Karma Akabane (AssClass) x Male Reader

Your relationship with Akabane Karma is akin to a roller coaster, or a tug of war.

It often changed directions.

Whether you already willed yourself that you had predicted that this would happen, the pull is still there.

It's still there.

The pull.

His.

It never really mattered whether or not you were both from the same school, from the same year, or if you were both men. Boys, rather.

It was already dark when anyone who'd pass by will see a redhead waiting by the lamp post. He was only focusing on his phone, scrolling through different apps and photos. One photo made him pause for a while. He stared at it with his mercury eyes.

The photo was of him and a [h/c]-haired boy about his age. Karma smirked at the memory of the photo. The [h/c]-haired boy had suddenly flashed Karma's phone in front of the two of them. Karma was taken aback, and at that exact moment, the other boy had shot a photo. He was laughing so hard at the redhead's face.

"If you delete this picture, that shall be proof that you are a coward," the boy had dared him.

Karma checked his time again. It really was getting late.

"Ah! Have you been waiting long?" a voice sounded out from his left. Karma looked and saw you trying to catch your breath.

"You're late," Karma said mercilessly.

"I know, I'm sorry," you panted. "I came as quick as I could."

Karma laughed. "Eventually, your 'quick' is still as slow as you could be."

You shot him a pissed off look. "Wow, you're still as rude as ever," you said sarcastically. You know that he knows you were being honest.

Yet you also knew that neither of you took any form of offense from both of your insults.

It had been this way for as long as high school had started.

Three years, you thought. How do we even put up with each other?

On second thought.

Why were you even going out with him?

You tried to recall as to what really happened that ended up with this.

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"Students, you have a new classmate."

You were quite familiar with the place. Kunugigaoka was where you've lived for years already. You went to another school, instead of going to Kunugigaoka Junior High School. It was mostly because you didn't like pressure.

Students should not be pressured to learn, you always told yourself. Students should be encouraged.

However, there were subjects that your school could not offer. Which is unfortunate for your part, because you really needed these subjects to be able to go to college.

You became a cross-enrollee instead.

"He'll be with us until graduation time [1]."

The chairman of the school, Asano Gakuho, was a very nasty man. Even though he said kind words to you, you knew that the man was not exactly in his right mind. He had you take your needed subjects with the despised Class E (he almost could spit the word). He claimed it was because all the classes in the main building were full.

You knew he just didn't like you or something.

"Why don't you introduce yourself, [l/n]-kun?"

So when you went calmly on your first day to the class, you were definitely thrown out of your comfort zone when you found that blasted yellow monster in front of the class. He had several tentacles- you were too startled to count them- and a head that might as well be the emoticon often used in the internet.

He seemed kind, though.

Not the type to eat up his students after graduation.

"[l/n] [m/n]. I'm a cross-enrollee here, so I'm only taking a few subjects. I hope we get along."

Your classmates were also quite welcoming. You were shortly briefed on what really happens in this classroom.

So all of the students in Class E were supposedly assassins. Their target is their teacher, the yellow smiley monster in the toga. They only have until graduation, or the planet will be destroyed. If, by any chance, they succeed, the award is a huge amount of money.

Yeah, you were definitely not in your comfort zone.

However, despite all that has been thrown at you in just the first few minutes of the class, the only one that had the most impact was him.

That red-haired bastard.

"Oh? Can you really handle all that, [m/n]-kun?"

"Hello, nice to meet you too, Mr. Mercury Eyes [2]," you had replied with the most venom you could manage. "Do not underestimate me, though."

"It's Karma," he said.

"Is that like a nickname to you? Because if that's the case, then I'd like to be called [n/n]."

"It's actually my name, you crafty bastard."

Now there's the comfort I need.

Since your other school might as well be considered cram school, many delinquents and rejects go there. You got used to the rowdy atmosphere, so having Mercury-san here just reminds you of home.

And it's just about the right amount of nice and warm and violent and rough.

You could see the reactions of classmates that were supposedly assassins. They were young, but not too young to notice that there was definitely rising tension between you and Mercury-san. And based on their expressions, it was obvious that Mercury-san is prone to challenging anyone he meets.

But maybe he wasn't prone to calling anyone 'crafty' and 'bastard'.

"Oh, so I'm the bastard now?"

"Karma-kun! [l/n]-kun! You're going to be classmates for as long until you graduate. If you don't stop it this instant-"

"You'll what? Tell on us to our parents? Don't worry, we'll kill you before that."

The two of you blurted out the same words. It shocked the whole class, even the yellow monster (who you later knew his name as Korosensei), that someone could be on par with Karma.

You glared at him while he stared smugly at you.

Meanwhile, Korosensei was sulking in the corner. "I've been teamed up by my students..."

Now, normally, this wouldn't be of any significance to anyone. But this wasn't normal circumstance under any normalcy policy in the whole world.

For one, you had a monster as your teacher. Two, students are tasked (ordered) to assassinate said monster. Three, cross-enrolling in Kunugigaoka Academy is not also normal.

And finally, Mercury-san smiled at you.

Thus, the gears of the rollercoaster ride has started turning.

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"Wow, you're still as rude as ever."

Karma laughed at him. "You forget that you ditched me at several dates that we went on," he said.

"Who wouldn't ditch you?"

"I know you could never dump me, though. You like me too much." Karma crossed his arms as he looked at you. He looked smug, thinking he had won this time around.

"It's sweet and childish that you think I like you that much," you retorted.

"Oh, I don't think you like me that much."

"Why do you say so?"

"You love me." The redhead stopped talking.

Never had such a thought travelled your mind. Not once in your life, and many other lives if applicable, had you ever thought that you love him. But now that he has mentioned it, it won't get out of your head.

This should probably be how he charmed me into going out with him, you thought.

But then, there should be no point in denying it, as well.

"And you love me, too," you whispered to him teasingly. You leaned close to his ear and continued. "It's why you can never get enough of me."

You pulled back, smirking at the redhead's expression. There was a blush- oh, there definitely is a blush right there- on his face, and maybe behind his ears and down his neck. He looked embarrassed, but he was looking at you like he either plans to cuddle or murder you tonight.

"You crafty bastard."

"Now, come along, Mr. Mercury."

"I said it's Karma."

"Nope. I believe it's fate."

And under the dark sky, one could dimly see two figures running down the street.

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[1] Vol 20 Ch 177: Graduation Time - if anyone's read the manga, then this should be an obvious reference. For those who haven't read the manga, prepare tissues. I cried senseless when I read it.

[2] Mr. Mercury Eyes - on the Assassination Classroom wiki, Karma's eyes are said to be mercury or gold.

 [for XlaurenXmurrayX (Wattpad)]