Chapter 24 – Nervous Dreams
One morning at school, Storm wondered the halls while humming. For some reason, she was in a cheerful mood this morning. The only thing she didn't notice as she passed the principal's office was that she had stepped into the yellow lines. The yellow lines were marked where the door would open so people wouldn't get hurt if someone opened the door. Unfortunately, she didn't notice and the door opened, whacking her in the face. The opener of the door, Muramasa, was surprised, wiped her bleeding forehead with a tissue.
"I'm terribly sorry. Ah, are you alright Storm-san?" Muramasa said while Storm blinked.
"… Oh, I'm alright. It's my fault for not paying attention where I was walking." Storm said and took hold of the tissue. As she took hold of it, her hand brushed against Muramasa's. She blushed a bit and quickly hid it.
"Let me take you to Hishigi's office." (A/N: Hishigi was also a nurse… That sounds weird cause it's like a lady word lol XD)
"No, it's alright. I caused you enough trouble." She tried to reassure him that she could go to Hishigi's office and their hands brushed against each other again. She blushed again and tried to hide it but he saw.
"You're a bit red… Do you have a fever?" he touched her forehead to check her temperature and she blushed again but hid it. Before she could object, he took her to Hishigi's office.
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I bet that at least once someone had told you not to not to run with scissors for it were not safe. In this case, you couldn't exactly say that because Shizune was walking around with scissors. Well she wasn't exactly walking but rolling around, she was wearing roller skates. Now, was that safe? I don't think so. Anyway, Shizune rolled to the front and tripped on a rock which suddenly appeared out of nowhere. She turned and landed, sitting in a chair while the scissors flew out of her hands and flew behind Fubuki's head and gave him a quick haircut.
"Oops." Shizune murmured. "Sorry Fubuki-sensei." Fubuki looked at her then sighed.
"… It's alright, it was an accident… You have detention for today only." Fubuki said and she nodded. She rolled to the scissors and were about to pick them up when "Don't touch the scissors." She nodded and rolled back to her seat.
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After school, Sakura decided to head down to the bookstore to buy a new book of manga. Today was Friday and she didn't have any homework and there was nothing to do so she was free for the remaining of the day. Walking towards the manga section, she scanned through the manga titles and found what she was looking for. Taking the book out of the shelf, she turned to go to the register when she saw a familiar face. To the right of her, there was a man and he had flaming red hair and wore glasses and unseen red eyes, but you can see the red eyes if you looked closely. Surprised, she tapped on his shoulder.
"Aka-sensei?" Sakura asked and Aka-chan looked at her, smiling.
"Ah, hello Miss Sakura. A coincidence of meeting you here." Aka-chan replied. "If you don't mind me asking but can you help me find a manga book? Tokito asked me to buy it for her."
"Sure, what's the book called?"
"I believe it was called 'Fruits Basket'." She scanned the shelves and took the book out of its place, handing it to her teacher. "Thank you for helping me."
"You're welcome." She smiled back at him.
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For some reason after school Akari had took Storm to the radio station for about 2 hours, where she met some people then to a restaurant for dinner. But at the same time it seemed like Akari kidnapped her because right after school she was whisked away the moment she stepped out of class. As Storm sat at the table, she sweatdropped as Akari talked about stuff.
"Uh… So why did you take me to the radio station then here?" Storm asked.
"Don't you want to spend the day with me?" Akari asked with puppy eyes and Storm sweatdropped more. "To be truthful, I don't really know." Akari shrugged "I was bored." She sweatdropped more. He/She noticed something and he/she smiled. Storm had a questionable look. "Hey, isn't that guy from your school or something?" Storm turned around and her eyes widened and she turned back to Akari.
"Yeah, he's the school's principal. Why?"
"He's cute." The chopsticks that Storm was holding, they cracked. "You should go and say something." The chopsticks broke in half.
"What are you saying?! He's my principal and what is he, 35?!"
"Yup, that's true. He's 35." Storm sweatdropped. "I'm just saying, I mean it's just to be polite."
"One question, why are we still here if we just ate?"
"I do not know." She sweatdropped and Akari stood up. "Anyway, I got to go somewhere. Good luck getting a ride from Muramasa-sensei." Akari waved, paid the bill then quickly left.
"Hey! Akari!" Storm chased Akari outside but it was too late when Akari jumped in the taxi. She sighed; she didn't have enough money for the taxi so she began to walk home but was stopped when she felt a hand on her shoulder. Turning, she saw her principal, Muramasa. "Good evening Muramasa-sensei."
"Good evening Storm-san. Do you need a ride?" Muramasa said.
"No, it's alright Muramasa-sensei. I caused you enough trouble for today."
"No, I insist." Storm somehow ended up in Muramasa's car and he was driving her home.
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Sitting in detention alone was a bit boring. All alone, even the teacher in charge of detention wasn't there when the time of detention started, and surprisingly, she was the only one there. Shizune shrugged and took out a manga book and read it for about 30 minutes then the teacher came skidding inside the classroom. Now who was a teacher in the story and would skid into a class? One person, Yuan.
"Uh, hi." Yuan said sweatdropping and sat at the desk. "Hey Shizune, I'm just curious but do you do karate?" she nodded. "Which belt are you?"
"Black. Yuan-sensei, you have a dojo, don't you?" Shizune replied.
"I do, how did you know?"
"Muramasa-sensei told me."
"Want to go there sometime and train there?"
"Uh, sure… Yuan-sensei, do you read 'Black Cat'?"
"Yeah, do you?" their conversation continued and they had discovered that they had many things in common.
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Aka-chan sweatdropped as she exited the bookstore with his student, Sakura. Aka-chan had agreed to buy Tokito some books because she did a favor for him but he didn't know she meant by some. He had to buy 4 books which were expensive altogether. Two manga books, a sewing book, and a cook book on how to make chocolate. Sakura smiled and giggled a bit when she saw the two instructional books, he asked why but she merely shook her head, smiling. They were both currently walking home together, since they had to get home the same way. It was about 4:45 PM and the sun was going to set soon. Just when they were about to part to their own houses, Aka-chan felt something leaning against his right arm. Turning his head, he saw that Sakura was leaning against him and her face was a bit red.
"Sakura-san, are you alright?" Aka-chan asked, she stopped leaning and turned to him.
"Oh, sorry. I'm alright…" Sakura replied as he checked her temperature to find that her face was burning.
"It seems like you have a fever. I don't think you can walk home so I'll take you to my house and Hishigi might be home…"
"It's alright, Aka-sensei. It's not that far too where I live and I can walk by myself…" she proved it to him by walking for a bit and she almost fell over, he helped her walk over to where he lived.
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About 15 minutes later they had arrived at where Storm lived. The sun had set about 3 minutes ago and it was a bit dark outside. For some reason Muramasa had escorted Storm to the door even though she was sure it was safe enough. She unlocked the door and placed the key back inside her pocket. Turning towards Muramasa, she smiled.
"Thanks Muramasa-sensei." Storm said, and hugged him. Thinking that the hug was a friendly one, he replied the hug.
"You're welcome Storm-san." Muramasa said, smiling and he waved and she bowed then they went in their own directions.
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Aka-chan stood at the doorstep and pressed the doorbell. He could always get the house key but it was sort of hard because he had a student leaning on him. A few seconds later of hearing footsteps, Tokito had opened the door.
"Thanks let me lighten that for you." Tokito said, taking her things only and Aka-chan sweatdropped. Sakura entered and took off her slippers, Aka-chan leading her towards the couch.
"Thanks Aka-sensei…" Sakura said while placing her backpack on the ground and sitting down on the couch.
"You're welcome Sakura-san. Tokito, is Hishigi home?" Aka-chan said.
"No, he's not home." Tokito replied, plopping on a couch and started to read one of the manga books. Aka-chan walked towards the hall and turned towards the medicine cabinet. "That's a wall."
"Oh, it is?" Aka-chan sweatdropped and put on his glasses. "That's better!" he turned around and opened the real medicine cabinet.
"Tokito." Sakura whispered, so that Aka-chan couldn't hear.
"Yeah?" Tokito replied.
"You asked Aka-sensei to buy you the sewing and cooking book so you can give Akira-san something for Valentine's Day right?" Tokito stopped reading the book, placed it down on her lap, and stared at Sakura.
"… Yeah…" she blushed a bit while trying not to.
"That's so cute! Oh, um, sorry. I could teach you how to sew and cook if you like."
"… Really?" Sakura nodded, smiling. "Sure…"
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Today was Saturday and Shizune was currently walking towards Yuan's dojo. The sky was a bit cloudy and it was foggy outside. After walking for about 10 minutes, it started to rain. Sighing, she pulled up the hood of her jacket. Within a minute she arrived at Yuan's dojo, entering she smiled. Taking off her slippers, she entered; it was just like the dojo she used to go to. It was designed Japanese style, bamboo carpet, sliding shoji doors(like wooden and paper doors), and belts hanging on a wall. She looked around, Yuan wasn't there. Raising an eyebrow, she pondered over the thought, he had invited her to go today but he wasn't there. She isn't early because he told her to come about 30 minutes ago.
"Hey." Yuan said, Shizune turned to her right and saw Yuan standing there. "Need a towel?" he tossed her a towel and she caught it.
"Thanks." Shizune said, holding the towel. She stepped towards him but slipped when she slipped on a banana peel. She bumped into Yuan and they both fell down. When they opened their eyes, Shizune was lying on top of Yuan and she was still holding onto the towel.
Yuan turned a bit red-ish. "Could you get off of me?" she got off of him and he sat up. "Thanks." They both stood up and Shizune dried her hair. Once she was done, she placed the towel down on the ground. They bowed to each other and smiled. "Show me what you learned."
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Everything went white and the teachers woke up, fog was outside of their window. Not much can happen in a night's dream. The teachers sweatdropped, recalling the dream and they stared at the calendar. Valentine's day was a week from now and for some reason they seemed a bit nervous.
Yuan sighed and stretched, stood up, and went over to the computer. Aka-chan sighed and went to take his annual 6 AM shower. Muramasa sighed and went downstairs to get some warm milk to drink. Hishigi sat up, stared at the clock, and then lay back down to go to sleep. Fubuki stood up, went to the showers, and turned on the tub's water and sat in the tub. No one knew why the teachers were nervous, maybe they'll discover why soon…
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A/N: That was not how I expected it to be… O.o I have some stuff happening at school and yeah, a bit stressed out but doing well :) Thanks Chelly for the advice & reviewing and thanks to everyone who reviewed! Its actually about like 3 weeks or something until Valentine's…lol. What is White Day? Is it a day when the men who got chocolate gives gift back to the ladies who gave them chocolate? O.o Is it not too early to start the Valentine chapter? The next chapter might be the one for my friend's b-day or the valentine chapter… Before I forget, if you want to request, tell me your b-day and I'll make a chapter for you ;3 See you all next time!
Edit: I forgot. Lol. This is the chapter that is impossible to happen. Well it could but it'll seem like a bit odd O.o Here are the reasons:
The teachers are like way older than the 3 friends
They already have people they love and care for
And its just not right
Anyway, see you all next time! ;3
Fubuki: -a look that is like staring but not quite-
Sorry Fubuki-sensei… I didn't mean for you to lose some of your hair, besides, it's a dream.
Yuan: Hey, why did you call him teacher?
It's a secret… ;3