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Negi was smoking. A holo-cig but still.

And he had a big goofy grin on his face.

For his first cigarette in, well, forever, he was being rather good at it. And he was humming and walking around like he was floating on air.

The night before had been just fantastic. Wonderful food despite the tiny portions, the wine was great, the amazing not!date...

Yeah, he was on cloud nine at the least. And dressed in sunglasses, hooded shirt and shorts with sneakers, he was humming loudly and a little off tune.

Chamo chuckled to himself. "You think the way he was acting he got laid..."

"I heard that!" exclaimed Negi and Chamo laughed.

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Negi rubbed his cheek. He had taken much harder blows than that but the slap actually did him some good, breaking through the haze of his mind for the moment so he could focus on Katara. "Um... not really?" said Negi, uncertain. "I didn't even know I was!"

He dug around in his pack, and held up the bottle with alien script on it as Chamo ascended to his shoulder unsteadily and ran the script over the translator core. "Meelar Water. Caution: Children should not drink this. While a regular soft drink engineered for adults, it is not intended for children as intoxicating effects will last for a duration of 48 hours." Chamo lowered the Omnicom. "Aniki... did you read this?"

"We didn't get past Meelar Water," said Negi honestly. "I thought it was okay. It tastes like sparkly fruit juice."

Taking a deep breath, Nanashi covered her face with her hand. "Please, please be more careful, Negi." Lowering her hand Nanashi looked sternly at Katara, "I am sorry Katara, I see we have very different ways of going about things. Still, it is rather unlike me to raise my hand against my-" Had she really just made that slip? "a child. I was just extremely concerned."

And drinking... It led to all sorts of other drugs, and she frowned upon that at least until you were done growing. "Negi, I do not want you to drink any more of this Meelar Water... Or anything else that will impair your senses. Do you understand me?"

Katara nodded. "I understand that. I also know Negi, and he has this tendency to get intro trouble by accident. It often gets him hit by girls, something I'm trying to help with positive reinforcement." She shot a look at the ermine hidden in the room. "Which could be avoided if a certain someone does his job of making sure he doesn't get into trouble!"

She sighed. "Negi, make sure you read the packages of strange things on different worlds you've never been to before. Use some common sense, or you'll get into trouble, okay? Just because you can make yourself doesn't mean you have adult tolerance."

She would find out who the lucky girl was later.

Negi nodded, shuffling his feet and looking a little too adorable for his adult frame. "I understand," he said softly. "I honestly didn't know... oh gods Sasami-chan!"

"She was fine," said Chamo, deftly avoiding Katara's Death Ray Glare. "She left the room looking all smiles though. Nice DATE aniki."

"FFFF it wasn't a date, it was a friendly outing!"

"Friendly outing my furry butt," said Chamo with a snicker. "Give me my cigs, I'm going out for a while."

Negi rolled his eyes, fished out a real packet and lighter and tossed it at Chamo who caught it and bounded away rapidly.

He turned a shamefaced expression onto them. "So um, about the drinking thing, I promise I won't touch it again. Till I'm 18."

Nanashi hugged to boy tight- but not too tight. We did not want to crush him now. "Good." She let go, and gave him a stern look, "But you will be in a world of trouble if I catch you smoking any of..." What was that thing? "your... pet's cigarettes! Or drinking again. If you are not cautious you could be poisoned drinking some alien drink with out reading it's contents!"

Nanashi folded her arms. The subject was closed. At least he was not putting up an argument.

But now who was this equally irresponsible female? While still stern, Nanashi did not look like she would be giving too much more of a lecture, "Who is this Sasami-chan?"

"Seriously, don't learn bad habits from Chamo," Katara said, shaking her head. Jeez, he must have been the reason Negi got into trouble all of the time. "And read what you're taking, okay?"

Katara had to admit feeling a little resistant to Nanashi's way of disciplining Negi. He was really way more innocent than he acted.

But she was curious about this Sasami person too. "Who is she, Negi, that you're 'not dating?'"

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Negi reddened in his cheeks, just slightly. "She's a good friend, one of the young girls here in this place," he said, shuffling his feet just a little. "I like her. B-but it wasn't really a date, just a chance to do things kids don't get to do..."

He nibbled his lip. Why was it so hard to talk about this? It was like admitting what he felt about Nodoka and even then... that seemed easier.

"I don't know if I'm in a relationship really. We're... kissed... a couple of times but um..."

Nanashi blinked. And stepped back, "You kissed? Katara, you better stand between us before I lose it again."

Perhaps it was not the best thing, but Nanashi did not approve of "young love". It led to "young hertbreak" and a crying child.

Katara looked a little surprised. "You two kissed? But you're so young! Oh wait you took one of the pills, didn't you? Of course. But yeah, you're probably too young for something like that. But really, acting so smug and happy just because you got a few kisses! You really are such a boy, Negi Springfield."

Oh, she'll want to hear all about it later, and he could see the teasing smile in her eyes. Unlike Nanashi Katara approved of Negi being with this other girl, provided they were both equally naive in this area.

But she DID get between Negi and Nanashi now. Her reactions were getting harder to understand.

"Well um, it's just on the cheek really a couple of times," stammered Negi, twiddling his thumbs and poking his fingers together. "Oneechan are you trying to make me feel on the spot?"

He was whining, just a little like a kid should, but he couldn't help it. Katara was amused and Nanashi, well, he didn't quite understand why she was so upset.

"It's... not like I wanted to forge a pactio with her," said Negi, going red, clearly having thought about it. Her lips are soft too and... oh gosh... "I wouldn't want to put her in any danger from it..."

Nanashi was tapping her foot impatiently, giving Negi a very motherly "you are in trouble now" look. Nanashi did not like the idea of love. It caused too much pain. But what she was more concerned about was, "and what is this pactio that you were considering forging with her?"

Kano's well timed whisper chimed in now, "You know that there is no such thing as love. Why don't you tell him so? Ignore his tears! Break his heart."

"I'm just playing with you," Katara said, giving Nanashi a what are you doing look. This was another one of those times where Nanashi started think of love as this horrible thing, even though it was possible to find love again. She shook her head.

"It strengthens your magic, doesn't it Negi?"

Negi nodded. "And protects the wielder of the pactio as well."

Negi pulled out a sheath of cards and held them up, fanning them out. "These are my students, the ones who I made a pactio with. They're still active which means they're here, in the pods somewhere. Otherwise it would have been broken."

"With this one," said Negi, holding up a card with him on it, "I can access all of their artifacts. And the power flow is mutual, I get stronger, they get stronger."

Nanashi felt relieved. That did not sound too bad after all. If you could not come out on top, coming out even was the next best thing.

"Still, be careful little one. Love is not always as wonderful as it first seems. Like all living things it eventually wilts and fades. It is the one thing that my blood cannot freeze in time."

Even if Katara was giving her a look, Nanashi felt how she felt, and Kano's nagging only made it worse.

"Love is something that Negi doesn't know anything about quite yet," Katara insisted, "and even if he does, he'll be the one to find out what he thinks about it, not be told by any of us. But I'm glad the pactio can protect those friends of yours that you care about. Make sure if you ever do that with this Sasami, she knows exactly what it can do, okay?"

Negi was young, and this encounter of his sounded relatively innocent between him and the little girl. There was no reason to make a big thing of it more than it was, and certainly not to doom him before it began.

So this was how it was like to get fought over. One of them wanted him to remain a child, the other knew he was an adult on the inside. Oh man...

"Still though, I'll be fine." insisted Negi, trying to steer things away from his love life. "I'll be fine, really. And Sasami-chan and I are friends. Really!"

He blushed. "I'll... make certain."

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Friends. Nanashi could live with that. Children needed friends.

Nanashi put her hand on Negi's shoulder, with her face rather concerned, "As long you are careful, little one."

The last thing she wanted was for Negi to get his heart broken.

Katara sighed. She was hoping to make Negi understand that of he cared a lot about her, they didn't have to be just friends. In her opinion though, whatever was going to happen with them would happen, regardless of what she or Nanashi said.

"I agree," Katara said, giving Negi a smile. "And if you ever need any advice or have any questions, just ask, okay?"

Negi smiled and nodded, beaming at the pair. "I will, count on it!"

He smiled and impulsively, hugged the pair one after another.

Nanashi beamed back at him and laughed a bit. "Though, if you come to both Katara and myself, you are likely to get two rather different opinions. I am still more than happy to give you whatever advice your might need, little one."

"Well that goes without saying," Katara said, looking slightly abashed. Yes, the two of them were definitely different from each other, Katara preferring a more positive approach for Negi. Still, she knew negative reinforcement had its own part: Toph had shown her that in her training of Aang.

"And we'll be more than happy to accept help from you if you're offering," Katara added. His help with Haku's river had been greatly appreciated.

"Ah, I'll do that. Thank you you two. And yeah, I'll avoid drinking and other stuff from now on." He smiled at them both and rubbed his head. "Sorry for worrying you two."

Nanashi scooped up Negi into her arms, holding his arms with one hand and his legs with the other. With a soft laugh, she kissed him on the forehead. "That's a mother- er... my job, to worry. Worrying helps to keep you safe. It might be irritating at times, but I swear I just want you to live happily."

She had only known Negi a short amount of time, but already she viewed herself as a mother figure for Negi- and even for Katara.

Katara was a little startled to see nanashi acting so motherly toward Negi, but only for amoment. She was beginning to see taht despite the quirks, Nanashi truly did care for children, him included. She could see what Nanashi was attempting, and though she was a vampire and supposedly different, love her for it.

"We all do," Katara said softly. "Enjoy your vacation, but take it easy, okay?"

If she had known Nanashi's thought, she would have been surprised and a little happy.

"I will! And don't worry, I've learned my lesson."

Negi smiled brightly at the pair as he leaned into Nanashi's shoulder. It was funny, seeing a teenager being carried like a sack of potatoes but for now, he decided it was alright.

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