DISCLAIMER: I do not own Negima or Harry Potter. Negima is the property of Ken Akamatsu, and Harry Potter is the property of J.K. Rowling.
Italics text = character thinking to themselves.
Underline+Italics = character communicating with telepathy
Bold text = shouting
Bold+Italcs = Casting Spell/Ability
Chapter Nine
The ladies man
The next morning, Harry as well as the other students woke up all at the same time because of the loud explosions that were heard from outside. As they looked out the window, they saw an unreal sight. They terrace they were at the previous day looked like it was hit by a bomb, as Ku was fighting with Kaede, Yue with Nodoka and Chachamaru with Haruna. But most of the damage was coming from Negi and Asuna's fencing, not because they were stronger, as Asuna was yelling at the young mage at the top of her voice:
"Come back here you perverted little bastard! I'll teach you a lesson!"
As the students arrived at the terrace, they found Snape, McGonagall and Dumbledore having tea with Konoka, Evangeline and Chamo who was smoking. But unlike the later four, Snape and McGonagall were watching the fight so intensely they almost forgot they were eating.
"What's going on, professor?" Harry asked Dumbledore, but the old man once again avoided looking at him and let Eva answer.
"They're just having a short morning workout, what else" the vampire said.
"Hm, I could have sworn they were having internal disputes." Ron said as Asuna shouted:
"Come back, you!"
"Oh, Negi-kun just surprised Asuna this morning." Konoka said with a chuckle.
"He had it coming." Eva grinned.
"Oh, come on, he can't control his sneezing in his sleep! No one can!" Kamo defended Negi.
"I think she's more upset about the result of the sneeze" Dumbledore smiled.
"Result?" Hermione asked confused.
"It striped her in her sleep" Eva said with a bored tone.
"But naked." Kamo said in his "perverted old man mode" before a large piece of concrete flattened him. "Guh, damn those sharp ears!" he said in a pained voice.
After a few moments of silence, Neville asked innocently:
"But how could he strip her from a different room?"
"Who said they were in different rooms?" Eva said in the same bored voice.
"You mean they were sleeping …" Hermoine began scandalized but a sudden explosion covered the rest of the sentence and she didn't dare repeat it as she saw the look on Asuna's face as she left.
"Okay, everyone, after breakfast, how about we head for the Hot Springs?' Negi asked getting up from the crater Asuna made with him.
"Okay!" they all said, except McGonagall, Snape and Dumbledore who had already had a bath.
As the girls and the boys split up, Negi felt a familiar feeling in the air, the kind Haruna or Chamo sometimes give out. But unfortunately for him, this time it was coming from most of the girls and even from some of the boys.
In the male area
As the boys were entering the water, some of them kind of embarrassed but most of them enthusiastically, Kamo sighted.
"What I wouldn't give to be at the female area..."
"Don't do it, Kamo-kun! Asuna will kill you!" he warned the ermine who was drinking sake.
"I know, Aniki. Not this morning, anyway." Kamo said disappointed.
"Say, professor Springfield..." Ron hesitated.
"Yes?"
"About this morning..." he continued as Negi blushed "Why were in the same room as miss Asuna?"
"You mean same bed, right?" the ermine smirked.
At these words, everyone except Negi froze. For the next 30 seconds, only Kamo's chuckle was heard.
"Y-you….with her…same bed…." Ron said in a trembling voice.
"Well, we shared the same dorm room back at Mahora…." Negi began hesitantly "so we don't mind…"
"Heh, aren't you leaving something out, eh Aniki?" Kamo said going in his "perverted old man mode" once again. "Like the pactios?"
As he said that, Negi's face got bright red and he dived underwater for a few seconds.
"What's a pactio?" Harry asked confused.
"It's a ritual through which a mage grants magical abilities and sometimes an artifact to a partner, usually strong physically, but not necessarily." Negi explained, hoping they will leave it at that.
"Oh, I see" Harry said, feeling there was more to it, but Draco went ahead of him:
"Then why the hell did you blush?"
"Well…" Negi said trying to think of a good lie.
"It' done through a kiss when the partner is a girl" Kamo grinned and Negi got even redder.
"You mean you kissed Asuna?" Harry asked in disbelief. "On the cheek, right?"
"On the mouth" Kamo grinned.
"What?" Ron asked, not believing his ears.
"And not just her" Kamo said reaching for Negi's clothes.
"No! Wait…" the young mage began but Kamo pulled out all of his pactio cards.
"All of 'em ! " the ermine declared, more perverted then before.
"Wha?!" all the boys yelled so hard their lungs were empty for a second.
In the female area
"What are those guys yelling about?" Eva said curious.
"Maybe they were attacked!" Hermione said worried.
"Not a chance in hell, little girl" the vampire assured her.
"Still, why are they yelling, aru?" Ku asked intrigued.
"It sounds like some embarrassed form of surprise" Yue said, drinking one of her weird juices.
"It couldn't be that perverted ermine said something about me, could it?" Asuna said hopefully.
"Well, it would be a little too much for just that…" Yue agreed.
"Fufufufu" Haruna laughed evilly, holding her card on her forehead.
"What?" Asuna said a little worried.
"Kamo told them about pactios." the manga artist answered with a grin.
At those words, all of the Mahora girls froze and blushed.
"Y-you mean…" Nodoka began to ask.
"Yes. Everything." Haruna said smiling evilly. "Every. Juicy. Detail."
With each word, the Ala Alba sank deeper into the water.
"Excuse me, what's a pactio?" Hermoine sounded the question on all the student's minds.
"A kiss with Negi-kun" Haruna said the essential point before they could stop her.
A deep, long silence feel after those words. It took a good 30 seconds for the girls to process the information.
What?!"
"You mean all of you?" Hermione asked bright red.
"Yep" Haruna said.
"But miss Chachamaru is a robot and…"
"Hehehe" Kamo's voice was heard echoing from somewhere. "Chachamaru's was the longest and the most intense one of them all. Aniki used so much power that she almost fainted."
At that, all eyed turned to Chachamaru who practically had steam coming from her ears.
"Kamo-kun" Haruna began in the her most perverted voice "we need…"
"Way ahead of you, neechan! I got the recording last time Hakase checked her body. But it will cost ya" Kamo said in his geedy voice.
"Anything" Haruna said drooling.
"Target locked. Firing laser". Chachamaru's voice was heard and as they looked at her in time to see a beam of light coming from her eye and hitting something in the sky.
Kamo fell into the water and Chachazero came down looking for him.
"Are ya alright Albert?" she asked.
"Don't worry, I'm in heaven!" he answered looking at all the girls.
"Wrong." A ice cold voice made him freeze. "You're in the depths of Hell" said Eva, pilling out her card and saying "Adeat!" followed by most of the other girls.
"Have mercy!" the ermine squeaked as they approached him.
"None!" they said in one voice, except Haruna who intended to help him.
"Come forth! Kamo-kun Grand March!" she chanted summoning over a thousand Kamo look-alikes.
"Thank you neechan!" the real one said, blowing his cover.
"Idiot!" she answered as the other girls gave a new high to animal abuse.
After they all finished bathing, they dressed and headed towards the warp area. There, they met up with the other professors who looked very impressed when one of the male students went to Negi and said:
"Professor, on behalf of out class, I thank you for being our teacher. Please teach us well!" he said with a bow.
"Incredible! He got their entire respect in a mere day! What is this kid?" McGonagall whispered to Dumbledore.
"This guy is the manliest of men!" the boys thought.
"He most be a very good kisser!" the girls thought.
"Indeed, he has." Dumbledore whispered back. "For all the wrong reasons, actually!" he thought amused.
"Great, another playboy!" Snape thought in furry.
"Professor Snape?" Negi said.
"Yes?"
"I believe you have class with them after lunch. Do you mind if Evangeline and myself observe?"
"Not at all" Snape answered coldly.