Watercolors

[seems_fishy]

Flayn received a shock in art class that day.

Kudou-sensei was a bit unconventional (she thought; she hadn't spent much time in classrooms, including his), but he spent most of the two weeks she'd been there giving vague assignments and letting them do what they would, only commenting on technique or seemingly random details that caught his attention.

Today, he looked around and said thoughtfully, "It's been a while since we had a class period set aside for your end-of-trimester group projects. Work on that today. I spilled coffee on my lesson plan."

Someone behind Flayn contemplated that it wasn't coffee, necessarily, and while Flayn was rather impressed by their clairvoyance, her hand shot up because she was more concerned by end-of-trimesters and not knowing what the project was, necessarily.

Kudou-sensei's eyebrows raised, and he didn't even bother calling on her.

"That's right, Von Aegir-san, you weren't here when I assigned projects... though you should've been, I assigned projects in pairs because my class list was an even number, and it only has been since you arrived..."

He glanced around the room; nobody had moved yet and he stuck the paintbrush he'd been gesturing with earlier into his mouth while he flipped through a notebook.

"Luckily we had that one group of three..." He scanned down the list. "Noguchi-san, Yukimura-kun, aaaand Konishi-san."

He stuck the paintbrush behind his ear, and smiled. "Yukimura-kun, besides being one of the best high school tennis players in the country, you count among your talents both painting and passing your classes despite being prevented from coming to class. What do you think we should do?"

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[senseskill]

Yukimura's brows lifted as Flayn's hand raised, his attention shifting from the awkward beginnings of a discussion with his groupmates-- a pair of girls who seemed to find it hard to talk to him-- to the teacher's observation. That's right. Flayn hadn't been introduced when that project was announced and pairs formed. The solution to her lack of a partner was obvious before the teacher even called attention to his group with the extra member.

That said... he isn't entirely appreciative of his time in the hospital being brought up. It's neither a pleasant nor an entirely comfortable subject. Never mind the discomfort of being singled out and asked to advise as though it were at all his place to give instructions to the teacher.

Well, whatever. Kudou-sensei is in the mood to pick on his students, which is to say it's a normal school day.

"Me? Ah... I wonder," Yukimura considers, then answers with polite contemplation.

"What I remember from the time I was in the hospital is that my teachers made all the difference. They took extra effort to document lesson plans and prepare study guides so that I didn't fall behind. They really helped me out. I'm grateful for their dedication to making sure I could succeed. Ah... that's a little different from here, though, isn't it? I was already a member of the class when those assignments were given. What do you think, Sensei?"