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Story Title: Eyes Of The Powerful.

Story Rating: M.

Chapter Rating: T.

Disclaimer: I own nothing. Damn bastards.

Last time:"Let's meet the rest of my… students, shall we?"

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"Ne, ne! When are they supposed to be here again?" Kikumaru asked the group in front of him, slight annoyance evident in his voice. Oishi sighed at his impatient words.

"They'll be here soon." Kikumaru just huffed and decided to do some handstands in the mean time, while the others voiced their own thoughts of their next… teacher.

"I was surprised to hear that they got another one and so soon, as well." a brown-haired teen said. A black haired haired teen next to him nodded in agreement, running a hand through his spiky hair as he did so.

"Mhmm. It was surprising that someone agreed to be our teacher. It usually takes them a good five days until they get someone to teach us. Do you think the Principle lied to them about our... err, reputation?"

"Fshhhhhh. Of course you idiot. Who in their right mind would teach us?" voiced a teen from across the room. Said teen glared at the other, lips parted in a snarl as he leaned against the wall opposite of the dark-haired teen. He absently tightened the green bandana holding his hair in place, ignoring the growling of the teen he provoked.

"What did you say, Mamushi?" said the black-haired teen, his normally soft eyes gone hard and welcoming stance turning tense as he faced the other.

"You heard what I said you bastard! Fshhhhhh!" Inui sighed at the fight, but pulled out a notebook and wrote in it as he observed.

"Momo, Kaidou!" A serious teen ordered and watched with a cold look in his eyes as they complied and immediately went silent. The rest of the room quieted, no one speaking for a moment only to have Oishi break it.

"Tezuka… you know that this will probably be the last one… don't you?" he said, soft eyes looking at the teen know named Tezuka. Tezuka nodded tightly, but soon a slight frown graced his face.

"I apologize for my irresponsible actions towards the last few teachers we have been assigned…" he said, avoiding the looks of the others. Kikumaru suddenly stopped and bounced up, now standing straight up and looked at him with a rare look of slight anger.

"Don't apologize, Tezuka-Buchou. It wasn't your fault! Those teachers stepped over the line! Anyone would have done what you did. And besides..." he said softening his hard look into one of confidence and reassurance.

"It doesn't matter. We all owe you our lives; we would follow you anywhere." he said, a happy enthusiastic grin on his face as he gave him a thumbs up sign and grinned even more as he got a ghost of a smile and a nod in return. Tezuka rarely let emotions seep through his mask, so it was a rare and treasured sight to see him react even in a slightly emotional way.

"Well, now that we have that cleared up, what do you suggest we do, Tezuka?" Oishi asked, turning to face his friend. Tezuka took a moment to think before he gave them all hard looks.

"We are not going to cause trouble; at least not too much. But, as usual, we cannot trust such a person. We will assess him when the time comes, and see if he is worth it." he said finally, earning a nod from each of his companions.

The stopped what they were doing as they heard footsteps echo of the walls in the large hallway and watched with expressionless faces as the large metal door slowly opened revealing Fuji, clear blue eyes wide open.

"Hello everyone." he said, his body tense. Everyone took note of this and froze. If Fuji of all people was tense then this teacher must be intimidating as hell. They mentally prepared themselves as the door opened wider and someone they did not expect to emerge, came out.

A boy, perhaps a teen but obviously younger than they, with a neutral look on his face as he stepped into the room and eyed them for a moment before glancing at Fuji who immediately joined them. Tezuka raised his eyebrow as he watched the brown-haired teen step next to him, the group now forming a line. He obeyed an order? Fuji barley obeyed Tezuka's orders.

The boy walked up to them, stopping a ways away from them and put his hands in his pockets as he eyed them. Tezuka was about to say something as Kikumaru suddenly squealed with happiness.

"An O'chibi!~" he yelled as he ran towards the black-haired boy opening his arms as he approached him. When he jumped towards him he suddenly froze and the others watched in shock as he froze mid-jump, hanging in the air above the boy that had presented himself to them.

"I suggest you not to call me that." the boy said, bored as he turned his head towards the red-haired frozen teen. When he got a glare in return he whipped around and suddenly kicked the teen, causing him to fly backwards and hit Oishi. Ryoma watched them with cold eyes as they flew back and hit the wall with a groan. Kikumaru slid off of Oishi with a whimper and Oishi held his stomach tightly with clenched eyes, his stomach radiating pain from the impact of his friend flying at him.

Tezuka watched them and snapped his head towards Ryoma, glaring at him dangerously, as did the rest of the group. Well everyone except Fuji, that is.

"What the hell!" Momo yelled, going red with anger as he eyed the little brat that had just kicked his friends across the training room.

"What are you doing?" Tezuka asked the boy, walking up to him with his fists by his sides, clutching at themselves dangerously. The boy simply looked up at him with a dangerous smirk, his gold eyes shimmering in the artificial light as he looked up to face Tezuka.

"Pop quiz. And so far, you're failing." he said, matching Tezuka's hard look with a harder one of his own, causing Tezuka to back down slightly.

"You're the teacher?" he asked, raising an eyebrow as he looked down at him, literally and figuratively. The boy's smirk disappeared and a dangerous look graced his face.

"Lesson Number One: Don't judge what you see with your eyes." he said, a little louder so that everyone could hear. He moved away from Tezuka to eye the two that were slowly getting up, but were still clutching the respective spot where it hurt.

"Lesson Number Two: Always be prepared. Always alert. Never underestimate the opponent. As soon as you do, that will be the day you die." he said coldly, giving each of the pained teens a hard look and receiving a shaky nod in return. Satisfied he turned his back on them and walked over to the wall, leaning on it as he eyed them.

"I'm the new teacher. I don't deal with whatever shit you got away with in the past. I'm here to teach you about yourselves and your powers. I'm not your friend. I'm not your consoler. I don't sugar-coat anything. If you don't want the truth, that's too bad; you're gonna fucking get it." he said, arms still crossed over his small, but toned chest as he gave them all hard looks.

"Introduce yourselves, then." he said after a silent moment, giving them all annoyed looks. The one that seemed most annoyed with him spoke first.

"I'm Momoshiro. They call me Momo, but you for obvious reasons, cannot." he exclaimed, giving Ryoma a glare that he dismissed and waited for the next introductions.

"I'm Takashi. They call me Taka… I don't really mind if you call me that…" he said, nervously looking at the boy.

"I am Inui."

"Fshhhhhh. Kaidou."

"More like Mamushi." Momo said, giving him an amused look. Kaidou turned to him, his form going rigid.

"What was that bastard?"

"You know what I said, idiot!"

"EH?"

"Wanna go at it, Mamushi?" Momo exclaimed, closing in on the hissing Kaidou. But before he could he suddenly flew back and slid across the room painfully. He groaned as he slid, and hit the wall hard. He opened one eye to see Kaidou groan in pain as well as he hit the wall not too far from himself. He starred as Ryoma started walking towards him and crouched in front of him.

"I don't take kindly to annoying fights. Shut it." he said, giving him a glare that made Momo shudder and nod quickly. Ryoma glared at Kaidou, who in return nodded quickly in return as well.

"Good." he said, picking Momo up by the front of his shirt and shoving him towards the shocked, and slightly scared group. Tezuka looked with slightly wide eyes as he watched his new teacher pick his black-haired friend up effortlessly. He was not a normal boy. But then again, no one at this academy was normal, per say.

"Continue."

"I'm Kikumaru nya~ They call me by my first name, Eiji, Nya~" Kikumaru said, giving him a smile, his happiness contradicting his previous annoyance for the teacher.

"And I am Tezuka." he said, a usual expressionless face on. Ryoma eyed him for a couple moments, making Tezuka tense with the attention. They broke their staring contest; however, when Kikumaru spoke up, glancing at the younger with curious eyes.

" What's your name nya~ I don't remember you saying it."

"Because I didn't." he said simply, closing his eyes, his face giving nothing away as Kikumaru pouted because of his response.

"Aw! Then what are we suppose to call you if we don't know your name?" he said, pouting and jumping around a bit despite the pain radiating from his side.

"His name is Echizen."

They all turned to look at Fuji, who had been surprisingly quiet the whole time. His eyes were open and staring at the new teacher intently. Ryoma slowly opened his eyes and met Fuji's. As he stared he suddenly smirked and pushed his back against the wall, moving away from it and walking closer to the group.

"I don't care what you call me. Echizen is my name, but I honestly could care less how or what you address me as. I'm not here to hold your hand, I'm here to break it and see how you manage to get back at me." he said, a chillingly creepy grin gracing his face. His grin seemed to grow larger as they all paled and some shuddered at his words that they had no doubt would eventually come true.

"Well, now. Does anyone know what their main element is?" he questioned and sighed irritably as they all gave him questioning looks.

"I guess I have to start from the damned beginning." he muttered unhappily, and suddenly sat down one leg stretched out and the other close to chest. He gestured for them to sit as well, and watched as they hesitantly did so.

"You are all ROSEs. A ROSE is a person who was born with the power to control elements. Depending on whom you are, that is. There are four main elements, which are the bases of all of the branch elements: Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth. You all have one main element which is your base element. Depending on your element, you can control whatever is associated with that element. For example," he said gesturing Tezuka to stand. Tezuka stood, his body tense with anticipation, waiting for a possible attack. Ryoma, seeing this, shook his head.

"I'm not going to attack you. Come here." he ordered.

Tezuka sat down in front of him, the others moving so that they were sitting around them as Ryoma placed his hand on Tezuka's forehead and closed his eyes, ignoring the uncomfortable look Tezuka was showing. After a moment he smirked and let his hand drop, opening his eyes.

"Tezuka has air. But you already knew that, didn't you?" he questioned with a knowing smirk. Tezuka didn't reply as he continued to look at his teacher, twitching slightly. Ryoma motioned for him to return to where he was, and the others moved a bit so he could sit, Ryoma still facing their half circle.

"Because of this element, he is able to use Wind in any shape, or form. But because it is Wind, or air as some call it, it doesn't have a form, making it one of the more powerful elements." he explained watching as each nodded slowly in understanding.

"What would be some examples of attacks he could use?" Inui asked, opening his notebook as he eyed the teacher.

"Well, he could use the one I used on the loud mouths and the hugging brat. Oh and his friend that got in the way." Ryoma said coolly, ignoring their annoyed looks and glares as he looked at Inui writing quickly in the notebook.

"What exactly did you use… uh… sensei?" Momo asked, hesitating at using the word sensei. He didn't like this teacher, but he wanted to know more about their powers and what they could do with them. So, he opted to just push his dislike to the back of his mind and allowing his curiosity to get the best of him. Ryoma smirked as he eyed Momo.

"I used Wind. I manipulated the current of the air around me to wrap around my leg as I kicked them. Wind is both powerful and deadly; It could be used to kill easily."

"Then why are you telling us this?" Tezuka asked eyeing him curiously, before he continued.

"You must have heard about our… reputation. So why inform us of the deadliness if we could easily kill you in the process of you teaching us?" he asked him, but froze when Ryoma gave him a deadly grin.

"You could try, but I doubt you could kill me even if you tried. And besides, you all suck at controlling your elements. We'll have to work on that. And as for your reputation…" he said, closing his eyes.

"Mines a hell of a lot worse." he said, his voice lower and darker. But as soon as the dark aura had surrounded him, it left.

"Nya~ I get the whole element thing, but what about Magic?" Kikumaru questioned after a moment of silence, "What does elements have to do with that?"

Ryoma sighed.

"Magic is a more broader topic. You can be 'magical', but not control an Element. This Academy, for example, is specialized for those will the ability for both magicals and elementals. The difference; however, is that elementals can perform magic is they so chose, while magicals cannot do what elementals are able to. " When they all gave him questioning looks he sighed in irritation, and closed his eyes as he explained.

"Think of it this way. All humans, even the 'regulars' have some magic within them, regardless of how small. The amount of magic you have; however, dictates the amount you are able to access. Elementals must be born that way specifically, in order to have the power to control the elements. You must be born with the affinity to do so, rather than just having more magic than regular humans, which therefore allows you to use it. The power to control elements is one that is considered above merely being able to wield magic. You will learn more in the future." When they all nodded, He opened his eyes and looked at them with a knowing smirk.

"I'm guessing you want to know your element, ne?" When they all enthusiastically nodded, with the exception of Tezuka and Fuji, Ryoma sighed and shifted so that he was laying down, his head propped up on his arm.

"Fine, then. Taka-Fire, Momo-Earth, Kaidou-Earth, Fuji-Water, Eiji-Earth, Inui-Fire, and Oishi-Earth. " he said, looking at them bored and ignoring their shocked faces.

"Don't you have to… I don't know like touch us and close your eyes to know our elements?" Momo asked. Ryoma scowled.

"Don't insult me. I am not weak. I don't need to do such a thing to know what element each of you have for a base."

"Then why did you do that for me?" Tezuka asked, a neutral face in place, but he twitched in irritation when Ryoma just smirked at him.

"I wanted to see if you'd let me. You are all incredibly naïve enough to take a strangers word like that. If I was anyone else I could have easily attacked you, ignoring my promise, and you would have been dead. Naivety is unacceptable, but that doesn't you question all of your friends." he said, amusement turning into a stern look to get his point across.

"You may have had the upper hand whoever you were before, but now you don't. And if you don't learn, then you won't have a hand at all. Or a life, now that I think about it. With the way you have fared so far within the Academy, i wouldn't be surprised if the Council just eliminated you if you don't start to shape up." he said, looking at each of their disbelieving eyes before continuing.

"Because of your powers, you will all be hunted. When, I'm not sure. Where? Anywhere. Why? Because you have something that normal humans could do some serious damage with. They're are not many with the abilities we have, and the knowledge of who has this power could be detrimental to the regular humans and their world. " he said simply, a bored look on his face one again. They all froze as he talked, his words slowly sinking in.

"Fss-shhhhhh… so, because of these 'powers' people will try to kill us?" Kaidou asked. Ryoma gave him an odd look before nodding.

"Then why are we learning how to get stronger? Why can't we just pretend that we don't have them?" Taka asked. Ryoma looked at him sharply.

"You can try, but it will not work. You cannot change who you are. You can try, but it will not work out in the end. I'm not going to sit here and tell you about the importance of how you use your powers when you leave the academy since I could care less. But remember. If you do decide to do something completely stupid, I will probably be the one dispatched to go kill your ass." Ryoma said nonchalantly.

The group shivered at his words and paled as he stood up, a dark grin pulling at his mouth.

"Well, now that you have some knowledge, I guess it's time to train, ne~"

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edited: 1/1/15

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