Anger. Annoyance. Embarrassment. That was all Akiko currently felt. The emotions swirled around her body like a tsunami destroying everything in its path. Slumped shoulders and head bowed; a curtain of hair blocked everyone from seeing the anger in her green irises. Her green eyes flicked across the page, line by line she read the letter she'd received with her exam results, a bearer of bad news. This was possibly the tenth time she'd read this letter, and every time she continued to read it the angrier she got.

It wasn't that she was angry at the people around her, well if they kept up with the whispering she was going to say something. She was mostly angry at herself. She wondered at what point she allowed it to get like this her grades had dramatically dropped, one minute she was one of the top students in her year now she was sitting comfortably as one of the poorest performing students. How? That was the only word going through her mind. Her hand clenched around the paper she was holding, it scrunched in the middle allowing crease marks to permanently fold themselves onto the once neat letter.

What would mum and dad think?

Nervous butterflies soon found themselves making an appearance in Akiko's stomach. She knew her parents wouldn't take the news well, their only daughter failing at her exams. She couldn't wait for the onslaught of comments about how she should be more like her older brother. Bitterness filled her head as her brows knitted together, frowning she could already hear the harsh voice of her father telling her she should take a leaf from Haruko books. The perfect child, already in a well-known university and continuously impressing their parents. She hated him a lot.

"Akiko!" Her name was called. For a moment she thought it was the teacher already kicking her out of the class. However, after taking a second to connect the voice to the person, she knew it was one of her closes friends.

Sucking in a deep breath trying to rid of the nervous butterflies which were making her head go crazy with thought. Akiko looked up spotting the cheerful face of Minako. Her mousy brown hair was tied into a neat ponytail with a few loose strands of hair framing her childlike face. Her hazel eyes sparkled as she waited for Akiko to acknowledge she was there and speaking to her.

"Hey, Minako. Everything alright?" Akiko put on a brave smile, she didn't need to be reminded of the content of the letter in her hand, she wanted to spend some time with her friend before next semester.

"Yep!" She smiled before shoving her exams into Akiko's unexpecting hands. "I got one of the top marks. I'm going to be in A class next year."

Akiko's smile dropped as she heard those words. Minako in A class. That would mean they wouldn't be able to see or talk to each other again. Minako's class would look down on her and taunt her at any given chance they could get. Looking over her exam papers she couldn't help but feel a little jealous, maybe she should have taken her up on those countless offers of tutoring.

"Congrats." Akiko croaked out.

"What class did you get into?" Minako's bright smile didn't waver at Akiko's feeble attempts of praise. She wondered if the girl had even heard the break-in Akiko's voice.

"Did you hear? Akiko got into class E." Someone not too far from the duo whispered to her friend. The two were trying to whisper but their voices just seemed to get louder and louder. Akiko wanted nothing more than to punch those smirks right of the girl's faces.

"Oh, you're in the end class?" Minako's voice soon filled her ears again. Akiko turned back to her friend hoping she wasn't about to ditch her right there and then. That would be embarrassing, bad enough people were already whispering about her which she was trying to ignore.

"Yeah, guess I am." Akiko nervously scratched the back of her head, a small chuckle forced its way out of her throat. "Can't be helped, you know how bad I am at studying."

Minako pouted. "I don't want you to go. Everyone is going to be mean to you; I don't want to see my friend getting scorned at by the school." Minako grabbed ahold of Akiko's hands. "We'll fight the Chairman; you can stay here with me! You don't know how hard it is to make new friends!"

Akiko rolled her eyes. "You'll still know Hayato, surely he's not going to E class as well."

Minako placed a finger to her chin in thought, "I guess. It won't be the same without you though."

Akiko gave her an apologetic smile, there was no way out of this unless she got back to being one of the top students again, and that wasn't happening any time soon. She should have known the consequences of letting her grades slip through her fingers, Sorry Minako you'll have to survive our final year without me.

Lunch soon rolled around, Minako had dragged Akiko out of the school building to find Hayato. Once outside the crisp air made Akiko shivered as the coolness of March set into her bones. Looking away from Minako she dared a glance towards the mountain behind the school, that's where she'd be going come April. Taking a big gulp she dread to think of the terrain she'd have to make her way through every single day, she did have to wonder which idiot would place a building on a mountainside.

She knew precisely which idiot that was, the Chairman. A frown etched its way onto her face again, that stupid man was the sole reason she was being evicted from the main campus she didn't fit into his expectations. He didn't need a bunch of students with bad grades, it would make his school look bad, so his only solution was to ship them off to the mountainside. God, she hated him and his idiotic ways.

"Hey, Hayato." Akiko was brought away from her thoughts, slating the Chairman seemed to bring her a small amount of joy. Following the direction, Minako was looking in Akiko found Hayato waving at the two girls. It seemed they'd interrupted the end of his football practice.

"Hey, guys. Give me a minute and I'll be with you both." He called back. Minako nodded, giving him that bright smile she gave everyone she considered a friend. Akiko watched as he finished packing the equipment way, a few girls, which had stayed to watch the boys football practice were now whispering and casting dirty looks at Akiko. She knew they were talking about her, most likely about how she was going to the end class.

Nervousness bubbled up in her stomach again, she didn't like the glances everyone was giving her. It was like she'd committed the greatest taboo, her grades dropped. Then again, in this school that was one of the biggest taboo's you could commit. Turning away, she didn't want to see the looks anymore; it was making her want to crawl in a hole and stay there for the rest of her life.

"Yo Akiko." The Sudden contact of Hayato's hand on her head made Akiko jump. The brunet gave her a weird look, "everything ok?"

Akiko wanted to say no, and that she was being shipped away to the end class. She wanted to vent her frustration about the Chairman and her bad grades, but she didn't want them to worry. Akiko flashed a smile up at Hayato.

"I'm fine, just got some surprising news. That's all."

"What?" He asked. The trio settled down for lunch and Minako was greedily gobbling up her food.

"I failed the end of term exams. They're sending me off to E class next semester." She explained once again, from the corner of her eye, she saw Minako giving her a sad look again.

"Seriously? You were like one of the top students. What happened?" Hayato gasped shock overtaking his face.

Akiko gave a small shrug. "I didn't study well." She knew that was partly the truth. Constant gym training her mother made her go to force her to stop studying she was just too tired. Before she knew it, the gymnastics had taken up her whole life and studying just seemed to drop lower and lower on her things to do. The only grateful thing about going to E class was that she was defiantly getting kicked off the gymnastics team.

Akiko frowned something she'd been doing a lot today, getting kicked off the team would mean she wouldn't see Hinata anymore. The two girls had become good friends during the first two years of junior high, and Akiko was sad just thinking that their friendship wouldn't be able to continue now she was going to E class.

"That sucks. We're not going to see each other as much now." Hayato pulled a frowny face, while Minako nodded vigorously in agreement.

"We need to fight the Chairman!" Minako once again came out with the ridiculous idea of fighting him. Akiko rolled her eyes as Hayato agreed egging the girl on, there was no way the two of them could beat him. She hoped they wouldn't even try.

"Yeah, we'll take him down! Akiko can stay with us then." He agreed, and the two delved into a mastermind plan to keep Akiko with them.

Turning away from the two Akiko found herself in deep thought again, behind her two friends, the mountain lay waiting. Every time she saw the mountain she started thinking of all sorts of crazy things, what was E class like? Who was going to be with her? She hoped she wasn't the only one going to E class, that would be humiliating. Turning back to her two friends, she silently watched them plotting a small smile rested across her face, she was going to miss the pair of them. Hopefully, they can still keep in contact outside of school when she joins E class.

"I'll miss you both," Akiko said giving them a sad smile, she didn't want to go, but this was her fault, and she'd have to face it head-on.

"We'll miss you too!" Minako shouted making a few of the students look over at them. The mousey-brown haired girl shrunk down in her seat embarrassment clear on her face.

"Numpty!" Hayato gave her a light hit on the head.

"Am not" Minako childishly replied with sticking her tongue out at him. Hayato went to grab her tongue saying something about cutting it off the next time he saw it. Minako quickly covered her mouth and punched him in the arm with her free hand. Akiko couldn't help but laugh she shipped them bad.

"I'll miss you too," Hayato said, a dusting of red covering his cheeks. Minako smirked and elbowed Hayato in his side, Akiko ignored the strange behaviour between the two and finished up her lunch.

Later that night Akiko slowly made her way down the street home she didn't know how she was going to face her parents. The constant bickering of her two friends made her briefly forget what her parents would say when she got home.

"I see you're getting kicked out to E class. Honestly, Akiko, how do you expect to get into a good high school next year?" Akiko froze hearing that voice he was the last person she wanted to see right now. Glaring at the ground, she hoped he would just go away and leave her alone. But he had different ideas. "Ignoring me now? My, my, didn't your parents teach you any manners?"

Whipping her head around Akiko glared right into the purple eye of Asano. The person she hated just as much as his father. It seems news travels fast at Kunugigaoka unless his father told him all about her failures during the exams.

"What do you want?" She harshly snapped, her green eyes still glaring into his purple ones. That menacing smirk was placed across his face as he seemed to look down on Akiko.

"Nothing really, I just wanted to see your face before your parents booted you to the streets." Akiko's eyes widened briefly; they wouldn't do that, would they? It's not like she had anywhere to go. "Imagen the looks on their faces when you tell them the news. It's all most enough for me to forget what you did, after all, it's your fault what happened." All traces of her glare had now left her face, he knew exactly what to say to her, and she hated it.

His purple eyes grew, even darker as he watched many expressions race across her face. Akiko's eyes fell back to the ground, she knew his words held truth, but she wouldn't admit it. "They won't do that; I'll get my grades back up just you wait and see." Her voice wavered as she tried acting bravely in front of him, his smirk still etched into his face burning into her skull as he watched her silently. Her spoken words hung in the air, she silently repeated them, trying to convince herself more so than him.

Akiko turned away her head once again bowed down, the curtain of hair returned, blocking the outside world out. She didn't want to see the malice look he gave her. The same butterflies returned this time beating their wings twice as hard making Akiko physically want to be sick. She knew she could never impress her family.

"Leave me alone." She murmured, taking a few steps away she created space between them, it was starting to become suffocating for her to be near him.

She knew he grinned even more; she didn't need to see his face to know he'd beaten her. "I'll see you next semester." The was a slight pause making her wondered if something happened. "Or not." His words sunk into her head as he walked away. He got into his family car which waited for him every day after school.

Looking through her hair Akiko watched the car drive away, but as it went, she caught the same smirk watching her through the window. Gritting her teeth, she balled her fists and marched away fuming, how she hated him.

She hoped E class was different she wouldn't have to put up with the harsh looks students and teacher gave her. The disapproving eyes always hunted her, for once all she wanted was friendly smiles and happy attitudeds, and she prayed silently to whoever that she would get that in her new class.

Hey, it's Winter. So if your down here reading this now thank you so much for taking the time to read my new fanfic. I just recently go back into Assassination Classroom and couldn't help but do a fanfic on it as well. I absolutely love Karma! Anyway before I start fangirling over him, yes this is an Oc fanfic so if your don't like that stuff then don't read on, for those who do read on it's gonna be a bumpy ride. I apologise now if any of the characters seem ooc I try my best to keep them in character, anyway, thank you all again for reading this.

I don't own Assassination Classroom Yūsei Matsui does, I only own my three Oc.