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31 Kisses - A Negima/Nanoha fic 2/2 Complete
“Reckless endangerment of the populace…”
“Human transmutation…”
“Disregard of safety…”
The list of charges floated over Negi has he sat there in the dark room, his eyes dark and dead. All hope had drained out of him when his attempt to bring Asuna back to life had failed. He kept turning the charred bell over in his hands, the motion making smooth polished motions in the charcoaled material.
Gandolfini sighed as he adjusted his glasses. “Stay here. We’ll deal with the rest of the hearing later.”
Negi nodded as the other mage teachers filed out of the room, leaving Nanoha standing there, her hands clasped in front of her chest.
Walking up to him, she touched his shoulder. He didn’t respond until her arms encircled his neck. “Negi-kun.”
“You stood against me,” said Negi in a hurt tone. “You didn’t let me bring her back…”
“Aren’t you listening to the mage teachers?” said Nanoha. “You can’t bring back the dead.”
“I know I can…” said Negi, but there was no fire in his voice, just pain.
“Negi…” And the young girl held him as tears refused to fall for the young man.
*
31 Kisses
Written by Shaun Garin
All characters owned by their respective creators.
*
“Where’s Negi-sensei?” asked Konoka as Takamichi walked into their period English class.
Takamichi sighed and he adjusted his glasses. He looked old, older than he was expected to be with his shock of grey-blonde hair. “Negi-kun… has been relieved. He’s headed back to Wales in two days.”
Instead of an explosive inquiry, 3-A burst into a rumbling of discontent, ranging from shocked to horrified expressions. Yue especially as she shared a look with Nodoka. Negi-sensei… gone?
“If you’ll turn to page 32 in your books…”
*
“I don’t like this,” said Setsuna softly. “Not after… everything.”
“I spoke to grandfather,” said Konoka, clutching her teacup as Yue and Nodoka sat next to them, also holding drinks. “He said… Negi-kun’s being punished.”
“For running away? But… that’s too cruel…” said Nodoka. “After Asuna-san…”
Yue swallowed a hard lump in her throat. “I won’t accept this,” said the violet haired girl softly. “I can’t! Not after I told him I liked him, not after Asuna…” She choked off a sob and Nodoka wrapped an arm around Yue.
“Um…” the girls looked up as Satomi and Chao stood there. “We hate to interrupt but there is something we might be able to do.” And Chao held up a watch.
“It’s called Cassiopeia,” said Chao. “It’s a time machine.”
*
Nanoha looked up at the old-looking Takamichi walking down the halls of the mage detention area and stood up. “Takahata-sensei?”
“Please, Nanoha-kun, it’s Takamichi. I don’t deserve that title right now.” Said Takamichi and the young girl nodded. “You helped Negi-kun when he was in his time of distress. Please sit. I want to talk.”
Nanoha did so as he folded his hands in front of him in his lap as he leaned forward a little. “Your impression of Negi-kun… what was it?”
“… loss,” said Nanoha. “Powerful overwhelming loss. He projects sadness like it’s a second skin, and it makes people want to hug him and tell him it’s alright. But he’s also strong, but with so much loss and burdens weighing him down, it’s hard to say if he’ll ever recover.”
“As expected of Nagi’s son,” said Takamichi as he lit up a cigarette and blew a gust of smoke to the side. Nanoha wrinkled her nose but otherwise didn’t comment. “Sorry… bad habit of mine. Picked it up from my old master, Gateau.”
“It’s fine,” said Nanoha. “I half expect myself to smoke when I’m older. I’ve had a stressful life too.”
“You’re Shiro’s daughter aren’t you?” said Takamichi, drawing a startled expression from Nanoha. He smiled a little. “I can see him in your face and eyes. Kindness, a giving heart wrapped around an unforgiving core of steel if someone does your loved ones wrong. Even now you protect Negi-kun, haven’t left his side since his arrest.”
“You knew my father?”
“Yes… it was… maybe fifteen years ago. I was young and going to school here when I met him when he was bringing a dignitary around the campus as a bodyguard. My old master introduced me to him and we hit it off. He was older than I am, but we had some times.” Takamichi took another drag. “He always hated Gateau’s cigarettes.”
“I never expected his daughter would be magical though,” said Takamichi. “But it was probably to be expected. We did a lot of rescue in war-torn areas together for a couple years before it happened.”
Nanoha nodded, smiling just a little at the praise Takamichi had for her father. Momoko rarely spoke of her father, but Nanoha always wanted to know about him. “I didn’t discover I was magical till three years ago.”
“The Dream Vent,” said Takamichi and she nodded. He grinned. “Well, thank you for that. It was quite the tough thing to cover up magically.”
Nanoha blushed just a little.
At that moment, the wall rolled up as Gandolfini lead Negi out, his eyes a little less dead. The pair stood and Negi threw himself into Nanoha’s arms, sobbing.
“He’s grown attached to her,” said Gandolfini. “More quickly than he ever got attached to Asuna.”
“They look similar, but that’s only superficial. She’s got the same heart. What’s the verdict?”
“They’ll let Negi-kun say goodbye before we put him on the plane back. The magic community… isn’t happy with his decision.” Said Gandolfini. Takamichi sighed. “The son of the Thousand Master… reduced to this.”
“Grief turns people into horrible parodies of themselves, Gandolfini-kun. You and I know that better than anyone else.” Said Takamichi as he stubbed out his cigarette. “Nanoha-kun, come. Bring Negi-kun with you too.”
“Right.”
*
“There he is!” exclaimed Misora as the girls all dogpiled on Negi, the young boy falling over from half the class pouncing on him.
“Negi-kun you’re leaving us?” demanded Fumika.
“Negi-kun can’t leave us!” added Fuka.
Negi struggled under the press of girls as Konoka, Setsuna, Yue and Nodoka walked up to Nanoha. “Who’re you?” asked Konoka.
“Takamichi Nanoha. I’m his friend.” Said Nanoha simply. “I found him when he ran away, and brought him back.”
“He seems… attached to you,” said Setsuna.
“We’ve got a lot in common,” said Nanoha and Yue looked at her over her juice box.
“You mean… as a mage,” said Yue.
“Yeah.” Said Nanoha. “I’m not the reason he’s leaving. He did, almost did something that was terrible and dangerous.”
“But… we need to get him this,” said Konoka as she held up the device in her hands. “Chao-san gave it to us. It’s a time machine. With it, we can go back in time and stop Asuna from dying!”
The words were like a knife through Negi’s heart as he looked up. Pushing the girls off him, he walked over and said, “Really? You’re… not lying to me, are you?”
“No Negi-kun, we’d never lie to you,” said Konoka as she pressed the watch into his hands. “But it takes an enormous amount of magic to use.”
“What are you all talking about? Time machine? Magic? And who is this girl?” demanded Ayaka.
“A time machine… I can go back… give up the power needed…” Negi took it and he clutched the watch protectively.
Magic began to pool at his feet and rose into his hands, throwing off light as wind howled. “What’s going on?” exclaimed one of the girls as light exploded upwards.
Negi felt the magic tearing at his form as he held on. But then, hands came down against his as warm pink light suffused through his body. “Nanoha?”
“Negi…” said Nanoha. “There’s no going back if you take this route,” said Nanoha in the howl of magical power. “We will never have met.”
Negi gasped as the magic died down, leaving a flustered group of girls. “But…! You and I… we…!”
“We just met, I know,” said Nanoha as she took the watch from him. “Which is why I want you to use my power to do it. A life for a life.”
“NO!” yelled Negi. “I don’t want to see anyone die!”
“Don’t you see Negi? I’m just here, as a dream for you.” Nanoha blinked back unshed tears. “Please, use my power. A life for a life. In exchange for never meeting me, you will have her back.”
“Negi-sensei…” swallowed Nodoka, watching the by-play. Many girls were already sniffling.
Negi’s hands wrapped around hers. “Is that what you want, Nanoha-san?”
Nanoha smiled at him as she leaned in and kissed him. Light exploded as a light filled the landscape. And as Negi fell through time, he reached out and plucked a card from the air.
I will always be with you… just remember the memory of loss, and the power of life.
*
“So… time reset to it’s original motion,” said Evangeline, standing at the wall. “Well Kagurazaka Asuna… what will you do?”
“Everyone…” Asuna’s throat tightened and she cried out, “Please, help me!”
*
“Why so glum Aniki?” asked Chamo as Negi stood on the roof of the girls dorm. “Anesan is back, nothing bad happened!”
“I just… I just get the feeling I missed something,” said Negi. “Something… no, someone important.”
“There you are!” exclaimed Asuna from behind him as she hauled Negi to his feet. “Negi! Who’s this girl?” And she waved a card in front of him.
“Huh? Who is this?” asked Negi, looking at the girl on the front. “I don’t recognize her.”
“Me neither…” said Chamo.
“Geez, I don’t believe you! You’re like making pactios without telling me? COUCH! TONIGHT!”
“What?! That’s no fair!”
Chamo caught the fallen card as the pair argued. “Takamachi Nanoha… huh… I don’t know that name…” He looked out at the dawn that was breaking and smiled. “But whoever you are Anesan, I wish you luck.”
*
“Achoo!”
“Bless you Nanoha-chan,” said Momoko. “Dusty?”
“No,” said Nanoha, sniffing. “But I think someone’s talking about me.”
“Maybe it’s your imagination,” said Miyuki as she got up and took a hold of the wheelchair handles. “C’mon sis, let’s go get ice cream.”
“I’ll get my wallet,” said Kyouya as he followed.
Momoko smiled a sad smile. It was bad enough that Nanoha had gotten into an accident that nearly crippled her but the letter on the table offered her a spot in the prestigious Mahora Academy.
“Shiro… looks like you still have friends who remember you,” said Momoko as a picture displaying a young grey-haired boy and a young man with brown hair was on the table next to it.
*
End 31 Kisses
“Human transmutation…”
“Disregard of safety…”
The list of charges floated over Negi has he sat there in the dark room, his eyes dark and dead. All hope had drained out of him when his attempt to bring Asuna back to life had failed. He kept turning the charred bell over in his hands, the motion making smooth polished motions in the charcoaled material.
Gandolfini sighed as he adjusted his glasses. “Stay here. We’ll deal with the rest of the hearing later.”
Negi nodded as the other mage teachers filed out of the room, leaving Nanoha standing there, her hands clasped in front of her chest.
Walking up to him, she touched his shoulder. He didn’t respond until her arms encircled his neck. “Negi-kun.”
“You stood against me,” said Negi in a hurt tone. “You didn’t let me bring her back…”
“Aren’t you listening to the mage teachers?” said Nanoha. “You can’t bring back the dead.”
“I know I can…” said Negi, but there was no fire in his voice, just pain.
“Negi…” And the young girl held him as tears refused to fall for the young man.
*
31 Kisses
Written by Shaun Garin
All characters owned by their respective creators.
*
“Where’s Negi-sensei?” asked Konoka as Takamichi walked into their period English class.
Takamichi sighed and he adjusted his glasses. He looked old, older than he was expected to be with his shock of grey-blonde hair. “Negi-kun… has been relieved. He’s headed back to Wales in two days.”
Instead of an explosive inquiry, 3-A burst into a rumbling of discontent, ranging from shocked to horrified expressions. Yue especially as she shared a look with Nodoka. Negi-sensei… gone?
“If you’ll turn to page 32 in your books…”
*
“I don’t like this,” said Setsuna softly. “Not after… everything.”
“I spoke to grandfather,” said Konoka, clutching her teacup as Yue and Nodoka sat next to them, also holding drinks. “He said… Negi-kun’s being punished.”
“For running away? But… that’s too cruel…” said Nodoka. “After Asuna-san…”
Yue swallowed a hard lump in her throat. “I won’t accept this,” said the violet haired girl softly. “I can’t! Not after I told him I liked him, not after Asuna…” She choked off a sob and Nodoka wrapped an arm around Yue.
“Um…” the girls looked up as Satomi and Chao stood there. “We hate to interrupt but there is something we might be able to do.” And Chao held up a watch.
“It’s called Cassiopeia,” said Chao. “It’s a time machine.”
*
Nanoha looked up at the old-looking Takamichi walking down the halls of the mage detention area and stood up. “Takahata-sensei?”
“Please, Nanoha-kun, it’s Takamichi. I don’t deserve that title right now.” Said Takamichi and the young girl nodded. “You helped Negi-kun when he was in his time of distress. Please sit. I want to talk.”
Nanoha did so as he folded his hands in front of him in his lap as he leaned forward a little. “Your impression of Negi-kun… what was it?”
“… loss,” said Nanoha. “Powerful overwhelming loss. He projects sadness like it’s a second skin, and it makes people want to hug him and tell him it’s alright. But he’s also strong, but with so much loss and burdens weighing him down, it’s hard to say if he’ll ever recover.”
“As expected of Nagi’s son,” said Takamichi as he lit up a cigarette and blew a gust of smoke to the side. Nanoha wrinkled her nose but otherwise didn’t comment. “Sorry… bad habit of mine. Picked it up from my old master, Gateau.”
“It’s fine,” said Nanoha. “I half expect myself to smoke when I’m older. I’ve had a stressful life too.”
“You’re Shiro’s daughter aren’t you?” said Takamichi, drawing a startled expression from Nanoha. He smiled a little. “I can see him in your face and eyes. Kindness, a giving heart wrapped around an unforgiving core of steel if someone does your loved ones wrong. Even now you protect Negi-kun, haven’t left his side since his arrest.”
“You knew my father?”
“Yes… it was… maybe fifteen years ago. I was young and going to school here when I met him when he was bringing a dignitary around the campus as a bodyguard. My old master introduced me to him and we hit it off. He was older than I am, but we had some times.” Takamichi took another drag. “He always hated Gateau’s cigarettes.”
“I never expected his daughter would be magical though,” said Takamichi. “But it was probably to be expected. We did a lot of rescue in war-torn areas together for a couple years before it happened.”
Nanoha nodded, smiling just a little at the praise Takamichi had for her father. Momoko rarely spoke of her father, but Nanoha always wanted to know about him. “I didn’t discover I was magical till three years ago.”
“The Dream Vent,” said Takamichi and she nodded. He grinned. “Well, thank you for that. It was quite the tough thing to cover up magically.”
Nanoha blushed just a little.
At that moment, the wall rolled up as Gandolfini lead Negi out, his eyes a little less dead. The pair stood and Negi threw himself into Nanoha’s arms, sobbing.
“He’s grown attached to her,” said Gandolfini. “More quickly than he ever got attached to Asuna.”
“They look similar, but that’s only superficial. She’s got the same heart. What’s the verdict?”
“They’ll let Negi-kun say goodbye before we put him on the plane back. The magic community… isn’t happy with his decision.” Said Gandolfini. Takamichi sighed. “The son of the Thousand Master… reduced to this.”
“Grief turns people into horrible parodies of themselves, Gandolfini-kun. You and I know that better than anyone else.” Said Takamichi as he stubbed out his cigarette. “Nanoha-kun, come. Bring Negi-kun with you too.”
“Right.”
*
“There he is!” exclaimed Misora as the girls all dogpiled on Negi, the young boy falling over from half the class pouncing on him.
“Negi-kun you’re leaving us?” demanded Fumika.
“Negi-kun can’t leave us!” added Fuka.
Negi struggled under the press of girls as Konoka, Setsuna, Yue and Nodoka walked up to Nanoha. “Who’re you?” asked Konoka.
“Takamichi Nanoha. I’m his friend.” Said Nanoha simply. “I found him when he ran away, and brought him back.”
“He seems… attached to you,” said Setsuna.
“We’ve got a lot in common,” said Nanoha and Yue looked at her over her juice box.
“You mean… as a mage,” said Yue.
“Yeah.” Said Nanoha. “I’m not the reason he’s leaving. He did, almost did something that was terrible and dangerous.”
“But… we need to get him this,” said Konoka as she held up the device in her hands. “Chao-san gave it to us. It’s a time machine. With it, we can go back in time and stop Asuna from dying!”
The words were like a knife through Negi’s heart as he looked up. Pushing the girls off him, he walked over and said, “Really? You’re… not lying to me, are you?”
“No Negi-kun, we’d never lie to you,” said Konoka as she pressed the watch into his hands. “But it takes an enormous amount of magic to use.”
“What are you all talking about? Time machine? Magic? And who is this girl?” demanded Ayaka.
“A time machine… I can go back… give up the power needed…” Negi took it and he clutched the watch protectively.
Magic began to pool at his feet and rose into his hands, throwing off light as wind howled. “What’s going on?” exclaimed one of the girls as light exploded upwards.
Negi felt the magic tearing at his form as he held on. But then, hands came down against his as warm pink light suffused through his body. “Nanoha?”
“Negi…” said Nanoha. “There’s no going back if you take this route,” said Nanoha in the howl of magical power. “We will never have met.”
Negi gasped as the magic died down, leaving a flustered group of girls. “But…! You and I… we…!”
“We just met, I know,” said Nanoha as she took the watch from him. “Which is why I want you to use my power to do it. A life for a life.”
“NO!” yelled Negi. “I don’t want to see anyone die!”
“Don’t you see Negi? I’m just here, as a dream for you.” Nanoha blinked back unshed tears. “Please, use my power. A life for a life. In exchange for never meeting me, you will have her back.”
“Negi-sensei…” swallowed Nodoka, watching the by-play. Many girls were already sniffling.
Negi’s hands wrapped around hers. “Is that what you want, Nanoha-san?”
Nanoha smiled at him as she leaned in and kissed him. Light exploded as a light filled the landscape. And as Negi fell through time, he reached out and plucked a card from the air.
I will always be with you… just remember the memory of loss, and the power of life.
*
“So… time reset to it’s original motion,” said Evangeline, standing at the wall. “Well Kagurazaka Asuna… what will you do?”
“Everyone…” Asuna’s throat tightened and she cried out, “Please, help me!”
*
“Why so glum Aniki?” asked Chamo as Negi stood on the roof of the girls dorm. “Anesan is back, nothing bad happened!”
“I just… I just get the feeling I missed something,” said Negi. “Something… no, someone important.”
“There you are!” exclaimed Asuna from behind him as she hauled Negi to his feet. “Negi! Who’s this girl?” And she waved a card in front of him.
“Huh? Who is this?” asked Negi, looking at the girl on the front. “I don’t recognize her.”
“Me neither…” said Chamo.
“Geez, I don’t believe you! You’re like making pactios without telling me? COUCH! TONIGHT!”
“What?! That’s no fair!”
Chamo caught the fallen card as the pair argued. “Takamachi Nanoha… huh… I don’t know that name…” He looked out at the dawn that was breaking and smiled. “But whoever you are Anesan, I wish you luck.”
*
“Achoo!”
“Bless you Nanoha-chan,” said Momoko. “Dusty?”
“No,” said Nanoha, sniffing. “But I think someone’s talking about me.”
“Maybe it’s your imagination,” said Miyuki as she got up and took a hold of the wheelchair handles. “C’mon sis, let’s go get ice cream.”
“I’ll get my wallet,” said Kyouya as he followed.
Momoko smiled a sad smile. It was bad enough that Nanoha had gotten into an accident that nearly crippled her but the letter on the table offered her a spot in the prestigious Mahora Academy.
“Shiro… looks like you still have friends who remember you,” said Momoko as a picture displaying a young grey-haired boy and a young man with brown hair was on the table next to it.
*
End 31 Kisses