As stated, I'm reformatting the old chapters.
Seriously, FF should send us an email warning us about changes like this.
Any who, as stated earlier:
1. This is definitely a Yukina+Kuwabara fic, no questions asked, if any other pairings pop up it'll be out of sheer comedic value or a request.
2. Kuwabara joining the patrol that protects the school will be considered, but his duties as Tantei and teacher come first.
3. Be assured Kuwabra WILL receive a pactio, but I'll leave the guessing of WHO with to you.
4. I intend to go as far as the school trip from the manga...maybe even as far as the Mahora festival saga if I push things.
5. Hiei, Kurama and Yusuke WILL make random appearances, with all three set to help out during the Mahora Fest saga if it gets there.
6. Kuwabara, ever-lovin baka that he is, STILL hasn't a clue as to the identity of Yukina's brother, and I intend to milk that for all it's worth.
Enough about me. on wih the show!
3rd Period
The two new instructors were walking down the hall, Kuwabara in the same outfit as before and Negi in a rather impressive suit and tie. Asuna, who had been given a new uniform, walked alongside the child teacher with her head turned to the side, sulking, Negi reciprocating with a sulk of his own whilst Kuwabara, Konoka and Shizuna-sensei took up the rear.
"Kuwabara-sensei," Shizuna-sensei called out "You'll be taking them for science and mathematics, which isn't until next period." She nodded as Asuna continued to glare at a nervous Negi, "Why don't I take you to the staff room, you can introduce yourself to everyone before class."
"Sounds good." Kuwabara admitted, sending a concerned look towards Negi as Asuna glared at the boy.
"You!" the pigtailed firetrap barked, pointing at the child-sensei, causing Kuwabara to flinch out of reflex. Having a friend capable of blasting the bejeezus out of mountains with his pointer finger will do that to a man. "You're on the couch! Got it? No bed sharing you little creep!" And with that she marched off, Konoka rebuking her for scaring her sensei.
'Nice girl…for a psycho.' The two males thought in tandem, Shizuna-sensei assuring them that they'd get used to her eventually.
"Here's a list of your students." She offered to Negi, who sweatdropped at the sheer mulltitude of names and information on the list "Kuwabara-sensei? If you'll follow me?"
Kuwabara nodded, clapping Negi companionably on the shoulder and smiling reassuringly. "Knock 'em dead Bozu." He offered, earning a weak smile from the teen as he turned to follow Shizuna sensei. He sent a concerned look back as he heard a great outcry go out a few minutes later, only for Shizuna to smile
"He'll be okay." She assured him, "They're a little wild, but good kids at heart, you'll learn."
Reassured, but not entirely, Kuwabara followed the woman to the staff room, unaware of the havoc that was unfolding behind him.
Several periods lay-ter...
'That Takahata's not the only odd guy here.' Kuwabara noted as he walked down the halls to class 2A, 'There's Seruhiko-sensei and Akashi-sensei…and that Touko-sensei…' he shook himself as he tried to piece it all together. 'Later.' He decided, 'Right now I have to make a good first impression.'
Taking a breath, the former delinquent opened the door, freezing slightly as he sensed something overhead. Out of reflex, his free hand snapped up and caught the rigged eraser before he even knew what it was. Looking at the faces of the class he frowned "That wasn't very nice," he pointed out, tossing the eraser in his palm "What if I'd been allergic to this huh?"
He stepped forwards, avoiding the tripwire before reaching up to catch the bucket of water by the handle, carrying it as he went. He tilted his head to the side, avoiding the toy arrow that would have sent him head over heals by an inch, before calmly bending over to set the bucket down by the desk, the other two arrows slamming into the side of it as he straightened up.
"Well now," he greeted, smiling at the stunned girls, who had never encountered anyone who avoided their traps "My name is Kuwabara Kazuma, and I'm your new science and mathematics professor for third semester." He nodded towards them, "Nice to meet you all."
3A gossip...
No sooner had the man finished talking than the gossiping began, the girls looking amongst themselves as they took him in. "Not much to look at." Asakura Kazumi sighed, shaking her head sadly "And Negi-sensei's too young, it just ain't right."
"Did you see how he dodged those traps?" Narutaki Fumika asked, eyes wide with amazement "That was so cool!"
"A challenge at last!" her twin Fuka cackled, sending their new sensei a mischievous look that promised good natured pain and torment for the rest of the year.
"Who does he think he is with that ponytail?" Saotome Haruna wondered "And those duds! Must be a Yakuza reject!"
"Paru-chan…" her friend Miyazaki Nodoka whispered, looking upset, "That isn't very nice…"
"True tho." Replied Ayase Yue, her high eyebrows and bored expression giving her quite the intellectual appearance.
'Great, another weirdo.' Muttered Hasegawa Chisame under her breath, trembling with suppressed rage 'first the munchkin and now some GTO wannabe? Why can't I get a normal class?'
'Strong…' was the opinion of one Sakurazaki Setsuna, who could feel Kuwabara's suppressed aura from where she sat, an opinion shared by Nagase Kaede, Ku Fei and Tatsumiya Mana.
'Interesting.' Opined Lingshen Chao, who tried to factor in this new arrival to her equations.
"Everyone Please!" called out the class rep, and not-so-secret shotacon, Yukihiro Ayaka, "Your behavior earlier with Negi-sensei was deplorable! Please show some proper manners for Kuwabara-sensei!"
The girls fell silent, though each seemed to file their opinion of the man away for later updating.
Back with Kuwabara...
"Arigato…ano." Kuwabara muttered, the former delinquent/Part-time Tantei fumbling with his register, his eyes ranging over the list of names, before coming across the blonde Class Representative's face, "Yukihiro…Ayaka-san?"
"Hai," Ayaka nodded, smiling flatteringly "And as class representative, please allow me to be the first to welcome you to 2A."
Kuwabara nodded and smiled in return "Arigato, Ayaka-san, now please take your seat so we can begin."
Ayaka did so, and the class opened their textbooks to the current page, Kuwabara reading out of it, smirking at the sight. 'This takes me back,' he noted, recalling the bizarre dream and Akashi's challenge from his own time in jr. high, before shaking himself. "Right, now how many of you can tell me why blood is red?" he called out, sweat dropping as everyone averted their eyes from his gaze, "Okay…here's a hint, what do we have in our blood?"
"Blood Cells?" Izumi Ako asked tentatively, the blue haired assistant nurse and member of the soccer team recalling reading up on the subject in an attempt to get over her hemophobia...sadly to little success.
"Very good," Kuwabara replied, the former delinquent smiling approvingly at the blue haired girl and nodding encouragingly as she blushed at being acknowledged "And what colour are they?"
"Well, there are red ones…and white ones…" Ako began tentatively, trailing off nervously, as like most of the class, she shied away from answering most questions, only to earn another nod from the sensei.
"That's right, and which do you have more of?" Kuwabara asked, the pony-tail sporting Sensei looking around at the rest of the class expectantly, only for them to avoid his gaze "Anyone else? C'mon it should be easy!"
"Red!" Fuka yelled out, the elder of the Narutaki Twins leaping to her feet, her arms held wide over her head at the exclamation, earning a smile and nod from Kuwabara as he continued with the lesson.
"Very good!" he applauded, motioning for the twin to return to her seat as he faced the class "But there's a special pigment in your blood that MAKES it red," he pointed out "can anyone guess the name?"
"Hemoglobin." A bored voice called out, everyone, including a startled Kuwabara, turning to take in the annoyed features of Evangeline A.K. McDowell, the short blonde resting her chin on her palm, a bored expression on her face.
"Ah…yes," Kuwabara agreed, shivering at the cold stare the doll-like girl was giving him from her seat 'And I thought Genkai's glares were creepy!' he thought, before shrugging it off "The answer is indeed Hemoglobin, now who can tell me how the bloodstream works?" When no one answered he sighed and turned to face the board, prepared to draw out a diagram for them.
"Fuka-san." He called out after a few minutes, sensing the elder Narutaki twin approaching his chair "I'm sure you aren't the type of person to put something in my chair now are you?" He grinned as he heard the shocked girl dash back to her seat, the whole class now staring at him, mouth's agape. 'I am SO cool.' He praised, going back to the diagram at hand.
3A gossip corner...
"Did you see that?" Misa Kakizaki whispered, the cheerleader holding a hand to the side of her mouth as she whispered excitedly with her colleagues "He caught Fuka-chan without even turning round!"
"Does he have eyes in the back of his head?" her fellow cheerleader Kugimiya Madoka wondered in hushed tones, the husky voiced cheerleader eyeing their other, elder new sensei warily, albeit with an impressed stare.
"Maybe he's psychic!" supplied Shiina Sakurako brightly, the bubbliest of the cheerleaders looking highly excited that the prospect as she held a finger up for emphasis "Maybe he's reading all our minds right now!"
"Doubtful." Supplied Yue, the bluenette sipping away at one of her usual, oddly labeled drinks, her usual solemn expression on her face "He probably saw her reflected in the window and thought he'd play a mind game."
"But it's too bright to use the window Yue-chi!" Sakurako insisted, the hyperactive cheerleader pointing at the windows in question as she shook her head "He has to be psychic! I'd bet ten lunch tickets on it!"
"I'll raise you twenty!" Sasaki Makie yelled out, the gymnast holding up the aforementioned lunch tickets in question, even as the class erupted from there into full-on riot mode, startling Kuwabara in mid-sketch.
"What th' hey?" he wondered, turning to gape at the scene going on behind him, watching in confusion as lunch tickets were tossed in the air like stock papers during a crash "What's going on here?"
"Sensei!" Sakurako yelled out, the hyperactive cheerleader leaning forward on her desk, a hand raised in the air as if she were asking a proper question "Can you guess what I'm thinking? You're psychic right?"
"No fair Sakurako!" Kakizaki chastised her friend; the purple haired cheerleader looking at her colleague disapprovingly, even as Sakurako giggled at getting a head start "You can't narrow it down to just that!"
"Yeah!" Fuka called out, the elder of the Narutaki twins standing atop her desk, pointing at Kuwabara in a manner reminiscent of a certain Ace Attorney "Besides! He has to be a ninja! Right sensei?"
"Ha?" Kuwabara replied intelligently.
"Oh come on!" Haruna scoffed, the bespectacled perverse manga-ka and member of the Library club shaking her head in disbelief "A ninja? In this day and age? What are the odds of one enrolling at a high school anyway?"
Kaede whistled quietly and shot the twins a meaningful look, silencing them lest they said something they shouldn't. "Haa?" Kuwabara repeated in a slightly higher tone, his confusion continuing to grow, evident from his slack jaw.
"Sensei!" Makie yelled out, the gymnast leaning on top of Sakurako's back, her hand raised in the air as she waved at the understandably flummoxed sensei "Are you really a psychic ninja with eyes in the back of his head?"
"HAAA?"
LAy-ter...
Negi sighed as he sat on the steps of the monument, trying to relax after a hectic day as 2A's homeroom teacher. The girls hadn't even given him a chance to start his lesson plan, being far more interested in cuddling him, pinching his cheeks and, much to his mortification, feeling him up.
"The only upside is that tomorrow couldn't possibly be worse." He deduced, tapping his staff for luck "At least I hope not."
Sighing, he pulled out the roster again, scribbling on Asuna's picture childishly, sticking out his tongue for emphasis. Blinking, he looked up just in time to see a familiar face traipsing down the steps, burdened down with FAR too many books. "No.27, Miyazaki Nodoka-san?" he wondered, looking concerned for the timid bookworm, "she looks a little burdened down there…AH!"
Just as Nodoka's foot slipped, the mage in training whipped out his staff, the wrappings unraveling as he poured magic through it. Sending just enough magic to hold the girl long enough for him to get there, Negi rushed forwards, apparently catching the girl before she fell, taking the brunt of their combined weight himself.
"Are you alright Nodoka-san?" the ten year old asked concernedly, "You almost hit the ground pretty-!"
Negi's words trailed off in horror as he espied Kagurazaka Asuna gaping at him in surprise, the expression on her face a telltale sign she'd seen everything. "Um…gotta go…" the boy began, only to yelp as the hotheaded schoolgirl scooped him up in her arms, staff and all, and made for the woods like a woman possessed, leaving a concerned Nodoka to blink in confusion.
"Negi-sensei?" she wondered faintly, blinking as the sound of running footsteps caught her attention.
Just as Asuna abduct's Negi...
'That weird energy again!' Kuwabara thought wildly, the pony-tail sporting sensei coming to a halt at the top of the steps, eyeing the scene around him with a frown 'These books lying about…was a student attacked?'
"Kuwabara-sensei!" a quiet voice called out, causing the former delinquent to whip round, catching sight of Nodoka on the floor below.
"Miyazaki...Nodoka-san?" he wondered, blinking down at the ruffled looking librarian in confusion, only for his eyes to widen in realization, jumping down the steps to crouch beside the startled girl in concern "Are you alright? Were you attacked?"
"N-no," the girl replied uncertainly, eyeing the large, mildly intimidating new science sensei warily from behind her bangs "I tripped going down the steps…" she looked to the side in embarassment "I guess I was carrying too much…"
'That explains the books.' Kuwabara noted, as several other girl's showed up, Haruna and Yue amongst them "Did you hurt yourself falling?" he asked "Anything broken?" when Nodoka shook herself he sighed in relief "That's good, but I still think you should see a nurse to be safe."
Nodoka's protests were ignored as he lifted the girl up in his arms, earning a squeak from the bookworm and a rush of giggles from the others. "Does anyone know where th' nurse's room is?" he asked, nodding as Yue raised a hand "Show th' way then, I'm still getting used ta this place."
He flinched as another burst of energy erupted from the woods, but put it off since he figured Nodoka needed more attention at the moment.
Later that day...
"Ah, Kuwabara-kun!" Takamichi called out as the younger sensei entered the staff room some time later, "Just the man I was looking for! 2A's throwing a little get together to welcome you and Negi-kun to Mahora, so why don't we go together?"
"Sure, why not?" Kuwabara replied, sounding a little relieved; what with trying to track down the source of that weird energy and making sure his class didn't start a riot, the man was virtually drained, and a party sounded like the perfect pick me up.
Of course, he wasn't expecting to be deafened by the sheer amount of noise that greeted him as he set foot through the door.
"Seems the girls got a little carried away without us." Takamichi muttered, chuckling as he waved at some of the gleeful students "AH! It looks like Shizuna-sensei kept us some seats."
Kuwabara followed the older man to the bench, where a smiling Shizuna welcomed him warmly. "So how was your first day?" she asked, "Did they give you much trouble?"
"Not really." Kuwabara muttered, the younger Sensei accepting a glass of Amazake from his senior with a grateful nod, a wry smirk on his face "Though they REALLY take the cake on rumor-mongering."
"Ah." Takamichi nodded knowingly, having experienced his fair share of mud-racking with the denizens of 3A "The cheerleader-trio must have started that," he wagered "they always come up with something and blow it out of proportions…but it's all harmless fun."
"I'll bet." Kuwabara muttered, recalling how it had taken most of the remaining class time to calm everyone down again and refute his status as a psychic ninja alien with extra ocular organs. He blinked as the fanfare kicked up again, turning to regard as Negi and Asuna made their way through the door "Hey Bozu! Over here!"
Negi blinked and waved at his colleague, practically skipping over to the bench as Kuwabara made some room for him "Kuwabara-san!" he greeted politely, "Are you enjoying yourself?"
"So far." Kuwabara admitted, pouring the kid some juice, figuring it wouldn't do to let a ten year old drink, despite Urameshi's insistence that it never did HIM any harm "Gotta say tho, these girl's are pretty wild huh?"
Negi chuckled weakly as he scratched the back of his head, an action that caused quite a few members of the class to flush and flock around him, offering the duo treats. The welsh wizard blinked as he finished a cup of juice, taking in the timid form of Miyazaki Nodoka as she approached with her friends, Yue and Haruna.
"Arigato," the librarian offered, "I'd have probably broken my neck if not for you." She bowed to him before repeating the movement towards a stunned Kuwabara "And thank you for taking me to the nurse, Kuwabara-sensei, I'm sorry if I got in the way."
"Not at all!" Kuwabara replied, waving a hand dismissively "Couldn't have a student getting injured on my first day could I?"
Nodoka smiled and pulled out something behind her back, offering them to the instructors with a nervous smile, "It's not much," she offered, "but here's discount coupons from the school bookstore."
"WHOA! COUPONS?" Misa cackled, the purple-haired cheerleader looking between the flushing librarian and their two new Sensei with a teasing expression on her face "For Nodoka that's first base!"
Kuwabara sweatdropped as the shy girl tried to refute her classmate's statement, before blinking in confusion as the class rep unveiled a bust of Negi, albeit rather crude around the edges, eliciting a squabble between her and Asuna, as the redhead made a comment about 'trotting out her bust'.
'I can't tell if those two hate each other or love each other.' The lanky instructor muttered, blinking as Asuna broke the fight off in time to elbow Negi from behind, dragging him off for a clandestine conversation. 'Wonder what they're on about?' he wondered, only for Negi to trot back and place his palm on Takamichi's forehead.
"What do you think of Asuna-san?" the ten-year-old asked, earning a blink of confusion from Kuwabara as Asuna face-faulted quite spectacularly.
"Well," Takamichi chuckled, "She's a hard worker, cheerful, energetic," he winced slightly "A little short-tempered but overall a good kid."
With Negi...
Negi nodded, reading the contents of his friend's mind before trotting back to Asuna, who held her breath for the findings. "He thinks you don't wear panties!" Negi revealed, resulting in the girl losing her footing.
'Well that's perfect!' she all but screeched mentally before sending him back for more like the glutton for punishment she was. She blinked as she caught sight of the suspicious look on Kuwabara's, "Kuwabara-sensei's" she corrected, face, as the pony-tailed man looked between her and Negi. 'Never mind,' she muttered, 'he's probably just wondering what we're talking about.' She blinked as Negi trotted back, eager to hear something good.
"He's thinking you wear bear panties!" Negi revealed eagerly, blinking as the girl buried her head in a wall with the force of the facefault, before picking herself and making a dash for it. "Asuna-san!"
Kuwabara again...
Kuwabara blinked as the two ran out the door, wondering what on earth was going on, before deciding to get to the bottom of it. He'd sensed some minor energy readings during the exchange with Takamichi, so he was starting to put two and two together.
'Either I'm being paranoid,' he muttered 'or Negi-bozu's hiding something big.'
Excusing himself from the table, the former delinquent made his way through the ocean of hyperactive teens towards the door, finally managing to get to it, but not before a group consisting of Ayaka, Kasumi, Sakurako and Fumika snuck out ahead of him. Deciding to follow them, the professor made his way down the hall as silently as he could, only to gape alongside his students at the scene before him.
'What th' heck?' he yelped, watching as Asuna, her aura revealing her even without her hair ties, preparing to lip-lock a stunned Negi as the impromptu audience gazed on in scandalized wonder. 'Damn, kid works fast I'll give him that.' He muttered, before clearing his throat loudly, startling the two groups, as they hadn't heard him sneak up behind them.
"What're doing out here Bozu?" he called out to Negi with a smile, filing the memory of Asuna's mortified face away for later viewing "There's a party going on, and I can't celebrate it by myself."
"C-COMING!" Negi yelped, making a rather fast dash up the steps, his face beet red as the two left the girls to their own affairs, Ayaka lunging at Asuna, the two resuming their traditional catfight.
"You work fast don't you?" Kuwabara teased, earning a confused look from his younger colleague "You DO know relationships between staff and students're taboo, right?"
Negi flushed and tried to stammer out a reply, only to blink as Kuwabara ruffled his hair, "I'm pullin' yer leg bozu." The taller instructor assured him "Besides, it's WAY too early for you to be looking at girls anyways." He patted the exhausted boy on the shoulder and grinned, "C'mon, let's show these guys how to party."
Later that evening...
"By the way," Kuwabara pointed out later on, catching the attention of Takamichi as he helped clear up the mess "in all the excitement, I forgot to ask where I'm bunking at."
"Really?" Takamichi wondered, blinking in surprise, "Didn't the Dean tell you? That's not like him."
"Tell him what?" an aged voice called out, earning a startled squawk from Kuwabara as the dean seemed to appear out of nowhere, looking a little haggard "as energetic as always I see, Kuwabara-kun, I trust you enjoyed your first day?"
'Heart-attacks not included yes.' The taller man muttered internally, though he forced a smile on his face "They're a little tougher than I expected, but not too bad."
"Good, Oh! And before I forget again," he held up a key, "I've arranged for you to bunk with two students who own a private cottage on school grounds, there's a spare bedroom and all, but you may want to mind your manners."
'This feels like a set-up.' Kuwabara muttered, accepting the key, sweat dropping at the bat motif decoration, 'but I'm too tired to care either way.'
As Kuwabara leaves...
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Takamichi asked, the former member of Ala Rubra looking out the window as Kuwabara made his way down the steps to the woods "You know what she can be like after all."
"All to well," Konoemon muttered, the dean wincing as his back popped "but I assure you, Kuwabara-kun is more than capable of handling himself against the like of Evangeline." He sighed, "Besides, the next full moon is a long time off still."
"I hope you're right sir." Takamichi muttered, eyeing the night sky with a frown, 'God speed Kuwabara-kun…God speed.'
A certain Cottage...
"Master," a soft, quiet voice called out, two figures watching as their new roommate entered the house from the surrounding treetops, their presence concealed by various arcane and technological methods "Will this interfere with your plans?"
"Don't be stupid." The shorter of the two replied sharply, her long blonde hair trailing in the night breeze, "He's strong, but that just means I've a ready supply of blood in case of emergencies."
And there we have it, Kuwabara's first day as a respectable member of society...YEAH RIGHT!
What dangers await for him in the home of Evangeline? Will he retain his sanity in the madhouse that is 2A?
And why the hell hasn't Botan delivered the package?
Botan: Oh come on now enough is enough! (Patting her oar in her hand impatiently) Do I have to hit you again!
Shadowy figure: IT WAS MINE! HE WAS DEAD! THE PROPHACY-!
Botan: That's the problem with prophecies, they're open to interpretation. (Sits on the oar) Now are you coming Mr. Riddle?
Figure: DON'T CALL ME THAT! I AM THE LAST HEIR OF SALAZAR SLYTHERIN! I WILL NOT BE ADDRESSED BY A COMMON MUGGLE NAME!
Botan: Names and titles mean little when you're dead (Frowns) Now get up here or I'll hit you over the head again.
Voldemort: (humble voice) yes miss.
R&R! No reviews make chibi Nodoka cry!