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Title: Reason
Length: one-shot
Author: Li Youhan (Razra_Eizel)
Rating: PG-13
Genre: romance, fluff
Pairing: Yunjae
Summary: Jaejoong came to class one day and was in for a big surprise... well, not really
Disclaimer: I don’t own anything
A/N: this is inspired by what my host parents were talking about a few days ago. He is a teacher at a local high school, and he had a very troublesome student (whom he said he wanted to strangle), and last night he told his wife about... a surprise and the reason behind it
I started writing this a looooooong time ago, before I first went on a hiatus, which was early 2010. That was a really long time ago, wasn’t it? I actually still have some unfinished YJ fics from before my first hiatus, and that’s why there’s no mention of my infamous OC pair YonghwaxHayoung in this fic :P I decided to finish this now. Had to rewrite the whole stuff because my writing style back then was juvenile and littered with errors :P
Also, in regards to the anthology I mentioned once, I’d like you to comment on this post with the top five one to three-shots that I wrote that you like. I figured it’s time that I actually start working on it :( so yeah, please help me decide which five I’d include in it.
Reason
Kim Jaejoong was a humble and dedicated man. That was the reason he chose to become a teacher. He respected his homeroom teacher when he was still a junior high student and had aspired to become like him one day. When he entered college, he took a teaching degree and since then had started teaching at a local high school.
The students were mostly nice and studious, and he was lucky enough that the more rebellious students were mostly in different classes, not his. He wasn’t tall or buff so the rebels thought of him as an easy target.
However, his good luck ran out last year, when he was assigned to class 1-B. There were more girls than boys in the class, so it was mostly quiet, but the lack of boys was made up for by one boy in particular, Kim Shi Min. He was a tall, toned boy who was in the taekwondo club, so he liked to pick fights with anyone and everyone. He was cold and disobedient, never listening to what he asked him to do. While his classmates were reading through their textbooks and listening to him teach, he’d lean back in his chair and openly fall asleep.
He had tried to talk to him, of course, but Shi Min had lashed back and although he didn’t resort to violence, Jaejoong had given up trying to make him see sense.
He thought it was a very valid reason why he was sometimes scared of entering his own classroom, standing in front of the door for five to ten minutes, gathering his courage. Today was no exception. He stood there considering his choices, but then remembered that he only had one choice because he had to go inside and teach the other students still. He sighed in defeat and slid the door open, walking towards his desk with heavy steps. He chanced a glance at Shi Min’s desk, wondering if he was already in the classroom or not, and promptly dropped his books.
Shi Min was sitting neatly in his seat, his textbook and notebook for the lesson already prepared, as well as his pen. He was flipping through his textbook and copying someone else’s notes to catch up with the notes he missed thus far.
When he heard the loud thuds of falling books, he looked up and saw Jaejoong staring at him in shock. He sighed, put his pen down, and walked over to him. “Do you need help?”
His tone was grudging but sincere and Jaejoong found out that his jaw could drop past the floor and underground.
Shi Min clicked his tongue in slight annoyance and bent down to pick the books and placed them on the teacher’s desk, apparently not trusting Jaejoong to not drop them again right away after he handed them over. “Be more careful next time, seongsaeng-nim.”
If there was water or oil under the ground, his jaw might have found it.
“Stop staring, it’s annoying!” Shi Min snapped at him, but then his eyes widened in surprise and he quickly apologized for losing control before he hurried over to his desk.
“Shi Min-ah...” Jaejong started uncertainly. “Did an UFO come to your place last night?”
“That’s not funny,” Shi Min grumbled.
“He’s like this because he just got a girlfriend,” another male student who sat beside him answered for him. “You know Han Rina from class E, seongsaeng-nim?”
“Oh, yes, she’s a nice girl,” Jaejoong said, nodding in thought. He had come across the girl a couple of times. She was smart and helpful, always hard-working but nice to her fellow students still. “She’s your girlfriend?”
“Something wrong with that?” Shi Min asked defensively. He knew that he was nowhere near like her.
“She made him promise that he won’t cause any troubles in class and will actually do some work,” the student sitting beside him added again.
“That’s nice. It’s so thoughtful of her,” Jaejoong said with a smile as he stood in front of their tables. The class hadn’t started yet so he was still allowed to chat with them. “If that’s the case, I’m sure a lot of people will be happy that you two dated.”
“Che, what do you know?” Shi Min grumbled as he leaned back in his seat. “Already three people asked her if she had gone insane by accepting me.”
“That’s because you’ve just started, Shi Min-ah. Give them time, show them that you can change for her and they will stop,” Jaejoong encouraged him.
“I don’t need your advice, you don’t understand anything anyway,” Shi Min grunted. “Unlike me, your boyfriend is a super smartie who got a doctoral degree at the age of twenty-five.”
Jaejoong stared at him, then laughed. “Are you jealous of him?” he asked, and Shi Min spluttered. “It’s really not a super feat. If you put your mind into it, I’m sure you can achieve what he did too.”
Shi Min vehemently denied being jealous of said boyfriend’s achievements while the student sitting beside him teased him about it. He finally gave up on denying it because no one would listen.
“But really, you can. Also, as I told you, once you’ve shown everyone that you can change for the better for the sake of Rina-shii, everyone will approve of your relationship. Why do you think our relationship was very approved in the first place?”
“Huh? Don’t tell me...”
“Yeah.”
-.-.-.-.-. flashback -.-.-.-.-.
“Get out of my way!” Yunho shouted as he shoved an upperclassman to the side harshly. He was still a second year but he wasn’t afraid of anyone, not even the teachers. He was threatened by expulsion again and again, but because of his constant high grades and his achievement in the taekwondo championship they kept him.
Granted, he didn’t resort to bullying, but he was harsh and rude to everyone. The underclassmen were afraid of him, his classmates kept their distance from him, and the upperclassmen tried their best to ignore him.
His homeroom teacher had already given up on trying to correct him. Even if he came to school one hour late no one dared to say anything.
Meanwhile, Jaejoong was the epitome of a perfect student. He was diligent, studious, nice and polite. He respected the teachers because he knew it wasn’t an easy job, and he one day would like to become a teacher himself. He somehow believed that if he didn’t treat his teachers now with respect, his students in the future wouldn’t treat him with respect as well.
When the news that they had started dating reached the school, the whole student body and teaching staff went into an uproar. Total chaos. Jaejoong’s best friends even tried to drag him off to go see a therapist.
“Really, he’s actually a hard-working person,” Jaejoong said to his friends, who still looked doubtful. “It was because he and his sister used to be bullied during their primary school years and he had to fight the bullies off himself. I’m now trying to make him relax a bit, because there are no more people who will try to bully him.”
Moments later, Yunho joined their table for lunch. Yoochun and Junsu, Jaejoong’s friends, were practically shaking in their seat, but didn’t dare to leave. They didn’t want to think that they were leaving Jaejoong just because he was dating him now. Changmin, the more logical one, stared at him calculatingly but didn’t say anything.
The routine continued on for a month and they began to relax around Yunho just like Yunho started to relax around them. They began talking, and finally found out that what Jaejoong said was true. Yunho was a hard-working person who was forced to become rough and rebellious so that others feared him and didn’t dare bully him or his sister.
The teaching staff was rumoured to have held a celebration party when they noticed that Yunho had changed from his old ways, but that was yet to be confirmed.
He graduated from high school with the highest point in the national exam and was offered full scholarship at a prestigious university. His bachelor degree was paid in full, then he did an honours degree, and continued it with a doctorate degree. He didn’t have to spend any money-he was even paid to do it!
The teachers at first didn’t agree of their relationship, but seeing how they’ve changed each other for the better made them support the couple whole-heartedly, even after they graduated. Their homeroom teachers always made time to call them and check up on them, making sure their relationship was still going strong.
The only person who had encouraged them from the start was Jaejoong’s mother, who had seen right through Yunho. She was walking with Jaejoong to a store when they saw him, and she told him that he was a nice boy who had to be harsh because of situations around him. Contrary to popular belief, it was actually Jaejoong who asked Yunho out, not the other way around. She commended him of his bravery and encouraged him, telling him to ignore the others who tried to deter him because they didn’t know better.
And years later, she was invited to stand beside Yunho along with his parents when the school dean handed him his certificate of graduation, because as he had said, she was the reason his life had changed for the better.
-.-.-.-.-. end of flashback -.-.-.-.-.
“I see, so that happened...”
“Rina’s actually the one who asked Shi Min out too, not the other way around,” the other student commented. “Maybe her mother saw him and said the same thing to her too.”
Jaejoong laughed and smiled at him. “It’s a good thing then,” he said, patting Shi Min’s shoulder. “Just remember when you’ve become a successful person later, that there’s someone who decided to take a risk to help make your life better.”
When Jaejoong came home that day, he was grinning like a Cheshire cat. Yunho had asked him what made him so happy that he was risking splitting his face in two, and he simply said he had found a younger replica of them.
End of Story
That’s it. It was written as a light-hearted fic, and it was true. The boy in his class was so rebellious but after he started going out with the nice girl from the next class he began to change. That was the basis of this fic :) hope you enjoyed.
If you do, leave a comment because I’m a comment whore like that.