Marionette

Oceans, Chapter Twenty Nine - Hakki [発揮]

After an evening spent on exchanging quips and taunts with her favorite person over her favorite food for dinner, Amaya thought the next morning was going to be rather simple.

She couldn't have been more wrong.

It was overcast with clouds, the air rather cool for the spring morning, and there wasn't very much movement in the city. In fact, Amaya almost thought it was a Sunday afternoon from how quiet everything was. The trip to school was just as quiet and boring, enough so where Amaya wondered if she might fall asleep on the way there.

It was only when Amaya sat down in her seat in the classroom that her stomach told her that she wasn't going to like today.

She didn't have to wait long to find out why, either.

'Good morning, everyone!' A chorus of Koro-sensei greeted the class first thing during first period, neither taking attendance or even giving a glance-over of the class. 'Today, I've tried making even more of me!' He announced with gusto.

Then all of a sudden, the group of 27 Koro-sensei multiplied in an instance to a total of what looked like 100 greatly flickering, unstable images of himself, all crammed in the small classroom in front of the blackboard.

'Don't you think that's too much!?' Maehara exclaimed from his seat, however his deadpanning remark was practically ignored.

Amaya stared with wide eyes as she tried to make sense of what was going on, but she was lost.

Along with everyone else - Even Karma looked a little perturbed by the sight.

There were many different outfits each Koro-sensei was wearing, however the most prominent ones were dressed in full Naruto outfits, some in Doraemon costumes, others in what she immediately recognized to be a Micky-Mouse, and to her horror, there was even one or two that were dressed in a pink dress with a blond wig.

'Now let's begin!' Every Koro-sensei announced, and immediately each student's desk was surrounded by four Koro-sensei.

Around Amaya's desk, there were four Koro-sensei wearing Algebra headbands instead of the Maths ones that others got, and much to her bemusement, each and every one of them were wearing the blonde wig and the pastel pink dress.

What was worse was that Koro-sensei was far more overbearing with the way in which he was teaching, too.

He spoke quickly, specifically, and seemed a little impatient when Amaya would hesitate before making an attempt at answering a question. It was a little disconcerting when she realized that this was across the board; The various ninja Koro-sensei around Okuda's desk were urging her to answer more questions, and the others around the room were much the same.

Everything was so loud that Amaya couldn't hear herself think.

And oddly enough Karma wasn't making any attempt at getting up to mischief - In actuality, he Koro-sensei Clones around Karma's desk were actually just begging him to answer another question, instead of just staring off into thin air.

'No, no! You're still not picking it up.' The four Koro-sensei Clones in dresses told Amaya half way into the lesson, the tiniest hint of bewilderment in his tone of voice. 'Why are none of the methods I'm suggesting actually working?'

Amaya bit the inside of her bottom lip as she struggled to keep her words in check.

All of the flickering from Koro-sensei's unstable clones was beginning to give her a headache, and there was a chemical smell in the room that was beginning to make her feel a little off, too.

Amaya thought she heard one of the girls in the class ask Koro-sensei something, but it blurred into the sea of Koro-sensei chattering and was impossible for her to distinguish one voice from the next.