Forbidden Love
Ep. VI
Friday finally rolled around and Mai couldn't help it but feel giddy all day long, her giddiness caused Chie and Aoi to be to be very suspicious of their friend since Minagi-sensei stopped teaching after Kuga-sensei comes back. Everyone was so happy to see Natsuki again that they cheered at the sight of her; of course after having Mikoto for a teacher they were glad to have their old teacher back. Everyone but Mai that is, but it doesn't matter since she doesn't have to share her Minagi-sensei with anyone from today onward.
"Tohkiha," Natsuki called the busty student over just as class ended. "Yes sensei?" Mai calmly strolled over the ever tough looking gym teacher. "There's a door on the back of the Principle building, go there for your training." Natsuki said. "Thank you sensei," Mai beamed the teacher her preppy smile and was about to bounced off. "A word of warning, do not get too close to your teacher it is best that you keep a certain distance from that girl." Natsuki said sternly before she turned and head back into her classroom. Her words left one of her best students confused, who wouldn't with such a vague warning as that and to boot her voice doesn't seemed even remotely friendly when talking about Minagi-sensei.
Mai made her way over to the back of the Principle building; already she saw her crush lounging under the tree shade along with a lot of cats curling up against her. It truly was a wholesome sight to behold, Mai decided to tip-toe and come up quietly to Mikoto and drink in the sleeping form of her teacher. "Staring at me won't get you anywhere, go inside and get ready for today's lesson." Mikoto spoke causing Mai to let out a surprised yelp and that got all the cats on alert hissing at her. "Naptime is over, go home." Mikoto said in a very commanding tone and all the cats quickly run off. The feral girl got up and dusts herself off, leading her student inside the spacious room within and only a shelf full of books stood silently near the door.
"First off, what kind of magic you learned already? I assume that your parents taught you the basic," Mikoto said upon entering the spacious room. "Um… fire magic," Mai got nervous all of a sudden. "Good, hit me with all that you got. I will not be able to teach you correctly without evaluating your ability," Mikoto said as she was already at the other end of the vase room. "Eh?" Mai was surprised. "But… but…" the busty student started to protest. "Rule number one: Never disobey a direct order from your teacher. Do it Tohkiha Mai," Mikoto said sternly as she narrowed her golden eyes on the teen sending chills down her spine. "Y-yes sensei," Mai said shakily seeing how scary her teacher could be kind of turned her on somewhat (talk about teenager's hormones).
Raising her right hand up with her index and middle fingers pointing straight to heaven, Mai closed her eyes and focused her energy recalling what she had learned from her mother who is a Magnus. "Flame of Heaven, burning brightly in the morning sky lent me your power and burns our foe!" Mai recited as a small flame appeared just a bit above her fingers; slowly the small flame burst out and become as big as a beach ball. With a quick motion, she moved her hand and pointed her finger directly at Mikoto, sending the huge fireball at her teacher with amazing speed.
Oh god… Mai's mind went into overdrive as she watched the enormous fireball ready to devour her teacher. But Mikoto doesn't look scared at the sight of the thing, she looked rather calm for someone who's about to be burn alive. A devilish smirk suddenly appeared on her lips as she put one foot back a little bit to get a feel of a certain amount momentum that would help her stop the fireball. It was good that she didn't underestimate the thing, otherwise the feral girl with be a crispy body if she does. Using her bare hands, Mikoto stopped the burning heap of flame and miraculously absorbed it into her hands. Mai was shocked at the sight; no one had ever been able to do what her teacher just did. Even her mother told her that her fireball was one that surpassed even her mother's skill.
Smoke seep out of her hands as she waved it in the air to cool down the heat in her hands, it might be a nice change of pace for her as she just moved out of the place she shared with the other two just yesterday to a house just on the other side of the street (right across from the girl's dormitory). "Good, this mean I don't have to teach you about this type of magic or the basic of magic." Mikoto said as she reached into her pocket and pulled out a heavy looking little box with the word 'Cubic' on all sides and placed it on the floor. "This one practice on your focus and mentality, I want you to create a force-field around this box and it can only be about one to two centimeters bigger than this box. Do not take this task easily, even people with Seer status struggle with this daily practice." Mikoto said as she headed over to the bookshelf and pulled out a book, flopping down next to it and start reading.
Taking in her teacher's words, Mai walked up to the object on the floor and studied it. She picked it up to get the feel of the weight of it, and the thing weight only about ten ounces. Mai sit down and concentrated hard, after what seemed like forever she managed to get one side of the force-field up but only for just a few seconds before it zapped itself out. Annoyed, she wiped the sweat away and started the whole process all over again, and this time she got it to stayed for about two minutes before the thing short-circuit itself yet again causing the girl to let out a disgruntle groan.
"Go home kid, we'll do it again tomorrow." Mikoto said as she put the book away without even looking at her student. "But still," Mai protested, but she stopped when Mikoto turned around to look at her with gentle amber eyes. "You've done quite well; most people couldn't even do what you did within just a few hours. So be proud of your effort," Mikoto smiled a rare smile as she only smiled with her friends and never with her students. Her smile made all the effort the teen been putting into practice seemed worth it, though Natsuki's words still kept on nagging at her in the back of her mind.
"Uhh… I'm so tired," Mai said a she made her way back to her dorm room. "So Mai-chan, where did you go off to after class? Did Kuga-sensei reprimanded for not paying attention?" Chie asked popping up out of nowhere. "No, I just have extra-curricular session from now on." Mai replied letting out an unsuppressed yawn. "Oh? You seem tired, is it some kind of private lesson that we don't know about?" Aoi teased (where did they come from?!). "Ecchi!" Mai said loudly, thank goodness that it's already late otherwise there would be a lot of people staring at them as they're outside of Mai's room. "It is private lesson, because the gakuen-cho said so. So it's not what you think," Mai clarified it out but didn't say what the lesson was about. "Okay Mai-chan, we won't snoop since it involves with our scary gakuen-cho," Chie said dramatically while Aoi nodded her head. They both know that it would be extremely bed for their health to snoop about this one case, though they had their suspicion but they'll have to leave it be.
A/N: Sorry for the delay in updating, went to doctor yesterday, and krugern-han's comments made me giddy, thank you. Of course this is a Mai/Mikoto piece with a little of everyone else in it, but the focus will be mainly on Mai and Mikoto. Sorry to disappoint those that wanted to see more of Shizuru and Natsuki's moments or Chie and Aoi's moments or Yukino and Haruka's moments, or Nao and Shiho's moments or… or… I don't think there's any other pair's moments anymore. Thank you for reading and supporting this twisted story along with my other twisted stories.