Love Stalks In
Disclaimer: I do not own Mai Hime, but I can imagine, right? AU, sweet.
Documents cluttered a pristine desk, overflowing a bulging basket. Natsuki Kuga, owner of Fuuka's local health spa, stretched back in her leather chair, feeling her back pop satisfactorily as she growled lowly.
"Natsuki, you should really think about getting a massage yourself!" came a happy voice, and Natsuki turned to see one of her masseurs standing in the doorway of her office, orange hair slightly mussed.
"Mai, I see Mikoto and you had another 'session'. Oddly enough, it's not in the log book, anything I need to know?" asked the cobalt haired woman, holding up a leather bound book and smirking as Mai blushed.
"What was that Midori? Yeah I'll help!" Mai rushed out of Natsuki's office, leaving the woman chuckling. Time soon passed the long haired woman by, and Mai was once again at the door, this time announcing to Natsuki that it was closing time.
"I'll probably be kept here all night by this paperwork, Mai. Have a goodnight." Natsuki spoke, sticking a fresh cigarette in her mouth. "Goodnight Natsuki." The heavy wooden door was shut and Natsuki listened to the orange haired girl's footsteps fade away.
Natsuki glared down with fierce emerald eyes at the paperwork clouding her beautiful white marble desk. That day's newspaper was under the stack of papers, something about the serial killer that had struck recently. Clad in black slacks, finely ironed white dress shirt and smart black tie, Natsuki had changed since her days at Fuuka Academy.
A piece of toast was quickly drowned in a pool of mayonnaise, and was devoured by the blue haired beauty. Well…not much had changed…
The cobalt haired girl exhaled silvery smoke, and extinguished the finished cigarette.
Natsuki tapped her pen against the pile of papers before her, having made a small dent in the mountain since her employees absence. Stretching porcelain skinned arms overhead, Natsuki decided it was high time for a break.
Taking a look out of her window, Natsuki saw the sky had darkened immensely, and rain was drizzling from the unforgiving clouds. Taking note of the time, about ten minutes to eleven, Natsuki donned her obsidian coat and exited the building.
Inhaling fresh rain air, Natsuki looked across the street to where a gas station had opened up not to recently ago, obviously wanting some of her customers to become theirs. Natsuki shook her head, and smirked, as she knew who established it. Not that it wasn't obvious.
'Yuuki's Web' was flashing in some distasteful neon, and Natsuki watched as some patrons filled their vehicles, rain lazily falling. Entering the small building, emerald eyes met lime green, and the red haired owner of those lime eyes screwed her eyebrows together.
"Kuga, welcome." Nao spoke, obviously not enjoying the blue haired woman's presence. Natsuki politely nodded, which only seemed to tick the red haired girl off more, and scanned the inside of the gas station. Pretty much the same as the others, but Natsuki spotted some pamphlets for her spa, which was aptly named 'Arctic Wolf'. Happy emerald eyes turned onto the red haired girl once more, who shrugged it off while sporting a semi-noticeable blush.
Natsuki looked over the options of cigarettes, and decided to buy a pack of the brand she'd been smoking earlier. "Those things will kill you." Nao commented bluntly, and Natsuki chuckled darkly, paying for them. Stepping out of the building, Natsuki watched an extremely nice car drive up to a gas pump. It was a mustang, but the color wasn't one of the cobalt haired woman's top choices. It was a purple mustang.
'Who would drive a purple mustang?' Natsuki asked herself, then half-shrugged, watching the driver get out. The unlit cigarette that had been between her lips suddenly dropped, and her jaw soon followed.
Long chestnut hair, a fine black skirt long enough for modesty, yet short enough to have an eyeful of creamy legs, and a white top completed the drivers look. Natsuki closed her mouth with an audible 'snap' which seemed to garner attention from the driver. "Good evening." Smooth Kyoto ben surrounded the air around Natsuki, who blushed slightly and nodded back, not trusting her voice.
Crimson eyes pierced into emerald for an uneasily long time, until the chestnut haired beauty smiled, and went back to her business. Natsuki quietly picked up the useless cigarette, and tossed it into a trash bin, wiping her hands. When she turned back, she was stunned to see the crimson eyed woman mere inches from her face.
The chestnut haired woman sweetly smiled, and Natsuki felt her breath catch in her throat as the ruby eyed lady stepped closer. Arms wrapped around Natsuki's waist, inside her large coat, and the woman's head rested on Natsuki's chest.
Blushing furiously, Natsuki stood frozen for a time, until the shorter woman's voice broke her thoughts. "I am sorry…it's just so cold." Natsuki chastised herself for being so careless, and wrapped her arms around the shorter woman, bringing her closer and warming her.
The rain was getting heavier and the sky made its anger known, lighting bolts and thunder split the sky. "This storm is getting bad, where do you live?" Natsuki asked, backing up a bit to look into blood red eyes. "Ara, you've only just met me and already want to whisk me away back to my house? So eager to do 'this and that'?" The ruby eyed woman teased, and Natsuki flushed deeply.
"Baka!" Natsuki growled and the shorter woman laughed quietly, before looking towards the sky. "Ara, I won't make it home in this terrible weather." She decided, and Natsuki looked at one of the garages for the gas station. "Stay here." The cobalt haired woman strode into the building. "Nao, I need to use one of your garages for a car."
A keychain was tossed and caught. Natsuki helped the crimson eyed beauty load her mustang into the garage, then led her to her office.
Finally out of the drenching rain, Natsuki shrugged her coat off and placed it on the rack, gathered a towel for the shorter woman and sat down. "How rude of me, you have done so much for me and I have not even told you my name." Crimson eyes shot from the newspaper to emerald pools.
"My name is-" Natsuki was cut off by an elegantly manicured finger to her lips. Her mind distantly registered a metallic 'click' and suddenly she couldn't move her arms. "I know who you are, my Nat-su-ki." The woman spoke, sufficiently cuffing Natsuki's hands behind her chair. Natsuki's eyes widened, and she remembered faintly recognizing the crimson eyed beauty. "My name is Fujino Shizuru." The delicate voice rang out, and Natsuki's eyes shook with realization.
The newspaper fell to the ground, unnoticed, its headline blaring. "The Crimson Stalker strikes again, killing several including her obsession!"
Sometimes, love made people do bizarre things…
This will be my very first multi-chaptered story! Wish me luck, though this interests me greatly. R/R if you please.