This one-shot is sorta my apologies for my late updates. I really hate letting people down. I thank yu all for you patience and I'll try to update as soon as I find some time.

I'm really not big on writing the author's note so I'm gonna make this simple: SHIZNAT! This fic is SHIZNAT! :]

The Carnival never happened in this one-shot. Natsuki still lost her mother and her father is still nowhere to be found. The setting is still in Fuuka.

Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN Mai HiME!

"Are you sure you saw them walk this way?"

"I'm positive. There's really no one else like her.."

"True..."

"Guys, the mutt's turning this way!"

The three shadows ducked behind a building as emerald eyes landed on where they once stood. Their target had situated herself underneath an old tree. The person raised her eyebrow, in question, but then turned away again.

"Shit, that was close."

"Y-yea. If we didn't move, we would've gotten caught..."

"I can't imagine what Natsuki would've done to us if she caught us following her."

"I bet she'd torture us first then finish us by burning our bodies."

Mai Tokiha twitched as Nao Yuuki's last comment. "Ah, I don't think she'd go that far."

"You'd be suprised."

Chie Harada sighed as she kept her eyes onto their target, the Ice Princess- Natsuki Kuga. "I still don't see why we have to follow her."

Mai and Nao turned towards their dark haired accomplice.

Jade eyes turned to the teen a few feet away. "The mutt's been acting pretty weird lately."

The grey eyed teen blinked. "Okay?"

Mai nodded. "Uh huh, she seems to be acting much happier and more calmer for the past two months. At first I thought that she's finally opening up, but its not it. There's something else..."

"I still don't see what's the point. She's happier now, you say, so what's the big deal?"

Nao turned towards Chie. "This is Natsuki Kuga we're talking about! The most angry person we know! She can't change that easily!"

Realization dawned on the gossip queen. "That's true...maybe she got a new hobby?"

"Nope, all she ever does is read her motorcycle magazines and fix up her bike." Mai crossed her arms.

"Maybe she got a new motorcycle."

Nao frowned. "Nah, the mutt wasn't this happy whenever she got her last bike. Its something else."

Chie thought for a moment. 'What can drastically change a normally angst person into one of the most happiest people on Earth?...Hold on...'

"Hey Mai, has Natsuki been humming lately?"

Mai turned to her dark haired accomplice. "Actually, now that you mentioned it, she has."

The seventeen year old turned to Nao. "Has she been into any trouble lately?"

"As a matter of fact, no. Not a single one. No vandalizing, no ditching class, no nothing! Its freaking me out!"

"Guys, the answers so simple! I can't believe we didn't see it! Our lone wolf has fallen in love!" Chie grinned.

The two other bright haired teens jaws dropped to the ground.

Natsuki tapped her foot impatiently as she waited underneath the shady oak. She was waiting for a delievery and the suspense of the packagae was killing her. 'I hope it arrived safetly...' She though as she crossed her arms. So far, the deliverer was late.

The biker watched the distance, looking for a sign from her private deliverer, when someone dropped down from the tree.

"Sorry I'm late Natsuki! There was this cat who wanted to play and I kinda got distracted!"

Natsuki sighed. "Its alright, Mikoto. Just hand me the package." The emerald eyed beauty stuck her hand out.

Mikoto grinned and gave her a medium sized box. "Here ya go! Just as I promised!"

The ex-rebel just smiled. "Thanks for all you've done for the past two months. It means a lot."

Mikoto just grinned her Mikoto smile. "I like Natsuki and I like who Natsuki loves! Mikoto thinks she makes Natsuki very happy!"

"You have no idea." Natsuki gave her friend a sincere smile. One so rare that everyone watching had to blink twice in order to see if what they were seeing was actually real.

The cat-like girl smiled as she began to walk away. "By Natsuki! Good Luck!"

Natsuki waved back and started to walk the other way mumbling something about being late..

"Well, that was intresting... I wonder who Natsuki likes?!" asked Chie excitedly.

The three were still hiding behind the building as Natsuki left their sight. Too bad the three didn't notice their target leave as they were too busy talking about their new information.

"Nu-uh. She doesn't like someone... Natsuki apparently loves someone!" Mai grinned. Oh, how her roommate was growing up so fast...

"My kami, the mutt's in love!" Nao just continued to gawk as the news finally hit her. The delinquent, rebellious, 'Ice Princess' of Fuuka loved someone! The jaded eye teen felt as if she were living a dream.

"Do you think its someone we know?" The grey eyed gossiper wondered as she began to rub her chin.

"No, can't be. We'd know by now..." answered the busty high school student.

"Uh, guys?" Nao began

The two continued to ignore her.

"Uhhh, guys..."

Still nothing. Her other two friends continued to talk.

Jade eyes began to narrow down in a dangerous way.

"GUYS!"

Two pairs of eyes gazed down at the younger student. Nao just rolled her eyes and pointed to the bottom of the shaded tree. "She's gone."

All was quiet until Mai yelled, "Crap, we lost her!"

After going home to change, Natsuki walked towards her girlfriend's apartment. Bright emerald eyes seem to glow as it gazed at the door in front of her. Natsuki swallowed nervously as she stood outside the home of the one she loved.

Such good memories the two have had together. Natsuki can still remember how they got together like it was yesterday.

The two had been friends for a long time. Hell, the emerald eyed biker can even call her her best friend. They were the best of friends, right until her chestnut haired friend confessed. Natsuki still scolded herself for being so stupid. She had loved her best friend from the first time the two met, but was just too dense to notice it. It was another two months after her friend's confession that Natsuki realized that she felt the same way her best friend did.

Natsuki got out of reminisce and knocked on the door. She had to only wait for a minute before someone opened the door. Bright crimson eyes stared lovingly at her.

"Ara, why don't you come in my Natsuki?"

Natsuki smiled as she walked into her girl's apartment. "I'd love too, Shizuru. By the way, you look utterly beautiful." Forest eyes openly ogled at her girlfriend's simple clothes. A pair of skinny jeans and a purple v-neck shirt. Very simple, but it looked hot on Shizuru. The crimson eyed teen blushed at Natsuki's compliment.

"Why thank you. You don't look so bad yourself." Shizuru winked as she closed the door. "I'll go grab my jacket then we can go, okay?"

Natsuki just nodded and leaned against the wall. Shizuru left the living room shaking her hips for the emerald eyes starring.

Said emerald eyes didn't stop starring until Shizuru entered her room, closing the door. The biker sighed in contempt at her wonderful girlfriend. And just think, Natsuki almost missed out on it too.

The seventeen year old pushed herself off the wall to check herself out on the living room mirror. Of course she wanted to look her best with such a beautiful Shizuru on her arm.

Glowing emerald eyes stared at her as Natsuki reached the mirror. She wore some dark baggy jeans and a clean dark, blue button up shirt. So far, Natsuki looked hot. Just one more finishing touch.

Natsuki took a black ponytail from her pocket. Tying her hair up, Natsuki looked at the mirror again. Standing in fronth of her was a way hotter Natsuki. With her facial features, her eyes, and her hair up- Natsuki looked like a modern day prince.

Warm slender arms wrapped around the emerald eyed biker's waist. Natsuki felt someone's head lay on her back. "Ara, why is Natsuki standing in front of the mirror?"

Natsuki grinned at the relflection of Shizuru. "As a matter of fact, yea. I want to look good for my girl. Is there crime in that?"

"Not at all. I find in rather cute that Natsuki wants to look good for me."

"Anything for you, love."

Shizuru smiled slyly. "Anything?"

Natsuki rolled her eyes. "Down Shizuru. Geez, you want desert already?"

"I can't help that my girlfriend looks hot."

Emerald eyes lit up in mirth. "I try."

"I don't think you do. Face it, Nat-su-ki: you're naturally hot."

Natsuki took her girlfriend's arms off her waist. "Okay, okay. Enough with the flirting. Now, how about we head out for our dinner date, hm?"

"You started it, my dear." Grabbing Natsuki's arm, Shizuru led the two out of her apartment and into the calm, quiet night.

"Damn, I can't believe that we lost her!" yelled Nao as the the trio headed back to Fuuka. After a long, fruitless, and futile search for their friend, the three had given up.

"Calm down, Nao. It won't help thinking about it now. We don't know where she is now so that's it." Mai said calmly.

"Still, it fucking pisses me off! And we spent so much time looking for her too!"

Chie sighed. "Don't forget that we had to stal-eerrr trail her too. That took pretty much half our day."

The three sighed as they walked down the street. The air held some depression for being unable to find out what's making Natsuki so happy. Everyone was so quiet- so deep in their own thoughts. Mai thinking about Mikoto's involvement in all of this, Nao on the failed mission, and Chie on who Natsuki loved.

The trio were so busy swimming in their thoughts that they didn't notice two familiar people on the other side of the street. It wasn't until Chie looked up that she noticed both Natsuki and Shizuru walking hand in hand towards the park.

"Mai, Nao- its Natsuki!" Chie half screamed, half whispered. Her comrades looked to where she was pointing.

There stood a Natsuki with a clinging Shizuru on her arm.

"She's with the kaichou!" whispered Mai as the three ducked into a bush so their friends wouldn't see them.

"Shizuru?!" asked a shocked Nao.

"Yea..."

Chie blinked in confusion. Everyone in Fuuka knew of the deep friendship that the 'Ice Princess' and their 'Beloved Kaichou' held. It was no secret. But at the moment, the two looked as if their relationship looked much more that eyes widened as she saw the smile Natsuki gave to Shizuru. One of pure adoration. One of pure love. 'I know that smile... Its the kaichou that Natsuki's in love with!'

By the looks on her two accomplises, Chie knew that they had figured it out.

"I so didn't see that coming..." whispered Mai in awe.

"Neither did I... I wonder when it all began.." Nao said as she snuck a peak at a blushing Natsuki and smirking Shizuru.

"We should've seen this earlier. The two were practically inseparable since Natsuki was in middle school!" Chie whispered.

"Yea, but I guess that's why we didn't think that Shizuru was the one. Ever since the two met, they've been pretty close. We've been so used to it over the years, that we didn't notice their feelings for each other..." Mai said as she analyzed the situation.

Nao agreed. "Geez, this is still fucking suprising."

Chie and Mai looked at her.

The dark haired teen nodded, but then smirked. "Yea, but hey- they do make a pretty hot couple."

Mai giggled softly. "Quite true. The two pretty much compliment each other. Natsuki- with her tough and rebellious attitude pretty much balances Shizuru's calm and graceful personality."

"As much as I hate to admit it, I agree with you." Nao said.

Chie laughed. "Hahaha! See, even Nao thinks their cute together."

"Just don't tell the mutt I said that. I'll never hear the end of it."

Mai grinned. "Your secret's safe with us."

The dark haired teen rolled her eyes. "Enough talking, guys. Let's see what's going on with the two."

The three snuck as close as they can without being seen. They ended up in a bush a good eight feet away from the two lovebirds. Everything their two friends say could be heard perfectly from where they were.

The trio watched as Shizuru laughed. "Ara, that was quite a delicious dinner, don't you think, Nat-su-ki?"

Natsuki grabbed Shizuru's hand and ushered the crimson eyed kaichou onto a nearby bench. The cobalt haired biker then proceeded to bring her arm around Shizuru's shoulders. "The wait was definitely worth it. I never thought that their can actually be some food out there that can rival Mai's cooking."

"Hahaha! Yes, the food was actually in the same level as Mai-san's cooking."

The two smiled at each other as they fell into a comfortable silence. They both knew that no words needed to be said. The feeling of each other was enough for them. The silence contiuned until Natsuki struck up a conversation.

"Ne, Shizuru, what did you think of our date? One of the top five?"

Crimson met emerald. "It was wonderful, Natsuki. I never thought that I could have this much fun. It definitely ranks somewhere up there next to our first date and our amusement park date."

"I was thinking pretty much the same thing. This one was definitely one of our top dates."

"Ara, there was one bad thing though."

Natsuki raised an eyebrow in question. "What'd I do wrong?"

Shizuru lightly giggled at Natsuki's sad puppy face. "Oh, dear, it wasn't you at all. I just didn't like the way the waitress was looking at you."

The biker blinked. "Really? That's all?" She began to laugh.

Shizuru pouted and lightly punched Natsuki's arm. That only made the other laugh harder. Natsuki's laugh was contagious, so Shizuru began to laugh with her.

Natsuki wiped a tear from laughing too hard. "Shizuru, you don't need to worry. I am only yours as you are only mine."

Shizuru came back from the climax of their long laughter with a content smile. She wrapped her arms around her girlfriend. "Yes, you are mine and I am yours. No one else."

Natsuki gave her a loopside grin and stood. Shizuru just blinked as she watched her biker grab her hands. "Ara, what is my Natsuki doing now?"

"You'll see." Natsuki grabbed something from her pocket. A small case. Opening it, Natsuki presented it to Shizuru. "Happy Anniversary, love."

Shizuru stared in awe at the pendant. "Nat..suki. Its beautiful.."

"Just like you."

Unshed tears shined in Shizuru's eyes. Natsuki just smiled as she pulled Shizuru up. "How about I put it on ya?"

Shizuru didn't know what to say, so she just nodded, happiness radiating from her.

Natsuki walked behind Shizuru and hooked the necklace on.

Shizuru felt the pendant and began to examine her gift. The pendant was held with a thin stainless steel cord, but the pendant itself was a mixture of two stones: amethyst and emerald.

"Do you like it?" asked Natsuki as she stood in front of Shizuru.

The eighteen yer old kaichou shook her head. "I don't like it. I love it. Thank you.."

"I'm glad. It took me a while to get it, but it was definitely worth the face you made when I gave it to you." Natsuki was extremely happy at how everything turned out.

Shizuru still felt dazed. The beautiful gift Natsuki had given her pretty much made her year. This was probably the second best day of her life; the day Natsuki returned her feelings was the first.

Snapping out of her thoughts, Shizuru took initiative. She wrapped her arms around Natsuki's strong shoulders and kissed the girl with as much passion as she could muster. Natsuki did the same. The two stayed lip locked until they both ran out of air.

Natsuki rested her forehead against Shizuru. "Its getting late. How about I take you home?"

Shizuru gave a peck on Natsuki's lips and gave a seductive smile. She began to whisper something into Natsuki's ear. "Ara, I have a better idea. How about we have some desert, my dear Nat-su-ki?"

Natsuki shivered at the feeling of Shizuru's hot breath. "A-ah...umm"

Shizuru just smiled that sly smile of her's and began to drag Natsuki back to her place.

(What they do there is up to your imagination, people. This one shot's rated T.)

The trio behind the bush just gawked at the whole scene that had just occured in front of them. Oh, there's definitely going to be some interrogation for Natsuki in the morning.

I wanted to type more, but I feel guilty enough as it is. So I hope you guys can make do with this. Sorry for the mistakes and everything. I just wanted to finish this up.

Please review and tell me what yu think.

Have a nice night, people.

Gin out!