As always, I wish I had more time, but the muses didn't want to start working with me until like an hour ago. I was joking when I told
yeska_noka about this idea, but here you go. AU based off the latest Kisumai BUSAIKU!? episode.
On the morning of a fine autumn day, Senga Kento falls in love. The guy is cute, looks great in his dark gray suit with his tie neatly in place, and has a voice that gives Senga goosebumps. He introduces himself as Nikaido Takashi and Senga stares at the way his long fingers run along the spine of the book in his hands.
Of course, there is the slight problem of his newfound soulmate being the new student teacher, but Senga's not so big on details. He may be "Nikaido-sensei", but the way Senga figures, he's not a real teacher yet and by the time Nikaido graduates from college and passes all the tests needed to get his teaching license, Senga will no longer be a high school student. It's totally fine.
...Or not.
Senga listens, feeling a bit numb, as their homeroom teacher praises Nikaido-sensei on his fine work during his stay here as a student teacher and that she hopes him success in the future. He lets out a deflated sigh while everyone else waves excited goodbyes to Nikaido-sensei. Why did his student teaching term have to be only two weeks? Senga's not even certain he got him to remember his name, much less confess.
Time passes and the world keeps revolving as it tends to do, and Senga graduates from high school. He doesn't go to university, instead helping out at his dance studio. He mostly does things like clean the mirrors and help run the front desk when they're short on people, but he's been begging the studio owners to let him teach some classes too and he practices hard to prove that he can.
The morning of his first class, Senga worries that maybe no one will come. What if he's terrible at teaching? What if people do come but hate his style and never come back?
He arrives at the studio a bit early, but he wants to make sure he has time to prepare himself mentally in case nobody did sign up for his class. He murmurs a good morning to the girl running the front desk before pulling out the sheet for his hip-hop slot. He sighs in relief, there are people, but just as he's about to slide the sheet back into the file, the name at the bottom catches his eye.
Nikaido Takashi
A coincidence, Senga tells himself as he hooks his iPod to the stereo system. It had to be.
But when Nikaido walks into the studio space and their eyes meet, Senga just knows that it's not a coincidence. He tries to keep his smile from looking too stupid as Nikaido approaches him. "It's been a while, Nikaido-sensei."
Nikaido, dressed in a simple t-shirt and long jersey pant, snorts. "I'm not your teacher. If anything, I'd say our roles are a bit reversed. Now I can be the student crushing on their teacher."
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