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Negima: Kage Mage	By : Pokemaster12 Category: Naruto Crossovers > General Views: 7510 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 7
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Chapter List
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Chapter 14: Chasing Down a Monkey

It took quite a while for Setsuna to wake up. Even longer then Naruto would have expected. With nothing better to do and feeling slightly mischievous, the blond mage had – after wrapping a towel around himself so as to protect his modesty (what little modesty he had) – set Setsuna's head on his lap and idly ran a hand through the girls hair.
Sometime after he did this, the girl in question woke up with a groan. She tried to open her eyes, but was forced to shut them immediately after upon being blinded by the harsh light, after which she frowned, then relaxed even more as her mind registered the lovely feeling of having her scalp messaged by a set of calloused digits.
Of course, when she realized that someone was running their hands through her hair, her eyes shot open once again.
That was when she found herself staring into a deep and amused pair of blue eyes. For a moment, she just laid there, staring at the blond male above her, a face that was completely blank. So bank in fact, that Naruto would have to say that she looked kind of like a zhombie, without the expression of general stupidity they had.
Then she shrieked.
Shooting off the blonds lap, Setsuna jumped nearly five feet away, her mouth open and sputtering nonsensical garbage that Naruto couldn't make heads or tails of. Only as she was retreating, her foot caught on a small rock protruding up the lip of the bath.
With another shout cry of fear she fell back, eyes closed and arms flying off in every direction as she tried to regain her balance. She didn't even notice the towel Naruto had placed on her slip as she began her descend into the waters below.
Thankfully, before she could fall, Naruto grabbed onto her arms and hauled her back up onto her feet.
"Th... thank you..." Setsuna breathed, flushing slightly as she realized how clumsy she had just been acting.
"Your welcome," was Naruto's reply as he bent down and picked up her towel. He put it out in front of his, towards the girl as he, in an amused voice, said, "you may want to wrap this around yourself."
Setsuna blinked at the towel in the blonds hand, then looked down at herself. When she noticed that she was completely naked, she screamed again and, after quickly snatching the towel out of Naruto's hand, proceeded to wrap it around herself. All the while she glared at the blond who just chuckled.
"You only have yourself to blame for giving me a show, Set-chan," he said, his eyes becoming even more amused when she flushed red. He shook his head for a moment before sighing. "Honestly, what am I going to do with you."
Seeing as Setsuna still wasn't talking, Naruto sighed.
"You know, Negi and Chamo think your a spy for Kyoto."
"W-What!" That seemed to finally get a reaction other then anger and embarrassment out of the girl. Her eyes quickly widened to the size of dinner plates. "B-But, why would they think that!"
"Because you haven't given them a reason to think otherwise," Naruto replied, his mannerisms going from teasing to calm as he decided he'd had enough fun at the poor girls expense. "I don't like it, but I can't really blame them either. You're a mysterious figure, you're from Kyoto and they know nothing of your past with Konoka. Now, I've kept up my end of the bargain and kept your history a secret, but..." He trailed off, letting Setsuna connect the dots.
"I... see..." she said with a small wince. "I suppose I am partly to blame for this, but I..."
"I know you wanted to leave your past behind so you could focus on your duties to protect Konoka," Naruto interrupted. "However, now that it's put you at odds with Negi and Chamo, I have to ask; what is it you plan on doing?"
Setsuna frowned, her expression warring between confusion and wariness. She opened her mouth, about to answer him –
"KYAAA!"
– a very familiar scream sounded from the changing rooms.
"That scream sounded like Kono-chan's," Naruto muttered with a frown.
"Ojou-Sama..." Setsuna whispered, right before her sword somehow appeared in her hand. How it just magically went from fifteen feet away to her hand Naruto didn't know, but he decided not to think about and hopefully, save himself a headache. "OJOU-SAMA!"
Naruto's frown increased as he quickly moved to follow Setsuna, surpassing her in mere seconds before reaching the door and moving out into the hallway.
Only to stop at the sight before him and grab a hold of his nose to keep from passing out.
Setsuna followed him soon after and stopped just as he had as she took stared at the scene.
"Wh-What the hell are you just standing there for!" shouted Asuna as she fought against several monkeys that were trying to strip her and Konoka. Both of them were already practically naked, and only their panties had yet to be removed. "Get these monkeys off us!"
"AH! Se-chan, Naru-kun! Don't look!" Cried Konoka as she too tried to fight off the monkeys while also keeping her modesty.
"Right..." Naruto took a deep breath and shunted aside his perverted thoughts.
It was time to go to work.
Beside him Setsuna's eyes were a lit with the flames of righteous female fury. "Th-these damn monkeys!" She growled, her left hand going to her blade, gripping the pommel as she pulled it from it's sheath.
Before she could even slide into her stance Naruto was already on the move.
His blade came forth from the nether, summoned by his will as he quickly charged. "Doragonkurō." Following the intonation of his move, Naruto swiped his sword in a flurry of quick, graceful arts that to the untrained eye looked like mere flashes of light.
All of the monkeys trying to strip Asuna stilled, as if they had just felt something and couldn't place it.
Naruto, standing several feet behind them slowly sheathed his blade. A distinct clicking sound came at the end, and all of the monkeys that had been harassing Asuna suddenly burst into paper, revealing themselves to be Shikigami.
Asuna could only blink as she suddenly found herself monkey free. "What the... hell...?"
While Naruto's attack was quick, efficient and lethal, Setsuna, while a little slower to react, was no less deadly.
"Shinmei-Ryu Secret Technique!" She yelled out, her sword flashing out as she neared Konoka and her monkey problem. "Hyakuretuouka Zan!" Her blade ripped through the monkeys around them, tearing them to shreds as Setsuna caught Konoka with her free arm.
"S-Se-chan," Konoka muttered in surprise, her face flushing red as Setsuna held her.
"Konoka!"
"Kono-chan!"
Setsuna and Konoka turned around to see Naruto and Asuna walking up to them. Sometime during Setsuna's fight, Asuna had managed to get a towel and wrap it around herself. It wasn't much, but at least it protected some of her modesty.
Naruto smiled as he held out a towel for Konoka. "Best cover yourself up," he told her. Konoka blushed a bit as she took the towel from his hands and mumbled a soft 'thank you'.
Suddenly Naruto stiffened. Acting out of pure reflex the blond summoned a kunai to his hand and threw it at tree branch.
"N-Naruto!" Asuna shouted in shock, while Setsuna looked over at where the blond had thrown the weapon and frowned.
'They got away,' Naruto thought to himself with a small frown as he looked at the tree branch. Not sensing the magical presence he had felt anymore, he turned his attention to the rest of the group.
"Se-chan?" Everyone looked over at Konoka to see her smiling at Setsuna. "I don't really understand what's going on... but you saved me, right? Thank you."
"A-Ah! I-It was nothing! I've gotta go!" Setsuna promptly dropped Konoha, and ran off. The brunette would have fallen on her bum if not for Naruto catching her, placing an arm around her waist to steady her.
"Well, that was weird," Asuna said, her eyes glaring at Naruto as he held Konoka.
If he tried anything perverted with Konoka, then she was going to pound his face into the ground.
Fortunately for her peace of mind Naruto let go after Konoka had managed to steady herself.
"I see she's still running away," Naruto said with a sigh. Honestly, that girl was so damn troublesome.
"What do you mean running away?" asked Asuna, frowning as she tried to make sense of what had just happened. Everything was happening so quickly that her mind had yet to catch up to the events of a few minutes ago. "Just who is Setsuna anyways?"
"Setsuna is Kono-chan's child hood friend," Naruto answered, getting widened eyes from Asuna. He turned to look at Konoka who was staring longingly in the direction Setsuna had just left. "Right?"
"Konoka, is this true?" asked Asuna.
"Yes," Konoka nodded, turning her head away from the exit and looking at Asuna. "It's true. I never really spoke about this with you, Asuna. But I came to Mahora I used to live in Kyoto. I lived in a big mansion in the mountains. It was always so quiet and lonely. Because it was so secluded I didn't have a single friend."
Naruto grimaced. He had already heard much on Konoka's history from the old man. However, hearing it second hand was completely different then hearing it from Konoka herself. The strain in her voice as she spoke not only bothered him, but made him angry at the girl's father.
If he and Eishun met, that man would be getting a very... stern, yes, stern talking to about why you shouldn't isolate people because of fear.
"But one day, Kaa-san brought over some guests and along with them was a little girl. It was Se-chan. She was the very first friend I had when I was young. Even at a young age she practiced kendo, and protected me by driving away dogs and helping me when I was in danger. There was this one time I was about to drown, and she did all she can to help me out. In the end we were both saved by adults. She then started to dedicate her time with her training. She became busier and busier that I rarely got to see her. We didn't have time to talk much and then I had to move to Mahora. When it was my first year of middle school I saw Se-chan moved here too. I was happy we were able to meet again but she still didn't talk to me." By now Konoka had started crying. "It was like I did something wrong. Se-chan wouldn't talk to me like she did before."
Naruto was completely unaware of his own actions. One second he had been standing next to Konoka as he listened to her story, the next he was wrapping the girl up in a hug. Konoka seemed startled, but thankfully did not pull away and instead wrapped her arms around the blond in return.
"Hey! What the hell do you think your doing, pervert!" Asuna shouted. She cracked her knuckles threateningly as she prepared to deliver divine justice. However, she was stopped.
Naruto sent her a cold glare that she had never seen on his face before. She had seen instances where he had been serious, and she had seen when he left Negi how angry he was. But to have such a glare directed at her was unnerving, to say the least.
When Naruto was sure that Asuna would not do anything, he turned his attention to Konoka. "Why don't you and Asuna finish taking a bath." He leaned down and whispered so that only she could hear him. "Come to my room after words, there's something I want to talk to you about."
"Um... ok." Konoka replied, a little unsurely. While she was curious about what Naruto wanted to talk to her about, she was also a little... flustered at the thought of being in Naruto's room with him. Even if they did just plan on talking.
"Come on Asuna, let's finish taking our bath!"
"Eh? But –" Asuna had absolutely no chance to say anything as Konoka began dragging the girl behind her.
Naruto sighed before making a cross seal with his hands and forming two kage bunshin. "You!" He pointed at one of them, "find Negi, he's probably sulking somewhere after I laid into him and Chamo. I don't care what you have to do but drag his ass out of whatever funk he's in, then meet up with him." He hook a thumb at the other clone. "And while he's getting Negi, your going to find Setsuna."
His two clones, already knowing how their creator was feeling at the moment, did not make any snappy come backs as they saluted. "Hai, Oyabun!"
As his two clones walked off down the hall, Naruto sighed.
He didn't need to be a genius to figure out that things were about to get complicated around here.

"Come on Aniki, don't get so down!" Chamo tried to cheer up his brother figure without success. Ever since Naruto had dressed him and the ermine down, Negi had been in a funk. His mind kept playing his older brothers words in his head over and over again.
How could he not have had more faith in his brother? Naruto, despite acting more like a lazy and perverted idiot, was an extremely accomplished mage, held up to the same image as his father. Many people had even called him the reincarnation of the Thousand Master because of how powerful he was. In Negi's mind, he couldn't help but feel ashamed at how he had continued accusing Setsuna about being a spy when Naruto had been so convinced she wasn't.
His brother would never have told him otherwise, if he didn't know for a fact that Setsuna wasn't a spy.
"Do you think we were wrong, Chamo? About Setsuna-san?" asked Negi as he turned his head to look at his ermine companion.
"Eh?" Chamo looked surprised for a second before shrugging. He pulled out a cigarette and put it in his mouth. "It's hard to say. I mean, she seems so suspicious. But Naruto-Sama did say that he had a clone following her so..."
"...Yeah..." Negi sighed again.
"Oi! Oi! What's with the depressed look?"
"N-Nii-san!" Negi said in surprise as Naruto walked up to him and Chamo. Before the blond could say anything, Negi had appeared right in front of him with big, watery eyes.
'Oh god...' Naruto groaned inwardly.
"I'm so sorry I didn't have any faith in you Nii-san," Negi started. "I should have known that you wouldn't have defended Setsuna-san without having proof of her innocents."
"It's fine," Naruto sighed. He placed a hand on Negi's head and ruffled his hair. "I shouldn't have gotten so upset with you. I was in the wrong here. Even though Setsuna was innocent," he saw Negi flinch and chuckled. "It's understandable that you would be suspicious of her. I suggest you talk to her and ask her about her past before jumping to conclusions. Ok?"
Negi nodded his head emphatically and Naruto chuckled.
"Alright then, why don't we go and find Set-chan then, ne?"

Naruto clone number two found Setsuna standing on a stool, in her hand was a piece of paper that the clone recognized as a barrier ward.
"Set-chan," C. Naruto greeted, startling the girl and making her turn to face him.
"N-Naruto-sensei," Setsuna said, stuttering slightly. The blond stared at her for a good minute, in which time Setsuna became increasingly unnerved, but due to the look he was giving her found herself unable to speak.
In truth, Naruto was just trying to decide whether he should get right down to business, or whether he should give her a tongue lashing for the way she was ignoring Konoka. Couldn't she see how much her actions were hurting the girl? Was she really so blind to Konoka's pain? She said she wanted to protect Konoka, yet how could she do so when she couldn't even get near the girl?
And that was just going into physical protection. There were far more painful things then being physically hurt.
"I see your putting up a ward to keep Shikigami away." Naruto decided to go with business. No matter what he said right now, it wouldn't change Setsuna's mind. Plus, Naruto was afraid that if he started talking about Konoka with her, he would get angry and lash out at the girl. He didn't want to hurt her, even if she was acting like an idiot with Konoka, she was still his friend.
"Yes," Setsuna replied, a little surprised. "I'm surprised you know what this is."
"I'm not your average mage," Naruto replied mysteriously. He shrugged his shoulders before looking down the hallway. Setsuna turned her head to follow his gaze and found her eyes tracking Negi, Asuna and... another Naruto? She looked over at the blond beside her and he said, "clone."
"Ah." Setsuna turned to Negi and Asuna just as they came up to her. "Negi-sensei? Asuna-san?"
"Setsuna-san..." Asuna said before blinking. "Naruto?" She blinked again, "But –" she looked over at the other Naruto who grinned, waved at her and disappeared in a puff of smoke. "W-What the hell!"
"Clone," Naruto answered, making her look at him and blinked.
Asuna looked at him in shock for several seconds before shaking her head. "You know what... I'm just not gonna be surprised by the things you do anymore. I'm not."
"I'm sorry," Negi bowed to Setsuna, confusing her greatly. "I'm sorry for thinking you were a Kyoto spy!"
"Eh!" Setsuna looked at him in shock. She looked over at Naruto who had an 'I told you so' look on his face. Wincing she turned back to Negi and said, "i-it's alright... I should have talked to you before the trip. The truth is I am Konoka-oujo-sama's bodyguard."
"Konoka...oujo...sama...?" Asuna blinked.
"A-Ah, I see," Negi scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "That makes more sense then you being a spy."
Setsuna nodded to him before she went back to what she was doing, drawing the young boys curiosity.
"What is that?"
"It's a ward I'm putting up to keep out Shikigami," Setsuna replied.
"The attacks of the enemies seem to be growing. Sooner or later Konoka-oujo-sama will be in the crossfire too. We have to come up with some countermeasure for this," she finished her work and looked over at Naruto and Negi. "Naruto-sensei, I heard you are one of the most powerful Western Mages in the world. Can you think of anything that might help us? Our enemies seem to be getting confident because our attacks are inneffective."
"I already have..." Naruto paused and began counting on his hand. "Two-hundred kage bunshing scattered around both the outside and inside of the hotel."
"T-Two-hundred!" Several eyes widened and Naruto smirked.
"Nothing will be getting in or out without me knowing about it." 'That is, unless they are already inside...' Naruto didn't let the frown that threatened to break his features come. He quickly shook his head and tried to get back on track. "Setsuna, you seem to know a bit about our enemies. Is there anything you can tell us about them?"
"Nothing specific," Setsuna said apologetically. "I have no clue who is after Konoka-oujo-sama, but I can give you some general information." She paused, took a breath, then plunged on. "We are going against, yin yang charm-users. They area subdivision within the Kansai Magic Association. Long ago they were said to be the ones who had established independent magic in Japan. Like all mages they are vulnerable when chanting their spells, very much like you Negi-sensei. Just like you have partners, they have guardians. They are spirit warriors called Zenki and Goki. As long as their guardians are around we cannot touch the spell caster themselves."
"They sound pretty strong," Negi sounded worried as he thought about going up against these kinds of enemies.
However, Setsuna wasn't finished. "That is not all. They were deeply tied in with the Kyoto Shinmei-Ryuu. The organization used to protect the capital by destroying demons, they were also accompanied by the charm users making a very strong combination."
"That sounds bad for us doesn't it?" Asuna commented with a sweat drop. She did not like the idea of going up against such strong opponents. Granted, she was also sort of a normal girl, all of this stuff was way over her head.
Sometimes, she wished she had never seen Negi and Naruto use magic.
"So we can probably expect Shinmei-Ryu practitioners to be with our enemies." Naruto had never fought a Shinmei-Ryu practitioner in true combat, as he did not consider his spars with Setsuna to be combat. A part of him was excited by the prospect of crossing swords with a deadly swordsman, but another part was worried. These people were after Konoka, and they were dangerous.
He would have to be extra careful from now on. Paranoia was going to be his greatest ally.
"Yes you can say that," Setsuna sighed. "They would consider me a traitor for leaving Kyoto. But I wanted to protect Konoka-ojou-sama and that is all that matters. As long as I can help her out I am satisfied."
"Set-chan," Naruto said, reverting back to his old nickname for her now that most of the important information and conversation had been dealt with.
Setsuna looked at him. "Hmm?"
"Your an idiot." His words, said so plainly and blatantly caused her to face-fault. Chuckling, he said, "however, even though your an idiot, so long as you are willing to protect Kono-chan, you have my support."
"Gee, thanks," Setsuna said a tad dryly. She was grateful for Naruto's support, truly. But did he have to call her an idiot? And just why was he calling her an idiot?
"Right. Seeing as you don't really hate Konoka I'm glad. A friend of my friend is a friend right?" Asuna smiled as she joined in with Naruto.
Setsuna smiled. "Kagurazaka-san."
Negi ran up and grabbed the group's and put them into a pile. "As of now 3-A's guardian angels are formed. We will protect the group the class from the Kansai Magic Association." Naruto quickly smashed a fist into the younger boys head. "O-Owch!" He sniffed as he rubbed his head. "What was that for, Nii-san?"
"For coming up with such a crappy name," Naruto deadpanned. "Seriously, guardian angels?"
"B-But I like it," Negi stuttered.
"You would." Naruto sighed, Negi had the worst naming sense. It must have come from his dad, I mean, who the hell calls a group of freedom fighters Ala Rubra?
"Anyways, Negi and I will patrol outside just in case my clones miss anything." He looked over at their two female companions. "Would you two patrol the hallways while we do that?"
"Of course, Naruto-sensei," Setsuna said with a bow.
As they began walking outside, Naruto heard Chamo talking to Negi. "Aniki, did you bring your cards?"
"Yes why?" Negi asked in curiosity.
"It is a good time for me to teach you how to actually use those cards," Chamo explained. Naruto blinked in surprise, he had not realized that Negi did not know how to use those cards. Though, now that he thought about it he had never seen his little brother actually do anything other then activating the contract.
So lost in thought was he, that Naruto wasn't paying attention to where he was going and accidentally bumped into a cart full of towels.
"Ah, sorry about that," Naruto apologized as he grabbed some towels and helped the lady. "I wasn't paying attention to where I was going."
"It's alright," the woman said, a light blush on her face. As Naruto and Negi began walking off again, the woman laughed. "Ufufufu, such a cute little mage that Negi is. And Naruto, I had heard the rumors that he was a hotty but I didn't think they would be true."

Asuna and Setsuna reached group five's sleeping quarters. Haruna, Nodoka and Konoka were already sleeping peacefully on the floor while Yue had passed out on the chair. "Well it seems like everyone fell asleep before me," Asuna looked at the other girls with a large sweat drop.
"I'm going to patrol the hallways," Setsuna said.
"Let's switch shifts later on okay," Asuna yawned, she stretched her arms above her head and made her way deeper into the room. "I'll keep a watch on Konoka."
Setsuna nodded her head in a small bow. "Thank you, I'll be going now."
"Ah who is it? Asuna?" Konoka sounded slightly dazed, likely from having just woken up. She rubbed her eyes cutely before blinking and looking over at Konoka.
"Eh? Konoka, sorry did I wake you?" Asuna asked. Konoka shook her head tiredly before getting up, startling the orangette. "Konoka where are you going?"
"Toilet." Asuna sweat dropped at the response.
"Well if it is the toilet I can't be helped."
Konoka moved towards the bathroom blearily, she was still a little tired thanks to all that had happened today. Yawning a bit, she opened the door and was surprised to see a giant monkey inside. "I'm still using it," the lady in the monkey costume said. She then put handkerchief on Konoka's mouth drugging her. "just kidding!" she dragged Konoka into bath room and shut it.
Asuna frowned as several minutes ticked by and Konoka still hadn't come out. She looked over at the clock which showed that it had been ten minutes since her brunette friend had gone into the bathroom. "She's taking pretty long time in the bathroom."
"I have to use the bath room too," Yue mumbled as she woke up. The tiny girl walked over to the bathroom and knocked on the door. "Hey Konoka are you done yet?"
"Sorry still using it!" Konoka replied from the bathroom.
It was just a few seconds later that Setsuna came bustling in through the door. The Shinmei-Ryu swordswomen looked around, frowning when she noticed that Konoka was not in the room. Looking over at Asuna she asked the obvious question, "Kagurazaka-san, where is Konoka-ojou-sama?"
"She's in the bathroom," Asuna answered distractedly. She was trying to keep Yue calm because the girl was still standing outside of the bathroom, waiting. The girl was getting rather antsy and was currently hopping from one foot to the other, as if it would somehow help alleviate her stress.
The frowning marring Setsuna's face deepened, a hint of worry entered her as her instincts told her that something was wrong. "How long has it been?"
"Ten minute" Yue grunted, struggling to maintain herself and keep from peeing on the floor. "We both drank from the spring earlier, just please make her hurry up."
"Konoka you are in there right?" Asuna asked, she knocked on the door several times
"I'm still using it," came the reply.
"Konoka-san, whatever you are doing, hurry up! I can't hold on much longer!" Yue said banging on the door.
"I'm still using it." Yue face faulted. Getting back up she knocked on the door again, only to get the same response. Anime tears soon began to fall out of her eyes as she bangled on the door and once again received the exact same reply.
"I'm approaching my limit…" Yue mumbled towards the door.
"Something doesn't seem right," Setsuna narrowed her eyes.
"I agree," Asuna well agreed. Before anything else could be said there was a loud bang. Looking over towards the door they saw that Yue had literally kicked it open. And inside the room was no Konoka, just a seal that kept repeating I'm still using it.
Both Asuna and Setsuna gaped.
"We've been had!"
"W-wh-what do we do!"
"I DON'T CARE WHAT THE HELL YOU GIRLS DO! JUST GET LET ME USE THE DAMN BATHROOM!" Yue booted both girls out of the room and slammed the door shut in their faces.

Negi looked at the card he was holding in awe. Chamo had just explained to him the intricacies of how to use the card properly and was very excited at the prospect of what it could do. To think that such a little card could be used to speak with someone telepathically.
In his enthusiasm he barely even noticed when the Naruto he was with went up in a puff of smoke.
"Ne, ne, aniki, why don't you test that card out?" Chamo suggested.
"Okay, I think I'll use it to speak with Asuna telepathically," Negi said with a bright smile on his face. Despite the fact that he was a mage, he still couldn't help but be amazed by some of the things magic could do. Bringing the card up to his ear like a cellphone, the red head began to speak. "Hello Asuna-san? How come I can't hear her voice."
As Negi was trying to get his card to work, which he couldn't understand why it wasn't, his cellphone went off. Putting the phone to his hear he was just about to say hello when Asuna's shouting voice came over to him from the receiving end. "Negi we got trouble! Konoka's been kidnapped! What should we do!"
"What mage uses a cell phone!" cried Chamo as anime tears poured down his eyes.
"K-Kidnapped!" Shouted Negi. "By who!"
"I don't know!"
Just then Chamo spotted a figure coming towards them from the sky, overshadowing the moon. "Aniki, what's that?" he asked, pointing to the figure as it came down. The figure landed in front of them with a loud crash, and Negi and Chamo saw that it was a lady with glasses in a monkey suit.
A lady with glasses in a monkey suit holding an unconscious Konoka.
"Monkey!"
"Ara," the monkey said, "I ran into you just then. You're the cute little mage."
"Konoka-san" Negi shouted when he noticed who the woman was holding. "Hold it right there, Monkey-san!" She failed to comply and looked like she was about to take off again, so Negi began chanting a spell. "Ras Tel Mas Scir-" only to be interrupted by a swarm of monkeys that made to restrain him and preventing him from finishing his chant.
He was saved by Setsuna and Asuna, who found him soon after. Setsuna managed to cut down the monkeys left and right with her blade, while Asuna hit a few really hard and sent them sailing.
Unfortunately, the woman with Konoka got away.
"Ah, Setsuna-san, Asuna-san! Thank you for saving me! But we have to go after monkey-san! She has Konoka!"
"Right!" Asuna said before frowning. She looked around and blinked. "Where's Naruto-san?"
"Um..." Negi blinked as well when he finally realized that his older brother wasn't with him. "I... don't know, he was here just a little while ago."
"We can't worry about where he is right now," Setsuna replied in a determined voice. She was glaring. What exactly was unknown as she seemed to be glaring at everything and nothing at the same time. "We need to catch up to that monkey woman and rescue Konoka-oujo-sama!"
"Right!"
Negi and Asune agreed. Both realized that they couldn't rely on Naruto all the time. Chances are, Naruto already knew anyways and would come soon, but if not, they would need to be enough.
With their decision made the three quickly took off after the monkey woman.

Naruto whistled a jaunty tune as he walked down the halls of the hotel. He stopped when he reached the door to one of the rooms to another group, then stepped back and waited. The door soon opened, and Naruto was greeted by the sight of a tired Ayaka.
"Naruto-sensei?" Ayaka rubbed her eyes tiredly as she looked at her fellow blond. "Is something the matter?"
"It's horrible, Aya-chan!" Naruto 'cried' inconsolably as Ayaka flushed, either in embarrassment or anger. "Kono-chan's been kidnapped by this weird lady in a monkey suit and Negi went after her! If we don't get to my brother soon he could be injured, or worse!"
"WHAT!"
It was amusing to watch the girl go from tired and embarrassed to enraged in a second flat. A fire lit in the girls eyes as she glared at Naruto, though he got the feeling that her glare was actually for the person who might be hurting her Negi-sensei, even if the woman wasn't here at the moment. Naruto would have cracked a joke about the girls wrath but didn't get a chance as Ayaka rushed out of the room in her Negi-themed pajama's – he sweat dropped and couldn't help but wonder where she had gotten those – grabbed him by the arm and began dragging him.
"I'll kill those people for hurting my Negi-sensei! Come on Naruto-sensei!"
Naruto chuckled. Really, this girl was just too easy.

"Huhuhu, so he's a western mage huh?" the woman in the monkey suit laughed as she ran through the streets. "He didn't seem like anything special, and that other one... Naruto. He wasn't even there, what an idiot." A cruel smirk came to her face, "once I bring Konoka-oujo-sama back with me, the Kensei Magic Association will –"
"STOP YOU!"
The monkey woman looked back and her eyes widened in surprise. Chasing after her was Negi, Asuna and Setsuna.
"OUJO-SAMA!"
"KO-KONOKA!"
"Tch!" the monkey woman tsked as she turned back around to focus on where she was running. "What a bunch of persistent brats!" Looking ahead she smiled as she ran into the train station.
"This is bad, really bad!" Negi said as she saw where she was going. "Monkey-san is escaping into the train station!"
Asuna growled. "Just who the hell is in that monkey suit anyways!"
"It's probably a charm user of the Kensei Magic Association," Setsuna answered, not even bothering to turn her head as she spoke. All that was on her mind was catching up to that woman and keeping Konoka safe.
She only wished Naruto was also here right now. She was sure that they would have caught up to her and already rescued Konoka if he was. And just where was he anyways?
As they ran into the train station and jumped over the token booth as they rushed after the woman in the monkey suit, Setsuna added. "That suit she's wearing is likely no ordinary monkey suit either. It's probably been enhanced with magic. Be on your guard!"
The other two acknowledged her words with a nod, but didn't say anything as they continued running. However, as they moved through the station, Asuna began to notice something unusual.
"There's something strange going on here," she muttered as she looked around the interior of the station. "Even if we take into account that it's past midnight, there should still be some passengers around here, or at least a couple of staff members."
"That's because that woman has set up a charm of warding," Setsuna answered. "Normal people won't even be able to come near here."
They soon caught up to the monkey woman, she was just entering a compartment on one of the still trains. The group quickly followed her and made it not a moment too soon as the doors slammed shut behind them.
"Uwahh! We made it!" Asuna shouted, then sweat dropped as she saw Negi's robes had gotten stuck in the door. "Honestly," she sighed, grabbing the brat by the hand and pulling him out.
Meanwhile Setsuna was already racing down the compartment. "Let's hurry and follow her into the next compartment!"
"Ah! W-wait for us, Setsuna-san!" Negi shouted as he was pulled free. He and Asuna quickly followed after her, running into the next compartment.
"WAIT!"
The monkey woman turned and saw them, a frown on her face before it changed into a smirk. "Huhu, I guess it's time for me to use my second charm-chan!" A monkey appeared on Konoka and began waving a piece of paper about as the woman chanted. "Charm-san, Charm-san facilitate my escape!"
Water flew out of the paper, a large torrential wave that smashed into the trio. This not only made it impossible for them to move forward, but the water was also filling up the compartment at a rapid rate. It wasn't long before the entire compartment was filled with water.
"Ho ho!" The woman laughed from outside of the compartment. During the her spell the monkey woman had slipped out the door. "You can all drown in this wagon! Bye!"
Negi grimaced as he tried to use his magic, however, every time he tried to cast a spell, water would fill up his mouth and he would be forced to close it. 'To make water appear in an instant like that,' he thought to himself as he tried to think of a way out of this predicament. 'What powerful magic.'
Asuna was in much the same position only worse. She was floating upside down and because she was wearing a Yukata she had gone commando. Now she was regretting it.
'I can't swing my sword with all this water!' Setsuna though through gritted teeth. She couldn't help but wonder if this would be the end. Was this as far as she could go? Was this the limits of her strength? And what about Konoka?
'No! I must be stronger for oujo-sama!' she thought determinedly. Setsuna raised her sword arm and was about to unleash one of her Shinmei-Ryu attacks –
"RASENGAN!"
– when a loud voice, followed by an explosion rocked the entire compartment and blew a large hole in the wall several feet away from her.
All of the water soon left the compartment and Negi, Asuna and Setsuna were left on the floor, gasping for air.
And it was this scene that Naruto walked into, stepping into the compartment and striking a heoric pose. He had changed from his usual outfit, and was now wearing an orange gi with a yin and yang symbol on the back.
"Fear not! For I, Son Goku have –"
BANG!
"OOF!"
"Negi-sensei!"
Naruto was quickly knocked to the floor as Ayaka shoved him out of the way and ran over to Negi, where she began to dote on the boy. Eyes twitching the blond mage pushed himself back up and growled. "I swear, I get no respect at all."
"Maybe if you didn't do such stupid things you would," Asuna retorted with a cough, still hacking water from her lungs. She looked over at him and glared. "And why couldn't you have come sooner you – huh? Naruto, why the hell are you wearing that?"
Naruto pouted as he looked at his Son Goku outfit. "Cuz it's cool."
Asuna's eyes twitched, and she probably would have said something had Setsuna not got her attention. "That monkey lady is escaping with Oujo-sama!"
Everyone was kick started into action and began chasing after the woman. However, as they were running Negi became inexplicably confused. "Setsuna-san!" he called out. "What exactly is going on here! I know that they would try to sabotage me to keep me from delivering my letter. But why would they kidnap Konoka-san?"
Setsuna's eyes looked back, but she did not turn as they continued running. "The truth is... before this all started there were some members of the Kinsei Magic Association who did not approve of Konoka-oujo-sama leaving for Mahora in the East. It's most likely that they want to use Konoka-oujo-sama's powers in order to gain complete domination of the Kinsei Magic Association."
"EEH!" It was a shocking revelation for Negi and Asuna... and Ayaka who had no real clue what was going on, other then that the bad guys were trying to hurt Negi. To think that there would be a conspiracy like this in the works at Kyoto. Was this part of the reason the principle had asked Negi to deliver the letter?
Naruto just frowned as he listened to Setsuna.
"Neither I nor the Principle had taken them very seriously, however, and it seems we are paying for our mistakes. I didn't think they would stoop to kidnapping someone in the middle of a school trip, but the Kinsei Magic Association is not above contracting people for underhanded dealings... it's not all that surprising that they're engaging in a forceful operation."
"Setsuna," Naruto called from his spot next to her. When she looked at him the blond pointed up ahead. "Look."
She did and her eyes narrowed. "It's another charm of warding! That means they must have this out from the beginning!"
Naruto nodded. "We need to hurry!"
Hurry they did. The group ran out of the train station and soon found themselves at a set of stairs that led to the outside. The woman in the monkey suit was now out of said Monkey suit an in a pair of maintenance worker overalls, a skirt, thigh high socks and collared shirt.
"Hu hu hu, you've done well in following me this far." The woman smirked at the group.
Asuna gaped. "Eh! She took off the monkey suit!"
"That's right, but that is as far as you go!" the monkey woman said. "I'll have you deal with the third of my charms." Setsuna rushed the woman, hand on her sword and tried to get to her. However, before she could the woman threw the charm and it exploded into flames creating the kanji for great. "Chew on this! Third charm technique, Kyoto 'Dai' character burn!"
Setsuna covered her eyes as the flames exploded in front of her. Oddly enough however, was that despite the explosion she did not even feel the heat the flames should have caused. Looking in front of her she gaped as she saw a large green barrier surrounding her.
"What –?"
"Pretty cool, huh?" said Naruto with a smirk. Setsuna turned to see him standing next to her with a single hand extended. "I call it shell, it's essentially a shell that can block a certain amount of magical power. Though, it wouldn't have been able to stand up to that attack if you had taken it full on."
Setsuna, and the others, gaped.
Naruto chuckled before turning to look at Negi. "Hey Negi! You wanna see something cool!"
"Cool?" Negi blinked.
Naruto smiled as his eyes began to glow. He looked at the monkey woman with a grin, and much to the confusion of everyone around him, began going through a set of hand seals. "You should feel honored, it's been a long time since I've pulled out any of my special ninjutsu. Suiton: Suishoha!"
A violent explosion of water appeared out of nowhere, surrounding the blond and Setsuna. A second later it blew forward in a large wave, crashing into the flames and completely dousing them. With a loud hiss the flames were completely put out and soon steam filled the entire area.
The monkey woman gaped as she tried to see through the steam. "W-What the hell was that!"
"Fuuton: Daitoppa!" A large gust of wind blew the steam away, revealing a smirking Naruto. "It's called ninjutsu, ancient ninja techniques that only I know. It's one of the reasons I was given the title kage mage. And now –" Naruto took a step forward, only to drop to one knee. "Shit!"
"N-Naruto-sensei!" Setsuna said in shock. One minute the blond was opening a whole can of awesome, and now he was kneeling on the ground.
"I used too much magic..." he grimaced.
"What do you mean you used –"
POP!
"Too... much... magic...? eh?" Setsuna and everyone else blinked as Naruto disappeared in a puff of smoke. "A clone?"
"Hehehe ufufufufu!" The monkey woman laughed. "It seems that you guys have just lost your most powerful player. Now there's nothing any of you can do to keep me from taking Konoka-oujo-sama!"
Everyone grit their teeth, both at her words and the loss of Naruto who had apparently just been a clone. In some ways she was right, they had just lost the most powerful one among their group, and for a moment all three of them felt a sense of hopelessness. How could they fight this woman without Naruto with them? Would they even be powerful enough to save Konoka? These were the thoughts that went through their heads.
However, it didn't last long. Each of them knew that even if it was hopeless they couldn't just give up. Konoka was their friend, and that was more then enough reason for them to fight a possibly hopeless battle.
"Even if Nii-san isn't here, I won't let you get away with this!" Negi shouted. He was the first to come out of his funk. His nii-san had always told him that it was important to protect the people he cared about, no matter what. And he would let his nii-san down. "Konoka-san is one of my precious students and a good friend!"
Reaching into his robes he pulled out his pactio with Asuna.
"Activate the contract for 180 seconds for the ministra magi of magister Negi, Asuna Kagurazaki, Ayaka Yuukihiro!
Asuna gasped as she felt herself becoming empowered by Negi's magic. Shaking herself, she focused her attention on the woman before them, narrowing her eyes as she psyched herself up for the coming battle.
"Negi, Sakurazaki-san! Let's go!"
"R-Right!" Setsuna shouted in surprise. The three rushed up the stairs towards the monkey woman, who narrowed her eyes at their approach.
Ayaka got a tic mark on her head at being left out. "What about me!"
"What was that light just now? Are those two girls partners that I heard western mages have?" Well, it was no matter. Even if that girl was the brats partner without Naruto they were just a couple of brats.
"Aniki!" Chamo shouted. "Use it now!"
"Right! Asuna-san, Iincho-san, I'm going to bring out your personal artifacts! Please take them!"
"A weapon? I get a weapon?" How come she had never heard of this before? Shaking her head as now wasn't the time for such thoughts, Asuna looked at Negi. "Alright, then give it to me!"
And so Negi did exactly that, holding out the card and shouting out his chant. There was a brief flash of light in Asuna's hands and before she knew it her weapon had appeared in her grasp.
"Eh?"
Only it wasn't a weapon, it was a harisen.
"What the hell is this! It's just a normal fan!" Asuna shouted in disappointment. She had been hpoping for something cool like a sword or a war hammer of some kind. Not a normal harisen.
"Ha!" Ayaka laughed in triumph. Everyone turned to see that unlike Asuna, the blond-haired girl had a real weapon. A large composite bow and a quiver of arrows strapped to her back. "It looks like we know who the true partner of Negi-sensei's is."
"Grrr! Why you!" Asuna growled.
"Kagurazaki-san!" Setsuna shouted, bring the orangette's attention back to the battle.
"Damn! I guess there's no helping it! Fine then, here I go!"
Asuna and Setsuna both leapt into the air with fierce battle cries. Ayaka hung back as she took out her bow and grabbed an arrow. She cocked the arrow on the bow and took aim, but did not fire as Asuna and Setsuna were in the way. The pair swung out their respective weapons towards the monkey woman, however, before they could hit the woman two large creatures appeared, a bear and a monkey, to block their respective attacks.
"What the hell is this!" Shouted Asuna in surprise.
"It's like I told you," Setsuna said. "They must be her Zenki and Goki! They may look weak on the outside but you must be careful, they're a lot tougher then they look."
"Ufufufufu!" The monkey woman laughed as she hefted Konoka over her shoulders. "My Zenki and Goki are pretty strong you know! You'll never be a match for those two!"
"Konoka!" Shouted Asuna, before growling at the monkey woman. "Damn you!" In her anger Asuna swung out with her harisen, smacking the monkey flush on the head. She, along with everybody else, was surprised when the creature's head burst apart before getting destroyed completely. "Eh?"
"Just who the hell is this girl!" Wondered the monkey woman. Her Zenki and Goki were some of the strongest around, there should be no way a stupid brat like that girl could beat them.
"That was amazing, Kagurazaki-san!" Setsuna was awed by the power Asuna had just displayed. As far as she knew, the orangette was just a normal high school student who got caught up in the magical world thanks to Negi and Naruto. For her to have such power was impressive.
"Grr!" Ayaka growled. "I'm looking going to lose to you Asuna!" Firing off her arrow, Ayaka's aim held true as she struck the bear in the face, her arrow piercing it's head! "HA! How do you like that!"
"That... wasn't bad..." Asuna mumbled in surprise. Setsuna merely nodded.
Who knew Ayaka could handle a bow so well?
"Damn you!" the monkey woman shouted as she held up more cards. "I'm not going to lose to a couple of brats!" She summoned several dozen of the smaller monkeys to her aid and had them attack the group.
Asuna readied her Harisen as Ayaka grabbed another arrow from her quiver! "Kagurazaki-san! We'll keep these things occupied while you rescue Konoka!"
"Right!" Setsuna charged towards the monkey woman, her feet carrying her swiftly across the ground. But before she could reach the person who had kidnapped Konoka, a blond girl in a Gothic lolita dress swooped out from the air and blocked her attack.
The girl got up and dusted herself off. In one hand was a dagger and in the other a short sword. "Owwie. I think I hurt my head. Hello nice to meet you, I'm from the Shinmei-Ryuu! My name is Tsukuyomi!" She stared at Setsuna and smiled. "You must be my senpai. But I have been assigned to protect her so I have to take this seriously."
"To send a body guard like this… the Shinmei-Ryuu must be short on people," Setsuna said frowning.
"You'll get hurt if you underestimate her. Well I'll leave things to you Tsukuyomi-chan," the monkey lady said with a smirk.
"Shall we begin?" Tsukuyomi asked. "Please go easy on me."
With that Tsukuyomi launched herself at Setsuna far faster then the other girl had anticipated, as indicated by the widening of Setsuna's eyes.
Like the girls speed on her feet, Tsukoyomi's strikes were just as fast as her as footwork. And Setsuna found herself falling on the defense, unable to find an opening for herself to launch an attack. On top of that, Tsukuyomi used two blades, which gave her a weapons advantage. With the two weapons, combined with her speed and skill in using them, it wasn't a surprise that Setsuna could not find any opening to launch a counter attack.
The lolita girl first came in with an overhead strike that Setsuna blocked, however, before the other Shinmei-Ryu fighter could even think of attacking herself, Tsukuyomi made a deft step to the left, letting her blade slide along Setsuna's sword before lashing out with her dagger. Setsuna just barely managed to get her blade up in time to defend herself, and by then Tsukuyomi was making an attempt at stabbing her with the longer the blade.
'This is bad!' Setsuna realized as she just barely managed to keep herself from being impaled with the dagger. She back pedaled, hoping to gain some distance, but Tsukuyomi was having none of it as she stuck the Setsuna like fly on glue. 'This girl is a lot better then I expected.'
"Ufufufu!" The monkey woman laughed. "I don't understand their traditions, but it seems that all Shinmei-Ryu swordsmen are used to using those large monster-exterminator swords. It must be difficult for them to fight against the swift attacks of an opponent with two swords."
Setsuna blocked an incoming attack from the longer of Tsukuyomi's swords, and managed to push her away before the other girl could bring her dagger to bear. As Tsukuyomi skidded backwards, Setsuna charged up her blade for an attack.
"Zanganken!" They both shouted at the same time, unleashing simultanious blasts of energy that exploded against each other. The two opposing forces quickly negated each other, leaving Setsuna to glare at the smiling Tsukuyomi.
Meanwhile, Asuna was having trouble dealing with the monkeys that were attacking her. "Kya! What the hell is it with these monkeys trying to strip me!"
"Perhaps if you didn't leave yourself so open they wouldn't!" Ayaka taunted as she cocked back another arrow on her bow and released it. She managed to pierce the body of a monkey coming towards her, sending it crashing to the ground as it turned into paper.
As the monkey woman watched the battle, she decided that no was the best time to make her escape. However, before she could even think of moving, the lady heard Negi chanting. The monkey lady turned around to see 11 arrows of winding heading her away. "Kuso I forgot about the brat." Before the arrows could reach her, the lady grabbed Konoka and placed her in front of the arrows as her shield. Negi swore as he changed the arrows direction away from Konoka, letting them hit the ground harmlessly several feet away.
"H-hey you! Let Konoka-san go!" Shouted Negi, shaking his arms furiously. "It isn't fair to use her like that!"
"Fu! I see now, I know your type," the woman smirked as she looked at the red head. "When the slightest hint that the hostage will get hurt you stop the attack. I must say she came in more in handy than I thought." The lady laughed some more as she hefted Konoka up on her shoulders once again. "I should just keep using her like this!"
"Just what are you planning on doing with Konoka!" shouted Asuna as she tried to fight against the several dozen that had pinned her down.
The woman smirked as she held a hand to her chin. "Well, we'll use drugs and spells on her, making her into our obedient puppet, listening to our every command. It will be great."
Asuna, Ayaka and Negi could only gape in shock at what they had just heard. Meanwhile, Setsuna's eyes had narrowed dangerously and she began leaking copious amounts of killing intent.
"Looks like we win this time," the lady said as she absently rubbed Konoka's bottom. She then smirked. "Huhuhu, Konoka-oujo-sama's bottom has become quite pale hasn't it? It's so soft and cute." She smacked Konoka's bottom several times for good measure –
"I would really appreciate it if you stopped smacking my ass."
– and promptly stopped when the voice, the gruff, male voice that most certainly did not belong to Konoka spoke up from the place on her shoulder.
Several sets of eyes widened, shock clearly evident on the people's faces. The monkey lady turned her head slowly, seemingly frightened by what she might find, towards the girl on her shoulders.
Only the person on her shoulder wasn't Konoka.
He wasn't even a girl.
Frightened brown orbs met amused blue eyes as Naruto Uzumaki-Springfield grinned at the woman and gave her an amused wave from his spot thrown over the ladies shoulders.
"Yo!"
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