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[growing_pains]

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Masaomi Kida // DRRR!!

[mellowyellow]

[Action//Classroom]

[Class is in session. Students are seated at their desks like good little children, and a professor takes attendance. Something's not quite right though. The numbers don't add up. Is there... Is there an extra student in the classroom?

Kida Masaomi sits in a desk at the back of the room humming to himself, not paying a lick of attention to what's being taught but rather watching other kids in the class. No, Masaomi is not in this class. Yes, he appears to be ditching his own class to hang out in another one.

Oh, sorry, is this your seat?]

[sogyo_no_kotowari]

... Mr. Kida, I believe your period ended a good 15 minutes ago. -And that wasn't even his seat for his own class, either.-

[mellowyellow]

[Masaomi looks up when he hears his name, frowning at the "Mr." But it's just Ukitake telling him what he already knows. Darn, he didn't think he'd be caught that quickly. He might actually have to go to his own class less than half an hour late. Even so, his lips curl upward back into their usual smile.]

Seventeen minutes by the clock on the wall, Mr. Ukitake.

[sogyo_no_kotowari]

Well, I apologize for being off by two. Do you mind explaining to the rest of the class why you needed a double dose of James Joyce today?

[mellowyellow]

[He stands up and looks around the classroom like it's no big deal and he's supposed to be here.]

Because anything's better than math!

[sogyo_no_kotowari]

Fair enough. Fine. Let's indulge this little game of yours. Seeing as you just wen through this lesson, how about you serve as me TA for the day, hmm?

[mellowyellow]

[Could it be? Is this true? Has Masaomi found the elusive nice teacher?! He had thought they were an extinct species, numbers driven beyond recovery by Masaomi's own kind. But if that's not the case, he's not about to look a gift horse in the mouth.]

This body is yours to command, oh great and powerful educator!

[At least until a girl comes along asking for him.]

[sogyo_no_kotowari]

And if you fail to show enough understanding of your lesson to convey the same lesson properly, I'll just consider you an F for the day.

-Nice, yes. Ukitake was very nice. But he also had a point to make.-

[onlyhisdreams]

[When it first catches her attention, Lorna tries not to look. It's very impolite to stare, after all. So, she focuses her attention on the professor. Total and complete attention. Yes.

She shuffles her notebooks. Straightens out her pens. Deep breathing. Wait. This entire time, she should have been taking notes.

Finally, she turns her head to the blond boy and whispers, every consonant very crisp.]

Can you please stop humming? It's really distracting.

[mellowyellow]

[She catches his attention when she turns to him, but the way he keeps grinning, leaning his head on his palm, elbow on his desk, makes it pretty clear he's not all that interested in her pursuit for a quieter pursuit of knowledge.]

It's atmosphere! Atmosphere! Like game show music.

[What a remarkable way of exclaiming things even at whisper volume.]

[onlyhisdreams]

[Very nervously, she glances back to the teacher, making sure they haven't caught his attention. That would be the worst thing in the world, if she got in trouble for trying to stop the trouble. Lorna squirms in her seat before putting her green eyes back on the nuisance.]

This isn't a game show, it's our education, which you are currently disrupting.

[And she's sure they're supposed to be learning something very important right now.]