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Mahou Sensei Negima and all related elements and characters are the property and creation of Ken Akamatsu, and the author of this piece has made no material profit from it, and never will do.

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I wonder if I should start a campaign for an Unequally Rational… page at TV Tropes just like Shadow Crystal Mage did for his own creations... Hmmmm...

UNEQUALLY RATIONAL AND EMOTIONAL-CHAPTER ELEVEN.

Act One:

Saturday Night. For most youngsters, a time to vent the frustrations and woes of a full week of study and duties by going out to have fun with their friends.

However, the inhabitants of a certain currently crowded dormitory at Mahora Academy were far from being like most normal youngsters.

Chisame was nearly hunchbacked over her computer's keyboard, chatting up a storm with her legions of loyal cyber fans, directing them to her upcoming Net events like a Hannibal addressing his troops.

Negi sat at the living room's table grading a mountain of tests, very quiet and humble. Chamo snored at his feet, next to a few exhausted cigarettes.

Chachamaru was making tea at the small kitchen, and Hakase was fixing the TV, saying she was going to make it 3D. Chisame was expecting they'd have to buy a new one next week.

All in all, another relatively average evening at their home.

That was until the front door's bell rang.

"I'll open" Chachamaru spoke with a docile tone, quickly heading for the door before anyone else could, although only Negi even attempted it; Chamo and Satomi had not even noticed, and Chisame was too busy finishing her session in a hurry and closing the chat window before anyone else found her secret out.

Negi had expected for it to be Misora, who was pretty much the only one who ever visited them, but much to his surprise, three other girls stood there.

"Ah! Kagurazaka-san! Konoe-san! Shiina-san!" he said, putting his pen down. "What a pleasant surprise!".

"Speak for yourself" Kagurazaka Asuna mumbled.

"Good evening, Negi-kun!" Shiina Sakurako giggled with a wink. "And you too, girls!".

"We brought you cookies, some bread and soda!" Konoe Konoka happily announced, holding a full bag up. That triggered Chisame's alarms up. They definitely wanted something.

Chachamaru bowed to the newcomers. "We are honored by your visit. Please accept the hospitality of our humble abode".

Chisame really wished the tin girl wouldn't take such decisions by herself.

Alerted by the sounds of young female voices, Chamo woke up immediately and jumped straight into the largest pair of unexplored breasts in sight. Asuna's.

"GAH!" the redhead shouted, not scared, but clearly annoyed. "Take this dirty thing off me! Rats aren't allowed here!".

"Oh, Asuna!" Sakurako laughed, grabbing the ermine and tenderly petting his head, making him to drool. "Don't be so rude! This isn't a rat, it's obviously a baby skunk! It won't start smelling until he's an adult and gains his black fur!".

"Actually, he's a Welsh ermine" Negi pointed out, with a large drop of sweat on his forehead.

"Is he your pet, Negi-kun?" Konoka lovingly scratched the delighted animal's throat. "Awww, he's so cute and fluffy! He feels so good!".

"Yeah, he certainly felt me up good" Asuna muttered, shaking the white fur off her blue T-shirt.

"There isn't any problem with keeping him here, is it?" the child asked with some concern.

"Nah, it's alright" Sakurako waved a hand. "Small animals are okay. I have three cats myself!".

Chisame approached her. "What are you doing without your cheering friends? You three go out together all Saturday nights, don't you?" she asked.

"Oh, tonight's a special case" the cheerleader replied. "I told Madoka-chan and Misa-chan to go without me. I had more important things to do".

"Such as?" the hacker pressed on.

Konoka placed her gifts on the table with Negi's help, then laughed with slight embarrassment. "Well, heh heh, I guess you could say we're going to ask for a favor from you...".

Chisame didn't seem surprised at all. "Oh".

"I will do everything in my power to be of any assistance" Chachamaru offered with a slight inclination of her head.

"Sit down and tell us" Negi invited them. "I'll be glad to help".

"You're too kind, Negi-kun" Konoka smiled warmly as she sat down, Sakurako quickly following her example. Chisame and Asuna followed suit shortly afterwards, sharing a wary glare.

Hakase finally pulled her dirty, oily and sticky blackened face out of the television set. "Oh? Do we have visits?".

"What do you think?" her bespectacled female roommate shot her a glare.

"... I think we do" the scientist replied, grabbing a piece of cloth and beginning to wipe her hands. "Just wait two more hours and you'll be able to experience a new era of three dimensional cheap entertainment with us!".

"I know we'll regret if for years, but no, sorry" Asuna deadpaned. "We only came to make a quick question".

"It's about Iincho" Konoka nodded.

"Is there something wrong with her?" Negi asked.

"You mean aside from the usual?" Asuna snickered dryly.

"Quiet, Asuna" Sakurako playfully elbowed her in an arm. "Negi-kun, you know Iincho and me have been at this Academy for longer than anyone else, don't you?".

Negi nodded again, not being willing to counter with arguments about Sayo and Eva at all.

"Well, Asuna joined in roughly one year after us, and then Konoka the year after her. So in a way, we are, um... linked by that. Do you get me?" the cheerleader asked.

The boy smiled. "Of course".

"That's why we know Iincho better than anyone at the class" Konoka added.

"Much to our regret" Asuna snarked.

"Tomorrow, Iincho will be spending all day long at her Manor, right out of the Mahora limits" Sakurako informed. "You'll see, it's going to be a special day for her".

"A special day?" Hakase repeated. "But why?".

Asuna looked aside. "I'm not going to explain it" she said in a low voice, clearly uncomfortable with the topic.

Konoka made her best to keep her smile. "Well..." the black haired girl began, "It's an important anniversary of sorts for her. And usually, she prefers to spend it alone, but... this time, we really would like to ask you to be there with her".

"And why's that?" Chisame distrusted, crossing her arms.

Konoka looked down, a small sigh escaping her lips. "It's because... she needs to get over it" she spoke softly, almost reluctantly. "Or else it'll end up eating her alive...".

Negi looked at her with wide shocked eyes. Chisame and Satomi looked mildly puzzled as well. Chachamaru's face betrayed no change.

Asuna still thought that was a bad idea.

Act Two:

"Okay, class!" the young teacher had clapped her hands vigorously. "I want you all to meet our new student and friend, Kagurazaka Asuna!" she kindly had announced. "She just transferred here from overseas, so please, make her to feel welcome!".

And then the diminutive redhead with spindly legs and golden bells in her hair had stepped into sight, appearing for the first time in Ayaka's life, with a completely emotionless face. Even then, Ayaka had not liked her. Her face was that of a sulking troublemaker, and her mismatched eyes were simply creepy.

Everyone had greeted the new girl effusively, but she had not even bothered to reply to any of them. Through the whole day, she had remained distant and silent, ignoring anyone's attempts to establish any kind of communication.

And so, after the day's classes were over, and the newcomer was getting ready to leave, the little cute blonde had marched into her way, fists balled up at her own narrow hips. The rest of the class had eagerly gathered around them, watching on with intense curiosity, unsure about the result of the epic facedown sure to ensue.

"Kagurazaka Asuna!" Ayaka had said. "Yes, you! As the Class Representative, I must ask you to explain the motives behind your bad attitude! Do you think you're too good for us?".

A really impressive speech for a child of that tender age. But the rude foreigner had not talked then either. She only had given the local authority figure a blank stare up and down, not even beginning to move her mouth or forming any kind of sound.

It had been only when Ayaka had angrily opened her lips to urge her again that Kagurazaka let out an unintelligible mumble.

"What?" the blonde asked.

"Stpdshrmp" Asuna had muttered under her breath.

Ayaka had leaned her ear near Asuna's mouth. "Louder, please?".

"STUPID SHRIMP!" Asuna had yelled as loud as she could.

"Ahhh!" the Class Rep, scared, had stumbled back before her afce flushed as red as blood. "Why, you, how do you dare!". She had immediately pounced onto her. "My ears are delicate!".

"They can't be!" the redhead had quickly grabbed her by the hair. "If you have to listen to your own grating voice all the time—!".

"You hooligan!" Ayaka had pinched her cheeks as hard as she could. "You'll regret saying that!".

"I only regret meeting you!" Asuna had started to try and headbutt her several times.

"A fight! They started to fight!" another girl laughed.

"I bet sixteen yen on Iincho!" Sakurako had jumped on the chance.

"Eighteen yen on the new girl!".

"Oh no, Sensei's coming back! Someone distract her 'til it's over!".

It was with that final memory of her beloved and so disciplined former classmates (and Sakurako) cheering on her misery that Yukihiro Ayaka woke up that bright Sunday morning.

"AHHH! I WON'T FORGIVE YOU!" she screamed, sitting up as if an electric bolt had just zapped her.

Then she noticed she was 14. And she was alone at her bedroom, with golden hair all over face. Brushing it aside, she groaned and looked at the clock. Seven and fifteen minutes.

"Ugh" she licked the morning's bad taste out of her mouth. "That again".

She hated when she had that dream. It was usually nothing but an omen of unpleasant things to come.

A few minutes after, however, she was fresh like a newly bloomed rose and sporting her most charming smile as she walked across the halls of her manor, radiant in a white dress, greeting the domestic service along her way. "Good morning, girls! Good morning, Fubuki-san, Siesta-san, Minazuki-san, Cisneros-san, Iglesias-san!"

"Good morning, honorable Ojou-sama!" all the maids bowed to her, although one of them overdid it too clumsily and fell down flat on her face, making all the others to quietly groan to themselves.

"Oh, Minazuki-san!" Ayaka laughed as she helped the brown haired, bespectacled and big chested older girl back to her feet. "Remember, a good posture is the basis for a good balance!".

"I-I'll remember it next time, Ojou-sama!" the young woman tearfully nodded, making tiny embarrassed sobs.

The heiress went to take her seat at the main table, calling on her lead butler with a soft tapping of her silver spoon on her plate. "Sebastian!".

The old, white haired man appeared at her right side immediately. "Ojou-sama?".

"I will drink my tea before deciding on a breakfast" she haughtily commanded. "Get on it right now, please".

"As you wish. But before it, perhaps, you would like to hear about a phone call we received half a hour ago" the gentleman respectfully said, keeping his head low.

"If it's anything related to businesses, it can wait until tomorrow" she strictly said. "I wish for no interruptions of any sort today".

"Understood" Sebastian nodded. "In that case, I shall call Springfield-sama right now and—".

"Springfield?" Ayaka sprang up in alarm. "Negi Springfield?".

"Why, yes, he said such was his name" the butler confirmed. "He claimed being your homeroom teacher, although at first I believed it was a woman calling".

"He hasn't hit puberty yet..." she explained, with her eyes wide. "What did he say? Does he need my help with anything?".

"Oh, no, actually, he simply asked for permission to visit this estate today...".

"OF COURSE HE CAN!" she jumped up from her chair, her tone fully changed to a frantic euphoria. "Call him immediately and tell him he's welcome here at any hour of any day! I-I'd call him myself, but I need to change to something decent first!" she stuttered, embarrassed all of a sudden like a traditional newlywed, before quickly running away back to her bedroom.

The maids all stood there in silent stupor.

"So the rumors were true" the one with short black hair whispered.

"Ours is not to question her interests... but to honor her kindness" the one with long silvery hair sighed.

The tallest one scowled ever so slightly behind her thick glasses, but said absolutely nothing.

Nearly two hours later, it was an even better dressed Ayaka, looking like a fairy tale charmed princess, who ran to the front door after hearing the announcement of her teacher's entrance to her grounds.

"I wish for Sensei to be treated with nothing but the utmost respect!" she instructed her servants. "Anyone who fails at that shall be severely punished! Do I look good enough? What do you think?".

"As fascinating and gorgeous as ever, Ojou-sama" the one with silver hair complimented her.

"Sebastian-sama is bringing him over as we speak" the youngest of the lot, a girl with a heavy foreign accent, her black hair made up in a single small bun, bowed as she opened the front door for her.

"Excellent, simply excellent!" Ayaka giggled happily while walking out, then friendly waving a hand up under the heavy rays of the sun. "Good morning, dear Negi-sensei! Welcome! Please feel right at home!".

And then she screeched to a halt.

"Ah... Good morning!" Negi-sensei, wearing his usual formal suit ensemble, and always carrying his bandaged staff around, bashfully greeted her, standing at Sebastian's right. Behind them, Hasegawa Chisame, in a plain white shirt and blue pants, merely nodded her head once in the rich girl's direction. Hakase Satomi stood nearby, not looking at the hostess at all, clad in shorts and a black shirt, taking some samples of wood from a tree and carefully placing them inside of a small metallic container.

"Good morning, Iincho-chan!" Shiina Sakurako, in a very short and tight skirt and sleeveless orange top, smiled at her, a red cap perched on the top of her head.

"Hello! You look very good today!" Konoe Konoka chirped, happy as a free bird, at Sakurako's left and wearing a pretty summer dress with sandals.

"A bit too fancy for a simple short visit, though..." Finally, the bane of Ayaka's existence, Kagurazaka Asuna, completed the group, crossing her arms and looking rather nonchalant, in a simple but elegant ensemble of a light red blouse and a matching skirt.

No wonder Ayaka hated when she had that dream. It was usually nothing but an omen of unpleasant things to come.

Act Three.

"Wha-What are you all doing here?" a livid Ayaka aimed an accusing finger at her five classmates.

"He's still new here. He doesn't know the local bus routes yet" Chisame dryly answered.

"And besides, I heard it's dangerous to allow children to wander alone here" Asuna made the vaguest hint of a smirk.

"No, but it's dangerous to allow Kagurazaka Asunas to stalk around these premises!" Ayaka said with a dangerous glint in her eyes.

"Come on, calm down, calm down" Konoka easily asked. "We're all friends here, aren't we?".

"Most of us, yes!" Ayaka kept her angry glare fixed on her rival.

"No discussion there" Asuna nodded. "Let's see, one, two, three, four, five and six" she counted herself, Konoka, Sakurako, Negi, Chisame and Satomi. "Yep, a clear majority".

Hakase finally looked at Ayaka when the sounds of heavy fighting had started. "Oh, hello, Iincho-san! You do have some rather scarce species around here. I even collected some samples of the nearly extinct hunchbacked rhinoceros beetle of striped wings. Iincho-san? Why are you fighting Asuna-san?".

"IF YOU AREN'T MY FRIEND, I DON'T KNOW WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!" the heiress said as she attempted her best to land a kick on Asuna.

"BELIEVE ME, NEITHER DO I!" Asuna kept on dodging her, similarly failing at landing a punch on her face.

"Stop it, you two, please!" Negi flailed his arms around, trying to keep them apart from each other.

"Asuna! Asuna! Remember your promise!" Konoka also tried to interfere.

"I have the feeling this is going to end up becoming a live action game of Clue" Chisame moaned.

"Colonel Mustard, with the knife, at the library!" Sakurako giggled. "I bet you forty on that!".

"Should I bring the crowbar to pry them apart?" the tallest maid asked, in an extremely dry tone.

"Cisneros-san, you know that's the absolute last resource!" Fubuki-san scolded her.

"Now this is better" Negi pleasantly smiled minutes after, as Ayaka led him and the girls along the manor's grounds. "Wow, this is the largest garden I've ever seen at my life, Iincho-san" he marveled, looking all around.

"It's only the front yard" Ayaka smiled back, with a very gentle expression. "I'm glad you like it".

"It's your first time here, Chisame-chan?" Konoka asked Hasegawa, seeing how she was looking with badly camouflaged wonder at the gigantic trees and fountains all around them.

"Of course it is" the hacker had to nod. Oh, if only Chiu could make a webshow from there! She could tell her fans it was her house, and they would swoon ever harder than ever! Alas, that was impossible, but she still could do the next best thing.

She started taking photos of the whole place with her cellphone, taking advantage of the hostess' infatuation with Sensei. What her fans couldn't know wouldn't hurt them.

Asuna marched at the back of the group, looking actually somewhat embarrassed and uneasy. Hakase walked next to her, taking notes of the structures she found on her way, occassionally writing a few comments on how to improve on the designs, mostly by attaching some sort of mechanical device to them.

"So, Negi-sensei" Ayaka smiled even more, grabbing him lovingly by a hand, "To what do I owe the honor of this visit?".

"Well, um..." very briefly, he gave the other girls a questioning look. Asuna made a few 'No-No' signs with a hand, almost frantically, and Chisame, Sakurako and Konoka all seemed to agree. Hakase was too busy to even notice it. "Well, yes, I just figured... since you are our Class Rep, and you have shown so much interest on..." he blushed charmingly, "... your performance both as a student and a leader, I figured I should come to get to know you better and express my encouragement...".

"Ah...!" the beautiful blonde swooned. "That... That is so wonderful! A-As a matter of fact..." she lightly leaned towards him, "I feel so good I almost could faint! I haven't been this happy in such a long time...".

She quickly recomposed, grabbing his other hand as well, and stopping her walking and his. "If you would like, you could relocate to this residence. It is the most fitting place for a prodigy with needs such as yours at this whole area. You would lead the most comfortable and relaxing life you ever could imagine...".

"Ah...?" he cluelessly blinked.

"No thanks" Chisame grabbed him by an arm and pulled him back to herself. "I fear he would relax TOO MUCH if left here...".

"And she would relax EVEN MORE..." Asuna caustically observed.

"That reminds me!" Ayaka said. "Would you like to see my bedroom? Of course you would!".

"Whoah! Iincho doesn't waste time!" Sakurako whistled as the millionaire quickly pulled the boy away with herself.

"We'd better catch up or something horrible will happen" Asuna rushed after them, with Chisame hot on her heels. Sakurako happily skipped after them in turn, and Konoka grabbed the still absent Hakase and pulled her along with them.

"These are my private chambers" the blonde proudly stated as she opened her room's door. Negi made an awed sound; it put even Evangeline's bedroom to shame. It was decorated with excellent taste, and yet it had something of almost anything you could ask for in a personal room.

Chisame and Satomi, however, were disappointed at not seeing any computers there.

"You have made a few additions lately!" Sakurako giggled again, grabbing the large framed picture of Negi from Ayaka's nightstand.

"Hmph. Or course I would. Is there anything wrong with having a valuable memento of your mentor and guiding figure?" the house's owner asked.

"It's huge, and so warm, so full of a loving feeling..." Negi innocently gazed all around, his smile growing wider at each moment.

"I'm moved by your words" Ayaka blushed, grabbing his hands again and making him to sit down at her large and soft bed's edge with her. "Yes, love is all I'm about when it comes to you...".

"Okay, now this is getting creepy" Chisame commented.

"In any moment now she'll fully forget we're here and go for the lips" Asuna grimaced.

"K-Keep your dirty thoughts away! I'm talking about pure and honest love and admiration!" Ayaka flushed furiously. "Really! You still have a lot to teach them, Sensei. Switching over to a more pleasant matter, do you happen to like tea?".

"Oh, yes! A lot!" he answered.

"Good!". She rang the bell hanging over her bed. "I thought you would! A perfect English gentleman like you couldn't be any other way. My servants will bring you a humble selection of our best".

Immediately, Sebastian and Iglesias ran in pushing a huge rolling cart full with lines and lines of full glasses.

"From left to right, we do have Rose Hip, Lemon Verbena, Dandelion, German Chamomile, Sweet Fennel, Elder Flower, St. John's Wort, Linden and Sage. Further variations are available upon your request, young sir" the old gentleman bowed.

"Ahhhh" Negi barely could babble.

"Actually, seeing all that made me thirsty for a Coke" Asuna snorted.

Ayaka snapped her fingers. "Fubuki-san!"

The lead Maid rushed in pushing a long wheeled tray filled with all kinds of sweets and candy.

"We have all sorts of cake and biscuits to go along with your tea" the woman announced. "They come from 53 different countries, including Switzerland, Latveria and Poland".

"Oh! Chocolate!" the cheerleader licked her lips, picking an especially tempting large chunk of cake.

"I would like mine sugar-low" Hakase examined them carefully.

"There is no thing such as overkill, I used to believe..." Kagurazaka sighed.

Negi had picked a cup of tea and drank from it with excellent manners, then to smile at Miss Yukihiro. "It's simply delicious, Iincho-san. It reminds me of the parfaits my Sister always makes".

"Oh!" Ayaka paused. "You... You do have a sister?".

"Well... She's my cousin, actually, but we were raised as siblings" he admitted. Chisame's face betrayed some quiet surprise at that detail, but before she and the Class Rep could finish digesting it, Sakurako had jumped up happily.

"Let's use the pool!" the cheerful girl suggested. "The day's hot, and I feel like swimming!"

"Oh?" Negi looked at her. "You just ate; you should wait at least half a hour first..."

"It's okay, Iincho will pay the medical bills if needed" Asuna grabbed him by a hand and pulled him along with them. "If I remember it correctly, the pool is this way..."

"Hey! We hadn't finished here!" Ayaka protested, nearly racing to catch up to them. "How rude of you!"

Sebastian sighed as he and the two maids were left behind. "I never had seen Ojou-sama to feel this strongly for anyone...".

Iglesias smiled before picking a biscuit and pushing it into her mouth. "If you ask me... she needed it".

Act Four:

"YAHOO!" Asuna laughed as she threw her blouse, the final piece left remaining of her outer clothes, aside and gave a very high jump up to fall into the mansion's gigantic pool with a splash, now reduced to a bright pink one piece.

"Here we go!" Konoka followed suit seconds afterward, now clad in nothing but a dark blue school swimsuit.

"It's party time!" Sakurako joined in, wearing a rather skimpy orange bikini with polka dot dark red spots.

The three girls began to swim around and playfully splash each other as Chisame calmly removed her pants down and stood in a simple dark purple one piece, shaking her head. "Honestly, you guys... The nerve of you...".

"Oh, come on, Chisame-chan!" Sakurako splashed in her direction. "As if you're any better! You brought a swimsuit, too!".

"You all but forced us to!" the hacker snapped back.

Satomi was now in a light blue two piece made of short shorts and a brief sleeveless top which showed her navel area. She sat down next to the pool, barely dipping her feet in. Slowly, the genius sighed, feeling terribly bored already. After the discoveries at the front yard, the rest of the manor offered no excitement to her. She started to envy Chachamaru, who had gotten to stay at home under the pretenses of cleaning the apartment and then looking after the cats.

Then the scientist felt someone's gaze sharply fixed on her. She looked up to see Sakurako floating right before her, eyeing her like a mischievously crocodile stalking a prey.

"Is-Is there something wrong?" Hakase couldn't help but feeling slightly wary for some reason.

"Of course there is!" the cheerleader protested. "You aren't in here with us, silly!".

"I'm... not a good swimmer" Satomi averted her glare. "You know I have to struggle with it at classes".

"All the more reason for you to practice now, then!" Konoka pointed out.

"Yeah, Prof" Asun nodded. "Loose down just for once. It'll do you good!".

"I'm not sure...".

"Oh, for the love of—!" Sakurako grabbed her by an ankle and pulled her into the water with herself, gaining a brief shriek from Hakase. "You gotta stop overthinking everything!".

"Kya! No!" Hakase waved her hands around, struggling to break free and return to dry land, but the (even if only marginally) stronger cheerleader wouldn't have anything of it.

"No, no, no! I won't let you go until your promise to start enjoying yourself!" the perky girl cutely shook her head, tightening a bear hug around Satomi's midsection, pressing her against herself. Hakase found herself squirming against the unusual, hard to describe physical closeness. She was somewhat used to bathing with Chisame, but somehow, this felt different. Sakurako holding her so tightly, so personally, enough to almost rub her chest against hers, no, scratch the 'almost', was quite unnerving, mostly because it felt so alien, and yet, good and comforting in a way that simply scared her.

Hakase had always taken pride on being unafraid to learn about everything and anything, but suddenly, she felt a sharp terror about continuing exploring her own reactions to that hideously teasing sensation. So she relented with a hasty nod of her head, hoping Sakurako couldn't notice the blush on her cheeks, behind her soaked up and foggy glasses.

She breathed easier when that made Shiina to release her. "Good girl!" the eternally happy schoolgirl laughed good naturedly. Right before rubbing the tip of her tiny nose against Satomi's, making her to blush even more.

"Gah, gah, gah!" Hakase struggled to get any sounds out. Sakurako just blinked and looked at her eyes.

"Eh? What's wrong now, Prof?".

"No... Nothing" she adjusted her glasses back, regaining her objective composure. Ridiculous. If Chao could see her now, she'd never hear the end of it.

It was bad enough the way Chisame and Asuna were now looking at both of them, perplexed. Konoka, on the other hand, just laughed as if she had just heard the best joke in the world.

"W-well" Hasegawa rasped uneasily, attempting to leave the rather disturbing implications of what she had just seen (Hakase! Showing! Emotion!) behind. "Wh-where's Sensei? That little pig's just too afraid of water...".

"And he isn't the only one!" Konoka lunged an arm ahead and grabbed Chisame by a hand, also pulling her into the water with them. Fortunately for the secret Net idol, Asuna's roommate did not attempt as close an approach as Sakurako had done with Hakase, contented by just laughing at her while Hasegawa spat water and coughed up.

"Konoe! Cough, cough! I'm going to—".

Asuna patted her in the head. "I feel your pain. But years of living with Kono-chan have dulled me from feeling too much" she cautioned.

Konoka just splashed her some more, and by extension, splashed Chisame as well. "Oh, Asuna, you!".

Negi walked out of the dressing room for men, in sandals and boxers, shirtless, and smiled warmly at seeing his students playing amongst themselves. However, he still remained as quiet as he could before any of them thought about dragging him into the... water...

Then he felt the door of the other dressing room behind him being opened, and he looked back with a gentle grin. "Ah, Iincho-san! Thank you very much for... for...".

Wearing an elegant but pretty revealing white biniki, her pale feet bare, her gold hair waving loose behind her at each step, the Class Rep looked down at the suddenly silent boy. "Yes, Sensei?" she sweetly asked.

"No, nothing!" he hurried to complete the sentence, wondering what had just happened to himself. "Just wanted to give you our thanks for your hospitality!".

"Oh, it's my pleasure!" the vision of beauty laughed it off. "It's the least I can do for you!".

"Hey, Iincho!" Asuna called out from the water. "Wanna go for a race?".

"No, thanks!" the heiress huffed. "There's no way I ever could beat a kappa monster at its element!".

Asuna seemed offended for a moment, but she let it to slide.

"Leave the children to their games, Sensei" Ayaka said as she lured him away until they both took chairs around a large beach table with a colorful umbrella on top. "Truly, they are so immature for their age... while you are so mature for yours" she lovingly sighed.

"Oh, no, not at all" he denied.

"And so modest, as well!" she cooed. "Do you want more cookies?" she grabbed a bowl of them that was at the other side of the table and offered it to him. "I made them myself!".

At the mansion's kitchen, meanwhile, Siesta sneezed loudly all of a sudden.

The black haired maid rubbed her nose with a tissue. "Ojou-sama must be taking credit for the cookies again..." she guessed.

Act Five:

"There" Sakurako's smile took a warmer, softer and less hyper appearance as she finished tugging the little bands keeping Hakase's braids tied off, allowing her black hair to cascade down her shoulders. "You look much cuter with your hair long! Maybe in a ponytail, too..." the cheerleader commented, running her right hand's fingers thoughtfully through the shorter girl's ebony wet hair.

Satomi only managed to blurt an insincere "I'll think about it" out.

From where she quietly swam a few feet away, Chisame had to silently disagree. Hakase did look cuter with her hair made the usual way...

Wait, had she really just thought that? Ugh. Way too much sun, no doubt. Way too much sun.

Meanwhile, Negi was finishing his cookies while Ayaka watched him, oblivious to everything else, with a dreamy smile on her face.

"They were very good, Iincho-san" he made a cute satisfied sound after it was over. "You really should have eaten a few, too".

"Negi-sensei..." Ayaka softly said.

"Yes?" he asked.

She handed him a small lotion bottle and turned around, then, with a blush, began unhooking her bikini top down. "Could you please rub some sunblocker on me? I can't reach all the way...".

Negi's eyes became huge totally white circles. "Wh-Wh-What? Iincho-san! I possibly couldn't—!".

"Oh?" mercifully for him, she hooked her top back in before it was fully undone, then turned around again. "Ah, I understand. You don't know how is it done, do you? You come from a region with no beaches, after all. Don't worry! I'll do my best to teach you!" she beamed.

"The-There's no need for it, I—" the boy began to shake his head, but the blonde gently, yet firmly, laid him down facefirst into a nearby long beach chair, then knelt down over him, a leg at each side of his body.

"Just relax and enjoy..." she purred melodically. "I'll be your dear big sister while you're here...".

"Uh, well, I don't know—" he shivered as her hands began to rub the lotion all up and down his back, massaging all the way from his shoulderblades to his ribs, and then along the spine. "Somehow, I don't think this is—this is—" he doubted.

"Oh ho ho ho!" Ayaka laughed. "Leave everything to me, Sensei. This is your day. If I'm going too rough, please do tell me...".

Her touch became softer, but also more teasing and playful, her soft hands roaming his back and massaging all the right points, plus a few ones he thought might be not so right at all. He had to admit it felt good, and yet... and yet...

Then he had a mild shock when her hands went perhaps a bit too low...

"NOT TOO ROUGH, BUT TOO FAR!" Asuna had suddenly jumped up from the pool to land with a kick straight on Ayaka's face, sending her stumbling a few feet away from their teacher.

Indignant, the heiress rubbed her now bright red left cheek. "KAGURAZAKA! WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS, YOU— YOU STUPID APE!".

"OJOU-SAMA!" Cisneros suddenly fell down from a tree's top, her eyes glinting madly behind her glasses, her teeth clenched, and with a black umbrella in a hand. "ARE YOU OKAY? JUST TELL ME THE WORD AND I'LL—".

"Stay out of this, Roberta-san!" angry enough to spare her the more formal last name treatment, Ayaka proudly humphed, standing straighter. "It's nothing I can't solve by myself!".

"I can't believe you!" Asuna yelled in her face. "We can't leave you alone for five minutes without you forcing yourself on the brat!".

"What are you talking about?" Ayaka yelled back. "I was doing nothing of the sort!".

"You were about to touch his butt!".

"No, I wasn't! I just was rubbing his lower back!".

"Not only you're a pedo, but a liar, too!".

Chisame warily looked at them, then even more warily to the towering maid with the web of bulging veins now on her forehead. For some reason, that woman gave a metric ton of terrifying vibes. Even her Mary Poppins umbrella looked highly suspicious.

"At least I'm not a lover of old men!" Ayaka furiously snapped.

"Takahata-sensei is not an old man! And what do you mean with 'lover', anyway?" the redhead growled.

"If you get offended, it's because there's something else to it than what I intended!" Ayaka fumed on her face.

"Okay, that's it!" Asuna threw the first punch. And it only went downhill from there.

A few moments later, both girls panted and huffed after reaching another stalemate; Negi stood at a side completely ignored and defeated once more, and Roberta was barely being held back by Minazuki, Siesta, Sebastian, Fubuki and Iglesias from behind. Chisame sighed and shook her head.

"Out of my house! Out of my sight! Out of my life!" Ayaka pointed away as she remarked every word to her nemesis.

"Okay! I don't need to be told twice!" Asuna spun on her heels, grabbed her clothes, and began stomping away.

Konoka breathed out, then made an apologetic smile at Ayaka. "Sorry about that, Iincho. I guess you'll prefer being left alone...".

Ayaka's expression softened only a bit. "You don't need to go...".

"Forgive me" Konoka gave her a hug, then bowed. "Asuna-chan needs me, too. See you tomorrow, okay?".

She began walking after her friend, just as Sakurako walked over to Ayaka and gave her a tighter, stronger hug as well. "We all love you, Iincho-chan" the shorter girl confided, before patting her shoulders down and following her other two oldest friends.

"I guess..." Satomi awkwardly pulled herself out of the water, "I guess we should leave as well..". She gave Ayaka a hopeful look up. "Can I keep the samples, please?".

The millionaire exhaled a sigh. "Yes, Hakase-san, you can".

"Thank you" she bowed clumsily, then took after Sakurako.

"Sensei" Chisame got closer to Negi, patting his head down slightly. "I'll go on ahead. You stay with Iincho a while longer, will you? I'll be waiting for you at the gates".

"Yes" he obediently nodded.

"Iincho" finally, Asuna made a brief stop and looked back at the blonde, now with a more subdued, nearly regretful, expression. "I'm sorry. Fine, maybe I overreacted. I'll grant today's victory to you, okay?".

The rich girl just blinked. "Asuna-san?".

"Bye" Asuna lowered her head and walked out of sight.

Before Ayaka could react, Chisame formally bowed to her as well. "Sorry for all the inconveniences. For what it's worth... I had a pleasant time here. You have a beautiful home" she had to admit.

"Hasegawa-san?" Ayaka said.

For the first time in her life, Chisame smiled at her, or something like that. It was tiny, uncomfortable and embarrassed, but at least it looked vaguely like a smile. "They are crazy, aren't they? I guess we have to learn how to cope with them...". She pushed her glasses up. "... Don't take it too badly on Kagurazaka. Actually, she... only wanted to make you feel better". She bit her tongue. "Ah, what the hell. Forget I said anything. Goodbye".

She walked away, giving Negi a brief look before disappearing from sight.

Ayaka stood wordlessly there, alone with Negi and the servants.

"Hasegawa-san's right" the boy softly said. "It was Kagurazaka-san's idea originally. She didn't think too much of it herself, but Konoe-san clung on it and got the ball rolling".

"Huh?" his student looked down at him.

"They... only wanted to distract you up. They said I could cheer you up. Sorry... It seems I have failed miserably..." he sulked.

"Don't say that" she knelt down to pass a hand over his left cheek. "You have made this the happiest anniversary I've ever had...".

"Iincho-san, I..." his voice trailed off.

"They told you about the anniversary, didn't they?" she seriously asked.

He had to nod, reluctantly.

"Ever since that day..." she quietly mused, "I have had something inside of me that couldn't ever be replaced. That stupid Asuna. Thinking you could fill that void".

He was heartstruck at that unexpected statement, until, one second later, she gently kissed his forehead.

"... when, in truth, you are something completely different to me" she continued. "Just as important, if not more, but different all the same. Negi-sensei, you'll never be able to replace my brother, but you still mean the world to me".

Siesta wiped a tear off her right eye's corner.

Roberta only stared with a neutral face on.

"But they only have known each other for what? Three weeks?" Iglesias mumbled under her breath.

Minazuki was bawling her eyes off.

Fubuki grabbed Minazuki by an ear and began pulling her away. "Ojou-sama will want some privacy!"

"I concur" Sebastian directed the other maids away as well. "I believe we all have better things to do elsewhere, ladies".

Roberta nodded mechanically before following him. Her mind, however, was elsewhere. And at another time.

Back when she still was a newcomer to Japan, and the Yukihiros' second child was on the way.

Act Six:

The first time Roberta had ever seen that little redhead girl was roughly a month after el Señor Yukihiro had officially hired her as domestic service. The child had been brought by Ayaka herself, in a move the Señorita would come to regret later, many times, to varying degrees of sincerity.

"This is my brother's room!" Ayaka had gleefully boasted as she guided her stonefaced friend into the reserved bedroom. She showed her every toy, the cradle and everything else with far greater fervor than she had used at describing her own room, and that was definitely saying something. "Dad says he's going to be a businessman just like him, but Mom says that doesn't mean he'll be away as much as Dad. I bet he's going to be a very handsome man, too!".

"Yeah" was all Asuna had to offer back.

For months, the young lady had been nothing but a constant whitewater of happiness given human form. She had strived even more at her studies and her Class Representative job. Blissfully ignorant of the first complications in the pregnancy, she continued having the happiest days of her young life. Roberta, however, knew, and that knowledge had been enough to push her back into her faith, a faith lost after so many years at the jungle, at the nonstop war. She had prayed for months, with a devotion even the worldly Yukihiros lacked. She had prayed and prayed for the hopes of the man who had given her a final chance when everyone else just aimed for her death.

God, as He most often did, had denied her requests. Perhaps, she believed, He still was paying her back over all those victims on her conscience.

But why had the young lady been forced to suffer as well? Far more than her, as a matter of fact?

"What... What do you mean I can't see him?" With huge watery blue eyes, she had looked up at her father that night at the clinic, gripping on the skirt of her gorgeous white dress, handpicked for the occasion. Her tiny hands trembled nervously, clawing at the cloth time after time.

Her father, for once, had given her the emotional support she needed. "I'm sorry, Ayaka" he crouched down to envelope her into a hug. Roberta watched from afar, feeling sensibility to the fact of death for the first time in long, long years. The Señorita's cries hurted her ears, but mostly her soul, despite all she had believed she had been used to it.

After that, the Señorita had retreated into the empty room for days, curled up and crying to no end. Sebastian's best attempts to reach to her had no effect. Neither Sakurako and the Konoe girl's. At first, Roberta was convinced the Kagurazaka ruffian wouldn't place any better.

But then she had just kicked the Señorita in the head. "CHEER UP!" she had commanded, as brash and crass as ever. "YOU NEED TO LIVE!"

"ASUNA-SANNNN!" the Señorita had growled up, tears of rage replacing those of sadness. "I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS!"

And the chase had been on, much to Roberta's shocked dismay.

"Wait until I get my hands on you, monkey!"

"You'll never catch this monkey, you snail!" the redhead dryly mocked her, and damn she was fast. Roberta was about to take after her to give her a few spankings, but Sebastian had managed to stop her.

"No, no" he had quietly said. "Leave them be. It's better this way".

Even now, however, she had problems following that advice. She never had been a forgetful or forgiving person, and the Kagurazaka girl still unnerved her almost as much as she did to her mistress.

Roberta sat next to a window, with the jaded look of a stalking coyote, silently watching at her Ojou-sama (it had taken her more than two years to get used to replace 'Señorita' with that local term) talking with the strange, stupidly naive boy. Roberta fumed inside. She was grateful life hadn't put her in charge of a brat like him.

"For years, she and I have clashed over everything..." Ayaka reminisced, with lingering tears in her eyes, looking at the distance. "We have completely different interests, likings and opinions. We compete at everything but academic matters, and you know what? She drives me crazy. She makes me to lose control of myself, to become as much of a violent maniac as her. I'm sorry... I can't control myself when she stings me, even before you. And today, you had to see such an ugly side of my personality".

"It's all okay" he reinsured her.

"No, it isn't" Ayaka rubbed her eyes. "I don't know what's about her... but she gets me every time. I'm half convinced she does it on purpose... or maybe she feels the same thing about me. I only know... she's the only person that can touch me that way".

She sighed with a vacant smile. "I guess that says a lot about me, as well".

He grabbed her right hand, holding it up with a comforting smile. "It means you are closer than you both would be willing to admit".

She laughed shakily. "Oh, Negi-sensei! What a silly idea!".

Half a hour later, he came out of the estate to meet Chisame, Satomi, Asuna, Konoka and Sakurako, all fully clothed now and waiting for them outside, as promised.

"So, how's Iincho now?" Asuna was the first one to speak.

He smiled. "She's fine now".

She smiled back. And Negi couldn't help but noticing it was the first time she ever had smiled at him. "Good job, then. Thank you! I owe you one".

"I told you you had a good idea there" Konoka teased her.

"Ehhhh!" Asuna waved her hands. "It was just a stroke of luck! Maybe some of Sakurako's is rubbing on me".

Hasegawa exhaled and looked at her wristwatch. "Alright, can we go back home now? It's getting kinda late".

"What if we all go shopping next week?" Sakurako quickly suggested. "I could bring Madoka-chan and Misa-chan, too!"

"Sounds good enough to me" Asuna agreed with a nod.

"I think it's an excellent idea!" Konoka clapped.

"Count with me, too!" Negi joined his voice in.

"I... I'll think about it" Chisame muttered warily. Were they trying to give her a social life of all things now? That was even more terrifying than Evangeline.

Hakase scratched the back of her neck in an awkward way. "I... Well, I think I could use the chance to buy some new parts I'm in need of..." she whispered barely loud enough to be heard.

Now that made Chisame to take silent notice.

Again, however, she had chosen not to ask her roommate about it, not even when they split from the other girls and reached their apartment.

"I see Chachamaru has not returned from her pet duty yet" Hasegawa observed as they walked into the completely still and quiet dorm room.

"I still think we should have brought her with us" Negi said, and then looked around. "Weird, where's Chamo? Maybe he went with her?".

"Oh, no" Chisame shook her head. "Why do you think the little perv didn't go with us? I had to..." she reached into her desk and pulled a tied up and gagged Chamo out, "...take desperate measures before he made a mess at Iincho's house".

"Erk! Chamo!" Negi rushed to untie his furry friend. "Hasegawa-san, you're mean!".

"I just did what I had to do" Chisame excused herself, rather dryly.

"You're not mean, you're evil, Chiucchi!" Chamo cried as soon as his mouth was free. "I'll bet you had tons of fun while I was trapped here!".

"Yeah, I guess" Chisame looked aside. "We even put on swimsuits and had a long swim".

"SWIMSUITS!" Chamo exclaimed.

"Sakurako and Iincho chose very tiny bikinis, too" Chisame droned. "Good thing no pervert was around to ogle at them".

"BIKINIS! TINY ONES!" the ermine began to cry, slamming his paws onto his own face. "WHY, CHIUCCHI? WHY?".

Then Satomi's cellphone rang. With a sudden hurry, Hakase picked it up and checked on the text message she had just gotten. Her eyes grew instantly wide in shock.

"Hakase-san?" Negi asked.

"Something wrong?" Chisame somewhat scowled.

"It... It can't be..." the scientist's voice finally came out in a weak whisper.

"Now what?" Hasegawa fumed, looking over her shoulder, then to gasp at the unexpected content of the laconic text message.

Hakase-san, Negi-sensei, Hasegawa-san.

Thanks for everything. But I must go back to the Master.

Sorry.

I left dinner ready for you at the kitchen.

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