Author's note: Yes, yes, I said the second one would have the lesbians and
such, but I found too much content was to be had in between. I don't think
I'll be doing too much with the Japanese honorifics since I'm none too well
versed with their usual uses. Hope that doesn't detract from any enjoyment
you may have while reading this.
Ch 2. Rose Petal Jam and a Naked Surprise.
"Ahhhhh, this is true luxury!" Onizuka yelled out as he spread out on the back seat of Akio's convertible. Akio, Anthy and Onizuka were speeding along a lone road out in the Japanese countryside, though in no uncertain terms was any Japanese countryside ever too much 'country'. Billboards and the occasional sparse dottings of smaller, private residences peppered the landscape as they sped by. "This is truly a high class vehicle, for a chairman of a private school you sure live it up!"
Akio laughed as the wind whipped his hair out a sent his pony tail flying like the end of a kite, "I'm glad you approve, we're coming up to the academy that I told you about in just a moment."
Anthy just sat in the front passenger side, holding two large sized bags of groceries in her lap and one at her feet, "It will be good to get back after today." she said demurely while her face never stole away from that vacantly happy expression.
"What a strange girl", Onizuka thought to himself, "truly strange and even a little unnerving with that smile of hers." He decided to further question Akio, "So, let me get all of what you said straight: You're the acting chairman of this. Omake Academy?"
"It's Ohtori, and yes, I am."
"Ah, sorry. so what was this problem you talked about?"
"Most of the male teaching staff have gone on strike because of. certain misunderstandings. that were brought about by poor communication."
"And you need only a male teacher like myself, why?"
"Well, to be quite frank I have two reasons: one is to boost school morale as much as possible, we can't let all the students think that this is going to either disrupt or even cease their learning at- Ah, there it is now." He said as Ohtori's outline swam over the horizon as they climbed a hill. It was lit up in the noonday sun, making the white walls on its classical buildings shine as if the entire campus itself were some sort of fairy-tale castle. One building caught Onizuka's eye in particular; the massive central tower that jutted out of the center of the campus looking, if anything, like the old Chinese legend of the pillar that connected heaven and earth.
Onizuka was awestruck; "I've never seen a campus quite so nice as this!"
Akio's pleasant smile, only seen by Anthy at the moment, likened momentarily to a shark's as they drove through the front gate, "Welcome to my Rose Academy, Onizuka."
The meal that night was sumptuous, including many delicacies such as fatty tuna sashimi organized into rosebud arrangements, bread smothered in Anthy's special rose petal jam and a small array of fine cheeses made from the milk of Anthy's personal pet cow.
Onizuka ate with fervor and conversation was lighthearted and full of laughter between he and Akio. Anthy, of course, just ate and smiled, answering only when asked. Strangely enough, whenever the topic of how old they were or how long either was at the academy, both Anthy and Akio would change the subject. Onizuka didn't notice nor did he really care, if they wanted to keep secrets, let 'em.
Near the end of the meal, the now near satiated Onizuka asked (through full mouth), "Oh, Akio, what was-" he paused as he swallowed his mouthful, "What was that second reason you had to hire me?"
Akio chewed on a piece of jam-covered bread thoughtfully, when the question came to light he paused, swallowed, and said, "My second reason, put simply, is that you are my main psychological bargaining chip, Mr. Onizuka. If the male faculty thought I would hire others to replace them, making their strike a moot point, it would give me a bit of an edge to resolve all of this faster." He then leaned in closer to the blonde haired teacher and smiled, giving one the impression that he was about to be let in on some great conspiracy, "Now I have a question for you, Mr. Onizuka, you said before that your current state of being has a story behind it. Why don't you tell me about it?"
Across the table, Onizuka nodded, "Ok, I'll tell you straight from the beginning, you see it all started.." He then began to account of his time spent as the leader of his infamous karate club in high school, being in motorcycle gangs and the like. He talked of the first time he wanted to be a teacher (trying to leave out that he did it to meet schoolgirls), his first success with his training class (also leaving out the fact that they tried to blackmail him and he dunked several of them in pond water for it). He then went on to discuss how he came to teach at the Holy Forest Academy and a few of his tamer adventures, and of how he got put on a temporary leave of absence.
"So I was getting up that morning, thinking I was still in my room near the roof and I was pretty groggy from that night of drinking and didn't quite see where I was when I took off my pants to use the toilet. When I realized where I was, there was already screaming going on. I was in the classroom, it was 11am and yet another of those parent watchdog groups was sitting in the back of the class." He paused to take a sip of the tea Anthy had served up in the interim: Orange Pekoe with, of course, a bit of rose petal. "Well, needless to say, things got ugly really fast and the Chairwoman was nearly forced to fire me on the spot. Instead I was put on a temporary unpaid leave of absence until it all blew over, she even gave me the temporary use of a summer apartment she has in Hou'oh so that I could have a place to stay until I could come back."
Akio sipped his tea thoughtfully with a bemused grin on his face and his eyes staring directly at the man across from him, "An amusing story, Mr. Onizuka, you are no doubt a man blessed by the stars themselves. There's no worry about where to stay here, I assure you, we have fully functional dormitories for everyone. In fact." he grabbed a pen and paper from a nearby countertop and scribbled a few things onto it, handing it to Anthy who then handed it to Onizuka. "Here are the directions to where your room is, just give me the location and the key of that apartment you mentioned and I will have someone get your things." After dinner, Onizuka thanked his new employer profusely and promptly headed off to where he would be staying.
The building was big and formidable; it also seemed to be very dark and lonely. Onizuka shrugged, there were certainly worse places that this that he had to crash in. For all intents and purposes, the entire building looked deserted aside from him. He found his room quickly enough, right where Akio said it would be; it even had his name embossed on a plaque nailed to his door. Things certainly worked fast around here.
When he opened the door, a look of total astonishment washed over him. The room looked almost like a fancy hotel's would. It had everything from massive closet space and a spacious double bed to what appeared to be a totally functional kitchen nook. On said nook's counter was a small note that read:
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Mr. Onizuka,
I trust that the accommodations are satisfactory and that you are adjusting well. Your things should be arriving in the morning; there is a communal bath at the end of the hall. I believe that things will definitely be livelier with you around.
Live up to my expectations,
Ohtori Akio
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
On a rack in the closet was a set of towels, soaps, caps and a back- scrubber.
"My god, this really IS like a hotel!" he said quietly to himself. "Well, since it seems like I'm the only one here." he took a moment to sniff his underarms, recoiling at the fetid stench of his day's unwashed trials and tribulations, "PHEW! I think it's time to get cleaned up." Feeling much like a kid who had the house to himself while the parents were away, he decided to simply doff his duds, grabbed a towel and scrubber and (in his birthday suit, mind you) ambled on down the hall to the door marked "bath".
"Ahhh, I've had such a good run of luck today, I find a new job until I get right with the media. again. I get a spacious room for just being here and I get a bath all to-", he was cut short when he went to reach for the door knob and it turned just as his hand reached out. When the door opened, Onizuka's eyes nearly fell out of his head with shock, a nude girl with long, pink hair came almost stumbling out of the bath, feeling the walls like a blind person. Her eyes were covered in soap and were shut tight.
"Crap, Anthy, is that you? I can't find the extra towel and I can't see, can you help me?" she asked, nearly bumping into him as he backed off, nervous as all hell. He could hardly think and could only edge back, avoiding flailing, soapy arms as this very wet and very naked female student (he assumed by the look of her) was blindly advancing on him. He had to think fast or it was possible he'd be staring down the barrel of a sexual harassment suit the moment he got here. Especially since that, the sight of this naked girl was arousing very male parts of him that he had no say in controlling. Being caught like that by anyone at this point would mark the fastest-ending teaching job in Japan's history.
"Damn it, Anthy, why aren't you helping, at least say something!!"
Acting purely on instinct, he handed her the towel he had as she nearly fell on him and beat hell for leather back to his room, slamming the door and locking it behind him. He was sitting naked on the floor and panting, praying to whatever gods resided in the afterworld that no one had seen him. For a moment he thought he heard her yelp as he ran but, since he didn't hear her scream the word "pervert", he didn't check.
Just seconds after he had safely made his escape, he heard footsteps pad down the hall, and a familiar voice call out, "Utena, what was wrong? Oh, you're naked, let me cover you up."
He heard the girl answer in reply, "N-No! Anthy, get your hands off of there! And what do you mean 'what was wrong'? You helped me, and what was that that you were carrying that smacked my side? Felt like a big piece of pipe or something. Better yet, I don't think I want to know, let's just go back inside."
"Yes, Miss Utena."
Two sets of feet padded down the hall and he heard a door slam. He let out a breath he didn't know he had held in. "My GOD." He whispered out loud, "I thought I'd had it this time. My good fortune hasn't run out yet it seems." Be that as it may, he decided that tonight was going to be a night he bathed in the sink.. Two thoughts were on his mind as he finally went to bed. Was that Anthy in the hall the same Anthy that was Akio's sister? The other was that he didn't have even one snapshot of that pink haired girl.
Will Onizuka adjust well to his new surroundings? How the hell is Utena going to explain the shaft-like bruise on her abdomen? And what is Akio's connection to the Vice Principal of Holy Forest Academy? Find out two of these answers next time (Really, I promise) in Chapter three: The School of Lesbians and Total Vehicular Destruction!!
Ch 2. Rose Petal Jam and a Naked Surprise.
"Ahhhhh, this is true luxury!" Onizuka yelled out as he spread out on the back seat of Akio's convertible. Akio, Anthy and Onizuka were speeding along a lone road out in the Japanese countryside, though in no uncertain terms was any Japanese countryside ever too much 'country'. Billboards and the occasional sparse dottings of smaller, private residences peppered the landscape as they sped by. "This is truly a high class vehicle, for a chairman of a private school you sure live it up!"
Akio laughed as the wind whipped his hair out a sent his pony tail flying like the end of a kite, "I'm glad you approve, we're coming up to the academy that I told you about in just a moment."
Anthy just sat in the front passenger side, holding two large sized bags of groceries in her lap and one at her feet, "It will be good to get back after today." she said demurely while her face never stole away from that vacantly happy expression.
"What a strange girl", Onizuka thought to himself, "truly strange and even a little unnerving with that smile of hers." He decided to further question Akio, "So, let me get all of what you said straight: You're the acting chairman of this. Omake Academy?"
"It's Ohtori, and yes, I am."
"Ah, sorry. so what was this problem you talked about?"
"Most of the male teaching staff have gone on strike because of. certain misunderstandings. that were brought about by poor communication."
"And you need only a male teacher like myself, why?"
"Well, to be quite frank I have two reasons: one is to boost school morale as much as possible, we can't let all the students think that this is going to either disrupt or even cease their learning at- Ah, there it is now." He said as Ohtori's outline swam over the horizon as they climbed a hill. It was lit up in the noonday sun, making the white walls on its classical buildings shine as if the entire campus itself were some sort of fairy-tale castle. One building caught Onizuka's eye in particular; the massive central tower that jutted out of the center of the campus looking, if anything, like the old Chinese legend of the pillar that connected heaven and earth.
Onizuka was awestruck; "I've never seen a campus quite so nice as this!"
Akio's pleasant smile, only seen by Anthy at the moment, likened momentarily to a shark's as they drove through the front gate, "Welcome to my Rose Academy, Onizuka."
The meal that night was sumptuous, including many delicacies such as fatty tuna sashimi organized into rosebud arrangements, bread smothered in Anthy's special rose petal jam and a small array of fine cheeses made from the milk of Anthy's personal pet cow.
Onizuka ate with fervor and conversation was lighthearted and full of laughter between he and Akio. Anthy, of course, just ate and smiled, answering only when asked. Strangely enough, whenever the topic of how old they were or how long either was at the academy, both Anthy and Akio would change the subject. Onizuka didn't notice nor did he really care, if they wanted to keep secrets, let 'em.
Near the end of the meal, the now near satiated Onizuka asked (through full mouth), "Oh, Akio, what was-" he paused as he swallowed his mouthful, "What was that second reason you had to hire me?"
Akio chewed on a piece of jam-covered bread thoughtfully, when the question came to light he paused, swallowed, and said, "My second reason, put simply, is that you are my main psychological bargaining chip, Mr. Onizuka. If the male faculty thought I would hire others to replace them, making their strike a moot point, it would give me a bit of an edge to resolve all of this faster." He then leaned in closer to the blonde haired teacher and smiled, giving one the impression that he was about to be let in on some great conspiracy, "Now I have a question for you, Mr. Onizuka, you said before that your current state of being has a story behind it. Why don't you tell me about it?"
Across the table, Onizuka nodded, "Ok, I'll tell you straight from the beginning, you see it all started.." He then began to account of his time spent as the leader of his infamous karate club in high school, being in motorcycle gangs and the like. He talked of the first time he wanted to be a teacher (trying to leave out that he did it to meet schoolgirls), his first success with his training class (also leaving out the fact that they tried to blackmail him and he dunked several of them in pond water for it). He then went on to discuss how he came to teach at the Holy Forest Academy and a few of his tamer adventures, and of how he got put on a temporary leave of absence.
"So I was getting up that morning, thinking I was still in my room near the roof and I was pretty groggy from that night of drinking and didn't quite see where I was when I took off my pants to use the toilet. When I realized where I was, there was already screaming going on. I was in the classroom, it was 11am and yet another of those parent watchdog groups was sitting in the back of the class." He paused to take a sip of the tea Anthy had served up in the interim: Orange Pekoe with, of course, a bit of rose petal. "Well, needless to say, things got ugly really fast and the Chairwoman was nearly forced to fire me on the spot. Instead I was put on a temporary unpaid leave of absence until it all blew over, she even gave me the temporary use of a summer apartment she has in Hou'oh so that I could have a place to stay until I could come back."
Akio sipped his tea thoughtfully with a bemused grin on his face and his eyes staring directly at the man across from him, "An amusing story, Mr. Onizuka, you are no doubt a man blessed by the stars themselves. There's no worry about where to stay here, I assure you, we have fully functional dormitories for everyone. In fact." he grabbed a pen and paper from a nearby countertop and scribbled a few things onto it, handing it to Anthy who then handed it to Onizuka. "Here are the directions to where your room is, just give me the location and the key of that apartment you mentioned and I will have someone get your things." After dinner, Onizuka thanked his new employer profusely and promptly headed off to where he would be staying.
The building was big and formidable; it also seemed to be very dark and lonely. Onizuka shrugged, there were certainly worse places that this that he had to crash in. For all intents and purposes, the entire building looked deserted aside from him. He found his room quickly enough, right where Akio said it would be; it even had his name embossed on a plaque nailed to his door. Things certainly worked fast around here.
When he opened the door, a look of total astonishment washed over him. The room looked almost like a fancy hotel's would. It had everything from massive closet space and a spacious double bed to what appeared to be a totally functional kitchen nook. On said nook's counter was a small note that read:
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Mr. Onizuka,
I trust that the accommodations are satisfactory and that you are adjusting well. Your things should be arriving in the morning; there is a communal bath at the end of the hall. I believe that things will definitely be livelier with you around.
Live up to my expectations,
Ohtori Akio
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
On a rack in the closet was a set of towels, soaps, caps and a back- scrubber.
"My god, this really IS like a hotel!" he said quietly to himself. "Well, since it seems like I'm the only one here." he took a moment to sniff his underarms, recoiling at the fetid stench of his day's unwashed trials and tribulations, "PHEW! I think it's time to get cleaned up." Feeling much like a kid who had the house to himself while the parents were away, he decided to simply doff his duds, grabbed a towel and scrubber and (in his birthday suit, mind you) ambled on down the hall to the door marked "bath".
"Ahhh, I've had such a good run of luck today, I find a new job until I get right with the media. again. I get a spacious room for just being here and I get a bath all to-", he was cut short when he went to reach for the door knob and it turned just as his hand reached out. When the door opened, Onizuka's eyes nearly fell out of his head with shock, a nude girl with long, pink hair came almost stumbling out of the bath, feeling the walls like a blind person. Her eyes were covered in soap and were shut tight.
"Crap, Anthy, is that you? I can't find the extra towel and I can't see, can you help me?" she asked, nearly bumping into him as he backed off, nervous as all hell. He could hardly think and could only edge back, avoiding flailing, soapy arms as this very wet and very naked female student (he assumed by the look of her) was blindly advancing on him. He had to think fast or it was possible he'd be staring down the barrel of a sexual harassment suit the moment he got here. Especially since that, the sight of this naked girl was arousing very male parts of him that he had no say in controlling. Being caught like that by anyone at this point would mark the fastest-ending teaching job in Japan's history.
"Damn it, Anthy, why aren't you helping, at least say something!!"
Acting purely on instinct, he handed her the towel he had as she nearly fell on him and beat hell for leather back to his room, slamming the door and locking it behind him. He was sitting naked on the floor and panting, praying to whatever gods resided in the afterworld that no one had seen him. For a moment he thought he heard her yelp as he ran but, since he didn't hear her scream the word "pervert", he didn't check.
Just seconds after he had safely made his escape, he heard footsteps pad down the hall, and a familiar voice call out, "Utena, what was wrong? Oh, you're naked, let me cover you up."
He heard the girl answer in reply, "N-No! Anthy, get your hands off of there! And what do you mean 'what was wrong'? You helped me, and what was that that you were carrying that smacked my side? Felt like a big piece of pipe or something. Better yet, I don't think I want to know, let's just go back inside."
"Yes, Miss Utena."
Two sets of feet padded down the hall and he heard a door slam. He let out a breath he didn't know he had held in. "My GOD." He whispered out loud, "I thought I'd had it this time. My good fortune hasn't run out yet it seems." Be that as it may, he decided that tonight was going to be a night he bathed in the sink.. Two thoughts were on his mind as he finally went to bed. Was that Anthy in the hall the same Anthy that was Akio's sister? The other was that he didn't have even one snapshot of that pink haired girl.
Will Onizuka adjust well to his new surroundings? How the hell is Utena going to explain the shaft-like bruise on her abdomen? And what is Akio's connection to the Vice Principal of Holy Forest Academy? Find out two of these answers next time (Really, I promise) in Chapter three: The School of Lesbians and Total Vehicular Destruction!!