep himself occupied. Suddenly, the door slammed opened to reveal Hilda.
"I have returned."
"Hey, Hilda. Where have you been?" Kaito asked.
"Demon World."
"Again? What for?" Tatsumi asked.
"Dai-Maou-sama summoned me. He wants to know what's the status of Master's ability as a Demon Lord. He is also aware of the Zebul Spell."
"You mean that mark on Tatsumi's hand that grows bigger each time he gets into a fight?" Kaito asked.
"Correct. Anyway, he wants to see the Master are growing which why he wants the Master and the parents to do an assessment test." Hilda explained as she showed the couple a dark purple with red writing that says:
GOOD LUCK! – DAI-MAOU-SAMA
"He's got a test too?" Tatsumi asked as Kaito took the headphones off of Baby Beel's head. "And sheesh, this Dai-Maou-sama's just as loopy as ever."
"So what does he need to do in this assessment test exactly?" Kaito asked.
"The Master needs to defeat 100 humans within the next week. You get one point for each one you defeat. Less than 30 points, and you fail." Hilda explained.
"Dabu!"
"That ain't somethin' to get excited about!" Tatsumi and Kaito shouted.
"Oh, but if the master isn't enthusiastic about this, it will be the both of you who will suffer."
"And what does that mean?" Kaito asked with narrowed eyes.
"If he fails…Hellish remedials await him in a special room in the Demon World. And as the master's parents, you will join him, of course."
"Wait a minute. Tatsumi is technically the parent of Baby Beel, so shouldn't it be him that joins him and not the both of us?" Kaito asked.
"Not exactly. Once Dai-Maou-sama got word of you being the mother, he went on about how the wife should support the husband in every step of the way. Through sickness, health, richer, poorer and torture."
"HUSBAND?!"
"WHAT?!" Both Tatsumi and Kaito exclaimed.
The next morning, Tatsumi, Kaito and Furuichi were walking to school with Baby Beel riding on top of Tatsumi's head while Kaito was explaining to Furuichi about the assessment test for Baby Beel.
"Anyway, are you two gonna be okay?" Furuichi asked.
"Nope. We're not okay." Tatsumi replied.
"Not by a long shot." Kaito added.
"Dabu! Ai!" The teenagers watched as Baby Beel and a random cat was having a stare-off.
"Does getting into a fight with a cat count?" Furuichi asked.
"Actually, it does." Kaito said as she pulled out a small book that she received from Hilda. "It says here that 10 cats gets him one point."
"Oh."
Baby Beel charged towards the cat, but the cat was winning the fighting by punching him with its paws. As a result, Baby Beel cried and shocked Tatsumi, Kaito and Furuichi, causing them to scream in pain.
Once Baby Beel calmed down, the victims of his shocks were lying on the ground burnt to a crisp. It also didn't help with Kaito's smelling either.
'I've got to ask Hilda if she found something out with this problem I'm having with the smelling.' She thought to herself.
"I-I gotta do something! I gotta dump him off on someone quick, or else…" Tatsumi groaned out.
"Sure, but we've got our own tests this week. We don't have time for that!" Furuichi pointed out.
"That's it!"
"What's it?" Kaito groaned out.
"Those tests!"
"Huh?" Both Kaito and Furuichi were confused at what Tatsumi was going at.
"To be the parent of the Demon Lord requires being strong, brutal and having brains! The reason Baby Beel didn't latch on to any of them was because they were all idiots!" Tatsumi got up on his feet and continued, "Whoever gets the best marks on this assessment test will have the perfect combination of brawn, brutality and brains! If I dump Baby Beel onto that guy, then…"
'If that's true, then why the hell is Baby Beel attached to an idiot like you?' Kaito wondered as she stared at the demonic flames surrounding her boyfriend.
Tatsumi, Kaito and Furuichi arrived at the school and were walking down the hallway as the boys were trying to figure out who fit the qualities that would fit as Baby Beel's parent. Suddenly, they see a body was flying towards them. Once the body was getting closer, they realize that it was Shimokawa flying towards them. Luckily, the three of them stepped to the side and watched Shimokawa fly past the,
Furuichi noticed a couple of books on the ground and picked it up.
"What are those?" Kaito asked.
"Looks like textbooks that he dropped. Hmm?" Furuichi looked inside one of the textbooks that belonged to Shimokawa and noticed some major mistakes in his English. "Hey, Kai-chan, take a look at this."
Kaito took the textbook and her eyebrow twitched when she read at how Shimokawa wrote some phrases.
Good Nait
Good Mouning
Good Evuning
'You've got to be kidding me. He can't even spell his own phrase right!' Kaito thought.
"Oh, are those the right kanji?" Tatsumi asked.
Both Furuichi and Kaito looked at the other textbook and was even more surprised at what was writing inside.
It's like he's got eyes in the back(ushiro) of his head.
(U-"Heavens" Shi-"Death" Ro-"Dew")
The next day(yokujitsu) the weather will be lovely (kaisei).
(Yo-"Night" Ku-"Suffering" Ji-"Path" Tsu-"Pain")
(Ka-"Beauty" I-"Intimidate" Se-"Height" I-"Intimidate")
"You've gotta be kidding me! Everyone's freaking dumb, I mean really dumb!" Kaito exclaimed. "Babe, at this rate, you can kiss finding another parent to Baby Beel goodbye. Unless…"
"Unless what?" Both Tatsumi and Furuichi asked.
"Well, this guy might give us a helping hand. Follow me!" Kaito ran off after dropping the textbooks.
"Wait up!" Tatsumi shouted as he and Furuichi followed her.
"Cry (nakuyo), ye bush warbler: Heian Palace. Create a nice box (ii hako): Kamakura Bakufu." Shiroyama said while trying to memorize the important things for Social Studies.
"Whoa!"
"Awesome, Shiroyama-san!"
"So that's how you remember them?"
"Well, Shiro-chan, 'Create a nice box' is nice and all, but do you know what year it stands for?" Natsume asked.
"ii haku tsukurou. It was in the year 18,596!"
"I'm like, moved!"
Kaito's eyebrow was twitching as she watched the scene in front of her. She couldn't believe that even the 3rd year students are this stupid.
"That's waaay into the future!" Furuichi shouted. He turned towards Kaito and asked, "Please tell me it's not him you were talking about."
"Hell no."
Suddenly, a random 3rd year student ran inside the room and shouted, "We got trouble! Kanzaki-san's havin' a showdown with Suppon High by the riverside!"
"Oh, yeah?! Let's go, boys!" Shiroyama shouted as he ran out the room with the rest following him.
"Don't seem much like test studyin' around here…" Tatsumi commented.
"Is this gonna be okay?" Furuichi asked.
"Ai!"
The boys and Kaito looked down to see Baby Beel defeated a cricket.
"Hey, Kai-chan, how much points does he get for defeating a camel cricket?" Furuichi asked.
Kaito pulled out the handbook and read, "He gets one point for 100 camel crickets."
It was finally the Test Day at Ishiyama High…but practically everyone was stressing out on these tests, especially Tatsumi.
'I don't have a clue!' Tatsumi narrowed his eyes at his math test. 'But this isn't the real issue…It doesn't matter if I get a good score myself. What's important is when they announce the results of the test! I'll dump Baby Beel off on whoever comes in first!'
"Da!"
Tatsumi turned his attention below to see Baby Beel holding a rolled up pill bug in his fingers. "Oh, it's pill bug this time?" Tatsumi turned to the side to see his girlfriend working on her test with an expression that says, 'I don't care'. "Hey, Kaito." He whispered.
"What?" Kaito whispered without looking up.
"How much does Baby Beel get with pill bugs?"
"Hmm…1000 pill bugs gets you one point."
"Well, make sure to tally that."
"Sure."
'Wait…this isn't the time to keep tallying. I'm screw at this rate and I'll be dragging Kaito down with me! Damn it! I've gotta dump him off on someone before that, or…' Tatsumi lost his trail of thought when he noticed one of the students was cheating off of a different student who dosed off. He was more surprised that the student is even cheating on filling in his own name.
He looked around and noticed that everyone in the room was using different methods to cheat on the test even though they weren't doing right.
'Are they really that stupid?' Tatsumi wondered. 'No, no…There's got to be one decent guy in the entire school! At least one who can study normally!'
"Oh, no! Suppon High's invading!"
Everyone stopped to look out the window see a large group of Suppon High students heading towards their school, each with a weapon of their own.
Kaito can guess who's to blame for the Suppon High students deciding to come. "That stupid Kanzaki…"
"They came to pay back the favor? Alright then!"
"Hold it! Hold it! Hold it!" Tatsumi shouted. All of the students stopped and turned towards Tatsumi.
"Oga?"
"Leave this to me! The rest of you, finish the tests!" Tatsumi declared before running out of the room.
"What's Oga so revved up about?"
Kaito smirked and said, "What an idiot. But…" She got up from her seat and cracked her knuckles. "He's my idiot." She turned towards the rest of the students and said, "You heard him, finish your tests. Also, don't even think about cheating off of my test." She ran out of the room to follow the idiot she called her boyfriend.
"I ain't lettin' you set even one foot past here. I will fight you!" Tatsumi declared in front of the Suppon High students.
"Who the hell are you?"
"You gonna take us on by yerself?"
"Who said he was alone?" A voice rang out.
Everyone was trying to find the source of voice until a figure stepped out of the building; stepped out of the shadow was Kaito with a smirk on her face that said 'Eat shit'.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Tatsumi asked as Kaito walked up to his side.
"C'mon, you honestly think I'm going to let you have all the fun. Besides, this is a perfect excuse for me to get out of the test." Kaito said while loosening her shoulders.
Tatsumi grinned at his girl and said, "Let's do this, Katio, Baby Beel…"
"Dabu!"
Tatsumi placed Baby Beel on his head which surprised everyone. The mark on his arm began to glow and grew big till it went up to his elbow. "Zebel Blast…" Both Kaito and Tatsumi charged towards the students with the intent to draw blood.
While the fight was going, Alain and Hilda were watching the fight go on above the roof.
"An excellent combination technique. It looks like the Master is well on his way to a passing score." Alain stated. Hilda smiled in agreement.
"Hilda, when are you going to tell her what you found out about her mother?" Hilda dropped her smile at the question. "She has the right to know."
"I agree…" To be honest, Hilda did find out a very interesting fact about Kaito's mother, but she wasn't sure how well Kaito could take the news. She was hoping that Kaito would just forget about it, but looking at how strong she's been getting with each passing day…the day to tell her the news would be coming sooner rather than later.
Several days has passed since the assessment test and the fight against the Suppon High students happened at Ishiyama High. Also, Baby Beel was able to pass his assessment test thanks to Tatsumi and Kaito. Right now, the couple and Furuichi were walking to school with Baby Beel sleeping in Kaito's arms.
"Well, at least you avoided remedial lessons in hell." Furuichi said.
"It's not any good. This can't continue on forever. I'm gonna dump Baby Beel off on the smartest guy in Ishiyama right away." Tatsumi said.
"Well, we are getting our test results back today, but I'm not gonna hold my breath on you finding the smartest guy in a place that holds the dumbest people I've ever met besides you two." Kaito said.
"HEY!"
"Just joking…kinda." Kaito muttered as they stood in front of the board that showed all of the students' scores.
"How many points was this out of?" Tatsumi asked.
Takayuki Furuichi – 59 points
"You're in the top?!"
"Not exactly." The boys looked at Kaito who pointed at a certain part of the score board.
Satoshi Kaito – 89 points
"WHAT THE HELL?!"
"HOW'S THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?!"
Kaito just shrugged her shoulders and said, "I told you I do pretty well at late night crash-course."
~Omake!~
Misaki was making her way to her room and just as she passed the closed door of her brother's bedroom, she heard a noise which stopped her on her tracks. Misaki leaned her ear closer to the door to hear a light moaning sound.
"Oh yeah…right there." She could definitely tell that was Kaito's voice.
"Man, look like you really needed this relief huh?" Tatsumi's voice rang through the door.
'What the hell?' Misaki thought to herself while her cheeks were slowly turning red. 'Are they doing it?!'
"Please…Tatsumi…go a bit…mmm…harder. This feels so good…uh..."
"What that? I couldn't hear you."
"You idiot…ugh…I know you…ah…heard me."
"I don't know. What do you think, Baby Beel?" Misaki's eyes widen. "Did you hear her?"
"Da!"
"STOP!" Misaki burst in with her eyes shut. "Tatsumi, how dare you do this kind of thing with Kaito in front of Baby Beel?! He's too young for this kind of thing!"
"What the hell are you talking about?" Tatsumi asked. "How is massaging her back too young for him?"
"Huh?" Misaki opened her eyes to see Tatsumi sitting on top of Kaito's back while lying on the floor with Baby Beel sitting on top of the bed. "What's going on?"
"Just Tatsumi holding his part of the deal." Kaito said. "We agreed that whichever one of us scored high on the test, the loser would give the winner a back massage."
Tatsumi got off of his girlfriend, letting her sit up as he asked, "What'd you thought we were doing?"
Misaki's face turned completely red before she shouted, "IT'S NOTHING! JUST KEEP IT DOWN!" She slammed the door behind her, leaving the couple very confused.
"What do you think she thought we were doing?" Tatsumi asked.
"Wait…you don't think it had something to do with what we said, right?"
"Huh?"
"You know…" Kaito's cheek began to turn slightly red.
After a brief moment of thinking, Tatsumi's cheeks turned slightly red as well. "Ugh! Misaki, you're sick in the head!"
"SHUT UP!"
