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Hey hey hey minna! BlueSkyBlue is finally back with another chapter of this fanfic! I'm so sorry this took too long, but please do understand that I'm still a sixteen year old girl that is still in school drowning in homework. Updates will be quite irregular right now, and I don't know when I will be updating the next chapter. Still, I am so grateful for all of your constant support. Thank you! Now, on with the fic!

Chapter 9: Explanations

"Your father?" Bitch-sensei stared at the man in the photo intently. "You don't really look like him."

Nagisa managed a weak smile. "Yea... It seems like I take after my mom in many ways..."

The blonde woman hesitated for a bit before putting a reassuring pat on Nagisa's shoulder, ignoring the slight flinch he made as her hand came in contact with him.

"He won't do it."

Bitch-sensei shot Karasuma-sensei a worries glance. The man, like her, had always been concerned about Nagisa. However, it won't be any good if he kept having a say with Nagisa's life, she wouldn't be sure if the teal headed boy would appreciate it.

"But I believe that it is his decision whether he would do it, or not," Asano raised an eyebrow.

Apparently, the principal thought so too.

Nagisa swallowed, appearing a little scared. "I'll do it."

She kneeled down to look at him in the eye. "Are you sure you can do this?"

The pair of blue eyes Nagisa had showed a hint of conflict, yet he determinedly replied her. "I'll try too. Besides..." He broke off. "Otou-san and I have not had a talk in a while. I can use this opportunity to contact him."

The brown headed principal smirked. "Good, I expect him in my presence by tomorrow afternoon."

"May I step it for a while," Koro-sensei butted into the conversation. "But why do you need Nagisa's father?"

But all Asano Gakuho did was smile mysteriously.

"I believe that if you want to find that out... Then join me tomorrow."

"Otou-san," Nagisa greeted the dark gray haired man sitting on a bench at the park.

"Nagisa," the man greeted back as he smiled. "Why did you call me put here today?"

Nagisa plopped himself beside his father as he replied. "It's nothing, really. I just missed you, it has been a while since our last meeting."

A look of concern crossed the man's face. "Are you sure? It is not her again, isn't it? You know that I always can just take over custody of you."

"Honestly," Nagisa shook his head. "It's nothing. Besides, it's not bad when she's not aggravated."

"And when is she ever not aggravated?" The father shot back.

Nagisa grimaced. "Um..."

"My point exactly," the almost elderly man gently said. "Once again, I'm going to ask. It is her again, isn't it?"

Nagisa swallowed. "How's life?"

It was quite obvious that the teal headed boy is trying to change the topic. The man noted it but did not try to persuade his son to talk about the previous topic, determined to bring it up another time.

"It's... okay, I guess." He replied, "Work is quite exhausting, and the exchange rate of currency is dropping."

Nagisa nodded, though he couldn't make head or tail of half of what his father just said.

"Ne... Otou-san?" He asked in a small voice. "Do you still... love me?"

"Huh?!" The elderly man exclaimed. "Of course I still do! Just because I left doesn't mean I would stop loving you!"

He smiled. "I'm happy then."

For a moment, a sense of dread filled the man. What was it he was feeling?

A cobra approached him, coiling itself around his body and jabbed at his neck...

Before he could fall forward as darkness engulfed him, a voice could be heard.

"I'm sorry, otou-san."

Hazuki Kato groaned as he blearily opened his eyes. He could not make out anything, as the room he was in was pitch black. Odd, he did not remember falling asleep the day before, or that day, for that matter... He tried to stretch his acting muscles, but soon discovered that he was tied up into a chair.

Wait what?!

No, how could this happen? How did he end up like this? He could not remember a single thing that could lead to him ending up in this situation.

"Ah, I see that you've woken up..." a silky voice was heard behind him and he strained his head to catch a glimpse of the person.

"Who are you?" He asked, trying his best not to sound afraid.

The voice, whom he deduced belongs to a man, laughed. "Can you not guess who I am?"

"I assure you, no matter how hard I'm trying to right now, I can't just recognize you just by hearing your voice!" He yelled, frustrated.

The voice laughed some more. "Alright, then... Nagisa, would you mind switching on the lights, please?"

Nagisa?!

A slight shuffle could be heard, and soon, bright light shone in the room and he had to closed his eyes at the intensity of it.

"Open your eyes."

He felt compelled to obey that command, and obey he did. After a while, he got used to the blaring light.

And his eyes widened when he saw the person standing in front of him.

"Asano Gakuho? The infamous principal of Kunigigaoka High School? What business do I have with you?" He asked, incredulously.

The principal raised an eyebrow. "What business? You certainly do have business with me... You have not been paying for your son's tuition fees for two weeks already."

"Nagisa's enrollment fee? I never paid for his studies, Hiromi is the one who paid for everything, she is the one in custody of him."

A shifting movement caught his eyes and to his shock, Nagisa was standing at the side of the room. At the sight of his father looking at him, Nagisa stared at the ground as he twiddled his fingers.

Memories of the earlier events came flooding back to Kato. He gasped. "Nagisa, you-"

"I'm sorry," the tealnette blurted out before he could finish his sentence.

"How touching this father and son scene is," Asano drawled. "But we are straying away from the main topic."

There wasn't even a father and son to begin with!

"Since you have no idea what is going on... Let me ask you something... Has anyone asked you to stop banking in an amount of money lately?" The red headed principal questioned.

Hazuki frowned. "Untie me first, then questions later."

"Karasuma,"

The PE teacher stepped up, startling Hazuki, and cut off the binds. He jumped off, and wobbled slightly, trying to maintain his balance.

"The last time I'd ever paid for anything was two months ago, it was the final payment I had to pay for my house loan." He said, making sure he kept to his promise. Nonetheless, it doesn't stop him from glaring at the principal.

"Well then, now we know that you've been cheated," a new voice drawled out, this time belonging to a blonde woman that looked foreign. He watched her warily as she circled the room and finally settled on standing beside the spiky haired man, Karasuma, wasn't it?

Once again, Asano looked at him skeptically. "If you say so... Do you recognize this bank account address?" He held up a piece of paper with a few numbers scribbled into it in perfect handwriting.

Hazing stared at it before reaching out to grab it. "It's the number that I send my house loans to." He said while frowning.

He spluttered. "What- But this could not be! how?"

"I think it's pretty obvious," Karasuma spoke. "Shiota Hiromi."

Two heads, the principal and Nagisa's father, turned to stare at him. "What do you mean?" Hazuki finally said after struggling to form words for a while.

"It means that she's been using you to pay for my tuition fee for months, probably years," a soft voice -Nagisa's- said.

It seemed as if this information was too much for the man to handle. He feel to knees, his hands on his face as he let out a despaired sound.

"Why? What have I ever done to make her so angry, so hateful?" He asked no one in particular. "I just wanted us to be happy..."

A hand was placed on his shoulder, a sign of comfort. "You don't have to worry anymore."

He dropped his hands to his sides, his eyes looking directly into the pair of blue eyes that was eerily like his son's. "Why?" he asked, again for the umpteenth time that day.

"I'm Nagisa's official guardian now."

"WHAT?!"

"'tou-san, I can explain, please."

Hazuki shakily got to his feet and landed a look on his son. It was then he saw. He saw the tired look in Nagisa's eyes, and the bags under them, as if the teal headed boy had never gotten a good night's sleep for a while. He saw the weary slouch Nagisa made as he leaned onto the wall.

"Nagisa?" He voiced out. "Are you okay?"

But he got no answer as Nagisa fell forward, his eyes closed. Every single thing about the tealnette screamed exhaustion. He could have gotten injured if Karasuma had not stepped up to catch Nagisa. Gently, the man shifted Nagisa into a more comfortable position in his arms before excusing himself and leaving the room.

"Can someone please tell me what is going on?" the exasperated man lost his patience. "And Nagisa, he worries me. Why is he in your custody?" He directed this question to Bitch-sensei, who shook her head.

"I believe that is Nagisa's story to tell." She said. "Now, if you excuse me, I want to check up on my ward."

Only Asano and Hazuki remained in the room then.

"I believe we have more to talk about," Asano crossed his arms. "Why don't we go to my office and have a cup of coffee over this? I'm sure that Irina will contact you if your son wakes."

"I don't have a choice, do I?" Hazuki sighed as he followed the principal of Kunigigaoka School out of the room.

Behind a stack of boxes, a yellow octopus stood, face red in anger. He was so tempted to kill a certain woman by the name of Shiota Hiromi at that moment.

And that's it! It is quite short, and I am sorry for that. Still, I hope you all enjoyed that! Now lemme finish my homework or my Chemistry teacher will be walloping my ass into Tomorrowland.

Yours,

BlueSkyBlue,

a.k.a. Otonashi Hayuka

P.S. I'm also writing another Assassination series by the name of "When Nagisa Goes MIA". It's a humor fic, and if any of you guys are interested, do check it out!