THE NEXT DAY
after having a good night sleep and dreaming about his new class azaki wakes up, does his morning routine (brushing,bathing, eating etc.) and heads to the court yard while tashima accompanies him.
AT THE COURT YARD
Tashima : so master hozonyu told you to wait here.
Azaki : yeah.
Tashima : well then you better do what he says anyway I gotta get to class, see you later.
she waves him good bye and leaves.
10 MINUTES LATER
azaki speaks to himself in his thoughts
Azaki : he's the one who told me to be here by 8am sharp and now he's the one who's late.
Azaki : uhhh how long am I gonna have to wait before he shows up?
azaki says with a frustrated tone, immediately a familiar voice is heard behind him.
?????? : on the contrary I'll say I was the one waiting for you.
azaki turns back and sees master hozonyu standing before him.
Azaki : good morning sir.
Master hozonyu : morning azaki.
Azaki : when did you get here?
Master hozonyu : have you forgotten that I'm the principal, it's my duty to come to school early.
Azaki : okay I understand that but what I don't understand is you saying you were waiting for me whereas I've been the one waiting for you. you told me 8am sharp and I stood by the time but when I arrived you weren't here yet.
Master hozonyu : yes and the reason is because I was testing you.
Azaki : testing me, how?
Master hozonyu : let me explain, I came here by 7:45am but decided to climb that tree near the court yard and wait for you to arrive and my reason of doing so was to test
1) your punctuality.
2) your patience.
Azaki : I understand the first one but the second one not so much.
Master hozonyu : I wanted to test your patience, to see how long you could endure the frustration of having to wait for me which would in turn reveal to me how patient you are and it did. azaki you're a very talented and promising student and I have no doubts about it that you would become a great person but you can only become that great person when you focus and work on the characters that makes up that personnel, characters like kindness, determination, humility and patience. I have to say I'm impressed by your punctuality but not so impressed with your patience, I hope you'll do something about it.
Azaki : I will sir.
azaki replies with his head bowed down in self disappointment and shame.
Master hozonyu : alright let's go.
5 (FIVE) MINUTES LATER
azaki and master hozonyu arrive at the door to the 5th graders class and as always a teacher is teaching them, before going in master hozonyu grabs azaki left hand and gives him a set of instructions.
Master hozonyu : alright when we go in I'll be the one doing the talking and I don't want you to say a word until you're told to understood?
Azaki : yes sir.
Master hozonyu : alright let go in.
INSIDE THE CLASS
Teacher : alright class who can tell me what that is called.
????????? : ahem maybe I can.
the teacher turns his attention towards the person who replied his statement and notices that it's the principal, he also notices that he's standing outside the class and with a softer tone he welcomes him into his class.
Teacher : not that it's not a pleasure sir but what are you doing here?
Master hozonyu : I came here to add another student to your class.
Teacher : is that so and what is this youngster's name?
Master hozonyu : azaki.
Teacher : wait isn't he the boy who was albe to master both matter and energy a.k.a the two most difficult elements to learn.
Master hozonyu : yes and that's why I promoted him to your class because he needs advanced teachings on how to control the elements and I figured your class would be perfect.
Teacher : thank you so much for entrusting him to me sir, I promise I won't let you down.
Master hozonyu : you're welcome I guess I better get going oh and if you could do me the favour of introducing him to the class, I'll really appreciate it.
Teacher : no problem sir.
after handing over azaki to the teacher master hozonyu leaves mean while the teacher introduces azaki to the rest of the class.
Teacher : ahem class we have a new student who will be joining us and attending our class from now on, his name is azaki jiatsu.
hearing this the class began to murmur and the reason was because azaki was joining their class, being able to master the most difficult elements had made azaki some how popular and now hearing that the most powerful kid in the school will be attending their class was even better.
Teacher : silence class.
the teacher turns towards azaki.
Teacher : is there anything you'll like to tell the class?
azaki didn't even reply because his concentration wasn't on what the teacher was saying but rather was on a tall looking boy with slightly brown hair who had been looking at him with a mean look since they said his name.
Teacher : azaki are you alright?
immediately azaki removes his attention from the boy and replies the teacher.
Azaki : yes.
Teacher : so is there anything you'll like to share with the class?
Azaki : no sir.
Teacher : alright your seat's over there so you can stop standing. okay let's continue class so as I was saying.
azaki walks over to his desk and haves his seat, few seconds later he turns his back and still finds the boy looking at him no differently than before then faces front again.
8 (EIGHT) HOURS LATER
Teacher : alright class dismissed.
after a long day of learning the worn out students begin to leave the class, all except for azaki who is stopped by the teacher.
Azaki : you wanted to talk to me sir?
Teacher : yes I figured you're new to our class right and have missed most of our teachings so I am willing to sacrifice an additional two hours of my time every day for the next two weeks to help you catch up, but I will only do it if you agree so do you?
azaki thinks for moment and then replies
Azaki : yes but I have a request to make can we do it tomorrow I'm kind of worn out from all of todays teaching.
Teacher : sure no problem, so I guess I'll see you in class tomorrow.
Azaki : I guess so any way I gotta go goodnight sir.
azaki leaves the class room and heads to his dorm.
1 (ONE) WEEK LATER
it has been a whole week and azaki has made some new friends and some new enemies in his new class. enemies like tokashi (the boy who was staring at him with a mean look on the day he arrived) tokashi is the best well was the best student in the class until azaki arrived, tokashi was also the first kid in the school to master matter but his record was broken by azaki, not only because he mastered both two of the hardest elements but also because he did it at a younger age than any body in the school. azaki presence in his class made him feel inferior and unimportant, for this he despised azaki.
AT THE COURT YARD , BREAK TIME 10 : 30am
all the kids are having their lunch and playing around while tokashi is busy envying poor azaki.
Tokashi : I don't get it, what makes him so much better than me. is it because he's the first kid to master both matter and energy or what.
?????? : look man just chill out and try to take this kid of your mind if not you're gonna give yourself a head ache.
?????? : yeah I think what raizo is saying is right you should just forget about this kid and focus on becoming better than him okay.
as they continued to talk azaki and his friends entered the cafeteria.
Tokashi : speak of the devil here he comes.
azaki and his friends were heading to the food stand that was ahead of the table were tokashi and his friends were having their lunch, knowing fully well that azaki would cross his path tokashi stretched out his leg and azaki stumbled upon it and fell. azaki got up and dusted the dirt off his clothes.
Tashima : hey watch where you put your leg next time okay.
eagerly looking for a way to make azaki angry tokashi replied her immediately.
Tokashi : azaki tell your stupid sister to shut her mouth.
hearing this azaki spoke back out of anger.
Azaki : stupid? if anyone's stupid it's you, you saw me coming and still stretched your leg.
tokashi gets up and walks towards azaki
Tokashi : watch your mouth kid.
Nimaka : alright azaki we've said enough now let's go.
Azaki : no nimaka I'm not going anywhere, sometimes you've gotta stand up to bullies and defend yourself especially to bullies like him.
Tokashi : this is your last warning kid listen to your friend and go.
after reasoning for a while and seeing all the consequences that would come if a fight were to occur at that instant azaki decided to let the matter be but not without passing a message first.
Azaki : look what ever issue you've got with me stays with me okay, the next time you drag my friends or my family into it you'll regret it.
after passing the message azaki turns back and continues to head to the food stand.
whispering to himself tokashi said
Tokashi : who does this kid thinks he is?
immediately he bent down and grabbed a stone nearer to his foot and stoned azaki.
with this azaki got seriously angry he turned back and took a fighting posture.
Azaki : alright that does it you wanna fight let's fight.
knowing this is the opportunity he had been looking for he stepped towards azaki and also assumed a fighting stance.
Tokashi : let's go kid.