And so we continue with the drama, sorry, no pactios yet, just more random goodness.
11th Period.
A morning on a weekend, what wonders await us on this glorious day? We zoom in on the current residence of resident Tantei, Kuwabara Kazuma, a rather quaint little cottage he currently shares with two…Erm…three students. How will our daring hero face the dangers of the world today?
"SNARRK- BLORT-SNAAAAAARRKKHKHKHKK-K!"
Erm…maybe we should come back later, preferably AFTER that little girl with the blonde hair calms down and stops trying to suffocate Kuwabara with a pillowcase. Let us turn instead to the shared residence of our OTHER male lead in this high school, or should I say, JUNIOR high school, drama?
Negi's lovely suite...
Negi smiled as he helped tidy up around the small dorm room he shared with Asuna and Konoka, the former dashing about to get changed for her route whilst the latter served breakfast with a smile.
"This is really, really good Konoka-san!" Negi praised, eyes closed as he smiled at the dean's granddaughter "You'll make a good wife someday!"
"You're too much Negi-kun!" Konoka giggled, hitting him on the head with a little hammer that she pulled out of nowhere. The two then spent the morning tidying up around the room, folding laundry, airing out the beds and general cleaning up, all at a cheerful pace.
'She's good at cleaning, laundry and cooking…Konoka's wonderful.' Negi mused, smiling at the girl as she passed 'Sure she's sometimes a little over the top,' he felt the bandage from the hammer wound 'but that's nothing compared to Asuna-san. Konoka's a Zephyr, Asuna's a Hurricane.'
"HEY NEGI!" Asuna yelled out, slamming the front door open and rushing inside, letter in hand just as Negi shrieked out an apology "What's your problem? Never mind, probably too many to list, namely this!" she held up the letter "If you wanna keep your magical connections under wraps you gotta get more subtle envelopes!"
"No kidding." Negi muttered sweat dropping at the distinct return address on the envelope. Even if it WAS addressed in English there was no guarantee someone from Japan couldn't read it. Deciding to speak with the Magus about it later, the magi in training slit it open to smile at the familiar scent coming off the pages. "It's a letter of my sister!" he exclaimed, opening it up and smiling as the magical recording displayed his sisters smiling form.
"It's been a long time Negi, are you well?" the image asked "Congratulations on becoming a respectable teacher. From now on it's the real deal so be diligent and do your best."
The image smiled in an oddly maternal manner that ones normally associated with those who had caught their little brother looking at magazines of a certain type and was filing it away for later embarrassment. "Also…I may be jumping the gun, but I wonder if you found your partner?" she sounded rather thrilled by the prospect, judging by the flush on her face "Wizards and partners attract each other so she's already probably someone close to you." The image giggled "Whoever you find in your apprenticeship I hope she's pretty."
"A partner?" Negi repeated in the long-suffering manner of those whose older siblings live to embarrass them "It's a little early for that sister." He let out an indignant squawk as Asuna promptly put him in a headlock.
"You been holding out on me Negi!" the redhead teased, grinning maliciously "You got a fiancé stashed away somewhere? A lover? Precocious ain't the half of it!"
"It's nothing like that!" Negi insisted, calming down and pointing at an image that, for conveniences sake, we'll say appeared in a thought bubble "It's a traditional hope that wizards who are active in society will find a …for lack of a better word…mate, who will watch their back. Such partners are considered 'Minister Magi'." He smiled and held up a finger for emphasis "in fact, you can't be considered a Magister Magi without one!"
"Hmm," Asuna muttered, holding her chin thoughtfully "So it's always a male/female pairing, right?"
"Well, men and women have different priorities, so they compliment each other well." Negi admitted with a flush "Plus, y'know, the handsome hero wants the beautiful heroine and vice versa. A lot of partners wind up marrying each other."
"So I was right the first time!" Asuna insisted, stretching out the boy's cheeks with a smirk "It's a lover!"
"So you really came to Japan to find a lover Negi-kun?" Konoka asked cheerfully "Well our class alone gives you thirty to choose from!"
"WAHAH! KONOKA-SAN!" the magi in training bleated, leaping backwards in fright alongside a startled Asuna, who asked her roommate what she'd heard.
"Just the part about finding ideal partners." Konoka replied, smiling blankly "So what's in the letter?"
"Nothing!" Negi insisted, stuffing the damnable piece of enchanted paper away "Nothing at all!" He gaped as Konoka giggled and dashed to the door, throwing it open wide.
"Hey everyone!" she called out cheerfully into the hallway "Negi-kun came to Japan to find a lover!"
"NOOOO!" Negi caterwauled, tears streaming down his cheeks "I came here to be a teacher!"
"Take it easy Negi-kun I was just joking!" Konoka assured her, shutting the door with an apologetic smile "Asuna, Ojichan called me again, so I'm off."
"Oh boy," Asuna sighed, sweat dropping exasperatedly "He wants to talk about 'that' again?"
"That?" Negi asked, blinking up at her in confusion even as he waved to Konoka "What is 'that' supposed to be?"
"Never you mind." Asuna shot back, sighing tiredly "Boy, Konoka came out of nowhere didn't she?"
The two returned to the room, never noticing the identical flushing faces that had been camped outside their door, listening for interesting tidbits.
Beware teh cute ones...
"This Is big!" the Narutaki twins announced, rampaging all over the school to inform their classmates "Negi-sensei came to Japan to find a partner!"
"Wh-What did you say?" Exclaimed Yukihiro Ayaka, a startled Kazumi and Chizuru looking up in shock "Negi-sensei is looking for a partner?"
"Partner? As in Lover?" Kugimiya Madoka asked, looking at her fellow cheerleaders for confirmation.
"It means a marriage partner!" Kakizaki Misa replied enthusiastically, absolutely thrilled at this piece of gossip.
"Looking for a fiancé!" Shiina Sakurako noted excitedly "It's like something out of the movies!"
"What I heard is that Negi-sensei is the prince of a small country who's hiding his identity!" Haruna pointed out.
"Then you'd be marrying into to royalty!" Yuna exclaimed excitedly, the girls chattering over this piece of information for several minutes.
"Hey! Sakurako pointed out "You know how Kuwabara-sensei's always trying to protect Negi? Maybe' he's his guardian! Like a Samurai!"
Everyone shared a collective image of Negi in traditional Japanese robes with Kuwabara crouching before him in samurai armor and a sheathed sword in hand.
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"No! Negi-kun's British right?" Misa contradicted, "Then Kuwabara would be his knight!"
The previous image was replaced with Negi in expensive European royalty robes and crown, with Kuwabara kneeling before him in full paladin armor.
Negi: Rise, my champion.
Kuwabara: Yes, my king.
"Hey now wait a minute." Haruna noted, a dark thought entering her mind as she smirked, putting on her 'game face' that scared little children and grown, straight men, everywhere, "what if they have THAT type of relationship…think about it, Kuwabara-sensei's always dodging the question when it comes to his favorite type of GIRL."
The class blinked, then as one suffered from hemorrhaging noses as the image was once again replaced, this time with a bishounen Kuwabara and Negi, the latter being pressed against a wall as the former nibbled on his ear.
Negi: Kuwabara-san…I'm scared...
Kuwabara: Don't worry Negi-kun…I'll be gentle…
"MEDIC!" Haruna yelled, looking round frantically as she tried to support a fainted Nodoka "WOMAN DOWN! MEDIC!"
Yue sipped her juice dispassionately and watched as an unconscious Ako floated past, face red with embarrassment and/or the sight of so much blood. "Lightweight."
Elsewhere...
Kuwabara sneezed, shivering uncontrollably as he looked around. He had just gotten the mother of all goose bumps, a feeling that not only had someone walked over his grave, but were digging it up to get at him again.
He'd woken up to find the shredded remains of a pillow littering his bed and both roommates missing. Opting to go for a walk, he donned his outfit from the first day at Mahora and had been making his way towards the main street when the feeling hit him that something very BAD was about to happen.
"Ah! Kuwabara-san!" Negi greeted, walking over to the taller professor, staff held before him "Fancy meeting you here!"
"Same to you Bozu." The Tantei greeted, ruffling his hair as he eyed the staff "Been meaning to ask, why do you always carry that thing?"
"This? It's my staff." Negi replied, smiling at it, "I've had it since I was little, my father gave it to me."
"Mind if I take a look?" Kuwabara asked, unaware that they had picked up an audience, since they were staying well out of sight, if not earshot.
With the girls...
"See! They're always together!" Haruna noted, cackling as they hid around the side of a building, listening in on the conversation.
"I don't know…" Negi's voice carried over, the uncertainty in his voice making several of them flush.
"Aw c'mon I'm not gonna break it!" Kuwabara replied, several eyes widening at his words "Just let me hold it for a while."
"Okay…" Negi replied uncertainly, the girls blushing madly, Ayaka actually having to be propped up by two others as Kuwabara whistled.
"This is a pretty big piece of wood you're lugging around Bozu." The older sensei noted, earning gasps of horrified delight from the audience, Nodoka hyperventilating out of embarrassment "Pretty heavy too."
"AH! Kuwabara-san stop!" Negi called out, sounding concerned "Don't just swing it around!"
"Oh my God!" Kazumi gasped, face flushing at the implications of this conversation, sticking out her phone to snap a picture. Haruna saw her and moved to stop the paparazzi before she gave the game away, the two starting a fight with the other girls trying to get them to stop, only for all of them to sprawl out into the open like a tangled sack of dominoes, gazing up with embarrassed eagerness to see Kuwabara and Negi gaping at them in confusion, Negi's staff held in the formers hands as he examined it.
Kuwabara's POV...
"What in th' hey?" Kuwabara muttered, gazing dumbly at the gaping assortment of tangled limbs "What are you girls doing here?"
The girls looked between the two in confusion, noting the staff in Kuwabara's hands and sighing as their nightmare/guilty wet dream faded into obscurity. However, as denizens of 2A, they weren't wont to stay depressed for long, and with a surge they rose to their feet, flocking toward the duo with sparkles in their eyes.
Kuwabara, who's sixth sense had been heightened by the trials of the campus, acted completely on instinct and grabbed Negi around the waist and made for the hills, staff clutched in his free hand as the stampede followed, hot on their trails. "EEE! The knight saves the prince!" Sakurako called out excitedly, eyes gone sparkly again "That proves it!"
"Negi-sensei!" the masses called out, spurred one by the actions of the Tantei and Sakurako's yelling "Make me your partner!"
"Is there some kinda fucked up script going around campus that doesn't quite get as far as us?" Kuwabara yelled to the heavens, realizing in his haste he'd only made the situation worse, but would be damned if he was abandoning Negi to a fate worse than death…namely hormonal schoolgirls.
Negi merely held on for dear life, understanding that somehow the Mahora Grapevine must have heard Konoka earlier and the vines had spread out to wreak havoc on his life once again. As such he was quite grateful to Kuwabara for being there, at the very least he'd given the boy a running, well, carrying start.
"Kuso!" he heard Kuwabara growl, before the arm holding him shifted him to a better position as they rounded a corner "Hold on Bozu!" That was all the warning Negi got before they were suddenly airborne, landing on the roof of a building and rolling, the girls below gasping in confusion at their sudden disappearance.
'WAY too close.' Kuwabara panted, letting the reiki he'd channeled to his legs die down before the glow caught Negi's attention 'Good thing I know these streets so well.'
"Kuwabara-san?" an inquisitive voice called out, the lanky professor looking down at his confused ten year old colleague "How did you do that?"
"Ancient Kuwabara secret Bozu." He replied with a smirk, putting a hand over his mouth as he silently looked up at Sayo. The spectral girl shook her head and gave him a thumb's up, the coast was clear. "Anyway, we better lay low for a bit."
"The school." Negi insisted, dusting himself off and checking his staff for damage "It should be empty until tomorrow."
"Good idea." Kuwabara noted, wincing as the dieing echoes of the horde moved in the distance, before grinning "And I know a short cut."
Moments Later...
If anyone had ever told Negi Springfield that he'd be sneaking into school on a weekend to avoid a horde of love struck girls he'd have probably laughed at them. Well, he'd have laughed, but then he'd apologize and asked them if they were feeling quite all right.
As it were, getting to the school via the rooftops was one of the most invigorating things the ten-year-old had ever done, it gave you a whole new perspective of things in a way.
That is until he caught sight of Ku Fei and Kaede bounding towards them from the side, the look in their eyes and the speed they were going at making it clear they were no strangers to rooftop travel.
"Kuso!" Kuwabara swore, grabbing Negi and leaping onto a lower rooftop, "Stay here for a bit, I'll run on ahead and try to distract them!" With that he swiped his colleague's jacket, tucked it under his arm like a ball and leapt off, the two girls following in pursuit.
"YOU NO ESCAPE ME ARU!" Ku Fei yelled out, Kaede chuckling to herself as they followed the retreating figure, whilst the other half of their quarry was in fact sneaking away towards the campus.
Using his staff to touch down quietly, the young magus let out a breath of relief, hoping Kuwabara managed to give them the slip, only to freeze as a startled gasp sounded behind him. 'OH HELL! I've been spotted!' he realized, all logic leaving him as he tried to make up an excuse, images of himself as an ermine flashing before his eyes, only for a gentle hand to land on his cheek, prompting him to look up into the face of one of the prettiest girls he'd ever seen.
"Negi-kun you're embarrassing me!" she exclaimed, flushing under his scrutiny "What's going on? You startled me when you popped out of nowhere!"
"Ko-Konoka-san?" the ten year old stammered, eyeing his roommate as if seeing her for the first time. Konoka had always been a pretty girl to look at, and had always made him feel welcome in the dorm. The young woman standing before him now was a stunning example of traditional Japanese beauty; hair brushed carefully and dressed up in an expensive looking kimono and hair ornaments.
Needless to say if Negi wasn't looking forward to puberty before he sure as hell was now.
Before either could question each other as to why the heck they were there however, several male voices called out looking for the girl, causing her to run off like a rabbit, Negi trailing after her for the heck of it. For some reason the idea of running AWAY from Konoka had never really crossed his mind, even during the love potion incident he was more concerned with the multitude of students chasing him than any one in particular.
Right now he was wondering if he should have run from the girl back then.
With Kuwabara...
Kuwabara let out a yell as he leapt a particularly large gap between a building and the gym, stopping to catch his breath and get his bearings. This, as the great scholar of the art of 'running the fuck away' Rincewind would have said, was a big mistake.
He was dimly aware of the auras rushing towards him just in time to roll forwards to avoid Ku Fei's flying kick. When he got to his feet it was to find Kaede smiling down at him in a friendly manner. "Looks like Negi-sensei isn't here." The Koga beauty noted offhandedly, Ku pouting and fussing as she made her way towards them "Pretty brave of you sensei, acting as decoy."
"You pretty fast for first timer Aru." Ku acknowledged, her hands hidden inside her sleeves as she looked at the tantei "What think of first time roof hopping?"
"Fine, unless you count being hunted like a convict." Kuwabara replied, a smirk crossing his features as he slowly got to his feet.
"So do you think Negi-sensei got to the academy alright?" Kaede asked, smiling at the stunned look on Kuwabara's face "We could tell when you took off without him."
"Eh? Negi-Bozu going to academy?" Ku repeated, a silly expression on her face as Kaede and Kuwabara sweatdropped. "Why you not tell Aru?"
"Never mind." Kuwabara muttered, cutting the two off "Look, I don't know what's going on but you girls are obviously over-reacting again!" he waved a hand around at their surroundings "I mean come on! Who chases someone over rooftops because of a dumb rumor?"
"Who said we were chasing Negi-sensei?" Kaede replied, sending a shiver down Kuwabara's spine. "We wanted to have a word with you sensei."
"You strong Aru." Ku spoke up, eyeing the professor appraisingly "Very strong, want to see HOW strong."
'Oh boy…' Kuwabara muttered, watching in trepidation as Ku got into a martial arts stance and Kaede allowed some stiletto knives to appear in her hands.
"An Omiai?" Negi repeated, looking at Konoka in awe "Wow, that's interesting…what's an Omiai?"
"An Omiai is a marriage partner." Konoka explained, still smiling at the boy despite her brief stumble. "Basically you go out on arranged blind dates in hopes of finding your future partner."
"Partner?" Negi repeated, blinking as Konoka spread several files out on the table for him to see "WHOA! So many!" he exclaimed, feeling an odd surge of jealousy he couldn't quite explain "And they all look pretty good! There's doctors and lawyers-!"
"And all of them are at least twice my age." Konoka pointed out, sighing as she sat on a desk "I'm just a kid, why should I have to decided on a husband?"
"You shouldn't!" Negi agreed, a little TOO enthusiastically to be seen as a neutral opinion "I totally understand what you're saying Konoka-san!"
"Speaking of which, aren't you also looking for a partner?" the girl asked with a smile, tapping him on the nose, "In that case, more than any of the guys Grandpa chooses…I'd prefer you as my partner."
Negi felt a blush burn his cheeks crimson as he gazed into those beautiful eyes, only for Konoka to ruin the moment by going off on a tangent about how foreigners made the best husbands whilst imaging what Negi would look like at 18. "Hey!" the girl noted at length "How about I try to determine your ideal partner?" she asked, brushing aside his feeble complaints and staring at his palm. "Hmmm your ideal partner is very close…you've gotten closer to this girl over the spring break."
'That doesn't narrow it down much.' Negi noted with a chuckle, there were quite a few girls he'd met with over break...a little TOO well for some.
"Hey now!" Konoka giggled, looking at him coyly, a teasing look in her gentle eyes "It looks like you've already seen her panties!"
'That STILL doesn't narrow it down much!' Negi noted with a look of shock, and mild horror on his face. Even so it did drop the candidates from fourteen to five.
"She has ponytails with twin bells" Konoka continued, giggling slightly "and one of her charming points is that she's a little tough."
"That's obviously Asuna-san!" Negi yelped, arms flailing in vexation as he realized he'd been conned "You're just making this stuff up!"
"But you like Asuna don't you?" Konoka teased, giggling as Negi chased her around the classroom in a tantrum, before hugging him close "I'm happy you came here Negi-kun." The girl said honestly, "Because ever since then it's like I've got a cute little brother."
Negi blushed at this enawed at her sentiment, only to spike out in a minor tantrum once again "I'm not a brother! I'm a teacher! He insisted, only to gape as Konoka tripped over her Kimono and fell to the floor, taking him down with her. When the mage in training got to his knees, it was to find himself staring right at Konoka's panties as she lay on the floor, a sight that many men would have died for had Setsuna gotten her way.
"Now my panties have been seen!" Konoka giggled, enjoying the look of embarrassment on the boys face, only to blink as she finally noticed the two figures in the door "Uh oh…"
"What on earth are you two doing?" Ayaka and Asuna yelled in tandem, which resulted in a veritable avalanche as the rest of 2A burst into the classroom, followed closely by Konoka's suitors.
"AIIEEEEE!"
"UWAAAAH! KUWABARA-SAAAAAAN!"
Elsewhere...
'How the hell do I get into these messes?' Kuwabara squawked, ducking under a plethora of knives only to receive a kick to the jaw that sent him skidding back.
"You no fall down?" Ku noted in interest, eyes gleaming excitedly as she dashed forwards "This be fun Aru!"
'DAMMIT!'
Cue nadesico music
What's this? the girls are in danger!
Asuna: Again?
A fanged menace stalks the cherry blossom avenue and it's sights are on Makie!
Makie: EEH?
Run Makie! Your youthfull body shall serve you true!
Next time on Reikai sensei Kuwabara: the transience of mortals!
Eva: Huhuuu...I like where this is going.
R&R or Nodoka will cry...you won't like me if she cries.