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Hattori realized right away that he might have entered the wrong conversation. Kuro and Miyuki seemed to be speaking under their breaths in a serious tone. He only caught a word or two of their hushed mumblings. From the boy, Fuuma caught the the words ‘kill me’ and ‘was in it deep’. He knew he caught ‘Yoshinaga’, ‘knew you were that strong’, and ‘do not remember’ from Miyuki’s side. Whatever they were speaking about, it about something of a grave nature.

Just as the young Fuuma began to feel uncomfortable, the edge was taken off the conversation. Kuro apologized for ignoring the question for a moment. Hattori nodded quickly as a quick confirmation that he accepted the boy’s apology.

Although he was sort of curious about what they were talking about, it didn’t seem like something he should get himself into. Things around the academy had been weird ever since they began in Yoshinaga’s class. This far in, it wasn’t worth screwing around or getting in trouble. Especially so considering their class’ current status compared to the other classes.

Hattori's question was first answered by Kuro, the boy from the rope-tying exercise. Kuro as it turned out, wasn't sure what to make of Sai Sensei just yet. He figured it was far too early to judge; he really didn't know him yet.
Miyuki's response to the question was a bit more intuitive by comparison. Miyuki explained that she thought that Sai Sensei looked like an awesome person. However, due to his tardiness, lax nature, and the first so-called assignment, Sai Sensei appeared very unprofessional. She agreed with Kuro in the end though, it was still early to judge.

Hattori nodded at their responses, "No matter what, Sai Sensei just HAS to be a humongous improvement to Yoshinaga. Heck, even a cadaver would have been an improvement on that guy. Oh! Miyuki! Now that I think of it- did you realize why Sai Sensei was so late? He was painting his name on the door on the outside of the classro-"

From the front of the class came the loud THUNK of a stack of books being dropped on a desk. The loudness of the sound caused Hattori to stop mid-thought and look to the front.

The geography instructor had arrived, and began to address the class about geography subjects. Immediately, without even taking attendance, the instructor began to ramble on about places of interest and terrain in their home of Rice Field Country.

Hattori pulled his blue geography notebook from his bag, and whispered to his fellow classmates with a slight chuckle, “Hehe… Hold that thought.”

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Kuro walked barely out into the hallway waiting on Miyuki and Hattori. The young girl quickly slung her messenger bag over her shoulder. There was not much in preparation for her because she had preemptively packed everything about five minutes before class had ended. She looked at Kuro who seemed slightly disoriented by what she had told him earlier with what had happened after the rope untying exam. “Your secret is safe with me,” the girl declared assuming that he was worried about the consequences of his actions if someone decided to inform his parents or perhaps, he was even worried about the primary delegates of the academy. Either way, he should not have to worry about it now that so much time had passed.

Miyuki positioned herself so she could see Hattori. He seemed almost as excited about Yoshinaga-sensei’s dismissal as herself. The girl was more than a little curious as to why. She tried remembering Hattori from the classes before. “Ahhh,” Miyuki proclaimed out loud, “You had to take several of the after school classes didn’t you?” She questioned tilting her head to the side as she closely examined Hattori waiting for his reply. Kuro quickly came to Yoshinaga-sensei’s defense, as well as boldly calling out Miyuki for her own actions. Though, he was still obviously trying to play the nice guy by adding ‘no offense’.

“Now,” Miyuki proclaimed waiting on the instructor to enter the room to take care of business, “I can tell you exactly what you want to know. Yoshinaga-sensei was a good-for-nothing, lecherous professor who apparently impaired our education.” The young girl stated all of this in a matter-of-factly tone. Then, she contemplated how to respond to the next portion of Kuro’s statement. The young girl found that she was not in the least bit offended by it. Miyuki grinned slyly having decided on an appropriate response, “I was just using the skills I had to get out of the situation… That’s all.” The young girl was satisfied by this answer because it was a realistic answer. She wasn’t afforded any special skills that would allow her any such ease in class, especially at any point Kuro needed answers to written tests. The girl was only using the skills she had available to her to make the academy a more enjoyable place. At least, that was until Yoshinaga-sensei lost his sanity. She had never anticipated that course of events.

The trio of peers found themselves in front of the math classroom. Kuro quickly chose a seat and to keep things comfortable as they had been, Miyuki chose a seat nearby in proximity. The young girl was not looking forward to this class whatsoever. She had pondered the idea of using this time to improve the quality of her drawing ability. She also had a very interesting book in her bag about the basics of becoming a med-nin, as well as a book which had lists of a variety of different herbs and their uses. For the time being, Miyuki set herself down on the seat comfortably and allowed the bag to just slip from her shoulder onto the cold, tile floor. She reached down grabbing the appropriate notebook for this class, as well as a writing utensil and an eraser which would most definitely be necessary for this particular class should she choose to participate full heartedly.

The instructor of the class finally took her place at the front of the class. She was definitely a beautiful woman. Even with all of that beauty, she could not hide her serious manner and strict tone of running the class. She called out attendance quickly before jumping straight into the class work rather forcefully. It did not take long for Miyuki to decide that her artwork could really use some practice.

It seemed that he was now under-fire for just trying to be neutral in the situation involving their old instructor. It was true what everyone was saying when it came to Yoshinaga, but the point that he was trying to show was that people differ from their occupation and every day life, even if they did mess up their occupation royally with the actions that they did. He figured that he'd give up on the whole situation all together as there was no more point in trying to be in the neutral position that he was trying to hold. Ether way, class was starting now and he needed to focus as it seemed like this professor's words were like a tornado's winds. Kuro at this moment was just attempting to keep up with the notes that the deceivingly lovely female teacher was giving the entire class.

In a flash, the bell rang and signaled the end of the class. With that said, she gave out a huge amount of homework in which Kuro scribbled at the end of his notes and then packed up for the last class before lunch. Once ready, he moved over to the other two in his group and looked at Miyuki, then Hattori. He wasn't going to make anymore comments about Yoshinaga anymore, he knew that he'd more then likely get another ear-full from both so he thought for a moment on trying to come up with something else for conversation's sake. "So... seeing as we are behind in class, how do you think Sai-Sensei is going to get us back up to speed?" He was curious on what they thought, let alone it was a question he wanted to answer at the same time. Being a month and a bit behind was a lot of information to jam into those just starting the academy.


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Miyuki questioned how she was going to be able to handle this class if she decided not to pay attention to the instructor, as well as her notes. The young girl casually looked around the classroom looking for something specifically. It seemed that everyone was expressing a similar sentiment to herself regarding the class work. The girl mumbled slightly when noticing that Hattori was scribbling furiously into a notebook. “Hey!” Miyuki bent over her desk approaching Hattori, “Do you mind if I borrow your notes? Math really is not my thing. I promise I will return them in a timely manner!” The young girl had a pleading look on her face. She admitted that if he decided not to lend them to her and if she failed to pass, the fault would rest on her own shoulders. The girl awaited his answer anxiously hoping that he wouldn’t let her down.

A few minutes later, the bell that released them from this class rang loudly. Miyuki was startled not having realized how much time had passed by. It seemed that choosing to create a sketch of this classroom with the female instructor as the focal point of the image. Of course, Miyuki decided to make her look more maternal, womanly looking to appeal to others. She grinned and made a slight nod showing her satisfaction with that particular piece of work. She gently placed the image between the pages of a book. Once closed, she positioned the book into a semi-hidden pocket inside of her messenger bag. She cleared the notebook and other items from the desk placing them inside of her bag as well.

Miyuki quickly stood up making her way towards the exit alongside her peers Kuro and Hattori. Kuro had addressed the two of them asking about how they thought Sai-sensei would manage to catch them up to the other classes. She looked towards Kuro with a very serious face upset with the answer that she had come up with herself, “I do not think we will catch up. He never said that we would catch up. He only stated that we would merely be working harder. I think in the end that we were only meant to catch up to the others as much as possible given the circumstances.”

For the time being, this was not anything that the class should be worrying about. Surely, the young girl hoped that nobody would feel guilty or upset about this either. Yoshinaga-sensei had crippled the class for his own selfish purposes of keeping Miyuki close. The girl felt almost sick thinking about it in that particular manner. There was nothing that any of them could have done given the circumstances. It was not any of their faults because none of them had been aware of this atrocity beforehand. She did wonder how long the faculty knew about what was going on however. They must have had a suspicion seeing as they had obviously done an internal investigation into the matter.

Miyuki followed slightly behind Kuro and Hattori. The young girl walked around in a daze completely unaware of her surroundings. She accidentally bumped into another student while walking to the next class which she believed was supposed to be Literature and Penmanship. “I am so sorry,” Miyuki spouted while bowing towards the other student who was an average sized male whose face was foreign to the girl. The girl wished that she could have spent more time speaking to him; however, the bell was due to ring any moment. After a few pleasantries, the girl lightly jogged to catch back up to the others.

“Sorry about that,” Miyuki smiled brightly realizing that they had found the next class. The young girl popped into the classroom quickly choosing a seat. She always had an affinity for these types of classes. She had no doubt in her mind that this would be a nice respite from the dreadful amount of work that she would be having in the mornings. After this, they could go to lunch! The girl was so excited to finally be released from school today. While it was a nice change of pace from the way Yoshinaga-sensei did things, it was still an exhausting way to spend the day.

The instructor wasted no time once the bell had rung. He asked for Miyuki to pass out leaflets which would help in their instruction while he began to call attendance. The young girl stood up obediently doing as she was asked. She wasted no time in handing them out until she reached Hattori. The young girl would pretend to hand him the sheet and once he tried to receive the sheet, she would pull it away from him. She smirked before sticking her tongue out at him playfully. The instructor noticed her behavior and with a smile scolded her lightly. The girl gave Hattori the leaflet before returning to her seat. She looked over towards Kuro inquisitively, “Do you mind if I sketch you?” The girl enjoyed drawing things or people that were aesthetically pleasing. The boy had a very feminine face and could probably pass for a girl if he had tried. She could not pass up this opportunity.

Well, it seemed that the two classmates of his were in difference of opinion when it came to his own question. Miyuki was more pessimistic while Hattori was more optimistic on Sai-Sensei's outcome of them catching up in the class. He himself wasn't sure on how things were going as he didn't know how much knowledge was between their class and the other classes. Ether way, he knew that there was going to be some mad work to be done to even attempt to catch up to the other classes anyways . Ether way though, it was time for their last class before they went for lunch. Kuro was definately looking forwards to lunch as he was starting to get a bit on the peckish side himself. He did manage to hear the young pink haired female ask about notes for their math class, and Hattori ended up not having actually made any notes. Kuro just sighed and dug into his backpack and pulled out some sheets of paper in which he handed to Miyuki as he stated "Here... Use these, but I will need them later today so I can do my work alright?". With that, he put his backpack back onto his shoulder and they headed out. As they moved to the next classroom, it seemed that the female of the group wasn't paying full attention to where she was going as she un-purposely bumped into another male student in which no-one knew. She swiftly appoligized though and even started a minor conversation before re-joining the group to enter their next classroom which happened to be the location of their penmanship and literature class.

No-one seemed to be very interested in the class, and in all honesty he couldn't blame them. It was a class that was solely dedicated to the learning of how to write, and the understanding of written work already made. This didn't sound interesting what so ever to him but he knew that he needed to work on it anyways so he'd put as much attention as he could into it before he fell asleep in it. Looking around in the classroom, it seemed that he wasn't the one to firstly choose the seats this time which didn't bother him. There was a free seat near his two homeroom classmates, so to keep things like normal he took that seat. Once down in the chair, Kuro placed his pack onto the ground near his feet and looked around. The class was more empty then the other ones that they had attended, which made sense since it was an easily skipped class that was right before lunch. The instructor soon entered though and took attendance, right after though asked Miyuki to hand out some pan-flits to the class. He watched as she did, and she ended up having some fun ether way as she was bugging Hattori with not letting him grab the paper. The instructor though ended up scolded her about it, in which made her finish handing out the papers. Once she sat back down, he was about to get started on his notes when Miyuki asked a question that was way out of left field. A look of confusion came over his face as he wasn't sure how to answer the question. Looking over to Miyuki, he pondered and then sighed lightly. "Um... I guess so......" There was a heavy note of uncertianty in his voice as his eyebrows furrowed and he went to look back at his notes. Soon enough though, the class was finished and everyone in it hand a serious case of writers cramp in their wrists which didn't exclude his own wrists.


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Hizen’s next class had almost already started by the time he arrived, having taken a detour to the bathroom on his way. Hizen entered the classroom, taking a seat near the center of the room. Hizen pulled a couple of pencils and a notebook from the depths of his bag. Finding the book buried inside the desk, Hizen prepared his desk area for the upcoming lecture, notes, and example math problems. ”I understand the need to learn mathematics, but I really hope these example problems aren’t too complicated. Alternatively, I really hope that these problems aren’t too unrelated to being a shinobi. I hope, at least, that whoever put the course plan and material together would understand that the other students my age are very much enchanted by the idea of becoming a shinobi and don’t want to learn ‘useless’ things like Math and Penmanship. But, I guess they know what they are doing.” Just as he finished his thought, the professor walked into the classroom, interrupting Hizen’s contemplation and started the class period’s lesson, speaking in a very nasaly, monotone voice.

”Okay class, please open your books to chapter 3 section 5. As you will remember, we covered this material during lecture last class, your homework was to complete the odd problems. Today’s assignment is to complete the even problems two through forty. If you have any questions, I’ll be at my desk, but you shouldn’t need me if you studied the material. Now, please, no talking and get to work.”

Hizen turned to the page the instructor indicated as she asked the class to do so. However, as the woman finished speaking, Hizen’s jaw dropped. ”I can’t believe this. Not only is she treating her students like dirt, but now I’m expected to just jump into the current material without learning the previous stuff first?! How is that fair?! Even if I could do these problems, which, from the look of them, that seems unlikely, I resent being treated like I’m not worth her notice. She clearly doesn’t want to be here, and, while I’ve only been in this class for less than fifteen minutes, I already hate it.” Hizen copied down the first problem the instructor had assigned into his notebook. Turning to the chapter, Hizen attempted to follow the examples and concepts that were presented in the chapter and apply them to the problem at hand. However, Hizen just couldn’t seem to ‘get’ the concept and figure out how to proceed with the problem.

”Dammit. I really need to have learned the previous lessons to understand what’s going on here, what I need to do. I know I can’t do this without some help, but the professor clearly doesn’t want to help anyone with this.” He glanced up, to find the instructor glaring around the room. Knowing that he’d need to work through the other sections in this chapter, if not previous chapters, Hizen began copying the problems they had been assigned before flipping the pages backwards to the beginning of the chapter. Seeing nothing he recognized, Hizen decided that he needed to go further back. ”At least it’s just chapter 3 that I’ve got to work backwards from. I really wouldn’t want to go back to the beginning and work through a whole bunch of chapters before getting to the current assignment. Hopefully someone in the class will be able to help me. I can’t imagine this stuck up professor helping me with the work, despite me being behind.” Pressing his fingers to his temples as he felt a headache coming on, Hizen packed up his notebooks as the bell rang signaling the end of the period.

After the bell rang to signal class was done, Kuro couldn't wait but to just stop writing. His wrist had cramped up and he was glad that there was a break involved between now and next class that was longer then just five minutes. Quickly packing his gear into his backpack, He looked over to Miyuki who had asked to draw him. He wasn't sure on what she drew, but he wanted to see just to make sure that he knew exactly what he reluctantly put himself through. Once packed, he noticed that Miyuki was handing his notes back to him. He took then and quickly asked before he forgot. "Hey... mind if I take a look at your drawing?" He'd probably have to wait to see what the drawing looked like if she would show him at all. It seemed though that he would definitely have to wait as she quickly left them to drop off some of her stuff as it appeared to be a burden to her. He nodded as he continued towards the cafeteria with Hattori. Luckily there wasn't much distance between all their classes and the cafeteria, but from there on out he had no clue. As they entered the lunch room, Kuro started to look around and noticed a few faces that he remembered from their home room class. But there was another face that he caught a glimps of, and that was Sai-Sensei's. He mentally shrugged it off and continued to go up to those serving up the food, but he could see other teachers near the entrance's as well. Kuro thought for a moment while waiting in line, and knew that this wasn't normal but just kept it to himself for now. He kind of had to as Miyuki came up and asked if anything new happened while she was gone. He just shook his head and wondered about the drawing of her's plus what exactly what going on with all the instructors in the room now.


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