Negima: The way of the ninja

It was Negi's first day at Mahora academy, and his new students were few a thin pieces of school uniform short of raping him. His biggest worry at that particular time was not that he would not get to teach on his first day; it was that he would suffocate under his future students. He lay on the floor; completely still, hoping at something would deter the girls from his frail and rigid, ten year old body. He then felt a strong grip on his collar as he was hoisted onto the air and above the rest of the girls that were continuously pawing at the floor in an attempt to get a hold of him. He looked over his shoulder at his saviour and smiling back at him was the face of Kaede, complete with squinted eyes.

"Well sensei, it seems that you're getting on quite well with your students already" giggled kaede into her free hand. "Nagase san, thank you, I appreciate it greatly" wheezed Negi. Kaede looked disdainfully at Negi, then brought up her free hand to his face and flicked his forehead sharply. Everything went quiet in the classroom for the first time in quite a while now, since every girl had fallen silent and was now looking intently at the Kaede, with awe.

A few whispers spread around the classroom. Things such as: "Did she just flick the kid?" and "I'm so putting this in the newspaper!" Kaede looked down at Negi and grinned, and she said chirpily: "I told you to call me Kaede, Negi sensei". She put Negi back onto the floor and bent down to him and whispered quietly to him "Sorry about that Negi sensei, but I need to knock my name into your head sooner or later and I figured that sooner would be better, eh sensei?"

Negi held the back of his head with one hand and giggled to himself. "I guess I'll have to work on that then, Naga... Kaede san" said Negi weakly. Kaede smiled warmly and bowed to him. "Thank you, sensei, I appreciate it". Shizuna smiled brightly as she walked over to a quite flustered Negi. "I assume you've already met Nagase san, then sensei. She is quite a good student in terms of punctuality and manners but her grades are about as low as a snakes belly, I'm afraid." Upon hearing this, Negi took out his student roster and commenced a search for kaede in it. In her file, he read that she was a member of the schools walking club and she was born in the kanto region of Japan. It also said that she was the tallest girl in the class, standing roughly at 6.1 and she weighed around 87 pounds.

But one particular fact he found out of place was that she spends her weekends away from the academy and no one has any idea of where she goes during her excursions. He quickly came to an opinion that while she was away, not one bit of studying was done on her part. He also decided that since they would be living together, that he would offer up some time for a bit of private tutoring for her. He wrote this into his folder and closed it, smiling to himself.

"GIRLS, IF I COULD HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE!" screamed Shizuna over the chatter that had arisen once more in the classroom. Upon hearing the angry shrieks of the teacher, every girl made a mad dash for their seats, which much falling, tripping and the occasional profanity ensuing. "Now class, this is your new teacher and from what I just saw, your new class rag doll, his name is Negi Springfield and he is not just some "kid" as you so eloquently put it, Makie san."

The whole class sweat dropped and proceeded to bow furiously in apology to the new child teacher standing before them. Negi, who was still slightly scared due to Shizuna's angry outbreak, quickly snapped out of it and turned towards the class. With a nervous grin, he said quite loudly; "Hello girls, I am Negi Springfield, you're new English and homeroom teacher. I will do my best to live up to my predecessor's standard of teaching, and I look forward to getting to know all of you during my period here, however long it may be.

Negi looked around the classroom, at the smiling faces of each of his students. As he looked toward the back of the room, he spied one girl glaring angrily at him. This girl had long red hair that was tied back in two extremely long pigtails with what looked like bells. He quickly looked away from this girl and back toward the blackboard. "Now girls, it is my first day so let's get right to lessons, shall we?" He stood up straight up and attempted to write on the board but his attempts failed miserably. "Um, excuse me but can anyone lend me a stool to stand on, it appears as though I'm a little too short." In the blink of an eye, Kaede shot up toward the top of the classroom and put a small stool in front of the blackboard. Here you go, sensei, hope it's enough for you" kaede said happily to Negi. Negi was once again completely awestruck at this display of superhuman speed, and for that matter so was the rest of the class. Kaede stood there smiling dumbly around the classroom, oblivious to the fact that the entire classroom were now staring at her with blatant astonishment. Well... um, yes, thank you kaede san, I appreciate it. She smiled warmly, bowed and strolled back to her chair giggling slightly to herself. "Well then let's get started!" said Negi, his voice filled with excitement.

The class continued for another 28 minutes and Negi did quite a good job on his first day. At the end of the class all the girls went up to introduce themselves formally to this new teacher. Each girl lined up in front of the desk and told Negi their name and class number. After he had finished talking to the girls, Kaede walked up to Negi and said she would give him a walking tour of the academy. Negi said that would be lovely. "Um... Kaede san could you tell me what this girls is like" Negi pointed to Asuna's picture in his folder "I caught her staring at me during my introduction and let me tell you, she did not look happy that I was taking over takahata sensei's position." Kaede didn't even have to think about it, she simply said "Oh she's in love with takahata sensei, always has, probably always will be and on the subject, how do you know takahata sensei?" Well, "Kaede san takamichi was a close friend of my fathers and he would always come to visit me in Wales whenever he got that the chance, but the problem is that I never knew my father, by the time I was born, my father had left my mother and my house". Kaede looked at him sadly, with slightly glassy eyes. Oh Negi sensei, I'm so sorry, I had no idea, and I won't go any further into the subject."

"It's okay Kaede san, I've already gotten over it all. And Kaede san, you've gotten me calling you by your first name so I expect you to drop the honorific after my name, when we are out of class times, okay?"

Kaede wiped her eyes and smiled warmly. "Well Negi, you're a lot tougher than you look, of that much I am sure. Well then Negi, let's take that tour shall we?" Negi stood up and closed his briefcase. "Let's go then, roommate."

They began the tour with the main school building then they moved onto the gym area. Negi was a bit apprehensive about entering the pool areas as he maintained the air of an English gentleman by keeping his eyes covered. Needless to say this earned him several scattered taunts from the girls that were currently swimming there. Next they went looking around the market area and finally they made it to the world tree plaza. Kaede walked over to the drinks machine while Negi sat down and took a breather. Negi sat there wheezing slightly when he felt a small tickle run past his nose. He felt a sneeze building up within his nose and it was just about to emerge when kaede came up in front of him and put her hand out to give Negi his drink. She was just standing there with a bewildered look on her face when Negi let out an almighty "ATCHOOO" and both Negi and Kaede could not believe what happened next.

A strong wind tore through the plaza, rustling the trees and breaking small branches off them. Suddenly, Kaede felt a strong pulling sensation on her school uniform and a second later kaede's whole ensemble scattered with the wind to the far reaches of academy city. Kaede was left slumped in the middle of the world tree plaza wearing nothing but a pair of brown slip on shoes and a pair of bottles as a bra, which to tell the truth were doing a very poor job at it.

Negi looked up to see kaede slumped in front of him in the middle of the plaza looking up at him with confusion in her eyes. "Negi there's a set of clothes in my bag, please hand me them" whimpered kaede softly. Negi ruffled through the bag and found a lilac hakama and handed it to kaede. She put it on hastily and sat down next to negi. Negi allowed himself a look at kaede as she sat down. The suit she wore looked remarkably like that of a ninja's suit.

"Kaede, could I ask you a question?" said Negi quietly. "You can ask your question on one condition, Negi that I get to ask you a question first, is that okay?" said kaede quietly. "Okay kaede, what's your question" said Negi nervously. "What are you?" were the only words to come out of kaede's mouth. "Well kaede, I suppose you should know, you're owed that much considering what just happened. Well.... I'm a wizard, well, a wizard in training, and a wind mage at that and that is why your clothes are now scattered all over mahora academy. I realize that is quite a lot to take in all at once but now I'm going to ask my question"."Are you a ninja by any chance?" Negi said stoically. Kaede looked up at him and smiled. "Yup yup, that's me Negi, I'm also in training but I have to do self training as everyone in my family has given up the way of the shinobi, so it's a little hard for me to do everything on my own. But I imagine things are a lot harder for you than they are for me, learning magic and all that." Negi smiled when he heard that kaede accepted him for what he really was. But a look of worry soon appeared on his face. "Is there anything wrong Negi; is there something else you need to tell me?"

"Kaede you need to listen to me, you know about me and that's completely fine because I am the one that told you but if you were to tell anyone and I mean anyone that isn't a mage, as in a mundane, you know, one without magic, then I would be turned into an ermine for a predetermined period of time and believe me I don't want one bit, kaede" Negi said mournfully to kaede "so please kaede don't make an utterance to anyone please."

Kaede smiled down at Negi and patted him on the head. "Your secret is safe with me Negi, don't worry, your just lucky it was me who found out and not Haruna or Kazumi, because your secret would've been all over the school in a matter of minutes." "Oh thank you, thank you, thank you kaede; you don't know how much this means to me." "Don't worry Negi, what are friends for?"

The two of them walked out of the world tree plaza, talking happily about the different experiences the two of them have had. Negi talking about his journey through magic school and Kaede talking about some of the training she had done in the mountains nearby. "Oh so that's where you go every weekend" said a surprised Negi. "Yup yup, Negi there's nowhere to do it on school grounds so I go into the mountains to do it."

The two of them got back too kaede's apartment and they walked in to the living room and plopped down on the sofa. "This is a very nice apartment kaede; do you live on your own?" "Yes negi, I live on my own but all the rooms are supplied with bunk beds so it's pretty handy for you sensei or would you prefer to sleep with me sensei, you've already seen me naked so what else is there, so much for dinner eh Negi."

The two of them laughed at this joke (or was it?). "Kaede I've been meaning to ask you something, a bit of a request from me. I was informed in school that I would have to pick between two styles of fighting in my training and I've decided to opt for the battle mage choice so I was wondering if you could teach me to fight and maybe some techniques that a ninja would use in combat, that is, if you'll teach me and maybe in return I can teach you some basic magic skills that would greatly aid you in your training. I can actually feel a bit of a magic power within you and it's not weak by any means."

Well Negi, I'd be more than willing to teach you some skills and that magic does sound interesting to me. "Okay Negi" kaede stood up and raised her voice in dramatic tenor fashion "I will teach you the way of the ninja!"

End of chapter 3

Author's notes: Hello readers it's good to be back at this thing. I'm really sorry about the lateness of this chapter but Christmas was hectic and believes me, I mean fuckin HECTIC! The next chapter will be a bit shorter than this one considering it will just contain the training of the two prospective warriors. I will also be introducing two new characters into Negi's battling babes (its only temporary for the moment). Chamo will also be dropping in to stay as well. And pactio's, we will see about those yet.

The aging pills will take part soon enough. Kaede will prove to be a much better partner than asuna could've been so expect some stronger enemies to appear this time around. Things will start to get interesting from here on in.

I'm toying with the idea of a lemon, so give me thoughts on that and please don't hate me for it; I am only a man after all. Well that's me and my thoughts on the subject. You know the drill, drop me a comment and let me know how I'm doing. Constructive is criticism always welcome. Also if you want to drop me a couple of idea's I have a discussion forum on here. Just a forum where people think who should appear more in fan fictions such as kaede for example or even satsuki and zazie y'no

Zazie: Well I do think I should appear more in these things.

Me: Zazie! What are you doing here, in my room and how did you get in?

Zazie: It wasn't all that hard. Your window was open and you're pretty out of it when you're writing.

Me: Well now that you're here can I help you with anything zazie san?

Zazie: I'm just here to talk with you luci baby

Me: Well um that's just fine but I don't need a back rub at the moment.

Zazie: Okay ill stop for now but you can't keep me away forever, Luci you know that all too well.

Me: I would prefer not to discuss that here it's a bit of a private matter, zazie san.

Zazie: (wraps herself around my shoulders) AWW, come on you know you love me luci

Me: okay. Everybody drops a comment and...... ZAZIE, KEEP THAT ON PLEASE UNTIL IM DONE THE STORY PLEASE!

Zazie: Aww but it's so warm in here and this uniform is getting a bit stuffy. (Starts slowly undressing)

Me: Um leave... comment...appreciate it everybody... now got to go... distractions. ZAZIE PLEASE DONT GO OUT THERE, I KNOW YOU LIKE PERFORMING BUTS THATS GOIN A BIT TOO FAR. PLEASE MY MOMS OUT THERE.

I figured from now on id finish with a funny little dialogue between me and zazie from now on. She is my favourite girl after all and it may seem a bit weird but I do find her very cute after all. We were meant to be! (which is kinda odd since she's about 5'2 and I'm about 6'3 in full. Kinda like a lion and an antelope!

Disclaimer: I do not own Negima akamatsu does.