After-Hours Lessons [Rukia, Shiroi]

"...And that'll be all for today, class. We'll still be talking about the general principles of Bakudo next week, so keep it fresh in your heads. We won't be moving onto Kaido for a while. If you want to try getting ahead of the curve, I'll give out a bit of extra credit to anyone who can manage a Bakudo #1: Sai by the end of the next lesson."

Writing out a few final notes on the blackboard at the head of the lecture hall, Rukia set the chalk down and closed her lesson plan. Not that she'd actually been reading it much to begin with, she knew everything it would say like the back of her own hand. This class was generally pretty good, though there were a couple who seemed like they were getting a little overconfident with how good they were.

"You're alright to go for the day. Enjoy your weekend, everyone."

There was of course still a bit of paperwork to go through, tests that had been taken that she would need to grade later, so naturally Rukia took the time to pack up even as her students filtered out. The few who thought to give her a farewell recieved a smile and a wave with her response. It was always nice seeing who was friendly about these things.

Of course, even if it was nice seeing who was friendly about these things, it was almost more interesting for Rukia to see who was being irresponsible with the class. Disrespectful? Well, maybe. If she were more self-absorbed she probably would have taken it personally that this one had fallen asleep. Instead, she just walked up to his spot in the hall, textbook in hand, and dropped it onto his desk to ensure it landed loudly.

"Enjoying your nap, Mr. Shiro?"

Even if she kept a professional demeanor during her lessons, that didn't mean she was going to be nice to the students under her all the time. Even moreso if they were falling asleep during class.

Well now, wasn't that a good response? Holding back an exceptionally irritated expression, which mostly just ended up looking like a wry grin. Rukia'd sure never heard that one before, not at all.

"Oh, it was just earlier in class. You'd have seen if you'd been paying any attention, you know."

Leaning down onto the desk, looking into Shiro's eye with something that at least resembled murderous intent, Rukia kept the grin on her face, even if she was quite far from happy in the current situation.

"Did you at least manage to stay awake for the test, or did your beauty sleep take up that time too?"

"Oh, did you now? That's impressive. Hopefully the studying last night will help with the next test when today's lesson comes up, huh?"

Standing up to her incredibly impressive full height again, Rukia rested a hand irritatedly on her hip as she sized this particular student up. Well, it was true that he made decent grades, but he was far from such a star student that she'd be recommending he just skip lectures.

"How about you start working a little harder than just 'not failing,' and then we can talk about whether or not you're a poor enough lad for forgiveness."

In her younger days, Rukia's eye probably would have twitched in irritation at him referring to her and her "pretty little head." As it stood, she still didn't exactly do the best job of looking like she was taking the whole situation stride.

"Perfect score, eh? That'll be pretty impressive. Fine then, I'll be expecting a 100 on the next test."

Leaning in a bit more, Rukia's expression seemed to shift from irritated to simply spiteful.

"Anything less and I'll just mark it down as a fail. How's that?"