Four Years And Still The Same

After all the time of living and spending time with the little brat, Asuna was the only one whom watched as Negi grew up into a young teenager. Then again Asuan wasn't the only one that been watching him closely. Her best friend, Ayaka, had been watching him ever since he had become her homeroom teacher. The problem was, Ayaka and Asuna both were protective of him. Ayaka's affection towards Negi displayed more in public than Asuna's affection for him.

Both girls were now 18, and their homeroom teacher was still Negi. Both girls still fought with each other like cat and dog. And their classmates were the same as four years ago. Even though they've grown into young adults, they still acted like children sometimes. Negi was the one that seemed and looked more mature than his age. The wonder of being a wizard.

It was another day of English class with Professor Negi Springfield. Everyone was paying attention, including Asuan when her English improved just a little bit. However, she had gotten stronger and faster which was rather freaky according to Negi. Soon after four sentences of difficult English words, Asuna immediatelly zoned out when nothing was getting in her head.

"Asuna-san," Negi called out in his mature, deep voice. "Could you translate the last four sentences?"

Asuna blinked when she heard her name before turning to look at Negi in all her stupidity glory. "Huh?"

"Could you translate the last four sentences?" Negi repeated, more softly this time.

"Why do you always pick me?!" Asuna yelled out as she bolted up on her seat, looking all nervous and defensive. Negi just blinked at her, like he always did, as he felt like he just hurt her feelings.

"She can't translate them, Negi-sensei." Ayaka, the Class Representative, spoke up on her chair. "I bet she didn't understand those four sentences."

"Ayaka, shut your pine-hole!" Asuna yelled out at the blonde as she glowered towards her. Ayaka tried to suppress her anger but obviously failed, when she sharply turned and growled at the red head.

"You need to clean your dirty mouth a little more often, Asuna!" Ayaka snapped back as she stood up. Asuna was now on her way up towards Ayaka before she stopped in front of her with a huge frown.

"You need to shut your big mouth more often!" Asuna growled viciously, but that didn't scare Ayaka. Well it scared Negi alright.

"Are you proposing a war, Freak?!"

"As long as I can kick your ass, Pedo!!"

And off they went with the fighting. The class was cheering them on, and Negi hung his head in defeat. Perhas he should really stop asking Asuna to translate English sentences.

When school finished and everyone had gone home, including Negi since he had to study on his Spells Book, Ayaka and Asuna stayed behind to clean up the mess that they've created during the fight. They didn't regret it, it was always fun fighting each other, although they never admit it.

"It's all your fault, Baka. Asking for a war when you kew we would destroy the whole place." Asuna groaned in irritation as she re-arranged the new chairds and desks over the ones that been broken.

"Stop complaining! You're the one that wrecked nearly the entire classroom!" Ayaka retorted back as she rubbed the floor with a wet sponge. Asuna growled a little and nearly broke a leg from the chair that she was holding.

"Don't act like you're innocent." Asuna said with a frown. She placed the chair down on the ground as gentle as possible.

"Don't try to destroy that chair as well." Ayaka said firmly as she rubbed the floor. She was planning to get to the floor to be spotless, with or without Asuna's help.

"Don't tempt me to hurt you, Ayaka." Asuna responsed as calm as she could muster.

"I'm not trying to." Ayaka replied with a sigh, then again perhaps she was lying.

"Yeah right." Asuna retorted with a rude huff. The only reason that she kept picking a fight with Ayaka was that she didn't want to be reminded of what had happened four years ago. Not that she didn't like what had happened, but it was because she ddin't want to act like a total idiot in front of the blonde.

"It looks like you're trying to pick a fight more than me, Asuna." Ayaka pointed out after halting from her action.

"You wish!" Asuna puffed out rudely as she contniued to put the desks and chairs back to the same place.

"I don't wish to fight, although I can't back down from a challenge." Ayaka said, rolling her eyes before focusing them on Asuna.

"Even though you may lose in the end?" Asuna asked with a smug look.

"You mean, you stop the fight and declare yorself as the winner?" Ayaka asked back, a chuckle escaped from her slightly parted lips as if she was laughing at the red head.

The chuckle had just triggered her temper, which made Asuna to leave her almost completed task to storm over towards Ayaka with a look that could kill anyone. Ayaka blinked before standing up, and thanks to her for standing up that fast, she had managed to catch Asuna when she slipped on the slippery floor.

"Tch, honestly Asuna, you should be more careful." Ayaka scolded slightly as she held Asuna before slowly drawing back. This was too close, and she couldn't have that little scene began to play up again in her head.

A blush crept up on both of Asuna's cheeks as she felt the other girl arms around her. She didn't mean to slip like that. She was meant to walk over to Ayaka and yell at the blonde in her face. When she felt the other girl drawing back, it was then she felt the longing of being in the blonde's arms. To prevent the warmth from escaping her, Asuna wrapped her arms around Ayaka's waist, pulling her closer to her. When she heard the gasp from the blonde, Asuna immediately pulled away and turned to hide her face, since it was slightly red.

"Yeah...Umm...Thanks for..Umm..Saving me.." Asuna stuttered out, trying as best as she could to hide her embarrassment, but that failed obviously.

Ayaka just stood there, mouth slightly agaped as she stared at Asuna like the red head just didn't exactly do what the blonde thought she did. It had been four years, and Ayaka thought that Asuna would have letting it go already, unlike herself anyway. Sure she did admit back then that she had feelings for Asuna, but she was still young. But now, it was just a big confusion. The longing of being close to Asuna. The longing of actually feel Asuna's lips press up against hers. She was confused to why she felt this way.

"Asuna..." Ayaka murmured softly, too soft that her tone made Asuna to actually turn to look at her in confusion. Ayaka had never been soft to her, well only when the blonde was saving her from death, but that was it.

"Umm...Yeah?" Asuna asked. It was then that she noticed the look in Ayaka's emerald orbs. The confusion, the longing, but for who?

Suddenly Ayaka inched a little closer to Asuna, her hands slowly reaching up and placed them on top of Asuna's shoulders. Asuna just blinked, once, when she found herself lost in those beautiful eyes. Before Asuna could figure out what would happen next, she felt a pair of soft lips pressing up against her own. This feeling, was so nostalgic. Soon she found herself closing her eyes, submitting to the kiss that she didn't she was longing for. After four years of being confused to who was exactly right for her, this one kiss from Ayaka answered everything that she had been looking, and craving for.

At first, Ayaka didn't exactly know what she was doing when she slowly inched herself closer to Asuna. What caught her by surprise, was that she felt herself leaning in closer to Asuna's face, before her lips actually were touching the other girl's. However, what surprise her more was that Asuna didn't pull back immediately, and was submitting to her desire. For the first time in four years, she felt like she belonged somewhere, to someone.

It didn't take Ayaka long to deepen the kiss as her hands came up to cup both Asuna's cheeks. Asuna didn't pull away, in fact she returned the kiss with all the tensed up feelings that she had been storing inside her for Ayaka. She didn't know that this day would come so soon, and not to mention in a place that she totally didn't expect to be at. Well, she'd complain about it later, when they both get caught.

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A/N: Think that it's finished? No way~!! I'm just getting started.

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To the innocent ones that don't want to read further ahead, please don't click the next button, I don't want to corrupt you anymore than this. To the ones that is anxious to know what it is going to happen next, feel free to click the next button. To make it simple...

LEMON IS ON THE NEXT CHAPTER