[If we reach 150 power stones until 12 tonight, then you get extra chapter.]
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[Human: 30% / Monster: 70%]
I look at myself in the mirror, more specifically at my hair that had some new strands of red hair follicles between the white ones.
'The side effects are showing.' I thought with narrowed eyes as I remembered the pain from last night.
I could feel it clearly now, my senses of surroundings amplifying and changing each time I lost a portion of my humanity.
*Sniff sniff.*
I inhaled the scent of the food that was coming from downstairs, probably my mom cooking breakfast. I quickly ruffled my hair and started to pluck out the red hair strands one by one so I wouldn't make my parents worry and get suspicious of me... yet.
After plucking out the red hairs and throwing them out, I slowly made my way to the kitchen only to see my dad reading a book and mom putting the food on the table.
I sat beside my dad who gave me a side glance. "You chill?"
"I guess so." I picked up some bread from the table and started eating.
"You sure?" My dad asked again.
"Do I look like I'm not okay?" I raised an eyebrow at him.
I had long known that Gintoki was suspicious of me.
Also, last night's events awakened some new monster instincts that were already ringing bells in my head to get as far away from him as possible because of how strong he was. He was the same level as Hiruzen. So him not noticing anything weird was simply unrealistic.
"Hmm, well, it doesn't matter if you don't want to tell me." He shrugged and focused back on the book in his hand.
I didn't add or say anything until I remembered that I had something on my mind for quite a while. "Hey, can I–"
"No, you can't drop out of the academy." He said it calmly without even looking up.
"Why though?" I asked a little irritated.
"Ask your mother that." He answered and shut me up.
'Maybe I should just run away and start my own journey outside.' I thought gloomily.
"You can't run away either." Gintoki suddenly said.
"Did you just read my mind?" I raised an eyebrow at him.
"You are just dumb like that and easy to read." He answered as he turned to look at my mom with a smile while she placed the last plate on the table.
"So baby, when will you invite the friends you told me about?" My mother asked with a small smile.
"He still have friends after what he did? Lucky Zombie. Back in my day people would have ganged up on you and put a Kunai up your ass for less... and it's not the Kunai that you imagine but another organic Ku–" Gintoki went on but I ignored him.
"Ahhh, I don't know. Maybe when I'm sure that they'll have time, I'll do so." I answered my mom while looking at the food with saliva filling my mouth.
"Hmm, okay but don't forget to invite them alright?" She said and I nodded absentmindedly.
"Itadakimasu." ×3
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1 Hour Later at the Academy/
I stood in front of my classroom door with an annoyed and reluctant face while I heard the voices of the kids behind it.
I sighed and opened the door then walked inside.
Silence.
Everyone immediately became silent the moment I entered. They started looking at me with surprised, nervous, and fearful expressions which I ignored completely.
That reaction was my goal all along.
*Step step step.*
I started walking through the now quiet classroom, looking for my seat at the back of the class where it was between Yuji and Satoshi.
After a few seconds I spotted my seat and walked towards it then sat down between Satoshi and Yuji who were already here.
"So what's up?" I asked the moment I sat down.
"Hmm?" Yuji slowly raised his head tiredly and looked at me.
"Everything is good Daifuku-san, thanks for asking." I heard Satoshi reply, and I still had no idea how his thought processes worked. Why does he call me Daifuku? Am I a food in his eyes?
Me and Yuji looked at Satoshi who was busy eating something, then we ignored him afterwards.
"It's good Garou. How have you been this past week at home?" Yuji asked with a tinge of jealousy in his voice.
"Well, it was actually great. Better than being stuck in this shithole." I replied while looking around the class full of students who were giving me side glances and whispering among each other.
I turned to look at Yuji and was about to tell him to come to my house to meet my parents if he didn't mind but–
"Yo guys how are yo–" Someone suddenly said beside Satoshi but stopped mid sentence.
I turned to look at the guy and saw a blonde boy with green eyes who was looking back at me with a fearful expression.
"Oh, Ken, you arrived." Yuji said to Ken who was trembling. "You may have seen each other. This here is Hatake Garou, and Garou, he is Yamanaka Ken. He'll be in the same team together with me and Satoshi." Yuji added.
I raised my hand forward toward Ken. "Nice to meet you." I said in my deep voice.
With trembling hands he reluctantly grabbed mine. "Li... likewise." He stuttered.
"You don't need to be afraid Ken. Garou is quite chill... mostly. You can even do your special test on him if you want to find out what kind of guy he is." Yuji said to Ken.
"Umm oh, I'm so sorry that I appeared rude but you were really scary back then when you beat Kanna, so I was afraid you would get angry at me too haha." Ken said to me while scratching the back of his head, clearly embarrassed.
"Nah, if you don't annoy me then you cool. But I'm more interested in the test Yuji mentioned. What test?" I asked curiously.
For a moment everyone became silent.
Then Ken suddenly became serious when he heard me, and his whole demeanor changed to a darker one.
All the students who were busy suddenly turned towards us, especially the boys, and listened to what Ken was about to say with the same serious face.
I got curious about what Ken would do until–
"Cat girls or dog girls?" Ken asked ominously.
"Wut?" I murmured to myself as I looked at this dumbfuck with a deadpan.
"Just answer the damn questions! Nothing more nothing less!" Ken became angry and I raised my hands in surrender.
"My bad." I said.
"Cat girls or dog girls?!"
"Cat girls." I replied.
Ken narrowed his eyes at me for some moments, trying to search for something.
He nodded and continued, "Describe yourself physically."
"Peak." I replied and the people around us listening including Ken nodded reluctantly and with jealousy while looking at my jacked physique.
"What is the worst injury you have ever had?" He asked and I already got used to the weirdness. Adaptation is my kind of thing you see.
"Pinky finger got broken once, hurt like hell." I replied and he nodded.
"What is your worst habit?"
"I have none." I replied with pride.
"Confident, aren't we? Okay! Do you drink or smoke?!"
"None... it's like asking do you eat poop or poisonous poop." I replied in disgust.
Toxins don't work on my body anyways. I can't get addicted or get drunk, so why drink something that tastes like piss?
"Hmmmmm, do you have a tattoo?"
"Nope."
"Are you a morning person or a night person?"
"That answer changes every day but I'm more of a night person"
"Have you ever slept past mid-day?" What does this dude even do with this information?
What is he gonna say after the end of this? That I am an ENTJ type personality or some shit?
"I have." I answer anyway and each answer darkens Ken's face more and more.
"Do you regret anything?"
"Yea."
"Can you count the number of friends you have on one hand?"
"Yea," Now he looks at me with pity.
This fucker!
"Are you a picky eater?"
"No, but love meat." I replied.
"Wording muscle man. Okay! Would you rather be rich or famous?"
"Rich."
"Why?"
"Because I can hire ninjas and do every kind of shit for me like slaves." I replied with an innocent smile which made him put a hand on his heart as if in pain, and the people around us to grit their teeth but couldn't fight the logic behind it.
Ken didn't argue and just continued.
"Have you ever committed a crime?"
"Yeah, one time a girl asked me out... and I refused!" I replied dismissively.
"Awwwwwwww!" ×8
Students around us took a step back in surprise. Like, how could I commit such... shtupidity?!
"You WHAT–okay now! I will probe into that later, the test must move on! Do you have a crush on anyone?"
Hmmmm, how do I answer? Should I progress Miller's project of 'Rizz The Blonde' forward a little?
"Yea, I have a crush on a blonde girl!" There is only one blonde girl in this class and it's Tsunade, so he knew the gossip later will reach Tsunade. Everyone knew I meant her and many boys became red with anger but didn't dare say anything.
"Is he with us?" Ken asked the question with more focus.
"He?? You mean a Sheee, It's a She, don't forget that. I ain't into that kind of... sickness." I replied with a little disgust and Ken nodded at my reply.
"Sooooo, no homo?" He asked.
"No TO homo!" I replied with a twisted smile.
"Radical! Noted!" Ken said with another nod, but a second later, his features became more pronounced and serious and I slightly straightened my back as I felt the final question coming.
At this point, half the class was listening to us. And it seems every single boy went through this screening before, so they also became more serious.
"What's your type?!" Ken asked.
"Type of what?" I asked back with slightly narrowed eyes.
"B.o.o.b.s....or...b.u.t.t.s?" Ken spelled each word out to me menacingly and I immediately became extremely serious.
'This question. Why do I feel like if I don't give him the right answer, I'll be damned for the rest of my life?' I thought nervously.
"My type of woman is..." I was about to answer before–
*BAM!*
The door of the classroom opened harshly and two familiar kids came inside.
"How many times have I told you to open the door gently?!" Tsunade yelled at Jiraiya who had a finger in his nose.
"They don't like it gently, I heard once." Jiraiya said sagely and only some understood what he meant by that, so they all just shook their heads at him.
"We're just wasting time being here." Orochimaru added.
"Sensei told us to interac–" Tsunade was about to retort when her eyes met mine. She immediately smiled brightly and made her way towards me quickly much to the heartbreak of many who looked on with oozing jealousy.
"Okay I am done! Imma suicide. Even the only girl I loved is taken now." I heard one of the boys mutter to himself. Did I care? Fuck no!
"Hello Garou, how are you?" She asked with a smile.
I looked at her beautiful face for a moment. "I'm fine. What about you?" I replied and asked calmly.
"Everything is okay, just those two making trouble for me." She gestured at Jiraiya and Orochimaru. "So what are you doing?" She asked while looking at me and the boys.
I looked back at Ken who had his bangs hiding his eyes and his head tilted to the side a little with his arms crossed. He looked up at me and came forward.
He put a hand on my shoulder and stood beside me. "I know that kind of expression, and I have to say, I didn't know you were into flats. I am proud of yo–"
*PAW!*
Tsunade immediately appeared before him and punched Ken's stomach. His green eyes were about to pop out and he flew away to the other side of the room while giving me an encouraging sign with his fingers in the air.
"WHAT ARE YOU SAYING YOU PERVERT?!" Tsunade yelled at Ken while blushing mad.
Salute to you, soldier. Your next meal is on me.
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Tsunade's POV/
'Wha... wha... wha?! Garou is into me?! Were they talking about me before I came here?! He likes flat chests?!' I thought nervously while giving Garou some side glances, only to see him smile slightly at me which made me even more nervous.
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Garou's POV/
I ignored the punched Hero and gave my full focus on the flower.
"Umm, Garou, I actually have something to tell you!" Tsunade said shyly while playing with her hair.
Orochimaru looked at that twirling of hair Tsunade was doing from afar and wrote it down in his notebook.
"Well, you can go on." I said calmly while looking at her blushing face.
"Umm but I can't tell you here. Come outside for a moment." She nervously said, afraid that I would reject her.
Okay hold on, ain't this too fast? Is this one of those 18+ stories where the women are as cheap as toothpicks and everyone is braindead?
Okay let's not get into conclusions too fast.
"Okay let's go." I shrugged and went outside with Tsunade behind me.
But the moment we left–
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ClassroomPOV/
*BAM BAM CRASH CRASH STEP STEP RUN RUN.*
"Go go go!"
"She's confessing!"
"Oh my god!!"
"Tsunade is confessing?!"
"NOOOOOOOO!!!"
"Holy papa Sage of Six Paths!"
"My... my... m... maaa... my bonita got stolen!"
"What a drag. Let's go Satoshi! The cookies can wait!"
"Daifuku-san is getting married to Dumpling-chan?!"
"I wannnna etch thiiis sppeectacle into my memmmory witttth my sharriiingan bah-ha!"
"Fate!"
"T...this is your golden time. I pray you won't miss it." A blond Yamanaka said with a proud bloody smile.
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And the classroom got emptied real quick, with only two individuals remaining.
"What does your notebook say Orochi?" Jiraiya asked with a deadpan.
"We are becoming uncles in approximately... another 9 months."
"Who would have thought?!"
"Yeah."
"Hope it's a girl at least."
"Statistically speaking, boys survive better–"
"Not now Orochi."
The End.
[So something bad happened. I laid my eyes on some goyslop anime where a guy in high school drugs his classmates and forces them to kiss and fuck eachother but was created in away as if it's so cool and shi... cuz of this, it made my convictions and trust in the Painter intensify as he warned about these goyslops a hundred years ago. Give me some bleach!]