FIRE AND GASOLINE
"DING DONG DING DONG..." With the sound of the loud school bells ringing throughout the vicinity, Asuna's beautiful blue eyes slowly opened. She sat up and yawned quietly. Once she noticed that she had overslept again, her entire body overflowed with rage and regret. Noticing a faint snore that was coming from an area very close to her, she looked down beside her and noticed that the little brat had come in to sleep in her bed again.
"Negi!" Asuna boomed. The boy's brown eyes shut open in surprise and he sat up at rocket speed. "Yes, what is it, Asuna?" he asked in a cracked whisper.
Asuna grabbed Negi's collar and looked him straight in the eye. "Uh, HELLO! Can you not tell that we're LATE for school?" Asuna asked. "Get your butt out of bed or I'll kick you out of bed for forgetting to set the alarm clock again."
Negi shaked in fear as Asuna yelled at him and crawled down from the bunk bed carefully after nodding to her commands. Asuna quickly followed after and undressed from her pajamas into her usual schoolgirl uniform. She decided to leave her hair down since they were already about 5 minutes late. Konoka hadn't stayed the night in the dorm and instead stayed in the headmaster's suite for the night with her Grandfather. Man... she's probably already at school. Asuna thought in jealousy. She hurriedly grabbed her bag and waited for Negi to finish getting dressed and to let Chamo get up on his shoulder, and then the two were out the door.
As their legs pumped up and down while they sprinted to school, Asuna yelled at Negi some more. She needed something to take her anger out on. "You bratty kid! You can't even remember when it's your turn for alarm clock duty and you call yourself a TEACHER!" Asuna growled. Negi just shrugged off all of her insults... By that time, to him, her saying "STUPID PERVERT!!!" would be synonymous to her just saying his name. Asuna looked down at him and pouted since he wasn't saying anything or showing any emotion. "And also, I don't want you sleeping in the same bed as me anymore. I don't want to catch some disease, you stupid pervert."
After a few minutes, they arrived at the school building. They made their way through the halls of Mahora, which were empty by that time, to classroom 3-A. Nervously, Negi extended his arm to open the door and grasped the door knob. Moving too slowly for her, Negi was pushed out of the way by Asuna so that she could open the door. "C'mon, sensei..." Asuna murmured as she held the door open for him. Negi bowed in appreciation and walked in.
"Um... Hello, class." Negi nervously greeted. Asuna briskfully walked towards her seat and sat down. All of the girls in 3-A were very happy to see Negi-sensei, especially Nodoka and Ayaka, of course. Chamo smirked at all of the girls' appreciation for his Anniki. Heheh... when Anniki gets a little older, maybe I'll get to see these girls in action! The perverse ermine thought. When Negi walked in the classroom, Nodoka blushed and smiled in excitement while Ayaka jumped out of her seat like a kangaroo and clasped her hands together in joy. "Oh, thank goodness you're here Negi-sensei!" Ayaka cheered. "If we had to go by for a day without you, we'd be doomed."
Asuna laughed at Ayaka's foolishness. Negi smiled in gratefulness of his students' happiness and set his bag down on his desk. "Yes, I'm sorry I'm late. I've really got no excuse except for oversleeping..." Konoka smiled brightly at Negi and Asuna. "Teehee, you guys are helpless without me around." she said jokingly.
Ayaka twitched in anger at what Konoka had said about Negi-kun and she glared at her with her piercing blue eyes. "Look, Konoka-san! While carrot-top over there may be helpless, Negi-kun isn't!" she barked.
Konoka giggled at Ayaka. Asuna's face turned red in frustration and she looked over to Ayaka. "Hey, Ayucko. How about you shut that ugly face of yours, pervert." she growled.
Ayaka's eyes widened in madness as she obnoxiously got up from her seat. "Excuse me?! You have absolutely NO room to talk about being perverted or ugly, you idiot." Ayaka calmed down a bit and then crossed her arms. "And at least I'm not as dumb as a rock like you are."
And the the daily fight of Asuna and Ayaka ensued. The rest of the class was very adapted to such behavior between the two quarrelsome schoolgirls, so nothing was done about the argument. Instead, while the two exchanged loud remarks across the classroom, Negi and the rest of the class watched them as if they were in a hot tennis tournament---their eyes bouncing back and forth and their mouths hanging wide open.
After a few moments, Asuna sighed and turned away from Ayaka to look at the front of the classroom. "You know what... I don't want to argue with you. Just leave me alone, Ayaka..."
Ayaka frowned at Asuna's statement and after a while of contemplating and building up maturity, sat down peacefully and cleared her throat. "I'm sorry about that, Negi-sensei." Ayaka said quitely, looking at her teacher sadly.
Asuna shook her head and whispered under her breath "suck-up," and she was grateful that Ayaka didn't hear her. That hypersensitive, egotistical imbecile always got mad at her for saying the smallest, meaningless things... Asuna wondered why her own opinions affected Ayaka that much.
Eventually, Negi half-smiled at his class and rubbed the back of his head. "Well, um... Shall we begin?" he suggested. He opened the English textbook to page 105, which provided the outline of a lesson on future tense.
Ayaka smiled at Negi as he wrote things on the chalkboard. However, she was still distraught by her argument with Asuna. While Ayaka thought that Asuna was undenyingly an annoying buffoon, lately, she sometimes wished that she could just be at peace with Asuna for once and talk. She didn't know where these wants came from, though, and tried to ignore them as much as possible. If I even try to talk to Asuna, she thought... We'll just get in another argument like usual. We're like gasoline and fire. Almost for the entire class period, Ayaka wondered about Asuna. Aside from Asuna's arrogant and obnoxious attitude, Ayaka thought that there was more to her. She wondered what her past was like... What her relationship with Negi-sensei was like... And even just, in general, wondered what Asuna Kagurazaka was like...
..."So, Yukihiro-san, what do you say in English when you want to say 'Watashi wa benkyoo o suru tsumori desu'? ...Yukihiro-san? Yukihiro-sannnnn?" Negi called out.
Ayaka was deep in thought about her situation with Asuna and wasn't paying attention at all. After Negi called to her several times, she finally snapped out of her trance. "Uh, um... I'm sorry, Negi-sensei. Could you repeat the question?"
Asuna giggled at Ayaka and Ayaka ignored it. Negi-sensei nodded and smiled slightly. "Um...How would you say 'Watashi wa benkyoo o suru tsumori desu.' in English?"
Asuna looked at Ayaka, stunned that she didn't react to her giggling and waited for her to answer. Ayaka smiled and answered the question, "Well, that's easy, Negi-sensei. You'd say 'I plan to study.'"
Negi nodded in affirmatively. "Good job." he complimented.
Ayaka blushed at Negi's kudos towards her and looked down at her desk. The bell was about to ring.
Asuna stared at Ayaka until the end of class. She may be immature and perverted, but she's also smart and straight-edge, sometimes... Asuna thought.
When the bell rang, all of the girls flooded out of the classroom and walked to their next class. Asuna kept her seat and kept her eye on Ayaka. After Ayaka got out of her seat and bowed to Negi-sensei, she looked over to Asuna. Their eyes met. Surprisingly, there were no twitches or squints, or anything of the kind.
After they stared for a few seconds, Asuna slightly smiled at her tall, blonde-haired classmate. Ayaka couldn't help to smile back.