Partners in Crime

Test Time

~Karma's POV~

"Ugh." Y/N groans in boredom. "I can't believe Koro-sensei just brought us out here to show us that he can flatten a piece of land. What a waste of time."

I laugh. "What else would you be doing in this time, Y/N?" I ask.

"Well, studying, of course." Y/N says. "I may be smart, but I'm not that much of a genius when it comes to academics. If I want to do well, I've got to study."

"Hmm, I s'pose that makes sense. I, on the other hand, am happy where I stand." I tell Y/N, rubbing the back of my head.

"Typical Karma." Y/N says, pulling out her math book. "By the way, since you're so good at math, can you tell me how I'm supposed to do this question?" I glance at it.

"Sure, Y/N. Come over to my house after school, and I'll help you all you want, okay? Right now, I think Koro-sensei wants us to come back inside so that he can do some more personal tutoring." I say, leading the way back into the classroom.

-Time Skip-    

"See, and that's how you do it."

"Wow, thanks Karma. That's the last of all the questions." Y/N thanks me, gathering her things and standing up. "Thank you so much for helping. I guess I should get going now."

I grab her hand as she starts to step out of my room. "Hold on, you're not going anywhere." I say, laughing. "It's been a while since we've gotten to spend any time together without anybody else around to interrupt. Why don't you stay for dinner?"

Y/N looks at her watch. "Okay, then. I guess I don't have anything else going on, so sure." She responds, smiling at me. "What do you want to do until dinner? We've still got a while." 

"Why don't we watch something?" I ask, pulling out my collection of movies. "We can get something to snack on and it will be just like the old days."

Y/N snatches her favorite movie out my hands. "Deal. As long as I don't have to cook anything, of course." She says, popping the movie into the DvD player. I nod and get some food ready.

-Time Skip-

"Mmm, thanks for the food, Karma!" Y/N says as she walks out the door. "It was delicious, really something that I'd expect to eat at a restuarant." She compliments.

"Don't think too much of it, I know that your parents always want you to get your own dinner, and since you can't cook, I thought that you'd appreciate a homemade meal." I explain, leading her the driveway. Y/N laughs.

"You're right about that. Well, anyway, see you at school tomorrow! Good luck on your midterms!" Y/N says as she waves to me in farewell. I wave back, walking back into my house.

As I walk into my room, I notice a picture of me and Y/N, from before we were in junior high. We're playing in the park, acting innocent. I smile, remembering how we met.

It was when I had just beaten up a couple of bullies, even though I was only seven years old, I already could distinguish between people who harmed others weaker than themselves just for fun and people who were good. However, my teacher didn't quite agree with me, so she sent me to sit out while the rest of the kids played. A little while longer, a girl with H/C hair and E/C eyes walked up to me and sat down.

"Huh?" I asked her. "Why are you sitting here?" The girl huffed.

"It's because you were right." She said. "Those kids are jerks, and it's not fair that just because you showed them that they were wrong that you have to sit out." I nodded.

"But, aren't you scared of me? I just beat up two kids much larger than myself!" I said. The girl looked at me in confusion.

"That's not scary." She said. "You were just smart and used your smallness to an advantage." She explained. "Besides, I'm not scared of violence!"

I looked at her in wonder. This girl was the first person who saw it like I did. I wasn't being overly violent, I was trying to stand up for those who couldn' t stand up for themselves. "My name is Karma Akabane. You can call me Karma, if you want." I introduce myself.

"My name is Y/N L/N. You can call me whatever you want as long as it doesn't offend me." She exclaimed, holding out her hand. 

"Y/N it is, then." I said, shaking her hand. 

-After the Midterms-

"How do you think you did?" Y/N asks me as we walk into the classroom to get our results.

"Pretty well. There was some new stuff, but it wasn't too confusing. What about you?" I reply, grabbing my scores from Koro-sensei.

Y/N sighs. "Well, that math test was a beast. Even with all of that extra tutoring, I'm pretty sure I failed. I don't think I did too bad in anything else, though." Y/N says, pouring over her results. She sighs again. "Just as I thought. I totally failed math. A seventy-eight!" She exclaims. The class looks at her in shock.

"A seventy-eight? And she thinks that's bad?"

Y/N rolls her eyes. "At least the rest of the exams are all ninety and above." She says, which makes the rest of the class gasp.

I glance at my results. "Hmm, ninety-eight, ninety-eight, oh, wow, I got a hundred in math, ninety-nine." I read off my scores.

Y/N nods proudly. "That's my Karma. Always a genius, in no matter what field." 

The fact that Y/N and I scored so well made Koro-sensei even more determined that the rest of the class could score well, too, so I guess that all in all, we really did contribute to our classroom despite being the loners.

"Well, I guess we proved ourselves to be useful after all, Karma." Y/N says to me before entering her house.

"Nah, Y/N, we're always useful." I say. "Sometimes it just takes a test of sorts to get other people to notice that.  

~Nagisa's Thoughts of the Day~  

There's always been something separating Y/N from the rest of us. A wall of sorts, built to keep everything out. But Karma crosses that wall everyday as if it doesn't even exist. He's the only one Y/N treats like an equal, and that's admirable. However, I'm glad that I'm not on Y/N's side of the world. This way, I get to watch her and Karma take on the world without getting involved.