Hello faithful readers!

Once again I have been struck with the whimsical bat, and having hit a writers roadblock once more, decided to start a new story in a completely different setting, Harem writing!

However, the only one I even slightly know about is Negima, and as thus have put the setting here. Unlike my other stories this one is just on a whim, and will be unlikely to be continued for long unless it garners interest (which I DOUBT hugely).

As usual, since I love O.C's, I have gone for one in this story. Unusually though, this O.C won't be making a main character appearance for a while, but he will eventually become a joint main focus alongside Negi after the Kyoto Arc. For now this is merely the intro, setting the stage for the upcoming work. While the O.C won't be properly introduced yet, the only hint will be that he is character tied deeply to Setsuna's past, possibly more so than Konoka, hence where this starts in the timeline.

Negi definite harem members: Nodoka, Ayaka, Makie, Luna, Fuka and Fumika

O.C definite harem members: Asuna, Haruna, (?)

The last girl for the O.C is a mystery charecter which i'm betting no-one will guess. All other girls are up for choice in who goes where for now, if anybody feels like it they can suggest them to me in future messages/reviews, I may even start doing polls on my profile if this story is pipular. This story WILL have lemons as a warning, but it wont appear for a while, and regardless of what people want to say, the first lemon is already cast in stone as to who it will be, and may I say NONE of you will guess who it will be (mind you, free monster size cookie if you can guess which girl the first lemon will be with XP)

Anyhow enough blathering, on with the show/story!

(Train Carriage)

We will be arriving in Kyoto shortly. Please ensure that you do not forget-

"Everyone please get ready to disembark!" Negi called out to the girls from class 3-A in the train carriage, interrupting the announcement over the train intercom as the carriage started to slow down to pull into the Kyoto train station.

"Eh, already?" Misora asked blearily in surprise, having only just woken up from the slumber she had fallen into pretty early on in the journey, having also missed out on all the excitement and panic caused by the plague of frogs earlier.

"That was fast!" Natsumi agreed with her neighbour, while nearby the more practical Chizuru had decided to listen to their child sensei instead of converse, reaching up to grab her bags as the other girls nattered away.

Turning about to his own seat, Negi excitedly clenched his fist, talking aloud to himself "We're finally in Kyoto, now we just might be able to find some clues about the Thousand Master!"

"Hm? What was that, Negi-kun?" Konoka asked from behind him, startling the mage and making him jump. He quickly recovered though, turning back to the girl as he rapidly said "N-nothing, I'm just really looking forward to Kyoto!"

Konoka smiled happily back at him, finding his fluster funny as the boy tried to pass off his lapse in concentration. However this was interrupted as Negi felt something like a sixth sense go off. Turning about in surprise again, his eyes met another across the train, a certain swordswoman staring quietly at him.

Noticing she had been caught watching him, Setsuna turned about, her rather suspicious looking wrapped sword swaying with her movements as her gaze turned instead out the nearby window.

'Sakurazaki Setsuna-san… she looked this way again…' Negi thought in worry, remembering his faithful ermine's warnings about the girl. 'Could she really be a spy from the west?'

"We've arrived, Negi-kun!" a trio of shouts from nearby jolted the boy out of his thoughts as Fuuka, Fumika and Makie all cheered together.

"Ah, yes! Sorry!" Negi replied quickly, rubbing his head sheepishly at having been surprised by the three girls.

Turning towards the now opening door to the station revealing Kiyomizu Temple in the distance, Negi shouted enthusiastically "All right, everyone! It's off to Kyoto we go!"

It had been an exciting first few months for the young mage turned teacher Negi Springfield. Having graduated from the academy of magic, in order to continue on his path of becoming a Magister Magi, the young boy had been assigned the job of a teacher at Mahora Academy.

To say the least the year had already been very eventful in ways the boy could never have predicted. Getting to know his new (all female) class had been a momentous task all of its own, not to mention the rather risky task of getting along with his roommate, one Kagurazaka Asuna. Suffice to say first impressions had not been great, not only had he embarrassed the girl in front of her unrequited love interest, but she had discovered his secret of being a Mage on the very first day. While he had by some miracle managed to make peace with the girl, it only took the slightest of mistakes on his behalf and he would be on the receiving end of the girl's fiery rage.

Add to that nightmare scenario that only a few weeks into his job, he was targeted by a powerful dark Mage; one who not only happened to have a personal grudge against him as the son of the Thousand Mage, but also happened to be one of his students, the Advent of Evil/Apostle of Calamity/Gospel of Darkness/Dark Evangel/Puppet Master/Maga Nosferatu/Girl Queen of Darkness/Visitation of Woes/Disciple of Dark Tones (suffice to say a lot of very infamous titles), none other than the immortal vampire Evangeline A.K. Mcdowell.

No sooner than he had managed (somehow…not even Negi was sure just how he achieved the miracle) to defeat the immortal vampire with Asuna's help, did Evangeline relent that there may be a chance that the information Negi so desperately wanted; information on his father might be found in a home in Kyoto.

Even then, with this one in a lifetime chance to find out more about his missing father, Negi once again found himself in another situation. While the class had been planning to go on a school trip to Kyoto, it was almost stopped. Because of the bad relations between the Kantou Magic Association and the Kansai Magic Association, any Mage sent by the school into Tokyo would be stopped. However, in order to continue, Negi was given the mission of delivering a peace letter to the head of the Kansai Association as a special envoy.

With the letter in hand, Negi and class had set off for their destination with cheer and gusto. But with one magical ambush already set in motion on the train, suspicions were high of a potential spy amongst the students, and all pointers went to a student from his class, a swordswomen called Sakurazaki Setsuna. With the school trip now starting, Negi's mission to deliver the all-important peace missive had begun.

(Kiyomizu Temple)

"KYOTOOO!" Shiina cheered with an energetic fist pump, her eyes practically drinking up the view over the expanse of buildings and trees that made up the Kiyomizu Temple. Nearby Yuuna was practically bouncing in excitement as she shouted gleefully "This must be that place where you jump off! I've heard about this! Someone try to jump off!"

Hearing the challenge, the nearby ninja glanced down at the sheer drop, before walking straight up to the railing, calmly answering "Okay then"

However she was restrained by the class iincho before she could jump, crying out "Stop that!" much to the disappointment of the class. Of course Kaede could have broken free, but with their teacher so close nearby (apparently distracted by the pet ermine riding shotgun on his shoulder), she just shrugged, saying "Just a small joke Ayaka-chan, don't worry-de gozaru" causing the classes secret net idol Chisame to sweat drop in exasperation at the ninja's cavalier attitude.

"This is Kiyomizu Main Temple's famous Kiyomizu Stage, isn't it?" Yue stated plainly as she sucked on her juice carton, getting everyone's attention as she started on a rather long and boring description all about the history of the location, somehow memorised perfectly by the girl, including the rather strange fact about the survival rate of people who jumped from the Kiyomizu stage which Kaede had been about to jump from.

While Chao and the girl's teacher Negi were both apparently fascinated by the long list of facts, Yuuna cried out in disbelief, saying "Whoa, she's a freak!" Haruna quickly explained in the book lovers defence "Yue really loves those statues of Buddha from the shrines so…"

As she continued, nearby the cheerleading trio were enjoying the feel of the breeze blowing up from below the stage. "Ah…What nice weather…" Madoka said with a nice stretch. "You're right!" Misa agreed readily. "Hey! Some should take a picture."

Hearing the trio, everybody else quickly joined them at the rail edge and were amazed at the view "Amazing! You can see the whole city from up here!" Negi shouted in amazement, earning a couple of giggles from his students at the boy's almost childish behaviour. Even if he was their sensei, Negi was still only a ten year old boy so such things were to be expected

"Hey Negi! It's okay to have fun, but don't fall over the side," Asuna scolded as she saw Negi leaning far over the railing, quickly pulling the boy off the railing. "I'm so glad Negi-sensei is enjoying himself!" Ayaka said with a fond glance at said boy, once again earning herself a glare from Asuna, only too well aware of the girl's dangerous shouta-con interests.

"Ah…This breeze does feel nice," Akira said with a small smile, enjoying the pull of the wind through her long hair. However, she was distracted by a strange sight as the wind suddenly reversed direction, tugging her hair forward, including the long hair of somebody who was standing near her.

'White?' she wondered as she turned her head, expecting to see Zazie, the only girl from their class with that colour hair. However it wasn't, instead standing nearby was a tall stranger, the stranger's astonishingly long, pure white hair flowing forward in the wind, hiding the strangers face and torso from view. Below where the hair was obscuring the view of the stranger, she could make out that the stranger was wearing a denim jacket, and had their hands tucked into the pockets of their cargo pants. Although she couldn't figure out if the tall individual was a man or a woman, while the tall muscular frame suggested it was a man, that beautifully long white hair would have been the envy of any woman to have.

While she was distracted by the stranger, nearby Yue suddenly perked up as she remembered something, announcing to the group "Oh, that's right. If you go a little further from here, there's a fortune telling place for your love life! It's very popular with the ladies,"

"EH?" Makie yelled with hearts in her eyes, accidentally startling Akira out of her reverie with how loud her exclamation had been. As the others excitedly clamoured about this little titbit of information, the girl turned about again to look at the stranger, only to find the stranger was gone. Turning about to try and find the person, Akira was surprised that there wasn't anybody else on the entire stage other than their group, somehow the stranger had vanished.

"Love fortune telling?" Ayaka asked excitedly, her mind already in overdrive over how this could affect her chances with the teacher "Let's go together Negi-sensei!"

"S-Sure…" Negi stuttered as Ayaka literally started to drag their sensei. "Ah! I want to go to!" Makie agreed cheerfully as the group started to follow the fast disappearing shouta-con and her target. "We'll go as well," Yue stated to her friend as she quickly a blushing Nodoka's hand to pull her along.

"Just below where those stone steps are the famous Otowa Waterfall." Yue continued to explain to the group at large before Ayaka could drag their sensei too far ahead. "If you drink from those three streams, you'll stay healthy, do well in school, and even get married…"

That last suggestion grabbed the attention of just about every girl there simultaneously, all exclaiming together the same phrase "Married? That's it!" excitedly. Even Ayaka paused at hearing that, hearts in her eyes as she somehow conjured an image of herself and a certain teacher hand in hand in wedding attire. However her lapse in attention gave the other girls a chance to grab the beleaguered boy again, Makie shouting "Come on Negi-kun, let's go!" as she and the twins pushed him along, now towards the stairs down.

Shaking herself out of her self-induced illusion, Ayaka seemed to realise her target had vanished ahead of her "Ah! Hey, Makie-san…You guys!" Ayaka called out in shock as she chased after the running girls. "No flirti—I mean, group activities should be…!"

As the group started to disperse, following the sensei (or more accurately the girls pushing the sensei onwards despite his meagre attempt at resistance), a certain long haired stranger reappeared on the stage, quietly following the group as the person watched the last girl trailing from the group as the class started down the stairs, a certain suspicious swordswoman.

"Negi-kun, over there, over there!" Makie yelled excitedly back at the group of students, pointing to her right towards the nearby shrine as the rest of the girls ran on ahead of the young boy, Negi just taking his time walking rather than running with the over excited class. As he walked, he was looking about him happily at all the peaceful setting of the temple, murmuring quietly to the little ermine on his shoulder "It sure is nice here, isn't it?"

Surprisingly (well, maybe not so much for a mage, but for a civilian it would be), the ermine nodded in reply, basking in the sunlight as Chamo said "Yeah, but that's Kyoto for you,"

Negi also nodded in turn, smiling as he looked at the temple buildings, saying out loud "These old buildings really are amazing!" The ermine literally sweat dropped at this, muttering something under its breath about how the boys words sounded like something an old man would say, before quickly reminding the boy "Oi, oi! Don't lower your guard aniki! We're on the enemy's home turf you know!"

"There's also the possibility that Setsuna might be a spy as well!" Chamo repeated for easily the hundredth time in the last hour, still suspicious of how the girl just *happened* to be in the right place at the right time when the shikigami had snatched the important missive on the train. However, Negi wasn't really buying into it, admonishingly replying "You shouldn't suspect people without evidence Chamo-kun!"

"But aniki, what if we get attacked again!" Chamo cried out in exasperation, not wanting to have another potentially dangerous encounter, but his pleas fell on deaf ears as Negi was distracted by another girl from the class, shouting back at him "Negi-kun! Over here!" urging the sensei to run up the next set of stone steps to catch up with his pupils.

As he reached the top, Negi could see that the girls had all gathered about this one rock covered in a seal. Opposite this rock was another rock, also with a seal on it but on the opposite face of the rock.

"So…if you make it from this rock to that rock without opening your eyes, you'll find success in love!" Makie asked Yue earnestly, earning a nod in confirmation which had the girl cheering in excitement.

"But that's really far, isn't it?" Negi noted quietly as he tried to gauge the distance between the pair of rocks, but the answer was quickly given to him as Yue impassively answered "20m to be exact, sensei."

"W…Well, as Iincho I shall…" Ayaka said trying to remain cool as she stepped forward, causing a certain red haired girls brow to twitch in annoyance. "Ah! That's not fair! I'm going too!" Makie retorted loudly, almost bouncing on her heels as she ran up to the starter stone. Nearby (with a little nudge from Yue), Nodoka also stepped forward, stuttering "M-Me too…"

As the three started their attempt to reach the opposite rock, the girls started betting amongst themselves, Misa shouting out "Fifty yen on Makie!" quickly joined by Fuuka shouting "I've got a hundred yen on Iincho!"

While the girls cheered on Ayaka and Makie, who were roughly heading in the general direction of the opposite stone, Haruna and Yue were crying out "NOT THAT WAY!" as in blind confusion, Nodoka had ended up walking in the direction of the impending wall of the temple, 90 degrees to the right of where she should have been heading.

As the girls cheered for their favourite (or cried out in despair at a certain lost girls situation), the ermine on Negi's shoulder was glancing about rapidly, before whispering quietly so that only Negi could here "Aniki, where's Setsuna?"

"Eh?" Negi whispered back in surprise, glancing about as he tried to locate the swordswoman, before realizing she was nowhere in sight.

As Negi tried to find the missing girl, there was a development in the competition between the three girls, Ayaka laughing quietly to herself as she thought 'Huhuhu…I feel bad for Makie-san and Miyazaki-san, but for one such as I who is trained in the various forms of martial arts, this won't even be a challenge!'

'Now to use my ultimate technique! Yukihiro Ayaka Style: Mind's Eye of Love Jutsu!'

Using her advanced technique Ayaka was suddenly heading straight for the target rock, miraculously right on target…or perhaps not so miraculously, for the girl was cheating by peeking, just labelling it in her mind fancily to justify herself. Laughing imperiously to herself, she made a mad dash for the finish line, causing Makie to open her eye reflexively, crying out "That's not fair Iincho! You peeked didn't you!" This fact of course didn't stop the smaller girl from following in Ayaka's footsteps, now blatently peeking as she kept one eye open, running after Ayaka.

"Hohoho! I would do no such thing! This is to ensure the success of the love between me and a certain teacher's who name starts with an 'N'," Ayaka denied, despite the entire audience of fellow students crying "Ah, cheater!" at the two girls.

However, the two cheating girls were so wrapped up in their run for the target that they unceremoniously tripped, cried out and fell down into a pit fall trap.

"F-F-F-F-FROGS!" Makie screamed as they hopped onto her clothes, quickly joined by Ayaka crying out "Not again!" as they desperately struggled and fought to get out of the pit.

"What happened?" Yuuna asked with a laugh as the majority of the class crowded around the mysterious pit that none of them had noticed only moments before. "I don't know!" Ayaka screamed as Asuna helped pull her out. "Who would build a pit trap here?"

Seeing his pupils in distress, Negi abandoned his attempts to locate Setsuna and ran to the hole, helping the girls to pull out the struggling Makie, who was crying out in distress at the frogs climbing up her clothes. Unnoticed by the struggling group, a certain girl, the one who looked as though she had the least chance to succeed, finally made it to the opposite stone, her own eyes wide open in disbelief at having actually succeeded as Yue and Haruna celebrated her success, clapping and in Haruna's case, shouting out "GOAL!".

Panting slightly from the exertion of having pulled the girl out of the pit, Negi whipped his sleeve over his slightly damp face, his mind deep in worry as he recognised the frogs as the same shikigami that had attacked on the train. 'C-Could this have been the work of the Kansai Magical Organization too?' Negi thought worriedly, casting his gaze about to try and see if there was anyone suspicious nearby.

"What the hell were you doing Iincho? Are you sure this isn't some sort of divine punishment for cheating?" Asuna asked with a smirk. "Or, maybe punishment for making fun of other people's love lives?"

"Wh-I was not cheating!" Ayaka denied. "Maybe it's because I had my eyes half open?" Makie said, scratching the back of her head nervously as Ayaka turned on her, crying out exasperatedly "What kind of divine punishment is man-made?"

Negi finally saw what he was looking for, feeling that sixth sense again. Turning about, he saw one again that Setsuna had reappeared, and was watching him. She also had something strange in her hand, but before he could figure out what they were, the girl had stowed them away in a pocket in her skirt.

"Aniki, it's her again!" Chamo cried out quietly from his shoulder, but Negi wasn't focusing on his words. There was a person standing suspiciously close to Setsuna, a man with really long, pure white hair. The stranger seemingly noticed the boy looking at him, flashing an oddly friendly grin considering that he had just caught a person staring at him.

'Maybe he just thinks I'm a curious child?' Negi thought to himself, blotting out Chamo's attempts to get his attention. 'But why is he near Setsuna? Was he talking to her?'

"ANIKI!" Chamo nearly screeched, trying to somehow simultaneously keep quiet so that nobody else could hear him, but also try and get the boys attention, yanking on a tuft of red hair from the boys head, earning a cry of pain from the boy.

"What, Chamo-kun?" Negi whispered back, rubbing the now sore spot on his head as Chamo furiously whispered "That white guy, he's really suspicious! He's probably one of the bad guys if he's talking to the spy!"

"B-But Chamo-kun, we aren't sure if Sakurazaki-san is a spy!" Negi retaliated, but weakly. Chamo just snorted in reply, saying "Aniki, it's really clear, they're both bad guys! I mean, look what just happened!" He accented his point by waving his paw in Ayaka and Makie's direction, who were still almost squealing as they desperately tried to shake the frogs off their clothing.

"But…" Negi tried to say weakly as he looked back at Setsuna, only to stiffen in surprise as the white haired stranger suddenly headed towards the group, walking away from the swordswoman and towards Negi and the girls. Subconsciously, Negi's hand strayed towards his staff, his instincts telling him to ready himself in case the man tried anything.

However, at the same time he couldn't think why. The man who was walking towards him, now within range to tell his features, was barely what you could call a man, instead he was a teenager. A tall, powerfully built one, but barely older than the students which formed the class Negi was responsible for. His features also looked warm; even though the face had a slight scar marring it cutting a white streak straight over his right eye, the strangers eyes were bright, his smile subconsciously easing the boys fear as his hand stopped straying towards his magic staff.

He was also dressed casually, like any other tourist on the streets, and he was completely unarmed, no weapon or staff to show an identity of a mage or a swordsman. The stranger really just looked like any other tourist there, albeit a tourist with uniquely pure white hair at a length that no man would normally have, trailing the whole way down his back and almost to his hips.

But even as the stranger's intentions were revealed not to lie with Negi and his group, instead walking straight past the boy mage and aiming surprisingly for the fortune telling stones, Negi's instincts still told him *be on guard*but for the life of him, the boy couldn't figure out why.

Even the girls from the class had noticed the man now, all conversation halting temporarily as they stared at this strange man, some with wide eyes staring almost enviously at the amazingly long hair of the man, some with a different interest, eyes glancing hungrily at the opening in his denim jacket where an impressive set of abs showed through the tight white vest beneath. Calmly, the man closed his eyes, before walking slowly forward towards the opposite stone.

The girls couldn't help but hold their breath as they watched the teenager walk; something about him was drawing all their eyes to him, even Ayaka, the shouta-con whose eyes were firmly set upon the boy teacher couldn't help but stare quietly as the stranger walked. It wasn't just the school girls either; it seemed as if every person on the street was staring at this man. Were it not for the horizontal scar across the man's eye on his face, his perfect build and that amazing white hair could have made a person think an angel itself was walking this path. The man's path didn't deviate even slightly as he walked towards the opposite stone in a perfect line, his eyes still closed completely.

However, this also meant the frog filled pit trap was right in his path, but even this didn't stop the stranger, his step taking one foot right to the pits edge, before his long stride walked straight across the gap, his foot landing just past the pits edge on the opposite side before continuing without pause. Without a single error or misstep, the man completed the challenge without fail, his hand brushing against the stone as he stood before it.

Oddly enough, it seemed the completion of this small journey seemingly restarted time on the street, the street vendors nearby shaking their heads as they returned to their duties, and the girls from 3-A whispering amongst themselves now as they cast glances at the white haired stranger.

"Whoa…" Asuna muttered to herself as she shook her head, trying to get her brain back into gear as she walked back over to the student teacher. As she did this, the stranger started to walk away, his hair trailing behind him as he disappeared down a side street. As she approached the boy teacher, it was obvious that Negi was staring after the now vanished man, so Asuna snapped her fingers in front of his face, causing the boy to cry out in alarm from the surprise, exclaiming "A-Asuna-san!"

"Yeah, yeah. Pull yourself together Negi, isn't the Otowa Waterfall next?" Asuna asked

"Whoa! Look at that crowd!" Yuuna cried out in amazement, gesturing at the massive group of tourists crowding around the three streams of water falling from the building's roof, small cups at the ready to catch the water. "Yue! Yue! Which one is which?" Fumika asked excited, tugging insistently on the girls arm as the others crowded around the girl, obviously expecting the *Freak* to know the answer. Of course Yue didn't disappoint, gesturing at the streams in turn as she recited in almost textbook fashion "From right to left, they are health, career and school, and marriage."

Of course, this instantly caused a charge of adolescent girls rushing towards the leftmost stream with their cups. All attempts at getting the girls to form an orderly line by the iincho failed abysmally as the girls literally crushed each other in their struggles to get at the stream that promised luck in marriage. Even Negi's cry of "Um…Everyone…Please do not inconvenience the public!" fell on death ears, Chisame and Asuna somehow managing to pull off a coincidental synchronized eye roll at the antics of their fellow classmates.

"D…Delicious! Another cup!" Yuuna cried out enjoying the drink. "Phew! What is this stuff?" Makie asked with a strange, rather suspicious blush as she reached forward to get a second cupful of the *water* "I-It does look rather effective…Is this the taste of miracles?" Ayaka asked, also joining the red faced brigade as the newly dubbed *miracle water* started to have a rather strange effect on the girls. "If I drink a lot, maybe it'll be extra effective…" Nodoka muttered as she tried to take another step towards getting more, but now the drink was starting to cause alternate effects as she swayed on the spot instead, not getting any closer, but seemingly at the risk of falling over now.

Oblivious to the degrading condition of his students, Negi was glancing around once more, trying to find out where the swordswoman had once again perfected her vanishing act. However, Chamo was, at the very least, an experienced little ermine, and his nose instantly picked up on the rather suspicious fumes wafting in the air. Abandoning the look for the suspicious swordswoman, the ermine glanced in the general direction he could smell it coming from, and cried out in surprise "H-Hey Aniki! This looks really bad!"

Turning about at the insistent pull of the ermine, Negi's jaw almost hit the deck.

"EEEEEEH?"

"It seems they are all dead drunk," Yue stated with a sweat drop, possibly doing the understatement of the century as she looked down at the biggest pileup of the century, over half the class were down for the count, Asuna desperately trying to wake up the class iincho with some slaps to the face and loud shouting, but meeting with no avail.

Quickly running to the nearby pillars, Negi climbed up to the roof of the little building, instantly spotting the culprit of the sudden attack of dropped girls, a massive barrel of sake was being poured into the leftmost stream, the one the class had been most eager to get at.

'Who would do such a thing!' Negi thought in shock as he quickly climbed back down. However his thoughts were cut short by a feeling of dread at the sight of a certain pair of adults walking towards the group.

"Hm, do you smell sake?" Nitta asked after taking several deep sniffs of air, slowing his brisk pace to a slow as he cast his head about trying to find the source. Negi practically ran at the speed of sound, quickly running up to where Asuna was attempting the almost futile task of trying to block the potential view of the teachers from the massive pileup of girls and joining in, frantically waving his arms alongside Asuna who was trying to explain "Ah, Nitta-sensei, Seruhiko-sensei, this is just amasake!" Even Chamo tried lending his assistance, although his tiny frame had no hope of blocking the view from the teachers.

Nitta by some miracle seemingly bought the story, walking away at a brisk pace once more. However, Shizuna was a bit more persistent. Although she could see the obvious pile up of bodies; she instead decided to play with the young teacher. Feigning ignorance, she instead focused on Negi's obvious distress, asking "Ara, what's the matter Negi-sensei?"

Panicking, Negi seemed to emit some rushed half garbled scream of "-SENSEI!" Fortunately, Yue attempted to pick up the slack for the teacher, calmly explaining (lying) "Some of the students got tired and decided to sleep"

Everybody still sober enough amongst the class members simultaneously thought 'There's no way she will buy that!'

However, she seemingly did, saying back "Ara, ara, what a surprise, well we'd best get the poor dears back on the bus then."

As the remaining sober girls (alongside their poor child sensei) tried to drag the girls onto the nearby parked bus, one lone classmate stood apart from the group, standing on the roof of the waterfall building, hefting her tied up sword over her shoulder as she muttered to herself "I guess I have no choice…"

Easily jumping the distance down to the floor, the girl went to silently mingle back in with her classmates, but noticed something out of the corner of her eye. A particular person was still putting their cup into the sake spiked stream, repeatedly taking drink after drink with little effect on their body.

Five minutes later, Setsuna re-joined her classmates on the bus, and the bus set off towards the hotel they were meant to be staying at. nobody noticing the cries of shock and panic amongst the nearby tourists, mobile phones being wrung for emergency services as an adolescent boy with amazingly long white hair lay in a beaten up mess beside the waterfall, his hands still holding onto a half full cup of water.

Well, that's chapter up!

Before anybody says anything, I really don't know where exactly I am going with my O.C. He's going to be a mix between an extremely mature charecter at times, and at others every bit as dumb and stupid as Negi himself. He will however be quite powerful for this arc, theres a reason for it later on (I want to make a surprise change to the charecter roster and chance certain charecters stances in this story. When it happens, it will be a very severe *WTF HOW DID THAT HAPPEN!* moment, but since it's my story and i'm just writing it on a whim, i'm going to roll with it XP

This O.C will NOT be replacing Negi as the main charecter, but acting alongside. As such, i'm going to keep the character tag for Negi on the story, if you guys think it's not appropriate though I will remove it.

As always, reviews are liked, i'm expecting quite a lot of flaming compared to usual, it should be fun to see how people react. Of course a lack of reaction will be morally crippling for me, but lifes life.

Review and subscribe if you want, this story will be updated regardless for a while until my writers cramp eases on The Wandering Sage, tata for now!