Author's Notes
-Sorry about the lack of updates, my left hand got hurt and school has been busy.
-My brain lapsed out a bit when I wrote this; I think some stuff may be inconsistent in this chapter.
-Just realized this chapter has been extensively long…
-Not a lot of feedbacks it would seem so far, but quite a lot of readers!
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Chapter 4: What is in Our Heart
"Man, I have no idea what's coming for me already… crashing my bike and getting scolded like one of Santa Claus's elves from "Santa Claws" himself afterwards."
Eikichi, sitting and thinking silently about what has happened this week as the clock ticks away.
"Hey Onizuka, are you going to say anything before school ends today?"
"Got to deal with those kids first… and I wonder what Urumi will ask of me later…"
"Right, uh, class outing next week (be sure to bring your girlfriend(s)), college assessment testing will begin near the end of the month… and home visiting begins afterwards." Eikichi, realizing his position as a teacher, announces to the class.
"Biiiiiiing biing biiing"
"Off to home you brats go now… (damn, I should remember that myself as well, but I think I'll go drinking with Ryuji, maybe we can fix my bike together later.)"
"Sensei, may I talk to you? It's regarding the home visit…" Tomoko asks Eikichi politely with a hint of a red blush on her cheeks.
"Yeah sure, you want an early arrangement again like last year because you have a busy schedule?" Eikichi responded, actually landing the correct answer.
Tomoko has always been busy after middle school, shooting for major photo studios and advertisements. Her first movie is supposed to be released later this year.
"Yes sensei…" Tomoko replies with a deeper blush, almost to her ears.
"Alright, no problem, I'll just talk to your old man again… and how I want some of those ramen he makes now! (So damn good and a discount for me as her teacher!).
Eikichi now happy that he has hit a mark for once and free food for the night, consented to the request eagerly.
"No problem sensei, I'm sure he will make you some… (And I think I will let you know how I feel…)"
"Home visits… as a very popular female teacher… I don't enjoy this one bit! Especially the senior male students…"
Contemplating about what is in store for her and the students this month; Azusa sits at her desk after school hours ended.
"He will probably be out drinking… it's the weekends, maybe I should go find him. It's always nice to be out with him during anytime…"
"Hey Fuyutsuki, I will be meeting with a student this afternoon. If you want to talk to me later about what happened earlier this week, find me at the dinner bar, and uh, tell Ryuji about my bike if I'm not there, it will mean I'll be late, thanks in advance."
"Well, he already left a note here as an invitation, I guess tonight won't be a bad one after all." Reading the note, Azusa smiles and eagerly looks towards what will be in store for tonight…
"Hmm, as far as I know… the most difficult part will come always at the end."
Urumi now at home in her, continues her plot on a series of pictures she has drawn (all of the characters looking super deformed, like the cute miniatures) on the computer. All the pictures have a smiling Urumi and a weeping Eikichi. At the end of the long series of pictures, the words "GRADUATION PHOTO!" and a happy Onizuka and Kanzaki hugging mark the end. The initiation has begun and as far as she is concerned about what will be coming up, she is unworried at all.
"I am certain, although this is only a college exam to evaluate students and him as a teacher before they take the real exams… he will need to get the most help he can get, just to save himself from that baldy on the first one."
A sharp, sly smile came up around Urumi's face. Where can anyone get better help on an academic evaluation test than from a person who has an IQ over 200?
"Fuyutsuki sensei helped him in the middle school test… but this is a very difficult evaluation test for him. Baldy will probably require him to score at least in the top 25 percentile…maybe I should plot another scheme for Onizuka to watch the Baldy take the test too after he passes!"
The last thought brought a bit of a frown on Urumi. She knows this is a very selfish act, she is making Eikichi going through what Eikichi and the more idealistic people say: That is, as a human being, you can't be ever be evaluated on any paper but by your actions.
"Sorry Eikichi, but this is for the both of us."
After her thoughts finished, Urumi looks out her window to see Tomoko riding on an old fashioned motor-bike behind someone.
"EIKICHI ONIZUKA?"
"Hey Nomura, what is this movie you are going to be featured about?" Eikichi asks while puffing out a cigarette. He crashed his original bike, the Kawasaki ZII and is now beginning to regret it as he takes Tomoko on a lesser bike.
"The damn thing doesn't accelerate fast enough… lacks the customizations I had for the quick drifts, speeding… or anything that I can show off…" The thought made Eikichi shed some tears, but Tomoko doesn't notice it and begins her reply.
"Ummmm… sensei, I think I play a main character in the movie, a "damsel in distress" they call it. I think the movie is already done, but Mr. Munakata is just trying to hype it up as much as he can before he releases it to the public…" Tomoko replies, but not exactly answering what the movie is about.
"Yea? But what is the movie about?" Onizuka a bit more annoyed as he realizes he nearly runs the red light, which would be a mistake.
"Those damn cops are everywhere; I don't think I can get away with ANYTHING when I ride this piece of junk… damn that old man and his rent-a-bike store…"
"Sensei, we're here! Stop the bike!"
"Alright alright… I'm stopping (damn lame ass bike…)"
"I hope that wasn't real, Eikichi already having a girlfriend? With TOMOKO at his side?"
Urumi paces about in her room uneasily. She really hasn't expected about anyone else targeting Eikichi Onizuka, save for Fuyutsuki, whom she expects will try something, eventually.
"Why am I so concerned? A little move there and here… and my plan will go back on track… but can I do that to my best friend?"
"Why am I so worried? There shouldn't be any reason I should be… I can predict his actions without second-guessing it, an-and… by now, he should have a clue of what-, no, who I desire… or does he even catch it?"
Urumi stop her pacing and said her thoughts softly to herself. She had spent a large amount of her free time with Eikichi throughout the last three years. She hasn't press the issue about why she does so, but thought it was mutually understood between her and Onizuka.
"I hope the time we spent together was mutual…" Urumi thinks about Onizuka as she watches the sunset and the nightfall begins. She sighs and makes a rare weak smile.
"I really do hope you understand. My beloved teacher."
"Huh, what the-? Is the store closed or something? There is no one inside but... quite a few of your fans waiting out here." Onizuka, now a bit angry due his surroundings, asks Tomoko. He turns around, very astonished to find her with her hair tucked in her dark grey sweater, wearing a pair of blue jeans, a fashionable green scarf, a brown detective cap, and a pair of… dorky sunglasses.
"Where, when, and HOW did she do that? We were just across the street, parking that lame ride in the back of that store… There were no pauses in between and it took less than 30 seconds for us to walk here!
"I'm not sure sensei, let's go inside and check, I think I have the keys in my purse" Tomoko replies and pulls the keys out of her purse.
"I think you may want to open the doors, the people here tend to get… excited when they see a girl open the store's doors."
"Alright Nomura, I got it, I open the doors no fuss and no fuzz right?" Eikichi asks emphatically, at least he appears so.
"Right, sensei"
As Eikichi opens the door, a mob surrounds him.
"OH MY GOODNESS! ARE YOU NOMURA TOMOKO IN A MAN SUIT (starts pulling Eikichi's arms)? ARE YOU HER BOYFRIEND (in anger)? WHERE DO YOU LIVE? WHAT DO YOU DO? WHAT MAKES YOU DESERVING OF HER!" Questions were being shouted by the mob and Eikichi stands out in the middle of the sidewalk with a mob surrounding him, cutting off the entrance to the store.
(No wonder the damn store is closed, you people…) "Hey listen, I'm her--" Onizuka with a vein bulging on his neck tries to reply, but gets cut off by one particularly big and rounded fan, with a face like a mole.
"WHAT? WHO AND WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE! A BLEACHED HAIR MAN? A DIRTY T-SHIRT? A PAIR OF DIRTY JEANS? ARE YOU A BURGLAR? A THUG? I THINK I'LL BE HANDING YOU A---" Before the big, rounded, and mole faced fan finished, Eikichi pulls him down by the collar.
(In a very, very deathly serious tone) "Listen… you don't want to mess with me, the legendary "Oni" of "Onibaku" of Shonan Beach… I'll make sure you life is a living hell if you ever trouble me and/or her again…"
A ruby hue begins to simmer in Eikichi's eyes as he speaks.
"Goddamn those celebrity stalkers, there's always photos in magazines and autograph sessions you can go to. Celebrities have a REAL private life too you know... Hey, maybe I should try to get Urumi talking to those Gundam bros again, she's like a celebrity to them..."
"ALRIGHT! ALRIGHT! LET ME GO!" The fan, now with his face VERY pale, suddenly turns blue and vomits on Eikichi… Then some wetness came out, from the fan's trousers onto the cement paving… and some on Eikichi's shoes…
"You little, big, son of a… (Veins starts popping on his forehead) did you think I wasn't serious?" Eikichi lets go of the fan, and was about to kick into some action from his college karate championship days... then Tomoko suddenly says shyly.
"Uh sensei, we can go in now, everyone seemed to have walked away… maybe you can get cleaned too, I'm sure there are some spare clean shirts inside."
Realizing his student is watching, Onizuka just stares at the fan with fire simmering in his eyes. The fan runs off never looking back.
"(Damned dude, probably never been to a real fight…) Sorry Nomura, I just got frustrated, I think he was frustrated about something too. People get uh, excited or erm, whenever they are frustrated right?" Trying to play off what just happened smoothly, Onizuka downplays it then tries to laugh it off with a poorly acted laughter...
"(He he he… its ok sensei) OK, let's go in now sensei."
"Alright… (I have to get new shoes now… maybe someone in the subway will try to size me up again… heh heh he he…)"
"Is dad home? I thought he was… I may have forgotten what is today" Tomoko thinks to herself.
"Maybe it would be better if dad isn't here… (Smiles)"
"He's not here, I wonder if something went wrong…"
Azusa is now at the bar with Ryuji and his girlfriend. The three has been there for some time now talking about what's going on recently in their life.
"Hey Fuyutsuki sensei, what is that (big idiot) Eikichi doing at school now? Did he pull another one of his stunt this time at the school opening ceremony?" Ryuji asks, he's only down a mug, but he is quite angry about Eikichi's lateness.
"Yes he did, he crashed his bike onto the podium this time and he wants to ask if you can repair it."
"(That idiot…) so uh, you just told me he crashed his bike… Yeah, I'll get the parts for him, but he'll have to fix it himself. He can do it; he customized that one on his own so it won't be a problem fixing it." Chugging another mug, Ryuji turns to talk to his girlfriend, Nagisa.
"Hmm, his friend is different from him, although they share that same attitude about authority figures. Maybe, that is why Onizuka doesn't have a girlfriend yet."
"Hey I'm curious… (blushes) about what you and Onizuka did when you two were younger… can you tell me about it?" Azusa asks shyly. She doesn't actually know too much about Eikichi, only that he was an ex-bike gang leader, a two-time college karate champ, and a fifth-rate college graduate.
"About that one… (Thinks)… Well, I'll just say we were kind of crazy back then, fearless of god and hell. We must've been expelled from 10 schools altogether since our time in middle school. We beat up teachers who called us trash, seniors… anyone that was a crack head that got in our way… I think in high school, we did some funny things around trying to get laid as soon as we can (ha ha ha)… We took on a gang of about 100 with just the 2 of us in Shonan Beach and came out on top… Then we became leaders of the biggest bike gang in Shonan beach… I think those are the big things we did before, any more details you'll have to ask him, it's kind of rude to talk about another man's life."
A look of nostalgia came on Ryuji's face as he continues a bit later.
"…Damn… I kind of missed those days… That huge road with no finishing line we use to go down… in that endless stream of light during the night…."
"Hey Ryuji, do you think Onizuka will be coming?..." Nagisa asks as Ryuji continues to dwell on his stream of memory.
"…Yes, I would like to ask him myself…"
With that thought in mind, Azusa turns to look at the clock and waits again…
"Sorry Tomoko, incase you forget, I have to attend a live broadcast session with a TV station tonight about my Ramen specialties with the entire family. I have left some ramen on the counter for you and your homeroom teacher if you brought him here. P.S Say hi to him for me." –Love Dad and mom
"… Sorry sensei…" Tomoko apologizes with a sweat drop.
"(damn it… oh well, at least there is free food…) its all good, I'll just have to write something down to remind him about what is coming up right? (Watches Tomoko nod) Ok then, shall we eat?" A bit disappointed, but happy about the free food, Onizuka sits down.
"Hold on sensei, you need to get changed… come with me."
"I could just call him to make sure… should I? He told me before I can call him anytime but I have never done so… It's always him calling me…"
Urumi stands and begins pacing again. She has never been this nervous before, usually some kind of a punishment would be given to Eikichi whenever she sees him getting horny about a strange woman in front of her. But this is Tomoko, a friend.
"Why am I like this? What kind of girl does he like really? And how will I ever get some sense into him about me?" Urumi asks herself those questions softly, but she realizes the answer to the third question immediately.
"I have to confess… let him know I'm just as--, no, much more serious than I was before… The block head always intrudes into other people's life; that is why he always calls me. He will never know anything if nothing confronts him…why did I never call him before?"
With that in her mind, she steels herself and reaches for her video camera phone Eikichi had bought for her years earlier…
"Be ready, Eikichi."
END OF CHAPTER 4!
-Is it ok for me to write a sequel to this 5 chapter story? (I'm not too famliar with the rules...) I might be able to finish it all up in the 5th chapter, but I would like to continue more in the sequels if possible.
-Yes, I finally found the link to my own forum. (can't post links or and web address, just realized it...)
-I decided I will NOT do an overhaul on any of the chapters until after I finish the fifth chapter. It just gets complicated when I thought about editing the old parts to make it better, then sending new bad parts. Better to fix the whole thing once…
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