Young At Heart
I don't own copyright to anything, this is based on a song title written by Joss Stone & Salaam Remi. I do own the copyright to my broken mind if that counts for anything…
You're wasting your time
Trying to tear us apart
You can't stop our plans
We were destined from the start
He loves me
I love him
And even though we're young at heart
You're the one in denial
"Why can't you get it through your head, you're both girls and that make it wrong." Tate Yuuichi yelled as his face was red with anger. The normally quiet young man now completely pissed off, his eyes were practically shooting daggers at the strawberry orange top girl who suddenly decided to end their one year relationship. When he asked her why, she only shrugged and said that she doesn't feel the sparks anymore. That was two months ago, and now he just found out the reason for their breakup.
"If you're dragging me up to the roof of the school just to tell me that, then I'm going back to class." Mai said nonchalantly as she looked out at the track field below. "It's just disgusting, I don't know why but it's just not right. What is it that she got that I don't?" Yuuichi asked in an almost pleading voice though the anger was still there. "Tate, you are your own person and Mikoto is just well, Mikoto. There's no comparing between you two, and I'm sure that you will find someone that will love you more than I did someday. Love is love Tate, it make you do crazy things because it's blissful when you're in love." Mai said firmly with a bright smile on her face before leaving him behind as she went back to her classroom.
Tohkiha Mai and Tate Yuuichi had been childhood friends and grow up together, even going to the same school. It seemed so natural that they should dated each other and they did for a while, until they entered high school did they drifted apart. Mai stayed on school campus and roomed with another student but from middle school, Minagi Mikoto a wild cat with a knack for kendo and a bottomless stomach for foods.
Mai realized that she's becoming increasingly attracted to her roommate, especially when the feral girl comes back from her Track & Field practice. There's just something about the sweaty face and wet messy short raven hair that brought out the feral girl's inner hotness (and yet she doesn't see that when Tate comes out of kendo practice). Of course, the raven hair always bare a true genuine smile whenever she got back to the room and saw Mai there preparing dinner for two. The girl loved Mai along with her cooking, and she's not afraid to say it to the strawberry orange top. At first, Mai wasn't sure if Mikoto actually what love really means since the way the feral girl said it make it sounded so innocent, but she soon noticed that glint of something not so innocent in those golden eyes that made her rethink about Mikoto's words.
Only at fourteen years of age, Minagi Mikoto stood at five feet four inches, about three inches taller than her roommate. She spent much of her life living in a desolated island with her Jiji (grandpa) training in the art of the sword while home schooled at the same time, so her lack of normal childhood made her a brutally honest person and yet so innocent even in this twisted world that we all live in. Even though she could stay with her brother in a large villa nearby school, Mikoto chose to live in dormitory instead. It's not that she wanted to get away from her family, quite the opposite as she adored her beloved ani-ue.
Jiji told her that she needed to interact with other people besides family members before he took her home to her family, and Mikoto being an obedient girl did so. Taking her mother's maiden name, Mikoto enrolled into Fuuka Gakuen and immediately got herself a fan club after she joined the junior high kendo team and track team. Her ani-ue would smile and ruffled her short raven hair, and telling her that she's making progress in becoming a regular student. He was surprised when she told him she found the love of her life and she's going to marry her someday, Mikoto actually announced to the entire family one weekend after the first week of school.
Everyone laughed nervously at her statement that evening, but Jiji was the only one who didn't laugh instead he wore a very serious expression on his wrinkled but still handsome face. After a long moment of sudden silence, Jiji nodded his head of approval and told her that he wanted to see the girl that stole his beloved granddaughter's heart without even trying. Mikoto nodded and smiled brightly hugging him, and then her parents couldn't deny that their baby girl is growing up and they hugged her also. Everyone really pampered her that weekend; even her ani-ue couldn't help but join in on pampering his little sister.
"I said leave her alone, she's a straight girl so don't drag her into your disgusting twisted world." Yuuichi said to Mikoto as he comes to the middle school's kendo club right after practice was over. "I don't see the reason why you should be concern whether or not we're going out or not." Mikoto said nonchalantly as she straighten the swords up since she'd already changed out of her practice outfit and back into her school uniform. "That's none of your business," Yuuichi stated as he really couldn't come up with a plausible excuse for his action. "Then it shouldn't be any of your business on whether I dragged her into my sick and twisted world or not either." Mikoto fired back immediately. "Then a duel, if I win you will leave Mai alone." Yuuichi said as he drawn a practice wooden sword from the rack and pointed it at Mikoto. "And if I win?" Mikoto asked with a raised brow. "You can never win," Yuuichi said through gritted teeth. "Either way, if I win you're to never get in our way ever again." Mikoto shrugged her shoulders and ignored his earlier statement completely.
The floor squeaked at the two's movements, the heavy stumping of the heels echoed throughout the silent club as the clattering sound of wooden bamboo swords clashed against each other. With nearly six years of kendo under his belt, Yuuichi was confident of his skills as he had won several regional tournaments and a couple of national ones. His confident turned cocky, causing him to underestimate his opponent who was swift and précised with each strike she aimed for his blind spot. His method was to worn her out since girls have less endurance than guys in physical strength, but as the duel dragged on each blow from his opponent seemed to harder than the one before.
The sun went down and Mikoto haven't returned from her kendo meeting yet, Mai got worried and went to look for her. What she found was unexpected; she got a glimpse of Mikoto knocking the wooden sword out of Yuuichi's grip and swiftly caught it with her free hand while pointing her sword at his throat like a scene from an old samurai movie. Yuuichi breathing heavily as Mikoto controlled her breathing rather efficiently as a way of keeping herself from overexerting her strength and stamina. Both covered in sweats, but in Mai's eyes the sweats caused her roommate's skin to give out a very alluring glow that made her heart race and her mouth dried out.
"Looks like I win after all," Mikoto said drawing her sword back to her side. "It seemed that I've underestimated you," Yuuichi said looking away with a little pout on his face. "Don't make excuses, a lost is a lost. Now go back to your dorm, I have to finish cleaning." Mikoto said turning away and placing the swords back on the rack. Yuuichi said no more as he turned around and headed out, and Mai already hid herself behind a bush so that he wouldn't saw her when he left.
Mikoto worked herself up another sweat after she finished mopping the place up, and Mai stood by the door watching her the whole time. "Mai!" the feral called when she finally saw her roommate and object of affection. "Why are you here so late?" Mai pretended to scowl the younger girl. "I just have a talk with Yuuichi about you, and he doesn't like me being with you. I told him that if Mai wanted to be with me, I will do my best to make her happy and never let her go. Mm!" Mikoto said honestly. Mai's heart just swelled tenfold just from hearing that, and she was sure that there's no one in the world that wouldn't be swoon after hearing such heartfelt honesty.
That moment, Mai couldn't help but got on her toes and steal a kiss from those inviting lips that belonged to the feral girl in front of her. But as soon as she pulled away, those lips followed her and captured her lips back with passion and hunger. Suddenly nothing seemed to matters to her anymore, Mai was content with this moment of this perfect kiss she's having with wild cat girl that stole her heart. But somewhere in the back of her mind, something nudged her and telling her that their parents might not approve of this kind of relationship.
After that night, Mai secretly stealing kisses from Mikoto at every chance she got when they're both in classes during daytime. By evening, they're composed roommates having dinner together and concentrating on doing their homework instead of stealing kisses. Strangely enough, it was Mikoto that helped Mai with her homework instead of the other way around like it should be. Yuuichi was still telling her that such relationship isn't normal, still trying to convince his ex-girlfriend that this isn't like her to fall for another girl. This caused Mai to ignore him completely for the rest of the school year and even into their second year at Fuuka Gakuen.
The weekend finally rolled around after their first week of their second year of attending and rooming together again at Fuuka Gakuen and Mikoto had to go home since her parents just got back from a business trip in Turkey, Mai sulked when the feral girl told her about it. Only for a few minutes until Mikoto told her that her parents wanted to meet her too, this brought a smile to the strawberry orange top's lips but at the same time freaked her out beyond belief as well. Mikoto give her a quick kiss and reassured her that there's nothing to worry about, and she should get ready as they will be leaving in a few minutes.
When they left the school ground, a black sedan parked by the front gates waiting for them. Mai could just melt away when Mikoto flashed her that innocent smile before opening the door to the car for her, the feral girl was wearing khaki pants and a nice pale blue shirt as Mai wore her pale green dress with a summery pattern to it. The ride was quiet and short, it was only a five minutes drive from school and they're at the villa.
Just as soon as she opened the front doors to the villa, Mikoto was on high alert and she had a reason to be when an old man flying out of nowhere swinging his wooden sword at her in a manner of aiming to kill. Mikoto could easily dodged the attack but having Mai right behind her make it impossible, so she moved her left foot back a little for some momentum and brought her hands up and caught the blade of the wooden sword. Leaving Mai slightly fright and shocked, her amethyst eyes dilated at the scene in front of her.
"Mikoto, have school gotten you soft?" the old man said but stopped when he noticed the strawberry orange top standing behind his granddaughter. "Not in a million years Jiji," Mikoto grunted pushing the blade aside with her hands and butt headed the old man sending him stumbling back in daze. Even though she got him, Jiji managed to smack his bamboo sword hard on her head before stumbling backward, and this caused her to grab her head and squat down. "Hah! You're still a novice after all," the old man said with a mischievous smile on his face.
"Oh ho, you must be Mai-chan…" the old man said as he circled Mai like a hawk circling its prey. "Healthy looking, full figure, and oh…" Minagi Jijirou said but paused when he reached out and felt Mai's chest. "Firm breasts too…" he finished and Mai turned completely red from embarrassment. "You filthy perverted old man," Mikoto growled from behind him with glowing eyes and one very scary looking face. Before she could do anything, someone was a step ahead of the feral girl and sent her Jiji flying across the room.
"Ohhohohoho…" a woman in her early forties laughed while holding one gigantic paper folding fan. "Tou-san, you shouldn't be feelings Mikoto-chan's girlfriend. You're upsetting her," the woman said once she stopped laughing. Another man appeared; he looked like an older version of Mikoto and is peeling Minagi Jijirou off the wall. "Mira-chan, you're being a little too hard on tou-san. He was only looking out for our Mikoto," the man spoke softly sounding almost feminine. "You guys are definitely scaring Mai-san away if you don't stop all this silliness this instance," a charming and familiar voice echoed from the stairs and Mai looked up and saw Kanzaki Reito, the school's ex-Student Council VP.
"Ani-ue!" Mikoto reverted back to her normal self and beamed a bright smile at her brother. "Mikoto-chan, why don't you give Mai-san a tour of the house before dinner," Reito said smiling warmly at his little sister. "Mm!" Mikoto nodded and grabbed Mai's hand pulling the older girl away from her family with her.
After taking Mai through the entire house, Mikoto finally pulled the older girl into her room. It was a well kept room, plain with a bed, closest and its own bathroom and balcony. "I'm sorry about all the craziness," Mikoto said looking very apologetic like a sad kitty face. "Mm… it's okay," Mai said trying her best not to squeal at such a cute sight in front of her and mostly not to grabbed the girl and kissed her silly. "I love Mai," Mikoto stated with a satisfying smile on her innocent face and Mai could felt her face burning up once again.
The heat was quickly dissipated when a cool hand reached out and caressed her face; Mai looked up into those glimmering golden eyes that seemed to be coming closer to her. Lips were met and parted as tongues entwined and danced in rhythm with each other, Mai wrapped her arms around Mikoto's neck as the latter got her hand under Mai's dress and moving slowly up the silky smooth thigh underneath the piece of fabric. A knock on the door thrown them off as Mai quickly pushed Mikoto away while trying to catch her breathe and trying to iron out the invisible wrinkles on her dress. Mikoto could only so much as let out a groan of frustration as she wanted to keep on tasting those luscious lips just a little long, but alas someone had to disturbed her special moment with the girl she loved more than anything in the world.
"Hey cat girl, I know you're hiding in there. Come out and fight me or I'll break the door down," a girl's voice come from the other side of the door made Mikoto cringed. "Nao, if you break the door down I will make sure to hit you so hard that it send you flying to South America. I'm in no mood to play nice with you today," Mikoto said flatly and everything went silent. "Fine, but your brother said that dinner is ready and Yukino been waiting for you for a while now." Nao said grumpily as she banged on the door once more before stumping herself back down the stairs and into the dinning room.
At the dinner table, Mai saw a few familiar faces that she knew went to Fuuka Gakuen. Aside from Reito, there is Yuuki Nao who is in the same grade as Mai; Kikukawa Yukino the Student Council President and a completely shy girl; and then there's the ex-kaicho, the all serene and object of every boy's fantasy: Fujino Shizuru along with an older version of herself. Shizuru's grandmother: Minagi-Fujino Shizuka, Jiji's wife of three years, they looked a bit too lovey-dovey for their age. Then there's an eerie silence hung about the room throughout dinner, though she noticed that Nao continuously throwing daggers with her glaring forest eyes in Mikoto's direction who seemed to be either immune to it or just oblivious. Shizuru and Mikoto would exchanged those secret looks every once in a while throughout dinner, while Yukino shyly nudged Mikoto lightly to get the feral girl's attention and whispered something to her ears and Mikoto just nodded her head.
"Put this in her tea, should help her sleep better and scream less. Seriously, my eardrums hurt whenever she's over," Mikoto chuckled as she handed a box of what looked like a tea box to Yukino. As Mai spied her girlfriend talking to all the girls one by one, though it's not like they're whispering but Mai still doesn't understand what they're talking about either. "Shizuru, always a pleasure to have you over," Mikoto said as she took the ex-kaicho's hand and place a kiss on it in a very polite manner. "Ara, ara… the pleasure is all mine Mikoto-han," Shizuru replied with a mischievous glint in her crimson eyes as she handed a thin folder to Mikoto. "You can pick it up by next weekend," Mikoto nodded taking the folder and give the girl a hug.
The exchange between Shizuru and Mikoto raised suspicion in Mai's heart and mind, since there's just something about the way they say the word pleasure that made her feel slightly uneasy. But Mikoto seemed to be very open about her feelings that Mai scolded herself for over analyzing things, yet something kept nudging at her in the back of her mind that there's something fishy going on between those two. Then again, when they stood together it seemed like they're the perfect couple even if they're both girls and Mai suddenly felt a pang on her chest making a bit dizzy.
"Nao, I'm calling your mom and Shiho if you don't get home." Mikoto called to the red head who had been staring at Mai the whole time. "Whatever, I was planning of leaving anyway; you're no fun at all today." Nao shrugged uncaringly at Mikoto's threat. "Hey big breasts, be careful of the Minagi's charm… its trap!" Nao leaned over and whispered into Mai's ears. With an evil smirk, Nao got up and strolled out bidding the rest of the family goodbye and left on her scooter.
"Well, I got a date so don't wait up." Reito said as he got up to leave. "Ara, ara… like brother like sister I see," Shizuka giggled politely looking from Reito to Mikoto who just flopped down next to Mai and smiled brightly. "It runs in the family," Reito replied smoothly before leaving so that his family would stop picking on him. "It's true, and women age like wine…" Mikoto nodded sounding so mature all of a sudden. "It's true that we do prefer older women, and like Mikoto-chan said it enhance the taste and value. Older women tend to know what they want out of a relationship and of life," Mikoto's father said with a very charming smile causing all the women to blush except for Mikoto who just nodded her head satisfyingly.
Finally in bed, Mai felt that the evening and the whole meeting the family seemed so surreal. Mikoto's family seemed to warm up to her and adored her just like how they adored their own daughter, well at least Jiji didn't use the bamboo sword on her like he did with Mikoto. Now she's sharing the same bed with the young athletic girl who seemed to be soundly asleep, leaving Mai to wonder if her parents would be happy that she found someone she truly loves like Mikoto's family or will they rejected her and looked at her with disgust like that way Yuuichi and some of her classmates had been looking at her.