lumigo akvo9504: Yaaaassss! Glad we agreed on that one, because I honestly can't believe there are so little OHSHC and AC crossovers, not to say this is the only Mitsukuni x Fem!Nagisa fanfic I know of. But yes, Ranka is like the one person that needs to approve. Now we only need to make those two morons to notice they are actually just being stupid and we're all done here! Also, I understood that reference! Oh, and before I forget, congrats! You were the only one who figured out my plans. I was reading the reviews just now and I saw that one when you literally predicted all my pairings, it was hilarious! So yeah, that's all hahaha.
I hadn't got any comments on the twins behalf, but I'll give you until next update to tell me. If not, I guess I'll just drop it and keep going with what I had planned initially. That being said, enjoy the chapter!
"You're going to compete this weekend?" Irina was laying down at the spa's common bath, as was Nagisa. They were in the middle of their monthly spa session, and they were enjoying every single bit of it.
"Yeah, I asked Honey if he could sign me up and he agreed. I'm supposed to go to his house early so we can do some warming exercises before the competition." Nagisa explained, her expression softening as the time passed and she was still in the water, just being. The moments she got to be as calm as she currently was were so ephemeral Nagisa felt better almost the second she was inside the bath. The aromatics smells that surrounded her only made it better.
The ex-assassin opened one of her eyes, looking curiously at her student. Had she finally realized it?
"Why are you looking at me that way?" Nagisa's eyes were still closed, but the bluenette could tell. Bitch-sensei was the one who had taught her how to do it, after all, so she was obviously good.
"Nothing, just trying to figure out if you're still as dense as you were a few weeks ago, or if you finally started to see things." Irina said bluntly, and this time it was Nagisa's time to look at her questioningly. She was very observant, thank you very much! At the looks she was getting, Irina sighed. "Did you realize you are in love with that Haninozuka boy yet or are you still in that phase when you believe you two are just friends?" her tone was plain, and she gave no mind to Nagisa's comically widening eyes.
"Wha... how... I don't understand." was all the bluenette could say. Bitch-sensei knew? Since when?
'Oh, sushi lord, that probably means Honey knows too, and if he knows I'll be ruined and I won't be able to talk to him ever again!' as you can see, Nagisa was indeed panicking.
"Oh, get over it. I've known since I saw you two talking for the first time. Maybe you can't tell, but that's love. And not just from your part." Nagisa actually had to stop thinking about anything else to understand what her sensei was telling her.
"Wait, what?" and that was the marvelous and eloquent answer the assassin was able to give.
'Geez, this girl can be so dense sometimes...'
"That he likes you too, Nagisa." Irina rolled her eyes, not believing this was her best student, top of the Assassination Classroom, and one of the only two minors currently working for the Ministry of Defence. Seriously, one would think she would be brighter.
And that was the moment Nagisa's head exploded.
Her face turned a bright red, wide blue eyes, opening her mouth to talk before closing it again, as if she was mimicking a fish. In the end, the bluenette just sank into the water, not being able to look at her sensei.
'Bitch-sensei didn't say what I think she said, right? Of course not, I must be hearing things. Because there is no way Honey actually... that he... I mean, it would be a dream come true, but come on, we're being serious here, right?' her thoughts kept on like that until she was out of air, when she had to come back to reality. Bitch-sensei was patiently waiting for her to return.
"Are you done freaking out? Because if you haven't, you can go back into the water, we have plenty of time." Nagisa wasn't sure if she was mocking her or not, but didn't particularly care at the time being.
"I... why are you telling me this?" Irina's expression softened if only a fraction, because he was a hardcore ex-assassin thank you wery much, when she saw how confused her student was.
"Because I wan't you to be happy, and with him you look happier than every other time I see you." she answered simply, sending the bluenette a small smile. "Don't waste this chance, Nagisa, because maybe it'll be too late tomorrow." the blond sensei stroked Nagisa's wet hair reassuringly, a gesture she almost never did.
"And how do you know it's true? For all I know, he considers me a little sister and I'm just being stupid." Nagisa sounded so defeated, Irina was almost willing to go and tell that boy to ask her out already. No one could make her little assassin feel bad!
"You can't see it, but I'm sure I am not the only one who has noticed." Nagisa's cheeks went red again, and Irina laughed. "Just ask him out on a date, I'm sure he'll say yes."
"And what if he doesn't?"
"Then I'll kick his ass, of course. I'm sure the other brats and that Asano kid would be glad to help." Nagisa repressed a shudder at the thought. She wasn't sure who would win that fight, nor did she want to know.
"I think I can handle myself just fine, but thanks, Bitch-sensei." the bluenette smiled, and Irina felt triumphant with her achievement.
'Tadaomi owes me 100.000 yen.' she thought with a smirk on her face.
Well, she may have been helping her favorite student, but that didn't mean she wasn't gaining something with it. It was just too good an offer to turn down.
This was it. Her first tournament had finally come. Nagisa was currently at the Haninozuka estate, warming up with some stretching and basic exercises with Honey just like he instructed her to do. As his mentor in the Haninozuka style, he said he owed to do this with her.
Nagisa thought it was cute, because she knew he was cranky in the mornings and hated to wake up early. As he wasn't competing, he didn't need to get up until a few hours, but there he was, up and running at six in the morning, just to help her.
Could he be more perfect? Nagisa seriously doubted it.
"I think you're ready, Nagisa." Honey said after a while. They had been practicing some special movements with dummies, like her arm-triangle choke, her flying-triangle choke, and a few other tricks she had picked up from the Assassination Classroom. Mitsukuni had to admit, he was impressed each time he saw her performing it. Even he had trouble with some of them sometimes, but Nagisa was just flawless, quick and lethal.
Mitsukuni thought she looked beautiful.
"You think so? I don't know, I think maybe I'll slip and accidentally will kill someone..." she laughed nervously. 'Wouldn't be the first time, though...' quite a lot of dummies were beheaded, ripped, or stuff like that because of some miscalculations on her behalf. The problem was when she changed dummies with human beings. Well, Nagisa hoped it would turn out alright.
"Don't worry, you'll do just fine, Nagisa!" Honey's words made her feel better. In a way, she knew there was someone counting on her, so she would now do her best to not disappoint him.
'That, and I would be totally dead if I kill someone out of my killing license's limits and Karasuma-sensei finds out.' yep, better not to pray into those thoughts, she preffered to stick to the pretty ones.
You see, Nagisa's killing license worked in a rather strange way. She could obviously carry weapons wherever she went without any problems, she could kill her targets in case they were given by the Ministry or one of her particular employers, had permission to help out in case of emergencies, and of course, self defence, but only if the other had started, and it had certain level of hostility. But if she killed someone who didn't qualify in any of the previous reasons, she was taken into custody, and then straight to prison. Her mere existence in the Ministry was a secret, or at least what she did was, so the Ministry was willing to throw her under the bus the second it became too difficult to keep her as an asset, and she was made very aware of that the moment her contract was signed.
Nagisa was the first one to ever formally work at the MOD as an assassin with a contract instead of being an outside contact—like Lovro-sensei, formerly Bitch-sensei, Red Eye, and many more—, and it was a new division they were thinking about creating based on the events occurred last year. She was the mock trial, and if Nagisa could do it right, then the Ministry would start bringing more people into it. That was the other reason why she had to be specially careful when it came to following the rules.
As they still had time before it was the time to prepare for the tournament, they both decided to take a break and just rest a bit. The competition was being held at one of the Haninozuka dojo's, the biggest one that was allowed for public. Nagisa used the private family dojo when she trained with Honey, because it was smaller and it had the best weapons and equipment. But she had seen the other dojos before, and they were amazing. They were big too, enough for being able to held a fair audience.
If she was able to get past her anxiety of accidentally killing someone, Nagisa could say she was actually exited too. Her middle school classmates were, of course, going to see her compete, as were the hosts. They said it was for moral support. Nagisa thought it was just them wanting to be together with an excuse to make Haruhi come.
But it didn't matter, Nagisa was happy they thought about coming at all. It made her feel like she actually belonged somewhere else than the 3-E mountain and assassination, somewhere a bit more normal—not taking into account that those guys were nuts, it was nice.
As the maids and butlers started to pace around to pick things up and prepare everything for the event that was going to occur in a few hours, Nagisa said hello to every single one of them that crossed their way, just as Honey did. She already knew most of the staff who worked at the Haninozuka estate, as she spent at least a few hours per week there because of her training.
This was something Mitsukuni found particularly sweet of her, as she took the time to learn all the names, and on top of it she was always nice to them. The Haninozuka heir appreciated that, because most of the staff had worked there for years, and he considered them a pseudo-extension of his own family. Hell, he knew of a few of them who had been working there since his own father was only a child!
So anyways, they stayed there for at least an hour and a half, just talking about whatever came to their minds. It was nice, to just talk about anything and everything at the same time. Mitsukuni told Nagisa about his missions for the Ministry, his years as the Karate Club's president, when he couldn't act like a child and had to hide Usa-chan and restricted himself from sweets, and how his world turned out to be much better when Tamaki helped him.
(It was in moments like that ones when Nagisa felt kinda bad for being so mean to Tamaki, because she was reminded that under all that stupidity and flamboyant behavior, there was a boy with a heart of gold that just wanted a brighter world.)
In return, Nagisa talked about her first two years of middle school, how she didn't have any friend until Karma showed up, and then how everything turned out to be better last year. She left out everything about the Assassination Classroom, and instead focused on the 3-E, the moments they spent together, when they went out and had fun, when they acted like the teenagers they were instead of the guys who were supposed to kill his teacher to save the world. She talked about the competitions they had with the 3-A class, how they always beat the crap outta those snobbish guys, and how they always learned tons of things everyday.
Watching silently from the balcony of his bedroom, Yorihisa Haninozuka smiled slightly as he saw how his older son shifted closer to Nagisa, apparently unconsciously, and how Nagisa then rested her head en his shoulder. They were laying on the grass, in the middle of the gardens, and they seemed... young. Not in the usual, childish way his son had, but an actual young expression, happy, carefree... Yorihisa hadn't seen that look on his son's face since he started middle school and he requested the boy to join the Karate Club. Even if he now acted like a toddler, Yorihisa could tell, Mitsukuni was his son, he knew those things. The look in his eyes was always just a tad too sweet, too calculated, everything as it should to please others.
But with Nagisa... that girl somehow managed to get the real Mitsukuni out with just her mere presence. It was amazing to see how Mitsukuni's expression changed, how his eyes softened, and his childish antics became genuine, because he knew he could act serious when he was with her without the fear of being casted out.
"Are you stalking them again Yorihisa?" the head of the Haninozuka household almost jumped when he heard his wife behind him. Instead, as calmly as he could he turned around, trying to look as innocent as possible.
"What are you talking about Akemi? I was just... enjoying the morning breeze?" yeah, he couldn't fool her even if his life was depending on it.
Akemi just rolled her eyes with amusement. Yorihisa needed to learn that, after a lifetime knowing him, he was no capable of lying to her.
"One would thought you would have learned already, you can't lie to me, Yorihisa." even if his brother Akira was the one responsible of accompanying her husband through his life, Haninozuka Akemi, formerly Morinozuka, never stayed behind. She was only a year younger than them, and very smart too, so she easily skipped a year to be with them at school.
But that wasn't the matter at the moment. No, now what was important was that her little boy was finally growing up! Not only physically—because yes, Takashi had told her all about Mitsukuni starting to grow again. But he was also growing in an emotional level. He had fallen in love, and fortunately the girl was an angel, everything Akemi ever dreamed in a daughter in law. She was able to keep up with his son, that was a big start, and he could handle him wonderfully. She was funny, and sweet, and...
"Akemi, you're doing it again." Akemi blinked. Oh, he was right. She was doing it again. Yorihisa sighed, a small smile on his face. "Just... please don't start planning the wedding yet, alright?"
Akemi's semblance fell into disappointment, but she knew her husband was right.
'Oh well, I guess it's alright if I only start looking for a dress.' she decided, thinking about what could look good with Nagisa's hair.
Gakushuu looked around, trying hard to find some faces he recognized.
'It shouldn't be so hard, she has fucking blue hair! How am I supposed to miss that?' the fact that he wasn't finding any was getting into Gakushuu's nerves, as you may have told already.
He was at the Haninozuka estate to see her best friend compete at this pretty important martial arts tournament. Gakushuu was aware of the rules the Haninozuka style had, and how she was trained by the Haninozuka Mitsukuni himself at least three times a week. That, and the fact that she was not only an assassin, but a fighter. Karma, Karasuma-san, a lot of people had trained her besides the Haninozuka heir. And Nagisa had a knack for all that required weapons, specially tricky moves and stuff to immobilize the opponent, so Gakushuu was certain his friend had fair chances of winning the competition.
According to the tabloid that held all the names of the competitors, the only ones Nagisa needed to worry about were the youngest Haninozuka and Morinozuka. Gakushuu himself had attended various tournaments throughout his life, he recognized most of the names on the list, and he knew Nagisa could take them out with no problems.
After other ten minutes trying to locate his friend, Gakushuu finally spotted that baby blue hair he was so desperately looking for. The redheaded demon, AKA Akabane Karma, was with her as well. He had a smirk plastered on his face, and when Gakushuu was close enough for him to notice him, Karma waved with a grin. That made Nagisa turn around, as she was facing Karma, and so did the little blond who was with her.
"Shuu! You made it!" Nagisa was hugging him before he could process she had moved, but he was used to it by now. So instead of pushing her away, like he would have done months ago, he just hugged her back.
"I've been looking for you for at least twenty minutes, you know? This place is huge." he rolled her eyes, thinking about how not even his house was as big as that dojo, and his house was actually classified as a mansion, so you get how it goes.
"Well, it is the dojo we use when we're hosting competitions, so it must be big, ne?" Gakushuu's purple eyes traveled from Nagisa to the blond guy. He was looking adorably cute with a pink stuffed bunny in hand, and big, shinny eyes.
What the hell?
"Who are you?" he asked, trying to be as polite as possible, but not having a fucking clue about who he was.
"I'm Haninozuka Mitsukuni, but you can call me Honey! Are you a friend of Nagisa's?" he tilted his head, and Gakushuu didn't know what to say.
Okay, hold on a second. This was the guy Nagisa was in love with? This was Haninozuka Mitsukuni? The hell?
After a couple of seconds, Gakushuu was able to properly think again, so he cleared his voice and nodded.
"Yeah, I'm friends with her. Asano Gakushuu, pleasure to meet you." he said, bowing slightly.
"You are Shuu-chan! Nagisa talks a lot about you!" 'Shuu-chan?' that was all on his mind as he watched how Honey celebrated, cheering about meeting another one of Nagisa's friends.
'So Karma wasn't lying when he said Nagisa's school friends were weird. And he said the seniors were the normal ones?' he raised an eyebrow at Karma, who just shrugged in response. Gakushuu looked over at Nagisa again, but she was already talking with Honey about something he didn't understand.
"They make me want to throw up rainbows." was what he finally said, and Karma laughed in response.
"They're pretty cute, huh?" Karma obviously agreed with his friend's statement, because he casually slipped an arm by his shoulders, guiding him away of the two unaware lovebirds. "We'll come back later. I wanna get something to drink." the question wasn't said out loud, but Gakushuu only sighed in defeat as he followed Karma to one of the vending machines.
"So... just to clarify, he wasn't lying when he said he was Haninozuka Mitsukuni." Karma just nodded while he took a sip of his newly bought strawberry milk. "That's fucked up. You know that, right?"
"Yeah, I do, but we just gotta go with it. He's actually pretty fun to be with, and Nagisa really likes him. She'll never admit it, but he's her closest friend at that weird school of hers." Gakushuu just looked at his friend from afar, laughing happily with the Haninozuka boy like she had no care in the world.
Karma was right. Nagisa did look happy, happier than he had ever seen her before.
'Maybe he's not that bad after all. If he makes her happy, then I guess I can accept him.' Gakushuu's face contortioned to form a half smile, little but real.
And then five other guys wearing obviously expensive clothes joined them along with another girl, who looked pretty normal. Those were her friends from school, Gakushuu supposed. Nagisa didn't seem too bothered by them, so he got to the conclusion it was okay.
That didn't mean he wasn't going to scare them shitless, though. Nagisa was Gakushuu's best friend, it was his duty to protect her, and embarrass her. Not always in that order, of course.
"No, Asano, don't go there, their having a good time..." Gakushuu ignored Karma as he dodged people in order to get back with Nagisa and her friends.
'Since when is Karma the responsible one?' the thought crossed his mind, and suddenly Gakushuu considered the idea of stopping just to get things back to how they were. 'No. There is no way in hell I'm letting Karma take my spot as the responsible one in this relationship. Nope. I'll die before that happens.'
And then it came to his mind the word 'relationship'. Gakushuu... he hadn't really thought about being in a relationship with Karma, right?
Right?
RIGHT?!
'Oh Kami, I did. Now I'm definitely screw, aren't I?'
Inside his mind, Gakushuu was having a mental debate, but on the outside he was just there, standing in the middle of the crowded dojo, with Karma looking at him. The redhead was trying to figure out if his friend was just messing with him or if the strawberry blond was actually just looking at the wall like an idiot.
"Asano? Hey, Ace-kun, you there?" there was no response. "Second-place-kun, this isn't funny, stop acting like you're some weirdo." still, Asano wasn't looking at him. Or at any other direction besides that wall, if we're getting technical.
Karma waved a hand in front of his friend's face, trying to make him react somehow. His purple eyes blinked, but other than that, it wasn't much what Karma got from him.
"Ugh, you're so frustrating, Asano Gakushuu! It's like you're doing this on purpose!" he muttered annoyed, and that was the only thing Gakushuu caught of all that phrase.
The strawberry blond was stunned for a moment. Had karma just called him Gakushuu? The only ones who called him that were Nagisa and sometimes Ren... Gakushuu thought his name sounded good when coming out of Karma's mouth... voiced by Karma's lips...
'Stop it! You're stronger than that, Gakushuu!' but was he, really? Karma just seemed so tempting right now... and he was close, enough for him to steal a kiss from him if he wanted.
Gakushuu was actually thinking about it. What could happen? Would it be that bad if he just leaned over and pressed his lips with Karma's? It surely didn't sound at all bad to him.
And then Karma hit him. Hard.
"Ouch! What the hell, Akabane?!" Gakushuu growled, snapping out of his thoughts. Karma just sighed, relieved that his friend wasn't having an internal seizure or something.
Drama Queen much? Maybe.
"It's your fault! You were staring at the wall like and idiot, and didn't seem to listen when I called your name." Karma shrugged, and Gakushuu knew he wasn't really sorry. What a jerk.
Instead of starting another argument, Gakushuu rolled his eyes, trying not to blush at his previous thoughts. He needed to talk with Nagisa. Now.
"Come on, those morons get to see Nagisa every day at school, it's our turn with her." he said and, even thought unconsciously, he grabbed Karma's hand, dragging him over to where their blue haired friend was still talking with the Host Club.
Karma, walking behind Asano, looked down at his hand, firmly clasped against the strawberry blond's one. It felt warm, and somehow it was as if their hands were made to be together, they fitted. Fortunately, Karma was able to control his blushing, otherwise it would have been the end of him.
'Holly shit, Nagisa was fucking right, the sneaky little... when she finds out, because she will, I'll never hear the end of it.' and it was all because of Asano Gakushuu.
Even his name was nice, it wasn't fair! How was Karma supposed not to fall for him? Exactly, there was no way.
"Guys! Where were you? When we noticed you weren't with us I got worried." Nagisa was looking like a mother hen, hands of her hips and a stern look in her face. It was almost more terrifying than seeing her slaughtering dummies with her bloodlust at its full range.
"Sorry, needed to throw up rainbows and sparkles." said sarcastically Gakushuu, and Karma snorted, as did the twins. Nagisa, Haruhi and Mitsukuni just looked confused. Kyoya was hiding his tiny smile behind his notebook, which he was currently writing on. Takashi seemed unfazed, as if nothing had happened. And Tamaki... well, he looked like he was about to jump at the thought of rainbows and sparkles. You know, nothing out of the ordinary.
"How can you throw up... rainbows and sparkles." asked Haruhi, genuinely confused, and then everybody else sweatdropped. That girl could be so dense sometimes...
Nagisa smiled at her. She did understand what they meant, but didn't know why, so she wasn't going to stress over it.
"It's nothing Haruhi, just Shuu being weird." she said, earning a glare from his friend.
"Oh, so you mean like himself? Yeah, I would add a little more jerkiness, but it works." mused Karma, and this time it was his turn to be punched. "Hey!"
"You deserved it, jackass." and then the insults chain started. And just for everybody to know, yes, there were some violent behaviors in the middle of it.
"Mommy, they're being violent like Nagisa when she's angry." Tamaki whispered scared near Kyoya's ear, and the Host Club's vice-president rolled his eyes, still focused on his notebook.
He had yet to figure out why were Nagisa's school records sealed, as were Karma's. And now this Asano guy came into light. This was turning out to be even more interesting.
"There is nothing I can do about it, Daddy." he calmly said, gazing at Nagisa's friends with the corner of his eye before going back to his notebook.
Tamaki probably said something then, but Kyoya's attention was already somewhere else. Wasn't an Asano the owner of Kunugigaoka?
'Interesting indeed.' Kyoya would definitely look into it the moment his hands were on his laptop again.
But for now, there was a more urgent matter. The twins were intently looking at Karma, trying to guess where they've met before. He was rich, or at least his family was. And his name did ring some bells...
Holly shit.
Kaoru and Hikaru looked at each other then. They had got down to the same conclusion, hadn't they?
'We gotta ask him.' Kaoru didn't say anything, but Hikaru understood. That didn't mean he liked the idea. 'Hikaru, he's Nagisa's friend...' the older twin sighed, and Kaoru smiled victorious.
"Later." that was all what was spoken out loud, by Hikaru. It attracted the other's attention, but neither Hikaru nor Kaoru were about to mutter another word.
Tamaki was about to jump in, wanting to know what those 'shady twins' were up to now, but the buzzing sound of the speakers stopped him.
'Attention. Attention. The tournament is about to start. Please take your sits. The matches' schedule is on the panel.' the message was repeated, and then everybody was on their way to find their places, except from Takashi, Mitsukuni and Nagisa.
"Hey, say hi to them for me, will ya'?" asked Nagisa to her two middle school friends, who nodded and left to find the E Class.
The three hosts walked towards the jury's table, where Yorihisa, Morinozuka Akira—whom Nagisa knew because of that time she went to Mori-senpai's house, and another man, probably part of one of the Haninozuka's minor branches, judging by his features.
Nagisa, who was already on her training gear, bowed respectfully at them, and the three acknowledged her, Yorihisa wearing a nice smile.
"I'm glad you are competing, Nagisa-san. I expect some interesting matches." he said, and Mitsukuni's eyebrow shot up. What was that? His father being nice to someone?
'Guess Nagisa really has a gift with people...'
"I hope you like what you see, Haninozuka-san." she said, before bowing again. "I have to go. See you guys soon!" the bluenette said her goodbyes, smiling at her two friends, and then headed over to the special quadrant that was left for the competitors to stretch and wait for their own matches.
Mitsukuni and Takashi sat at the table, looking at the dojo. It was full, just like it always was when the Haninozuka's were hosting a martial arts tournament. Despite that, both seniors were confident Nagisa would go far. She could even win, but she had to face Chika for that.
Well, they both had been dying to spar together, so this could be their chance to finally do so.
If only they knew what was coming, sparring would have been the last of their worries.
Tan, tan, taaaaaaaaaan! Did you like it?
This was supposed to be about the tournament itself, but I got a bit exited with all the preliminary, and here we are, cutting the chapter in half! Don't worry, I'm already working on it.
Did you liked that Asano x Karma moment? I was missing them a lot, so I decided to bring them in. Next chapter I promise the whole 3-E to join!
Also, what do you think about that scene at the beginning? Will Nagisa finally ask Mitsukuni on a date? *insert epic voice* You'll see more about that soon.
That little thing with Kyoya and the twins will not be forgotten it either, even if maybe it'll take a while. I mean, it's not like Kyoya can find out about Nagisa's secret this early in the story, right? About the Hitachiin twins knowing Karma... well, that one will be revealed sooner.
That's all for now. Hope you like this!
Patolemus.