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Chapter 4: How to teach math

Today school was as boring as ever, though there were still some fan girls chasing after her. Luckily, Rin arrived home safely, none of those girls had followed her or tried to stalk her in order to find some blackmail material.
She shuddered at that thought and opened the metal door leading to the garden around her house.
It was very big, hedges surrounding it like a fence, with a pool on the left side next to the terrace.
She walked in, heading for the door. The house was a western style house, you could nearly call it a villa , it was a little bit too big for only her and her parents living in it, though they were both working and rarely at home, making the house even emptier. Once in the week a woman would come by to do the cleaning, or else the building would be full of dirt and dust. Her family could easily afford some home personal, but Rin preferred doing things herself, for example cooking.
Now she entered, closing the door behind her.

It was already after 2 pm and she still hadn't eaten her lunch. Dumping her school bag in her room, she then prepared a sandwich. Minutes later she walked back to her room, holding a plate with the food. She sat down in front of her desk, doing her homework while eating, though she skipped math homework, leaving it for later when Oishi was coming to tutor her. Practice had been on Wednesday instead of Thursday because the tennis courts were needed for some kind of school event or so, she didn´t care about that. Half an hour later she finished and turned on her TV, laying on her couch. Blue ornaments were painted on the walls of her room; actually quite a lot of her things were blue: the couch, her lamps, the bed, the chair, the cushions, even her Teddy. Blue was her favorite color.

She turned off the TV after sometime, bored, instead turning her laptop on. She checked her E-mails and surfed the web for awhile.
Suddenly the doorbell rang. "That must be Oishi." With this thought she headed to the door. Opening it, Oishi stood in front of her in casual clothes: jeans, sneakers, white T-shirt, a backpack hanging loosely on his left shoulder and greeted her. She stood there frozen. It was her first time seeing him like this, normally he was wearing the school uniform and now he looked kind of hot... She collected herself and smiled at him.
"Sorry to have you come all the way here."
"It's okay. I'm living only two streets from here."
She invited him in and led him to the living room. There he seated himself, while she prepared something to drink. Oishi looked around, noticing the room was large, a plasma TV in front of the sofa, a modern stereo system with two speakers on the left side of it. Right next to that were shelves full of CDs and videos. Rin came back with juice and cookies as a snack.
"So, what do you need help with?" Oishi asked. Rin told him that she didn't understand anything about math because the teacher was explaining it so fast and she had troubles keeping up, so he started explaining to her from the beginning. She nodded now and then to show that she was listening, interrupting him sometimes to ask him a question. "So, do you understand everything now?" Oishi asked her, she nodded and mumbled a "Yeah" in a low voice, deep in thought. "Then do your homework, I'll get us some more water."
He stood up and walked into the kitchen. It looked modern with a lot if space. Also everything was painstakingly tidied, all things had a certain place they belonged to, and nothing was out of order. He rubbed his eyes, the whole kitchen seemed like it was finally found a packet of apple juice in the fridge, pouring some into their cups and then went back to the living room, where Rin was concentrated on doing her math assignment. Oishi left the cups on the table, looked over her shoulders, only to be horrified.
"Why does the plus suddenly become a minus! And that's a 3, not an 8! How can you get them mixed up! The x is supposed to be replaced by a 9! 36 divided by 6 isn't 30, it's not a minus! Agh, how can you make such simple mistakes?" Oishi shouted desperately. "...Oh, you're right." Was the only comment he got from Rin, who fixed her mistakes. "Now the arithmetic makes sense." "No wonder she has such bad marks if she's sloppy, though she's also slow at understanding some things." Oishi thought. He would have to teach her to mind these small things, then her grades would surely go up a little. "At least I now know the root of the problem."

Suddenly he took notice of a warm thing in his lap. When he looked down, a little black cat was yawning cutely, it then curled and immediately fell asleep in his lap. "Kuro-nyan likes you." He heard Rin's voice. "Seems so." Oishi smiled and petted the small animal.

"I finished." Oishi woke up, wait, he was sleeping? When he looked up, Rin's mouth was curled up into a small smile. Oishi blushed, he just fell asleep in front of someone, he hoped he didn't snore or talked in his sleep. Sometimes he would do that, at least his mother told him so. "You didn't." Rin looked into his eyes. That was just like she could read his mind, similar to Inui who loved to creep them out by answering their thoughts. He slowly started moving again and checked her homework. She still had some mistakes, but at least not every number was mixed up. She wasn't even that bad at math if she tried a little harder. "What grades do you have in other subjects?" She simply answered with "above average".
"Well, I'm leaving now. See you tomorrow at practice!" Oishi smiled at her. She accompanied him to the door and muttered a quiet "Bye.", closing it behind her.
Outside Oishi let out a sigh, who would have known that teaching math was so tiring.

Rin was alone at home now. She picked her cat Kuro up. "Well, it's feeding time." She hummed and headed to the kitchen. There she put Kuro back down on the floor, who sat down, obediently waiting for his food. Rin opened a cupboard and took out a can. She poured the contents into a bowl labeled "Kuro" and then got another one, in which she poured water. Kuro ate his food unimpressed by the fact that Rin was watching him. "Gotta learn maths now." She muttered with an unhappy expression. "But Oishi is a really good teacher..."