For my first reviewer: Jade-chan, Tsukuyomi will be added before she could cause any damage to Negi's party… Heh… She wont's be helping Fate now for sure… Thanks for the idea.
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR NEGIMA… I WISH…
Chapter 2: Onwards to Kyoto and Adventures
Room 320- Zazie and Sasori's Room
It was 7 at night. There were no words being exchanged in this certain room. Sasori and Zazie stared at each other across the table. When Sasori stood up to make something to eat, he noticed something in the fridge. In all his experience, he has not seen a much cleaner kitchen. In his mind he was shocked, but showed nothing on his face. While they could hear excited chatter outside, none of them disturbed the room. When Sasori took out some vegetables and meat, Zazie walked over silently. Sasori stared at her as she grabbed a pot and pointed at it.
"You know, eating spicy curry isn't exactly healthy at night." Said Sasori as he sweatdropped.
"…" said the 'circus' girl.
"…I can cook, and Zazie, just call me Sasori. The honorifics make me sound too old. And I need to wake up tomorrow early, so we'll eat mild curry." Deadpanned Sasori as he began to cut the vegetables.
"…" Zazie began to cut the meat into … various shapes.
Sasori swore that he saw an intricately cut out swan, giraffe, and even a star. As the rice cooked and the curry boiling in the pot, Sasori opened his scroll and inspected it. It contained the corpses he had asked for, but he did not recognize the fourth.
He decided to just remove his personal puppet scrolls for now. When he removed the corpses' scrolls, he was grinning like child given $100 to buy candy (?). Their bodies were already in puppet forms! Sasori quickly began to rearrange the seal to change how the puppet should fight and then removed those scrolls. When he removed the medicines, he noticed it contained various pills. He noticed quite a few soldier pills, red pills that stop bleeding, and a black pill that seemed rather unfriendly. He decided to test the black pills later. When Zazie walked over with spoons, Sasori quickly went into kitchen to grab the curry and the rice. When Sasori walked over, Zazie was looking at the jutsu scrolls that he was going to learn later. Zazie tried to read it, but couldn't as it seemed to be written in ancient language. She put the scroll down on the desk that Sasori had placed his items on.
The night passed without further incident as Sasori didn't sleep as he read his jutsu scrolls to make sure he didn't miss anything.
-On the Station-
Sasori stood on the busy platform where the students of various 3rd year classes were gathering. Although he 'learned' about the technology of this world, it was shocking to see something that he never saw.
So this is this world's technology… But this 'train' has far too many blind spots and considering magic, I guess 'Konan' will help me here…
Sasori then checked the group list for class 3-A, just to make sure who was with who.
Group 1: Misa Kakizaki, Modoka Kugimiya, Sakurako Shiina, Fuuka and Fumika Narutaki
Group 2: Satsuki Yotsuba, Misora Kasuga, Kaede Nagase, Satomi Hakase, Chao Lingshen and Ku Fe
Group 3: Kazumi Asakura, Natsumi Murakami, Chisame Hasegawa, Chizuru Naba and Ayaka Yukihiro
Group 4: Akira Okochi, Mana Tatsumiya, Ako Izumi, Yuna Akashi and Makie Sasaki
Group 5: Nodoka Miyazaki, Haruna Saotome, Yue Ayase, Asuna Kagurazaka and Konoka Konoe
Group 6: Evangeline A.K. McDowell, Chachamaru, Setsuna Sakurazaki, Zazie Rainyday
… Looks like two are not going… Evangeline and Chachamaru… Let's see…
Before Sasori could do anything, Negi bumped into Sasori's right arm.
"Uwa, I'm sorry… eh, Sasori-sensei, you're early! Are you excited for this trip too?" Negi was practically jumping up and down and station.
"…Maybe. Now Negi-kun, I noticed that two of our students are not here. Evangeline and Chachamaru; are they coming?" said Sasori as he showed him the group placements.
"I thought… oh yeah… Don't worry we'll just split the group and put them in different groups." Negi walked away to inform Setsuna and Zazie.
As the former Akatsuki member boarded the train, he saw something that intrigued him.
"Se-chan! It looks like we're in the same group." Konoka greeted the swordswoman with her usual cheerfulness, but Setsuna didn't even reply and walked away.
…It looks as if they know each other, but one seems to be 'afraid' of something… Interesting…
Sasori took his seat and looked outside. He noticed a strange woman board the very last train in the end. He made sure his 'puppet' wouldn't fall of the train as it began to move. He didn't like the fact that he was moving across the land in a very unnatural way (to him), but he didn't care as it would save energy and time. He walked out to the hall way and began to check up on the groups, carefully considering what the dean told him in the morning in his office.
-Flashback-
"Spies?" Sasori simply raised an eyebrow as the dean produced a map of Japan.
"Yes, now you see there are two magic groups in Japan one is in Kyoto and here. Recently there has been internal 'problems' within the Kansai Magic Association." The dean pointed at Kyoto and its surrounding region. "There is probably a certain group that wants to use my granddaughter's powers"
"Konoka Konoe? Why?" Sasori's mind began to create various methods on guarding the girl.
"She has a unique power. She seems to have vast amounts of magical energy that they want to take hold of and use it against us. So I am asking you to protect Konaka as well as rest of the class." The headmaster asked with a certain tone in his voice. "Also please make sure you 'assist' Negi-kun deliver the letter he is supposed to deliver to the Kansai Magic Association's head leader"
"Don't worry, I was one of the most powerful being in the other world…"Sasori left the room as he understood what to do.
-Flashback end-
Sasori was broken out of his thoughts as he heard a scream behind him. When he turned around to see what was happening, he noticed there were frogs coming out from everywhere. He turned to see the other way and noticed the same thing. He quickly gathered Chakra in his hands and activated the puppet on top of the train. Immediately, he opened the nearest window as paper flew in.
Kaede and Mana were both in shock until they saw numerous sheets of paper practically grabbing the frogs and flying outside. When Mana looked outside their cabin, she saw Sasori moving his hands in a rather unique way. Negi and Chamo also noticed this as they came out to follow the papers that had grabbed the summoned frogs. Sasori grinned as all of the frogs had been thrown out like trash. He then quickly began to check each cabin for any 'damage'. Negi quickly checked his jacket for the letter he was supposed to deliver.
"Whew, I'm lucky that the letter's safe… Ah!" Negi stood in shock as a 'bird' snatched the letter from his hands.
Negi quickly followed the bird but stopped as he saw Setsuna holding the letter. He quickly thanked her for the letter and noticed the cut 'bird' on the floor.
"You have to see this, Aniki! This is the paper bird that just took your letter! I think Setsuna is the one who took the letter!" Chamo said with conviction as he held up the paper scraps that resembled a bird." She has to be the spy from Kyoto. And Sasori-sensei is also suspicious. I mean he joined yesterday and you saw him doing all those weird things!"
"Ahhhh… Frist Evageline-san and now this… What am I going to do…" Negi's shoulder slumped as he considered his options.
From down the hall, Sasori shook his head as he put 'Konan' back into the scroll he was holding. As Negi went back into the teacher's cabin, Sasori looked out the passing scenery.
Setsuna Sakurazaki… no, it's not her. The paper bird was cut in half to be stopped. That little 'ermine' is jumping to conclusions far too quickly… I should move cautiously.
- Kyoto Hotel-
No one was amused. Several comical incidents had happened and the worst was when they drank the 'water' form the waterfall. It had been mixed with enough sake to make several of the girls drunk to pass out. As the 'tired' girls were resting in their respective rooms, Sasori quickly changed into his yukata and began to patrol the floor until he heard Asuna and Negi's voices in the lobby.
"What? Setsuna is the spy form Kyoto?" Asuna could not believe what she was hearing from the ermine.
"I mean look the roster. She's from Kyoto, so she has to be the spy!" Chamo was hardened by his decision.
"But Setsuna was Konoka's childhood friend. I doubt she would do anything, and she has been acting like that since we were in class together." Asuna couldn't decide who was right or wrong.
"Well, we can't prove anything without proof, so let's just relax for now." Negi sighed as he began to walk toward his room. "I'm going to take a bath, Chamo-kun."
Sasori decided to follow the two as they walked into the bath. Sasori hid in the water putting distance between himself and the boy mage. He drew a kunai from his right arm as he saw a familiar silhouette enter the bathing area.
"Hmmm… I Negi-sensei is a mage, I will need to take action… !" Setsuna heard the squeak of Negi's voice and decided to act. "Shinmei-Ryuu Ougi: Zanganken !"
Setsuna cut the rock in the bath and rushed as she saw a figure draw something.
"Ras Tel Ma Skil Magister: Flans Excalmatio!" Negi disarmed Setsuna, but the swordswoman charged forward and …
"Identify yourself, or I will rip yours off!" Setsuna warned as the fog of the bath began to clear.
Before any one of them could say anything, a single kunai embedded itself on to the stone that Setsuna had cut earlier. Setsuna let go of Negi in order to face the new target, but she couldn't sense or see anybody through the fog until both Negi and Setsuna felt a hand on their shoulders. When both turned around, they saw none other than Sasori standing before them.
"Chamo is it? I suggest you stop assuming things without proof. And Setsuna you will tell me why you are here exactly." Sasori's voice had no hint of letting them go until he had an explanation.
"But Sasori-sensei, Setsuna could be Kyoto's sp…y…"Chamo froze as he saw Sasori's eyes.
"Explain." Sasori glared at Setsuna.
"Well, you see, I am Konoka ojou-sama's…" Setsuna began but was stopped by a sceam.
"That scream is Konoka's scream!" Negi quickly ran out while Setsuna grabbed her blade from the ground.
Sasori simply disappeared and loud thump was heard on top of the hotel. As Setsuna reached Konoka, there were …monkeys. As she was about to cut the monkeys, but Negi hanging onto her legs practically stopped her from doing anything.
"Setsuna-san, they're just poor monkeys you can't cut them!" Negi was hanging onto Setsuna's leg tightly.
"That's right! They are harmless if you take out the fact that they are trying ot strip us!" Asuna was holding one of them away from her.
"They are all low level shikikami!" Setsuna yelled at the two, but was stopped by a giant segmented tail that came through an open window.
The segmented tail grabbed Konoka from the monkeys and dropped her unconscious form onto Setsuna's open arms. The tail then began to wipe out every single monkey shikikami there was. When the tail dispelled every single shikikami, the tail withdrew and Sasori came in through the window. Negi, Asuna, and Setsuna stared at Sasori and he simply stared at them back.
"Se-chan, I knew you would come for me." Konoka smiled "I don't know what was happening, but I'm glad you came, Se-chan."
Setsuna blushed and dropped Konoka into the water as she ran away as fast as possible.
"Ne, Konoka, did something happen between you and Setsuna?" Asuna was staring at where Setsuna had left through.
"Why does she call you ojou-sama?" Negi was practically panicking on what to do.
"Both of you sit. It seems as if Konoka is about to tell us." Sasori sat next to Negi as he put on his Akatsuki robes on.
"Before you tell us, WHO exactly are you?" Asuna aksed jabbing a finger at Sasori.
"…No yet…" Sasori said with his eyes on Konoka.
"Well I rarely talk about this even with Asuna. Before I came to Mahora, I used to live in Kyoto. I lived in a large mansion in the mountains. I didn't have any friends, so it was really lonely and quiet." Konoka started. "However, my mother brought over a few guests one day. They brought with them a little girl. She was Se-chan. She was my very first friend in my life in in her early age, she began to learn kendo to protect me. She protected me from dogs and from various dangers. But one time, I nearly drowned in a river. Se-chan tried to rescue me, but she couldn't until several adults got me out. That was when she began to train herself more and more. From then on, I rarely met her. When I moved to Mahora Middle School, I was surprised to see Se-chan. When I tried to talk to her, she just ignored me… It's as if I did something wrong. Se-chan wouldn't talk to like she did before."
"… tch…" Sasori could already tell what the problem was.
"Asuna, let's go finish our bath, ok?" Konoka quickly dragged Asuna into the bathhouse.
"Sasori-sensei, she seemed sad didn't she?" Negi sniffed as he asked the other teacher.
"Yes, and she blames herself on how Setsuna is acting right now." The akatsuki member stood up and walked toward the exit. "Negi-kun, come with me; we shall confront Setsuna now as it will hinder us later."
"That's a great idea!" Negi stood up and followed Sasori out the door and into the hallways.
After 5 minutes of searching, they found Setsuna putting shield charms all over the hotel. She was practically on the verge of crying, but was keeping an indifferent face. Sasori could feel the sadness coming off her.
"And what would these tags do?" Sasori had to ask because he could not tell what a piece of paper can do.
"They're supposed to block any shikikami from entering this hotel." Setsuna said with confidence. "I'm sure nothing will be able to enter this hotel."
Sasori stared at her as if she forgot the most important thing in the world.
"What if the kidnapper is already inside the hotel?" Sasori said as he slowly began to walk toward Konoka's room.
Setsuna quickly realized her flaw and ran to room in question. Sasori reached the door just to witness Yue kicking the door to the restroom down. What they saw was shocking. Konoka wasn't in the restroom! Sasori and Setsuna quickly ran out in search of the kidnapper and noticed Negi confronting the kidnapper with Asuna. Setsuna quickly caught up, but was slammed into Negi as a giant monkey suit pushed the boy into the way of the swordswoman. Sasori helped the group up and continued after the monkey suit. As the four rushed out of the hotel, they ran into a station where the monkey suit entered the subway train. Sasori, Setsuna, Asuna, and Negi quickly got in after the kidnapper.
"Return Konoka-san to us!" Negi yelled as he drew a wand from his clothes.
"Why should I?" The kidnapper, obviously female, took out a piece of paper. "Charm-san, charm-san, please help facilitate my escape!" and threw the paper into their cabin as she entered the next and closed the door.
A stream of water burst forth from the paper and flooded the train. The four (five + Chamo) quickly found themselves partially drowning.
Ojou-sama, I'm sorry I couldn't save you…
Setsuna then felt Sasori's hand on her shoulders. When she looked up, he was smiling and nodded at the outside. The kidnapper was getting away!
I WON'T LET YOU TAKE OJOU-SAMA FROM ME! ZANGANKEN!
The hastily formed rescue party got out of the train and onto the platform.
"Tch, I don't know how you got out of that, but you won't be going any further! Charm-san, charm-san, please help my escape, Dai!" From the thrown piece paper, a wall of fire blocked the party's path to Konoka. "No one can break through that wall of fire… So I'll be seing you lat…"
"Ras Tel Ma Skil Magister: Freyt Une Vende Frans Saltatio Bleuera!" Negi's spell quickly dispersed the flames and opened a path to the kidnapper.
"H-h-how did you do that? No matter my 'Goki' and 'Enki' will stop you here!" She summoned a bear and monkey dolls that were as big as an average sized adult.
"How are we supposed to fight against that, Negi?" Asuna was on the verge of panic when she saw the dolls appear.
"Aniki, use the contract you have with Asuna-ne-san!" Chamo declared as he took out Asuna's pactio.
"Ok! Activate contract for Kagurazaka Asuna for 180 seconds!" Cried Negi. "Asuna-san, use this! Adeat!"
Asuna, being powered by Negi, received a giant swo… harisen.
Nobody moved or spoke for a good 10 seconds.
"WHAT THE HECK AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH A HARISEN!" Asuna shouted at Negi, however was stopped by Enki's strike.
As Setsuna and Asuna engaged the two shikikamis(Asuna dispelling her taget with a single blow), Negi fired his 'Aer Capturae' to capture the monkey lady.
"Kyaaa! Someone help me!" She quickly put Konoka in the way of the magic arrows.
"Ah! Diverge!" Negi diverted the magic arrows to the nearby vending machine.
"Oh? Ohohohohoho! I know your type, when there is a hostage involved; you will not risk getting them injured… I have to say that she is preety useful." The monkey lady laughed at the group openly.
"What are you going to do with her?" Asuna yelled as she was being held down my smaller shikikamis.
"We'll use drugs and spells to turn her into an obedient puppet, then she'll listen and follow whatever we say." She grinned at the thought. "Oh, look 'ojou-sama's' butt has gone pale… isn't that cute?" She slapped Konoka's rear end and turned to leave.
"Where do you think you're going?" Sasori finally decided to make an appearance.
All eyes turned toward the voice. The redhead drew a scroll from his robe's sleeves. It had the character for 'three'.
"What's that?" The monkey lady pretended to yawn as Sasori simply smiled.
"Sasori-sensei, what are you going to do with a scroll?" Negi was desperate to rescue Konoka, but was troubled at the thought of a hostage.
"Rescuing my student and getting rid of trash that dares to say the word 'puppet' when they don't know what a TRUE puppet is." From the scroll, a poof of white fog quickly covered Sasori.
"… HA! That is a sad trick, young man. Now if you will excuse me…" She stopped as she heard wood clattering sounds behind the fog.
"Sandaime Kazakage… Let the show begin!" Sasori's arm moved in thin air, but a giant shadow went straight toward the monkey lady.
"What can you-…What is that?" She stumbled backward, but did not fall over.
The puppet in question was large. It had a black cloak that hid its puppet body. Every stared at it in shock until Sasori moved his fingers in a unique manner again. From its right arm, a scythe and various blades came out and from the left arm; it carried a net that seemed to be glistening with some kind of liquid. The kidnapper tried to run, but the clattering sound quickly moved in front of her and blocked her escape. It quickly brought its arm down to attack the lady, but stopped millimeters above Konoka's rear end.
"So you too are affected by hostages? You are a amateu-" she turned to look at Sasori and found him gone. She quickly looked down and saw Negi right under her.
"Heh, Ras Tel Ma Skil Magister: Flans Excalmatio!" He quickly stripped the charm user and Konoka. As Konoka fell toward the floor, Setsuna dashed forward to catch her and landed on her back. Just as the lady was trying to cover herself, the puppet raised its arm again. But this time, it was blocked by a young girl attempting to hold back the blades.
"Tsukuyomi! You're late!" The charm user quickly jumped toward the door, but as she turned around to call for her hired guard to follow her; Sasori appeared before her and positioned a kunai to stab her. Until a katana appeared IN his right arm.
"Ara? Nii-chan… She's my employer so you can't kill her… Ara?" Tsukuyomi looked at her blade she found she could not remove.
Sasori's right arm disconnected at the joint to reveal a secret blade. Tsukuyomi parried the blade, but she froze as the giant puppet stabbed her legs.
"That's not fair! That big thing is unfai-!" Tsukuyomi threw up blood as poison from the blade that impaled her in the legs quickly paralyzed her.
The monkey lady had disappeared when Sasori turned to confront her. When Setsuna, Negi, Konoka, and Asuna ran up (Konoka wearing a Akatsuki robe that Sasori dropped on her seconds before), they saw the puppet disappear in to the scroll that Sasori was holding as well as Tsukuyomi's unconscious body.
"Setsuna-kun, I think she is the same style user as you. Her blade is similar." Sasori said as he withdrew the blade from his right arm.
""Wha-what happened to your arm!" Asuna cried as she saw the puppet arm.
"Aniki, it seems that Sasori-sensei has a long story…" Chamo said as he jumped onto Sasori's shoulder.
"Yes, she is indeed a Shinmei-Ryuu swordswoman, but what should we do with her?" Setsuna said after confirming the unconscious girl's body. " And why did she feint from a stab wound…"
"I'll explain everything tomorrow. But first, let's go back. And Konoka?" Sasori said as he looked at her.
"Um… yes, sensei?" Konoka didn't know what to say as she looked at Sasori's eyes.
"DON'T TELL ANYBODY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED HERE." Sasori said with a firm voice. Konoka nodded as she followed Asuna down the stairs.
"What are you going to do with her?" Setsuna asked as she saw Sasori carry the limp body.
"I'm going to take her in for questioning. Don't worry, the poison in her bloodstream will paralyze her body for a full month without treatment." Sasori said indifferently, "of course, she would be dead if not treated, but I do have the antidote, but I'm going to save it for 'good' girls…" the sentence was left hanging as he walked off With Tsukuyomi's limp form. Setsuna quickly followed the rest as she contemplated on what she could have done to prevent this type of matter from happening again.
-Chapter 2 End-