Annnnd the other story I was planning. This is a humour/crack fiction, I guess. A companion of sorts to Soul Seeker. Well not really, because they are unrelated in every way, but it's a lot more light hearted compared to the other.

If you didn't know already, I LOVE character interactions. I really (strangely) enjoy seeing characters that don't interact with one another very much… interact. lol.

Besides all that, don't take this thing seriously… I'm not exactly sure where I'm going with this, haha. As for updates, I'm not sure whether or not I'll be alternating the updates with Soul Seeker… I'm a lazy ass, so updates for both will be SPORATIC. I hope I will be able to finish both of them.

Finally, yes. It's going to be KonoSetsu. I think I pretty much spoiled everything. Yay.

Ch. 1

Early morning was definitely the best time. As a bodyguard, and practitioner of the Shinmeiryu style of arts, early morning was the ideal time for her to practice. Setsuna paused in between several forms, to wipe at her brow with the towel around her shoulders, before resuming. She enjoyed the crisp air, and the early morning sun, just rising as she went along with her practice. After she several hours had passed, she checked her watch, noting the time, then packed her stuff and headed back towards the dorms. She weaved her way through the various corridors, walking down familiar pathways she had long since memorized, picking out the room she needed to find. She took a deep breath then knocked. Almost instantly, the door swung open and she found herself starting to deep chocolate coloured eyes. She adverted her gaze quickly, suddenly nervous.

"Good morning Ojou-sama" She mumbled quickly, feeling her face get warm. Konoka always had that effect on her.

"Good morning Secchan, here for breakfast?" If the other girl noticed anything it, she ignored it. If anything, such a reaction was normal from Setsuna. Instead of responding, Setsuna only nodded fervently, avoiding looking into Konoka's eyes. "Well then come in, it's going to get cold if we just stand around here talking." Motioning for Setsuna to follow, Konoka turned and went back into her dorm room. As per usual, the room was abuzz with the usual early morning ruckus. Asuna, having just returned from her paper route, was trying to rouse an apparently reluctant Negi from bed. Chamo was snoring away in an underwear drawer somewhere, while Konoka went back to bustle around in the kitchen.

"Have a seat." Konoka told her as she brought over dishes of eggs and toast. She placed a setting in front of Setsuna, and motioned for her to eat, before heading over to the fridge.

"Anything you want in particular?" Konoka asked without looking up.

"No, nothing really." Setsuna responded between swallows. How lucky was she, to have a specially prepared breakfast from Ojou-sama herself.

"Alright then, I guess you can try this. I'm not exactly sure what it is or where it came from, but it couldn't hurt to try something new." Konoka said, as she pulled an unlabeled carton from the fridge, and poured a glass of the mysterious drink and offered it to Setsuna.

Setsuna took a sip. It tasted strange; she couldn't quite describe the flavour as it was like nothing she had ever tasted before. She shrugged and drank more of it, it didn't taste particularly bad, just strange.

"Mm, I smell eggs Konoka." Asuna sat down at the table and grabbed a piece of toast from the basket Konoka had set down. "I swear, I couldn't have asked for a better roommate."

Konoka chuckled in response, "Where's Negi-kun?"

"I finally got the little brat up, he's getting ready."

"I'll have you know that I'm not a brat, and I'm done getting ready, thank you very much." Negi retorted as he entered the kitchen, buttoning up his jacket. He wandered over to the fridge and opened it, rummaging around before looking pointedly at the girls seated around the table. "Um… This carton, did anyone drink from it?" He asked, holding up the carton from which Konoka had poured Setsuna's drink.

Wordlessly Konoka pointed at Setsuna, "I gave some to Secchan, why?"

Negi paled. "Well, it's just experimental so I suppose nothing will happen. I least I hope."

Everyone froze. Setsuna stared nervously at her empty cup. How silly of her to drink a mysterious substance from a mage's fridge, no less. She could feel everyone's eyes on her, waiting for her to grow another head probably. She checked herself over, making sure she was still human. To their surprise, Konoka moved first, she circled around the table giving Setsuna a strange look. Then, hands on either side of the other girls face, she bent down and kissed Setsuna full on the lips.

At first Setsuna was too shocked to react, finally realizing the situation, she struggled from Konoka's hold, trying to wriggle away.

"What was that stuff supposed to be, Bouzu?" Asuna interrogated the lad, while watching a desperately struggling Setsuna.

"W-well…" Negi stuttered out, "Y-you remember that failed love potion from way back? I felt like I was on the verge of a breakthrough, so…"

"Oh for the love of god, you didn't." Asuna replied incredulously, "Could you at least WARN us before you try and do things like this? I swear, we're all going to die someday because you decide to try something new."

Setsuna broke free from Konoka, both of them breathing hard.

"O-ojou-sama! Wh-why…" Her face red as she tried to string together a coherent sentence. "I… I gotta go, I'll see you guys later." Setsuna muttered, Kansai-ben (* 1) heavily accenting her words in her embarrassment. She hurried out of the room.

Konoka didn't seem the least bit fazed as she watched the other girl leave, eyes half-lidded.

"Hey Negi, is she going to be okay?" Asuna asked.

"I'm not sure, as I said, the effects of this are highly experimental."

Asuna gripped the boy by his lapels, almost lifting him off the ground. He winced in fright as she brought his face close to hers. "If anything happens to Konoka or Setsuna-san because of you, I'm going to pound you into the ground." She growled, "Or at least force two baths per day on you."

Negi gulped, "I'll start working on a way to reverse it right away."

"Reverse it? How long does this stuff last?"

"I'm not sure." Negi replied sheepishly. "In any case, class is going to start soon, and we're going to be late."

Asuna released him and dusted her hands off. Then turned to Konoka. "Hey earth to Konoka, you got all that? You have to be more careful around Setsuna-san now."

Konoka didn't reply, a hand to her lips.

"Hey, you there? I'm talking to you? Negi-bouzu here accidentally spelled Setsuna-san, if you haven't noticed."

"I know" Konoka responded quietly. Without another word, she gathered her things and left for school.

"I hope it doesn't affect Konoka-san too much." Negi muttered guiltily.

Asuna thought for a second before replying. "She'll be fine. I don't think she minded that too much."

"What do you mean?"

Ignoring Negi's question, Asuna got her things and followed Konoka out, dragging out a confused Negi behind her.

Negi spotted Setsuna walking to class, heads turning around her. She almost covered her face as it grew more and more red with embarrassment.

"Setsuna-san!"

The girl looked slightly relieved to see him, glad to find someone who wasn't looking at her strangely.

"Negi-sensei, please tell me this isn't going to last for long."

"I'm even unsure about it, but I'll get right to working on an antidote."

"And will it continue like this? Will everyone look at me like that?" She murmured, as she shooed another crowd of onlookers away. "I don't like this, I really prefer my own company and… this is just all rather unnerving."

"I'm afraid so. You'll just have to learn to deal with it. Hopefully no one else with act out like Konoka-san did. It was probably because you were already so close to her."

Unexpectedly, Setsuna's face began to redden until even her ears were a bright shade of crimson. "I would most certainly hope not." She choked out.

"Class is going to begin soon. We should get going. Be careful, but otherwise just bear with it for the time being. I'm really sorry this happened."

"It's not your fault Negi-sensei." Setsuna sighed, then followed her teacher in the room.

Not surprisingly, all conversation stopped, and everyone looked at the door when Setsuna stepped in. She sighed, it was going to be a long day. Their eyes followed Setsuna to her seat. She had never felt so exposed in her entire life. It was as if she was naked on a stage with every spotlight trained on her. She could feel her face redden.

Negi clapped his hands to get the attention of his class, "Alright now class, we should get on today's agenda. Shall we?"

The class, distracted out of their reverie looked back at their teacher with embarrassment. Nodoka realized she had missed the cue to call the class to bow (* 2), stuttered out the standard commands. The class stood, and bowed on her second command, then took their seats again.

Setsuna wanted to die, or at least crawl in a pit and never come out again. She could feel her classmates sneaking glances at her every so often as the class went on. This was definitely going to be a very, very long day.

(1) Both Konoka and Setsuna are from Kyoto. If you have heard enough Japanese, you might have noticed that some people speak different dialects or with different accents. Kansai-ben is the dialect predominantly spoken in Kyoto. Konoka from the anime speaks with a VERY heavy Kansai accent, whereas Setsuna speaks the standard Tokyo-ben. However, I do remember reading a bit of trivia that when flustered, she will revert back to speaking in Kansai-ben.(which in my opinion, is freaking adorable)

(2) In a standard Japanese classroom, it's custom to bow to the teacher upon their entry. A student will be assigned to instruct the class to stand, bow and sit again. (if you watch a lot of anime, then you might see this. I'm not sure though, since I don't watch too much of it, haha)

Oh god, my writing style is too heavy right now. Haha, I've still got Soul Seeker on my mind a bit. Hopefully, this will be good practice for writing in different styles.

Hopefully, I can just blame Asuna's magic cancel on her being unaffected. Negi's just Negi… Though supposedly his chocolates worked on Asuna once, but there is speculation that her magic cancel was on not working then as she was unaware of the chocolates being hexed.

Again, short chapter… again, my first chapters tend to be. In any case, I hope you look forwards to updates. Any reviews would be greatly appreciated.