268 The Graduation (1/2)
”How dare you…..”
”Be silent! A school is a shrine of knowledge stop polluting it, if you have any problem with my grandchild we will meet in court, not only you and your daughter are dragging the school's reputation down you are now accusing my grandson whom your daughter cheated on, wow just wow since you have already pining the blame on an innocent then why not we will see you in court now bad day to and scram.”
The venomous tone Toshiro used caused everyone winced at that only to be drawn by a melodious voice, ”Dear, please today is a very important day for Kei, do not waste by arguing with worthless beings like that.”
Before she cast a loving glance towards her grandson as she spoke while placing her hand on his shoulder as she spoke with a worried tone, ”Kei are you alright?”
Keitaro gave small smile although she could see he was putting up a brave front, the grief and anger clearly reflecting in his eyes threatening to break free it was too much for her as it almost crushed her heart as Keitaro spoke trying to keep up a professional front, ”I am fine 'Ma', I some mess to clean up so I will take my leave.”, as Kei left Tsume looked at him sadly, Kei sometimes called her 'Ma' specially when they are alone, but him calling her meant he was distressed greatly.
As he disappeared from her view, she closed her eyes as she took deep breath trying to calm her nerves as Toshiro placed a hand on her shoulder she glared at him, causing Toshiro to wilt at that he clearly could understand why his wife was angry at him after all today's entertainment was planned by him.
Toshiro sighed at that, his beautiful and intelligent wife becomes a bit dumb whenever her loved ones are involved specially Keitaro as such he dragged her away to the side as he spoke in a whisper, ”Love please calm down now, I know you are angry but please calm down I know Kei is hurt badly but it was good that it was uncovered early on just thing of the damage they could do if it were uncovered a few years later on, just thing about it.”
Tsume relaxed as she had a sad look on her face as she spoke, ”I know but seeing him like that...”
Toshiro growled at that as he spoke anger evident in his voice, ”I know and there is no need to worry about it I will make them pay for it, but for now we have to focus on trying to eliminate the pain in Kei's heart.”
Tsume nodded at that reluctantly as Toshiro dialed a number on his phone as he spoke, ”Prepare for Plan C.”, with that he cut the connection.
Meanwhile Keitaro's mind was whirling with various emotions, he tried to keep his mind away from depressing thoughts but no matter what he did it proved to be futile, he sighed as he put up a fake smile while he ordered and helped his fellow schoolmates well soon to be ex-school mates, to take down the various posters amongst other things.
He gritted his teeth in frustration as he watched a few cast a pitying glance at him some gossiped while pointing towards him, but what took the cherry on top of the cake was the fact that there were outsiders who were busy recording the entire incident and he already knew by now the internet was buzzing with activities and the entire thing would hurt the school's reputation badly, 'ugh what a mess my tenure ended with such a scandal.'
A few hours after the entire fiasco with the help of teachers and student council the crowd was calmed down but the tension was still palpable in the air as some of them had already left the place on their own after the whole debacle while a few were politely asked by the Principal to vacate the school premises and if those who were not graduating they were told to meet at the principal office the next day along with their guardians.
Keitaro sat on a chair with his grandparents on either side, normally they would have spoken with him and tried to help him recover from the incident but it was not the time and place after all.
The Principal of the school Mr. Nakai stood beside the Mayor of the City who was present during the graduation ceremony as various certificates and what not were handed down. Kei's year had about a 100 student in total most of them were made to stand in line as they went up the stage to get their certificates except the top 3 students, who were called to stage one by one by their English teacher Mrs. Miyamoto, until only Keitaro was left.
Miyamoto send a small smile towards Keitaro before she spoke with a smile towards the audience, ”This year we will be saying goodbye to one of your most cherished and famous student, a very young boy of 14 years of age, the Student Council President of our school. He is known for his selflessness and being the most helpful person in our entire school someone whom not only the students but also the teachers can rely with their eyes close, not only had he has scored the highest within the last decade, but he will be also remembered for helping our school win the Prestigious Inter School Soccer Competition in Japan twice, wining National level Kendo Championship on behalf of our school, winning the National Level Archery Championship, he even represented our country in the International Level Science Olympiad and managed to win the competition amongst many others. He will be remembered by all of us because of his friendly nature and sunny demeanor for years to come, as I request Inazuma Keitaro soon to be a Harvard student to come up on stage for his Graduation certificate.”