Chapter 3: Chapter 3 Tours are Overrated

Prompt: create a multi-chapter fic about a foreign exchange student who goes off to teach in Japan and ends up with a situation
they couldn't exactly handle. It is to be written in a reader-insert style.

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Chapter 3 Tours are Overrated

A sort of roaring sound (like that of a flamethrower), goes off behind me, but I pay it no heed as I weep in despair.

"Why's she crying?"

I look around, tears still leaking out, to see a blond boy…with his hands and head on fire.

I wailed even harder.

Sideburns tsked and shook his head. "Way to scare the new teacher even more idiot-Ieyasu."

"What did I do?" The new boy asked in irritation, clearly not understanding my need for normality.

I feel a tug on my sleeve and look around to see a small brunet haired boy, holding up a stuffed lion. I blink a little when the young child makes the lion nuzzle my nose, and then smiled at me shyly.

I stare in shock, touched by the small selfless display. A small, but warm, smile slips through and I pull the cuddly little brunet into my arms. "You are the sweetest, most adorable, loveable, huggable, kind little boy I have ever met. Your big brother scares the crap out of me, but I'm glad to meet someone normal!"

"What about me?" Dino protested, but was cut off by the other blondie.

"He's not my brother."

I blink blankly then hold up the kid by his armpits so that I could compare the two (I am relieved to see that the fire was gone and prayed that it was just my imagination). I look at the brunet then shift my gaze to the blond. Brunet… Blond… Brunet… Blond… Brunet-

"Okay! We got it! We look alike!" The blond griped. "I'm not the only one here you know!"

Putt. Putt. Putt. Pleeeeeh.

My brain died like an old car this time. It takes a few tries to restart the engine and get it going again.

"I just wanted to get out to see the world a little bit! I never had any intention to stay so far away from home forever!" I cry out to no one in particular. "Why couldn't they send me to a normal school with normal people and a normal life style?"

The brunette tugged on your sleeve again and looked up with concerned, and slightly distressed, eyes.

I sigh, but manage to smile a little. "It's not your fault little one. My brain just can't handle this much insanity within a few hours' time. Why don't you go find someone to play with while this gets sorted out? I'm sure that you'll be more than a little bored during all of this and I'm sure that you don't want to watch another mental breakdown."

The child shook his head vigorously and snuggled closer, keeping a surprisingly firm grip on my shirt. I smile and coo a little, picking the child up and resolving myrself to carry the child the rest of the way.

"Hn. I've never seen Dame-Tsuna so quick to get attached to anyone other than idiot-Ieyasu here," Sideburns commented.

To this, I stomp my foot and glare at the tall man. "I don't care who you are, but I will not tolerate anyone insulting children! They need kindness, but a firm hand to guide them. Anything else can become damaging to their development."

"Is that so?" Sideburns smirked. "Quite a few teachers here would like to argue that point."

"Then it's probably all your fault that these children have such violent tendencies," I dispute. "I don't know who gave you your credentials to teach, but you should know better than that. It is the teachers who help mold the next generation! From what I've seen so far, I can only have a poor opinion of the staffing and the rest of the school."

"You think you can do better?" Sideburns challenged.

"I know I can!" I shot back immediately.

I was confident, more than that…all the way up until that man smirked sinisterly.

"Welcome to Namimori Academy then. We're glad for your cooperation and for your open acceptance to take the job. I'm sure the headmaster will be pleased to heat this."

I blink as his words sink in, then blanch. "W-Wait! I didn't mean- I mean I wasn't-" I was cut off as the last few moments of the conversation was played out through a tape recorder pulled out of sideburn's inside suit pocket.

I pale even further. In the heat of the moment, I had been successfully duped.

A hand came to rest on my shoulder and I turn to see Dino giving an apologetic smile. "Don't worry about it too much. Reborn-sensei gets everyone. It's a losing battle, so you should just let it go."

The other blond kid rolled his eyes and walked away.

The raven haired man smirked again (how each one could be so different was beyond me). "By the way, my name isn't Sideburns. It's Reborn. I'm your colleague as well as your teacher."

This startled me out of my horror, a tint of heat settling in my cheeks when I realize that he knew what I had been calling him in my head. "What?"

"There are only a few teachers here and we all teach courses for the different age groups for primary to high school. Only eight of us also teach courses for the college students."

"Whaaaat~?" I say incredulously. "But you're what, twenty?"

"And you're nineteen, but you already have both your Associate's and Bachelor's degree, this trip of yours would earn you your masters," Sideburn- Reborn pointed out. "You shouldn't be so shocked."

"So are you saying that you already have your masters?" I inquire curiously.

Damn. He smirked again. "Ph.D."

"That's impossible!" I exclaim.

"Not for me."

Arrogant jerk.

I calm down when the small child in my arms hugs me a little tighter, causing me to sigh and (reluctantly) let go of the issue for now. "Look, I'm only staying here for a short while, the maximum being two years. I have no intention of staying here any longer than that. But since I did sign up for this program, I will have to deal with the chaos here and do my assigned job properly."

Another dang smirk. "Whatever you say."

Oooooh~! He just made me so mad.

"In any case, we should get going." Reborn gestured to the general direction of the school. "I don't want Nono getting on my case for not showing you around."

"I should get going as well, or Lal-sensei will have my head," Dino added as well. He smiled and waved. "I guess I'll see you again soon!"

I nod to the kid with a smile and a thanks before turning around and sticking out my tongue out childishly at the tall raven, though still following along with a smile to reflect the small child's. "By the way, what's your name little one."

"Sawada Tsunayoshi, Tsuna for short." I glare at the tall man, about to reprimand him but instead find myself cut off by the same man once more. "He doesn't talk."

Seeing that this was probably a sensitive issue, I clam up and listen to the explanations of the areas we were passing through. I am more than pleased to hear that I would be teaching the class with little Tsuna in it, but this turns to shock when I hear the rest of my teaching schedule right after.

"You have got to be kidding me. That many? When will I have time to go to the university and complete my homework?" I questioned dubiously.

"24 hours in a day, take away eight for the required number of hours of sleep. Then take away three hours for the primary school, one hour for the middle school, and one hour for the high school plus an hour for break," Reborn calculated. "That leaves you with ten hours for everything else. You have more than enough time. Your schedule says you have six classes, alternating three a day and two hours each. That means you have at least four hours to complete your homework."

He made it sound so easy, the cocky bastard.

I sigh and pinch the bridge of my nose. "Still, I don't understand why I'll be teaching at the primary school for three hours."

"According to Nono, he has decided that you'll be serving as the homeroom teacher and teaching English as well as Science. The third hour is meant as break time and lunch for the kids before they transition into their next set of courses."

Wow…Long break.

"But as Dino said earlier," and there goes another scary, sly smirk to go with the abrupt topic change. "It's not the younger kids you should be worried about. It's the older ones."

BOOM!

"VOOOOOOIII! Get back here you damned shitty boss!"

"Senpai, stop throwing knives at me."

"Uishishishi, the prince does whatever he wants."

"Boss! Boss, where are you!"

"Mou~ All of you are making a terrible first impression."

"Tch. Scum."

Reborn chuckled. "Meet half of the middle school students you'll be teaching."

A hand goes to my temple once more. "Oh my head. My head has broken again."

"And to think, you haven't even met the rest of the staff yet," Reborn added with obviously fake nonchalance.

I think I am ready to die now.

Still working on that humor...And a cover picture for this story...

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