Story: SBO Negima

Nodoka's mind was hazy as Asuna dragged her off for something to eat. The shy girl was astonished by what had just happened with Chachamaru. Astounded. Bewildered. Baffled. Confounded. And, to her shame, also kind of turned on.

Not much, mind you! It wasn't as if she found the idea of spontaneously transforming into a ditzy sexpot appealing, not at all. No really, that's not a suspiciously specific denial, that part of the experience was actually kind of scary. Trouble was, sexpot Chacha was really, <i>really</i> cute.

Fortunately for Asuna, Nodoka couldn't bring herself to tell Asuna what had happened. The whole thing was simply too humiliating to share like this. Not with Asuna. Not with anyone!

"Here we are!" Asuna declared, hauling Nodoka into the cafe like a horse pulling a carriage. "Order whatever you like! Breakfast is on me!"

Guh! D-don't put it like that! Nodoka's vivid imagination conjured up an image of Asuna, having undergone the same kind of transformation that had afflicted her and Chachamaru, lying on a table with - with a truly delectable spread of food across her curvaceous body. She crooks a finger and -

Nodoka blushed and shook her head. No, no, no! She wasn't into girls! Really, she wasn't! And - And whatever perverted spell had hit her and Chachamaru earlier on... Ooh, she simply had to figure out what was going on there without anyone ever finding out!

"Incidentally, I'm not letting go of your wrist until you tell me exactly what was going on with you and Chachamaru!" Asuna said in a cheerful sing-song voice that was completely contrary to the mood coming off her.

"Eh?!" Nodoka gasped, memories of the <i>things</i> they did to each other bubbling up in her mind. A playful giggle lingered at the forefront of her unconsciousness. Flirtatious, confident and beautiful. "We were talking, that's all."

"Oh yes?" Asuna asked, her smile widening just a little bit more. "About what?"

Gulp. Here goes. Nodoka was no good at lying, but... "The myriad applications of hydraulics and visual recognition in the development of artificial life-forms?"

Phew. It looked like Asuna's eyes had sufficiently glazed over that she didn't take all of that in. That probably minimised the risk she'd be able to cross-check with Chachamaru on what they'd talked about. No lie to catch her in. Crisis averted. No need for further humiliation!

"Hi, hi!" Satsuki said, interrupting the pair of them. "Can I take your order?"

Now, a funny thing happened right then and there. Due to the position of the three girls, neither Asuna nor Satsuki, nor indeed any of the other customers in the cafe were actually looking at Nodoka right then. This led to her immediate transformation back into her bimbo self - right up until her enlarged breasts knocked over the salt shaker, attracting both of their attention back in her general direction.

"Clumsy, clumsy!" Satsuki tsked at the spilt salt. "Let me get that for you."

While she cleaned it up Nodoka was staring at the salt shaker slack jawed. She'd changed again! It had only been for a second, but she had definitely transformed! R-Right out here in public where anyone could have seen her!

"Eek!" Nodoka yelped, reflexively ducking underneath the table where she would, like, get a much better look at Asuna and Satsuki's sexy legs. The only way they could, like, look any prettier would be if they had a big ol' smooch mark right along the inside of their thighs, tee hee! Nodoka puckered her lips and leaned in -

"Hey, get out from under there!" Asuna yelled, hauling her up and back to normalcy. "I told you, didn't I? You're not getting away until I know what the big secret is!"

"Big secret!" Chao intervened, cheerful as ever. "I love big secrets! Why don't you let me interrogate Nodoka, and I'll have her spilling her guts in no time flat!"

"Ah, but Chao! Shouldn't you be more worried about the mean prankster who -"

Chao slapped her hand over Satsuki's mouth before she said anything else. Strange. She was smiling, but her eyes weren't.

"Now, now. We don't want to upset the customers by talking about that. Haha!"

"Prankster?" Asuna scowled.

“Oh, just some harmless tricks someone is playing on us, but if carelessly revealed to everyone... Well I am sure you know how bad publicity can hurt business.”

Satsuki went deathly silent while staring at Chao. It was kind of eerie, really. The chef had a remarkable presence when she wanted to. Her normal sweetness made it so much more daunting when, out of nowhere, she gives a command.

"Asuna. May we talk for a moment? Just you and me. Leave Nodoka here."

It was remarkable. Asuna let go of Nodoka's wrist so quickly you'd think her hand had been burned. Heck, she was even meekly following the chef off to another corner of the cafe where they could, like, totally conspire in secret while Chao and Nodoka turned into super hot bimbos! Yay!

"So it got you too, huh?" the super hot bimbo version of Chao tittered. "So, like, listen up cutie. If you wanna have more fun, here's what you gotta do..."

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Asuna wasn't sure if it was paranoia, but it was really starting to feel like everyone around her was keeping some big secret from her. She hated secrets. She hated gossip. She hated rumours. That's how lies and falsehoods spread around. Like a virus, infecting everyone you know. That's why she wanted to get down to the bottom of this once and for all!

... After she found out what Satsuki wanted. This girl was scary when she got mad!

“Asuna, I want you to promise me to keep this for yourself. The thing I want to talk about is.. private to the extreme.”

Of course it is. More secrets! Yay! Exactly what she needed!

"I think that Chao and Chisame are... an item."

Asuna wasn't sure what was flooring her more. The idea of the two of them hooking up, or the little heart shape Satsuki had made with her fingers as she said it. No, no, wait! It was definitely the first one! Chisame?! In a lesbian relationship with Chao?! Did not compute!

"You see, the thing is... I found them together earlier on," Satsuki continued. "They were all over each other, and I didn't know what to do."

Input rejected. Hypothesis nonsensical. There is an insufficient supply of 'what' in the universe to express how contrary this idea was to her image of the two of them. Satsuki may as well ask her to calculate pi down to the last number. It would be about as easy as making sense of this.

"Good joke!" Asuna said, giving the chef a hearty thumbs up. She started to laugh... but Satsuki was nervously looking down at the ground. "Oh, I get it, you're still trying to psyche me out! That's hilarious, as if those two would ever... hook up...?"

"Um... Chisame's still in the back right now," Satsuki mumbled. "Actually, to be honest, I think Chisame is the one that wrote the lewd messages in the carry out boxes and Chao was trying to cover up for her. So... I haven't actually called campus security yet."

Wait, wait. Lewd messages in the carry out boxes? That's a bit too far, even for a lovey dovey couple!

"Chisame's still in the back room right now," Satsuki said, and that was all Asuna needed to hear. She marched off to the back room right there and then. "Wait, that's employees only!" Satsuki protested.

"Is Chisame an employee?" Asuna sniffed. There we go! Asuna nodded and held the door open for Satsuki. "Then you'd better bring her out!"

"Yipe!" Chisame yelped from inside the room. Asuna poked her head inside. Was that... Was Chisame out in public dressed up like Chiu, the online persona she had that everyone in class knew about but pretended they didn't?! "Satsuki, wait a minute! I can explain everything!"

By 'everything', she apparently meant the big writing in lipstick on the back wall. "Secret Bi-" was written there. More to the point, Chisame was drenched in sweat and looked like she'd been running a marathon. Both Satsuki and Asuna's eyes fell upon the lipstick in her hand that, by the way, happened to be the same colour as the lipstick on the wall. Chisame struggled to pull herself to her feet, apparently lacking any trace of strength in her legs, ultimately tripping and landing face down on the floor.

"S-Secret bike!" Chisame said, rather pathetically. "I was writing, ah, secret bike!"

Oh boy. What sort of weird ass rabbit hole had she fallen into this time?

Meanwhile, Bimbo Chao and Bimbo Nodoka plot and scheme. By which I mean, they flirt.

1. Someone else comes into the cafe and strikes up a conversation with Chao and Nodoka
2. Chisame tries her best to contain the situation, but Satsuki, Asuna or both wind up becoming bimbos too.
3. Chisame is able to contain things somehow. Hooray!
4. Meanwhile, back at the library...
5. Something else.