Hi! uh-well, This will be my second fic which will have 5 chapters. I don't know if it's any good so tell me whether you hate it or not...


Disclaimer:"I do NOT claim any ownership over Mai-Hime and anything affiliated to it"


'Na-chan'

Hmm?

Na-chan, wake-up..

Why?

"Na-Natsuki-

What?

"WAKE-UP YOU IDIOT"

WHACK

"Awww! " Natsuki rub her head. She sprung around to give whoever hit her, the infamous Kuga-death-glare and probably a good beating afterwards…"Who the hel—whoa-a"

She fell off her chair and hit the floor. That's when laughters irrupted around her. 'Gawd kill me now' she thought. It have just dawned to her that she was in the school's gym attending the principal's welcoming speech for the new and old students of the Fuka Academy to start the school year.

"Hahaha, you should have seen your face Kuga!" Natsuki look up to see the red haired laughing so hard that she was holding her stomach. "Priceless" the girl added

"NAO, It was you!"

"AHEM" the principal cleared her throat, hoping to get the students attention back to her. "As I was saying, we do not shout in the hallway, in the classroom and most of all we do not shout in the middle of a school gathering.." She gave Natsuki a stern disapproving look. 'Crap, now she'll remember me'

A few giggles from the girls who were still watching the group..She showed them her Kuga death glare to scare them off instead it made the opposite effect, and made them giggled even more.

'This isn't my day..' she sighed

"You know, you will probably lose your bad-ass look if you're blushing like that" Nao smirked "Aww, you look SOO adorable" she added when Natsuki glared at her. Nao-1, mutt-0, yup I'm winning this year.

" Are you okay Natsuki? " Mai, the girl with orange hair and who was sitting in her left stood-up to help her..

She shot Mai a incredulous look that obviously said what-kind-of- dumb-question-is-that? 'I just made a fool of myself in front of the whole student body but yeah I'm fine' ---

Mai seem to have read her thoughts because she withdrawn her offer to help, instead she went back to her chair. Knowing that Natsuki would want that.

"Yea-h right. Whatever" Natsuki said standing up on her own 'so she fall so what?' geez some friends I have. She dust-off her clothes , picked-up her chair, and ignored some onlookers

"Hey" Nao whispered "I was just trying to wake you up, okay?"

"By hitting me" Natsuki growled

"Guys stop it." Mai warned them. "Please, can you two pay attentions for once."Why did I convince these two to enroll with me to Fuka? Oh right, if I didn't, they would probably end up as gangster..Who would have thought these two are heirs.. Mai sighed and shook her head disapprovingly

"Fine" Natsuki grumbled. She straighten up, to listen to the principal..

"I hope that all of you would study hard and make your parents proud and remember persevere and persevere, my dear students, because you are the ones who will build your future"

'Gah, right tell that to my father.' Natsuki thought. She heard Nao snickered beside her. It figures, Nao hated her father as much as she hate hers and its probably the reason why they became friends in the first place.

Mai, on the other hand was listening intently at the speaker, her eyes were filled with determination. Unlike them, she was aiming to become a great cook and inherit her family's restaurant.. IT wouldn't surprise Natsuki if Mai end-up doing so; the girl was a natural cook.

"..Alright..Now I will turn the mic over to the Student council, they will discuss with you the rules of the school. Ms. Fujino"

"Hey, were going to meet a Fujino." Mai said excitedly.

"Who?" both Nao and Natsuki asked.

Mai shook her head " Geez, you guys are sure going to make your Fathers proud"

"Isn't that the whole point" Natsuki grinned. She just loved the irony behind it.

"Riiig-ht, Anyway, just three months ago their company has surpasses the Ayuzawa Tech Company..Are you guys sure you haven't heard, anything?"(The two shook their heads.) She sighed before continuing. "They rocketed to the top of the business word..They are now the top and leading company around."

"They pass the what! The Ayuzawa?" Natsuki said in a violent reaction. "They can't pass the Ayuzawa, is that even possible. What's their company name?"

"Kiyohime"

"Lame name" Nao yawn

Natsuki fell silent then said"Never heard of that name before"

"Of course you didn't..You guys never did attend any social gathering" Mai said a matter of factly. "Never read the papers too" she added silently.

"Touche" Nao said, her tone was bored.

"Don't tell me you two don't know your company's current standing..." Mai waited for their reaction. When she got none she continued "Kuga's Motors and Vehicle Company drop to four..."

'So...That's explained why the old man is in a crappy mood lately' Natsuki silently noted.

"And uh yours is going to fall out of tenth place Nao" Nao eyes widening

"Shit, what the hell is father been doing" Nao muttered. She didn't want the company but if she ever couldn't escape her ill-fate, then she didn't want to inherit a losing one. "damned"

" I don't know how they did it, I guess this means they're just pretty good-amazingly good" Mai said, stopping when she saw five students have climb up the stage.

They all stood in a column behind the podium. The first one was a blonde with her arms crossed in her chest, she was standing rigidly and firm.

"That one is going to be trouble for us" Nao whispered

"Yeah.." Natsuki agreed. Out of the others in the group, she was the one radiating authority the most. She looked like she has the typical student council attitude strict and uncompromising. Natsuki grinned "-but..I like challenge"

"I figured you'd say that pup!" they high five. Natsuki already forgotten the little incident a while ago..

"You two, should better not planning anything to vexed the council this early.."

Natsuki with an innocent expression on her face asks "like what? Mai?"

"Yeah like what?" Nao repeated.

"Like-" she stopped "-well I'm not giving the two of you any ideas!"

KyaaHH

The hall was filled with unified chorus. You could clearly distinguish the first years from the rest of the student body... They were the ones whose heads are turning from side to side wondering what is happening.

"Kaicho-sama!!"

"That's her-" Mai said trying to make her voice louder to be heard.

"What the Hell?! SHIZURU?!" Natsuki abruptly stood up.

Mai and Nao both looked at each other then at Natsuki then at each other, both of them asked at the same time "Do they know each other?"


"Why that disrespectful brat!" Haruka said, Ready to storm down the stage.

This alerted the others in the council, except for Shizuru, they quickly shot Yukino a pleading look.

"Haruka, don't" Yukino whispered. "Don't lose your temper"

"I'm not losing my temple, Yukino!" Haruka said

Yukino inhaled deeply "So If you're not losing your TEMPER.." emphasizing on the word. "Could you not charged the girl at this time, and let Shizuru finish her speech?" tugging the other girl by her sleeve..

Amazingly, Haruka did calmed a little bit, much to the other's relief. They wouldn't want their new students dropping-out this early.

"Fine, but I'm still going to see that brat" Haruka muttered.


"Ara, that's an interesting language you have there.." Shizuru said calmly. Smiling sweetly at Natsuki whose now frozen stiff from shock. "Na-chan"

"eh?" from the council..

"Ehh??!!" a chorus from the whole student body..

"Who" heads are turning to look at Natsuki, especially those of Shizuru's fan club.

"Nao, I think I just heard her say Na-chan?, she did say Na-chan right?" Mai ask, unsure if she just heard what she just heard.

"I don't know Mai, there's fu*ing wrong with my ears" Nao turn to Natsuki , and point "whaa-er? Tomato?."

Mai pulled Natsuki back to her chair. The girl had just turned pale as a sheet a moment ago and then turned red as a tomato. She's not going to be happy if she snaps out of this trance like state..." Nao stop that" scolding Nao who was poking Natsuki's cheek.

"Sorry" Nao said " But I rarely see, heck I never seen anyone get this red-" then Nao said in a lower voice "you know, like a to-ma-to-"

Whack

"ou-ouch, my face! Kuga!"

"Shut-up, you moron" Natsuki said returning to herself. She clutch her hands into fist 'what kind of stupid joke was this, am I this cursed' her eyes landing on those crimson eyes.

"Ara, shall we continue the meeting.." Shizuru said. Nobody noticed the effort it took her just to tear her gaze away from Natsuki. 'Ara she looks so different now…"Stealing another peak at the raven haired girl, whose eyes were narrowed and piercing through hers, she quickly turned away 'she looked more..'she didn't finish her thought and continued "and maybe catch-up with the lost time, yes?"

"Hai, Shizuru-sama" the students chorus

Natsuki clutched her fist even tighter. 'Dammed it all'


After the meeting finished, they were given breaks before the classes' starts again.

Nao, Mai, and Natsuki have chosen to eat at the rooftop. That's where they usually hang-out in their previous school.

They weren't really eating just sitting there, and waiting for Natsuki to enlightened their growing curiosity.

Nao blink then check her nails.

Mai have given up and pulled-out her bento.

Natsuki was lying in her back and staring at the sky.

Then Nao look at Natsuki, How long will she stay silent. She was losing her patience, eventually it snaps then she blurted-out "Aren't you going to explained what just happened?!"

Natsuki pulled herself up in a sitting position so she could be in eye level with them "didn't you saw what happened? I embarrassed myself twice in one day" Natsuki frowned.

"Not that, I thought you didn't know who Fujino was?" Nao asked.

Natsuki frowned. Well, last I check she was a Viola."Didn't know she changed her surname"

"So how did you know her" Mai ask. She watches as Natsuki's face darkened. 'uh, Maybe I shouldn't have asked that'

"Well?" the red haired ask

"I did know her" Natsuki admitted. Then she corrected in a rather soft voice "I used to know her"

'Used to?'Mai thought, There was something wrong the way Natsuki said it.. Her whole mood seemed to have suddenly dropped down. "okay, umm..I think the class is going to start soon, we should go back, right Nao" Mai smiled a little giving a hint to Nao that they should stop questioning Natsuki. 'I wonder what this Shizuru did to Natsuki..'

"So your childhood friends?" Nao asked. "I mean she called you Na-chan, you won't even let Mai add chan on Natsuki" Nao said analyzing the situation.

'You idiot stop talking' Mai silently pleaded.

" I could tell that this Fujino chick really set you in a foul mood, Kuga" Nao continued not noticing Mai's panic look.

'shut-up' Mai mouthed the word this time.

Only to be returned with an inaudible 'what' from Nao.

"Hey? Where are you going?"

"I need to go somewhere" Natsuki said. 'I need to get the hell out of here and the only way to do it, is to drop out of here'

To be continued...