Ignisha: Chapter 4, enjoy...
Six Paths in Mahora
Episode Four: Trouble within the train! With toads coming out of nowhere and a paper bird, what the hell is going on!
Nagato woke up to the beeping sound of the alarm clock as he got up. Dressing up to his most casul wear he could get his hands on, he calmly walked out of his bedroom. Once he got to the living room, he noticed Takamichi with Evangeline and Chachamaru, eating breakfast. Greeting the three, he went to kitchen to make himself breakfast. Quickly whipping himself something using the leftover food, he ate breakfast as he listened to Takamichi discussing with Evangeline with her punishment with attacking a teacher. Nagato smiled inwardly, knowing that he has been punished already for attacking his own Sensei.
After finished breakfast, Takamichi turned to him, "Now Nagato-kun, I will be showing you the way to the train station; since you will be meeting with the teacher you will be helping..." He paused. "Are you sure you will not be needing the money Gakuenchou gave you?"
Nagato laughed a bit. "No, it's alright, Takamichi-san. I have plenty of money from where I came from, and if I have to exchange currency, then I can easily do that." "With the help of the Rinnegan." He thought to himself.
Takamichi nodded as he got up from the table. "Well, shall we?"
Nagato nodded as he put away the dishes, following Takamichi out the door with his scroll strapped to his belt. Before leaving, he turned to Evangeline. "I'll be sure to buy any souvenirs when I'm at Kyoto, alright, Evangeline-san?"
Evangeline sputtered nonsense as she heard that. "F-fool, you don't have to do that!" She yelled as Nagato smiled at her, closing the door. Turning away, she blushed harder. "Baka... Treating me like a human..."
(Train Station)
"It's nice to know that you and Evangeline-kun are getting along." Takamichi said as Nagato raised a brow. "Really? Because I swore, no, I know I felt killer intent coming from outside my bedroom a few times..."
The two walked before finally arriving at the train that Nagato will be going on with his future students. His eyes boggled at the amount of students that were going. "For a simple trip to the Eastern side, this is a lot of students..."
Nagato looked around and noticed a few girls muttering and gossiping to themselves, a few pointing at him as he spotted Takamichi talking to a small boy, somewhere at the age of 10. He walked towards the two just as the boy noticed him.
"Ah, Takamichi, who is this?"
"Ahaha, this is your new Assistant Teacher, Negi-kun. He's supposed to start after the trip, but since he arrived early, he will be helping you with the trip. Introduce yourself, Nagato-kun."
Nagato smiled at the small boy. "Nice to meet you, Negi-kun. My name is Uzumaki Nagato."
Negi smiled brightly, his pet ermine giving Nagato a suspiscious expression. "A summon perhaps?" The young teacher shook Nagato's hand. "The pleasure is all mines, Nagato-san! My name is Negi Springfield!"
"A foreign?" Nagato thought as Negi announced Class 3-A to gather around. The girls noticed Nagato and began asking questions as Negi tried to get a hold of the situation. Nagato sweat-dropped as a few girls tried to get dirty and touch him. "Such hyper active students I have..." He thought to himself, immediately thinking about one relative.
"Hiya! Who're you!"
"Where'd you come from?"
"Why're you so pale?"
"Hey hey, is that hair natural!"
"How old are you?"
Nagato felt a bit uncomfortable as Takamichi took stand of the situation. "Alright girls, calm down as I introduce your new T.A." The girls immediately started gossiping about this as Nagato's sweat increased.
"This is Uzumaki Nagato, and he'll be helping Negi-kun teach the class. I hope you won't cause trouble to him?"
"Hai, Takahata-sensei!" The class chorus as Nagato let out a small smile. "Maybe they're not bad..."
One girl in particular took out a note pad as she approached Nagato. "Hiya, I'm Asakura Kazumi, Class 3-A's personal paparazzi, and I'd like to ask you a few questions, Nagato-sensei!"
Nagato flinched at being called "sensei". "Umm... Please, maybe 'senpai' will be fine..." Nagato told the reporter before thinking, "An info gatherer, eh? Might be useful to try and befriend her." He 'hmm'd as he gestured the reporter to continue.
"Alright, how old are you?"
Nagato automatically almost said his real age before stopping himself. Thinking for a bit, he responded, "16..." Thinking of the closest person he could think of (any guesses?).
The girls immediately arose as the assistant teacher is at, or at least about, their age.
"Where are you from?"
Nagato thought for a bit. "A place that has many rains every day, you wouldn't find it on chart since the clouds blocked off any radar to find the village..." Nagato responded half-truthfully, thinking of his old home.
"Is that skin and your hair a natural color?"
"Erm, yes... Red hair runs through the family..." "Except for one..." "... and because of all the clouds, I didn't get enough exposure from the sun. Truth be told, this is kind of my first time seeing the sun..." He lied as Kazumi raised a brow.
"Ok then, are you seeing anyone?"
That question threw Nagato off guard, as he thought back at his life. "Then again, Konan was probably the only girl I've interacted with..." "Erm... Not that I know of..." He responded truthfully this time.
The girls immediately squealed knowing that Nagato was single, which made the boy shiver in fear. "I fear my own innocence soon..." He thought as Negi ordered his students to board the train.
"Nagato-san, will you please help me out?"
"Eh? Ah, sure..."
Nagato replied as he took the check-off board and also took the Seating Chart as well, needing to know his students.
"Konoka-san, over here!" Fuuka yelled as Nagato checked off the twins.
"Those twins sure are noisy..." Misa said as Madoka chuckled. "Aw c'mon, they're more fun that way!" Sakurako walked in, smiling happily. "Negi-kun! That birthday party before was awesome! Let's do it again sometime!" She said as Fumika shocked. "Eehhh! You got to play with Sensei! That's no fair!" Negi laughed. "H-hai! If possible, I would like to come karaoke sometime!" Negi said as Nagato checked off the remainder of Group 1.
Soon enough, Group two entered as Satsuki sold nikuman to another student. Ku Fei hopped towards Negi, shouting, "Negi-bouzu! It must be tough to be this organized, aru! Have a nikuman to keep your energy, aru!" Negi startled a bit. "H-hai! But, I already had onigiri for breakfast...!" He declined kindly.
Nagato felt a rumble in his stomach, asking, "I'd like to have one, Fei..." Ku Fei grinned, giving Nagato several dozen as the red-head shocked at the amount he was given.
"Man, they sell those things everywhere, huh?" Misora asked as Kaede ate one. "Hai hai..." Satomi turned to the runner as she responded, "Would you like one too, Kasuga-san?" Chao smiled as she held up the extra nikuman. "If this keeps up, I might be able to spread these all the way to England!" Suddenly, she gazed at Nagato as he busily ate his nikuman, smiling darkly for a second.
Nagato looked up to see Group 3 coming in.
"This is so stupid..." He heard the one with glasses, Chisame he read, mutter as the golden haired one, Ayaka, tried to invite Negi into a private cart. Nagato cleared his throat as he said, "Yukihiro, please refrain from distracting Negi-san from his duties..." Ayaka backed down with a pout as Kazumi tried to take a picture of the red-head. Natsumi looked around in interest as Chizuru giggled at Ayaka's antics. "She's at it again."
Suddenly, a hand grabbed onto Negi as a voice rang out, "Negi-kun! Wanna go play during Free Activity Day!" Ayaka frowned, before retorting tot eh pink head, Makie, "Sasaki-san! Negi-sensei is already tak- err... He's busy right now!" Nagato a bead of sweat drop, checking off Group 4 as he turned to a sick looking girl as she leaned onto another girl, Yuuna. "Ugh, I think I ate too much nikuman..." Ako let out a groan.
"Getting sick before going on a trip..." Akira tried to reassure the soccer girl as Mana asked, "You ok?"
"Wanna get something to drink?" Yuuna offered as Nagato immediately bought a bottle. "Here you ago, Izumi..." He offered as Ako thanked him, also blushing a bit. "A-arigatou, Nagato-senpai..."
Nagato smiled kindly as Group 5 came in. "You ok Negi? You ate properly, right?" Asuna asked as Nagato sweat-dropped at the attempted erasing markings on top of Asuna's picture, a note saying, 'Actually nice'. "H-hai! Thank you for the onigiri!"
"No problem, Negi-kun!" Konoka responded as Nagato noticed three girls huddling over.
"Come on Nodoka! This is your big chance to ask him to go out!" Haruna assured the shy girl as she hesitated. "D-demo..."
"Come on, I don't think Sensei'll just dump you after one question!" Haruna said as Yue sipped her juice box.
As Group 5 left, Nagato noticed that four people were missing. "Speaking of which, Evangeline-san and Karakuri is in this class? Why aren't they leaving?" As the questions swirled up in his mind, he sensed two girls coming in. Looking at the roster, he saw that it was Setsuna and Zazie.
"Negi-san, it appears that Evangeline-san and Chachamaru-san are not here, so I suppose that Sakurazaki and Rainyday should be appointed to different groups." Nagato suggested as Negi nodded. "Alright then, Sakurazaki-san, can you go with Asuna-san and Zazie-san with Iincho-san?"
Ayaka nodded in confirmation as Konoka looked up in happiness. "Ah! Set-chan! We're in the same group! I'm so happy!"
Setsuna only stayed silent as she bowed and left to the train. Konoka looked down in sadness as Nagato raised a brow. "I sense Yang Chakra inside Sakurazaki and maybe a bit of Yin Chakra inside her... But is that demonic Chakra I'm sensing?" He also noticed something else. "It appears that Sakurazaki and Konoe has a bit of a history together... I wonder..."
As the students sat on their seats, the train immediately moved as Nagato gripped his seat tightly. "Being cooped up into a robotic chair for so long makes me a little nauseous..." He thought to himself nervously.
"Alright everyone! The 15th annual School Trip is about to begin!" Shizuna declared as the students yelled in delight. "Please make the most of it in these five days and four nights!"
"YAY!"
"There will be a lot of free time during the Free Activity Day, so I'm sure it's gonna be fun for everyone!" Negi explained. "Please refrain from getting hurt, lost, or cause anyone trouble! You should all take care of yourself! In particular, please be careful and don't get hu-...!" He was interrupted as he exampled the very thing he warned his students about, getting hit by a cart.
"Bentou! Ara? I'm so sorry!" The cart lady cried in surprise.
Nagato sweat-dropped. "How ironic, he tells us to be careful and not get hurt, and yet he's the one to get hurt first..."
"Moh, is he really gonna be ok?" Asuna asked particularly nobody.
(Later...)
As Negi checked up on the students, Nagato decided to use the remaining free time to think about what the dream he had last night was.
"THE JUUBI WILL BE MINE!"
"Juubi...? What does that person mean? Come to think of it, that person sounded like Uchiha Madara... Ten-Tails... But if there is such a thing as Ten-Tails... then where is it's body? What place or area is large enough for such a... large... body..." He trailed off his train of thoughts as he saw the waning moon in the sky. His eyes widened, Rinnegan turning on immediately. As soon as his Rinnegan activated, he immediately saw a giant skeletal figure inside the moon. It also had ten tails surrounding it. He stood up quickly.
"THAT'S why the Rikudo Sennin created the moon! To seal the Juubi's corpse inside it! But... if the Juubi is real... then... how did the Rikudo Sennin defeat it...? Think!"
Nagato gasped as he remembers the scrolls that Madara asked him to read. "It can't be..." He bit his lip as his Rinnegan searched for trails of huge amounts of Chakra. "If the Rikudo Sennin did such a thing... Then how are the remaining two Bijuus? How are the Hachibi and the Kyuubi!" His mind rested upon the image of a grinning blonde. "Uzumaki Naruto... Did you survive? Did Madara resurrect the Juubi? Did Madara die? Did you win the war between you and Madara and find peace? There are so many questions that need answering and so little answers to answer with!" He thought ferociously, unconsciously unleashing a small amount of killer intent that few people noticed.
Nagato, however, was cut out of his thoughts as a scream was heard. Turning around to face the danger, he could only stared stupefied at the amount of toads around (note: In the Manga, it's actually frogs, but I'm gonna use harmless toads in this one...). "Toads...?" Nagato thought confusingly as one of them hopped onto his head.
He watched as Negi immediately took action. Also taking action, he ordered, "Bring Izumi and Minamoto here! I have smelling salts to wake them up!" As the students brought the health committee members over, Nagato took out some smelling salt he had, broke it into half, and waft it in front of the two. Shizuna woke up with a blink as Ako shivered at the salty smell. Nagato sighed in relief as he watched Negi frantically search his clothes, before sighing as he took out the letter meant for the Eastern Leader. Nagato sighed again before a paper flew past him. He blinked as the paper grabbed a hold of Negi's letter and flew off. "Too early to assume, it seems..." He thought to himself as he ran after the Child Teacher.
Nagato immediately ran silently as he watched Negi take out a wand and attempt to take down the sparrow-like creature before being knocked down by a food cart. "Again? Geez, that child is going to be the second death for me..." He thought with an irritated face.
Nagato stopped as Negi met up with Setsuna. "Sakurazaki? Speaking of which, she wasn't present when the toads attacked... which is another thing to research on, like who summoned the toads without any Summoning techniques or scrolls..."
"Umm, you dropped this..." Setsuna said as Negi shocked in relief. "Ahh! My all-important letter! You saved me, Sakurazaki-san! Thank you so much!"
"Erm... no problem, Sensei..." Setsuna replied. "But... you should be careful, Sensei... especially when we arrive to the other side..." Setsuna warned the boy before excusing herself. Setsuna past Nagato as he stared at the girl for a bit before turning his attention back towards Negi.
"Hah... thank goodness Sakurazaki-san was there..."
"What're you thankin' her for, Aniki!"
"Eh?"
Nagato blinked as the ermine warned the young teacher about the possibility for Setsuna to be a spy for the Eastern enemy. "So it can talk... And what does it mean by Sakurazaki being an enemy...?" He thought to himself.
"And don't forget about that Nagato-guy! He seems pretty suspicious too!"
Nagato sweat-dropped. "And now I'm accused of being suspicious as well... Kami, the boy really will be the death of me..." He thought to himself before disappearing.
"Awawawa, wh-what am I going to do? Not only Sakurazaki-san but also Nagato-san?" Negi wailed silently.
Ignisha: I noticed, yes, I noticed that Nagato was a bit OOC for the first few chapter, so I'm attempting to make him more mature in a way... ahahaha... Anyway, this is the conclusion of chapter 4! More to come! Keep reading you guys!