"I hate authority."
"Wow, Padfoot, how very hippie of you."
"Prongs, Remus is being sarcastic again!"
"What am I, your mother? Like I care."
"That's funny, James."
"Oh be quiet Peter, we're here."
The four boys walked into the empty classroom and saw Aki sitting on the teacher's desk waiting for them.
"I guess I'm going to have to touch on punctuality. You're late."
They looked at the clock on the wall and saw that it was 5:15.
"Um…so?" Sirius said as they all sat down in the first row of desks.
"Being on time is important, not only because it's extremely rude to be late but also because you might miss something really important. Suppose James, Peter, and Remus came on time but you came late and I told them if they stopped coming their lessons would stop. You got here late and missed it. Therefore, you still came to lessons but they didn't. You had lessons and they didn't. See the importance of arriving on time?"
"Psh, I'd notice they weren't going and stop going myself."
"Ok, I was dancing around naked. You were late. Five seconds before you came, I put my clothes on. You saw nothing. But your friends were on time. They got a nice little show."
"…oh…"
The three other students laughed at Sirius who was now blushing.
"Now, today we're going to learn about respect. Who knows what respect is?"
James and Sirius looked around the room and Remus sighed.
"Respect is to show or feel admiration. If you respect someone's wishes, you honor them and don't go against them."
"Perfect! And did you boys show respect when you had the giant squid try to seduce Severus?"
"No…" They all answered.
"Exactly. You probably made him feel really bad. So don't do it, ok?"
"Why not? Being disrespectful isn't a big deterrent for me." Sirius said.
"It should be! How would you like it if I humiliated you?"
"Pah! That's impossible."
She shook her head.
"I thought you were better than that, Sirius."
"Well…I'm not…"
"Apparently."
An awkward silence fell as Aki looked at Sirius disappointedly and Sirius found his shoes suddenly very interesting.
"So you're saying," She said slowly, "that you need compensation for being a good person?"
"Well…it sure would be nice."
"Ok, this goes for all of you," she announced. "If you are respectful of your fellow students for the entire week in between lessons, you'll receive a kiss."
All four heads perked up.
"Now that's what I'm talking about!" Sirius exclaimed. "Does today and the day before count?"
"Well, yes I suppose they do."
She walked over to Peter who was sitting on the other side of the room.
"One kiss for Peter…"
She leaned down and kissed him on the cheek. He blushed. She moved over to the next desk.
"One for Remus…"
She kissed Remus' cheek and moved to James' desk.
"And one for James."
She kissed James on the cheek and walked back to the front of the room.
"…WHAT?!" Sirius yelled. "DON'T I GET SOMETHING?!"
"Oh yes, silly me. I forgot."
He smiled triumphantly as she walked over.
SMACK!
He yelped as she slapped him.
"You get a slap for being so rude and disrespectful to me today in Divination."
He glared at her as he held his cheek. The other three were cracking up and Aki was now grinning.
"Continuing on…"
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"So how'd the first lesson go?" Kate asked Aki the next day at breakfast.
"Well…" She trailed off and looked over at the Gryffindor table. Sirius was sitting there looked a little less happy than usual with a big, purple, hand shaped bruise on the side of his face.
"Ouch, that was bruise was your doing then?" Lane questioned.
"Yep! I was quite proud of it myself."
"I'm sure you were, it actually bruised!" Elle declared.
"Yea, how'd you get so strong all of a sudden?" Kate inquired.
"Well," Lane answered, "as you know Aki spent part of the summer with me."
"And her brother is a big time quiditch player." Aki said.
"He's a beater like me." Lane added.
"I was already in shape, my sister and I like to play soccer (a muggle game) sometimes. Lane's brother taught me how to play."
"She's such a good beater! Better than I am, and I'm on the team!" Lane said.
"Aki, you should try out!" Elle said as she grinned at Aki over her pumpkin juice.
"Yea, you know who else is a beater right?" Kate added with a smirk. They all looked over at Sirius.
"You could beat him at his own game." Lane said.
"You guys might be on to something here…"
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"Remus!" Sirius cried as he pulled on his friend's sleeve.
"What?!" He asked exasperatedly.
"They're looking at me!"
He pointed to Aki and her friends at the Hufflepuff table. They were looked over at him with smug looks on their faces.
"Sirius, afraid of a few girls? What are they going to do, slap you?" Remus joked.
"Ah ha ha, you're too funny."
"To quote a friend of mine, that's what people keep telling me."