Disclaimer: I own absolutely nothing.. But Nao is my part-time bitch on Wednesdays and Saturdays. ;P
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Chapter 1.
"Miss, please clear the area. Can you please tell us her name?"
The paramedic looked at a girl donning long bright red hair and a school uniform, expecting a response.
"Does she have any allergies or some sort of medical condition that we should be aware of while treating her?"
The other paramedic rushed to the unconscious female on the floor. Nao Yuuki rose up from her friend's side to allow room for the paramedics to treat her blue haired companion. 'How the hell did this happen?' She stood off to the side watching the unconscious girl.
Looking down at the fallen girl, Nao said, "Kuga. Her name is Natsuki Kuga."
Nao paused before answering the other question. Natsuki eyes then fluttered open.
"We have a sort of response! Everybody! Please clear away from the girl!"
Natsuki slowly shifted herself into a sitting position on the floor. She rubbed her eyes with the back of her hands. She noticed a pair of plain white sneakers in front of her. Seeing those sneakers attached to a pair of legs, Natsuki looked at this stranger up and down.
Realizing that it was Nao in her school uniform, Natsuki attempted to pick herself up off the ground.
"Ah, crap. Am I late for school again? Shit. Hold on give me 10 minutes to get ready then we'll go."
'What the hell?' "Umm. N-Na-..Kuga! School is out for the summer...starting today. And we're in a cafe..you passed out like almost 20 minutes ago."
Natsuki froze and looked up at Nao to find her avoiding her gaze.
"S-so...the colours ..a-and the dream were real," Natsuki stated rather tensely.
Nao stopped fiddling with her shirt button.
'Colours!?..Honestly she must have smoked something before coming here.' Nao shrugged to herself and nodded to answer Natsuki's question. "Oh" was the only word that escaped Natsuki's mouth before she passed out, spread eagle, from shock again.
"We lost her again! We're bringing her in!"
The two paramedics went to each side of the unconscious girl and placed her onto a gurney. They placed an oxygen mask on her face and proceeded to place her into the ambulance.
Nao's eyes widened with alarm. 'Crap! I killed her! Well maybe if she didn't always snort mayonnaise like crack addict, she would've been able to have handled that better!!'
Nao watched as the ambulance left the cafe and rounded the corner heading towards the closest hospital. Letting out a sigh, she took out her cell phone and called a familiar number. Nao braced herself for a scolding from another fiery redhead, known as Mai Tokiha.
"Hey, it's Nao. Ye- Mikoto, wait! Before you put Mai on, I want to let you know we'll be over a little later than expected. We're sorry, but something kind of ..spontaneously came up. No.. Nothing TOO serious ...onlyKugapassedout... Huh? No, I didn't say anything. No, don't worry, everything is fine. Tell Mai we're sorry! We'll see you girls tonight at the usual place, okay? Alright later."
Nao finished her drink as she ended her phone call.
'I guess I should go get Kuga now.'
And with that Nao left the cafe, heading towards Fuka General Hospital to see her blue haired companion.
'Hopefully she won't be as difficult as usual and say yes...hah. My ass she will. 'Difficult' would be her middle name if she even had one. '
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40 minutes earlier.
Her breathing was uneven. The air around her seemed stifling. The sweat above her brow was slowly accumulating. The butterflies in her stomach from this morning seemed to have to have made their way to her throat, rendering her speechless. And the girl across from her was completely oblivious to what the other girl was experiencing. The redhead flipped her hair what seemed like the 20th time that hour.
'I should've worn my hair up today, maybe then it wouldn't feel like I'm being cooked to death!'
She opened the first two buttons of her shirt. Shifting in her seat, the red head after giving the cafe a sweep around with her eyes, she looked towards her companion. 'Why her?! ..It HAS to be her, she's perfect for this..'
While cursing herself of her extremely bad luck, the red head's companion excused herself to use the washroom. As soon as her companion disappeared into the washroom, the red head gasped for air as if she had been held underwater for awhile. (Well, not 'awhile' otherwise she'd be dead.. but you get my point.)
She grabbed the napkin holder sitting on the table and glared into it. What was looking back at her was a fairly attractive teenager wearing a Fuka High School Academy uniform, glaring back at her. She stared into her reflection, fixing her shirt collar and readjusting her skirt.
She took a napkin and began to dab herself dry of her sweat. The red head stopped to look at her left eye. Her finger slowly traced a ghost scar that would've ran vertically through her left eyebrow down to her lower eyelid. 'Nothing there. Like it never happened. It's been almost...three years since the shit hit the fan.'
The red head snapped out of her trance and sighed. 'Now is not the time, I've got more important matters to deal with.'
She placed the napkin holder back down and looked at her hands. Clenching and unclenching her fisting. She looked back into her reflection. 'Crap, crap, crap! Shit, shit, shit! Breath! Breath in, breath out. In. Out. What was after out? gasp It's IN! Why am I so bloody nervous?! Now why the hell did I say 'Bloody'?! I'm Japanese for God's sake.'
After calming down, the red head ran her fingers through her waist long hair. 'Shorter hair was so much easier to manage.'
The red head sighed again. She just wanted to crawl into bed and wake up in about 30 to 40 years from now. Life was boring as it was, and nothing was going to change for the better. Or so she thought.
Nao did another quick sweep around the crowded cafe. 'Now where the hell did she go!?'
"Looking for me?"
"ACK! - don't DO that!"
Nao jumped out her seat in surprise. Her companion only arched her left eyebrow in response.
"Well anyway, it looked liked you were going to die of dehydration so I got us a little something to drink."
Her companion held up a container for the red head to take. Taking the beverage into her hands, the red head took a tentative sip and mumbled a quick thanks.
Glancing quickly at her companion, the girl tried to come up with come something, well ANYTHING to talk about to get rid of this awkward silence. Her companion, however, seemed to be oblivious to this so called 'awkward silence'. Her companion looked around her and then back at Nao.
"You said you wanted to talk about something, unless you just wanted me to get you that drink.. And FYI, you owe me a drink now."
The blue haired girl grinned before taking a sip of her own frappuccino. Noticing that she wasn't getting the usual response of a glare or some kind of physical abuse, the companion glanced up from her drink and looked at the red head.
"Hey.. are you ...okay?"
And with that said, the companion gave the red head a quick poke to her right cheek.
"Stop that."
The red head simply swatted the offending hand away and continued to stare at her frappuccino. Her companion continued to look at the red head.
"Hey, Nao? ..Whats up?"
"It's nothing, Kuga. Let's go"
Nao got up to leave. Her companion, known as Natsuki Kuga, stood up and grabbed Nao by her shoulders only to push her down.
"Nao, SIT."
As Nao's bottom made contact with the warm wooden chair, Nao couldn't help but to glare at the older girl.
"It's nothing. Let's go."
Nao made another attempt to leave the table but Natsuki stood up and held the younger girl down to the chair. Only when Nao made no attempt to leave, Natsuki returned to her sitting position.
The awkward silence seemed to have returned. Ten Fold. Even as oblivious as Natsuki gets, she definitely felt it. Natsuki shifted uncomfortably around in her seat, and began to fiddle with the zipper of her school vest. Nao finally spoke up.
"It's hot, isn't it."
Natsuki only arched her eyebrow again.
"It is. But Nao, seriously. Spill. What's eating you? I doubt you only asked me here to talk about how freakish the weather is."
Nao's eyebrow visibly twitched. As Nao was about to speak, Natsuki's cell phone went off. 'Thank god!'
Nao took a big gulp of her frappuccino in an attempt to calm her nerves. 'Ack, FU-DGE SICLES! Brain freeze!'
Nao only heard Natsuki rush through her phone call, telling her caller that they'd be there and she'd call her back later followed by the clicking shut of her cell phone.
"Oi, Nao. You okay?"
"FU-DGE! Ow .. ow .. ow. I'm. Just. Peachy...ow"
She kept her eyes shut until her brain freeze throbbed away. Natsuki waited patiently until it was clear that Nao's brain freeze had subsided.
"Come on. Nao. Seriously, you're wasting both of our time. What's going on?"
'Here we go.' "I... NeedyoutodoaBIGfavorforme"
Natsuki only replied with a confused looked and laughed. "What the hell did you just say?"
Nao glared at Natsuki and said quite testily. "I. Need. You. To. Do. A. BIG. Favour. For. ME."
Natsuki smirked, using her fingers as air quotations,"Oh really, so Yuuki Nao has come to me for a 'big favour'."
Natsuki continued, "What is it? Money? You having boy troubles? A talk about Mother Nature's monthly gift maybe? "
Natsuki joked as she took a sip of her own frappuccino. Nao's nervousness was replaced by agitation. Nao glared and gritted her teeth. At this moment, it took her every ounce of self control not to beat the snot out of Natsuki.
'Why HER of all people! God damn it' Nao replied coolly, "Keep your money, I'm fine. Boys? There's definitely no problem. And HELL NO!!"
Nao finally let out a breath she wasn't even aware she was holding in and looked down on her beverage. Silence once again filled the air; however it was a comfortable silence.
This is usually how their relationship works. One would annoy the other until the other would snap, which would usually result in an injury of some sort for either parties. This is a never ending cycle- just like instruction for shampooing your hair- lather, rinse and repeat (now
recently modified to "rinse and repeat"). Ahem. So annoying one another was the way they bonded with one another; it was their form of communication.
Nao looked into Natsuki's familiar emerald-green eyes and quickly looked away. She took another deep breath. Natsuki looked away and began to play with her nails. Shifting her attention back to Nao, she cleared her throat.
"Well?"
Nao looked up at Natsuki and she noticed that the older girl was staring at her. Nao looked down as soon as they're eyes made contact. Finally Nao, looking up at Natsuki, said "I need you to do a big favour for me. I know we don't get along very well. At all even. But it's extremely important for you to do this for me."
Nao's gaze returned to her drink. Seeing how Nao had even bothered to ask her beffuddled Natsuki. Natsuki knew it was serious as Nao never asked her to do anything for her, let alone favours. Natsuki eyed Nao carefully.
"Do you need an organ or something? I think I can call up Yamada if you want."
Natsuki pulled out her cell phone, fingers ready to dial her afro bearing informant during the Carnival. 'What the fu-' . Remembering the situation that was about to unfold, Nao quickly replied with a hint of ...'weirded out..nes..ism'.
"No! It's not like that. NOTHING like that. I need...you.." trailed off Nao.
Natsuki stopped and paused. She blushed slightly and got only more befuddled with Nao odd answer.
"Nao?..You need me ...for what?"
"I..need you...t-to..to uhh.."
Natsuki was getting impatient.
"Nao, just tell me! We have to go meet up with Mai for her lame ass party soon. You know how she gets when we're late. Now OUT WITH IT!"
Nao seemed unfazed by Natsuki's outburst and her shivering at the mention of being late for Mai's special parties. Oh how Mai disliked latecomers to her party, however that's a completely different story. Ahem. Nao continued to stare at her drink. Taking in a deep breath, Nao gathered up her courage to ask Natsuki a question that would affect her entire future.
"Natsu-..Natsuki..."
Saying her name like that felt odd. Even Natsuki gave her an odd look for it. Nao continued,
"I..need you to ...to... I need you to...damn it! I NEED YOU TO BE MY GIRLFRIEND!" exclaimed a very red Nao.
With that said, Nao felt a whole deal lighter. She felt that there was hope in the world after all. Now all she was dreading was the response of her blue haired friend.
To say Natsuki was shocked was an understatement. Stunned didn't describe what Natsuki felt. Natsuki was downright horrified. Her face was contorted with confuzzlement. She was speechless. Nao, her friend of 2 years was ..confessing to her?!
'Why'd this have to happen ...again!?'
"Hey..Kuga?"
'Nao confessed?..Nao...confessed...Hey look! Pretty colours...hehe...swirling ... colours .. dizzy ... blehh.'
And with that final thought, Natsuki fainted.
Nao only watched as her friend slipped ungracefully out of her seat and rolled on the floor unconscious. Nao sighed. This should have been expected from Natsuki. Nao felt silly for even feeling nervous in the first place. She sipped on her frappuccino before getting up and calmly approaching the front counter of the cafe.
"Excuse me, would you mind calling the paramedics? My friend just fell unconscious."
Nao pointed behind her where she saw a little kid poking an unconscious Natsuki Kuga.
Nao walked back to the table and shooed the kid away from Natsuki. And continued to sip whatever was left of her frappuccino. Natsuki still laid unconscious on the floor. Nao nudged Natsuki with her foot. After getting no response, Nao sighed. Thinking back on the earlier events of that morning that led her to where she was, she sighed once more.
'How'd I get myself into this situation? Now a better question... How do I get out of it?'
Nao took out her nail file. She looked once more at Natsuki and poked her just as the kid was doing before. 'Still nothing.'
Off in the distance ambulance sirens were heard, approaching the cafe. Nao knelt down and attempted to awake Natsuki.
"Wake up, you idiot."
She brushed Natsuki's bangs away from her face.
"Mai is going to kill me."
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Present
After 15 minutes of walking, Nao finally reached Fuka General Hospital. Walking through the front entrance, Nao asked the nurse at the front desk for Kuga's room number. After receiving said information, Nao was on her way.
'Room 1608. On the 16th floor! Damn elevator and your damn maintence! Okay, I'm on level 5?!...only 11 more floors...kill me now..'
Nao groaned and continued her trek up to the 16th floor. After what felt like were hours, was actually 9 minutes and 37 seconds. She exited the stairway and nearly walked into a patient coming out of the elevator. Nao's eyebrow twitched in frustration.
While cursing the elevator, she turned at the corner and slowly approached room 1608. She knocked and waited for a reply. Shuffling was heard and the door opened for her. Nao entered the room.
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Omake
Nao: -comes in- Author! What the hell is this?! -points at disclaimer-
Author: A disclaimer.. -takes out dictionary- "A renunciation of one's right or claim."
Nao: UGH! OKAY SMART ASS! I'm talking about the part where it says I'm your bitch!
Author:..oo..I take it you didn't read the rest of my story yet...And please refrain from swearing.. little bunny rabbits die when you curse. -frowns-
Nao: What the hell are YOU smoking? And what about your piece of crap story?! -starts reading-
Natsuki: -comes in- Hey Stupid! What's up with your story? I'm practically dead for half the chapter! And why am I paired up with her?! -points at Nao-
Nao: -twitches- OMFG! I'M..WITH...-points at Natsuki- WHY?!
Author: -shrugs- Can't tell you yet. Well anyway, I'm going to play some Rock Band. Later!
Natsuki: Rock Band? What a nerd. -.-;; BTW Nao? Pointing is rude, SHAME! -Nao faceplants-
Author: Do you wanna play drums? You know, she's right Nao. Show some respect to your elders.
Natsuki: Sure! -Author and Natsuki hi-fives while Nao does another faceplant-
Nao: -picks self up- I'm going to kill both of you in your sleep. -takes out kitchen knife-
Author and Natsuki: ... o.o ...oh...shit...-runs-
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Author Note: Sorry readers! This is my first fic. I've been thinking about this for awhile cuz I'm just plain tired of the shiznat. Frankly, I kind of hate it. Okay, hate is a strong word.. so I'm going to say dislike... If it's any consolation, I once was a shiznat fan...but times change. PEOPLE change. Wow, that was such a cliché thing to say. -shrugs- Comment if you will! I'm aware my English and grammar skills are as awesome as a second grader, but I'm trying.-guilty smile- I just want to get this idea out of my head so it'll stop tormenting me at night. So...NAONAT FTW!! -runs from shiznat fans-
Quick Author Note: I have nothing against swearing, i was trying really hard to censor myself heh. if you were around me in real life.. you'd understand.