"Anooo...  I, uhm...  Ich'go-chan, that doesn't sound--" Hikari begins to protest, but there's something...<em>earnest</em>...  about the exceedingly strange request that makes her hesitate, pressing her lips into a tight frown as she considers the demand.  Ichigo is a good friend, and this seems really important to her, so it would be mean to refuse out of hand...<br/><br/>"...  h-hai, Ich'go-chan."<br/><br/>The oblivious young woman takes a moment to scan the class, blinking now and again as her gaze crosses one of her fellow students.  The fact is, she knows<em>all</em>of them, and most of them generally seem to like her--except for the 'conformity bullies' who are constantly hassling her with accusations of stuffing her bra and the like--but none of them are particularly close friends.  As her eyes cross Jessica, she realizes that she doesn't even really<em>know</em>her, so maybe--<br/><br/>--woah, woah!  She shakes her head rapidly to clear it, furrowing her brow.  Did she actually even think that?  That it would somehow be okay to throw the American to the wolves simply because they didn't have familiar relations with one another?!  A moment of self-loathing makes her bundle up to herself, pulling her knees up toward her stomach in the chair and slumping down with her shoulders drawn in, a strangely determined pout on her face.<br/><br/>Honestly, she was intending to go into space cadet mode as she pondered over the moral quandry--random act of cruelty to keep a promise to a friend, is that the way to go?--when her introspection draws the attention of one of the class bullies, Yukiko.  An older girl who got held back a year and only granted admittance for this term because of hers parents' wealth and influence, who takes a more physical and less social approach to hazing than most of the other miscreants.  A lot of girls like to spread rumors about her being a lesbian who literally gets off on bullying other girls, but then again, those rumors mainly came from students who she'd picked on enough to have a grudge against her, so...<br/><br/>Regardless, the student can't pass up the chance to give Hikari a whack on the back of her head with her math book while the unaware girl is lost in thought, and for<em>once</em>it looks like Goroi-sensei may have actually witnessed the aggression and not just the aftermath.  (She's been blamed for 'disrupting class' a few times after having the older girl do something mean to her that elicited a reaction.)