okay...last we saw Kuwabara, he was falling off a building...not good.

Shall we see what's going on?

HEAVEN OR HELL

LET"S RAWK!

16th period.

'Dammit!' Kuwabara swore, knees kicking as he ran down the path towards Eva's cottage 'Why didn't I put it together? My sixth sense was always on edge there, but I put it off as the woods!' he grit his teeth 'And now Negi is…he could be-!'

The tantei was dimly aware of Botan calling for him a ways back; riding on her oar as trying to keep up with the man on foot was just plain stupid.

Flashback

"Okay." Kuwabara muttered, rubbing his wrist tenderly to get the feeling back "What's so important you couldn't wait till break ta tell me?"

"Big trouble!" Botan replied "Remember how I thought Evangeline was familiar? Well look at this!" she held out a wanted poster, with Eva's picture on it "She's an S-rank wanted criminal from the magic world!"

"Criminal? Eva-chan?" Kuwabara repeated, looking at the paper in confusion "You're pulling my leg, sure th' picture matches but that things over ten years old."

"Of course she doesn't look any different! She's a VAMPIRE!" Botan insisted earnestly, popping open Kuwabara's attaché case to reveal a laptop like attachment "According to our research, Eva's one of the few High daylight walkers that have slipped under spirit world radar!"

Kuwabara ran his eyes over the information, turning paler as he read on. Murder, wanton destruction, terrorism, the dark evangel had even tried her hand at world domination at one point. 'And I've been living under th' same roof as her?' he shrieked, a shiver running down his spine at the thought of ivory fangs piercing his jugular in his sleep. He snapped out of these morbid thoughts as he noted a clause at the bottom, frowning at it in confusion "What's this?" he asked, drawing Botan's attention."

"That? Well according to sources the reason she's been under our radar for so long is because she's bound to school grounds by the infernus scholasticus curse." She held up a finger "That's high level sorcery, it binds her magic, so we wont have to worry about that when we apprehend her, the only way to break the spell is for the caster to release it or to drain them, or a descendant, of their blood."

"So who's the big wiz that cast this spell?" Kuwabara wondered, suspecting the dean, and making a note to tell Negi to keep Konoka away from the girl.

"Someone called Nagi Springfield." Botan muttered, blinking as she took in Kuwabara's stunned expression "Kuwa-kun? What's wrong?" She shrieked as her friend and tantei leapt over the fence and down the side of the roof "Kuwa-kun!"

End Flashback

'Okay, maybe leaping off th' roof wasn't th' smartest of ideas.' The tantei admitted, recalling the ground rushing up at him with a sweatdrop, 'But taking th' stairs or Botan's oar would take too long, at least this way no-one saw me.'

Fifteen minutes ago…

"Natsumi-chan what's wrong?" Ayaka called out, only to find the girl trembling in terror as she hugged her desk mate, Kaede, tightly.

"K-Kuwabara-sensei…just fell past the window!" the shy girl stammered, eyes little scribbles of terror, eliciting a series of gasps.

"What?" the class yelled as one, scrambling to the windows in time to see Kuwabara was indeed falling "AH! SUICIDE! MURDER!"

They watched with horrified fascination as he fell, eyes following his progress carefully, only for Kuwabara to flip in mid-air so that he was upright, crashing into the ground feet first, cracking the tiles and startling a group of seniors who gaped at him in shock. Then, to the amazement of all, the orange haired sensei dashed off towards the woods at top speed, as if the fall had meant nothing.

"He…survived?" was the collective thought, eyes wide and pupil-less at the sight of the unharmed educator "But we're on the fourth floor!"

"Did you see that look on his face?" Kasumi noted, blowing up the picture on her digital camera to reveal the determined scowl for all to see "He looks really pissed!"

"Forget that!" Yuna yelled excitedly "Did you see how he shrugged off that fall! His legs should have burst from a fall like that!"

"He survived Tendo-sensei's barbell of doom too!" Makie pointed out, several people making signs against evil at the dreaded name "and he was turned up the next day without a scratch!"

"He's a terminator!" Sakurako suggested energetically "A killer robot from the future, reprogrammed to teach and protect Negi-kun!"

"Ack! What if the barbell changed the program back!" the Narutakis realized, the entire class breaking into a frenzy at the thought, Ayaka trying futilely to calm them down as Asuna sweatdropped at the sight.

At the back, Chao Lingshen cocked an eyebrow and smirked, taking note of the blue-haired blur that flew past on an oar, almost too fast for the eye to see.

'You just get more interesting by the minute Kuwabara-sensei.' She noted with a coy smirk, several new scenarios running through her devious little mind 'I'll have to see if I can recruit him…things could get a little messy otherwise yo.'

Back to present.

"Kuwa-kun!" Botan shrilled, pulling up alongside the man with a flushed expression on her face "Don't you ever do that again! You near scared me to death! And unlike Yusuke if YOU die that's it!"

"Sorry Botan but there's no time ta lose!" Kuwabara shot back, not even looking at the angry ferrywoman "Negi-bozu's old man's th' guy that cursed Eva-chan, and right now bozu's at Eva-chan's house!"

Botan gasped and urged some extra speed into her oar, following after Kuwabara as he charged down the path at an impressive pace, leaving a trail of dust and leaves in their wake. Within what seemed like seconds the Tantei caught sight of the door to the cottage he'd begun to call home, near busting it off its hinges as he forced his way in, startling the occupants as he took in the scene before him warily.

Chachamaru was bowing in greeting, a tray with a teapot, cup and what looked suspiciously like a pharmacy bag resting on it. Negi had turned to face him, staff at the ready but gaping at him in alarm and confusion. Evangeline, looking a rather bizarre combination of dangerous and adorable in her pajamas, was standing on the banister of the stairs, hand glowing with power and several phials of liquid held between her fingers. "Well," the midian noted, a smirk stretching her flushed features as she took in the new arrivals "come back to check up on me sensei?"

"Negi," Kuwabara called out, not taking his eyes off the vampire's own "Back towards me, slowly." He blinked as some emotion flashed in those eyes, annoyance, anger and…sadness?

Before he could think about it Evangeline let out a mocking 'Feh,' before collapsing face first off the railing.

Eva's POV...

'Figures.' The chibi vampire muttered self mockingly, feeling a surge of familiar, long forgotten pain at the look in Kuwabara's eyes as he ordered Negi to back towards him 'It's always the same…they find out what you are and suddenly they pull out the pitchforks.'

She had thought that she'd long gotten over this, what did she care of the opinions of mortals? In a few years she'd outlive most of them, hell a few seconds if they really pissed her off.

But the look of alert focus in Kuwabara's eyes struck a chord somewhere, probably because he'd been living with them for a while now, but most likely because of her current condition.

Speaking of which, her body finally managed to alert her brain that it wasn't up to the task of grandstanding any longer, and without so much as a 'by-your-leave' shut down all motor control, the phials falling from limp fingers as she collapsed off the rail.

'With my luck I'll land on the glass' she note disdainfully, only to blink as, instead of impacting face first into the hardwood floor, a pair of warm, muscular arms caught her in mid fall. She looked up weakly, gazing into the shocked features of Kuwabara as he looked down at her; apparently he'd surprised himself with his actions as well. The last thing the high daylight walker heard was Chachamaru's concerned voice and then the darkness took her.

Kuwabara's POV...

Kuwabara honestly couldn't understand what had happened; he'd just reacted on sheer instinct.

One minute he was Kuwabara the Reikai Tantei, glaring into the eyes of Evangeline A.K McDowell, Dark Evangel and Undying Magi as she stood atop the rail, determined to protect his friend and colleague from becoming a midday snack. The next he was Kuwabara-sensei, dashing forward to catch Eva-Chan before the little girl cracked her head open falling off said rail.

He turned her over so she was looking up at him in his arms, amazed at how light she was. Even Yukina weighed more than this little slip of a girl, and she wasn't anywhere near as dangerous as the report Botan had given him implied.

"Evangeline-san!" Negi called out, dashing over alongside a concerned Chachamaru and placing a hand to her head "Wow she's really burning up!"

"Yes, she has every fever from regular to hay." Chachamaru noted, nodding to the stunned professors "Kuwabara-sensei? Could you help me put her to bed?"

'Hay fever?' the two males repeated numbly in their eerie mental tandem 'What kind of vampire is she?'

Botan brought up the rear, looking highly off track. This wasn't how a bust was supposed to go was it? But the again ever since she'd bumped into Yusuke and Kuwabara her world had been rocked on a pretty frequent basis.

After settling the exhausted vampire into her bed, the group stood by the bedside, watching as she breathed heavily, coughing every odd second. "She really doesn't look very well." Botan noted, looking down at the flushed face of the blonde vampire in concern.

"Doesn't sound too hot either." Kuwabara agreed, watching as Chachamaru tucked Eva in tighter to make sure she stayed warm.

"At the moment master is so weak she is about as threatening as a ten-year old." Chachamaru diagnosed, in her usual monotone "That is to say, a non-magical, non-wizarding ten-year old of course."

'That doesn't reassure me none.' Kuwabara muttered, he himself had been a regular hellion at that age, and the less said about Urameshi the better. And that didn't factor Sensui either, if the report on him was right the 'black angel' had been warding off demons since he could crawl.

"Negi-sensei, Kuwabara-sensei?" Chachamaru spoke out, alerting the two "I have some connections at the university hospital that can slip me the antibiotics she really needs, no questions asked." He looked at them "Can you watch over master while I'm out?"

"Da heck?" Kuwabara blinked, as Negi jumped at the idea "Wasn't she trying to kill Negi a few minutes ago? What makes you so sure we wouldn't take her out now?"

"Because I trust you sensei." Chachamaru replied, startling the man with her flat tone and unblinking gaze "You would never raise your hand to strike a defenseless opponent, let alone one of your students."

Kuwabara blinked, looking at the green haired girl in confusion, a soft moan from Evangeline settling his resolve as he nodded. "You head back to class Bozu." He instructed as soon as Chachamaru was out of sight "No point in both of us being here."

"Ano," Negi stammered, looking between Eva and his colleague "A-as her homeroom teacher…I have every right to be here too."

Kuwabara blinked at the boy, before sighing and scratching his neck, only to jolt as Evangeline started coughing fiercely. "Botan! Can't you do anything?"

"I'm not a doctor!" Botan replied, looking around frantically "Wounds and purification I can handle! Sickness is another matter!"

"Maybe a healing spell for the throat?" Negi suggested, his index finger glowing as he stroked the Vampires neck, the coughs soothing slightly as she spoke.

"Throat...feels like sandpaper…" Eva rasped weakly, startling the mage in his ministrations as she tossed and turned "So…thirsty…"

"I'll get some water!" Botan offered, dashing down to the kitchen and returning with a glass, trying to coax some into Eva's mouth only for the vampire to turn away "Maybe some cola? Ice tea?" she blinked "Oh wait, duh! Thirsty vampire."

Negi blinked, holding out a nervous hand to the stricken patient only for Kuwabara to place a hand on his shoulder. "She needs your blood ta undo th' spell." He reminded the youth, who blinked at how well informed he was "Besides, I got more ta spare."

He rolled up his sleeve so that his left lower arm was exposed, supporting Eva's head with his free hand as he held it to her lips. Two sharp pinpricks alerted him to the presence of the fangs, followed by the sudden feeling that he was a juice box as he let her sip away for a good few seconds. After a while he noticed some colour had returned to the girl's cheeks and removed the arm, slapping a band-aid over the puncture wounds to stem the blood, even as Eva started to toss and turn.

"Burning up…" she mumbled, sweating as she turned her back on the window "Make it…go away…"

Negi dashed over to close the curtains, making sure the blinds were shut as well as he turned to examine his student/nemesis, who started shivering. "Poor thing," Botan noted, "Her clothes are soaked through with sweat, I'll have to change her." She shot the two males a meaningful glare before waving her oar at them threateningly "Privacy please!"

As Botan changes Eva...

"What a morning." Kuwabara muttered, resting his head against the wall as he sighed exhaustedly, completely spent from the unusual turn of events.

"Tell me about it," Negi agreed gripping his staff nervously with two hands "Come for the fight, stay for the nursing as they say."

"What WERE you doing here bozu?" Kuwabara asked, looking at the youth "I mean, I thought she'd attacked you by surprise but it felt like I'd walked in on a standoff when I showed up."

"She sent me a letter of challenge." Negi replied, holding up the rather crumpled envelope for Kuwabara to read, "I figured without the full moon I could handle her."

"Finish what we started two nights ago?" Kuwabara read, blinking at the challenge in confusion "You mean she attacked you already?"

"Yeah," Negi admitted, shivering "She was the vampire of Cherry Blossom Street that attacked Makie and Nodoka for their blood, I saved Nodoka but she tricked me into a two on one battle against her and Chachamaru."

"Chachamaru's in on this too?" Kuwabara noted grimly, arms crossed at the idea of two evildoers in his class. "Next you'll be telling me one of them's a robot or something." He blinked at the look on Negi's face "Oh you gotta be shittin' me!"

"Language!" Botan chided, bopping the tantei on the head with her oar as she exited the bedroom "She's resting peacefully for the moment, but you should keep it down nonetheless."

"Arigato, ano…" Negi began, trailing off as he tried to place a name on this mysterious student. He highly doubted she was on his register.

"Uh…this is Sanzu Botan! " Kuwabara stammered, ignoring the look Botan gave him as he introduced her to the boy "She's in another class at the school but she's a friend of the family so I promised to keep an eye on her."

"Oh, so she's a friend of yours Kuwabara-san?" Negi noted, recognizing her at last as the girl that had helped Nodoka back during the potion incident.

"Oh yes!" Botan agreed, hugging the Tantei's arm and smiling at Negi cutely "Kuwa-kun's always getting into trouble so his sister asked me to watch out for him!"

She ruffled Negi's hair before turning to Kuwabara seriously "I better get going, I have to file a report." She smiled once more at Negi before disappearing down the stairs.

'Too bizarre.' she noted, summoning her oar and sailing above the tree line on her way to Reikai 'She wasn't anything like what the report described, and I've NEVER heard of a vampire with hay fever.'

She frowned, deciding to alert Koenma to just how much of a cock-up intelligence had been doing after carrying out her usual job.

Hey, a girl had to make ends meet you know? All those costumes didn't appear out of nowhere!

With Negi...

'She's so cute when she's sleeping.' Negi noted, kneeling next to Evangeline's bed whilst Kuwabara was in the can, 'Some vampire!' he scoffed, only to frown 'The thing is, true vampires are undead, but she's obviously not. Instead she's lost a great deal of power and as a result turned herself into some sort of…pseudo-vampire to get them back.'

'But why do that? Why emulate a vampire?' he wondered, frown deepening as he put his genius mind to work 'And for fifteen years at that, if Chamo's information is correct. How old is she? Why did my father curse her in the first place? Is Chachamaru a part of it?' he sighed, shaking his head exasperatedly 'Just what's the connection?'

He got up, wondering if perhaps something in the room could shed some light, when a moan from Eva froze him in his tracks. "T-Thousand Master…" the sickly midian whimpered, turning in her sleep "wait…stop."

Negi blinked at the mention of his father's title, wondering why the Dark Evangel would be dreaming of such a thing, only to be struck be realization, raising his staff in the air.

"Rastel Maskil Magister." He chanted, magic filling the room with a warm glow as the staff hovered above him "Nympha somni, Regina Mab, portam aperiens ad se me alliciat!"

He clapped his hands together, a large hand grabbing his shoulder as a flash of white light flared behind his eyeballs. Opening them he found himself hovering in the air along a strip of beach he recognized as Mahora Lake, the campus grounds in the distant background. He also discovered two other things.

First of all he was naked, which didn't matter much as in astral form one didn't really need, uh, certain parts.

And second, he wasn't alone.

"Kuwabara-san?" the mage sputtered, gaping at the equally surprised astral form of Kuwabara in shock "What are YOU doing here?"

"You're askin' me?" Kuwabara replied dumbly "One minute I'm on th' can when I sense a surge of power in the next room, I come in ta see what's going on only to find you in a trance, so I grabbed your shoulder and next thing I know I'm floatin' around in my birthday suit."

"You must have been dragged into the spell with me." Negi noted resignedly, not too concerned since Kuwabara already knew he was a mage and had vowed secrecy "I wanted to see just how my father beat Evangeline."

They snapped out of their conversation as movement on the beach came to their attention, gaping in awe at the figures there.

A tall, blonde, vivacious looking woman, dressed in a highly revealing back dress with arm gloves and a leather choker stood on one side, wind blowing her golden locks slightly as she stood in a pose that screamed seduction and strength. A puppet with two blades hung from her left hand, the threads holding it up shining silver to the duo's eyes.

'Spiritual thread.' Kuwabara noted, 'Just like the stuff Rando used on Urameshi back in the day.'

It didn't take an idiot to notice that, grown up and bombshell figure aside, that the woman before them was Evangeline, obviously at the height of her power. Negi's attention however, was drawn to the man standing across from the evil mage, holding a staff identical to his own, a hooded robe covering his frame.

"Nowhere to run now, Thousand Master." Evangeline purred, her voice sending shivers down their spines as she eyed the man before her like a cat stalking it's prey "I've tracked you all the way to this far eastern island nation, today I will defeat you, and claim the flesh and blood I've rightfully earned."

"Evangeline The Puppet Master," the cowled man replied solemnly, the wind rustling his cloak "Dark Evangel, The Undying Magi…Evangeline the dreaded vampire. You may have used your strength and beauty to sink your fangs into hundreds before…but your schemes will not avail you this time."

He raised his head, and for the first time granted the impromptu audience a clear view of his face. If anything there was no denying the familial resemblance to Negi, true the face was missing the baby fat and pinch-nez glasses, and the bangs on the right side of the head were longer than the left, but other than that they were the spitting image.

"Kuwabara-san it's him!" Negi exclaimed, waving his arms excitedly as the man spoke on "The Thousand Master! My father from fifteen years ago!"

"He looks like he stepped out of some fantasy manga." Kuwabara noted offhandedly, even as Negi gushed on about how cool the man looked. The cries of glee ended in a gasp as Evangeline and the puppet lunged forwards, looks of hungered eagerness on their faces as they rushed the stationary mage.

"FATHER!" Negi called out in concern, only to blink as the sand in front of the man exploded as soon as the attacking duo stepped on it, revealing a hidden pool of water. He then watched on in confusion as his father emptied the contents of a sack into the pool, eliciting shrieks from the flustered Evangeline as she was stirred about like the unwitting ingredient in the biggest pot of soup, only to suddenly transform into the child they knew today.

"Uh…what th' hell?" Kuwabara muttered, which pretty much summed up the situation rather well "I thought your old man was some sorta badass wizard…what's with th' pitfall traps and garlic?"

Evangeline demanded as much in her ire, calling the man a coward and questioning why the 'Man with a thousand spells' would fight with such childish tactics.

"Well I couldn't go around calling myself the 'man of five, maybe six spells tops." The Thousand Master replied, pulling off his hood to reveal a man in his mid twenties at least, early thirties at most, his grin shifted to an annoyed sneer as he looked down on the vampire in the pit. "What do you expect from a magic school dropout?" he demanded, snorting derisively "So I never studied, sue me!"

Cue the Nadesico music.

What's this? The thousand master is a fraud?

Negi: AUUUUH!

What a crushing revelation for Negi kun!

Eva: You think this is crushing? I LOST to the baka!

Don't worry Negi! Kuwabara shall console you!

Kuwabara: LEAVE ME OUT OF THIS!

Next time on Reikai Kuwabara: Healing and truths!

Botan: Hm...maybe a nurses outfit would be nice the next time...

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