Teacher's Pet

Teacher AU. Aomine is a kindergarten teacher who starts teaching at a new school. He finds that most of the kids are easy to handle and deal with; however, he does have one problem child: Kasamatsu Yukio.

Aomine was elated. Kind of.

Today would be the very first day as a teacher at a new school. He used to be a kindergarten teacher at another school, but for some reason it was shut down, so he was offered a job from a new school. Aomine, left jobless suddenly, of course took the offer – which brought him to where he currently was: standing just outside the door that lead to his future.

Despite being happy, Aomine was also feeling a bit restless and maybe just a little bit 'scared', if you could call it that (he wouldn't, though). Aomine shook his head, thinking that he would do fine at this new school. 'There isn't anything that could go wrong, right?' The young man thought to himself, putting a small smile on his face as he entered his classroom.

He looked over all the tiny children, watching as some of them turned to face him, curious and all, while others continued to talk or play. Aomine cleared his throat, gathering everyone's attention before he put his bag down on his desk. "Good morning," He greeted everyone, resisting the urge to cringe at all the kid's voices muddled into one odd-sounding 'good morning'.

"A- Are you the new sensei?" One of the girls asked, blinking up at him with wide, curious and innocent eyes. Aomine looked down at her, arching his eyebrow at her cherry blossom pink pigtails.

"I am." He said, patting her head. The pink haired child giggled and put her hands behind her back as she walked back to the table she sat at with some other girls. "Uhm, I guess everyone should get into their seats." Aomine announced, watching as all the kids scattered to their seats almost instantly. He watched with a raised eyebrow as they all stared up at him, as if waiting for him to begin talking again.

Aomine cracked a smile, a real one, because he knew at this moment, they were all going to be such great kids. At least, most of them…

Three weeks in and Aomine sort of wished he had not accepted this teaching job. All the kids were outside, playing on the playground while Aomine was stuck inside, watching one of his students, who he now called the devil spawn in an innocent body, coloring.

"Don't you want to go play outside with the others?" Aomine asked, eyeing the small boy in front of him. The boy, Kasamatsu Yukio, looked up at him and tilted his head to the side as if pondering over the question. After a moment, Kasamatsu shook his head and bent back over his paper, coloring in the lines of his drawing. Aomine's shoulders drooped as he watched him silently, feeling slightly on edge from the silence of the room. "Well… Do you want to play in here?"

Kasamatsu looked up at him yet again, giving him an oddly calculating gaze for such a young kid, making Aomine tense up slightly. "What are we gonna play?" Kasamatsu asked, smiling innocently.

Aomine blinked, thinking that this was too easy, but replied, "Whatever you want, Yukio-kun."

"Tag?"

"Wouldn't it be more fun with the others?"

"Mmm… No." Kasamatsu shook his head, and Aomine was back to feeling odd again. What kid did not like to play with others, after all? Apparently this one. Aomine scratched his cheek and stood up. "I guess we can play in here. Just be careful, alright?"

Kasamatsu practically sparkled up at him with his wide, sparkly blue-grey eyes. He nodded quickly and stood up, putting his crayon back in the box and putting his piece of art inside a folder that had his name on it. "Not it!" He yelled childishly, making Aomine chuckle.

"Guess I'm it." He replied. He watched with dark blue orbs as Kasamatsu turned and ran away from him, grinning widely. Aomine went after him, laughing when Kasamatsu started to laugh loudly as he ran away from him again. Aomine continued his chase until he caught up to Kasamatsu, catching him from around a table. Kasamatsu sputtered in surprise as Aomine grabbed him and lifted him into the air. The kid's face turned red slightly as he started to laugh all over again, waving his arms as if he was flying.

Aomine chuckled and put him down, ruffling his hair. He watched Kasamatsu fall back onto the ground, breathing heavily from running around the room so many times in all different directions. He was exhausted, but still smiling shyly. Aomine blinked, surprised at the expression the little brat had on his face. Aomine knew from experience that something was bound to happen which would make Kasamatsu turn back into the little devil he was, but he just did not know what it would be or when… It always put Aomine on edge.

Especially the first time Aomine witnessed Kasamatsu be downright bad.

It had been Aomine's second day and when all the kids were playing outside for recess, Kasamatsu had stayed behind, flipping through a picture book boredly, his chin resting on his left hand as he used his right to flip the heavy pages. He seemed harmless at first, innocent like a child should be. Aomine had approached him and told him that he should go play outside with the others.

Kasamatsu had shaken his head, pouting up at Aomine as he whispered a faint 'no'. Aomine had raised his eyebrow and told him to again, and suddenly out of nowhere, Kasamatsu stood up, all smiles, before his smile turned into a small frown. Aomine stood back, curious and feeling like what he did was a bad idea. His feeling turned true and he could only watch as the seemingly non-troublemaking kid in his class swung his leg at Aomine's shin.

Pain bloomed in his shin and Aomine was hopping around aimlessly. He ended up tripping over a tiny chair and flailing helplessly as he fell to the ground. He collapsed in a heap, nearly busting one of the small tables the kids sat at, and grunted painfully. "Ow." He hissed, rubbing his elbow when he sat up slowly, gingerly, afraid as if he might have broken something. Luckily, he did not.

Aomine quickly looked at Kasamatsu who moved from where he once was, to standing in front of Aomine, and blanched at the kid's sweet and innocent look. "Are you okay, Aomine-sensei?" He asked, tilting his head to the side as the other students began to shuffle in, as recess was over. Aomine nodded slowly, standing up and dusting himself off. "I'm fine…" He replied.

Aomine shook his head from the memory and glanced back down at Kasamatsu. The brat was improving though. He was kicking him less, after all. It mostly happened whenever Aomine tried to flat out tell him what to do (he would reply with "learn your place, sensei!" Then BAM, Aomine would be on the floor), or if Aomine's personality was getting the best of him (as in, whenever Aomine would get all 'no-one-is-better-than-I-am, and Kasamatsu would reprimand him and scold him, mostly in private).

Point is, Aomine was positive that Kasamatsu was just simply misunderstood, in a fashion. That, or he seriously believes that he is more mature than Aomine. Whatever the reason, Aomine still found the kid adorable, which was why he gave him his number 1 spot on his 'favorite student' list.

In the end, that had earned Aomine another scolding and a small elbow to the side of his leg because he had unknowingly titled Kasamatsu's as the class's new 'teacher's pet'.

Ahaha~ Troublemaker-kindergartener!Kasamatsu is still so cute. xD He's just misunderstood~… and cute.

~WinterAssassin~