Chapter 4: Scary Monday!
There is only an hour left before the class starts. Akagi and rest are inside the faculty reserved for first and second grade teachers. All of them are sitting beside their partners waiting for Fr. Timothy to come by and hand them their schedules.
"Ah, Minna!" Everyone turned towards the door expected to see Fr. Timothy but instead it was Ayako. "Here are your schedules and records." She then passed a file to each of them. "Study your schedule. Everyone's in the auditorium, the Heads will be introducing us."
"Hey! Hanagata! Hikoichi, you and I have the same breaks." Jin said as he peeked over Hanagata's file.
Miyagi slumped down after knowing he'll be having his breaks with, two not to mention towering guys – Akagi and Uozumi.
Mitsui then found out that he would be spending most of his break time with Sendoh and Rukawa. "Oh joy…" He muttered.
"Oh come on now, Mitsui." Kogure patted the dark haired boy. "It can't that bad."
"How can you say that? I sleep in the same room with them then I'm going to spend my breaks with them?" Pointing at the talking Sendoh to the sleeping Rukawa.
"But you're not with Sakuragi or Kiyota."
"Oh." Mitsui pitied the bespectacled boy infront of him.
"Guess we will be bonding from now on ne, Fujima."
Fujima looked over the person and to his dismay it was his rival, Maki. Then his face lit up when he saw Koshino, glad that won't be stuck alone with Maki.
"Hey, Koshino, Maki. Yep! I guess we will."
Then that leaves Fukuda along with Ikegami will be spending their free periods together.
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The noise inside the auditorium halted when Fr. Timothy with Sis. Divina walked onto the stage.
"Good morning children!" the priest greeted cheerfully.
"Good Morning, Father Timothy and Sister Divina." By the sound of the student's reply, one can really see that the student's liked the principal.
"Today, we will be introducing a new set of teachers. These individuals just got ordained. They are young new priests so please cooperate with them. They will not be teaching for the rest of the semester just for two weeks. Hope you all give them a warm welcome."
The group came in and sat on the chairs aligned on the stage where Fr. Timothy is seated.
"For the Math class, we have Fr Marcus and Fr. Francis."
Both Kogure and Hanagata stood up at the same time.
"Hi, I'm Fr. Francis and I hope we will all get along just fine." Kogure said smiling, whilst some of the girls pray for this young lad to be their math teacher.
"I'm Fr. Marcus," Hanagata said while smiling and the students looked up, and looked up some more. "Nice to meet you all."
"Tall…"
"… but cute…."
"For Science and Technology, may I present to you Fr. Fabian and Fr. Laurent."
Akagi first stood up and introduced himself. "I am Fr. Fabian and will be teaching science."
"Woah… scary! He looks strict!"
"Hi everyone! I'm Fr. Laurent." Greeted Fujima. "I hope you guys love Science."
"… I think I'm going to like Science this term…" one girl said looking up dreamily to Fujima and some more restrained shriek could be heard.
"I love science, Sensei! But I think I'm going to love you more!" one girl squealed in the middle of the auditorium causing Fujima to blush while the rest of the guys snickered from behind.
"A-hem." Sister Divina tried to silence the whole room as she herself tried hard not to laugh. "History teachers will be, Fr. Clement and Fr. Louis."
Mitsui and Koshino stood up at the same time then the female population of the auditorium whooped.
"Wow! History won't be boring this time!"
Koshino blushed as Mitsui smiled causing another ruckus.
"I'm Fr. Clement." Said Koshino trying hard not to be as red as a tomato.
"And I'm Fr. Louis." Grinned Mitsui.
"Fr. Jean and Fr. Nicolas will be handling all sections taking up Arts and Music."
As Sendoh and Rukawa stood up, there was silence then the females shriek their tonsils out.
Sendoh smiled at the group as he introduced himself and Rukawa, knowing the stoic lad won't speak. "I'm Fr. Jean and this is Fr. Nicolas. We hope to enjoy this two weeks with you all."
"Eeeeeeeiiiii!!! Fr. Jean!!!"
"Fr. Nicolas! Fr. Nicolas! Fr. Nicolas! Teach us Fr. Nicolas."
Rukawa stared; a sense of déjà vu came to him all of a sudden. All of the players could only sweatdrop at the sudden reaction.
"Looks like you have a new brigade, Rukawa." Miyagi whispered from behind while snickering. "Isn't this feels like home?"
"Hn." Rukawa bowed then went straight to sit down at once.
"Students, manners please." Sis. Divina reminded before she continued. "Now, may I call on Fr. Sebastian and Fr. Benedict. Both will be handling Speech class."
"Hello everyone!" Sakuragi greeted before Kiyota. "Fr. TENSAI Benedict will assist you on your speaking difficulties. Nyahaha!"
The students gaped at this red haired, loudmouth teacher. Some boys rolled their eyes and some girls squealed on how cute the new speech teacher will be.
"Move over Fr. Tensai Benedict." Kiyota sarcastically said as he stepped up front. "I'm Fr. Sebastian at your service. And I will make sure you all get top one position in your speaking class."
Sakuragi wanted to counter Kiyota's words but decided that a death glare will do for now. He wants the students to think he's calm, collected and not some hardheaded troublemaker. "We'll just see about that." He muttered.
Sis. Divina smiled at the rivalry between the two boys. "Okay, we will expect a lot from you then. Now, for Writing class, Fr. Stephen and Fr. Dominic please stand up."
"Yo! Fr. Dominic here." Miyagi casually greeted while Hikoichi shyly waved. " And over here is Fr. Stephen."
"Fr. Augustin and Fr. Leo will be teaching Literature class."
Ikegami stood up and smiled to the room. "Good morning, I'm Fr. Leo."
"And I'm Fr. Augustin. Pleased to meet you all." Then Jin smiled.
"Fr. Augustin!!! Teach my class!!!" shouted someone from the back, causing Sis. Divina to be embarrassed none the less amused by such actions.
"Ladies please," Sis Divina said still red form the outburst. "Your new Home Economics teacher will be Fr. Bartholomew."
Uozumi didn't introduce himself instead he just stood up and bowed at the group of students staring up at him. Staring way up at him.
" … and I thought Fr. Fabian and Marcus are tall and big…"
"… he will teach us how to cook?!"
"Moving on, we have the new Physical Education teacher, Fr. Claude." Sis. Divina gestured for Maki to stand up.
"Nice to meet you all. I'm Fr. Claude and I'm assigned to teach all who have gym classes."
"…"
"… he looks…"
"… old…"
"… but handsome…"
"I thought they said new, young priest?"
Sakuragi could not help but burst out laughing at the sight of a red Maki. "Nyahaha! See! I'm not the only one who thinks you look old!"
Even Akagi and the rest, well maybe except for Rukawa, could not help suppress a small giggle.
"Now, now children, be polite." Said Sis. Divina, even her eyes are twinkling. "And last but not the least, your new Guidance councillor will be Fr. Basil."
Fukuda stood up and bowed then said nothing more.
"I think he's the one who needs help…" whispered some boy and girl.
"So boys and girls! You can ask your new mentors anything you want for now, I'll give you fifteen minutes for a quick open forum."
Almost all of the girls stood up and started chanting "Fr. Nicolas! Fr. Nicolas! Fr. Nicolas!"
"Ladies, please, behave yourselves." Reminded Sis.Divina, then group settled down a bit.
Slowly, one timid girl spoke loud enough to hear her by the audience on the stage. "This question is for Fr. Bartholomew."
Uozumi stood up to the microphone. "Yes?"
"How did you get so big? And are sure you're the one whose going to teach us how to cook? You're more like a P.E. teacher to me." The girl said in one big breath.
Uozumi sweatdropped but before he could speak Sakuragi took the mic and answered for him. "That's because Fr. Bossu Saru here eats lots of bananas everyday."
"Anou… Bossu Saru?"
"He does resemble a big gorilla, right?" Sakuragi plainly said as the students laugh.
Uozumi tried not to bash Sakuragi right there and then. Fortunately for Sakuragi Ikegami is already behind the big burly captain tugging him by the robe back to his seat.
"This is for Fr. Claude." A girl in pigtailed ask.
Maki gestured to the mic getting ready to answer the little girl's question.
"Fr. Claude, I thought that you were supposed to be new young priest? Why do you look so old?" the girl asked bluntly.
Maki's face crossed while the rest of the group laugh especially Sakuragi who went to the side of Maki to get hold of the mic. But before Sakuragi could say anything embarrassing about Maki, Akagi held him back.
"Next question please." Maki decided to avoid the question. He went back to his seat blushing, while the group tried to control their snickering.
"Uhmm… this is for Fr. Benedict."
"A-hem. Its Tensai Benedict, my child."
"Ah… Fr. Tensai Benedict. May I ask you a question?
"You're learning very well. That's how my students should be. Nyahahahahaha!!!" Sakuragi proudly said.
"Anou… Why is your hair red?"
"That's because red heads are born geniuses! See how I answer the question quickly. Nyahahahaha!!!" exclaimed Sakuragi.
"Oh…okay."
Koshino muttered to Mitsui. "He's ruining the child's mind already."
"What can you expect, he's Sakuragi."
"Next question please." Said Sis. Divina.
"This question goes to Fr. Laurent and Fr. Augustin." The child paused then blushes while stating the question. "Why are you so cute?"
"Eh…?" Jin and Fujima's cheek redden taken aback by the question.
"No! It's Fr. Jean who's much much much cuter and also Fr. Clement!"
"What?! It's Fr. Francis and Fr. Louis and Fr. Dominic and Fr. Leo and Fr. Claude and Fr. Sebastian and Fr. Benedict and even Fr. Stephen."
"Fr. Nicolas! Fr. Nicolas! Fr. Nicolas-sama!!!"
"Fr. Marcus!!!"
"No! It's Fr. Bartholomew and Fr. Fabian who's the handsomest of them all!!! Oh! I forgot! Also Fr. Basil!!!"
*silence*
*chirp*chirp*
"That kid sure needs some glasses quick!" Kiyota said shaking his head while the group remained shocked.
"Okay children I think that's enough for now. You can ask them more questions later in your classes." Said Sis. Divina. "Classes will start in a few moments, please return quietly to your classrooms. Have a nice day."
The short assembly ended as the student piled out of the auditorium excited to meet their gorgeous teachers.
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"Okay, Here it is History class, section St. Rose of Lima." Mitsui took a deep breath before entering the semi-excited class.
Fujima along with Maki and Koshino peek to the small door window and waved to Mitsui. "Good luck to you, Mitsui!" Turning his attention to his companion he asked, "So what are you guys going to do? I still have an hour and half left before my first class."
"Help me find the gym!" Maki said as he drag Fujima and Koshino with him.
Mitsui looked out of the window and saw Maki half dragging half leading the his two companions with him down the stairs then faced his class. "Here goes nothing…"
Being nervous before a game is so natural but facing new faces all staring with wide dopey eyes on you can be pretty scary. "Umm… Hi! As you all know, I'm Fr. Louis here to teach you History." He said to the entire class eyeing every child. "So, let's begin…"
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"St. Therese, St. Therese, St. Therese… where is the class of St. Therese?" whined Miyagi as he almost cleared out the entire third floor. Not looking to where he is going he bumped into Hanagata. "Oops! Sorry! I can't find my class!"
"That's alright." Said the bespectacled lad. "What's the section?"
"St. Therese of Lessieux."
Hanagata raised an eyebrow and pointed to the class on their right.
"Oh… ehehehe…" Miyagi absentmindedly scratched his nape. "So where's yours?"
"St. Irene of Portugal, just beside yours. Good luck to you, Miyagi." Hanagata waved then entered his waiting class.
"Yeah, you too!"
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Akagi entered a quite noisy class, but when class St. Angela de Merici noticed him, everyone halted and took their seat promptly.
"Good Morning."
"Good Morning, Fr. Fabian. Nice to see you." Greeted the class though intimidated by the large guy.
"Let's lay down the rules, shall we?"
*gulp* came the sound from all the student.
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"Good Morning, Fr. Augustin!" one student from his class, St. Catherine of Siena opened the door for him and Jin replied with a smile. "Thank you."
"Good Morning class!" He greeted the group. "We have boring literature for this morning." He joked making the class giggle. "So where shall we start…."
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"… aside from your name, I want you to tell a little something about yourselves, like your hobbies." Mitsui, standing infront of the class, said to the still wide dopey-eyed group. "Any volunteers? Ah good! Yes, please stand up." He then gestured for the small brown haired girl to begin.
"I'm Tendo Kaen, and I like playing tea and dress up with my dolls."
"Really? That's nice, maybe you should meet my little sister she also loves to play with her dolls." Mitsui smiled at the little girl making her blush. "Anyway thanks, Kaen-chan. Now who's next?"
"Oh me! Me!" shouted one boy from the back. "I'm Taka Hisashi and I like playing basketball!"
Mitsui's eyes lit up when he heard this. "Really? I like basketball too!" /not to mention we have the same name/ he silently added to his self.
"Maybe we can play sometimes ne, Fr. Louis!" the boy eagerly looked up to him. "Then I can show you some of my moves."
"I don't see why not?"
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"This is the writing class so what I want you kids to do is write me a letter describing yourself. And I'll write my letter to you on the board. That way we both can get to know each other while we practice this course ne?" Miyagi told his class.
"Yes, Fr. Dominic." Chorused the class then began scribbling busily on their own pads.
"Fr. Dominic." One student raised his had.
"Yes?" Miyagi noticed the boy and approached his desk.
"How do you spell, romantic?" the little boy asked while scratching his chin.
"Romantic, r-o-m-a-n-t-i-c, romantic." Miyagi smiled as he thought of Ayako, the boy thank him and went back to write his letter.
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Hanagata stood up infront and looked down to the children as the class looked up and looked up some more to meet their new teacher's gaze. "Hi kids!"
"Good Morning Fr. Marcus." The children greeted.
"Let's see… who here loves math?" only a few raised their little hands.
Hanagata continued, "Now, who here hates math?" Making a face causing the students to laugh. Almost half of the class raised their hands. "Why?" again he added with a mock pained expression.
"Numbers makes me dizzy!" a boy said.
"And you are?" asked Hanagata.
"I'm Asato! Asato Reiji, Fr. Marcus!" smiled the blue eyed boy.
"So Reiji-kun, why don't we make a deal." Hanagata knelt down to the boy's level. "If at the end of this Math period you're dizzy, I'll assign you guys some homework, if not, then there's no homework. Deal?" Then he opened him palm for the kid to shake.
The thought of no homework can make any child scream in delight. So the kid grinned and took his hand, agreeing. "Deal!"
Hanagata stood up and ruffled the boy's thick blond hair. "Then let's get to work."
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"Since this is our first day and class together, why don't we have a game instead of a boring lecture ne?" Jin said, smiling to his class.
"Yey!!!" The class erupted and eagerly asked Jin what the game will be.
"A matching type game," Jin started, "The class will be divided into three groups. I will stick these set papers on the board. On these papers are written titles of poems, novels and etc. Then I will give you another set of papers with their matching authors. The team who's fastest and most accurate in their answers will win these lollipops!" Jin showed his bagful of sweets.
"Lollipops!!!" screamed the little tykes as they played Jin's literature game.
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"... No eating. No sleeping. No reading other materials that is not related to the subject. No talking unless you are being asked or you have a question. No cheating. No passing of notes. No…"
Akagi's class looked ready to cry tears of blood any moment now obviously afraid of their science teacher.
"Gee! Gori should really lighten up on those kids. It's just the first period! The students might commit suicide before lunchtime!" Sakuragi said as he passed by Akagi's class.
"Poor kids." Kogure added tailing behind Sakuragi and Kiyota. "So we are guys headed? We still have a lot of time left."
"I know! We'll visit Boss Monkey and see what our lovable pet err I mean chef is upto with his class!" Sakuragi excitedly said.
"Hehe… yes, why don't we?" Kiyota added with a mischievous glint in his eyes.
Kogure could do nothing but follow his juniors hoping that they won't get in much trouble with the Ryonan captain. /Though I should be glad these two aren't fighting./ "Yare yare…"
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"St. Columba."
"No, it's St. Columbia"
"Columba."
"Columbia!"
"Columba."
"Columbia!"
Sakuragi, Kiyota and Kogure stopped dead in their tracks, surprised by seeing Rukawa arguing 'verbally' with Sendoh. "Anou… what seems to be the problem?" Kogure interjected.
"The section we are supposed to be teaching, the class by the way started fifteen minutes ago is St. Columbia. But Rukawa-kun here said it to be St. Columba." Answered Sendoh.
"hn."
Kogure took the paper in Rukawa's hand and read their schedule aloud. "Subject: Arts and Music. Music Room, room no. 711, Arts room, room no. 117. Instruction: usher the class to the designated room. Hhmmm…" Kogure paused for a while. "You're situation is a bit different, you have to locate first the class then guide to the music or art room. Now, let's see, First class – St. Columban?" Kogure then eyed the two boys. "Do you guys wanna borrow my glasses?"
A red faced Fr. Jean – Sendoh, snatched their instruction and dragged Rukawa by the arm towards the said section.
"At least what I said is closer than Colubia." Muttered Rukawa.
"Anou… Sendoh!" Kogure called out to the boy heading upstairs.
"Yes?"
"The room's downstairs…"
"Tha.. thanks Kogure-san." Then Sendoh hurriedly again dragged Rukawa with him.
The only sound left in the hallway is Sakuragi and Kiyota's loud outburst. "NYAHAHAHAHA!!! BWAHAHAHA!!! NYAHAHAHA!!! BWAHAHAHA!!!"
Of course we know which laughter belongs to whom. And Kogure? What can he do but sweatdrop. Then out of the blue, a door burst open revealing a huge, towering, ape-like in robes and apron. An apron with "Kiss the cook" printed infront.
Kogure looked up from the chest view to see Uozumi glaring at the two howling boys behind him. "Uozumi-san!"
"Sakuragi, Kiyota…" Uozumi made his way towards the still loud boys. "You two are disturbing my class." He said in a very threatening manner.
"Bossu Saru!!!" the two hyperactive boys stated at the same time. "Do you have any cookies for us?" Sakuragi and Kiyota teased. "Cakes maybe?"
Uozumi eyes started to twitch. "I have a few knuckle sandwich to spare and I can give you both some Black and Blue Bruises courtesy of my 'Punch' for dessert!"
"We best be leaving now, Uozumi-san. You know, rooms to visit, students to teach and punches to avoid. Thank you for your time. Goodbye!" Then Kogure ran away from Uozumi hauling both Sakuragi and Kiyota with him.
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St. Columban waited restlessly for their late teachers.
"Where could Fr. Jean and Nicolas be? They should've been here 20 minutes ago!" one eager female student looked out of the door's small window. "Wait! Here they come!" she announces as the class seated and behave themselves for the new teachers.
"Ehehe… Good morning class. Sorry we're late, we kind of got detained." Sendoh said as he bowed infront of the class. "I'm Fr. Jean by the way you're new Arts and Music teacher. And here at my side is Fr. Nicolas."
Rukawa bowed and the class sighed.
"Nice to meet you, Fr. Nicolas and Fr. Jean."
"Okay, shall we line up outside and then well proceed to the Music Room for the first part of our class." Sendoh smiled the class as Rukawa ushered them outside.
On the way to the Music Room, one male student tugged Sendoh's robe that made him stop his small chat with some other student. "Anou… Fr. Jean?"
"Yes, what is it Touya?" Sendoh replied walking alongside the green-eyed boy.
"Is Fr. Nicolas in a bad mood or something? He's quiet." Touya, the child, said pointing to Rukawa. Rukawa held the hand of the little brown haired girl infront of the line, guiding them.
"No, he is not." Sendoh smiled to assure the boy. "When he starts talking non-stop, that's when we should get worried." He added with some scared facial expression making the students who heard him giggle. Hearing the laughter, Rukawa momentarily stopped to see what's going and wondered why Sendoh looked stupid staring down at the boy.
As they turned right on the next hallway, Rukawa stopped at the door before him. "Here we are." He said in his cold voice as he open the door to let the whole class in.
There are tons of assorted musical instruments, ranging from wind to string to percussion instruments. The students eagerly picked some and started playing with them, causing Sendoh and Rukawa to wince at the combined noise of squeals and off tuned tones.
"Hush down now class, please!" Sendoh voiced out but was not heard or was ignored. Noticing Sendoh is failing in catching the class' attention he decided to bang the board a bit loudly but also he failed. Then seeing the piano unoccupied, Rukawa had an idea. He sauntered over the black, ivory-keyed piano and startled to play a soothing lullaby by Brahms. Gradually the noise stopped as the students heard the sweet tones playing on their ears. Sendoh was shocked, and seeing that Rukawa almost have the whole class' interest, not to be outdone, he picked up the violin laying untouched in the cabinet and started playing a different tone, this time by Beethoven. By now the only sound that can be heard from the class is Sendoh's playing, the class' undivided attention is all onto him. Meeting Rukawa's gaze, Sendoh saw the challenge in them Rukawa then played another piece to steal the class' interest away from his rival. The heads of the children went from Rukawa to Sendoh and back again to Rukawa as the two battled inside playing pieces composed by Strauss, Chopin, Bach down to Mozart and Tchaikovsky.
Clashing musical sounds of the violin and the piano echoed in the hallways and caught the attention of three figures.
"Where is that coming from?" Koshino asked his two companions.
Fujima went straight to the music room and peeked through the small door window. "Hey, who would've have thought those two can also be a genius other than basketball."
Now, both Rukawa and Sendoh are breathing a bit heavily but are still playing his own instrument, this time more aggressively. The class? Is totally awed, speechless beyond belief by the show of the genuine mastery of music by the two attractive teachers before them.
"Well… I'll be…" Maki said as he decided to open the door and stand at the room's entrance along with his companions.
"I know of Sendoh's interest in Music but the thought never occurred to me that he's this good!" praised Koshino as he watch the fight for music dominance went on.
As the two boys suddenly slowed down to catch a breather Fujima clapped his hands in admiration. "Wow, you two are good! But have you thought the class something or is this 'one on one' has been going leaving the class with one less of a lesson for today?"
"Hi there Fujima-san, ehehe… I guess Rukawa and I got carried away and – "
*diing*dong*
"Isn't that the bell signalling for the next class?" said Maki eyeing both Rukawa and Sendoh.
"Well! What do you know, it's Arts time class!" Sendoh said hastily. "Why don't we go to the art room now okay?" he addressed the class whose big, dopey and shining eyes are glued to him and Rukawa.
"Yes, you both do that." Said Fujima, "and maybe then the two you could teach the class something ne?"
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"Hey, Fukuda, what are you planning on doing inside this room for the whole day?" Ikegami asked as he observed the guidance room where Fukuda is assigned to stay.
"I don't know. Answer some confused kid's problem maybe?" Fukuda sarcastically answered while he read his schedule for this day. "Ikegami-san, I'll be having a student here any moment now and we'll be talking about…" he paused to read the topic, "parent separation."
"Oh okay, I'll just sit here and watch you council the child." Ikegami walked over the couch opposite Fukuda's table. And not a minute later the there was a knock on the door and a small light brown head peeked. "Fr. Basil. Today's my schedule right?"
Fukuda nodded and gestured for the child to sit in the couch beside Ikegami. "This is Fr. Leo by the way, he doesn't have any classes right now and he decided to bother me instead." Fukuda said while Ikegami faced a mock pained expression. The child felt more comfortable and started firing away questions while Fukuda answered them clearly and patiently.
After the first twenty minutes, Ikegami is already amazed by the interest Fukuda is showing. And before the whole session is finished it is already Ikegami who is firing away questions to Fukuda, seeking advices about this and that. And the child? Is momentarily left forgotten by both Fukuda and Ikegami.
"But what if he said no to her and forced her?"
"Ah, Ikegami-san this is what you should do…"
"Anou… sensei…?"
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"Rukawa! Don't sleep now! Help me assist these kids!" Sendoh, with bits of paints smudges on his face, almost shouted at the stoic boy ready to fall asleep infront in the teacher's desk.
Rukawa, without any retort, stood up and went over to two bickering boys, a red haired and a raven-haired boy to be exact. "What's going on here?"
"Fr. Nicolas! He intentionally bumped on me and made me ruin my painting!" the red haired complained pointing at his cannot be identified portrait.
"Hn… did not." Argued the raven one.
"Did too!"
"Did not."
"Did too, did too did too!!!" shouted the red haired one, obviously loosing his temper faster than the other.
Rukawa stood amused by the scene before him reminding him of Sakuragi and himself arguing. Deciding he should stop the argument before it results to some fight, he stepped between the two boys. "I have a challenge for the both of you. Why don't you two start drawing or painting a new one? The faster and unique one wins." He explained in his toneless voice.
"Hehehe… You're on Kitsune!" said the red haired to the other.
"Whatever do ahou." Replied the raven haired on.
/Hhmm.. interesting./ Rukawa wondered to himself. "Alright then, I'll give you two 30 minutes to finish your portraits. I'll be timing you both. You may begin."
Sendoh raised his eyebrows as he witnessed how Rukawa tamed the two disagreeing boys. He even caught the resemblance of the two boys to Rukawa and Sakuragi making him let out a small chuckle.
"What's so funny?" asked Rukawa.
"Oh, nothing. Just that those two remind me of you and Sakuragi. They even call each other names like you and Sakurag-kun do!"
"Hn."
"Oh well," then Sendoh approached the dark haired one who's busily drawing what looks like a flying elephant. "Hey there."
The boy didn't hear him or totally ignored him.
"I heard what you called your classmate. Please refrain from calling him that again ne?"
"What? The do ahou? Hn."
Sendoh's megawatt smile faltered a little. "Hai… please do not call him that, it's not proper."
"…" was the reply he got.
"Don't bother him, he's working." Rukawa said to Sendoh. He's sitting infront his hand busily drawing at the sketchpad on the stand before him. Sendoh saw what the boys is doing and for the second time this day is shocked by the Rukawa's talent. Rukawa is drawing a charcoal portrait of their school, a 3-D view of the school to be exact. Occupying the empty seat and art stand beside Rukawa, Sendoh took a pallet and squished different oil paints on them then started painting to what looks like a view of the school at sunrise.
And again for the second time this day, another battle has begun, this time a battle for art dominance. Both boys produced portraits of the school's chapel and garden in pencil and colored pencil to the portrait of their respective teams using oil pastel and the other watercolor. Still not contented, Rukawa started drawing individual portraits of his teamates and so did Sendoh. The class again left to watch their two teachers battle it out in the war of colors and pencils.
The lunch bell sounded and the two aces seemed unfazed by it. The children, delivering worried glances at each other, are afraid to walk up to their gorgeous teachers and stop them. Rukawa and Sendoh looked so serious in finishing up their portraits that disturbing them might mean sacrilege. Rukawa finished portraits of Shoyo's Hanagata and Fujima, Kainan's Maki, Jin and Kiyota. He also finished the whole of Ryonan and now is putting on the finishing touches on his portrait of Mitsui. Sendoh, already done with his team, Shoyo, Shohoku, and Kainan's Maki and Kiyota, is also now putting on finishing polish on Jin's portrait. A student, unnoticed, went outside to look for help. Fortunately he bumped to Akagi along with Uozumi and the rest of the group who are on their way to the cafeteria.
"Please help me! Fr. Jean and Fr. Nicolas had gone insane!!!" squealed the little tyke in fear.
"Hold on now." Maki knelt down to the boy's level. "What do you mean?"
The boy, not answering Maki's question, pulled him towards the art room. Inside, the group saw a color covered Sendoh and Rukawa with papers flying all over the room. Adrenalin pumped out of the two boys, everyone inside the now messy room can feel the aura of their battle. Koshino and Ikegami both went to Sendoh side trying to stop the boy from getting another sketchpad. Kogure and Mitsui did the same to Rukawa as he tried to open another tube of paint.
"STOP!" Uozumi bellowed and this time not only he successfully stopped Rukawa and Sendoh but scared the willies out of the kids too. Some of the children looked ready to start crying now as the tears well up their honey doe eyes. Luckily, Jin and some other heart kindred spirit, or so Sakuragi thought he was a real teddy bear to the kids, tried to calm the students. "Now, now, don't let bossu saru scare you! He's nothing but a big monkey! Fr. Tensai Benedict will make sure everything's alright!" And by the gods, it worked! The children, being lead by Hanagata and Fujima, slowly piled out of the room and onto the cafeteria for their well deserved lunch. When Fujima and Hanagata returned, Akagi looked ready to kill Rukawa and Sendoh. Not only they were fifteen minutes late in their first class, they didn't even give the students a proper lesson. Trying to soothe the large person infront of him, Sendoh pulled out the portraits he drew out of them and presented to them. "Here Akagi-san! Don't you think it's good?"
"Eh?" Suddenly caught unaware, Akagi stared at his portrait, admiringly.
"Hey Rukawa! Are these yours?" Hanagata said as he picked up the pile of drawings beside the pale boy. "Wow! These are good!" he then passed them around to the respective individual in the portrait.
"woah… Kitsune's good and Smiley's not bad either!" admired Sakuragi before he could stop himself. "This is just to prove that you two admire this Tensai's greatness! And not to mention my good looks! Nyahahaha!!!"
The group decided to leave the laughing egoistic, self-proclaimed genius to admire himself inside the art room. "Oi! Who are you to leave the tensai by himself when the Tensai is exclaiming his awesomeness!"
Mitsui noticed that there is still a portrait of him placed on the stand. "Hey, Rukawa." He approached the quiet boy as Rukawa gather some of his stuffs ready to join the rest outside. "This is really good. And thanks for drawing me, you're the first one." Mitsui didn't know why those words came out, it just did. Rukawa stared at his sempai's back as Mitsui exited the room.
Inside the cafeteria Sendoh joined Jin and Kiyota. "Hey! Mind if I sit here?"
"Not at *chomp* all." Kiyota said in between bites of his lunch.
Sendoh placed his food on the table and pulled out a paper from his folder then handed it to Jin. "Here Jin-san. A portrait of yourself by yours truly while Rukawa and I were lost in our own little world of challenge."
"Wow! This is beautiful! How can you make me look this good?"
"Hey, you already look good! That's what makes the portrait more beautiful." Sendoh said teasingly. Kiyota stared, mouth hanging open, from Sendoh back to a blushing Jin to Sendoh again. Then the rest of the meal was done in silence, but of course with an exception of a few burps here and there also a few or a lot of 'tensai' from our local blabbermouth and even some 'unberiburya' from our aspiring journalist.
Lunch finished with the children's groans of disagreement echoing inside the school halls. Then one class has change of spirit as they saw their new science teacher coming their way.
"Fr. Laurent! St. Hildegarde is over here!" waved one excited girl in pigtails.
"Good Afternoon, everyone." Fujima smiled as he greeted his first class of the day.
Then a boy stood up and said, "Hey, Fr. Laurent! I think we're so lucky to have you for our science class!"
"Huh? Why so?" Fujima asked as he eyed the eager students looking at him.
"Because I heard from a friend of mine in the other class that Fr. Fabian started his class stating every unreasonable rule there is! They said that he is really strict and scary!" answered a girl in front.
"Well, we don't have to worry about that now ne?" Fujima assured them with a smile. "I am not strict in any way."
"YEAH! You're cool Fr. Laurent!" cheered the class.
Then Fujima turned to write something on the board while telling the class, "Okay, please clear your desk and bring out a whole sheet of clean paper. We will be having a pop quiz!"
"What?!" the class erupted, dumfounded.
"Why? Of course! So I'll know what exactly topic I should be focusing on you guys." Fujima answered still looking harmless. "Now now, we will need an hour for this test, first part will be identification, second part, enumeration. The third part will be computation, the fourth part will be analysis and the fifth part will be in essay form. The essay must consist of 7 sentences each number. There will be 20 numbers each part." Fujima paused for a while, looking at the students before continuing, "Now, let's begin shall we?"
Student inside Fr. Laurent – Fujima's class deathly wished for Fr. Fabian to be their teacher now. Akagi looks like a saviour now to them as the class witnessed Fujima's innocently torturing ways.
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Maki whistled signalling for his gym class to begin.
"Good Afternoon Fr. Claude." The class greeted.
"Good afternoon." Maki answered back. "Today's your first class with me, so for now there will be no real lesson I just want you guys to have fun, so we'll play a little basketball game now okay?"
"Yey!" cheered most of the boys.
"But what about us? Some of us don't know how to play basketball." Said the rest of the class.
"As the boys play, you guys will be having a one on one lesson with me. Is that okay?" said Maki kneeling down to the girls eye level.
"Of course Fr. Claude!" squealed some girls delighted to be taught by this handsome teacher.
"So, what are we waiting for? Let's begin!"
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Hikoichi entered his first class of the day clutching his ever-trusty notebook now turned into a planner.
"Good Afternoon, Fr. Stephen." Greeted the class of St. Magdalene.
"Good afternoon to you too." Hikoichi smiled. "Now, for our class there's only one thing I need from you. The only requirement I will be asking you. Is that you must have a notebook for this class. It should be black and what to do with it?" He paused for a while looking at the puzzled faces before him. "I want you guys to write everything you see, hear and experience on it, sort of like a journal."
"Fr. Stephen," a tanned boy raised his hand. "Do we have to bring them everyday and every hour? Sounds tiring!"
"You will thank me after this course because of that. Because in that notebook, you will have the most fruitful information one needed. And most especially you will…."
At the end of Hikoichi's class, everyone has their own notebook and are scribbling busily who knows what. The class didn't even bother to acknowledge Ikegami as he entered the room.
"Uumm… class, its time for Literature. Writing class is finished!" Ikegami announced.
"Shhh!!!" hushed the class to Ikegami who could only sweatdrop for that matter. After a while the class all at the same time, looking at Ikegami, said, "Yo-checku-ya!" then proceeded to write again, Ikegami shivered and was rubbing his eyes. /oh my! I'm seeing dozens of little Hikoichi! Unberibaburya! Oh my! I'm sounding like him!!!/
"Hikoichi… what did you do to this class…" Ikegami shook his head worriedly at the students before him. "Now what am I going to do?"
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"Good afternoon everyone!!! Fr. Tensai Benedict at your service!!!" Announced Sakuragi rather loudly at his class. "This is speech class, so I want everyone to be lively!"
"Good afternoon Fr. Tensai Benedict!" greeted the class, glad that they have at least one class that allows them to be noisy.
Sakuragi settled his things on the teacher's desk infront and turned to the students. "Great! Now, I want everyone to stand up, chin up and say loudly, *a-hem* Ore wa Tensai! You must project! Now let's begin!"
"ORE WA TENSAI!" Sakuragi's class boomed and the red haired teacher could only sniffle proudly at his class quick process in learning.
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"Now we move on to the application of… What is that noise?" said Kogure, distracted by the shouts coming from the room beside his. "Umm… class, answer numbers 1-5 and will you excuse me for a minute, I'll just check that noise okay?"
"Okay, Fr. Francis." Answered Kogure's class.
When Kogure went out he saw Koshino opening the door of the noisy class. "Oi Koshino, what's up with that shouting?" said Kogure, halting Koshino in turning the doorknob.
"I have no idea either Kogure-san, all I heard is 'ore wa tensai!'" wondered Koshino "The shouting is disturbing my class." He gestured to the classroom opposite Kogure's class.
"Oh dear, why do I have the feeling that this is Sakuragi's class?"
"Because that is that self proclaimed tensai's class!" growled the pissed off Kiyota. "His and my class are on the same time and I can hear his class barking across the hall!!!" he pointed to the class at the end of the hallway.
"ORE WA TENSAI!!!"
"That's it! I'm going in there!" Kiyota suddenly threw open the door and revealing Sakuragi holding a stick and conducting the class to once again project the phrase "Ore wa Tensai."
"What's is the meaning of this?" Sakuragi said a bit surprised by the sudden intrusion.
"Why Fr. Benedict, your class is disturbing the solemnity of Fr. Clement, Fr. Francis and not to mention my class too." Said Kiyota sarcastically. "So if you don't mind toning down the barking, we will really appreciate it." With that Kiyota closed the door with a bang making the students of Sakuragi jump.
"Why that…" Sakuragi muttered, then turning his attention back to his class. "Don't mind Fr. Sebastian! He's just jealous of our improvement. Now let's move on the second phrase, repeat after me, my students. *a-hem* Oretachi wa tsuyoi!"
"ORETACHI WA TSUYOI!" the class happily shouted errmm.. projected.
"Why that no good…" Kiyota was ready again to bash in inside Sakuragi's class if not for Kogure and Koshino holding him back.
"Now, now Kiyota… it's not good to show violence especially infront of the students." Kogure said, hoping to calm the enraged freshmen.
Koshino, already tired from holding back Kiyota, said, "Didn't you say you'll beat him at teaching? Why don't you go back and teach your class something more productive than Sakuragi ne?"
Kiyota halted then their ears and eyes be damned if Kogure and Koshino didn't hear and see a light bulb flash above Kiyota's head. "Of course, I'll do just that Koshino-san. Hehehe…" He said grinning mischievously.
"Why do I have a bad feeling about this." Said Kogure as he and Koshino watched Kiyota enter his class. A few moments later another loud shout was heard this time coming from Kiyota's class.
"I AM NO.1. NO ONE CAN BEAT ME!"
Koshino and Kogure's face faulted. "I shouldn't be surprised…" they both muttered while entering their respective class hoping that at least they'll be able to teach the kids something worthwhile. Or better yet, hoping that their students can hear them teach at all.
"ORE WA TENSAI! ORETACHI WA TSUYOI!!!"
"I AM NO. 1. NO ONE CAN BEAT ME!!!"
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The bell signalling for the end of today's class rang and immediately all doors burst open revealing eager students to go home.
Mitsui along with Sendoh and Rukawa walked down the hallways to meet up with Hanagata and Jin. "Hey, so how's your class?" He asked casually as he approached the tall bespectacled center.
"Just went on fine. But not as lively as Sakuragi's or Kiyota's" replied Hanagata.
"Huh? What do you mean?" asked Sendoh.
"See the class over there?" Jin pointed at the still occupied class. "Wait till they get out. And also observe the class at the end of the hall. Sakuragi's and Kiyota's class respectively."
Rukawa, Sendoh and Mitsui looked on waiting. Then the door opened and every kid that went out of the room is saying and some shouting phrases 'ore wa tensai' to 'no one can beat me.' Needless to say these three dark haired lads sweatdropped. Suddenly a boy, whose face is buried in his notebook and is scribbling madly bumped into Hanagata and Jin, the boy looked up and then mumbled, "Yo-checku-ya!" it was loud enough for the group to hear. Another shout came from a girl across who's also writing frantically in her own notebook. "Unberiburya!"
"I think Sakuragi and Kiyota are not that only ones that corrupted the minds of these young one. That Hikoichi!" Sendoh muttered as he placed hand on his head.
"Fr. Jean!" someone called across the hallway.
"Oi! Fr. Bartholomew!" Sendoh waved at Uozumi, Akagi and Miyagi. "So where are you going?" he asked as the group approached them.
"To the gym, we want to see how the no.1 player in Kanagawa is handling a group of hyperactive kids." Answered Akagi.
"Hey, let's all go together." Miyagi added then Hanagata and the others followed them bumping to Kogure, Fujima and Koshino on the way.
Fujima opened the gym doors and saw Ikegami, Fukuda and Hikoichi are already inside watching Maki sweat and breathe heavily while running after some screaming kid.
Maki saw his teammates and friends and his eyes pleaded for some sort of help. "Someone, please! Help me control these little demons I mean angels! I'm tired! All they did was run, run and run some more! They didn't even dribble the ball!!!" He wailed, his reputation be damn as he was too tired to think about that.
The gym was a total mess! Every mattress that must be used for floor exercises are scattered. Balls from tennis to basketball are all over the place waiting for some kid to trip on them, and not to mention sports the equipment. Some are bended and some are unrecognisable.
"This has been going on for the whole afternoon!!! I can't control them!" at the same moment Maki said than, while shaking Fujima, a kid shouted from the top of the basketball headboard's ring. "Hey Fr. Claude! Look at me!!! I'm Superman!!!"
Fortunately before the kid pretending to be superman flew, actually fell, Akagi, Uozumi and Hanagata are already there beneath him ready to catch the boy. "Whee!!! Let's do that again Fr. Marcus! Put me up high in the air!!!"
"I'm going insane…" Maki muttered, looking deathly pale, as he flopped down the floor while still holding Fujima's robe in a death grip.
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That night, everyone is already at their proper rooms ready to retire for the night.
"This is only the first day! I don't think I can hold on for two whole weeks!" Complained Maki as he plopped down on his bed.
"Better sleep now, Maki." Ikegami said. "Because tomorrow morning, you already have classes."
Maki only grumbled burying his face on his pillows. He looked sideways and found a contented sleeping Fujima that caused him to only grumbled some more.
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"Hey, Mitsui-san."
Mitsui looked up to see Sendoh sitting before him on his bed. "Which drawing to you think is better. Mine or Rukawa-kun's?"
Rukawa looked beside him as he heard his name. And he saw Sendoh gave Mitsui a portrait of Mitsui himself done by Sendoh and him.
"Hmm… I don't know actually. Rukawa used pencil and you used charcoal. Not to mention you both drew me at different angles." Mitsui replied looking intently at two wonderful drawing of himself. "Of course, I myself looked good already!"
"Baka Mitchy!" Sakuragi suddenly approached them, snatched the portraits and studied them intently. "I think Smiley's one is better!"
"You're not saying that because you hate Rukawa now do you, Sakuragi?" Mitsui said snatching back the drawings.
"If you don't believe the tensai's judgement then don't ask the tensai!"
"He did not ask you, tensai." Kiyota sarcastically commented.
"I did not hear anything from some monkey from Kainan. Goodnight everyone!" Sakuragi said as he tucked himself in his bed.
"Humph!" Kiyota turned off the lamp on his study table then followed Sakuragi to dreamland.
Shaking his head Mitsui turned his attention back to Sendoh who's still on his bed by the way and having a glaring contest with Rukawa beside his bed. "Anou… Sendoh. Yours is pretty good actually."
Cutting his gaze, Sendoh look at Mitsui. "Really? That's great! Thanks, Mitsui-san and you can keep that by the way!" With that he hopped back to his bed.
Mitsui sighed, as he turned off the lights on the study table between his and Rukawa's bed, Mitsui gazed at the pale quiet boy and said, "Goodnight Rukawa."
" 'yasumi, Sempai." With that the lights were off as the Sandman claimed everyone.
End of Chapter 4 Nyahahaha!!! ^_^
