Second Punch: Fever

The homeroom teacher, Mikisugi sensei was writing in the blackboard; the lesson, like most of the times, was boring and all of the students were abstracted from his slowly voice. Some of them were observing how the day started to clear, the fluffy clouds were moving fast. All the opposite from the day before; that day was raining heavily.

Ryuko was lying over her desk, resting her head over her crossed arms and looking at Mako's seat. It was empty.

"Damn umbrella" whispered tired. "If only it had endured the wind…"

"You miss your friend, don't you, Ryuko?" asked Senketsu in a low tone.

Exhaled noisily and answered in the same way "I do, when Mako is not around classes are even slower"

Yawned and in a couple of minutes fell asleep, the bell for the break didn't wake her up, but the strange teacher did. Delicate fingers cherished her hair, and were playing with her red strand. She half opened her eyes and saw the smiling face of his superior. In that moment opened her eyes shocked.

"What do you think you are doing?!" asked with chagrin while her face lit with an intense reddish.

"C'mon Ryuko, you don't have to act like that" said resting his elbow on his desk and his hand on his jaw. In a second his gaze changed, and looked more serious, from his pocket took something and put it into her hand "Somebody is coming, take this Ryuko and nail this acupuncture needle in the front of Mankanshoku"

"A-are you nuts? How can I possibly do that to Mako? I hate pointy things!" stated in horror seeing the things he put on her palm.

"Well Matoi, remember your homework, bye!" said back into his laid back personality getting out of the homeroom.

"That pervert!" claimed muttering between her teeth. She gave a fast look to the wall clock and startled "I only have 10 minutes left, this is awful! We've gotta hurry Senketsu!"

The girl put the needles into her bag and before she could get to the exit door a big silhouette emerged in front of her face. A terrifying presence covered the atmosphere; sharp eyes were looking at her, resembling being pointed with one of Tsumugu's Sewing machine gun. It was the head of the disciplinary committee, Ira Gamagori.

"Matoi!" he shouted.

"What's the matter?" asked, irked.

"That's not the proper behavior to speak to me!" said crossing his arms in front of his big chest. "Mankanshoku! Where is she?"

"Oh, I was coming with her but in our way to the Academy…"

"She decided to skip classes! Oh, that's what bad influences like you incite, what an ignominy!" said frowning.

"Huh?" tilted her head with disbelief. "No, no Gamagori, listen, Mako was determined to come to classes, but Matarou came to us and…"

"Ma-ta-rou?... Who is Matarou?!" asked abruptly. "I hope you're protecting your friend from bad companies! Who is that man?"

"Is her young brother, look Gamagori I only have 2 minutes left to relax…"

"Excuses Matoi! This is more important than your rest!" said getting bigger "Now, what did that little boy do when he came to you"

"This morning, when Mako awaken, she had fever, and tried to dissimulate, her father discovered that and told her to stay home, in that moment, she grabbed my arm and we run away from home, but Matarou caught her from behind, it wasn't difficult to defeat her since she was weak" the bell rang.

"Mankanshoku…" pronounced her name staring into the horizon.

"Ok, back to my seat" moaned heavily dragging her feet on the floor, her face showed great exhaustion and also a big hassle.

"I want to see you in the entry of the Academy at 17.00 o'clock" said while leaving.

She didn't have time to reply, the teacher arrived and a new boring period began.

He saw the clear sky, despite the beautiful dawn; rain was forecast for the week. Sooner or later, the raindrops would start to fall from above. He put his hand on his chin in a reflective attitude.

"Then, Mankanshoku is more responsibly than I expected" he smiled with satisfaction. He sighed and a cold expression came to his face "Then that's the reason I didn't see her today… When I saw her leaving yesterday, she was sharing a little and flimsy umbrella with Matoi. Probably with the wind it messed up. As the man in charge of the Honnoji Academy's students I should have helped them. I have been negligent! And even worse, after having ignored the deplorable condition of a student I have insulted the honor of Lady Satsuki" he clenched his fists in pain and mortified turned his head to one side and a dark shadow surrounded him from the ground.

"Chief Gamagori!" called by his name one of the members of the disciplinary committee, a one star. "We need your help, one of the no-star students tried to skip classes"

"Unforgivable!" shouted opening his mouth widely. "Let's go!"

Later, after scolding and mortifying the body of the unfortunate student, Gamagori left the Academy and went to a little store.

The sound of the bell over the door rang; the big man entered, lifted his head and glowered. The old woman in charge of the premises looked worried to him after the service desk. The head and eyes of Gamagori moved quickly from bell to the old woman, the latter one startled.

"G-good afternoon!" greeted the old woman.

"Good afternoon, ma'am" replied him. "I'm looking for an umbrella"

"Oh, I see" she rose from her chair and walked to him. She was rather little, not more tall than his knees. "Turn right, go forward, be careful with rubber chickens and from that spot turn left, continue your way and if you see the stuffed rabbits that means you passed by. Is it clear?"

"You mean the shelf behind you"

"Ah yes, that would be in your perspective" nodded the elderly.

He came back in a few seconds.

"I want this one" said with his static severe expression.

The old woman took her glasses and put them on. "My dear, that umbrella is not suitable for you"

"It's not for me" asserted. "It's for a girl"

"Ooh, it doesn't seem to be a regular girl. Is she your girlfriend?" asked the old woman in a smile.

"N-no!" replied and instantly his face flushed.

"This umbrella is too dark for her, but no worries, I have the perfect one for your special girl"

"P-please ma'am, she is not my girl" emphasized trying to hide his embarrassment after his anger.

"Ooh, but she is special" smiled again behind the big shelf. "I found it! This umbrella has been much sought by young girls these days. And this is the only one I have, since it's already sold out and their production has been discontinued. But I assure you, she will love it" winked at him while showing him the product.

"It has the shape of a bunny head…I'll take it" said Ira closing his eyes in approval and giving the lady the money for it. "Do you know where the nearest pharmacy is?"

"Is far away from here, I'd say about 5 miles" she answered. "Good luck!"

"What would be like 5 blocks" thought aloud as he took the bag with the umbrella and left the little shop.

The day started to get cloudy again, he looked at his clock… it was 16:30.

In the town, not only Mako was sick by the sudden summer rain. His face contorted in the company of rage when seeing the large number of people within the pharmacy, the turn was by number, and he as a faithful follower of the rules knew he had to wait. It took thirteen numbers; nevertheless, his temper was intact.

Already with the apothecary, asked for a cold medicine, bought it and left there to go to the academy.

Now it was 16:50, it was getting really late. Hastened his steps and at last he was able to see the entrance of the Academy, however, stopped in the midway.

"Gamagori! Me Nozomu Anzai, president of the Bunny Collection Club, challenge you for that umbrella!" yelled pointing with her finger to his bag.

"Get out of my way, I won't give this to you" said as he got bigger and more angry.

"Then now, you will witness with your own eyes the fury of the Bunny Collection Club!" As she shouted that many girls with rabbit caps jumped near Gamagori and surrounded him. "We will also take away your three-star goku uniform! Never provoke an obsessed collector! Ha!"

"Two starts are nothing against me, Give up!" shouted him.

"We have been traveling from town to town looking for it, and the store that was supposed to have that only had a stupid old woman, she refused to tell us the truth until we forced her to do it. Hand us the umbrella!"

Gamagori's eyes darkened and his goku uniform awakened, his anger was such that after five minutes he finished that long-named club.

"Matoi!" yelled Gamagori from the distance.

"There you are, wow I'm glad I came here five minutes before, I knew you were going to be punctual" said rising her eyebrows.

"Give this to Mankanshoku" after a pause he added: "It's my duty as the head of the disciplinary committee to take care of the students"

"Okay" replied with a giggle. "I'm sure Mako will like this Gamagori, good bye!" said Ryuuko.

"Wait Matoi!" stopped her. "Don't tell her I did it, Thank you"

"Alright"

The next day…

"Hooray! I feel new! And this umbrella is the best! Ryuko, you really didn't know who was that man?" asked Mako while she was waking with her friend under the umbrella.

"He had a familiar face Mako"

"Oh! I feel so happy! Whoever he is he must be a great man! I just want to hug him with my beasty hug!"

"That strange Ira Gamagori" said Senketsu "Ryuko, Do you think he will be fine just like this?"

"I'm pretty sure he will" replied with a beatific smile.

From the shadows, Gamagori was looking at the cheerful no-star. He felt warmth, but it wasn't because of fever. He reddened slightly just by seeing her, he closed his eyes with a smile. It was raining soundly, and luckily, the sound of his affliction disappeared with it for that morning… just for that morning. Anyway, it wasn't part of his temperament.

The end~


Hi! I'm loving to write these ones, Iramako is making me improve my english jojojo~!
I hope I'm not making any OOC mistakes QwQ
Hope you enjoyed!
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