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The way down the mountain was dangerous and Okajima got the short end of stick when trekking down it. The class walked at their own paces all spread across the mountain in a long line with Isogai, Maehara and Sousuke at the front, "We can't be late again or else we'll have to do another punishment like cleaning out the flower beds." Sousuke nodded in agreement and Maehara sighed as if he was growing tired, "Man those things are like the size of a house.."

Isogai raised a brow just as Sousuke said what he was thinking, "You didn't even help."

Koro stayed behind as he couldn't afford to blow his cover to the students of the main building and Nagisa walked with Kayano and Rio, Manami treading behind slightly. She huffed as she wasn't really the most athletic person and Karasuma stayed at the back to make sure none of the students lagged behind too much.

Kouki Mimura had to save Okajima Taiga from almost drowning because of the broken bridge crossing the river but he walked head first into a pile of snakes, running away to save his life with a scream ripping from his mouth. Falling boulders suddenly fell out of nowhere when Terasaka was minding his own business as he led Muramatsu and Yoshida with Hazama lagging behind lazily and he screamed in both shock and due to the fact that he couldn't believe this was happening to him.

They ran safety up ahead when someone - Takebayashi - accidentally bumped into a beehive that hung comfortably from a tree branch. Okajima had been running the whole way down and added to his luck when he headed straight into the hive that buzzed with ferocious bees, "WHO HIT THE BEEHIVE ARRGHHHH!!!!!!

At last, they made it into the opened gates of the main building just as Bitch-sensei finally caught up with them, "What the hell is going on!?"

"Why'd you take so long?" Chiba questioned lowly, she glared at him and to the students surrounding them got back up after regaining their breath, "I ran with HEELS!!"

Rio stood beside Nagisa, folded arms as she inhaled, a slight sweat building on her forehead, "Remember when (Y/N) came down with us?"

Okano walked by slowly and stopped to smile, "She was either super early, waiting for us or so late that she didn't even bother showing up!"

Nagisa nodded and thought back to how you seemed to take it as a race against time and laugh your whole way down, ending up with mud and dirt stains with frizzled hair from performing parkour through the trees, "Or she'd stay behind and fight Koro- remember when we headed back up and Koro was hiding on the roof once?" Hara walked past laughing as she spoke, getting ready for the line up inside the gymnasium and as they laughed in agreement, everyone followed their male class representative as he led them to the gym on the far right- the spot reserved for class 3-E.

The assembly almost began before two of Nagisa's old classmates in class D spoke tauntingly, "Surprised you made it, must have been a trek rolling down the mountain!" The kids laughed and sneered at them, treating E as the lowest of the low; it was the unofficial rule delivered by the chairman to keep the other ninety-five percent of the schooling population motivated so they saw potential in themselves that was absent from the others.

The dean of the school stood on the stage with a microphone before him as he smirked towards E class who stood on the far right, the other classes from A to D also stood in their respective lines and listened when they were told to study unless they wanted to suffer the consequences - queue the condescending look directed at the junior high students in E, "Hey Nagisa."

He looked behind him to see Sugino, "Where's Karma?" Nagisa lowered his eyes a little and answered just as quiet so they wouldn't be picked on for disrupting, "He's ditching- he just stayed back in class. He just doesn't care about these things."

Karasuma stood by the sides where the teachers stood and students in other classes; especially the girls, fawned over the male while he watched over his students, his eyes finding Nakamura and Kurahashi flashing the small plastic packets they held their knives in that were bedazzled, "How cute is this."

Nakamura smiled and showed hers off, Kurasuma was in front of them in a second, grabbing their knives to keep them away from prying eyes, "They would be cuter in your pockets! What is wrong with you girls?" They put their belongings away, "Wow he's a really hands-on teachers,"

"I'm so jealous!"

Bitch-sensei opened the doors and came in, her shirt tucked in and her face clean, she illuminated and swayed her hips to stand beside her co-worker when Nagisa heard Sugino, "Five minutes ago she was down on all fours but damn look at her work it." Boys jaws dropped and girls watched with hearts in their eyes before they got nose bleeds at the sight of Nagisa being smothered by her boobs, "Stop it professor bitch, I can't breathe!" She had wanted the notebook that Nagisa had for more information on their target but she stopped when she was pulled away.

The upcoming student council events were handed out on a piece of paper and all but E class was included - predictably. Isogai noticed and raised his hand hesitantly, "Um we don't have any of those?"

The student smiled, a cringy and prideful sneer and sarcastically answered, "Oh really? I guess that means that E class will have to memorise from their neighbors.." He snorted and laughed before a gust of wind made him shut up and then papers appeared in their hands, Isogai read the title and apologised kindly, "Oh sorry never mind, we've got it." He was flabbergasted and leaned forward into the microphone, "Huh?! But how? But I printe-  okay whose the wise guy, who ruined our fun?" A disguised Koro-sensei stood by Irina and Karasuma when they watched him perplexed and agitated as bitch-sensei began trying to stab him.

Midterms were closer, personalised studying was to begin and Koro made enough doubles of himself to teach everyone in the area they weren't great at; to be specific, there were six for Japanese, eight for maths, three for social studies, four for science, four for english and one Naruto just for Terasaka, "Believe it!"

Karma playfully poked his tongue out as he held a knife up when Koro was in every spot in the room all at once, his head decreased in size as his face became crooked as to not get hit by the knife, "Karma! No attacks during class study!"

"Uhh.. Koro-sensei, don't you think you're stretching yourself a little thin? I mean, I'm getting tired just by watching you.."

He showed that he had a double also resting outside on a chair with some kind of exotic juice in his hand and Nakamura spoke up after looking up from her book, "Hey Koro, what's gonna happen to (Y/N) concerning the midterms?"

With a different head band just for her, Koro stopped teaching her Civics, "Well she'll have to study the content and take the test just like you- that's if her mind is in the right state, I'm sure it will be considering how mentally strong she can be when she's seriously motivated."

The blonde nodded, getting back to her work, "Besides if your her best friend then she should ace the test without a worry!" Nakamura almost laughed at how easy it seemed when Koro spoke so casually about you studying. "Why're you so serious about us studying anyway? It's not like we'll really need this in the future.."

Yoshida questioned but he felt smaller in his seat when he saw the dark aura surrounding their teacher - twenty-six of him turned into one and he hissed, "What?"

"I-I mean, he's sort of right- when he have that much reward money that means this is no problem at all, I'll be set for the rest of my life!" Takebayashi spoke up from his seat, worried after seeing the huge dark purple cross covering the teachers face, "I believe you students don't appreciate what it means to be an assassin!" He was gone and then he reappeared with bitch-sensei, her hair a mess as he stood in anger towards his pupils, by now the class had put there pencils down and watched confused and wondering how that escalated so quickly, "Professor Jelavic! May I ask do you have only one plan when heading to a mission to assassinate your target?"

She furrowed her brows after recomposing herself and answered in an obvious voice, "What? Of course not- if I've learned anything it's that plan A almost never works- I always have multiple back up plans."

Koro nodded and kept the dark purple cross on his face, anger and disbelief going through him because of his students when he thought they knew better, that they were smarter than this, "Students I want you to commit to both assassination and academics and to make sure you have another plan because you don't know if someone smarter and with more experience could come by and end your Koro-sensei! Then you would have nothing! Then you would be outcast and with no money nor academics!"

They didn't know that he really was just thinking that they would respect him and hopefully they'd try not to kill him but he still threatened to leave if they scored above fifty. Everyone knew that they couldn't have Koro leave. Everyone had grown to really like this class and they felt as if they belonged there. They knew how heartbroken (Y/N) would be if they gave up.

And then the day of midterms came. They were in trouble, they were nervous as a whole group and the pressure got to them before remembering Koro, he taught them what they needed and taught them well. He broke everything down worked through it piece by piece and that's exactly what they did. Until question fourteen. It seemed to be a surprise attack and it was later learned that that question was only just added two days before the tests. The content was taught by the chairman himself and Koro was too ashamed to face them, he had his back turned to his class but a knife was thrown right at his head. He dodged it and looked shocked, he wasn't even ready for a simple attack when his students sat frustrated, sad and disappointed in their seats- all of their scores way above fifty.

"(Y- Karma!"

He had corrected himself but he knew they knew what he was about to say, he thought it was silly to think such a direct and casual attack would come from one of his best assassins, "Have it your way teach, keep your back facing us- it'll only make it easier for us to sneak up on you.." He walked out of his desk to approach the front podium, five pieces of paper in his hands before he cut Koro off to throw them on the podium, smiling so carefree, "I am not in the mood Karm- auhh..?"

The silence brought Karma's peers out of their seats when they read the red numbers in the corners of his tests, 'ninety-eight,' 'ninety-nine,' 'one hundred,' 'ninety- eight,' and 'ninety-nine.'

"So they added some questions to the stupid test, big deal- your method worked like a charm, teach. You gave us everything you had and at the moment of truth, it mattered." Koro was gobsmacked, "So what if the midterms decided to cover new territory? I was ready! Don't worry though, I'm not going anywhere - you see normal class has nothing on assassination so where are you gonna go, huh? Where do you belong? You gonna use the fact that we didn't get in the top fifty as an excuse to tuck your tail and run?"

Maehara held his arms behind his head when Katoako nudged him with a smirk and Karma continued, "Cause you're not fooling me, I think you're just scared that one of us is actually gonna kill you.."

"You could've just told us! Not like we'd blame you for being afraid." Maehara exclaimed with a shrug of his shoulders, "Next time try to be more straightforward in telling us how you feel." Megu pitched in nonchalantly and Nakamura smiled when more of her peers began to lighten up and forget about the past few days, "Even if how you feel is all, 'Oh no I wanna run away!'"

Koro shook, screaming and flailing his tentacles, "ARGH NO ONE IS RUNNING AWAY!"

"And besides! You can't leave without apologising to (Y/N) and letting her kill~ you!" Kayano perked up and laughed out causing a roar of laughter and 'Yeah!'s' to chorus in the class, Koro sweatdropped and Karma grinned at the sound of your name, "Okay, so what's the deal?" He already knew Koro was done for when your name was mentioned, "The deal is that we get our revenge on the school and do it twofold during the finals!"

Class soon finished and the testing period was over for now until finals. Nakamura packed her things, grabbed her bag and walked by her lonesome down the mountain just as Terasaka followed her down, he was alone and recognised the signs and roads the blonde walked passed, "I figured you were going there.."

Rio turned in surprise to find the brawny teen following but instead of raising her voice, she slowed down so he could catch up, "You were following me?" He shook his head and crossed the road with his school bag held over his shoulders, "Not when we're going the same way."

"Where're your friends - Muramatsu and Yoshida?"

"Muramatsu got called by his old man and Yoshida had to go home - I don't care, I was gonna come here anyway." She nodded and questioned no longer when the building came into sight, "You been here recently?"

Rio nodded letting the silence sink in inside room 38 when she slid the curtain open to reveal your inert body, your pale and porcelain face, "I came with Manami a little while ago, we talked about what happened when the chairman came to class that time.."

"Oh.. Yeah." He sat on the bed by your feet and Rio slid a chair in to place it next to you so she got a good look at your face that was facing upwards, "It's like she's teasing us without even knowing - this is balls.."

Terasaka almost growled and Nakamura couldn't help agreeing, your heart monitor was steady and completely normal, your vitals were healthy and it was just like a nap you'd wake up from but you had no control over it, it pissed them off - both Rio and Ryoma.

They left before the sun went down and a couple of days passed. It was lonely but you couldn't tell as you were stuck in a motionless body with an empty mind. The serene atmosphere was disturbed when the nurse came to clean your limbs and torso with a wet sponge. The doctor only came in briefly and they both felt their muscles cease all motion when they swore they heard a slight change in the steady rate of your heart on the monitor.

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