I do not own Negima...boo..

Frustrated

"X…"

"X…equal.."

Groaning as her sympathetic brown hair roommate look on, Asuna ran her fingers through her long red hair trying to figure out how to get the equation out of the trigonometry problem. Usually she wouldn't even bother with her homework but since Negi somehow threatened her with detention, she had to relent. In addition, she couldn't retaliate back because there was a high chance that Negi might even give her an F…even if she was heading there already.

As Konoka stood up to go make tea and dessert, Asuna groaned again this time scribbling on the paper, trying to get some kind of help or idea from it. She had been studying ever since she came back from school but the information was just going from one ear out the other. Sad to say, but she's been stuck on the first problem for hours now.

Thinking that she had no chance of picking up anything she asked "Konoka, can you help me?"

Turning around to stare at her roommate from the kitchen, Konoka stared at Asuna for a moment before answering back with a deadpanned face "You want me to do your homework, is that what you mean?"

"Yes! I mean….no?"

Unable to keep her straight face on anymore, Konoka giggled smiling sympathetically at her roommate again. "No, Asuna. You got to do this yourself, or else Negi is going to figure it out…..again."

Groaning once more, Asuna lays her head on the tabletop. "I'm so hopeless" muffled Asuna through the wooden top.

Pouring the last of the tea from the kettle into their ceramic cup collection, Konoka walked over to Asuna and patted her dear friend's back as she set the tea down. "No your not, funny girl, remember the exam you took? The one you passed with a high grade?"

Smudging her cheek on the table, Asuna turned her head to glance at Konoka. "Yes, I remember"

"Then you can do the same for your homework. You just got to, say ,put your head into it."

Looking blank for a moment then colorful eyes slowly comprehending, Asuna accused "What's that suppose to mean, put your head into it?"

Giggling brightly, Konoka turned around to go to her closet. "Nothing monkey, just study hard." Asuna turned back to her homework and signed once more. She stared at it for a few minutes before she heard Konoka walking pass her table changed out of her pjs and into more casual cloth.

"Where are you going?"

"Oh…I am going to go hang out with Sec-chan."

Asuna stared back deadpanned "And you're leaving me"

"Yes..?"

"Okay! Have fun! Make sure you get back by ten! So I won't starve!" Eyes twinkling that she would soon be with her guardian and friend, Konoka quickly rushed out the door, yelled out that she'll be back and shut the door behind her.

Smiling to herself for moment, Asuna stared at the paper before the realization came back to her. Slowly her smile turned to frown as she remembered that she was struggling. However, Konoka's word came to her "You can do it!" So therefore, taking it into heart, she took up her pencil and started writing on the homework.

2 hours later….

"I'm back!" announced a happy Konoka as she walked into the room followed by the ever quiet but blushing Setsuna.

"I'm done!" announced a victorious Asuna as she held up her paper with both hands showing it to Konoka. Indeed, she was so excited that her hands and arms were shaking and pulling on the paper.

Leaning in to inspect one problem, it took a minute before Konoka voiced out the verdict.

"Asuna…the first answer is wrong…"

RIPPPPP

Konoka, Setsuna and Asuna stared in shock (especially Asuna) as the paper in Asuna's hand was ripped in half.

"Sayo, do you hear anything?" asked Kazumi as she looked up from her camera to look at birds flying out of pine trees. Sayo, who was floating transparently beside her, nodded.

"It sounded like a ghost wailing."