NPC - FUJIWARA-SENSEI<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"You look like you're, like, twenty-eight?"</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><strong>"<em>Arigato gozaimasu</em> Takashita-san, you flatter me. I'm thirty one next month. Now, from your obvious intelligence and powers of observation, young lady, it is clear you are not stupid."</strong><br/><br/><strong>"However, despite a good assessment of my age you persist in thinking I was born yesterday."</strong>I folded my arms and took a quick glance at the piece of paper she held out, then locked my gaze with hers.<br/><br/><strong>"Do you always screw up the paper on which you are taking class notes, Takashita-san?"</strong>I was silent for a moment wondering if she would be able to quickly think up a lie to cover that but after giving the class a few seconds to realise that I knew this wasn't the right piece of paper, I pressed on. If she had a story to cover that, I wasn't interested in hearing it.<br/><br/><strong>"I don't see any of Tanaka-san's writing on that paper. Give me the piece of paper that you and Tanaka-san have been scribbling on and passing to each other for the last ten minutes."</strong><br/><br/><strong>"The piece you palmed when you got up and hoped to distract me into not seeing when you faked that stumble."</strong>I leaned forwards so my face was a few inches from hers and looking down on her,<strong>"Takashita-san, I was pulling cheap stunts like that before you were even born. I am not stupid and this is not your average inner-city Tokyo public school. This is a private academy and I am employed here because I'm good at my job. And that is not limited to teaching. You have been in this school less than an hour. It is an easy task to make your first hour here your last, no matter how much of a <em>gentleman</em> your grandfather might be."</strong><br/><br/><strong>"If you were half way awake young lady you'd have seen that this white board is slightly reflective. I don't quite have eyes in the back of my head but I have been watching you. Now. You can hand me the paper, or you and Tanaka-san can stand at front of class in front of those students who <em>do</em> wish to learn something, until the bell. Then when they have all gone to lunch, we three will remain and we can discuss your extremely short tenure at Sendai. I'm quite sure your parents will not be pleased to hear you are an inattentive student. Let's not add to that the suggestion that you are a liar as well."</strong><br/><br/>I held out my hand.<strong>"I'm waiting. The paper, if you please."</strong>