Disclaimer: I don't own Mahou Sensei Negima. This story is only for entertainment motives.


Maybe it wouldn't be easy after all.

Get the certificates had been easy. Now he was Alexander Gardian , a fresh graduate of the most important university he found, who wanted to be a teacher and had asked for a special permission to do the practices here, in Mahora, because researching the academy's library was a dream for him. A little bit suspicious? Yes, but he hoped it wasn't too much. It was the largest library in the world, there had to be a lot of people who wanted to investigate it, right?

The permission had been granted by one of the oldest professors so if he didn't remember a student it would be understandable. Besides, all his information and the permission was already uploaded in both, the professor's computer and the university's system so there would be proofs if someone ask about him.

The next step had been to remember the academy's secretary she had an appointment with him the next week to discuss the subject. At least that was what her computer's calendar said now. The people trusted the computers more than their own memories, especially persons with a complex agenda like the secretary of a big academy. Forget a date for the next week that had been appointed a month ago was very common.

The next week was spent in learn how to be a good teacher in this world. A public library has a limited information after all. A review of elementary and high school lessons was necessary. Luckily, Alex had a no so little collection of school books so he already knew the basic. For him, all the subjects were really easy. Adapt them to something a kid could understand it was a little harder though. Always the same problem. If he began to speak without control about the day's topic, he finished with a whole class of overwhelmed minds.

The time had been divided between teacher preparations and threat research. The reality's boundary hadn't any marks but the ancients Gates didn't leave one. The presence of one of them would be his worst menace and he would had to change his plan. After three day Alex breathed with relief. There wasn't any place in the planet with enough energy to support a Gate. With this good news, the week ended very fast and the day of his date in the academy came.

That's when all turned more problematic.

His first glance of the Mahora academic district was in awe. Alex had seen several incredible schools and university grounds and this was one of them by all rights. The place was huge. Facilities for any level of studies, shops, restaurants, dormitories and even its own tram. Hundreds of students ran around him, probably to get their classes in time. What got Alex's attention was a man within the sea of runners, still and staring at him. He was around thirty, wore a suit, glasses and was smoking. The man had an aura of authority but a face with a smile on it. All this made Alex to think he was a teacher. The magical power he could sense on the man told him he wasn't a normal teacher. The worst part was the magical teacher was hiding his aura, a sign of precaution against a potential enemy. Alex knew for sure without his specials senses the man would have been successful. But something was off. Alex was hiding all his supernatural capacities too, and in an undetectable way if he could add, so the man's awareness made no sense. Maybe the man wasn't staring at him? This hope died when the man walked at him.

"Alexander Gardian, right?" the man spoke with a cheerful tone but Alex could see he hadn't drop his guard. "I am Takamichi Takahata, one of Mahora academy's teachers. I am here to lead you to the principal's office. He wants to have a talk with you before do all the formalities. Shall we go?"

Takahata turned around and began to walk before Alex could say anything. It seemed his opinion didn't matter. Finally he sighed and started to follow the man. Maybe it wasn't as bad as he was thinking. Maybe it was a coincidence and Takahata was a mage who was hiding from society and this was a completely normal academy.

His face showed his doubts for a second. Not even him could believe the last one.


There wasn't any conversation while Takahata guided him across the academy, only Alex scanning the whole academic district. And what he sense wasn't good. Tens of magic users, inhuman beings and magical artifacts. And not only that. The whole place had traces of magic. The conclusion was obvious, he had discovered a hidden magical organization in the academy where he wanted to work.

Great.

The next minutes were spent searching for escape routes and attack plans. Maybe he was a little paranoid but he always fulfill the saying, 'hope for the best, plan for the worst'. By the level of the auras Alex could fight and win if things get violent but that wouldn't maintain a low profile. With this thoughts they arrived at the principal's office.

Before Takahata opened the door Alex already knew the headmaster was a mage. A very powerful one. His appearance only supported this fact. Long hair and beard, thick eyebrows and Japanese priest robes. He had the aura of classic mages and sages. The ancient wizard was in a couch, reading several papers in his hands. He removed the papers and now, a gaze full of the knowledge only time can give, was directed at Alex.

"Welcome Mr. Gardian. I am Konoemon Konoe, Mahora Academy headmaster. Please take a seat" the old man said with neutral tone. Unlike Takahata, Konoe had an unreadable expression. Alex sat, a little surprised. To be able to hide any emotions from his eyes was an extreme hard task. The threat level of this man raised.

"I have been reading his expedient, your request of working here and your desire to study the library island. Not a common request indeed." the principal said, stroking his beard.

"Well, that always was a dream of mine. I can't understand there aren't thousand of petitions to do the same." Alex was honest in the last part. How could be a island full of books and knowledge unexplored but almost anyone who wanted to investigate it? For a books lover like him this was a crime.

"I see. Strange indeed." the old man said without any visible change. "I read you graduated last year. Why wait until now to come here?"

"I had to put in order many things for go to work in another country. It was impossible came earlier." Alex answered. The university he used for his background was in another continent so the excuse was believable. However, he was getting tense. Even though the questions were normal in this situation, Alex had the feeling all this was an interrogation.

"Maybe one of them was learn our language? You are very skilled with it."

"Ah no. Like I said, this is a dream I have since child so I began to learn it many years ago." Alex said, a little proud of his ability to make excuses.

"It seems you still have some errors though." Konoe said. Alex gave him a little confused stare. "You see, the academy secretary have some errands for today so she couldn't set the meeting this day. However, you confirmed the date for today so there had to be some misunderstanding."

Alex didn't show any sign externally, but inside his mind all the gears worked on full capacity. It was a lie. Before set the date, he had read the whole secretary's agenda and he had chosen a free day. So, or there was a real error in some part or the principal was making up a problem to test him. But why? All the meeting was a excuse to press him and make sure he was who he claimed to be. He smiled inwardly. Maybe the situation was risky but the thing with tests is, they can be approved. If this was a test, Alex would pass.

"I wouldn't say I dominate the language," Alex said with calm, "But I am sure there wasn't any error when I arranged the date with your secretary."

"Oh, are you sure?"

"Yes."

Both of them remained quiet, with their eyes in each other. When Alex thought he would do a duel of stares, Konoe began to show emotions. A cheerful one.

"Ho ho, in that case I will reprimand her later for gave me wrong information. Welcome to the Mahora academy Alex-sensei." said the principal with a happy face.

What?

"Now, as you are a fresh graduated, I have planned you will work as a assistant teacher for the time being. Outside is our staff guidance officer, Shizuna-sensei. She will bring you to the teacher who you will be assisting. I hope you two can work together without problems."

"A-ah, thanks."

With this, Alex made a little bow and went to the door. To say he was surprised was an understatement. He had expected a ton of questions and trials in order to gain the principal's trust. However, one simple question was enough. It seemed too easy. Maybe he had some luck at last?

He chuckled. Not even him could believe the last one.


When the new 'teacher' left the room, Takahata went to the headmaster.

"Are you sure we can trust him? His timing in too convenient. There are many chances he is a spy of the kansai magic association even though he don't show any power. He could be very good hiding it."

"I think if he is a spy, he would have done a better story for his past." Konoe said with an amused expression. "Even in the case we didn't have the threat of potential spies, his story is suspicious."

"So is he saying the truth?" Takahata asked.

"No, I am ninety percent sure his story is false and he is hiding something." the old man answered without any change in his face.

"Then we should..."

"But," the headmaster interrupted, "I am ninety nine percent sure he means no harm. That's why I put him with our little teacher. If things became dangerous in Kyoto, maybe he could help." Konoe said with a smile.


A kid. The teacher he would help was a kid.

After left the principal's office, Alex had met a woman who had introduced herself as Shizuna Minamoto. She was beautiful and had a body that would awake envy in any woman. Shizuna had guided him through corridors and chambers while explaining the academy distribution and places he had to learn. Alex was still thinking about the talk with the principal but he caught the most part. Eventually, they arrived at the classroom's corridor. That was when Alex saw him.

A little kid with glasses and a little suit. A kid who turned to be his fellow teacher. Shizuna had introduced him as Negi Springfield, a genius who was teaching English in the academy and was the home teacher of class 3-A. After the initial shock, Alex could sense the power emanating from the kid. And it wasn't little. Even though his age, Negi had a great potential as a mage. At least that explained what was doing in this academy, teaching students older than him.

With the introductions finished, Shizuna explained to Negi the situation about his new assistant teacher. The little professor was at first confused, giving short glances to Alex, then a bit nervous while Shizuna gave him the details. Finally he looked at Alex and he seemed... enthusiastic?

"Hello, my name is Negi Springfield, a teacher of this academy. It seems we going to work together from now so I expect we get along well." Negi presented himself. His act was polite and well-mannered but he couldn't hide an aura of innocence and naivety. He was a kid after all. But why pair him with Negi? He thought all the assistant fact was to keep an eye on him. However, deceive a kid was easier than an adult. Alex didn't understand the principal's choice but he would humor them for now. He still had the little dream of all ending well and he reading in the library without problems. He could dream, didn't him?

"It's a pleasure," Alex replied. "My name is Alexander Gardian. I hope we get along well too."

Negi smiled at this and began to walk. The kid's speed to accept all this surprised him. "Now we have a class. I don't expect you start today but maybe you could introduce yourself and meet the students."

Alex nodded. It was a good idea. If he was going to teach a whole class the next six month, he could start to know them now.

"A last advice," Negi stopped in front a door. "Sometimes the class is a bit... problematic. But I can guarantee they all are good girls." the kid said the last part with conviction.

Alex nodded again. After all that had happened to him today, a bunch of problematic girls wouldn't be the worst.

Wait. Girls?


When Alex entered the class his assumption turned out to be true. All the students were female and probably meant this part of the academy was only for girls. This wasn't a problem at all, the lack of students trying to woo their companions with vain tactics would be nice for once. It wasn't he disliked any display of affection, but human beings of this age in general, and the male ones in particular, didn't have a emotional comprehension enough for a relationship. It normally finished with shouts and breakups.

The love was too much complex, for him at least. In all his life, Alex had never understood the love entirely. Whenever he thought he did, a woman showed up to prove he didn't. And the time he thought she was the one, that he had found what poems and songs describe, a companion to share his travels... Well, he was still trying to fix it.

Love could make you stronger, but it could make you the weakest being as well.

He pushed away all the memories at the back of his mind and focused in the class. After entered the room, all the eyes had fixed in Alex. He didn't give any importance, being curious about unfamiliar people was normal. In return, he began to study them. What he saw was... new, for a class. And coming from a reality traveler that was outstanding.

There were thirty one girls, to say something. Alex knew any other would say there were only thirty girls, but his eyes were special and he could see the ghost. Yes, a ghost. Her ectoplasm form was floating above a seat and looking at him so he would catalogued her as a student. Alex was avoiding his gaze of course, if she discover he could see her, it only would bring problems. He would keep this information until know her true nature. Her face made difficult to think she was evil, though. The rest of the class was special as well.

On one hand, Alex had the supernatural abilities. Several girls had potential as mages although if they were using it or not was beyond him. A few others, had the enough control over their bodies to use their internal energy, the Ki. That could only be accomplished by rigorous training of body and mind. Not an easy task.

On other hand, Alex had the inhuman beings. Some of them weren't humans, not totally at least. A special case was a little girl with long hair. Both her body and her features were the ones of a doll. Besides this, she had a very powerful seal on her. Without further investigation, he couldn't know what the seal was for. However, he took a mental note to keep an eye on her.

Three of the girls attracted his attention especially.

The first was, well, a robot. And it was very obvious. Her face was perfect, a little devoid of life but perfect nonetheless. It was impossible to detect her inhuman condition by it. A shame she had big antennas in her head. But this gave him more questions. The technology of this world didn't reach the necessary level for androids like her, so, why nobody seemed disturbed by her existence? They didn't notice it? Besides, where there should be a lack of life, she had magic. And not like a simple golem. The magic traveled in her like blood. Her circuits funneled it and beat with something that could only be described as life. She was beyond what magic or science could do alone. A perfect mixture of both.

Techmagic. Only him called it by this name, though.

An art which used the best of two worlds. Almost any limit they had alone, could be broken with their union. His armlet was an example. She wasn't very advanced by techmagic standards, but still, her design was impressive. Alex wondered who had built her. It would be interesting talk and share knowledge with that person. If he wasn't hiding his abilities of course.

The second girl had a very special magic although maybe magic wasn't the correct word. In a basic diagram of powers, beings had three cores: Body, Mind and Soul. Use one of them was easy and almost automatically: Move, Think and Live. Combining two of them made things more interesting. A perfect resonance gave power to dominate the reality: mind and soul brought Magic, soul and body brought Ki, body and mind brought Psychic.

However, there was other way. A perfect discordance had power too: mind against body brought Oblivion, body against soul brought Nemesis, soul against mind brought Void. All of them were for null and erase, dangerous, and this girl had Void in her. The power was undeniable but its use had consequences. If not mastered, the discordance took away all the emotions of the user. It should be impossible for a young girl to dominate the Void, but her eyes were full of life and curiosity when she looked at him. Who was she? What had happened to her to become like this? Good questions, but the answers wouldn't be easy to obtain. Besides, there was someone who worried him more.

The girl had one of the most innocent look Alex had ever seen. Her eyes weren't as innocent, though. Behind a facade there was a sharp glare focused at him, observing, studying, calculating. However, this wasn't the problem. What he sensed and almost made him to enter in full combat mode, was her aura. It was stained by traces of something very unique, something you could only percept if you had already sensed it on yourself, something Alex had on him every time he jump into another world.

She had remains of the Boundary on her.

The membrane which separated a reality from another wasn't made to endure something crossing it, and when this happened, it broke a little. The trespasser gained a Boundary particle coating and the hole made began to regenerate, but it always left a mark. All suggested she was a traveler like him, which meant she wasn't human and her powers could compete against Alex's. That was what activated all his alarms.

Fortunately, Alex began to analyze the situation before he could lose his cool. First, she was human, or at least she could feign it with an incredible ability. Second, she had Boundary particles but very few compared with him. Alex didn't know a way to clean them of the aura and even if this girl had found a way, she would cleaned all, and not just part of it. Perhaps she got the particles in other event. But what act could do this aside a jump? And last, this reality hadn't any mark except the one he made.

Alex was almost sure she wasn't a traveler. This left the question of how did her aura get stained and until he would found the answer, she would be his principal concern. One thing was sure. If he was wrong and this little girl was a traveler like him, she had had to sense the particles on him. And unlike her, after all his travels, Alex was like a Christmas tree in that regard. She would know what he was and the she would do her movement. All he needed to do was be prepared.

After the analysis of his new students Alex refocused in the real world. Only three seconds had passed and Negi was still explaining they would have a new teacher and the circumstances of Alex. It was the same story Alex had written in his record and the same Shizuna had told the boy. Some girls gave him a curious glance when Negi told his reason to come at Mahora. Alex sighed. Was it so strange he wanted to study the largest library in the world? It seemed very reasonable for him. When Negi finished, he nodded to Alex. He understood, time for introductions.

The new teacher stood in front the class and smiled. He didn't know what expect of a unique group like this, but Alex was sure he wouldn't get bored with them. Books and the knowledge they contain was something he loved, but, look after someone, help him, see this person overcomes trials and how he grow after them, it was something that always would be amazing for him. Maybe in some point, after all the years he had lived, he began to feel like a father. He chuckled with the idea. No, he couldn't see himself as one.

"Hello everyone. My name is Alexander Gardian and like Negi has said, I will be your teacher, assisting him in all I can. I hope we can get along well." Alex introduced himself.

At the end, he wouldn't use all his time in the library. He had new students to teach and protect.