lumugo akvo9504: Yeeeah, cute! And the documents... well, you'll find out about it soon, no worries. Thanks for the cake, I love cake. Like a lot. Really. And go and squeal in peace, nobody will interrupt you, I promise.
Now, I wanna clarify something. As you way ave already notice, this is a very OOC Nagisa, starting with the fact that she is a she instead of the canon he. I don't know why I´m just stating it now, but I´m doing it, so... yeah. A lot of the characters are as OOC as hell, so now you'll know why they act as they're totally different people that coincidentally have the same name as some canon characters.
That's all, I guess. Enjoy the chapter!
Patolemus.
Nagisa couldn't believe what she was hearing. No, she didn't want to believe it.
"So you are saying I almost kill a man out of nothing?" Nagisa´s voice was low, but that only made her look more intimidating. "'Cuz you know I'm trained to kill if necessary, right? I mean, you are the one training me, Karasuma-sensei." her icy tone made Karasuma understand, she wasn't gonna forgive him that easily. It was something he needed to do, it was procedure, but... she was right, he didn't take into consideration her training. That had been his mistake, and he was paying for it now.
"It is something all trainers must do in order to get clearance." he sighed, Karasuma knew she would be mad. "The mock assignment is necessary, as it gives an idea of what you can do without many resources and data. The gang was rial, I assure you, and they thought they got something important, but I needed to test you so I would know if you were ready. And even if you are still going to have training, you are now allowed to go on missions the Ministry of Defense gives you."
Nagisa inhaled. That didn't matter at the moment. She almost took a life that didn't deserve it! Even if he was a gang member, and thought he stole something valuable for the MOD, that didn't mean he needed to die!
And yet she almost ended his life two days ago.
"Ok, Karasuma-sensei, I understand." she said, calming herself down. "Please contact me if the Ministry needs me. I'll be on time for my training, so don't worry about texting or calling for it. Actually, I would appreciate it you don't contact me at all if you don't need it, as I´m busy with school, thank you. Have a great day, sir." and she left the room, 'cause Nagisa knew she would do something she would regret if she didn't.
Still inside the office, Tadaomi closed his eyes, tired. Now he had to deal with and angry, deadly teenager. Great. Sometimes he hated his job.
"... and I almost kill him, Karma! Not just beat the living crap outta him, but actually taking his life!" Nagisa said through the phone. "And now he comes and tells me it was all fake! I could have been charged with murder, y'know? The Ministry gave me a special permission to have weaponry on me, and I have a killing permise too. But mock assignments go without killing. He forgot to tell me that when he asked me to retrieve the envelope." she chuckled humorless.
The moment Nagisa got to her house, she called Karma. She knew he would understand her situation, and hopefully he would give her good advise. But maybe she would have to call Isogai for that...
"I would be lying if I said I understand what you're dealing with, 'cause I'm in no way near you're situation, but... I don't know, Nagi, I think you should make his life difficult for a while, and then just talk through it. But not too soon, he has to understand what you're mad for, and for that he has to be desperate for you to forgive him." he said, not really sure of how her friend would react.
The line went silent for a bit, and for a moment the redhead feared that maybe Nagisa was coming to his house to kill him instead.
"That's... that's actually a pretty good idea, Karma." her tone was a surprised one, and Karma couldn't really blame her. He tended to be a bit more... aggressive with his own choices and advices. Like that time he suggested to use poor Nagisa as bait to catch delinquents, as they actually were seasonal, according to his eternal believes.
"Next time try to not sound so surprise about it." Karma's lips twisted into a smirk while Nagisa just huffed, half annoyed half amused.
"Sorry, but I am surprise. My little Karma is growing out of his aggressive ways?" Karma rolled his. Like that was gonna happen. "Or maybe you're spending too much time with a certain boy with purple eyes..."
"What are you talking about?! I don't spend that much of my time with Asano!" blurted out the redhead, his eyes open like two perfect balls.
"When did I talk about Gakushuu? I know some other guys with purple eyes. Does that mean you're spending time with him?" Nagisa´s smile was sly, he could notice through the phone.
'Shit' she was good. Very good. Why exactly had he taught her that again?
"We're not having this conversation, Nagisa." he said, hoping she would just dropped it.
"Why not? I really wanna know what's go..." he cut her off there.
"I'll see ya' soon. Bye, Nagisa!" and he ended the call before she could convince him otherwise.
Karma stepped out of the bathroom and then he sighed. That girl sometimes had too much on her plate, and he was often worried about how she would handle it.
"Is she alright?" his thoughts were interrupted, and Karma looked over to his living room, where Asano was lying on the floor, his math book open.
Yeah, so maybe Nagisa wasn't that wrong about Asano and himself spending a lot of time together. But they studied! And they worked on paired assignments, 'cuz the teachers had the habit of pair the two together because of their similar grades! They almost didn't go out!
"She'll be alright. She´s just... upset, but I think that what I told her will help a bit." answered Karma, sitting back into his spot at the floor aside from Asano. "Now, where were we?"
Back with our favorite blue haired assassin, Nagisa was smiling triumphantly. So they spent time together outside the school... how interesting. She was gonna have to write that down. Nagisa made a mental note about it, before returning to her previous task: look if there was something edible in her house. She doubted it, as there was never edible things at her house unless someone brought food. Nagisa had the bad habit of buying just what she needed at the moment, and it always got back on her in moments like that one.
The bluenette sighed. It seemed as she was gonna have to go to the market. Again.
Reluctantly, Nagisa grabbed her things. She had got home like twenty minutes ago and she was going out already! Her mind and body needed a very deserved break. But, as they sometimes said, life wasn't fair, and neither was Nagisa´s schedule.
She said hi to the man at the first floor, Hiro. He was the guard of the building, and they sometimes had some chats when Nagisa wasn't running somewhere. She, unlike the other residents, came from a middle-class family, and she wasn't immensely rich until some months ago—even if she sometimes wanted to burn the MOD down to ashes, she had to admit, the pay was good, specially her´s, a minor who could go and tell anyone that the Ministry employed her as an assassin.
Ah, the wonders of blackmailing.
Anyways, Nagisa made her way down the street, thinking of what she could buy. Rice was obviously on the list, and maybe some meat and vegetables? That sounded nice...
"Nagisa!" the bluenette turned around, very sure that she knew that voice. "Hey, I haven't seen you in ages!"
"Maehara! Watcha doing here? You're pretty far from your neighborhood." she said as she hugged her friend. "And we saw each other like, last week, idiot. We were cleaning the classroom, remember?" her tone was a mocking one, but the brunette shrugged it off.
"I came by a few days ago, but Hiro-san told me you were out of town for the weekend. So I figured out I could come an visit today. Yuuma it's working late today, and I´m actually doing time until it's time for me to pick him up." he explained, and Nagisa nodded. She was actually kind of used to those visits. Isogai often took more shifts at the cafe to get more income, even if he received all the money he needed from the ten billion yen fund the class had. The Ikemen had this idea of paying his own college tuition, and he was earning each yen to do so. Nagisa thought it was pretty cool.
"Ok, but you'll have to go get groceries with me, and then we'll have dinner, ´kay?" the brunette nodded enthusiastically, as he knew Nagisa was good at cooking. Sweets weren't her strong point, but Nagisa´s meals were heaven. She had had a lot of practice, as the bluenette was the one to do the cooking when her mother was in one of her fazes, which happened quite a lot.
"Yes, ma'am." he saluted her, and Nagisa rolled her eyes with amusement. as they started to walk again. "So, how's everything going?" Hiroto knew he had pushed the wrong button just by how her face changed.
"I..." she sighed, tired. "Something happened while I was out. Karasuma-sensei texted me, he said I had to get back an important package that was stolen by some local gang. I wasn't prepared, as I told him I wouldn't be available until I came back to Tokyo, but I had to do it anyways, 'cause he told me it was this really important shit." she started to explain. "You know I´m trained to kill if I need to, right?"
"Yeah." answered Hiroto, not really knowing the reason of the question. She was an assassin, it kinda was her job to kill people.
Man, that really sounded bad if you putted that out of context. Or in general. Yeah, it sounded bad anyway.
"Well, so I almost kill one guy, he was a part of this gang. But he didn't saw my face, and I already had the documents, so I just made him pass out." said Nagisa, and he nodded in understanding. "And just an hour ago I went to the MOD to deliver what I was tasked to retrieved, and you know what? It was a mock assignment." Maehara´s eyes widened. He now knew what she meant. "I almost kill a man, out of nothing. I could have gone to jail, just because Karasuma-sensei forgot the detail that you cannot kill in mock missions, even if I´m trained to kill." her voice came out bitter. She was mad, frustrated... she was let down by one of the closest people she had.
"Gee, Nagisa, I´m sorry. Watcha gonna do about it?" he asked then, unsure of what she would do. Even if Karasuma-sensei had obviously made a bad call, Hiroto didn't want him dead.
"I´m actually gonna follow Karma´s advise." Nagisa chuckled when Maehara´s eyes widened again, this time out of fear. "Relax, I´m not killing him. I´m gonna ignore him, made him feel bad, and then I´ll tell him he´s an asshole, and that I want the numbers written in my paycheck to grow." she said shrugging a bit. It wasn't really a bad plan.
Maehara nodded, and they closed the topic, changing to safer ones.
"Soooo... when are you going to ask him out?" well, at least safer for Nagisa. Hiroto, in the other hand, seemed like he wanted to disappear.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." he said, avoiding her eyes like they were the plague. Hiroto knew he would be lost if Nagisa managed to look at him in the eyes. Those blue eyes were so... deep, and penetrating, you felt the need of spilling out all your thoughts and feelings. It was very frustrating, really.
"Oh, come on! Tell me!" the brunette didn't give in, and Nagisa went to tactic two. "Please?" no response. It seemed as she was gonna have to use the big guns, then. "Y'know? I was talking to Kataoka the other day." that caught his attention immediately, as he looked at her with the corner of his eye. "She told me she was going to conf..." that was all she had to say before he opened his mouth.
"I don't wanna hear it, Nagisa!" he exclaimed, sick by just the thought of Kataoka... no! Hiroto refused to even think of it! "I'll tell you, but don't say that."
"Spit it out, then." she hide a smirk. She was getting good at that of interrogating people, wasn't she?
"I... I don't know how. What if he rejects me? I can't loose his friendship, that would be the end of me, you know it." Maehara had an affliction face, and Nagisa´s gossip tendencies backed down.
"You and I both know Korosensei wasn't the best teacher we ever had if he does that." and that was a serious thing to say, enough to calm Maehara a bit. "Besides, it's obvious he likes you too, you're like, I don't know, soulmates." Nagisa rolled her eyes, and Maehara´s face lit up.
"You think so?" there was hope in his words, and Nagisa just nodded. It wasn't as she was lying, anyways. Those too were meant to be, everybody knew it. "Then I'll do it soon, before Kataoka has her chance."
"Yeah, about that... she never really told me anything. It's just that you and Isogai need to step up, and you evidently need help with it." and if looks could kill, Nagisa would be already ten inches underground, inside a nice coffin.
"Psst, Nagisa." the bluenette closed her eyes, tired. It was the fifth time in an hour.
"What's it now Tamaki-kun?" Nagisa hoped he wasn't just messing around again, as she was having a bit of a hard time trying to figure out what on earth was written at the blackboard. Ugh, mathematics were the worst...
"I've been thinking..." 'Oh, so he can do that. Is nice to know.' "...and I got to the conclusion that we should go to your house."
Wait, what?
When did he even got to that conclusion?
"Sorry, could you-um, repeat that? I think I didn't hear that right." she said, writing down what was on the blackboard, even if she didn't understand shit of it. She would ask Karma later. Or Honey-senpai, the Host Club's math genius.
"Of course!" he shouted, and unfortunately for him, it was a bit too loud.
"Mister Suoh." the sensei looked at him with a stern gaze, and the blond apologised immediately, bowing his head until the man stopped looking at him.
"Now, Nagisa, I was saying, that we should go over to your place, as we don't know how it is, and I wanna make sure my daughter is well taken care of." repeated Tamaki-kun, flashing her his host smile. Nagisa didn't like that smile, first of all, because it attracted problems and stupid plans. And secondly, because it wasn't his rial smile, the one he showed when he was with his close ones, the genuine smile. Personally, Nagisa thought that smile looked tons of times better than his usual host smile.
"First of all, by 'we' you are talking about the Host Club, right?" the half french nodded happily. "Ok... and what's in it for me? 'Cuz you're really stupid if you think I'll let you guys inside my place. I like how it looks, and you'll probably thrash it." Tamaki didn't go to his sulking corner because they were in the middle of a lesson, but his face darkened, and he shrank in his seat. "And don't try to bribe me with anything, Kyoya-kun. Whatever it is, I don't need it." she said before the Shadow King could talk, leaving him with his mouth half open.
'She's good.' though Kyoya, writing that down in his notebook for further investigation.
"But Nagisa..." whined Tamaki, looking at her with a bit of fear.
"No."
There was no way in living hell she was ever letting those guys into her apartment at the same time. It was really hard to keep it clean with all the people passing by, she didn't need any fire, or the neighbors calling for whatever reason. 'Cause she was sure, they would call.
The Suoh heir kept trying to convince her during the rest of the day. Hell, he even followed her during lunch! Kami knew how much self control she used to not punching him straight in the face. Nagisa didn't know if it would shut him up, but fantasizing about it made her feel a bit better, so she figured out it would do the trick in rial life too.
The bluenette was actually doing a great job with that of not giving in, she handled every attempt Tamaki-kun did to make her change her mind, and she even managed to understand some of what was being said in class. That was a certain achievement itself, Nagisa was pretty proud of herself.
As almost everyday, Nagisa had club activities, and she encouraged herself with the thought of finally being free of Tamaki-kun after those were over. She would have to take it all again the next day, but all Nagisa needed was a break, some sleep, and she would be back on track. Nagisa figured out the blond would get tired of asking after some time, so she just needed to be strong until then.
And then Honey-senpai opened his mouth and her whole plan went directly to hell.
They were cleaning up, club hours were over, and everybody would be leaving in a matter of minutes. Nagisa was putting the plates, cups and cutlery they didn't use that day into their respective shelves. And yes, Mori-senpai had to help her with the higher shelves. It wasn't her fault she was short as hell, genetics worked that way!
"Nagisa, why don't you want us to go to your house?" whined Tamaki-kun for the thousand time.
"Because I like the state of my house, Tamaki-kun, and I don't want to move." she answered calmly. "Could you put these over there, Mori-senpai?" the senior nodded, taking the cups of her hands. "Thanks."
"Why would you need to move?" asked the twins, and Nagisa jumped a bit, almost breaking one of the plates. Kyoya-kun was looking all her movements, she noticed.
"'Cause normal people live at whole places, I won't live in a burned flat, thank you very much." she said bluntly, and sent the twins and Tamaki into their sulking corner.
Then Honey-senpai walked near the conversation center, and of course he heard what they were talking about and decided to step in.
"I really wanna go back to Nagi-chan´s house. Do you think we can go, Nagi-chan?" he looked at her with those big, shiny brown eyes, and her eyes widened immediately, knowing that look awfully well.
'No! Don't do that, you manipulative being!' the bluenette was freaking out. Why couldn't she stop looking at those eyes? She wanted to look away, dammit!
But his eyes were so big... and Nagisa couldn't help but to sink into them, getting lost inside those penetrating chocolate eyes. They were staring at her with plea and hope, and Nagisa only wanted to comply so she wouldn't see those beautiful eyes fell into disappointment, because she didn't want to see him looking sad.
'Why are you talking about, Nagisa Shiota!? Bad, bad Nagisa!' but it would be so bad to let them come? It would be just for a bit...
'No! Stop it! Don't you dare falling for those eyes, Nagisa, you're stronger than that!' she was, wasn't she?
"Well... I guess maybe you can come over for a while..." she said hesitantly, and Mitsukuni's smile widened. If he had to be honest, he didn't really think it would work, but it seemed as miracles were an actual thing, after all.
"Yaaaaaay! We will come to Nagi-chan´s house! Did you heard that, Takashi? We're going to Nagi-chan´s place!" the senior blond was very excited, and Nagisa wondered if it would cause him some kind of heart attack.
'Kami, don't let that happen.' she found herself thinking that. Well, she cared about him, he was her friend, and her senpai, after all.
"Ah." was all the Morinosuka heir said in response to his cousin´s exciting. But inside his head, he was thinking about how he would have to have some words with him about the use of his eyes and cuteness for selfish purposes. At least, when those included Nagisa.
He knew Mitsukuni cared deeply for her, and he did too as she alongside Haruhi were like the sisters he had never have, so Takashi would have to warn Mitsukuni of the dangers, because he was sure neither of them would want her to get out of their lives, and she didn't have any debt to pay, so the bluenette could really leave whenever she wanted to do so.
But non of that he showed, of course, as he kept his usual stoic face.
"We're going?!" Tamaki´s eyes brightened up, and he beamed happily out of his corner of woe, and so did the twins, who started to celebrate.
'Well, shit.' thought Nagisa. She had just screwed it up, hadn't she? It was all Honey-senpai´s fault. He and his damn beautiful, shiny, big, perfect, brown eyes.
The bluenette sighed. She couldn't take back what she just said, it wasn't morally right, and unfortunately she had morals.
'Funny, as I kill for a living.' she chuckled mentally, thinking that it was indeed a paradox.
"Y-Yeah, you can come. But, " everyone shuted up. "if you break something, you'll find a way of fixing it. And I'll kick you out if you even think about pyromaniac antics, ok?" everyone nodded, and she nodded too. "Ok, then, let´s finish here and you can come."
As everyone cheered, Haruhi came closer to Nagisa.
"If you want any help, just tell me." said the brunette. She knew how hard it was to deal with those guys as well as Nagisa did.
"Thanks, I think I'll have to take you up on that soon, though." Nagisa´s face formed a grimace, pain all over her just by thinking about all the things the hosts could do.
Why had she accepted again?
Ah, right. Because of Honey-senpai. The sneaky bastard... he was awfully good at was he did, that was something Nagisa couldn't deny.
She just hoped her flat could handle those six guys, who were hyperactive, weird, and had a knack for causing disasters everywhere.
'Kami, help me.'
So... I know this is totally off canon, and I sincerely don't care. I was going to add some things from the anime and the manga, but figured out if would be too much, and it would take years to update, so I'll just leave it here.
I hope you caught all the leads I´m dropping about the development this story will have, and I'll tell you this chapter is plagued with it.
Hope you liked this, and if you don't... well, tell me about it and I'll do what I can to fix it.
See you next chapter!
Patolemus.
