Sorry this took such a long time for me to write this, but it is a monster of a chapter (over 8000 words, fuck me!). Thank you for all the reviews! This chapters kind of a little everwhere, but I hope you enjoy it anyway.


Kazuha Kamiya wiped the perspiration off her forehead as she reached the peak of the E-class mountain. Everyday got more hot and more humid- for once, she was actually looking forward to the rainy season starting.

"Kazuha!" Her best friend since childhood, Yoruha, called out from behind her. "Are you ready for our assassination attempt?"

Yoruha had a determined look in her eyes, and a long-shaped bag slung over her shoulder. Kamiya nodded.

"Ready as I'll ever be!" She said cheerfully, with a renewed sense of vigour. She was almost certain that this assassination attempt would fail, and yet, she was still looking forward to attempting it. Herself, Yoruha, Shion, Takahiro and Mori had took Korosensei's advice of 'just try' to heart, and had put their all into coming together to try and kill their teacher. She could hardly wait! Kamiya joined Yoruha to walking into the classroom;

"Morning you two!" Shion smiled, the tiny pink haired girl trotted over to them, her golden eyes shining in excitement. "Did you bring your sword, Yoruha?"

"How could I forget?" The green-haired girl smirked. "The boys better have things ready on their end."

Kamiya smiled, taking her seat. The atmosphere in the classroom had become lighter somehow, the dark fog of E class had started to lift as she had built connections with more and more people. She looked around the classroom;

Ryu was sat near the corner, looking awkward as usual. He was the tallest in the class, and was skinny too, giving him a lanky gangly look. His grey-ish brown hair fell into his eyes as usual. Upon seeing Yoruha and Kamiya walk in, he turned around and offered them a shy smile. It was an improvement. When they first started he was too introverted to even acknowledge other people first.

Chisato was sat with Fukuya and Satoshi, all three of them playing on their hand-held devices together, all looking like they were having fun (well, it was hard to tell with Fukuya, since he rarely smiled, but his scowl did seem less intense than usual).

Mahiro was shouting at Pierre, Tsukiko was stood by his side, looking worried, judging by the situation, he must of said something particularly lecherous to her. Mori and Takahiro waved at the girls too. Mori gave the thumbs up to indicate that everything had been set up, great! Just then, their invincible teacher blasted in through the open door, as he did every morning.

"Good morning boys and girls! Are you ready to do some History!" He exclaimed, his tentacles wiggling about wildly. But then, Yoruha and Kamiya jumped out of their seats, each pulling, of all things, a sword from out of their sheaths, and slashed in at their teacher.

The class' eyes widened in collective shock. Swords of all things!

"Ah- the blades are coated with anti-sensei material." Hishiro commented, as Yoruha and Kamiya slashed their swords at a startled Korosensei. The girls were good, Yoruha had been trained in swords by her family since she was young, and Kamiya being her long-time friend had picked up a few tricks too. But as good as they where, they had no chance against a mach-20 monster, even if he was taken by surprise.

"An assassination attempt this early in the morning? How delightful! But I'm afraid mere swords aren't quick enough to slay someone as amazing as me!" Korosensei chuckled. Good! Because this is just a distraction! Kamiya thought, as if controlled by her words, Takahiro pressed the button on a tiny remote hidden in his pocket, and a net lined with anti-sensei material dropped down from the ceiling.

"Ahh!" Their teacher squealed, dodging out the way. But not quite fast enough. One tiny tentacle was caught by the net, exploding into a yellow goo.

"Aww, sensei didn't die." Takahiro complained, as their sensei fussed over his exploded tentacle that regenerated seconds later.

"After all the effort we put into setting up the trap as well." Mori sighed, but Korosensei looked delighted, he turned to grin at them.

"Well done! What a marvellous assassination attempt! You managed to destroy one of my appendages. Thats more than even the Government has even managed to do so far." Korosensei said. The weight of their achievement rested on the kids shoulders, ad they felt a sudden surge of pride. "Of course, you still have a long way to go before you can actually assassinate me. Now class! History books out!"

Kamiya beamed- sure, they may of objectively failed, but that was fun!


"Terrible- pulling pranks on another student." Satoshi commented as he walked into the near-empty classroom. Mitsugu looked up at him from behind Leiko's desk with glinting red eyes.

"Shouldn't you be helping them tidy up after PE?" The black haired girl questioned with a smarmy grin. It was after lunch time, and the rest of the class had just finished doing sports. PE was exhausting in this heat with a teacher who moved faster than any other living thing on the face of the planet.

"So should you." He retorted.

"Touché." Mitsugu replied, still grinning. "And I don't think you have any right to be reprimanding me for pulling pranks. You are the student who conducted Chilli-gate last year, right? And turned the turned the pool into jello, and set fire to the lake."

"You flatter me." Satoshi said, laughing, as memories of his previous tricks filled his head. "But the difference between you and me is I never repeatedly targeted just one person."

"I hope you aren't trying to claim the moral high-ground here." Mitsugu sneered. "Because we both know your just interested in seeing how this drama unfolds."

She recognised that her and Satoshi were similar in some ways, but very different in others. Both of them were too independent and suspicious to put much faith in others, and both liked to cause anarchy. But Satoshi was a little more social while Mitsugu was a few shades more maniacal.

"It's been nearly a week, and you still haven't found enough dirt on Leiko to crush her. That isn't like you, at least, not according to your reputation." Satoshi said, his tone gloating. It was true- Mitsugu was having problems finding blackmail; from what she had discovered, Leiko changes her boyfriend fairly frequently, so it was pointless to try and sabotage a relationship that would be over in a matter of days. And although Leiko took part in some dodgy activities, pretty much everyone, including her family, already knew that, so it was pointless using blackmail. She didn't seem to have anyone or anything she particularly cared for, so finding a target was hard.

Of course, Mitsugu remained smiling as she responded to Satoshi.

"Wait." She said. "You won't be disappointed."

"Whatever you say." He said as he walked out, leaving Mitsugu in the classroom.


It was during their final lesson of the day, after they had finished PE, that Leiko noticed something was wrong; It started out with the skin on her stomach feeling a little bit itchy half way through class. She scratched it, but the feeling only got worse, and towards the end of class, her skin felt as though there were fire-ants crawling all over it. She tried to resist the urge to itch, but it was near-impossible.

"Is something the matter?" A familiar voice whispered behind her. Mitsugu. Leiko's grip tightened around the pen. Of course it was her- she must of put some kind of itching-powder in Leiko's shirt while she was changed for PE. Dam It! Leiko refused to give her the satisfaction of a reaction, so she didn't even look back, and tried her best not to scratch even as that damn itchy feeling consumed her upper-body.

As soon as the clock-chimed for the end of class, and Korosensei flew out the window, Leiko bolted up out of her seat and rushed towards the girl's bathroom. As soon as she got there she flung off her tainted shirt and switched the taps on, splashing water over herself.

Relief flooded her as the itchy feeling subsided. Suddenly, the sound of the bathroom door swinging open rang out across the room. Leiko turned to see Mitsugu suddenly there, a satisfied smirk on her face.

"I thought you said you were done with 'baby stuff'. When you said you were going to ruin my life, I thought it was going to be something more sinister than your usual childish pranks." Leiko snapped. Mitsugu wasn't perturbed by Leiko's retort, however.

"Don't be so impatient." Mitsugu said with a bright smile. "I'll get around to ruining your life soon enough- but that doesn't mean I'm going to give up the opportunity to make your life as inconvenient as I can in the mean time."

Her voice was cheery and kind in tone, as if she were talking about rainbows and sunshine rather than destroying someone.

"Well, you made me feel slightly itchy for half an hour, Did that sate your sadistic desire to see people suffer?' Leiko asked, an unimpressed look on her face. Mitsugu shook her head.

"That doesn't." Mitsugu said. "But this will, for now-"

As she spoke, Mitsugu picked up Leiko's shirt and walked out. "Don't worry, I took your PE shirt too. Good luck walking home!" Mitsugu called out as she left. It took Leiko a moment to comprehend the situation, but when she did she rushed forwards.

"Don't you dare!" She called out, but it was too late, Mitsugu was gone, leaving her stranded without a shirt.


Ryu sighed as he swept the floor. Doing cleaning duty was tough in this classroom; Dirt and leaves seem to get blown in so easily! Plus it was even worse doing it alone (Mahiro and Hitoshi were supposed to be helping him, but of course, Mahiro went home as soon as the octopus was out the way, and Hitoshi hadn't shown up for class at all.) Everyone else had already gone home. Or so Ryu thought. Then he heard a familiar voice call his name fromthe corridor outside the classroom.

"Ryu?"

"Leiko..?" Ryu replied, recognising the voice. What was she doing hanging around outside the classroom at this time? She was normally one of the students who couldn't get away from school fast enough. Ryu walked towards the corridor to see her.

"Stop!" She shouted. Ryu nearly jumped out of his skin.

"W- What is it?" Ryu stuttered, utterly confused by the whole situation. Leiko sounded un-characteristically agitated. He heard Leiko sigh from the other side of the door.

"I need to borrow your shirt. So pass it through the door without looking." Leiko commanded, her voice stern and full of authority.

"H-huh?" Ryu spluttered, confused. Take his shirt and pass it through the door! Why!?

"Did I stutter?" Leiko snapped, making Ryu jump again. He touched the top button of his shirt. He never went swimming to avoid people seeing him without a shirt, his aversion to getting changed in front of others was part of the reason he didn't do PE at school. He didn't want people to see what was underneath.

"I- I can't. I won't." Ryu said, stubbornly. He had no idea why the girl wanted his shirt, but he wasn't going to give it away.

"Don't be an asshole!" Leiko shouted, suddenly flinging the door open and storming into the classroom, a stormy expression on her face. Ryu's eyes widened as he noticed immediately that she was in her bra. He quickly turned away, face turning red.

"W-why haven't you got a shirt on?" Ryu asked, not turning back to look at her. Seriously, what was going on?

"Another one of Mitsugu's stupid pranks." Leiko huffed. "Now stop cowering in the corner and let me borrow your shirt- or are you going to make a lady walk home like this? Wow, what a selfish pig, you're a man so it's okay for you to go shirtless."

"Okay- Okay- " Ryu said, curbing her rant. He started to undo the buttons on his shirt. He guessed he didn't have a choice. He wasn't cruel enough to let even Leiko walk home like that. Squashing his own feelings of insecurity, he unbuttoned the shirt and tossed it towards her.

"Thank-you." She said quietly. The sound of rustling clothing filled Ryu's ears, and after a second she called out. "Done."

Ryu turned around, his arms hugging himself, covering his chest and stomach as best as he could. The Shirt was as long as Leiko's skirt. Of course that was the case, with their height difference.

Leiko's blue eyes widened when she saw him. "Those scars..." She said under her breath, without even meaning too. Ryu pulled a bitter half smile, of course he couldn't cover them. Well, there was no point hiding things now.

Ryu pointed to the long vertical scar that went down across the centre of his rib-cage. Even after all these years it was still raised and pale red. "This one is from heart surgery. It was an emergency operation, so making a neat incision was the least of the doctor's concerns. I use a pacemaker now." Ryu explained in a dull voice, his brown-grey eyes misted over. He pointed to his elbow, were another, less pronounced scar was situated. "I had a metal joint put into this elbow." He continued, before pointing to another scar on the left side of the stomach. "And I had this kidney replaced."

Ryu had more scars and operation stories than that, but those where the main ones.

"What happened to you?" Leiko asked looking concerned. Ryu shrugged.

"I suppose I'm just a defective human." He said solemnly, avoiding listing off the many diagnosis' he'd been labelled with in his life time. He forced yet again another smile. "We should get going. Before it gets dark."

Leiko and Ryu walked down the mountain together in silence for several minutes, until Leiko broke it.

"You aren't like most other boys. Most boys would be showing off scars like they were battle-wounds, but you seem almost... " Leiko trailed off.

"Ashamed?" Ryu finished for her. Leiko nodded in affirmation. "Well.. I suppose that's because.. I am."

"Why?" The girl questioned, raising an eyebrow. Ryu sighed.

"Because it shows what a burden I was for my family. They were pretty well off before they had me, but all through my childhood, all my parents money was spent on keeping me alive, because I couldn't even do basic things like have working organs." Ryu explained. "Because of me my younger brothers and sisters were always overshadowed and my parents were put under a lot of undue stress. It's no wonder they resent me. I resent me. Things are better financially now that I've been well for a while, but we're not sure how long that's going to last.."

"You sound crazy- you can't help being sick so why feel guilty about it?" Leiko said derisively. "I'm sure your parents don't care how much they had to go through so long as their kid is alive."

Ryu just hummed in response. He'd heard people say things like that before, it made sense but, he just couldn't bring himself to think that way. He could hardly believe that he had just spilt such personal details to someone so notorious for being a bitch.

"I'm glad it was you." Leiko said, quietly. Ryu looked at her questioningly. "Who was in the classroom, I mean."

"Well, I suppose I am better that Pierre." Ryu said with a slight smile.


The next day, Leiko waited until lunch-time to say anything, as soon as Korosensei left, she stomped over to Mitsugu and chucked her juice at her. Mitsugu moved out the way getting a few splatters of orange juice on her shirt.

"You know what would be great? Being able to enjoy my lunch just once without you chucking things at me." Mitsugu said, dabbing the orange splotches on her uniform with her handkerchief, a rueful look in her eyes.

"You know that's for yesterday." Leiko said, chucking her now-empty juice box into the bin behind her. "Do you really have nothing to do in your pathetic life besides pulling childish tricks."

"I'm afraid I have no idea what you're referring to." Mitsugu said, batting her eyelashes innocently.

"You two should stop arguing. It's stupid."

Both Leiko and Mitsugu looked up, surprised to see Echo Shiona of all people, standing before them, a disapproving look on his face. Neither of them said a word, so he continued.

"Only feeble minded people waste their time in futile arguments." He said, having enough of their fighting. Mitsugu and Leiko rolled their eyes almost in unison.

"Sorry, I don't appreciate being told what to do by an overweight dwarf." Leiko replied, looking him up and down, a fake-sweet smile on her face.

"Have you ever considered maybe minding your own business, Rat boy." Mitsugu said, with equally spiteful grin. Humans were the most interesting when they were in conflict, after all. She didn't want anyone getting in the way of the beauty of a human self-combusting.

Echo narrowed his eyes, and before either of them had the chance to react, he had lurched forwards and struck both of them across the face. The noise rang out across the classroom. The whole class stared in shock, just watching as Echo turned and stormed out the classroom. It was Satoshi who broke the silence, by letting out a loud laugh. "I wish I'd gotten that on camera."

Chisato wasn't so amused, she stalked over to Leiko and Mitsugu, a furious look on her face. "What gives you two the right to speak to people like that?" She fumed. Ryu gulped, the normally bubbly girl was actually quite intimidating, especially considering that she towered over the two black haired girls she was confronting by a good few inches.

"Um, freedom of speech, duh?" Leiko said, already looking in her mirror to check the damage of where Echo had slapped her, seemingly only half listening to whatever Chisato was saying. Mitsugu was already making a note in her phone; He's sensitive to being called a rat, interesting.

Chisato let out a sound of frustration, and grabbed Leiko's wrist, pulling the mirror away from her face. Leiko shot her an annoyed look, but Chisato just directed her a smile full of ice-cold fury.

"It's in your best interest to pay attention to me. Because I won't go as easy on you as Echo did if I feel the need to hit you. I will leave a bruise. Trust me." Chisato said, her voice sharp and deadly. The disengaged look didn't leave Leiko's face, but she didn't pull her wrist out of Chisato's grasp either.

"What is your problem? Echo's the one who hit me. You should be bitching at him." Leiko scoffed. "I haven't done anything."

"People picked on Echo the year before by calling him names like 'Rat' now you have brought those memories back for him, the least you could do is feel a little bit bad." Chisato hissed. She could see how upset Echo had been. However, neither Mitsugu or Leiko looked concerned by this revelation. Mitsugu was making note of yet another classmate's weakness' for future reference while Mitsugu just shrugged.

"People treating him like that is inevitable. Have you seen how he acts and how he dresses?- and violent that streak! Of course the masses are going to think he's weird and ostracize him." She said. Chisato shook her head, before leaving the classroom to look for Echo.

"You're a bitch." She said to Leiko, then turned to Mitsugu. "And you're just a sociopath."

"Thanks for your insight, captain obvious." Leiko muttered as she left. The class was awkwardly silent after that altercation, except for Satoshi who was still chuckling at the drama.


Echo was wondering through the vast mountain forest surrounding the school house. He liked it here. It was peaceful, with only the sound of babbling streams, bird song, and the rustling of the breeze gently blowing through the trees filling his ears. He felt his rage from moments earlier melting away already, like snow giving away to the spring. There was nobody here to stare and judge him for his different appearance; being short, and having knee length white hair and heterochromia eyes kind of made it hard to fit in. Echo's hands still stung slightly from slapping the two girls, he hadn't used all his strength, but it still hurt. He walked towards the stream, planning on dipping his hands in there, when suddenly, he tripped over something and went flying, sprawling out onto the floor. He turned around, expecting to see a branch, but instead he saw... A pair of legs?

The owner of the legs let out a grumble of pain. "Ow! Don't you know how to look were you're going?" A male voice asked. It was a boy with sea-blue eyes and navy blue hair that was currently full of twigs and brambles, pulled into a thin ponytail at the back of his head. He had the Kunugigaoka uniform on, but it was covered in grass stains and and mud. The boy was short and skinny, but still a foot taller than Echo.

"Sorry." Echo said, apologetically "But I didn't expect to trip over someone this deep into the forest."

"Well, I didn't expect someone to come and trip over me this deep into the forest either." The blue haired boy replied dryly. His eyes narrowed as he took in Echo's appearance. "What's a little kid like you doing out here in the wilderness anyway? Are you lost?"

Echo bristled. "I am 15 years old!" He declared.

"No way." The boy deadpanned.

"Yes way!" Echo replied. "Who are you, anyway? You go to Kunigigaoka too, right?"

"If you must know, I'm Yua Syaoran." Yua said. "I'm supposed to be in E class, but I haven't shown up once because I'd far rather be with nature than waste my time in a boring old classroom."

Yua Syaoran, of course, Echo recognised the name from the register- the one who was never in class. Everyone had assumed he'd transferred or something. This was crazy; a member of E class who knew nothing about Korosensei.

"Trust me- it is anything but boring." Echo said honestly. Yua looked skeptical.

"Really- then why are you out here during class?" He asked, raising an eyebrow. "If school is so great and all."

"Because some of my classmates are mean." Echo said, his eyes misting over as he remembered being called a Rat. Yua noticed his change of disposition and felt a surge of sympathy. The blue haired boy patted the ground next to him.

"Come on. Sit down. Tell me about what happened." Yua said. After a moment of hesitation, Echo obliged, and sat down on the grass next to Yua, and before he knew it, he was telling him about his woes.


"Come on." Chisato said, after Echo did not return even right near the end of lunch. "We should go out and look for Echo. He might've gotten lost."

Fukuya nodded in agreement, getting up and standing by Chisato. Takahiro, Mori, Kamiya, Shion and Kazuma followed suit, even Satoshi and Ryu got up. Tsukiko, always eager to help, of course stood up also.

"We should split up into groups of two or three." Kazuma said, "These mountains can be pretty dangerous- we should all make sure we have our cell-phones and some water, just in case."

"We're going to look for a classmate, not go on some dangerous expedition." Mahiro scoffed, although he put his water into his bag anyway.

"You should probably listen, since you're exactly the type to get lost on the mountain." Satoshi snickered.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Mahiro snapped.

"Can we stop bickering for just two seconds and go already!" Chisato said, narrowing her eyes when she saw Leiko and Mitsugu still sat at their respective desks. She marched over and grabbed the both of them by the wrists. "The two of you don't have a choice. You're helping us find Echo so you can apologise to him!"

"Apologise for what- being hit in the face?" Leiko demanded, as Chisato dragged the two of them out the classroom door. Mitsugu was less resistant, it was actually kind of interesting to see the whole class get worked up like this. It was fascinating how different people reacted differently to the same situation; Kazuma and Chisato seemed to be taking a lead, Kamiya, Shion and Mori presented as worried, while Mahiro and Yoruha were acting more excited for this prospective 'adventure'. And Pierre- was acting like his usual self, gushing to Takahiro about 'how hot Chisato is when she's showing everyone who's boss'.

Hishiro was the only one who remained in the classroom, still reading her book. Fukuya stopped, and turned to look at her.

"Are you not coming to look for Echo?" He asked.

"Do you know we're the name 'Echo' comes from?" Hishiro asked randomly, Fukuya shook his head. "In Greek Mythology, Echo was a Nymph who was cursed to only be able to speak through repeating the recently spoken words of another person. Sometime after being cursed, Echo spied a young man, Narcissus, She immediately fell in love with him. Though she wished with all her heart to call out to Narcissus, the curse prevented her

Narcissus became lost one day, and called out, 'is anyone there' and heard the nymph repeat his words. Startled Narcissus answered the voice, 'come here', only to be told the same. Finally he shouted, "This way, we must come together." Taking this to be a reciprocation of her love, Echo concurred ecstatically, "We must come together!"

In her delight, Echo rushed to Narcissus ready to throw her arms around her beloved. Narcissus, however, was appalled and, spurning her, exclaimed, 'Hands off! May I die before you enjoy my body.' All Echo could whisper in reply was, 'enjoy my body' and having done so she fled, scorned, humiliated, and shamed Despite her rejection, Echo's love for Narcissus only grew. When Narcissus died, wasting away before his own reflection, consumed by lust for himself, Echo mourned over his body Eventually, Echo, too, began to waste away. Her beauty faded, her skin shrivelled, and her bones turned to stone. Today, all that remains of Echo is the sound of her voice"

Fukuya stood in silence, giving Hisihiro a measured stare. "So does that mean you're coming.. Or not?"

"I'm far too busy to be playing hide and seek." Hishiro said. "I can't believe you let me finish that whole story though."

Fukuya resisted the urge to face-palm.

The class had already stared to congregate outside.

"If we don't manage to find Echo by the end of the day, I could always hire someone to fly one of my family's helicopters to look for him." Mori suggested earnestly, like that was a totally normal thing to do. He didn't seem to notice the flabbergasted looks his classmates gave him. Takahiro patted his friend on the back.

"Ah- The perks of having a billionaire best friend." He chuckled, as they headed off into the thicket of woods, the class then splitting off into groups.


Group1: Mahiro, Tsukiyamako, Satoshi,

"Cool- I've never seen this cave before. D'you think there could be hidden treasure in here?" Mahiro said excitedly, his blue eyes shining as he climbed down the moss-covered rocks towards a small dark opening in the rocks.

"You're probably more likely to find the skeleton of a hiker down there." Satoshi said, raising an eyebrow as he watched Mahiro climb lower and lower.

Or maybe you'll find the classmate we're supposed to be looking for that you two seemed to have forgotten about. Tsukiko thought to herself, but not daring to say the words out loud, instead she just kept her smile on her face and stayed stood next to Satoshi.

"I can't even see!" Mahiro complained, he had completely disappeared into the darkness of the cave now.

"Hurry up and get out of there- this is a complete waste of time." Satoshi shouted back down.

"Nobody's making you stay here!" Mahiro snapped back.

"Someone has to be here to drag your idiot ass out when you inevitably fall over and break something." Satoshi retorted. Tsukiko sighed, tuning out their bickering; She hoped the rest of them were doing a better job of finding Echo than this group was.


Group2: Shion*Kamiya*Mori

"Echo!" Shion called out, her eyes scanning the forest in vain, looking for a tell-tale flash of long white hair. Almost ironically, her voice echoed around the forest."Echoooo!"

Kamiya bit her lip. "I hope he's okay." She said, sounding somewhat nervous. After all, these woods did have snakes, stinging insects and lots of water. They weren't exactly the safest places to get lost. Especially since the clouds were currently darkening, threatening rain.

"He'll be fine." Mori assured. "He's tougher than he looks."


Group 3; Takahiro*Pierre

"Let's see- snog marry avoid between Tsukiko, Hisihiro and Kamiya." Pierre said, as he walked past the trees, dried leaves crunching beneath his feet. Takahiro rolled his eyes.

"Seriously man- do you ever not talk about girls?" Takahiro said. Normally he didn't mind discussing girls with Peirre, since Takahiro could be a bit of a flirt himself, but Pierre was just excessive- For real! A man hunt was not the time to be playing Snog/Marry/Avoid!

"Oh- I see." Pierre chuckled. "You would rather talk about boys, oui?"

"What!? No? How did you come to that conclusion?" Takahiro said, although he felt his face heat up slightly despite himself. He gave an exaggerated roll of his eyes. "I'd just rather focus on finding our missing classmate."

"Snog marry avoid between Mori, Fukuya and Moi?" Peirre offered.

"Well the one I'd be avoiding is definitely you." Takahiro said darkly. Pierre out a hand over his heart as if he had been grievously wounded.

"You've pierced me right through my heart!" He exclaimed. Takahiro was about to open his mouth to retort, when suddenly, out of nowhere the heavens split open and rain poured down. A dazzling fork of lightening flashed across the sky, followed a few seconds later by the loud rumbling of thunder.

"Great." Takahiro muttered. "A summer storm, just what we need."


Group 4; Leiko*Mitsugu*Chisato*Fukuya

"Can we turn back now? Echo's probably gone home and we're the ones getting soaked out here in the rain!" Leiko said, ducking under the thickest canopies of leaves as she walked to try and avoid the rain, It had little effect. Mitsugu looked equally annoyed; Watching humans wasn't nearly as fun when you were wet and cold. She liked the rain, but this was excessive.

"We can turn back when I'm satisfied that he isn't lost out here on this mountain. We haven't been out here for more than five minutes!" Chisato said, rolling her eyes; God, it was like having kids. Fukuya was walking by her side silently, his expression unreadable as he trudged through the now muddy ground.

"Well lightening always hits the tallest object, so you're putting your boyfriend at risk here." Leiko said, indicating to Fukuya.

"Great- you're tiny, so your safe and you can stop whining." Chisato said with a forced smile. Honestly, Leiko and Mitsugu both probably would of already walked away, but they both knew Chisato could run faster, and neither were entirely convinced she wouldn't chase after them.

Out of nowhere, a blood-curdling scream pierced the air, making the four of them jump. They gave each other wide-eyed worried glances.

"That sounded serious .." Chisato murmured, and with that, the four of them suddenly took off towards the source of the scream.


Kamiya, Shion and Mori were hurrying along, trying to find shelter from the rain, when suddenly, yet another flash of lightening sparked across the sky, burning into their retinas. Shion jumped out of her skin, loosing her footing on the slick, slippery mud beneath her feet. One moment the pink haired girl stumbled, the next she was tumbling down the bank into the turbulent river below.

"Shion!" Mori shouted, Kamiya let out a scream as she watched her friend fall, Shion's mouth was agape slightly as her body slammed into the depths of the icy-cold water with a splash.

I can't swim!

Before either Kamiya or Mori could react, Shion was whisked away down the river by the current.

"Shit!" Mori cursed, running after Shion, following the river, Kamiya in close pursuit. A few strands of pink hair were all they could see. Ignoring the cold, Mori dived into the river, and attempted to grab Shion, but the wisps of pink hair escaped his grasp. Mori was normally pretty good at swimming, but the sudden cold of the water made his muscles almost seize up so it was hard to move, and do little more than keep his head above the surface as the water dragged him.

Isn't is supposed to be summer!?

Kamiya was about to jump in herself because she had to do something, but she was interrupted by the sudden arrival of Chisato and Fukuya, their footsteps thundering as they ran up behind her.

"What happened?" Chisato asked.

"Shion- fell in. Mori tried to save her." Kamiya gasped out, it was all she could manage, out of breath from all that running as she was. Chisato and Fukuya saw the two heads sailing down the river, one desperately trying to catch the other, and she understood the situation instantly.

"Quick! We need to catch up to them!" Chisato said, speeding up. She was vaguely aware that she'd left Mitsugu and Leiko behind, since she had ran here as fast as she could and hadn't checked if they could keep up. But there were more important things to deal with now. Up ahead they saw Pierre and Takahiro appear from the trees, both also looking frantic as they'd been following the scream. Upon seeing his best friend in the water, Takahiro jumped in as well without hesitation.

"Mori!"

"What an absolute clusterfuck!" Fukuya exclaimed, although he was clearly worried as he ran to try and keep up with them.

"Th-they're heading for a drop!" Kamiya exclaimed fearfully, a little behind the others. "There's a steep part down the mountain!"

Chisato knew what she was referring too; The drop in the mountain river, the waterfall that plummeted staging down into a shallow pool full of rocks.

"No!" Pierre should shouted, trying in vain to throw a stick to towards his friends to pull them out, but they where just too fast. Kamiya's heart dropped in her chest as she watched the turbulent river throw her classmates of over the edge with incredible force. She stopped running, falling to her knees. Oh God. They were going to need an air ambulance. She just hoped they weren't- they weren't-

Something large, round and yellow appeared, rising up over the waterfall. It was.. Korosensei! And wrapped in his large arms were Takahiro, Mori and Shion, all three of them looking shell-shocked and sodden. Everyone was so relieved they almost collapsed there and then. Kamiya felt her eyes tear up- they were okay!

"Sensei! You saved them!" Kamiya said joyfully, a smile finding its way onto her face.

"Nurufufufufufu!" He chuckled smugly. "Of course I did, it's my duty as your teacher to keep you safe. You really are a high-maintenance class. I can't leave you for one lunch break without a few students almost drowning. I suppose I'll have to teach you all the basics of mountain safety."

Fukuya smiled, he wasn't even annoyed that their Sensei was acting all high and mighty; He was just so relieved.


"Shit." Leiko muttered as she watched Chisato disappear from view. She and Fukuya were too damn fast, there was no way she could catch up. She rested against a tree, getting her breath back. She hoped that screaming wasn't anything serious. Pierre probably just saw a spider or something, she assured herself.

"You tried to hard to catch up. If I didn't know better I'd say you actually cared." Mitsugu said, a few yards behind her, leaning against a tree, inspecting her nails. Leiko turned to look at her.

"Oh? I seem to recall you trying pretty hard to keep up as well." Leiko replied. Mitsugu smiled at her.

"Of course! I was objectively interested in finding out what the scream was about!" Mitsugu said. "If I'm lucky it'll be some kind of disaster. That'll be fascinating."

"When you finally do get detained in some asylum it's going to be such a relief." Leiko said to her with a smirk, she put a hand on her hips. "It's only a matter of time, you know. They consider people like you a detriment to society."

"Just keep telling yourself whatever makes you feel safe." Mitsugu said, a sinister edge to her voice, despite he smile. Leiko rolled her eyes.

"You still act as if I'm actually threatened by you." Leiko said, taking a step towards the other, a familiar look of disdain in her eyes. "I'm almost disappointed. You don't live up to your reputation at all. I'm still waiting to be destroyed 'mentally, socially, and emotionally'."

"And you say I need to be detained. You're fairly unstable yourself, Leiko." Mitsugu commented, pointedly. "Maybe we can share a padded room!"

"You know what it is- I think you can't destroy me." Leiko said, talking another step towards the other girl, a wide triumphant grin on her face. "You gather information on people to tear their lives apart, but by now you know that I don't have anyone or anything in my life I particularly care about; The men in my life are all replaceable, I don't care about my reputation since the whole school knows I'm a bitch, I don't have any real friends. You can't destroy a life that's already nothing- You can't tear down something that isn't there! It's impossible to ruin somebody who is already nobody."

Mitsugu stared at her. She had been joking before about Leiko being unstable, but now looking at the other girl, her hair wet from the rain, blue eyes wide, with a smile on her face as she declared her own life 'nothing', Mitsugu thought 'unstable' was a description that fit Leiko pretty well. But, she did have a reputation to uphold.

"There is one thing you seem to care about." Mitsugu said with a dark chuckle, as she pulled out a deadly-sharp knife from her pocket and took a threatening step towards Leiko, brandishing it towards the other. This was no harmless green rubber knife- this was the real deal. "Your face!"

Leiko screamed and turned away, then her screams devolved into laughter, as she turned back to face Mitsugu. "Seriously, my grades might suck, but I'm not actually that stupid." She said, walking even closer to the other, bridging the gap between them. "Everyone knows you just use your knives to try and frighten people."

Mitsugu didn't give that a response. Leiko had called her bluff. She kept the knife raised though, her eyes narrowed.

"Oh- what. Am I wrong?' Leiko asked, looking positively delighted. Mitsugu wasn't expecting Leiko to surge forwards and grab the knife by the blunt end, and pull it closer to herself so the tip was brushing the skin of her neck. "Go on then! If you're going to do it then do it!"

"You know, I used to think you were just some vapid bimbo, but now I see that you are completely unhinged." Mitsugu said, refusing out of pride to release her clasp on the knife like she was sure Leiko wanted her to. This situation wasn't one Mitsugu had anticipated, but the unpredictability of humans was what made them so interesting. But it was frustrating, Mistsugu preferred to watch drama unfold from afar, not to be stood dead-center in the shit-storm, but Leiko had managed to drag her in.

Mitsugu went to pull her hand back, but Leiko tightened her grip, the tip of the knife grazing her neck, minuscule droplets of blood appeared.

I have to be careful, Mitsugu thought to herself, If she gets badly hurt it'll be more trouble than it's worth. She wondered if she'd made Leiko snap or if this madness had been lurking beneath the surface of her skin all along, just waiting for a chance to unleash.

Before either of them could make another move, they were suddenly interrupted by the arrival of two of their classmates.

"Stop!" Echo shouted, seeing the confrontation and running to intervene as quickly as he could. Behind him was a blue haired boy that the two girls didn't recognise. It was unclear who let go first, but the knife dropped onto the floor.

"Mitsugu just went crazy and attacked me with a knife- " Leiko exclaimed, pointing at her, with an expression that was suddenly fearful, she walked over to Echo who looked pretty overwhelmed by the whole situation. "We need to call the police and get her taken away."

Mitsugu rolled her eyes. "You aren't even really bleeding. You were the one that forced my hand- you don't think the police can work that out from finger-prints?"

"The police can work out that you're a freak!"

"Everyone just calm down." The blue haired boy in the dirty uniform said. Seriously, Echo was right about E class not being 'boring' at least if these were his classmates. "My name is Yua Syaoran. I'm your classmate who's been skipping class for the whole of this year."

"The answer to a question nobody asked." Mitsugu said under her breath. Yua either didn't hear her or ignored her.

"You two have to stop your feud before you destroy each other!" Echo exclaimed, looking between the two girls. Both looked a mess, their long black hair bedraggled from the rain, uniforms soaked, and shoes coated in mud. "What could of happened if I didn't intervene? Leiko you could of gotten really hurt, and Mitsugu you could of ended up in prison for real."

"I wouldn't of let that happen." Mitsugu said, glaring at Echo. Echo didn't respond, and just walked down to the two girls.

"Look. I'm sorry I hit you and called you stupid. After speaking to Yua, I realised it was wrong. I was only thinking about how I felt and not considering your feelings. I was selfish." Echo said. "See! Apologising isn't so hard. You should apologise and forgive each other."

"I'm sorry your such an awful person." Leiko said to Mitsugu with a sincere tone. A smile grew on Mitsugu's face despite the heavy tension in the atmosphere around the two.

"I'm sorry I enjoy tormenting you so much, and will likely continue to do so." Mitsugu said. Echo let out an exasperated sigh. He didn't have a chance to say another word, however, because out of nowhere, their teacher appeared, right in the middle of the group of students, as if he had been there all along.

"Well well, boys and girls- what is going on here?" Korosensei asked. Nothing diffused an intense confrontation like the interference of their smiley-face-headed teacher complete with his beady eyes, toothy grin, and ridiculously high-key voice. Echo, Leiko and Mitsugu were about to lay on the excuses about what they were doing shouting at each other in the rain while brandishing knives, but Yua reacted first.

"Wh- what the hell is that thing!?" Yua exclaimed, eyes wide and disbelieving, backing away from Korosensei. "I-is it a mutant Octopus!?"

"Thing! Mutant octopus! I am your teacher!" Korosensei exclaimed indignantly to the utterly flabbergasted Yua. "I am named Korosensei! And I teach E class, and I also double as your assassination target on account of the fact I blew up the moon, and will do the same to the earth if you don't kill me by graduation!"

"What!?" Yua exclaimed, looking to his classmates for some rationale explanation. "Did I accidentally eat the wrong kind of mushrooms?"

"Sensei, you kind of overloaded him with information there." Mitsugu commented, glancing at Yua, who was calming down but still didn't seem to believe the situation, she didn't blame him, she hardly believed the situation sometimes.

"Have you never heard of thing called tact?" Leiko added, giving Korosensei a critical look.

"Well- Lunch time is over, children- today we're having a lesson on basic safety in the great out doors. There'll be hot chocolate too!" Korosensei said excitedly, hot chocolate actually sounded really good after this sudden summer storm, so the kids followed without question. This had been a strange afternoon, but the tension between Leiko and Mitsugu had deflated somewhat now both of them had dropped any pretences and pit their frustrations against each other, although neither would aknowledge that just yet. Both were just glad that they had gotten away without getting into trouble for fighting.

Or so they thought.

"By the way." Korosensei said, turning to face the kids with that eternal grin. "All four of you have detention!"

"WHAT!?"


Kuroe sighed as he tugged his bag higher up his back, as the straps slid down his shoulder. And he thought the work scheduled for 2nd year A class was insane. 3rd year was even crazier, with the teachers piling on work sheet after work sheet without bothering to properly explain the lessons.

These days all anyone in class did was try to keep their head above the work, well, besides the 'geniuses' like the five virtuous, but Kuroe wasn't entirely convinced they were human, especially not the principle's spawn, Asano-kun.

Kuroe walked through the school towards the gate, ignoring the strange looks he got for using a black umbrella while it was sunny outside (he didn't like sunlight, okay?) when he heard the sounds of a confrontation.

"Just give it back!" A girl was saying. She was met by the sounds of lecherous snickers.

"Not until you give us your number, sweetheart." A course voice replied. Kuroe saw what was going on; Two E class boys were cornering one of their classmates up against a wall and had taken her bag, clearly harassing her. Kuroe's blood boiled- If there was one thing he couldn't tolerate, it was perverts. Without warning he stormed over and grabbed one of them by the hair, slamming him hard into the wall.

"The lady isn't interested." He said through gritted teeth.

"Fuck off A class nerd." One of the boys said, eyeing Kuroe with disdain. "This ain't none of your business."

"If you do not wish to be castrated then I suggest you leave now." Kuroe hissed, his droopy red eyes narrowing. The two boys laughed, dropping the girls bag and sauntering over.

"Let's see if you can still make threats when we knock your teeth out." The taller one said. He raised his fist to hit Kuroe, but Kuroe caught it, and dove forward, grabbing his attacker by the hair, and slamming his face into the wall. Well. They started it, it was on now.

The rest of the fight was a blur, the next thing Kuroe knew he was being dragged up of the floor as he was pummelling one of the perverts face.

"That's enough!" A voice shouted in his ear Kuroe recognised as Asano's. Kuroe's eyes focused; There was blood all over the floor and all over his fists and shoes, but it wasn't his own. The two perverts were lying groaning on the floor, their face an unrecognisable mess of bloody-bruised swollen pulp, their limbs looked mangled, Kuroe could see the bone poking out of one of their arms. And were those bits of tooth on the floor?

Students surrounded the area, all looking horrified, someone was on the phone to the ambulance.

Kuroe let out an annoyed sigh. So much for staying in A class for third year; He guessed it would be juvie for him (or so he thought).


Did you guys survive this chapter? Because I'm legit not sure I did. What a cluster-fuck! (But at least its finally done now). I managed to properly introduce two new characters to E class, (Kuroe and Yua)! I guess Kuroe is going to be similar to Karma in that he gets transferred to E class as a late-comer because of a violent act against the school (I really emphasized the violence, because I wanted him to stand out even against the plethora of other violent characters in the class.

I love ancient Mythology, so that's why I added that abridged version of the story of Echo and Narcissus randomly in the middle of the story. So.. yeah!

Leiko and Mitsugu's feud finally came to a head in this chapter, I mean, they'll still dislike each other, but not as intensely now since they've both properly confronted each other without any of their usual pretenses. I don't know, i guess I just like writing 'twisted' characters

As for the detention thing, I don't know where that came from, it was kind of a random idea, but it will be probably some sort of detention thats aimed to make Leiko, Yua, Mitsugu and Echo less anti-social (Maybe an animal-shelter, idk, what would Korosensei do?)

I've realised I have a hard time writing Korosensei, because in truth he's such a visual-based character, and so much of his character and humour is displayed through the way Matsui draws him, which is why, maybe Korosensei isn't appearing as much as he probably should do, but I'm trying to work on that.

Blue-Black-Flames did some really cool drawings for this story featuring a lot of the OCs, check it out:

1. sta .sh/ 0uxfvh6otw

2. sta .sh/ 0npt5gqowyb (Just remove the spaces and add h7t7t7p7: at the front of both of them, but without the 7's)

Review for more guys! Let me know if you have any ideas, or if there's anything you want to add about your character!

Anyway, Replying to reviews (I think I've probably already replied to a few of these, but HAVE ANOTHER REPLY!)

jenny77739- Thank you! I'm glad you find this chapter intersting!

Awayuki- I hope you liked Yua meeting Korosensei in this chapter

Blue-Black Flames- I remember replying to this one! But thanks again for the review

Dr. Z- I hope you like this introduction of Kuroe! Thanks for giving more information on the character, and I'm glad you understand how hard it is to juggle real life and story writing :)

Squee the magical bunny- Sorry I missed your character out last chapter, but Kamiya has a few scenes in this.

PrincessFairytale5- Glad you liked the backstories. Also your SYOC story is awsome and I can't wait for the next chapter!

Mariko- Glad you liked the chapter, I hope you like what I did with your OCs this chapter.

Echo Shiona's Creator; You've left a lot of comments (Which i enjoy reading) But it can be hard for me to respond to them all properly at once, maybe you should get an account so we can have a proper dialogue and I can answer questions about the story as you ask them. I'll respond to eacho comment 1 by 1.

1- Thanks for understanding about the incest the incest thing, there's just somethings I don't really feel like writing! I may keep the 'could of been a bioweapon' in the story, but I can't put 'Could of been an AI' in because I don't think it would make sense (An AI is an artificial intelligence, like a robot or a computer, and Echo's an organic life form).

2. I think Parkour is a really popular skill, and a lot of people have written their OC's to be able to do this (About half I'd say?), so maybe Echo could parkour with the rest of the class. Thank you for giving the description of his adopted parents, that'll be useful if I decide to introduce them.

3. I had Echo be a little bit violent in this chapter (although he didn't use his full strength). He did end up keeping an eye of Mitsugu and Leiko in this chapter, and he smacked them, so I took inspiration from your comment! :D

4. Thanks for giving me more details on his character! I can't always gaurente I can fit everything in, but its always good to have this information as a reference.

5. Sorry I had Echo got called a RAT in this chapter for the sake of the drama, thanks for more character info

6. I'm glad you appreciate the replies, I appreciate all the reviews and attention you give my story!

7. Sorry i neglect the story, but I have a really busy life, I'm still a teenager myself but I work 42 hours a week sometimes, on top of of eight hours of classes, then I cook for myself, clean up after myself, I have three assignments, and plus I have a semi-busy social life, so I usually end up going on nights out a couple of nights a week, plus keeping up with all the shows I watch, and maybe all this sleep deprivation and drinking so much every week isn't good for my sanity(Sorry, I'm rambling hahahaha ha haa).

8. I probably wont do the incest thing even as like a prank, but thanks for the ideas :)

9. I didn't have him pull a prank on Mitsugu for calling him a rat, but he did hit her! The motercylists costume sounds cool, I'm not sure about the padding though!

10. (See 7,)

11. Its okay, I understand you impatience, I feel the same when one of the fics I read isn't updating!

12. (See 7,) I'm glad you like the story, but I lead a very busy life , I do try too update as best as I can though!

13. Sorry I took over a month to update!

14. I looked up the 'Hijo de la Luna' song, it was very beautiful!

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed Echos part in this story!