"Wow. Just Wow."

"O-Oh my..."

"Hehe. Looks like she didn't need our help after all."

"Haruna, I think we should we leave."

"What? Why?"

"Because we're intruding on a deeply intimate moment?"

"But its also really hot."

"That's it, come on Nodoka."

"O-Okay..."

"Oh no. You two aren't going anywhere. You could learn a lot from her."

"Like what?"

"Well she got her crush into bed within a few days."

It was at this point Natsumi finally decided to open her eyes.

"Oh, and she's woken up."

She looked up into Haruna's grinning face as the taller girl leant over her. For a few seconds she was too sleepy to give it much care, simply rubbing at her eyes in the painful morning light. Then after a few seconds of rapid contemplation she shrieked and pulled the bed covers up to her face, blushing wildly as she realised she was still wearing her lingerie. Then she blushed even more when she realised Kotaro was lying in bed right next to her.

In fact, that wasn't totally true. He wasn't so much lying beside her as he was lying partly on her, using her breast as a pillow. And he was pretty much nude.

"Huh?" He woke up with a yawn and sat up in the bed, looking at the three extra girls in the room with no expression on his face other than sleepiness. "Oh, its you guys. Morning."

"G-Good morning Kotaro-kun." Nodoka replied on automatic, out of politeness. Yue and Haruna both remained silent, Yue because she couldn't think of anything else to say, Haruna more because she couldn't decide which innuendo to go with.

"I'm guessing they want you Natsumi-chan." He said as he faced the bright red girl he was sharing the bed with. "I'm gonna go for a morning walk, kay?"

"Y-Yeah..." Natsumi told him. She was thankful he was so calm about this, it helped make her feel calm too. Of course, she knew they'd done absolutely nothing wrong – but it felt like they had. To her at least. "Um... have fun."

"Will do." He answered. The question of how he would do it without his clothes on died on her lips as a large black dog – more of a wolf actually – walked out of the room. She watched him every step of the way with an expression of wonder. She knew Kotaro could do that, when they'd first met him he'd been a puppy after all. Since he had explained magic to her shortly after the Mahora tournament he had made no secret of his alternate form – often leaving or entering the apartment in it – and she knew he had a few more of them hidden away too. But she had never thought to ask him to let her see him change, mostly because she knew he had to be naked to avoid ruining good clothes.

It was amazing. Admittedly, for magic it seemed to lack a little razzle-dazzle, one minute there was a boy and the next there was a dog. There were no flashes of light or anything, one just became the other very quickly – the time spent shifting between the shapes only a few seconds at most. Still, it really was amazing to see him change in and out of forms as easily as someone put on clothes. Though she really preferred the cute little puppy to the coarse, fierce looking wolf-form he seemed to favour.

Both Nodoka and Yue stepped aside with only mild surprise, giving him a way out of the room. Haruna didn't, instead sinking to her knees and pulling Kotaro in with her arms to start scratching his ears.

Kotaro cocked his head into the touch like any other dog would have, allowing the tall girl free reign over him in a way that made a tight little ball of anger appear in Natsumi's stomach before she could even try to prevent it. Haruna only stopped when she looked up and saw the red-head scowling at her, grinning for a second before letting go and standing aside for the large canine.

Wolf-Kotaro made a little snuffling sound to them which really could have meant anything in dog for all they knew. He certainly didn't seem angry or embarrassed at any rate. Then he simply continued on his way, leaving to do whatever it was he did on his walks.

Yue closed the door behind him as he went and they waited until they heard the front door open and close – presumably Kotaro had changed back for long enough to do that. Hopefully no one had seen the half naked boy leaving the apartment. That would raise eyebrows.

"So," Haruna announced, immediately shattering the quiet awkwardness and filling it with some loud, energetic awkwardness instead. "You moved fast didn't you? I'm kind of proud..."

Natsumi groaned and pulled the covers back over her head. It was too early in the morning for this and she wanted more sleep.

Everything had gone far, far less painfully than Natsumi imagined it would have. Yue had offered to retrieve her clothes from Ayaka, who had left them on her bed with a note when she had gone out to pursue Negi for the day – presumably getting up early enough that she could sneak up on him in bed. Natsumi had been glad about that. It was nice to have a little proof for her story, the only other thing she had was a drying mattress that had apparently been stripped bare before she had been woken. With her luck Haruna would have been spreading rumours about her wetting herself at night if that had been all there was to go on.

Things only looked up when they left the room to let her dress in private. Meaning Natsumi was quickly able to hide the lingerie in the laundry hamper before getting into some real clothes – and already the day was going better than she had expected.

Of course, that left her staring at her bedroom door feeling too nervous to go out. What did they want this time? Admittedly, she quite liked the three other girls. They had always been nice to her in class and Nodoka and Yue at least were pleasantly normal sized in the body department. But Haruna was with them and the young actress somehow doubted the more mature-bodied girl had just called in for an innocent visit.

She sighed and opened the door to go out. What was the very worst they could do?

Three heads turned to her as she entered the living area. Nodoka and Yue looking quite normal, Haruna holding a wide grin – though for her that was pretty normal too.

"Relax." Yue immediately told her, noticing her friends expression. "We're not here to torture you or anything."

"That's nice to know." Natsumi replied as she sat down next to Haruna, wishing the other girls hadn't taken the other chairs and trapped her next to the pervert. "What about you?" She asked the manga artist.

"Nope." The girl shook her head. "That's just a side-goal. For now we just wanted to come along and see how you two did after you left. Didn't think it would go this far though..."

Natsumi blushed. "I explained that." She huffed. "We didn't do anything."

"So Kotaro managed to get you into bed and he didn't even need to buy you dinner first?" Haruna smirked.

"Nothing happened!" The redhead shouted, puffing out her cheeks in pint-sized fury.

"Stop teasing her Haruna." Yue told her friend flatly – though even she was blushing at the comment - getting a stuck out tongue and a wink in return. "We came because I looked up information on Dog Hanyou, and we thought you should see it."

"It was Haruna's idea..." Nodoka murmured quietly.

"Really?" Natsumi asked surprised, mostly because the goal seemed so... innocent.

"Not all my ideas are evil you know." The artist grinned happily, guessing her thoughts easily. "Some of them just lead to evil..." She continued with a smirk. "Besides, its important to learn everything you can about a crush before you begin trying to date them properly. And since you know pretty much nothing about Kotaro, I figured you needed help filling in the gaps."

"Well that makes sense I guess..." Natsumi agreed. "Um... thanks."

"Don't worry, she'll get back to her old torturing self in no time at all, then you wont need to thank her." Yue sighed before bringing out her card. "Adeate!" In a flash of altogether more... magicky magic than Natsumi had seen from Kotaro a book appeared in her hands, the same one she had seen her with a few days earlier. Instead of flicking through it or looking for a bookmark though the young philosopher simply opened it and laid it out on the table between them. Almost immediately – as if it knew precisely where it was – the artefact became less of an actual book and more of a projector, glowing words and pictures suddenly floating in front of their eyes as text began to come up.

"This is really an amazing artefact too." Natsumi commented. She'd already seen yesterday, but at the time she'd had far more interesting things in her sights than a book – magic or not.

"Thanks." Yue nodded at her. "It isn't really useful in combat, but I don't mind that much. It lets me get information on pretty much anything, its hooked up to the Mage version of the internet."

"You mean there's another internet powered by magic?" The redhead asked, barely believing it.

"Oh, that isn't the weirdest thing." Haruna told her. "We had to kiss Negi-sensei before we got our powers."

"You had to kiss him?" Natsumi turned scarlet immediately. "A-All of you?"

"And about half the class on top of that. Yep." Haruna continued.

"B-But how does that even work?"The actress questioned, stuttering. "If magic is all circles and special words, wouldn't you have to put more work into making something activate with a kiss?"

"Just don't question it." Yue advised flatly. "I've been trying to approach magic like a science, but so far it doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense. I think its one of those things where you have to understand every tiny little thing before you even begin to get it properly. In the end I just decided to learn how to use it before I figure out exactly how it works."

"That's probably smart." Haruna agreed with a nod.

"Yeah... I try not to worry about how my artefact works." Nodoka added. "It always makes me worry people might be listening in on my thoughts somehow."

"Huh. Creepy." The artist mused aloud.

"Not to you, the only things you ever keep secret are tricks you plan to play on us." Yue pointed out as she began directing her book to the information she wanted.

"Yeah, someone like poor innocent Natsumi has more to hide from that." Haruna laughed.

"I-I do not!"

"Oh?" Haruna crooned. "Then tell us exactly what you want to do with Kotaro then."

"N-Nothing!" The girl flushed.

"See? That's obviously a lie. But Nodoka's book would even give us doodles of the action."

They all paused as they considered that.

"Hey Honya, can I borrow-"

"No. You cannot." Yue interrupted before Nodoka could answer, since she knew full well her best friend had a hard time saying no to anyone.

"Spoil sport." Haruna shot back, though she was smiling as always.

"I wouldn't do that anyway..." Nodoka attempted to protest, though everyone present knew pretty well she'd eventually give in to Haruna's demands.

"Can we please concentrate on what we came here to do?" Yue asked as new text and pictures began to fill what passed for the book's screen, even if it was floating in the air in front of them.

"What does it say?" Natsumi asked after staring at the articles for a while. "I cant read it."

"That's because this is from the magic world, not this one. Apparently they speak Latin over there." Yue explained.

"You can all read Latin?"

"Pfft. No." Haruna laughed.

"A little bit, I'm getting better since Negi-sensei began helping me." Nodoka blushed.

"Of course I do." Yue told her matter of factly, without any show of smugness. "I'll just translate the things you need."

"Thank you. But where does it come from? An online encyclopedia or something?" Natsumi asked.

"Huh. Good question." Haruna agreed, realising she hadn't asked.

"It's... not really important." Yue answered, looking a little uncomfortable.

"Why not?" Haruna returned curiously.

"Y-Yeah, just an information website." The young librarian answered, sounding nervous. Beside her Nodoka's lips were moving silently and her brow furrowed in concentration. It wasn't difficult for Paru to figure out she was trying to translate the words for herself using what Negi had been helping her with. Then when she began blushing the more mature bodied girl knew something had to be wrong. "Alright Nodoka. Tell me what it says."

"Um... I-I think it says um... that is it's... um... a..." The girl mumbled continuously, playing with her hands and looking away ashamed.

"Oh for the love of..." Yue shook her head, her stoic personality completely betrayed by her flushed skin. "The article is called 'The Girl's Guide to Hanyou Lovemaking – Canine Edition' alright?" She snapped at the older looking girl – whose expression now contained a smile so wide it was threatening to burst from her face and escape. "Its like a pamphlet thing from a women's magazine and its the best I could find in such a short time."

"S-So I'm going to be taking dating advice from a sex guide?" Natsumi asked, hoping that Ayaka never found any of this out.

"What's the problem?" Haruna asked. "I mean, its gonna end up there anyway."

"S-Shut up!"

"It looks like a legitimate article, so maybe it won't be so bad?" Nodoka suggested.

"Yeah, this is probably what teen girls read in the magic world all the time." Haruna agreed. "Yknow. Which colour robes you must need, how to get your hair pointed up enough, sexing up aggressive half-demons. Oh don't give me that look Yue. Just start already." She said in response to the frown she was getting form her friend.

"Fine." She sighed irritably. "Congratulations on deciding to pursue a relationship with one of the Canine tribe... this guide is written to inform... just know they are similar to normal men... ah here." She said, finishing her skim reading. "Important facts to take into account before starting a serious relationship. One, the child of a human and a full youkai is a Hanyou. The child of a Hanyou and a Human is always a Hanyou, the blood of the demon will never be diluted beyond half. This means you must be prepared to mother a half-demon as well as date one, should your relationship get that serious."

"C-Childbirth already?" Natsumi asked. "Isn't that a bit soon?"

"Yeah, they don't waste much time do they?" Haruna said.

"Well," Yue thought aloud. " That is an important thing to know. I mean, there's got to be a lot of problems with raising a half demon. You should know what you're getting into from the start."

"Yeah. I mean breastfeeding's gotta be a bitch for a start." Haruna laughed.

"W-Why?" Nodoka asked confused.

"Cause babies tend to bite." The artist answered simply. Suddenly every one of them was getting vivid memories of exactly what kind of teeth Kotaro was in possession.

"Ouch..." They said almost as one.

"Two, it should be made aware that young canine Hanyou are incapable of shifting out of their animal form for the first four months of their lives?" Yue's eyes went wide.

"Y-You mean you'd be giving birth to a puppy?" Even Haruna was shocked.

"Though thankfully the number of offspring mimics humans rather than canines, so a full litter is highly unlikely..." Yue continued.

"Wow Natsumi. At least you know for a fact your baby is gonna be cute." Haruna smirked. "With big puppy dog eyes too." She laughed. "Though the breastfeeding thing comes back into mind..."

This time they all actively tried not to imagine Natsumi nursing a litter of little black puppies.

It didn't work.

"I-I... um..." She looked down at her stomach and tried to imagine what she'd even look like pregnant, let alone pregnant with a demon puppy. She had fantasised a little about a possible future with Kotaro, but that was mostly just wondering what her wedding ceremony might be like with him. Apart from that most of her fantasies involved nothing further than a situation where he'd actually agree to be her boyfriend. Certainly she'd never gotten far enough to consider any sort of family with him.

"A-Are you okay?" The young actress felt a timid hand touch hers and looked up to see Nodoka leaning over the book, smiling gently.

"Yeah, I'm fine... thank you." She replied. "Just a little overwhelmed. I've never really thought about being pregnant or anything..." She explained. "And... y'know. A puppy." She dead-panned. "That's just weird."

"Once you get over the shock I don't think its too bad..." Nodoka spoke up after a while.

"Yeah, I guess so." Haruna thought aloud. "I mean, when it comes down to it a puppy is probably smarter than most newborns. At least they can fetch you your slippers. Though you might have a problem with diapers..."

Natsumi wasn't quite sure whether to laugh or cry at that comment.

"I really don't think it's that important to think about this." Yue told her, bringing some level-headedness back to their world of fantasy. "Even if you did start going out then it's not as if you're gonna be sleeping with him the first chance you get." They all went silent as they remembered precisely what she had been doing, and Yue sighed. "You know what I mean. Even if you two did start going out it doesn't mean you're going to get kids any time soon."

"Yeah, this section did say its for serious relationships after all. Not high-school dating." Haruna pointed out, oddly altruistically. "This point probably wouldn't apply for you for another decade. Do you wanna just go onto the next one?"

Natsumi nodded, relieved to leave the topic behind. Though she couldn't help but wonder what Kotaro would be like if he was a father.

"Um... maybe you should look through and see if it has anything about teenage relationships?" Nodoka suggested. "That would probably be in another section..."

"Oh yeah. Good idea Nodoka." Yue nodded as she began moving the text down, skimming through the different chapter titles. "Lets see... Marriage ceremonies... common gifts... showing you're interested... p-positions and... love-bites?"

"I'm willing to bet that isn't the hickey sort of love bite." Haruna laughed, smirking at the timid redhead cowering next to her. "Oh get a thicker skin." She laughed at the shy girl.

"Wait. Here's something." Yue said. "Also that was a terrible joke. But here, 'Young relationships and puberty'."

"Perfect!" Natsumi smiled, glad they were getting back on track.

"Ahem," Yue began. "Like humans, most Hanyou have died of natural causes around age one hundred or so – though they tend to live slightly longer due to more active life styles and better healing abilities. However, unlike humans they grow into maturity far faster. A dog Hanyou is often typical pre-teen size by only a few years. This growth takes a short slower period before resuming, often allowing a rough adult size by around the mid teen years. Furthermore, like dogs and wolves, Hanyou puberty is more difficult to notice and occurs at a younger age." The philosopher girl read out.

"That explains how he managed to look after himself at least. He spent his baby years as a dog, and then spent the rest pretty much how he is now." Haruna deduced. "Also, pretty interesting for you Natsumi."

"W-Why?"

"Well for one," Yue answered instead. "Both you and Kotaro will look about the same age in around half a decade. Once you're twenty, he'll look about that anyway."

"R-Really?" Natsumi barely believed it. Something going this right for her was pretty unusual, she didn't really trust it to be true. But if it was, that meant dating would be a lot more awkward. Especially since Kotaro was apparently going to go through one hell of a growth spurt. And she had seen adult Kotaro. He was already handsome, but adult Kotaro was tall dark and handsome.

"That explains why he's so different to Negi even though they're near the same age." Haruna mused. "He's probably already in puberty or something."

"Do you think so?" The redhead asked. It would make her feel a lot less like a pedophile if she knew Kotaro was actually becoming a man.

"H-how do we tell?" Nodoka asked her friend.

"Hang on." Yue began reading again. "Typical puberty for Hanyou can begin as early as five years old in males. Ugh... I didn't need to picture that..."

The rest of them nodded, looking sympathetic.

"Um... But this is an early extreme and there is no fixed age wherein this occurs, other than generally before age thirteen. Hanyou of all types completely lack the hair that usually forms in puberty, facial and body included. Early stages of puberty must be confirmed by the presence of breasts or enlarged genitalia." She finished, looking flushed.

"One." Haruna began. "That's hilarious. Two. Now I know Setsuna is naturally bald down there, still hilarious although im also kinda jealous. Three. Who's gonna go check Kotaro's junk and see if he's ready for mating?"

"H-Haruna!" Yue shouted. Her friend was really going out of control here.

"So is that you volunteering Yue?"

"No!"

"Y-You mean the only way I can tell if Kotaro is becoming a man is to look at his..." Natsumi couldn't finish.

"Manhood?" Haruna suggested, smirking. "Lollipop? Baby-maker? Wang? Man-banana?"

"Shut up!" Yue yelled as beside her Nodoka was sinking into her chair trying to imagine she was somewhere else.

"...Cream shooter?"

It was at this point Yue lifted her book from the desk and hurled it at her friend's head.

"Alright maybe I deserved that." Came the voice from the floor.

"Haruna, you can be a real pain sometimes." Yue told her gruffly, though she honestly felt bad for resorting to violence so easily.

"Alright alright." She got up, sporting a fairly painful looking mark on her forehead. "We can all act like a adults here." She turned to Natsumi. "You've never looked at it right?"

"N-No!" The redhead said on automatic.

"Oh like that was going to work." Yue said.

"I mean... not properly..." Natsumi continued, a certain memory sneaking up on her and making her cheeks burn.

"Hang on, we might have something yet!" The artist smiled.

"Well... when he got out of the shower last night..."

"Yeah?"

"He was only wearing his boxer shorts... and the water kind of made it all... stick."

"Oh dead gods..." Yue pinched the bridge of her nose, hardly able to believe she'd been pulled into this. Beside her Nodoka was blushing hard, but still noticeably paying attention. Taking a little guilty pleasure in listening.

"How big?"

"Pretty... bulgy." Natsumi told her, feeling utterly ashamed to admit she had been looking.

"Alright... well that's a start." Haruna thought aloud, not even making fun of the little actress – to the surprise of all. "Y'know, it might not even be important. I'm thinking all that muscle has gotta mean puberty soon. Maybe we should just concentrate on getting you a date with him?"

With that the door opened, and Kotaro wandered confidently in – barefooted, but still wearing clothes.

"Back from my walk!" He called as he entered, before noticing they were all in the main-room.

"Kotaro-kun? Where did you get those clothes?" Natsumi asked, trying to give him a question to distract him while she focused on being less flushed. Discussing all that stuff had been bad enough, now he was right in front of her only a few seconds after they had been discussing his... penis at length. That was not making her feel comfortable.

"Borrowed off Negi." He answered. "Did we get ours back from Ayaka-neechan?"

"Y-Yeah, I put them all back in the wardrobe."

"Thanks," He nodded at her. "I'm gonna go change into my own stuff and I can give these back to Negi next time I see him." He told her as he entered the room to change into normal clothing, closing the door behind him.

"So..." Haruna began. "Are you gonna go in or not?"

"Wha-!" Natsumi started hotly.

"Quiet!" The girl told her in a hushed whisper.

"I-Im not gonna go in there like that!" She replied in the same kind of voice.

"Haruna, even for you that's wrong." Yue sighed.

"H-How would you like it if someone walked in on you changing?" Nodoka stuttered.

"Oh come on. He's a boy. He's not gonna mind if you see him nude."

"That isn't how it works." Yue said.

"Then should I go in?" Haruna asked, getting up and walking to the door. "I could do it," She whispered to them. "Not hard."

"N-No!" Natsumi jumped up at the more mature girl, trying to pull her away from Kotaro's door.

"Hehe... suuure?" She laughed.

"Yes!" Natsumi shouted.

The door opened.

"What the heck are you two doing?" Kotaro asked, cocking his head to the side.

Both of them looked down on automatic.

"Um..." Haruna tailed off. Beside her Natsumi felt her legs becoming weak. "You're very naked right now Kotaro." Haruna decided to point out. "Not really complaining, just making an observation."

"Kay..." He said, considering what to do about it. Not much, he didn't think. A lot of people got naked, just because Natsumi was afraid of people seeing her body didn't mean that he cared. Speaking of her though..."You alright Natsumi-neechan?" She looked pretty sickly.

"Y-Y-Yeah... I'm alright..." She stuttered, mouth dry and muscles shaky. Kotaro shrugged to himself and closed the door. He'd ask her later.

"Alright everyone. Knowledge attained!" Haruna announced to them once she had gotten the weakened actress back to the chairs. "Kotaro is definitely becoming a man. A very manly man." Beside her Natsumi had buried her blushing face in her hands and refused to look up. Right now she was trying to figure out if things had become better or worse with the involvement of the other girls. True, she had learnt a lot of things and seen something... good. But she also felt like everything was going a little fast, and that maybe the other girls were just a little bit too eager to have her date Kotaro. In Haruna's case it was probably just fun that motivated her, but for the others...

Yue's hand had yet to leave her forehead. "Alright, now we just need to figure out a way of getting him on a date with her."

Haruna smiled and got up with a determined look in her eyes. "Give me a few minutes with him, I'll get you that date Natsumi-chan." She smiled. "No worries."

"Um... okay but... um, can't you please wait until he's dressed first?"

Author Notations!

So, I've been having ideas for what my next Negima! Fiction will be. See, I only intended this Natsumi one to be a short affair, I doubt it will go on for more than another 2 chapters, possibly slightly more. But Negima! Is useful to me as a stress reliever and it flows fairly easily, so id like to do another one.

The idea for my next one is one I blatantly stole from my good friend Zokusho, who any Lucky Star fan knows wrote the hugely hilarious and vaguely naughty Truth or Dare series for LS. I think you can figure out where this is going.

Negi, Asuna, Haruna, Nodoka, Yue, Setsuna, Konoka and Kotaro trapped in a magical game of Truth or Dare.

Perversion! Humour! Romance! Perversion! Like seriously... lots.

I mean honestly, I think I'm gonna be outdoing myself this time. Anyways, if you have any particular dares you'd like them to perform then please PM me with your ideas. I can pretty much promise what you request will make it into the story, even if its amazingly perverted XD