Both of us followed the old lady who caught our little debacle to her office. Both of us were covered in bruises and cuts, though I'd say the girl beside me was much worse off than me. Speaking off, I still haven't got my name yet. As we enter her office, the yellow eyed girl sneakily took another cigarette out of her pocket and was about to light it.

"No smoking in the office Akao." The lady said

The girl whose name was revealed to be Akao pouted as she put her lighter away. She must have a really bad smoking addiction, she can't seem to go 5 minutes without one. The lady clears her throat to get our attention

"So care to explain what you both were doing on your first day of class?" The lady asked in a menacing tone

"We were just having a friendly spar." I said

Akao just nodded along.

"Is that so. Care to explain this." The lady turned her computer around to show the footage of our 'friendly spar'

"I missed a camera......" I silently lamented

The footage was basically us thrashing the room while fighting each other, before I kicked her out the window. Both of us watched with a sheepish expression

Ok back to the blame game

"Well as you can see it was her Cigarette that caused the fire." I said pointing at the video

"Hah?! I only dropped it because of you. Cigarettes are expensive nowadays ago, if anything you should pay me $3." Akao said defiantly

"$3. Per stick?! you rich or something?" I say deadpanning

"Hmmph. Well pay up." She said gesturing with her hands

"Enough! Class officials starts tomorrow but it seems like you 2 get an early introduction to me. I'm Satoda. Your homeroom teacher. Since it's your first day I'll let you both off for now." Satoda-sensei said

"Cool let's go roomie." Akao said about to turn and leave

"I wasn't finished." Satoda said unimpressed

"Your actions normally would result in expulsion. You still need a punsihment." Satoda said

"Isn't rooming with her punishment enough?" I jokingly questioned which earned me a glare from Akao

"As I was saying. As your punishment, you will fix up your own room, and make sure it's back in the same condition as it was initially. If I'm not happy with the standard. Well you'll find out tomorrow during our first class." Satoda said in a no nonsense tone

"Yes sensei....." We said begrudgingly

"Dismissed." Satoda said

Both of us turn to leave.

"What a drag....." I lament

"Well roomie. You're pretty strong, you did something to me which I've never experienced before. Oh yeah, I didn't get your name?"

"Sano. You're not too shabby either. What did you mean by something you've never experienced before." I said

"Well Sano, I have this ability to see the best paths to kill. At the start of our little scuffle, there were a lot of paths to kill you. So I thought you were weak. But as we fought for a while, the paths disappeared bit by bit until there were none left. That's never happened to me before." Akao explained

"I see. Well I guess it makes sense. My brain analyses my opponent as the fight goes on, once it's fully analysed, I come up with perfect counters to their fighting style. Basically the longer you fight me the worse your chances are." I say

"That's pretty neat. Maybe you're not as bad as I thought. I think we'll get along fine roomie. But before I acknowledge you as my roomie, I'll need a lighter please." Akao stuck out her hand

"You're seriously addicted."I say passing her a lighter

"Now it's official we'll be the best roommate pair ever!" Akao said swinging her arm over my shoulder

Timeskip a couple hours

It was now 2am. We had finally restored our dorm to close to its original state, only thing we're missing is windows. Which may or may not have been my fault. After we finished cleaning and replacing all the burnt furniture, Akao just passed out on her bed without showering or changing out of her clothes.

SNORE

Guess it'll be a long night. I go take a shower before changing into a tank top and some shorts. I took my ear plugs and stuffed them In my ear before turning in for the night.

The next morning

I woke up and saw the time was already 8.30. Class starts at 9.

Ok guess I should get ready, I'm not tryna get even higher in Satoda-sensei's bad books. I look over and see Akao still deep asleep with a snot bubble coming out of her nose. After I put on a shirt and some track pants. I go poke Akao in her sleep

"Oi. Wake up. Class starts in 10 minutes."

"SNORE* 5 more minutes.... SNORE*" Akao says not opening her eyes

"Well I tried. Have fun dealing with Satoda-sensei, she might expel you." I say turning to leave

"EXPELLED?! Nononono. I'm ready."

Akao shot up out of bed and the first thing she did was light a cigarette.

I just turn to walk out the door and she follows me out the room

"Didn't peg you for the type to care if you get expelled or not." I muse walking down the hallway to the lift

"What's that supposed to mean. You think I look like a rebel or something." Akao said puffing out her chest

I just give her a deadpan look and continue walking

"Ok fair enough. But I can't get expelled, because if I do, my niece'll stop talking to me." Akao said catching up and walking beside me

"Your niece?"

"Yeah. See. Look how cute she is." Akao whipped out her phone and showed me a picture of her niece

Her niece looked exactly like her. But with slightly bluer and less messy hair

"Hmm. She looks no more than 6 years old. So what you're saying is a 6 year old looks up to her assassin aunt." I question

"No. She looks up to her super awesome, ass kicking, beautiful, humble aunt." She says blowing out smoke in the lift

"Don't forget humble." I joke

"BWAHAHAHAHA. your funny Roomie." She said swinging an arm around my shoulder

I open the door to class and see Satoda already teaching. I look at my watch and see we're a minute late.

"Well look who decided to show up. " Satoda said glaring at us

"Chill. It's one minute." Akao said taking her arm off my shoulder

"What she said." I say nonchalantly

"To be on time is to be late. Get that through your heads. Well since you have no respect for time. Why don't one of you come demonstrate the obstacle course for everyone. And Akao no smoking in class!" Satoda says with a smirk

The 'obstacle course' looked like it came straight out of a saw movie.

"You know what this calls for. A macho game of rock paper scissors." Akao said with a grin

Rock

Paper

Scissors

Shoot

My hand is wide open and Akao showed scissors

"Haha I win." Akao punctuates with a punch to my shoulder

"Guess it's not my day." I say before I stretch

The whole class is filled with a bunch of amateurs so they all are terrified of this obstacle course. The whole room is silent in anticipation. Once my brain figured out the timing I dashed forward. I ran straight through the swinging axe blades, flipped over the bed of spikes, avoided all the poison darts, slid under the falling block and skirted over the fragile ground at the end. All without stopping even once. The whole class minus Akao and the blonde dude looked flabbergasted. Even Satoda was mildly impressed.

"Can I go back to my seat now." I say bored

"Sure." Satoda-sensei said

"OOH OOH Can I go next!" Akao said like a kid in the playground

Satoda sighed and nodded before letting her go.

At the end of class a couple students died and others barely scraped through. Only two other students got through competently. The blonde dude with the man bun broke all the machines and a white haired student did it slowly but surely. I could tell how this year was gonna go. The 'lessons' were gonna get increasingly hard to weed out the strong ones from the weak. Guess these 2 years will be fun after all.

I'm awoken from my thoughts by a tug on my sleeve

"Neh. Neh. Let's go talk to that blonde dude, he looks fun." Akao said pointing to him

I just shrug my shoulders and let her drag me along.

"Hey you. You did the obstacle course the fun way. Whaddya say you join our awesome gang, we could be the strongest group of misfits in school." Akao said puffing out her chest

"No thanks." The blonde dude said before turning to leave

"Pfffttt."

I laugh at Akao's stunned face as the blonde dude just rejected her

"What a wet blanket?!" Akao said a vein popping on her forehead

"Looks like you're not as charming as you think." I joike

Akao grunts in frustration before lighting her 5th cigarette of the day, afterwards she drags me back to our dorm room.

"Don't be a crybaby. You'll have more chances. I doubt that dude will die anytime soon." I say rubbing her shoulder

"What kind of idiot rejects someone as awesome as me." Akao flops on the bed and waves her arms around like a little kid

I take out my laptop and boot up mortal kombat while Akao has her little temper tantrum. After 20 minutes she uses up all her energy and gets up to go to the shower. I'm in the top 100 global leaderboards for mortal Kombat thanks to the little brain of mine. I've been trying to learn scorpion now, and his chain is giving me ideas about potential weapons I could use. I've just been using a knife for these 4 years because it's the simplest tool to use, but someone with my brain should be more creative.

While I'm cooking people with scorpion outside, I notice something in my peripheral vision. The toilet door opens and a bare Akao walks out still dripping with water. I kind of expect this thing from her so I just don't look up and continue with my game.

"Who would have thought my roommate would be a flasher." I muse while tapping my controller

Akao turns towards me, puts her hands on her hips and poses

"You like what you see? Hey?! You're not even looking." Akao pouts again

"Do you want my attention?" I question not looking up

Akao lights a cigarette and walks beside me.

"Whatcha playing?" Akao says studying my screen curiously

"Mortal Kombat. I'm trying to get inspiration for a new weapon. The knife's kinda boring." I say glued to my screen

Akao whips out her knife and coos

"Don't listen to him. You're not boring." Akao says rubbing her knife on her cheek

"So any reason you're still not putting on any clothes?" I ask

"Well I do this all the time at home." She says acting like nothing's wrong with this situation

"In front of your 6 year old niece? I'm starting to question what she sees in you." I jab

"You know I'm charming. I'll call her now to show you." Akao says taking out her phone

"Please don't. Put on a shirt first at least." I say trying to save this poor 6 year old

"Too late~" Akao said as her phone was ringing



her phone screen goes from black to a small girl who looks like she doesn't know how to hold a phone. She was just showing her forehead to the camera.

"Hi Aunt Rion!" The little girl says animatedly

"Hi Akira. Ne can you tell this guy how cool I am." She says shoving the phone in my face

"Don't let this woman bully you okay. If she's kidnapped you blink twice." I say pulling my headphones down

"Haha. This guy's funny. What's your name." Akira asks cutely

"Sano. Ryu Sano. Can you tell your aunt to put on some clothes." I ask

"Huh? She does this all the time at home. What's wrong with it. Ryu-san" Akira says innocently

I give Akao a look saying, 'what have you done to this little girl'

Akao flips the phone back around

"Anyways. Auntie needs to go now. I'll call you again soon. Make sure you don't do your homework and give your teacher trouble." Akao said

"Hehe. Ok Aunt Rion. Bye Ryu-san." Akira says waving at the camera

"Bye Akira. Don't listen to your Aunt." I say before she hangs up

"There see." Akao says

"All you've proven is you're a bad influence." I deadpan

"Whatever. You know I'm awesome." Akao said before turning and walking to her side of the room

Situations like this were pretty common as the year progressed. Throughout the year our class got smaller and smaller. I fought the blonde dude during the second week of school, turns out his name was Taro Sakamoto. He was the first person I lost to in years, he just made use of everything in his surroundings as weapon, so I couldn't fully analyse him as his fighting style was constantly changing. But I gave him a pretty good run for his money. We bonded over that fight and became friends afterwards. Since Akao was basically stuck to me it meant Sakamoto had to hang around Akao too. The 3 of us were solidified as the top 3 in class, but were also the biggest troublemakers in school, mostly thanks to Akao. At the end of the year our class had just 15 people left, but we got a transfer from the spy department, yoichi Nagumo. Of course that guy I met on the first day basically levitated towards our little group of mischiefs.

I can't say I dislike this life. Everyday is a movie with this group of people.