(Hi guys. I got a new chapter for you to enjoy and enjoy it I think you will.)

It was early one morning around Mahora academy, Sayo Aisaka; 3A's ghost student and partner to Negi was strolling around, "Ah everything is so beautiful this early in the day." She smiled.

"Hey Sayo!" a voice called as Kazumi her desk mate and closest friend ran up to her.

"Oh good morning Kazumi," Sayo greeted her, "What're you doing out this early?"

"I was looking for you." The camera girl answered.

"Me?"

"Yeah, we got work to do." Kazumi smirked.

Inside Mana, Zazie, and Dustin's room at the dorm, Dustin was juggling with Zazie, while Mana was polishing a rifle, and Zyphon was charging up. Suddenly there was a knock at the door and the surprise caused Dustin to drop his balls that landed on his head.

"Ow!" Dustin rubbed his head.

"Nice one!" Domino laughed hysterically while Dustin frowned at the bird.

"I'll get it," Mana said as she got up from the couch and opened the door seeing Kazumi and Sayo, "What's up guys?"

"Listen Mana, we need to borrow Dustin-kun for the day is that ok with you?" Kazumi asked teasing Dustin who she could see inside the room.

"Hey! I don't need anybody's permission to do anything!" He argued.

Zazie calmed him down by patting his spiky head, "Calm down." Dustin ended up blushing but shook it off before he could get teased any more.

"What exactly do you need Dustin for?" Mana asked curiously.

"There's some research I want to cover and Sayo and I need both Dustin and Negi for assistance."

"Well then let's go and get Negi." Dustin began as he whistled for Domino who flew to his master's shoulder and perched on it.

"We'll be back later." Sayo said as the group left to head for Kaede and Negi's room.

In Kaede's room, the ninja and Negi were in meditating positions and were beginning to relax until a knock was at the door breaking Negi's concentration, "Now who could that be?" he asked.

Kaede got up and walked to the door and opened it revealing the three, "Good morning Kaede. Is Negi-kun home?" Sayo asked.

"Yes, is something wrong?" the tall girl asked.

"No we just need him for something we're working on." Kazumi explained.

"Oh good morning girls." Negi greeted them.

"Morning, Negi-kun." Sayo greeted him.

"What's this about you needing me?" Negi asked curiously.

"Well Negi-kun, we feel it's time we find out exactly what happened to Sayo sixty years ago." Kazumi explained.

"Yeah after all we did promise her we would remember?" Dustin asked.

"Oh yes I do remember that." Negi recalled.

"Aniki, you're not thinking of going back on your word to the cute ghost are ya?" Chamo asked smirking as Negi looked at Sayo whose eyes looked ready to swell up with tears.

"Negi-kun." Sayo trembled.

"NO! NO! Of course I'll do it. I promised you didn't I?" Negi asked not wanting the ghost to receive the wrong idea.

"Arigato, Negi-kun!" Sayo cheered.

"Well then let's go." Kazumi said as Negi left the room with the three.

Later they were outside the dorm and started walking around the campus, "So where do you think we should begin looking for clues on Sayo's past?" Chamo asked.

"Well when we first tried months ago there was nothing familiar inside the dorms." Negi explained.

"You two should've seen what happened there. Sayo unintentionally caused quite a spectacle." Dustin chuckled.

"I felt so embarrassed." Sayo admitted sheepishly.

"So then let's look around the rest of the campus. Something should spark her memory." Domino suggested.

"I wouldn't know, Domino," Sayo began, "Remember I've lived sixty years ago. This whole area was entirely different from back then."

"Well there may have been a change in the scenery and landscape, but I feel being in the presence of a place you used to know or might recall could spark something." Dustin said.

"Worth a shot." Kazumi said as she held her camera out prepared to take snapshots of anything to use as evidence.

As they walked, Negi sighed in relief, "You know it's nice to go for a walk around here."

"I hear that." Dustin agreed as he put his sunglasses on.

Sayo nodded with a smile until she looked ahead, "Hey look there!"

Kazumi and the boys jumped, "What? Did you find something Sayo?" the girl asked.

"No, but look there." Sayo motioned to the garden area seeing new plants were blooming and were planted.

"False alarm." Chamo sighed.

"And look at these Leopard plants." Sayo cheered as they looked down.

"They do look very nice." Negi admitted.

"Indeed." Dustin agreed.

"You know, they look familiar for some reason." Sayo said making Kazumi gasp.

"Really? Do you have some kind of special memory of these flowers?"

"Well I'm not quite sure," Sayo began until she clutched her head and strained, "AH!"

"Sayo!" the boys gasped.

Sayo groaned as she started seeing images of the past flash through her mind so quickly she could barely make everything out.

"Sayo relax." Kazumi said as the three calmed the ghost down until she was regaining her composure.

"Oh sorry about that." The ghost apologized.

"What was that about?" Domino asked.

"I don't know, but I saw something." She admitted making their eyes lit up.

"What did you see, Sayo?" Kazumi asked.

"I saw these flowers, and a little girl with them." She said.

"Hmm, this could be useful." Kazumi said at she jotted the clues onto a notepad.

"But we still don't even have much to work with." Chamo reminded her.

"Why don't we try running a web search on her origins, maybe her old birth record is lingering around?" Dustin suggested.

"Awesome idea, Dustin-kun. Let's go!" Kazumi said as they raced off to the computer lab.

When they got there, Kazumi was on a computer running a search, "Sayo if you've lived sixty years ago you must know a lot about the technology that have advanced through the years." Dustin said.

"Well computers, cellphones, and digital cameras really have surprised me since I've been a ghost. I didn't think such things would be possible." Sayo chuckled.

"Did you find anything, Kazumi?" Negi asked hopefully.

"Zip I'm afraid." Kazumi sighed.

"Terrific." Dustin sighed.

"Well I guess technology can't do everything just yet." Sayo said.

"Let's try the traditional way and see the old yearbooks." Domino suggested.

"To the library!" Dustin declared.

Soon they were at Library Island and pulled out an old year book that dated back to the forties. They opened it and saw multiple classes with the girls all wearing the same sailor fuku as Sayo did.

"This must be it." Negi said.

"It could take awhile since there're a lot of classes." Dustin said.

"Well let's get started." Kazumi said as they began checking out every student from every class from that year.

"Take a look at these students. I can imagine how old they look today." Dustin joked.

"Hey look at this." Negi gasped as they looked at the image of a boy and under it was the name Konoemon Konoe.

"Dean Konoe?" Kazumi gasped.

"The old man?" Dustin asked.

"Well he sure looked like a spring chicken didn't he?" Chamo asked.

"Hard to imagine he looked that young," Domino added, "And is still kicking."

"Hey Master Darius is old and he's still got fight in him." Dustin reminded the bird.

"I know."

"I found her!" Kazumi called grabbing their attention.

They looked where Kazumi spotted Sayo. It was indeed her picture sixty years ago. When she was alive she had normal skin tone and her hair was long and black.

"That's you Sayo!" Dustin gasped.

"You're right it is me!" Sayo cheered.

"Even alive you looked adorable." Negi admitted making the ghost blush.

"Yeah you look almost like Konoka." Dustin noted the resemblance.

"Sayo Aisaka enrolled at Mahora in 1939 but died in 1940 while still in school." Kazumi read from the album.

"No cause of death written." Chamo noted.

"Well that sucks." Kazumi sighed.

"The cause of death might help explain why she's so bound to these school grounds." Negi said.

"Well I've been keeping in touch with Spicer and he's told me that certain spirits are earthbound to a certain spot is because something tragic happened to them when they died."

"Then my death was some form of tragedy?" Sayo gasped.

"Let's not jump to anything just yet." Negi injected.

"Come on we need experts." Kazumi said as she hurried off.

"Wait, Kazumi!" Negi called as they ran after her.

Soon the group was talking to Nodoka and Yue, "You need information about the school from the 1940s?" Yue asked.

"Yeah, the yearbook didn't give us too much info and the web search was a failure." Kazumi said.

"Well there might be some class rosters, newspapers, sports records, and maybe class anthologies…" Nodoka began until Kazumi gasped.

"Anthologies?! Those things students piece together each year?"

"That's right." The bookworm answered.

"Thanks girls you've been a great help." Negi said making the two blushed.

"Want some help, because I can help ya find it." Alistair said coming form around back, while in his normal human appearance.

"Alistair?" Sayo asked.

"What're you doing here?" Negi asked.

"I decided to broaden my mind by helping out here in Library Island. Yue here got me started." He explained.

"It was nothing." Yue said with a faint blush.

"Well Alistair, lead the way." Dustin said as the mullet boy showed them to a spot in the library.

Kazumi pulled out a book on anthologies and looked through it, "Tanka poems were so popular back in the forties."

"Yeah things have really changed since then." Domino cawed.

"Here she is, Sayo Aisaka." Kazumi pointed out the ghosts name by some poems.

"Wow, even when I was alive I was a poet?" Sayo gasped.

"And you didn't even know it." Alistair joked.

"Listen to this one," Kazumi began as she read off one of the poems, "Her tiny hands plant leopard plants, looking forward to when the time is nigh…"

Sayo gasped as she recalled the memories that flashed through her mind awhile ago, "Guys I remember!"

"Remember?" Negi gasped.

"Yes those leopard plants. I remember them, and the little girl I saw in a vision. That was my sister."

"Sister?!" they gasped.

"Yes," Sayo answered and recalled through a flashback when she was alive with a little girl, "My little sister Sara believed our mother would come back if we filled a flower garden with leopard plants. All I could do was smile for my sister's sake. But I remember something else. Someone would also come by and pray with us."

"Who?" Dustin asked.

"I don't recall much, but I think it was a boy. I believe he was from my class back then." Sayo continued as she saw through her flashback a young boy with his face shrouded having not recall what he looked like.

"Hmm," Kazumi pondered until she gasped, "Guys I suddenly remember something about the leopard plants."

"What is it?" Alistair asked.

"I've seen them elsewhere before."

"Where?" Negi asked in shock.

"The old Mahora clock tower."

"That place? Chamo asked.

"Yeah. Let's go over there." Kazumi suggested.

"Hai!" they agreed and headed outside.

Once outside Dustin ordered, "Let's fly there it'll be faster."

"I'm with ya." Alistair agreed with Kazumi.

"Ok then." Negi said as he summoned his staff and got on with Chamo, while Dustin, Kazumi, Alistair, Domino, and Sayo flew into the air.

As they flew Sayo spoke, "I remember something else form my past I think it might've been how I died!"

"What is it?" Negi asked.

"It was a rainy night and I wanted to protect my sister's flower patch," Sayo began as she flashed back to her running out of her house with an umbrella to the flower patch in the rainy weather, "I was so determined to protect my sister's garden I disregarded my own health. So I stayed out there all night. It got colder, I felt sick, everything looked dark, and then… I died. My being here isn't because of a grudge like most spirits. It's because I wanted to protect something special."

"Look down there!" Alistair called as they saw the old clock tower covered in leaved and looked partially ruined.

"Let's go!" Kazumi said as they flew downward until they reached the ground and landed.

"I can't believe its still standing." Sayo said looking up at the building.

"Didn't the dean say it was going to be demolished for the new school building?" Dustin asked.

"Yes, but then he decided to change the plans and have it moved elsewhere." Negi recalled during a faculty meeting.

"Come on." Kazumi said as they went onto the ground and halted upon seeing a whole garden of leopard plants.

"Whoa a whole garden of the stuff." Alistair gasped.

"I remember, just like it was yesterday." Sayo gasped as she walked onto the garden marveling at the flowers. Suddenly she felt something beneath her. She lifted her foot up and saw a single pavement with writing on it. The sight of it brought tears to Sayo's eyes.

"Sayo?" Negi asked as they looked at what was written.

"Please let my mom… and my big sister come back?" Dustin asked while reading it.

Sayo's eyes were still swelling up with tears, "Sara, my sister Sara wrote this." She covered her face to keep her crying face invisible.

"Sayo." Negi gasped as he reached over to try and comfort her but the ghost ended up throwing her arms around Negi and cried on his shoulder.

"Negi-kun!" she cried.

"It's alright Sayo," Negi calmed her, "Because you never left."

"What do you mean?" Sayo asked lifting her face up form his shoulder.

"Your sister wished for you to come back, but the truth is you never left Mahora at all. You've been here all this time, and now that you remember everything you fulfilled your sisters wish to come back and look after her precious garden."

Sayo went from sad to smiling when she realized it, "Yes. I did."

"And now that you know everything about what led you to this, how do you feel?" Dustin asked.

"I feel at ease," Sayo answered, "I still don't recall as much from when I was alive, but its ok. I now have a better life as a ghost because I have my class, the others, and all of you."

Kazumi smiled and nodded with Dustin and Alistair. Negi smiled as well but was taken aback as Sayo once again threw her arms around him pulling him into an embrace, "Sayo."

"Negi-kun, Arigato. For helping me remember."

Negi smiled, "You're very welcome, Sayo."

"And Negi-kun," she looked him in the eyes with tears of happiness, "I love you."

Negi continued smiling at her and answered, "Well I love you too, Sayo."

Sayo and Negi moved closer until their lips connected and the boy and ghost kissed passionately while Kazumi took a snapshot for future reference. Dustin turned to the camera girl, "Well Kazumi you did it again."

"Hey I didn't do it alone. I had help from all of you." Kazumi said as she kissed Dustin's cheek, but Dustin wasn't satisfied and pulled the girl into a passionate kiss just like Sayo and Negi.

Domino and Chamo watched in interest while Alistair stood out of place, "Well this is awkward for me." The two animals could only chuckle.

Later that night while everyone was in their dorms, Kazumi, Sayo, Negi, and Dustin were in the bathhouse getting cleaned up. Dustin and Kazumi were soaking in the pool while over by the stalls Negi was washing Sayo's back.

"Easy Negi-kun I'm very ticklish." Sayo giggled from getting her back washed.

"Sorry Sayo. I'm trying to be as gentle as I can." Negi said until she spoke again.

"Oh it's ok, you're doing very well," Negi smiled as he continued washing her back seeing her relax from his gentle touch, "Thanks Negi-kun, now let me do you."

"Ok." Negi said as he got on the stool while Sayo got behind him and started washing his back.

"Does this feel good?" she asked.

"It feels wonderful, Sayo," Negi said feeling relaxed. Sayo then devised a smirk as she pressed her chest into Negi's back making him gasp, "Sayo what're you?"

"Don't worry Negi-kun, just enjoy it." She whispered.

Negi tried to until he realized something, "Sayo, have they gotten bigger?" Hearing that, Kazumi and Dustin looked over.

"Actually yes." She answered.

"What?! But how?" Negi cried as he turned to face her seeing her breasts looked bigger beneath her towel.

"Yeah ghosts can't grow physically." Dustin said.

"Maybe not like those who're living do, but ghosts can alter their forms at will. You know shape shifting?"

"And you're able to use that ghost ability to alter your bust size?" Kazumi asked turning envious.

"Of course. Wanna see me with a size bigger than Shizuna-sensei's?" Sayo asked and even before getting an answer she did so as her bust size increased to a few centimeters above Shizuna's.

The two professors and girls eyes widened in shock upon seeing a pair of enormous breasts on a petite girl, "Holy snap." Dustin gasped with wide eyes feeling a nosebleed coming on but covered his nose.

"OMG." Kazumi gasped in envy.

"Sayo perhaps you shouldn't do that in front of the girls," Negi suggested, "Otherwise they could develop jealousy."

"Yeah I know," she giggled, "I'll only do it around you, Negi-kun."

Negi ended up blushing, "Uh well that is…" he stammered.

Dustin and Kazumi chuckled at the luck Negi's gotten from the ghost, "Well you guys a mystery solved for us." Dustin said as he stretched his arms up and wrapped his right one around Kazumi who laid her head on his shoulder.

(And that's the chapter. Negi, Dustin, and Kazumi have cracked the case about Sayo's death. Be looking out for more excitement and entertainment.)