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The look on his face. Rocco smirked smugly the whole time and Kaito's rough refusal of a helping hand and seething didn't change that. He expected as much and it was worth it. Kaito looked ready to go at it as far as Rocco could tell but something held him back. "..Another time, count on it." Rocco heard him say under his breath but he was curious what was stopping him from getting into it right that second. There were no teachers present and the class presidents didn't strike him as intimidating enough. Injury? Lasting impressions? Doesn't stand a chance? Rocco brushed a thumb over his smirk as he thought the reasons over. "You inviting me to an after school beatdown? Fun. Just don't get my hopes up and be a no show." He set a time and made it sound like a picnic in the park he was looking forward to. His tone was so playful though that it was hard to tell if he was being serious or not. It was up to Kaito in the end to confirm it as the real deal or not. Rocco surely wasn't backing down if he asked for it. He already participated in torturing a man but what Kaito doesn't know, can't hurt him...

"But, this assignment doesn't mean much for me, Kusogaki." As soon as he got that sentence, he didn't need to hear out the rest. Kaito wasn't interested in working on the assignment and Rocco expected that too when he went to Akira. The nickname wasn't a big deal either. He called Kaito by Dopey ever since that Tag Rugby game and it couldn't hurt more than Dopey's ass did when it hit the ground. It was fair and deserved and if he was being completely honest with himself? He was a Kusogaki. "I'm kind of tired, actually. Luckily I'm not a scholarship student so I don't really have to do anything." Rocco took out his phone and started browsing through as Kaito returned to his seat and continued with a fake yawn and all. His 'partner' wasn't helping so whatever he had to say wasn't going to be worth listening to. "I'm bored :( You're lucky to have a cute and smart partner." Rocco sent the text message to Kaori while drowning out Kaito's talking that was just more or less the same point of not helping.

Done, he shrugged his shoulders and put his hands behind his head while still holding his phone in case she texted back. "In summary, blah, blah, blah.. I'm too dopey for this assignment." Rocco closed his eyes and sighed aloud, feigning disappointment. He did hear bits and pieces like how Japanese wasn't his first language but he wasn't worried. He'd gone through a lot that one assignment wasn't going to stress him out. Once he puts his mind to something, he gets it done otherwise he wouldn't be here at all. "Paying keeps you in the school but doesn't keep you from repeating grade but hey, if you want to be stuck here then you do you dude." Rocco didn't want that for himself so he was just putting it out there and that was as nice as it was going to get. It wasn't his usual way to let things be but he didn't have high hopes that Kaito would be helpful even if he got him to work on it so it was easy to move on and find another group to tag along with. And one with a girl. Darn luck.

Rocco walked around the classroom until he found Kei, the one guy he did get along with and as a bonus, whose partner was a girl. "What kind of questions....?" He sat down next to her (Tsukiko) with a smile and friendly wave to the two of them. "Just crashing the party." he joked then leaned back in his new seat, leaving his phone face up on top of his desk, locked and set on vibrate. He wasn't sure if Kaori would even see the text message during class time but he was keeping himself entertained either way. "How about.. where's the nearest hotel?" he said suggestively, kicking back.