It was two days later that Miles found himself in a plane, heading for the south seas. He had a sick look to him as he glanced out the window and saw nothing but water, his eyes nervously twitching between the window and the rest of the plane.
"God I need to get out of here! It's just too small!" Was all he could think.
A comforting weight suddenly fell onto his shoulder. He looked to his left and noticed Ako had fallen asleep, her head resting on his shoulder. Makie was in the seat across from here, slightly glaring at her friend. Their eyes met for a second, and Makie could see the rising panic in his eyes. He sent her a smile to let her know he was OK. "Well, as OK as one could get in these small seats, in this small plane, in the middle of no where, surrounded by nothing but water... Oh god! Please, someone get me out of here!"
Miles began to panic just as the announcement that they were landing came on. "THANK YOU!" He announced out loud, waking Ako.
"Hmm? You're welcome." She said in a tired voice, then went right back to sleep.
"Ako-san, please wake up. We are about to land and I REALLY need to get off this plane." He whispered in her ear.
She woke up and looked into his eyes. "What's the problem?"
"Damn, one question I didn't want to answer." He thought, the replied."Bathroom really. I forgot to go before we got on and now I'm paying for it." He replied with a tense smile.
She smiled back. "Oh, ok then. I'm sorry I fell asleep on you, I hope it wasn't too uncomfortable." She apologized.
Miles just waved her off. "Don't worry about it. Just glad I could be useful somehow." He told her as the plane had finally landed.
As soon as the door opened, Miles literally ran out of the plane, making sure to grab his backpack on the way out.
"FINALLY!" He shouted as he fell to his hands and knees in the sand, taking in big gulps of air. "Ahhhh freedom from the small flying tomb!"
"Miles-san? Are you alright? We thought you had to goto the bathroom." Ako said as they exited the plane.
Miles jumped a mile as he heard them. "Ah, um, yeah. I was just so excited to be here I kinda forgot. Which way to the hotel again?" He asked, laughing nervously. They pointed in the direction and Miles ran for the hotel.
As the girls looked on, Makie spoke up. "He's lying. He was fidgeting the entire time and his eyes kept flickering for an exit. I think he is afraid of heights."
"Or maybe he was afraid of flying, it is fairly common." Haruna said as she entered the conversation.
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Miles was standing out on the balcony of his room while waiting for the girls to get ready for the beach. He kept gazing out at the ocean, thinking about the plane trip. "I somehow knew it was going to be a bad day when I woke up with a four girl pile up on me. Then them dragging me out the front door, with me still in my blankets, and down some stairs didn't help matters either."
There was a knock at his door. "Miles-san! We are heading down to the beach! Are you ready!" Came Ako and Makie's voice through the door.
"You two go on ahead. I'm just finishing unpacking. I'll catch up to you!" He replied, lying to them.
"Ok! See you soon!" Their voices growing fainter as they ran towards the beach.
"It hurts to lie to them, but I really don't want them to find out that I'm afraid of small spaces. I'm so weak." He said to himself as he turned to walk out the door with his towel and sunscreen.
As Miles walked down to the beach he saw all the girls running into the water. He smiled despite his earlier mood, they were all so carefree and fun loving, he wouldn't let one little incident bring them down.
"Negi-kuun!" "Negi-Sensei!" Came voices from the water. Miles looked up to see that Negi was in fact there.
"Huh, I don't remember seeing him on the plane here." He said.
"That's because he wasn't, he just arrived with the class rep." Yue said from beside him. "And from the look on Asuna's face, they are still fighting."
Miles turned to see Asuna, who was glaring at Negi. She then saw that Miles was staring at her. She then sent him a glare and walked off.
"Nice girl... for a psycho." Miles said.
"Yes, for a psycho she is." Yue responded and walked over to her group.
"Please! I just want to be left alone for now!" Came Negi's voice from the group of girls that surrounded him. He began to run fast, right into Chizuru.
Miles took one look at the situation and fell over laughing. Negi had gotten his head stuck in her swimsuit top. Many of the girls were blushing, and Ayaka looked angst.
"Chizuru-san----" She screamed.
"Ow! HAHAH! Ow! My heart! It hurts! BWAHAHAH!" Miles said, clutching his heart from laughing pains.
"Ooh! Not another Battle of the Boobies, is it!" Sakurako asked. The girls all began to thrust there chests into Negi's face, who seemed to be flailing around, his head still stuck in Chizuru's top. Suddenly, Negi stopped moving. The girls all moved apart and Negi just floated there, motionless.
"OH MY GOD! WE'VE DROWNDED NEGI-SENSEI!" Haruna yelled.
"Quick! Someone give him CPR!" Someone else shouted.
"I'll do it!" All the girls announced, much to Miles amusement, who seemed of stopped breathing from laughter. When he finally calmed down enough, he noticed the girls were looking at him like dogs staring at a piece of raw meat.
"Hmm, I think I will go over this way and swim." He said as he got up and took off fast.
As he reached a secluded spot, he took off his button up shirt and sun glasses. Coming from where he just was, Makie, Ako, Yuuna, Akira, Asakura and the twins were on their way to see him. When they saw him take off his shirt, they blushed, then gasped as they saw the extent of his injuries. His back as covered in small scars and burns. His shoulder bared a mark where it had been stabbed all the way through, His chest held what looked like multiple stab and slashing wounds.
"How on earth did he get those?" Yuuna asked quietly.
"I know he was hurt when Negi-kun and I found him, but I didn't know about all of those." Makie said.
"Look at his face, he looks like he is in pain just looking at them." Ako said. "I think I can relate with him on that one." she thought, pulling her top up to make sure her scar is covered.
They watched as he dived into the water, then began to approach again, ignoring his scars and just having fun.
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Later that day, Haruna, Makie, Nodoka, Yuuna, Akira, Ako and Yue sat around a table, drinking some tropical drink they got from the bar close by.
"A guys not a guy unless he fights for something. As in toward a goal." Haruna said.
"A goal... or a dream." Akira said, contemplating what Haruna just said.
"Is it better to date older guys, d'ya think?" Yuuna asked.
"Then again, upper class-men – or even my brother, come to think of it – seem to have no idea what it is they want... I guess, me, I think Negi-kun and Miles-san are cool and fun to be with." Ako said.
"Finally, someone else buys a clue on Negi-kun's cuteness!" Makie said.
Yuuna looked at her and grinned slyly. "And what about Miles?" she asked.
Makie blushed, and was about to reply when Asuna went running by, followed closely by Negi.
"Asuna-san!" Negi yelled. "Asuna-san, please! If you'd just hear me out..."
"Shut up and stop following me!" She yelled as she rushed pass Miles, who was on his way to the bar to relax. Negi rushed by seconds later, knocking Miles off the dock.
"Miles!" The girls screamed. Just then, Miles grabbed onto the side with both hands.
"Jeez! All I want to do is relax! THATS ALL!" He complained as he pulled himself up. "I'll get him later for that one." He said as he reached the girls. "Hello ladies, enjoying the sun?" He asked them with a smile as he walked up to the bar and ordered.
"Just talking about boys, Miles-kun." Yuuna said.
Miles looked up with a confused look on his face. "Miles-kun?"
"Yep, thats all Miles-kun." Makie added in, smiling. "Wanna join us?" She asked, giggling.
"No, that's alright ladies. But I will listen, maybe I can learn a thing or two." he replied, laying back in a lounge chair.
The girls continued their talk about dating older boys, occasionally asking Miles for information, being two years older than them. "How does that qualify me as 'older' than them?"
"So Miles-kun, what is it you fight for?" Haruna asked.
"What I fight for? Well I fight for a few things right now. Most importantly is to recover my lost memory. Although, as you can see from my body, I don't think it is a very happy past." He stated, opening up his shirt slightly. "I mean, these ones here look like whip scars." He pointed to multiple lashing wounds. "This one looks like a bite." He pointed out the bite mark near his kidney. "I think it just might be better to keep the new life I have here, and not worry about the past." He replied, smiling at them to show them he is ok.
Suddenly, another vision flashed in front of his eyes.
Miles opened his eyes to see he was in a small dank room. There was no windows, except for the hole in the door that had bars on it. He tried to move, but his arms were bound together, which were then bound to the back of his neck, leaving his chest open.
The door then opened, allowing a man to enter, who was wielding a whip. Miles had to close his eyes from the bright light of the torch he brought with him.
"Torch? What the hell? They don't use torches in this day and age, unless its some sort of cult." He thought.
The man said something, but all Miles could hear was mumbling. The man seemed to grow angrier by the second. "I must really be giving him hell." The man finally snapped the whip across Miles chest, who cried out in pain. The man continued to crack the whip across his chest, each time cutting deeper into his skin. The man, who had grown tired of whipping him, left with a promise of returning tomorrow.
Miles looked down at his chest, which was pumping blood at a very fast rate. "Well, I guess I somehow survive this, seeing as I am still alive." A bit later, another person came into the room and partially healed his wounds, leaving them slightly open.
"MILES-KUN! SNAP OUT OF IT!" Came a voice from far off.
Miles forced his eyes open, noticing that he had curled up into a ball. He slowly unfolded himself and looked around at everyone with a wide eyed look.
"What just happen Miles-kun? You just stopped talking all of a sudden and started screaming in pain." Ako asked, tears still in her eyes.
"I-I-I don't know. It was just a vision. I think it might have been part of my past. Look, Id really rather not talk about it. I'm gonna go take a walk around, I'll talk to you girls later." He said as he made a hasty retreat out of there.
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Later that night, Miles was still walking around trying to clear his head. "It is official, I do NOT want to know about my past, not after something like that. But, I do want to know if I have any family I left behind. Damn it! This is just too damn confusing."
He walked to the edge of the beach that night, and remembered the spell Takamichi had taught him. Miles grinned and thought this would be a try it out.
He placed his hand on the surface of the water and began to speak in Latin.
"Undine, spirit of the water. Grant me passage to cross your realm so that I may train in your sacred arts." As he finished the spell, his body gave off a faint blue glow. He picked himself up and walked out on top of the water, not sinking in.
When he got to a spot far enough out, he began to practice his martial arts. This had always calmed him down after he had a vision. He continued to practice, gliding gracefully across the water.
Two hours later, he stopped and began to walk around on the water. "No one will find me out here." He started to approach the docks, walking underneath them, he heard soft voices above him. He decided to play spy for a change and listened in.
"Negi-kun? Are you ok?" Came a soft voice. "That sounded like Nodoka-san."
"Oh, Nodoka-san, yes I am ok." He replied, obviously lying. Miles didn't even need see his face to know he was crying again.
"Negi-kun, you are a horrible lier. Please tell me whats wrong." She asked, her footsteps moving closer to where Negi's voice came from.
Negi sighed and replied. "I just wish Asuna-san would forgive me. This is the first time I'm dealing with someone hating me. Well, technically second, but this is on an emotional level. I just wish I knew what she wanted me to do."
There was a pause, before Nodoka spoke again. "Negi-kun? Do you love Asuna-san?" Then came the unmistakable sound of Negi falling over.
"No! No, Asuna-san looks so much like my sister back in Wales that I don't think I could ever think of her that way. Besides, I'm not even sure what love feels like."
"That makes two of us buddy." Miles thought. There came a long, but what seemed to be a comfortable pause between the two. Miles decided to throw caution to the wind and took a peek inside the room. What he saw made him fall right back down, into the water.
Nodoka was holding Negi from behind in a warm embrace. The sound of Miles falling into the water broke the moment. They rushed out of the room to investigate. When they saw Miles they blushed.
"Sorry about that, I was just walking around and thinking at the same time. Had another vision earlier, guess I should try and pay more attention huh? Hahaha.." He said lamely, but they bought it anyhow.
"Well, I think it is time for sleep. I'll see you two later. Goodnight!" Miles said, swimming fast back to his room.
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A/N: Wow, a new reviewer! Ok Lord Destroyer, to answer your questions. I am going for a Makie/Miles/Ako love triangle, but not sure if it will work out that way. I'm not a huge Nesuna shipper, this story is going more of a Nodogi really. And If I can, Kono/Setsu. But I am really not too good at those type of relationships so please be gentle if I screw it up. As for the other questions, don't assume too much. My mind changes constantly, so the plot of it is ever changing.
And thanks you xSojix for pointing that out, as a chef I am ashamed of missing that. It IS spring onions.
Yay. Two reviewers! A new personal best!
Please R&R people.
