WolfGear Presents: Negima? The mage and the Gunslinger
Pairings: Negi X ku-Fei Kaede X OC
Chapter eighteen: Festival part 1 bonding time
I don't own Negima!
Negi stretched his arms giving a longer deep yawn as he got out of bed, yesterday had been I one the most enjoyable in quite some time, between Kyoto, training and teaching it was good to get out and fool around. Leave it to Fei-Ku to know just how to cheer him up. Yes he could just sleep the day way but it was not to last. The school festival was fast approaching and he had to come with something to do and stop Chao's plan from revealing magic to the world. He wondered how Ku would react to Chao's departure this time if she knew the truth.
Well Negi pondered on future events Jack's thoughts where more on the now, like what was Rubi doing here now, how did she find him, and why the hell did he have to carry all her stuff from the airport to his and Kaede's room! If that wasn't bad enough she now was staying with him in the dorm room and already drank most of his booze! He was pretty sure she also stole some money from and got her plane ticket in his name because she handed him the bill. He loved his aunt really but there was a reason he didn't come home to often after he learned how to drive; it was one of those never look back moments.
He left her sleeping on the bed deciding to sit in on Negi's class for the first time in a while, Rubi still hasn't tried to kick his ass yet, so that meant that she had something else in mind, most likely something embarrassing from his childhood. To counter this plan was to just stay away as long as he could not the best plan but what else could he do?
Kaede sat in her seat as usual today they had to start planning an event for the school festival that was coming up. So far they had made no progress on what they wanted to do. They finally decide to do a maids café with the girls wearing a bunch of cosplay costumes that were more than inappropriate for school girls to be wearing. Haruna had already had force her to wear a mini shirt and a tight t-shirt that hardly covered her chest; force Setsuna in to a swim suit and many of the other girls into similar costumes. All they seemed to be doing was giving poor Negi a heart attack as Fei-Ku kept charging him every time he looked at one of the girls.
The door slammed open Jack stood in the door way with a cloud of gloom over his head he ignored all the girls not even looking at any of them and took his spot by the window like usual.
"What's wrong with him?" Yuna asked it was strange for the girls to see the cowboy so depressed he was always so full of life and threats to take life. They wondered what could have done this to him, most look to Kaede for answers but the ninja could only shrug her shoulders as she walked over the cowboy.
"Hey Jack what's wrong?" she asked concerned so his aunt showed up out of the blue, she couldn't be that bad could she? Suddenly a rope crashed through the window sending shards of glass everywhere, while it tied it's self around Jack and dragged him out the third story window!
"Holy crap!" everyone yelled as they rushed to the window to see if he was alright, they had to jump back however when a woman in wearing Chamo pants and a red shirt jumped through the window with Jack hogtie on her back.
"You sure have a strange school here Jackie, what they teach how to be a whore?" the woman comment looking around the room, she spotted Negi among the group and jumped over the girls with Jack still on her back "What do we got here are you that cut little teacher that my little Jackie told me about?" she cooed pinching Negi's cheeks, this caused most of the girls to go into an uproar as they grabbed Negi by the shoulders and tried to pull him away from the mysterious woman. May I stress the point of try as about ten of them were pulling on Negi while Rubi just held on with the fingers she was using to pinch the poor teachers cheeks.
"You sure are popular kiddo, I can tell you're going to be a heart breaker just like your father," she said letting go of the boy's cheeks causing the girls to fall backwards in to a pile of limbs and body parts with Negi ending up on the bottom.
"Ops," she said amused as the girls tried to untangle themselves from each other but only succeed in getting themselves even more tangled. She wondered over to the clothes rack that Natsumi had brought from the drama department for the girls to use; it was filled with costumes like maids, bunny girls, swimsuits, and many other sexy costumes. Rubi browsed the racks for something that suited her tastes, she may be not be a shopaholic like many other women, but she still loved to dress up in something sexy every once and awhile.
"Tah da" Rubi posed in a sailor style school girl uniform with a short shirt and top that shows off her womanly assets quite well, making most of the other girls jealous. "Well how do I look? Pretty hot right?" silence was her answer; she decided to give them a little help by drawing her custom Monkey revolvers, aiming just above their heads.
"Yeah you look pretty good Auntie, still smoking at thirty one good for you," Jack said nervously as he tried to escape, unfortunately he spoke the taboo word for any woman her age.
Angry tick marks appeared on the mercenaries forehead, everybody watched amazed as she throw Jack with one arm through the door breaking it down, bursting into splinters on impact. "If I taught you one this it was never ever speak say my age out loud, you dumbass!" she shouted angry at the downed cowboy, she than looks to the others and grabs Kaede by the waist dragging her out the door.
"Come on, girlie you and I are going to have some fun! Jack, don't bother waiting up for us!" She shouted over her shoulder her mood completely calm as if she didn't just smash someone through a door. The girls and Negi just stood there completely confused a woman whose name they didn't even know barges in assaults Jack harasses Negi then threaten them and just walks off with one of their classmates leaving them to explain everything Nita-sensei who happened to be passing by. As Nita-sensei chewed them out for the door and for making so much noise in the morning he told them to leave.
They all ran out as quickly as possible wanting to escape the older teacher's wrath before he decided to punish them as well. In their rush to escape all of them trampled over Jack who was still lying on the floor. The cowboy lied there with dozen of foot print marks on his back, seething in angry and embarrassment.
"I swore someday I'll get you back Rubi! And will someone untie me dammit!" he shouted struggling against his bond, but the halls were empty leaving him no choice but try and get out himself.
Meanwhile Rubi had made Kaede show her around the festival grounds though everything was still being put together it was still amazing site to see. The two women enjoyed sites like the Nightmare circus with Zazie, horse races that Rubi made bets with various people from the crowds and won a couple thousand yen as her winnings leaving many with emptier wallets. Afterwards they stopped at the Chao Boa Zi for some lunch; the ninja was amazed at the mercenary's appetite as she ate down her twentieth pork bun, the woman was only five foot seven which was just a few inches shorter then herself and she couldn't even eat that much!
"So Rubi-Dono," the ninja began but the older woman raised her hand signaling her to stop saying this was not the place to talk.
"I have an idea. Is one of them bathhouses nearby it's been ages since I had a nice hot bath with some good whiskey. Also Rubi will be fine none of that suffix crap, ok," she said telling the ninja to lead the way to the baths while she ordered some sake for the food cart. It wasn't as good as the stuff at home but it would do.
Kaede led Rubi the bath house the school's pride and joy, she had to say that Jack's aunt was an interesting character she was gruff, rude, and ruthless and that was just meeting her in the last twenty four hours! Though she was also had her good points she gave a bunch of little kids treats with the money she won from the track, and won some big prizes from the shooting gallery and gave them away to random strangers. She was a hard person to read it was like a switch was flip on her personality.
They stripped down in the changing rooms, the baths were empty so they had the place all to themselves, and Rubi had set the bottles of Sake in a wooden bucket in the water taking a sip or two every couple of minutes while she asked Kaede questions on how Jack has been doing.
"So Kaede was it? How did a hot little diva like you end up with my little shit of a nephew of mine? Honesty the Kid never brought a girl home before and as never shown interest in them really it always been about guns, drinking, and looking for his old man. He was always impulsive, mad, and reckless." She paused taking a drink from her cup "But now he's calm, collected, and more mature since he disappeared a half a year ago. Nobody knew where he went or what he was doing. Then one day I get a letter from his father saying his in Japan. I couldn't believe it. I was like what the hell was he doing in fricken Japan!"
Lime warning!
A red brush appeared on the mercenaries' face as she swayed side to side. It was clear the ninja that the older woman was now drunk, she grabbed Rubi's shoulders to prevent her from drowning herself, she tried to pull the drunk woman from the pool, but released her grip when the drunk fondled her breasts, she was even more surprised as the woman started to suck on her erected nipples, making the ninja moaned in pleasure as soon as it started it though it stopped as Rubi laid past out in the pool, air bubbles bubbling to the surface.
"Oh crap!" Kaede fished the mercenary out of the water; no doubt Jack would not be happy if she drowned his aunt. Luckily for her Rubi was fairly light and easy for her to carry out of the water. She could feel the muscles that where toned from years of hard work and training against her skin, she wondered if she could look as beautiful as Rubi did when she was in her thirties and hopefully as strong too.
A soft mumble caught Kaede's attention she looks down to hear Rubi talking in her sleep, the words where slurred a little bit but she was able to dissever what she was saying, even though it was rude to eavesdrop on others.
"Never wanted… kids… till Jack…to late…now," a lone tear trickled down from the mercenaries' eye. The ninja tried to dissever what the mercenary could be talking about, and why it made the seemly tough woman cry even if it was only one tear, she filed it away for later though; she could ask later if she wanted to talk but it wasn't her business. Kaede silently promised to try and help the woman if she could; right now she had to get them back to the dorms to rest, grabbing her and Rubi's clothes on the way out.
Back in the room Kaede placed a blanket over the sleeping mercenary it was still only ten o'clock so she decided to go find Jack and enjoy some more of the pre-festival festivities, though the main events weren't for a few more days, there were plenty of smaller stands set up all ready so people could still have a some fun while the crowds wait for the bigger stuff to be set up. Kaede shuts of the lights, wishing the dozy woman sweet dreams before running off for a night of fun.
Negi sat next to Nita-sensei at the Chao Boa Zi food stand enjoying the evening with some of the other teachers, making sure not to drink any sake this time around, he didn't want to be freaking out and crying like last time.
He laughed as the other teachers told jokes and stories about what happened in their classes that day, it was interesting to hear how is students acted with other teachers. Turns out they pretty much acted the same minus the striping him down part. Negi took a sip of his drink taking time to steal look at Fei-Ku who worked as a waitress here, he enjoyed the view as the martial arts moving from table to table carrying at least six plates of food in her arms. Sometimes Fei-Ku would give Negi a wink when the other weren't looking then continues on with her work.
Fei-Ku worked happy as she handed off another order of pork buns, she could feel the stares of many of the males in the area but there was only one set of eyes she was interested in, passing another wink to a certain child teacher she picked up the empty dishes on one of the many tables and brought them back to the stand. She felt some one slap her on her but hard, normally she would have broken the offenders jaw into dust but with her hands full that's wasn't an option. The man stood up from his seat to continue his flirting but an invisible force knocked him down. Fei-ku looks over to see Negi with his index finger extended behind his back, still sipping on his tea. The crowd gave a cheer as members of the fighting club praise Fei-Ku, believing she was the one to take the man out.
"That was amazing Captain Ku! You didn't even touch the guy and he went down, you skills are truly beyond measure!" one of the fight club members praised as the others cheered. Fei-Ku returned to her work bringing the plates to the stand well getting close to Negi without raising suspicions, she whispered a soft thanks you to the teacher then returned to work.
Back in the classroom Sayo the ghost sat in the seat she has for the last sixty years feeling just as lonely as she did then. It had been interesting year so far with Negi and Jack showing up, sometimes they would glance at her or Negi would call out her name though the rest of the class didn't notice. One time Jack left a small doll behind on her seat after everyone had left, she didn't know if they could see or sense her but their efforts where appreciated.
She pull out the pushie from her packet, it looked a lot like the woman who showed up today. A sudden noise scared the ghost causing her to float up in to the air holding the doll close to her chest it had become her security blanket, her only friend to protect her from the dark. After a moment she opened her eyes and saw the woman from earlier looking around the classroom like she was searching for some one.
"Hello, are you in here? Come on out I won't hurt you," Rubi called out to the empty room when she awoke in Jack and Kaede's room her chest ached like the time Jack went missing when he was five and she couldn't find him anywhere. It was the first time her maternal instincts awakened, she had called Jack to make sure he was ok and he said he enjoying the festival with Kaede, but the feeling in her chest didn't stop so she threw on some clothes and began to wonder around the school. When she pasted by the classroom the feeling escaladed like never before meaning the source was in here; but the room was empty except for the Chibi doll of her floating in midair. She was able to see a fainted image of a girl holding the doll but that was it.
"Hey what's wrong?" Rubi asked the ghost taking her hand and pulled her down on to the desk, the girl's image had become much clearer, silver hair and big amber eyes stare into sky blue. "Hello names Rubi Malone, what's yours?"
"You can see me?" Sayo asked clutching the doll closer, she had wanted to have more friends and get everyone's attention but now that someone could see her she was too shy to say anything else.
"Yes, yes I can. Now why don't you tell me your story, I'll listen till you're done," the mercenary smiled warmly to make the ghost more conformable, the ghost started her tale and the feeling in Rubi's chest subsided at last.
Authors note
This chapter was kind of a goof of one but I think it was better than the last one (Still having nightmares about it) I wanted to try and put Sayo in the story because I didn't want to leave her out so I made up this scene for her and Rubi because she still need someone to be her best friend. I also decide that Chamo's fate will be revealed in the next couple chapters and another family member of jack's will show up soon so stay tuned. Also I'm trying to make sure Fei-Ku has more lines because she been pretty silent for the last couple of chapters and I wanted to fix that, it's just a little hard for her and Negi's romance to move like Jack's and Kaede's because of the age defiance but I'm working on it.
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