Enchanted (10/?)
Title: Enchanted (10/?)
Pairing: Ohmiya
Summary: Once again, the boring academic year at the Magic School begins for Nino and his friends but… is this year really boring? Someone is trying to kill him!
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: The plot is mine. Co-written with zazasukie .
Genre: AU, High school, magic
Words count: 2044
AN: unbetaed
AN2: A treat for the people that keep reading this series in spite of the shortage of updates! Enjoy! \(^o^)/
Previous
CHAPTER 10
“Sakurai-sempai can do this, Sakurai-sempai will be able to do that… Since the president of the committee joined forces with us, that’s all he talks about,” Nino grumbled jealously, running along the eaves of the teacher’s building. “I’ll show Oh-chan that I can do things too, even if I am trapped in this useless mouse form!”
The soft taps of his little paws, scratching the eaves’ metallic surface, were partially muffled by the loud chirping of the crickets calling for their mates in the middle of the night.
Waiting near the teacher’s open window, Nino went through his plan one more time. In fact, it was really simple; before his friends could do anything the next morning and Sho could prove again his worthiness in front of a dazzled Ohno, he was going to find the incriminating clue in the teacher’s bedroom, taking advantage for once of his mouse-ish abilities.
With that purpose, he had abandoned Ohno’s bedroom when the older student had fallen asleep and had ran through the school buildings, searching for an entrance to the teacher’s bedroom. Fortunately for him, the last days of summer had been so hot that almost everybody in the school slept with their windows open.
Cautiously peeking inside the room, Nino made sure that the teacher was sound asleep in his bed.
“That’s my chance!” Imagining Ohno’s face of admiration when he showed everybody his discovery; the little mouse felt his heart swell with pride and the familiar warm feeling of happiness that always flooded him whenever he thought about Ohno, Ohno’s shy smile, Ohno’s cutely scrunched nose…
O.k. now it wasn’t time to daydream! He shook his head to clear it. If he wanted to be praised by Ohno, he needed to find some kind of clue in the teacher’s room first!
The little rodent entered through the window‘s gap, careful not to make a single noise. He began to search around the papers scattered on the desk, thanking the light of the moonlight that entered through the window. He wasn’t sure what he was exactly looking for, but he was confident that we would know it as soon as he found it.
Hours later, after going through the papers on the desk, the garbage in the trash can and even the clothes stored in the closet, Nino felt much less confident and infinitely more pissed off. Finally, when he was on the verge of giving up, he had a stroke of luck. He was walking around the room, desperate to find something, when he noticed that the sound his paws did on a certain wooden plank was a bit odd.
It sounded as if it were a hole under the plank!
His hopes rose. Finally he seemed to have found something! Sniffling nervously, he searched till he found a small gap between the table and the wall, so insignificant that only a person who knew it was there would have noticed it. He squeezed his little body into the hole, pawning at the plank to force his way through it. After huffing and puffing for a few minutes - maybe he shouldn’t have eaten that extra piece of cheese that night, - the small rodent finally passed through the gap, reaching the bottom of the hole. Cautiously, he felt around with his paws and was rewarded when his left paw brushed against a folded paper at the end of the cavity.
This must be it! After all, nobody would take the trouble to hide something so carefully if it wasn’t important. He seized the paper with its teeth and quickly tried to exit the hole.
He had half of his body out of the plank when a sudden sound coming from the bed startled him, making his heart race crazily inside his chest. He tried to exit the hole and hide somewhere, but he found he was stuck. With bright, frightened eyes, Nino looked in the bed‘s direction hopping the teacher was only changing his posture. But the man turned around and sat on the bed, ready to stand up.
Nino fought, as silently as he could against the plank that was trapping him, cursing his rotten luck.
The heavy, menacing steps of the man got closer and closer to the mouse position, making Nino fight more desperately against the wood. Finally, with a weak popping sound that sounded almost like a gun fire to the little rodent ears, he freed himself and ran under the desk, dragging the paper he had found behind him. He shrunk under the drawers, the blood pounding so loud in his ears that was almost deafening.
Had he been caught? Did the teacher put some kind of magical alarm in the plank to alert him of intruders?
The teacher’s steps stopped in front of the desk… and he grabbed a glass placed on top of it. Then, he poured some water, drank it and returned to his bed, unaware of the little intruder and his stolen piece of paper.
When the loud snores of the man broke the silence of the room for the second time, Nino finally sighed in relief. He hadn’t been discovered. He slowly stretched his paws, relaxing his stiff muscles. Deciding that he had tempted his luck enough that night, the small rodent climbed up the desk and escaped from the room holding the piece of paper between his teeth.
He had been successful! Ohno would be so proud of him…
~~
“N-Nino?” the tremulous voice of his room-mate startled him when he entered the bedroom through the open window.
Nino looked surprised at Ohno, dropping the paper he was holding. The first year student looked pale, sweat glistening on his forehead, and his hands were trembling when he hurried up to grab the little mouse.
“Where did you go!?” hissed the distressed student clutching the bewildered mouse in his quivering hands. “Don’t you know how worried I was when I got up and didn’t find you anywhere? I thought the assassin had found you!”
He had never seen Ohno so angry.
“I-I went to search for clues i-in the teacher’s bedroom…” Nino stuttered, blinking nervously. He would have never guessed that the calm student could get so frantic by his disappearance. “I found something hidde-” he added, trying to apologize when Ohno interrupted him.
“I don’t care what you found!” The older student exclaimed furiously. Nino, shocked, closed his mouth with an audible snap, looking at the angry student with wide eyes and shaking slightly.
Looking at Nino’s frightened face, Ohno grimaced, breathing deeply. He closed his eyes and spent the next minutes trying to calm himself.
When his hands stopped trembling and his heart beat at its normal rate, Ohno sighed deeply and rubbed Nino’s head with his calloused thumb, apologizing for his furious outburst. Then, he slowly returned to the bed holding the shocked mouse; the piece of paper was left forgotten on the floor. He laid on the bed and put Nino beside him on the pillow, still encircling the little mouse with his right hand as if he wasn’t completely sure that it was real. The first year student fixed his bright eyes on the mouse and whispered, “Never do that again, o.k.?”
Nino just nodded silently, ashamed of himself for causing Ohno so much anguish only to brag about his discovery in front of his friends the next morning.
“O.k.,” he promised, rubbing his head against Ohno’s hand contritely. Ohno just smiled at him sweetly, too exhausted to maintain the eyes open now that the nervous energy, fuelled by his anxiousness, had abandoned him.
“Good.” The first year student replied before falling asleep, his hand never breaking contact with Nino’s body.
~~
“So,” Jun said with frightening calm, “You risked your safety and our plans only to get a blank paper?”
Nino shrank under the weight of Jun’s scorching glare.
“I still don’t understand why you did something so stupid!” piped Sho, puzzled, trying to understand Nino’s motives.
The little mouse grimaced, feeling the tips of his ears reddening in shame, and tried his best to avoid the furious and disapproving eyes of his friends; especially Ohno’s hurt puppy eyes.
He had had enough disappointed looks from the short student for a lifetime. Who would have guessed that his attempt to impress Ohno would end so badly?
He risked taking a quick glance at Ohno, but the older student was lost in his thoughts, looking without seeing at his hands.
“But there must be something in this paper,” Nino murmured quietly, almost inaudibly, “why would someone hide it if it wasn’t important?”
Hearing his words, Jun snorted and was going to add something more when Aiba interrupted him.
“I think he is right,” the tall student stated, looking the paper against the light with a pensive frown.
Nino looked at his friend gratefully; maybe he could prove the worthiness of his discovery with Aiba’s help.
“I want to try something,” the tall student added, “Jun, can you conjure a little fire ball?”
“Of course,” replied Jun, looking puzzled at his friend.
“O.k., I want you to put the fire ball under the paper careful to make only the smoke touch the paper.”
Unable to hide the scepticism in his face, Jun did what his friend wanted. “Are you sure-”
“Look!” Sho exclaimed, pointing at the drawing that was starting to get visible on the paper. “There is something written there!”
Everybody gathered around Aiba and looked surprised at the image that was appearing on the paper.
“It looks like some kind of drawing,” murmured Ohno, blinking owlishly at the complex drawing. “There are some words too!” he exclaimed a second later when a refined handwriting began to appear below the drawing.
“The drawing… doesn’t look familiar?” murmured Jun, frowning pensively while he examined the paper.
“Let me see it! Let me see it!” exclaimed Nino, who was running madly on the desk, trying to get a glimpse of the paper. Without a word, Ohno extended his hand, helping Nino to climb up to his shoulder; where the little mouse could watch the paper perfectly.
“It’s my family’s coat of arms!” shrieked Nino, startling them. “But… there is something wrong… This is the older version that only my grandfather used.”
His friends gasped, their eyes fixed on the paper. Did that coat of arms mean that a member of Nino’s family was behind the poisoning attempt? Surely it can’t be.
They waited impatiently until the words were completely visible.
“I believe I gave you perfectly clear orders: to kill the heir of Ninomiya’s family; and now you are telling me that you are unable to find the body? Resolve this matter quickly or this will be the last thing you will regret!”
“It seems like a message from the real assassin… and it’s someone using the coat of arms of your family!” Sho exclaimed, his eyes as big as saucers.
“A family member… maybe Nino’s cousin!?” guessed Aiba. “He has made no effort to hide his intention to get the dukedom from Nino’s branch of the family!”
“Or maybe is someone close enough to the family to be able to use a paper with their coat of arms on it,” murmured Jun.
“If someone wants to get the dukedom so badly that he tried to kill the heir… wouldn’t be Nino’s parents in danger too?” murmured Ohno, looking worriedly at the piece of paper in Sho’s hands.
Hearing Ohno’s words, Nino’s little heart skipped a beat, “You are right! I need to contact my parents!” He was about to jump from Ohno’s shoulder when Jun stopped him.
“Wait a moment Nino!” the tall student exclaimed, “if we don’t know who the culprit is we’ll only put ourselves in danger!”
Nino frowned stubbornly, “But I need to warn them! They could be sharing the mansion with the assassin!”
“I could use the same spell I used with the door to find who wrote it,” suggested helpfully Sho, his expression brightening, but Aiba shook his head, “I think the paper is too fragile for that kind of spell.”
Ohno took the paper from Sho’s hands with a thoughtful expression, “I think I have a couple of spells that could be useful…”
Next
Pairing: Ohmiya
Summary: Once again, the boring academic year at the Magic School begins for Nino and his friends but… is this year really boring? Someone is trying to kill him!
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: The plot is mine. Co-written with zazasukie .
Genre: AU, High school, magic
Words count: 2044
AN: unbetaed
AN2: A treat for the people that keep reading this series in spite of the shortage of updates! Enjoy! \(^o^)/
Previous
CHAPTER 10
“Sakurai-sempai can do this, Sakurai-sempai will be able to do that… Since the president of the committee joined forces with us, that’s all he talks about,” Nino grumbled jealously, running along the eaves of the teacher’s building. “I’ll show Oh-chan that I can do things too, even if I am trapped in this useless mouse form!”
The soft taps of his little paws, scratching the eaves’ metallic surface, were partially muffled by the loud chirping of the crickets calling for their mates in the middle of the night.
Waiting near the teacher’s open window, Nino went through his plan one more time. In fact, it was really simple; before his friends could do anything the next morning and Sho could prove again his worthiness in front of a dazzled Ohno, he was going to find the incriminating clue in the teacher’s bedroom, taking advantage for once of his mouse-ish abilities.
With that purpose, he had abandoned Ohno’s bedroom when the older student had fallen asleep and had ran through the school buildings, searching for an entrance to the teacher’s bedroom. Fortunately for him, the last days of summer had been so hot that almost everybody in the school slept with their windows open.
Cautiously peeking inside the room, Nino made sure that the teacher was sound asleep in his bed.
“That’s my chance!” Imagining Ohno’s face of admiration when he showed everybody his discovery; the little mouse felt his heart swell with pride and the familiar warm feeling of happiness that always flooded him whenever he thought about Ohno, Ohno’s shy smile, Ohno’s cutely scrunched nose…
O.k. now it wasn’t time to daydream! He shook his head to clear it. If he wanted to be praised by Ohno, he needed to find some kind of clue in the teacher’s room first!
The little rodent entered through the window‘s gap, careful not to make a single noise. He began to search around the papers scattered on the desk, thanking the light of the moonlight that entered through the window. He wasn’t sure what he was exactly looking for, but he was confident that we would know it as soon as he found it.
Hours later, after going through the papers on the desk, the garbage in the trash can and even the clothes stored in the closet, Nino felt much less confident and infinitely more pissed off. Finally, when he was on the verge of giving up, he had a stroke of luck. He was walking around the room, desperate to find something, when he noticed that the sound his paws did on a certain wooden plank was a bit odd.
It sounded as if it were a hole under the plank!
His hopes rose. Finally he seemed to have found something! Sniffling nervously, he searched till he found a small gap between the table and the wall, so insignificant that only a person who knew it was there would have noticed it. He squeezed his little body into the hole, pawning at the plank to force his way through it. After huffing and puffing for a few minutes - maybe he shouldn’t have eaten that extra piece of cheese that night, - the small rodent finally passed through the gap, reaching the bottom of the hole. Cautiously, he felt around with his paws and was rewarded when his left paw brushed against a folded paper at the end of the cavity.
This must be it! After all, nobody would take the trouble to hide something so carefully if it wasn’t important. He seized the paper with its teeth and quickly tried to exit the hole.
He had half of his body out of the plank when a sudden sound coming from the bed startled him, making his heart race crazily inside his chest. He tried to exit the hole and hide somewhere, but he found he was stuck. With bright, frightened eyes, Nino looked in the bed‘s direction hopping the teacher was only changing his posture. But the man turned around and sat on the bed, ready to stand up.
Nino fought, as silently as he could against the plank that was trapping him, cursing his rotten luck.
The heavy, menacing steps of the man got closer and closer to the mouse position, making Nino fight more desperately against the wood. Finally, with a weak popping sound that sounded almost like a gun fire to the little rodent ears, he freed himself and ran under the desk, dragging the paper he had found behind him. He shrunk under the drawers, the blood pounding so loud in his ears that was almost deafening.
Had he been caught? Did the teacher put some kind of magical alarm in the plank to alert him of intruders?
The teacher’s steps stopped in front of the desk… and he grabbed a glass placed on top of it. Then, he poured some water, drank it and returned to his bed, unaware of the little intruder and his stolen piece of paper.
When the loud snores of the man broke the silence of the room for the second time, Nino finally sighed in relief. He hadn’t been discovered. He slowly stretched his paws, relaxing his stiff muscles. Deciding that he had tempted his luck enough that night, the small rodent climbed up the desk and escaped from the room holding the piece of paper between his teeth.
He had been successful! Ohno would be so proud of him…
~~
“N-Nino?” the tremulous voice of his room-mate startled him when he entered the bedroom through the open window.
Nino looked surprised at Ohno, dropping the paper he was holding. The first year student looked pale, sweat glistening on his forehead, and his hands were trembling when he hurried up to grab the little mouse.
“Where did you go!?” hissed the distressed student clutching the bewildered mouse in his quivering hands. “Don’t you know how worried I was when I got up and didn’t find you anywhere? I thought the assassin had found you!”
He had never seen Ohno so angry.
“I-I went to search for clues i-in the teacher’s bedroom…” Nino stuttered, blinking nervously. He would have never guessed that the calm student could get so frantic by his disappearance. “I found something hidde-” he added, trying to apologize when Ohno interrupted him.
“I don’t care what you found!” The older student exclaimed furiously. Nino, shocked, closed his mouth with an audible snap, looking at the angry student with wide eyes and shaking slightly.
Looking at Nino’s frightened face, Ohno grimaced, breathing deeply. He closed his eyes and spent the next minutes trying to calm himself.
When his hands stopped trembling and his heart beat at its normal rate, Ohno sighed deeply and rubbed Nino’s head with his calloused thumb, apologizing for his furious outburst. Then, he slowly returned to the bed holding the shocked mouse; the piece of paper was left forgotten on the floor. He laid on the bed and put Nino beside him on the pillow, still encircling the little mouse with his right hand as if he wasn’t completely sure that it was real. The first year student fixed his bright eyes on the mouse and whispered, “Never do that again, o.k.?”
Nino just nodded silently, ashamed of himself for causing Ohno so much anguish only to brag about his discovery in front of his friends the next morning.
“O.k.,” he promised, rubbing his head against Ohno’s hand contritely. Ohno just smiled at him sweetly, too exhausted to maintain the eyes open now that the nervous energy, fuelled by his anxiousness, had abandoned him.
“Good.” The first year student replied before falling asleep, his hand never breaking contact with Nino’s body.
~~
“So,” Jun said with frightening calm, “You risked your safety and our plans only to get a blank paper?”
Nino shrank under the weight of Jun’s scorching glare.
“I still don’t understand why you did something so stupid!” piped Sho, puzzled, trying to understand Nino’s motives.
The little mouse grimaced, feeling the tips of his ears reddening in shame, and tried his best to avoid the furious and disapproving eyes of his friends; especially Ohno’s hurt puppy eyes.
He had had enough disappointed looks from the short student for a lifetime. Who would have guessed that his attempt to impress Ohno would end so badly?
He risked taking a quick glance at Ohno, but the older student was lost in his thoughts, looking without seeing at his hands.
“But there must be something in this paper,” Nino murmured quietly, almost inaudibly, “why would someone hide it if it wasn’t important?”
Hearing his words, Jun snorted and was going to add something more when Aiba interrupted him.
“I think he is right,” the tall student stated, looking the paper against the light with a pensive frown.
Nino looked at his friend gratefully; maybe he could prove the worthiness of his discovery with Aiba’s help.
“I want to try something,” the tall student added, “Jun, can you conjure a little fire ball?”
“Of course,” replied Jun, looking puzzled at his friend.
“O.k., I want you to put the fire ball under the paper careful to make only the smoke touch the paper.”
Unable to hide the scepticism in his face, Jun did what his friend wanted. “Are you sure-”
“Look!” Sho exclaimed, pointing at the drawing that was starting to get visible on the paper. “There is something written there!”
Everybody gathered around Aiba and looked surprised at the image that was appearing on the paper.
“It looks like some kind of drawing,” murmured Ohno, blinking owlishly at the complex drawing. “There are some words too!” he exclaimed a second later when a refined handwriting began to appear below the drawing.
“The drawing… doesn’t look familiar?” murmured Jun, frowning pensively while he examined the paper.
“Let me see it! Let me see it!” exclaimed Nino, who was running madly on the desk, trying to get a glimpse of the paper. Without a word, Ohno extended his hand, helping Nino to climb up to his shoulder; where the little mouse could watch the paper perfectly.
“It’s my family’s coat of arms!” shrieked Nino, startling them. “But… there is something wrong… This is the older version that only my grandfather used.”
His friends gasped, their eyes fixed on the paper. Did that coat of arms mean that a member of Nino’s family was behind the poisoning attempt? Surely it can’t be.
They waited impatiently until the words were completely visible.
“I believe I gave you perfectly clear orders: to kill the heir of Ninomiya’s family; and now you are telling me that you are unable to find the body? Resolve this matter quickly or this will be the last thing you will regret!”
“It seems like a message from the real assassin… and it’s someone using the coat of arms of your family!” Sho exclaimed, his eyes as big as saucers.
“A family member… maybe Nino’s cousin!?” guessed Aiba. “He has made no effort to hide his intention to get the dukedom from Nino’s branch of the family!”
“Or maybe is someone close enough to the family to be able to use a paper with their coat of arms on it,” murmured Jun.
“If someone wants to get the dukedom so badly that he tried to kill the heir… wouldn’t be Nino’s parents in danger too?” murmured Ohno, looking worriedly at the piece of paper in Sho’s hands.
Hearing Ohno’s words, Nino’s little heart skipped a beat, “You are right! I need to contact my parents!” He was about to jump from Ohno’s shoulder when Jun stopped him.
“Wait a moment Nino!” the tall student exclaimed, “if we don’t know who the culprit is we’ll only put ourselves in danger!”
Nino frowned stubbornly, “But I need to warn them! They could be sharing the mansion with the assassin!”
“I could use the same spell I used with the door to find who wrote it,” suggested helpfully Sho, his expression brightening, but Aiba shook his head, “I think the paper is too fragile for that kind of spell.”
Ohno took the paper from Sho’s hands with a thoughtful expression, “I think I have a couple of spells that could be useful…”
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