Fate: Intertwining stars
Fate Chapter 1: Awakening heart
The school was very quiet, after all it was already 5:45 PM. Classes ended hours ago and most of the students were already out or at home. But class 3-A wasn't empty, five students stood there in the class starring at a sixth student. A female with bright blond hair stood in the middle of the group with crossed arms and a serious expression in her face, Ayaka Yukihiro, the class representative. The two on her left was the book club duo, the blue-purple haired shy student Nodoka Miyazaki, and the blue haired wizard knight Yue Ayase. To her right was the all well energetic and very "always in your business", Kazumi Asakura. And the other "always in your business" and frenzied four eyes, Haruna Saotome who was always looking out for Yue and Nodoka.
"Asuna!" the blonde yelled at the sixth female student who turns out to be Asuna Kagurazaka.
"We want to know the truth Asuna..." Yue asks in her usual gentle voice.
"What truth?!" Asuna was somewhat confused
"Ever since the two of you came back from the Magic world you have been spending a lot more time with Negi-Sensei," Nodoka was very nervous as usual
"W... We... Well yeah we work together... heh heh heh," it was obvious she was hiding her true feelings.
"When we were negotiating for the establishment of the Mars Elevator Project you spent more time with him than I did, and even after we finished it you two never stopped spending time together." Ayaka was seriously grilling Asuna.
"WELL WE ARE ROOMATES!" her yelling justified her guilt to her true feelings.
"C'mon Asuna! just admit it!" Haruna made a fist with her hands as she pressured her further, "YOU LIKE NEGI-SENSEI!" she exclaimed as she pointed her fingers at her with a strong resolve to get the truth from Asuna.
"WH... WHA... WHAT!?" she became flustered and her face turned beat red, "that's ridiculous!... me? Like that brat?! Heh heh heh..." she was denying her true feelings and she was hiding it but everyone already knew, all she had to do was admit it. She was starting to really feel embarassed now.
All of a sudden Sayo appeared out of nowhere behind Kazumi, she whispered something in Kuzumi's ears. Whatever she said got Kuzumi fired up. "Alright ASUNA!... just tell us... tell us how you really feel about Negi-Sensei?"
-A few minutes earlier-
"AHHH!," Negi was rummaging through his bag When Sayo appeared out of nowhere and startled him, "oh... heh heh heh... its just you Sayo-san."
"hmmmm, I didn't think that the hero of Magnus Magicus could get scared so easily." Sayo gave a subtle giggle.
"yeah, hahaha but you caught me completely off guard, and you are in your specter form after all."
"Sensei..."
"uh... yes Sayo-san?"
"I was wondering if we could talk at the classroom?"
"ehh... about what Sayo-san?"
"just... Please come okay?" she smiled at him before she disappeared
"Uhm... OKAY!" Negi yelled before Sayo completely disappeared
Negi just finished putting all of his stuff in is bag and fixed up his suit before making his way back to 3-A's classroom. He got up the stairs slowly and walked down the hall only to hear yelling down the hall. He hastened his walk only to realize the voices were coming from 3-A. He reached the door and was about to open it but Asuna's voice stopped him.
"How do I feel about him?..." Asuna was looking gloomy and she hesitated before she could answer.
"wait... were they talking about me?..." Negi whispered to himself
"I'll tell you how I feel about him!" Asuan yelled as her fist hit the desk right in front of her.
Before Asuna yelled out how she really felt, Ayake felt a deep anger coming form her. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to have forced her to say her true feelings, it might have back fired. She then noticed Negi-sensei's little eyes peeking through a crack from the classroom door. This could cost her best friend the love of her life and she'll be responsible for it, she'll be a part of a scheme that may cause her best friend to lose the man that she loves.
"Asuna... wait I do..." before Ayaka could finish her sentence Asuna began to yell out how she felt.
"He's irresponsible! Annoying and just plain getting on my nerves!... I mean seriously every morning I wake up and hes sleeping in my bed and undoing my pajamas, talk about a bratty perv. He such a crybaby and he can't even take care of himself, hes starting to become a bother to me. He cant give himself a proper bath, I have to drag him literally every night to the bath and scrub him myself. That brat cant do anything all by himself. And If you ask me he fails as a teacher, what kind of teacher would drag his helpless students to another planet, allow some of them to end up as slaves and endanger their lives. He's irresponsible, he's a failure, and I HATE HIM! I don't even remember why I follow him around."
Asuna realized that Ayaka had her hands over her lips and was in total shock, and so was everybody else in the room. They were just shocked by the fact that she was always the one to jump head first with Negi in almost anything that happened but to say all of those was just surprising. But then Asuna noticed Ayaka shift her eyes a little to her right, where Negi was standing in shock.
Asuna shifted her pose, "What are you looking at?" she looked behind her and saw a crack on the door and a person behind it.
in Asuna's annoyance she stomped her way to the door and slammed it open, "What no..." Before Asuna could finished her question she was startled to see Negi in tears wearing a gloomy face.
Negi walked passed Asuna, "Sayo, what was it that you needed to speak to me about?" his face was still down.
"Oh... uhm... I forgot what it was," Sayo answered with a guilty tone.
"I see, please if you remember it don't hesitate to ask me," Negi walked passed Asuna again, his head remained down like it was carrying something heavy.
"N... Ne..." Asuna was feeling a heavy guilt in her heart, not only because she hurt negi but because she knew everything she said was a lie.
"I will see you all tomorrow in class," he walked hastily down the hall, as if to hide his pain and his tears. He turned the corner
"Negi wait!..." Asuna ran after him but when she got to the corner Negi was gone, and a gust of wind hit her. She realized Negi used his staff to get away.
"maybe... we over did it." Yue muttered as she also felt the guilt.
"I think we pushed too hard too soon..." Ayaka also felt the guilt, she might have just cost her best friend the love of her life.
Haruna was the only one who didn't feel guilty at all, because she knew that it was necessary to push the two to the edge for them to finally accept their true feelings and confess them.
"Damn her..." Haruna made a fist on both her hands, "why does she still keep on lying like this... Its useless."
"I think Negi is completely devastated..." Kuzumi said as she monitored Negi using one of her Drone cameras.
"Where is he?" Nodoka asked as she herself felt devastated.
"He's sitting in the world tree..." she felt Negi's despair
Ayaka started to walk to the door, she looked down the hall to see Asuna on her knees. She Knew that she was partially responsible for this, no, she was completely responsible for this.
Asuna sat there, looking devastated, "what have I done..." she whispered to herself. She lied to herself, to her friends and most of all she lied to Negi and she hurt him. She knew he'll never forgive her for all the hurtful things she said, "Negi... Im sorry..." she muttered out as tears fell down to her cheeks. She couldn't hold off the tears anymore, she was in pain. She was in pain because the one she loved was just hurt by her. Right at that moment, her heart, her mind. It all thought as one, it was thinking of the same thing. It was thinking of how painful it was to watch Negi run from her in tears. This was her fault, the man who saved her was now crying because of her. She realized how sad she felt seeing that man she adored and cared for crying and in pain. That's when she realized, her heart, her mind, it was all thinking about Negi. Negi was the one she really cared about, the one she would give her everything to. She knew then and there, it was Takahata-sensei that she loved. It was Negi, She never felt this kid of deep guilt and loss at the same time. Seeing Negi like that, it devastated her. She finally accepted her true feelings, she finally accepted that she was in love with Negi. But now that road just got harder, it was time for her to step up and Take responsibility
Ayaka stood behind her, and the four others followed, "I'm sorry Asuna, this is all my fault."
"No this is our fault..." Nodoka yelled out.
Asuna stood up firm and wiped the tears from her face, "No this is my problem, my responsibility so I will fix this. I will apologize to Negi." she looked back at them with a big smile but everyone knew it was a mask to hide her tears, "But thank you, for making me realize... How I really feel about Negi, now it's about time I showed that brat how I really feel."
everyone didn't know how to react to her words, but they did all they could do at that moment. Smile with Asuna and give her all the support they can give.