Chapter 36

Monday back at school

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Korosensei "Hope you all had a wonderful time on the trip!!! It's time for school work again!!! I have a project for you all!!"

A series of groans escape the class. Nothing good ever comes after that…

Korosensei "This also ties into your English class. You will be researching and creating a budget for 25 year old living anywhere in America."

"Ehhhh????"

"Why?????"

"Why America?!"

Fuwa "Probably so the author doesn't have to-"

"Fuwa this isn't a fanfiction!!!!"

Fuwa "When will you learn…"

Irina comes in "Because in America they speak multiple languages mostly English or Spanish. You will be doing the assignment in English."

"Bitch-sensei you just don't wanna come up with an assignment do you…"

She shrugs "Two birds one stone."

Korosensei "You'll be in pairs of course!! Kayano and Nagisa. Karma and Okuda. Chiba and Hayami. Sugaya and Nakamura. Okajima and Kurahashi. Mimura and Fuwa. Sugino and Kanzaki."

He continues listing all the pairs and everyone is questioning the project

"Korosensei can you explain the project a little more?"

"What do you mean create a budget??"

Korosensei hands out the rubric at Mach speed "All you need to know is there! This's purely independent and Irina and I won't be helping much."

Everyone gets in their pairs. Ryuu, his friends, and their partners are all outside together.

Sugaya "Anyone know what this means…"

Mimura shakes his head "Korosensei didn't explain anything."

Fuwa looks at the paper "Well the authors teachers didn't explain anything. Why should ours."

Ryuu "Maybe because this isn't a fanfiction Fuwa-san?"

Rinka "We're real people. We just have a very… weird… life."

Kurahashi "So it looks like we have to a slideshow presentation?"

Rio "Like what? Google slides or??"

Kurahashi "Yup! 20 slides. We need to create our own person. It'd probably be easiest to do an American since it IS in America for some reason."

Fuwa "Maybe cause-"

Mimura "Fuwa if you say 'maybe cause the author is american' I swear will confiscate your manga until this project is over."

She pouts "Rude…"

Ryuu sighs "We need a backstory, career, and current situation for the character. Financial and personal."

Rinka "And to create the character in general."

Fuwa starts listing anime names.

Ryuu sighs "Rin? Since the characters American do you want to give an English name?"

She shrugs "Sure. Like what?"

"Generate a name?"

"Generate one for our group too yeah?"

Ryuu sighs pulling out his phone and opening a name generator

Ryuu "Rin? What about this? Allison Hargreeves?"

She nods writing it down "That's works."

Sugaya "Oi! Lover boy give us a name too?"

Ryuu rolls his eyes ignoring him "What career should we do?"

Sugaya "Hey don't ignore me!!"

Mimura grabs Ryuu's phone "Use this? Peter Parker? First one. Okajima, Kurahashi, Fuwa? Which ones?"

Ryuu snatches his phone back blushing "Hey don't take my phone!"

Mimura frowns "Rude. Fuwa any non-anime names?"

Fuwa sighs "Fine. Just use something like Victor or Natasha."

Rinka pokes Ryuu "Career? What about a registered nurse? Should be simple enough."

Ryuu smiles softly "Yeah. That works."

Fuwa tilts her head "That was a lot easier than it actually was for-"

"Fuwa. Real life right now."

The snipers tune the others out and start doing research.

Ryuu "What state?"

Rinka thinks for a moment "…Well the only states I know off the top are Hawaii, New York, Washington DC, and California?"

Ryuu "Rin. Washington DC is a city. The president lives there. Washington is a state but DC isn't in that state."

Rinka shrugs "Americans are weird… so which state? Those are like… the major major ones."

"California should be fine. Everyone knows about Disney land, Hollywood, and LA so it should be easy."

Rinka "What's a site we can use to find a city? LA would be expensive and a pain to do. Maybe a lesser known place? But still city size, not town?"

Ryuu goes to google "lets see… I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. She's a registered nurse so she lives somewhere with a hospital…"

"Most places have a hospital idiot."

Ryuu rolls his eyes "Not helping Rin. I'm just gonna search for California careers and hope something comes up."

Rinka "Valid. Good thing Ritsu has free WiFi."

He nods "California Career zones? Seems promising enough?"

Ryuu clicks it then frowns clicking on different things "Rin? Where's Orange, California?"

She looks it up and shows him "There's a hospital there. This work?"

"Yeah. How much she make there?"

"$83,000 a year. You're better at math. What's that a month?"

Ryuu thinks "Umm… I think about $6,917 or so? Let me double check." He puts into the calculator "6,916.66. Round up 6,917 so yeah."

Rinka writes it down on the balance sheet and Ryuu attempts to figure out the website he's on.

Rinka "Okay switch me. You don't know what you're doing."

He pouts handing her his phone.

Mimura "Oh you let her use your phone but not us!"

Ryuu flicks a rock at him "You took my phone. She is trying to figure out how we do this assignment."

Mimura "You sure it's not just cause you're in love with her~"

Both snipers blush completely and Rio takes pictures.

Sugaya smirks "Mimura you know both are in love."

Ryuu kicks them both leaving them to their partners.

Kurahashi "Okajima I'm surprised you didn't say anything about it?"

Okajima points at the snipers "Chiba would kill me. Hayami would kill me in a more painful way."

Both snipers nod agreeing they would.

Rinka "Ryuu write this down. Monthly cash flow. Total before taxes, $6,917. Taxes is 25% of the gross income so $1,729. Subtract that for the Net income $5,188."

Ryuu writes it down in the cash flow paper "Their government takes out a lot in taxes…"

Rinka nods "25% in California. I figured out this site. Should she have a house?"

Ryuu thinks "Age 25… maybe she just bought the house and is still paying it off?"

Rinka nods filling it in and they choose different things for her

Ryuu "She lives alone."

Rinka nods "With no pets."

"Makes most of her own food."

"Doesn't go clothes shopping much."

"Doesn't go out much."

They keep filling in the information in sync while the groups are arguing.

Sugaya "Nakamura no!!! We aren't making Peter a maid!!!"

Nakamura "But it pays!!!"

Sugaya "No!! We're making him a teacher!!"

"Maid!!!"

"Teacher!!!"

Kurahashi "We aren't making Natasha a porn star and that's final."

Okajima "Fine! What about really busty circus performer!!!"

"No. Her boob size doesn't matter but she's gonna be a park ranger for Yellowstone."

Okajima sulks

Mimura "Fuwa… Why… Why would Victor be a world famous ice skater. We're supposed to be looking for normal American jobs. Hell even pro football player would make more sense."

Fuwa "Nooo!! Victor Nikiforov is the worldest top figure skater!!"

"This's another anime thing isn't it…"

"Yes!"

Mimura sighs "What about director? Hollywood's in America? We could do that?"

"Mmmmm… fine… But only if he can be engaged to a guy named Yuri Katsuki!!"

"You know what? Fine. Fine whatever."

Ryuu and Rinka finish the cash flow.

Ryuu "Okay read it off so I can write it?"

Rinka nods "Housing: 2,900, Utilities: 150, Food: 150, Entertainment: 50, Clothes: 50, Transportation: 75, Insurance: 250, Savings (25%): 492, Miscellaneous: 52, Total spent: 5,791, Total unspent: 1,125."

Ryuu finishes writing it "That's a lot… Well at least that parts out of the way?"

Rinka nods "Yeah. Wanna work on it after school? At your place preferably…"

Ryuu shrugs "Sure. You already know what to expect."

Sugaya lays back and on Ryuu's notebook he had on his lap annoying him.

Ryuu frowns "Sugaya. Get off me."

Sugaya "Nah. I'm good. So? How many times has Hayami been to your house."

Ryuu blushes softly "None of your business."

Rio "I think like 3-4 times or so."

Rinka rest her head in her hand "And why does that matter?"

Rio "Am I Right?!"

Both snipers look away embarrassed.

Sugaya snickers "Nakamura's right."

Ryuu pushes him off "Just work on your projects."

After school

Ryuu opens his door "I'm home. And I brought Rin."

Rukia from living room "Hey Rinka. And Ryuu help me with this real quick."

Ryuu sighs going into the living room with Rinka

"With what?"

Rukia "Senna-chan's hair. How the hell do you undo this?!"

Ryuu frowns setting his bag down "Its not that hard. Just take out the hair ties." He easily takes down her buns and leaves the hair ties on his wrist "There you go Senna-chan."

Senna smiles "Thanks Ryuu-nii! Hi Rinka-chan!"

Rinka "Hey Senna-chan! Hi Rukia."

Rukia "Sup. What brings you this time?"

"Project. We need to do research."

She nods "Alright. Have fun with that."

Ryuu "Wait a second… it's quiet… Where's Tadashi?"

Rukia shrugs "Said he was going out with Hitoko to get revenge on the dark lord or something and will be back before dinner."

Ryuu tilts his head "Okay… that's a little weird… But Tadashi normal…"

Rinka "I guess both the boys in this family are weirdos huh girls?"

Rukia nods "Oh yeah."

Senna nods "Tadashi-nii and Ryuu-nii are both really weird."

Ryuu blushes slightly "Hey!!"

The girls all shrug

"Sorry little bro. You're really weird. Like that time we were kids and I caught you da-"

Ryuu covers her mouth quickly "We don't talk about that!!!!"

Rinka smirks leaning on the couch "Hm~?"

Ryuu grabs Rinkas hand "Well we should get working on our projects! It's worth nearly two letter grades! Haha bye!!"

Rukia smirks as they leave.

They get to Ryuu's room and he tosses his bag beside his desk grabbing his laptop.

Rinka "So what was she saying?"

Ryuu tenses creating a new slide presentation "Nothing important."

Rinka smirks reaching for his ear.

He sees her from the corner of his eye and backs away "Rin…"

She smirks "What?"

Ryuu looks back at his screen "The project."

She nods pulling out their work and they continue it. They get a few things done before giving up. Personal goals. Financial goals. Personal and financial profile.

Ryuu closes his laptop and sets on his desk before laying down "This project is already a pain…"

Rinka nods "Everything's in English… How many words have we had to look up?"

Ryuu shrugs "Only like 10 which is surprising."

Rinka looks over at him. His bangs are pinned back and he has his arm over his eyes.

Rinka smirks and reaches towards his side.

Ryuu "Rin what're you doing?"

Rinka "Seeing if you're ticklish."

Before he can react she's tickling him.

Ryuu blushes trying not to laugh "R-rin- Stop!" He starts laughing as she smirks.

Rinka "So you are?"

Ryuu attempt to push her away "No- stop!"

Rukia downstairs hears the boy laughing and sighs looking at Senna "I think Rinka-chan found out Ryuu's greatest weakness."

Senna giggles "Ryuu-nii avoids most physical contact cause he's super duper ticklish!"

Back in Ryuu's room.

Ryuu frees himself and takes a defensive position while hiding his blushing face.

Rinka smirks deviously "How cute~ first you baby talk, then you're great at doing hair, and now you're ticklish~? Any other cute secrets~?"

Ryuu glares at her knowing his intimidating gaze has absolutely no affect on her "Rin. I am going to kill you."

She giggles "You're so adorable Ryuu!! It's so fun seeing your soft side!"

He lowers his guard slightly "No. I'm not adorable. And don't do that."

Rinka smiles "Is that you're biggest weakness~ That you're super ticklish?"

Ryuu pouts "Mmmmmmmmm…… please never do that again… and never tell anyone about that………"

Rinka smirks looking at the time "I'd prefer to keep that to myself. It's fun teasing you."

There's a knock on the door and Rukia comes in

Rukia "One. Tadashi's back. Two. He brought take out. Three. Rinka you wanna stay for for dinner?"

Rinka smiles "I should get going before it gets too dark. Thank you though."

Rukia "I can drive you back? I have my permit."

Rinka "You sure?"

Rukia nods then looks at her brother "Ryuu you okay?"

Ryuu nods still in a defensive position "Yup. Perfectly fine."

Rinka smirks.

Rukia "Well come downstairs then. Rinka you sure you don't want to eat before we leave?"

Rinka sees the genuine kindness in her eyes then smiles "I guess I could."

Rukia smiles "Great! Let's go!"

The three go downstairs and Ryuu still has his guard up nervously.

Rinka looks at him innocently.

Ryuu pouts "You're so gonna pay."

They sit down at the table.

Ryuu "Tadashi I'm surprised you brought dinner?"

Tadashi shrugs "I figured you didn't wanna cook and Rukia-nii probably didn't want to either."

Rukia "Don't go getting all mature on us all of the sudden?"

Tadashi smiles softly and they eat.

After dinner

Rukia "I'll take Rinka home. Ryuu handle those two?"

Ryuu hesitates "I'm not sure if I should trust you two alone…"

Rukia smirks "Chill. It's fine. Bye be back in a bit."

Rinka smiles innocently "Bye. Thanks for having me. See you tomorrow Ryuu."

Ryuu "Bye…"

The door shut.

Ryuu sighs "Nee-san please don't say anything…"

Tadashi raises an eyebrow "You know this's probably the most dangerous thing you could've done?"

Ryuu nods "Oh yeah. This's more dangerous than you know."

Tadashi nods starting to get used to his brother's secret life.

Senna "Hm?"

Meanwhile…

Rukia backs out of the driveway "So Rinka? Based on what I heard I'm assuming you found out Ryuu's weakness?"

Rinka smiles playing with her school bag "Yeah… he's really ticklish isn't he?"

Rukia nods "Extremely. If you wanna see something really funny try either tickling behind his ear or playing with his hair."

Rinka laughs slightly "Noted."

Rukia "You live a few blocks away right?"

She nods "Yea. Three blocks down."

Rukia "Got it. So is there anything you wanted to know about Ryuu? This's probably the only chance you have to ask anything."

Rinka blushes hugging her bag "…what was he like growing up? He told me about you two having to grow up fast…"

Rukia smiles "Yeah. We did both grow up fairly fast. But when we were little Ryuu was completely different. When he was four he started to hide his eyes but he still kept his cheery, innocent little boy attitude. He never really cared about what he wore so Sakura would dress him up however. Wait… Has he told you about Sakura?"

Rinka nods "How she basically raised you two and kinda Tadashi?"

"Mhmm. Ryuu always had a sweet tooth too. He still does but gets embarrassed about it. Saying how it makes him seem childish. Growing up he never really had any friends… So that's why I was shocked when I first saw you. It wasn't until last year he actually started talking about someone from school. A boy named Sugaya. He's in your class this year right?"

"Yeah."

Rukia smiles "Sugaya was the first person Ryuu talked about from school. The second person was this year. A girl with medium lengthed peach hair. He told me this girl was different in a way he didn't understand. She seemed cool and they ended up getting partnered for an assignment. Every time I'd ask about her he'd blush and look away. He always talked about her. Hayami Rinka. The girl who was different in a way he couldn't explain."

Rinka blushes "He- He'd talk about me?"

Rukia nods "All the time. I knew about his crush on you before he did. My brothers never been good with people… he can never find the right words to express how he feels. It's funny in a way… He used to be so open about everything then shut himself out for years. Then… he met the peach haired girl who opened his eyes…"

Rinka smiles shyly "Really?"

Rukia nods "Really."

Rinka bites her lip to hide her smile. Rukia glances at her while stopped at the light

Rukia "Rinka? If you don't mind me asking? What exactly do you see in him? Ryuu's a total dork."

Rinka blushes "That's just it. He's a total dork. When we're partnered together he's always so calm and collected when working. When we're with the class he's always so mature and professional. But… when it's just us… and his guard drops… he'd smile. It's so faint you wouldn't notice unless you really look. And when we play games at the arcade and doesn't even try to hide his reactions. When I saw how he acted at home with you all… I really truely realized he's not as stoic as he seems. That he really has a soft side. I thought it was just a silly crush until…"

"Until?"

Rinka blushes covering her lips

Rukia smiles "Ryuu tells me some stuff. Are you referring to when he confessed or when you kissed him?"

Rinka blushes "He told you about that…"

Rukia laughs slightly "Ryuu and I have always been close. He usually tells me things. That he hesitated on because he was really embarrassed. Seriously Rinka? You broke him with that."

She smiles "Ah ha… but yeah… the second thing… then I realized I really liked him. When he confessed I thought I was dreaming. I never really knew how strongly I felt until something happened at home."

Rukia "I heard about that. Not from Ryuu though. I asked him and he refused to say anything because of how much he respected your privacy. I know what happened though… I'm so sorry."

Rinka shrugs "It's in the past. But when the very first thing about it was on the news… Ryuu found out about my past. I told him. I was scared he'd leave. But the way he looked at me when I told him… He looked like he was ready to kill my father himself. Anytime anything happened with my father again Ryuu was there. He looked at me seeing the real me and stayed. I guess… no one ever knew about my home life… I never had many friends either. I did talk to a few girls in my class last year and we ended up in the E class together this year. Ryuu though… He was the first person I've ever trusted…"

Rukia smiles "Sounds like you really love him huh?"

Rinka bites her lip "Is that weird…?"

Rukia "Frankly the idea of any girl even having a crush of Ryuu blows me away. I grew up with him. He's my little brother. The idea of him having a girlfriend and being in love? Wow… It's surprising. But honestly… I'm glad. Ryuu's been so much more alive since the moon exploded for some reason."

Rinka smiles "That's when the class started to all get along. Ryuu and I got partnered for everything not long after that."

Rukia smiles "Thank you Rinka. He's finally found someone he truly trust with everything."

Rinka smiles as they pull onto her street. Slightly disappointed their conversation is done she points to her house.

"That one's mine."

Rukia nods pulling in "Alright. It was great talking to you Rinka. If you ever wanna hear stories about Ryuu you know where I live."

Rinka smiles "Yeah. Thanks Rukia. G'night."

"Night."

Rinka goes inside and Rukia goes back home.

Rinka looks around her house "Mom? You home??"

No answer

"Guess not…"

Back at the Chiba house

Ryuu's in the living with Tadashi and Senna's already in bed.

Ryuu chews on his lip nervously

Tadashi "You're an idiot. Leaving those two alone together? Rukia-nee's gonna tell her something."

Ryuu groans covering his face "I know that. The problem is I don't know what. I know Rin. She's gonna either ask about my weakness or how I was as a kid."

Tadashi smirks "And Rukia-nee will tell her everything."

Rukia gets back and Ryuu turns over

Ryuu "Nee-san… what did you tell her……"

Rukia smirks "We just talked about some stuffs. Don't worry I didn't embarrass you too much."

Ryuu sinks down "Oh no… you told her something…"

Rukia ruffles both boys hair "G'night. Don't stay up to late."

Ryuu lays down on the couch screaming inside.

End chapter

I was gonna put mimura and yada but I decided on Fuwa just to break the fourth wall tbh. Other pairs are I think canonly accurate. Kurahashi is least affected by Okajima's sleaziness since she has a lot of brothers. I was also gonna focus mostly on the project but if I'm being completely honest I can't focus on that for more of than 10 minutes. It took me like 5 hours to write the scenes with the project and maybe an hour to do everything else. I also have been wanting to do scenes with Rinka and one of Ryuu's siblings. Like one on one scenes.

I was also thinking of doing poster presentations for them since I don't think they actually do the same thing my school does. My school issues all academy students iPads and we use chrome books in all my classes. All presentations and projects are on google slides. Let's just pretend that Ritsu built each group a laptop for the project at school. It doesn't make sense but hey I'm trying. I'm not sure how long this'll be. The project was painful af and I wanna be done with it. I might not have them actually present it because I'm not confident enough in my writing to accurately present this information through typing. I can in person because I can gesture to the screen and stuff but it's hard to put that in words.

All the information on here is probably about 97% accurate. Like the money is always give or take cause ya know.

None of the information is related to me at all. The names are from other shows/animes/movies I like and the city is the one my group choose and Hollywood. Also yes I know the majority of states in the US. I just can't point to them on a map because I only the geography of Europe since most of the wars I learn about take place on that continent. Seriously why are 85% of the wars I learn about either in Europe, Mediterranean/Middle East, South East Asia, or Pacific Ocean?! Can we like I don't know… not try to kill each other???

@lumigo akvo9504 Some characters were actually childhood friends apparently. Karma and Nagisa had class together, Isogai and Maehara lived on the same street, Hara and Yoshida's families were close, and Yada and Muramatsu went to elementary together. I think that's it for canon. The rest we're free to believe whatever we want happened:) As for the ships. I'd ship SugayaXRio if we had more of them interacting. We know more about her relationship with Ryuu (mostly music) than we do her relationship with Sugaya. OkajimaXKurahashi would be cute since Kurahashi doesn't get bother by perverted talk. MimuraXOkano we don't know to much about them in general but it's still cute.

@XoMidnightXo OkajimaXKurhashi cause her high tolerance for sleaziness. RioXKarma as the class devils. I ship Sugino with Kanzaki cause Sugino is so pure and is really REALLY bad at handling emotions which is a mood. I wanna say Hara was with Yoshida since childhood friends, I was gonna put Mimura with Yada since Yada is friends with Rinka but I want to break the forth wall so Fuwa.