Strawberry Negima/Mahou Sensei Panic!
Disclaimer: I do not own both Negima and Strawberry Panic! (and the Skyline mentioned in the fic, although I do in another form).
Description: This is a multi-crossover fic involving 3 sets of different characters, that is those from the animes mentioned, and a set of OOCs from another fic. Basically, this AU fic, set in 2005, is set in an entirely different area from Mahora, where an entirely different group of people wander around the place. It was a challenge for Yuuna to be familiar with the new environment, but not without help from some new friends.
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Negi Springfield,
You are to return to Wales after you finished your term as a teacher in Mahora Academy. I have very important matters to discuss with you, and we'll require your help on this. Bring Asuna Kagurazaka along with you.
Yours truly,
Magus.
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Year 2004,
Tokyo International Airport, 6.00pm.
The place was abuzz with activities. At one corner in the waiting hall, a group of girls seemed to surround a 10-year old boy. They are oblivious to the traffic of humans zigzagging to and fro one pint to another, left and right, around the hall.
"Negi-sensei, we're going to miss you very much," a teary-eyed Makie says, trying hard to contain her tears.
"Yeah, we have much fun during this period of time," another of the girls, Haruna said. "I can't imagine life without you from now on."
"Oh Negi-sensei, please accept this gift on behalf of me…no, I mean, us," Ayaka said, while handing over to Negi a rather large box. "It is something we have got specially for you."
"Still not giving up on Negi-sensei after all this whole, eh?" Kazumi chipped in rather quickly. "I thought you have 'fizzled' out to the rest?"
"Hah, there's no way I would!" Ayaka answered sharply. "Even if he got someone on his mind, I won't lose!"
Her reaction sets out laughter from the rest of the girls. They do not care about the amount of crowd looking at them, instead they continued behaving rather humorously.
"Negi-sensei…will we meet again?" Nodoka said in a rather slow, soft tone. Yue looked on to Nodoka quietly, not saying a word since they arrived at the airport.
"Hmmm," Negi clears his throat from Nodoka's question. "If I got time off from NGO duties, maybe I'll return here for the holidays or something," the young mage smiled back at Nodoka.
"Yue, is something wrong?" Negi, seeing that one of his students is being very quiet, asks.
"Er…no…I'm all right sensei," the girl responded in a split second from the question. "I think…I'll go get some drinks for myself first…" she continued, and turns around.
Before she could turn a step from where she is, Haruna pulled her back.
"You're not about to run away from your 'beloved', don't you?" the bespectacled girl whispered slyly at Yue's ear. "You want to waste your chance to see him for one last time?"
"Leave me alone, Haruna," the girl answered back violently, but making sure that no one notices it. "It's better for me to go off now than to spend my time moping like Eva later."
Eva could not make it to the airport; it seems that despite Negi's best efforts, the curse is still in effect. Not to mention, she refused to admit that she 'substituted' her love for Nagi, Negi's father with the son of the Thousand Master. Chachamaru was there to represent Eva, but like some of the rest, she has been solemn for most of the time, despite Chisame's best efforts to cheer her up. Both of them managed to put up with each other's 'eccentricities' to become quite close, with Chachamaru helping 'Chiu' in some of the cosplaying work at times.
Other than Eva, some of the students did not show up at the airport. Mana seemed to be doing her mercenary duties; Kaede and Kotarou somehow disappeared before they ask her to go to the airport. 'One day I'll defeat you' is all that Kotarou left for Negi. Lingshen has already returned to where she is from.
Some of the important ones seem to be missing. Konoka and Setsuna.
"Calling passengers of British Airways Flight 857 to the Depature Hall," the public address system in the hall announced.
"Oi Negi-bouzu, don't you remember that the plane won't wait for us?" Asuna goes to Negi, goes to poke his head, while showing an impatient expression.
"Don't you dare to touch Negi-sensei, you monke-" Ayaka about to scream at Asuna, but was stopped by the others.
"Ayala…don't you remember we are at a crowded place right now?" Sakurako said, while she and the rest tried to hold Ayaka back. She then releases herself from the hold of the rest, and then looks back at Asuna.
"Forget it," a rather calm Ayaka said. "Looks like I'm losing a long time classmate of mine."
"Same goes to you too," Asuna replied back at Ayaka's words. "Going to miss those days when we always fought."
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"Repeat call for passengers of British Airways Flight 857 to the Departure Hall," the speaker announced. Some of the passengers of the flight began to make their way towards the Departure Hall.
"Guess we don't have much time left everyone," Negi said to the girls. "Looks like we'll go our own ways from here."
"Wait Negi-sensei, let us take a group photo!" Kazumi suddenly whipped out her camera.
"Since most of us is here…ah I know!" the girl said. "Seems like we can ask for someone's help!" she continued, while turning to Yuuna. "Your friend is somewhere here right?"
"Yeah, wait," said the black-haired girl, while going to the entrance of a hall. She then comes back with a boy that seems to be older than them. Despite speculation from the rest that they have a romantic relationship, they have been only mere friends.
"Oi , help us to take the photo, OK?" Yuuna asks the slightly bewildered boy.
"OK, whatever," the boy answered back.
Like Negi Springfield, Ko Choo Tin is also one of the mages that reside in Mahora. But unlike Negi, he still attends school like any other boys his age. Recently, he has decided to adopt a Japanese name, Ryota Nakano, after being coaxed to do so by Yuuna, since she felt 'it's hard if I have to call you by your Chinese name all the time'. Negi have only known recently that the teenager is a part-time mage, but the teenager specializes in barrier magic, while using modern firearms to attack. He was roped in to bring the baggage to the airport today.
Kazumi passes the camera to the boy, and she then goes to gather the group, with Negi and Asuna in the middle.
"OK everyone, 3, 2, 1, cheese!" he said, snapping a picture with of the group the digital camera.
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Class 3-A has been broken up as they moved on to the St. Ursula senior high school, as the Mahora Academy girl's middle high and the St. Ursurla sirl's senior high have different administration, although they fall under Principal Konoemon's jurisdiction. Eva, as usual, is forced to remain where she is as; Negi is unable to break the curse, while Sayo is to remain as the ghost of 3-A, although she still does spend considerable amount of time with Kazumi, who occasionally returns to teach the juniors how to do editing work for the newspaper. The cheerleaders' still continued with their cheerleading club activities. The Librarian Trio continued their activities, but then Nodoka have seemed to change, instead being more courageous in facing others, especially males. Haruna continued her manga artist job, and Yue decided that she couldn't intentionally lag behind in studies anymore.
While some of the other girls have chosen to stay on, some of them have been transferred to the other schools. Makie and Akira got accepted into prestigious sports schools after the sports bodies noticed their performances in their respective sports. While they are constantly getting better, Ako quit her coaching job after the team she coached won the prefecture-level competition, but lose out in the national levels. She is now being one of the medical personnel for any sporting team that represent the academy. Unfortunately for Yuuna, basketball seemed to fizzle out altogether from her mind, after having the team knocked out in district level competitions. It was only made worse when her father wanted her to be transferred out of St. Ursurla to an entirely different school, for a 'change of environment'.
Yuuna was transferred to another all-girls school, called St. Le Rim Girl's School, on request by her father. The school's administration system is different from those of typical Japanese schools, where the middle and senior highs are integrated into one school, instead of 2 different schools. The school is also unique that it was located on Astraea Hill, where 2 other schools are located right next to each other's doorstep, where the schools are differentiated by the building and the uniforms they wore. Despite that, all students share a dormitory called 'Strawberry Dormitory' where one's next-door neighbour may be a student from another school. The feel of the dormitory is different from that of the one she experienced in Mahora; it has a certain 'class' in it.
The schools are said to be very prestigious, even more prestigious compared to that of Mahora Academy. It was said that no males ever stepped on the grounds of the hill.
She finds the environment challenging, due to the fact that students of each of the 3 schools behaved differently, but managed to find a friend in Chikaru Minamoto, a 4th year student that time, who happens to be her classmate in the new class. It was also helpful to her that the students in St. Le Rim are more relaxed on trivial matters, compared to those from the other schools.
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: OP: KOTOKO – Re-sublimity :
Chapter 01: News
Year 2005.
While having been used to dormitory life, she finds the relationships and the politics of the school is rather complex. Thankfully, St. Le Rim is not stuck in between an on-going political war between 2 other schools, St. Spica Academy and St. Miatre Girl's Academy, due to a so-called 'Etoile' from St. Miatre, whom the Student Council of St. Spica deemed not doing her job. Chikaru, the current Student Council president of St. Le Rim, chooses to take a neutral path in the on-going war.
'Etoile' is the term that is given to a student that represents the 3 schools. It was said that this is a single most important post to be given a student, since she got numerous duties to fulfill. Among those duties are greeting new students coming to Astraea Hill, participating in important school events and serving as mediator between any disputes in student council meetings of the three schools, among other duties. The mysterious Shizuma Hanazono, a 6th year student, is the current 'Etoile' of the 3 schools. For some reason that in unknown to most people, she has not been carrying out the supposed duties given to her.
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"Hey Yuuna, have you heard about the new students coming in here to year 5?" one of the girls from the class asks Yuuna in the hallways.
It was one fine day in the schools, when news about 2 girls from Mahora coming into transferring into one of the schools set everyone abuzz. One mention of a new student coming into one of the schools, and it will spread like wildfire to everyone within hours.
"I can't be bothered," the girl replied back in a polite manner. "Every time this happens, everyone will be busy with this and that…I don't see the point of having grand stuff for even one student."
Politeness is usually not something that is associated with the usually hyperactive and 'wild' Yuuna, but ever since she has been transferred here, she realizes that everyone here is different from what she is used to, being very polite and have a higher 'class' than her. She would have a hard time suiting herself to this environment, if not for Chikaru, who happens to live in a nearby room next to hers.
Attitude change is not the only thing that came to Yuuna; she underwent a slight image change, not tying her hair at the right side anymore, instead, letting it down naturally. She does that after seeing how elegant everyone was in school compared to her, and she felt out of place that time.
"The last time a new student came, it is as if a superstar have just came to this school," she added. "I still remembered how she mistaken another girl for Etoile-sama, and she fainted after the real Etoile-sama appeared."
The girl she was talking about was Nagisa Aoi, a 4th year student in St. Miatre that was transferred to the schools when the new school year starts. It was rumoured that the Etoile have taken a liking for her, despite having relationships with other girls before. This is another thing Yuuna finds weird about all the schools on the hill; all the girls tend to have a 'romantic' relationship with each other, different from the time she was in Mahora, when everyone from her class pretty much liked Negi.
"Oh Yuuna-san, if you're bothered about it, sorry for asking about it then" the girl apologized to Yuuna in a polite tone, bowing to her. "Oh yeah, before I forget, the girls are said to be from your place," the girl added, before turning around and going off.
She mentioned 'from your place'? That means they're from Mahora? Who could it be?
She then attempted to find out who could be coming to the school, but then she decided to give up, knowing that there are simply too many students from even a year in Mahora Academy.
"What's wrong, Akashi-san?" another girl suddenly asked in a polite tone. A surprised Yuuna turned around, only to see another girl.
It was a girl with long black hair, with a pair of ribbons attached to the side of her hair. She gives out a rather serene aura, despite her appearance may be deemed 'childish' because of the ribbons.
"Oh Chikaru-sama, no need to freak me out like that," Yuuna breathes a sigh of relief, as it was her classmate, Chikaru. "Thought you got a meeting of the Student Council presidents just now?"
"Useless, as usual," Chikaru shakes her head left and right in disappointment. "As expected, they got into a screaming match within 10 minutes, and Etoile-sama disappeared again."
"Oh…OK, I never knew it was that bad for you," Yuuna was being sympathetic with Chikaru's predicament.
"Never mind about that," the Student Council president of St. Le Rim replied. "How about we take a walk on the school grounds, for some chit-chatting? I called off my 'Transformation Club' activities today, so I'll be free for today."
"Yeah, thanks. I could do with some company," Yuuna goes to say her thanks to the girl.
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"Other than the students, new teachers are coming too?" Yuuna, seated on a bench overlooking the school building, goes to ask a question at Chikaru.
"Yep, 2 of them in fact," the girl nodded in reply. "One of them will be teaching Miatre full-time, while another one is going to take over our class as temporary replacement teacher, since Aki-sensei went off for course training."
"Really?" her facial expression lights up after hearing the news. "Good for us then…but how is the teachers going to be like?"
"I heard she was taking engineering at university, and was roped in for assignment by the university to here in Le Rim," Chikaru proceeds to step into details of the new teachers. "As for the other teacher…I heard that she is even younger than us."
"WHAT?" Yuuna was immediately surprised at hearing that. "It reminds me so much of the time I'm in Year 3 that time!"
"Oh yeah, your class and the famous child-sensei," Chikaru giggled at Yuuna's reaction. "Heard it was pretty chaotic there?"
"No, we have much fun that time," Yuuna goes to shake her head in disagreement. "The Kyoto trip, the Festival, so much more…sure it was memorable back then."
"Hmmm…we will have separate celebrations to commemorate the occasio-" Chikaru said, but as she was about to complete that statement, loud bassy whistling sounds are heard outside the school, followed by that of loud engine sound of a car.
Huh, that sound…I recognize it! Yuuna's expressions changed as she hears that.
It was then a black coloured car appeared at the open gates of St. Le Rim, going into the school. While other girls will not care to know what car is that, Yuuna know all too well about this particular car, not to mention the registration number of the car.
It was all too familiar to her.
The black Nissan Skyline GT-R, V-Spec II, with that number…and some 6-spoke bronze rims…how can it be…
Usually girls have no interest in cars, but Yuuna learned about them from that senior of hers, since he used to drive cars like these. She last remembered that he finally got ownership of the Nissan last year.
"Yuuna, what's wrong with you?" Chikaru, seeing Yuuna's surprised look, asks her out of concern.
"I know that car," she replied in a rather tense manner. "It belonged to a senpai of mine when I'm still in Mahora. He's now taking engineering, although I didn't hear from him for a while," she continued with the same tone. "Why?"
"What?" Chikaru could not believe what her classmate said. "You know too well that males never stepped on the grounds of this school."
"And they said the new teacher drives something like that loud thing," she continued, pointing to the car.
"I have no idea what happened, we'll wait and see here," Yuuna said, looking back at the car. She could not make out who was driving the car, since the glare from the metallic paint reflects to her eyes.
They wait patiently, as the car makes it's way towards the front parking. The black car stopped, and the driver finally got out of the car while the engine is still running.
It was then both of them are surprised by what they saw.
Instead of a male coming out of the car as they expected, it was a female instead.
: ED: Mai Nakahara and Ai Shimizu – Himitsu Dolls (aka Secret Dolls) :
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Author's note: It was a challenge to do this fic, due to SP! being a very new anime. I hope I can get some reviews!