APH: Err… sorry for the very… very long delay… (Takes a step back)
MX: Ah…ha..ha..ha You know… I don't think this is a very good idea… (Takes two steps back)
Sarah: (Tap APH's shoulder) Why… am I involved again…?
APH: You're our shield… against a few angry fans that are brandishing their weapons…
Sarah: What… oh… (Starts to pale and sweat) JUST BECAUSE I'M A VAMPIRE AND CAN HEAL INSTANTANOUS DOESN'T MEAN I'M A MOCHOSIST!
Random Guy that MX has decided to make as someone sane to point out the weird things that happen in this story a.k.a RSP (random sane person): Mocho-what-sist?
Eva: HEY! LET HER GO!
APH and MX: (Holds Sarah tighter in front of them) NEVER! OVER OUR DEAD BODIES!
Fans: BY JOVE IT SHALL BE OUR PLEASURE! CHARGE! CHARGE!1 (that 1 isnt accidental) I SAY!
RSP: whats with the british accent?
APH and MX: AAAAAHH! (APH lifts Sarah by the waist, who 'eep'-ed) RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! (Runs away)
Sarah: PUT ME DOWN! I'M NOT A PART OF THIS! LET ME GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
APH: MUHAHAHAHAHAHA! U'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE! (Turns left with Sarah trying to pry herself off)
MX: BUHAHAHAHAHAHA! CATCH ME IF U CAN! (Turn right before sticking out his tongue at the fans) BLEH!
Fans: F-fast… AFTER THEM! YOU SHALL NOT RUN AWAY (All raise their respective weapons and charged)
Gandalf the Grey: (shakes chibi fist) if that was a parody of me…
Fumika: (Sweat drop) Err…ok… luckily we've got the finished work…
Fuuka: (Shiver) …yea… well, here it is… chapter ten…
Disclaimer: DON'T OWN ONE OUNZE BUT SARAH-CHAN (Grins like a maniac)
(MX: I swear he's starting to get perverted about her)
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It's the next day after the whole bridge incident. Negi is still healing from his injuries, Asuna still tag alones with Kamo riding on her shoulder for no reason but just… being there… Anyway, Sarah though looks very happy despite getting a beating from Asuna for not helping earlier. Of course, no evidence can be found on her that suggested that she'd receive any fighting… actually; her hair doesn't even look messed up after they're done.
(RSP: sweat drops what they've done!1) Still her reddish-blonde, waist-length, wild looking hair with her bangs somewhat sticking to the right and, surprisingly, one extra long string of hair that went down the middle of her face from a little right above her left eye brow, pass her nose almost covering it, and went pass her chin a little by one or two centimeter. Surprisingly, she looks better that way.
Right now, the trio and a half (ermine) (Kamo: WHY YOU) is walking inside the campus of Mahora, planning to relax after yesterday's ordeal. It's around three o'clock and they just happen to pass by a café. An idea popped up inside Asuna's mind at that very instance, and of course, given the circumstances, she just can't pass it up.
"Well, now that it's all over, we can finally relax!" Asuna says as she stretches by lifting her arms all the way up high above her head.
"Ah, and it's all thanks to Asuna-san, Sarah-san, Kamo-kun, and Kaede-san." Negi says with a huge grin, which falters a bit as Asuna's face appears before him.
"Eh? What does she have to do with it?" Asuna asks with confusion clearly in her eyes and voice as she leans forward a bit more.
"Ah… err… n-nothing." Negi quickly says as he laughs sheepishly.
"Hmm… that's very suspicious…" Kamo says with a light in his eyes, only to have a chill run down his spin, courtesy of Sarah, whose shoulder he just happens to be sitting on.
"Don't even think about it… beside, what's this I heard about getting 50,000 ermine dollars for every successful pactio card…?" Sarah asks with a creepy smile that can make Dracula pee his pants… if he's there that is. (Dracula: I'm not)
"A-ah… y-you see… it's not what you think it is…" Kamo stutters as sweat pours from his head. Sarah just gives him one last side look before looking up again to see Negi running off to buy coffee.
"Huh? He certainly is energetic for some reason…" Sarah says to herself, but after thinking it over for a few seconds, she decides to leave it alone and slaps on a genuine smile. "Oh well, it'll do him some good."
"Yeah, aniki always seems so wound up." Kamo says as he takes a drag from his 'chocolate' cigarette.
"Hey, don't pretend to be wise." Sarah says with annoyance as she flicks the ermine, causing him to fall of her shoulder.
"Mou, Sarah-san, I think you should lighten up on Kamo-kun." Asuna says as she picks up the poor, twitching ermine and set it on her shoulder. "Although he doesn't deserve it, we still sort of own him for getting me yesterday."
"But that doesn't mean he's not perverted."
"Hmm, you're right."
"You two are so cold…" Kamo says as he crawls into a small ball with the air above him turning purple with vertical lines going up and down as while as a few balls of blue fire. Asuna and Sarah sweat dropped at the ermine before they sign simultaneously.
"Ah, Sarah-san, gomen ne. I didn't get you anything." Negi apologizes as he jogs over to the trio with a tray of coffee. "Ara? What happened to Kamo-kun?" Negi asks as he caught sight of his animal friend.
"It's okay… and as for Kamo, he's okay I guess…" Sarah says as she puts a finger on her chin and poke the ermine with her other hand.
"Don't worry about him. Besides, he doesn't deserve your worry." Asuna says and grin in satisfaction as said animal jerk as if a sword was stabbed into his heart.
"Oh c'mon, don't be cruel to Kamo-kun…" Negi says as he walks over to a table, only to stop mid step as he sees who's on the opposite side of it. "Ah…?"
"Eh!" Evangeline exclaims just as she was about to pull out a chair. A blush slowly develops on her face before she even notices it. Grab the chair quickly, the blonde girl set herself down faster than you can say 'sit' and starts to sip her coffee. Chachamaru just gives a small bow of greeting from the side of her master.
"H-hello Evangeline-san…Chachamaru-san" Negi greets the vampire with a smile and confusion as Evangeline just regards him out of the corner of her eyes, her blush still on in full blast.
"Hmph. Don't thinks that we'll get to the turn of greeting each other so casually." The young vampire says as she takes another sip of her coffee.
"Eh…? But Sarah seems to treat you like a child… and you sure let her…" Asuna says with a sweat drop as Sarah walks over, pats the younger vampire's head, and sits down next to her.
"She's an exception…"
"Soka…" Negi says before he also takes a sit. Asuna soon joins the group and a comfortable silence ensured. The only sound that was made was the sipping of coffee. But of course, that doesn't stop Sarah and Asuna noticing the quick glance Evangeline send to Negi once in a while.
"Hmm… AH-HA! I KNEW ALL ABOUT IT! EVANGELINE-SAN LOVES NEGI'S FATHER!" Asuna suddenly exclaims, causing Negi to choke and our favorite Eva-chan to spit all her coffee out in one go. A little rainbow can be seemed clearly on the jet of brown liquid. (RSP: how is that possible? It defies the laws of physics, a brown drop of water cant be clear enough to be a prism for the entire range of colors to refract…)
"S-say what…?" Sooner than anyone can blink, Evangeline is dangling Negi via his neck and is shaking him like a rag doll. "I KNEW IT! YOU DID SEE MY DREAM! I KNEW IT'S BETTER TO JUST KILL YOU AFTER ALL!"
"Hey, hey, calm down. It's very obvious you know?" Sarah says in a matter-of-fact tone as she disconnects her charge from a furious girl. "Besides, why do you still keep that plushy I made? Actually, come to think of it, Sayo made quite a fuss over it."
"W-W-W-WHAT!" Evangeline exclaims as her face turns so red as a tomato from embarrassment. As a matter of fact, she does have a plushy of Nagi sitting in her room somewhere. Its companion is the ever blood thirsty Chachazero and a newly acquired plushy of one Negi Springfield. A secret favor asked from Sarah just for the heck of it. "I-I-I-I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!"
"Eh? Eh? What are you two talking about? Who's Sayo?" Negi asks, being the ever so innocent boy that he is. Question marks float around on top of his head as Asuna just stares at Evangeline like she grown two heads. Chachamaru continues to keep her emotionless face on, although a small smile does play on her lips. (RSP: (nodding veraciously with arms folded) you just contradicted your self)
"Masaka… you're into that sort of thing?" Kamo asks only to get back handed into Negi's staff by no other than Evangeline.
"S-SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!" The blushing girl exclaims before she sits down and went back to her coffee. A sad look now replaced the blush from before. "Besides, it doesn't matter… he's been dead for about ten years now…"
"…Didn't you say that you met your father about five years ago…?" Asuna whispered to Negi, who nodded but gave her a confused look anyway. "…you're that dense?"
"Hey, Eva-chan. He's not dead you know." Sarah says causing the child vampire to snap out of her trance-like state.
"Eh…? B-but how…? THAT'S REDICULOUS! HE CAN'T POSSIBLY BE ALIVE! SWAP! AH!"
"You really need to start thinking…" Sarah says as she puts away a paper fan and points to the staff Negi is holding. "We did not have that five years ago… he disappeared with the staff as well remember?"
"…" Evangeline just stares at Sarah, not sure where she's getting at. With a sign, Sarah nudges her charge forward while smacking the fan repeatedly onto Eva's head. "You explain it…"
"Um… ano… Evangeline-san, my father isn't dead…" Negi starts, and as he proceeds, more confidence emergea. "Five years ago, I met him! I saw him with my very own eyes! That's when he gave me this staff…" Holding the staff tighter, Negi held it in front of his face for a while as he studies it. "That's why I want to be a magister magus… so one day, when I'm just like him, I can go look for him…"
"…honto…?" Evangeline asks and did something that surprised everyone but Chachamaru and Sarah: she let a single tear drop roll down her face. "He's not dead…?"
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"BAHAHAHAHAHA! I KNEW THAT IDIOT DON'T JUST GO AND DIE LIKE THAT!" Evangeline exclaims with the largest grin on her face since… while… since … that last time she had a large grin on her face… (RSP: (sweat drop)
"Hmm… master seems to be having fun…" Chachamaru says as she walks besides Asuna, who's observing the event with a smile on her face.
"You can't blame her. I mean, what would you do if you just learned that the one you loved is still alive…? Oh, sorry, I forgot…" Asuna says as she laughs sheepishly.
"It doesn't matter…"
"Oi, don't break Negi-sama's neck now…" Sarah tease as she watches Evangeline brings Negi into a noogies, laughing childishly all the while as Negi tried and failed miserably to fend her off.
"Owowowowow… E-Evangeline-san…!" Negi whines as he just surrenders and accepts his 'fate' of 'death by noogies' via Evangeline. He breath a sign of relief as Sarah picks Evangeline up by the collar of her dress (and receives a pout from the vampire at the same time), but an idea popped into his head that instance, causing him to frown. "But what should we do?"
"Huh? What do you mean aniki?" Kamo asks as he jumps onto Negi's shoulder.
"I mean, even know that he's alive… I don't know where to start. This staff is all I have…" Negi says, and as if to prove his point, he held up his staff in front of him.
"Aw man… you just have to ruin the moment don't you?" Asuna says also with a frown on her face.
" Kyoto."
"Eh?" Asuna and Negi chorused and turns to Evangeline, who's now back on ground level.
" Kyoto. You should start there." The blonde girl continues as her emerald green eyes twinkle with mischief.
"Oh, that's right!" Sarah suddenly exclaims as she pat her palm with a fist. "He has a house there doesn't he?" It's more of a rhetorical question.
"A house…? Kyoto…? You mean… that famous Kyoto!" Negi exclaims as his eyes light up. "Wait… where's that? BAM! Eh? Are you guys alright?"
"Y-yeah…" Asuna says as she picks herself up from the ground.
"P-perfect…" Sarah says also starts herself off the ground and pulls the younger vampire with her, her left eye lid twitching all the while she dust herself off. "You don't even know where that is…?"
"Eh… nope…" Negi answered sheepishly and watch as Asuna, Sarah, and Evangeline sweat dropped. Chachamaru remained silent and stands in the sideline. "Ehehe… I might be a teacher, but I'm no good with geography…" Negi explains as Sarah has a flash back…
Flashback…
"Mou, but Sarah-san" A younger Negi whines as he look at the caretaker with the most breath taking puppy eye you'll ever see.
"No 'but' Negi-sama. I'm sorry but Nekane wants you to…" Sarah says with an apologetic smile.
"But you know I'm not good with it…and I'm mean really, REALLY not good with it!" Negi continues to try and persuade his 'babysitter', who is reaching from a book shield a world map.
"Can you at least try?" The caretaker asks with a sort of pleading tone in her voice.
"…okay… but don't blame me. You asked for it…" Negi says with a frown as Sarah opens up a world map with a triumphant smile.
"Okay… first question, where's France?"
"East of the Pyrenees mountain range, bordering Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia?"
Sarah sweat dropped, but decided to leave that alone for now. "Err… where's California?"
"North-West of Washington?"
"…What's the capital of China…?"
" Hanoi?"
"You're not doing this on purpose are you?"
"Nope." Negi says with a face that suggested that he's telling the truth. And Sarah knows he's telling the truth after looking into his eyes.
"Okay… last try…What country are we in…?" Sarah asks hopefully with the corner of her lips twitching.
"We're in Wales." Negi answers, causing Sarah to breath a sign of relief, only to face fault at his next answer, "Right next to Russia in the Southern Hemisphere!" The child exclaimed proudly. "KABAM! Eh, Sarah-san?"
Standing up, Sarah gives up as she sighed, fold up the map, and tosses it over her shoulder. "…You're hopeless…"
"Hey! I warned you!" The child whined as he did a cute pout.
"Nekane is NOT going to be happy with this…" Sarah says half disappointed and half fearful of what that 'psychotic' (at least in her opinion) sister will do to her.
"Don't worry. Onee-chan won't be mad at you." Negi says with a reassuring smile, causing his companion to also smile before she picks him up and piggy back him into town.
End Flashback…
"Now that you mentioned it… I've experienced that first hand…" Sarah says with a sweat drop. Negi whines and pout at that, causing the caretaker to giggle.
"Anyway!" Evangeline says, catching everyone's attention again. "You should start looking in Kyoto. Besides, there's a friend of his there that might be able to look into it for you."
"Hmm… Kyoto… that's not a bad place is it?" Asuna asks Chachamaru after rolling the place over in her head.
"Hai, it is…" The robot girl answered in her monotone voice, making Negi to regard them two with curiosity.
"Eh? What is?" The child teacher asks only to get a snort from Evangeline. "HEY! IT'S NOT MY FAULT!"
"Well, we'll be going now. See you guys around. Especially you boya, watch your back!" With that, the 'young' girl walks away, leaving behind a confused Negi, a suspicious Asuna, a perverted Kamo, and a smiling Sarah…
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Days and weeks passed. Things are as normal as you can get with the class of 2-A. Summer is slowly but surely just coming around the corner. People are happy, laughing, singing, and a general good mood hung in the atmosphere.
Well… that can't really be said for our favorite caretaker… Right now, Sarah and Shizuna are standing inside the principal's office; the former as uncaring as she can ever be while the latter just keeps smiling. While, as least that's what it is for now.
"Hai, Mr. Principal, Negi-sensei is getting alone well with his students." Shizuna says with a proud smile on her face. Sarah also has the corner of her lips tilt upward, but nothing more. "Also, he does his best on the course as well as helping his students."
"Soka, soka. That's good to hear ne?" Konoemon asks Sarah, who nods a little as a response.
"And thus, as the guidance counselor, I'd have to pass him as a teacher." Shizuna continues, earning a grateful smile from Sarah.
"Hoho, I see, that's good, that's good. I think we should set him up as an official teacher here then." Konoemon says as he walks forward… a little too forward, for he pressed his face right into Shizuna's bosom. "Hoho, good work Shizuna!"
"Err… P-principal… up here…" Shizuna says, and not before long, Sarah marches forwards and dragged a very disappointed principal back and gives him a nice hit on his head via a steel hammer.
"Keep doing that and I'll personally deal with you…" The vampire threatened and shakes a fist right in front of him to emphasize his plan.
"Anyway, I'll do that though in one condition." The principal says as a bandage magically appears on his head, where blood was gushing a few seconds ago.
"Eh?" The other two occupants of the room chorused and look at each other in confusion.
"I'll give him one more test," the principal elaborates, "one that is fitting for the young magus in training…" Konoemon finished with a wink at Sarah, causing the caretaker to tilted her head in confusion before her face changed into horror.
"YOU'RE WHAT?" Sarah exclaims as she slam her hands onto the desk of the principal. "YOU'RE PLANNING TO MAKE THAT THE TEST!"
"Ohoho! Sarah-chan, calm down! BONK!" The principal tries to calm the raging vampire, only to receive a hit from a small hammer that looks oh-so-familiar. 'Wonder when she got Konoka-chan's hammer…?'
"BUT THAT'S REDICULOUS! YOU KNOW HOW HARD THAT CAN BE!" Sarah exclaims after putting the hammer away. As if to prove her point, she waves a hand at the window, at the direction where Negi and a group of students are playing while the other is studying. "I MEAN LOOK AT THEM!"
And sure enough, Negi and a couple of his students, namely the Library expedition, Asuna, and Konoka are playing a game of cards. They were having quite some fun… that is until Negi noticed that other than his group, the others are all studying. "Hmm… wonder why everyone is studying?"
"Aycha? That's 'cause the final is coming." Konoka says with her ever present smile and her cheery tone.
"Ah… soka…" Negi says as he reaches forward to pick out a card from Haruna before the full force of the words sunk in. "EH! FINAL EXAM!"
"Daijobou, daijobou!" Haruna says with a broad grin. "We'll advance no matter what. So don't worry. Besides, this is an escalator school." (RSP: a WHAT school!)
"Yea, besides, 2-A is always last in the final exam." Asuna says with an 'oh-well' look on her face. "It's not like it'll make any difference this year."
"Is that so…? NANI! ALWAYS THE LAST! IS THAT REALLY OK!" Negi asks only to be dropped kick by the Narutaki twin. "SMACK GAH!"
"NEGI-SENSEI! LET'S PLAY!" The twin shouts as they starts to drag the kid away. Haruna instantly stand up with a playful frown on her face.
"HEY! NEGI-SENSEI IS PLAYING WITH US!" Paru yelled before she rushes forward to begin a little tag-o-war. Makie soon joined the side of the twins with Yuna while the cheerleader trios joined Haruna.
"WAAH! HELP ASUNA-SAN! KONOKA-SAN! SARAH-SAN!" Negi exclaims as he was pulled this way and that by his arms. Spirals replaced his eyes as his other students just giggle while Konoka looks around with a confused look on her face. "Aycha?"
Back in the principal's office, Konoemon can only laugh his hearty laugh as he sees the childish act the girls are doing. Sarah, on the other hand, is worrying her ancient ass off. "Oh come on now Sarah-chan, it shouldn't be that hard."
"Like hell it isn't…" Sarah grumbled as steams practically came out of her ears.
"Hohoho, don't worry. I'm sure things will turn out fine." The principal reassured the caretaker, who just sign in defeat before she turns on her heal and walks out of the office. Not before a last message that is.
"Well, if he's involved in something dangerous, I'll personally make sure you can't sit for quite sometime, and I'm going to tell HER as well…" With that, she walks out the door, leaving an old man to shiver in his seat. He has no doubts about her threat. At least not after what he witnesses what shes done to Nagi for just tying her up…and then there's the wrath of a over-protective sister to worry about…
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"Nee, Yuna-san, are you sure it's okay not to study?" Negi asks as he, Yuna, and Sakurako walk down the hallway of the school building.
"Hai, Negi-kun! There's no use worrying over it. I mean, we are in an escalator school." Yuna says as she stretches a little; completely ignore all the other students who are desperately trying to remember things.
"Especially 2-A. We're always the last." Sakurako says as she pats Negi's back. Although she's trying to comfort him, and he already knows that, it still brought his spirits down somewhat by a few notches. After rounding a corner, Negi's eyes suddenly got attracted to a trophy with bunch of roses engraved in it.
"Eh? What's that for?" The child teacher asks as he points towards the trophy with one finger.
"Ah! That goes to the class with the best average in the test." Yuna explains with a smile on. "But that's not important. Come on Sakurako-chan! Let's go already!"
'I see… even though 2-A is the last in the whole school… they don't seem concerned by it. I should do something about that.' Negi thought to himself as he studies the trophy a little more. Turning to go, he stopped as he sees a very angry Sarah walking towards him with a somewhat worried Shizuna following. "Eh? Sarah-san? Shizuna-sensei? What's wrong?"
"W-what makes you think that something is wrong?" Sarah forced through clenched teeth. Also an imaginary vein is throbbing next to her head, she still manage to give her charge a smile… a somewhat creepy one.
"Sarah-chan, you're scaring him…" Shizuna says with a nervous chuckle, but she did manage to calm down Sarah a little.
"Gomen… it's just that that old geezer is being unreasonable." The caretaker hissed before her expression softens even more. "I'm sorry… I must be terrifying huh?"
"…D-doesn't matter. You're horrifying enough as it is… BONK! Itai…" Negi wince as Sarah just mutter something about 'don't understand a lady' and pouted at him.
"Anyway, the principal says to hand you this." Shizuna says as she hand Negi a letter with a forced smile. Negi hesitated as he reaches for the letter, all the while conscious of the worried light in her eyes.
"Are you sure every thing's alright?" Negi asks again after he grabbed the letter and exam it for a few seconds. Getting a nod, Negi gives a sign and he decides to open the letter. After he takes it out, the first thing he noticed is the bold letter words printed in the front page. "MY FINAL TEST?"
"What was that Negi-kun?" Yuna asks as she walks back towards the child teacher.
"N-nothing…" 'Awawa, this could be bad! I'd never heard about a final test! If I can't clear this, then I won't be a teacher OR a great mage.' Gulping a little, Negi decides to let his mind wonder a little on the possibility of the test.
'I wonder what can it be…? Slay an evil dragon? Block 200 offensive spells? Retrieve a sacred item? Or worst of them all… fight Sarah-san…?'
Flashback…
A Negi, no older than four or five stares at the flame in the village. But what he's really staring at is the person standing in front of him, and she's slowly walking away. "S-Sarah-san?"
"Don't worry Negi-sama…" Sarah says as she turn her head just enough for Negi to see one of her eyes… those empty eyes that somehow scare him yet comfort him at the same time. "You won't get hurt… not when I'm around…" With that, she turns back, her old, worn cloak sway behind her, hiding everything but her long hair that looks crimson due to the flame.
The young child can only watch in awe as she tears through the demon's ransk like they're nothing at all. He can't help but admire her ability as while as fear them… but somehow, in those cruel action, all he sees is a beautiful girl dancing through fist and blades alike, ripping demons here and there with grace that was unmatched… And at that time, only one thought entered his mind…'she's pretty…'
(random crowd of fanboys all gazing at that image with tears coming out of their eyes: …so…beautiful…)
End flashback…
'Hopefully I don't have to.' Negi thought after he reviewed the deadly beauty that had somehow came into his life as a 'babysitter' instead of fighting somewhere like she's suppose to. 'But there's no point in wondering, might as well get this over with!' Unfolding the letter, Negi gulped as he skims over the long intro make by the principal. After a few seconds, he gulped once again as he read the last few sentences. "And thus, dear Negi-kun, if the class of 2-A is no longer the worst class by the final exam, I will here by declare you as an official teacher."
'Soka… so that's why Sarah-san is so mad…' "Wait, NANIIIIIIIIIII?"
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"…that's a problem…" Kamo says after knowing what the test is all about. It's well into the afternoon. Almost dinner actually, and Negi, Kamo, and a still fuming Sarah sits around the table inside the dorm.
"I can't believe that's the test…" Negi says as if he was hit in the head by something huge. "I mean, to bring them out of that hole…?"
"I'd tried to talk some sense into that old geezer. But for some reason, he believes you can." Sarah says with a sign and raises an eye brow as Kamo jumped onto the table and get into a dramatic post.
"OF COURSE HE CAN! HE'S MY ANIKI!" The ermine exclaims before he takes out a chart from out of no where, unfolds it, and plants it firmly onto the table. The chart shows the grades and level of each student in the class. There were a few in the higher part, many in the middle, and five in the lower part. "Now then, all we need to do is to focus on these five… but of course, Asuna-ne-san will be a problem… she's a little too stupid for her own good…"
"Who's too stupid for her own good?" A voice says from behind Kamo, causing him to turn around and comes face to face with a very mad Asuna.
"Eh? Asuna-san? When did you get back?" Negi asks, also surprised by the sudden appearance of his first friend inside the campus… well, not really first if you count in Konoka, but one of the first no doubt.
"Just a few second ago. So what was that thing about me being too stupid?" Asuna asks as she sent a death glare at Kamo while crackling her knuckles, who froze up at his spot like an icicle. "Oh well, it doesn't matter anyway. So what's this thing about a test?"
"Ah, it's nothing to be worried of." Sarah says with her customary smile. "Where is Konoka anyway?"
"Oh, she's running some errands for her grandpa." Asuna answers with a bored tone. "Probably he is just trying to set her up with someone."
"Well, if that's the case, I guess I'm the cook then." Sarah says as she stands up and went over to the kitchen. Tying on an apron, she picks up a spatula and turns to the trio with a huge smile. "So, what will it be, Western or Eastern?"
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Time seemed to be moving by too fast. It's only a few more days until the final exam. Or more precisely, about five or four days were left.
"ALRIGHT CLASS! LET'S WORK HARD FOR THE FINAL EXAM!" Negi exclaims as he puts on the most commanding voice as he can. However, his class just stare at him like he's nuts. "AND IF WE DON'T PULL OUT OF LAST PLACE THIS TIME… SOMETHING BAD WILL HAPPEN!"
"Eh? Ne, sensei, what could happen even if we don't pull out of last place?" Yuna asks as she regards Negi curiously, complete oblivious to what would happen if they failed yet once again.
"Yeah, besides, we graduate any way. So what's the point?" Haruna says and most of the class exclaimed their agreement. In the corner of the room, where Evangeline and Sarah sits together, the caretaker's left eye brow is twitching madly.
"It doesn't matter…? Guess they really don't know or care…" Sarah whispered, not loud enough for any others, but still loud enough for Evangeline to heard. "If they don't, he'll get fired…"
"…is that so…"
"Eh? So say something?" Sarah asks immediately pulling up a mask of smiling face.
"Nothing." Evangeline answers also giving a smile, except she knows that Sarah wasn't convinced by it. "Oh by the way, I say you better stop them before they rape boya over there."
"Eh?" Looking up front, Sarah's eyes almost budge out as a group of girls are trying, yet again, to stripe the poor child of his clothing. "WAH! NEGI-SAMA!" The caretaker exclaims as she dashes up front to try and fend off the group of maniac girls.
"…I wonder what'll happen if I let that information… 'leaked' out…" Evangeline wonders to herself with a smirk on her lips. However, a small voice in her is bugging her for quite sometime now.
Maybe you just don't want him to leave… The blonde girl frowned at that voice of hers, which sounded just like hers…
"…Master, are you alright?" The robot servant, Chachamaru asks with concern as she sees the frown on her mistress's face.
Pushing that frown away and lock away the voice, Evangeline looks at her servant and friend with a small smile. "Nothing… it's nothing…"
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Asuna is walking down the hall way of the building. For some reason, this part is strangely quiet. Turning the corner, she nearly ran into Evangeline, who looks like she's waiting for her for quite some time now. "Ah, Eva-chan, I'm sorry for almost running you over."
"…You know, you should be more worry over boya than me." The blonde vampire says with a smirk. Thought if it's real or not, Asuna couldn't tell.
"Huh? What are you talking about?" Checking her wrist watch, the baka red gives a startled squeak when she noticed the time. "Gomen ne Eva-chan! I got to go!"
"Hold it!" The short girl exclaims, causing Asuna to skip to a stop. "Do you know that if boya failed to pull you all out of the last place, he'll be fired?"
"Eh…?" Asuna asks with her eyes widened. Evangeline just smirk as she brushes pass her and disappeared down the hall.
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"NEGI-BOUZO!" Asuna exclaims as she charged into the room, ran over a surprised Sarah, stepped on Kamo, and skipped to a stop right in front of the startled teacher. "IS IT TRUE!"
"W-what's true Asuna-san?" Negi asks a little shaky as the girl just continues to pant in front of him.
"I-is it true that if 2-A continues to be the last place this year, you'll get FIRED!"
"Ma, ane-san, not so loud…" Kamo says as he recovered from the stomping.
"Yeah, we don't want the others to worry now… although they certainly worry me…" Sarah says with a defeated sign… 'I'd being doing that a lot these days…' She thought to herself with another sign.
"You don't need to worry about me. I'll be okay." Negi reassured his roommate only to get a fist on his head.
"IT'S NOT OKAY! IT CAN'T BE OKAY! WHAT'LL HAPPEN IF YOU FAILED!" Asuna exclaims with worry obviously in her voice. "Besides, with me and the other baka rangers, we're the reason why the class is last… and we only got like what? Three days?"
Just then, a light bolt went on in Negi's head… well, a very bad light bolt. "I know a spell that can make a person smarter for three days…" Negi says as he starts to gather the mana needed to perform the magic. "However… as a side effect, half of your brain cells will die. SMACKBONK! GAH!"
"DON'T USE SUCH DANGEROUS SPELL!" Asuna and Sarah chorused, smacking Negi on the head on the same time and at the same place.
"So… cruel…" Negi muttered as comical tears pour out of his eyes like two water fall as he still lay crumbled on the floor.
"Oops… sorry Negi-sama… it's sort of a protective reflex…" Sarah says sheepishly before picking up the poor kid and gives him a hug. "Does that make Negi Wagi feels better?...Nee?" (complete with the slightly blurry edges and roses on the sides(think Ouran High school Host Club)
"S-Sarah-san, p-please… I'm a t-teacher!" Negi stuttered as his face was pressed against Sarah's bosom. Sarah in return just gives a hearty chuckle as she lets a very red Negi go.
"You're so cute sometime." The caretaker says, which causes the child teacher to go redder, which emits a few giggles from her, very feminine giggles complete with the fingers over mouth thing. However, she soon snapped back to reality. "Well, what can we do besides study?"
"I don't know… AAAH! ALL THIS THINKING IS MAKING MY BRAIN HURT!" Asuna suddenly exclaims, scaring Kamo, who's sitting on her shoulder all the time. "I'm going to take a bath… AND NO PEEKING!" The girl exclaims once again before hitting Kamo across the room. The cause, his eyes going bin and a perverted smile spread around his face and drool starting to dribble down 'hehehe'. After gathering her clothing, Asuna left the dorm to head for the public bath, leaving behind two worried occupants and a half (ermine)… "Oh, by the way, you shouldn't keep relying on magic. It's not good for you." The girl says before she truly exits the room.
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"A-are you serious? Negi-sensei could be fired!" Nodoka exclaims with a frightened look as she stare at Asuna for an answer.
"Yeah… or at least that's what I heard…" The girl says as she sinks lower into the bath. "What do you guys think we should do?"
"I, for one, don't like studying…" Yue says as she sips from a box of juice.
"Eh? What's going on here?" Makie asks as she joins the other after rinsing herself.
"Ne, don't say that aru! We have to do something for Negi-bouzo aru!" Fei Ku says as she dumps a bucket of water on herself before also stepping into the large bath.
"But what can we do? We're the Baka Ranger's for Kami's sake…" Asuna says sinking even lower… if that's possible.
"Ne, Asuna-dono shouldn't just give up like that." Kaede says with her usual relaxed self. "It won't do much good for you to blame yourself."
"It's no use explaining that to her. She's too dump to understand." Haruna joked, only to get her head submerged for a few second, courtesy of said dump girl. SPLASH!
"That's for saying I'm dump!" Asuna exclaims after letting go of a very wet Haruna.
"Hmm… we could use that." Yue suddenly says with a serious tone… although her face is still that usually poker face.
(Author's note)
APH: How the heck does she ever keep that expression no matter what?
MX: How should I know? But one thing I'm sure of is that it certainly doesn't make her cute.
Yue: Hey, don't take about me like I'm not here. (Held two very thick books labeled "the rise and fall of the Roman Empire" and "the theory of time, space and its continuum" up with a dangerous light in her eyes)
APH and MX: H-hai… ojou-sama…
Yue: Much better… now one with the story.
(End author's note…)
(RSP:(staring at the whole thing in chibi form with a fist near his mouth) that made Excels march shouting "genocide without asking why" seem sane…)
"Eh? Use what aru?" Fei Ku asks as curiosity grew in her.
"Yes… we can use that…" Yue muttered to herself as she strokes her chin, completely ignoring the martial art girl.
"What would that item be Yue-dono?" Kaede asks as she lean a little closer.
"But that would be a little risky…" Yue says to herself as she looks up at the ceiling.
"What are you talking about?" Makie, finally catching up on what they're talking about, also leans forward a little.
"Yes, that certainly will be beneficial… but also dangerous… hmm…" Yue muttered once again, completely oblivious to the veins popping on the forehead of the other Baka Rangers, save for Kaede.
"WHAT IS IT ALREADY!" The other three members exclaim as they dunk the poor girl under water for a few seconds before letting her go.
"SPLASH! OKAY, OKAY! I GIVE!" Yue exclaims, still managing to keep her poker face no matter what. "I'm talking about a book. It's somewhere inside the Library Island in the center of the campus. It was said that it'll make whoever read it smarter instantly."
"WOW! SUGOI!" Makie exclaims with stars appearing around her.
"Of course, the way to that book is full of deadly traps and we'll probably be lost before we even reach it." Yue says, causing everyone to face fault with loud splashes. "What?"
"You don't have to be so blunt…" Nodoka says sheepishly as she emerged again.
"It's best if you don't go for that book." A voice says not far from the group. Turning their head around, they come face to face with no other than Sarah.
"Ah, Sarah-chan?" Makie asks, not entirely sure what she's getting at.
"It's better if you guys achieve that goal with your own power." Sarah explains with a small smile.
"Sarah-dono is right about that." Kaede says before she tilts her head. "But… you know how stupid we are… hehehe…"
"Hey, no one is too stupid to learn nee?" With that, the caretaker walks away, leaving the group in silence. (RSP: OMFG! ARE YOU HONESTLY TELLING ME THAT SHE WALKED ALL THE WAY FROM THE DROM TO THE BATH AND BACK FOR THAT TINY BIT OF INPUT! THE AUTORS INSANE) note: all input by RSP and all randoms are done by MX Once they're sure she's out of hearing distance, Asuna spoke up.
"So are you going to listen to her or are you still planning to go?"
"…I prefer adventure over study any time." Yue says, still having that poker face on.
"Me too!" Makie exclaims, being the energetic girl that she is.
"I'm in aru!" Fei Ku exclaims as she punch her fist into the air.
"Well, it is better than studying…" Kaede says, which means that she's joining either way.
"Well, that's settled then. WE'RE GOING TO THAT SECRET PLACE IN LIBRARY ISLAND!" Asuna exclaims as she also pump a fist into the air.
"Aycha! I wanna go too!" Konoka suddenly says as she appears out of no where and latched onto Asuna in a death grip.
"GAH!" The group jumped into the air, provide that they have no idea that she's there in the first place.
"…I guess you can come along…" Asuna says which causes another bound of cheer to emerge from the group. Unknown to them, a certain someone who they thought had left was ease dropping not far away. And she smiled at their spirits and courage.
'Well, I guess they're going… no doubt they'll drag Negi-sama in too… I wonder if that old geezer knows about this…'
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Inside the forest next to the campus, a lone child and an ermine stands in a clearing. One sports a determined look while the other sports doubt full look.
"Are you sure about this aniki?" Kamo asks as Negi scan the ground for any unwanted presences.
"Yes, Kamo-kun, I'm very sure about this." Negi answered and gives a satisfied nod.
"Is there anyway to make you change your mind?" Kamo asks with a defeated tone in his voice. Receiving a shake of head, he gives up and walks away a distance. "Alright, it's you choice."
"Don't I get a say in that?" A voice asks the two, causing them to jump a little. The owner of the voice soon emerged from the top of a tree. It's no other than their caretaker, Sarah.
"Ah, Sarah-san… didn't sense you there…" Negi says sheepishly, only to get a flick on the forehead. "Itai… Sarah-san!"
"It'll take you a few more years before you can be that good." The reddish-blonde girl teased causing her young charge to pout. "But are you serious about sealing that magic off?"
"Hai… besides, Asuna-san is right. I can't always rely on my magic now can I?"
"…My little Negi-sama had grown up…" Sarah whispered to herself with a smile before she also walks over to where Kamo is, leaving a confused Negi behind. "Oh well… do what you must then."
"… Well, here goes nothing." Negi says as he held up his staff and begins a chant. "O, three black books of the covenant! Bind my power for three days!" After the chants is finished, black lines begins to crawl onto the child teacher. They surrounds him for a few seconds before they all focused onto his right wrist; a gust of wind blown from the place where Negi stands as the lines crawl around his wrist tighter and tighter. Finally, things settled down as the lines formed three circles around his wrist. Each circle has a number imprinted in it starting from the top '1' to the bottom '3'. "Alright, for three days, I'll be a normal teenager! AND I'LL TRY MY BEST AS A PROPER TEACHER!" (MX: not exactly poetry but it'll have to do I suppose)
"Well, now that things are done, can we go in now?" Sarah asks as she picks up Kamo and set him onto her head. "Besides, you have a stack of papers to grade."
"AWAWAWA! I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU'LL TAKE CARE OF IT!" Negi exclaims as he gape at his caretaker.
"Hmm… did I?" The reddish-blonde girl asks as she fake innocent and bat her eye lashes at her charge.
"SARAH-SAN"
"Hehe, I'm just joking. I'd done half of them. But don't think that you can slack off now!" Sarah says in her best commanding tone, but a smile lingers on her lips all the time. "And besides, if I grade more papers today, I'll hurt you."
"HAI!" With that, the young teacher job over to Sarah, grab her arm, and starts to drag her back towards the dorm. 'I'm going to do my best!'
'…For some reason, I think I forgot something important…' Sarah thought as something continues to nag at the back of her head. 'What is it…? Hmm, something about a bath or was it a book?'
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Later that night…
"Iyan, the water is freezing!" A voice whines as foot steps echoed off the walls of Library Island.
"Don't complain. It's your fault that you wore a skirt." Another voice says with irritation clearly in her voice.
"Hey! It's not my fault that I didn't know it's sort of flooded! Besides, Asuna yourself didn't wear anything else!" The first voice says teasingly and giggles as the second voice starts to babble non-intelligent things.
"Hush!" A third voice says, causing everyone to fall silence as all foot steps stopped. "There's a secret entrance at the back of Library Island that only the Library expedition club knows about." The third voice says, although on might think that she is very unenthusiastic. "And so, the Baka Rangers plus three are going to head out!" Yue exclaimed softly as Makie and Asuna stands on her left and Fei Ku and Kaede stand to her right. Negi shuffles behind Asuna, still in his pajamas with Sarah walking behind him, looking sheepish for she finally remember what it is. Konoka is standing in front of Nodoka and Haruna. The latter two 'volunteered' to stay on the surface. "Well, what are we waiting for? LET'S GO!" Yue exclaims as she led the groups of eight into the library… while, a group of four for Asuna, Konoka, Negi, and Sarah hung behind for a while.
"Is this really okay?" Konoka asks as she balls her hands in front of her chest. "I mean, I heard the lower levels were off limit to the middle school students because there are traps in there…"
"Daijoubo! I'll handle it!" Asuna says as she waves off Konoka's worry.
"…If you say so… Well, I'll see you later Negi-kun!" With that, the somewhat hyper and air-headed girl bounce into the building in search of the 'magic book' that Yue had mentioned.
"Well, that's your cue." Asuna whispered to Negi, who just blinked off his sleep as he stares at Asuna. "Use your magic power to protect us okay?"
"Eh…? M-magic?" Negi asks as he blinks at Asuna before looking over to Sarah. "…Did you know about this…?"
"Err… well, sort of…" Sarah says and back off a step as Asuna look at her suspiciously. "Err… you see, I sort of forget that you guys are going to do it anyway… so I didn't stop him from…"
"From…?" Asuna asks as she probes forward with an eye brow raised.
"…From sealing his magic…" Sarah finished as Negi continues to blink at the two. Asuna stare at her first in confusion, then her eyes widen as the information drown in, then they widen even more as shock shows up on her face. And finally, horror replaced shook as her mouth drop open in a scream that echoes the campus for a few minutes.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHH!"
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APH: I have to wonder… how did we survived those fans?
MX: You're asking the wrong person dude.
Sarah: Sniff… you bastard… sniff…
APH: Oh c'mon! It's an accident!
Eva: I don't think so… (Produce a video tape)
Asuna: What's that? (Grab the tape and put it in)…
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A little side adventure in the author's life… (MX: MUAHAHA suk on that Da Capo)
It's a miracle that APH survived… heck, it's even marvelous that he ran that fast carrying someone on him… and speaking of which… "PUT ME DOWN!"
"Sarah! Stop hitting me!" APH shouts as Sarah continues to drum her fist on his head. "OWOWOWOW! ALRIGHT!" With that, APH dump her unceremoniously onto her bum… But life isn't that simple, for her cloth had somehow got caught on a hook in the ceiling… RIP! "Eh…? How the heck…?" Looking up, APH's face paled as standing right on top of him on a bridge is MX holding a hook with Sarah's shirt on it. "You SOB…"
"Hehe, nice view ne?"
"You two are dead…" A voice growl from behind APH, causing the poor author to pale as he turn around to see Sarah having her arms covering herself while hell fire erupts in the back ground.
"You know… cancel all my appointment for the next week… this will take a while to heal…"
And the screaming begins…
END!
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Asuna: …you know, you two are perverts! (Hitting the author and the editor on the head hard) SMACK! BONK!
APH and MX: (rubbing the newly required bumps) Gomen ojou-sama!
Sarah: …Sniff… a-anyway, sorry for the wait… Hopefully you guys enjoy the chapter… sniff… Another voting opportunity has come again, this time, the topic is:
DO YOU GUYS WANT TO SEE THE ASUNA-TIME-ARC? (Revised that is…)
Yes or no! Dead line probably by the start of School Trip Arc…
Cha: Anyway, we're sorry for the long wait once again. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll need to rescue the author and the editor from my classmates before they get themselves killed… (Walks off stage towards where the screaming are coming from.)
Eva: You kno… I never know why she keeps helping them… and I never know where this place is…
Random Observer: The loony bin?
Eva: (Knock the man out) …shut up…
EDITORS NOTE
Ok we've been away for the last few weeks and I have to say its all my fault…hehehe gomen gomen (while dodging projectiles thrown by the audience) a few notes though, none of the geography mentioned in this story is correct, however all names are (I do geo, thought it might be easy credits, boy was I wrong) and… review and and and oh if you like the comments made by the RSP please tell us and he will be making further comments in future (RSP: PLEASE! I HAVE A WIFE AND 5 KIDS TO FEED)(MX: you've been busing haven't you?) (APH: u can tell… he's probably planning to do more…) and there is the question about a filler arc where random things will happen and if I can make APH get off his last butt and get the sister and the childhood friend to visit.
THIS CHAPTER WAS REPOSTED DUE TO PROBLEMS WITH THE BRACKETS I wanted to do it mathematically correct with the different variations but apparently this site doesn't pick them up TT