Learning To Love

The Face Of Kindness

He smiled back at the strawberry blonde "At least I don't have to worry about my math grade." Kuro gloated. Peter glared at the albino "At least I know the difference between there, their and they're! "

Kuro scoffed "Those are the exact same words, your argument is invalid." he ran a hand through his hair before smiling smugly. Peter rolled his eyes, his eyebrows raising and falling. The albino knew he was gonna say something but was interrupted by the teacher walking in, Peter stuck his tongue out at him before going back to his seat. Students scrambled back to their respective seats, muttering amongst themselves before silence . The Teacher (With the darkest bags under his eyes that Kuro has ever seen, and he has looked into a mirror before!) walked to the front of the class and began taking attendance, tiredly reading off of the list in his hand.

"Jackal?" "Here!" Jack raised his hand with an amused smile

"Bird boy?" "tch, Present!!" Becky rolled her eyes

"Black?" Kuro chuckled to himself before raising his hand "here!"

"Peter Pan?" Peters eye twitched before saying "Absent."

The teacher (Mr...Mr...Mr Samuel?? or was it Muriel?) gave Peter an unimpressed look before reading more names, none in alphabetical order.

"M.C?" the teacher called and a basically bored voice answered "Yes?", Kuro turned towards the eye patch wearing male. The two made eye contact and Kuro smiled at him, M.C raised an eyebrow before smiling back; Kuro turned to face forward.

"Alright; black, M.C?" the dark haired teacher turned to them, he scrunched his face before saying "Get going before I chase you out." Kuro quickly grabbed his bag pack and sketchbook before practically sprinting out the room. He laughed a bit to himself as he headed towards Miss Vals office "..Hey!" Kuro turned towards the voice and quickly straightened his back when he saw the eyepatch wearing male. M.C walked beside him "You going to Miss Val?" Kuro nodded stiffly and hoped his expression didn't give away what he was feeling.

"Uh yeah, you going too?"

"Yup."

and that was the end of the conversation. God, Kuro wished he had something to say. 'Ok Think Masuta! This might be your last chance to strike up a conversation with him! Don't be a coward, think! Ok, so he's going to miss Val with you...That's it!'

"So," he began, this was a fail proof plan! "Why are you going to her? Ah- you don't have to tell me if you don't want to!" Kuro stared at the dark skinned males face. M.C shrugged, his expression as uninterested as always "I don't know, what about you?" Shit, he didn't plan this far! "I- I don't know either! That's super eh- WIERD right!?" you damn idiot

M.C raised an eyebrow at him but didn't change is expression otherwise "Yeah," his monotone voice replied "it is strange."

Kuro sighed internally, this was hopeless. "But..." Kuro turned towards M.C, who had a small smile playing on his lips "at least we wont be alone during something so strange, dont'cha think?" Kuro's mind blanked and he just let out a small "huh?". M.C chuckled a bit- Kuro's stomach fluttered stupidly god why was he such a mess- "We'll be with each other during this 'weird' experience, right? So its less scary if we're together ." M.C had already stopped speaking when Kuro had been able to process all that- OMG HE SAID WE"RE TOGETHER OK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh-

Before Kuro could even come up with a response the two had already arrived at the door to Miss Vals' office. Shit. The two walked into the room, Kuro walking behind M.C

"Hello boys!" Miss Val greeted them once Kuro closed the door, an apologetic smile playing on her lips "I'm sorry to have to call you two here so early in the morning but I needed to have this discussion with you guys." Kuro nodded, making sure to give a small smile , "Its ok miss. As long as we're not in trouble."

"Oh dear, its nothing like that! I actually need a favour from you both."

"And what might that be?" M.C asked. Miss val opened a drawer in her desk and took out a giant light blue folder filled to the brim with- oh no. Miss Val gave a sympathetic smile to Kuro though there was amusement in her eyes - oh NO.

"As you might know, I keep all your test in these types of folders and then give them back to you guys at the end of the semester." They both nodded- somewhere at the back of Kuro's mind he wondered why she needed to explain what they already knew- "The reason I keep them is so I can see how my students improve during their tests."

Kuro could already feel the humiliation clawing at his chest "This file is filled with all of Kuro's tests, starting from last year." she opened the folder carefully and motioned for the two to come closer, "Can both of you please take a look at some of these tests?" It was more of a demand then a request. Kuro along with M.C took a couple of papers and took a look at the scores, it was painful.

2/30 - literature task

5/10 - reading comprehension

0/15 - topic task

Kuro cringed at his marks, it was painful to look at these marks even when they were his own. 'God M.C now thinks I'm the dumbest person on earth fuuuuuucckk' He turned to the boy beside him whos face held an almost annoyed expression. "Why are you showing us these?" M.C questioned, his expression a bit more annoyed then before

"Because that way I might be able to per sway you." Miss Val smiled "As you can see, Kuro's been failing English for far too long and so I have come to the decision to appoint a tutor for him, which-"

"-Is me?" M.C finished the sentence. Miss Val smiled even wider "As expected of one of my top students, you are quick to catch on. So? Can I trust you with this?" Kuro looked between the two "Wha- Hey! Don't I get a say in this?" he didn't want M.C to be forced to interact with him, this had to come naturally or something, anything better than this! Miss Val rolled her eyes and sighed "Kuro, I don't think you have any say in this when your grades look like this." She showed one of his test papers ( The grade isn't important but god did it hurt ), he sighed and faced away from her, clutching the sketchbook in his hands.

"Fine, ill do it." M.C sighed. The expression he wore was one of obvious annoyance. shit . he didn't want to do this. Kuro's chest ached but he said nothing.

"Great! You guys can organize when you are going to be starting. Anyway, you two are dismissed." She gave another smile and shoo'd them out.

The two left and walked slowly towards their class, Kuro sighed sadly, this was his one chance to actually get to know M.C better and now he wont even want to be around him. he shouldn't have to be forced to do this "Listen," he started tightening the hold on his sketchbook

"You really don't have to do this. I- it'll suck being forced to tutor me and I don't really wanna force you to do this." M.C's face was expressionless other than the slight rise of his eyebrows, the brown skinned male smiled softly and oh god he was smiling oh god he was smiling at me oh god- "Its alright, I wanna do this." M.C said.

Kuro was frankly surprised " But-uh- you looked kinda annoyed and I just assumed-" he shut his mouth when he saw the soft expression on the eyepatch wearing male's face "I was annoyed with miss Val, like, she just showed me your marks without regarding your privacy. That's a pretty horrible thing to do."

Kuro stopped in his tracks and M.C stopped next to him "So-" Kuro began, ruffling his hair "You want to do this? Like, actually want to do this? Cuz if you don't its really fine and-" "Kuro." he shut his mouth at the way M.C said his name "I already said I want to do this. If I didn't want to I would've said no." M.C smiled at him again. Kuro nodded "Ok, right, sorry." M.C nodded as well. The two stood in the middle of the hallway, silent. M.C broke the silence "Well-um- How about we meet at lunch to discuss this or...."

"Yeah!-" Kuro lowered his voice "Yeah, lunch sounds ok." M.C nodded

"Lets meet at the library's entrance, k?" Kuro nodded.

Silence

The silence was interrupted by the bells loud ringing and the clutter of students. Kuro looked over to M.C who was just slightly startled "Ill see you." M.C turned around and with a wave disappeared into the crowd of students.

"Yeah," Kuro muttered "I'll see you." and with a smile walked to his biology class.