DISCLAIMER: I don't own them, but I do have some nice little figures of some of them sitting on my desk :)
AN: OK, so this is my first Mai HiME fic… I'm currently waiting for several of my favourite ShizNat fics to be updated, so I figured I would give it a go myself while I'm waiting :) So obviously it's going to be ShizNat and there is going to be a lot of NaoNat friendship… Anyways here's chapter 1, hope you like it…
Barricade
Chapter 1: Normality
'Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life'
It had been several months since the HiME festival had ended and the graduation of the current third year high school students was a few days away. Fuuka Academy had been mostly rebuilt and the 12 ex-HiME's had returned to normal life as much as they could.
Mai and Mikoto had maintained the pet and owner relationship, much to Tate's annoyance, as he seldom managed to get close to the red head without the younger girl trying to bite him. Shiho still clung to her 'onee-chan's' arm, but her overall resilience towards Mai had faded significantly.
Yukino was, as always, at Haruka's side in the school council room, correcting her bad use of vocabulary from time to time. Midori had disappeared shortly after the end of the Carnival, saying something about a grand adventure with some professor she knew. Akane and Kazuya were just as 'lovey dovey' as ever, much to the disgust of the others.
Nao and Natsuki had quickly reverted back to their delinquent ways, but rather than skipping classes and sitting alone, they tended to sit together. The teasing and annoying comments were still tossed between them though, something both parties were thankful for.
And Shizuru seemed to be exactly the same as before, she would sit in the school council room sipping her tea, listening to Haruka rant on about various things and waiting for lunch to start, when Natsuki would come and see her. The schools present, but not for much longer, Kaichou was currently staring out of the window, scanning over the crowds outside, her eyes searching for a certain blue haired girl.
It was five minutes before first lesson, and even though the Kyoto born beauty knew that the biker would still be in bed, she continued looking for her. Her crimson eyes easily found Mai and Mikoto merging with the crowds flooding onto the school grounds. Soon after she spotted them, her eyes fell on another red headed girl, Yuuki Nao. Although Nao didn't attend most of her lessons she did spend most of her day on the school grounds, Shizuru suspected that the younger girl had been woken by her roommate and had been unable to regain sleep. The girl she was looking for however never made her appearance and Shizuru pulled herself away from the window and headed for her first lesson, she would see Natsuki later after all.
Nao separated herself from the crowd of students as they rushed towards the school building so as not to be too late. Her head was throbbing mercilessly and she closed her eyes tightly as she stopped to lean against a nearby tree. 'Damn you Kuga! This is all your fault! Just you wait, when I get my hands on you…'
"Drink too much last night?" The sound of a very smug Kuga Natsuki in the morning was not what Nao wanted to hear. The red head ignored the pain in her head and stood up straight, a triumphant gin on her face,
"Ha! You wish! I could drink you under the table any day!" Nao paused and a confused expression fell over her features. She turned her head to the side slightly and looked at the taller girl, then at the clock on her cell phone. "Um… Its only first lesson…"
"Yeah, I know" Natsuki said while sliding down the tree Nao had been leaning on and sitting on the grass below it.
"But, you're in, and it isn't lunch yet" The younger girl pointed out, thinking that Natsuki just wasn't getting her point. The blue haired girl laughed a little,
"I know, it killed me getting up this early" This was a lie. She hadn't slept at all. And Nao seemed to know that she was lying. However, instead of commenting on it, the red head simply sat down next to the other girl and offered her a cigarette from her packet.
This exchange wouldn't have happened a few months ago when the pair couldn't even stand to be in the same room as each other, but now it was an everyday occurrence. Nao had taken what Natsuki had said about them being similar to heart. After all, she had watched Natsuki turn from the resident ice queen, to the not so icy person she was now.
Shizuru had been a huge influence on the younger girl, but with the addition of Mai and the others, Natsuki had become much less cold and revenge driven. Natsuki had taken it upon herself to be the friend that Nao needed, even though neither of them would ever admit it.
"Giz' your lighter" Nao demanded while holding her cig between her lips. The blue hair girl smirked at her and took her time sparking up, before throwing the lighter at the younger girl. Smoke rose into the almost summer air and quickly disappeared.
The two girls had sat under the tree for ten more minutes as they smoked silently, but they were now wandering round the school grounds, well aware that if they stayed in the same place for too long they would get caught.
They walked at a slow pace around the school building, until they spotted a member of the dreaded teaching staff. The man, who appeared to be in his mid 20's blinked at them before breaking out into a run. The girls burst into a sprint, unable to conceal their exited, adrenaline filled squeals.
Natsuki managed to get ahead of Nao and began scanning the surrounding area for somewhere they could hide. Unfortunately for them, the teacher pursuing them was a gym teacher, and therefore had actually managed to keep up with them.
Nao looked around desperately searching for either a hiding spot or a route to safety. She soon spotted an open window and without really thinking things through, launched herself at it. But as luck would have it, just as she got her head trough it, she felt Natsuki tugging on her uniform and pulling her out of the occupied classroom, only to try to dive in herself,
"Hey! Kuga! What the fuck! Move!" She growled at the older girl (who ignored her) before turning to see that the teacher was almost upon them " Aaahhhh! He's coming! Hurry up!" Nao instantly stopped trying to pull the other girl out of the window and instead shoved her inside.
"Aaahhh! Oof" Natsuki landed unceremoniously on someone's desk, shortly followed by Nao who was flailing her arms everywhere
"Haha! Kuga get up you dog! Hurry up!" The students in the classroom just blinked at them, not believing that two girls had just climbed into the classroom, because...well, who did that?
"You two! Get out of my classroom! What do you think you are doing!" The teacher at the front of the classroom screamed, obviously not happy with the two new additions to the class.
Natsuki and Nao had burst into a fit of giggles as they ran out of the room, leaving the entire class howling with laughter. The pair continued running down the corridors until they came to the door that lead to the roof, the thought that students weren't allowed up there barely even registered in their minds as they walked up the stairs, opened the door and sat down on the roof, their legs hanging off the edge. They simply sat and regained their breath for a while, both smiling to themselves.
"Well, that was entertaining" Nao was the first to speak, she then turned to Natsuki and thumped her in the arm.
Even though the older girl had no idea why her arm had just received such abuse, she just smirked at the other girl, stood up and raised her own fists.
"That was for pulling me out of the window" Nao clarified with a smirk of her own, getting to her feet with the other girl and readying herself for a fistfight.
The first time they had done this it had actually been caused by a real argument, though neither of them could remember what it had been about. It had been just after the end of the Carnival, so things were still...tense. Now though they mainly just had these 'fights' for fun, or to pass the time. Although, they did sometimes get a little bit too into it, which generally meant that one of them would end up getting a bruise or two. This time however, they were both simply messing around.
It was Natsuki who swung first, aiming for and hitting the younger girl's upper arm. Nao immediately lashed out with her own arm, aiming for Natsuki's ribs, but the older girl moved backwards out of reach before sidestepping and hitting the younger girl's ribs with her own fist. The punch wasn't flying at full speed, but it was by no means a soft punch.
Nao made a small 'oof' noise before spinning round and catching Natsuki in the arm.
"Gotta do better than that sponge brain" The blue haired girl smirked as her right arm throbbed slightly from the hit.
Nao gritted her teeth slightly, but her smirk was still present. She then lunged foreword and her fist landed on Natsuki's collarbone, just as Natsuki's own fist landed on Nao's. Natsuki barely managed to duck under another flying fist that would have collided with her jaw,
"Hey, no head shots!" Whilst saying this though, Natsuki had aimed and missed Nao's cheek,
"Yeah right, like I would pass up the opportunity to maul your already ugly face"
They continued to trade blows, but after a while they started laughing, and as a result, their hits became weaker and weaker.
Natsuki threw her right arm out and watched as Nao sidestepped it, she then pulled on the younger girl's shirt with her other hand. They ended up on the floor, rolling around, both trying to pin the other and end the fight. It was Natsuki who eventually managed to pin her opponent's arms above her head whilst straddling her waist, staring into her eyes with triumph. The older girl was about to mock Nao for losing when she was interrupted,
"Ara, so this is why Natsuki doesn't like me in that way, I am too old for her" Natsuki and Nao both felt their eyes go wide and their faces turn red. Standing just in front of the door with an amused look on her face was none other than the school council's president, Fujino Shizuru.
"Sh-Shizuru! It's not… I'm not…ewww! Its Nao for god sake!" The two girls jumped away from each other as if burnt, disgusted looks on their faces.
"Fufufu. Kanin na Natsuki. It would seem I got the wrong idea" Shizuru laughed lightly.
Nao, who had by now recovered from her blushing, was glaring slightly at the Kyoto born, Natsuki quickly noticed this and gave her a death glare. Nao held her arms in front of her in mock surrender,
"Alright, alright, I'll leave the snake alone" She smirked and made her way towards the door, "later" She called over her shoulder just before she disappeared into the school building.
Silence washed over the rooftop as the metal door closed behind Nao, leaving the two old friends alone.
"It's a little too early for Natsuki to be up is it not?" Shizuru smiled as Natsuki resumed her earlier position of sitting on the edge of the roof, both of them ignoring the fact that Nao still refused to call Shizuru by name.
"I couldn't sleep so I figured I would just get up" feeling the older girls presence directly behind her Natsuki decided to lean back against Shizuru's legs. Although more than mildly shocked at the contact Natsuki had initiated, the Kyoto girl didn't show it,
"Why couldn't Natsuki sleep?" she looked at the back of the younger girls head with slight concern in her crimson eyes,
"I was thinking about things that's all" She turned her head so she could see Shizuru in the corner of her eye and smiled, "Shouldn't you been in class, Kaichou-sama?" At this, Shizuru moved backwards so that Natsuki couldn't lean on her anymore, "Hey, come back" The blue haired girl laughed lightly. Instead of returning to her former position, Shizuru sat next to her friend.
"I saw two students running away from a teacher, I came to investigate as the head of the school council" She gave a knowing smile in Natsuki's direction. A small smile also made its way onto Natsuki's face as she remembered the incident.
"So, what were you thinking about?" Shizuru didn't look at Natsuki as she asked; she knew that the other girl was more likely to tell her if she wasn't being studied.
Natsuki considered lying about what had been on her mind, or just not answering at all. But when she turned her head to look at the Kyoto beauty, she decided to just tell her the truth.
"…" or she tried to anyway, 'Damn it! It's just one word! Come on you coward!' Shizuru had now turned to look at her, and green eyes locked with red ones. Bracing herself for the teasing she knew would come Natsuki said what she had been thinking about, "You" A look of confusion flashed across the older girls face,
"Why was Natsuki thinking about me?" Shizuru would have teased the younger girl if it hadn't been for the serious look on her face. Natsuki looked away and instead focused on a couple of birds that were flying around a nearby tree,
"I was thinking about, um…" she paused and suppressed a blush 'oh for god's sake!' "… Your feelings for me…" She paused again and then said in a quieter voice "and mine for you" Shizuru's eyes widened. 'Natsuki was thinking about her feelings for me? Does this mean that she has decided she doesn't like me anymore? Does she want to end our friendship?' The brunettes heart picked up its pace dramatically, she couldn't handle that. She couldn't bare it if Natsuki didn't want her to be part of her life anymore.
Of course, sensing the subtle change in Shizuru's mood, Natsuki again did something that shocked the older girl. It also made Shizuru realise exactly what Natsuki had meant.
The younger girls hand had been placed over hers, and remained there, even as a blush settled onto Natsuki's cheeks. 'Natsuki had been thinking about her feelings for me. But she does not want to end our friendship, so…that means she is thinking about changing our relationship?' Forcing herself to remain calm and not get herself excited Shizuru looked at Natsuki's flushed face,
"Natsuki…" It was merely a whisper but Natsuki had heard it, the blue haired girl didn't look at Shizuru but her hand tightened around the older girls. From this, Shizuru deduced that Natsuki needed time to think about things and smiled at her.
She could be patient; she'd already been waiting for years, what difference would a little longer make? After sitting there for about 5 minutes in a comfortable silence, Natsuki stood up and brushed away any dirt that may have been on her skirt. She then spoke without looking at Shizuru,
"You should go back to class"
"Ara, is Natsuki trying to get rid of me?" Shizuru laced her words with sadness and feigned a hurt expression. This got Natsuki to look at her, panic on her face,
"NO! no, it's just that, you know… it's your last few days… so I thought, you might want to spend time with people… I'm not trying to get rid of you" Throughout the rambling apology Shizuru had maintained her hurt expression, but once Natsuki stopped speaking, she chuckled lightly behind her hand
"Natsuki is so cute when she is flustered"
"Sh-Shizuru!" Natsuki yelled at the older girl as she realised she had been tricked...again.
Shizuru just continued smiling until the chime signalling the end of first lesson reached their ears.
"Well, I suppose I should go to my second lesson, and so should Natsuki"
"Yes, yes" Natsuki laughed lightly, whilst walking Shizuru to her lesson, glaring at everyone who tried to approach.
"I'll see you at lunch" That said Natsuki left Shizuru at the class room and made her way out of the building.
However, when she was just about to step out, someone grabbed her blazer collar from behind,
"Kuga Natsuki. Going somewhere?" She turned her head to see who had dared to grab her, ready to tear their arm off and beat them over the head with the soggy end.
She pulled out of the grip and stared wide-eyed, stood in front of her was the teacher who had been chasing her and Nao earlier. He quickly grabbed her blazer again and dragged her down the hall and into a classroom, despite Natsuki's efforts to thwart him,
"Here you go Koji-sensei" Natsuki made her way to her seat, promptly ignoring everyone's surprised stares.
"Well, it's nice to see you Kuga-san, please take a seat" Natsuki ignored the teacher's surprised/smug face and slouched in her seat. She briefly wondered what lesson she had just been dumped in, but quickly decided she didn't care and switched her thoughts to something else. Something much more interesting and thought provoking than any lesson Natsuki had ever had the misfortune to sit through. Something in the shape of a certain Kyoto born beauty.
Just like the night before, her thoughts drifted to the relationship they shared. She had convinced herself that the love she had for the older girl was more than just normal friendly love, but she didn't know how much more.
Having spent the majority of her life distancing herself from people Natsuki had never been in a romantic relationship, nor had she wanted to be in one. She had labelled such things as pointless and time wasting; after all she had more important things to be doing, such as avenging her mother's death.
But maybe they weren't as pointless as she had thought. Mai didn't seem to think they were pointless, and more importantly, neither did Shizuru. The problem was that Natsuki had no idea what kind of love her love for Shizuru was. She had compared it to how she felt about Mai, but she had known Shizuru much longer than she had known the red head, so it was obvious she would be closer to the older girl.
She shook her head. How was she supposed to work out how she felt? 'OK, so, Shizuru is…in love with me…' even just thinking the words caused a blush to spread across the blue haired girls cheeks, and she quickly plopped her head into her arms on the desk to hide that fact 'but what is different…' Then she realised what it was, and she felt like slapping herself in the face because it was so obvious 'Sexual attraction. Shizuru is sexually attracted to me…' Natsuki felt like her face was going to explode with the amount of red blood cells she knew had just rushed to her cheeks. 'OK…so now that I know the difference… am I attracted to Shizuru… I mean, obviously I know that she's pretty…more than pretty, she's beautiful. But, do I want to… gah! I need to stop thinking about this… at least until I get home'
Because she had been so focused on her thoughts, Natsuki had failed to notice that the teacher was no longer talking to the class... that was until she got a sharp stab in the back by the person sitting behind her.
"Hey! What the he…" She stopped mid sentence when she noticed Koji-Sensei, and the rest of the class looking at her, "What?"
"I asked you a question Kuga-san" He smiled while pointing at the board, on which were some words written in English. "What does this sentence mean?" Natsuki raked her brains for the answer, but it evaded her,
"Um…" She was about to say 'I have no idea' when she heard the person behind her whisper the answer,
"Please can you tell me where the train station is" She repeated the answer and got a nod and a smile from her teacher, who then turned back to the board and starting talking again.
"Thanks" Natsuki turned round and thanked the boy sat behind her, she hadn't noticed him before, and wasn't planning on talking to him again after the lesson, but she felt the need to at least be polite, after all, he had helped her out. The boy smiled broadly at her and she turned back round. She spent the remainder of the lesson staring blankly at the board with her head propped up by her arm.
Natsuki stretched her arms above her head, causing several of the bones in her arms and back to crack. She gave a content sigh and then got up from her desk to leave the classroom. 'thank god that's over'
The 17 year old then swiftly made her way towards the school council room, where she was greeted by a rather large group of students, all of whom seemed transfixed on the door in front of them. Natsuki forced her way through the crowd refraining from yelling at the people around her and opened the door.
"I love you Shizuru onee-sama!"
"I'd do anything for you!"
"Please marry me!"
Natsuki slammed the door behind her, her eye twitching in annoyance.
"Is something wrong Natsuki?" Shizuru smiled at the younger girl, her amusement at Natsuki's annoyance evident in her voice.
"Damn fan girls" the blue haired girl muttered under her breath before moving forward and leaning against Shizuru's desk.
The smell of Shizuru's tea filled her nostrils and she couldn't help but smile slightly. Although she wasn't particularly fond of tea herself, it reminded her of the older girl and always brought a smile to her face. Shizuru watched the girl in front of her, while sipping her tea, she caught the distinct smell of smoke and frowned. She had been noticing it more recently, and was not happy about it. Not one bit,
"Natsuki shouldn't smoke, it is bad for your health" She stated in a slightly scolding tone. Natsuki turned to face the older girl, so that one of her legs was up on the desk, she considered lying and telling Shizuru that she hadn't been smoking, but quickly decided against it, the other girl would see right through her lie anyway. Instead she decided to change the subject,
"You wanna go into town after school?" Shizuru looked at her for a few seconds; she was surprised that the girl had suggested that, usually it was Shizuru who suggested they do something outside of school. Of course, she had realised that the younger girl had just swiftly changed the topic of their conversation but she could pick that up some other time,
"Of course, you know that I'd never turn down the chance to sit behind Natsuki on her bike" She smiled sweetly and Natsuki simply raised her eyebrow, far too used to Shizuru's 'strange' comments to react too much to them,
"Right, well I'll meet you here after school then, I told Mai that I'd meet her for lunch"
"Ara, does Natsuki not like eating lunch with me?" Shizuru pouted,
"Actually, I was gunna ask you to come with me?" although it was supposed to be a statement, it came out as more of a question.
Even though the festival had been over for a few months now, Shizuru hadn't really spent any time with Mai and the others, there was still a lot of tension in the air between them, especially between Nao and Shizuru.
Natsuki hated that she was stuck in-between it all, but mostly, she just wanted Shizuru to feel comfortable and to stop feeling guilty about what had happened. She figured that the best way to do that was to simply bite the bullet and confront the issue. Shizuru however seemed to think differently and therefore had been avoiding the other HiME like the plague.
Shizuru actually appeared to consider the question posed to her, but the second Natsuki saw the polite smile spread across her friends face she knew that the older girl wouldn't be joining her.
"I'm sorry Natsuki, I've got work to finish off, I'll see you later though" Shizuru saw the quick flash of disappointment on her best friends face but could nothing about it. She just couldn't bring her self to spend time with other HiME, it brought back to many horrible memories. Natsuki nodded at her answer before standing up and speaking,
"Yeah, see ya" That said Natsuki left the room and headed to the place she had agreed to meet Mai.
Mai looked up from her spot under a tree and spotted her hot-tempered, mayonnaise-loving friend. Natsuki quickly sat down next to Mai, her back leaning against the tree. She didn't speak, nor did she really acknowledge her friends presence.
Mikoto was happily eating her lunch, provided by the red head, and hadn't even noticed the arrival of the other girl. Mai looked at Natsuki, who seemed to have zoned out. She had noticed that recently, the older girl had been acting differently. She hadn't really been contributing at all to any conversations, no matter what they were about. She would just sit in the background and stare off into the distance.
Mai had also noticed that the other girl hadn't been eating at school, this was something that worried her and she had therefore prepared a lunch for the dark haired female.
"Natsuki, here" she handed the bento box over, "I noticed that you hadn't been eating so I made this for you, I added extra mayonnaise" She smiled, but Natsuki just looked at her friend, as if noticing that she was there for the first time.
"Erm thanks. But I'm not hungry" She nodded in Mikoto's direction "I'm sure your pet will eat it" Mai tilted her head, even though Natsuki was trying to sound normal, and had forced a small smile to her face, her eyes had remained dull and sad. 'OK, she just turned down mayonnaise' little alarms started ringing in Mai's head; something was wrong with Natsuki.
She looked at her friends face more carefully than she had done earlier, her skin was pale and there were faint dark rings under her emerald eyes, indicating lack of sleep. Her eyes were downcast and her head was leaning on her arms, which had pulled her knees up to her chest.
So, Mai had realised that something was wrong with the ice princess. Now all she needed to do was figure out what it was. The first and only thing that sprang to mind was Shizuru. While Mai liked to think she was one of the blue haired girls close friends, she knew that she wasn't as important to her as Shizuru was.
She doubted that Natsuki even realised how much her face lit up when she was around the Kyoto born girl. Although she hadn't spent much time in the company of the third year student she knew that something was going on between her and Natsuki, it had to be.
Even before she had really known Natsuki she had suspected that something was going on between the two, she had even mentioned to Natsuki that she thought she wasn't interested in guys. Of course, Natsuki had told her not to be so stupid; after all, she didn't have time for that type of thing.
"Natsuki?" Mai waited for the girl to look at her before continuing, "Is everything ok?"
"Huh? Yeah, everything's fine, why?" Natsuki looked confused, why would Mai think that something was wrong? No she wasn't feeling great at the moment, she was confused as hell and only had a few days to figure things out, but she wasn't acting differently...was she?
"It's just...I don't know, you seem quiet...well, quieter than usual. Plus, you look like tired"
"Well, yeah, I'm a bit tired, but other than that, nothing's wrong" She tried to smile as convincingly as she could, but Mai gave her a worried look which told her that she had failed. Fortunately though, the red head seemed to understand that the biker didn't want to talk about what was bothering her. They lapsed into silence and for some reason Natsuki felt the need to break it,
"How's things with you and Tate anyway?" Natsuki wasn't particularly interested in how the relationship was going in all honestly, but she figured that it was only polite to ask.
"They're ok I guess... we haven't really seen much of each other recently, we've been pretty busy with exams, but he should be coming to the graduation party I'm throwing so I guess we'll take it from there" Mai smiled brightly,
"Graduation party? For who?" Natsuki asked. As far as she knew, Mai and the other first years didn't really talk to any of the third years... except maybe Reito on occasion.
"Anyone that wants to come, I mean, we're all graduation in a way, to the next year haha" The busty girl paused for a second before speaking again "You should definitely bring Kaichou-san, unless she's already got plans" Mai figured that since Shizuru was so popular throughout the school she would probably already be going somewhere, which would no doubt mean that Natsuki wouldn't be coming to her party either. Whether the blunette would admit to it or not, she would defiantly want to spend graduation day with Shizuru. To her surprise Natsuki smiled at her, a genuine smile,
"That sounds great Mai, I'll ask Shizuru about it later. As far as I know she's not doing anything else"
"Great!" Mai practically beamed, she couldn't wait to get Natsuki singing karaoke again "while we're on the subject of graduation, have you got Shizuru anything yet?"
"Eh? What for?" Natsuki asked, confusion written all over her face,
"For graduation you dolt! Really Natsuki, you're hopeless"
"I'm meant to buy her something for graduating?" Natsuki eyes went wide, what in the hell was she meant to get the older girl! The only thing she could think of was tea, and surly Shizuru did not need any more of the stuff.
"Well, you don't have to, but most people do give their close friends graduation presents. And since you and Shizuru are, you know...close, you should really get her something" Mai laughed as a light blush spread across Natsuki face at the mention of her closeness to the Kyoto girl.
"Well what am I supposed to get her! Urgh" Natsuki flopped onto her back, her eyes now staring up into the cloudless sky 'Great, something else to worry about!'
"You're the one that knows her best, I'm sure you'll find something" Just as Mai finished her sentence the chime signalling the end of lunch sounded and she got to her feet.
"See you later" The red head then walked off to go to her next lesson, Mikoto following behind her. Natsuki simply stayed where she was, 'what am I gunna do?'
AN: OK, well, there you go, chapter one, hope it wasn't too bad, and that there weren't too many mistakes in there, I read it over several times but I probably still missed some things :P I know that I just sort of...mentioned Mikoto being there but didn't actually have her do or say anything... That's because I have a hard time writing for her D: I also feel like pointing out that I haven't actually posted anything on here for several years...so I'm not really comfortable with the way things work anymore haha So, sorry if this chapter is a bit messed up or difficult to read, just let me know so I can do something about it next chapter :)
Feel free to drop me a review so I know that people actually want me to continue writing, I promise it will get more exciting and the chapters will be longer :P Annnnndddd obviously there will be more ShizNat interaction in following chapters...this was just a sort of...introduction I guess XD
Also (on a completely random note) I find it slightly amusing that Microsoft Word tries to correct 'Shizuru' with 'seizure' haha Anyway, thanks for reading, I'll probably be updating this once a week, providing life doesn't get in the way :P Thanks for reading and hope to see you next time.
~IlliterateKoi~