Specimen T-04

Part 4~Flowers

Gently waking up, Keiji sighed. Nagisa clung to him, refusing to relax his grip even in his sleep. "Nagisa? We need to get up."

Nagisa grumbled, burying himself in Keiji's side as he rolled his eyes. He picked Nagisa up (mostly with his telekinesis), carrying him to the kitchen as he began fishing out something for breakfast.

Nagisa blinked away, smelling the harsh aroma of ash and burnt toast. Snapping away, he frowned. "Why didn't you use the toaster?"

"I've never done this before!" Keiji tried to waft the smell away as Nagisa dodged his movements.

His tentacles unfurled from his hair, removing the toast and putting bread in the toaster. He brought out the jams he stole last week and put Keiji in his chair, though, unlike normal, the tentacle stayed by Keiji, almost as if seeing he was still there.

Keiji hesitated, twisting his foot. "You feeling any better?"

Nagisa didn't answer. Keiji tried looking into Nagisa's head, trying to find what Nagisa was thinking, but the mind was blank. Growing nervous each second, the kitchen remained quiet. Keiji tried to talk to both of them, discussing a plan the students were making.

Nagisa stayed quiet.

~~~

"There he is!"

"He's making snow cones for snack time."

"Yeah, using ice he just got from the North Pole."

The group of students grinned. "Come on, we'll share the 10 billion!" They put on fake smiles coming out of the forest. "Koro-sensei!"

"Can I have a snow cone?" Isogai led the group as Koro-sensei cried. The students pulled out their knives, pouncing as Koro-sensei disappeared.

"Just so you know, your smiles looked a bit forced. Not convincing enough to get me to let my guard down." Koro-sensei dried his 'tears', dropping the knives he had confiscated. "Now get rid of those dangerous anti-'me' knives and put a genuine smile on your face by appreciating the beauty of these flowers!"

The students gasped, looking at the flowers that replaced their weapons. Meg was the first to realise. "Koro-sensei! Those are our flowers!"

Yada covered her mouth, tears welling in her eyes. "How could you, Koro-sensei? We've been growing them for weeks."

Koro-sensei threw up his hands, sweat appearing on his forehead. "I'm sorry, I didn't know! I'll go get-" he flickered, disappearing before reappearing with new flower seeds in his tentacles- "some new bulbs for you."

"You can't plant flowers at Mach 20! Handle each bulb with care!" The girls stood over Koro-sensei, scolding every move he made.

Keiji snickered as he watched, nudging Nagisa to look at the scene, but Nagisa didn't acknowledge it. He simply stayed, buried in Keiji's back with his arms wrapped around Keiji's stomach.

~~~

Climbing the hill, Karasuma paused, watching Kayano carry a number of sticks towards a tree. "Oh, Mr Karasuma! Hello!"

"Hello. I'll be taking over as your P.E. teacher starting tomorrow. I hope we get along."

"Really? Does that mean we have to call you 'coach'?"

"No." Karasuma paused, shifting his gaze. "By the way, where is he?"

"Well, Koro-sensei ruined our flowerbed, and he wants to make up for it, so..." She led Karasuma to the tree where Koro-sensei was tied. "He's letting us play 'pinata'."

Koro-sensei dodged the many attempts to stab him as students thrust their makeshift spears in the air or fired randomly. "You need to try harder. I'm only going to let you do this once." Koro-sensei's face grew green stripes as he continued to taunt the class.