This story will be undergoing re-writes, such as details and what not. I am in desperate need of a Beta-Reader!
[Mini Author's Note]
'Spell casting'
'Thinking'
{Name; Profession/Seat No.}
A Happy But Sad Beginning
by
Rednaxela
It was another morning at Mahora Academy, with school starting, girls being late for their classes–Wait, Wha?
"Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap. Running, running, running." [What went through my head as I saw this scene] A redheaded teen with two bell-tied ponytails and heterochromatic eyes, [It's actually a real thing look it up] her left eye is cyan while her right eye is navy blue {Asuna Kagurazaka; Seat No. 8} said as she ran to the school. While her friend, with dark chocolate coloured hair and dark brown puppy dog eyes [She could just do the infamous "Puppy Dog Pout" without even trying] {Konoka Konoe; Seat No. 13} was trying just to stay caught up with her. [I know she has roller blades but she's to trying stay with Asuna]
"Asu-chan slow down will you?" Konoka yelled at Asuna as they were almost late for class.
"No way! I don't wanna be missing my first day of class with Takahata-sensei."
As they were running to the school there was a light, sudden, but noticeable, breeze that went across their faces.
"You might not be happy with the conclusion." A new voice was heard as Asuna and Konoka looked to their left and saw a teenage boy with mahogany and brown hair, tied back into a small ponytail, wearing a teal-coloured suit with a red tie. {Negi Springfield; English}
Asuna skidded to a halt before she clotheslined the boy [He had that one coming], grabbing him by the collar and lifting him up.
"What was that?" Asuna said angered by what this kid had just said.
"I was just saying. That's all you sheh-" Was all he could say before he was punched in the back of his head by another boy, who had dirty blonde and blood red hair, had hazel eyes, and was wearing a black hoodie, red shirt and navy blue track pants. {Rednaxela Schyot; Music}
"Sorry about that. Negi tends to butt into other people's business whenever something seems interesting." The second boy apologized to the two girls before introducing himself.
"So who are you and what are you doing here anyways?" Asuna asked the boy as they began running again while dragging a complaining Negi.
"Well you've already met Negi. My name is Rednaxela and we're actually gonna be teaching at Mahora Academy." [There are such things as Student-Teachers]
"How old are you, um?" Asuna asked giving him a questioning look. [Red is considered short by today's standard, but is roughly Asuna's height]
"Call me Red."
"Rednaxela-san, just how old are you?"
"Just Red, it helps simplify things. [Don't even say it] But I'm 16 years old. Why?"
"I thought you were in college or university." [This actually happens with me every time I ask someone how old they think I am]
"Well I'm actually in high school back home but I was put into an exchange student program in order to help the nijem here."
They arrived at class 2-A after they let go of Negi so he could tell the dean that he and Red had arrived.
"Well while Negi gets things in order mind if I take a look inside your classroom?" Red asked Asuna as they stood outside the classroom.
"I don't see why not. But this class can be a bit crazy at times." She warned him.
"Don't worry about me. I had to deal with my siblings."
He was about to enter the room but noticing that it was already slightly opened he looked up, "Why am I not surprised?" he sighed, and took a step back as a chalkboard eraser fell.
When they entered the room it had gotten eerily quiet.
"Is this the right classroom?" Red asked Asuna who was a bit surprised but nodded. 'Oh great. And in...3...2...1.' Red thought. And before he knew it the whole class had surrounded him and was asking him questions.
"Who are you?" Asked two girls, who were twins, with hot pink hair that were in two separate hairstyles, so that others could tell them apart, had auburn eyes and were the height of ten year olds. {Fuka and Fumika Narutaki; Seat No. 22 & 23} [Fuka was the elder twin]
"Rednaxela Schyot but you can call me Red." Red replied to the two.
"So where are you from?" Asked a girl, with spiky, cherry red hair and violet eyes, {Kazumi Asakura; Seat No. 3} as she held a mic in front of him. [I still don't know if it was plugged into or attached to a tape recorder]
"Canada." Red answered her, he knew what the next question was going to be.
"Why aren't you speaking in a weird voice and constantly saying 'Eh'?" Asked a girl with spiky, amaranth pink in two small ponytails and indigo eyes. {Makie Sasaki; Seat No. 16}
"That's just a stereotype. We still laugh at how it was created." Red chuckled a bit. [Bob & Doug Mackenzie anyone]
"How old are you?"
"How old do you think I am?"
"19." "23." "17." "20." [See Mini Author's Note #9] Several of the girls replied.
"I'm actually 16 but I'll be 17 in July."
"Cool, right at the beginning of Summer."
"Yeah." Red sighed. "So you were pretty close there, um?" He tried to reply one of the girls.
"Go on, girl." Said one of the girls, who had dark grey with two "grass-leafs" at the front, glasses and auburn eyes {Haruna Saotome; Seat No. 14}, to her friend that seemed a bit shy.
"N-N-Nodoka-desu." The girl, who had violet, shoulder length, "helmet" hair with one upward curl in the front and "New York" pink eyes that were hidden by her hair, {Nodoka Miyazaki; Seat No. 27} stuttered her name as she bowed.
"It's good to meet you, Nodoka-san." Red said as he bowed back in respect. "Your name means calm, quiet and tranquil, right?"
She nodded quickly while trying to also hide her forming blush.
"Calm and tranquil suit you more than quiet does."
"I'm not quiet?" She said a bit hurt but felt a hand on her shoulder.
Red shook his head. "You're just shy and worried about what others would or are thinking of you. There's nothing wrong with that."
Once she noticed that it was his hand she started to calm down a bit. "Really?"
"Really." He said with a reassuring smile that made Nodoka relax and become more confident. But some of the girls had fainted seeing him smile.
"I think that's enough questions for now, besides I probably have to leave for my class pretty soon."
"Aw, but why?" The girls ,who hadn't fainted, whined.
A teen, with long, black hair and blue eyes with white rings around them {Rayhcaundu "Rayana" Schyot; Seat No. 32}, soon entered the classroom, despite the door almost being blocked by the girls that were gathered around Red.
"Rayana why did you have to almost make us late for class?"
"You'll see. But just stay here for a bit okay?" Rayana said to her friend.
Red having heard Rayana's name he turned around and saw her.
"Bro!" Rayana said happily as she hugged her brother.
"Sistra!" Red said as he hugged her back, confusing the whole class, "What are you doing here?"
"I'm going to school here. Isn't it obvious? You can come in now."
Another teen, with shoulder length blonde hair in a ponytail, forest green eyes, glasses and a bracelet with several figures on it, {Shaneonwatea Svjetla; Seat No. 33} entered the classroom but when Red saw her he went wide-eyed for it was his friend/crush Shaneonwatea.
"Shaneonwatea?" Red gasped.
"Rednaxela?" Shanon gasped.
They hugged each other and to everyone's, except for Rayana, surprise Red blushed a deep red, until his face was the colour of a tomato, as he realized how close they were at the moment.
"I thought you hated me." He told her.
"Why would I hate you, Red?" She asked him.
"No reason." He replied and she gave him a curious look as he was still blushing. But he noticed someone else at the door. "ROOM!" [RCACS 396] Surprisingly most of the class almost immediately went to their seats.
"Relax. You haven't changed a bit kiddo." Takahata said to Red.
"Shaddup." Red replied rather annoyed.
"Well just be careful after all you and Negi-kun are going to be teaching this class for the rest of the semester."
"WHAT?" Everyone in the classroom was surprised by what they had just heard from Takahata.
"Hooray! Bro's gonna be mine and Shanon's teacher!" Rayana said as she hugged both Red and Shanon, who were actually glad that they could see each other everyday now. [Besides before and after school]
"Man this is gonna be one strange year huh Shanon." Red said but noticed she didn't make any respond. "Shanon?" He asked her.
He didn't know but she was too excited that, words couldn't describe her joy but, she had fainted.
"I'm fine Schyot-sensei." Shanon answered as she snapped out of it.
"Schyot-sensei? Man it's gonna take some time to get used to hearing that." Red laughed a bit at his comment.
As he was laughing Negi walked into the classroom making Red, Shanon and Rayana look at each other.
"3...2...1." The trio said to each other as they smirked mischievously On cue the whole class had surrounded Negi asking him the same questions Red was asked.
"Okay, okay. I think that enough questions for your English teacher girls." Red said to the class and they returned to their seats.
After attendance was called Asuna raised her hand.
"Schyot-sensei why did you say that Negi-bozu was the English teacher and not both of you?" Asuna asked Red.
"I'm glad you asked that Asuna." Red said as he brought his acoustic guitar out of its case, portable speakers and laptop. "Because I'm you're new Music teacher. And we'll actually be assisting during each other's respective class." He said as he made sure everything was setup properly. He opened up iTunes on his laptop, after starting it up and signing in, and opened a playlist entitled "Day 1". "Now then, some of the songs we are going to listen to are acoustic songs, also for your homework assignment I want you to tell me what you think the artist was feeling and what you think the songs were about. Got it?"
The class responded with a resounding "Hai!"
"Good."
Red pressed play and decided to play along with the song. [I decided to include this song because of how amazed I was when my cousin played along and it's also a bit of f.s.]
Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven
Will it be the same
If I saw you in heaven
I must be strong, and carry on
Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven
Would you hold my hand
If I saw you in heaven
Would you help me stand
If I saw you in heaven
I'll find my way, through night and day
Cause I know I just can't stay
Here in heaven
Time can bring you down
Time can bend your knee
Time can break your heart
Have you begging please
Begging please
Red played the solo along with the song. [This was amazing to me how well he played]
Beyond the door
There's peace I'm sure.
And I know there'll be no more...
Tears in heaven
Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven
Will it be the same
If I saw you in heaven
I must be strong, and carry on
Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven
Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven
Once the first song ended he put down the steel-string acoustic [There are two kinds of acoustic guitars, Steel-String which has steel strings with tiny coils in them for flexibility and Nylon-String which has plastic/rubber strings] and got ready for the next song.
"That was amazing Schyot-sensei!" Said Makie, thinking out loud.
"That's an understatement." Asuna replied to her classmate. "He played that song like it was nothing."
The second song soon began playing.
Almost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains
Shenandoah River -
Life is old there
Older than the trees
Younger than the mountains
Growin like a breeze
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads
All my memories gathered round her
Miners lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine
Teardrops in my eye
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads
I hear her voice
In the mornin hour she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
And drivin down the road I get a feelin
That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads
Take me home, now country roads
Take me home, now country roads
"That's better." Red said as he looked at the class to make sure they were paying attention.
I bruise you
You bruise me
We both bruise so easily
Too easily to let it show
I love you, and that's all I know
And all my plans
Keep falling through
All my plans they
Depend on you
Depend on you
To help them grow
I love you
And that's all I know
When the singer's gone
Let the song go on
It's a fine line between
The darkness and the dawn
They say in the darkest night
There's a light beyond
And the ending always
Comes at last
Endings always
Come too fast
They come too fast
And they pass too slow
I love you
And that's all, it's really all I know
Its all I know
It's all I know
"Hey Shanon." Red said as he paused the next song.
"Yes." Shanon replied.
"I forgot to give you these before you left for Japan. It's something you practice playing."
'Does he mean he got me a new violin?' Shanon thought.
"I got them the day you left only because someone told me that you were leaving the next day but when I showed up you weren't there. It was only after I realized that they had lied to me so that I could never see you again. But they never thought how you would feel, thinking that I didn't care that you were leaving to study in another country."
"Well I think there's one song that could cheer us both up." She got out of her seat walked up to him and whispered something into his ear which made him smile as he gave her the violin and another gift in a bag he had bought for her and it was her favourite colour, while she wondered what the other item was.
"Are you sure?" he asked her as she sat back down in her seat
"Yes, I am. 5, 4, 3, 2."
Red nodded as he clicked on the song she asked him to play. [Shanon is singing along with this song and her parts will look like "this"]
I have changed
"I have changed"
Just like you
"Just like you"
For how long
"For how long"
Must I wait
"I know there's something wrong"
Your concrete heart isn't beating
"And I've tried to"
Make it come alive
"No shadows"
Just red lights
"Now I'm here to rescue you oh"
Oh I'm still alive
"I'm still alive"
But can not apologize, no
"Oh I'm still alive"
I'm still alive
"But can not apologize, no"
So silent
"No violence"
But inside my head
"So loud and clear"
You're screaming
"You're screaming"
Covered up with a smile I've learned to fear
"Just sunshine"
And blue sky
"Is this all we get"
For living here
"Come fire"
Come fire
"Let it burn and love come racing through"
Oh I'm still alive
"I'm still alive"
But can not apologize, no
"Oh I'm still alive"
I'm still alive
"But can not apologize, no"
I've learned to lose
"I've learned to win"
I've turned my face against the wind
"I will move fast"
I will move slow
"Take me where I have to go"
Oh I'm still alive
"I'm still alive"
But can not apologize, no
Once she finished her song Negi decided to end the class with a duet.
(Red, Negi, Both)
1, 2. A 1, 2, 3.
Tell em Neg.
Oh, we ain't got a barrel of money
We maybe ragged and funny
But we'll travel along
Singing a song
Side by side
Don't know what's comin' tomorrow
Maybe trouble and sorrow
But we'll travel the road
Sharing our load
Side by side
Through all kinds of weather (Sing it Shanon)
What if the sky should fall
Just as long as we're together
It doesn't matter at all
When they've all had their quarrels and parted
We'll be the same as we started
Just sailing along
Singing a song
Side by side
Through all kinds of weather baby
What if the sky should fall
Just as long as we're together
It doesn't matter at all
When they've all had their quarrels and parted
We'll be the same as we started
Just sailing along
Singing a song
Side by side
Side by side
"Let's go to Las Vegas." Negi said.
The entire class roared in applause just before the bell rang signaling Music was over and English was next so they stayed in their seats and took out their textbooks.
"Now please open your books to page 74." Negi said the class but before he could continue with his lesson Red's phone went off.
'Yeah. Oh that's my day. That's my day. Whoo. Imma Bird Mother F(bleep)er. Imma bird. Look at me Imma bird. Look at me.' [Tobuscus ringtone]
"Sorry. I gotta take this everyone." Red apologized as he blushed in embarrassment and exited the classroom.
Outside the classroom
"This is Red. What is it?" Red said as he answered his phone.
The caller answered in a voice that sounded a bit depressed.
"Shugenatei. What's wrong?" Red said as he knew it was his younger brother.
"What happened?"
"How's Mom taking it?"
"And you?"
"When and where is the funeral going to take place?"
"I'll let her know."
"Thanks for calling and letting me know about this."
"Yeah. Bye."
"Bye."
In the classroom
When Red came back into the classroom he wasn't his cheerful self.
"You okay Red?" Negi asked his friend when Red looked troubled.
"I'm fine." Red answered in monotone. "I need to speak with Rayhcaundu and Shaneonwatea after class." He told the class.
15 minutes later
Negi had asked Asuna to translate a phrase into English, she had only made a few mistakes but Ayaka, wanting to be a Jennie [female jackass], was trying to rub it in.
"Why do you even bother to try to teach a monkey-girl like her?" Ayaka said nit-picking at Asuna's English.
"AYAKA YUKIHIRO!" Red yelled as he slammed his fist on his desk.
"Schyot-sensei." Ayaka nearly jumped out of her seat.
"Asuna only made a few errors but she was actually trying her best at this."
He's actually defending me? Asuna thought confused by this. [Not everything can be explained in the first chapter]
"Anymore of that and you will not like what will happen."
"Hai sensei." Ayaka sounded disappointed that she got caught.
"Arigato Schyot-sensei." Asuna thanked her teacher.
"Don't mention it." Red replied.
45 minutes later
When the bell rang, signaling that class was over, Shanon and Rayana went to see what Red wanted to talk to them about.
"Red." Shanon said to her teacher/best friend. "What's wrong? You haven't been acting like yourself after you came back into the classroom."
"Sistra's right bro." Rayana spoke up.
Sistra? Why did Rayana call me that? Shanon thought to herself.
"Well, it has to deal with what I was told." Red said to them.
"Who called you and what were you told?" Rayana said, being her curious self.
"It was Shugenatei." Red prepared himself for what he was about to tell them knowing that he was breaking down as each word came out of his mouth. "He told me that Dad's dead."
Tears began forming in Rayana's eyes as she hugged her brother hoping for comfort.
"Daddy." Rayana couldn't control herself as she began crying into Red's shoulder.
"When's the funeral?" Shanon asked knowing how they felt.
"Thursday and it's here in Japan." Red answered her as he comforted his little sister.
"That gives us three days before the funeral." Shanon grabbed her and Rayana's bags. "Come on Sistra. Let's go find out where Red will be sleeping."
The trio was leaving the room but Red stopped at the door.
"Bro aren't you coming?" Rayana asked Red.
"I'll catch up in a bit." Red replied as Rayana and Shanon left.
Red shut the door.
"Okay you can come out now." Red said to the 'empty' room.
"And here I thought you forgot all about me." A teenage girl, with ghostly white hair and rose red eyes, {Sayo Aisaka; Seat No. 1} said as she appeared out of nowhere, but that was because she was a ghost.
"How could I forget about my Aunt Sayo?"
"Well then give your Aunt a hug." Sayo said as she hugged her nephew but soon heard him crying. She began to rub his back. "Shh, shh. It's okay, it's okay. I'm here. And think about it so will yours and Rayana's father." she said as she was comforting him.
"Thank you Aunt Sayo." Red said as he sniffled a bit.
"Anytime Red." Sayo said as she wiped away her nephew's tears.
1 hour later
As Red was leaving the school he sensed that something was wrong.
"Oh no. Negi didn't just do what I think he did, did he?" Red said as he ran to Negi's location.
Meanwhile with Negi
Fortunately Negi had just saved Nodoka's life, but unfortunately he had also revealed that he was a mage to Asuna, by accident of course.
[When I watched Negima Abridged I was laughing so freaking hard at what Negi said to Asuna]
"Oh. My. God." Asuna said shocked at what she had just witnessed.
"Uhhh. It's the Yaoi's fault." Negi said as he tried to figure out what to do about his current situation.
"I was afraid that this would happen." Red said as he arrived at the scene.
"N-Negi-sensei?" Nodoka was regaining consciousness.
"Oh crap." Red said as he grabbed Negi and Asuna and ran to a safe place.
10 minutes later
"That was too close." Red said as they were now in a forest area and in the clear. "And you." Red raised his left hand and launched a spell at Negi that froze him in a block of ice. "That's for revealing your magic even though you saved a life."
Asuna sweatdropped at the scene.
"What is going on here?" Asuna asked Red as he was still pissed off at Negi.
"Well, it's like this. Negi and I are wizards or in Negi's case a mage." Red paused as he let his student absorb this information.
"Okay."
"But please don't tell anyone."
"Why?"
"Because it means that I will have failed and I would never get to see Shanon again."
"I think I understand now." Asuna said as she didn't want to see one of her friends hurt.
"Good. Because Negi was going to try to wipe your memory but results weren't going to be pretty."
"Huh?"
"You're a magic canceler."
"What makes you say that?"
"Would the jackass come out now?"
Takamichi walked out from the bushes.
"You were waiting to embarrass Negi and Asuna. Weren't you?" Red asked Takamichi.
"What gave you that idea?" Takamichi asked calmly.
"Cut the shit. I can tell you're lying."
"How did you know?"
"Your energy is leaking at a rate that only a select few can detect. Also I didn't know, nijem, you just told me." Red smirked.
Damn it. Sneaky bastard caught me. Looks like I'll have to be more careful around him. Takamichi thought as he was starting to shake uncontrollably.
"What do you mean?" Asuna asked Red. "Takahata-sensei has always been kind t-" Asuna started to feel a huge amount of pain throughout her body.
"Her memories are coming back now." Red said calmly as if it was nothing.
"How could you break that spell?" Takahata asked Red, shocked at what he had just done.
"You forget who you're talking to." Red said as he raised his hand and went '3, 2, 1'.
"YOU!" Asuna said as her eyes bursted open and she glared at her "True Love". "You erased my memories."
'Bashun Mrakn Sokh Shci' Red casted a spell which helped Asuna calm down before she would pummel the bastard.
"Oh my head." Asuna almost fell forward until someone helped her stand. She looked at her helper. "Who are you?"
"It's me TIP-chan." Only one person ever called her that.
"ALEX!" Asuna hugged her friend but noticed that Red wasn't around. "Where's Red?"
"You're hugging him." Alex said as she held her best friend/princess.
"What is this? Ranma 1/2?" [Except Ranma fell into one of the "Cursed Springs of Jusenkyo"]
"We are and always have been the same person."
Tears in Heaven © Eric Clapton
Country Road (West Virginia) © John Denver
All I Know © Chicken Little Soundtrack
Still Alive © Lisa Miskovsky
Side by Side © Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello
Name Notes
Name = Pro-nown-see-ay-shuhn
Schyot = Shee-ot
Rayhcaundu = Ray-koon-dah
Rayana = Ray-ahn-nah
Shaneonwatea = Shan-non-wat-ah
Spell Notes
Spell Chant = Effect/Type
Translation Notes:
word (Language) = translation (Language)
-san (Japanese) = formal (English); eg. Mr. Ms. or Mrs.
-sensei (Japanese) = professor/teacher (English); Red is called Schyot-sensei because his profession/course is in the field of Music
-bozu (Japanese) = squirt/twerp/brat (English); Negi is called Negi-bozu by Asuna because of their first meeting not turning out so well therefore he is a twerp or brat in Asuna's perspective
-chan (Japanese) = little (English), nicknames; Asu-chan is Konoka's nickname for Asuna, TIP-chan is Alex's nickname for Asuna
Sistra (Croatian) = Nee-chan/Ane-san (Japanese) = Sister (English)
Brat (Croatian) = Nii-san/Aniki (Japanese) = Brother (English)
Nijem (Croatian) = Baka (Japanese) = Idiot/Moron/Stupid/Dumb (English)
AN: So what do you think? Does it still need improvement? Is it okay story or a good story? Review Please for the sake of all things good and evil.
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