Heyyyy! guess who's back! That's right moi! Sorry for not being around for a few months, it's been kinda crazy with all my work I have too do
but I'm back now and bringing you Chapter 16 of this story, I do hope you all enjoy it.
Also a big thank you to all those who have followed and liked this story since I've been gone, you guys are the best. And thank you to those of
you who've been here since the start and are still following this story, you all rock! now anyway enough chit chat and on with the show
The fated day had finally arrived, June the fifteenth. Today was the day that Class E was to get another new transfer. Much like when Ritsu had been deployed, this new transfer was once again shrouded in mystery. They had not been informed of anything such as gender, or appearance and it was left to everyone's imagination as to what this new student was going to be like. As for Akiko, she prayed that it was nothing like the time Ritsu first joined the class. Minute after minute they were disrupted by the AI as she fired bb pellets, to be quite frank it was annoying. It had turned out alright in the end, and they had none other than Korosensei to thank for that.
Akiko sighed in boredom and slouched further in her chair. For once in her life, she had been early to school, and she was paying the price as wave after wave of boredom overtook her. Waiting for Korosensei and this new student was super boring for the brunette, she missed her bed and her warm bed sheets. A loud commotion caught her attention, and glancing to her side Akiko watched as Terasaka fumed loudly at something Karma had said. The red-hair was taking great pleasure in seeing Terasaka's angry face.
Moving her gaze back to Karma, Akiko let out a small sigh. Over the past few days something had been off about him, but no matter what Akiko couldn't figure out what. It didn't help that most of the time he kept a straight face and hid his emotions well. Sighing once again Akiko turned away, he seemed perfectly normal now, so it had to be some kind of blip. Korosensei has chosen that moment to slither in the classroom, his usual happy face shining brightly, unlike most of the class he didn't seem too worried about this new transfer.
"Good morning students." He cheerfully said. He didn't seem too worried; Akiko wondered how long that would last. "I assume by now you've all heard about the new transfer students due today."
"Of course, I bet you anything it's going to be another assassin," Maehara said in a matter of fact tone, a few others nodded agreeing with him.
Korosensei neither confirmed nor denied what the blonde said, again it looked like the yellow octopus didn't know a thing. Akiko assumed it was so the target wouldn't know what was coming, assassin 101 as he'd call it. Akiko just hoped they wouldn't be a nuisance to the class. "Last time I underestimated you Ritsu," Korosensei chuckled nervously at the AI. "This time around I'll be more prepared." Akiko wanted to let a snort of amusement out, something was bound to catch him out. "I just hope you can all get along."
"Hey Ritsu, anything you can tell us about the new transfer?" Hara asked.
Akiko glanced over at the purple-haired AI, who looked more than happy to devolve any information she had on her former partner.
"Well originally we were going to transfer into this class together, I would specialise in long-range attacks while they would specialise in close-range attacks, but that plan was cancelled for two reasons."
"What reasons were they?" Akiko dared to ask.
"First because it took longer than expected to tune him up. Then the second, I just wasn't as good an assassin." Ritsu explained. Akiko felt nervous all of a sudden, if what Ritsu was saying is true then this new transfer must be a pro assassin of some kind. And to be honest they sounded kinda scary.
Looking back at their teacher, Akiko found herself rolling her eyes. Korosensei was beginning to look nervous and for good reason, Ritsu was making this new transfer out to be scarier than they had to be. Not only did Korosensei look nervous, but the rest of her classmates were trying to hold back the apprehension from appearing on their faces. Akiko glanced at Karma whose own face was void of any expressions, he didn't seem to be affected by what Ritsu was saying.
"My skills weren't strong enough to support them. So they decided to deploy us separately, I suppose they sent me in first as some kind of test." She added before falling silent once more.
Akiko began chewing her lip, she tried imagining what this new student was going to be like, and all she could think off was some giant person equip with tones of guns and ammo. She didn't even know if this transfer was going to be human or not, but the way Ritsu explained it they sounded like some manufactured alien. Her imagination ran too wild.
The silent room was suddenly disturbed by the door opening. A white misty fog slowly began floating in making Akiko frown what the hell was the fog for? Were they trying to making it all mystic and creepy. If that's what they were aiming for then they were doing a particularly good job, most of her classmates looked spooked. Akiko straightened up in her seat, she wanted a good view of this new student. However, instead of a junior high looking person, a man clad in a white robe and mask stepped in, Akiko was a little disappointed whoever it was looked normal nothing like she'd imagined. Inspecting the guy she couldn't help but wonder what the mask was for, why was he trying to hide? Was he some kind of villain or something? Whatever the reason it was weird, and Akiko couldn't help but get a bad vibe from this man.
The robed guy swung a single arm out making them sit ridged, they waited for whatever he was going to do next. Suddenly out of his sleeve a single white dove appeared making everyone partly jump in their seats, Akiko was definitely not expecting this, was he some kind of magician?
"Sorry to startle you all. I'm not the transfer student." He spoke calmly. Akiko watched as he stuffed the fake bird back up his sleeve, was he trying to humour them? Obviously, he wasn't the new student. "I'm his guardian, the White Magician. You make call me Shiro." Akiko couldn't help but frown, why did this new student need a weird babysitter? And where the hell did Korosensei go?
Glancing around the room Akiko tried looking for their yellow teacher, how'd he disappeared in such a short time? Spotting Nagisa looking up at something Akiko followed his gazed and found none other than Korosensei clinging to the ceiling in his liquid form. Of course he would have been spooked by that, why did it not surprise Akiko. A small smirk fell across her lips as Korosensei blabbed on and on about how Ritsu made the new student out to be so scary, they could add this as another one of his weakness.
After recovering and jumping down like nothing had happened Korosensei held out a tentacle and gave a small wave. "Greeting's Shiro, now where is the little darling."
"Nice to meet you Korosensei. My ward has some problems dealing with social situations, so I thought I'd introduce him myself." Shiro explained. From somewhere he'd pulled out a piece of candy. This guy was seriously getting weirder and weirder as the seconds ticked by.
Korosensei cocked his round head to one side, "problems?"
Akiko was waiting for Shiro to elaborate on what he first said about this new transfer students, but he simply ignored Korosensei and turned to all off them. "You all look like nice students, I'm sure he'll fit in just fine." No one said a word, what were they mean to say? "Is that his seat?" Shiro asked. Korosensei nodded confirming. "Excellent. I'll introduce him to you now. Itona, you can come in." Shiro called.
Akiko felt nervous all of a sudden, her eyes flickered to the door where any second now the new student would walkthrough. Her mind was racing wondering what he'd be like. However, instead of the door opening and the new student walking through an almighty crash came from behind them. The sudden loud noise made Akiko jump a few centimetres and let out a little yelp of shock. Turning around a now human-sized hole had been added to the classroom wall, the new student had come through the wall, was he crazy?
Akiko looked over at the new student which just joined them, his hair was a spiky pale white mess, a few strands fell in several directions. He wasn't wearing the normal uniform, instead his own clothes which consisted of white trousers, a top and jacket. For some guy who'd just walked through the walk, he didn't seem to have a single scratch on him which struck Akiko as odd. Surely doing something as crazy as that would leave a mark to two, but nothing. The boy known as Itona glanced up and faced forward as nothing had happened, and Akiko felt a jolt go through her body. There was something wrong with him, his eyes looked crazy like he was on some kind of drug and hadn't slept in weeks.
"I've won, I've proved that I am stronger than the wall." He spoke. Akiko shifted in her seat, he sounded like a crazy person.
Well, this was different from what she was expecting so that was a bonus, she guessed. Itona began mumbling which slowly began creeping Akiko out, moving her seat slightly she didn't want to sit next to this mad man. Glancing up at Korosensei, she couldn't help but notice the odd look on his face. The yellow octopus didn't know what to make of this new student either.
"I'd like you all to meet Itona Horibe." Shiro's voice echoed around the silent room.
Akiko glanced at the robed man before looking back at Itona then the smashed wall. They better not be cleaning that up or fixing it, this Itona guy better be the one to fix what he'd broke.
"Hey Itona, can I ask you something." Karma's voice echoed behind her. Akiko glanced at her friend before looking back at Itona who looked like he hadn't even heard Karma. She resumed chewing her lip and hoped Karma wouldn't continue with whatever it was he was asking, Itona looked crazy, and she didn't want anything bad to happen to Karma. But of course, he didn't keep his mouth shut. "You just came in through the door-literally without an umbrella or anything, but it's pouring outside so how come you're not soaking wet?"
Akiko hadn't noticed before; it was pouring down with rain outside the weather had been on and off all day. So how come this guy was bone dry, shouldn't he at least be a little wet, even if he'd left his umbrella outside or something. This didn't add up. The scrapping of the chair brought Akiko out of though and she found herself shrinking down in her seat as Itona looked her way at Karma no less.
"You. Your probably the strongest in this class." Akiko frowned how could he just assume that he hadn't even see the rest of them. She watched as Itona walk over to Karma and place and single hand on his head and began ruffling his hair. "But don't worry you're weaker than me, so I won't kill you." Ok, this guy was just bonkers, no one says something like that to Karma and gets away with it. Karma, however, did nothing and resumed sitting in his seat watching as Itona walked away.
"The only people I want to kill are those stronger than me. And the only one in this classroom is you Korosensei." Itona said while walking up to the yellow octopus.
"Them's fighting words Itona, and I don't think you're ready to take me yet," Korosensei smirked smugly as he chewed on the candy which Shiro gave him.
"Sure I am because we're siblings."
Silence, not a single word was uttered within that single minute. Siblings, how the hell could those two be siblings? They looked nothing alike, for a start Korosensei was an octopus, and Itona a human. This frazzled Akiko's mind. Not only was Itona challenging Korosensei, but he'd just dropped them with a massive bombshell. Korosensei looked extremely shocked, like this was the first time he was hearing this as well surely Itona was lying, it's just some kind of ploy to trick Korosensei.
"We are family we don't need to resort to cheap tricks big brother, killing you will prove I'm the stronger one. After school, we'll fight in here." Itona pointed at him before backing off and turning away. Turning slightly he spoke, "today will be the last day you teach, so you'd better say goodbye." With those words, Itona left out the same hole that he'd created
It took only a second before everyone fell into chatter, many questions were fired at Korosensei who panicked as everyone wanted information out of him. He told them that he was sure he'd been an only child and wanted siblings, but his parents didn't give him any. As for Akiko, she found the whole thing odd, something didn't add up, but she couldn't figure out what. Looking over at Karma his face was still void of any emotion, Akiko couldn't even figure out if Itona's words had affected him.
Realising that he was being watched Karma's mercury orbs glanced over at Akiko which made her jump. He'd caught her looking at him yet again, quickly she thought of something to say before he accused her of watching him. "You don't believe that Itona guy, do you?"
Karma gave a small shrug, "who knows."
Akiko glanced back at Korosensei who was still panicking, a few of her classmates had now surrounded him. "Whatever the truth, it's got him pretty riled up, let's hope he doesn't exhaust himself before fighting with Itona later. Speaking of Itona, what do you think up with him? He looks kind of crazy, don't you think."
"Well he did break an entire wall down; no normal person can do that. But I guess we'll find out later." Karma said before slouching back in his chair. Akiko turned away from the red-haired and frowned, whatever happens later she just hopes Korosensei would come out victorious. She didn't want to think about what this class would be like without him.
Later that day the hour of the dreaded fight was upon them. The classroom had been turned into some kind of boxing square, desks and chairs had been layed out accordingly giving the two people inside enough room to move about. Akiko stood between Okuda and Isogai, she watched as Itona threw his jacket to the side and she could help but allow nervous butterflies to bubble up in her stomach. With each move he made, Akiko watched Itona carefully, she still found it hard to believe like a lot of her classmates that they were siblings, it just seemed fishy to her. As the day progressed Akiko had been watching Itona, and in every way imaginable he was like Korosensei. He loves sweets (I mean who doesn't) he enjoys reading those dirty magazines Korosensei reads and acts just like him.
Before the fight began a few rules were put into place, whoever steps outside the ring first loses. It was simple enough, but Akiko could help but find it weird. Itona's guardian stood behind him and gave him a little pep talk before vacating outside of the ring like everyone else. Akiko stood in anticipation waiting for the fight to begin and silently prayed to whoever that Korosensei would win.
The fight begins, and within a second Korosensei's tentacle drops off and falls to the ground. Shocked gasps fill the classroom, and everyone stands frozen to the spot. Akiko felt her eyes bug out as she watched a few white tentacles whip around in the air, those tentacles belonged to none other than Itona himself. So this was what he was hiding, Akiko knew there was something off about him, and here it was. How did he even get those tentacles? A question which echoed around her mind.
Korosensei's face suddenly darkened, he was mad and that was an understatement. "Where did you get those tentacles?!"
"It's it obvious?" Was all Shiro's said. "You may not have the same parents, but you're brothers."
It all made sense what Itona said now, they weren't blood-related but whoever mutated those tentacles experimented on the both of them. If not on purposes then by accident. Korosensei didn't look happy at all, by now he'd regenerated his lost tentacle and glared at Shiro. "We have some talking to do."
"No." Shiro raised an arm and shot a single purple ray at Korosensei who suddenly froze on the spot. This gave leeway to Itona who attacked with great fury, each time his tentacle struck the ground shook like an earthquake. "Exposed to this ray causes a dilatancy reaction in your cells, it momentarily freezes your body. You'll be dead before we can talk."
Akiko watched on in horror, her poor teacher was being beaten and there was nothing they could all do except watch. After the attacks stop, there's was only a single piece of skin shedding left. Looking around Akiko spotted Korosensei clinging to one of the lights, he was panting hard. For Korosensei to shed his skin this Itona fella must be strong, he only done that as a last result.
"Tsk, shedding your skin comes with a huge price. Moulting expends a lot of your energy. Not only that but regenerating your lost arm also takes up a considerable amount of energy. And if my calculations are correct then you and Itona should now be evenly matched, it's obvious to anyone Itona is going to win." Shiro says. Akiko could picture the smug look under his white robes as once again Shiro releases the purple ray. "Also, Itona has the help of his guardian."
"Wait how is that fair?" Akiko couldn't help but yell. Her loud voice startled both Okuda and Isogai. "This is a fight between Itona and Korosensei, you shouldn't even be helping. It's clear without you Itona wouldn't be winning." Akiko fumed she didn't like this one bit, she wanted Korosensei to win but with the extra help, she didn't think he could do it. "You a big fat cheater." She jabbed a finger accusingly at Shiro.
"Silence you foolish girl," Shiro exclaims.
Akiko shook in anger and no matter what Isogai said to calm her it didn't help. This wasn't fair, Korosensei was surely going to die and she didn't want that. She knew it would be good for the world if Korosensei was whipped out, but she wasn't ready for him to go yet. No, she didn't want him to leave, if it wasn't for him then she wouldn't be doing well, she'd still be sitting at the bottom of the barrel while everyone else simply laughed. He gave her the confidence to move forward, to face each day head-on. Mixed feelings swirled within her, she didn't want to lose the only person who believed in her, believed in all of them. No, she couldn't lose him.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa stop." Before Akiko could register what she was doing she was walking into the middle of the battle, her eyes narrowed and glaring at Itona and Shiro. "You can't just come in here and claim all the glory for yourselves. Each one of us here in E class has been working hard to assassinate Korosensei over the past few months, and we're just supposed to turn a blind eye as you come in and claim him for your own, I don't think so." Akiko stood boldly in between both Korosensei and Itona her arms stretched wide stopping them.
Behind her, Akiko could hear the desperate cries of her classmates telling her to get away, but she stubbornly refused to listen. No Korosensei wasn't going to die here, not yet at least. Akiko stood her ground and glared at Itona; he didn't dare move while she was here otherwise he risked her death.
"Akiko, move please before he-"
"No." She sternly replies, she wasn't listening to Korosensei this time around.
"You're not killing Korosensei, not today, not in a month not ever. That glory will go to our class when we strike him down together. I don't care who you or your weird looking guardian are, but you aren't going to be the ones killing him. Over the past two months, all of us here have worked hard to find and exploit Korosensei's weakness, we're the ones that have endured all the crazy long study sessions, who have tried and failed at assassinating him together. And quite frankly I've enjoyed every moment of it so far, thanks to him we're getting better our grades are improving, we may not be top of the school but we're getting there slowly and it's all thanks to him." Akiko pointed at Korosensei but refused to take her eyes of Itona. "I don't care that Earth is going to be destroyed in March, we've still got nine whole long months until the deadline, so until then class 3E will continue to find more of Korosensei's weakness and exploit them until we kill him however we want. So if you don't like the way we do things around here, then I highly suggest you get out, unless you think you can play by our rules and not your own."
The class was silent, even Korosensei was silent for once. No one knew that to say, the silence was kinda unnerving, but Akiko didn't care. She wasn't the type of person who could just ideally stand by as someone else took all the glory for themselves. If she objects with something or someone, then she'll let everyone else know.
On the other hand, Itona didn't look happy, his eyes had somewhat darkened during her speech and before anyone could do anything a single tentacle flailed towards her. Akiko wasn't about to back down thought and covered herself ready for the impact. In the background, she could hear a few voices call out, but a single one caught her attention. Karma and he didn't sound too happy.
The impact never came, however, and as Akiko opened her eyes she was now stood directly behind Korosensei who shielded her small body from the impact. "Thank you Akiko, I promise I won't die here. After all, I still want to see all my students graduate from the assassination class." His tone was a grateful one. With a free tentacle, he placed her outside the ring and refocused on Itona.
Once placed outside of the ring Yada and Kurahashi came running over, their voiced mingled as one as they tried speaking to her. However, Akiko didn't listen she was too busy watching Korosensei as he squared off with Itona one last time.
Itona was pissed, his eyes danced with craziness and his tentacles begin spinning in different ways. Jumping at inhumane speed he inched closer and when Akiko saw Korosensei not moving, she thought he was a goner. However, what shocked her next was that four of five of his white tentacles exploded into gloop and dripped onto the classroom floor. Korosensei looked smug, his tentacles which acted as arms was crossed over his body as he stared down at Itona. It was clear why Itona's tentacles explored, laying on the ground was a single green anti-sensei knife. Upon realising something Akiko quickly reached for her back where she usually kept a hidden knife concealed by her jumper and skirt. Realising what he'd done, Korosensei must have taken the knife when he was placing her outside of the ring. That sneaky octopus.
Korosensei counter-attacked by grabbed Itona in his old shedding and threw the boy outside of the ring, well actually outside the whole classroom. They better not be cleaning that window up too. "I win Itona." The typical green stripes were back, and Akiko couldn't be happier. "You should stay here in E class; I think you could learn a lot from your time here."
All of a sudden Itona's eyes turned pure red and his tentacles black like the night sky. He pounced at Korosensei, but before he could do anything Shiro shot something at his neck. Itona's body suddenly dropped lifelessly to the ground and before Korosensei could retrieve him Shiro is cradling the body in his arms. With that Shiro takes his leave ignoring Korosensei's protests about Itona staying in class E, Akiko was glad he was finally gone. But his haunting words still hang in the air. "We will be back, and we will kill you Korosensei."
Akiko cheerfully hummed to herself as she made her way home, the sun was setting now casting dark shadows to appear. She was later than usual leaving because the whole class had asked Mr Karasuma to teach them more assassination techniques. They wanted to sharpen their blades and have a trick or two up their sleeves incase the have to face something or someone like Shiro and Itona again. Of course, Mr Karasuma was more than willing to train them some more, and for their first day of additional training Mr Karasuma forced them all to climb a twenty-foot rope which was tied to a tall tree. Akiko rubbed her arms; they both ached a lot.
Behind herself, Akiko could hear the harsh footsteps of Karma, ever since that little stunt she'd pulled during the battle, he hadn't been happy. The moment the class disbanded to reorganise the desks and chairs he was scolding her much like a parent would do. Akiko though didn't listen and told him that she was doing it for Korosensei, the two haven't exactly spoken since then. Akiko didn't care however, if he was going to be mad at her over something so tiny then she wasn't going to talk to him. Wasn't he happy Korosensei was still alive, and that Itona and robe guy were gone? Akiko pulled a frowny face, soon she'd be parting ways with him, and she'd finally get away from this god awful atmosphere.
Suddenly before she could turn down her street Akiko's free arm was pulled and her whole body was yanked back and shoved against the nearest wall. Surprised she let out a squeak of shock and after a few seconds of recomposing herself Akiko glared up and into the golden eyes of Karma. Glancing either side of her she looked for an escape route only to find his arms blocking any chance of freedom. Letting a small growl out she turned back to her captor.
"What do you want Karma?"
His own mercury eyes glared down and into her green ones and quickly she found herself becoming uncomfortable. Unable to hold the eye contact Akiko looked away, she could feel her cheeks heating up from embarrassment after realising they were so close.
Gritting his teeth he spoke. "Are you some kind of idiot? What normal person jumps in the middle of a serious battle?" Akiko could hear the rage in his voice but chose to ignore it.
Letting out a frustrated groan she tilted her head back and rested it against the wall her eyes once again finding his own. "Ugh, this again." Karma's eye swirled with anger which only spiked Akiko's anger. "Do you expect me to stand by while our teacher gets beaten in an unfair fight, someone had to do something, and that person was me. I'm fine, not a single scratch on my body. Now drop it."
The two remained their stair off, neither one budging from what they thought was right. Karma was the first to look away, he lowered his head unable to look at the brunette anymore. "You know Aki, you should stop being so selfless. Think about yourself for once, not everyone else around you. Aki, you need to value your life more than you do. There are loads of people out there who care deeply for you and will be heartbroken if you wound up getting yourself killed." Akiko didn't say a single word, she didn't know what to say. His words stung, but a bitterness filled her mind, who the hell cared about her, her family most certainly didn't. "Aki I don't want to lose you again, so, please…please don't put yourself in danger like that again. I beg you."
Akiko felt frozen, her eyes widening in shock. Letting out a small sigh her face softened. "I promise I won't ever put myself in danger like that again. But, you have to make the same promise too. Every time something bad happens to you or you commit some reckless stunt it makes me worried, so promise me." Akiko lifted her pinky finger, if they were making a promise then they were doing it right.
Karma started at her pinky for a minute or two before finally wrapping his own around hers. "I promise you."
"Good, and whoever breaks the promise first will have to do whatever the other wants. Now let go of me perv, I'm tired, and my bed is calling me." Akiko chuckled slightly, she hoped she wouldn't break the promise first otherwise she would be in hell.
"It's a promise." He said.
*whoop! whoop!* so that was chapter 16! I hope you all enjoyed that, it was a bit longer than my usual ones. So yes, our dear Aki-chan is a tiny bit reckless to say the least. This won't be the last stilly stunt she pulls, like she said there's still a long way until March, so plenty of time for some more mistakes.
Anyway Thank you for reading this chapter again, you guys are awesome! please remember to leave a like or a review I'd loved to hear from
you all, how you all doing? I hope your all well! Thanks again.
Winter out.