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Chapter 8

Two days later

Sakura walked into her class room with her bag hanging over one shoulder. She fell onto a chair and groaned as she rested her head on the desk. She was wearing a white blouse with black shorts. She put her black bag by her chair and sighed as she closed her eyes, still tired from the previous night.

"Hello my friend, would you like one of me dolls?" came Juniper's ghostly, eerie voice from in front of her. "They're great for warding off evil."

Sakura looked up groggily and saw Juniper sitting in front of her. He was wearing a bright blue pinstripe suit. In his hand was a white skeleton doll with pins stuck on it. It had a creepy smile that matched his own. "The likeliness," she mumbled and shook her head. "Juniper, why would I need one of those?"

"To hex people of course! My last customer loved it," Juniper said as he patted one of his pockets with a catty grin. "I got a customer who bought a dozen, then disappeared of the face of the earth."

Sakura looked at him in disgust and shook her head. "Why are you even in my class? Aren't you eighteen or something?"

Juniper crossed his arms and screwed up his face. "They put me in a lower class for bringing business to school, almost mummifying Miss Renge and destroying class property. But none of the accusations are true."

Sakura nodded, unsure of what she could say to the half mad man.

"Hello Sakura," a familiar group of voices chimed to her. She turned round to find the triplets staring back at her.

"What's Juniper doing here?" Kakashi asked angrily.

"He creeps me out," Takashi sighed as he put his hand on Kakashi's left shoulder, ignoring the undertaker.

"Hello you two," Toga smiled.

"Hey," Sakura half-smiled back at them. "You guys alright?"

"Yeah we are fine," they sang together. "You alright?"

"She looks tired."

"Something is bothering her."

"I wonder what it is."

Then they heard scratching against the chalk board; a loud screeching noise, breaking through the conversation, silencing the class. They all turned around to find their teacher snarling at them. He was dressed in a black overcoat with dark blue jeans. He had yellow gleaming wolf-like eyes and wore a wide brimmed, cowboy-style hat that covered dark and tangled hair.

"I wonder who this guy is," Kakashi whispered to others.

"Yeah… Looks like a nutjob to me," Takashi agreed with his brother.

"Makes me curious," Toga whispered.

"Hello," the teacher began, putting away a knife. "I am Mr. Haruka Rito and will be your new homeroom teacher for the next year." He took out a cigarette and lit it, much to the student's dissatisfaction.

"Sir, sir, that's against school policy!" A male student stood up and pointed at him. "You are not allowed to do that."

Mr. Rito mumbled something and proceeded to throw a book at the student's head. The student dodged and had his mouth open, waving his index finger at Mr. Rito. "I am a mathematics and science teacher. I don't do tutoring so no asking questions during this time. Otherwise do whatever you want."

The student looked with disgust at Mr. Rito, "I will tell my father about this! He will complain about you to the board, commoner," the student snarled from his desk.

Mr Rito chuckled and smiled "Whatever," Mr. Rito dismissed him with a hand gesture and crunched the cigarette bud in his hand. "The chairman asked me to take this job knowing my behaviour, so complain all you want. I haven't laid a hand on you."

This teacher is strange, Sakura thought. Who is this guy?

"Is there something you want to say to the class, miss?" Mr. Rito asked her as he stared at Sakura and put his feet on the desk.

"Um... No sir," Sakura replied nervously, rubbing her hands together.

"Go round and introduce yourselves to me, and state the reason why you are at this school," Mr. Rito said to them, projecting his voice in a menacing way.

"I'm Asato Saki," the boy who pointed at him said in a low tone. "I am class president and son of one of the directors of a retail firm."

The class went around to various students until they got to Sakura's area.

"I am Juniper Pluto," Juniper said, standing up and playing with the doll from earlier. "I was asked by the Host Club to be their manager. I am normally the person who helps with a person's last occasion… I make them great again, so to say. May I interest you in one of my dolls?"

"No thanks," Mr. Rito mumbled at him. "I don't want a cursed artifact. Someone else…"

"I am Kakashi Hitachiin," Kakashi smiled to him.

"I am Takashi Hitachiin," Takashi waved.

"And I am Toga Hitachiin," Toga said as he rested his head on Kakashi.

"And we are the Hitachiin triplets," they harmonized together.

"Great, triplets," the teacher grumbled. He shook his head and moved on.

"I am Sakura Judai," Sakura introduced herself. "I am here on a scholarship since I can't afford this place on my own."

"Okay then," Mr. Rito said without a care in the world.

Other people introduced themselves and then bell rang. The class sighed in relief , "Class dismissed."

Everyone packed up their things and left, while Mr. Rito started sorting out paper work.

"Um… sir?" Sakura said in the doorway.

"Yeah?" Mr. Rito looked at her with a blank look.

"Nevermind, it is nothing," Sakura said as she quickly walked out.

Mr. Rito looked at the door and chuckled. "Kids…"

At the club room

"Boy, Miss Renge sure knows her history," Kaito said as he stretched his arms. The club was sitting around a wooden round table with a vase of droopy cherry blossoms.

"Hey, anyone know Mr. Rito?" Sakura asked them.

The club looked at her strangely except for the triplets and Juniper.

"Mr. Rito…," Ichigo mumbled as he started to type away. The seconds ticked by as he was looking through the database.

"Mr. Rito is a strange one indeed," Juniper said at the table, playing with the mouth of his doll. "he didn't like one of my dolls."

"And you wonder why?" Kakashi said irritated to him, walking up to Juniper and snatching the doll from his hand. "This thing gives me the creeps" Kakashi tossed the doll in the bin, making Juniper scream.

"My doll!" Juniper cried as he raced to the bin to retrieve the doll. Juniper pulled the doll out, stroking it with his hand. "Mr Rito was very odd, much like this thing here." Juniper pointed at Kakashi, waving his finger about as Kakashi shrugged back.

"Strange…" Kakashi began.

"...More like nuts…" Takashi continued.

"Insane!" Toga agreed with his brothers.

"Who is Mr. Rito?" Raiko asked while he fumbled with Kazuya's hair.

"Some homeroom teacher that told off Asato Saki," the triplets said together. "Amazing, isn't it?"

Kaito stood up and looked at the first years. "Did he have black hair, smoked a lot, cowboy hat, rude to others?"

"Why yes, that's him!" they all exclaimed.

Kaito's eyes bulged and he burst out crying. "No, not him!" Kaito yelled dramatically. He walked to a corner and started to play with mushrooms. Annette ran after him to put him on the shoulders, followed by Rukia and Moka.

"So what happened?" Sakura asked, completely oblivious.

"Long story," Annette mumbled, comforting her younger brother from the nightmare.

Then with a sudden bang, a person came crashing down from the ceiling, hitting Raiko on the way. There was plaster and stone on Raiko and the mysterious intruder, dust flying everywhere and covering the room in a fog.

"Raiko!" Kazuya yelled and pulled Raiko from the pile of trash. He glared at the intruder while being carefully held by Kazuya.

"What's this about me?" The intruder said, putting his hat on and grinning at the group.

"MR. RITO!" The club yelled at the teacher in complete dismay and horror. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!?"

"I need your help," the teacher said, rubbing his head from the crash.

End of Chapter

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