Korosensei had tucked Akiko into bed after she had broken down at the school. She ended up crying herself to sleep that night. He removed her eyepatch and changed her uniform quickly into her pajamas. The octopus creature ran his tentacle through her hair. Her curls were settling back in. Korosensei sat at the edge of the bed. This wasn't going to be easy on her, but it was all for her benfit. He'd have to talk about it with Karasuma, perhaps she could still remain in E-class.

He watched her sleep, her eyes were puffy from crying. She was hurting alot and he understood it wasn't just cause she'd have to leave soon. Something else was going on and he had a strong feeling it had something to do with where she came from.

On a number of occasions she's had nightmares. He'd have to talk to her about it. What ever it had been she would need to tell someone sooner or later, bottling up fear was just cause for trouble. First things first and that would be cheering her up.

Korosensei sat up, ready to depart to the living room for a much deserved rest.

"Korosensei..."

The yellow creature turned to Akiko. She must have been sleep talking. He had leaned over nuzzled his face against hers as she did for him when they were at the school. He turned a mild pink from embarrassment, happy there was no one there to see this.

"Sweet dreams my dear...Things will get better. I promise."

Korosensei finally left the room and flipped off the light switch. He had made his way to the couch with his blankets and sleep where all set out for him for bed.

After dressing and getting comfortable he had finally settled beneath his sheets on the couch and slept.

The next day Korosensei had woken up early, changed prepped breakfast as well as tidy the whole house and set up some extra stuff for class and make breakfast. And it had only taken him 20 minutes. He poked his head into the bedroom to find Akiko awake, staring at the ceiling.

"Good morning sunshine! Breakfast is ready on the table. I even made muffins." Korosensei perked hoping she would enjoy i nice hot meal.

She looked at him from the corner of her eye.

"Stupid octopus..." she muttered out coldly and continued to stare at the roof. Korosensei wheeped comically, realizing she's still in a bad mood. "And now she hates me..." the tentacle beast blubbered to himself. He froze upon seeing the anti-sensei bb bullet shoot right past him. Akiko sat up straight, with only her cat eye open and a gun in hand.

"I missed..." she fell flat again dropping the gun beside the bed. Korosensei came in and sat next to her. He attempted to tussle her hair as he usually would only to have is tentacle like hand swotted away. "Don't touch me."

Korosensei rubbed his tentacle which had been swotted at staring down sadly. Not as if it had really hurt physically, but emotionally it was heart breaking.

"Look Akiko, I know you're upset but like I said things will get better. So what do ya say?"

She crossed her arms and looked away with an angry pout. Korosensei had to admit to himself that it looked kind of adorable.

"Come on..." he prompted. "I got sweet muffins, they're choco chip." a muffin appearing in one tentacle which he raised to her face. She looked at his pleading face ane quickly looked away trying not change her angered expression. Korosensei had practically squished the muffin against her cheek trying to pester her into accepting his pathetic peace offering as well as poking her in certain ticklish spots. Akiko began turning beet red trying her hardest to hold in her laughter and to keep her pout, but it was becoming so hard to ignore Korosensei. If being annoying was a sport Korosensei would have taken home the gold by now. Akiko then quickly chomped the whole muffin in one bite just to get him to stop shoving it into her face, not realizing this had resulted in her having his tentacle also in her mouth which she had bitten on.

They both sat there in silence for a few seconds before realization hit them both. Korosensei proceeded to yank his tentacle quickly from her mouth and let out a yelp in surprise. After removing his appendage from her mouth, he turned a great shade of pink, laughing nervously to himself whiping off the saliva with his handkerchief. Akiko swolled the muffin forcefully since she had basically forced the whole of it into her mouth.

"Did I hurt you..." she asked in concern. Quite ironically considering she tried to shoot him just a minute ago. He laughed to himself, going back to his normal shade but still a tad flustered. "No I'm fine, a little bite like that isn't enough to hurt me. It was more of the surprise that you did it that got me. All good, see." he lowered his tentacle down for her to inspect for any damage. Even though he was hurt her teeth marks were still present in them. But he was quite squishy they'd dispear in less than a minute. Akiko snickered, it was hard for her to be mad at this creature. She sat on her knees and held out her hands, grasping at his cheeks to pull him closer down as proceeded to nuzzle her face against his once more. Why she does this her Sensei doesn't know but it was cute. His pink colour returning again as his smile grew.

"So squishy..." Akiko giggled, no longer nuzzling against his face with her own but instead pinching and pulling his cheeks. They were so soft and stretchy. He laughed and retaliated by pulling and pinching hers as well. They both laughed at their own childish behavior. "As amusing as this is my dear I believe breakfast is getting cold. A plate appearing in two of Korosensei's tentacle, bearing French toast, eggs and bacon. They both released each others faces so they could eat. Akiko sat down to eat while Korosensei muched on not only the food but plate as well.

After finishing up, Korosensei had left Akiko to finish some homework and study notes for the day. She would occasionally call him in for help on something she wasn't sure of, as he would do for all his students.

Korosensei has promised his other students that he'd pop by thier houses to tutor them on some subjects which meant he'd be leaving Akiko alone.

"Alright then, if you're hungry feel free to order some take out for yourself, I've left money on the counter and the numbers for restaurants are all on the fridge."

"Thank you, Koro."

"I trust that you'll stay safe at home."

"Yes, Koro."

"Good, I also left you some snacks in top right cupboard in the kitchen. I'm off. See you in a bit my dear." And with that Korosensei finally zipped off, leaving Akiko alone at home once more. After finishing off her homework the girl stretched in her seat, trying to think of what to do next. Watching TV was an option as well as reading another book or maybe taking a nap for a bit.

It was then Akiko had heard a knock at the door. She got up to see who it was, putting on her eye patch along the way. To her surprise it had been Nagisa, Karma and Kayano.

"Hey, Akiko. Karasuma said you'd be here. We wanted to know if you'd like to hang out with us today?" Nagisa asked. Akiko nodded in reply and changed from her pjs into casual wear and headed out with the three, taking the lunch money Korosensei had left with her.

"So Akiko what's it like living with the octopus anyway?" Karma asked out of curiosity.

"It's...comforting I suppose."

"So wouldn't living with him give you an advantage on assassination?" Kayano asked. Akiko shook her head. "It wouldn't help, its Korosensei's place after all, there's no hiding anything or attempting something without him knowing about it. If I approach him while he was sleep, my scent would wake him up cause I'd be near him and even tired he's fast. The place might be small but he knows it well enough of where to keep from getting hit."

"So I guess even if your under the same roof as him doesn't necessarily give you an edge." Kayano added.

"Not at all." not that Akiko really cared much to off him at all, but she would still need to contribute to the class to at least try and slow him down with a weakness or two or just slow him down in general.

The group stopped at an arcade.

"So what should we do first?" Nigisa asked.

"Dunno, I've never been to an arcade before." Akiko noted, which surprised the three a bit. It wasn't as if they were notified about her background. All they knew was that she hadn't come from a good background, no parents and was quite jumpy and aggressive when felt threatened. And they were only just beginning to get her to open up to them. This had been the first time she had been hanging out with them outside of school.

Going in Akiko was a bit overwhelmed by all the games and lights and people that had been there. Thankfully this hadn't sprung up any anxieties, merely making her feel socially awkward. Karma lead them to a fighting fighting game, which they ended up playing teams on which was split into, Kayano teamed with Nagisa Nagisa and Akiko teamed with Karma. Karma had shown Akiko the basics of the game to which she picked up quite easily. It hadn't taken long for her to actually get fully immersed into it.

"YOU WIN!" The console alerted on Karma and Akiko's end. On the other end Nagisa laughed sheepishly after losing for the how many-eth time where as Kayano seemed comically defeated.

"So what do you guys say best 15 out of 3. I really thought you almost had us that time." Karma taunted. "I'm good..." Kayano muttered out with puffed up cheeks. She felt a tad annoyed that Karma still had to rub it in their faces. "Lets try something else shall we like... That!" Kayano and lept toward what she had been referring to. It had been an isle consisting souly of clawmachines. She awed through the glass at all the cute plushie prizes.

"So cute... I wanna take em all home with me." Kayano inserted her coins and began playing. Karma was busy instructing Nagisa on how catch one while he played and Akiko attempted on her own. Karma endes up playing as well after Nagisa.

Akiko had ended up winning a handful of plushies. Nagisa had gotten two and Karma emptied an entire machine to which some of the employees were complaining about. Kayano sat her machine losing for the how many-eth time before lowering her head in defeat once again.

"You better stop while you're ahead before you pop a blood vessel." Karma warned.

"Just one prize! That's all I ask... Just one!" she leaned her head against the glass of the machine.

"Here," Nagisa held out a panda plush to her. Akiko and Karms as well parted with one which had been a seal plush and an alligator.

"Aww... Thanks a bunch guys." she smiled gladly accepting them.

"Plushies are wonderful. So soothing." Akiko commented, admiring her kawaai octopus chibi plush.

After a few more games, they had decided to stop playing and headed for lunch at the snack bar. They sat at a booth ordering a large pizza for the table and milkshakes.

"So Akiko, you enjoying your first time at the arcade?" Kayano asked.

"Definitely, it's really fun. I hope to come back here more often. That is if I'm not being moved too far from here."

"Moved?" Karma questioned. "Where ya moving to?"

Akiko shrugged sadly. She nibbled on her pizza. As amazing as the taste was, it was hard to swallow and hard to enjoy with the thought that she might be moving and leaving E-class. Even after she just recently made friends. What could she really do about it?

"Karasuma said he's waiting to hear back about the details so I dunno. There's a chance I'll be leaving E-class entirely."

Nagisa and Kayano both shared similar expressions. Karma was just annoyed. "But you just started settling in and now your gonna leave...what for anyway?" Nagisa asked. "I assume it's cause of where I was found, they want me in a better environment so I can feel more at as ease and get a normal life I suppose. I pray that wherever I'm going I still get to stay in E-class with you all but...it's a very slim chance." Akiko replied and adjusted her eye patch feeling her mutated twitch beneath the material as the painful memory of how she got it plagued her mind.

"Crap to hear..." Karma added. "Where exactly did you grow up though?"

"I'd like not to talk about it."

"C'mon, tell us. Does it explain where all those scars as well as why you were an eye patch?"

Akiko fell silent and proceeded to nod as her answer.

"I see..."

At that point the atmosphere felt heavy. Kayano proceeded to blow bubbles in her milkshake, feeling really awkward now. Karma and Akiko ate in silence.

"Wait..." Nagisa started, finally breaking the silence. "Why don't we just ask Mr. Karasuma if you could stay at our school? Maybe if we asked he could pull a few strings."

"Pfft..." Karma huffed. "And what if he doesn't, what then?"

"Then we spend as much time with Akiko as we can and give her a big send off!" Kayano blurted out. With her excitement she had knocked over her milkshake which Akiko was quick enough to catch before it ended up being a splattered mess. "Oops... Sorry..." a comical sweat drop running down the green haire girls head.

"Its okay, just be careful." she warned.

"Maybe we can even try and keep in contact of you do leave."

"I'd really like that..." Akiko smiled warmly. They were truly great friends and they were her first ones in a long time since getting out of that research facility. Korosensei was right, no matter what happens, things can get better.

Meanwhile... Watching them through the window of the arcade, two men in s discrete black car across the road had been watching them. While the one proceeded to keep his eye on the target the other had been calling his superiors.

"Sir we found her. Subject XXZ is in our sights."

"Excellent... Excellent indeed..."

"Do we proceed to obtain to subject?"

"Not yet, watch her for now and report back on anything you've found on her."

"Understood sir."

Much much later on in the day Karma and Nagisa had walked Akiko back to the apartment after walking Kayano back to her house.

"This was really fun. I hope we can all do this again sometime." Akiko perked. Her smile broadened, hugging onto her extra prizes she had won in other games at the arcade one of them being carried under the arm of Karma since it wad kind of big, which was a large chibi Dragan plushie which Akiko had won in a test of strength hamer game. Sadly she had practically broken the machine with her incredible strength to which they had to leave the arcade earlier than expected.

"Yeh, we can go break some other things at the arcade and blame it on Nagisa." Karma joked.

"Hey!"

"Oh yeah you're right... You have baby arms, they'll never believe you broke the machine with strength.

Nagisa sighed, Karma was never gonna change, not as if he had wanted him to. His antics and jokes had been what makes Karma, Karma. And he wouldn't want to change a friend. Akiko merely stayed silent, laughing to herself, watching the two's antics. They were quite the duo.

Finally at the door they said their goodbyes, Karma handing her back her big plush he had helped carry for her.

After opening the door she was surprised at what had been on the other side of it. It had been Korosensei but he was red, with his face scrunched up in anger, steam practically emmenating out of his mouth through the small gaps of his teeth like hot steam leaking out of a boiler of after having so much pent up heat. This had been the first time Akiko had actually seen him upset and in all honesty it was frightening to see.

"My dear... You are in so much trouble..."