Beelzebub adventures chapter 41

A week has passed.

Oga and everyone else who fought are now healed up and are going back to School.

"A week sure goes by fast," Natsume says.

Kanzaki scratches his head and sighs. "I wish we'd have had a longer break than that."

"We probably also missed out on a lot of stuff at school, so we're gonna have to catch up on that," Himekawa says in his usual, nonchalant tone.

Yamamura, however, still can hardly contain his excitement. "I still feel my blood boiling after fighting with you guys! If something like that ever happens again, please invite me, too!"

"Sure, you're actually a good fighter. Keep on training and I'll see you busting heads with ease in no time!" Tojo puts his thumb up and smiles at him.

Meanwhile, Furuichi seems to be off in his own world again. "Aww man, I can't wait to see all the pretty girls in School..."

"Do you think that Rin girl you told us about will be happy to see you?" Shiroyama asks with a sly smirk.

Furuichi snapped out of his daydream with an expression of shock. "Crap! I forgot it was broadcasted around Ishiyama! Now she'll think I'm a good-for-nothing delinquent like you for beating someone up," he throws a death stare at Oga.

However, Oga doesn't even seem to notice. "Don't worry, I'm sure everyone who watched it already forgot about it," he says while picking his nose.

As soon as they arrived at School the students passing them by start staring at them and whispering to each other. "I have the bad feeling that they didn't forget about the big fight," Himekawa says while looking around.

"Hey, they're the ones who fought for our School!"

"Yeah, let's thank them for what they've done!"

Hundreds of students gather around Oga and the rest. "Not this again," Kanzaki sighs exasperatedly.

Tojo looks around unimpressed. "Just like when we were at St. Ishiyama."

Furuichi almost cries tears of joy at the fact that no one is scared of them. "I'm so glad I was wrong!"

"Furuichi, Oga!"

The familiar voice calling out to them belonged to Rin, who's making her way to them. "Rin!" Furuichi had an expression of relief and joy on his face.

"Are you two ok? I watched your fight on T.V." Rin asked worriedly.

"We rested at the Hospital and feel as good as new now," Furuichi replies while puffing out his chest.

Tears come to Rins eyes and she gives them a big hug. "I'm so glad you two are ok."

Furuichi's face turns really red with a big grin on his face. "I feel so happy right now!" he thinks to himself.

Kunieda, Nene, Chiaki, and Yuka arrived at School and found a lot of students gathered in a circle. "What's all the commotion about?" Chiaki wonders.

"Well, let's find out," Nene waves at them to follow as she rushed towards the school building.

They went to the rooftop to be able to see what's going on from above and spotted Oga and the rest of the gang being the center of the commotion. Kunieda and Nene stopped dead in their tracks, their faces showing surprise and shock as someone seems to be hugging them. "Who's that girl?" Kunieda asks in a whispering tone.

"And why is she hugging Oga and Furuichi?" Nene asks, narrowing her eyes.

Yuka smirked at them with a sly impression. "Is that jealousy I see from the two of you~?"

"Cute," Chiaki says, smiling slightly.

Nene starts to panic and quickly tries to put the spotlight on Kunieda. "Uhh... didn't Oga hug you back in St. Ishiyama?" she said while raising an eyebrow.

Kunieda's face turns red and she looks away. "Well… it was actually Beel in Ogas body who hugged me. So basically it was Beel, not Oga."

"You also told us that he held you like a bride while you were unconscious from some Demon," Yuka says, still holding the same expression she had on her last comment.

Kuniedas face turns even redder. "Well, he only did that to make sure I didn't fall hard on the ground!" she retorted.

"Cute," Chiaki says, still smiling.

"Let's just go to class or else Saotome will get mad at us again," Kunieda says as she starts speed walking to class.

Oga and the rest finally got to their classroom. "Man, that was nice of everyone, praising us like Heroes," Furuichi smiled, satisfied.

"I kinda miss the time we actually were feared for our strength," Oga says while thinking back to his time at Ishiyama High.

"I miss those times, too," Tojo joined Oga's drowning in nostalgia.

Oga sits down next to Kunieda as usual. "Morning, Kunieda," he greeted her with a smile.

Her back immediately straightens and her face turns red. "G-g-good morning, Oga!"

He inched a little closer to inspect her face. "Your face is red. Are you sick?"

"Oh, no I'm not! I-it's cold in here, isn't it?" Kunieda backs off and tries to change the subject.

"It actually kind of is. Guess winter's right around the corner," Oga says, looking out the window.

Kunieda sighed, relieved that he picked up on her distraction. "Yeah, I hope to see snow again."

"It'd be Nicos first time playing in the snow," Oga says optimistically.

Kunieda throws him a smile. "I can't wait to see her do that."

While they're talking, everyone else is watching them. "They really are like a couple," they think to themselves.

Saotome enters the room. "Good morning you pieces of crap! Before I start today's class, I just want to say I'm proud of everyone in here who fought last week. The Principal told me he was planning on expelling you guys, but changed his mind since I told him that they did it to protect the School. So you guys are off the hook."

"Does that mean we can fight more?" Ryuiji asks with an evil smirk.

"No... it'll seem suspicious if you guys keep on going into fights like that," Saotome replies annoyed.

"Do we get a reward? Like... a free pass for the work we've missed?" Abe asks, getting his hopes up.

"Nope, you will all be catching up on the work you've missed these past days," Saotome replies, as he hands out stacks of papers to everyone who was absent.

"Aww man!" Shiroyama hit his head on his desk.

"At least we'll be stuck with each other for a while," Natsume says, as he giggles.

"Kunieda, you and your friends can leave early since you were present. Just study for the midterms," Saotome nods them off.

"Yes sir," Kunieda says formally.

"We have midterms, too? Man, this sucks!" Oga groaned.

Kunieda smiles at him apologetically. "Sorry, I'll see you later then, Oga."

"Yeah, it hopefully won't take too long so I can go home early, too," Oga says, scratching his head.

Much, much later, Oga finally finishes his work while everyone else is already long gone. "Took ya long enough," Saotome says with his usual smirk.

"Ugh... Alright, can I go home now?" Oga says; handing him his papers.

"Yeah, I'm tired of watching you work all day, anyway," he replies nonchalantly.

"Stupid Geezer..." Oga is boiling as he walks out of the classroom. He walks out of the building and notices Furuichi didn't wait for him. "That idiot Furuichi didn't wait for me like he usually does."

"Oga!"

Oga looks behind him and sees Kunieda heading his way. "Kunieda? I thought you were home or out with Nene, Chiaki, and Yuka."

"I told them that I wanted to study for those Midterms here, so I let them leave me behind. I didn't know whether you'd still be here," Kunieda says.

"I fell asleep while doing the work so it took me longer. Glad that you're here, though. Now I have someone to walk with since Furuichi ditched me." Oga smiles at her.

Kunieda blushes slightly. "Yeah, me too."

"I know, how about we go get some Croquettes and I'll walk you home? It's my treat," Oga suggested.

"...Yeah, that sounds great," Kunieda says shyly, but happily.

"Then we'd better get going, the shop closes in a few minutes," Oga suddenly starts running.

"Huh? Oga, wait!" Kunieda shouts as she tries to catch up.