Disclaimer: I do not own Assassination Classroom or anything associated with it. I only own the OC Hiyashi Mizuki and her siblings. All rights go to Yusei Matsui.

A/N: Alright I am so sorry I have so many flashbacks. I didn't realize how much characterization an original character needs... Anyway, thank you to drak3n and the one guest for your reviews. They made my day. Also thank you to the follows and favs:) Okay, enough babbling here's the real reason you're here:

Chapter 4 Meet Ryunosuke

Timeskip to first day of class

She arrived in the classroom, sweating slightly from the hike up the mountain. Man, it's a good thing I love free running so much. Knowing she had to hike a mountain and not knowing how long it would take her, Mizuki had left extra early just in case which lead her to be the first person in the classroom. The building was not well kept with dust filling the air, old wooden desks instead of the clean metal ones they had in the main building, and a complete lack of air conditioning. She wasn't really surprised though. Stories of the horrors of the End Class was a constant back in the main building in order to keep everyone motivated to study.

Finding the seat she was assigned in the back of the room, she hung her bag on the side of her desk and sat down, staring out the window to her right. Her mind wandered to her new classmates. Being from Class A would be a disadvantage to her; not that she wanted to be popular, but she also didn't want to be singled out and bullied. While she had never participated in the bullying and discrimination of Class E, she had also never defended them. She simply treated them as she had treated all her other peers: mostly being oblivious to their presence with her nose in her latest book or exchanging polite greetings. Though, there was one time in her second year she had broken her indifference.

Flashback

As usual, Mizuki walked the halls immersed in her latest story. She was going to a fiction phase and had become obsessed with a series of books called Keeper of the Lost Cities. She had just gotten to the climax of the book and had stopped paying attention to what was in her peripheral view causing her to crash into another student. While she had barely managed to keep her balance, he had fallen to the ground.

"Oh no! I'm so sorry. Are you alright?" She asked, extending a hand to him to help him up.

He stared up at her (at least she thinks he was looking at her, his bangs covered his eyes so she couldn't tell) with his mouth agape, not moving a muscle to accept her hand.

Feeling awkward, she vocally offered her help, "Ano, here let me help you up."

Finally snapping out of it, he accepted her hand and she pulled him to his feet. "Why are you being nice to me?" He asked, his voice as soft as a spring breeze.

"Nani? I'm being polite. It was my fault for bumping into you. Sorry about that, I just love reading too much to set my book down sometimes." She laughed, embarrassed, scratching the back of her neck with one hand. "Anyway, sorry again; let me know if I can make it up to you. I'm Hiyashi Mizuki of Class A if you need to find me."

He opened his mouth, most likely to respond, but he never got the chance. Two of her male classmates from Class A had seen the interaction and approached them, "What do you think you're doing, scum?"

"Yeah, who do you think you are crashing into our best female student?" His friend inquired angrily.

"Hey! That was rude. Knock it off!" Mizuki admonished. She was about to apologize for her classmates rude behavior when she was cut off by the first guy.

"Hiyashi-san, don't trouble yourself with this trash. He's going to be a Class E student next year; he should be kissing the ground you walk on."

The boy ducked his head in embarrassment mumbling a barely audible "excuse me" and tried to escape. Instead, he found himself cut off by a wall of three other Class A students, girls this time, who also demanded he apologize to their role model.

"Stop it all of you! This is unbelievable. This is none of your business, so get out of here. Now that I know he will be Class E, I will make sure he gets the proper punishment, understand?" Mizuki berated.

"Hai!" With that, the group scattered, but not before the whispers reached their ears.

"Ha! He's in for it now"

"Can't wait to hear what Mizuki-chan does to the Class E scum"

Sighing mentally, she grabbed the boy's arm, "Come with me"

She lead him towards the front door of the main building before pulling him into an empty room. Turning, she saw the nervousness in his body language: head down, hands fidgeting, feet turned away as if he were ready to bolt any second.

"Are you alright?" She asked in her kindest voice.

His head snapped up. Clearly he had expected her to bully him in some way.

"Look, I meant what I said before. It was my fault, and no matter who you are, I will own up to my mistakes. I just needed to say that stuff to get them to leave you alone; plus, I unfortunately need to keep my reputation up lest someone uses my indifference towards you as leverage against me somehow. Sorry." She said with a half-shrug. She really didn't care for what class students were in, but with everything that had happened with her mother and now her father and the notice, she couldn't risk getting kicked down from her top spot. Not with her mother's money on the line. She faced the boy and continued, "I'm serious. If you need something, within reason obviously, I'll do my best to help you as an apology for bumping into you... And my classmates' boorish behavior I guess."

She couldn't tell how her words had affected him. His body language had become more relaxed, but other than that it hadn't changed much with her words. With his bangs covering his eyes, she couldn't accurately read his thoughts and that frustrated her.

"Arigato gozaimashita, Hiyashi-san." Her thoughts froze. Even without looking into his eyes, she could hear the sincerity in his voice. Being the top student meant that people befriended her to get in her good books or to get to Asano through her, so sincerity was something she was unaccustomed to.

"Uh, um, you're welcome, of course."

He smirked, "Wow, didn't think the top student would be so inarticulate."

"He-Hey!" She shouted with a pout.

"I'm kidding." Changing his smirk to a soft smile.

It was her turn to smirk, "Well hello, Kidding. Got to say, that's a strange name"

"Ha, ha very funny. My name is actually Ryunosuke Chiba."

"Hmmm, nice to meet you Ryunosuke-san." She said, holding out her hand.

This time, there was no hesitation when his hand reached out to shake hers.

End Flashback