You walked down the arena briskly, eyes roaming around the room that was full of fogs and steams, legs carefully and silently danced on the cold tiled floor, as ears were sharpened its sense to the upcoming sound you will be hearing.

A tint sound of someone walked behind you made your head instantly tilt to it, sword tightened in hand and breathing slightly were off.

A glowing form was found behind the fogs, which you took it as an advantage and immediately attacked it without any hesitation, but unfortunately, it noticed you and draw its sword to met yours, blocked down your attack with its defence.

You were shocked to be said at least, the HoloPearl was moving quite fast in your second examination, unlike your first one.

You let out a frustrated sigh and backed off from HoloPearl who had a burning rage face on her face and red blood glowing eyes lurking on you as a deep from it was formed to show you how irritated it was with you.

Sword was now in front of you, draw it to HoloPearl as a defence as whenever she would attack you any second and as predicted, she forced herself to charge on you and slashed her sword to be met with yours, you slashed the sword back as HoloPearl stumbled backwards before gained her balance which you took as an advantage once more and charged on the glowing Pearl.

HoloPearl moved quickly, set the blade on her left hand as her handle was tightly held, brought it forward and blocked your attack.

You jumped backwards, slowly getting impatient with your enemy; another glowing light was formed behind your back and hid in the fogs failing but it went unnoticed by you since you were too focused on the HoloPearl in front of you.

Another irritating sigh was released by you, eyes fluttered close, trying to form a plan in your mind; but with the chance HoloPearl got, both of them charged to you, blades targeting you as if they were predators and you are their foods.

Once the swords were getting closer to your face and back, you opened your eyes and stepped to the side, letting both HoloPearl stabbed each other on their chests before glitching and disappeared.

You panted heavily at the sight, for a second you thought you were getting kill here and there, but luckily, you were smart enough to move out of the way.

A wave of claps was heard, echoed the arena with it; slowly the fogs and steams was depicted away to be revealing Pearl and Steven clapped loudly, which you blushed and smile softly for.

You walked towards Pearl and bowed to her as she is your teacher, Pearl bowed to you as well before fitting out a chant of laughter and cheers.

"Ah (Y/N)! You did it again! You are super brilliant to step out of the way like that!" Pearl complimented.

You blushed bashfully, rubbed the back of your sweaty neck, the sword once more returned on its sheath.

"T-Thank you, Pearl. I was actually surprised that I passed this test even. It was all thanks to your teaching skills, Pearl! You taught me very well" you complimented her back.

Her face formed a tint of blue shades on her cheeks, a stupid grin was still on her skin.

"What a teacher could be without a great student, right?" Pearl asked, ruffling your hair for it to be messy.

You giggled and nodded; to you, Pearl was like your mother, even though you never met your birth mother, but having Pearl in your life was more than enough for you which made you over-thrilled of happiness.

Your eyes glanced to Steven who was grinned widely at you, hands in his pocket as he walked down the seats and to you and Pearl.

Pearl complimented you again before wrapped her arms around your tiny form and into a crashing and death hug, knocked out all of the oxygen inside of your lungs but you only managed to giggle and hugged her back.

"Now, go get a bath. You smell terrible, stinky" Pearl joked, pinched your cute nose between her index finger and thumb.

You giggled again and nodded to your teacher.

"Come on, let me escort you," Steven said, grabbed your hand into his larger ones.

You nodded and bid your goodbye to Pearl which she replied the same but more elegant, slowly, you arrived at the warp pad as Steven travelled you back home.

Steven ruffled your hair just as the same as Pearl did earlier, made you let out another giggle which Steven secretly fell in love with.

"You did great today! I didn't know you were fantastic in combats!" Steven stated.

"Thank you, Steven. But I think I'm a bit off in the fight. I almost got myself killed!" you shivered within your own words.

Your floated body slowly floating downwards to the ground, meeting your barefoot with the cold blue glowing warp pad.

"Oh come on! You literally nailed the fight. You even impressed Pearl!" Steven informed.

You smiled softly at him.

"You think so?"

"Dear, I know so"

A sound of a door creaked open interrupted your conversation with Steven, tilted your head to the door, saw that Connie flashed you both a bright and huge warm smile.

"Happy Teacher's Day, Pearl!" Connie yelled as a wrapped present was in sight. You furrowed your eyebrows in confusion, never had you heard about this event or day. "Oh, hey (Y/N), Steven. You see Pearl anywhere?"

"Yeah, she's at the arena. What's the gift for?" you asked politely to her, setting down your sheath with the sword still in it to be leaning on the coffee table in front of the couch.

Connie turned to you, flashed your eyes with her huge bright smile and white freshly fallen snow teeth.

"Today is Teacher's Day!" Connie beamed.

"What's 'Teacher's day?" you asked.

"It's a day where you give your teachers a gift as an appreciation and affection towards them!" Connie informed.

"So you wanted to give Pearl a present?" you asked softly and full of curiosity.

"Yeah!" she responded. Connie then turned to Steven. "Can you help me go to the arena, Steven?"

"Sure thing" Steven answered. Before he leaves, he planted your forehead with a loving kiss with his lips and went to the warp pad with Connie. They both waved at you. "See you soon, (Y/N)!"

You waved back at him, smiling softly to them.

The house once more filled with an uncomfortable silence, ignoring the different type of wind in the house, you walked inside of the bathroom with your arms was full of fresh clothes that were set on the coffee table.

When you entered the bathroom, you locked the door and set your clothes in the sink, stared at your reflection, showing that your face was full of sweats and uneven hair stick on it.

How can Steven kiss my sweaty forehead?

You asked yourself, shrugging it, you stripped out of your clothes and entered the tub that was already filled with warm water that Steven had prepared for you every of your training, which you noted to yourself to thank him after.

Slowly, your mind was brought to what Connie had just said to you and Steven, Teacher's Day.

"Should I get Pearl a gift too? She does help me out a lot recently" you wondered to yourself. You brought your hands out of the water, mesmerising them. The hands that used to not know anything then now was filled with the knowledge of fighting, thanks to Pearl too. A small smile was formed on your lips. "I'm getting her the best present too"

You eagerly tried to fasten up your shower hour but at the same time tried to be as clean as possible.

Once you were done, you stripped on into your clean clothes and headed outside, putting the dirty laundry into Steven's basket which was full with his other dirty laundry.

Seeing Steven on his bed while staring at the cream coloured ceiling, you smiled widely due to your excitement and jumped in happiness that caught Steven's attention to your sudden happy form.

Steven sat on his bed, grinned at your happy form too, not really know what's the reason behind it but he's happy to see you beamed with happiness.

"Okay, what's going on?" Steven asked curiously, still held his grin to you.

You let out a pair of giggles before sitting beside Steven on the bed, bounced a bit on the bed which Steven chuckled at your exciting form.

Steven leaned forward to you, moved your hair away from your pretty face.

"I... I also wanted to give Pearl a present!" you informed.

Steven was dumbfounded for a while before he recalling that today was Teacher's Day, smiled at your form, happy to see you trying to give your teacher something.

"Okay then, let me help you," Steven said, stood up from the bed.

You shook your head politely and disagreement.

"No thanks, Steven. But I wanted to find this give on my own. Besides, you helped me a lot recently, this is the least I can do" you answered.

Steven's eyes actually went wide open, not believing the words you were saying past your rosy lips; his anxiety and worries starting to crawl into him once more, imagining you were having troubles or in danger yet he couldn't be there for you, would be painful for him.

"B-But the reason I helped you because I loved to help out," Steven told.

"And that's another reason why I should do this on my own," you said rather quickly. Steven plumped on the corner of his bed, head hung low and a deep sigh was released. You crawled to beside him, setting a hand on his forehand, tilting your head to his covered face, smiling sadly. "Steven... You helped me out so much and I'm grateful for that. But... don't you think I should do something by myself sometimes too?" you asked.

Steven unhurriedly lifted his head to face you, seeing your sad face made his heart clenched in regret and worry.

Without saying a word, he nodded as an approval.

"You're right. I should let you do some things on your own. I shouldn't spoiled you too much"

"Thanks, Steven" you leaned to his face and planted a soft kiss on his cheek before pulled away and looked directly into his eyes. "I'll be back soon, okay?"

Steven nodded, gave you a tight hug before watching you walked down the stairs and warped somewhere he didn't even know where.

Steven sighed in frustration, he is definitely head over heels for you but he also shouldn't spoiled you too much even though how much he wanted to.

Back to you, you warped yourself to a place where everywhere was filled with bushes and strawberries, the smell of it caught into your nose which you sniffed the air lovingly.

"I think Pearl would love strawberries, but she didn't eat so maybe not"

You walked down the warp pad and roamed your eyes to travel around the field; a lot of unknown weapons seemed in your view which you watched them in curiosity - you had never gone there before or had you known about the history of the field before but you assumed there was once war happened there - a lot of different weapons was found, from big to small, small to average and back again to big.

"Hm..." you hummed and tapped your chin. "I don't think Pearl had a thing for used weapons either. Knowing her would be freaked out on how I found these. Better find another worthy present for her"

You walked back to the warp pad and warped yourself to Little Homeworld - the place where everything seemed to amaze you and such a wonderful place of making friends - wondered if there was actually something that will catch Pearl's interest.

Gems were doing their own stuff, gardening and chattering with each other, you found that amusing.

Walked a little bit further, a sight of your other three best friends was found, seeing them was planning on building another house for a missing new gem; shyly walked up to them, you greeted them.

"Hello" you greeted.

Lapis, Bismuth and Peridot looked towards you before greeted back the same to you.

But Bismuth suddenly pulled you under his arm, pulled you in front of the brown desk they were looking at which contained a blueprint on it, a draft of a beautiful house brought your attention.

"(Y/N)! Thank God you're here! We need some other people's thought about this design. Was it okay?" Bismuth asked.

You looked at the rough sketch design, a two-level house with few windows and another tiny house was attached beside it, seems like a garage to you, and a door that could fit in two people at the same time; you found it marvellously beautiful.

"It's wonderful guys. They sure going to love it" you answered.

Bismuth pumped up and cheered loudly at your answer, told Peridot and Lapis to get as many words as they could to build the house right away - seeing that you actually made a good answer.

But soon, they were busy with building the new house that you didn't get a chance to ask them about what Pearl actually fond of; my wanting to disturb their concentration, you walked away from the scene with a small smile on you.

Time Skip

By the end of the day, the result was that you kept on warping yourself to every possible place in the Beach City and Homeworld but you got nothing for Pearl, unfortunately.

You really thought that you could find a perfect present for an appreciation of yours towards Pearl, you really wanted her to know how she is the most important person for you, you wanted her to feel appreciated by you, but in the end, you could only manage to bring back a flower, a beautiful white milky orchid in hand, not sure if Pearl would feel appreciated just by earning a flower.

The sky had painted in dark blue and clouds were dispersed away to reveal stars that had formed in the skies, as it was getting late, you returned to the beach house with the feeling of disappointment and ashamed.

You walked on the sands, the sound of waves slapping could be heard, the smell of the salty ocean was sniffed into your nose, tried to calm yourself down.

Without you noticed, the door of the beach house was now in front of you, the feeling of anxiety and shame crawled into you but you no longer can make anyone wait longer just for your arrival.

You creaked opened the door, watched the scene unfold before your eyes, seeing that Steven was paced front and back in worry as the three gems looked at him in sadness.

Once they all heard the door creaked opened, Steven instantly looked towards the door that revealed you beside the open door, charged on you, he brought you tightly into his embrace.

The gems stood up from the couch they were sitting on, worries were painted on their faces.

"(Y/N)! Where could you have been? We were worried sick about you!" Pearl asked.

You could hear the tiny of worry in her tone, made you felt guiltier than you supposed to feel before.

Steven let you go out of his death hug, mesmerising your face with his sad ones, wanting an answer from you or he would never know why you were super late outside.

You looked at Steven before looked up to the gems.

"I-I'm sorry to make you guys worry sick. I-I was just... searching a gift for Pearl" you answered.

"W-Well, did you find any?" Steven asked, tried to be careful with his words to not pressure you.

"No..." you replied, looked to the white orchid in your hand, felt of how useless you could be to just give Pearl a flower.

Amethyst noticed you were staring on the flower in your hand, formed a bright idea in her head, she smiled sadly at your disappointed form.

"Wow, is that an orchid I see?" Amethyst asked, tried to lighten up the mood.

You flinched and looked at Amethyst before looked down again to your orchid, gripped tightened around it.

"Yeah... B-But I don't think Pearl would be appreciated by a f-flower only" you admitted.

"What are you talking about, dude? She crazily loves orchids! Don't you Pearl?" Amethyst continued.

Pearl clapped her hands once in happiness of hearing the word 'orchid' that she longed wanted for.

"Ah yes! Orchids had always been my favourite since forever! I heard it was one of the most elegant flowers" Pearl answered.

You looked at Pearl, not believing the words that Pearl had been releasing into your ears.

Could it be that giving an orchid was the best present for her?

"Oh... Umm... Here..." you stuttered out and handed Pearl the flower.

She beamed in happiness when she saw an orchid was in hand, she took it before mesmerising it, looking at the white petals that danced to wrapped around each other, the smell of the flower made her lovestruck with it, she loved it.

"Oh, my stars, (Y/N)! This is the best present I have ever gotten in 7 thousand years! I love you so much!" Pearl thanked you.

Pearl brought you into her embrace, tightly wrapped her skinny arms around you as you higher her back, slowly, the others joined as well and created a group hug.

Your eyelids unhurriedly formed salty tears that burnt your eyes with it, which it strolled down your cheeks and splashed it with waters.

You tightened your hug around Pearl, crying softly that you actually nailed to give her the best present for her, you felt proud of yourself, your felt like everything is possible now, you felt like you made your own mother proud.

Unwrapped yourself from her, you looked at her through your teary eyes, made Pearl smiled softly at you, used her thumbs to wipe away the tears of yours.

"T-T-Thank you s-so much Pearl f-for always being t-there for m-me. I never c-c-could actually pay y-you back. You are t-the best t-t-teacher anyone c-could ever ask f-for"

Pearl's eyes slowly creating tears, touched by your speech even though through stutters, no one ever said that to her, not even her earliest student, Connie.

Pearl brought you into her embrace once again, tightly even more than before.

Steven and Garnet had also teared up by the sweet moment the two of you were having, wiped them off their eyes to continue watching the scene unfold, while Amethyst only could manage to smile softly at the hugging couple.

The next day

A loud yawn had escaped your parted lips which were covered with the hand of yours, sat up on the bed before stretched out and let a couple of sounds of pop satisfy you.

Steven that was beside you still in a deep slumber which made you smiled; getting out of the bed, you grabbed a couple clean of clothes before headed downstairs.

Everything seemed the same by something was off, your eyes travelled around the room once more, looking out anything different than usual, but then your eyes caught a glassy flower pot on top of the kitchen counter which you didn't remember it was there before.

Looking at the flower, it was the orchid you gave Pearl yesterday.

You smiled happily at the sight of the flower, new energy was created inside of you, you skipped into the bathroom happily and took a shower.

On the flower pot had written a sticker on it that went unnoticed by you, it wrote:

The best present ever ~Pearl

Happy Teacher's Day everyone!