Chapter 2 -Sweet, Sweet Honey
The school day went by rather normally after that, though the class spent most of the time ignoring the newly dubbed 'Devil Couple' and their joint attempts on Korosensei's life. Turns out they were right to be afraid of these two being in the same vicinity, especially in a classroom where attacking your teacher was expected. Raimei had easily inserted herself into the group her boyfriend usually hung out with, now walking with him, Nagisa, Kayano and Sugino down the hill to go home.
The couple were holding hands as the group walked and the others tried not to stare too hard at their clasped hands. Nagisa seemed rather unfazed, but the other two were still trying to grasp the fact that the class bad boy had a girlfriend.
So far they had been discussing the little weaknesses Nagisa had found out about their teacher, now they had moved onto Karma's first day back. "So Karma got in the first damage? Why am I not surprised."
"Heh, the octopus made it too easy," the boy just laughed it off.
"Yeah, but then he made the mistake of putting Korosensei on high alert, he got in one more hit with BBs on the floor, but after that, no dice," Nagisa explains, taking a small victory in being able to laugh at Karma's expense.
"Tch, alright, I may have gotten too excited at the prospect of being able to kill a teacher," Karma replies, turning his head away to hide his rising blush.
"I still think you shouldn't have thrown yourself off the cliff though, you gave me a heart attack."
Karma was about to reply when he suddenly winced, turning to face Raimei who suddenly had a weird and unreadable smile on her face, "Uh, babe, you're squeezing my hand really hard, do you know that?"
"You threw yourself off a cliff?" is her only response.
"Yes, I was going to shoot Korosensei if he followed me or prove he wasn't a real teacher if he let me fall," he answers, though clearly unsure if he should have.
"So you threw yourself off a cliff?"
"That's what I just said."
She suddenly stopped, forcing Karma, still holding her hand, and the others to stop as well. She suddenly grabbed him by his collar and shouted, "YOU THREW YOURSELF OFF A CLIFF?"
"Ouch," Karma winces again, "Mei, yes, I did, can we not make a big deal about this?"
"You could have died," she exclaims, "What the hell would I have done if you died? While I was at home on suspension thinking of ways to get into E Class, you were throwing yourself off cliffs. Plus my father would probably be the one to tell me, and he wouldn't even be able to reveal the circumstances, I'd just have to live the rest of my life thinking my boyfriend had just fallen off a cliff one day, none the wiser he had THROWN HIMSELF OFF THE CLIFF JUST TO ASSASSINATE HIS TEACHER!"
The three bystanders watched awkwardly, feeling like this was getting way too personal for them to be here anymore. So, without the couple noticing, they slinked away with an unspoken 'see you guys tomorrow.'
Karma had taken the time after she finished talking to reach for her other hand with his free one, grasping them and pulling her towards him so that she now leaned against him. He looked into her eyes, no longer angry, and he could see the tears threatening to fall. He sighs before finally speaking, "Raimei, I'm sorry. In hindsight, throwing myself off a cliff was a reckless and stupid thing to do. However, you know what I was like over the holidays, all I could think about was my old teacher and how badly I wanted him to just die. I finally had the opportunity to kill a teacher and it took over everything else in my head. Including my beautiful girlfriend whom I would be nothing without."
"Don't think you can just flatter your way out of this," she mutters, a pout on her lips.
He scoffs, "Flattery is a lie, what I say is the truth."
She turns her head away from him, still not giving in.
"Alright, I'm sorry, I shouldn't be joking around," he says, letting go of her hands in favour of wrapping his arms around her. "Forgive me?"
She wrapped her own arms around his waist, her head pressed up against his chest. Unlike her tall brother, she had their late mother's short genes. Which in this moment, being at the right height to have her head under Karma's chin, made that completely okay with her.
They stood there for a moment in silence before she finally answers, "I forgive you, just don't ever do something so reckless again, jerk."
"Heh, I promise," his reply is jovial, but she can hear his serious tone.
"Let's go already," she says, letting him go.
He lets her go as well, placing a quick kiss on the crown of her head, laughing as she swats him in embarrassment. Eventually, they make it down the hill and he walks her home.
The following day, Raimei was unable to escape walking with her brother to school. She had left later the day before because she had underestimated how long the climb would be, so she now had no choice but to leave with her punctual-to-a-T twin. Which was awkward since she had not talked to him properly since the morning she had stormed out of A Class to blackmai-talk to their father. She knew he was aching to ask about E Class, he knew something was fishy, he was no idiot. However, no way was Raimei going to give up the juicy intel that she could use to lord over their father, absolutely not. She was too busy trying not to snicker, she almost missed him drawing a slight breath to speak. "So…"
"So what?" she threw in quickly, trying to mess with his rhythm.
"So, why E Class?" he finally asked, ignoring her attempts.
"Whatever do you mean?"
He sighs, "Why did you want to join such a reprehensible group like E Class? You even punched someone and got suspended just to get bumped down. I can't quite understand why."
"Well, it turns out I didn't even need to go through the effort of decking Sakimoto, I wasted two weeks being suspended when asking dad politely works just as well," she says, skirting around the actual question, seeing how much he truly wanted to know.
"Politely?" he scoffs, "Somehow I doubt that you asked politely, blackmail more like. Though that begs the question, how exactly did you manage to blackmail that man?"
"Hmm, well, I don't think the same tactics would work on him if you tried them. Though, if you somehow have a boyfriend you can share a bed with or feel like marring your perfect attendance record, then you're welcome to try those threats."
She watched his internal gears move through his eyes, deciphering exactly what she just said, ignoring the jab of 'boyfriend' rather than 'girlfriend.' It took him no time at all, as expected, "So you threatened to sleep with Akabane and skip school? And that worked?"
"Well, you make that first one sound dirty, I didn't mean what you're thinking, I literally meant to just sleep in Karma's bed, but essentially, yes, you're spot on. And yes, it worked," she answers, a wicked smile on her face just thinking about the moment her father caved.
"Interesting," he mumbles to himself, before changing direction, "but you have yet to answer my actually question, why did you want to be in E Class?"
"Fine," she sighs, "you know I'm not exactly a fan of our father's teaching philosophy. Well, I just can't stand the way the students in the main campus capitalise on that, the way they treat the students they consider to be inferior. It disgusts me, it always has. I had a vague idea about what it would be like at Kunugigaoka from the way dad teaches us at home, but when we started Junior High, I finally understood. It wasn't a school, it was a borderline prison.
"Let me tell you a little secret that I don't think even Father knows about, that Upperclassman from A Class that Karma got suspended for beating up? He only did that because I was about to pound on him myself. Karma could see how much I hated the way that guy was bullying that E Class senior. I may have amazing grades, but I refuse to be a bully because of it. When Karma got transferred to E Class, well, I finally had no more reason to even pretend I liked it in A Class because I would no longer be able to track him down at lunchtime, he'd be too far away.
"E Class may be where Father sends the ones who apparently have no future, but I'd much rather be up there with genuine people than down in the main campus surrounded by people who are quick to criticise others."
She clamped her mouth shut after that, she had said more than she was originally going to, but despite how they are around each other, her twin was someone she could always unload on. Even when she wished not to. Gakushuu knew this, which was why his reply was not a comment on how much she said, but on the context, "So, you hate the people on the main campus and your boyfriend is now in E Class making it a lot more appealing."
"You hit the nail on the head."
"Very well, I won't bring it up anymore, but I will expect both you and that delinquent boyfriend of yours to keep your grades up, E Class or no," he huffs.
She giggles, reaching for his hand, swinging it back and forth with her own, "Okay grumble bum."
"Stop that," he shouts, pulling his hand back, "and don't call me that either."
It was at this point they were near school, which she knew to be the biggest reason he took his hand back, they were not strangers to walking while holding hands. During Elementary school, it seemed to be expected that any pair of twins would always be holding hands wherever they went, especially for a pair that are only stopped from being identical by their gender and, more recently, height. She would have made fun of him for it if she had not spotted a familiar red head by the gates, "Oh look, there's Karma, isn't he such a gentleman? Waiting to help his poor girlfriend up that awful hill."
"You literally asked for it, you will find no sympathy from me on that front," he mutters.
She snickers, and watches as Karma spots them. He has a wide smirk on his face, directed at Gakushuu as if he had won something over the other boy, "Good morning, beautiful and good morning, Shuu. Thank you very much for walking her this far."
"Firstly," he sneers, "I still have yet to give you permission to call me that, and secondly, she's my sister and we live in the same house. I'm going to walk with her to school regardless of you."
Without giving Karma much of an opportunity, Gakushuu was walking away quickly, causing his sister and her boyfriend to snicker as he walked. They paused in their snickering when he suddenly stopped, turning back to face them, "And Akabane, she's your responsibility now."
With that, he finally left, leaving the couple in their place, looking mildly shocked. "You know," Raimei finally says, "that was Shuu for 'hurt her and I'll break your face' like what normal brothers are supposed to say."
"Huh," Karma huffs, "Based on the fact we've been dating for over a year, I'm also going to take it as him finally accepting the fact that we're together. What were you guys talking about while walking over here, because that is literally the first time he's acknowledged me as your boyfriend to my face."
"Nothing much," she answers vaguely.
"Right," he says, rolling his eyes.
The whole class was twitching their brows at this point, yesterday had been a new student, today was apparently a new teacher. While the girls were dumbstruck at the situation, the boys were clearly eyeing something else. There was some voluptuous blonde foreign woman all over Korosensei like he was the hottest man in the room, it was wrong on so many levels. "Okay, look alive people," Karasuma was saying from the front of the room. "Meet our newest addition to the E Class faculty."
"My name is Miss Irina Jelavic, nice to meet you all," the blonde woman happily introduces herself, you could almost see hearts flying around her head as she continued to cling to Korosensei.
Talk about a knockout.
Knockers more like.
Does anybody else think it's weird she's all over Korosensei?
Little bit, yeah.
The class somehow managed to have a thought conversation amongst themselves while Raimei and Karma shared a look, they could see straight through this woman's fake persona.
"We decided to bring on Miss Jelavic in the interest of beefing up the English curriculum," Karasuma was explaining to Korosensei. "No hard feelings, I hope. She's, uh, very qualified."
"No harm in that is there," Korosensei says.
"She totally has a thing for Korosensei," Kayano mutters to Nagisa, "I mean she seems nice, so I guess it's kind of cute, right?"
"Might be something we can use to figure out how to kill him too," Nagisa says in agreement, pulling up his notebook on Korosensei's weaknesses.
He seems thrown off by the attention she's giving him, Nagisa was thinking to himself. Is it because she's human or because she's a woman? His face changes colour to reflect his mood. So what's the colour for hot and bothered?
The class watched as his face went pink and he started giggling. The class could only collectively sweat drop.
He's all about her.
Yeah, no mistaking that face.
Note, he blushes like a human.
Korosensei's Weak Point #5: Boobs.
"The more I look at you, the more I feel myself drawn in," Miss Jelavic was crooning, "Those tiny suppository eyes, those gelatinous joints. I'm simply captivated by the whole package."
Don't fall for it, she's trouble, Okano thought to herself.
No woman in her right mind would be into you, Nakamura agreed in her head as well.
"Hey, maybe she has a tentacle porn kink," Raimei suddenly shouted from the back, causing all student heads to swivel her way in shock, no one had been willing to saying anything yet.
Unfortunately, Miss Jelavic appeared to not have heard, but the two schemers at the back noticed her twitch, Karma giving Raimei a low high five.
He might be a sucker for those looks, Nagisa was thinking to himself again, but we know there's more going on here than meets the eye, Raimei was just the only one who tried to break the facade. If she's here, odds are it's not just to beef up our English studies.
"So, assassin?" Raimei asks as her and Karma trail behind the class on their way to the field for a game.
"Assassin, no doubt," Karma agrees.
"The honey pot by the looks of things, reels a man in with the charms, kills him in his sleep."
"Yep, can't think of many men who would be able to resist those big ones in their face," he laughs, a wide smirk on his face.
"Oh, and what about you? Are you going to be attracted to such large boobs?" she asks, a brow raised.
"Come now, why would I be interested in those when there's already a decent sized pair I'm allowed to look at all I want," he answered, sending a leer her way.
"You're a pervert, you know that?"
"Only when it comes to you."
A/N: and we have chapter 2
Now we're getting into the plot which, in all honesty, won't change all that much. Raimei is more of a what if this character existed kind of character, not really there to throw a spanner in the works, but more comedic relief where I can add it. Anyway, it's now October, which means November, hence NaNoWriMo, is around the corner.
What this means is that I'll spend October planning for a story that I want to write for NaNoWriMo, but ultimately end up writing nothing but fanfiction like I did last year. So either I get in another update for this fic in October, then not again until after November, or it's gonna have countless updates during November alongside other fics. Who knows, so until then.
Seza, out.