And so the plot contnues...and the crew learn a little more about each other.
Heaven or hell?
LET'S RAWK!
39th period.
Makoto sighed as she shuffled the last of the paperwork Nita had left on her desk, having finally finished the damned things and ready to punch out for the day, as it looked like a storm was about to set in if the electrical discharge her magic was detecting was any clear sign.
'Too bad Kuwabara had to leave early.' She noted with a rueful smile as she exited the staff room, waving farewell to Shizuna and Touko-sensei 'I was hoping we could grab a coffee or something on the way back."
She looked up, at a faint rumble in the sky, wincing as she recognized the signs of an oncoming storm, cursing herself for leaving her umbrella back at the cottage despite Chachamaru's warning. The girl never seemed to be wrong when it came to the weather.
So caught up was she in he thoughts that she almost stumbled over several girls that were loitering in the hallway, recognizing most of them instantly from Nita-sensei's 'troublemaker' list, which basically meant they had to be members of class 3A. And it didn't help that three of them were Baka-rangers.
"Well now…" she noted, crossing her arms under her breasts and quirking a well-groomed eyebrow as they stared up at her in nervous apprehension "What have we here? A couple of volunteers for extra-study?"
"But Negi-bozu not teach till tomorrow aru…" Ku Fei pointed out in confusion, earning exasperated looks from her fellow stalkers, who hurried to silence the blonde Kempo master even as Makoto looked round the corner.
"Hm? What's this? Spying on Negi-kun are we?" the gym instructor noted, quirking an eyebrow teasingly at the girls, who couldn't help but flush at her knowing tone "How improper, I should report this…"
"We weren't stalking!" Asuna hissed, her face redder than Rei's fuku as she slapped the air in a classic 'straight man' act "We're just worried cause the baka was half dead all through class today! Hell he was reading the book upside down and didn't notice!"
"Wasn't even the right textbook either…" Konoka added with a giggle, holding up a bright orange book that earned spit-takes from Asuna and Setsuna, while Nodoka turned an interesting shade of puce "Looks like he picked up Seruhiko-sensei's book by accident."
"Ayaka nearly had a coronary!" Kazumi cackled, recalling how the class rep, upon catching sight of what her beloved Negi-sensei was reading, had actually thrown a startled Makie at him to prevent the child-sensei from 'soiling his impressionable eyes with such smut!' The fact that Negi's head had wound up between Baka Pink's thighs hadn't helped calm the Class-Rep down any.
'I'm going to have a word with that guy…' Makoto muttered, flushing slightly as she confiscated the highly explicit piece of smut from the girl's hands, resolving to confront Seruhiko about leaving his porn where impressionable young minds could find it. "In any case," she coughed "I can't have you stalking the boy…" she ignored Asuna's insistence that they 'weren't stalking dammit!' in favor of smiling "not without ME anyways."
Kazumi grinned, nodding her head in approval while the other members of the group, with the exception of the blissfully clueless Ku Fei and innocent Konoka, gaped at the woman in confusion.
"Look." Yue called out, drawing everyone's attention back to Negi to see him meeting up with Evangeline, who surprisingly seemed quite pleased to see him, almost as if she'd been waiting for him "I see…training with Evangeline-san is he?"
"Training?" Makoto repeated, the brunette instructor blinking in confusion at the expressionless bluenette, who had the decency to look embarrassed, or at least as embarassed as Yue could appear, at her slip "What training?"
"T-Tea ceremony!" Nodoka stammered, her face lighting up like a Christmas ornament as she waved her arms to draw attention away from her friend "N-Negi-sensei wanted to learn m-more about Japanese t-tea ceremony's, and E-Eva-san is part of the club and-!"
'She's adorable when she's flustered.' Makoto giggled internally, watching the shy librarian work herself into a panic, before ruffling her hair and comforting her 'Still…' she noted internally 'Something tells me this isn't the type of TRAINING they meant…I've never heard of Tea ceremonies exhausting someone…'
"Say…" Kazumi wondered, holding her chin in thought as her devious, paparazzi mind came up with an unlikely, but nonetheless scandalous, scenario "he hangs out with her for two to three hours and comes back exhausted…" she grinned as a slight flush adorned her cheeks "You don't think they're doing THAT, do you?"
"NO THEY ARE NOT!!!" Asuna screeched, he face flushing in mortification as she swatted away the image of a nude Evangeline and Negi, slightly obscured by the kanji for 'Top Secret' as it hovered over their heads, Nodoka and Setsuna turning crimson from mortification, while Ku Fei simply blinked in confusion.
"Keep your wild theories to yourself." Makoto warned the Mahora Paparazzi, though she DID cough to clear her throat afterwards "and anyway, they've already gone."
Sure enough, a downpour started the second the would be stalkers cleared the gates, though admittedly the roads through the campus streets were laced with convenient overhangs and cover for any shoppers that were still out and about. The real problem, in Makoto's opinion, was getting the girls to follow her lead without making any noise.
Now Makoto may have become a teacher, and thus had a responsibility to teach these girls some discipline, but she'd been a teenager once, and she and her friends had stalked their fair share of hotties and whatnot before moving on with their lives, and so it was deplorable to her at just how BAD these girls were. It actually took a whole ten minutes to convince Konoka that saying 'Nin-Nin!', albeit in an adorable manner, did NOT help her stealth in any way. The least said about Ku Fei's objections to 'skulking around not honorable' the better.
By the time they reached the woods leading to the cottage the rain had picked up, coming down hard enough it was like standing under a shower on full blast, the thick canopy only serving to fend off the worst of it as they snuck up on the cottage.
'Never thought I'd be sneaking into my own home at MY age…' Makoto noted with a chuckle as she undid the latch, a familiar guilty thrill racing through her as she recalled the times she'd let herself back into her apartment after a night of dusting Youma with her friends 'Good times…'
"Huh? No one's home?" Asuna muttered, looking around the cottage in confusion, having just come from looking around the upper floors with Ku Fei and Kazumi "That's weird…they DID enter the house, right?"
"You check the bathroom?" Makoto asked, a little apprehensive after her own search turned up nothing, it was like her roommate and Negi had just vanished. Kuwabara and Chachamaru's shoes were also in the doorway, but neither of them seemed to be here either.
"Guys! Down here!" Konoka's voice called out from the stairwell, the group turning round to find a nervous looking Nodoka coming back up to meet them, the shy girl stating that they'd found something in the basement.
'Since when do Log cabins come with basements?' Makoto wondered with a sweatdrop, following after the group, only to blink at the veritable army of dolls, puppets and plushies that filled the underground room 'Wow…' she muttered, eyeing the gothic-garbed marionettes in trepidation 'good thing Usagi isn't here, she'd freak.'
Her attention instantly snapped to the fore, as a feeling of great magical energy washed against her senses. It wasn't dangerous, or even remotely oppressing, but as a Senshi she'd learned time and time again that letting your guard down gave the enemy an opening they wouldn't hesitate to exploit.
"What the heck?" Asuna muttered, the redhead leaning in close to get a better look, her mismatched eyes narrowing at the glass orb that seemed to contain a tower, apparently built in the sea, with a small islet off the side.
"Some kind of miniature?" Konoka asked, the dean's grand-daughter moving her face around the glass shpere, distorting her features into rather humorous shapes as she did so "Like a ship in a bottle?"
"It's too detailed to be a miniature." Yue discounted, looking over the contents of the glass container analytically, having taken note of the words 'Evangeline's Resort' printed on the side facing her "A Hologram perhaps? Either way, Nodoka says she saw Negi-sensei inside it."
"Say what?" Makoto repeated, looking at the bluenette and Librarian in confusion, though their words sent another surge of wariness through her. The feeling of magic had been non-existent until they entered this room, and since then it had been growing stronger with every second. Furthermore, it was as if something was wrapping around them on all sides. 'This isn't good.' She deduced, her eyes narrowing in suspicion as she eyed the walls 'Someone here is using magic, but I can't just transform with all of them here-eh?'
She trailed off, looking around in alarm as the engulfing feeling suddenly decreased, her eyes widening as she realized she was suddenly alone, all of her students having vanished into thin air "No!" she yelled, whipping out her Henshin rod and narrowing her eyes at the ceiling in readiness "Give them back you-!"
There was a slight feeling of vertigo, and when it cleared Makoto was forced to cover her eyes as a bright light burst into being above her, her teeth clenching as she readied the Henshin rod.
"Yo, Kino-sensei." Yue's voice called out, the brunettes spinning round to gape at the sight of the stoic bluenette and an equally stunned Asuna, who was blinking at her with her mismatched eyes.
"Yue-san, Asuna-san." Makoto stammered, the stunned brunette moving towards the duo whilst secretly tucking her Henshin rod back up her sleeve with a flick of her wrist "Are you alright? Did anything happen to you?"
"We're fine." Yue admitted calmly, even as the brunette patted her down for injuries, Asuna warding the woman of with her hands and claiming she was unharmed "We've mostly been waiting for you and admiring the view."
"View?" Makoto repeated, only to blink as she realized that it was warmer here, looking around in surprise to gape at the life-size version of the model they'd been looking at not two minutes ago "What on earth?!"
"Asuna's reaction was pretty much the same." Yue admitted, earning an embarrassed fume from the redhead as she walked towards the bridge "This appears to be the exact same place we were looking on the miniature."
"You seem pretty calm about this, all things considered." Makoto noted with an exasperated expression, following the bluenette across the bridge as Asuna railed at there being no handrails "Most schoolgirls would freak at being transported somewhere against their will."
"I don't think ANYONE in our class counts as a 'normal schoolgirl', Kino-sensei." Yue replied, smiling wryly at the brunette, who had to agree with her on that point "Besides, this is far more exciting than the humdrum, day-to-day world of classes and school."
'Gotta agree with her there too.' Makoto noted with a snort, her lip quirking as she recalled how exciting life had been when she'd awakened as the senshi of Jupiter. It was almost addicting, moonlighting as a magical warrior of love and justice, the subject of a nations love and praise, only to revert back to pale, stagnant normality and the demands of their various superiors, like Haruna-sensei.
"Still," she noted, determined to have the last say in this argument as she smirked down at the bluenette, an eyebrow quirked in mock humor "I'd be more convinced of your bravado if your knees weren't doing a passable Macarena, right, Asuna?"
"I'm excited alright?!" Yue muttered defensively, not even blushing as she made her way across the bridge "Besides, in the half hour before you and Asuna-san got here, the rest of us took the chance to look around."
"Half hour?" Makoto gaped, looking from the bluenette to an equally confused Asuna, who shook her head in confusion, clearly as in the dark as she was "But you only disappeared a few seconds ago!"
"Hey guys! Over here!" Kazumi's voice called out from atop some steps, the Mahora paparazzi waving at them near some sort of viewing area shaded from the sun with a marble dome held up with pillars "There's voices coming from down below!"
"Voices?" Asuna asked, noting the embarrassed look on Nodoka's face, only to blink as Makoto pushed forwards, a frown on her face as she ordered the girls to stay behind, her tone brooking no argument.
"I'll go first." The brunette muttered, eyeing the shadowy staircase with trepidation, ready to whip out her Henshin rod at a moment's notice, damn the consequences "Whatever brought us here wasn't normal, the fact they haven't shown themselves makes me wonder as to their intentions."
"But it's just Eva-cha-!" Asuna began, only for Kazumi to slap a hand over the redhead's mouth, said redhead's eyes widening as she realized the full-weight of the situation before them, and the threat it might pose to Negi.
Before any of them could come up with an excuse to waylay her however, Makoto had already disappeared down the staircase, her eyes narrowed as she caught the tail end of voices drawing closer.
"…Kukukuku…" a sinister, yet oddly familiar voice cackled, the stairwell giving the echo a decidedly sinister tone as Makoto drew closer, her eyes narrowing as she felt her skin crawl reflexively at the sound "More right? Yes?"
"B-but I'm so tired!" came Negi's plaintive cry, the child sensei's voice laced with exhaustion, and a hint of fear, that set the brunette's hackles on end, her 'big sister' senses suddenly firing on all cylinders.
"Give the kid a break, Eva-chan…" came Kuwabara's exhausted tone, Makoto's eyebrows disappearing into her hairline at the sound of the man's voice "You've had us BOTH at it for hours, let him recover first before you…"
"He's young, he'll bounce back quick enough." Came the voice from before, which Makoto recognized now as Evangeline's "Still, you're right, take a break boya, I'll get back to you later." her tone grew sinister "and as for you 'sensei', whip it out!"
"I ain't a juice dispenser dammit!" Kuwabara retorted, though there was a resigned tone to his voice as the sound of cloth rustling filled the air, Makoto's features turning scarlet as her mind began to race despite itself "Dammit, didn't you get enough from Negi?"
"Just be grateful I don't ask you to call me 'Master' like the boya." A deeper, undoubtedly womanly voice chuckled, the sensual tone sending a rush of awe and shock through the brunette's body "Now then…let's get to it shall we?"
"I knew it!" Kazumi whispered excitedly, Makoto whipping round to find her students lined up behind her, looking like scandalized lobsters on account of their fierce blushing, except for the ever clueless, innocent duo of Ku Fei and Konoka, "I told you! They're doing THAT!"
"Like hell!" Asuna roared, somehow pulling a harisen out of thin air as she raced around the corner before Makoto could stop her "Hold it there you pervert! Just what do you think you're-?!"
She trailed off, face going pink as she blushed and paled at the same time, looking on in disbelief at the sight of a busty blonde in a black school uniform, which was straining against her figure, sipping away at Kuwabara's neck, sitting on his legs and titling his head back.
"Hmm?" the blonde wondered, looking up with interest at the sight of the stammering redhead "Kagurazaka?" she asked, quirking an eyebrow as she released the tantei with an audible 'pop', quirking an eyebrow as the rest of the posse and Makoto stumbled into view "What are you lot doing here?"
"What are WE doing here? What are YOU doing here!" Makoto gaped, pointing an accusatory finger at the impressively busty blonde, noting the trail of blood coming from her lips "And what're you doing to Kuwabara?!"
"I really don't see how that's any of your business, Kino-sensei." The busty blonde muttered, stepping off the tantei, allowing him to collapse onto the bed, too drained to support himself for the moment "I was merely collecting my fee from him and the boya."
"Boya-NEGI?!" Makoto gasped, noting the slumbering form of Negi on the other side of the bed, the poor little tyke moaning in his sleep "You bitch! What've you done to-!"
She trailed off as the edge of an invisible blade pressed against her throat, her eyes widening as the busty blonde blurred into vision right behind her, free hand holding her wrist, keeping her from going for her Henshin rod.
"Really now, there's no need for that." The blonde countered, smiling to herself as she restrained the brunette with apparently little effort, "First you barge into my resort without permission, then accuse me of doing things to my pupils against their will…" she trailed a manicured nail against the brunette's cheek "Really, just what do you think of me, Kino-sensei?"
"E-Eva-chan?" Makoto asked, eyes widening at the blondes chuckle, only to stumble forwards as she was released, turning round to gape as the busty woman disappeared in a cloud of smoke, revealing Evangeline in the same black school uniform with red tie.
"Really now sensei," the vampire lolita chuckled "who else would it be? This IS my resort, and it IS in MY basement." She turned to eye the tagalong group with an mildly irritable glare "For which you STILL haven't provided an excuse for intruding upon."
"But…the voices…the blood…that outfit-!" Asuna stammered, pointing from the vampire to the recovering form of Kuwabara, and the rousing form of Negi who blinked blearily at the girls as he put his glasses back on.
"That? I was merely collecting the boya's tuition fee from him." Evangeline replied with a disdainful snort, as if pointing out the painfully obvious "As for my form a few seconds ago, Kuwabara tends to fidget if I don't restrain him properly, and that can lead to torn arteries all around and I'm not much of a healer…plus it's murder trying to get bloodstains out of this outfit."
"Would ya ease up, Eva-chan." Kuwabara muttered, clamping a hand over his already healing bite marks, earning a glare for the 'chan' suffix "With the way things are here you'd EXPECT them to jump to the wrong conclusion."
"True…" Evangeline allotted, before fixing her classmates with a glare that nailed them, and an equally unnerved Makoto to the spot, suddenly not too confident that they're tailing Negi here was such a good idea "But still, I'd like to know exactly why they felt the need to trespass..."
Thirty minutes of exposition later found Makoto looking up at the sky of the resort, her world officially rocked and trying to come to grips with everything.
'To think,' she wondered, 'a whole world of magic, hidden right before our eyes.' She shook her head in disbelief 'I mean yeah, I knew there were other magical girls out there, hell we teamed up with a few over the years, but Wizards, vampires and demons?'
Needless to say, after learning that she'd been bunking with a Shinso-class vampire, considered the very pinnacle of undead hierarchy if what she'd been told was true, kind of dampened the impact of Negi-kun being a wizard in training somewhat.
'Still,' the brunette muttered, remembering the penalty that Evangeline had warned them of for uncovering Negi's secret 'Turning the wizard into an ermine for getting caught? Isn't that a little harsh?'
"You okay there, Makoto?" Kuwabara called out, the brunette looking up just as her college buddy sat down next to her on the steps, an understanding smirk on his face "Kinda blows you away doesn't it?"
"Sort of…" Makoto admitted, though internally she was almost too used to strange, magical events. It was simply the sheer enormity of the magical world she belonged to that threw her for a loop. To her, magic meant Henshin rods and hurling spells at opponents that popped up at random, but according to what Evangeline had revealed, most higher level monsters and demons tended to attack en masse, which meant getting your hands dirty. All in all, she liked the sound of the TRUE magical world all the more.
"Anyways…" Kuwabara muttered, the big lug rubbing the back of his neck nervously as he looked away, features apologetic "Sorry fer not tellin' ya about any of this…but I promised Negi I'd keep it all hush-hush n'…"
"I understand Kuwabara." Makoto assured her friend; smiling up at him understandingly as the man blinked at her "A man keeps his word right? Besides, as cute as he'd look, I don't think any of us want to see Negi-kun turned into an ermine."
"Got that right." Kuwabara chuckled, the tantei grinning morbidly at the mental image of Ermine-Negi being crushed into the bosoms of a horde of screeching schoolgirls "Poor kid'd be ripped ta pieces."
"Still," Makoto muttered, the brunete standing up and dusting off her tracksuit pants "to think you'd keep something like this from me…" she turned her back on the man, her arms crossing before her as she held her head high "I thought we were friends…"
"We are!" Kuwabara stammered, waving his hands for emphasis as he leapt to his feet, trying to face the brunette only for her to turn away "But with Negi…then the Dean…the rules-!" He trailed off, blinking as he noticed the way the brunette's shoulders were shaking with restrained laughter, even as she turned to face him.
"It's fine, Kuwabara." Makoto assured her friend, wiping a tear of laughter out of the corner of her eye with one finger "Everyone's got their secrets right? Only a good friend doesn't go around spreading them."
"I hate it when women do that…" Kuwabara muttered, the tantei blushing slightly, tucking his hands into his pockets and kicking a non-existent pebble out of the way, even as Makoto smirked at him "That wasn't fair, Makoto."
"No, it wasn't." Makoto agreed, the brunette offering a kind smile, before walking into the center of the arena-like courtyard and turning to face him , her arms open in a ready stance "So wanna make something of it?"
"Just like old times huh?" Kuwabara snorted, rolling his shoulders and slipping into a stance of his own, which Makoto noted had less holes in it than before "Gotta warn ya now, I ain't the same Kuwabara from college."
"Preaching to the choir pal," Makoto shot back, an equally daring grin on her face as she raced in, opening the fight with a spinning heel kick to the side of his head, which he blocked "you ain't the only one that's changed!"
"Are you sure about this, Chizu-ne?" Murakami Natsumi asked, the shy, freckled, dram club member looking up from drying the unconscious puppy before her to regard her busty, semi-naked roommate "I mean he is a stray and all…"
"Well we couldn't just ignore him after seeing him like that could we?" Naba Chizuru reasoned, drying off her hair from the rain, the older girl wearing only her bra, skirt and undergarments "I'd like to see to his injuries," she noted, dropping the towel and turning to look for the first-aid kit "could you clean him up a bit first?"
"Hai…" Natsumi sighed, shaking her head in resignation and turning to look for the towel she'd set aside for just that task, only to scream a few seconds later, Chizuru rushing back to see her crouching before the naked form of a young boy with messy black hair "W-what the…Chizu-ne…?!"
"Oh my…" Chizuru wondered, the busty young woman looking over the youth, he couldn't be more than Negi-sensei's age really, in concerned alarm "You don't think that puppy we rescued…?"
"Don't be silly." Natsumi discounted, waving a hand dismissively, though truth be told it was the only thing that made sense, believe it or not, as she slowly began to panic "Still, what're we gonna do Chizu-ne?!"
"Wait…" Chizuru ordered, kneeling down next to the youth and checking his forehead with a concerned frown "Not good, he has a high fever." She noted, getting to her feet and moving for the phone "I'll call the doctor, carry him to the bed would you?"
"B-but he's naked!" Natsumi insisted, blushing at the very idea, only to sigh as Chizuru shot her opinion down in flames with the voice of reason. 'He's kinda cute, now I look at him.' she noted with a blush, taking in the odd things atop his head, moving to lift him, only to pause as a tail popped into existence on his rump "Eh?"
Chizuru's attempt to call the doctor was abruptly prevented as a teaspoon, hurled with deadly speed and accuracy, reduced the phone to so much shattered plastic and circuitry in her hand, even as Natsumi's terrified squeal filled the air.
"Don't…" a dark, but weak sounding voice called out, Chizuru turning to find her roommate held hostage by the selfsame youth, his eyes glaring dangerously at her from over the freckled girl's shoulder, one hand holding her in place as a human shield, the other holding sharp, almost claw-like nails to her throat "No telling anyone I'm here…"
Cue the Nadesiko music!
Narrator: Comrades clash!
Kuwabara: (Dressed like HKenshiro) MAKOTO!
Makoto: (Dressed like Shin from FOTNS) Bring it Kuwabara!
Narrator: A battle for the ages that will test their ties of loyalty!
Asuna: (Deadpan expression) What the F-?
Narrator: But what's this? What dark designs are afoot?
Kotaro: No sudden-! HEY! WHERE ARE YOU TOUCHING?!
Natsumi: SORRY!!! /////
Narrator: All the while, a deadly secret is unveiled!
Negi: Asuna...I want to show you...
Asuna: Eh? 0///0 Negi?!
Drama! Emotion! Passion!
Next time on Reikai Sensei Kuwabara: Negi! Expose theyself to all!
Negi: EHHHHH?!?!?!?
No children were molested in the making of this fic. So call of the damn witch hunt.
R&R!!!