Chapter 6: Teachings
By: Kohan
Disclaimers: If you really want to go see my disclaimers, check out the other
chapters for crying out loud!!! GRRRRR!!!
***
(Hotaru, Haruka, Trowa and Heero):
Haruka opened the door to the classroom and they walked in, while turning at
a desk (and well concealed by Trowa's shoulder), Hotaru took a look at the
group that had been following them in the hall, and she wasn't surprised at
all to see Ami. However, Makoto and Minako were also coming into the classroom.
"No way are they going to make it in here," Whispered Haruka to Hotaru, Hotaru
only nodded, surprised that they had signed up for such advanced classes. There
was a message on the blackboard for the class, for the teacher wasn't visible
yet. The message read: 'The seating chart is posted on the left wall, please
check it and take your seat quietly.'
"Great, I can see this teacher is going to be a stick in the mud," Hotaru heard
Minako say from behind her. Hotaru quickly went up to check the chart, and
found her name quickly. 'Oh, no.' she thought, seeing that she was placed next
to Ami, 'Just my luck.' When she returned to where the others were standing in
a corner, Haruka saw her scowling.
"What?"
"I have to sit by Ami,"
"In the back?"
"No, in the front."
"Did you see where I sat?"
"I didn't look." Hotaru said, and Haruka went up to check the chart. When she
came back, she informed Trowa that he would be sitting next to a Motoki and that
Heero would be sitting next to Minako.
"Trust me, this is going to be trouble." Haruka said.
"I wonder if the teacher will let us change," Hotaru said hopefully.
"Doubt it," Said Trowa.
"You certainly look at the bright side of things, don't you?"
"I am looking at the facts." Trowa said, Haruka grunted and went to her seat.
Heero leaned back against a desk.
"So what do I have to know about this Minako girl, Firefly?" He said to Hotaru.
"She can be very eccentric,"
"Clashy, ne, Heero?" Said Trowa.
***
(Usagi and Wufei):
"I thought you said we had Language with them!!!" Wufei yelled at Usagi.
"So I read my schedule wrong! Gimme a break!! I think we have History with
them...or something..."
"I can't believe I got stuck in this class with you!" Wufei said, completely
fuming at Usagi, who was doing her obvious best to make due with what she had.
"Sit down, and shut up!" Barked the teacher who came in. Usagi ran around
frantically trying to find a seat, and eventually plunked down next to a brown
hared-brown-eyed boy.
"Hi! I'm Tsukino Usagi! How are you?" Usagi said,
"Er, fine?" Said the boy, shyly.
"Oops, I mean, who are you?"
"My names Miboshi Ryo,"
"See that Chinese boy over there? That's Wufei, he's a little rude sometimes,
but we love him. Are you new here? I am. I just got here this summer with my
friends Rei, Hotaru, Micharu and Haruka." Usagi said, Ryo looked a little
nervous about Usagi.
"I told you all to be quiet!" The teacher yelled, "What is your name," The
teacher pointed to Usagi. "Yes, you!"
"Tsukino Usagi, sir."
"I will be teaching Language to you, that call
yourselves students. I take it you think that you may speak whenever you wish,
am I correct, Miss Usagi?"
"No, sir. I was just overexcited, it won't happen again. I promise."
"Fine. Take out your Language books and open to page 4, we will start with the
basics." He said to the class. Wufei caught Usagi's eye and smirked
menacingly. Usagi returned the smirk and stuck her tongue out at him.
***
(Rei):
"I will now be taking roll." Said the teacher, Rei was sitting alone, at a
desk all by herself with her science book, ready to begin work.
"Ainomegami?"
"Here!" Called a short brown hared girl in the back of the class.
About 10 names later:
"Hino?"
"Oh, here!" Rei called, and a few names later, the teacher looked puzzled, down
at his list.
"Is there a Maxwell Duo in this classroom?" He asked the class.
"He is in the History room, sir." Rei said.
"You know him?"
"Yes sir."
"Would you kindly retrieve him for me? Some students are rather bone-headed
at times." Rei got up and walked to the door. just what she needed, to go
chasing Duo around all over the school. Rei sighed and pushed the door open.
***
(Micharu and Quatre):
"We will be now studying the fine art of oil painting." Said the teacher to
her class. "Since you are in the advanced class, I will not be asking you to
draw anything as senile as shapes, or fruit, or anything silly like that." she
moved to the front of the class. "Your first assignment is to draw a person
close to you, you can draw more then one, if you so choose, and these are your
only utensils." She held up a charcoal pencil and some oil paints and a canvas.
"Do with them as you wish, and please note that this assignment will be graded.
You have until the end of the class period to work, as well as tomorrow and
Wednesday." The teacher then sat down at her desk and for the first time, Micharu
noticed bunches of paints and such on the work tables. Micharu took a seat next
to Quatre, for he was the only one she knew there.
"Who are you going to paint, Micharu?" Quatre asked.
"I was thinking about Haruka or maybe Hotaru, I don't know... maybe both? Who
are you going to paint?"
"I don't know."
"Why don't you paint your friends?" Micharu asked, Quatre blushed a little.
"Because I don't know what they would say."
***
(Hotaru, Haruka, Trowa and Heero):
"Didn't you read the message?" The male teacher asked, coming in. "It says to
take your seat quietly!" The students grumbled and sat down, Hotaru dreading
it with every step she took. Haruka gave her a reassuring smile and a small
wave, which didn't help to boost her confidence any. Hotaru sat down and looked
at the male teacher with pure hatred. To put her in a spot like this! Man, if
she had her Silence Glaive right now... But just then her thoughts were interrupted.
Ami quietly sat down and took out her binder.
"Hello, Hotaru-chan." She said quietly, not looking up to meet Hotaru's eyes.
Hotaru scowled, something she had learned to perfect since she had met Heero.
"Mizuno-san." She said formally, and luckily the teacher had just began to
talk again.
"This is your warm-up." He said and pointed to a side of the blackboard which
had a few problems on it. "I generally give you 5 to 10 minutes to work on it.
Then we correct it. You must have a red correcting pen or pencil. Another color
will not due, I suspect you will want to get one tomorrow. Begin."
Hotaru took out a piece of paper, frowning at the teacher's rudeness and forwardness
to the class, and she took a sidelong glance at Haruka, and knew she felt the
same. There were five questions, and each was a review to Hotaru. Everything
was. She finished a minute or so after Ami and they sat in silence.
Heero was sitting at his desk, trying not to listen to the babbling girl beside
him. He had gathered that her name was Minako, which she said several times,
that she had just come here from the other side of Japan, a lie he knew, and
that she was extremely happy at being able to sit by a boy. "A cute one, too!"
Heero glanced at Hotaru and saw that she was trying her best not to look at
the person seated next to her, but every so often he saw her eyes flick to the
blue hared girl with a strange look in them. Was it hate? Fear? Heero didn't
know, there was still so much that Hotaru hid. Within a few minutes, Heero was
done with the warm up, and Minako was looking at the first problem and scratching
her head, obviously very concerned.
"Do you know how to do this, I don't seem to remember." She said, Heero didn't
'seem' to think that she was meant to be in this class. In fact he thought it
was all a huge lie. He went it over in his head, what was this girl, dense?
This was 8th grade math, for crying outloud! If she didn't know it now, she
never would be able to figure out the 5 year change they would be making in
the class.
"I trust you all have had enough time." Said the teacher. "Afterall, these problems
were just review." He said. "Switch papers with the person seated next to you
and take out your red correcting pen or pencil." Everyone did so, Hotaru switched
with Ami and saw Ami's neat handwriting in blue on the paper. Hotaru took a
simple glance at the paper and saw that Ami had taken several shortcuts through
the problems. Then the teacher began to put up the answers, and they corrected
the papers.
***
(Rei):
Rei knocked on the History room door. A very tall girl with her pink hair in
a ponytail opened it, and as soon as Rei found the instructor, she went up to
her.
"Excuse me, mam." She said, "I'm here to get Duo Maxwell, he's in the wrong
class..."
"Yes," Said the teacher, "Thank you, he's quite a bit of trouble, a thing to
dread at the end of the day, when I do actually have him, I suppose." She said
tiredly, and pointed to Duo, who was seated at a desk, he looked very much like
he was pouting. Rei walked up to him.
"I think you've caused enough trouble, don't you?" She asked. Duo got up, if
not reluctantly.
"Yeah well, they love me here." He said, and followed her out the door.
"You know, Miss Hino, I think *you* need to lighten up." Duo said, catching up
with Rei's quick pace. "If I didn't know any better, I would say you had a temper."
"Really? How did you gather that?"
"It was just a lucky guess, I suppose." Said Duo, walking beside her. "I tend
to not get on very well with teachers,"
"I hadn't noticed this," Rei said,
"They all seem to have nothing good to say, besides, what do you need history
for?" At this, Rei turned around.
"I *am* history! That class is probably the only place in this whole city that
reminds me of my home!"
"This isn't my home, either," Said Duo, quietly,
"But do you know what it feels like to walk around a city which was once your
home, but with different people, buildings and houses?" Rei felt like she was
going to cry, but what was this, she never cried.
"Okay, I'm sorry." Duo said, quickly flinging his arms around her. Rei closed
her eyes, waiting for the tears to come, but they never did.
"Um, Duo?" Rei said, her voice muffled. "You can let go of me now."
***
(Usagi and Wufei):
Usagi sat quietly at her desk, for about the next hour,
reading the information the rude teacher had asked
them to. How she longed for the next peroid. As if in an answer to her prayers,
the bell rang. But Usagi's face fell as she saw her next class. Math.
"I want you to finish reading tonight, no excuses!" The teacher yelled.
"Did you finish, Ryo?" Usagi asked the boy.
"Almost." He said, and picked up his things. She followed him out the door where
she saw Wufei conversing with Heero in quick low voices.
"Hi Heero, where is Hotaru?" Usagi asked Heero.
"Over here, Usagi-chan." Hotaru said, and motioned Usagi over. "There is only
one class left until we have our class together." She informed her. "Then we
have lunch."
"You going to math, Usagi?" Heero asked.
"Yeah."
"Don't make the teacer mad, he's a real rotten guy." Hotaru said. Usagi was
afraid of that.
(After second peroid):
Usagi had made it through math, un-scratched as she was. Now she looked at her
schedule, then to her map, then back to her schedule to see where the history
room was. She didn't want to get lost.
"This way, Usagi-chan" Ryo said to her, and they picked a path through the
people on their way to their classes. Wufei had lost her when he went in for
his regular classes at second peroid, muttering something like 'Thank God I
only have two classes with her'. Usagi wasn't that hurt, afterall, what could
you expect from someone like Wufei? Usagi just shrugged and continued to
follow Ryo.
When Usagi entered the classroom, she felt a surge of uneasiness as she saw
Makoto, Minako and Ami. But her feelings were quickly mulled over by that of
happiness at seeing her friends there. Rei waved her over, and Usagi was happy
to see that everyone was in this class except Haruka and Micharu, which was
understandable.
"Quiet, all of you. Take your seats," The teacher said, peering down at them
from the front of the room. "History," He said. "can be an amazing thing. Or,
it can be a cruel thing." At this, Rei and Hotaru exchanged glances. "We know
that history can not be changed, but it can be repeated. Here's something for
you," Said the teacher, "'History is much like an endless waltz, the three beats
of peace, war and revolution go on forever.'" Duo felt a bang in his stomach.
'What did that guy say?' He thought. Trowa immediately thought the same thing,
while Quatre looked only a little nervous. Heero looked like he was about to
say something to the teacher, and was opening his mouth when Hotaru put her
hand over it.
"Not a good idea." She said and let go.
***
AN: Okay, sorry that took so long to get out to you, but I've been a bit busy
lately. That chapter, I guess, introduced a new problem for them, but I'm sure
they can handle it. Sorry for the short note today, it is 5:45 in the morning,
and I am tired.
Date sent out: Wednesday, March 14, 2001
By: Kohan
Disclaimers: If you really want to go see my disclaimers, check out the other
chapters for crying out loud!!! GRRRRR!!!
***
(Hotaru, Haruka, Trowa and Heero):
Haruka opened the door to the classroom and they walked in, while turning at
a desk (and well concealed by Trowa's shoulder), Hotaru took a look at the
group that had been following them in the hall, and she wasn't surprised at
all to see Ami. However, Makoto and Minako were also coming into the classroom.
"No way are they going to make it in here," Whispered Haruka to Hotaru, Hotaru
only nodded, surprised that they had signed up for such advanced classes. There
was a message on the blackboard for the class, for the teacher wasn't visible
yet. The message read: 'The seating chart is posted on the left wall, please
check it and take your seat quietly.'
"Great, I can see this teacher is going to be a stick in the mud," Hotaru heard
Minako say from behind her. Hotaru quickly went up to check the chart, and
found her name quickly. 'Oh, no.' she thought, seeing that she was placed next
to Ami, 'Just my luck.' When she returned to where the others were standing in
a corner, Haruka saw her scowling.
"What?"
"I have to sit by Ami,"
"In the back?"
"No, in the front."
"Did you see where I sat?"
"I didn't look." Hotaru said, and Haruka went up to check the chart. When she
came back, she informed Trowa that he would be sitting next to a Motoki and that
Heero would be sitting next to Minako.
"Trust me, this is going to be trouble." Haruka said.
"I wonder if the teacher will let us change," Hotaru said hopefully.
"Doubt it," Said Trowa.
"You certainly look at the bright side of things, don't you?"
"I am looking at the facts." Trowa said, Haruka grunted and went to her seat.
Heero leaned back against a desk.
"So what do I have to know about this Minako girl, Firefly?" He said to Hotaru.
"She can be very eccentric,"
"Clashy, ne, Heero?" Said Trowa.
***
(Usagi and Wufei):
"I thought you said we had Language with them!!!" Wufei yelled at Usagi.
"So I read my schedule wrong! Gimme a break!! I think we have History with
them...or something..."
"I can't believe I got stuck in this class with you!" Wufei said, completely
fuming at Usagi, who was doing her obvious best to make due with what she had.
"Sit down, and shut up!" Barked the teacher who came in. Usagi ran around
frantically trying to find a seat, and eventually plunked down next to a brown
hared-brown-eyed boy.
"Hi! I'm Tsukino Usagi! How are you?" Usagi said,
"Er, fine?" Said the boy, shyly.
"Oops, I mean, who are you?"
"My names Miboshi Ryo,"
"See that Chinese boy over there? That's Wufei, he's a little rude sometimes,
but we love him. Are you new here? I am. I just got here this summer with my
friends Rei, Hotaru, Micharu and Haruka." Usagi said, Ryo looked a little
nervous about Usagi.
"I told you all to be quiet!" The teacher yelled, "What is your name," The
teacher pointed to Usagi. "Yes, you!"
"Tsukino Usagi, sir."
"I will be teaching Language to you, that call
yourselves students. I take it you think that you may speak whenever you wish,
am I correct, Miss Usagi?"
"No, sir. I was just overexcited, it won't happen again. I promise."
"Fine. Take out your Language books and open to page 4, we will start with the
basics." He said to the class. Wufei caught Usagi's eye and smirked
menacingly. Usagi returned the smirk and stuck her tongue out at him.
***
(Rei):
"I will now be taking roll." Said the teacher, Rei was sitting alone, at a
desk all by herself with her science book, ready to begin work.
"Ainomegami?"
"Here!" Called a short brown hared girl in the back of the class.
About 10 names later:
"Hino?"
"Oh, here!" Rei called, and a few names later, the teacher looked puzzled, down
at his list.
"Is there a Maxwell Duo in this classroom?" He asked the class.
"He is in the History room, sir." Rei said.
"You know him?"
"Yes sir."
"Would you kindly retrieve him for me? Some students are rather bone-headed
at times." Rei got up and walked to the door. just what she needed, to go
chasing Duo around all over the school. Rei sighed and pushed the door open.
***
(Micharu and Quatre):
"We will be now studying the fine art of oil painting." Said the teacher to
her class. "Since you are in the advanced class, I will not be asking you to
draw anything as senile as shapes, or fruit, or anything silly like that." she
moved to the front of the class. "Your first assignment is to draw a person
close to you, you can draw more then one, if you so choose, and these are your
only utensils." She held up a charcoal pencil and some oil paints and a canvas.
"Do with them as you wish, and please note that this assignment will be graded.
You have until the end of the class period to work, as well as tomorrow and
Wednesday." The teacher then sat down at her desk and for the first time, Micharu
noticed bunches of paints and such on the work tables. Micharu took a seat next
to Quatre, for he was the only one she knew there.
"Who are you going to paint, Micharu?" Quatre asked.
"I was thinking about Haruka or maybe Hotaru, I don't know... maybe both? Who
are you going to paint?"
"I don't know."
"Why don't you paint your friends?" Micharu asked, Quatre blushed a little.
"Because I don't know what they would say."
***
(Hotaru, Haruka, Trowa and Heero):
"Didn't you read the message?" The male teacher asked, coming in. "It says to
take your seat quietly!" The students grumbled and sat down, Hotaru dreading
it with every step she took. Haruka gave her a reassuring smile and a small
wave, which didn't help to boost her confidence any. Hotaru sat down and looked
at the male teacher with pure hatred. To put her in a spot like this! Man, if
she had her Silence Glaive right now... But just then her thoughts were interrupted.
Ami quietly sat down and took out her binder.
"Hello, Hotaru-chan." She said quietly, not looking up to meet Hotaru's eyes.
Hotaru scowled, something she had learned to perfect since she had met Heero.
"Mizuno-san." She said formally, and luckily the teacher had just began to
talk again.
"This is your warm-up." He said and pointed to a side of the blackboard which
had a few problems on it. "I generally give you 5 to 10 minutes to work on it.
Then we correct it. You must have a red correcting pen or pencil. Another color
will not due, I suspect you will want to get one tomorrow. Begin."
Hotaru took out a piece of paper, frowning at the teacher's rudeness and forwardness
to the class, and she took a sidelong glance at Haruka, and knew she felt the
same. There were five questions, and each was a review to Hotaru. Everything
was. She finished a minute or so after Ami and they sat in silence.
Heero was sitting at his desk, trying not to listen to the babbling girl beside
him. He had gathered that her name was Minako, which she said several times,
that she had just come here from the other side of Japan, a lie he knew, and
that she was extremely happy at being able to sit by a boy. "A cute one, too!"
Heero glanced at Hotaru and saw that she was trying her best not to look at
the person seated next to her, but every so often he saw her eyes flick to the
blue hared girl with a strange look in them. Was it hate? Fear? Heero didn't
know, there was still so much that Hotaru hid. Within a few minutes, Heero was
done with the warm up, and Minako was looking at the first problem and scratching
her head, obviously very concerned.
"Do you know how to do this, I don't seem to remember." She said, Heero didn't
'seem' to think that she was meant to be in this class. In fact he thought it
was all a huge lie. He went it over in his head, what was this girl, dense?
This was 8th grade math, for crying outloud! If she didn't know it now, she
never would be able to figure out the 5 year change they would be making in
the class.
"I trust you all have had enough time." Said the teacher. "Afterall, these problems
were just review." He said. "Switch papers with the person seated next to you
and take out your red correcting pen or pencil." Everyone did so, Hotaru switched
with Ami and saw Ami's neat handwriting in blue on the paper. Hotaru took a
simple glance at the paper and saw that Ami had taken several shortcuts through
the problems. Then the teacher began to put up the answers, and they corrected
the papers.
***
(Rei):
Rei knocked on the History room door. A very tall girl with her pink hair in
a ponytail opened it, and as soon as Rei found the instructor, she went up to
her.
"Excuse me, mam." She said, "I'm here to get Duo Maxwell, he's in the wrong
class..."
"Yes," Said the teacher, "Thank you, he's quite a bit of trouble, a thing to
dread at the end of the day, when I do actually have him, I suppose." She said
tiredly, and pointed to Duo, who was seated at a desk, he looked very much like
he was pouting. Rei walked up to him.
"I think you've caused enough trouble, don't you?" She asked. Duo got up, if
not reluctantly.
"Yeah well, they love me here." He said, and followed her out the door.
"You know, Miss Hino, I think *you* need to lighten up." Duo said, catching up
with Rei's quick pace. "If I didn't know any better, I would say you had a temper."
"Really? How did you gather that?"
"It was just a lucky guess, I suppose." Said Duo, walking beside her. "I tend
to not get on very well with teachers,"
"I hadn't noticed this," Rei said,
"They all seem to have nothing good to say, besides, what do you need history
for?" At this, Rei turned around.
"I *am* history! That class is probably the only place in this whole city that
reminds me of my home!"
"This isn't my home, either," Said Duo, quietly,
"But do you know what it feels like to walk around a city which was once your
home, but with different people, buildings and houses?" Rei felt like she was
going to cry, but what was this, she never cried.
"Okay, I'm sorry." Duo said, quickly flinging his arms around her. Rei closed
her eyes, waiting for the tears to come, but they never did.
"Um, Duo?" Rei said, her voice muffled. "You can let go of me now."
***
(Usagi and Wufei):
Usagi sat quietly at her desk, for about the next hour,
reading the information the rude teacher had asked
them to. How she longed for the next peroid. As if in an answer to her prayers,
the bell rang. But Usagi's face fell as she saw her next class. Math.
"I want you to finish reading tonight, no excuses!" The teacher yelled.
"Did you finish, Ryo?" Usagi asked the boy.
"Almost." He said, and picked up his things. She followed him out the door where
she saw Wufei conversing with Heero in quick low voices.
"Hi Heero, where is Hotaru?" Usagi asked Heero.
"Over here, Usagi-chan." Hotaru said, and motioned Usagi over. "There is only
one class left until we have our class together." She informed her. "Then we
have lunch."
"You going to math, Usagi?" Heero asked.
"Yeah."
"Don't make the teacer mad, he's a real rotten guy." Hotaru said. Usagi was
afraid of that.
(After second peroid):
Usagi had made it through math, un-scratched as she was. Now she looked at her
schedule, then to her map, then back to her schedule to see where the history
room was. She didn't want to get lost.
"This way, Usagi-chan" Ryo said to her, and they picked a path through the
people on their way to their classes. Wufei had lost her when he went in for
his regular classes at second peroid, muttering something like 'Thank God I
only have two classes with her'. Usagi wasn't that hurt, afterall, what could
you expect from someone like Wufei? Usagi just shrugged and continued to
follow Ryo.
When Usagi entered the classroom, she felt a surge of uneasiness as she saw
Makoto, Minako and Ami. But her feelings were quickly mulled over by that of
happiness at seeing her friends there. Rei waved her over, and Usagi was happy
to see that everyone was in this class except Haruka and Micharu, which was
understandable.
"Quiet, all of you. Take your seats," The teacher said, peering down at them
from the front of the room. "History," He said. "can be an amazing thing. Or,
it can be a cruel thing." At this, Rei and Hotaru exchanged glances. "We know
that history can not be changed, but it can be repeated. Here's something for
you," Said the teacher, "'History is much like an endless waltz, the three beats
of peace, war and revolution go on forever.'" Duo felt a bang in his stomach.
'What did that guy say?' He thought. Trowa immediately thought the same thing,
while Quatre looked only a little nervous. Heero looked like he was about to
say something to the teacher, and was opening his mouth when Hotaru put her
hand over it.
"Not a good idea." She said and let go.
***
AN: Okay, sorry that took so long to get out to you, but I've been a bit busy
lately. That chapter, I guess, introduced a new problem for them, but I'm sure
they can handle it. Sorry for the short note today, it is 5:45 in the morning,
and I am tired.
Date sent out: Wednesday, March 14, 2001