Me: Yo! How are ya folks? Thank you for your kind words. I thought Sayo was a great character and didn't deserve to be ignored for so long in the manga so I brought her in earlier. Isn't that great

Sayo: (flies around the screen giddily)

Me: Sayo! Sayoooo! Get down here!

Chachamaru: She appears to be too excited to listen to your words.

Me: Looks like I'll have to get another character to say the disclaimer...but who. Eeny...Meeny...Miney...Mana! please say the disclaimer.

Mana: TS does not own Mahou Sensei Negima.

Everybody: ENJOY CHAPTER 3!

3 months have passed since the arrival of a certain kid teacher. Negi Springfield has been teaching class 2-A and is infamous throughout the school as the youngest teacher AND the only one to actually handle 2-A's rambunctiousness aside from "Death-Glasses" Takahata. Negi awoke that morning in a daze. It was Sunday and school was out. The lazy Sunday morning did not help much as he decided to stay in bed a little more. He snuggled the really soft pillow next to him, feeling the heat radiating off of it. He closed his eyes for about 4 seconds before something clicked in his mind.

"Wait a minute...I sleep on a futon on the floor...I don't have a snuggling pillow...and pillows don't radiate heat!" he thought as he looked up.

"Yaaaah...Niku...man-aru..." Ku Fei said as she drooled in her sleep.

"GAH!" Negi yelled as he jumped up, startling his sleeping master.

One more thing Negi forgot as he jumped...he was on the top part of a bunk bed. He tumbled off and landed with a crash on his face. Ku Fei, fighting the heavy blush, looked over the end to check to see if her pupil wasn't dead.

"Negi-kun? Are you alright-aruka?" Ku Fei called using the new honorific she stated using after the first month of living with him.

"M-M-Master Ku! I-I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to sleep in your bed again! It's a force of habit!" he yelled, waving his hands in from of him wildly as he tried to hide his red face.

"It's okay if you miss your Onee-chan-aru. I don't mind if it helps you feel better" she said with her usual blank expression, not knowing just what the consequences on her words would be.

"A-As a teacher, I cannot do that Master-Ku. It is my duty to teach you...not to snuggle you. It's indecent" he said the last part in a whisper.

That morning was kinda normal now. Although it does not happen ever night, Negi would occasionally sleep-walk and snuggle up to Ku Fei in the middle of the night. She wonders how he unconsciously finds her and and climbs up the bunk bed ladder without her ever noticing. Little does she know, nor Negi for that matter, is that while asleep, he unconsciously taps into his magic and uses a location spell combine with a silence spell. Negi walked over to the kitchen area of the room as he prepared to make breakfast. He found out a while back that Ku Fei could NOT cook to save her life. He took lessons from Satsuki despite her offer to make him and Ku Fei breakfast in the morning.

"Master-Ku, what do you want to eat? We have no Nikuman so don't ask" he asks her as she slipped into her usual Chinese outfit in the other room.

He heard a groan come from the other room. She obviously liked, no LOVED, Satsuki and Chao's food. He hard silence for a second before hearing her answer.

"How about Bacon and Eggs?" she said, picking an American favorite.

"Alright" he said as he started going through the fridge for the ingredients.

As Negi started cooking, a knocking came from the door. Ku Fei went to answer it. She opened the door to find...no one? She looked left, she looked right, she looked up and down in case Kaede was feeling playful. An imaginary question mark floated above her head as her face turned into it's usual blank expression. A small chill went down her spine which made her shiver and rub her arms. She closed the door.

"Who was it Master-Ku?" Negi asked.

"No one-aru. Must be Fuka and Fumika playing pranks again" she said with a shrug.

Negi knew what that meant. Sayo was in the room. As though on cue, he felt the familiar cold hands of his favorite poltergeist. She had been practicing her skills on touching live or inanimate objects ever since Negi became her friend. The hands wrapped around his stomach area as she gave him a ghostly hug. He learned to charge a little magic around the areas she touched to prevent him from suffering from her cold embraces.

"Hi Negi-sensei!" she smiled as she hung onto him.

"Good Morning Sayo-san" he whispered so that only she would hear.

"That smells good, I wish I could eat" she said as she floated near him, her index finger in her mouth in a cute pouting way.

"Sorry Sayo-san. So, what do you plan to do today?" he asked her.

"I'll watch you train as usual" she said happily.

"I-Is watching me train that entertaining?" he asked, oblivious to the ghost girl's affection for him.

Sayo nodded as she remembered all the times she had watched him.

"Negi-sensei looks so cool when he does his martial arts" she squealed in her own mind.

Sayo is practically Negi's number one fan. She hovered over him as he walked over to Ku Fei. She was waiting for him at the eating table.

"Here you go Master-Ku" Negi said as he handed her the breakfast he had made.

She took it and thanked him as she started eating it up. He started eating as well. Suddenly the door flung open as Konoka and Kaede walked into the room.

"Negi-kuuuun!" Konoka cried as she hugged him.

"K-K-Konoka-san" he cried as she hugged his windpipe.

"Oops" giggled the bubbly girl as she let go of him.

"Good Morning-de gozaru" Kaede said as she greeted her two friends.

"Hi!" Ku Fei said with a wave.

"Good morning Konoka-san, Kaede-san" Negi bowed then turned to Konoka "Asuna-san didn't come today?"

"I asked if she wanted to come but she said "You visit them every single day! Why don't you give it a rest" then went back to sleep. Someone must have annoyed her on her paper route" Konoka said she she did a really good impersonation of her orange-haired friend.

"Should we go cheer her up?" Negi asked.

"I don't think she would want to see you Negi-kun" Kaede responded as she knows quite well how Asuna was still a little bitter about Takahata.

Asuna's usually a kind person who wouldn't hold a grudge for too long but when it involved her crush of a teacher Takahata, she could stay angry for months. Kaede remembers the last time Ayaka set her off. Asuna didn't speak to her for nearly half a year which was a bad thing since Kaede actually paid for some of her ninja weapons with the money she got from betting on the fights between them.

After breakfast

"Well, I'm going to go shopping with Misa, Madoka, and Sakurako in town. Bye!" Konoka said with a wave as she ran off to join the cheerleaders.

"I'll be headed to the usual-de gozaru" Kaede said as she ran off.

"The usual?" Negi questioned.

"She goes training on Sundays" Ku Fei answered, knowing she shouldn't tell people that her friend practiced her ninja skills on the mountains.

"Well, what are we training in today Master Ku?" Negi asked.

"Actually my disciple, I need to speak with you about that-aruyo. You have been doing a great job for the last 3 months. You have become very good with your martial arts. You have learned techniques that took me a month to learn in a few hours-aru. (Ahh, so unfair) It is time for you to take the next step" Ku Fei explained to her apprentice.

Negi nodded nervously as Sayo hovered over listening to their conversation. She herself was a little excited at what Negi was to learn.

"At some point, you will face an opponent who you cannot face using only your bare hands-aruka. That is why today, you will be integrating your first weapon into your fighting style" she explained further.

Negi briefly wondered how she was suddenly smart when it came to fighting but dumb as a dumbbell in school.

"A...weapon? Like swords and stuff?" he asked.

"Yes. Every good martial artists can use at least 2 or 3 different weapons to their advantage. I have been trained to use any combat weapon myself. Today, you will choose your choice of a first weapon before I teach it to you" she said with a little something in her voice that sounded like pride.

Ku Fei had been training since childhood to learn many different styles of martial arts and to learn how to use many different weapons. Negi knew perfectly well that even if he had the same fighting styles and was able to fight his master evenly, if she could use a weapon, he would instantly be at a disadvantage. Bare fists versus something with an edge, he hasn't yet been taught to fight against such an opponent. He looked up as Ku Fei pushed a large rack towards him. It had a white blanket covering over it. Ku Fei pulled the blanket off to reveal an exquisite array of weaponry. Bow and Arrows, Swords, Spears, Nails, Gauntlets, Hammers, the works.

"Alright then, choose what weapon you wish to learn-aruyo" she said as he stared at each weapon.

Negi thought hard about which one he wanted.

"What an amazing collection. Some of these look like they were from the past. Rare antiques! Is she actually gonna let me have one? Or is she only letting me train with them?" he though, his love for artifacts such as those making his head spin.

Sayo hovered next to Negi as she watched him. She saw a funny gleam in his eye as he stared at the weapons. Almost as though he was resisting grabbing them all and running away.

"Negi-sensei. Which one are you going to choose?" she asked him.

"Huh? Choose? Oh right" he whispered blushing slightly.

He was inspecting them for their age and edge. I forgot he was supposed to pick one. After about 10 minutes he finally chose the weapon he wanted.

"Master Ku, I know which weapon I want to learn to use" Negi said as he got Ku Fei's attention who happened to have been chatting with a passing Chao.

"Oh, hello Negi-sensei-ne. Ku-chan is finally going to teach you to use a weapon?" Chao asks.

"Ahh, Chao-san! I didn't notice you there. I'm sorry" Negi apologized to the other Chinese girl.

"It's alright sensei" Chao said with her hands up.

"Do you use a weapon Chao-san?" Negi asks as he remembers that Chao also uses kenpo.

"Ah yes, I mainly you gauntlets but I can use a few other things as well" she explained.

"Which weapon will you use-aruyo?" Ku Fei asks.

Negi walked over to the large rank and grabs his weapon of choice. It was a beautifully crafted naginata. The blade at the top of the top of the spear was sharp and resembled the curve of a sword. The spear appeared more as a polearm then anything else. The fine edge of the top was held in a place by a jeweled hilt. The hilt was gold but the jewel on one side was a blood red Ruby while the other side contained a dark green Emerald. The long staff like handle Negi was holding was a shimmering crimson while the blunt end of the spear had a golden spike to allow it to be placed in the ground or to attack with. Ku Fei was intrigued by his choice. Chao, being the genius she was, found it kind of obvious why. If he learned to use a spear like that, he can use his staff better in battle. She eyed his staff on his back. The bottom could be used as a spear while the top (She looked back at the polearm's curved top) could be painful when swung. Also, theres a small chance he shose it because it had his dad's name on it. The NAGI-nata.

"I would like to learn to use a spear" Negi said aloud.

"Ahh, a spear is a very difficult weapon to learn-aruka. It takes true skill to wield it properly but if you can master it, you will become a force to be reckoned with-aru" Ku Fei said.

"Ahh...Ku-chan. I think I had better check up on Chachamaru. I'll leave you here to train with Negi-sensei" Chao said as she prepared to leave.

"Oh...alright then. Bye" Ku Fei said sounding a little disappointed.

"Be safe" Negi called.

"Alright then! Bye-ne" Chao said as she ran off.

"Note to self. Install Chachamaru with anti-spear combat data" she thought as she ran off.

Ku Fei had taken a different naginata off the rack. Negi's was actually one of a kind so she didn't have copies. It was strange but the reason Negi picked that spear was because it seemed to catch his attention the most. He shrugged it off.

"Ok! First lesson! When you use a spear, which two ways do you mainly use to attack with it-aruka?" Ku Fei asks.

"Umm...Stabbing and Swinging" he answered.

"Right, which one is stronger?" she questioned.

Negi thinks about it. Most spear styles contained mainly stabbing techniques and most types of spear had sharp points.

"Stabbing?" he says uncertainly.

"Wrong-arune. Swinging it the most dangerous! If you stab, you strike a point. If your opponent can see that point, they can easily dodge it-aru. When you swing, they have to get out of your way with no objections. If they scoot back too slowly, they get slashed. If they dodge to the side, they have to be fast enough to get out of the spear's range or still run the risk of getting sliced. If they try to go in and attack you, they will get hit by the pole. If they try to run, the spear can be thrown-arune. If they try to jump, you can spin it like a staff to strike in mid-air. That is why the spear is so deadly. To use a spear requires alot of skill, to dodge requires excessive speed-aruka" she explained.

Negi looks at the spear in his hand. He didn't expect it to be THAT powerful. He thought it was kind of light using his staff. It would be a little slow to use but with a little training he could learn to strike with it. He didn't expect it to be a basic death trap in a fight.

"Why are there so many stabbing techniques?" he asked.

"Stabbing is fast. Swinging is slow" was her simple answer.

"Ok I think I'm ready to train" Negi said as he got up.

Ku Fei dropped down into a stance as Negi mimed her movements. She showed him the proper way to hold it. She showed him the steps and how to strike.

3 hours later

"1000 more stabs" Ku fei said to the exhausted Negi.

"E-Eeeh? 1-1000 more?" he gasped.

Those were the toughest 3 hours of his life. He didn't think training with a weapon would be so hard. Boy was he wrong. If he was training with his fists, he didn't have to worry about the extra weight of his arms. The spear in his arm had to at least have been 5 or 6 pounds. When you're tired, that's a WHOLE lot of weight. He had to admit though, it was kind of fun. Sayo was asleep underneath a nearby tree. Negi thought it was ironic that she was resting so peacefully yet can't Rest In Peace. He almost wanted to draw on her face. But right now, he could barely move. He fell to the ground as Ku Fei ran over to him.

"Ahh, sorry Negi-kun. I guess I pushed you too hard-aru" she apologized.

"No no, it's not your fault. The spear seemed to feel like it was getting heavier and heavier as I trained" he said as he looked at the spear in his hand.

She took the spear as she helped Negi up.

"It's lunchtime anyway-aru. We can rest and eat" she said as she steered them away.

"NEGI-KUN! KU FEI-SAN!" Konoka called as she ran up to them.

"Konoka-san!" Negi greeted.

"Konoka" Ku Fei bowed before remembering Negi was hanging off her shoulder.

"Ah, Negi-kun! Are you okay?" she asked as she looked him over.

"Don't worry Konoka-san, I'm just a little tired (both Ku Fei and Negi's stomachs growl)...and hungry" he said embarrassed.

"I'll cook something up for you" Konoka said as they followed her.

Negi suddenly remembered something. He walked over to the tree, much to Konoka and Ku Fei's confusion, and woke up Sayo. From their point of view, it looked like he was looking for something. Sayo slowly awoke when Negi shook her a little using magic in his hand to allow him to touch her.

"Have a nice nap Sayo-san?" he said softly so the others wouldn't hear him.

She nodded her head as she yawned and rubbed her eyes. Negi chuckled a little bit to see that even though she's a ghost, for some reason her hair can still stick up after sleeping. Sending a little magic into his hands, he patted her head to keep her hair down. He didn't notice that Sayo was blushing like mad. He got up and walked over to Ku Fei and Konoka.

"Sorry, I thought I forgot something" he said.

The three (four) went to Konoka's room for a meal. They chatted with one another nicely until they reached Konoka's room. There was a loud crash as they reached the door. A second later, another crash was heard. Everyone ran into the room to see Asuna turning everything upside down. Everything possible was on the floor. They were amazed the floor was still there.

"WHERE ARE MY BELLS!!" she screamed loud enough for the whole dorm to hear.

Asuna's hair was down, reminding Negi of his Onee-chan, and she looked pretty damn mad. As he entered the room, her head whipped in his direction so fast, he was surprised her neck didn't break. Before he knew what was happening, he was in the air, held up by Asuna's hands on his collar.

"YOU! You have them don't you! First you take away Takahata-sensei, then you take by bells!" she yelled as she started shaking him back and forth.

"HEY! Let Negi-kun down-aruka!" Ku Fei yelled, much to everyone's surprise since she never seems to get mad at anything.

Even Asuna in her rage was slightly frightened. Ku Fei could kick her ass in no time flat. She heeded her warning and put him back down as Negi scrambled out of her reach.

"Don't go around blaming people's pupils for things they didn't do! He was with me the whole morning-aruyo" Ku Fei scolded.

Asuna was a little dumbstruck, as were the rest of the people as Ku Fei picked Negi off the floor and started dusting him off. The scene reminded them of an older sister scaring off bullies. Even Asuna felt a little bad about what she did.

"I-I'm sorry Ku Fei" she said.

"You shouldn't be apologizing to me" she responded back.

"Sorry Negi. It's just those bells were really important to me since Takahata-sensei gave them to me. Since you took his place I sorta vented my anger on you" she said bowing a little.

"So you do like Takamichi" he said, his fear gone and replaced with his "I'm an innocent 10 year old" blank expression.

Asuna knocked him on the head.

"Don't say it so bluntly you brat!" she yelled.

The atmosphere seemed to lift slightly as everyone helped put everything back in it's original place. The only problem was that despite all that, the bells were still missing. Asuna's mood seemed to blanket the whole room. She looked close to tears, reminding Negi of when his Onee-chan Nekane saw him off at the train station. Konoka had made dinner since cleaning took a while and everyone ate in silence. It felt like they were attending a funeral. Even Sayo felt like someone died, and she WAS dead. As they all ate, something clicked in Negi's brain.

"Asuna plus Negi minus Takamichi equals (Image of Asuna torturing Negi). Asuna minus Takamichi minus bells equal (Image of Asuna crying so much the school floods). Negi plus bells equals (Asuna and Negi with the words "FRIENDS" in big bold letters)" thought Negi.

If Negi find the bells, Asuna would be happy and stop being mad at him for replacing Takamichi. Negi smiled on the inside at his idea. He won't stop looking for those bells, no matter what. He looked over at Sayo. She would probably help him look as well...suddenly Negi noticed something. A few months ago (when he met her) Sayo couldn't even reach the dorms. She was only able to go as far as a small store located between the dorms and the school. Negi thought it was a little strange. Had Sayo noticed this at all?

"Don't worry Asuna. We'll help you look for your bells. So eat or you won't have to energy to find them" Konoka said as she tried to feed Asuna her food like a child.

Asuna hadn't touched her food at all. She was seriously depressed. Everyone finished their food and left. Negi and Ku Fei headed to there part of the dorms as Konoka bade them goodbye. Sayo floated to the classroom before Negi could speak with her. Negi suddenly remembered that he didn't thank his master for earlier.

"Umm, Master Ku" Negi said.

"Yes-aru?" she answered.

"I wanted to say thanks for earlier. Asuna-san might have pummeled me if you hadn't stepped in" he bowed to her.

"Ah...ahhh, I don't really know why I got so mad myself-aruka. I just did not like seeing you get hurt, especially when you didn't do anything" she said, her face a little red.

There was an awkward silence that followed as they walked back to their room. Negi suddenly wondered where the spear he used that morning was.

"What happened to the naginata? I don't remember you putting it back on the rack" he questioned.

"Oh, I put it back when you went to look at the tree" she said.

They reached thier room at that moment and entered. Negi and Ku Fei both pulled out a set of clothes seeing as they hadn't taken baths yet after they trained. They headed for the bathhouse. As they got there, they started to hear voices. Negi briefly wondered why class 2-A always went to the bathhouse together and at night as he saw everyone (except Asuna).

"Look! It's Negi-sensei!" came a loud chorus of voices.

Negi deftly avoided Makie as she tried to pounce him. Yuna tried to do a flying hug which he ducked under before jumping right over the twins as they tried to slide at him. Training with Ku Fei was possibly the smartest move he had made. He dodged to the the side as Misa tried to grab him then jumped back to the right as Sakurako followed. Modoka didn't let her friend fall in vain as she struck from his blind spot after avoiding her two comrades. Unfortunately Negi predicted that and backflipped right over her and landed on his feet. In the back, Zazie, Mana, and Konoka held up some large score cards. Negi earned a 9, another 9, and a 10.

"Curse that Ku Fei. She taught him too well" Yuna said to the others.

"That's my pupil!" Ku Fei said as she watched him practically dance around the lunging girls.

"Oh yea! SUPER SECRET ULTIMATE TECHNIQUE! SHAMPOO SLIDE!" Fuka and Fumika yelled at once as one tossed shampoo and the other tossed water all over the floor.

"Oh crap!" Negi yelled as he started sliding and slipping all over the floor.

"GET HIM!" everyone yelled.

"No! My pupil-arune!" Ku Fei said as she saw them all rush at the off balance teacher.

At that moment, Konoka threw a giant cotton swab thing like on those weird TV shows where people try to knock each other off things. Negi caught it and went down into the stance he learned that morning.

"HYA!" he yelled as he swung.

The thing was cotton but his strength was enough to push them all to the side and watch them slide on the soapy floor as well.

"Konoka! That was unfair!" Sakurako yelled.

"Ahh, good form Negi-kun but your left arm was too high and your leg was too far out front" Ku Fei explained to him.

"Thank you Master Ku" he said as he bowed.

The rest of the bath went as normal. He got caught off guard, was basically molested, then was suffocated in the water or a swarm of girls. Same old same old. At least until Negi noticed something. He had been there many times in the past 3 months but he never noticed a 2nd pool before. He remembered Akira was on the swim team so he asked her.

"Akira-san. Has there always been a 2nd pool here?" he asked the tall girl.

"Oh yes. It's kind of like a slide out pool. That's what makes this bathhouse so interesting. It actually moves and folds out to reveal about 4 Olympic sized pools. The swim team trains here when the weather outside is cold" she explained.

"Uwahh, that's amazing. But why is it still there? Don't you...I dunno...put it away?" he asked.

"Umm...There were other people swimming in it today. I guess they forgot" she said.

"Others? Like who?" he asks.

"Umm...there was a group of girls from the high school...there were a few people from our swim team...and a few people from our own class" she strained to remember.

"Oh yea! I swam there this morning" Yuna said as she popped up between them.

"Me too! Me too!" Fuka said.

"I did as well" Ako said nearby.

"I remember Asuna being there today" Akira said as well.

That last one caught Negi's attention. Asuna was swimming that morning? When she swims she would usually take off her bells...and she lost them in the afternoon as well. Negi suddenly ran over tot he other pool, much to the other girls confusion. Negi looked into the water...then noticed that the pool was deep. REALLY deep. On estimate, it was at least 30 feet deep. Why was the pool so deep anyway? Negi shrugged as he pumped a little magic into his eyes. He was able to see further and further down. He looked and then sighed. He didn't see anyth-...wait...he saw a glimmer. THERE! He saw a pair of familiar looking bells on the bottom of the pool. Asuna must have dropped them in there without noticing. They were stuck in a small drain pipe so it was hard to see them. No wonder Asuna didn't check the bottom.

"Konoka-san!" Neig called out, making the girls turn to him.

Konoka walked up "Yes?"

"I-I see Asuna's bells! They're at the bottom of the pool!" he yelled.

"R-Really? Oh that's great! I'll go get Asuna!" she said as she hurried out of the bathhouse...before coming back and grabbing her clothes with a blush on her face.

Negi prepared to jump in but something caught him. He looked up to see Akira who was looking unusually grim.

"Negi-sensei. I would not jump in there if I were you" she warned.

"H-huh? Why not?" he whined.

"There is a reason the bottom looks a little murky. For some odd reason, the bottom of the pool has severe pressure that would crush normal people" she said eerily.

Negi looked horrified. WHY do they have such a deadly pool?! He closed his eyes for a second in concentration. A pool about 30 feet deep can't have enough pressure to crush live humans. That would be well over 200 feet to crush them as Akira described it. He felt it. A small trace of magic was leaking into the pool from a small tree root. He wondered why a tree root was leaking magic at all but pushed that to the back of his mind for the moment. He can go down there if he made an aura around him that repelled the other magic. HE nodded to himself as he jumped in.

"NEGI-SENSEI!" Akira gasped as she saw him dive.

Everyone rushed to the edge of the pool and looked in. Negi channeled a small barrier-like aura around him. Yuna stared at Negi.

"Is he glowing?" she thought, not knowing that normal people couldn't see it.

Negi swam down to the bottom of the pool. He felt the sudden pressure but his aura blew back to oposing magic and the area around him turned back to it's normal pressurization. He lands on the bottom and stuck to it using a little more magic. He walked over to the drainpipe and looked inside. The bells were in there and it looks like it was blocking the pipe. Negi grabbed the bells and pulled...and pulled...and PULLED. Those thing were wedged int here pretty well. He continued to pull as everyone else watched him.

"I can't believe Negi-sensei made it to the bottom" Akira said, relief in her voice.

"I think the bells must be stuck in the drainpipe" Ako pointed out.

"Yeah, they do look stuck in the...drainpipe?...There's no drainpipe at the bottom of the pool. The drainpipe is on the side" Akira said.

"EHHH?! THEN WHAT'S HE PULLING THE BELLS OUT FROM" everyone yelled.

Akira thought for a second before remembering. Then she started sweating bullets, a look of dread on her face. She turned back to the pool and looked back down, her eyes widening.

"NEGI-SENSEI!! THAT'S NOT A DRAINPIPE! THAT PIPE ALLOWS THE POOL TO MOVE IN AND OUT OF THE WALL!" she yelled.

Everybody was dumbstruck at that except Negi who couldn't hear her. He was still preoccupied with the bells. Asuna heard this as she walked into the room.

"WHAT?!" she yelled as she rushed over there.

Right as she got halfway, there was a particularly large "clink". Everyone looked back. Negi had pulled out the bells. A sudden rush of water entered the pipe. If Negi hadn't been sticking tot he floor, he probably would have been sucked in as well. A sudden jolt alerted him and the girls. Without warning, Negi was encased in darkness. The pool had slid back into the wall. He swam up only to feel solid concrete. This was NOT good. Back above the water Asuna and Ku Fei were pounding on the walls.

"Negi-kun!" Ku Fei yelled as she started making cracks in the wall with her fists.

"Negi-bouzu!" Asuna yelled as she was kicking the wall.

"Wait you two! If you keep attacking the wall, the pool might not come back out. You need to pull the switch back at the school to open it back up" Akira said.

"I'll go!" Yuna yelled as she seemed to have put her clothes back on and ran.

"Uwaaah, my disciple is drowning" Ku Fei said with tears in her eyes.

"Uwaaaah, Takahata-sensei is gonna kill me for killing Negi" Asuna said with tears rolling down her eyes too.

"Uwaaaaah, Negi-sensei is drowning" Ayaka cried right next to the other two.

"Those three have such one track minds" Konoka said, a sweat drop forming on her head.

Meanwhile, Negi was slowly losing power. The only thing allowing him to breathe was his wind magic that could call forth small bits of air from the small cracks Ku Fei had made. But his magic power was running low. He didn't have to worry about pressure since he was swi,mming near the top of the pool where it's safe but the need for air is making his magic drain quickly.

"Magic's running out...need to get out...Master-Ku seems to be trying to break the wall down" Negi thought.

He estimated he had about 2 minutes before his magic runs out and he'll drown. Over to Yuna, she was trying to pick the lock to the school. Why must they lock it up on Sundays? She continued picking the lock. Sayo was asleep until she heard footsteps outside. (28 Seconds have passed) She looked out the window to see her classmate Yuna. She looked distressed and in a hurry. She floated down to her.

"Augh! Stupid lock! Negi-sensei will drown at this rate!" Yuna yelled out frustrated. (47 seconds has passed)

Sayo gasped. She didn't know what was going to but Negi was in trouble. She floated over to the large chain lock and placed her hand on it. Sayo had been listening to Negi's lessons on using magic even though she's dead. Negi said that since she's a ghost, she's more in tune with nature which is where magic power originates. She took his advice and concentrated hard. Yuna let go of the lock as it suddenly turned ice cold. Right before her eyes, the lock froze and broke.

"W-what the heck?!" Yuna yelled as she back up from the door which suddenly swung open.

Sayo knew she's probably freaked out but Negi was in trouble. She went behind Yuna and concentrated on her powers as a poltergeist and pushed her. Yuna stumbled foward. She was completely freaked out but apparently something wanted her to hurry. She ran inside the school as Sayo followed behind her. (1 minute 3 seconds) She ran down the hallways, zoomed passed room after room until she saw it. The Control Room for many parts of the school. She ran to the room...and found it locked as well.

"Aww c'mon!" Yuna yelled as she smacked the door.

Sayo traveled through the door but it was a key lock. She couldn't unlock it.

"Aww c'mooon!" she whined.

She was already tired from using that little bit of magic at the front door. That was the first time she used magic so she would obviously be tired. Preobably the onyl reason she COULD use it at all was because she was a ghost. She heard Yuna bashing at the door. (1 minute 36 seconds) Yuna looked through the window of the door. The switch was RIGHT there. Right in front of her eyes. She started knocking on the window to see if she could possibly break through. Yuna suddenly had an idea. That "thing" from earlier that helped her get inside might still be around. She didn't know if it was a ghost or whatever but for now, her teacher was dying.

"Uh, umm. H-hello? Umm, I don't know if your a ghost or something but, my teacher is in trouble" she said aloud.

Sayo noticed she was looking in the wrong direction but she got the message.

"I-If you are a gh-ghost or something, can you pull the lever in this room?" she said with a gulp.

Ghosts freak her OUT. Her dad used to tell her ghost stories when she was little so speaking to something tha is possibly a ghost was nerve-racking to her.

"T-the large g-green lever on the right side" she said as she pointed to it from the window.

(1 minute 58 seconds) Yuna hoped tot he gods that it worked. she stared at the lever. When she didn't see it move, she started losing hope. That is until she heard a creak. Slowly, very slowly, the lever started moving. Yuna was filled with awe, happiness, fear, and dread all at the same time. The lever went completely down with a large "CLUNK". Back with Negi, his magic ran out.

"C-crap...losing air...can't...last...I'm sorry...Onee-chan" he thought as his vision started fading.

His mind didn't register the large jolt. His fading consciousness allowed him to see shadowy figures. Slowly...very slowly a shadow was approaching him. He couldn't tell who it was but he had one last thought before his brain shut down.

"That person...looks beautiful"

Infirmary

Negi woke with a jolt. He sat up so fast he hit his head on something. He rubbed his head as his brain registered the scene. He saw his master rubbing her head.

"Aiyaa! That hurt!" Ku Fei whined as she rubbed her head.

"Negi-kun!" Konoka yelled as she hugged him.

"NEGI-SENSEI!" came a loud chorus behind her.

All of class 2-A was in the room, which was feeling really cramped. He looked around. He was in a bed in the infirmary. He couldn't remember ANYTHING after getting shut in the wall. It was all a blur. Konoka got off him as he smiled at his class.

"What happened?" she asked.

"Sorry Negi-sensei. I should have noticed sooner. The drainpipe the bells were stuck in weren't actually drainpipes but a complex system that drains in water to push and pull itself and the pool in and out of the wall. When you pulled out the bells, the water was able to get in and push you into the wall" Akira explained.

"But Yuna ran all the way to the school to hit the switch and get you back out, but it took a while" Makie said.

Yuna gave him a thumbs up. She didn't tell anyone what happened at the school. It sorta scared her although she was curious as to why something like a ghost wanted to save him.

"But by then, it looked like you were starting to lose consciousness. Asuna was about to dive in but Ku Fei jumped in first. She saved you before you drifted back tot he bottom" Kazumi explained "I even have a picture!"

She pulled out a bunch of photos. Ku Fei running, then jumping, then diving, then swimming, then pulling him up. She took so many that if she were to flip through them, it would look like a small movie.

"Master-Ku, thank you" Negi said.

"Ah, ahh, I can't have my disciple drown-aru" she said, blushing slightly.

Asuna walked up to Negi's bed, mainly being pushed by Konoka.

"Asuna-san..." he said as he looked at her.

She looked like she was having a hard time thinking of what to say.

"T-Thank you Negi-bouzu. I...I'm REALLY sorry. I didn't mean for you to jump in just to get my bells" she said was a low bow to hide her face.

She was feeling beyond guilty. Negi looked at her softly with a maturity that caught most of the girl's attention.

"Asuna-san. These bells were important to you. As your teacher, it was my duty to make sure you got them back" he said as he pulled out the bells from his swim trunk's pocket.

He handed them to her as she immediately thanked him. Suddenly, his nose felt funny. He was going to sneeze! He did NOT want to ruin the moment and immediately turned around before...

"AH...AH...AHHHHHH-CHOOOOOOOOOOOOO" he sneezed in the direction of the open window.

A sudden gust of wind blew as everyone tired to keep their skirts down. Haruna went to close the window.

"Where did that gale come from" she asked.

"Who knows" Ayaka said as she fixed her hair.

Suddenly, Negi felt the need to sneeze again. He rushed to the window and opened it before he sneezed again. This time his sneeze was outside so no one felt anything.

The Next Day

"Yep Negi-kun. You have a cold" Konoka said as Negi laid in bed.

"I-I guess Takamichi will be substituting today" Negi said with a sniff.

"WAHOO! Err, I mean, that's too bad Negi-bouzu" Asuna cheered.

"We better get going-de gozaru" Kaede said.

"Bye Negi-kun" Ku Fei said as they all left and shut the door.

Negi felt horrible, and the worst part is that his sneezing is getting worse. He's so sick he can't control his magic correctly and every sneeze is making bigger and bigger gusts. About 10 minutes passed when he heard a knock on the door. Shinzuna walked into the room.

"Hello Negi-sensei" she greeted,

"H-hello Shizuna-sensei. What brings you hear" he asks.

"I hate to be the bearer of bad news but...You see, they end of term tests are coming up and your class is looking to be the lowest scoring class again" she explained.

"A-again?"

"Yes, you see, every year they always get the lowest score but since this is an elevator school, they still go to the next grade so they barely try anyway"

"What does this have to do with me?"

"Well..."

Shizuna walks over and hands him a small sheet of paper. He reads the cover. (FINAL TEST) He rips it open and reads the instructions.

Dear Negi-kun

As you know, the end of term exams are coming up. Your

final test to become a permanent teacher has been assigned.

If you can get them to no longer be the lowest scoring class,

you will be hired permanently. Should you fail though...I should

not have to tell you.

Best of luck, Dean Konoe.

Negi gulped. This is not going to be pretty.

Me: Hope you enjoyed the chapter! I bet your wondering why Asuna had her time in the spotlight. Well, I felt it would be out of her character if she was angry for so long so I had to have them make up. Yuna seems to be catching on, oh no! And even worse, those exams are coming up! What will Negi do?! Find out next time on Chapter 4! (Sorry for not getting to the Library Arc sooner)

Yuna: AHH A GHOST!!

Sayo: Noo! Don't run!

Negi: Sayooooo-saaaaan!

Me: CALM DOWN BACK THERE!! Umm, please read and review!