Hey again guys! This is chapter 10 of my story. Can you believe that I only started this fic two weeks ago, and I'm already chapter 10!
Just quickly, BlackG: Have patience… his purpose will come to a lot of light as the fic goes on. Especially in the fighty bits and the festival. GAH! You're making me give away spoilers!
And to vitorhugo0: No need to worry about it being to close to canon, in the kyoto arc and the festival arc things will be different. (^-^) Ps: I didn't research it 'cos I was very tired at the time and feeling lazy. ('-_-) And I have a question. In how as my writing improved? (Just want to know so I can keep going it this way!)
And, for our special guest today is! *Drum roll* The perverted ferret!
Kamo: I'm an ermine!
What's the difference?
Kamo: I'm white, ferrets are brown.
That's racist…
Kamo: Unintentionally! I can't help saying that if you asked!
You are now the racist, perverted ferret!
Kamo: ERMINE!
So you're not denying you're racist?
Kamo: Just start the chapter, please!
Ok! Here's the tenth chapter!
Kamo: Enjoy!
Perverted ferret!
Kamo: You little f-O0oo0O
FLASHBACK!
There was a younger looking Kamo in a field, his leg stuck in a trap.
"For me, an ermine with lineage on par to the legendary ghost cat, to fall into a trap in the wilderness… this is pretty pathetic… I can't be a man among men like this! I'll just get out of here with one hard pull!"
He saw a child Negi walking over to him. "Please don't eat me!"
"It's fine." The younger Negi said as he let Kamo out of the trap. "I won't tell who sprung the trap. Don't get caught again, ok?"
Kamo ran away behind some bushes and looked back to see Negi getting told off for letting him go.
'This guy,' He thought, ' is a man among men!'
END FLASHBACK
"And that is how me and big bro met!" Kamo told the group. "He's helped me on a number of occasion since then as well!"
"Negi-bozu, a man? I think he has way to go before that, ne." Chao whispered to Naruto, who chuckled.
"How exciting, Kamo-kun! You've grown!"Said Negi happily.
"One of us have, big bro! It seems you haven't made progress at all!"
"Huh, with what Kamo-kun?"
"Choosing a partner! You'll look bad even if you do become a Mage without one!"
"I thought that I'd need to start searching…"
"Is that so?" Said Kamo, taking out a cigarette. "But now that I'm here, it'll be fine! I was entrusted by big bro's sister to come and help you!"
Asuna took the cigarette. "No smoking…"
"Eh! Really!" Asked Negi.
"I was at the baths to investigate the choices!" Kamo said. "There's not a loser in the bunch! You partner is definitely here!"
"How do you know that…" Asked Asuna, sceptically.
"I have a knack for this stuff!" Kamo answered. "3-A HAS WHAT IT TAKES!"
He pointed at Naruto then Chao. "I mean you hit gold with that chick, bro!"
Chao blushed. "Th-thank you!"
Naruto looked at him suspiciously. "How did you know we were going out?"
"I told you I have a knack for this kind of stuff!" He turned back to Asuna and Negi. "In here! Surely, big bro's partner is…"
"It's pretty noisy in here," Said Konoka, walking in from the bathroom with only a towel on, "did someone come in?"
"Oolala!" said Kamo.
Negi shushed him.
"Ah! What's this!" Konoka grabbed Kamo and picked him up. "Cuuute! Is he Negi-kun's pet! Everyone! Look at this!" She took him outside. "Negi-kun's pet!"
"Here! Feel him!"
"His fur feels so nice!"
"Wow! A ferret!"
'Fufu…' Thought Kamo. 'The girls are overwhelmed by my manliness…"
Negi walked out. "Er, is it ok if I keep him here?"
"It's fine!" Said Sakurako. "Pets are allowed in this dorm!"
"Th-thank you!" Said Negi, gratefully.
O0oo0O
Naruto and Chao had left, leaving Asuna and Negi with Kamo.
"Searching for a partner should be easier now." Negi said to Asuna. "I need to write sister a thank you letter for sending Kamo-kun!"
Kamo shot up from where he was lounging.
"Big bro, you don't need to write a letter!"
"Eh? Why not?"
"Er… Th-the truth is, in that group of girls, there was one who's partner suitability make me think this is it!"
"Eh! No way!"
Kamo got out of the class register and started scrolling down and stopping on one girl. "It's this one! She made my sensor go DING!"
Asuna looked. "This is Honya-chan!"
"What's this?" Asked Kamo. "You've even wrote 'very cute' next to her name!"
"It-it's not like that!" Negi headed to leave the room. "Anyway, let me think about this for a bit!"
"I understand, it's a little early for you yet!" Kamo shouted after him. 'Phew! That was close!'
"Huh, a letter?" Asuna looked at it. "It's airmail from Negi's sister."
'GAH!' "Sister! I'll inform big bro about the letter!"
Kamo grabbed the letter, ran out the door to the nearest bin, scrumbled and threw away the letter.
O0oo0O (the next day)
Nodoka was walking to her locker to put some books away. When she opened it, a letter fell out.
She picked it up to see who it was from. "AAAH! This is a letter from Negi-sensei!" She looked around to see if anyone was about then opened and read it.
It said: 'Nodoka Miyazaki-sama,
After class I will be waiting by the dorms.
Please be my partner.
Negi'
'A love letter from sensei!'
O0oo0O
Negi was walking back to the dorms after a day of teaching the class.
"Somehow, I manage to teach the class today, because Evangeline-san was absent again. But I can't approve of Evangeline-san skipping classes…"
"BIG BRO! BIG BRO!"
"Kamo, what are you doing school! It's not good, you shouting like that!"
"We've got a big problem! Miyazaki-san's being attacked by… karaage!"
Naruto's japanese language lesson!
Lesson 1: Hello! This is Naruto! I will be teaching you the japanese you need to know to get some of the jokes in this story! The subject today is Karaage!
Karaage is a style of japanese cooking, usually using meats like chicken that are deep fried in oil.
Hope you learned something!
Back to story
"What! Is she being turned into fried chicken!"
"No, she being extorted!"
"How do you know that!"
"It's my power. An ermine special power…"
"Anyway, let's go!"
"We have to hurry big bro!"
He took off on his staff, searching for Nodoka in the sky. Once he spotted her, he landed out of sight and ran over to her.
"Miyazaki-san! Are you alright!"
"Ah! Sensei!"
"Where are the frying delinquents!"
"Is that your meal?"
"You-you weren't being attacked? That's strange."
"S-so sensei. Is someone like me… okay to be your partner?"
"Eh?" Negi realised he'd been tricked. "K-Kamo-kun! You tricked me!"
"I gave you a push!"
"Um…" Nodoka spoke up. "The day before yesterday, where was talk about the vampire, you saved me again… somehow, I only feel like I'm troubling you sensei, I'm sorry…"
"No, that's not true at all!" Negi tried to convince her.
"In return, to be useful to sensei, I'll do my best, so please do whatever you like!"
Kamo jumped of Negi's shoulder and drew a pactio circle. "PACTIO!"
The circle activated, throwing out a warm light.
"Sensei, this is… somehow my heart pounding…"
"A magic circle!" Negi exclaimed.
"This is the circle used to make provisional contracts, big bro." Kamo whispered to him.
"A provisional contract!"
Kamo explained the format behind them to Negi.
"I see. I didn't know…"
"Do you understand now? Now hurry up and formed that contract! If it's a provisional contract, you can have as many as you want, so don't think hard and puchuuu!"
"Yes, puchuuu..." Negi realised what he said. "You mean kiss!"
"It's the easiest way to make a contract!"
"That's no good! Miyazaki-san is being tricked with this thing!"
"A…kiss is it?" Said Nodoka. "It's my first but, if Negi-sensei says so…"
She leaned in for a kiss.
Negi panicked. 'I'm not mentally prepared for this! I've never kissed before. And Miyazaki-san if my student!'
"Yeah! Go big bro! Puchuuu!" Cried Kamo.
A shadow rose over him, before he was shoved to the ground, forcing him to lose control of the circle, which popped, knocking Nodoka out in the process.
"Hey, you perverted ermine!" Shouted Asuna, the one who was holding him down.
Naruto and Chao were standing behind her.
"Asuna-san!" Said a surprised Negi. "Naruto, Chao-san!"
"Decieving a child like that! I've got Negi's sister's letter!" Naruto held it up. "His sister sending you here was a lie! The truth is that you did bad things and fled, didn't you!"
Chao looked at him. "What did you do, Kamo-kun?" She asked interested.
"There are two thousand counts of stealing underwear!" Asuna told her.
"He's more perverted than you Chao-chan." Naruto told his girlfriend.
"Beaten by an animal…" Chao drooped her head in shame.
"Kamo-kun! What's the meaning of this!" Asked Negi.
"It's a false charge!" Kamo said.
"I wonder why I don't believe him…" Asuna deadpanned.
"The truth is… My sister has a weak constitution!" Kamo explained. "Winters were cold in Wales. Us sibling were in poverty, so we couldn't afford a good house. I wanted my sister to have a warm place to sleep, so because of the heat retention, I borrowed women's underwear every night."
"You were an underwear theif…" Asuna said blankly.
"Without a job, I couldn't provide for my sister. So, I decided to come on a Freight ship to the place with the only human I could trust, big bro. that's why I came to Japan."
"But why would you do something like this?" Asked Naruto.
"I thought that if I helped out big bro out, he would keep me as a pet. If I was the pet of a Magister Magi in training then they couldn't turn a hand against me."
Asuna looked at him. "Y-you…"
"No! I'm sorry, sister, big bro! Even I think it was bad to fool big bro Negi. I'll turn myself in quietly. Well, this is goodby-"
"WAIT! KAMO-KUN!" Negi cried. "I didn't know the hardships Kamo-kun has…"
"Aniki!"
"I'll make you my pet, Kamo-kun!"
"Big bro! I would never dream of preying on your guilty conscience!"
"How does a monthly wage of five thousand yen sound!"
"Until now!"
Asuna and the other two sweatdropped.
'There's sucker born every minute…' Thought Asuna.
'He actually believes that crap?' Naruto thought, amazed.
"Anyway, let's go." Said Asuna, walking off.
"Ok." Negi followed her.
Kamo was about go after Negi, but Chao stopped him.
"Kamo-kun!"
"What is it?"
"Can we ask a favour of you?" She asked.
Naruto nodded.
O0oo0O
Nodoka woke up at her locker.
'Ahhh! R-really, falling asleep in a place like this! And such a dirty dream!' She thought frantically.
Negi and Kamo watched her from behind a wall.
"Sorry,Miyazaki-san…" Negi apologized quietly.
O0oo0O (Next morning)
*BZZZZ! BZZZZ!* *BEEP!*
"Phwaaah! So sleepy!" Groaned Asuna, unconsiously shoving a pillow on Negi's head.
She started climbing down her bed.
"It's cold this morning, I'd better put some thick underwear on."
She went to her underwear draw, to find it empty when she opened it.
"My underwear's gone!"
"Mine too?" Asked Konoka, who had woken up.
Asuna opened the wardrobe, to find Kamo on a shelf, lying in their underwear.
"Good morning, sister!" He said. "This is so comfortable!"
Asuna started chasing him around the bedroom, trying to hit him with a broom.
"Asuna, stop! It's only an animal!" Konoka said.
O0oo0O
The group was running to school again.
"Jeez, a underwear stealing ermine! That's one hell of a pet we ended up with!"
"Oh, come on!" Said Konoka. "I'm sure it just like the feel of cloth!"
"Then why can't it use Negi's!" Asuna asked, as they entered the locker room.
"Girls underwear is softer, right?" Came Konoka's answer.
Negi started looking around cautiously.
"Big bro, why are you looking around like that?" Kamo asked him.
"Well, it's just that…"
"What are you so bothered about? You can tell me!"
"To be honest, there's this real problem child in my class…"
"Good morning, Negi-sensei."
Negi turned around fast.
"I guess you're just going to let me skip class again, aren't you?"
"Evangeline-san! Chachamaru-san!" Negi went to grab his staff.
"Woah there!" Evangeline said. "Do you think you can stand a chance against me? I think it would be better for both of us if you behaved in school. Oh, one more thing. Don't bother asking Takamichi or the Dean for help, unless you want more students to be attacked."
"Uwaaaaah!" Negi ran off.
"Negi!" Asuna ran after him.
He ran up the stairs and into Naruto and Chao.
"Woah there, Neg'!"
"Are you ok? Negi-bozu?"
"I couldn't even reply… I'm a terrible teacher!"
Asuna and Kamo came running the stairs, the latter who had been thrown of Negi's shoulder when he ran.
"Negi!"
"Big bro Negi! Get a hold off yourself!"
Naruto looked at Asuna. "What's with him?"
"Evangeline."
Naruto frowned in acknowledgement.
"It's those two, isn't it!" Asked Kamo. "They're the problem children you where talking about! Causing trouble for Big bro Negi! Your little brother is gonna beat them up!"
He jumped up, wielding a nailed baseball bat he produced out of nowhere.
"Evangeline-san is a vampire. And not only that, a shinso (True blooded vampire)." Negi told Kamo
Kamo froze.
"I'll be going home now." He said, walking of with a hat and suitcase.
"Also, Chachamaru-san is Evangeline-san's partner. I was defeated by those two, and now they're after me."
"That's why I felt the power of a contract between them. I'm surprised you're still alive, big bro. A shinso vampire is one of the strongest monsters you can meet."
"It seems as if her magic power is weak at the moments." Asuna said.
"Yeah, she told us she was going to behave until the next full moon, ne." Chao comented.
"I see…" Said Kamo. "Hehe… but don't worry! I've got a good plan!"
"Eh? There's a way for me to beat those two!" Asked Negi hopefully.
"If big bro and sister make a contract, you can gang up on one of them and kick their asses!"
"Me! Make a contract with Asuna-san!" Shouted Negi.
"What kind of plan is that!" Yelled Asuna.
"Thinking about it, it's not a bad plan." Said Chao.
Naruto nodded. "Asuna-chan does have great physical ability."
"Exactly! That's why she would make for a great partner!" Said Chamo.
"But… ganging up isn't fair!" Argued Negi.
"They ganged up in you didn't they? There's no mercy between men in a battle!"
"Er… She's not a man…"
"W-wait a minute!" Said Asuna. "This contract stuff is what you were doing yesterday, isn't is? With all the kissy stuff! That's stupid!"
Kamo, Naruto and Chao grinned.
"Don't tell me that sister, who is in year three of middle school…" Began Kamo.
"…Hasn't had her first kiss yet!" Finished Naruto.
Chao was covering her mouth while giggling.
"W-wha-?"
"No! that was rude of us to ask! If she refuses the contract, there's nothing I can do…"
"W-what did you say!" Asked Asuna. "A kiss is nothing to me! But, do I have to be his partner…"
"I'll take that as an ok." "Listen to what I'm saying!" "Don't worry, this will be an easy win! How about you, big bro?"
Naruto poked Chao and asked if she wanted to go, seeing as they weren't needed here. She nodded and the couple left.
Negi thought it over for a moment. "I'll do it!"
"Don't decide all by yourself!" Yelled Asuna.
Kamo jumped into the air. "Let's do this!"
"I'm begging you, Asuna-san!" Cried Negi. "Once is all I ask!"
Asuna sighed. "Just this once." She agreed.
"PACTIO!" The magic circle lit up around them.
"I-I'm going to do it. Ready?" She asked Negi.
"Yes."
She leaned in to kiss Negi… on the forehead?..
"AH! Sister!" Protested Kamo. "What's with the forehead kiss!"
"What's wrong with that!" Questioned Asuna.
Kamo sighed, unsatisfied. "All right… the contract is complete!"
O0oo0O
Evangeline and Chachamaru were walking down a forest path silently, then Evangeline spoke up.
"It seems the boy's advisor may have arrived. It would be a good idea to not leave my side for a while."
"…Yes master." Replied Chachamaru.
"Hey Eva…" Came a voice from behind them.
It was Takamichi.
"What do you want?" Inquired Evangeline.
"The Dean wants to see you."
"…Tell him I'll see him right away." She turned to Chachamaru. "I'll be gone for a while, try to keep safe…"
She left with Takamichi.
"…Take care, master."
Chachamaru started making her way through the city they where in to head back to Mahora, not knowing she was being stalked.
"She's all by herself! This is your chance big bro. Take her out in one shot!" Kamo half whispered to Negi in the bushes they were hiding in.
"Just wait a little longer!" Negi replied, not really wanting to do this.
"I don't like this…" Said Asuna. "Attacking someone for no reason."
"Can we just get this over with?" Asked Naruto. "I'm starting to miss Chao-chan."
They all looked at him.
"What are you even doing here?" Asuna questioned.
Naruto shrugged. "I felt like tagging along…"
They stopped talking when Chachamaru came across a little girl crying about her balloon stuck in a tree. Chachamaru used her rockets to power herself up to grab the balloon for the girl.
The group looked on in amazement.
"Just what kind of person is Chachamaru-san?" Marvelled Negi. "Did she just fly…"
"She must be a robot, right?" Said Kamo. "Just what I'd expect of Japan. They've even got robots going to school."
"Chachamaru-san's not human!" Exclaimed Negi.
"EEEEEEEEHHHH!"
"You mean you didn't know?" Said Naruto plainly. "You couldn't tell just by looking…"
"I-I'm not that good with mechanical things…" Admitted Negi.
"Me neither…" Asuna told them.
"Is this really a question of being good with machines or not!" Kamo whispered urgently. "It's so obvious!"
They then saw Chachamaru carry an old lady across a bridge. Not long after people started to worry about a little kitten in a box that was in the middle of the storm drain.
"Oh no!" Cried Negi. "That kitten!"
Went to run and save the kitten, but was pulled back by the collar by Naruto.
"We're ment to be stalking her, idiot…"
Chachamaru walked down the storm drain to where the kitten was in the water, and carried the box out of the water, with the kitten inside.
The group just stared after her as she walked away with the kitten on her head.
"S-she's a really good person!" Cried Asuna.
"Popular with the people of this town as well." Added Naruto.
"S-she's great!" Proclaimed Negi.
"N-no!" Kamo denied, even doubting himself a bit now. "T-this may just be a trap to get your guard down!"
"I highly doubt that." Said Naruto.
The group kept on following her until she went through an opening in a wall. They stopped there and watched.
Kittens and birds came down to meet Chachamaru. She knelt down and took out cat food and bird food and places them in two bowls. She did so with a smile on her face.
Naruto, Negi and Asuna looked on with tears in their eyes.
"She's such a good person!" Cried Negi.
"J-just a minute!" Said Kamo. "She's the one targeting big bro's life! Get a hold of yourselves! There's no-one watching! Harden your heart and take her out!"
"B-but…" Stammered Negi.
"There's no helping it…" Said Asuna unhappily.
"I'll stay back here if you need back-up!" Naruto told them.
They turned the corner.
Chachamaru noticed them. "Hello, Negi-sensei, Kagurazaka-san. I left my guard down, but I will be your opponent.
"Um… Chachamaru-san, would you mind not targeting me anymore?" Asked Negi, hoping not to fight her.
"I'm sorry sensei. To me, master's orders are absolute."
"I guess there's no helping it…" Negi said, looking down.
Negi looked at her again. "Sorry about this, Chachamaru-san… Activate the contract for ten seconds, Asuna Kagurazaka!"
Asuna ran at Chachamaru, suddenly feeling lighter, while Negi started chanting a spell. The two girls exchanged blows, Asuna managing to flick Chachamaru in the forehead, throwing her of balance. Negi took that as his chance to strike.
"Magic Projectile Barrage: Arrows of Light!"
He sent eleven arrows at Chachamaru.
Chachamaru saw the arrows heading for her and calculated the possiblily of dodging.
"Unable to perform evasive action in time." She stated. "I'm sorry master. If I cease to function, please feed the cats."
"I can't do it!" Shouted Negi. "RETURN!"
At his command, Negi's arrows changed direction and headed back for Negi. They were about to hit him, when Naruto appeared and redirected them towards the sky.
"Big bro! Why did you recall the arrows!"
Chachamaru regained balance and took off with her rockets.
"Ahh! She got away!" Yelled Kamo. He turned back to Negi. "That was dangerous what you just did! Even magical barriers can break!"
On the top of a building, Chachamaru looked down on the group. "Negi-sensei… Thank you…"
O0oo0O
And we are done with the tenth chapter!
Kamo: What was that? Something like 12 pages?
13… I'm exhausted… There will be one more chapter before the final fight thing with Eva. The reason I'm updating so quick is that I want to get the Kyoto arc and include my OC! I can't wait! Oh yeah, for those who have read my OC's profile on my profile page, I've gotten rid of her ponytail, so her hair flows loosly now.
This a red penguin signing out!
Kamo: See ya!
BLEEP BLOOP!