Lesson Learned

Gakuhou Asano's Warped Perspective

A/N: Well, considering the world's current situation, being an introvert seems the best way to go! Only necessary outside trips for me.

Expect some updates for SW and this in the next few days and weeks.

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There was one memory that always stood out from the rest, and one he couldn't forget no matter how much he tried.

The weather had been hot that spring, the whole mountain covered in a warm glow of sun for weeks now.

Gakuhou read from his lesson plan as he jotted down on the board.

Then Ikeda gave a loud obnoxious yawn from the front of the class. "Sir! This is boring!"

He paused and looked over, raising a brow at him. "Really?" The corner of his lips edged upwards when he saw the frown on his student's face.

Mori and Nakai were absent today, so Ikeda was the only one in class, which was something he had spent the last hour making very clear he disliked.

It didn't help that his children were currently playing at the back of the classroom either, and if they didn't have such a tendency to wander off to go exploring, Gakuhou would have suggested they have the lesson outside.

"Can't we just call it a day?" Ikeda scowled, burying his face in his desk. "It's boring!"

"As you've said already," Gakuhou commented dryly, placing the chalk down. "But the work is quite interesting when you think about it," he argued, smiling in amusement when Ikeda sighed. "Matter and atoms are fascinating, they're what form everything around us."

Ikeda lifted his head to fix him with an unimpressed look. "And how is that going to help me in life? I don't want to be a scientist..."

"Daddy, look!" Gakushuu interrupted by bounding towards the front of the class holding up the bunch of crossword puzzles Gakuhou had given him earlier. "I finished them all!"

"Me too!" Mitsuko came stumbling after her brother with a stack of paper in her hand. "Look!"

The puzzles had meant to keep them distracted for another hour!

Gakuhou held back a sigh, bending down as they approached.

Whoever had said intelligent children were a blessing, hadn't realised just how short their attention spans were...

"That's very good," he replied patiently, patting them both on the head while they smiled up at him proudly. "But daddy is teaching, remember? You need to wait unless it's very important."

"But this is important!" Mitsuko objected, frowning. "You said if we finished we could go outside and explore the woods!"

"Yeah!" Gakushuu yelled. "We want to go exploring!"

Gakuhou held back a sigh. "Not yet. You need to wait until I'm finished."

"I'll go with them!" Ikeda piped up.

"No—"

"YAY!" Mitsuko and Gakushuu cheered together. "Let's go! Let's go!"

Gakuhou pinched the bridge of his nose. "No, we can't just—"

"It's nearly lunch anyway!" Ikeda said brightly, hopping out of his seat.

Gakuhou gave him a look. "It's ten in the morning..."

"Daddy, let's go!" Mitsuko hopped up and down excitedly. "We're going exploring!"

"Let's go, come on!" Gakushuu started pulling his arm, while Mitsuko tried to climb on her dad's back.