Rebirth Of A Villainess

"Oh! Oh! It"s about to begin!"

Jin An shrunk further on the ha.s.sock he sat on, he knew from the look on Jin Tieguai"s eyes that the cla.s.s was about to be thrown into a disastrous wreck. The youth began fanning himself as though the place had become hot all of a sudden.

"What?!"

Jin Xinze heard the other disciple mutter under his breath, it was when he followed the direction at which Jin An was looking, that was when he noticed that Jin Tieguai staring at all of them with eyes full of hostility.

"Why are you looking at us that way?! What did we ever do to you?!"

Jin Xiangu rose up to point at Jin Tieguai with anger coloring his voice.

"Look! A fight is about to breakout!"

The rest of the cla.s.s stretched their neck to see where the confrontation between the two would be heading.

"I thought that we were going to have a peace time throughout today! That Jin Tieguai just had to say something!"

"It is hard for a scorpion like him not to sting whenever the chance presents itself!"

"But why is he getting angry?!"

"I don"t know, let"s see what would happen!"

The whole cla.s.s watched in interest to see who would start the fight between Jin Xiangu and Jin Tieguai.

"It is a pity that young master Jin would be dragged down again, if headteacher Jin walks in and see them fighting!"

"It"s not the fault of young master Jin, that Jin Xiangu is too much of a muddle head and very tempermental!"

"True! True! He just have to fight with the good for nothing!"

"I wish that that Jin Xiangu beat that hooligan! He makes the GuBaiJin sect to be a laughingstock!"

"That Jin Tieguai has nothing to lose, I heard he was an orphan before sect leader accepted him as a disciple of the GuBaiJin sect!"

"You can take a pig out of the mire, but you that does not mean that an ugly pig will become a swan!"

"Well said! Well said! Someone needs to show him that he can"t be making trouble for the rest of us!"

"That young master Jin, isn"t he supposed to be the son of the sect leader?! Why is he acting so fearful?! Always standing up for that rascal!"

"Now! Now! You shouldn"t refer to young master Jin as a coward, anyone that hears you would think that the sect leader was unfortunate to have such a useless son!"

"What do you mean?! Are you trying to say that everytime that Jin Tieguai causes trouble that it is the fault of young master Jin?!"

"I didn"t say it was his fault, it"s just that he needs to show the mark of a great leader, by discipling Jin Tieguai so that he never gets to act as wildly as before!"

"So now it is the job of young master Jin to discipline a student disciple?!"

"For goodness sake! Why do you keep saying things that don"t make sense?! Discipling a student disciple is under the hand of head teacher Jin!"

"Where is headteacher Jin?!"

"Didn"t you see a group of senior disciple come to fetch him?!"

"How long is he going to be there?! This isn"t looking good! Jin Xiangu is about to knock heads with Jin Tieguai!"

In as much as they all wanted to watch the fight between the two junior disciples, they knew that the end result was not going to do them any good.

By then, Jin Tieguai had gotten up from where he sat and faced the other disciple that was speaking rudely to him.

"If any of you had any bit of sense left! You would not be speaking to head teacher Jin that way!"

"Look at him! Acting like he has never disrespected headteacher Jin!"

Jin Xiangu was so angry that he visible shook with it, he couldn"t stand his cla.s.smate and he wanted the other to know it.

"Aya! Just let him be, Don"t stoop to his level!"

Jin Xinze called out to his friend to let go of fighting with Jin Tieguai.

"Jin Tieguai has something to say, let"s all here him out."

Jin Dongbin, the young master of the GuBaiJin sect turned around and looked at each of his cla.s.smates while smiling amicably. He knew how to play innocent and act like he knew nothing of the animosity that the two had towards each other.

"You heard young master Jin! Now, let"s hear what you have to say!"

The two remained on their feet, while the whole cla.s.s waited on Jin Tieguai. Outside, Jin Caihe continued to watch what was going on, to see how young master Jin was going to handle the riotous cla.s.s and if Jin Tieguai was going to act with indifference.

"Young master Jin, I didn"t like the way Jin Xiangu was talking down to headteacher Jin, if what he said reached the ears of sect leader, I"m sure he would have been flocked to death! No one, not even I would dare to speak to headteacher Jin in that manner, but yet you allowed him to disrespect our teacher and watched idly as he spewed words that are not fit to be heard!"

"Did you hear that?!"

"So young master Jin, permitted Jin Xiangu to talk bad about headteacher Jin!"

"Talk about shameless! He isn"t fit to become our future sect leader!"

"To think that a troublemaker like Jin Tieguai had to remind him that Jin Xiangu was being disrespectful is very disgraceful!"

"He just dug his grave! If he knew that this was what Jin Tieguai would say, I bet he wouldn"t have allowed him to speak!"

"What a shame! I wanted to believe that he was a good young master!"

"So what! Jin Tieguai is right this time! What makes you all think that he would be right next time!"

In every gathering, there was always that person that sowed the seed of discord, whenever the situation was turning from bad to good.

"That true! Jin Tieguai may be saying the right things now, but who is to say that he isn"t still the same at heart!"

The young master of the GuBaiJin sect, thanked Jin Tieguai before asking to here the side of the other disciple.

"Young master Jin, I wasn"t disrespecting headteacher Jin! We were only..."

Seeing Jin Dongbin shake his head, was meant to warn him not to implicate the rest of them, while coming out to the cla.s.s. The junior disciple swallowed hard and carefully chose the words that came out of his mouth.

"What I was saying was that, headteacher Jin"s marriage to a fox clan came as a surprise and if he chose to have children with the fox princess then they may not look like us!"

"Oh! So, that is what caused their fight!"

"Those from the fox clan, don"t they look like real life foxes?!"

"If they do and so what?!"

"It"s scary being around an half beast!"

"What are you saying?! That sect leader would allow headteacher Jin to marry a beast?!"

"Isn"t that how they look, why do you think they are called foxes?!"

"I saw the painting of those from the fox clan and they look nothing like foxes! In fact, they could easily pa.s.s as those from the mortal realm!"

"So, that means that headteacher will not have strange looking children?"

"Even if he does, how is that our concern? Why are you talking as if you are the one getting married to the fox clan?!"

"But, this is headteacher Jin that we are talking about and not someone from another sect!"

"I can tell you this, there is no way that sect leader would allow any disciple from the GuBaiJin sect to take up an unsuitable marriage! Not when that person is the most respected in the whole sect!"

"Yes! I agree! Headteacher Jin is not the type to be handed anything that is not the best!"

"True, he deserves the very best!"

"Aren"t the fox clan said to be the most beautiful in the whole realm?!"

"I can"t wait to see how headteacher Jin"s children would look like!"

When the rest heard what one of them said, they all became imagining adorable looking miniature Jin Caihes running about on the sect ground.

"Jin Tieguai, I apologize on behalf of Jin Xiangu, he spoke out of turn and disrespected headteacher Jin, by having his honor sullied. I will have a word in private to set him straight."

Jin Dongbin rose from where he sat with so much grace, giving the aggrieved disciple a bow.

"Eh! Did you see that?! Young master Jin is apologizing in place of Jin Xiangu!"

"When is he going to stop being in the weak young master?!"

"Taking on a wrong for another, is not a sign of weakness!"

"It is because young master Jin has people like you around him, that is why he is so weak!"

"You are ent.i.tled to your opinion! But, let me tell you, young master Jin would make a great sect leader!"

"No one said he wouldn"t, but it may take a long time for him to make it there!"

"See who is talking?! Do you know what it takes to be a great leader! Just be running your mouth as you want! Humph!"

"To me, young master Jin would keep getting pushed around if he keeps those two with him!"

"You don"t say!"

"I wish that Jin Tieguai truly has turned a new leaf!"

"Are we still back at the mischief maker?!"

"He isn"t going to change, if he does I"ve have to prostrate to him everyday for the rest of my life!"

"That bad?! You must really not want him to be a good person!"

"I"m not saying that, he just doesn"t look like he would leave his trouble making ways!"

"Young master Jin sure has his hands full if he has to deal with people like Jin Tieguai when he takes over as sect leader!"

"That"s still a long way to go, he is still a junior disciple, just like the rest of us!"

"The day will surely come, by then, I hope that he would be more courageous than he is now."

"I wonder when sect leader will finish his talk with headteacher Jin?!"

"True, it seems they may be having a long discussion!"

Neither knew that the person they spoke of, was actually listening to their voices from outside.

"You really are taking your time to rescue your lover, hmm... I meant to say your student."

The f.u.xi was a sly creature that said things meant to provoke Jin Caihe. It couldn"t see the face of the headteacher, which had become red from hearing it refer to Jin Tieguai as something other than his student.

"Watch...what you say!"

The headteacher had to force a tone of indignation when speaking to the magical beast inside of him.

"What did I say that was wrong? Isn"t he someone that is close to you?!"

"We are not close, stop with your nonsense!"

"I may not know much of the ways of the pugilistic world, but isn"t there a saying that the more firmly a person denies a thing the more the truthful it is?!"

"That has nothing to do with what I"m saying!"

"Keep on believing what you want, but I fear that that little child over there will continue to follow you wherever you go."

Jin Caihe clenched his hands in frustration, he wanted to deny what the serpent told him. When he heard Jin Tieguai defend him when Jin Xiangu spoke ill of him, he felt his heart melt, but with it came brief sting. He refuse to admit what it meant, suddenly a feeling of emptiness replaced the bitter sweet pain in his heart.