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"You were awfully up front with him there Rias," Sona said dispassionately.
"Sona, it's obvious Potter-sensei can tell that we are different from the other students already." Rias said, lathering some soap into her hair, as water ran down her curves. Those curves were such that most adult women would be willing to literally kill or damn her soul for, large yet perky beasts, flat stomach and thin waist. The water ran down to her nice, firm but still soft rear then fell down her long legs taking with it the suds of the soap. "It is better to be up front about such things than try to prevaricate beyond what we already are doing."
"I suppose…" Sona said. "I just wish we could tell more about what Potter is beyond a werewolf and a magician. That aura of his is very strong. And I think we need to keep what we are a secret from him whatever happens."
Tsubaki had taken the time during class to get a proper reading of Harry's aura and much of her findings matched up with what Akeno had discerned the day before. There was a strange dichotomy of white and black and his aura, though Tsubaki reported that at least the black portion looked like it was artificial, the remnant of a curse. The werewolf portion of it showed clearly to Tsubaki, but even that was diluted by other things, slight difference in color as it were that Tsubaki Shinra had never seen before. The fact he could use magic too was at least obvious.
But it was the power of that aura, as well as the odd dichotomy of light and dark that worried Sona. A magic user in itself wasn't something that would concern her, magicians could never match devils for sheer power and there were few spells which could bother a devil given their own innate magical defenses. But the power Potter put off was something else altogether, matching what Sona and Rias had felt fromMacGregor, the bishop in Sirzechs' peerage though there was no taint of the devilish in Potter Sensei.
It somewhat worried Rias too, but her growing fascination in what Harry could possibly be overrode that. "I understand your point, but I'm beginning to think that in this case being up front and honest with one another could be the way to go, treating Potter-sensei as an equal. I won't make a hasty decision of course, nor will I out our devil nature unless as a last second resort, but I can't say it won't happen eventually."
Sona winced at that, but conceded the point. After all, she'd be willing to take any risk too if she was to be married to Riser Phenex. "How long?" She asked, making no effort to elaborate as to what she was asking about.
"Six months or so. He could possibly jump the gun and start pressuring me in five, but I don't think my family would allow that," Rias said grimly. "So say four months before I have to make a decision one way or another about confronting Potter-sensei."
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After that class Harry had the freshmen and then the last sophomore English class followed swiftly by the Sophomore PE class.
During this, Harry noticed other students who were somewhat beyond the norm, though nowhere near as much as the four he had spotted earlier. It wasn't as if they were inherently a different type, it was like the difference between a powerful Wizard and a normal one in some cases, whereas others had a more solid physical feel to them.
That was all Harry could tell with his extremely limited senses, which more often than anything came down to an odd feeling of otherness and noticing which student outperformed others physically.
One sophomore in particular stood out slightly, Kiba Yuuto. He seemed to be holding himself back slightly so as not to stand out, though he did that already with his good looks and manners. Or at least he did according to the shrieks and shouts of the girls watching from the sidelines anyway. Harry was amused to note that it didn't matter what team they were on, both sides rooted for their prince, who simply smiled politely to them whenever he got a chance. Despite being just as competitive the goalies on these two teams were not nearly as good as the Tsubaki and Rias had been and Kiba's team won five to nothing, and even that was because he had held back.
Something Harry should have expected was the fact that the three perverts made trouble. They ogled the girls, shouting out incredibly demeaning words, concentrating on their oppai to the exclusion of actually participating in the class. Eventually Harry had to threaten them with a run till you drop endurance lesson to get them to shut up. That worked on the trio of boys, though Aika Kiryuu was more a problem, making lewd comments about Harry and the boys in the class as often as she could.
That day after school, Harry paused in putting away the sports equipment, heading towards the gym as he heard the sounds of wood clacking together. That must be that sword fighting class, kendo was it?
Entering the gym, Harry found the very boy he had been watching during the gym class instructing a few of the female students in some of the finer points of swordsmanship.
As the boy dueled his opponent, Harry move forward, analyzing the match with some difficulty. The boy was holding back his speed. Harry could see there were slight but noticeable twitches in his shoulders and arms as he moved. During their final years together Sirius had taught Harry some sword-fighting in order to offset the normal wizardly reliance on long-range spells. Then again, Harry also had his werewolf abilities, so close range never been a problem for him after being bitten. Even Albus had got into the act making sword fighting one of the few untarnished memories Harry had of his former headmaster. He might have been going as crazy as a box of rocks, but he was still one of the better swordsmen I'll ever meet.
Unconsciously Harry opened his mouth, shouting out "Kirasa-san, move your back foot slightly to the left, your balance is off."
The girl complied quickly, and then both combatants paused as their blades locked, looking at him quizzically. "Well?" Harry said cocking an eyebrow, "What are you looking at? If you're opponent looks away, take advantage of it!"
"That seems a little dirty, sensei," Kiba said cautiously.
"Are we being awarded points for playing nice?" Harry asked sarcastically. "I thought this was a sword fighting club, not an etiquette class. I can't imagine you'd be penalized in such a moment during a match after all."
Kiba laughed at that and the girls did too, though there was a bit of an edge to their voice as Harry once more sort of denigrated the sport they had devoted a lot of time and passion to.
Once more Kiba and the girl across from him clashed, with Harry's calling out small instructions, most of which were about foot placement and grip, which seemed to carry over from European style sword-fighting to Kendo, where the strikes and upper body movement did not. Eventually the match ended with a victory for Kiba, but he had to work for it quite a bit more than he would have otherwise if Harry had not been continually correcting the girls mistakes and shouting out warnings to her predicting his attacks.
"Am I that predictable Sensei?" he asked ruefully looking over at Harry, a smile on his face though his eyes were somewhat serious.
"Your attacks are little linear, but that's not a problem really given the formal nature of kendo I'd guess," Harry said with a smile of his own.
"That was amazing sensei!" said one of the girls, practically gushing as she led the others over to Harry. "Did all that come from your knowledge of self-defense? Or are you a sword fighter too?"
"I was trained by my godfather and a rather elderly gentleman, named Albus Dumbledore. Silly name I'll admit, but he was a master at it. Far better than I am," Harry said, smiling fondly at once more the memories came. "Still, that was interesting."
"Would you care for a match sometime?" Kiba asked, somewhat innocently, somewhat to. The way Harry had analyzed his style had piqued his interest, and he knew that Rias-sama was interested in finding out more about their new teacher.
"I'm afraid not," Harry said with a laugh. "Or at least not now. Perhaps sometime in the future when I have the time you can wail on me Yuuto-san, I doubt I'd be able to keep up with your speed or style after all. Right now, I have to go pick up my daughter, in fact I'm probably going to be late as it is."
"I look forward to it then," Kiba replied.
The girls didn't want Harry to go just yet, Murayama in particular pushing him to stay and take part in the practice, but Harry waved them off, quickly exiting the gym.
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"Curiouser and curiouser" Rias said after her knight told him about Harry's comments during Kiba's practice with the incoming Kendo enthusiasts. He routinely helped out the Kendo Club despite being part of her ORC. She held back an urge to squeal with the ease of long practice at keeping her thoughts hidden. I love mysteries!
Sona however shook her head. Once more she was there with Tsubaki, the two peerages meeting to discuss the new mystery that had come to the school. "This mystery is looking to more and more like one that could bite us on the rear if handled wrong."
"Did you just say rear?" Akeno asked, mock-incredulously. When Sona glared at her she just giggled. "That's so cute."
Sona rolled her eyes, but looked over at her friend, who nodded. "I agree, but we still have to get to the bottom of the mystery come what may. Besides, his daughter is certainly real. Whatever else, Harry didn't come here to create trouble for us. His presence may, but not on purpose."
"That's true," Sona murmured. Though she hadn't seen the girl in question Rias and Akeno had told the others about Lily, being rather effusive in how they described her cuteness. "No one would bring a child into a combat situation after all."
Then she paused looking at her friend somewhat amusedly and somewhat suspiciously. "So Potter Sensei is Harry now?"
"Ara, how bold~," Akeno chimed in; always eager to tease anyone regardless of whom it was she targeted. "And scandalous too Buchou."
"Eep! N, no it's not like that you two and you know it!" Rias shouted back, while Kiba decided to make a hasty exit, followed by Koneko and the rest of the mixed peerage. This was one battle none of them wanted to be involved in.
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Picking Lily up from school, Harry once again noticed there was something off about his daughter's normal ebullient attitude. "Trouble at school?"
"Just new kids trouble that daddy," Lily said, holding onto his hand as they walked home. She wanted to eat out again, but Harry had vetoed that, saying they had eaten out the day before, and he had perfectly good ingredients waiting at home. "They'll get over it eventually."
"That's a remarkably mature attitude Lily," Harry said approvingly, leaning down to give her a light kiss on the forehead, then hefting her one of his shoulders as he walked on, with her giggling and holding on for dear life. "Now come on! Let's head home, I'm hungry."
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Thankfully for his self-control, Harry had an easier time of it after those first two days for the next two weeks, as the students got back into the scholastic mode and he got a handle on the workload both for his job and his classes. He even found the time to head out and buy a textbook from the local magic users which covered the idea of aura reading and meditating on the soul, though neither book would arrive for another week.
On the teaching side of things classes were going well, with each grade level performing decently to his expectations. There were still a few problems, the Perverted Trio made trouble whenever he had them in class, but that was easily dealt with. The girls also didn't seem to like the fact that he wouldn't just let them attack the perverts, but again, that was easily dealt with and Harry didn't even need to raise his voice again. Kiryuu still sometimes freaked him out during class, but the threat of further detention kept her in line.
PE was another matter entirely, but even there, Harry had begun to get a better handle on controlling them. He had seen the three perverts hanging around afterward several times, but again never for long enough to worry him just yet.
The best classes he had were the three freshmen classes, who he continued to force to compete for sweets every other day. It worked very well, and after two weeks most of the freshmen were ahead of where they would have been according to the syllabus he had been given to modify. The other teachers also praised him for getting Koneko to join the rest of the classes as much as she was, since it was well known that she was very much a loner before this.
On the personal side of things, by the first Friday of his time at Kuoh most of the girls seemed to back off from their flirtatious or leering ways, seeming to realize he was a teacher and took that seriously. The exception to this was Akeno who continued to subtly (and not so subtly) try to get a rise out of him. But despite a growing desire to bend her over his desk and hammer her until she cried for mercy Harry could handle a single student acting out like that, even one with a positively sinful body like hers, than he could all the girls acting like he was some kind of super star.
This was put to the test once more the second Friday of his time at Kuoh as the final bell of the day rang. Where he had class 3-A first on Mondays he had it last Friday. Now he watched As Akeno stood up from her desk, stretching out her arms above her head and thrusting her chest out before letting her hands fall down to pull at her skirt, which had ridden up showing some more of her bare legs between her long socks and skirt than was appropriate. And is it my imagination, or did she shrink her shirt somewhat?
Regardless Harry looked away quickly before Akeno could notice he had looked at all. By the time she turned her eyes toward him Harry was blandly watching as the students left to head home or to their clubs, idly flipping through some papers at the same time.
Akeno pouted, her eyes flashing as she it back a growl of irritation. Darn it, you, you man, why won't you react again!?
Rias watched this with amusement as she watched Akeno grit her teeth behind her normal Yamato Nadeshiko mask, trying and failing to keep her own reaction off her face as she moved toward the doorway, pushing her friend along before stopping to bow toward Potter-Sensei, who returned it. Akeno was used to using her feminine wiles to bend men to her whims, not so much to get them to do things, but to notice her really, and the fact that Harry had stopped reacting at all to her after that first day was driving Akeno up the wall, much to her king's amusement.
Though Rias didn't know it, Akeno had become somewhat interested in Harry beyond his magical powers. The fact he was no longer reacting to her, while she became more and more fascinated with him hurt Akeno, something even Akeno hadn't realized just yet.
For her part the redhead had taken an entirely different method of getting closer to the Englishman than her friend, which she knew had borne quite a bit of fruit. She had stopped any attempt at overt flirtation after that first day. Instead she simply talked to Potter-sensei whenever she could, after school or before school or during the lunch break sometimes. Sometimes she pressed him to agree to be her clubs advisor, other times she asked for help with her English. Many times Rias simply asked him about life in England and told him about living in Japan in return. Other times they just talked, about the weather, local parks, movies, food and other things. They exchanged recipes nearly every day, though those conversations quickly grew to include Akeno, who loved cooking just as much as Rias or more depending on who you asked.
Through this method she was learning far more about Harry the person and vice versa. Rias slowly realized as they talked that Harry didn't see her as a Gremory, something everyone else did, or as one of the Two Great Ladies, like the rest of the school. He saw her simply as Rias, his student, and, dare she think it, his friend. In turn she was beginning to see him as more than a mystery too or even a possible help in terms of her future problem, which was a dangerous shift, Rias had to admit. Still she couldn't say she was unhappy to see it.
As the two students left, Harry breathed a sigh of relief, reminded anew of the one thing that had continued to bother him over the past two weeks: the niggling at Harry's senses whenever those two or those like them were around him and the fact that despite his mental control their looks still got to him. Closing his eyes, Harry took a moment to renew his Occlumentic control over his libido and werewolf instincts before shaking his head.
God damn, when the book on auras and meditation arrive I will seriously need to read into them. They're impacting me almost as much as Veela, but much more subtly. At least with Rias I know she isn't doing it on purpose, but Akeno is… well she's a fucking vamp! And off limits, remember that boyo. Thank Merlin the rest of them haven't joined in on her little game.
Sighing Harry gathered up his paperwork and left to pick-up Lily, only to be reminded of something else that was bothering him over the past two weeks: the fact that Lily was having some kind of trouble at school. Against as he picked her up he noticed she wasn't as smiling and happy as she normally would be. It had nothing to do with her work, Harry knew she was whizzing through most of the work they were doing even if she was having a lot of trouble with the writing assignments.
"Practice, practice and boring practice!" Lily had become fond of wailing throwing her hands up in the air in her best impression of Ginny having a moment, as Harry had used to say after Ginny lost an argument or blew up over something small.
Looking down at his daughter, Harry decided to confront her about what was bothering her tomorrow over breakfast. He hadn't really been able to do a lot with Lily lately beyond sitting together and working on their separate work, which was not what he thought of as family. I think it's time to correct that.
Instead of letting Lily lead him away from the school, Harry leaned down hefting her onto his shoulder with a negligent show of strength that caused the mothers around him to blush even more than they had been. However he ignored them, heading off in a different direction than home. "Come on Lily, I think it's time the two of us have a 'we' night. You have no homework due tomorrow right?"
When lily nodded, hugging his head with one arm Harry smiled up at her. "In that case, let's go out to dinner and a movie. That cartoon one you wanted to see."
"It's not called cartoons here daddy, it's called anime!" Lily said with all the fervor of the convert. She had really gotten into anime and graphic novels over the past two weeks, and now was smiling happily at the idea of heading to see the newest One Piece movie.
The next day however, Harry went through with his plan to talk to Lily about whatever was going on at school. Schools in Japan had a half day on Japan for PE classes and for school activities. This was further sign that schools were intended to be the center of life from first grade on up to college to a level that would have been odd to most. But Harry, used as he was to thinking in terms of the boarding school that was Hogwarts didn't find it all that unusual.
This day however Harry knew was going to be a big one for him. First, he was going to have the students start working with actual weight machines, and then he was going to start teaching them some self defense. By this point he had seen all the various martial arts related clubs in action, and while they were good, they really didn't do anything specifically for self-defense, concentrating more on physical ability and training in the various forms to prepare their students for matches. What Harry wanted to teach the students was going to be more applicable in the real world and to boys and girls who weren't even all that athletic.
On top of that, this was the day the teachers went over the budget requests from all the various clubs before they began to recruit from among the freshman who hadn't yet made their choice. Since he was the PE teacher Harry had to be involved in that discussion as part of his job, which was irritating, but he couldn't' get out of it.
Sitting across from his daughter at breakfast that morning Harry asked causally, "So, are you having a big person problem or a little person problem still?"
Lily blinked then scowled looking down at her home made pancakes. "I should've known you'd notice. It's still a little person problem daddy. Don't worry I'll handle it, they haven't done anything more than name calling yet. I still want to handle it myself."
Narrowing his eyes, Harry nodded. He knew better than to ask where the teachers were in all this, as a teacher himself he knew teachers simply couldn't be around at all times, and bullies had a certain low cunning to them even at the elementary level. "Alright Red Moon, but if it looks as if the big people know about it and are condoning it, I want you to tell me. They shouldn't but sometimes teachers play favorites, and it is easy for bullies to show the teachers' one face, and their victims another."
Lily nodded but Harry went on poking her in the nose with a finger. "And no accidental magic, not unless I'm around to cover it up. We don't want to be kicked out of the country, and given the way they welcomed us here when we arrived that's a real concern." Harry didn't say it, but when he had gone in to buy his books on aura reading and meditation he had been given a very cold shoulder indeed. While they magicals had stopped being isolationist towards their fellow Japanese, that did not spread to their fellow magicals. They weren't being watched for some reason, but the locals were no doubt waiting for an opportunity to at least start invading their privacy in the name of making certain they kept the Statute of Secrecy.
With a pout Lily nodded. "Okay daddy."
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On Saturdays PE class happened in order of the grades from lowest to highest, which allowed Harry to start with the easiest (in a lot of ways) class. After walking the students through various exercises with the weight machines, he had them gather around him in a half circle sitting on the middle of the tatami mats which served the various martial arts clubs as their training area. "Today, we're going to talk about self-defense."
He waited, and was not disappointed to see several hands already rising into the air. "Do you mean like martial arts Sensei?" asked one of the students, a young girl named Emiko, who was a little more outgoing than the other students. She had become class 1-B's student rep the day before.
"Yes and no. Martial arts is both a mental and physical discipline, but it is intended to either build up your body for self-defense, or for exhibition matches, and it takes a lifetime to get any good at it. I am talking more about the mental side of things though we will include several physical lessons on self-defense. But the main drawback between a martial artist and the kind of self-defense I'm talking about is mental. I am not talking about defending yourself from another equal opponent, or someone in a match."
Harry let his expression become serious. "I am speaking about protecting yourself from people out to really attack or take advantage of you. Say you're walking home, and get robbed? That is one example, or if you're on a crowded train and/or groped from behind."
His eyes sweeping around the freshman class Harry became irritated that a lot of the girls nodded at that. With his hearing Harry could hear several discussions going on that point as many of them talked about how that had happened to them or on that some of them had seen that happen. Apparently it wasn't just a 'hentai' fantasy like the magazine Harry had confiscated and then destroyed from Matsuda. That was disturbing.
"You need to be able to switch to the right mindset in such a moment. You have to set aside any kind of sensibility, leave behind any kind of 'oh I don't want to hurt him' kind of thought." Harry said, shaking his head. "The objective is to get you home safely, to get you out of his grip safely, or to make certain that the guy can't come after you again."
Another student raised her hand, and Harry pointed at her. "You're talking more about hurting someone rather than simply holding them off or running away and calling the police right?" She asked uneasily. The male students in this class all were noticeably silent, though they were all listening at least.
"Unfortunately I am. Sometimes, calling the police isn't an option. You have to be able to look after yourself."
There were some very uneasy looks at that, though not nearly as many as Harry had expected given his research into the Japanese culture for this moment. He had thought that a lot of the students would be a little leery about taking the law into their own hands, or worried about making a scene in public which seemed to be a major reason why crimes like that weren't reported. The students here didn't seem to have those particular hang-ups thankfully. That was good.
Harry had been shocked to discover during his time at Hogwarts that he had a flare for teaching, but his passion for teaching self-defense was much more understandable. After all, if more wizards had been able to take matters into their own hands, then Voldemort and the Death Eaters would never have been the problem they were and the WIzengamot would not be the old boys club it was, warping the British magical community as it wished.
"When you become a victim of an attack like that, no target is to out there, no move dishonorable." He let those words sink in for a moment and then clapped his hands hard together, the sound echoing slightly. "Today I will be walking you through various parts of the human body you can target get the most bang for your yen as it were, places on the human body where if you hit someone hard enough they will stop thinking about anything other than the pain."
A lot of the girls giggled, while the boys cringed, and Harry nodded drolly. "Yes, I see a lot of you can think of one spot already. But there are others, and I hate to inform you ladies but I'm not going to be teaching this class on the assumption that your assailant will be a man. After all, sometimes women are criminals too." He paused then. "Well probably not molesters, but certainly criminals. And I'm not even certain about the not molester part given one of the sophomores."
There were a lot of laughter at that though more than one of the boys shivered, since the word about Aika got around quickly and so did she unfortunately. Though there were more than a few irritated looks going around too, since despite Harry's best efforts to curb their gross stupidity and perversity in his own classes the three perverts had made a name for themselves over the past two weeks. Luckily they didn't act out very often in his class, simply because of how hard Harry came down on them, and any of the girls who interrupted the class trying to assault them.
"Well also discuss defenses against theft, things you can do to not make yourself a target and the most typical types of theft and assault and defenses against." With that, Harry pulled a dummy over from a corner of the martial arts segment of the gym. Once he had it set up in front of the class he walked the students through various targets.
From there, Harry talked about how to defend themselves against being targeted at foot by thieves, and most embarrassing of all how to defend themselves from molesters on a train. Harry normally wouldn't have been that specific, but given the reaction he had gotten to that example earlier in the class, he felt it was warranted.
Once it became time to walk the students through their paces on the dummy Harry wasn't surprised to see that Koneko knew how to throw a punch, though the viciousness with which she attacked the training dummy's weak points was a bit of an eye-opener. Harry looked at her, cocking an eyebrow and Koneko looked away sheepishly "Hate perverts," she muttered under her breath, but he still heard the words.
Harry's second class of the day went pretty similarly, though he did have to stomp on the three perverts almost immediately, before getting a little bit of revenge on them, sticking them withKiryuu for the first time. They seemed to be a little freaked out by her, at least at first. By the end of the class however they seemed to get on well enough, but at least it put most of his trouble students in one specific group.
Halfway through the punching exercise however Harry was interrupted, his cell phone going off in his pocket. Harry pulled it out, looking at it with a frown and held up a hand stopping the next student from attacking the dummy. "This might be an emergency. Hold on." With that he stepped back and opened the phone. "This is Harry Potter, to whom am I speaking?"
The students watched, some in confusion, some with concern. After all, it wasn't every day that a teacher had to stop class to take a phone call, and it was probably nothing good.
"Mister Potter, this is the principle of Kuoh Elementary. I regret to inform you that your daughter was involved in a fight…"
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Lily scowled, crossing her little arms over her chest and looking straight ahead, not looking at the other students in the small nurse's office with her, the nurse, or the principal. She had been talked at for several minutes now about how violence was wrong, which she already knew thank you, and about how she had to turn the other cheek.
But there was a difference between turning the other cheek and being a victim, something both Hermione and her Daddy had been very clear about. It was the difference between a friend asking for help on their homework and a friend demanding that you do the homework for them. Hermione was fond of mentioning that their mutual friend Ronald had hopped across that line during their time in Hogwarts.
Next to Lily the one friend she had made since starting school trembled, leaning into Lily's side and trying to avoid the looks from most of the people in the room. Tamiko was a timid little thing in Lily's opinion, very bookish and rather too easily bullied, hence the incident today. Grr, they're just lucky daddy warned me not to have any accidental bouts of magic, or else I'd have hurled them all over the fence or made them blow up like balloons!
She looked up as she heard a familiar voice outside the door to the nurse's office opened. Lily and the others then watched as her father was lead by a blushing secretary and the principal, an older man who was looking rather harried along with a few other parents, into the room. Most of them were looking angry, some of them were glaring at Harry and Lily both, while Tamiko's parents were looking worried until they saw their daughter.
All of them were trying to talk at once until her dad held up a hand and they stopped speaking almost without even thinking about it. Such was the effect her father sometimes had on other people, though most of the time he didn't even notice it, Lily reflected. They just showed him deference, a word that Luna had helped her look up at one point after watching that reaction in Harrods once.
Lily smiled at him rather wanly, but made no move to race over to give him a hug given the serious face he was wearing at the moment. She was gratified however when instead of looking at the nurse or the principal or the other parents her father simply knelt in front of her and looked her in the face eye to eye seriously. "What happened, Lily?"
From there the story came out. Lily and Tamiko had been together during their free time today, a free period which most students used to play in the park. They had been working on their homework by themselves a ways away from the others when one of the other students came over and asked for help. They were fine with that, but then a few other students came over and demanded that they help them to. "That was what they did daddy, they demanded it, they said "Well if you're helping Kana then you have to help us too. Come on do it!'" Lily said, glaring at the two students across from her.
"That's not true at all! We simply asked her for help because we know she's smart!" Shouted one of the other students but he shut up when Harry looked over his shoulder.
"We'll get to you in a moment," Harry said mildly. Then he looked past hurt his daughter at the other girl. "Tamiko?" he asked kindly. "Is that what happened?"
The girl stuttered, but under Harry's kindly look and her own father's nod of encouragement began to tell her part of the story. It matched with Lily's for the most part, except that she added that she was routinely told to help other students. She used the word 'told' rather than asked, which was quite telling and Harry looked over at the principal and the teacher.
The other parents scowled, and one of them even had the temerity to scoff. "If that is the case, then shouldn't you have simply helped them?"
"No!" Lily shouted getting to her feet and stomping one foot before being pushed gently back into her chair by her father. "That's just enabling, that's not helping that's doing their work for them!"
And there's Hermione's influence in her, heh, Harry thought to himself. "All right, so that's what started it, what escalated it to throwing punches?"
"That's right!" one of the men there said, a hand resting on his son's shoulder. "My son has a black eye because of that…" the man caught Harry's eye and stopped what he was about to say, even though Harry made no move to do or say anything.
"They grabbed our books, and threatened to throw them in the toilets!" Tamiko said, letting the words out before putting her hands over her mouth.
"When they tried to grab them out of my hand, I pulled them away, and then one of them shoved me in the back," Lily said angrily. "I turned and hit him with a book, and then this one," she said pointing at the same boy who had spoken up earlier, "tackled me. Then I threw a punch and knocked him off me."
"And where was the teacher in all of this?" Harry asked, standing up and placing a hand on her head to show his support.
The teacher looked away. "I interrupted the goings-on as soon as I saw it, but I was dealing with a scraped knee at the time, and had to run back when I heard the commotion." She was a little older than Harry, and looked as if this was her first real emergency though she seemed to be handling it rather well.
The principal on the other hand Harry had labeled as an obstruction during their phone call, and looking at him now Harry wondered what the man was going to say. "I understand that a teacher can't watch everything especially outside like that," He said, smiling at the woman and causing her to blush slightly which caused him in turn to almost roll his eyes though he stopped himself because this was not the time for it. Even so, he had to wonder. I didn't get this reaction back home, or did I and just not notice it?
Shrugging that thought off Harry went on. "However it seems pretty cut and dried. You have two students, one of whom has been bullied before this, who tried to stop the bullying from occurring. The bullies get physical, and then paid for it," he said looking over the boy with the black and blue and then locking his eyes on the boy's father who seemed ready to explode. "Punish the people who started it, don't call me about my daughter getting into a fight and you taking disciplinary action against her as if it was her fault."
"Regardless of who started it, all of them will be punished for this." the principal said sternly. "We follow a strict policy of nonviolence here, and it is after all just your daughter and Ms. Tamiko's words against theirs."
"No," Harry said simply. "If you want to punish my daughter for protecting herself, then it is very obvious to me that you don't want her in your school at all. I'll simply pull her out and find another school. It's only a week into the school year after all it wouldn't cause that much disruption. I would also suggest that Ms. Tamiko do the same thing. Maybe we'll also go to the local newspaper with the story."
"Besides, it isn't just their words against Lily and Tamiko's several other students including Kana have come forward. If anything I'd suggest you suspend the two little bullies for the rest of the semester!" the teacher said quickly, eager to do her part.
"Now see here you!" the father of the boy with the black and blue eye said, growling angrily but then stopping as Harry stepped forward.
The principal was now in a quandary. He had wanted to sweep this under the rug, but the teacher wasn't going along with that, and he just knew that this wouldn't be the last incident if Lily did stay in the school. The students that Lily had pegged as bullies those first few days had indeed turned out that way, just like their older siblings in the higher grades. But their families were also prominent members in the community, and he hadn't wanted to make waves.
Still, being called out on the carpet like this by a fellow educator, who seemed perfectly willing to go through with his threat, forced his hand. "Very well, I'll be sending all of them home for the rest of the day, and suspend the two students who started this for a week." Taking that hard a line would irritate the families in question as the principal could easily see by the father's face, though the mother had been noticeably silent. Yet it would also show that he was taking a hard line against bullying which would win him more points with the other families once they heard about it.
Harry nodded, and held out his hand to Lily. "Come on Lily, go get your bookbag, it looks like your days ending a little early."
By the time Lily was ready to leave, Harry realized that he couldn't get her home and get back to the school in time for his next class. Worse Harry knew his meetings with the other teachers and the various club reps would take most of the day. With a sigh he looked down at Lily and said "Well, it looks as if you're going to have to spend the day at Kuoh with me Lily." Lily smiled happily at that, having enjoyed exploring the campus the day she had been there.
With that the two raced towards the academy, but even though they ran they barely made it in time, the seniors coming out of the gym and milling around for a moment looking for their teacher. They all spotted him and Lily at the same time and a communal squeal went up from the girls and even a few of the boys. "Oh my God she's so cute!"
They raced forward, but Harry held up a hand, in an effort to abet the rush which only served to stop them from outright abducting her. "Everyone this is my daughter Lily and yes she is cute but please don't mob her. She will be sitting over there on her own for a bit while we have class. Five minutes for stretching, and then we'll play soccer for half of the period. Then we will talk about self-defense. Given the rumor mill I have no doubt you all have an idea about what that will entail." The third years had been run through the weight machines on Thursday.
For her part, Lily was grinning at the students and then pointed at Rias. "I love your hair! Redheads rule!"
Rias laughed, winking at Harry before she knelt down and held up a high five to Lily. "I know!"
Harry rolled his eyes, but shooed the girls away from Lily and outside to the soccer field.
"I wonder what happened." Rias muttered as she began
"Probably some kind of disciplinary action," Sona replied as the two of them began to organize their teams. This time they weren't on the same side, which made this class even better in their opinion.
"Still she is a little cutie, even more so in person," Rias said, exchanging another wave with Lily, who seemed to be watching her in particular.
For some reason that made Rias decide she wanted to show off, and instead of being the goalie, she put herself in as one of the forward players. Sona did the same thing, and the rest of the class was almost left behind is the two of them battle for the ball up and down the field.
My daughter's watching, my daughter's watching, Harry thought, using the words almost like a mantra trying to look everywhere but at the two girls who most impacted his self-control. It wasn't easy despite that.
Watching Akeno run was a treat for any male. Even in a sports bra her large breasts easily the largest breasts Harry had ever seen, swayed, bounced and wobbled. Every time he saw that Harry had to fight a desire to simply sink his fingers into them. He wanted to know what color her nipples were, how sensitive they could be and whether Akeno was really as experienced as she tried to seem, or not.
Harry's reaction to Rias wasn't quite as much from his needs below the belt. She looked amazing running around the field, her legs pumping easily, her red hair like a fiery mane behind her. Harry wondered what that hair would feel like curled up in his fingers. He wondered how strong her legs were, and what she sounded like when she laughed as she was being tickled for some reason. The fact her breasts also swayed and moved when she ran was a major bonus.
Curse their sexy bodies and my redhead fetish! Those mediation books cannot arrive soon enough! Harry thought grimly, keeping his eye more often on the ball to ignore the actual players.
By the time Harry called the game to an end Rias' team was ahead by two points though thanks to what Harry had lined up for the rest of the class, he didn't have any penalties in mind for the loser this time. As Harry ordered the group into the martial arts gym Lily hopped up from where she had been sitting racing over to Rias. "That was great! You and the girl with glasses and those other two, you move almost as fast as I've seen my daddy move sometimes."
"Only almost?" Rias said with a laugh, reaching down to ruffle the girl's hair while Sona, who had come up behind her with the two queens, twitched at being called 'the girl with glasses'.
Lily reminded Rias strongly of her nephew for a moment however on top of being cuter obviously as a girl she was nowhere near as formal as Milicas in public. Is this what he would be like if he didn't have to grow up being the son of a Maou? The thought filled her with a sense of sadness for a moment before she shook it off. "Do you like to play football too?"
"Yep," Lily said with a nod. "I play a lot of games, mostly with my daddy and his old school friends. My mom…" Lily paused, and then shook her head knowing that Harry didn't like talking badly about Ginny even now that they were divorced. So she simply finished lamely, "My mom didn't really ever see the point."
Rias nodded, making no effort to dig for more information there. Regardless of her own interest in Harry, his past relationship was not something she needed or wanted to know about.
At that point Harry spoke up, gathering the class's attention. Lily made to leave, but Harry shook his head, gesturing her to join him up front. "Since you were so eager to throw a punch today Lily, I suppose it behooves me to make sure that you actually know how to do it."
Lilly laughed, nodding her head and making a 'kapow' noise under her breath. The rest of the class even the boys laughed too, having a very good idea now of what happened to bring the little cutie to their school for the rest of the day.
That portion of the PE class passed very quickly, and Lily again moved over to talk to Rias. She was utterly fascinated by meeting another girl with the same kind of red hair she had. That and the exhibition that Rias and her friends had put on during the soccer game had really excited her.
She began peppering the older girl with questions about the school and other things as young kids are wont to do, which Rias answered easily and without any sign of irritation. She was tempted to grill the girl for information on her father of course, but she refrained. She knew that using Lily to get to Harry in such a manner would be a very bad idea.
Harry smiled indulgently, gesturing Lily to join him. "Leave Gremory-san alone Lily, she and the others have to go into get showered and changed."
"I don't mind at all," Rias said, with a faint smile ruffling Lily's hair. "I haven't seen another redhead since I left home."
"Left home?" Lily asked.
"Yep," Rias and with a faint smile bringing one hand to rest on her ample chest before gesturing over to Akeno who had moved over to join them after taking her turn on the practice dummy. The sadist queen smiled happily at the little girl fighting the urge to squeal and hug her like she was a plushy while her king went on. "My friend Akeno and I live together in a house here, but my family doesn't live in Kuoh. They decided to let us have our own place in order to teach us self-reliance. We get a stipend to look after the house, but we need to manage it carefully."
Lily nodded. That sounded like a cool idea to her. Just like Hogwarts, only better since you're living on your own.
Harry nodded too, realizing that was probably one of the reasons why Rias was so mature for her age. At least mentally anyway, why she's so physically mature as an entirely different matter. Harry thought to himself, his eyes fighting this strain down towards Rias' chest or over to Akeno, but Harry kept them on her face. He had also noticed that Rias hadn't taken the opportunity to grill a Lily about information on him, something he knew she was interested in, just as he was interested in what she was. There were still tiptoeing around one another about that and Rias's forbearance when given a priceless source of information made him respect her more.
Leaving the gym, Harry and Lily started to walk towards the school, with Harry saying he would show her around before he headed into a meeting with teachers. What she would do while he was in there was still up in the air. He stopped walking however, when he heard the sound of someone trying to move quietly and a few whispered comments.
"Keep it down you fools! We have to be silent about this. We're nearly done, we can't blow it now."
"Right!" echoed two other voices, in a sort of shouted whisper. "Onwards to Oppai paradise!"
Recognizing the voices, Harry groaned. What the hell are those three up to now? "Lily, could you stay here for a moment?" He asked looking down at his daughter and patting her head, speaking quietly as he held a finger to his lips. "I have to go deal with a bit of it disciplinary issue."
Lily nodded, and moved to stand by the door while Harry quickly moved towards noises, which were coming from the back of the martial arts gym. The back of that portion of the gym was separated by the indoor pool by a short hallway, which left about two yards of space between the two buildings for most of their length. There was a series of bushes set into that area, which Harry had idly noted looked quite nice before this.
And it was from this area the voices came from. As he walked around the corner, the three perverts Matsuda, Issei and Motohama as he had known he would. They were quietly digging at one of the small bushes. As they worked, Harry looked past the bushes, only now realizing that there was a small window back there, which judging from the steam coming out of it must look into the girl's changing room. Well, I suppose it could be the boy's changing room, but I doubt these three would be putting in this much work to see that. Kiryuu maybe, but not these three.
The three boys' whispered conversation proved this as Harry walked on near silent feet up behind them.
"Hurry it up!"
"Stop that, remember we need to make the bush removable, weren't to just doing this to peep once, but for all time!"
"But they're in there right now! Our oppai paradise, just a flimsy window away!"
"Not flimsy at all, and we still need to get past these bushes and put them back, before we can reach paradise gentlemen."
"I can't believe we were able to find such a gem. Whoever designed these buildings was a God among men! A hidden window straight into the changing room. From such things dreams are made of." Said Issei reverently.
Decided he had heard enough Harry took a final step forward allowing his shadow to fall over the trio of perverts. "You know, for students' t who apparently tried very hard to get into the school, you three are doing pretty much everything you can to get yourself kicked out." He said in a loud voice.
The three boys twirled, holding up their hands to their faces as Motohama whispered "Quiet sensei, you'll give us a way!"
"Why in the hell wouldn't I want to?" Harry said frowning and crossing his arms, hoping against hope that one of the three would have the common sense to stop digging their own graves.
"Oh come on sensei you're a man right?" Issei said standing up and moving over to conspiratorially nudge Harry in the side with an elbow. "You can't deny your urges forever. Right behind that wall is oppai paradise!" he went on dramatically, turning and gesturing with his hands. "All you have to do to take part in this is keep quit."
While Issei's comment about not being able to deny his urges forever hitting a little too close to home Harr sighed then clamped a hand around Issei's mouth. "You're just perjuring yourself further Hyodou, best to keep silent. Now move you three, you have a date with the principal."
"Scatter!" Matsuda shouted and he and Motohama tried to bolt past Harry.
But he lashed out with a light kick, tripping one and grabbing the other by his shirt while still retaining the hold around Issei's mouth, acutely lifting him off the ground almost negligently. "Don't run," Harry admonished before dropping him and picking up Matsuda in turn. "If you try to run I'll simply have to chase you, and no one wants that."