Disclaimer: I do not own Mai HiME nor Otome. The Title FUUKA WARS isn't mine as well. I do believe they belong to Sunrise.
Summary: The Gift Arc III. The HiMEs settled, the babies were healthy and another HiME is on the way. They knew something was out there and the danger once again is palpable in the air. The HiMEs should stand once again to protect their most important people.
A/N: I've re watched the FUUKA WARS video multiple times and was disappointed to know that it was a fake. So then today, as I was recuperating, I re-read my story the Gift, and the plot for arc III sets in. So if the video of Fuuka wars is a fake, which means it will just be a teaser to tease us, then I'll write my own Fuuka Wars as a sequel to The Gift.
Rated M (kailangan pa bang imemorize 'yun?)
I forgot when I finished The Gift. I did say about writing The Gift in America, but I still got no plot bunnies for that. Let me explain to you readers how I write. I do not start unless I get a very general view of a story, meaning a start and ending, that's all I need. Each chapters are not prewritten, I type them as they come to my head, hence to update I need a 'ping' signal from my plot bunnies then I write.
Forced update I do, mostly end up with very bad plotline, so I let the plot flow. Capische?
Anyways… I love you all, and this is for you!
THE GIFT ARC III: FUUKA WARS
PROLOGUE
[Exactly 6 months after the birth of the children]
Fuuka Gakuen High School
Arika and Nina could be seen in the Fuuka Gakuen hall chatting side by side. Arika was even stretching out her tired body. School work plus their responsibility as Executive Head In Charge (EH-IC) had put a toll on both girl's body. It was past eight in the evening, and it's only now that they could walk back to their shared room.
"Nina, was I right when I heard Ers-chan said that the others in the mansion is going to come back at school already?" she asked tiredly.
"Yeah," Nina said flatly, she wanted to slump her shoulders but couldn't since she wasn't bred the way Arika does. Poise was instilled in her from the very young age. "They said the babies were all fine so they will be back to having their classes here by next week." She smiled.
"That's nice to hear." Arika said then she became quiet.
Silence
"So who is going to take care of the babies? That's 10 babies!" Arika asked excitedly, "I wish I could take care even one from them."
Arika laughed quietly, "I hate to break it to you Arika, but I don't think even I will entrust our baby to you. You're a klutz!" she said teasing her girlfriend.
"HEY I'm your girlfriend, you're supposed to support me!"
"I am!" At Nina's answer, Arika frowned and poked the taller girl on her side, "OI!" another poke, twice this time, "OIII!" the brown haired girl was making a pose of poking Nina once more, so the taller girl ran off and out of the Fuuka Gakuen garden.
"HEY!" Arika called out and followed suit.
Unbeknown to them, three sets of covered eyes were watching their every moves.
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Kanzaki Mansion
"It is great Sakomizu san had already started the reconstruction of the Medical bay. Really, no one uses them and the space had been a waste for long." Fumi said as she looked at the blue print on the table. Shizuru was in front of her sitting on a chair, looking at the same blue print, one blue haired six month old baby peacefully sleeping in front of her, while being carried in a baby carrier.
"Yes, plus this will give Kanzaki-san time to have the ground be measured so we can start buying, we do have to start constructing that HiME compound we have talked about six months ago." Shizuru said smiling at Fumi then looking down at her sleeping angel. "Fumi-san, I know I won't be attending classes until these two turns one, but the others will be; you and I needs to work on the school documents and we both know, there's much more in Fuuka than here, so how do we go about this?"
Fumi smiled, "There's really no need to fret Shizuru-san, Yukino had always been the seer in our group, I think she and Haruka-san had roped their parents to doing day care services." She sighed, "You're mother volunteered as well."
"She had not returned to Kyoto?"
"I did not ask," Fumi rolls the blue print then once again looked at Shizuru, "Miyu was not comfortable with leaving just the parents with the kids so she volunteered to post as guards to them. I should ask you this being my assistant, I was intending to retain Iphreeta-sensei at Fuuka. I haven't talked to her yet but I did asked Youko-sensei about her thought of it and she was excited."
Shizuru smiled, "Of course she will be, she'll probably leave poor Iphreeta-sensei alone in the clinic every chance she get to be close with Yuri." The chestnut haired woman eyed the headmistress who was looking at her, "What?"
"So what do you think of that?"
"That would be great, two heads are better than one?"
"Good!" Fumi said as she stood and clasped her hand together in front of her face, "That's great, now I was wondering where to put the nursery for our children?"
"Wouldn't the previous medical bay be the best place to put the nursery?" both women inclined their heads to where the door was. Reito Kanzaki, in all his glory said, standing by the door frame and grinning at the two women. "Good morning ladies, I thought I'd drop by to see some beautiful faces before I leave for class?" he said, stepping closer to Fumi, then leaning down to give the headmistress a kiss on her lips. He then looked at Shizuru, "You better take care of our headmistress Shizuru!"
Shizuru smiled her wicked yet enigmatic smile, "But of course,"
"Okay, I came from the nursery and our dear Mashiro is still sound asleep… Mikoto too was asleep and drooling on our little angel."
The two women laughed at Reito's recollection, "Be well then! By next week we will all be shifting to Fuuka University." Fumi said tapping Reito's arms fondly.
"I know and Benford-san is really sad about it." He sighed, "But… I have to go. I don't want to miss first class again." He said walking out, he stopped midway to the door, turned his torso back and blew Fumi a kiss.
"Silly," the headmistress giggled.
"That's EW Reito coming from you!" Shizuru said wincing.
Once Reito was out of sight Fumi sat once again and the discussion continued, "Since we are transforming the previous medical bay to a family dorm room, I believe we cannot just say that the whole building is for HiMEs only, a lot of the teachers with family would suspect that something is wrong."
"I figured that," Shizuru said nodding her head, "The building is being built condominium style is it not?" Fumi nodded her head, "We can inform all teachers and students about the availability, but we should at least point out which rooms could be used by non HiMEs, aside of course from Harada-san and Senoh-san, if they choose not to go back to their old dorm room."
"I think I'll have Sakomizu-sensei look into that, besides he's also doing the security system of the building.
"Kanzaki-san was right, the nursery should be in that building, plus I don't think we should left Ibiki-ojisan and Rebecca-obasan do the caring solely, nor my mother."
"You think we should hire professionals?" Fumi asked in contemplation.
"The Pacifier kind of professional? "
Fumi's one eyebrow rose, " Want to hire Arnold Swars-whatever?" she laughed at her own joke.(1)
Shizuru shook her head while laughing.
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Somewhere in Fuuka District
Helena was on the phone for about five minutes already…
"So you left Kyoto again to be with that abomination of a daughter of yours?" Saotome Fujino asked angrily over the line, "How many time do I have to tell you to sever your tie to that woman!"
"That woman is OUR CHILD Saotome!" Helena felt the frustration rise up, the bile she could feel in her tongue.
"I don't have a perverted and sick child! I tell you Helena, come back here now or I will have to banish you from this house as well!" Helena knew the threat was real. Her husband had made up his mind. His words were law in the Fujino clan.
Will she be able to throw twenty years of marriage to the man she loved… or thought she loved?
"I'm not going back Saotome, Kannin na," Helena cringed at the male's outburst on the phone. A long line of tirade ranging from pointing out her origin, her family's status in life, how she would never be anyone if not for the Fujino family. Everything his husband said was true. She is nothing if not for being a Fujino. But she had been the worst person in her mind when she became one.
"Reconsider Helena," The Fujino head said in a mellowed voice this time.
"I will be by our… my daughter and grandchildren side this time. I am sorry."
"You will get nothing from me,"
"Not everything could be bought by money, I hope you get some lesson from your friend Ibiki."
An angry growl, "Did that stupid Ibiki talked you into doing this to me?!" hatred… so much hatred.
She shook her head but stopped knowing no one can see her, "Iye, this is my decision from the very start, no third person made me."
Silence… uncomfortable silence.
"It is final then, you go with your daughter, and if you both or even just you needed me, the gate of the Fujinos will be close to you."
Helena didn't answer, she knew it will come to this.
Then the line went dead.
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Arika and Nina could see their building from where they are standing. They should have run to it and enter their abode…
Gust of wind attacks the two girls, the wind wasn't natural, it was a wind born out of large flying machines, or at this point, three large flying…
"Is that an eagle?" Arika asked, "They are huge!"
"There's no eagle in this part of Japan, that large and flying freely in the city," Nina said frowning, "We should go."
"But what is it if it's not an eagle…" Nina's answer was left in her throat when the three large flying objects swoops down and as fast as the wind, took the two teens away.
Arika and Nina were caught not by claws…
… but by hands.
-End Prologue-
Okay this is it…yes this is the ending, this is one shot! LOOOL. Who am I kidding? You? NAH…
1 The Pacifier stars Vin Diesel, not Arnold Swar whatever… sorry hard to type and pronounce!
The prologue at least answers some question left in Arc II (Like in the case of Shizuru's father) and it makes a good way to tie up The Gift and the Fuuka Wars' teaser.