Chapter 6

"I'm alone... I'm scared and it's dark... I don't want to feel like this" a little girl said crying, she was lying on the floor of a dark room in which there was nothing.

"Cry all you want, no one is going to come to save you, no matter how much you are crying, the tears won't help you, you are alone in this place" a person said looking at her in front of her.

"I don't want to be here! Rachel!"

"NO!" Leona shouted, waking up abruptly from the bed. "Where I am?"

"You're in my bed" Asuna said, looking at her. "You should take a rest, Leona"

"We found you fainted in the street" Negi said worried.

"Tsk" Leona said, sitting on the bed with one hand in her face.

"Aren't you okay?" Asuna asked.

"Eh? Ah... No, I just fainted from exhaustion"

"Are you sure?" Negi said.

"Yes, it happens to me, but you don't have to worry about it" Leona said.

"If you say so..." Asuna said.

"By the way, aren't you training with Evangeline?" Leona asked.

"Nah, we have the day off" Asuna said with her arms crossed over her breasts.

"That's weird" Kamo said, standing on the desk in the room, staring at them.

"She had to do some things" Negi said.

"Who knows what she's plotting" Asuna said with her eyes closed.

"Asuna, I don't think it is anything bad…" Negi said.

"I should go now...Thanks for everything" Leona said getting out of bed.

"Are you sure you are better?" Negi asked.

"Yes"

"Do you want us to go with you?" Asuna asked.

"It is not necessary"

"It's okay" Asuna said.

"See you later" Leona said.

"Good-bye" Asuna said as Leona stepped out of the room.

"I'll go for a walk" Leona thought.

"I have the impression that she hides something, judging from the way that she was, it wasn't a simple fainting" Kamo said.

"Do you think? But it cannot be anything serious, right? "Asuna said.

"I hope so" Negi said in a worried voice.

"By the way, aniki, did the delegate invite you go to her house?" Kamo said looking at him.

"Yes"

"Negi, I'm going with you" Asuna said with a narrow look.

"Eh?"

"I don't trust what she can do to you" Asuna said.

"Why do you say that?"

"I know the reason; I'll go with you" Asuna said with her eyes closed.

"It's okay Asuna" Negi said, they went to the bedroom door and when they opened it they found Haruna.

"So you're going to see the Iinchou... Eeeh?" Haruna said with a gleam in her glasses and smiling at them.

"..."

/Grace of Destiny/

"I'll see the teacher Negi soon!" Ayaka smiled as she walked by the hallway of the house. Then the doorbell rang.

"It must be him!" Ayaka said, running toward the entrance door.

"Wilson opens the door" Ayaka said, looking at the butler. He nodded and opened the door.

"Teache-"

"Hi, Iinchou!" Haruna said, waving and smiling. "Eh? What are you doing on the floor?"

"What are you doing here?!" Ayaka shouted, standing up and looking at Haruna and some of the class behind her.

"Sorry Iinchou, they heard that I was going to come here today and-"

"Let it be known that I came for what could happen" Asuna said with her arms crossed over her breasts.

"What do you suppose would happen if I were with him, Asuna?" Ayaka said, staring at her.

"I don't know, you tell me, Iinchou"

"What do you mean by that!"

"What I mean is that who knows what you might do to Negi if you were alone with him!"

"What!"

"I keep my eyes always on you!" Asuna said.

"Ha... Your eyes always on her" Haruna said with a grin.

"Not in the way you're thinking!" Asuna said looking at Haruna.

"And what am I supposed to be thinking, A-s-u-n-a" Haruna said smiling. A shadow covered Asuna's gaze.

"..."

"No matter how many times I come here, this place always impresses me" Haruna said, looking around.

"Come on, teacher Negi, I'll show you my room" Ayaka said, smiling with a hand on Negi's shoulder.

"Stay still right now!" Asuna said pointing to Ayaka with her index finger.

"I'm just going to show him my room!" Ayaka said.

"He saw it the last time we came here!"

"Ah... Where are the others?" Negi said looking around.

"They went to the heated pool" Wilson replied.

"Huh?!" Ayaka said.

"Did they go without me? How dare them!" Haruna said, raising her fist in the air.

"Well, in that case, do you want us to go too, teacher Negi?" Ayaka sighed.

"Ok, I'm sorry, they have come unannounced-"

"Don't worry, teacher" Ayaka said, smiling. "Come on, you can change your clothes into one of the rooms-"

"It isn't necessary; we are already wearing it " Asuna said with folded arms.

"Then let's go to the pool..." Ayaka said.

/Grace of Destiny/

"There doesn't seem to be anyone here" Leona said looking around the bedroom. "They will have gone somewhere" Leona said, left the keys on the table and saw that there was a sheet of paper with something written, she took the sheet of paper and began to read it.

"Hello Leona! :D

Ku Fei has gone with Kaede to train (They almost always train together) I'm going to go with Negi and Asuna to the Iinchou's house.

See you later!

Paru"

"I guess they will come later" Leona said, leaving the sheet of paper on the table, then she looked at the clock on the wall. "I'll get something to eat" she said, but as she took a step, she felt a sharp pain coming from her right arm and chest.

"Damn it" Leona said, fell to the floor on her knees and rolled up the sleeve of her right arm where she had the black bandage that covered her hand, except the fingers, and the middle of her arm, small waves of darkness were coming out from the bandage.

"Tsk" Leona said, she got up hardly and went to the kitchen, opened one of the cupboards, picked up a glass and put it on the table, then filled it with water from the bottle beside the sink, she put her hand in one of her trouser pockets and took out a small white metal box, she opened the metal box and took a capsule of several that had, the capsule was red, then opened the capsule and a white powder fell on the water, then it did turn reddish, Leona looked at the water that was now red, took the glass and drank what was in it. When she finished, she put the glass back on the table.

"What a disgusting taste, I'll never get used to it" Leona thought with an expression of disgust. "Although this is effective for the time being... I don't know for how long I will be able to endure this..." she went to one of the walls of the kitchen and sat down on the floor, leaning against the wall, breathing heavily.

"Tsk, it's so… Painful…" Leona said as she covered her face with her hand.

/Grace of Destiny/

"Negi!" Makie said, waving. "Come and bathe with us!"

"Ok" Negi said.

"Wait, teacher Negi" Ayaka said, staring at him before he got into the water.

"What happens, Iinchou?" Negi said looking at her.

"I thought I could put sun cream on your back-"

"How are you going to put sun cream on a heated pool?" Asuna said looking at Ayaka with a narrow look.

"You're going to be correcting me all the time Asuna!" Ayaka said, bumping her cheek against Asuna's face.

"What's wrong with that?!" Asuna said, when Haruna saw them near the pool, she pushed them into the water.

"Ah!" They both shouted at once.

"Asuna! Iinchou!" Negi shouted as Asuna and Ayaka pulled their heads out of the water.

"Paru!" Asuna shouted, looking at her.

"We've come to have fun, stop arguing!" Haruna said smiling.

"Let's see if he comes here..." Makie said, waiting for him to go with her, then, someone threw water on her.

"Ah!" Makie said, turned around and she saw Sakurako laughing. "Okay!" Makie said then she threw water on Sakurako "What do you think?" Makie said with a laugh.

"So, that's the way you want it to be" Sakurako said, as she prepared to throw water on Makie. "Waterfalls!" Sakurako said throwing more water than before.

"Eh!" Makie said, protecting herself with her arms, then she started throwing her more water even though she didn't see well from the water Sakurako threw at her.

"They look like elementary school girls..." Chisame said looking sideways at Makie and Sakurako as she was sitting in one of the chairs with the laptop on the table.

"What are you doing Chiu?" Chizuru said behind Chisame.

"AH!" Chisame shouted and closed the laptop "Nothing! And stop calling me by that name!" Chisame shouted looking at Chizuru.

"The snack is ready" Wilson said who had gone to the heated pool to notify them.

"The snack!" Fuka shouted coming out of the pool.

"Come on!" Fumika shouted following her sister, then, they all went to where the servants had prepared it.

/Grace of Destiny/

Leona was lying on the bed looking at the bedroom ceiling, then someone knocked on the door.

"Who will it be?" Leona thought as she got up from the bed, went to the door and opened it. "You are... Satomi?"

"Yes, is Haruna or Gu Fei here?

"No, they aren't here"

"No... Can I ask you a favor? Could you bring this to Chachamaru, please?" Satomi said, showing her a winding key. "She needs it for today, I have a meeting with some science mates and I can't give it to her... And the others have gone somewhere"

"It's okay" Leona said, taking the winding key.

"Thank you very much!" Satomi said with a smile. "Chachamaru must be with Evangeline at home now.

"All right" Leona said.

"Good-bye" Satomi said, waving her hand in the air, saying goodbye.

"A winding key..." Leona thought, looking at it in her hand. "Well, I'm going to give it to her" Leona said as she closed the door and headed for Evangeline's house. Once there, she knocked on the door.

"Hello Leona" Chachamaru said as she opened it, then she bowed. "Is anything wrong? Do you want to see the mistress?"

"Mistress? Ah, no, Satomi told me to give you this" Leona said, showing her the winding key.

"Ah, I was waiting for it, thank you" Chachamaru said with a smile as she took the winding key. "Do you want some tea? I just did"

"Tea? Um... No, thanks, I don't want to bother" Leona said looking at Chachamaru.

"It's no bother at all, since you came here to give me the key" Chachamaru said with a calm expression.

"Well, that's fine" Leona said.

"Then, follow me" Chachamaru said, going through the living room while Leona followed her, then they entered into the kitchen, the kitchen wasn't very large, it had a table in the middle with four chairs, a fridge, microwave, an oven, a gas stove and some closets, Chachamaru went to prepare a cup of tea, Leona sat on one of the chairs that had the kitchen and Chachamaru poured her a cup of tea.

"Thank you" Leona said, picked up the cup and tasted the tea. "It tastes nice"

"Thank you" Chachamaru said. "Is anything wrong" Chachamaru said as she saw Leona looking toward the living room.

"Eh? No, it's just... Isn't Evangeline at home?" Leona said looking at her.

"The mistress went to attend a matter with teacher Takamichi, do you want me to tell her something?"

"No..." Leona said, finished drinking the tea and rose from the chair. "Well, I'm leaving now, thanks for the tea"

"Ok, Leona" Chachamaru said, accompanied her to the door and said goodbye.

/Grace of Destiny/

In one of the rooms in Ayaka's house, Negi and the others were snacking on what the servants had prepared for them, on the table where they were, there were various types of tea and drinks, different types of pastries, different sandwiches and cakes, one was cream with strawberries and another with chocolate, it had written letters of white chocolate.

"Everything is delicious!" Fuka said as she was eating.

"Haruna tries not to eat too much" Kazumi said, looking at Haruna with a smile.

"Don't worry about me, though, the one you should worry about is Makie" Haruna said smiling as she looked at Makie with her elbows on the table, and her chin cradled in her hands.

"Eh! This is a special occasion!" Makie said looking at Haruna.

"How is the tea, teacher Negi?" Ayaka asked, looking at Negi with a smile.

"It tastes nice" Negi replied.

"I'm glad you like it" Ayaka said.

When they finished, they went back to the heated pool, then spent the hours there until it was late afternoon.

"Thank you very much for everything, Iinchou" Negi said, looking at Ayaka with a smile.

"You can come whenever you want, teacher Negi" Ayaka said with a hand on her cheek and smiling.

"Thank you very much" Haruna said, smiling.

"I was referring to the teacher!"

"Come on, Negi, it's getting late" Asuna said, pointing to the door with her thumb.

"Yes, good-bye" Negi said, waving his hand in the air.

"Good-bye, teacher Negi" Ayaka said, waving her hand in the air, saying goodbye.

The class said goodbye and they all went to their respective homes.

/Grace of Destiny/

"Hello! I'm home! "Haruna said entering the dormitory.

"Hello Haruna" Leona said, looking at her.

"Isn't Ku Fei at home?" Haruna asked.

"No, she must be with Kaede yet"

"Um, well, what a pity you didn't come, the Iinchou has a fairly large house with a pool"

"Maybe another day..." Leona said.

/Grace of Destiny/

Chachamaru was cleaning the kitchen after making dinner, then she saw something on the floor.

"What is this?" Chachamaru said as she picked it up off the floor. "It's a small white metal box ... It must be from Leona, it must have fallen to her"


End of chapter 6 thanks for reading, I would like know your opinion about the story so far in the reviews, it encourages me to keep writing. Also, thanks to Miz-KTakase for helping me with grammar and thanks for the reviews I received! :)