Yellow Experience

So, this is the next chapter of this fanfiction. I'm going to continue right where I stopped, the beginning of Giorno and Nagisa vs Ghiaccio. Even as I'm writing the chapter intro, I can't imagine anything else other than how hard it'll be to write this fight. But I'll try and deliver it as readable as possible for you, my readers, so you can enjoy.

I do not own JoJo's Bizarre Adventure or Assassination Classroom.

Chapter 7: Polar Fight

[Gently Weeps] made the surroundings even colder than before. The air inside the warehouse was comparable to antarctic air. Haruno felt inhumanly cold.

"And that's just the beginning. I can still make it colder!" Ghiaccio bragged. "No need for that, though. This cold will be enough to kill you!"

'He's right... humans can't survive these temperatures for long. I have to do something about this!' the blond thought, his sweat freezing on his face.

"I wonder if this octopus can survive my cold, though." the italian loudly wondered, then shaking his head. "Ugh, am I stupid?! Why should I care, I'll kill him one way or another anyway!"

'Wait, that should work!' the delinquent thought, thinking of a solution to his humanly problem. 'Hopefully, at least.'

[Ougon no tomodachi] did its work without being manifested. It transformed Haruno's human skin into that of a polar bear. The boy didn't look like a human after that, but rather a bipedal polar bear with blond hair and no snout. Even his hands and feet turned into paws.

"Huuuuuh?" the foreign assassin spat, glaring at the polar bear in confusion.

"I, Shiobana Haruno, am a polar bear." the blond said. "Your coldness isn't something I can't handle anymore."

Ghiaccio's eyes twitched, he suffered another anger attack. "A polar bear in Japan?! Are you fucking kidding me?!" the italian growled, clenching his teeth. "This is so stupid, makes zero sense! I'll kill you for pissing me off!"

The ice skates below the foreign assassin's feet got into motion. Ghiaccio quickly rushed at the delinquent, who put up a defensive guard.

"Take this!" the italian exclaimed, trying to punch Haruno in the face. The polar bear parried the fist of frost with his paws, then pushing away the assassin with the same paw.

'No, it's still not enough!' the blond thought, looking at the palm of his paw. The middle of his palm had a layer of ice covering it, about half a centimeter thick. 'Could be worse, though.'

That push from earlier didn't make the skating assassin trip, it instead added momentum to his moving body. Ghiaccio made a wide U-turn, returning towards the delinquent.

"You got lucky last time, this time it'll be your end!" the italian yelled, attempting another punch.

Instead of his own paw, Haruno used [Ougon no tomodachi] to block the punch. He then discovered that a Stand was more susceptible to frost than an arctic animal. The golden Stand's hand was in a glove of ice. To put some distance between himself and the foreign assassin again, the polar bear punched him directly in the face. He flew backwards, though [White Album]'s armored visor protected him from any injury.

"Tch! Damn it!" the blond cursed, looking at his Stand's frozen arm. What happened to a Stand also happened to the user. [White Album: Gently Weeps] could reach deadly low temperatures. He'd get a frostbite for sure, but his arm would've been dead if he hadn't immediately destroyed the ice on [Ougon no tomodachi]'s hand by slamming it on the floor.

'I have to think of a new strategy fast! His freezing attacks wear me down, I won't be able to fight back in the long run!'

"Did you feel it? The cold?" Ghiaccio asked, sadistically grinning and scowling at the same time. "That's only an appetizer of what's yet to come. You'll feel so cold you'll wish you burned in hell instead!"

He skated again, first skating away from the delinquent to build up some speed when returning. On the path back, the italian tripped on something interfering with his skates.

"Ack!" the skating assassin let out, slamming head first onto the ground. The weight and hardness of his own ice suit worked against him, cracking the armored transparent visor after the fall. A little blood trickled to the inside of the visor too.

"Not many organisms can grow or even live in this cold environment. Though there are certain types of short grass growing in the northernmost parts of the arctic tundras." Haruno explained. "I let a handful of them grow beneath your skates. A figure skater's biggest enemy is something so tiny they can't see it when they accidently skate over it. They don't realize it until they're thrown off their feet."

Ghiaccio was far from amused. He gritted his teeth and fists, standing up from the floor. The italian glared at the polar bear with rage, a glare that could kill. "You'll pay for that, bastard!"

On his skates again, the assassin rushed towards the blond, intending to freeze a sizeable portion of his opponent.

The delinquent couldn't evade the strike, his left leg was frozen to the ground. That move took away half of Haruno's mobility. In return, he took some of Ghiaccio's blood by striking the italian's damaged visor with the claws of his half-frozen paw.

"UAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" the assassin screamed, the pain coming from 5 gashes in the center of his face, running all over his nose and cheeks. Blood fully covered the visor, effectively taking away his sight.

"Matter is harder when frozen." the polar bear spoke, grimacing himself due to the hurt originating from his frozen leg. "If you hadn't frozen my paws and thus my claws, I wouldn't have managed to injure you."

Clutching his face, Ghiaccio continued screaming and bleeding. That was a good opportunity for the blond to do something about the situation. He forcefully freed his leg from the ice, adding further injuries to the frostbite. With only one fine leg, the delinquent hopped away a few meters, out of the enemy Stand's range. 'Phew… I should heal myself as much as I can while he's busy!'

Painful was one word to describe [Ougon no tomodachi's] concentrated regeneration. Haruno shouted alongside his opponent in pain. The regeneration wasn't actual healing but rather creating new body parts. Creating new skin, nerves and blood vessels, and replacing them within his own body hurt a lot. "Guuhaaaaaaaaaaaah, damn it!"

Some moments later, still in pain but wanting to stand up and finish off the even worse hurt enemy Stand user, the polar bear stopped within his motion. He discovered an unexpected ally speed towards the italian.

'Nagisa?!' the blond thought, having assumed his friend left with the others. But the bluenette remained and hid, striking at the right moment. 'Why's he still here and where did he hide?! That Stand user's extremely dangerous, Nagisa will get hurt!'

Without the foreign assassin noticing anything until the attack, Nagisa approached him, manifested his Stand and had it swing its fist right into the upper corner of [White Album]'s visor, where Ghiaccio's eyes were located.

He felt the connection of the punch but it didn't hurt him. The italian immediately noticed that the enemy was someone different. [Ougon no tomodachi's] fist or even the polar bear fist would've felt more powerful.

One way of getting rid of the blood covering his visor was lowering the temperature of the air around him to an even lower level. [Gently Weeps] could easily make that happen. This allowed the skating assassin to phase extremely cold objects right through his ice armor.

Ghiaccio's blood then ran down the outside of the visor, exiting the Stand suit's inside. He had a clear vision again, and it would take a little time before the amount of fresh blood flowing out of his scratch wounds would make it hard for him to see again.

"Another Stand user?" the italian spat, eyeing Nagisa and his Stand. Master and Stand both spent a little amount of time inside [White Album: Gently Weeps]' immediate range, yet they both appeared to be in a near-critical condition, thick ice covering the Stand's arms and the bluenette's arms being completely frostbitten.

"Huh? Is that it?" the assassin half-sneered, not having expected his opponent to be unable to fight that quickly. For he found out about that literally in the blink of an eye.

"Nagisa!" Haruno acted immediately and pulled his friend aside, entering the frost zone again despite just healing. He effectively switched out positions, with Nagisa being out of Ghiaccio's range. The polar bear didn't forget one thing when getting his friend out of the danger zone. [Ougon no tomodachi] touched the petite boy and transformed him into a penguin.

"Penguins can withstand even colder temperatures than polar bears, for the antarctic is colder than the arctic." the blond stated. "Those feathers will protect you from the cold."

The bluenette merely looked at the visible parts of his new body, utterly confused and speechless. He'd seen a few instances where his best friend's Stand grew and transformed lifeforms, but experiencing this on himself felt like the weirdest thing in the world. In the corner of his eyes, Nagisa could see his own beak. He couldn't feel his fingers not only because of the frostbite, but also because of the fact that penguins didn't have fingers. What was left of his human traits were long legs for better movements, which looked really odd on a penguin, and his light blue hair.

Below the visor, tick marks formed on the italian's face. Another fit of irrational fury. He gritted his teeth before seperating the upper row from the lower row for his rant. He even gestured like pulling out his own hair, even though the Stand armor prevented him from touching a single strand. "For fuck sake, this is the dumbest thing I've seen in my life! A polar bear and a penguin together?! They live at the north and south pole, the farthest places from each other on the planet! Are you kidding me, why are a penguin and a polar bear together when this isn't a zoo?!"

'Now, what should I do…?' the delinquent carefully thought, very pensive. 'This guy's Stand is my Stand's biggest weakness. My options at giving life are severely limited and his ice attacks are draining my stamina real fast! Not to mention the frostbites I can get if I'm not careful enough… I need a strategy, right now!'

It was the skating assassin's turn to attack again. Like always, he put some initial distance between them for acceleration. After coming close enough to physically attack, Ghiaccio feinted a terrible punch. Haruno easily dodged, merely assuming that his opponent was too crazy to brawl properly. The polar bear tried to scratch the italian's face again, but that was exactly within his expectations.

Grinning wickedly, the skating assassin froze the air around the blond's claws. The shape of the frozen air was round, meaning there was nothing to cut up his face anymore. No edges. The roundness also meant that any direct impact would have less force, derived from the knowledge that the hitting side of a hammer was flat, and that rounder front ends of cars were less deadly to hit civilians than boxy front ends.

'Oh crap! He's effectively disarmed me!' the delinquent inwardly cursed, more nervous for being in a pinch. 'My punches do harm to me rather than him due to the nature of his ability, my claws were my only real means of attack! And he won't fall for the same trick with the grass again, that's for sure. I've underestimated his fighting intelligence because he has some screws loose… What a dumb mistake I've made!'

"What's wrong? You don't have any moves left?" Ghiaccio mocked, grinning condescendingly. "As I've said earlier, you're a third-rate assassin! And it's time for a third-rates to be put in his place by a true first-rate!"

As a means of execution, the italian chose beating Haruno to death after freezing his leg again. The polar bear had no useful defense anymore, any form of violence would only add more ice to the blond's body or Stand.

'Shit! Shit! Shit!'

Before the foreign assassin could complete the first strike, he felt something blunt attacking his back a few times. He turned around to see what exactly caused the attacks. Not that they hurt him, though they irritated him. And he didn't deal well with even slight irritation.

Ghiaccio discovered Nagisa using his Stand to punch at his ice armor. The punches were weak, though stronger than before thanks to [White Album]'s ice encasing the feathered Stand.

"CEASE IT ALREADY!" the foreign assassin very angrily roared, flicking away the Stand and by extention the penguin. The black and pink Stand had very poor physical stats.

"Yeowch!"

"Your Stand's so damn weak! You think you're strong enough to play hero?!" Ghiaccio bellowed, baring his teeth at the bluenette. "Fuck, I hate little weaklings like you, disgraces my profession! How did you even escape my attention, huh?!"

"I- I tried to be q-quiet." the bluenette stammered, his gaze facing upwards to the menacing, psychotic adult.

"Quiet, huh?" The italian frowned. "Come to think of it, I didn't hear any steps. I didn't hear the contact of your punches on my Stand either. So your Stand controls sound, huh?"

"S-sound?" Nagisa repeated with a surprised voice, widening his eyes. "That is my ability?"

The skating assassin couldn't believe what he'd just hurt, making a scowl beneath the visor. "Whoa, hold on! So you're telling me you didn't know what your own damn Stand ability is?!" His voice became louder with every word. "That's the dumbest thing I've heard, and I thought there couldn't be anything dumber than what the polar bear said!"

He kicked the penguin in the side, making him slide on the ground for some meters.

"Nagisa!" the delinquent called in worry, attempting to get out of the ice holding him captive again.

"You're a joke of a Stand user!" Ghiaccio insulted the bluenette, treading over to him. "Any last words before I put an end to your pathetic existence?"

'My Stand has the power to control sound…'

As long as he's lived, Shiota Nagisa had the power to control a Stand. He'd often use its ability subconsciously, not realizing its existence. When Nagisa silenced his steps, the sounds from his surroundings always prevented him from becoming aware of his own soundlessness. In his mind, he'd never heard anything out of the ordinary when using his power.

'Now I understand, so that's how it's always been! Really, I was such a fool to never notice!' the penguin reflected on himself, shaking his head. 'BUT, if I can lower the volume of sounds, then I also… Got it!'

"Actually, there's one final thing I'd like to say." the bluenette spoke up, innocently smiling at the italian. "You really are impressive, both as a Stand user and as an assassin. Today you've really shown us kids what a first-rate assassin truly is like. I'd like to pay respect with a little applause."

Nagisa looked at his flippers. They were frostbitten and hard as rock. Though that poor condition of those flippers suited his plan. Two hard things colliding made a louder noise than two soft things colliding after all.

"Here goes!" The penguin clapped once. That one clap sufficed, as his Stand amplified the clap sound's volume times and times over.

Upon his ears being disgraced with a sound as loud as a fighter jet starting, the foreign assassin's eardrums both completely burst. His eyes also went backwards, the man lost complete consciousness and went KO. As a consequence, all the ice [White Album: Gently Weeps] created dissipated.

Victorious, the bluenette had a content expression on his face. And not just because of that. His Stand ability actively protected himself from dangerously loud sounds. "Heey, Haruno-kun, I did it! Th- Ah?!" Nagisa cheered while approaching his best friend, then interrupting himself when discovering that the delinquent was groggy.

Haruno had been lucky to not only be over 5 meters away from his friend when he used that clap attack, but also that Ghiaccio had been in the direct way of the soundwaves, blocking the bulk of them. The ones that reached him still caused the polar bear headaches and messed up his mind.

"Haruno-kun, you okay?!"

"Urgh! N-nice job." the blond commended, on the floor due to the sudden rattlings in his head momentarily discarding the coordination needed to stand. "With that guy out of the way, we need to heal ourselves and then turn back into humans."

Normal temperature soon returned into the warehouse. Before the healing, the delinquent turned the penguin and himself back into humans.

"This is the part where the healing comes. Though Nagisa, know that this 'healing' works differently from normal regeneration." Haruno informed, glancing awkwardly at the bluenette. "Prepare for pain and… kink…"

"Uhhhhhhhhh?" The petite boy didn't quite understand when first hearing, but understood perfectly when [Ougon no tomodachi] 'healed' their frostbites.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! HARUNO, BE GENTLE!"

"UGH! I'M TRYING, BUT THE HEALING HURTS ME AS WELL!"

Not just physically, but also mentally. Both of them would take this secret to their grave. Those scenes were something most people wouldn't want to see. (Who am I kidding?)

Meanwhile, Korosensei had been unfortunate enough to watch the entirety of what happened inside the warehouse. When the italian assassin hit him in the face, ice spread all over the yellow orb. His nose, ears and mouth were frozen in the end, his eyes too. Unlike the former three, the latter organ continued working properly. The yellow man would have to use brain bleach.

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When the ice on his body went away, the octopus man immediately left the warehouse at Mach 20, going to look around the world for brain bleach. His two students, fully healed, were left alone inside. They still had some things left to resolve.

"What should we do with him?" Nagisa asked, pointing at unconscious Ghiaccio. "I'd bet he wants revenge."

"True." Haruno agreed. "If we leave him alive, he most likely will come back for revenge."

"Wha-" The bluenette was taken aback by that remark. "Haruno-kun, should we really do this? Even if he might come back?"

"I realized one thing today." the blond said, his eyes looking mildy dark. "Stand users have the potential to be real dangers, even more than Korosensei. You've seen yourself how powerful he was, my ability was nothing to his. Stand users can't be judged by the law, they'd easily escape prison and overwhelm forces of law. Dr. Kujo himself said that he killed an evil Stand user because it had to be done."

"But Haruno-kun…" Nagisa wanted to protest, though he could easily see his best friend's point.

"We live in a different world compared to the others." the delinquent stated, aware of his responsiblities. "Nagisa, you and I, we both got to understand it today."

The bluenette looked at him with conflicted eyes. He certainly was in a difficult situation, their case wasn't something to easily decide on.

"Look, you don't have to be the one, I can do it." Haruno proposed, seeing through his friend's troubles. "I… I think I'll be able to live with it. If you look at it from a Stand user's perspective, it's preemptive self-defense."

"…No." Nagisa declined, still morally conflicted but resolved. "Haruno, we're in this together. Fate has tied us together through our Stands. If you do it, I'll also have to, even if I don't want it."

"Nagisa…"

Gulping and sweating, the blond summoned [Ougon no tomodachi]. The golden Stand punched a clean hole through the foreign assassin's chest, then sucking the life force out of him. Ghiaccio's corpse transformed into a myriad of blue and orange butterflies flying away.

Their enemy was gone. He couldn't be a danger to either of them anymore. And still, the delinquent's mind was anything but at ease. Only after taking the life, his hands began to shake.

"I'm disappointed! Nagisa, I'm so fucking disappointed!" Haruno almost screamed, tightly clenching his fist and narrowing his eyes into a bitter expression. "I've done what was needed, I protected both us and everyone else the bastard could've touched, but… GODDAMN IT ALL!"

He kneeled down on the ground, covering his face with his palms in shame, yet not crying a single tear. "That was no assassination! I basically killed a defenseless man! What would everyone say about me when they learn about this?!" the blond complained, ranting his heart out. "I'm a failure of an assassin! It hasn't even been 2 months, and I'm already a failure!"

"Me too." the bluenette gently mumbled, kneeling beside his friend. "Me too. Korosensei always praises my stealth. Turns out it was the doing of my Stand and not my own merit. I have a clear advantage in comparison to the others. I'm not… an assassin purely on my own. I'm a failure too."

"Y'know, Nagisa," the delinquent spoke, bearing a regretful expression "talking badly about yourself doesn't help my case. Don't be negative about yourself, it was my fault."

"If you want something to help your case, then there's only one thing you can do." Nagisa told, earning his best friend's entire attention. Haruno was all ears. "Assassinate Korosensei. Do that and you'll be a true assassin. What you did to the ice guy can't be undone, but if you successfully assassinate Korosensei at his strongest, you won't see yourself as a failure anymore."

"What about you?" The blond couldn't be content if his best friend let him get the kill.

"I'll be your competion, like everyone else." the petite boy explained. "I'll try my best, you try your best. You try your best and you'll surely succeed and regain your pride as an assassin."

The delinquent was too lucky to have such a selfless and supportive friend. "Thank you. Just, thank you, Nagisa."

Time for the Author's Notes. First I'd like to talk about the fight. I kinda bullshitted my way out of this. Giorno did most of the fighting with Nagisa getting the win in the end. In canon Giorno was no match for Ghiaccio, Mista did most of the job. And that's just because he found the airhole in [White Album]. And that only happened because Ghiaccio was underwater, where you could see the bubbles. What are Nagisa and Giorno supposed to see with only air around them?

Now about Giorno and Nagisa turning into animals. Everyone knows how overpowered [Gold Experience Requiem] is. In return, most JoJo fans seem to think regular [Gold Experience] is the second weakest JoJo protagonist Stand. That's not true. People forget how underutilized the Stand really was. [Gold Experience] can be used on the user unlike [Crazy Diamond], as seen when Giorno turned his tooth into a jellyfish when drinking Abbacchio's piss. Giorno can turn himself into any lifeform and use all of their abilities. He can technically turn himself into another ultimate lifeform, since Pillar Men are real lifeforms in the JoJo universe.

Finally, Nagisa's Stand ability has been revealed. Try guessing why I picked this ability. Hint: it has to do with etymology. I've revealed the ability and now I'll reveal the name. Nagisa's Stand is called [Otonashi Ho], meaning silent/soundless steps. I have to admit, I'm not cultured when it comes to music, so I give meaningful names to Stands. I don't know a fitting artist, band or song for Nagisa's Stand to derive a name for.

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