Watashi stood nervously for a few seconds after shouting out his dashing war cry and shifted his feet around. Oar at the ready in one hand and airhorn in the other, the blind lad was prepared for a fight if that was what the weird trespasser and Momo were wantin’ to do. Hearing Naohiro coming up behind him for backup kept Watashi from backing off though as his last little bit of nervousness slipped away. Remembering that Naohiro was bringing the cleaver along with, Watashi decided that he’d have a real cool nickname for his spear too. The, uhh, teacher stabber.
As Watashi felt the unknown one approaching him, he hefted his sharpened oak oar – the educator shanker - a bit more before firmly planted it into the ground. Shoving the airhorn back into the one pocket that he had left without holes, the blind boy adjusted his sunglasses. “A teacher assistant huh!? In my good Academy Waters even!?” Glaring suspiciously at the person he had now determined was a girl trespasser, Watashi shifted his look to Momo before moving it back to the lass. Both of them were really going to have to be explaining if they thought they could get away with sullying the Academy with their genin feet and genin faces with just that little of an excuse!
“You really can’t keep your story straight, can you!? Well which one is it that you’re trying to be then? Teacher’s Assistant, Teacher, Choonin, Momotaru-kun, them’s a lot of fancy words that I don’t know! And if you think you can bamboozle me with a bunch of big words then you’ve got another thing coming!” Watashi waved his instructor jabber around viciously at the two of them. The lad felt downright insulted that they’d even try to pull over the wool over his good blind boy eyes with these ones! He might not know too much about becoming something, but Watashi knew that you could only really become one thing. And becoming all of those things at once was impossible!
Watashi continued thinking about that dilemma for a bit longer. Could you really become a bunch of things and still be one thing? Shaking his head to clear his thoughts, Watashi brandished the spear a bit longer to steel himself. “And even then, if you’ve got meetings then what’re you doing with running around on our Academy Seas!? And you even want to say that you’re trying to make sure everything is safe!/ I’ll have you know that’s a downright insult to the good Academy! Trying to make your ‘imploocationos’ that the school is bad for the students eh!?” This was something that the boy couldn’t let stand for any longer. Trying to fool him with a bunch of big fancy words was one thing. Trying to invade the Academy like some sort of pirate was another but the lad wasn’t an Academy Student if he was going to stand for some genin insulting the school and calling the Academy a dangerous place!
Angrily shifting the educationist needle into one of his hands, Watashi thrust his hand into his pocket and grabbed out the air horn once again incase he needed to express his incredulity with some real emphasis and hooked it onto his sunglasses for easy accessibility. “You got any paperwork or something to prove it then!? We keep receipts on for when students decide they want to sail on the seas, so they’re definitely going to be giving them out for some sort of genin party.” Shaking his head in disgust again at hearing the tone, Watashi glared in Momo’s direction a bit more too. Pulling out his own receipt, Watashi wrapped it around the head of the tutor poker to make a make shift pirate flag. It had real authority the lad thought, the flag of bureaucracy. Something to be admired!
Then, the girl did the unthinkable. The unimaginable! She offered lunch to the kids. Puffing up his chest as much as possible Watashi figured that this was the last straw. They had been bullying him and Naohiro for far too long! They were real respectable Academy Students. Master shipsmen! They didn’t have to stand for this sort of insulting! “Peace offering!?” He shouted in exasperation, “Peace offering!?” Watashi started stomping around the place, feeling around for this so called basket and gasping in shock when he actually found it. “This isn’t a peace offering! It’s a bribe!” Unsure if he should be in amazement or disdain at the audacity of trying to bribe an academy student, Watashi settled for outrage as he stomped back over to the rowboat with the basket in hand.
“We’re real upstanding Academy Students, I’ll have you know!” The blind boy shouted back at them as he carefully placed it into the boat. “We’ve got morals! Uhh, ethics!” He hollered as he strapped a few explosive tags onto the basket to keep it safe. “People of principle!” He yelled back before hiding the basket under a bench and securing it with all of their extra rope. “We have standards!” Watashi bellowed as he walked back, grabbing the horn off of his glasses to honk it a few times to show how hopping mad he was.
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“We would never accept any sort of bribe like that!” Watashi said again for emphasis before carefully attaching the horn back onto his glasses and giving another round of glares, hidden behind his sunglasses. “What sorta teacher are you supposed to be assisting anyways!? Let's hear names then!” The lad was real angry and Momo starting to talk didn’t really help sate it at all either. “Real lucrative money venture, eh!? Is that why you didn’t show up to the pizza party when we invited you!? I bet you were too busy with that 'lucrative money venture' and being a GENIN!” Shaking his head at the lame lying genins, Watashi mourned for the future of the Cloud village. Clearly there were gonna be in real bad hands! “You know you guys are never going to be real good members of the Main Branch like that with yer lying and foolery!"
“Besides, lookouts!? There’s already some weirdo sitting in the bushes over there!” Watashi shouted before pointing his err, professor spike in the direction that Maikeru was hiding. “He just sitting on the steps like some sorta creep! Real disgusting like! I bet he’s some sorta ANBU member. You know, if the ANBU wanted to borrow this facility I’d let them! Instead they just kinda sit on those stairs staring at everyone like a pervert!” Sticking his tongue out at the wacko, Watashi looked back towards the others. “You know how I knew about that one though? I’ll tell ya! It’s cause I’m a man of principle and I don’t let no wackos escape my gaze of justice unnoticed!”
Watashi crossed his hands over his chest in triumph before dropping his spear on accident and having to pick it back up. Shaking the dirt off of it, he started waving it around a bit more. “That’s why I don’t want no unknown people running around in the academy! Least of all any genin! It’s a real safety concern I’ll have you know, and a real insult to my character when they start badmouthing us after showing up!” Rubbing his nose a bit, Watashi heard a sound coming from the other nearby bush and groaned when the sound began talking.
“Another weirdo!?” Sighing, Watashi ran back over to the SS Cool Guys Ship to grab the biggest souvenir shirt that Yuuna had bought the other day at the party. Trotting back over, the blind boy threw it in Maru’s direction. “You missed the party the other day, Maru! Saved a shirt for you though, that’ll be two whole arcade tokens.” After all, Maru might be a weirdo but apparently word on the street was that he was an Academy Student in some far off, mystical land. And any Academy Student couldn’t possibly be bad. As for the dweebs that decided they were better than Academy Students and didn’t need the Academy anymore? The nerds that decided to graduate and look down on the average kid and badmouth them? Watashi wasn’t gonna let that stand!