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A/N - I made a new story. Don't worry, I'm almost done with the 7th chapter of Blind Date and the 3rd chapter of The Bartender. But this story was on my mind for quite sometimes. Anyway, on with the first chapter of It Started With A Kiss. It might seem OOC in this chapter but later on it won't.
ATTENTION! People who p.m. me to be my beta, I couldn't decide who to choose but I have a test for you all. This first chapter will be your test. I want the people who wanted to be my beta, to check my grammar/spelling errors in this chapter. This will help me determine who I want to be as my beta.
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It Started With A Kiss
Chapter 1: My New Girlfriend
It all started at the end of school. A beautiful Kyoto girl was having tea in the student council room, waiting for the meeting to commence in ten minutes. She wasn't there on any business, because her friend took care of it. Yes, all the paper work that she was given, was taken away from her loud, so-called rival, Haruka. However, she still had to attend the meetings held after school.
Sighing, the young lady was bathe in the setting sun, finishing her tea. Once the said tea was gone, she wanted more. Yes, truth be told that she couldn't go on with the meeting without some tea and decided to head to the cafeteria to ask one of the workers to get her a pot of hot water. However, once there, the Kyoto beauty didn't have any luck getting the pot of hot water.
Heading on back to the room without anything in her hands, she sadly walked back to the student council room, dreading of the unbearable pain of not having any tea.
Opening the door, there, on the table, was something that Shizuru was glad to see. It happened to be tea. Well, it wasn't green tea like she would normally have but ice tea. The senior didn't know where the tea came from and couldn't decide if she should take it or not.
Looking at the clock, it read 2:55, about five minutes until the meeting starts. Having guilt in her crimson eyes, the honey-haired teen decided to take it.
It's better then nothing throughout the meeting. Never thinking for a second chance, the older teen took the tea, opened it and poured it in her cup. Taking a drink of the ice tea, the honey-haired teen heard a sound and was startled by it. The teen thought it was a student, however, looking at the door, she didn't see anyone.
Shrugging her shoulders, the senior kept drinking her cold tea.
Five minutes passed, and people were starting to come in. Conversations were heard by the student council president and none of it caught her attention until someone mentioned about tea.
"No way," came a shout from an underclassman. "Someone stole my ice tea."
"What? Like who?" stated another classman.
Shizuru was still sitting at her desk, drinking the stolen tea. Slurp.
"I don't know, but I could have sworn I put my tea right here." The underclassman pointed to the corner of the table where the said tea was last spotted.
"Who cares about some tea!" shouted Haruka with Yukino by her side. "You might turn in to that bubuzuke woman!" Haruka pointed at Shizuru but this action didn't faze the Kyoto beauty.
"Haruka…." replied Yukino from her childhood friend's behavior.
Now, there was a commotion in the council room and the vice-president, Reito, stepped in. "Now, now. We can get you another tea to replace your old one."
The underclassman looked at Reito and nodded. "Thank you, Kanzaki-san."
"No problem," replied Reito and walked the underclassman out to get the ice tea. "Fujino-san, I'll be back for the meeting, so please wait a little longer."
"That will be fine, Kanzaki-san." replied Shizuru still calmly drinking the ice tea.
Everyone was calm and sat at their assigned seats to begin the meeting, however one member didn't and stood by the president's desk. Shizuru was feeling a little nervous but never showed it, all she did was look at the girl beside her.
Shizuru was the first to speak. "Yes, Kuga-san."
The teen by Shizuru was a year younger then her and the two never seemed to talk with each other. Her name is Natsuki Kuga. She has silky blue hair, a slim figure and was known as the Ice Queen of Fuka. Shizuru didn't mind the girl being around but rumors spread that the teen was a delinquent that disobeys the rules and would never be tied down by anyone, especially with the administrators. Surprisingly, Natsuki was the manager of all sports and any other physical activities but lately, she hasn't been coming to all the meetings like a manager should do.
"I…saw what you did," answered Natsuki in a lightly rough tone.
Shizuru felt surprised but didn't let it show. "Oh? And that would be…?"
Writing on the piece of paper that Natsuki took out of her pocket, the cobalt girl wrote a note down and handed it to Shizuru. On it, it said:
Fujino-san, you took the lower classman's tea, so why won't you fess up?
No way…she actually saw me? Shizuru could only be shocked that Natsuki, out of all the people who could have caught her, actually spotted her taking the tea in the room, however she wasn't going to admit it. Writing a reply back on the paper, Shizuru was satisfied with the answer and handed it back to the cobalt. I bet she's just buffing.
I've been falsely accused.
The cobalt-haired teen looked at Shizuru then back at the paper and wrote another reply.
But I saw you do it before the beginning of our meeting.
Shizuru was now in a pickle. Would the prefect idol really confuse to the crime or blame it on someone else. The cobalt teen next to Shizuru could feel the tension from the older teen. Sighing, Natsuki wrote something else on the paper.
I won't say a word if you do me a favor…
Watching the Ice Queen write the request down, Shizuru felt uneasy about what the cobalt would write down but instead, the Kyoto girl couldn't believe what Natsuki wrote on the small piece of paper.
Kiss me.
A kiss? Shizuru was taken aback by the request but the president nodded while Natsuki sat down at her assigned seat.
Once Reito and the underclassman were back from getting ice tea, the meeting finally began. The meeting was only about a half an hour but to Shizuru, it felt like an eternity. In the meeting, everyone was talking about what they should do for the up-coming festival of Fuka High. Everyone decided on the event but Shizuru was too busy with her current problem to even listen on what the members planned. The older teen thought that tea would help calm her down but today, it didn't seem to work. Luckily, Haruka and her assistant Yukino wrote down the events that were about to take place in the next two weeks. Finally, the half hour meeting was done and everyone left, leaving Natsuki and Shizuru behind. Of course, it took the two a while to be alone together with Haruka yelling at them for still being on school property but Shizuru was able to get Haruka to leave by telling the blonde to not keep a woman waiting and pointed at Yukino who stood by the student council door.
With that, Haruka blushed and left without saying anything while holding on to Yukino's hand.
It was quiet in the room and Shizuru was starting to feel nervous being in the same room as Natsuki. The first to break the silence was a small scoff on the floor. Luckily, the brunette was behind a desk, or so she thought. This action made Shizuru look up and meet emerald eyes in front of hers. Shizuru couldn't believe how close the latter got up to her, without her knowing but the president still kept her calm and smooth look.
"Close your eyes." Natsuki said. To Shizuru, the latter's voice was softer then before but still a little rough.
Shizuru did as she was told and closed her eyes. She was nervous about the kiss, after all, it was her first kiss that happened to be with another girl. Seconds passed, then minutes until the crimson eyed beauty felt a peck on her lips. Was that it? Shizuru slowly opened her eyes to only see that Natsuki had turned her back.
"I better get going," said Natsuki and she walked out of the room, leaving Shizuru behind.
Shizuru watched as Natsuki left, but notice the latter blushing just slightly and lightly touching her lips. Was that really a kiss just now? This left the brunette confused but she was tired and wanted to head on home. Along the way home, Shizuru couldn't help but lightly touch her lips as well. "It was more like a peck on the lips."
The next day, it was a Thursday morning and Shizuru was waiting for the morning train ride to come to arrive at Fuka High. Still thinking about what happened last night, Shizuru couldn't help but lightly touch her lips again. The older teen couldn't figure out why that kiss was short and light but decided to let it go.
"It didn't felt like a kiss." said Shizuru and did her signature pose. "Was she just messing with me?"
This made all the guys around Shizuru lay their eyes on her. Shizuru, however, ignored the perverted looks that she was getting and stood patiently for the train to arrive
The train finally came and the Kyoto beauty stepped inside. Upon entering, Shizuru noticed that Natsuki was also riding the same train.
Who knew? thought Shizuru.
Peering at the corner of her eyes, Shizuru looked at the high schooler and couldn't believe what see saw on the train station. The midnight-haired delinquent was sitting in the silver seat, which were meant for the elderly and the disabled.
What the….who does she think she is? Shizuru was not so far away from Natsuki. In fact, Shizuru was only about five feet away from her.
About two more stops, and Natsuki wasn't getting off of the silver seat. Shizuru was anger on the inside that the teen wouldn't get up but still kept her composure. At the third stop, an elderly woman entered the train. The grandma was very old and she had a wobbly style when walking. Shizuru watched as the elderly woman was heading towards Natsuki, who didn't seem to be moving.
"She won't let you sit there," whispered Shizuru, more to herself then anyone else. Too bad, the honey-haired woman was wrong about Natsuki.
"Here, Madam, this seat isn't taken." Shizuru watched as Natsuki got up and moved to the side to let the old lady sit down.
"Please dear, are you sure?" The old lady was hesitating to sit when Natsuki insisted. "You do this almost every morning when I arrive."
What? Shizuru couldn't believe what she was hearing out of the two's conversation.
"Don't worry about it," stated Natsuki and moved more to the side and grabbed the bar to prevent herself from losing her balance. The elderly woman smiled and sat down while the train departed.
Shizuru was facing away from Natsuki. Her back turned from the latter so that she wouldn't be seen. I guess she isn't such a bad person to begin with.
Finally, the train arrived at Fuka High and Shizuru got off. Looking around her, she spotted Natsuki not too far away. Shizuru wondered if she should talk to the teen but Shizuru knew nothing about the cobalt. Oh well, it was now or never if Shizuru wanted to talk to Natsuki.
"Kuga-san," said Shizuru as she caught up with Natsuki.
Natsuki stopped in her tracks and turned around to face Shizuru. "Is something wrong Fujino-san?"
"No, I just heading this way and I happened to see you." Shizuru replied. "After all, this is the way to school. Is it not?"
"Oh? Y…Yeah, sorry." Natsuki couldn't help but turn her head to the side, not daring to look at Shizuru.
The two walked together in silence towards school, but it wasn't a bad silence. For some reason, Shizuru felt comfortable with Natsuki. Was it because of the kiss? Shizuru cleared her head from the thought. That couldn't be it, since Shizuru only talked with the teen yesterday and received a some-what kiss on that very same day. Now that I think about it, why did she requested a kiss from me?
Along the walk, Shizuru's train of thoughts were interrupted by Natsuki's voice. "If you came to see me about your secret, don't worry. I won't tell on you about the incident with the tea, since a promise is a promise."
With that being said, the two headed their separate ways.
Entering in class, Shizuru noticed that she forgot to ask Natsuki about why she wanted a kiss out of all the other choices that could have been requested. So the president of the student council decide to ask the latter after school or when she saw Natsuki.
The day went by slow and Shizuru didn't see Natsuki around school at all. By the end of the day, Shizuru never got a chance to see or ask Natsuki about what the kiss meant.
Sighing, Shizuru headed out of school towards the train station. Just outside the school grounds, she saw someone that caught her interest. It happened to be Natsuki leaning on a motorcycle.
Shizuru was going to ignore the emerald eyed beauty but the said teen stopped her.
"Shizuru, wait a minute," called out Natsuki and grabbed Shizuru's arm. This action brought a little pain to the honey-haired teen's arm, which Natsuki quickly noticed and pulled away. "Sorry."
Shizuru looked at the cobalt teen and noticed that for a delinquent, she looked like a little child who was ashamed of doing something that wasn't so bad as it appeared to be. Sighing, Shizuru forgave Natsuki. "It's alright, it was just an accident Natsuki."
Hearing her name, Natsuki jolted up. "Nat…suki?" said Natsuki in a confusing tone.
Shizuru caught the tone. "Yes," replied Shizuru. "That is your name, right?"
Natsuki was hesitant before giving a reply. "Yes, but no one has ever called me by my first name. Just…Kuga." Natsuki turned her head to avoid facing Shizuru, who was curious as to why the latter turned her back around on her.
Taking a closer look at Natsuki, Shizuru noticed that she was blushing. That blush of hers is really cute, thought Shizuru and interrupted Natsuki's cute expression. "Natsuki, was there a reason why you called out to me earlier?"
"Yeah…I was wondering," Natsuki stopped finishing her sentence and back away which left Shizuru pondering on what the cobalt teen wanted to say.
"Wondering what?" Questioned Shizuru and came closer to Natsuki.
"Well….if you wanted to…let me take you home." Natsuki said to Shizuru and Shizuru was able to see Natsuki's cute blush but it seemed to have gotten a little bit more red. Shizuru couldn't help but giggle at the site because it was so cute.
Looking at the motorcycle behind the latter, Shizuru thought it wasn't safe. "Hmm…I haven't seen you ride a vehicle like this this morning."
"Yeah, about that," stated Natsuki, "I dropped it off yesterday to put new tires on it." Natsuki smiled that her Ducati got some new wheels to burn the concrete with. "That's why I took the train this morning, but lately I've been taking the train almost all week so that I wouldn't have to rip up my ride a lot. Anyway, do you still want to rid?"
Shizuru looked at the bike again. At first, she didn't want to but it couldn't be too bad. Although, Shizuru has never been on a motorcycle before. "Sure, I'll take your offer," said Shizuru, "but you have to make sure I arrive home safely."
Natsuki grinned, "Alright. All you have to do is put this on, and hold on tight to me." Natsuki handed a spare helmet to Shizuru and the Kyoto teen did as she was told. Once on the bike, she wrapped her arms around Natsuki's waist. Shizuru didn't hold the latter with all her might because she thought Natsuki would go slow. Was she wrong.
"Hold on tight!" yelled Natsuki to surpass her loud running engine and off the two went. Shizuru held on to her dear life as Natsuki picked up more speed.
About thirty minutes later, the two finally made it to Shizuru's house. The ride would have taken about ten minutes but Natsuki didn't know where Shizuru lived, making the ride longer then it needed to be. The house where Shizuru lived was on Cherry Land Dr.
"Sorry about taking you home late." Natsuki felt kind of guilty but Shizuru didn't seem made at all.
"That's alright Natsuki." Shizuru handed the spare helmet back to Natsuki and headed to the front door but before she left, she asked Natsuki a question.
"Say, Natsuki…why did you requested a kiss?" Asked Shizuru while looking at the teen.
Natsuki turned her head away from Shizuru once again. Shizuru, of course knew that the teen was blushing and wished that she could see it before she went inside.
"Because, doesn't that usually mean…that you're my girlfriend?"
Shizuru let out a giggle which startled Natsuki. "Girlfriend? Is that really how you should get a girlfriend Natsuki?" To Shizuru, it was funny but not to Natsuki, who faced Shizuru.
"Well, aren't you?" In Natsuki's voice, it sounded serious and it had a hint or sadness. Shizuru felt kind of bad for being rude to Natsuki.
"Let me think…" Shizuru did her signature pose and thought about being Natsuki's girlfriend. "Why not, it could be fun."
"Really?" Questioned Natsuki, not really sure if that was a yes or a no.
"Yes," replied Shizuru.
"That's good to hear." said a grinning Natsuki underneath the visor. Shizuru could have sworn that the girl was like a puppy that ended up having what it wanted, wagging its tail in the air.
Natsuki then toss something to Shizuru and she was able to catch it. It happened to be the same kind of tea from yesterday that Shizuru stole.
Shizuru was puzzled. "What's this for?"
"It's your favorite tea, right?" said Natsuki, "and that's why you stole the underclassman's tea."
Well, the tea wasn't her favorite but she wouldn't tell Natsuki that since the teen went to the trouble of getting it for her. "Thank you."
"No problem, it didn't cost that much," stated Natsuki.
Before finally leaving to go inside, Shizuru told Natsuki one finally thing. "You know, Natsuki." said Shizuru in her smooth Kyoto-ben. "Upon seeing your attendance records, you could have asked me to change them for you."
"Say what?" replied Natsuki with her mouth hung open.
"Sadly, you ended up giving me a kiss." Shizuru slowly walked away, leaving the Ice Queen behind blushing like crazy on what she had done yesterday.
T.B.C…
A/N - Is it any good? If you guys don't get it, I'll do my best to explain it with my abilities.