(Yuki Sempai - 11)
Eiri picked her and Ryuichi up at Erica's house at a little after eight, he looked really professional like with his suit on and his hair fashionably tussled as always. Shuiichi looked tired, like he hadn't gotten much sleep last night. Erica said nothing about what Ryuichi said to her when he first got there.
"I was worried about you." Shuiichi said softly.
"I fell asleep." Ryuichi said grinning broadly. He would slip into the back seat and buckle his safety belt, strapping Mr. Bear in, in the middle. Erica got in next to him, or rather next to Mr. Bear. She didn't say anything actually, she was sleepy. "And I really don't think you had much time to be worried."
Shuiichi blushed, Ryuichi's words were good hearted, he meant no harm, and he was only playing. He would look over at Erica and smile then back out the window. As Taylor started to giggle and eventually laughing, causing Eiri to glance at her, making her only laugh harder, Shuiichi… tried to hide as best he could.
Once they arrived Eiri went to the office where he was to meet up with the principal before he started working. Erica, Shuiichi and Ryuichi would go down to breakfast. Once again every one tried to pull Ryuichi away, he would go with them for breakfast, promising that lunch would be spent, at least mostly with Erica. She seemed all right with this and Shuiichi was after all there to keep her company.
The first class was English, which is what Eiri would be teaching. Everyone seemed a little off of their mark when they walked in and instead of that normal bitch of a teacher; they were walking into the tall, sleek and sexy Eiri Yuki. He was standing in the front of the room; one hand in the pocket of his slacks and the other was writing on the board.
"Who are you?" Mark asked. He had been the boy that had called Shuiichi a gook on the first day of school. Eiri's golden eyes slowly moved over to him, as if he shouldn't have spoken without being called on, which was exactly why he was looking at him.
"I am Yuki Sempai, or rather, here in America I would be Mr. Yuki." He said softly. "I am you new teacher as of today. Now, I would appreciate it if you would all sit down and be quiet unless you are called on."
"But class hasn't started yet Mr. Yuki." Mark complained. He looked as though he were ready to fight until Eiri's cold golden eyes locked on his, and then suddenly he wouldn't be so bold. It was as if his void like eyes had sucked out all ability to fight him.
"Are you in my class room?" He asked. The rest of the room had fallen into silence.
"Yes." He answered.
"Than you have entered class, and you will abide by the rules of this classroom." He said. Even Erica hadn't expected that he would be this tight with the rules. He would sit down at the desk and look over the attendance sheet.
"I expect a yes if you are here. Plane and simple, if you do not respond you will be marked absent." He said coldly as he started listing off the attendance sheet to see who was present.
"Oh great just what we need, more Japs." Jesus growled, Ryuichi glared at him. "First that pink haired brat, then the faggot with the bunny, and now, a Jap teacher, just what this school needs."
Eiri's eyes rose to meet Jesus'.
"Have you something to share with the class Mr. Rayes?" Eiri asked coldly.
"Yeah, are you from Japan?" He asked boldly.
"No. Actually I was born here in America and spent most of my youth over seas in Japan." He said coldly. "My back ground and race has little to do with this class."
"How is it that someone from Japan can teach English?" Mark said, emboldened by Jesus' stupidity.
"The actual title of this class is Language Arts, which even the Japanese have classes on. And that is what I am teaching you. As you can tell, I speak English as well as the next American, if not, in some cases, better." Eiri said softly, a sardonic smile taking those pale lips.
"What are you sayin'?" One of the kids growled.
"I am 'sayin'' that you need to speak properly. I am also sayin' that there are three detentions for Mr. Terio, Mr. Rayes and also you Mr. Brown." Eiri said.
"For what, asking your race?" Jesus growled.
"That is two for you Mr. Rayes, and no, it is for speaking without lifting your hand. Shall we continue?" No one said anything, rather they all sat there staring at him as if he walked right out of some horror flick. His over all demeanor had a very bad ass air to it. "Good, Miss Smith, what is it that we were working on?"
"Poetry Yuki Sempai." Erica announced. Some of the kids glared at her as if she were kissing his ass.
"Really?" He asked, she resisted the urge to go 'no, not really, I am lying' which was what her step father did all the time when someone said that. Eiri would open the filing cabinet and go through the curriculum and rolled his eyes. "No wonder grades in this class are so dismal, these poets are dull as tombs."
"So, are their any poets that you like?" He asked glancing over the room.
"Edgar Allan Poe." Erica announced.
"A good poet but a bit macabe." He said nodding.
"Robert Frost." Another one announced.
"Also a very good poet. I particularly liked The Road Less Taken." He said nodding and smiling at the girl who blushed some. In the short time that he had been there Erica had almost forgotten how charming his smile was over the fact that he was being a complete asshole.
"Now, here is a question. How many of you listen to P. Ditty?" Eiri asked, holding up a CD.
"Me, and that is mine!" London said holding up his hand.
"Well Mr. Burton, it would seem that you shouldn't be listening to it during class." Eiri said looking at him. A few others raised their hands. "Now did you realize that P. Ditty is technically a poet?"
Everyone looked at each other.
"Hmm, and what about this one? Marilyn Manson? How many of you listen to Marilyn Manson?" Again there was a show of hands. "Yes, also a poet. You see, Lyricism is very akin to poetry. Now, I would like each of you to come up here and pick a CD. I have made sure that all of them have their lyric sheets. I would like you in groups of three to go through the lyrics and find the poem, or song, that touches you the most from that band. Or, if you have one of your own you may use it. Now, please split up and come up and pick a disk…"
"Yuki Sempai." Erica said raising her hand. She waited for a moment until Eiri pointed to her. She would stand as she was speaking as she had seen Shuiichi do his first day there. "May I go to my locker?"
"Why?" He asked now giving her his undivided attention.
"I would like to get my CD's from my locker for this assignment." She answered.
"Very well. Be quick."
She ran out of the room and to her locker outside of her homeroom. She would return to the class moments later carrying a large CD book.
"Erica! I am working with Erica!" Ryuichi announced escaping from the encircling of people that wanted to work with him to walk over to Erica, dragging Shuiichi with him. Erica gave a slightly triumphant smile and moved over sitting at her desk with Ryuichi and Shuiichi.
"Alright, now that we are all split up, we will be reading the selection out load to the class in twenty minutes, so get a good feel for the rhythm of the poem. Please note that we will not be singing or rapping the pieces, we will be reading them as if they were a work from Poe or Frost." Eiri explained, he would move over and walk around the class, making sure that everyone was doing what they were supposed to. Even telling Erica that she needed to quiet down, and no he wouldn't make an exception for the three of them for singing.
Erica chose to read "My December" By Linkin Park. Shuiichi who couldn't figure out what to do decided to use one of Bad Lucks songs that he went up and had Eiri quickly translate for him because he was really bad at translating Japanese to English, he chose Glaring Dream, and Ryuichi decided to go for something so completely unlike him that it shocked everyone, Breaking the Habit, by Linkin Park.
Gym was pretty much the same old song and dance. Ryuichi, Erica and Shuiichi were jogging, followed by Ryuichi's growing Otaku (group of rabid fans).
"That was scary Ryuichi." Erica said. Ryuichi looked over at her and pouted. "No no, it was good, but… you were… so… serious."
"It is a serious song. With serious subject matter, I would have done the writer no justice if I didn't act serious reading it." He said smiling at her, easily whipping away the serious look and eyes that bored into your soul that he had used when reading the piece.
"I think you were one of the best readers Ryuichi." Amy said from behind them. Erica glared a bit at her, she had a feeling that Amy sort of might have liked Ryuichi a little, and Erica wasn't having any of that.
"Thanks" He said smiling brightly, completely oblivious to the looks that were passing between the friends.
Erica was a little upset at Lunch. Ryuichi had promised that he would sit with her, and he had been immediately dragged away by his otaku as soon as he came in. She would sit at the table.
"You like him huh?" Shuiichi said looking at her, violet eyes wide and innocent as always.
"Well… um… no… I mean… don't tell him!" She squeeked looking at him. He didn't seem as dejected at being ignored today, it was as if the revilation that she had the hots for Ryuichi made him understand why she had ignored him that day.
"It is ok. I won't." He said smiling some at her.
"RYUICHI!" Erica finally belted out.
"ERICA!" She heard return from a group of people that usually shunned her. That was where he was, sitting with the cheerleaders. Wonderful.
She would pout again and go back to eating. Suddenly she would be grabbed around the waist and carried over to where Ryuichi had been sitting. Getting a few glares from his otaku she would just grin at them nervously.
"Sit." Ryuichi said sitting her down next to him and talking to them. "Anyway, like I was saying…"
"Ryu?" Erica said a few moments later, he stopped talking and looked at her smiling, showing that he was not at all annoyed by her inturruption. "My lunch?"
She had just meant that she had left it at the table and was about to get up to go and get it when he would suddenly get up and run over and grab it, smiling at Shuiichi and putting it down, no sooner had he sat down than did he frown, everyone looked at him trying to figure out what was wrong.
"That wasn't nice…" He said looking at Mr. Bear. "I know you are right."
He would hand Mr. Bear over to Erica and get up, grabbing Shuiichi the same way that he had Erica and then grabbing his lunch, yes he can be taught! He would walk back and frown, not enough seats, Shuiichi's lunch would be placed in front of Erica, Erica's scooted out of the way, and he would grab Erica with the free arm, and sit Shuiichi in Erica's seat and then sit down, placing Erica in his lap.
"There!" He said smiling proudly. As if he had just placed the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle.
From that point on, he just took Taylor with him when his otaku dragged him around, and the one time they said they didn't want Erica there, Ryuichi left too.
After Lunch was Science, due to a shortage of teachers all of the teachers were currently teaching two subjects. Eiri had gotten the Language Arts that he wanted, and also somehow they thought he was suitable to teach science as well. So Erica would move into the room, wondering if science would be as interesting as English had been, to her dismay all she was told to do was read certain pages, answer certain questions for class work, and others for homework, along with a workbook assignment. She didn't like that at all, it was dull and being one of the smarted kids, she was finished first.
She ended up tutoring Shuiichi who was having trouble understanding the difference from the Japanese word for a bone to the English word. She ended up giving Shuiichi her notebook, telling him if there was a wrong answer, which she doubted there would be, he could comment on it and she would work it out with him. He was very relieved that Erica had helped him. Ryuichi just stuck his nose in the book and didn't pull it out until he was done.
