Memories of the Past

Chapter 1: Visiting the Past Time

"Cold" is what she thought. Akari Yukimura, also known as Kayano Kaede or Haruna Mase, was walking up a path to a certain building of Kunugigaoka high school. It was the middle of December, the air was crisp with snow falling down at a mellow rate. The tiny specks started to fall on her now dark brown hair as she exited the surrounding forest and came into the presence of a small building. Today was not any special occasion, she just wanted to revisit a part of the past. She was an actress, and a good one at that. However, having a job like that required immediate attention at all times, leaving little time to her personal life. Today was one of the days where she could take off her attention from her exhausting job and focus on remembering the teacher who sacrificed everything he had for her. It wasn't all for Akari though, the many students of class 3-E and her beloved sister Aguri was what his sacrifices had been for. Korosensei was a valuable part of their lives. Each student vowed to never forget him, and would come up to the mountain at least once a year to honor him. Akari was doing just that.

It took quite a while to get up the mountain, but she had made it quite easily anyways. Akari approached the front doors, fumbling in her pockets to get the keys out to enter. She had long before informed Isogai that she was going up to the mountain for her annual visit, and received the keys in doing so. Isogai was the original class 3-E representative, and the current holder of the keys to the classroom. Slowly but surely, she held up the keys to the keyhole when she suddenly was stopped by an invisible barrier of sorts. "Drat" she thought as she observed the protected hole. The lock had been shut off by a shell of ice that nicely surrounded the wooden door. Akari didn't mind though, she forcefully shoved the key into the keyhole and managed to puncture the now broken shell. Turning the key, she slowly took in her surroundings. Memories of the days where her junior high teacher used to zoom across the surrounding fields at speeds no human was able to comprehend with their naked eye. As she stepped into the building, other memories started to encase her soul and shower her with wonder. The building was simple. It had four rooms, one was the classroom another the a lounge where the teachers would work and two extra rooms for home ec and chemistry. It had a corridor surrounded by windows and almost all wood endo and exoskeleton. The building had been fixed up since she attended the school. Most of the leaks had been patched up, the windows were replaced, and the entire thing had been cleaned. Fortunately, a heater and air conditioner had been installed as well, making being in the building a lot more bearable than before.

Akari took a turn into the classroom and walked up to the desk that she once sat in. It was a window seat, accompanied by the former female class rep Meg Kataoka in front of her and Yuzuki Fuwa behind. Adjacent to her seat were the places of Maehara Hiroto and Tomohito Sugino. However, the seat next to hers was one that she recognized and cherished the most (besides her own). The seat of Nagisa Shiota, Akaris best friend and middle school crush. It had been seven years since 3-E graduated. All of them had moved on with their own lives of course, some more then others. Nagisa was one of them who had almost completely gone off everybodies radars. There were a slect few of his friends that kept in touch, though not many. Those who did only texted him at the most, much less get to see him. The only one who did get to see him a good amount was Karma Akabane. The reason for this was because he was Nagisa's drinking buddy and another close friend of his. Although he might have been able to see him a lot more often than Akari (a bit more then to her liking) it still wasn't too much. The other ones whom he has kept in touch with were Tomohito Sugino, Yuuma Isogai, Yukiko Kanzaki, Ritzu and Manami Okuda. Sugino was another close friend of Nagisa and had a crush on Yukiko Kanzaki. Surprisingly, the two weren't dating but were almost always with each other. Poor Sugino was still trying after all these years. It reminded Akari about her own situation, the only difference being she wasn't with Nagisa most of the time. Manami Okuda was the girlfriend of Karma Akabane, Ritzu was a highly advanced A.I. who was able to contact anyone and everyone via popping up on their phone or any other device, and Yuuma Isogai was the one whom everybody kept in contact with because if they didn't, they'd be locked out of the classroom. She looked at the seat in front of her and flashed a small smile towards it. She decided that her legs couldn't handle much more so she sat down at her own desk. It didn't take long before her eyes started to wander. She started to count everyone of the seats and name each individual who sat in the named seat. "Kataoka, Maehara, Okano, Isogai, Kurahashi..." She kept pointing and naming everyone till she noticed that the metal box that ritsu had once inhabited was gone now. It was returned to the company that made her and there was now an empty space where A.I used to "sit". 'Well that's kind of sad' She thought as she looked at the now empty spot. She proceeded to keep counting. "Okuda, Chiba, Hazama, Muramatsu, Terasaka, and Kar..." Akari found herself interrupted at the sound of the sliding door that marked the entrance of the classroom. "Woah, I wasn't expecting world renowned Actress Haruna Mase to be here." Akari knew that voice all too well, but it wasn't one she particularly wanted to hear. In fact, that voice came from class 3-E's very own redhead delinquent (now bureaucrat). 'Well, speak of the devil' she thought to herself. "Awww, what's wrong, is the actress too afraid to speak to one of her fans?" He said in a very sarcastic tone. Akari looked in the direction of the voice and decided to act on it. "Shut up Karma, I'm not in the mood to deal with any of the paparazzi today much less your teasing." As much as Akari loved her job, there were a lot of downsides that came with it. It's not that she hated her fans, but she just needed a break in between to keep her sane. Karma laughed and proceeded to talk to her after busting his gut. "What? Why so harsh Kayano? didn't you miss me after all these years?" Miss was an overstatement. While she did love everyone of her classmates, Karma was one of the ones she least wanted to see. "Or did you want to see another classmate of yours? Perhaps the one who sat right over here." His eyes pointed to the chair that had served a certain blue headed teacher seven years back. "Yea, maybe I did Karma, maybe I did want to see him as opposed to you" Akari retorted. "Oh, That breaks my heart. But if I do want to see him I can just give him to you right now." Karma proceeded to take out his phone and started to look through his contacts. She instantly knew what was going to happen and started to panic. "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!" Karma stopped in his tracks but not before flashing a mischievous smile towards her. It was sudden, so she needed to find a way to turn the tide of the conversation. She knew that if she wanted to survive the demon that stood in front of her she needed to make it so the flow would turn in her favor. It was already leaning towards Karma, so any wrong move and he would gain complete control of the situation. She thought maybe she could turn his own game against him, she would have the upper hand. "So, did you come up here alone?" First she needed to toughen her foundation. If she wanted Karma to fall, she needed to make so she wouldn't either. "Oh, no not at all, Nagisa's here with me as well." Now, Akari wasn't dumb, she knew that Karma was just trying to make her loose her footing "Oh really, then why were you just bringing out your phone. You wouldn't do that if Nagisa was here now would you?" Akari felt real smart at the remark she made, but a smart remark could only get you so far. "Hm? you thought I was calling him just to talk? No, no I was just texting him to let him know that he could come in." At that moment footsteps came down the hallway and slowly increased in volume as a figure started to approach them. As the figure started to walk in front of the doorway, Akari noticed a blue mop of hair on top of the person's head. "It can't be." She thought.

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