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Chapter 8
The next few days passed by quickly. Negi felt as though the world was falling through the ocean of time, just so that he could recover quickly. One day, the class of 3-A came to visit, and threw a party for him. Everyone was having a good time. Ayaka brought a lots of flowers, Konoka candies, Setsuna a card, Asuna a magic item that she handed secretly to Negi, Nodoka some books, etc.
While everyone was partying, Negi spotted Eva leaning on the wall, staring at him with eyes that seemed to be surveying him, looking for an answer. "The boy is getting stronger. Maybe a bit too strong..." Eva thought to herself. She looked at the ceiling. "He has been learning quickly, even managing to perfect the hardest spell I knew. I thought he could never get strong enough to rival me. But even now, as he gains strength, I doubt he knows how close he is getting to my own level. He inflicted major, although not critical, damage to his enemy in that fight, and I had a hard time hitting him. Come to think of it, where IS that boy, anyway?" Eva walked out of the room, with Chachamaru behind her.
She checked with the front desk at the wing, and came to the mysterious boy's room. She was once again taken aback at his similarity to Negi.
"Come to finish me off?" the boy managed weakly.
"No," Eva said with swagger. "I'm here to find out more about you. Who are you? Why did you attack us? Where are you from?"
"I attacked the boy because I had heard that strange things were happening here, and almost all of them seemed to relate to the strange 10 year old teacher. I stole things, little things, to lure him to me, and I fought to find out if he was like me. You're like me too. Strange powers..." he started to fade.
"What do you mean, "like me"? You can obviously use magic, so why don't you know what it is?" Eva asked suspiciously.
"Magic, eh? So that's what it was..."
"You mean you use magic, but didn't have any training? Thats impossible. Someone must have taught you. Where are you from?"
"Where am I from? I...I don't know..." he said, surprised. He couldn't remember much besides hearing about this Negi Springfield.
"Well, at least tell me your name." Eva demanded.
"Name...a name... I... I can't remember having one..." he said, confused. Eva looked at the stranger. She couldn't help but think about his face...and the resemblence to Negi, and even Nagi, the man she had followed for so long. She looked out the window, and wondered if he was still out there.
During the last week of being in the Hospital, Negi recieved more and more visits from his friends from the class. They talked, and told Negi about new things, and how boring class was without him.
"It's a real drag, you're much better," complimented Makie one day.
But to his surprise, his most frequent visitor was Asuna. She was always talking and reminicing about earlier battles, and how he had grown stronger, just as she had, and everyone else. Sometimes she would just sit and look at him, until she noticed that he saw her staring.
Finally, Negi asked her "What's up, Asuna-san? You seem a bit...off"
Asuna blinked. "What are you talking about?" she said.
"Well, sometimes you just sit there...staring. It's almost as if your thinking of something, but don't want to say it." Negi explained.
"Oh...It's nothing," Asuna said, and then she went back to the dorms to do some work. Asuna had actually been thinking about her recent reactions to Negi. She didn't quite understand them. She felt as though she were put on a giant disc, and someone sent her spinning. She felt very strange, almost like the first time she saw Takahata, but she no longer cared for him. He had Shizuna, and she wouldn't stop them. She stopped, and let the wind blow her hair. Looking to the sky, she decided to let go and allow fate to steer her toward her destiny, and she immediatly felt free. At first glance, it might have sounded contradictory, but when you think about it, it really isn't. With a smile, Asuna walked to her room, and laid down on her bed. She thought of Negi, and the future, and soon drifted off to sleep.
Negi watched Asuna walk out of the room. He thought back at the vision he had, for what seemed like the 50th time. The woman was very familiar, and she made Negi feel like anything was possible, just like Asuna did. He thought about the face he had seen. For a moment, he wanted to just be with that person, just be with her. It was strange, almost as if destiny were calling him to this woman.
He thought about the spell she told him. "Use it wisely," she had said just before she moved away. Destiny was calling him to leave the hospital, however, and the next day he walked back with crutches. His ribs had healed remarkably fast, but his leg was healing much slower. While walking back, the sun shone on his face, and he looked up toward the deep blue sky.
"I'll do my best, for you."
