WolfGear Presents: Negima? The mage and the Gunslinger

Pairings: Negi X ku-Fei Kaede X OC

Chapter 44: Walking in your shoes

I don't own Negima!

"You never know what it's like to be another person till you step into their shoes, and then you realize that you like yours better." By Jack

"Jack your boots reek!" By Kaede

Takahata T. Takamichi, loved teaching, he loved all of his students, he would help anyone of the girls with their problems at any reasonable hour of the day, but even he had his limits, especially when it came to Ayaka Yukihiro.

For the past week the rich blonde has come to his desk every day demanding where Negi was, apparently both he and Ku-Fei where missing, and that didn't sit well with the heiress. Thinking about it now he had also been asked by several different sport groups and other organizational clubs on Jack's whereabouts, apparently he was the go to guy on campus. Everyone from the horse racing club, music club, gun club (who's only member was Mana), and even the martial artist club (they were looking for Ku too) have been asking none stop for the cowboy. It was really starting to annoy him.

Now on a Sunday, when he was supposed to be correcting papers, and checking over reports from the magic order, he was listening to a borderline child molester rant on what Ku-Fei could be doing to the child teacher. He prayed that someone save him from this torture please!

Luckily the universe was on the distressed teachers side as Negi, Jack, Kaede, Ku-Fei, Setsuna, Konoka, Kotaro, Sayo, Rubi, Thomas, and the twins entered the room wearing… animal hats? Yep animal hats coons, foxes, etc. Though Takahata was wondering why they were wearing fuzzy animal hats in summer, he didn't care! Finally Ayaka would be off his back!

"Hello Negi, your student really wants to talk to you about something, have fun, bye!" He said rushing out the door, a sigh of relief escaped his month as the door slammed shut.

Ignoring Takahata's desperate need to get away from Ayaka Negi addressed the situation with calm, reserved patients of an English gentleman. "What in the bloody hell was that about?" Negi asked addressing the blonde, they went over in the villa, and as a group (Ku-Fei) decided it was time to put a stop to the blonde fetish over Negi, unless he wanted a repeat of Negi world all over again. Which was out of the question, never again, he thought darkly.

Caught off guard by Negi's irritated tone Ayaka stammered to explain her behavior. "Well um… you see… Professor I… um…" But it was not use, she couldn't put her words together, and Negi was looking even more irritated, or at least he was trying this was as difficult for him as it was for the rest of them, secretly behind him everyone else was placing bets on waver or not Negi will go easy on the blonde or not, the current bit was two to nine.

Ayaka went for her last resort, the puppy dog face, one of woman's most devastating attacks. Negi almost gave in but the horrifying memories of fan boys after the picture of him dressed as a fox girl at the school festival, sent him into a historical rant.

"Miss Ayaka," Negi said seriously. "I find you behavior very untactful for the class president, there for I hereby assign you two days detention, and revocation of your title as class president as of now Zazie Rainyday will be the new class president till elections are held."

Ayaka was shocked, and money was shuffled from everyone's pockets to Jack's and Ku Fei's hands for they bet that Negi would be hard on the blonde. Ku bet on him because he was her boyfriend and she had faith in him. Jack on the other hand used his insight to the future for he was there when Negi world opened, and saw the trauma that aspired that day, so he knew never would crush Ayaka fantasy of him and stop Negi world from other being made, speaking of which the demolition crew should be arriving at the sight in a few minutes as well as secret negotiations between Ayaka's parents and the gunslinger mages' personal lawyer about building theme parks devoted to a child teacher.

As Negi began lecturing the value of personal space and the unlawful printing and merchandising something with his face on it without the owner's consent, everybody else snuck out the door and went on with their day. They had just spent over a half year of training in the villa, and wanted to get some fun time in.

In Jack/Kaede's room Jack was busy working with his potions again. Now that he and Negi have exceeded their past levels there was no point in trying to invent a potion to summon their future abilities. However there was still a need to hide their identities just in case Negi gets outlawed again, like the last time he went to the magic world. Which why he was working on a potion that will temporary change the users appearance, and this time he remembered to put the limiters in with the mix, so that the potion would wear off in twenty four hours, but that also means that you have to wait for the effects to wear off.

Has Jack placed the final ingredient into the potion, he felt a familiar pair of arms wrap around him. "Come on you work on that thing all day it's time to sleep." Kaede cooed in Jack's ear. They been separated for almost six months because of the training in the villa and she wanted to make up for lost time.

Always ready to spend time with his girl Jack placed the bottle he was mixing his potion in down on the table, but forgot to remove the bottle of soul mist. You were only supposed to use two ounces, but the whole bottle ended up being mixed in! Blue and pink smoke vapors poured out of the bottle and filled the air, forcing the two lovers to inhale the mysterious brew.

"Uh… (cough, cough)… what was that?" Kaede asked the smell was revolting! It better not be permit.

"I guess it was a dud." Jack said getting over his own coughing fit. Though he was disappointed about his potion not working, at least he wasn't a Chibi. "Whatever, let's get to bed."

The two crawled under the covers and drifted to sleep, never know what fate or more likely God's sense of humor had in store for them tomorrow.

The next morning Jack awoke with a pounding headache, which was strange because he remembered that he didn't drink any alcohol late night. He knew this because he actually remembers late night. That wasn't all that was bothering him though, his chest fell heavy, and something was that felt like hair was touching his butt. His hair was long but not that long.

Jumping out of bed he went into the bathroom connected to the dorm room, and looked in the mirror. Instead of his usual scruffy bread, black hair and black eyes, he saw smooth skin, brown hair, and grey eyes. Slowly he looked down at his chest and saw two mounds instead of muscle.

Taking a calming breath he peeked around the doorframe, and saw himself still sleeping on the bed. There must be logical explanation for this, he thought, and then it dawned on him. "The potion! It wasn't a dud after all it switched, me and Kaede into each other's body. Yes perfect fine, it will only last for a day… What the fuck am I saying?" He shouted, waking Kaede who was in his body up, it really give you strange filling seeing yourself get up when it wasn't you doing it.

"Uh, what's with all the noise?" Kaede said sleepily, rubbing the sand from her eyes, but her hands felt ruff, and what was this itchy thing on her face? And why did she have a craving for cigarettes and alcohol. All become clear when the morning drowsiness vanished and she saw herself standing on the other side of the room. "What the hell did you do now?"

Jack nervously explained. "I swear I didn't do this on purpose."

Kaede sighed. "Whatever how long are we going to be like this?"

"For exactly twenty four hours, and before you say anything, no there is no other way to change us back until then. For now I suggest we go about our day like usual." Jack suggested. "Now what were you planning to do today."

Kaede put her hand on her chin, which felt weird because of the bread, making her wonder how Jack put you with this thing all the time. "Let's see normally I'd take a bath with the other girls, and today I was supposed to go shopping with Mana, and some of the other girls. After that we were going to hang around the festival today."

"Ok that sounds like it'll be easy enough, I'll just take a later bath, and meet up with Mana, after you give me the details of where you're supposed to meet, and then we'll meet back up at the festival at three o'clock in front of the stairs." Yes this would work, he thought, after all how hard could it be to be a girl.

"Now what we're you planning on doing today Jack?" Kaede asked, though if she knew her boyfriend like she thought she did, it probably involved drinking, smoking, and lazing around.

Jack thought hard, there was something that he was supposed to do today, but couldn't remember what it was. "I don't know. You just do whatever you want till the festival. Have a nice day, and try not to use my powers there's no telling what could happen." He warned as he grabbed Kaede's bathing supplies, by now the girls should be done with their bath, so it would be alright for him to go in now.

Kaede gave him a good bye kiss, which was awkward, but he played along. "Have a good day." She wished as she watched him leave. Poor fool didn't know what he was getting himself in to.

As it turning out Kaede's prediction was true, Jack didn't know what he was getting himself into; also he missed calculated what time the other girls come to bathe because the place was packed! Naked girls were running around everywhere! Not that was a big deal Jack seen plenty of naked girls in his life, but he was a man of ethics, and was taught to give girls the proper respect they deserved, and not peeping on them in the bath was one of them.

Unsure of what to do, Jack was about to exit the bath when a voice called to him through the chaos. "Hey Kaede over here," it was Mana that was calling out to him, or rather Kaede, but that wasn't important. Quickly he rushed to the Mercenary's side, the dark skinned girl had recruited one of the individual hot tubes for herself, and since Mana was a close friend Jack figured it would be alright to bathe with her, plus he needed to test how well he could play at being Kaede.

"Hey, Mana how are you doing?" Jack greeted, stepping into the streaming water.

Mana quirked an eyebrow, something was wrong with her ninja's friends speech today, it sounded like she had a drawl to her speech. Kind of like Jack when he spoke Japanese, if you listened carefully you could maybe understand him, that Texas drawl was a real nightmare.

"Is something wrong with you today Kaede? I can hardly understand you." Jack mentally slapped himself. Of course he would still talk the same, he had to come up with something fast or Mana might get suspicious.

"It's nothing, Jack's being helping me with me English and you knew that whole thing about copying accents and stuff. I guess I didn't know I was starting to drawl out my words in Japanese too." Jack said trying to keep his accent under control, it was very hard to do when you've been doing it for years, but he managed.

Mana shrugged, everyone is entitled to some off days. "Anyways are you ready for today. Usually I don't do these kinds of things, but since Rubi's taking the bill I figured it was about time to get some new ones."

Jack was confused. "New what?"

"Lingeries," Mana said placing her hand on top of Kaede/Jack's forehead for signs of sickness. "Are sure you're not sick your face is red."

"I'm fine… just too much hot water, I'm going to go get ready see you soon." Jack stuttered as he exited the tube and ran towards his room. Never before had he wanted a smoke, but since this was Kaede's body he couldn't do that, so there was only one thing he could do. Stop Rubi from stealing all his money!

Meanwhile Kaede in Jack's body sat up in one of her favorite trees admiring the view that Mahora had to offer. It was about ten o'clock in the morning, Mana, Rubi, Ku-Fei, and Sayo should be arriving at the room anytime, she hoped Jack wouldn't try to do something desperate like kidnap Ku and Negi and use the potion to switch their bodies just so he wouldn't have to go lingerie shopping alone.

In the dorm

"Hey Negi, Ku I have a surprise for you."

Back in the tree

Nya he wouldn't do that, he was too good of friend… she hopes. But Kaede's concern for the two was wavering, because of a little rectangle box in Jack's coat pocket. The urge to light a smoke was so deeply engraved into Jack's body that Kaede thought she would have to stab her hand to the tree just to stop her from actually lighting one up.

That was something she could not afford to do. She had to be strong, she had to be the strong for the twins, what kind of role model would she be if she gave into something as vile as smoking, she- when did that lighter and cigarette get in her hand. Well fine if that was the way Jack's body wanted to play ball. That's fine she could play ball, besides what harm could one smoke do.

The white stick between her lips, the tiny silver lighter ready and waiting, all she had to do was strike the flint. A quick 'click' later and the flames came to life, burning the stick. Kaede to a deep inhale… and fell into a violent coughing fit.

"Why in the hell does he like these things? They taste like tar, and (cough, cough) uh… my lungs!" She moaned. She was so disoriented that she fell out of the tree and on to the hard ground, luckily the tree wasn't that high up or she may have broken something. "Uh… I think I'll just lay here for a while."

But it was not to be for Thomas strode up swinging a pair of keys on his finger. "Hey there Jack you ready to go riding? I got the bikes filled and ready to go." Sitting just a little ways away were two Harley Davidson choppers. One was blue with a skull breathing ice out its mouth painted on the side, and the other red with a fierily skull and chains. It was easy to tell whose was whose.

"Well let's go." Thomas said throwing Kaede a set of keys, and mounted his ride, he sat confidently on the sear, Kaede on the other hand was nervous, she hadn't ever driven of these thing, or even a car for that matter, but it had to be like riding a normal bike right?

Thomas revived this engine making it scream. "HEEHAA LETS GO BOY." He yelled and tore of down the road so fast that the wind blew the up skirt of passing students.

"Heya I guess," Kaede mumbled taking off at a much slower speed. "God hope Jack is doing better than I am."

Negi glared angrily at his friend, but it was hard to do that when they were both striped down to their underwear in the bodies of their girlfriends! All Negi was doing before this walking Ku back from breakfast and all suddenly Kaede came around the corner with something behind her back, she then threw whatever it was on the ground in front of them and suddenly he and Ku had switched bodies! Kaede told them she was actually Jack and about what happened last night with the potion. He also said that if he has to be trapped in a girlish hell, then it was Negi's responsibility as his friend to suffer with him, and that left a confused Ku-Fei to attend the final teachers meeting of the year with no idea of what to do, say or talk about. He prayed she was alright.

At the teachers meeting Ku-Fei was busying munching down on some pork buns when the dean called for her to submit a verbal report on the class 3-A's performance this year. Mouth full of food, she nervously looked for something take could help her when she found a sharpie and some paper. Quickly she scribbled down a little note and held it up.

The note read as followed

I have a sore throat today, so I can't speak, however I believe that class 3-A- Hold on I'm running out of room. Grabs another piece of paper, (scribble, scribble) holds up another sign. Class 3-A is doing really good. P.S I like pork buns.

"Thank you for that… detailed report Negi," The dean said worried that the extended period of time the young professor was spending with the Baka ranger had dulled his mind.

Back at the store Negi and Jack pretended to look throw that racks of Lingeries. They were trying to stall for time and hope that the others would be done before they were forced to actually participate.

"Hey girls what do you think of this one?" Rubi asked as she modeled a cameo colored bra and panties in the middle of the store. Jack sigh, public sensitivity had never been one of Rubi's strong suits. "Hey I noticed you two haven't tried anything on yet, do you need help?"

The two blushed red. "No!" They yelled at the sometime.

"Too bad," Rubi said grabbing the two by the arm and dragged them to the changing room. "Come on I'm sure these will suit you too nicely."

Well Negi and Jack were being scared for life. Kaede was having a panic attack of her own, riding a motorcycle was insane already she had nearly been run over by ten semi-trucks, nearly fallen of at least a dozen times and almost fell off a cliff!

When they had finally returned to Mahora, she had never been, so relieved to see the parking lot.

"Well see ya later Jack and you might what to get yourself checked out, you're a little green around the gills." Thomas said, and then rode away.

Kaede moaned. "Oh god I think a need a drink. Where did this bottle come from?" She asked, examining the bottle of rum that was now in her hand, but she didn't care enough right now to worry about it, and took a big swing of the drink.

"Hey there Jack or um Kaede, whoever you are!" Ku-Fei yelled as she approached the mind switched ninja.

"Ku-Fei?" Kaede questioned. What in the hell was Ku-Fei doing in Negi's body, unless… Dammit Jack!

"Oh how did you know?" Ku whined, sullenly biting into her ten pork bun, since the teacher's meeting.

"Your Japanese still isn't as good as Negi's, plus the pork buns didn't really help you ether." Kaede explained patting her friend on the head, when she pouted like that in Negi's body she looked so cute!

Suddenly a pair of voice called out to them. "Jack, Negi," Jack and Negi exclaimed keeping in character as Kaede and Ku as the two ran up to their bodies and embraced them. Jack swore he was going to destroy that potion recipe when he got home.

"Hey there, Ja- I mean Kaede what's up?" Kaede said warily. Jack was acting really strange, not that the whole day wasn't strange enough already.

Seeing the bottle in Kaede's hand Jack swiped it and gabbed half it down in one swallow. "Nothing wrong now that I got this," Jack said happy. "Now let's go home I'm tired."

"What about the festival?"

"Don't care." He said. Alongside them Negi was going the same thing. And they happy spent whole duration of the festival watching rented movies and eating pizza, till finally morning came.

"Fuck yeah! I got my body back!" Jack shouted from the rooftops, well rolling the sheet with the inductions on how to make the soul swapper potion into a homemade smoke. And as he stared into the rising sun he pointed west. Tomorrow was they day they left for England; no more horse shitting around it was go time!

Authors note

This was just a little quick chapter, but now the real story starts again.