Okay... on to chapter 2. There's a fight scene coming up!
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At least I thought she was...
"Hello class. My name is Mrs. Amuro."
"Konnichi wa, Amuro-sensei!"
[What's a persocom doing in our class? She... it can't teach, can it? Wait... it... she has regular ears! Wow! She's a real person! Amuro-sensei is really pretty! And I think she's only about 20! But I wonder why she's teaching... She'd make big bucks as a model.]
"Hello class. I will be the teacher for your last period. I am very honored to meet you all. I hope that we will have a fun time together."
"Yes, Amuro-sensei!"
"Now as for your academics, I will be teaching you Japanese and art. For today however, because it is the first day, I believe it would be best if we were to have a question-and-answer session for the next two hours. Do any of you have any questions about this school or their teachers?"
For a long time, the students just asked trivial questions; whether it had to do with the teachers or the building complex itself. There was even a question regarding the forest beyond the school fence, but all of them wasn't as interesting as the one Yumi asked.
"What is a persocom doing at our school?"
"Amy? Well, Amy isn't the only persocom on campus, but she was needed in the science department as an assistant."
"Who are the others? Where are they?" Yumi persisted.
"Oh, they're just some office aids. They help out at the office by grading and inputting information into the computers."
"Can a persocom be a teacher?" I asked.
The teacher's eyes lit up before she replied, "What a clever idea! Your name is Hideki, right?"
"Y... yes, ma'am."
"What would happen if the persocoms were to teach?"
"The students would be fed accurate information and the persocoms wouldn't be blamed for making human errors."
"Then what would happen to the current teachers?"
"Umm... they would lose their jobs?"
"Correct. That's why, by law, it is illegal for a persocom to take a human profession as it's duty."
The classroom erupted in laughter and giggles. I blushed from embarrassment and looked apologetically towards Amuro-sensei. She gave me a smile that told me that there was nothing to be embarrassed about.
* * * * *
After that incident, I just shut up till the class was over. I had my stuff together and was the first one out the door with Yumi right behind me.
"Hideki-chan, you have to hurry if you don't want to be late for kendo* practice."
[Oh no!]
"Please don't follow me to kendo practice! All the guys make fun of me!"
"But what would you do without your cheering squad? You need me! GO HIDEKI!"
I groaned.
[Aww man, I'm going to get laughed at again. Wait... Maybe I can lose her! She's not too familiar with the school yet!]
With that, I rushed through the halls and flew down the stairs, but miraculously, Yumi was waiting for me at the entrance. So, with a long face, I left for kendo class followed closely by Yumi.
* * * * *
"MEN*!"
* Traditional yell when you hit the head of your opponent.
We practiced our strokes and parries. Finally, we went on to sparing. I was paired up with Shizuma.
"Damn!" I whispered.
"You scared, Hideki?" Shizuma taunted.
From the corner Yumi shouted, "Hideki-chan isn't scared of a jerk like you!"
[Oh no! Not this routine again!]
"Aww. Poor Hideki-chan needs his mommy to stand up for him."
The rest of the dojo joined in.
"Aww..."
"Shut up!" I shouted.
The sensei stopped us. As he forced the rest of the class show respect, I calmed down and focused on my opponent, Shizuma.
When sparing, there are matches. A match ends when one of the opponents hits the other opponent's protected areas. Then the whole thing was repeated until an opponent gets three match points.
"Ready! Bow! Fight!"
With a deafening battle cry, Shizuma charged at me with his boken in the air over his head. Bad move. I kicked off the mat and caught him in the stomach with a horizontal slice while Shizuma's boken went right over my head. The sensei split us again to start our second match.
"Get ready! Go!"
This time I made like I would charge the same way he had charged me. Almost as if on cue, Shizuma tried to mimic my previous move, but I was ready. I jumped up over his boken as he passed me and I swung down to smack him on the head.
Now Shizuma was really angry.
"Go Hideki-chan!" Yumi said as she pumped her right arm into the air like a boxing champion.
[Oh, jeez.]
It was our last match and I knew I had to watch every movement that he made.
"Ready! Go!"
Angry and frustrated, Shizuma rushed in with a diagonal swing. I easily parried and went in to hit him with my own diagonal swing, but Shizuma had already anticipated this and had his boken waiting. Right after he parried, he thrust his boken right where my gut should have been. To evade his attack, I spun around to the side. After evading the tip by mere millimeters, I ended the match by hitting him in the helmet.
I dropped my guard and was getting ready to bow, when Shizuma charged at me with his boken wound up like a bat. As I moved to parry, I saw the opponent's weapon come at me with overwhelming speed and strength. Even though my boken blocked his, there was so much force that my boken ricocheted back as his crashed against my temple. For a split second I saw a huge flash of lights. Then everything went black.
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* Kendo is a sport that originated in Japan. Using bamboo sticks, the
trainees learn to parry and attack. In ancient times, kendo was used to
teach boys the art of combat with a katana (a sword made in East Asia)
(Sorry, I had to move the explanation down here so that it wouldn't
interfere with the flow of the story)
There's the end of that chapter. I hope you enjoyed it. Did you guys enjoy the fight scene? Well, be prepared for more of them!
Review plz!
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At least I thought she was...
"Hello class. My name is Mrs. Amuro."
"Konnichi wa, Amuro-sensei!"
[What's a persocom doing in our class? She... it can't teach, can it? Wait... it... she has regular ears! Wow! She's a real person! Amuro-sensei is really pretty! And I think she's only about 20! But I wonder why she's teaching... She'd make big bucks as a model.]
"Hello class. I will be the teacher for your last period. I am very honored to meet you all. I hope that we will have a fun time together."
"Yes, Amuro-sensei!"
"Now as for your academics, I will be teaching you Japanese and art. For today however, because it is the first day, I believe it would be best if we were to have a question-and-answer session for the next two hours. Do any of you have any questions about this school or their teachers?"
For a long time, the students just asked trivial questions; whether it had to do with the teachers or the building complex itself. There was even a question regarding the forest beyond the school fence, but all of them wasn't as interesting as the one Yumi asked.
"What is a persocom doing at our school?"
"Amy? Well, Amy isn't the only persocom on campus, but she was needed in the science department as an assistant."
"Who are the others? Where are they?" Yumi persisted.
"Oh, they're just some office aids. They help out at the office by grading and inputting information into the computers."
"Can a persocom be a teacher?" I asked.
The teacher's eyes lit up before she replied, "What a clever idea! Your name is Hideki, right?"
"Y... yes, ma'am."
"What would happen if the persocoms were to teach?"
"The students would be fed accurate information and the persocoms wouldn't be blamed for making human errors."
"Then what would happen to the current teachers?"
"Umm... they would lose their jobs?"
"Correct. That's why, by law, it is illegal for a persocom to take a human profession as it's duty."
The classroom erupted in laughter and giggles. I blushed from embarrassment and looked apologetically towards Amuro-sensei. She gave me a smile that told me that there was nothing to be embarrassed about.
* * * * *
After that incident, I just shut up till the class was over. I had my stuff together and was the first one out the door with Yumi right behind me.
"Hideki-chan, you have to hurry if you don't want to be late for kendo* practice."
[Oh no!]
"Please don't follow me to kendo practice! All the guys make fun of me!"
"But what would you do without your cheering squad? You need me! GO HIDEKI!"
I groaned.
[Aww man, I'm going to get laughed at again. Wait... Maybe I can lose her! She's not too familiar with the school yet!]
With that, I rushed through the halls and flew down the stairs, but miraculously, Yumi was waiting for me at the entrance. So, with a long face, I left for kendo class followed closely by Yumi.
* * * * *
"MEN*!"
* Traditional yell when you hit the head of your opponent.
We practiced our strokes and parries. Finally, we went on to sparing. I was paired up with Shizuma.
"Damn!" I whispered.
"You scared, Hideki?" Shizuma taunted.
From the corner Yumi shouted, "Hideki-chan isn't scared of a jerk like you!"
[Oh no! Not this routine again!]
"Aww. Poor Hideki-chan needs his mommy to stand up for him."
The rest of the dojo joined in.
"Aww..."
"Shut up!" I shouted.
The sensei stopped us. As he forced the rest of the class show respect, I calmed down and focused on my opponent, Shizuma.
When sparing, there are matches. A match ends when one of the opponents hits the other opponent's protected areas. Then the whole thing was repeated until an opponent gets three match points.
"Ready! Bow! Fight!"
With a deafening battle cry, Shizuma charged at me with his boken in the air over his head. Bad move. I kicked off the mat and caught him in the stomach with a horizontal slice while Shizuma's boken went right over my head. The sensei split us again to start our second match.
"Get ready! Go!"
This time I made like I would charge the same way he had charged me. Almost as if on cue, Shizuma tried to mimic my previous move, but I was ready. I jumped up over his boken as he passed me and I swung down to smack him on the head.
Now Shizuma was really angry.
"Go Hideki-chan!" Yumi said as she pumped her right arm into the air like a boxing champion.
[Oh, jeez.]
It was our last match and I knew I had to watch every movement that he made.
"Ready! Go!"
Angry and frustrated, Shizuma rushed in with a diagonal swing. I easily parried and went in to hit him with my own diagonal swing, but Shizuma had already anticipated this and had his boken waiting. Right after he parried, he thrust his boken right where my gut should have been. To evade his attack, I spun around to the side. After evading the tip by mere millimeters, I ended the match by hitting him in the helmet.
I dropped my guard and was getting ready to bow, when Shizuma charged at me with his boken wound up like a bat. As I moved to parry, I saw the opponent's weapon come at me with overwhelming speed and strength. Even though my boken blocked his, there was so much force that my boken ricocheted back as his crashed against my temple. For a split second I saw a huge flash of lights. Then everything went black.
~~~~~~~~~
* Kendo is a sport that originated in Japan. Using bamboo sticks, the
trainees learn to parry and attack. In ancient times, kendo was used to
teach boys the art of combat with a katana (a sword made in East Asia)
(Sorry, I had to move the explanation down here so that it wouldn't
interfere with the flow of the story)
There's the end of that chapter. I hope you enjoyed it. Did you guys enjoy the fight scene? Well, be prepared for more of them!
Review plz!