Eve: Anyway anybody who reads the chapter before please please please don't get offended! It was just a stupid chapter! If anybody is teacher among the readers (which I highly doubt so) please don't sue me!!!!!!!!! And anyway the teacher who I am referring to in this chapter... please don't take offense... Nice girl Evelyn is not up to insult you... it's only that it will add some sense of humor in this chapter!

Chapter 12 – The tricks

Horiocai-sensei, the form teacher of class 2/0 staggered towards the classroom with the usual sneer stuck on his crimped, ghastly face. He pushed open the sliding door with his scrawny hand which had veins that are visible to naked eye even from a distance. Suddenly, something solid landed on his greasy greyish-white hair. Horiocai-sensei looked down to his feet and proceeded to pick up the hard white board duster that had just messed up his perfect, flawless hair.

Horiocai-sensei had no change in expression while keeping a firm grip on the duster. He walked towards the white board and placed the duster on the ledge. Following his daily routine, he took out his mike from his this super big size bag and placed in on the teacher's table.

The students of 2/0, including Kouichi, Izumi, JunPei and Takuya gasped when they witnessed this. Horiocai was not affected by the trick that they had set up as a welcome surprise for him. He didn't even utter a single word!

'I just knew it won't work!' Kouji smirked in triumph, why didn't they just listen to the great Kouji-sama? This one will work! Definitely! Kouji watched closely for his plan to work.

Horiocai-sensei proceeded to take out his amplifier. He opened the cover and was surprised to see the wire all messed up. He stared at the mess blankly, not surprised at all. "Kouji, come here and help me untangle the wire!" He commanded, pointing at Kouji, unaware of the tricks that his students were playing on him.

"What the?" Kouji muttered, he cursed under his breath while dragging his feet towards the teacher's table. His plan backfired. He sent death glare to Takuya, Izumi, Kouichi and JunPei who were giggling at the back.

Meanwhile, Horiocai-sensei opened the battery cover of his mike. To his dismay, there was no battery at all. 'I am getting old...' he thought as he searched for his spare batteries. He unlocked his drawer and found a big fat ugly mouse staring at him. He stared back, 'What a cute little mouse! Too bad I have to get rid of it!' His ego sighed.

"What are you laughing at the boy at the back?" Horiocai-sensei turned his attention to Takuya who was giggling silently. "Wha... Nothing!" Takuya stopped his snickering and put on his most innocent face.

Unfortunately, Horiocai-sensei didn't buy it. "You and you! The girl at the back and you!" He pointed a finger at Takuya and Izumi, "Girl, you go take some batteries from the staff room and you boy! Throw this mouse into the rubbish bin!"

Takuya and Izumi hesitated for a while before following his orders. Their plans were unsuccessful too... Kouji smirked, 'Serve them right!'

Horiocai-sensei carried on and started teaching without his amplifier and mike, which was very unusual of him. "I don't want to strain my voice that's why." He announced on the first day the population of 2/0 met him.

Horiocai-sensei... The mention of his name reminded me of an alien from Umbydumby land. If you hadn't seen an alien before, Horiocai-sensei was the closest to it. He never even bothered calling people by their names. All he knew was 'Girl at the back! Boy at the front!' or sometime he would even...

"Girl at 46! Stop talking or I send you out of the classroom!" Horiocai- sensei harangued. Yeah... he called the students by the position they were sitting at.

"And so I was talking about atoms... All matters contain atoms. Atoms exist as the smallest particle on Earth and this diagram represents a helium atom." Horiocai-sensei picked up a marker and started drawing. However, nothing came out of the marker. "You boy! The one at the back! Go and change the marker!"

Kouichi sighed, retrieved the marker from Horiocai-sensei and scuffled out of the classroom. He was starting to wonder whether Horiocai-sensei was a human or some monster... Even his plan failed to astonish him.

Finally after the chaos was cleared and Kouji, Kouichi, Takuya and Izumi were back to their seats, Horiocai-sensei decided to give them a class test on the topics that he had taught today. The whole class grinned, they were waiting for this moment.

After the test

Horiocai-sensei was at the teacher's table, marking the test while the class was doing their own things. Horiocai-sensei discovered that everybody's handwriting were exceptionally small even Kira's whose writings were usually gigantic. After about 30 minutes of straining his eyes, he came to a conclusion that everybody would attain 0 for this test as he couldn't even read a single word. He attempted to borrow a microscope but thought better of it.

"Everybody shoosh!" Horiocai-sensei hissed, catching the whole class' attention. "Since all of you decided to go against me today... I want all of you to stay back and re-do this whole test! Well... except for this Kauji Min...min...mina...moto guy and I...izu...mi... Or...ore....orimoto girl" Horiocai-sensei pushed his spectacles and scrutinized at the names of the two students.

The whole class except for Kouji and Izumi gaped, their mouth turned into a big O. "But why they don't have to?" Some random boy complained. "Yeah... why us?" Some random girl whined.

"They'll have detention with me." Horiocai-sensei said curtly.

This time it was Kouji's and Izumi's turn. Their mouths dropped open, "But why?" They groaned.

"Because I need some people to clean this super slippery and dirty classroom!" Horiocai-sensei pointed at the food crumbs under JunPei's table and some paints on the floor. "That's it! The two people's names I mentioned stay back after school while the rest of you meet me in the canteen! Class dismissed!" Horiocai-sensei announced and stalked out of the classroom.

Everybody chuckled slightly as they stared at the paper sticking up at the back of Horiocai-sensei's shirt. It was written: I am an alien. Beside the words were some drawings of aliens drawn by JunPei himself.

After school at detention

Kouji and Izumi looked at each other, clutching their weapons. Both had handkerchiefs covering their mouths.

"Ready?" Izumi inquired.

"Ready!" Kouji nodded slightly.

"It's now or never!" Izumi continued.

"Aa..."

"ATTACK!" Both of them asserted as they went off. Kouji mopping the floor while Izumi swept the floor.

With the rest of the class at the canteen

"Where the hell is JunPei... the test going to start soon!" Takuya huffed, he's going to miss his date with his girlfriend at this rate. "Stupid sensei!" Takuya cursed under his breath, loud enough for only Kouichi to hear.

With JunPei

"Who cares about the test? It's time to get back at the principal!" JunPei cheered himself on as he sashayed towards the principal's office. The principal wanted to see him anyway.

He knew that the principal would be out for lunch at this time, so he slipped inside before he could come back and applied super glue on the principal's most favourite chair.

After he was done, he tip-toed out and waited patiently for the principal to return. Suddenly, somebody tap him at the shoulder. JunPei turned and found himself face to face with the principal.

"Ah JunPei! You are early!" The principal beamed at his student and ushered him to go in. However, JunPei looked at him blankly.

"JunPei, you may go in!" The principal said in a questioning tone, pointing at the door. JunPei blinked, he walked inside the room upon seeing where his elder was pointing.

He made himself comfortable at the couch while the principal sat on his chair across to where JunPei was sitting. "JunPei... I had heard some concerns about you from some teachers... Do you have any idea about it?" The principal started.

Silence filled the air as JunPei blinked again.

The principal blinked back, taking silence as no, he carried on, "Your English teacher had told me you had been sleeping in class a few days ago. Do you have any explanation for it?"

Silence. JunPei blinked rapidly, his mouth was opened.

"JunPei, are you all right?" The principal asked, slightly concern about JunPei.

JunPei blinked even faster.

"JunPei!"

Blink blink...

"JUNPEI!" The principal shouted as he tried to stand up. He found himself stuck to the chair. "What is this?"

JunPei stopped blinking at grinned impishly at the principal, "Gotcha!"

The principal glared at JunPei and attempted to pounce on him but his back was still stuck to the chair, so he ended up kissing the ground with his chair on top of him.

"See ya later old man!" JunPei beamed contentedly and skipped out of the office.

"JUNPEI! I'LL TELL YOUR MOM ABOUT THIS!" The principal, who turned out to be JunPei's uncle shouted in rage.

Back to Izumi and Kouji

Finally after a few hours, they finished cleaning up the used to be dirty but now clean classroom. By the time, Takuya and the rest of the class had gone home.

"Can't believe it! My 2nd time detention in the whole year! And I have to do it with you!" Izumi said jokingly as she packed her back, "My mom would be so angry with me! More to that, I got 0 for a class test!" She ended her sentence with a chuckle.

"Izumi... Will you believe me if I told you I was your childhood crush?" Kouji said in a serious tone.

'Eh?'

efore Izumi could reply, Kouji had captured her lips in his. When Izumi was digesting what had happened, Kouji pulled away and grinned at Izumi's stunned face, "April fool!"

"KOUJI! COME BACK HERE!" Izumi prepared to run after Kouji but her shoelaces were loose. He stuck out his tongue and made a dash for the door.

Izumi touched her lips with her delicate finger as she watched Kouji's retreating figure. The sensation on her lips was so familiar. There would be no mistake to it! Pondering over the question that Kouji had jokingly asked her just now, she answered the question.

'I do Kouji...I do'

A/N: GRRR!!!!!!!! THIS CHAPTER SUX!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's getting a bit sappy here don't you think? I hate this chapter! Looks like I am going to have another writer's block... ARGH!!!!! Suggestion humans! Anyway the next one will be up in around 1 wk time! I swear!