The next day, after school, Sensei Konzen—the punctual guy he was—went to the park where he and the original date promised to meet. He seemed pretty nervous, judging by the amount of cigarette butts at his feet. He had never dated before and so he was a bit queasy about the whole idea.
"Sensei Konzen, sensei!"
Sensei Konzen turned around and was shocked to see Goku dressed up to the nines in an outstanding body-fit sleeveless T-shirt and leather jeans, with a denim jacket and fashionable shoes to match. He backed away and asked in a stern voice, "Son Goku, you bakasaru, what in the world are you doing here?"
"I’m here for our date, sensei, if you must know," Goku replied, smiling sweetly.
"Date? Since when do we have a date?"
"If you hadn’t noticed, sensei, I’m your match-make date."
Sensei Konzen stared in disbelief at his student for a full half minute before taking out the match-make file, which he had never opened since he received it from the Headmistress. Thanks to Goku’s cunning mind, his picture was definitely on it, confirming his convictions.
"This has got to be a mistake," Sensei Konzen almost became as pale as a ghost before taking to his heels. "I think we should just all forget about it and go home."
"Ie, sensei! Onegai!" Goku grabbed Sensei Konzen’s sleeve. "Since you’re already out, you might as well carry on! Please, sensei, I’ve always wanted to go out on a date with you! Don’t think of it as a match-make, just a plain ol’ date. Onegai~!"
Sensei Konzen turned around and looked at Goku. His golden puppy eyes were shining with determination and wanting, as if he was really desperate to be with him. Sensei Konzen couldn’t help feeling sorry and concerned for this boy. He had never felt like this for a long time. Probably because he was teaching in a school where everyone is a big fan of him, he was much immune to the little bickering of little kids.
Soon, he found himself letting out a sigh of defeat, taking Goku’s hand and replied, "Oh, alright. Just this once. Then we’ll pretend that this had never happened, alright?"
"Hait!" Goku replied happily, his face glowing with bliss and happiness.
"Bakasaru," Sensei Konzen muttered as he took him into the heart of the city. Goku was really looking forward to a great day with his crush.
One more problem though, how was he going to make him sign the papers?
They had a great day at the city. They went to the mall, then to the arcades where Sensei Konzen took his hands to play the arcade games (ooh, romantica!), and went to a whole lot more places until Goku realized that he was quite hungry.
"Ne, ne, Sensei Konzen," Goku tugged at Sensei Konzen’s sleeve. "Harahate-ne (I’m hungry)."
"You just ate 3 buns, 1 toffee apple, 2 bags of potato chips, 2 hotdogs with mustard, 3 ice-cream cones and drank 4 cokes. And you’re still hungry??" Sensei Konzen asked him in disbelief.
"I have a very big appetite," Goku grinned sheepishly.
"I’m not going to entertain your bottomless pit anymore. If you wanna eat, you can just go back to your own house and eat."
"Harahate-ne, sensei~!" Goku begged as he tugged at Sensei Konzen’s sleeve with his puppy eyes gazing adoringly at him. One half of Sensei Konzen’s mind was bent on looking for something to whack the little bakasaru’s head with and leave him there alone in the streets, but the other half wanted him to just comply with his wishes and get this date over with.
Guess which half won.
The restaurant was quite full where they were, so they had to stand and wait for their turn. In the meantime, the waitress required them to sign the guest book to reserve a spot for them. That was when Goku had his chance. He slipped in the papers onto the guest book and guided Sensei Konzen to sign it. He was too busy looking to see if there were any empty spaces for them to sit that he just signed it absentmindedly.
‘Perfect!’ Goku thought. ‘Now all I need is his stamp. But…he doesn’t have a stamp. No one would be an idiot to bring a stamp along, not Sensei Konzen…Oh well, I guess his fingerprint will do.’
After their lunch, Goku begged Sensei Konzen to take to watch the latest romance movie ‘If Tomorrow Never Comes’. Sensei Konzen, after much begging and puppy eyes and resisting head-bonking temptations, finally agreed. They bought the tickets and watched the romantic movie. Around them, Goku could hear sobbing from the other girls who came to watch with their boyfriends. He wanted to cry himself—the movie was so touching—but he had better things to do.
Slowly, he took out the marriage papers and took out his ink-based pen. He took Sensei Konzen’s hand softly and was attempting to mark his thumb so that he could get his fingerprint. He realized how silly it was when Sensei Konzen glared at him with a pair of angry violet eyes and flushed cheeks. He grabbed his wrist and dragged him out of the cinema to the park where they met before their date.
"Ite, ite, sensei, you’re hurting me, ite~!" Goku whined as Sensei Konzen continued to pull him into the park. Sensei Konzen let go of his wrist hastily.
"Alright, Goku, what the heck is going on here? I’ve begun to suspect you ever since I agreed to go on this date with you. Yes, I had a great time with you so far, but you have been acting strange when we were having lunch. You were grinning all the way and you had that strange piece of paper snuck into your bag after I’ve signed it. And now you’re trying to stamp my fingerprint on it. What are those papers anyway?"
"You…You knew?" Goku didn’t know where to start telling the truth.
"Do you think I’m that stupid like you, you bakasaru? Now I demand to know what the heck is going on around here! And what are those papers you’re so obsessed about?!"
Goku had no choice but to tell the truth. He told him about his crush for him, his leaving to Las Vegas with his foster parents and his plan to make himself get married to Sensei Konzen so that he would be able to stay and won’t miss Sensei Konzen a single day. Sensei Konzen listened in silence throughout his whole confession.
"I’m sorry I had to do this, sensei. But this is the only way I’m able to be by your side, and…and also the only way for you not to be absent in my mind. I’m…I’m doing this ‘coz I love you, sensei. Aishiteru, sensei…I’m willing to do anything to stay…" So saying, Goku sobbed, clear tears falling out of his eyes.
Sensei Konzen looked at his with a confused gaze, his heart skipping a beat and his face flushed once more. A child in love with him? He knew that almost all the girls, and boys, in the school were somewhat quite crazy about him, but he didn’t think that he would go that far just to be with him. He had no idea he had so much impact on a 15-year-old boy like Son Goku. This sacrifice he made over his pride and his life was really great. Was this really love, or just an obsession? He was so confused that he could only say one thing:
"Don’t be so childish. You should listen to your parents. Go to Las Vegas with them."
Goku could hardly believe his ears. After all he had done and after he had braved himself to tell Sensei Konzen the truth, he rejected him just like that.
"Sensei…Sensei no baka!!" Goku yelled in anger at Sensei Konzen, his heart feeling so betrayed. "Baka! Baka, baka, baka!!!"
His heart broke as he ran away from the park and back home, tears flowing more out of her eyes. He couldn’t believe that Sensei Konzen, his long-loved Konzen, actually said something so mean as that.
Sensei Konzen couldn’t help hating himself for saying that.
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