I do not own Negima. Ken Akamatsu owns Negima. This is just a free interpretation of his work. Please support the author and go buy some manga. Stop scanlations :(

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The Guise of Night: Fate Forged from the Beginning

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Why do you only come to me at night? The moon rises, as the sun sets on our world. You crawl to me under the guise of night. I feel the sheets ruffle as a cold breeze takes hold for just a moment, but is quickly replaced by the warmth of your body laying next to mine. It has been the same for 5 years now. I have long graduated your class and moved onto more advanced studies. Still, every night, I can feel your body so unbearably close to mine. The heat from your skin pressing into my back, your scent lingering within my sheets, mixed with my own, creating something wonderful and new, and your soft breathing, the rise and fall of your chest, letting me know your there as the heat of it moves along my neck to make me shiver, all tell me that no matter what you'll be here, you'll be with me, and you'll be mine.

It use to be, in the beginning, you would snake your way into my sheets and cuddle into me, your back pressing against my breasts, but as your grew older, you grew larger, and soon you were the one I was pressing into. I use to get mad. I would wake in the morning to find you lying with me and I would lash out towards you.

I'm glad you didn't leave. There was a time when I wish you would have; wish you would just get out of my bed and grow up, but now, when I look back at it, I'm glad. I'm glad you didn't run away. I'm glad you defied me and crawled in here each night. I'm glad that even after all the beatings you still came to me.

I love you… I have never said it to your face. In most cases I act little more than discontent with you, but it's true. I see you smile at me each morning when I wake and my heart soars. That cheerful little grin that says, 'Yes, everything will be ok' makes me want to hold you even more. Sadly I can't. I can't hold you in the way I wish. You do not feel the same as me.

That is why; each night when you crawl into my bed I savor the moments as if it were our last together. I love you… I wish so badly I could tell you how I feel. I wish so badly that you would hold me and whisper into my ear…

"I love you Asuna.."

My heart stops for a moment, my breath caught in my throat. Did I just hear the words I have longed after, for the past five years? It was as soft as the most delicate whisper. Did he just say those words to me or had I been thinking so hard I imagined the sweet words that promised the heaven and the stars.

"I love you Asuna Kagurazaka. I have loved you for a very long time now, but have been too scared to say a word. Even now I can only truly admit it, as you lay here asleep, lost in a dream. I live for you Asuna. My only regret in this world is having never told you any of this."

My vision blurred. I could feel my heart trying to beat. The sudden speaking of those words disrupted the normal actions of my body sending it into chaos. My mind couldn't even fully comprehend the situation as I tried to re-learn how to breathe. Was this happening? Did he just admit to what I have been wishing all these years? Does he actually feel the same about me, or was I trapped in a dream?

I didn't care. If this was a dream than what I did next truly didn't matter, and if by some lucky chance this were all real then it would finally be what I have been hoping for all these years. I turn my body, placing my hands on either side of his face; I quickly press my lips into his, as the tears begin to slowly slide down my cheeks.

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Each book will have a little teaser like this first and if people seem to want it to continue, I will.

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