Thank You Officer Tamura

That Snake Endo

Daichi was once again stood outside the elementary school, this time inside the gates trying to remember which way he'd gone the previous morning. That time he was dressed in dark grey trousers, a white shirt, that had its sleeves rolled up and the top button undone, as well as a light purple tie. He felt much better in this outfit, it was less bulky and fitted well across his broad shoulders and muscular arms.

"Are we going to do this every morning, sunshine?" a familiar voice said, from behind him.

He turned to once again see Sara who was dressed very appropriately for the spring weather. She had on a long floral, pink dress that shifted well with her movements, a small cardigan to cover her arms and a pair of white trainers. Her hair was down that day and fell at her waist in soft curls. She was certainly stunning and Daichi couldn't help but run his eyes up and down her.

"Morning Sara, you look lovely today."

"Oh, you noticed, I totally couldn't see you undressing me with your eyes."

Daichi blushed a dark pink and apologised for being so rude. Sara laughed it off and slapped his arm playfully, telling him it was nice to be noticed.

"It's good I saw you actually, you're with me today." She beamed, grabbing his arm and pulling him towards the reception.

"Thank god, I really didn't want to interact with new people."

"You're super lucky actually. My class is really adorable. They'll probably climb on you and talk your ear off but their faces are cute."

Daichi began mentally preparing himself for his day, knowing he wouldn't be able to get annoyed with little kids or Sara whose personality was so bright it reminded him a lot of a certain redhead. He knew he'd end the day with a headache but maybe the overwhelming positivity would do him some good.

The pair signed in at the reception and began making their way to the classroom whilst Sara warned him about the more excitable and timid children she taught. Daichi couldn't help but crane his neck to look inside Suga's room as they passed and he saw him sat at his desk writing, his hair fallen into his face. Daichi smiled and carried on walking with Sara who'd seen everything.

"Good day with Sugawara and Kaneko yesterday?" She teased, jabbing his ribs.

"Yeah Kaneko is really lovely and I've actually known Suga a few years. Sorry, Sugawara."

"Well I figured you knew him if you knew Asahi but I didn't realise you were on a nickname basis."

"It's just what I would call him in high school, that's all. Old habits and all."

Sara hummed in agreement and unlocked her room door. It was covered in butterflies of various sizes and colours and the inside of her room was no different. Sugawara's room was bright and homely but Sara's was like a meadow. The bottom of the walls was painted with flowers and the roof with clouds. There were butterfly paintings everywhere as well as numerous potted plants.

"Wow, this is the most incredible classroom I've ever seen." Daichi breathed, spinning around to see it all.

"It had better be, me and Asahi spent an entire week painting it and my students worked really hard on those butterflies. I wanted them to have an experience with nature even when the weather was bleak so I came up with this."

"It's really incredible. Asahi never mentioned any of this but I'm thoroughly impressed."

Sara blushed and looked down at her shoes.

"Thank you."

They began setting up the room much like the day before because Sara didn't have a teaching assistant, chatting as they did to better get to know each other. Daichi learned that Sara had always wanted to be a teacher and that it was only her second year of teaching but she'd never been happier. Sara heard all about volleyball and how Daichi was going for sergeant.