Author notes:

Hello guys this is the 11th chapter of this fic, and the 5-B chapter chronologically, I have updated on time because finally midterm week is now over and the days that I have powerful headaches because of intense review at night and a whole day of examinations has finally ended, so as I said last time this chapter is a battle between Negi and Kotarou, this chapter will also answer the questions as to why Kotarou is attacking Negi…as always thanks for the review Miss Nami Uchiha1313 and sir Mysterious kind

Disclaimer:

I do not own Negima? Nor Mahou Sensei Negima! It is created by Ken Akamatsu and I don't have any affiliation with him nor the staffs that created the anime and manga what so ever… although I own the Striker couple… and Seigehart as well as for other OC's that will come up in the later chapters as the plot deepens…

Notes:

Battle chapters are my forte and if you think my style of writing battles need more description just tell me and I almost forgot I will include a section in every chapter that will explain magical terms that I included in Latin as well as their English translation but this section will only appear at the bottom of the chapter after the ending author notes, I have nothing more else to say just that I hope you guys enjoy this as much as I enjoy writing/typing it.

Chapter 5B: Kotarou (III): Open battle chapter

"Who are you?" Negi asked as the person in front of him posed for an attack; he looked closely to the person as he took on his form, he was a guy or rather a boy; a boy who was at the same age as him, he is wearing a black bonnet with a dog style pin that was chained that extends top the other back end of the bonnet; his face shows some confidence even showing a single fang while grinning, he is also wearing a black polo that was not buttoned, with a white undershirt, a black jogging pants and a pair of black running shoes; he prepared his staff for anything, when the boy didn't answered he quickly raised his voice asking the same question.

"Heh, so you're the so called son of the Thousand Master," the boy smirked, looking intently at Negi, "but, it seems like to my you're a small boy who hides behind girls,"

This question ticked Negi, his patience is running low at the insults the boy was throwing at him but before he snapped, Asuna put her hand on his shoulder saying, "don't listen to him Negi,"

"Nice talk, coming from you," Asuna called to the boy, "a boy who hides behind his dogs!"

"Sorry nee-san" the boy exclaimed, "I don't hid behind my Nakama, I fight alongside them, and If you think that strategy will work on me, you are mistaken," the dogs alongside him barked agreeing with their master.

The air in the gym became more dense as both sides were having a staring contest; then suddenly Natsume walked in front yelling, "what are you doing, Kotarou-kun?" everyone looked confused as to why did Natsume know the name of the boy in front of them, Chizuru was the most confused of all.

"Natsume-neesan," Kotarou answered shocked remembering the girl, "What are you doing here?"

"I'm Negi-sensei's student that's why," Natsume answered, angry at the boy, "but you still haven't answered my question, Kotarou-kun,"

"um, Natsume-san," Negi called to his student; the girl looked back seeing her classmates looking at her confused. "do you know him?"

"oh, Kotarou-kun, yes sensei," Natsume answered recalling the events happened earlier, "you see I met Kotarou-kun earlier this morning,"

(Flashback)

Natsume was going back to her dorm; as part of her exercise was to at least jog around the campus, when he saw a boy who was lying on the ground unconscious, since it was too early no other students was around and Natsume didn't want to leave the boy lying on the ground so she went and shook the boy's body.

"Hey, are you alright?" Natsume said as she shook the boy's body, she then saw the tail the boy has, if she didn't knew about magic she would think that this boy was just cosplaying but it was the other way around so she already knew this person was not normal, putting more force in her shaking she quickly woken the boy.

When the boy looked up, the first thing he said was, "I'm hungry, I spend all my money on that train ride, I haven't eaten since last night, I have no more strength to move," then the boy returned on lying on the ground. Natsume was having a hard time on either giving the boy some food or leaving him, her older sister side won and she pick the boy by his shoulder and they went to a nearby store.

"this is great, thanks nee-san," the boy said between bites of a sandwich that was brought in the store; he and Natsume was sitting in a bench near the store, while the boy was eating a sandwich and Natsume was holding a drink,. "I really appreciate that you give me food,"

"It's no problem," Natsume said as she hand the drink to the boy after he was done eating; she didn't knew why but she was attracted to the boy somehow. "um, what's your name anyway,"

"The names, inugami…," Kotarou introduced himself while drinking a can of soda, "inugami Kotarou, you can call me Kotarou if you want, um,"

"Murakami Natsume, Kotarou-kun," Natsume introduced herself while looking at the students that was going to the main building. "Say, Kotarou-kun, what are you doing here anyways?"

"well, since you helped my Natsume-neesan, I'll tell you" Kotarou said as he stood up and threw the can in a nearby trash bin; then he pulled up a letter in his pocket and showed it to the girl, "I was given an order to gave this to some person in charge of this place, I arrived last night but the train fee was so high that I ended losing all my money for food, I passed out from hunger and that's when you helped me," pocketing back the letter in his pocket, then looking at the place they were currently in, "say Natsume-neesan, do you know who is in charge of this place?"

"Oh, that will be the principal," Natsume answered, then pointing a place in the campus, "if you went straight there you will arrive at the main building from there you can asked students or teachers for directions,"

"Really?" Kotarou cheered, then grabbing Natsume's hand shaking it. "Thanks for the help Natsume-neesan,!" Kotarou then run towards the place Natsume pointed at but not before yelling, "I'll never forgive your kindness Natsume-neesan, see you later!"

Natsume on the other hand, was blushing by the boy's action, she looked at her hand that Kotarou hold then saying, "yeah see you later Kotarou-kun,"

(Flashback end)

After Natsume recalled the events earlier, the class, Negi and Chizuru nodded now knowing the events happened, Chizuru smiled seeing her friend now doing something on her own, Haruna smiled deviously now writing something on her pad, thinking that she will add this in her Doujin. And after a few seconds of silence the boy named Kotarou called to them.

"I'm sorry; Natsume-neesan," Kotarou answered his smirk returning, "but I'll tell you everything later as for now, let me do this!"

Kotarou pointed to them as four dogs quickly ran towards them, Natsume quickly returned to the back afraid for her safety; the dogs who ran towards them gave hungry looks on their faces, Negi and the others prepared for the assault, but before the dogs even came a few meters near Negi, they were blocked by an invisible wall; the class looked back to see Yue, more actually Seigehat.

"Auto-defense system activated: void spell defense rank 2: Barrie Guardia" Seigehat said in an automated voice as the 'x' on top of the hat is glowing.

The dogs clawed the invisible wall, but with each attack the wall showed itself; a square shaped shield with violet runes were written all over it, as the dogs clawed it with more force the runes gave more shine, seeing they cannot penetrate the wall, the dogs returned to their original positions. Kotarou called to Yue smiling. "As expected from forehead-neesan, you are the first person to detect me when I was giving my all at hiding my presence," Yue's eyes twitched as being nicknamed 'forehead-neesan' by the boy.

Nice nickname Yue-sama

'Shut up Seigehat,' Yue said as the hat was snickering in her thoughts.

Yes, Yue-sama

"Kotarou-san," Negi called to him once again. "Why are you doing this?"

"Sure, I'll tell you," Kotarou answered as he looked in a place in the gym, when he found the place he was looking for he smiled. "If you defeat me," then Kotarou quickly ran towards the window and jumped outside. "Follow me if you can, Negi Springfield!" he called as he ran passing some students along the way.

Negi quickly followed him even though that his students are telling him not to; when Negi left the gym going after the dog-hanyo; Asuna and the other students tried to follow him but they were blocked by the dogs that Kotarou left.

'Kotarou-kun, why are you doing this,' Natsume said as she watches the dogs were growling them.

"Now's not the time for this," Asuna said as she tries to find a way pass the dogs, but all of her attempts were futile as she step forward, the dogs bark at her. Seeing no other choice she knew that the only way to pass was to defeat them.

"Sechan, get them!" Konoka said to her friend as the young-swordsman girl nodded readying her weapon saying, 'will do!'.

"I'll help you, Setsuna-dono," Kaede said as she out her card. "Adeat!"

"I'll also help you, aru!" Ku Fei said as she took her stance.

"Guess I have to do this for free then," Mana said as she took out her gun with exorcising bullets.

Yue watch as her classmates fight the dogs head on; as Kaede, Ku Fei, Mana and Setsuna took on one dog each, she watch as her other classmates were either cheering at them or just watching intently, then she turned to Luna who was now reading her book and watching the fight simultaneously.

Yue-sama

'Yes Seigehat?' Yue asked as she watches, Kaede Ku Fei, Mana and Setsuna having the upper hand on the battle. 'What is it?'

There is something weird on this situation

'So you noticed to eh,' Yue said as her thoughts were now on full gear; as her analysis was on full speed.

Yes, it seems that Kotarou-san was not intending to hurt us in the first place; his treat level is on green ever since I first detected him.

'Yes, that was the most confusing part,' Yue said as she looks in the gym for more clues, 'the question is that if Kotarou-san was only here to deliver a letter why is he attacking sensei?'

Nodoka and Haruna looked at her friend as the girl was looking at places in the gym, her face was serious even with her eyes have spell circles on them.

"Yue is so serious Haruna" Nodoka called to her friend. "I haven't seen her like this,"

"It goes to show you that either she likes Negi-kun a lot than I imagined, or that she is taking this magic thing seriously," Haruna smirked as she Nodoka's expression; she was going to add this in her Doujin; all she needed now was references. On the other hand, Nodoka thought that the latter explanation she wished was true.

(Negi and Kotarou)

Negi was running in the campus grounds, in front of him was Kotarou, apparently Kotarou was taking Negi somewhere in the academy; taking another route west, the latter boy looked back seeing Negi's form running, Kotarou smirked his plan was working perfectly.

"Man, you're slow aren't you?" Kotarou yelled running past through several students. "If you're gonna be that slow I'll leave you behind, haha!" focusing some ki into his feet Kotarou now sprinting even faster taking the boy teacher by surprise.

Negi was surprised when he was the boy ran faster as their gap was getting longer; 'he ran faster than I thought' Negi thought. 'I can't leave him alone; he might do something to the other students!' In other to shorten their gap; Negi now used his staff; he said 'Accelet' to himself as he rode it but only floating a few inch above the ground so that who ever looks won't notice that he is flying, Negi smiled to himself as he found that he now faster at catching up with the other boy, passing several buildings and school facilities, he then noticed that he was not in the campus grounds anymore, he looked around to see the trees that is near Evangeline's cabin; he then slowed his speed when he saw Kotarou in the clear, grinning at him.

"Now, these place is much more fitting to be a battleground," Kotarou called to him cracking his knuckles. "Since nobody actually comes to this place, 'let's battle here with no distractions but be sure," Kotarou raised his fingers throwing some paper talismans in the air yelling 'Katsu!' then a magical barrier was summoned in the place they were at.

"Why are you doing this?" Negi said as he looks at the magical barrier, now with his guard up. "I don't give any reason to fight you!"

"I see, what a waste," Kotarou said disappointedly, shaking his head he said, "so the son of the Thousand Master is a coward brat, I guess what they saw about him being the strongest wizard was just only a fake."

Negi was now mad at Kotarou, he clenched his staff in rage as he spin the staff getting on the offensive. "You can say bad stuffs to me, but nobody talks to my father that way!" his face was now serious as some magical aura was now erupting from his body. "I'm gonna teach you not to talk to my father that way!"

"Bring it on Negi!" Kotarou grinned as he saw Negi getting serious, his plans on making Negi fight him was going perfectly, readying a punch he quickly jumped in the air towards Negi; the latter boy twirled his staff in a vertical slash, he was shocked when he found that Kotarou did not even tried to dodge the attack, the dog-hanyo was hit in the cheek as the force of his jump plus the force of Negi's attack made him flew backwards hitting a nearby tree back first.

"Not bad," Kotarou said as he landed back on the ground, spitting some blood, "you hit harder than I thought,"

"Why did you not try to dodge my attack?" Negi asked confused but not dropping his guard.

"so to make it fair," Kotarou explained getting back on his stance taking off his bonnet, revealing his dog ears. "my dogs hurt you earlier right, so I took a hit from you to make It fair," putting some black ki into his hands, Kotarou ran towards Negi with a speed faster than a normal sprinter; he punched Negi in the face but it was blocked by his staff, seeing his chance Kotarou used his other first to land a blow on his stomach; the attack connected but he felt some interference in result Negi was only pushed a few meters away from Kotarou but the damage was visible.

"So this is what they call a magical barrier," Kotarou said as he looked at his fist feeling some magical remains in it. "Interesting,"

Negi was pushed back by the attack was now breathing heavily while his left hand was on his stomach, his magical barrier was penetrated and he thinking of a plan. 'he is much faster than I thought, if I want to win I must do something,' after he saw the dog-hanyo was now running towards him, he quickly went on the defensive.

Kotarou was now punching Negi with speed faster than a trained boxer; left, right, straight and uppercuts he gave Negi was either blocked by his staff or dodge and Kotarou was enjoying every attacks they exchange, Kotarou made a faint, seeing Negi dodge that attack he quickly went and gave him a ki powered straight but Negi saw this and block Kotarou's right hand with his staff the pushing him away.

'This kid, even with that small body he uses that staff with much speed and control,' Kotarou smiled, adrenaline was now on his body as he grin waiting for an attack. 'Konoe-ojiisama wasn't mistaken when he said this boy is not what he seems, I'm having so much fun,'

Sagitta Magica, Series Lucis!

Negi fired some magical arrows of light, as he quickly went to offensive as he was now at the same speed as his arrows, Kotarou barrel-rolled dodging the arrows but he did not see Negi who was just behind the attack swing his staff hitting his in the chest, he was thrown with the power of both magic and physical force making him hit another tree.

Sagitta Magica, Series Lucis!

Negi fired another set of magical arrows, but this time more powerful from before as it flew towards the tree with more speed as it quickly exploded at the body of the dog-hanyo making a small gust of smoke. Negi then focused his sight on the place where he saw the boy was; then after a few seconds he saw Kotarou emerging from the smoke; his clothes had several cuts.

"You're more powerful than I thought," Kotarou commented as he smiled. "I knew this trip was worth it," going back to his stance, he took a deep breath before charging once again.

[Location change: the gym]

Yue looked as the last of the dogs were defeated; she quickly went to her classmates as she listened to their conversation.

"That's the last of them," Setsuna said as she drew back her sword and taking a deep breath. "Is everyone okay?"

"I'm fine, de gozaru," Kaede said as a mask was tied above her head, she was now surveying the gym.

"Same here, aru," Ku Fei smiled as she went back to her friends; Chao and Satsuki. "There were no match for me, aru," as the class was now calmed Asuna quickly went and called them.

"We have other things to do," Asuna called to them as she looks outside, "we have to find Negi!"

"I hate to say it, but Asuna-san is right," Ayaka said as her face was showing some concern. "We have to find Negi-sensei,"

"But, where do we look?" Konoka asked. "Negi-kun followed Kotarou-kun right, both of them are maybe already are far away from here,"

"Konoka-ojousama is right," Setsuna commented as she took a step near her ojou-sama, "the academy is large, where do you suggest we look first?"

This question got everyone thinking except for Evangeline and Chachamaru; the former was sleeping on the lap of the robot oblivious to the situation, Yue quickly suggested something.

"I know where sensei is," Yue said as the class looks at her questionably.

"Really, Yue?" Haruna cheered as Yue nod.

"Where is Sensei, Yue-san?" Asuna said in a hurry.

"He is far from here, but I can take us all there," Yue said as in her verum aspectu magic was still active as she follow the line everyone was connected that went thought the forest.

"That's great Yue!" Haruna cheered as everyone nod; then moving towards the place Yue was taking them; Nodoka was running behind as her thoughts was still in the state of confusion. The only ones who were left behind the gym was Chisame; who was busy typing on her laptop, Luna whose thoughts were on Yue, Evangeline and Chachamaru.

After a while of running in the campus, Kaede went near Yue and said, "let's hurry Yue-dono, Negi-bouzu might be in danger, de gozaru, here," Kaede said as she made a familiar hand sign, and then she was covered with smoke, seconds later she appeared in a form of a large yellow fox with two brown tails; taking everyone by surprise except for the twins, Asuna, Setsuna, Nodoka and Konoka who already knew her cosplay ability, even Yue was shocked to see what Kaede did.

"let me take you for a ride, Yue-dono," kaede said telepathically as she lift Yue and the twins towards her back, after seeing that her passengers were now secured she quickly ran towards the campus grounds, jumping on some roofs just to fasten their arrival, while Yue was pointing the direction, The rest of the class following them.

Yue, Kaede and the twins quickly reached their destination; the forest where Evangeline's cabin is located, Yue and the twins, got off on Kaede's back as the large fox returned back to the girl they knew.

"That was so cool, desu!" the twins cheered as they jumped up and down enjoying the ride.

"I didn't know you can transform like that Kaede-san," Yue said as she looked at the tall girl amazed.

"I did a lot of training, de gozaru," Kaede said as she looks at the forest. "After Luna-dono gave this card to me, I knew I have many things to learn, seeing what wizards can do,"

"I see," Yue said, as she looks at the place, she motioned Kaede and the twins to follow her; she guided them to the forest while her thoughts on what Kaede said; then she motioned for them to stop when she saw Negi; who was fighting Kotarou; both of them were exhausted with their bodies have several cuts and wounds.

"Oh no!," Fuuka said as she looks at her teachers body from a far, "sensei's hurt!,"

"We have to go there!" Fumika said as she walks towards the clearing.

"Stop!" Yue stopped the twin from going near.

"Why, Yue-san?" Fumika asked confused.

"There's a barrier that has been set up here," Yue answered, as she was seeing a large barrier with many Japanese runes written on it, she touched the barrier so the twins and Kaede can see the barrier. "We cannot interfere with their battle," then Yue looked back to see some of their classmates figures moving near them.

To be continued:

Ending author notes:

sorry if i cut this chapter until up to this, i have an urgent errand to do... but i promise to update on wednesday (philippine time)

oh and i almost forgot, i putted a poll in my profile and what you guys will pick will do a certain impact on the story, by a long shot that is...feel free to drop by,

till then

bye!

Edited: 8/22/11: Changed a few spelling as well as added more words