The Assignment: Chapter one
An Unfair Match
note: The words in italic are monologue. When it switches to normal, that's dialogue. Enjoy!
Yamada painfully opened his eyes.He could hear soft footsteps in the distance, namley the last few students leaving the gate. The sound of a bell was still ringing in his ears, despite that the school bell had stopped a good five minutes ago. His vision was blurred, but he could make out two people arguing softly with someone against the lockers. He rubbed his eyes and rummaged the surrounding for his glasses.
“Ryo... again?” he heard Yuto’s soft voice as two pairs of arms pulled him to his feet.
Yamada didn’t answer. He simply dusted himself and glared at Kenta across the hallway.
“That bruise is gonna stick Ryo....” chinen sighed, grabbing Yamada’s bag off the floor. Yuto looked at the boy leaning against the locker as he let out an angry groan.
“Kenta, your lip is bleeding.... you better get to the nurse ..”
“Urusai...” Kenta replied rudely.
“Hey!....” Yamada said angrily and took a step forward. Chinen quickly grabbed him back.
“Ryo.... enough....”
Kenta smiled cockily. “At least someone is smart Ryo...learn from him....”
“That’s it!” Yamada lunged forward onto Kenta slamming him against the locker.
“RYOSUKE! If you don’t stop I’ll have to take you guys up to the office! YAMERU! “
Yuto roared pulling the two apart.
“Kenta, Go home. Otherwise I’ll take you up, I swear...”
Yuto said pushing him away. Kenta scoffed quietly, which sounded a lot like a soft “brat” before he grabbed his bag and stormed away.
“No one calls me stupid!” Yamada roared back at him.
“I DID!...” Kenta yelled from the door before leaving.
Yuto and Yuri both dragged Yamada away who was still eyeing the spot where Kenta had been threateningly.
They made their way straight out of the front doors. Yuto stared at Ryo.
“Ryo...Nurse’s office...”
“NO.....”
“Pleasee....”
“NO”
“Stop being grumpy...why do you always fight with him?”
“He is an idiot that’s why...”
“Nahh wait, let’s rephrase the question here Yuto, How come he always fights with his lab partners?”
Chinen asked.
Yamada gave him an angry grunt and continued to massage his arm.
“That was an impressive answer..”
“Urusai...”
“This is like what... the 3rd partner you’ve got this sem....and you just had to go pick a fight with Kenta...he could’ve helped you a great deal. He’s not a bad student...”
“Neither Am I...” Yamada muttered at Yuto who sighed in response.
“Well he has better grades than you, and a discipline record that’s worse than yours. He beats you at everything...” Yuri chuckled. Yamada stared.
“I don’t care... “
“Well, you’re gonna have to deal with it in class tomorrow. And I’m guessing you’re gonna have to do your work alone....”
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Yamada stared out the window. For some reason, the tree with its leaves rustling in the wind seemed so much more ‘educational’ than whatever the man at the front was scribbling onto the whiteboard. He pondered why on earth was he still in school, when he found nothing about it interesting. He didn’t like the people, the books, the atmosphere, nothing. And the food!
“ Dont even get him me started on the food...” He muttered to himself, staring at his open palms. If they had decent food, it could make up for everything else. But nooooo, of course not.
“Why am I here...?”
“Any Idea’s Yamada san?”
“Huh?”
“Any ideas to this....an opinion maybe?” Ogawa san smiled at him hopefully.
“Urr... Iee...” Yamada replied awkwardly scratching his head.
“Ahh... never mind...anyone else?”
Yamada sighed as his Maths Teacher turned away cheerily to the other number of hands in the air. Ogawa san was a friendly guy he thought. Unlike other teachers who repulsed against his mere sight, he was nice. Very helpful, and thankfully his form teacher. Still, he’s one guy. Against a million other awful pieces of..
“Ryosuke!”
“Nande...?” Yamada turned to look at the criminal who had disturbed his eventful thinking.
Rei smiled. “Here take this..” She passed him some notes that were going round the classes.
He nodded in thanks.
“Alrighty... please read these notes before our next class. Now excuse yourself for recess. Except for you Ryosuke... so sorry but I need a word with you...” Ogawa san smiled at Yamada. Yamada looked up.
“You fought again didn’t you?” Toma chuckled but shut up as Rei hit him. “Shush... Kenta’s a brat anyway...but Ryo, if you split with him, I mean...you must’ve worked hard so far...”
“Nah not really, we didn’t do anything...” Ryo said. Toma laughed as Rei stared at Ryosuke with wide eyes. “Ehhh? What about that bio report we had? That was worth more than 5% desho???”
“Ahh shush miss goody goody, men have reputation to take care off...”
“And women don’t?!” Rei crossed her arms and glared at Toma.
“Urrr.. No.. I mean...help....” Toma squeaked. Yamada smiled awkwardly and slipped away to the teacher’s desk as Toma looked down at his feet, next to Rei who stood there glaring.
Ogawa san was busy clearing the front desk as he approached.
“Sensei?”
“Ahh... Ryosuke...I need to talk to you about your little incident with Kazama san yesterday..”
“Sens...”
“No no hear me out. You two have been fighting a lot this semester. And you didn’t even submit your first coursework, well according to Tatsuya sensei, that was very important and you both lost quite a bit of percentage there...”
“Ah great....( =_=) Tatsuya sensei. That old fool hates me.”
Yamada stared blankly at Ogawa san who gently began his lecture on team work and its important. He could see Yuto and Yuri’s figures waiting for him outside the class, eavesdropping with their backs against the windows.
“ Yes yes... so its very important to work together, why don’t you pair up with that deamonic child and see how your life goes...”
“.....you are loosing unnecessary marks Ryosuke! You need to improve.....”
“5% is worth loosing if its Kenta okay? That big je...”
“ ....so I’m gonna have to separate you two I guess...I hope that’s alright with you?”
Yamada nodded.
“But I’m afraid you can’t work alone. So I’ll pair you up with our new student. She was planning to do it alone of course...”
“My pleasure to work alone... I mean better off alone than with tha... WAIT WHAT?? WHY CANT I DO ALONE??!”
Yamada stared at Ogawa sensei. “Please Sir let me do it alone!!” he begged.
“But I can’t! I’m sorry, your grades are just not good enough Ryosuke! You have to be above a certain percentage to be allowed to work alone...and Yuki can do that but you can’t.”
“WHAT?? How bad is my bio average? I haven’t failed so far??! And what.. wait Who’s this Yuki?”
“I’m Yuki...”
Yamada stared at the girl who was standing in the door way listening. She pushed her glasses, which were quite big for her, and a little too obviously sliding down her nose. “You called sensei?”
“Yes Yuki come in...”
Yuki smiled and entered. She placed a big stack of newly bought books onto one of the desks and slipped off her bag onto the floor, which would’ve passed for a boulder on her back if not for those shabby straps at the front.
Yamada stared at Ogawa sensei painfully.
“How BAD is my average?”
“Bad enough boy...Yuki on the other hand just transferred to the next class this morning. I know your classes share the Bio period, so I paired you two up. Kenta will pair with Sakura san. She has incredible grades, so I thought she could help you out. “ he smiled as Yuki held out a hand.
“Yuki dess...”
Yamada stared at her hand, than at Ogawa sensei. “This is not fair... “ he turned around and stormed out of the class.
Yuto stared at him storming away and then quickly did numerous bows to apologise to Ogawa san, before trotting off after Yuri who had already rushed after Yamada.
Yuki slipped her hand back into her pocket. “He’s moody isn’t he..” she said feeling embarrassed.
Ogawa sighed. “I’m sorry, I know you were fixed with that other student...”
“It’s okay... just...people say he has a history of beating up his partners...”
“Daijobu, he won’t hit you, you’re a girl. He’s not that bad..”
“You sure?” she asked again worriedly.
“Well, no... but you’re welcome to report to me or your form teacher!! ” he said with a wide smile.
“Sureee....” Yuki gulped.