1Last Time

Yom, Tomo, and Sakaki all nod in agreement while Osaka stares into space. Derick waves a hand in front of her and her head follows his hand after a while. Then she comes back to reality and says, "That would be a great idea...why are you two laughing?"

She asks while Derick and Tomo are laughing at the fact that Osaka actually followed Derick's hand he didn't get a response from waving it quickly.

"Don't worry Osaka. It's nothing really." Yomi says while trying to keep her self from laughing.

Osaka nods and says, "Okay then."

Now

After about 5 minutes of talking the bell rang singling the end of class so the gang went to the school cafeteria as it was now time for lunch.

Everyone got their meals and sat down at their table. Chiyo looked to see Derick trying to figure out how to use chopsticks and said, "They have plastic forks and knives next to the napkins if you need one."

Derick thanks Chiyo as he got up to get him self utensils that he is more used to. Tomo looks to Chiyo and says, "When did the school get knives and forks?"

"I think they always had them. We just didn't notice them." Chiyo answered Tomo as Derick came back and sat down.

"So you never had to use chopsticks before derick?" asked Sakaki.

"Yeah. Never went anywhere that had them. I'll probably get some practice while I stay with Chiyo and her family." Derick responded.

Chiyo nods while Yomi notices Derick's food and says, "Do you even know what you picked?"

"Not really. But I know I like seafood. So I took a couple different fish along with some shrimp and rice." Derick responds with a smile.

"Anyway what kinds of things are we going to make for the culture-fest?" asked Osaka.

"I was thinking of making some cats and dogs." Sakaki says after taking a bite of her lunch.

"I was thinking of helping out by bringing in some of the stuffed animals I won at the arcade. I always wound up with no money left by the time I got all of the animals out of the way of the one I wanted so...I'll just bring them in and make my money back." Yomi answers.

Tomo smiles and says, "Yeah. I'll bring in a couple of stuffed bears and stuff."

"I think I'll make a couple of stuffed animals wearing the attires of my favorite wrestlers... what that's the only way your going to get me to make a stuffed animal...even if it was my idea." Derick answers.

Osaka smiles and says, "I wouldn't mind. helping you with that...or help make the costume."

Everyone nods at this and continue eating their lunch. And when they were finished the bell rang again to begin gym.

The gang then split up to their gym classes. After gym Derick found the girls again and said, "So when does school end anyway?"

"School usually ends soon. We just have three more classes...now we have classical lit with Mr.Kimura, the damn pervert." Tomo says as she sits down in her seat.

"So ummm what makes you say he's perverted?" Derick asks.

"He just said out of no where that he likes highschool girls...and that was when Tomo asked him why did he chose to be a highschool teacher." Yomi explains.

"Oh I see... he shouldn't be allowed to freak out the students like that." Derick answers in response.

"Okay everyone take out your textbooks and ...yes what is it?" Kimura asks as Derick raises his hand.

"Umm just a quick question...umm is there an extra textbook for me to borrow for the time being? The store didn't have the textbook I needed when I got my books." Derick asks.

"Oh you must be Derick from NY right? Well yeah there should be one on the book shelf in the back." Kimura answers.

Derick nods as he goes to the back and tries to see if there is a book that has a translated section...he couldn't find one so he just sits back down and hopes he doesn't get picked to read from it.

Yomi sighs and just says to herself, "Tomo would have done the same thing if she was in that situation... I wonder if I could help him read kanji"

After about a 45 minutes a fire drill bell sounds and Kimura looks to everyone and says, "Okay everyone, no one is new to this so you all know what to do." He then leaves the room to the front of the school for the fire drill.

Derick and Chiyo just decide to stick together and follow Yomi, Tomo, Osaka and Sakaki. Chiyo followed because she didn't know if it was done different then in elementary school and Derick followed because well this is his first day in the school so it's not like he's going to know where the school had their students go...or if the rules were different in Japan compared to his old school.

After the fire drill everyone went back to the classroom except Kimura because it was now time for the next class.

Then Myamo came into the class and says, "Hello everyone. I'm ganna be your sub for today. Mr.Yoshi is sick and in the hospital because of it so I'm probably going to sub for him for a bit...ummm sense I don't know how to teach math I'm going to just make this a study hall. Please just study your math and stuff...yes what is it?"

"Ummm nothing really but is there any textbooks here that has a section in English?" asked Derick.

"Umm, I'm guessing you're the new student from the states right? But umm well I don't think there is any. Sorry." Myamo answered as best as she could then decided to look at her books to see what she could do for her next class.

Chiyo walks over to Derick and says, "You can't read kanji ha?"

"Nope...I have hard time as it is looking up the translations when the kanjis are written in English letters so that people like me could at least read them." Derick answers doing the Son grin.

"If you want I could..." Chiyo was interrupted as both Sakaki and Yomi stop her and then look at each other and nod in agreement and say, "if you want we could help you with that."

Derick sweat drops and says, "Umm sure I guess...haha" 'Now why did they decide to keep Chiyo from asking that?' he thought after words.

Chiyo is confused as to why Sakaki and Yomi both wanted to keep her from asking the same thing. But Osaka and Tomo knew and thought in unison 'They like him don't they. Well he is good looking...hmmm'

"Hey Derick is kanji your only weak point?" asked Osaka.

"Ummm not really...but I do know that I hate math...I'm glad that while in Yukari's class I could probably sleep in it and still pass." Derick answers still with the Son grin.

"Damn it...you and knowing English and stuff." commented Tomo.

Sakaki decided to say something as they all seemed to not hear the bell ring and said, "Ummm the bell just rang...umm we should get ready for our next class."

They all nodded and got ready for their next class. And today that would be music. So they each having a separate instrument decided to wait for the teacher who for some reason was trying to get the class to play rock music.

The teacher walks in and puts her CD player on the table and says, "Anyone who can answer what song this is gets a pass for the month on homework."

She just pushes play and immediately Derick raises his hand and says, "Enter Sandman is the name of the song and you have Motorhead's version of the Metallica hit playing."

The teacher just looked at him with big eyes and says, "You're the first one to answer that correctly and answered the extra credit questions without me asking...you're the new kid aren't you?"

"Umm yeah...why does that matter?" Derick asks.

"The reason why I chose that was because after taking a survey of who my classes listen too...neither Motorhead or Metallica was ever a band mentioned." was the teachers response and then she added, "And I chose them on purpose...damn now I actually have to give you the no homework pass."

Everyone sweat drops at this as she begins to pick another song. She looks at the class and says, "I'm just testing all of you knowledge on rock/metal music...why do you think I told you all to watch VH1's Rock Honors for homework."

Everyone sweat drops again except Derick. He just smiles. Tomo leans over to him and says, "You watched it didn't you?"

Derick only nods as the new song starts playing.

Derick raises his hand again but the teacher ignores him. Tomo leans over and says, "What song is it?"

"It's Peace Sells by Megadeth." Derick answers.

"Ohh I knew there was a reason why it sounded familiar. It was in GTA Vice City right?" Tomo asks.

"Yeah it was." Derick asked surprised that Tomo played Grand Theft Auto.

Tomo smiles and raises her hand and the teacher picks her and she stands up and says, "The song name, Peace Sells. The artist is Megadeth. And it was used in Grand Theft Auto Vice City."

The teacher smiles and says, "And who says video games are bad for you?."

After a few more songs and everyone asking Derick for the song titles well most of them as the teacher finally caught onto their plan and switched to rap...which he only knew two songs to answer. And then he was sent outside until class ended so no one could cheat off of him. But half of them didn't need to for rap. Then the bell rang signaling that the school day is no over.

AN: Here's the next chapter.