Now here's where my big choice is… do I end this story in the next few chapters with incredible sacrificial and heroic storyline and romance? Or do I take 'er nice and easy and stick with comedic pleasure and foreshadowing of the final conclusion? Well who knows, if you want to put in any comments of what you think is a decent way to end it, just put in a PM and be done with it.
Disclaimer: Negima! belongs to a group of monkey for all I know, because I do know for a fact it doesn't belong to me!
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Screwed Up
"I still don't see what I did to deserve this, girls!" Masayoshi was sitting in Ayaka's living room with some of the girls. Ayaka has given invitations to everyone in class 2-A, including Negi and Masayoshi to come to her home and stay the night. Negi felt that he had no choice but to go. Masayoshi, on the other hand, desperately tried to do everything in his power to not go, but Negi persuaded Masayoshi that if he didn't go, Negi would most likely not return in the morning. So he really didn't have much choice...
Kaede leaned on the top of his head, her eyes shut from drowsiness and her voice equally sleepy, "Shush wan-wan, we're trying to play a game…"
Masayoshi looked upwards, only able to see Kaede's bangs and nose, "I know that! It's the game that I don't like! It's like this was all planned just to bug me!" a pillow flew from across the room and hit him square in the face.
"Wan-wan-kun's embarrassed because the bottle landed on him!" Fumika pointed at the bottle, and lo and behold, the bottle was pointed in Masayoshi's direction. He even tried to kick it, but Kaede lightly nudged him and prevented him from doing so.
Masayoshi jerked his thumb to the chair he was leaning on, and its current occupant, "What if it's pointing a Kaede huh?" (Masayoshi was sitting on the floor, with his back leaning on the front of the chair, Kaede was in the chair with her legs on wither side of Masayoshi and her arms and head leaning on the top of his head. For some reason, when the other girls noticed this sitting postion, many became a dark shade of red, some clutching their noses running towards the bathroom.)
Fuka was leaning on her sister, "Than the bottle would be pointing up at Kaede-sensei." Fuka crawled up and tilted the bottle in a 45 degree angle up at Kaede's face.
Masayoshi sweatdropped, but decided that arguing would be useless, "Fine, who spun it?"
"I did!" Ku Fei sat opposite Masayoshi.
Masayoshi began to fear his well body as well as his dignity, but still asked, "So aren't you going to ask me?"
"Truth Dare!"
"Eh… what?"
Truth and Dare!"
"B-but that's… that's against the rules…" He turned towards the other participants who just shrugged.
"Do three back flips and say name of girl you like!"
"…What?" Masayoshi's eye twitched, a sweatdrop developing.
"GO!" Ku Fei made a violent motion with her hands that made Masayoshi quickly jump up. He tried to flip in the air, but forgot about Kaede. He collided into her and flipped the chair over as well.
Ayaka was scorning the small group, "…So don't play those childish games!"
Fuka and Fumika were already asleep, Ku Fei was trying to solve one of those really annoying colored blocks that you have to make all the sides their own color, and Kaede was just finishing putting on a bandana on Masayoshi to cover up the bandages.
Ayaka yelled, "Are you even listening?"
Masayoshi got up and patted her on the arm reassuringly, "Relax Iinchou, I think the tsunami is making you a little wacky."
Ayaka gulped, his hands were warm… "I g-guess you're right."
Masayoshi nodded and lead Ayaka to a couch that she laid on, then he proceeded to check himself in the mirror. Wearing a bandana, along with his now untidy gakuran, he looked like a yankee. He laughed a little imagining him having a lead pipe and beating people up.
Kazumi sat down by the mirror, so she could easily observe Masayoshi without him noticing. It's been about two weeks since she stole his books and nothing interesting happened, but that girl seemingly disappeared without a trace, so maybe she succeeded in bringing her parents back and she now lives with them… she shook her head, no, that couldn't be… it sounds too perfect. Now that I think about it, Masayoshi's never bodily harmed anyone… maybe freak some of us out, but her, maybe all boys his age do that…
Negi moved the knight adjacent to his bishop, "Checkmate Chamo."
The ermine's jaw dropped, he quickly rearranged the board back to the pre-game position, "7 out of 12!" He suddenly pulled a cigarette out of nowhere and lit it up, determined to beat Negi.
Masayoshi sat next to them, all of the girls were goofing off in the living room, so the kitchen was absolutely barren, thus tranquil. That's kind of the reason Chamo was in Ayaka's house in the first place, so many girls in one place could set any ermine off in this world. Masayoshi silently watched the two, he even pointed out some tactical moves for Chamo, though the ermine rarely paid any attention to him. It was very peaceful, a bit of sanity and intellect in the biggest storm of the season, the other reason for Ayaka bringing everyone to her house is because it was built on the top of a hill, and so flooding wouldn't be a problem, Ayaka cared eeply for the welfare of her fellow students, but anyone could tell that Ayaka was beginning to lose her mind with the madness inside and outside the house.
Masayoshi sighed as Chamo lost again, he reached for his book that he always kept on a sling on his left arm, bored of the game and seeing if there was a spell that would make the furry beast listen to him. He opened the book and immediately began to panic, "Uh-oh…"
Negi looked up from the eighth game, "Something wrong Masayoshi-san?"
Masayoshi nodded and held the book up to Negi's nose, Negi snorted and looked away, "It's blank."
Masayoshi didn't look any relieved, "That's how I should look to people with no magical powers, but you and I are magi, we should be able to read this!"
Negi shrugged, oblivious to the frightened Masayoshi. Masayoshi shook his head and calmed himself down, "It'll be alright, I just misplaced it, I'll just do that tracking spell and…" he reached into his back pocket and grabbed only air, "I forgot my pen back at the twins' room!"
Sho Katagawa stood outside the mansion, his pale colors of his clothing and hair seemed to mock the sheer darkness of the heavy veil of rain. Lightning flashed through the air and it revealed a thin scar across his eye, a scar so thin it looked as though it was sliced open with a needle. He clenched his left hand, the gauntlet making a clanging sound as it crunched together, the large machete-like knife in his right hand, as another streak of lightning pierced the thick air; he smirked.
A pink-haired mage stood on a hill looking over the mansion, in her right hand, a simple wand, and in her left hand, a magnificent black leather-bound book. The book was glowing a pale blue hue. She smiled as she sensed Masayoshi's aura, his magic was very much weaker without his magical weapons, she also sensed another powerful magical entity near him, the entire mansion's occupants had magic dotted here and there, of different levels and of different types. There were two anti-magic entities in the mansion, but they could easily be avoided. She laughed as she opened the book to a certain page and began to chant.
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Hm… a possible battle between three parties; Mahora, and two separate cults, admit that this could become a very interesting fight chapter next time. Or maybe I'll turn it into something else altogether. I want to say a quick good luck to Jennon-Donnon for his newest fanfics, hope it'll be successful! Please leave a review everyone! Yeah there was some really weak KaedexMasayoshi in there for True Serac, who I hope is happy with the one shot coupling! There both of you were mentioned in one chapter! Now you have no reason to complain!
Slight Translations/Explanations:
Yankee – Not a sign of disrespect to any of my American readers, in Japan the term yankee refers to American-like Japanese Gangs. Don't quote me on this though!