Tonshi Yagi

First Day

In the weeks since the students received their acceptance letters, Toshinori moved out and Shota and I have been planning out the teaching schedule. We have to spread out everything we want them to learn so they can actually understand, but they aren't stupid. We have to make it challenging enough for it to not get boring.

The first day of the semester is finally here, and I can't wait. I set my alarm to be up early, but quickly shut it off so it doesn't bother Shota too much. He needs to rest his eyes as much as possible. They always dry out so easily. I shower, put on deodorant, get dressed in my costume, dry and brush my hair, brush my teeth, and start packing up things I'll need to bring in. I am running the orientation this year with Sekijiro, or Vlad King.

Once I'm finished preparing to head in I look at the time. There's still a couple hours before I need to be there. In that case, I'll wake Shota up with a nice breakfast. Now, as I've said before, I am not that great of a cook. I do the basics, so for breakfast that means coffee, tea, scrambled eggs, bacon and toast. I start the pot of coffee for me and I put a kettle of water on the stove for Shota's tea. As I'm waiting for the hot beverages I start cooking the eggs and bacon. I'm not a huge fan of bacon, but I love the smell of it. It's making me hungry. As everything finishes up cooking the tea kettle starts whistling. I turn the burners off before plating the minimal breakfast and popping some bread in the toaster. I hear heavy footsteps coming down the stairs and pour the hot water from the kettle in the cup I had ready with the teabag.

"Morning, Sleepyhead." I greet him. I look up and see him rubbing at his eyes. "Don't rub them." I scold. "Where are the drops I got for you?"

"Upstairs in the bathroom." He answers as he sits by the plate with the tea cup next to it.

"Don't forget them." I tell him. He nods and yawns. I think about it for a second. "I'll remind you after breakfast." I say, more to remind myself to do it than to inform him what I was going to do. The toaster pops up and I carefully pass Shota two slices and place two by my own plate. I then grab a mug and pour myself some coffee. I've learned to drink it black. Don't judge me. I sit down and begin to eat. We usually eat in silence, but something comes to mind today. "Make sure class 1-A is at the orientation today, Shota." I sate in a commanding tone. "I'm co-running the orientation this year, so all of the students better be there." He says nothing, just looks at me with his sleepy eyes.

"No promises." He says before taking another bite of his eggs. I send a glare his way, but he isn't phased. We finish our breakfasts and I put the leftover coffee in the fridge. It'll be a nice iced coffee later. "I'll be ready to go in a few minutes." Shota informs me, so I wait patiently by the door and go over the things I'll be talking to the new students about. He comes down the stairs holding out his eye drops to show me he remembered. I smile and put my shoes on as he digs his sleeping bag out of the closet. I roll my eyes, but hold the silly thing as he puts his own shoes on. He takes it back as we head out the door. We lock up and start walking towards the school. UA is not too far away from where we live, so there's no need to be over exerting ourselves.

In the Teacher's Lounge, I find Sekijiro and we go over notes and other things we were planning to talk to all of the first years about. We can't leave anything important out. Shota catches a few more winks in his sleeping bag as we talk. Vlad King and I then head to class 1-B to make sure that all the students are present, and Shota heads to class 1-A to do the same. The plan is to gather all of the students in the bigger auditorium room and speak to them all at the same time.

Sekijiro takes attendance and we get all of them to head to the auditorium in an orderly manner. With all of the first years and their teachers present I go to begin my presentation. The only problem was that the only class and teacher not present are from 1-A. I am absolutely fuming. I turn to Sekijiro and he sighs and nods in understanding. I hand him the talking points I was going to go over and I run outside to see class 1-A and Shota. I storm over to them in time to hear Shota's words.