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Empathy

Kazuichi Souda got a detention almost every single day, and he wasn't always sure why.

Mostly it was due to him falling asleep in class or something else mundane like that, but sometimes he didn't even have a detention and he would show up for it- it was just a natural thing for him to go there once the days lessons had finished now.

It was always the same three people in detention after school every day: Mondo Oowada, Leon Kuwata and Souda (with the occasional addition of Hagakure, Hanamura, Junko or Celestia) and it was always the same person who watched over the detentions,

Kiyotaka Ishimaru.

Detention was very repetitive and also an extremely boring occurrence, but it happened every Monday-Friday without fail.

Although recently, the hall monitor and the classe's gang leader had become very close, almost too close some would say. This new found bond the pair shared meant that Mondo was getting fewer detentions with every passing day, and eventually he didn't even get detentions anymore.

Leaving just Leon and Souda with a consistent record of bad behavior.

One day, after classes had finished, Souda found himself on his way to the detention room like always; when Leon had literally ran in to him.

"Dude! What the hell? I'd be happy to see me too but ya don't have to run at me!" Souda joked with a small grin at his friend.

"Look man, this ain't the time for jokes okay?" Leon said in a panic before rushing off down the corridor "I gotta go!"

"But what about detention!?" Souda called after his friend.

"I don't know! Shit-!" Leon stopped running and scratched his head in thought "Uhhh, tell the hall monitor coach Nidai needed me for something urgently!"

"Alright! But can't you tell me what's actually going on?" Souda was quite concerned about whatever was troubling the red head. He didn't really catch Leon's true explanation, something about a 'chick with blue hair' and a knife? Souda brushed if off as something Leon could handle on his own- besides he hadn't seemed like he wanted Souda's help anyway.

The pink haired mechanic continued on his way to the detention room upstairs.

Upon arrival he noticed it was only going to be him and Ishimaru there this time.

"Great." Souda sighed and rolled his eyes as he sat down.

"Ah, Kazuichi- it is good to see you made it! Serving your time as a rule breaker is a very noble thing to do!" Ishimaru had said in his usual booming and cheery voice.

"Yeah yeah, whatever let's just get this over with" he leant forward on the desk to make it look like he was bored, but in reality he had nothing better to do than come here- and school was a damn slight better than home for Souda.

See, Souda's home life really wasn't as good as the average students. It was just him and his drunken abusive asshole of a father, trying desperately to keep the family business afloat when it was clearly sinking, who would want to go home to that?

There is nothing to do in detention apart from look around the class room from the seat where you are sat in complete silence. Souda had read every poster in the room so many times that he could probably recite them all off the top of his head.

Whilst gazing mindlessly at one of the posters near Ishimaru, Souda noticed something off about the hall monitor that he hadn't seen when he'd come in.

"Hey, hall monitor, where'd you get that cut on your lip?" Souda asked out loud to Ishimaru, he thought he could maybe engage in convocation to pass the time- Mondo had become friends with the black haired student, so he figured he could probably do the same.