Back To School~

Thankfully the first day of school was taking place on Thursday, so all I needed to do was survive the first two days before the weekend would roll back in. As my eyes opened all I could do for the next 5 minutes was just stare at the ceiling, but once I concluded to walk downstairs, to maybe help mom with food preparations, the system stopped me in the act.

"What is it now?" I asked as the notification came right thru when I was planning to roll out of bed. I realized that all rewards from both the Wakasa training and part-time job came at the same time.

"Let's see..." I had to roll randomly every single stat, I just kept pressing on skip to speedrun thru the process, who had time in the morning to watch the wheel spin? Not me.

When I was finished with the whole process my stats looked something like this.

Intelligence: 44

Luck: 44

Endurance: 41

Agility: 42

Strength: 42

"Wow, I advanced over the 40 mark?" I cheered but of course, the mysterious window appeared.

'Would you like to proceed?' I thought about it conceivably it was best to wait until I come back from school? Then again I had no idea if anything would happen at all, and hey maybe this time I would get more nice features.

As I clicked yes suddenly a red window flashed before my eyes.

"Warning! Modification of the body structure in progress, your body may receive aches throughout the next 24 hours!" Welp, what a great start of the school year. Or not, I just remembered how in Japan it started in spring, never mind then.

I tried to find any new windows that popped up in the menu, but as I was clicking and scrolling around another mission came to light.

'Would you rather continue training with Wakasa Imaushi and Keizo Arashi for another month or join Sano's family dojo?' It was tempting to see how Mikey and Keisuke were trained by the grandpa, but I knew that if I spent more time on Mikey Kazutora may have freaked out. And what don't you do for your cute siblings?

"Good morning," I said as Kazutora greeted me at the table.

"What took you so long?" Dad asked as I just sighed.

"I had a lot to think about... which reminds me I forgot to talk with Waka yesterday." Mom encouraged me to reach out to him today, partly because she wanted her daughter to be able to stand her own ground if something awful happened. As I began eating my share suddenly an idea came to mind, which I considered previously.

"Kazutora, don't plan anything on Saturday," I mentioned while pointing my chopsticks at him, which mom reminded me was bad manners.

"What's taking place on Saturday?" Glad he asked.

"Me, you, an outing." that's the summarized version of it.

"Ah..." He smiled.

"You want to purchase your bike together!" Then again that was a good opportunity to get it off my to-do list.

"I guess we could, my initial plan was to take a trip to Zoo." He quickly nodded, more ideas forming in his head.

"After we buy your new vehicle we need to go for a ride together, makes total sense." We could settle for that, but he probably wouldn't catch me speeding under any circumstances.

"How about inviting Keisuke as well, he may provide more insight about the purchase." So he admitted that Keisuke may have been more versed in that topic.

"If you recommend him then I guess... just don't be too shocked if I, later on, paint it mint green." Yes better to have something that at first glance brings you joy, as black was such a boring color.

"So people know right away who's driving, causing them to feel fear." That was an interesting take on my idea to just go crazy with the colors.

Sadly we couldn't go to the same school unless I decided to transfer to his by chance, considering they didn't want to accept someone that had a tattoo, and worse school performance, it made me wonder how Kisaki convinced the school to make him stay, then again most likely without his studious brain the school's overall performance would have dropped.

Once I was at school our homeroom teacher that was also our math teacher communicated.

"Time to rearrange the seats, but before that." However, something peculiar took place.

"Hirabayashi, can you come out for a moment?" I couldn't possibly be in trouble, right? I arrived in time, and my summer homework was in fact completed, what could have been the reason for his call? Once we were both out in the hallway Mr. Nomura suggested.

"Do you want to sit beside Kisaki? I thought you two were already dating, but it doesn't seem to be the case, so I thought I could help you out if you so wish." I gaped at him like a fish.

'Would you rather accept sitting beside Tetta Kisaki or announce to the whole class you have a crush on him?' Either option would make him irritated, but if I sat closer to him I would have more opportunities to keep the show going. I quickly nodded my head agreeing to this whole ordeal.

"Just shhh don't tell anyone I arranged this." I zipped my lips and threw out the lock, indicating it was a secret just between the two of us.

"Great." We returned back inside as I took my old seat, no student was suspecting anything, perhaps they thought the teacher wanted to discuss my health issues or something similar, which in the past happened often.

Mr. Nomura made us pick seats by pulling out notes with numbers to make everything a slump and fair for everybody. As promised I ended in the last row by the window, beside Kisaki. I had no clue how the teacher pulled it off, but it didn't matter because it worked itself out. Also, talk about the anime protagonist seat, I felt blessed. I smiled at Kisaki once he joined my last row.

"Did you do something?" He questioned, being a tad suspicious.

"Well I see myself as a lucky individual and sitting beside you is what I asked for." he didn't seem to question it further.

Besides this little seat rearrangement, the other classes took off as normal.

And as soon as the break was due it was time to go a little bit crazy.

"So Tetta-Kun how was your summer?" He sighed but shortly gave me a vague answer.

"Good and peaceful without you around." I gasped, how dare he.

"I take it as you missed me and my awesome personality." He dared to comment.

"I have already one annoying person by my side." I guess he was talking about Hanma.

"One is enough, go find someone else to bother." Since this guy dared to say he would choose him over me, I released my trap card.

"So you had fun with Hanma... I see I see." I then proceeded to look away, actually smirking to myself, but Kisaki must have caught on something was off in my reaction.

"What do you mean fun?" It was so funny messing with him.

"Last time I came by I told him to have fun with you... lost to the love rival..." His face darkened a little, I guess from my previous assumptions about how Hanma was his crush he must have caught on, suddenly his hand was on my face squeezing it.

"How many times do I have to tell you that Hanma isn't the one I like... it's Hinata you stupid!" The whole class was now staring at us because Kisaki rose his voice at me.

"The hell you guys looking at?!" I guess our classmates must have been scared of him because no one intercepted or paid attention to our little fight, once he glared at everyone.

"Ohh~ caught in a one-sided love~," I said while wiggling my eyebrows at him.

"You are aware she has a boyfriend?" He must have been confused as to why during the summer when I and Hina happened to come across him, I marked him as my territory when I already knew she was together with Takemichi.

"I gotta tell my pal who I'm crushing on," I explained shrugging my shoulders. We couldn't possibly continue our conversation because the teacher came in, starting the next subject. So I had to wait till lunch break came around to continue my Kisaki torment.

But first and foremost, it was important to fill my stomach with good food so I could offer my brain juices some energy, to come up with even more ridicilous things to say to him, to make his day for the worse.

Once my bento was empty a mission arrived.

'Would you rather say something romantic to Tetta Kisaki or grab his hand and hold it for 10 minutes?' Although our strength stats seemed to be nearly the same at the moment, I had a feeling that holding it in place for 10 minutes would be near impossible. So I chose the first option.

I found him chilling in the schoolyard.

"Not you again." he groaned but didn't chase me away just yet.

"You can have a fling with Hanma if you so desire, but in the end, you will come back to me." He definitely got more touchy over the break since he pulled me by my wrist, closer to his face, was he perhaps thinking this was more intimidating for girls?

"Listen here, I and Hanma are just acquaintances." So he says.

"Are you trying to prove it to me or yourself?" I could see him getting angry by the second so it was time to voice my romanticism.

"So when you propose to me don't do it with a diamond ring." His wrath turned into bewilderment.

"Isn't diamonds something all girls want as their engagement rings?" Great, this dude had no clue where I was going with this, it was time to crush him with the lovely-dovely approach.

"Nah, I rather have a crystal with the shade of your eye color so every time I look at it I can be reminded of you~" I felt so proud at my splendid magnificent idea, then proceeded to glance back at Kisaki whose face was unexpectedly red, because our faces were still close, he lightly pushed me away and escaped.

"I never thought I would see something like this in my life." I then thought deeply about it.

"Maybe he digs talking about how you see your love life with him in the future." I scratched my head but then returned back to the classroom.

Kisaki tried his best to avoid eye contact, since it came to this I let it be, this reaction was so cute, so I decided to enjoy it once it lasted.

When school was over Kisaki vanished, I couldn't even tell him a proper goodbye, which made me question if tomorrow he would return back to his old self.

It was time to go over to Wakasa's gym to make him approve of taking me in for another month of training.

"Wasn't our last session yesterday, why are you here?" It felt like he was trying to act somehow cold but was happy with my reappearance in this establishment.

"I decided it was for the best to extend the training for another month or so." I declared, pretty convinced I wanted this, now when an additional mission came around.

"I the Avatar, to master all the four elements must push thru with this training. I need strength and your insight to defeat the fire nation." Wakasa just tilted his head in confusion.

"Once more I'm confused as to what you're trying to say." I just waved my hand. knowing full well he wouldn't get the reference.

"This will happen often... so how about it? This time I can even pay the full price." Yes, it was important to invest money in your friends' businesses if you could.

"I'm on board to have her train here for longer." Benkei suddenly came out from the changing room.

"We can polish your endless potential." Why did Benkei say endless? Did he truly have so much hope in me?

So after settling for the price and arranging new dates for our sessions, I finally could go home and relax.