Hello ! It toke me a while but here is the next chapter.
I also found out that I accidently wrote Suzeren instead of Suzuran in my earlier chapters. From now on I will make sure to write it right ;)

Now enjoy reading and remember:

Disclaimer: I do not own Gokusen or Crows Zero.

Chapter 3: Fighting for friendship

It been an week since the incident with Kazama started and after the weekend Meg was ready for a new school week. Monday being her best and worst day combined. It was the start of a hard week, but at least she had a day of rest yesterday.

This morning in class she was quietly reading a book in the back. Being in her own world. So when out of nowhere all the boys started to push their desks and chairs aside, she was startled to see a brawl breaking out in the middle of the room.

She was used to the boys roughness and she had seen a lot of fights in her days, but never had she seen something like this. Whenever a brawl broke out in her days inside Suzuran, it simple started with the boys punching and kicking each other, leaving the room in havoc and full of blood trails at the end. Not once did they make a special area for the fight to take place. If someone broke your desk with their back or if it was thrown through a window it was your loss.

But here they didn't just make an area, the remaining boys were actually cheering the fight on.

~Meg's POV~

I was quietly reading one of my old books, when suddenly all the boys started to move in the room. Pushing chairs and desks to the sides of the room creating some kind of battle ring in the middle.

'What the…? What's going on?' I thought startled at the new actions of the boys.

Suddenly ten boy in duo's where in the 'battle area' punching, kicking and mostly wrestling with one another. The rest of the class stood at the sides cheering, making me look at them in disbelief.

'Why the cheering? The fights aren't even that good…. And how did they start out in the first place?!'

I looked on at the fights and the cheering a bit longer, no longer being able to concentrate at my book. Looking around I could see both Ogata and Kazama sitting at their respected desk, silently watching the fights happening with serious faces. 'Supervising?'

A couple of minutes into the fights, the door opens to reveal Yamaguchi-sensei, Surawatari-kyoto and the shadow. Yamaguchi-sensei rushed in the room trying to break up the fights, telling them to stop. However none of the fighting boys paid her any mind and she was pushed to the side in front of Karaki and Ichimura who were sitting in the cheering.

"Hey, stop butting in all the time." I could hear Ichimura say before Kuraki told her to "Sit, idiot." As if she was a dog.

Shooing her away with his hands Ichimura ended the statement with, "Okey, go to your house."

Standing back up Yamaguchi-sensei tried again to break the fights up, ending with her being shoved into the front podium by one of the fighting guys telling her to "Butt out!"

I tilled my head a bit to the side when I saw her turning her head around, muttering and glaring at the class. She had a certain gleam in her eyes that made me instinctively tens my muscles in anticipation.

Without warning she climbed up her own desk at the podium shouting at the class.

"Give it a break already! If you want to fight that badly, I'll take you on! Let's go outside!" Everyone gaped at her when she pointed to the door.

'What the fuck?! That is NOT a normal teacher.' I thought by myself.

The silence in the classroom continued for about a minute, no one understanding what just happened, until Surawatari-kyoto and his shadow broke it.

"Yamaguchi-sensei." Surawatari-kyoto hesitantly called out to her making hand gestures to tell her to calm down. The shadow saying something that sounded like, "Kowai/scary."

This seemed to snap Yamaguchi-sensei out of her zone. Shocked and panicked she looked around, climbing off the desk. It looked like she was trying to come up with some kind of excuse or distraction for the situation she just created.

"Outside…ow…, She started and then grabbed her ankle, ow ow ow ow!"

Of course this didn't work, even for the boys, but the bell ringing for lunch break did. Yamaguchi-sensei practically sprinted out of the room at the possibility of escape.

After a little while the boys started with their self-evented sport games, because of boredom. Inside the class room there was something like baseball or softball. The bat being an old broom. And in the hallway they were playing bowling with an old soccer ball. The few guys who didn't feel like playing any of these, I was able to see lounging outside from my spot on the roof.

That's why I was able to see Ogata's crew lounging under a tree before walking away from Yamaguchi-sensei and Kazama's crew laughing at her from behind before running away as well.

~Back in the class room after lunch break~

"Let's start the 3-D 'kick-the-can' competition." Yamaguchi-sensei said with an big goofy smile. Putting an little yellow can on top of her desk.

Instantly I heard Honjo complain. "Hey! Why do we have to do this childish crap?" But it didn't give him the reaction he probable was expecting, for Yamaguchi-sensei calmly started to explain it to him and the class. She almost sounded 'wise' in my ears until I focused on what she was saying.

"What this class needs right now is a sense of solidarity and friendship. In order to build that, everyone needs to work and sweat together, and get passionate about the same thing. Of course, I'll be participating too."

Even if the intention wasn't bad, it was still a childish game. I rolled my eyes, 'Not going to work', and then refocused on the book in my hand. Missing most of the conversation or complains between the class and Yamaguchi.

~Normal POV~

"How stupid." "Whatever…" "What a drag!" Where some of the complains heard coming from the 3-D students, before Kuraki asked what the hell 'kick-the-can' was anyway.

"Huh? You don't know?" Yamaguchi-sensei spoke in surprise.

"We don't know, right?" Kamiya gestured to the class making everyone nod in agreement with him.

Yamaguchi-sensei's eyes widened in disbelief. "You guys don't know the fiery and fun game? The world's at its end." She complained.

"You always exaggerate things." Ichimura commented from the back of the room, but Yamaguchi-sensei didn't give him head and started to explain her favorite game to the class.

" 'Kick-the-can' is a game where you use your head and physical strength to save your comrades from 'it'. In other words, it's a battle that requires teamwork. It's perfect game for this class right now. Alright! Everyone change into your gym clothes and meet in the schoolyard !" Cheered Yamaguchi-sensei trying to hype up the class.

Meg hadn't heard the explanation of her teacher, but the loud cheer to go to the schoolyard wasn't something she could ignore. However with another roll of her eyes and a tiny smirk, she stood up following the boys and Yamaguchi-sensei out of the class. Apparently this was another day of skipping.

~That afternoon~

Meg had followed the boys in the back of the group to Shirokin Shrine. She had noticed on the school ground that everyone stayed together instead of going their own ways to hang out like usual. This had not only made her curious, she just knew there was trouble to arise and today she really needed something to distract her.

That's why right now she was sitting against one of the pillars of the shrine. Far enough away to not be noticed by the boys and close enough to be able to perfectly witness to oncoming fight between Ogata and Kazama. The rest of the boys stood in one line to the side, cheering for one of their leaders.

"Don't lose Yamato!", "You've got this Yamato!" She could hear Honjo and Kamiya shout on one side. On the other end of the line she heard Kuraki and Ichimura. "Deck him good Ren!", "Go ahead and knock him out!" They shouted full of adrenaline.

"Don't lose you two! Go all out! Fire away! Fight! Fight!"

At the sound of an female voice all of a sudden everyone turned their attention to the person in the middle of their cheering line. 'What the hack was she doing there?!'.

"Why are you here?" Ogata was the first to ask his ridiculous teacher, before Kazama voice the question everyone wanted to know. "Anyway wouldn't you normally stop it?" Adult always wanted to stop a fight no matter what, but Yamaguchi-sensei only looked confused at the question.

"There is no need to stop a 'bare-one', right?" She said.

"Bare-one?" Everyone gasped in astonishment, not understanding her at all. In the back still sitting at her pillar, Meg also widened her eyes, but not out of confusion like the rest. She already knew what her teacher meant with those words, but the fact that she actually used 'these' words somehow shocked her. It's was clear yakuza slang you rarely heard, if you heard it at all.

"A bare handed one-on-one fight, don't you know?" The obvious woman asked her class. Not realizing her mistake at all.

"Of course, we don't." Honjo spoke for his classmates.

"Either way, I won't stop it. Yamaguchi-sensei announced. Go ahead and fight each other with all your strength. You guys will become real comrades." She stated with confidence. Again having her class in disbelief at her words. 'Why would they become comrades?'

"Comrades?" Kazama huffed.

"Right. Guys wanting to be the boss are like that." She explained herself, earning a glare from Ogata.

"What do you mean comrades?" Ichimura voiced his thought.

"You keep saying that, don't you?" Kuraki observed.

"Let me tell you." Ogata started, getting the attention on himself. "I'm not fighting for that."

Yamaguchi-sensei opened her mouth to respond, stepping forward in the process. Only to be interrupted by her mobile ringing.

Stating she needed a minute she walked off to answer her phone. AT her sentence of: … "A brawl at the Shirokin Shrine?" All the boys went to stand behind her to hear the conversation. Even Meg stood up to stand a little closer, but not as close as the boys.

"How did you know?" Yamaguchi-sensei asked the person on the other side of the line. No one could hear that end, but her answer Meg could guess that that person just made a comment along the line of suspecting 3-D of doing something wrong without any proof of the accusation.

"Ah, there must be some kind of mistake. Those guys have an unexpectedly adorable side. There's nothing to worry about. Talk to you later." Whit thatYamaguchi-sensei hastily closed her phone and turned to the class.

"The fuzz are coming." She stated in mild panic. Again confusing her students because of her yakuze slang.

"Fuzz?"

"The cops! Everyone run!" She shouted now in full panic at her students. Everyone at that point started to run out of Shirokin Shrine at full speed. Once out, they scattered. Only Meg hadn't been panicked by the announcement of the cops coming. A little surprised maybe, but no not panicked. She stood there calmly watching the chaos of her class running. When they were out of side she started walking out of Shirokin Shrine as well. Half the long street away from the shrine, she gave a short glans over her shoulder, seeing some men walking towards the shrine. 'The fuzz. So she was right.'

~Meg's POV~

~The next day~

After a very boring afternoon and always enjoyable night of work (not), I really didn't feel like going out of bed today. Too bad that it was still a school day, so that I didn't have a choice but to drag myself out of my comfortable cave and into my school uniform. I took a piece of frozen bread out of the fridge and put it in my mouth as breakfast, closing and locking my door behind me as I went on my way. Apparently it was time for grocery shopping again, so it was good thing that I had an early shift tonight. That way I can still go when I'm done working.

When I finally arrived at school all the boys were already in the classroom doing what they always did. Only when I sat at my desk did I feel like something was amiss. 'Where are those two leaders?' I asked myself.

At that point Yamaguchi-sensei decided to come in the room. Asking the class the same question, but of course no one gave her a serious response. Saying things like them skipping, which was in fact true even if the reason behind it was different. Even Yamaguchi-sensei realized the true reason by the way she was now running out of the room, closely followed by Karaki, Kamiya, Honjo and Ichimura.

~Normal POV~

~Later that evening~

I was just done with my shift at work and grocery shopping. Since my boss didn't like me working in my school uniform, nor did I actually, I had changed in some nice fitting jeans, old t-shirt and a grey figure fitting vest with hoody.

Being in an good mood I decided to take the longer route to my home through the local park.

I was almost at the end of the park when out of the right corner off my eye I saw a small group of boys sitting and wheezing at the little bridge of the park. The moment I was close enough I recognized them as being the six top boys of my class. Luckily for my they didn't seem to notice me when I passed by. If they would recognize me as being their classmate in these 'female' clothes I would by center of attention in no time at all. Besides that there would also coming the risk of Ogata recognizing me as the one in the fight.

When I was passed them and out of possible side by the bushes, I faintly heard running footsteps in front of off. The noise quickly became louder and when I looked ahead I saw a big group of guys, all clothed in forms of yellow, running in my direction.

The moment I heard one of them yell "They went this way. Go and get them." I looked to my left in one of the busy shopping streets. Seeing no one that could have put the group off, I waited for the group to come close enough towards me and pointed in that direction. The group would surely think I was scared of them and by the means of self-protection would point them the right direction. 'The idiots.' I thought with a smile, resuming my journey home.

What I didn't know was that the boys also heard their pursuers. They were ready to bold for it again until Ogata noticed the running going away from them. Thinking that being odd they carefully poked their heads around the bushed. Only to see a lone female walking out of the park.

~Normal POV~

~The next day~

Meg was very relaxed the next day when she came into class. She took her seat and rest her head on the palm of her hand, calmly looking around class. Somehow the feeling in class was different today. The boys seemed more tense about something. For a moment Meg wondered what could have cost this, but soon she found out that the six fools including leaders of class were gone. That could perfectly explain it for leaders are always the ones getting in the most trouble. Maybe it's because everyone comes to them with their problems, but out of experience Meg also new that leader are persons that are the best in getting themselves in troublesome situations.

Genji en Tamao being perfect examples of this. If it wasn't Tamao getting arrested or creating a fight than it was Genji. One of those situations was the fight between Housen and Suzuran. It wasn't even an ordinary fight between classes, no Genji had managed to unleash a fight between two schools. If that idiot hadn't been so impulsive on that moment, the non-aggression pact wouldn't have been broken and the fight could have been avoided.

….Or on second thought maybe not. Tamao did a good job at staying cool at that moment as to keep the peace and avoid the escalation of a silence war between the schools, but Genji had been a fool and thrown the first punch. That one punch caused a lot of bloodshed and brushes for everyone. Still even if he hadn't thrown the punch the guys of Housen would probably have found another way to unleash the war. Ever since the killing of their leader, that took place during a fight in Tamao's freshman year, the Housen guys were out to get revenge. Especially the leader, Narumi Taiga. He was under the command of the killed leader in the first fight between Housen and Suzuran and in the same year as Tamao. So without a doubt he needed to have the fight last school year before graduation or his hole plan of training the Housen guys would have gone to waste. Not that his plan succeeded. Suzuran had won the fight for now.

Meg had been so in her own thoughts that she hadn't notices Yamaguchi-sensei coming into classroom. The woman had asked her class about the six boys and when she heard that Ogata and his crew had rushed out of the room in aid of the other three boys, she didn't hesitate to rush out as well. Leaving her class to themselves until she returned with six brushed and exhausted boys.

Their colorful painted faces were really an amusing sight in the eyes of Meg.

'True leaders, true trouble makers.'