Broken Faith

by Kur0Kishi

Betrayed by Konoha at the end and sealed into oblivion. Given a second chance at a childhood in a different world can Naruto rebuild his faith in humanity. A somewhat darker Naruto than most i've read on site, not dark emo, just dark. -First Naruto/Negima fic to reach Mundus Magicus and be considered complete. Sequel in progress-

3. New Student

Broken Faith.

Disclaimer : Don't own anything including Negima Mahou sensei or other various elements.

Chapter 3

New Student

"Akane?"

The red/orange haired girl with her hair let down looked exactly like her. Only younger, with less curves.

It was official. Kami loved fucking with him, even now, 10000 years later the sick bastard took joy in screwing around with him. If Kami took a signboard and pasted it to his forehead declaring his stupid mistakes it would probably hurt less, definitely more subtle then this stupid event.

Asuna only cocked her head in confusion and watched as the blonde muttered something under his breath about stupid Gods. Then seemingly gathering his wits again the blonde straightened up, his face carefully blank and bowed, introducing himself as Namikaze Naruto.

Konoemon only watched the blonde's reaction out of the corner of his eye, the over-the-top reaction the blonde just displayed was extremely weird and out of character. Then it clicked. The way the blonde's eyes seemed to be roving over Kagurazaka's face and memorizing it even though the rest of his face was blank confirmed something for him. Nonetheless it was something that shouldn't be aired so freely in front of Kagurazaka.

"Hohoho, is Konoka and Negi in?"

Asuna was really confused now, her head swiveling between the Dean and the weird blonde, but tried not to let it bother her, annoying things should be ignored on her off day!

"Konoka is out with Negi, they had some last minute shopping to do I think."

"Hohohoh, it would've been better if Negi was here but I assume you can pass the message for me. This is Naruto, starting from the Kyoto trip he will be joining 3-A as a student. Unofficially, he as one of the few magically aware people on campus will be 3-A's bodyguard."

Asuna's eyes widened, then her jaw dropped, "WHA! A guy? No way! I bet his just a pervert!"

Naruto suddenly developed a twitch in his eye as he stared at the loud girl coldly. Pretty face or not he really didn't appreciate people putting him down. He had enough of that shit in Konoha.

Asuna kept on rambling, but felt a shiver suddenly flow down her spine but was unaware of its origins.

Konoemon just laughed at her expected reaction before cutting her off mid rant, "This is non arguable, my precious granddaughter is going to Kyoto, and 3-A have more than a passing tendency to get into trouble," There were other reasons of course, but he couldn't outright say his son-in-law was losing touch now could he? "My precious, precious granddaughter…..can you and Negi guarantee her protection?"

Asuna was now stumped, she could definitely understand the words, and what could she say in face of a doting grandparent when she didn't have one? "Bu-but, His a GUY!"

"Last I checked, Negi had wedding tackle as well, and not only is he your teacher, which you get along with very well by the way, you even sleep in the same bed with him." Naruto stifled a snort. The old man was laying it on thick. "And you don't even have to worry about Naruto, he will just be in the background, protecting Konoka and as a result the rest of 3-A. I'm not even asking you to let him stay in this room like Negi, just to let him know that he will have support in dire situations."

"Bu…but…." It was clear Asuna was running out of arguments by then and Konoe immediately took advantage of the chink in Asuna's armor, "Plus don't you think Negi as a young ten year old should have more relationships of the male variety? It can't be healthy for a young boy to grow up around only females and the only other male friends he has are decades older….." Not that I don't have a problem doing that myself…

And that was that, Asuna's motherly instincts kicked in and she grumbled her agreement although she still glared at the smirking blonde like he was a convicted pervert.

All the time Naruto was simply standing by watching the dean play the red haired girl like a trout on a string, smirking slightly. The old guy was crafty, he'd give him that.

"Anyway, Naruto will drop by tonight to inform Negi directly later after I show him his training area and he gets some supplies with Shizuna sensei, won't he?" that last part was directed at the blonde himself and Naruto only deigned to reply with a curt nod.

Seeing their business was done, Konoe left a frazzled Asuna standing in the doorway in her pyjamas, Naruto following him after a small nod to the girl, while she was technically a colleague, despite how much she looked like her, Naruto didn't trust her one jot but common manners was instilled deep in him. With a thorough beating he might add.

His thoughts still percolating on the red haired girl they had left back in the dorms, Naruto walked on autopilot until the dean's voice, quieter than normal pierced the silence. The casual tone was one reminiscent of someone commenting on the weather but the underlying question was as obvious as it was firm in that the old man would not be letting the issue go.

"That Being you kept talking about, her name was Akane wasn't it."

Naruto stopped walking and was instantly on guard and tensed, that was one bit of information he had left out, technically he had left any and all personal information out, the old man only knew about his professional career. So how did this man know?

"Gohohoho, no need to be so tense bouya, an old man like me has seen a lot of things in life you know. I've seen life being born, and life being taken. Coincidentally when you saw Asuna, the look on your face reminded me of the expressions that people who are leftover have. The look they have when they grieve and when they can't believe someone they loved was standing in front of them again. Love in the non platonic sense I might add." Naruto relaxed slightly and continued walking beside the dean but the grimace on his face told more than anything he could ever say, something the crafty old man noticed at once, "Which leads us to here, you neglected to mention any sort of romantic relationships in your earlier narrative, but it was easy to deduce considering the only constant source of companionship had was the being sealed inside you and the tone you always spoke about her with…."

The old man trailed off, but the silence after his words said more than anything else ever could.

Naruto slumped as he walked, "You, old man, are way too cunning." The dean tried not to flinch at the sense of exhaustion in the blonde's tone, it was the tone of someone tired of living, of someone who didn't expect to live but lived anyway and suffered from survivor's guilt along with everything else Kami had seen fit to throw at him.

The blonde seemingly pulled himself together again after a period of silence before speaking again, "None else learns about what I'm going to say, this is only between us old man. This is something I would rather leave in the past, agreed?" he turned to stare at the old man, something the old man returned with equal vigour, "Agreed."

The two men continued the stare off briefly before continuing to walk, "The stigma of being a jinchuriki was something I wouldn't wish on even my enemies. People have been known to grown insane from extreme isolation. Throughout all that, the only reason I stayed remotely sane was because she was always there for me and sooner or later we inevitably fell in love, but even then I refused to let anyone know, after that I made friends, but the stigma stayed, I didn't want to let them know because I was desperate for recognition, for friends, and thought if they knew, they would abandon me. That more than anything scared me. But I think, on some level I was ashamed of Akane being sealed inside me, that was the stigma talking you know and i was selfish, wanting the best of both worlds. Now in hindsight, more than anything, I am ashamed of myself, I hate my old weak selfish self even, for hiding my beloved from others and pretending to hate her and yet not wanting to let go of my human friends. In the end, I made the wrong decisions and lost something that was bigger than any stupid human relationship I had or could ever make, you know what happened. End of story."

Naruto laughed, it was bitter.

Konoe did all he could to suppress the flinch again.

That bitterness wasn't something he was accustomed to hearing from someone that barely looked thirty much less in his late teens.

As they walked side by side, the blonde said something so quiet Konoe almost didn't hear it because of the wind, "And now, I'm tormented every night by her telling me she doesn't blame me, that she loved me even if I was ashamed of her as she was pulled from me. The fact that she knew…. but never let her smile or love falter, that will be my greatest burden for the rest of my life and more punishment than anything Kami, sick bastard that he is, can think of."

In retrospect, the fact that his isolation had might have been orchestrated by the Sandaime so that his own craving for recognition from Konoha would have been the ultimate to way to guarantee his loyalty to Konoha, at least till he had lost everything was too great a possibility to deny was something that Naruto didn't want to face in case it tarred his image of the person he considered his Grandfather.

Naruto and Konoe reached something the old man called an abandoned clearing northwest of the World Tree, right at the edge of the barrier. They had walked here in silence, Konoemon regretting the fact that he had pushed for answers and Naruto maintained his blank composure the whole way here.

"This clearing has been abandoned a long time ago because a demon infiltrated the barrier some time ago and the ensuing fight left some bad connotations among the magically aware staff, not many come here and even less knows about it now. It takes about 30 minutes to reach the dorms from here and another 30 to the main school building, something someone of your abilities can easily shorten. Now the place I was planning on having you stay at is somewh-" Konoemon was cut off by the blonde, "That's alright, I can stay here, its surrounded by forest and its peaceful. I have most of my equipment with me, that includes a tent and some other personal items, I can stay here indefinitely easily as long as there is somewhere available for me to bath?"

Konoemon's jaw had dropped, the blonde was going to stay in the forest? Alone? Well…technically it was ok as long as it was on campus but he would have to alert his border patrols not to bother the young man and rearrange…but wait, "A compromise then, you can stay here, but since this is the edge of the barrier and obviously in the way of the school's patrols, you have take over the planned patrol route for this part of the forest every night and report any intrusion to me starting from after the Kyoto trip, as for the baths, tonight when you go back to Asuna's dorm room, you can ask her to show you the baths, its mixed so don't be too surprised."

It was a good plan too, he didn't have to go beg some girl to share a dorm with a male and he didn't have to rearrange his patrol plans to not bother the man. The reduced cost of hiring Mana since this was part of her route was all good as well. That girl charged through the nose dean or no dean.

"Alright. That's easy enough and patrolling the area isn't much of a problem, in fact I'm used to staying alert at any time of the day to protect myself from attacks to the point where it's pretty much instinctual and would have done it for myself anyway."

Konoemon did not know how to reply to that, indeed what could one say about a boy having to stay alert for his life to the point where it was instinctual at such a young age without being patronizing, so he didn't and just nodded his agreement, "Now let us go back to my office, Shizuna should be there soon enough to show you to the local sundry store where you can get anything you might need for your daily ablutions."

Shizuna was already waiting for the duo when they arrived back at the dean's office, the journey made in silence. Naruto bowed in thanks again to the dean before going off with Shizuna, Konoemon could only watched the blonde's retreating back in silence and curse the judgmental nature of humans once again. Naruto was not the first, nor would he be the last or worst case of human nature's stupidity, not by a long shot, but he couldn't help every case he came along. And that, stung more than anything because he had the resources and the magic. However magic couldn't be used to help without breaking the law and he couldn't go out and spend every coin he had on every Tom, Dick and Jane sob story he came across.

He could only help the way he could and sometimes he wondered if it was enough.

Shaking his head, the dean retired to his office and continue his ever mountainous amount of paperwork.

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Shizuna, Naruto felt, was a bit of an air head with a genuinely good heart with the way she could chatter about everything and anything under the sun. along the way Shizuna had talked about the World Tree, the current magical world, the non magical world and its intricacies and even Nitta-sensei's receding hairline and his non-stop efforts at hiding it. The last was something he couldn't stop laughing at. They talked about more current Japanese traditions and Naruto was glad to hear that nothing much had changed in the time he was sealed. He was happy to hear the honorifics system hadn't gone out of style, nor had the more esoteric traditions like tea ceremonies and kimonos. Akane had drilled manners and patience into him by tea ceremonies, and as painful as those times were, they were also some of the best. Some had changed of course, innovations like the currency and the government was on par for the course, but it was the little details that mattered.

It felt good to smile and laugh and chatter about something that was for once in his life, NOT earth shaking.

Then he thought of something and gave voice to his question, "Shizuna-sensei, I have copies of a few books that were very popular from my time period. They were written by my godfather and I would like to edit them before republishing them, do you know how or what regulations I'd need to follow?"

"Oh? What books are they Naruto?

How was he supposed to say porn? "Uh…..romance novels?"

The green haired teacher put a finger to her lips in thought for a few moments before replying, "Ummm….. the nearest reliable book publisher I know is in Harajuku… but I don't really know much, but I think you have to patent your work after it is published so people don't try to copy it, but I think its usually included in the contract you sign with your publishers…"

"Patent? Whats that?"

"Oh I keep forgetting you're not from this era, patent is simply a document that establishes your ownership over an intangible idea. Like this book you want to sell, its your ideas, and you wrote it, the patent lets you sue someone who would try to copy your work and take advantage of it." the teacher tried to explain it as simple as she could.

Naruto nodded while thinking about the possible complications, "Can you show me the way to this book publisher today?"

Shizuna kept walking, obviously thinking about her schedule, "I don't really think so, after we buy your supplies we have to walk back to wherever your accommodation is before I show you how to go to Haraju-"

"Its ok Shizuna-sensei, you don't have to worry about lugging the stuff with me, after we buy them, I can easily store them in any of my scrolls once we're out of sight, after that you have time to show the place to me?"

"Um….. in that case, I do have enough time, but I can only show you the publisher, after that we'd have to rush back here for an appointment I have later this evening, is that ok with you?"

"Yeah sure, but you don't have to worry about me, I can find my way back easily." Naruto answered with a casual wave of his hand. He didn't necessarily have to mention he could teleport instantaneously to a kunai marker he had left back in the clearing so it wouldn't really be problem.

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It really was a surprise, the groceries had gone well enough, just a few sets of his new uniform, some food and toiletries, everything was sealed into the scroll on his hip. The blonde and the teacher chatted amiably all the while and had gotten along fairly well. That is to say, Shizuna was somebody he would regret having to kill should it come to that.

It was even more of a surprise when Shizuna had shown him to the publishers. The editor he had met explained to him that the company generally sold a wide variety of books and had accepted his edited copy of Icha Icha Paradise, first of twenty smutty books without any problem. In fact, the editor was drooling. He really didn't want to know. He really didn't.

He had even been given his first down payment so he could comfortably splurge on himself for now and still have enough to repay the old man and Shizuna three times over for all the money they had given him. Something which he planned to do as soon as possible. That was when he noticed a familiar energy signature. One that he had met this morning. One that reminded him of buried memories.

Asuna was in Harajuku.

Curious the blonde took to the rooftops, and followed the energy signature like a bloodhound on a scent, wrapped in the shadows of a billboard atop a tall building, Naruto watched as Asuna along with a blonde girl approached the park. Their target was a young couple, surprisingly their targets were practically leaking magical energy into the air, a cute brunette and a red haired kid that was lying on the brunette's lap. He watched their antics for awhile and while his face maintained its stoic standard, he would freely admit he felt a bit envious of their care freeness and innocence. Playing in the park with friends, more worried about what to eat then to avoid being eaten. Then again, one could argue so far, the whole reason he was revived in this era was to relax as well. And so he watched with a small smile, as three other girls joined the four in the park, the blonde girl and Asuna occasionally bickering while everyone watched on.

Channeling chakra to his ears, he could hear that it was Asuna's birthday, he wasn't sure why, but he felt like he should at least get something for her. They were colleagues after all….. with that in mind, he created a few clones that teleported back to the clearing with all his supplies, intent on setting up his new home as well as getting the present he had in mind while the original lounged on the rooftops content on watching the merry making below him.

Then he felt it, if he wasn't so relaxed he wouldn't have noticed the slight killer intent. Had he been his usual high strung self, he would have missed the killer intent for only two reasons. One, because it was so low in intensity it simply wouldn't register as a threat or two, the source was skilled enough to avoid his detection. Whoever it was, the culprit was watching Asuna and her friends from afar. Despite being able to sense the killer intent, the blonde was unable to determine the target. Just that he or she was among the 7 people in the park nor could he track the killer intent back to its source because of the distance. That alone was enough to put him on edge. Rather than someone weak, it was far more likely that there was someone here with enough ability to hide from his ninja senses, weakened as they may be, because let's face it, his luck pretty much sucked in cases like this.

He watched the gang, his narrowed blue eyes swiveling around in the darkness and followed the gang until he was sure whoever intended his charges harm was gone, for now anyway. When he was satisfied they weren't in danger, the blonde teleported back home while the rest were going to the karaoke. Once he opened his crystal blue eyes, he looked around the clearing before creating a shadow clone which he ordered to let the dean know about what he had sensed today and repay the money the dean had lent him before the original set about clearing the pretty spacious tent.

When the clone's memories returned he just smiled and continued his interior decorating. The old man was openly grateful that he had the foresight of 'hiring an experienced ninja' and expressed his gratitude. In the old man's opinion, the ninja's presence had probably deterred anything more than a simple reconnaissance mission, although he had known beforehand there would obstacles for Negi, that they had appeared in this particular place and date implied that this particular obstacle was related to the Kyoto trip and had said as much, telling the clone to be careful. The shadow clone had then proceeded to repay all the money the old man had lent him before bowing and poofing away.

The original finished setting up his new home before heading off to relax in the baths after making sure his clones were properly making what he had planned as a gift for Asuna's birthday later at night.

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Asuna just had what she considered the best day in her short life. This was the first time she had celebrated her birthday with someone her age excluding Konoka (Takamichi-sensei and the dean didn't count). She had gotten more presents today than at any other birthdays (the cheerleader's purchases to stop Konoka and Negi from having a good date), she felt accepted and had good friends (even if Ayaka was too stubborn to admit it).

She was extremely happy, surprisingly even more so than when Takamichi-sensei had given her the bells she currently used as hair pins.

The moon outside was particularly bright tonight, that combined with the fact that she was so happy was probably the reason why she couldn't sleep. Negi for some reason had gone to sleep in his bed for once. Asuna snuggled into bed but her mind was still too giddy and high to let her sleep.

As she lay there on her bed, looking out the windows and staring at the night sky, she suddenly heard a few strains of haunting music floating through her bed room window. For some reason the sound stirred unfamiliar feelings, like she had lost something and never knew. Something she had heard before but the memory taken from her and left behind empty void in her head as she tried to grasp the feeling in her.

(Play Euterpe by Egoist)

Curious and a little frightened, if magic existed, what was to say ghosts didn't? The orange haired girl slowly moved to the window, clutching her pillow as she went, the music getting louder and louder but for some weird reason no one else in the dorm stirred.

Her breath hitched when she reached the window. Outside on a tree was 3-A's supposed bodyguard.

The blonde was wearing different clothes, black pants and shirt that covered a white undershirt finished off with a metal studded belt and boots. His hair seemed to have been trimmed; rather than the untidy but roguish waterfall down his back it had been yesterday he had it trimmed and tied into a thin pony tail that fell down his back with some bangs that fell down the side of his face. The blonde sat on a tree branch, leaning on the tree trunk with a relaxed pose, one leg swinging from his seat as he played a flute.

That was the source of the haunting tune and it seemed to embody the blonde, as if the flute was the musical analog of his soul. Sad, uplifting and hopeful all at once. She was so entranced by the music and the sight of his fingers dancing across the flute that she didn't realize when the music stopped and only snapped out of her trance when he spoke.

"I heard it was your birthday today."

Speechless the girl could only nod in a daze until the blonde snapped his hand out and threw a long, thin and wrapped package at her. Stumbling a bit the girl stared wide eyed at the package.

"It's a flute like the one I was playing, learning to play a flute will help you to concentrate and have more patience. My teacher told me I was severely lacking in both and beat me into learning it, I thought it would be useful for you as well. If you need lessons seek me out in private." The blonde stood as he started to leave, a dark cloak unfurling from his shoulders where it had been wrapped around his neck.

"Wait! Ca-can you play that song again? I do-don't know how to explain it, but when I heard it, it felt like I lost something, I-I don't know what I lost but something's missing and it felt like only your song could bring it back." Naruto stared at the girl as she wrung her hands, obviously panicking. This was definitely unexpected. He had cast a genjutsu to bring her to him, but unexpectedly his genjutsu had struggled against something in her mind, even more surprising, she had felt the clashing, something that normal people would never have noticed.

To be perfectly honest, he sucked at genjutsu and would never be able to cast any genjutsu with handsigns alone, Akane had refused to let him have such a big hole in his education and as such had taught him to use the flute as a medium and amplifier to cast genjutsu. He would never be able to cast genjutsu as the likes of Kakashi and Itachi did and the only kinds he would ever be able to use could only target the hearing with the flute. But it was better than nothing.

Nonetheless, when he had earlier started playing the flute to cast the rest of the dorm into a deep sleep and bring Asuna to him, he had sensed his genjutsu clashing with something else in Asuna's mind, a barrier of sorts, and most likely the clashing had brought those feelings Asuna had described to the surface. He didn't know what the barrier did, but according to the girl it apparently blocked some of her memories, on the other hand, the barrier was definitely man made, natural barriers felt different and usually resulted from some sort of mental trauma. Nonetheless, he had absolutely no experience in matters like this and trying to bring down the barrier with his minimal abilities would only result in disaster for all parties involved.

So he did the only thing he could and played his flute again. This time casting a genjutsu to calm and relax the distraught girl down, it was probably excruciating; knowing you lost something, but not knowing what, how or when you lost it. It would be best she did not know or remember what she had discovered this night although he would have to speak to the dean if someone was putting memory barriers on his students unauthorized.

He played the flute on that tree for goodness knows how long until he noticed that the girl had fallen asleep sitting on the window sill while cradling the package. A peaceful and content expression on her face. Leaping forward the blonde entered the window silently and gently picked the sleeping girl up, carrying her to bed bridal style. Once he tucked her in, he stood by her bed side, uncertain and hesitating, he brought one hand to her cheek and brushed it softly. He could hear her breathing soften and even out, while she snuggled into the hand caressing her cheeks. He shook his head. This wasn't Akane. Akane was dead because of him. and the blonde left like a shadow in the night, his passing more silent than a ghost's breath.

As he left, he berated himself for being such a pussy around Asuna. Although he was confused as to why he couldn't stop himself from being so… open to Asuna and acted weirdly around her, that casting of a genjutsu on the whole dorm had brought unexpected benefits in the form of information. The magically aware students apparently were far less susceptible to genjutsu than the non-magical aware ones and that there were three half demons among the students.

That was good to know, with that knowledge he could probably watch out for any illusions that targeted them or know whether he could cast one on his classmates in the future to hide something. The three half demons on the other hand obviously realized a genjutsu was being cast but because it wasn't malicious, they probably let it pass otherwise he would have been attacked immediately.

Although whether his genjutsu was successful or not depended on the amount of his chakra, the more powerful the opponent, the more chakra he had to expend and it also depended on his strength of will against that of the targets. That most of the dorm was already asleep of course made his job so much easier.

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Asuna woke up groggily the next morning with a slight headache. She felt like she just had a really weird dream until the package she had been cradling in her arms rolled off the bed. Surprised, the redhead picked it up and unwrapped it. A wooden flute that was as long as her arms rolled out on to the bed along with a small card. Fascinated she picked it up to read it, "Happy 15th birthday Asuna. If you want lessons in using the flute, remember to ask me in private. I've also included some basic notes for guidance on how to get started on playing this flute. Remember, playing it will help calm you down and lets you concentrate better."

Intrigued, the red haired girl took another gander at the flute lying on her bed. It looked like any normal flute but there were intricate carvings along the body, carvings of foxes dancing in a forest. That was when she remembered that the bodyguard had shown up in the middle of the night to give this to her as a birthday present. For some obscure reason the thought warmed her insides more than the party last night and the melody from then seemed to hum inside her. Then she got angry, that pervert was hanging around the girl's dorm at night! And for some reasons she had been too distracted to bash his head in!

It was 10 am, 3 days till the Kyoto trip where we found our favourite blonde in the dean's office the day after Asuna's birthday, intending on getting some answers.

"Jiji, that girl you introduced to me yesterday, Asuna, did you know that she has a memory barrier placed on her? And that you have two half demons in the dorms? Don't get me wrong, I don't have any prejudice against demons or half demons but at the same time I don't deny their capacity for collateral damage is far more than the average human." Inwardly Naruto wanted to laugh at the flabbergasted look on the dean, he probably wasn't meant to find out things like that so fast.

"Hohoho, you are definitely a good ninja. I'm very very surprised you learnt about that so easily. The memory barrier….i didn't authorize it, but I know of it it and who placed it. It was placed before she came here, you see, Asuna is an orphan with a traumatic past, the seal was meant to allow her to forget it and function normally in society." Naruto just nodded in agreement, he could let that go, if it were possible he would have probably accepted the barrier on himself if the situation was similar.

"And the half demons?"

Here the old man steepled his fingers and stared at the ninja, "I need your assurance what I'm going to tell you isn't going to be spread around, Naruto." Naruto just gave him a 'are you serious? I'm a ninja, we do this shit all the time' deadpan stare, Konoemon, seeing the stare only laughed before continuing his explanations, "You see, the world we are currently in, is one side of a mirror, the magical folk call this world Mundus Vetus. The other side of the mirror, one exclusively for the magical side, Mundus Magicus exists in another dimension. For various reasons, some personal and some not so, both half demons have chosen to stay in this world and blend in with the non magical. If you should be able to get close to them and ask for their reasons, that is your prerogative, but I won't tell you anything because it is their secret to keep."

Naruto just nodded, everyone had their reasons after all then he saluted and poofed.

Konoemon just stared at where the man had been standing scant seconds ago, 'That….was a clone?'

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In Naruto's clearing, sounds of grunts and something whooshing around and something smacking wood could clearly be heard.

If one were to peek, one would see a clearing filled with identical blonde people, divided into groups, all of them wore the same thing, black form fitting clothes with light armor. Only one of the blondes stood out because the blonde in question was currently topless. Why was he topless?

After performing various some light exercises to limber up, Naruto had created close to three hundred clones. All the other clones were experimenting with their skills, checking to see if everything worked as he remembered it, the Rasengan and its variants, Sage Mode, and the few elemental skills he had. After gaining the Rinnegan, which automatically gave him an affinity to all five main chakra natures, Naruto had taken advantage of the affinities to learn something other than his rasengan variants, destructive as they may be, he sorely lacked any sort of ranged attacks. Meanwhile, another hundred clones weren't exercising but sitting down at the side and all of them read a book on whatever the dean gave them, twice per book. Social, political, economical and geological changes as well as current traditions mostly.

The Hiraishin was already checked out and it worked fine, slightly sluggish compared to its normal performance but workable, something he attributed to a lack of chakra in the air unlike the atmosphere from his era after activating his Rinnegan to check for any mistakes in his form and the surroundings. But then again, sluggish in Hiraishin equated to about one sixteenth of a second compared to the standard one twentieth of a second, the difference was probably negligible. Once all the clones that were evaluating his skills were done, the original ordered all of them to disperse in groups of ten, except the clones were currently gathering Natural energy for Sage Mode. Sage Mode was definitely going to be a problem, the rate of activation was crap compared to his era, then again…modernization…..etc, for example, he had five clones set out to gather the standard amount of natural energy, usually they took less than 20 minutes for 1 hours worth of Sage mode, but now, they had been at it for 30 minutes and had gathered barely enough for 50 minutes viable but definitely not satisfactory in battle.

Another clone stood separated from all the rest holding the sniper rifle he obtained from the pactio and was trying to figure out to how to use it.

The original frowned as he continued exercising, or rather, he was upside down, one finger balanced on the tip of one kunai and two boulders on each feet attached with chakra as he did pumps. Which was why he was topless with sweat glistening down his body. Sage Mode was an important part of his arsenal, and if right now he, in the middle of a small forest which was enhanced by magic could barely gather anything; what did that say about doing it in the middle of a city like Harajuku?

The absorption rate of Natural energy was as efficient as it was 10000 years ago, but there was less of the energy in the atmosphere. Worse come to worst, he had other trump cards, so it wasn't really that important though.

Suddenly the clones he had spread about the clearing along with their activated Rinnegans as an early warning system let him know a familiar energy signature was nearing the clearing. Immediately all the clones dispersed, even the alert clones while the original continued doing pushups on a kunai, switching fingers every 2 sets. That was his limit for now, at peak efficiency he could probably push 10 sets per finger with boulders twice the size the ones he had one his legs right now and that was without any chakra enhancements at all.

He continued his pushups, ignoring the person, although her presence reminded him that he should go and get some food from Satsuki later tonight. Then go feed some cats. Having had enough of his pushups he flipped the boulders on the soles of his feet into the air and pushed his body upwards, flexing around, the blonde kicked both boulders, crashing them near the edge of the clearing opposite from where the voyeur was and landed feet first. Stretching the kinks out of his body he started going through a few basic katas that resembled Tai-chi of today, not that Naruto knew that. The katas were something that he primarily used to relax after a vigorous exercise and cool off but maintain his limber muscles.

Chachamaru was having a normal day. Wake up, breakfast, tinker around the house before heading off for where she worked during the holidays, Chao Bao Zi. Or at least it was normal right up until she and her master felt the flares of incredible energy. It felt like someone was firing a spell on par with the '100 Arrows of Light' over and over again without stopping. Evangeline was wide eyed of course, she in her natural form could match the output, no problem, but people with incredibly large natural reserves were rare, that and whoever this person was he had twice as much as Negi in terms of pure power capacity to keep up the output for so long.

Chachamaru was wide eyed for another reason. The magical signature belonged to him. The blonde with the cats. What was he doing shooting spells of mass destruction so close to their home? Did this mean she had misjudged him wrong and that he was really a bounty hunter after her master? Wait no, he wasn't coming any closer to their cottage. The location was constant according to her sensors, about 1 kilometer due north from their cottage, that put him at the edge of the barrier, exactly what was he doing there? Was he trying to collapse the barrier? By she didn't detect any fluctuations in the barrier so that meant he wasn't attacking it.

Looking at her master, Chachamaru asked her Master for permission to check what was happening. Eva seeing the questioning look in her doll's eyes just nodded, the silent command obvious. Eva watched as her gynoid, maid uniform wearing servant jumped off into the forest, she sincerely hoped whatever it was, wasn't malicious, Chachamaru was the closest thing she had to family nowadays, apart from Chachazero. That and she was certain Chachamaru wouldn't survive a hostile encounter against something twice as powerful as Negi and judging by the constant flaring of spells, certainly didn't lack in offensive power to utilize his reserves. But she had to send the green haired gynoid anyway; it was part of her contract to maintain the barrier and it was not like she could do anything herself in this state.

Chachamaru sped to the clearing, slowing down before she reached the source of the energy flares before slowing down so that she didn't alert anyone that she was there, however before the clearing came into sight all flares of energy immediately stopped. That put her on edge. The blonde had probably detected her already but she didn't stop and hid herself at the edge of the clearing, observing the blonde. He seemed to be doing pushups….only more intense and way more dangerous. Looking around the clearing, she spotted nothing else besides the blonde and a medium sized tent. It almost seemed like he was living here, but did he have clearance and if he did, why wasn't her master notified? Her processors couldn't make heads or tails of it all so she settled for watching the blonde continue his pushups.

She didn't know how long she stood there, watching almost entranced as she lost track of time and even forgot her Master waiting back at the cottage, her optical visors almost unvoluntarily followed the beads of sweat that rolled down his toned body as it sinuously twisted and flexed doing pushups and katas. Even as she stayed stationary and watched, her chasis started heating up again and the gears in her chest seemed to spin faster. Only this time, the heat seemed different from the one that had occurred when she had bumped into him feeding the cats, twice in one week?

Chachamaru took the time do divert her eyes as she frowned at her chest.

Something was really wrong with her, but her diagnostics couldn't pick up anything wrong. Her processors were almost frustrated that it couldn't find anything wrong with the heating up. Giving the android equivalent of a shrug she continued to watch the blonde dance through smooth katas, his muscles compacting and releasing. Suddenly the blonde stopped and grabbed a towel hanging from his tent to wipe the sweat from his body.

Naruto finished his training, satisfied with the results, he was still a bit weak, but that was just muscle atrophy, his chakra reserves were down to 20% but should be back to 40% in time for the trip, it was noticeably slower than usual, what with the tree and the sword sharing but it wasn't any slower than say, a normal human would regenerate chakra. He silently wondered if this was what normal shinobi always felt like after exhausting themselves, if so, he could see why the shinobi that talked to him about his regeneration were always so envious. It sucked not being able to throw S-rank jutsu's of mass destruction on a whim, that last statement caused him to chuckle to himself.

Setting up a small fire and some water to boil, he retreated into his tent for a shirt and his tea leaves. Preparing the tea, he sat back against a boulder and gestured to where the interloper was still watching him to come closer.

When the gynoid jumped down from the tree her face slightly red, he couldn't help but raise one eyebrow at her outfit but didn't ask anything and let her sit down on a log near him. he noticed she was rather cautious of him but didn't comment and together they sat in silence until the tea was done. He himself sat relaxed but never let his guard down.

It was only after he had served the gynoid a cup of tea that the silence was broken, " So what brings you out here so far from the school?" the blonde asked.

The gynoid seemed to think about her answer for awhile before replying, "My Master and I live about a kilometer south from here in a cottage. When we both felt something using great amounts of energy we were both immediately concerned that someone or something was attacking the school or meant my master harm."

"oh….." something seemed to dawn on the blonde's face, "I'll have to remember to set up some seals so that my training doesn't bother anyone, although so far from school I doubt anyone else noticed."

Chachamaru watched the blonde's face, although his tone was casual and his body seemed relaxed, his expression never changed from its stoicism, "That would be advisable. Although, this clearing has been abandoned for a while and no one is supposed to come here unless for professional reasons, so if I may ask, who are you and what are you doing here?" the gynoid asked.

"Eh? I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce myself, Namikaze Naruto. The dean hasn't told anyone yet? I'm a transfer student. I'm supposed to be joining class 3-A starting from the Kyoto trip. I suppose I have to let 3-A's homeroom teacher know later since the dean obviously hasn't told anyone I'm going to be transferring into Mahora Academy either. As for what I'm doing here…. I live here." The blonde gave a small shrug, "I certainly don't fancy intruding on a teenage girl's privacy and there isn't any empty rooms in the dorm, so I stay here where its peaceful. I like being surrounded by the forest.

Chachamaru was definitely surprised now, the blonde was going to join her class? And go to the Kyoto trip? Unbidden, her processors suddenly felt going to Kyoto was desirable but was still unfortunately outweighed by her Master's needs, "3-A? that's the class my Master and I attend."

"Oh? And you are…?"

"Chachamaru."

"Its nice to meet you Chachamaru-san, I hope we can be work together in class properly." The blonde gave a small bow and a small. This was the first time Chachamaru had seen him break his stoic expression enough to smile at her. She felt an unknown warmth settle in her stomach region but attributed it to the tea she was drinking.

"Nice to meet you too, Naruto-san."

Silence fell after that introduction and they both silently sipped their tea.

When Chachamaru finished her tea, it was almost two hours since she had left the cottage, and she suddenly realized her Master was probably waiting for any information. Standing up she gave the blonde a small bow, "Thank you for the tea Naruto-san, it was delicious. I hope to see you again but I need to go now, my Master is probably waiting for me."

Naruto only watched the gynoid leave in silence. 'Nante omoshiroi no…hito da.'

First Day of Kyoto Trip

Naruto sat atop a building's roof, the shadow hiding his presence from everyone else as bustling noises from below reached his ears. The rest of his class was scurrying around getting ready to depart for Kyoto. The blonde sighed, his presence was bound to cause even more chaos for the 10 year kid that was the homeroom teacher, not to mention the inevitable barrage of annoying questions from annoying people. When he had talked to Negi that day after Chachamaru had left, the little boy had been VERY surprised, and he showed it too. By shouting it to the world. He was lucky the third roommate was asleep and hadn't heard his outburst about male bodyguards in a pervert's wet dream of a school.

Asuna had of course silenced the panicking boy with a smack upside the head and received a grateful nod from the blonde. Naruto really didn't like loud noises. Shortly after he had outlined his tasks to the redheaded boy he had stepped out of the dorm but Asuna had pulled on his left sleeve, a shy expression her face. Naruto almost grimaced, when Asuna looked shy and demure, she could have been the god damn reincarnation of Akane but held it in and asked in a polite tone if he could help her.

Flashback

"A-ano, thanks for the gift yesterday, I didn't have the chance to thank you and I drifted off to sleep."

"That's alright, think of it as a gift from a colleague, after all we're working together to keep the class safe." Naruto replied but didn't notice the slight flinch Asuna gave at his impersonal and stoic tone.

"A-anyway, do you mind teaching me how to use the flute? I want to learn how to make music as beautiful as the one you made that night. It felt so peaceful." Asuna asked the blonde.

"I would be honored to pass on my teacher's teachings Asuna-san…" 'to someone that looks exactly like her. How ironic.' "When you have time, feel free to seek me out whenever you want, I'll be sure to spend some time aiding you." Naruto replied before giving a small bow.

Asuna stood outside the door to her dorms watching the blonde leave, ponytail swaying behind his broad shoulders with her hands clutched to her chest. For some weird reason her heart was beating really fast. Then she realized what she was doing, swooning over some stranger that visited her in the middle of the night, how shameful! And the orange haired girl immediately rushed into her dorm, slamming the door closed. Didn't stop her heart beating so fast though. And she was pretty sure there was a blush on her face as well….

"….Suna, Asuna!"

"Guh? What is it Negi! Stop shouting in my face."

"Huh? I was just asking what was wrong, you went outside to say something to Naruto-san then suddenly you run in and slam the door, your face is all red and your acting weird. Whats wrong?" Negi asked the equally puzzled girl.

"Grrr, nothing, don't worry about it, have you packed for the Kyoto trip yet?"

"Eeeeh…..but I wanna know….. what did you do Asuna?"

*Smack* Negi clutched the new lump on his head courtesy of an even redder Asuna.

"Nothing! Its nothing! Go pack your bags Negi!"

Flashback End.

Naruto of course did not know about that last conversation between Asuna and Negi the night before. Nonetheless even as he slacked around on the rooftop, he was amused to note that the boy was being harassed by almost everybody in class. Being dragged around like a life size plush toy by a blonde woman, multiple girls asking him out, Asuna mothering him and Konoka laughing from the sidelines.

The blonde couldn't help but sweatdrop, If he didn't know any better he'd swear that Negi was the perfect role model for hen pecked husbands that didn't know how to say No. then again, he was just ten, handling women wasn't in the job description. Yet.

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Below with Negi

Group-1: Misa Kakizaki, Modoka Kugimiya, Sakurako Shiina, Fuuka and Fumika Narutaki

"KONOKA-SAN CLASS 3-A IS OVER HERE!" Fuuka shouted out the window.

"The twins are sure alike. They're noisy," Misa said jokingly.

"Aw come on it's more fun that way," Modoka said.

"Negi-kun, the birthday party the day before yesterday was fun!" Sakurako said.

"Hey that's no fair you got play with Negi-sensei!" Fumika pouted.

"Ahahah, It was fun let's do it again sometime soon, we'll remember to bring you and Fuuka as well Ok?" Negi said.

"Eheh, Negi-sensei is soooo nice!"

Group-2: Satsuki Yotsuba, Misora Kasuga, Kaede Nagase, Satomi Hakase, Chao Lingshen and Ku Fei

Satsuki Yotsuba was walking around selling nikuman as she got on the train. "She sells those things everywhere huh?" Misora Kasuga, the tomboy track star of the class, said jovially. Kaede nodded as she as was eating one.

"Do you want one too Kasuga-san?" Satomi Hakase, resident scientist of the class, asked. Misora just shook her head no. Chao Lingshen, the Chinese foreign exchange student was looking around merrily wondering if she could use Negi to sell the meat buns in England. She also watched as Ku Fei loudly offered Negi some food which he gently declined.

Group-3: Kazumi Asakura, Natsumi Murakami, Chisame Hasegawa, Chizuru Naba and Ayaka Yukihiro

Natsumi entered the car looking at everything with awe. Chisame was just considering everything stupid. Asakura was busy taking pictures of everything, Chizuru was busy laughing at Ayaka's antics around Negi, "Arara, Iincho's at it again."

"Hey Iichino (class rep) try to lower down the illegal child seduction to a minimum before lunch time okay?" Asakura said while snapping pictures of Ayaka haras-*ahem* advising their homeroom teacher.

Ayaka of course completely ignored the jab and continued talking, "I've rented out the entire green car, so let's take our time and relax there. Just the two of us 3," Ayaka said whispering the last part.

"I-Iichino-san I still have some work to do!" Negi said waving his arms frantically.

"Seriously Iichino at least let him finish his work before trying to abduct Negi-sensei." A new voice shouted. Group 3 turned to see the source of the voice; Makie Sasaki of group 4.

Group-4: Akira Okochi, Mana Tatsumiya, Ako Izumi, Yuna Akashi and Makie Sasaki

"Are you guys okay?" a stoic, dark skinned beauty asked the group ahead of her. "Ah, we're fine, Iincho and group 3 hurry and get in~" Negi said as he pushed the group into the train car. Ayaka was pouting at being disturbed of course but being who she was she refused to go and declared it her duty as class president to help the homeroom teacher settle everyone in. that she could stay beside him was a just a bonus. Just a bonus…..

Meanwhile…

"Ako, are you sick even before the trip starts?" Akira asked while rubbing Ako's back.

"N-no, I think I just ate too much nikuman," Ako replied using Yuna as support.

"You want me to get you water?" Yuna asked. Ako nodded and Yuna bought some from the vending machine on the train.

Makie ignored the byplay of her group and steamrolled directly to her 'adorable' home room teacher, "Negi-kun! Do you want to hang out with us as during free activity day!" Makie questioned loudly and happily causing Negi, (Naruto who was unnoticed) and Chamo to sweat drop at her energy.

"Sasaki-san he's taken, err very busy," Ayaka replied hotly. This caused Makie to pout and turn away.

Group-5: Nodoka Miyazaki, Haruna Saotome, Yue Ayase, Asuna Kagurazaka and Konoka Konoe

When the last group came up for their turn, Asuna and Konoka went to talk to Negi, unnoticed to them the last three members of their group were discussing something very important, "This is your chance Nodoka! Go ask him 'Will you go out with me on free activity day?'" Haruna suggested to the quiet book worm.

"B-but…" was all Nodoka could say.

"Come on I don't think Negi-sensei would turn you down if you ask him." Yue just watched her friends as she sipped her juice box.

"Negi did you eat properly?" Asuna asked the boy.

"Yes I did. Thanks for the onigiri (rice balls)"

"Thank goodness they were okay," Konoka said. "Oh hello Iichino." Only noticing the blonde girl at the last minute.

The girls nodded and waited for Negi to finish, they were the last group after all. Iichino and Konoka stood to the side, talking about something. "eeh…. I think we are missing some people," Negi said, causing everyone in group 5 to look at him.

"Let's see…" Asuna, Iincho and Negi looked at the clipboard only to be interrupted by a new voice.

"Excuse me, Negi-sensei," the voice said. The duo looked up to see a girl with ebony hair put up in a pony tail that hung to the left with the right half of her forehead covered in bangs, while the other wasn't.

"Ah you're seat number 15 Setsuna Sakurazaki, and is that Zazie Rainyday behind you," Negi asked as he marked the two off the clipboard.

"I am supposed to be the leader of group six, but since Evangeline-san and Chachamaru-san are not here, it is only me and Zazie-san. What do we do?" Setsuna asked.

"Oh I forgot Evangeline-san wasn't going on the trip," Negi said. Asuna and Chamo both sweat dropped, more happy that she couldn't come after all, they hadn't forgotten the vampire fiasco yet.

"I know why don't you join another group," Negi suggested. "Alright, Sakurazaki-san can go with Asuna-san and Zazie-san can go with Iichino-san." The respective girls agreed.

Negi looked at his clipboard again, and started panicking, "Uguuu, one last student is missing, where is he and why is he so late!"

Setsuna blinked, one more student? Aside from Sayo, Chachamaru and Evangeline, all three of whom were pretty much stuck in Mahora, there wasn't anyone else that she knew off on the class roster.

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The other classes had already orderly made their way onto the train and only Negi's group was still messing about. Then again, having that near bald and old strict teacher probably had something to do with it.

Although he had to admit, this class sure took the cake, almost everywhere he looked the girls in this class was pretty, cute or beautiful.

It took a while but when the last group was almost on board, Asuna, Konoka, two purple haired girls, one green haired girl and one last minute addition, the swordswoman, he decided to move his lazy butt. He walked to the edge of a building before waving at something unseen and casually jumped from the top of the roof to an alley he strolled towards the panicking teacher.

On another building, Chachamaru who had been watching their class with her Master blushed, her internal circuits overheating again, something that was becoming a trend in the presence of the only blonde male student in her class. Luckily her Master had not noticed.

"Aahh…. Everyone's leaving for Kyoto already." Her Master said.

Nodding to the side, too distracted by the wave she had just received from the blonde, Chachamaru replied with the first thing that came to her mind, "It's a shame we cant go with them Master."

Eva blinked, did her servant actually sound wistful? "Wha-what do you mean 'we'?"

"I…I mean you looked like you really wanted to go Master, I mean…. Negi is there…." Chachamaru trailed off leaving her meaning obvious.

"Awawa, I don't want to go to Kyoto because of that Gaki! Enough lets go home." Evan started walking off only to stop in her tracks.

Eva blinked again, did her servant just use mutually assured blackmail to change the topic? She shook her head a bit, the heat must be getting to her.

"Yo Negi-sensei."

"Naruto! You were almost late!" the small teacher exclaimed as he ran to the blonde.

The so-called bodyguard was wearing rugged jeans, boots, a leather belt, a black dress shirt and white undershirt, his right arm hefting a backpack under some sort of cloak.

"Heh, warui, warui, I was actually already here an hour ago but I fell asleep on a bench somewhere." The blonde replied with a casual smirk, Negi could only sweatdrop at the blonde's casual attitude. How was he supposed to be a reliable bodyguard like this?

"Come on, you can join me in the teacher's dorm since you're the only other guy, feel free to follow whichever group for activities though."

Naruto followed the group of chatting teenagers when he shivered as he felt an intense killing intent come from behind, his body almost reacted on automatic to pull a kunai and lodge it in the source's head but stopped the impulse when he saw the source was the last minute swordswoman. When his mind registered again, he noticed her killing intent was one of righteous female fury instead of malice.

Ah crap, another feminist lesbian with a chip on the shoulder for all men, he had enough of that crap from Kurenai. Why didn't they take his words about not being a pervert at face value and leave him alone.

Not liking the continuous stare that was trying a dig a hole at the back of his head he gave her a glare over his left shoulder, fusing it Killing intent and watched the girl crumble as the message was sent.

'Wha! A man? How can a man join Mahora Academy! And in this class, he will be a danger to Konoka ojousama!' Setsuna continued to glare at the now only male student in 3-A, heck only male student in the middle school section, period. And she kept glaring at him, how dare he pollute the air that Konoka ojousama breathed with his manly presence.

She kept the glare right up until she saw the man look over his shoulder right at her. From her point of view behind group 5 she could only see the left side of the man's chiselled face. Then he glared back. For an instant, her breathing stopped as an image of her dead body impaled on spikes in front of Mahora's gates came unbidden to the mind's eye. For an instant she would swear the blonde's single eye that was focused on her turned fire red and she would do anything to turn that gaze away from her. The message was simple, 'I don't give a damn about your opinion regarding my gender and I don't intend your class harm, and now I have my job to do, if you insist on blocking MY way, I'll tear right through you and enjoy it.'

When time went back to normal speed it was all she could to not collapse to her knees, even then her knees were still knocking against each other as she watched the man follow the rest of group 5 into the train, his single eye never left hers and his ponytail swayed with the waves of power she could now notice clear as day.

Her eyes widened, now that the man had allowed her to see his aura, the energy signature was as clear as day, how could she have forgotten, he was the person that dug himself out from under the World Tree 2 weeks ago. She would have to let Mana and Kaede know, this man was obviously a threat.

The chain of command established, Naruto followed the redheaded boy who was chatting incessantly with Asuna and Konoka. The other three were obviously gossiping, or at least the green haired one was…along with giggling and lewd looks in his direction. The swordswoman was keeping her distance. As in 10 feet pole distance.

When they reached the car where the rest of 3-A was Negi's shrill voice cut through the mass of gossiping females, "Minna san! I have an announcement to make! Please keep quiet!"

Which was of course not heard by anyone other than Iincho, who then proceeded to beat the rest into submission with her louder than normal voice, "EVERYONE! NEGI-SENSEI HAS AN ANNOUNCEMENT, BE QUIET!"

And let there be light, or silence as the case may be.

Negi blushed at the attention before gathering himself and speaking loudly, "As you know, Mahora middle school is usually exclusive for girls, but there has been an interesting exemption, a male student will be joining us starting from today."

Naruto stepped out from behind the entrance where he had been hiding, dreading this announcement, "Yo, my name is Namikaze Naruto, yoroshiku onegaishimasu."

AN

Nante Omoshiroi no…. hito da = what an interesting…. person.

Warui = my bad/sorry

Do you want to know why I keep Naruto using honorifics? Cause that's my middle finger to all the Negima authors that make such a fuss about honorifics in their Negima fics, just calling Naruto san is enough to make him retaliate with pranks? Why not let them call him whatever they want until they are comfortable then insist they call him whatever. i know you think I'm probably a very stiff person, but would you like it if someone kept jumping and invading your personal space? Calling someone 'chan' even when you just met her is the Japanese equivalent to that. Especially when the person doesn't like it. if the person is just playing around and trying to lighten the mood like Naruto pulling the stick out Eva's ass or tease Asuna, that's ok. When he meets someone in the class, like the more formal people ; Akira or Mana when they probably seriously wont like it or forces everyone not to call him by honorifics, then no, its pretty much personal space rape and forcing most people out of their comfort zone. Another thing, he is a teacher, them calling him sensei is respect for the position, if he doesn't respect it, its his business but the way you guys portray him forcing everyone to ignore that is pretty much spitting on the position of a teacher. Not that he is much of one anyway.