As soon as Michiru had dropped Haruka off at her apartment, the blonde dashed over to her phone and called the headmaster of the school. After a short argument about her condition, the teacher had convinced the man that she was able to take up her job again. "Okay, if you insist, you can start again tomorrow." The man sighed, knowing that it wouldn't bring anything to discuss with his teacher – she was way too stubborn. "Thanks!" Haruka beamed, grinning. She said her goodbye to the headmaster and hung up the phone, staring at the wall. In front of her inner eye, Michiru appeared, smiling at her. "Michiru…" the blonde sighed, closing her eyes. She remembered how she had been holding the aqua haired woman after she had caught her, and she wished that she could do that again. Letting out another sigh, Haruka tore herself out of her trance-like state and walked into the kitchen, ignoring the ache in her right leg.
Michiru sat in her office, typing up some business letters, but for some reason she couldn't concentrate as much as she should. Well, maybe "some reason" wasn't a good choice of words, since the reason had a name. "Haruka…" Michiru thought to herself, an image of blonde hair, teal eyes and a dashing smile floating up in front of her. The aqua haired woman shook her head a little to shoo the image away, after all, she couldn't really focus on her work when she was distracted by her crush all the time. "Michiru, stop that. You act like a school girl." She scolded herself. It didn't help.
The next day, Hotaru and Meika were sitting in class, chatting about various things. "I hope Tenoh-san will come back to us soon." Meika sighed. "The teacher we have now is so mean." Hotaru nodded in agreement. The substitute teacher who held Harukas lessons until she was back was a rather old, rather harsh man, who didn't care about his students at all. He had yelled at Hotaru the lesson before, almost causing her to cry. Hotaru sighed when the bell rang. "Okay, it's time for gym with the evil old man." She then said, causing Meika to giggle. The two girls grabbed their sport bags and ran out of the class, over to the gym hall, along with the other students from their class.
Hotaru and Meika finished dressing and walked out of the room, already preparing for another hard, exhausting lesson with "Mr. Old-and-gruffy", like Hotaru called him. When the two girls arrived in the garde, both stopped dead in their tracks. "Tenoh-san!" Hotaru then called out, running towards the blonde teacher. "You are back!" Meika cried out, following Hotaru. Haruka smiled at her two favorite students, while the other kids jumped around her. "How are you feeling?" "Are you healthy again?" The little students were all screaming with joy and excitement, causing Haruka to smile even broader. "I'm perfectly fine again, and now calm down." She then ordered. Slowly, the pupils fell silent, and Haruka nodded, satisfied. "Very good. Now, let's start with a little warm-up, shall we? Four laps everyone!" The students gratefully obeyed and started to run, while Haruka stood next to the track and watched them. That was when she saw something aqua colored in the corner of her eye. Turning her head, she spotted Michiru standing at the gate that led directly into the garden, smiling and waving over to her. Harukas eyes lit up while she hurried over to the gate, nearly running despite her hurting leg. "Michiru-san!" she called out, grinning from ear to ear. "Haruka-san." Michiru replied, smiling. Haruka unlocked the gate, allowing Michiru to enter. "What brings you here?" the tall blonde asked. "You." Michiru thought to herself. "My daughter." She said out loud. "This is her last lesson, and I want to pick her up." "But the lesson just started." Haruka frowned. Michiru just smiled before she fluttered her eyelashes at the blonde. "May I stay then, and watch, Haruka-san?" "Of course." Haruka smiled at her. She made a vague gesture towards one of the benches that stood next to the track. "Want to take a seat?" Michiru nodded, and the two of them walked over to the bench. They sat down and watched the running students for a while. Finally, Michiru spoke up. "You really like your job, don't do?" Haruka gave her a short glance. "Yeah, I do…why?" Michiru chuckled. "Well, you came back to work as soon as you could. You have to love it." Haruka smiled at her and nodded. "That's right…and I love it to teach those little pupils." The blonde looked back on the track, just in time to see how Kenshi pushed Hotaru in the back, almost causing her to fall. Angered, the blonde jumped to her feet. "Kenshi!" she barked. The little boy, noticing that he was caught, shrank under the teachers heated gaze. "Yes, Tenoh-san?" he asked, sounding as innocent as possible. "What was that?" Haruka asked, glaring at the little boy. "I…I tripped, and had to hold on Hotaru for support." Kenshi quickly made up an excuse. Haruka just sighed. "Two extra laps for you, Kenshi." She then told the little boy, who's face fell. "But Tenoh-san!" he cried out. "Do you want to run more than two laps?" Haruka asked threateningly, and Kenshi quickly shut up. He sighed and started to run, while Michiru giggled at the little scene and Hotaru was glad that her favorite teacher saw Kenshi's nasty actions.