Oi Maid!

Disclaimer: I do not own Maria Holic (the characters, the show, the music, zip, zero, nada) I do however own the creativity and making of this story.

Rated M for language and sexual references.

Summary: This story follows the crazy adventures young Kanako has when she's asked to become the family maid for the Shido family in order to help her struggling family.

Let's get right to it!

NOTE: Rindo and Matsurika are older then Mariya, Kanako, and Shizu.

_Prologue
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Did you know I wanted to be a flight attendant? I always enjoyed traveling and being in the air. I'm pretty sure I would have gotten the job if I would've applied. I checked online and saw that they were hiring until November, it was really tempting not to fill out an application right then and there...but as always I ended up not doing it.

"Oi Maid!"

I swear I cringe every time I hear that voice..

"A...maid?" I remember answering my parents as soon as they give me the 'oh so wonderful news'.

"Yes, it's not for too long honey..." My Oka-san explains to me.
"It's just until we get all our debts paid..." My Oto-san adds in. Now back then I didn't even come to realize that paying back 20,000 in debt and 10,000 in credit card debt would take quite a while.

Do I hate my parents? Of course not, I love them to death but I do wish that they would have not wasted so much money on this and that, the ironic thing is that they would use the money they borrowed to pay back a debt but still ended up owing some debt. Funny huh?

"But why can't onee-chan do it?" I asked in a small protest. C'mon you had to agree with me, I was the middle child for crying out loud!

"You know your sister is in school, she's almost about to start her freshmen year in high school. It's an important time for her." Yea, I'm about to go to 7th grade...isn't that important too?

"Yea..." I reply with my head low, I feel my mother's fingers gently raise my chin up to look at her in the eyes. "Kanako honey, please don't be mad at us. We promise that we only want what's best for you." My mother's face was so torn and crush in telling her daughter she'd have to leave school and become a maid; I didn't want to make her any more upset.

"I know" I answer trying to sound as positive as possible.

"And besides the Shido's are nice, caring people. They even have two children around your age and I'm sure the three of you will get along splendidly" My father adds in.

Now the idea of becoming a maid wasn't sounding as horrible as I thought, I'll have two new friends to talk to so everything should be alright.

Oh so I thought...

"So this is the famous Kanako I've been hearing so much about." Mrs. Shido comments as she rubs the top of my head with a lovely smile. My parents had taken me the following day to meet the family and have a tour around the house.

"What do we say Kanako?" My mother nudges me softly in my arm. I better make a good first impression in front of this lady. "Thank you Mrs. Shido" I say along with a bow.

"My, what an educated and well-mannered daughter you have." Mrs. Shido comments to my parents before they leave me with her inside the huge house. "Now why don't I introduce you to the rest of the family, these will be the people you'll be living with." I nod in a response.

Now I imagined her to have over 30 employees in the house, with how big it is; she only has a chauffeur and one maid for the weekends and then there's me for the weekdays. She's not as lazy as I thought she would be.

"Kanako, this is Rindo our personal driver, if you ever run out of groceries or cleaning supplies and need to run to the store, he will gladly be able to drive you over there." she explains to me. Rindo was a tall young man, he appeared to be only 18 years old; five years older then me at the time. His black hair was perfectly parted in the middle and his tux made him look more like a butler then a chauffeur.

"Why hello there Kanako-chan, I do hope I can be of great use to you." He says to me as he takes hold of my hand and softly presses his lips against it; I quickly remove my hand away from his grip and hold it towards my chest.

"Now now Rindo, no need to make Kanako uncomfortable now do we?" Mrs. Shido comments as she presses a hand in my back and guides me away from the kitchen. Towards the family room, every part of the house was huge and wide, how was I going to be able to clean such a big place?

"Mr. Shido is out working so you won't meet him until tomorrow but luckily my two children are here." She explains to me as I start to hear voices coming from the family room; It sounds like three voices are speaking but I thought she only had two children?

"Now now, I do hope you two haven't been giving Matsurika a rough time." she says as soon as we enter the room.

"The term 'rough' is an understatment" the maid named Matsurika answers. Matsurika had light periwinkle type hair formed into two pigtails and beautiful golden eyes, she was like a doll. What I had found most confusing is that she had on a maid's outfit but I thought I was the only maid they got.

"Matsurika and Rindo are siblings, she's almost like a baby-sitter for my two children; she mostly takes care of the things during the weekends when your off. As for the maid outfit, the children prefer her wearing it." Mrs. Shido explains as if having sense my confusion.

"Oh.." I reply lowly. Matsurika stands and makes her way towards me and kneels to my level; her beautiful eyes gaze into my own, so much that I hide away from shyness. "Tomato.." huh? Tomato?

"Huh?" I ask confused. Matsurika pokes my two cheeks with her two index fingers "You are Tomato-face" Excuse me? Why would she insult me like that?

"Please excuse Matsurika, she's a rather harsh person. That's just how she remembers people. Don't take it personal Kanako-chan." Mrs. Shido reassures me, what kind of memory does she have?

"Exactly, you should be honored, out of everyone you have the best name. A lot better then 'Cranky Bitch' 'Sadistic Jackass' and 'Suicidal Romantic'.." she explains it so calmly that I'm surprised why they even keep her with how rude she is.

"Matsurika..." I felt the grip on my shoulder tighten "I do hope not to be called that in front of Kanako's presence if you don't want to wake up one morning missing a tongue.." I gulped just thinking about it-on second thought Mrs. Shido does look like the type of woman to be scary when she's angry. I'm gonna try my best to avoid seeing that side directed to me.

"I'm so scared..." the purple-haired maid replies as she heads back to the couch, how can she insult Mrs. Shido so freely! And by how Mrs. Shido is reacting it looks like this is a daily thing!

"Mariya, Shizu...come here please." Just then two children, or more like twins walk up to us. I can't help but take notice at how alike they are...both had blonde hair, not the crazy yellow blonde it was a little of a softer color; and shining-piercing red eyes-they looked almost like rubies. Is everyone in this family beautiful?

"This is Kanako Miyamae, you have seen her parents before. She's going to be living here from now on, I want you both not to cause so much trouble for her..remember she's still a child herself." I'm introduced to Shizu and Mariya Shido..both look so alike and yet are so different in comparison.

"Um..Nice to meet you, I hope we can get along." I say politely with a bow. I want to make friends with them, at least I won't feel so bored when I'm in this house.

"Hello Kanako-chan, I'm Mariya! The girl Shido adds as she walks up and takes my hand putting it towards her chest "I also hope we can get along, anything you need just ask me and I'll help as much as I can!" Mariya by far is so nice, I'm normally not a big fan of ribbons but it looked stunning on her; she wore a blue summer dress with shining black shoes, her hair was long and down with a blue ribbon on each side of her head.

"Thank you Mariya-sama" I reply with a smile. Mariya shakes her head and laughs "There's no need for the '-sama' we're the same age mostly so I don't want any formalities just 'Mariya-chan' will do." I was told that I had to address everyone with '-sama'; I'm glad that Mariya feels that she doesn't need to show she's above me and see's me like any normal girl.

"That's enough Mariya..." says her brother who now comes up to me. "Listen here commoner, I don't care what my sister says you are here to work for us. And so far I don't think your worthy of this position so until you do I'm gonna be testing you. You are to address me as Shizu-sama, it's only fair.." I stared at him for a moment, stunned at how he spoke to me. A commoner? Who does he think he is exactly?

"With all due respect Shizu-sama, I'm not a commoner so I prefer for that to be the last time you call me that!" I didn't mean to raise my voice at him, I was just offended. If he called me a commoner then he was calling my family commoners too; I refuse to let that slide.

Shizu stares at me surprised for only a brief moment until an evil smirk appears on his lips. "You know that a maid's job is to listen to her superiors without talking back; if not it can come down to immediate termination." NO! I can't be fired already...what am I to do with the money? What will my parents think of me? I can't let them down!

"Don't listen to him Kanako-chan" My shaking hands stop and I look up to Mrs. Shido; she gives me a warm smile. "That won't get you fired, Shizu can be a little rough when he meets new people; he's really a kind-hearted boy. Don't ever be afraid to stand up to him if he messes with you ok?" HIM? Kind-hearted? Yea right. when pigs fly.

Now normally when I'm upset, irritated, or agitated I have the unknown habit of puffing out my cheeks. Shizu noticed it as he pulls on them hard with his hands, stretching them out as far as possible. "Is that anyway to look at your superior?" I don't answer him resulting the pain to increase more. "Is it?" He asks impatiently once again.

"Ahhhh is naw, is naw!" I answer as best as I can. My arms are flying up it down, mad that their not strong enough to push this brat away from me. "Heh, good." Finally...he lets go of my cheeks. I rub circle on them to try and calm down the pain their holding in. 'I hate this guy!' I think angrily as I avoid staring at him as of that point on.

"Now that you've met everyone. I hope we can all welcome Kanako-chan into this family and help her out in anyway we can. Mariya, Shizu I expect the two of you to treat Kanako-chan with respect; she may be around your age but she's still a year older then you so whatever you do try not to make a mess on purpose, Understood?" Both twins look at me and in perfect sync bow down "We are honored to have you in our home Kanako-chan." They both lift their heads, Mariya gives me a warming smile that I respond back. Shizu..stares at me for a while before smirking almost as if saying 'Wait until you see what I have in stored for you...' I smile nervously as if replying 'Please go easy on me..'

And that's how I was welcomed into the Shido home and how it was the start of my almost miserable life as a maid. With the exception of one demon everyone else I enjoyed getting to know. But as I said, this was just the start.