Days at Genm High Episode 2:
A good first day with no thank you?
The brothers finally arrived at the front gate of Genm High, with Emu completely out of breath. "Why...did...you...do that?!"
Parad chuckled, "Oh come on Emu! It's fun to play games with you!"
Emu stared at Parad's face with slight anger and annoyance.
The two brothers noticed an abundant of students out at front yard of the school. All of them looking a stand in the center of the yard. A man in a grey suit is on the top of the stand, holding a microphone.
Emu, confused about what's going on, asks one of the student's beside him, "Hey, what's going on?"
"Shhh, the principal is going to give us a welcoming speech." The student answered.
The Principal tapped on the microphone to check if it was on and takes a deep breath, "Students, staff, I'd like to be the first one to congratulate you in being here, as you were all chosen by Kami himself."
"I don't speak weeaboo..." one of the students whispered.
The Principal's eye begins to twitch as he slowly holds up the microphone to his mouth, "WHO IN THE WORLD SAID THAT?! WHO THE HELL INSULTED KAMI DA?! WHO?! WHOOOOOOOOOO?!" He screamed.
Everyone in the crowd froze up in fear when the principal yelled.
The Principal only got angrier at the silence, "WELL?! WHO'S THE WISE GUY WHO THINKS HE CAN INSULT THE KAMI DA KNOWN AS DAN KUROTO! SPEAK UP NOWWW!"
The students remained silent in fear of their principal.
The Principal was enraged, "SOOOOO...NO ONE'S GOING TO SAY WHO DID IT?! THEN HOW ABOUT THIS?! IF THE PERSON WHO SAID THAT DOES NOT SPEAK UP I WILL BE SUSPENDING ALL THE STUDENT'S IN THIS SCHOOL!"
A student with messy hair and handwipes in his pockets stepped forward. "Um...right here sir…"
Kuroto moves his body like a puppet to look at the student, "WHAT IS YOUR NAMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?!"
The Student meekly spoke, "My name is Masato Kusaka sir."
"WELL THEN KUSAKA! HOW WOULD LIKE IT IF YOU WERE THE JANITOR FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR?!" The Principal angrily asked.
"Wait what? Sir you can't possibly make me be the janitor the whole year." Kusaka was interrupted by the principal's yelling, "YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT I CAN OR CAN'T DO! I AM THE PRINCIPAL! AND EVEN MORE THEN THAT, I AM DAN KUROTO, ALSO KNOWN AS KAMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" Kuroto points to a shed on the far right of the campus, "THERE'S A JANITOR UNIFORM IN THAT SHED! OUR LAST JANITOR QUIT ON ACCOUNT OF A LARGE MESS WITH A BUNCH OF EGGS SPLATTERED THROUGHOUT THE CAFETERIA! I EXPECT YOU TO BE DRESSED UP BY THE TIME I FINISH TALKING WITH THE REST OF THE STUDENTS!"
"..." Kusaka jetted to the shed when Dan kuroto was finished yelling at him.
Dan turned his face over to the students, he cleared his throat and let out the calm and mature voice he had before,"Sorry about that everyone, I was just setting an example. Now where was I?" The crowd, all reminded of Dan's previous behaviour, was silent in fear of what just happened.
"Ah yes, I welcome all you bright students to Genm High! I look forward to seeing you all for the next years of your life! Be grateful that you are being watched over by Kami himself, DAN KUROTO!" The principal shouted to the sky.
"Anyway, for the newcomers, enjoy your first day here at this school! Don't get in trouble like that Kucrapa kid!" Dan walked off the stand into his office as the assembly ended.
Emu noticed on his right the Kusaka kid had already put on his janitor uniform and was standing outside the shed. Emu was beading with sweat during the whole time the principal was chewing out Kusaka. He hoped him or his brother doesn't end up like him.
"Boy that was one heck of a principal am I right bro?" Parad asked Emu as they were walking to their new classrooms. He was the only one who wasn't scared during the principal's speech, all he did was let out a smile of interest. "That Dan Kuroto sure is a lot more interesting that principal at our last school." Parad cackled.
The two brothers reached Emu's first classroom. "Well looks like this your stop bro. I'll see you around, try to be less nervous than you usually are." Parad said as he patted Emu's shoulder and walked to his classroom down the hall.
Emu gulped, the entire situation he was facing was terrifying to him, here he was, without his brother, in a new school with a crazy principal, entering his first class. He poked his head into the classroom, trying to see who was in there.
"Well...here goes nothing…" Emu entered the classroom. The first person he noticed was the brown haired girl who he bumped into this morning.
Emu felt his his face burn up a little at the sight of her, he thought to himself, "No way, she's in the same class as me?! This can't be real! This is like a bad comic book plot...wow...even in my head that sounds bad…"
Emu wasn't sure where to sit. He wanted to sit next to the girl but he knew he wouldn't be able to handle it. The brown haired girl noticed Emu and waved to him nervously.
Before Emu could realize it, a student grabbed his arm and dragged him over, the student had black hair, sunglasses and a red jacket, "Hey you're the new kid aren't ya? I heard you just transferred here. The name's Kujo Kiriya, I'm your classmate."
"U-uh...h-hi there Kiriya..m-my name is E-Emu…" He meekly spoke. "You're not much of a talker are ya kid?" Kiriya chuckled and patted Emu's back, "Tell you what, stick with me and you might just survive this year, I got all the info you'll need." Kiriya said with a grin.
Emu's face lightened. "Thank you Kiriya…"
He couldn't believe it, he just made a friend in a new school and the class hasn't even started yet, to him, this felt like an accomplishment.
The teacher entered into the classroom and everyone sat down at their desks, "Good day class, my name is Kyotaro Hinata, I will be your homeroom teacher for the year."
Emu was to relieved that there was to see that his homeroom teacher seemed normal enough, unlike his possibly unstable principal.
Hinata continued, "I hope to see you all turn into great men and women one day."
His speech though was interrupted by a voice, "Heh, yeah right!" everyone in the classroom turned their heads to the corner of the classroom to see that the voice came from the student sitting in the corner. The student had black hair with a white streak in it, a yellow poncho with a black shirt underneath with a tiger and a rose in it's mouth on it.
"I'm pretty sure you care more about your paycheck then you do about the student's here," The Student stated.
"Ah yes, Taiga I've heard a lot about you. You have a track record of skipping class and disobeying rules. Know this my boy, I care about every student that comes into my classroom. I help them strive to be their best and to always have a smile on their faces. That includes you too." Hinata explained.
Emu was impressed by his teacher and his speech. Taiga, in response, made a lone "Tch" sound. "I'm only here to see to the fresh guppies and what they're made. Though I doubt they're worth any attention."
Taiga kicked up his feet onto the desk and leaned back on his chair. "Go on teach, resume the class." he said in a smug tone.
Hinata gave a small sigh and faced the rest of the class. "I apologize for that little interruption. As I was saying I hope to see that all of you become great people in the future. For today, I want all of us to know each other. Everyone will say their names and what they're good at. Starting with the first row." he pointed at the first 5 desks in front of him.
A single student stood up and stated his name in a monotone voice, he had brown hair and was wearing a blue shirt underneath a lab coat, "My name is Kagami Hiiro, I wish to know more about you all throughout the year." he sat back down at his desk.
"Hiiro, what are you good at?" Hinata asked.
"Math, English, Home Economics, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Phys Ed.." Hiiro began to list every school subject, club and sport in the school for the next 10 minutes, "...Programming and Tennis."
"Uhh, uh...what-oh thank you Hiiro for listing all of those subjects. So who's next?"
The entire class had been napping due to Hiiro's long list.
Everyone started to awaken from their quick little nap. The student next to Hiiro yawned, "Oh is it my turn? My name is Momose Saki. Pleased to meet you all. I'm very good at making sweets."
The entire class felt a calming and soothing presence by the sound of saki's voice, some of the student's started chatting to each other, "So nice...like a cool summer breeze…"
"Thank you Saki, next." Hinata looked at the next student next to Saki, the student was the brown haired girl Emu had bumped into earlier, "Hello there everyone, my name is Asuna Kirino, I'm a person who likes to help others and I can sing."
Hinata grew curious, "Oh you can sing? Well why don't you showcase your talent a little?"
Asuna thought about it, "I mean, I don't really sing a lot in public…sorry."
Hinata apologized, "Oh that's okay you don't have to sing, we can just move on." Hinata turned his head over to the next student, Kiriya Kujo.
Kiriya spoke, "What's up everyone, you can call Kiriya Kujo. I like to observe stuff and I'm a very honest person, any info you need you can come straight to me about it!"
"Thank you Kiriya. Sounds like you and Asuna are going to be very helpful to your classmates." Hinata smiled and turned his head over towards Emu.
Emu, realizing he was next, became extremely nervous. "Uhh...m-my n-name is Hojo E-Emu. I'm really good at video games...if that counts..." he said meekly.
"Video games huh?" Hinata asked curiously, "What's your favorite type of games?"
"My favorite genre of games is platformers, they can be extremely fun and challenging even if a lot of them can be short…" Emu answered.
"I see, thank you for sharing Emu." Minutes passed with everyone introducing themselves until the class ended.
Emu started walking down the hallway to his next class. He had a smile on his face, "The day is turning out pretty okay…" he thought to himself.
"I even made some new friends so far...I'm not sure Asuna is a friend though...she is rather nice...I hope I could get a little closer to her next time to talk…" Emu felt his heart beating a little faster at the thought of him getting to sit next to Asuna.
"Wait...why is my heart beating so fast? This is weird..." Emu continued thinking.
Emu reached his next class, science. He peered into the room and noticed a man with two different colored shoes.
Emu enters the room and looks at the man, "Um...is this the science room?"
"Why yes it is, my name Sento Kiryu, you can call me , what's your name?" The man held two beakers, one filled with red liquid and the other blue in his hands while speaking to Emu.
"Um...I'm Emu Hojo…" He answered.
"Hmmm...Why don't you go find a seat Emu? You're the first one here anyway." Sento waves his hand to the direction of all the empty seats in the classroom.
"Make sure to find one that's a Best Match!" Sento Emphasized.
Emu tilted his head in response, "Best...match?"
Emu noticed in the back of the room a recycling container with a large pile of bottles and cans. "Oh don't mind those, I like to recycle, good for the planet." Sento said with a smile on his face.
Emu simply accepted the recent information, "I, um...okay…"
The rest of the class soon came into the room, and among them Emu noticed Asuna entering.
Emu felt his heart beat faster once more, "What's going on with my heart?" he thought to himself.
Asuna then sat in a seat in front of Emu, not noticing him at all.
Emu was panicking in his mind at this new development,"Oh my god...she's sitting next to me...what do I do?!"
After a few moments Emu tried calming himself down, "Okay Emu...calm down...she's just a student...and b-besides, she hasn't even noticed me yet!"
Asuna then looks around and sees Emu next to her. "H-Hey...aren't you that guy I bumped into earlier?"
Emu starts to internally scream, "...AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Outside of his mind, Emu is sitting still, not moving or saying anything, "Um...hello? Are you there?" Asuna asked.
Emu, hearing Asuna's voice, snapped out of his internal panic and regained his senses, "Oh, umm...sorry, I umm...was thinking about...Games! Yeah I was thinking about games and nothing else!"
Asuna tilted her head a bit, "Um...alright? So...um, are you the person I bumped into earlier?"
Emu nodded his head, "I'm really sorry about that, I'm a very clumsy person sometimes."
Asuna started to shake her hands and head at that remark, "oh nononononononono! I should be apologizing, I'm the one who bumped into you, I'm very sorry about that…
Asuna paused for a second, "By the way…You're Emu right? I guess we have two classes together."
"Um, hehehe, yeah…" Emu meekly laughs and scratches the back of his head, smiling.
"Well then, I'll look forward to helping you this year. Let's both do our best!" Asuna says confidently, giving a bright smile to Emu.
The class bell rings, "Alright class hurry up and find a seat that's a best match for you so we can get class started." Sento told the class.
Everyone quickly found a spot and settled into their chairs.
Once every student found their seats, Sento began to speak, "Good morning everyone, I'm your science teacher for this year. My name is Sento Kiryu but you can call me Mr. Kiryu. Let's start things off with an icebreaker activity. I want all you to discuss with your neighbors what you guys have in common."
After hearing that news, Emu gulped and thought, "okay Emu...don't screw this up…" he turned his head to asuna, "S-so...what do you like to do...in your spare time?"
"W-well...I'm a fan of games…" Asuna meekly answered.
Emu in his mind starts jumping for joy. "OH MY GOD! SHE ACTUALLY LIKES GAMES?! WHAT?! HOW?! THIS IS MIND BLOWING! OKAY NOT REALLY BUT THIS IS STILL AWESOME!"
Emu on the outside meanwhile, he starts to freeze up a little.
Asuna started to look worried for him, "um...Emu? Are you okay?"
Emu regained his senses after a few seconds, "Oh...I'm really sorry...I was...s-spacing out…"
"Um...okay…" Asuna replied.
" wait...didn't you mention you liked games earlier? I guess we have something in common then!" Asuna brightly smiled.
Emu smiled back, "Yeah...," he then continued asking questions, "What's your favorite color?" What's your favorite food? What's your favorite game genre? What's your favorite console?"
Asuna started to answer these questions, "Pink, cupcakes, dancing games, and the Switch."
Emu started to look even more excited, "Really?! Me too! ...expect for the game genre, I'm more of a fan of platformers,"
"Wait, your favorite color is pink?" Asuna asked.
"Um...yeah?" Emu answered, a bit confused.
"Why, is it bad to have pink as a favorite color?
"No, no, it's fine! " Asuna shaking her hands to reassure Emu.
"It's just that...I just didn't expect you to have it as your favorite color…" Asuna explained.
"Alright class time's up. Let's hear what you and your partner have in common. Let's start with Emu and Asuna." Sento announced.
Asuna started to recollect what emu asked her, "well...our favorite color is pink, we both like video games and we both like cupcakes."
"You two are a surprising best match!" Sento excitedly proclaimed.
A random student yelled out, "WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!"
"In due time my students, you'll know what a best match is." Sento said as he he shook his two bottles.
"...we're not gonna learn what that is are we?" Emu thought.
"Alright, who wants to share next?" Sento asked.
The teacher then turned towards Saki and Hiiro, who paired up together.
"Well Hiiro and I both like sweets." Saki answered, smiling, while Hiiro was sitting beside her with a deadpan look.
"And we're both shy." Saki loudly whispered, smirking.
Hiiro turned to Saki in confusion.
"Hiiro we both know you're a bit shy around people." Saki turned to Hiiro and answered.
"Hmph, no I'm not." Hiiro scoffed.
"Hiiro don't lie, you can't talk to people easily." Saki replied.
Hiiro closed his eyes and sighed, "To that I say, No Thank You."
Saki looked at Hiiro with a deadpan stare, "…really?"
Sento cleared his throat a little to remove the awkwardness. "Um...thank you Saki and Hiiro for sharing. Who wants to go next?"
The class was silent for a few seconds until the bell ringed.
Sento sighed, "Alright, we'll continue this tomorrow!"
Sento and the class left the room.
The rest of Emu's classes followed the same vain of icebreaker activities as the rest. To Emu, the day was going very, very well. He hasn't messed up too badly yet.
But that all changed around the lunch hour.
At that time, Emu was at the cafeteria, just got his food on a tray and was unsure on where to sit.
Emu analyzes the cafeteria tables for a spot available, "Looks like all the seats are taken."
He then notices his two new friends, Asuna and Kiriya sitting at a table to his far right.
Kiriya waved at Emu, "Yo, Hojo we're over here!"
Emu headed to the table and sat down next to Asuna.
Kiriya and Asuna greeted Emu and they started to talk about their day, "So, Emu, how was your classes?" Kiriya asked.
"They actually went pretty well, I didn't make a mess of things at all!" Emu exclaimed.
"And I see you made friends with one of the hottest girls in school!" Kiriya smirked.
Emu blushed hard and Asuna made an angry stare at Kiriya, "While I appreciate the compliment Kiriya, I don't feel comfortable with that statement!"
Kiriya just chuckled, "Hey hey, it was the school's words, not mine!"
Emu then suddenly heard a voice behind him, "YO EMU I WAS LOOKING FOR YOU DUDE!" Parad came in and patted him on the shoulder.
"Oh hey Parad! How was your classes?" Emu asked.
"They were fine, but they were a little boring for my tastes. I wished you were there Emu, so we could have some fun!" Parad hugged Emu by the neck.
"Um...Parad...your idea of fun is graffiti all over the whiteboard…" Emu meekly told him.
"Yeah, yeah, say who are these guys? You make friends dude? Oh I'm so proud of you! I thought you would be alone forever!" Parad cheered at the sight.
"Those are some encouraging words Parad…" Emu made a deadpan stare at Parad.
Kiriya looked at Emu and Parad, a bit confused, "Uh, hey Emu this a friend of yours?
"Oh Parad? He's my younger brother. He's considered the 'troublemaker' at home." Emu explained.
"You forgot to mention handsome Emu." Parad added.
Emu sighed as Parad noticed Asuna at the table, he then grew a devilish smile.
"Say Emu, isn't that the girl you bumped into this morning?" Parad asked, smirking.
Emu stuttered, "Well-I-um...yes…"
Parad's Devilish smile grew larger, "Emu do you remember what I told you what happens in those kind of situations?"
Emu's face turned red, "Uhhhhhhh…"
"Well? Do you remember?" Parad asked further.
"Well just in case you forgot, I'll tell you again."-" Emu closed Parad's mouth before he answer.
Asuna tilted her head, "Uh, Emu what was he going to say?"
"Nothing! He was going to say nothing! Don't worry about it!" Emu quickly responded, shrugging off the question.
Parad removed Emu's hand covering his mouth, "Bro don't do that to me and let me finish! Anyway what I was going to say was-" Emu covered Parad's mouth once more.
Parad removed emu's hand from his mouth again, "Stop that!" He pushed Emu in anger, causing him to fall back and push someone into his lunch tray of mash potatoes, his face getting covered in them.
Emu turned around to see the man he pushed by accident. It was Taiga.
"O-Oh! I'm so sorry Taiga-" Taiga stood up and grabbed Emu by the collar.
"What do you think you're doing pushing me into my food?" Taiga asked, obviously ready to punch someone.
Emu then heard an imitation of his voice, "Showing how much of a idiot you are!"
Emu looked to see it was Kiriya who was speaking in his place, not to taiga's knowledge.
"Listen bud, why don't you go move along before we do things we might regret?" Kiriya told Taiga, continuing to imitate Emu's voice.
Taiga was getting extremely angry at Emu, looking about ready to beat him up and leave him for dead, "Listen Kid, I've done a lot of bad things in the past, and I don't regret any of them at all. So if you wanna be on the list of those bad things, then be my guest."
Emu looked at Kiriya and shook his head to give him the signal to stop, but Kiriya did not catch on, "Alright bub, then how about we meet after school and have a good ol fashion brawl?"
At that point Emu's soul has left his body and his entire body was left pale.
Taiga let's go of Emu's collar and walks away, grabbing a bunch of napkins along the way to wipe his face.
Asuna, Kiriya and Parad ran over to Emu to see if he was okay, "Emu, Emu! Are you okay bro?!" Parad was shaking him to snap him out of his shock.
The shaking seemed to have no effect, "Hmmm...Asuna, slap Emu!" Parad commanded.
"Why me?!" Asuna asked.
"Cause I hear a woman's slap is more effective." Parad replied, smirking.
Asuna looked at Parad in annoyance, "Oh that's a lot of-oh whatever!" She proceeded to wind up her hand and slapped Emu as hard as she could.
The slap knocked Emu to the ground and forced him to regain his senses, "GAH WHAT HAPPENED?!"
"Bro you just had a close encounter with Death for a second there!" Parad explained, looking at Emu to make sure he's okay.
"Wait what?" Emu was still confused.
"Eh? You don't remember? I set you up with a fight with Taiga Emu!" Kiriya said, smiling.
"Wait I have to fight Taiga!? As in the tough delinquent I saw earlier!? As in the guy who looks like a Tiger ready to pounce his prey!?" Emu asked, scared for his life.
"Emu I'm so sorry I got you into this mess!" Parad apologized, bowing for forgiveness.
"Bro...it's fine, it's not your fault...I can just easily talk out of the fight and-" Kiriya, Parad and Asuna looked worried at the lack of Emu's knowledge.
"Um...Emu, Taiga isn't the type of guy who will talk out of a fight…" Asuna explained.
"Yeah, it's either you in the hospital, or him" Kiriya added. "And I'm not liking your chances dude."
Emu gulped, "S-so...your saying I can't get out of this?"
The Three of them Nodded at Emu's Question.
"...Oh." Emu immediately fainted at the realization.
"EMU!" The Three of them all yelled, as Emu hit the ground, unconscious.
END.
NEXT LESSON:
Parad: Hey everyone! Your handsome devil Parad here! Looks like next time Emu's going to get into a fight with Taiga! Oh god, what will be the result!?
Taiga: Obviously I'll be the winner.
Parad shut up Tiger man I'm trying to build suspense,
Emu: Can't we talk this out?!
Taiga: Are you trying to run away from a fight, coward?!
Emu: We don't have to resort to that!
Parad: Save your energy you two!
Next time: BANG! That delinquent is fighting!
Graphite: Is it time for my appearance?
Parad: Wait a bit best Buddy!