Wolf Girl - The Tale of two Sisters
by
Silver-Eyed Rukia
Summary: That girl, has a thin, slender body. Yet she does not seem weak because of a peculiar, uncouth taste she possesses. She emits a vitality.... A vibrant, beastial vitality.
Disclaimer: I do not own Mai-HiME or Mai- Otome, nor do I own the characters. All rights go to Sunrise.
I will never let you fall
I'll stand up with you forever
I'll be there for you through it all
Even if saving you sends me to heaven
The seventeen years old girl closed the folder in front of her with a sigh and smiled silently to herself. She had spent the last half an hour filling out papers with more or less some interruptions and was glad that Alyssa, her youngest sister, had distracted Natsuki, her other sister, long enough to finish her work at least. To tell the truth, it wasn't even Shizuru's work but the oldest sibling had decided to do it for Natsuki.
As if on cue a raven head popped up in the doorway and a pair of emerald green eyes was looking at her, waiting for a movement from the chestnut blond girl.
"Ara, did Natsuki finish her game of Hide and Seek with Alyssa already?", she asked as she stood up and walked over to the girl that had a look of satisfaction on her face. In all the years Natsuki had lived in the Fujino household she had never even once lost a game of hide and seek against the youngest sister.
"She was hiding in the old tree stump in the western side of the garden. I'm surprised that she got so far in less than one minute though."
Crimson orbs sparkled with delight at the thought than ran through her head. "I guess Miyu-san wasn't very happy with Alyssa's hiding place, yes?" "Miyu dragged her into the direction of the bathroom as soon as she laid eyes upon Alys' dirty clothes", Natsuki replied and added with a frown, "and scolded me for acting "like a child" again."
"But Natsuki acts like a child at times", Shizuru teased and got a pout in response. "But you and Miyu never have time to play with Alyssa and she always gets sad when there's no one around to play with." The Fujino heiress resisted the urge to ruffle through her sister's hair. `How can someone be so cute without noticing it?´
Suddenly Natsuki stopped dead in her tracks and sniffed the air around her. Her face lit up in an instant. "Ramen!", she said as she grabbed Shizuru's hand and dashed off into the direction of the kitchen. That said room was at the other site of the house was ignored.
As Shizuru watched their entwined hands she remembered how she had first met Natsuki, back in Alaska, 11 years ago.
Alaska, 100 miles away from Fairbanks, 15th August 1999
The cold north wind was blowing the snowflakes against the windows of the big mansion that stood tall and unbending in the middle of the frozen tundra. One pair of extraordinary crimson orbs was gazing out of the frozen glass as the owner of said eyes clutched the blanket tighter around her small body. Her breath came out in small white clouds due to the cold that lingered in the one family house.
"Shizuru dear, you'll catch a cold when you stay away from the fire for too long. The temperature outside is below zero, come over and warm yourself up a bit."
But the voice of her mother was more or less ignored as the small girl continued to look out of the window with an expression that looked like amazement on her face. Fujino Yukiko walked over to her older daughter, carrying a small bundle in her arms and placed herself next to Shizuru. She, too, took a look out the window and smiled at what made her little girl space out into her own little world.
A pack of wolves was wandering around the house, not too far away from the safety of the woods, but close enough to take a good look at them. The majority had light-brown or white colored fur, but one wolf had fur as dark as the starless night sky and two gold colored eyes that were so intense that one could see them through the white mass of snow that was raining down from the clouded sky.
Shizuru had always admired these animals. Wolves were proud and loyal creatures, never harming others without a proper reason and protecting their pack with all their might. Wolves were more honorable than most humans could ever be.
Suddenly the light went on again and a strong male voice echoed from the cellar. "I repaired the electrical engine, the heating and the rest of the electronic supplies should work again." As much as Shizuru liked the warmth of a good heated house, she liked watching the wolves the most. And to her dismay said wolves noticed the light immediately and returned into the safety of the thick forest behind the house.
Yukiko cradled the small child in her arms and went to see her beloved husband to tell him about the animals she had watched mere seconds ago. But before Shizuru could walk after her, the golden eyed wolf, the alpha male Shizuru guessed, looked her straight in the eyes before turning away and running after his pack.
One hour later the family sat together at the dinning table; they had just finished their meal and were now having small talk. Well, the two adults were having small talk, the older daughter had returned to her old seat, now with her younger sister Alyssa in her arms. She hoped to catch a glimpse of the wolves again.
Shizuru didn't know if her parents were aware of the fact that she could hear every word they said, but if they were they didn't mind.
"I'm honestly worried about the current situation. I haven't seen Ookami since high school and life wasn't easy for him back then. If he calls me here into the middle of nowhere it only could have gotten worse", Shizuru's dad, Searrs Katsuki, head of the Searrs-Fujino Cooperation, said, worry written all over his face. His wife nodded her head in agreement and glanced into the direction of her two daughters every now and then.
Fujino Yukiko was a brilliant researcher and biologist and had worked for Searrs Katsuki's company for two years when she caught his attention. One year later the two of them married and got a daughter three years after their wedding.
As the conversation continued the chestnut blond girl thought she had heard some weird noise, but she wasn't sure; the howling wind was too loud to make out what that noise could have been. Suddenly something bright flashed at the horizon, in the direction of the woods and a loud explosion followed, sending pieces of trees flying everywhere and making the house tremble from the shock-waves. The small Alyssa in her sister's arms began to cry and Shizuru sat at the window, unable to move or to rip her gaze away from the huge black cloud of smoke that rose from just a few miles away.
"Yukiko, get the two of them into the cellar and wait there for me! I'll go and check out what happened in the forest!" He walked to the weapon closet, took out an ordinary shotgun and disappeared through the front door, leaving his wife, his crying younger daughter and a terrified Shizuru behind.
What was happening? One second the newborn wolves were playing and tackling each other to the ground and in the next scary men with guns, clothed in weird black uniforms were attacking them. Blood splattered everywhere, cries of pains, both from the humans and the wolves, echoed in the cold night. In the middle of the chaos stood a small girl with long black hair and a pair of stunning emerald green eyes.
One of the men approached her from the right and was torn into shreds a second later by the wolf with the pitch black fur, the only difference from back there and now was, that he was no longer a mere wolf. He had transformed into a beast, not human, not wolf but both; a werewolf, a creature known from horror movies and fairy tales, not from the real world. Yet he stood there, tall and strong with blood dripping from his jaw, ready to protect what was dear to him.
"Shoot them, shoot them all! The client told us to wipe these beasts from the surface of this world!", yelled the team leader, before he jumped away from one of the normal wolves and shot it.
Natsuki was terrified, confused and paralyzed from the sudden shock that had overcome her as these intruders destroyed her life in less than ten minutes. And she could to nothing against it; she was still a child after all!
But it seemed that these soldiers, or whatever these men were, had underestimated their enemies. The wolves were strong opponents and with the werewolf as their leader it looked like they were able to win this fight.
Well, that was until one of the humans pulled out something that looked like a green egg, and Natsuki wondered what that thing could do because all of his comrades suddenly began to yell at him as he pulled out the small iron pole from on top of the green object. Before the grenade could detonate though, the werewolf jumped on his daughter to protect her from the explosion and the shrapnel.
The next minutes, or hours, the young werewolf wasn't sure, passed in a blurry mess of noises, smells and the sight of the blending white snow under her body. The first thing she noticed after the ear-deafening noise the green egg had caused was that she was carried away from the scene, from a man with bright blond, almost yellow hair and the most beautiful blue eyes Natsuki had ever seen.
"Are you an Angel?", she asked, her voice raspy from the inhaled smoke. The man smiled at the innocent girl in his arms and shook his head. "No, I'm a friend of your dad." Natsuki tried to focus her mind on what had happened but was unable to do so. "What happened?" The man shook his head yet again. "Don't speak; I'll explain everything to you when we're at home." The little girl allowed a small smile. "Home…" And so Katsuki carried her away from the bloodbath that had taken place on that day, the day Natsuki became the last werewolf in the world.
As the two of them arrived at the old mansion he was nearly thrown onto the floor by his oldest offspring that clung to his leg like a bur. "There there, Shizuru it's alright. Would you be so kind to tell your mother to prepare everything for departure?" "Yes, dad", she said, her first words this day and turned around, but not before she took a look at the girl in her father's arms.
When she returned a few moments later, with her sister Alyssa who was soundly asleep by now in her arms, the younger girl stood awkwardly next to the sofa, pondering if it would be impolite to take a seat or not. She had noticed the other two girls the moment Shizuru hat stepped onto the old wooden staircase, its sound not escaping her superhuman hearing.
The chestnut blond girl inspected the stranger in front of her with a neutral expression, which remained like that till she met these emerald orbs, their intensity startling her for a short moment. She had similar eyes after all, not green but red. She took a step forward and held out her hand. "I'm Fujino Shizuru, nice to meet you." The raven head looked at her face, than at her hand and back to Shizuru's face again. Then suddenly a friendly smile spread across her face, revealing two pairs of razor sharp fangs, and she took the outstretched hand. "The name's Natsuki, nice to meet you, too."
Surprisingly Shizuru wasn't afraid of the girl, or her fangs. No, she was amazed; this girl was just like the majestic creatures called wolves.
"Natsuki", she repeated and the raven head nodded, still smiling. `Natsuki….´ She really could get used to that name.
When the whole family, including Natsuki, had returned to Kyoto they immediately adopted the girl into the Fujino household. Shizuru and Natsuki had spent almost all their free time together. When the raven head reached the age of 8 her father in law told her about the incident where her pack, including her father had died protecting her. She had taken it surprisingly good.
Over her years she had accepted that she wasn't like all the others, but that hadn't dragged her down, she had made the most of it. With her family behind her she had learned to control her abilities. Her mother had taught her table manners and how to behave in public since she had lived in a cave-like environment for her first five years. Her father taught her martial arts and how to handle her werewolf powers. With Alyssa growing older she had a partner to make up the lost years where she should have played games for kids. And Shizuru…her older sister had taught her everything else. From chess to poker, from how the coffee machine worked to why the banana was crooked and not straight like a ruler, how to do simple math exercises and how to read.
Natsuki wasn't the school type, but she was eager to learn new things so teaching her all these things hadn't been too hard. Out of fear that somebody could find out about the family's little secret her father had forbidden her to attend school like her other sisters, but Shizuru told her about her school days so Natsuki didn't complain, not even once in her time as the third Fujino offspring.
That was till she got a request from the school to enroll at Fuuka Academy, the same school her two sisters had enrolled in as well.
Katsuki hadn't been happy, not one bit, but he was willing to at least try Natsuki to live under other humans besides his family, other humans that know nothing about her. He and his wife were still living in Kyoto, but their children were sent to Tokyo to attend school there. The big mansion where they were living in at the moment was not too far away from the capital of Japan and from Fuuka Academy neither.
Shizuru was driven to school by Natsuki, who drove a bike from Ducati and her little sister was driven by Miyu in a not so small limousine.
When the four of them were sitting in their respective seats they shared a "Thanks for the meal" and began eating, Shizuru was seated in front of Natsuki with Miyu to her left, while Alyssa was sitting to the raven head's right.
Natsuki had her shop sticks in her mouth while she was pouring a small amount of mayonnaise into her bowl of hot Ramen. "If I would eat this stuff I would get sick, for sure", Alyssa said and giggled when Natsuki glared at her from above her bowl. "Don't talk bad about something you never tried." "And then I start to eat raw meat and turn into a furry pup at full moon." If Shizuru wasn't raised to not wear her heart on her sleeve she would have burst out laughing. So she decided to chuckle at Natsuki's embarrassed face.
"Ara, that wasn't very nice of you, Alyssa." Miyu just overlooked the situation with her usual cool demeanor, but Shizuru could have sworn there was at least a small smile tugging at the older womans lips.
"Sorry, onee-sama. I just couldn't resist", she replied, still giggling. Natsuki ignored her and finished her soup and started to eat her rice. When the table went silent again she couldn't help but smile and Shizuru noticed it. "What is it that makes Natsuki smile like a little child that didn't get caught steeling the last cookie?" `Weird choice of words´. The raven head shook her head and answered, "I'm happy that I can attend school just like you and Alyssa. To be honest I'm sick of being locked up in this house."
"There's a reason behind it and you know that very well, Natsuki-sama", the blue haired woman said and gave her a stern look. Shizuru and Alyssa sighed in unison; it was always the same.
"Please not at the dinning table, yes?" the heiress smiled at the two of them and the blond girl gave her a wink.
Natsuki huffed and finished eating, just like Miyu and the maid stood up to wash the dishes. Shizuru was always the last to finish so she was still eating when Alyssa went to her room, but her other sister was keeping her company. Secretly the chestnut blond would glance at the raven head every now and then, just to look at her. Over the years she began to like her more and more, up to one point that she couldn't deny that she was indeed in love with her younger sister.
It didn't matter to her how twisted and sick is sounded, she just didn't care. Natsuki was everything she could wish for. She was kind, loyal, and funny, she was athletic and well trained in martial arts, she was understanding and sensible, she was able to cheer her up when she was down, she was able to chase away her fears when she was little and she was one of the few people where she didn't have to wear her mask of aloofness.
She was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't notice her sister's face mere inches away from her face till she heard the husky voice of Natsuki. Said girl was leaning over the table, took Shizuru's face in her hands and turned it slightly to the right. Then she did something the chestnut blond didn't expect; she licked at the corner of Shizuru's lips and sat back in her seat after doing that. A blushing Fujino was a rare sight, but an amusing one nonetheless.
"You had rice on your face" she said in a matter-of-fact tone and returned to watch the seagulls flying around in the orange sky. Shizuru blinked and touched the slightly wet spot on her cheek, and then suddenly she began to smile at nothing at particular.
`Like a lily; beautiful, innocent and wanted´.
Twenty minutes and the usual argument why Natsuki should take a bath later, all three sisters were sitting in the large bathing-place and talking about this and that.
"Does Natsuki still remember the conditions father said to stick to, so that you are allowed to attend school?"
The raven head sighed and Alyssa patted her shoulder encouraging.
"Do not talk to strangers. Tell nobody about me being a werewolf. Tell the people who ask that my fangs are a genetic defect. Don't let anybody see my high regenerating abilities. Do not get into a fight. Don't show off my superior athletic abilities. Did I forget something?"
"Don't make the girls jealous of your beautiful body and don't let the boys run after your skirt." Natsuki blushed several shades of red and disappeared into the hot water while her sisters were giggling, or in Shizuru's case, chuckling at her embarrassment.
When the sun and the moon changed places Shizuru found herself lying in her bed fully awake and unable to fall asleep. What was keeping her up anyway? Maybe the fact that her beloved sister was going to attend the same school as her, and that surely lots of boys, and maybe even a few girls, were going to try to get Natsuki's attention and that made her blood boil. But why? She knew it; she didn't want to share Natsuki. Not that she was an object, but still….
"Uhm, Shizuru, can I come in?" The crimson eyed girl wasn't surprised that she didn't say "Are you still awake" because she could see in the dark as well as in the daylight. "Why, sure come in Natsuki." She sat up, patted the place next to her and waited. When Natsuki had sat down she looked everywhere but at Shizuru and fumbled with her hands, a sign that she was nervous. "I can't sleep", she finally confessed and gave her sister the puppy eyes.
"Ara, Natsuki wants to spend the night with me?" `That sounded not like I wanted it to´.
But the raven head didn't seem to mind it and nodded and Shizuru slipped under the blanket again, inviting the other girl with holding up the piece of cloth. Natsuki lay down next to her sister and smiled. "Thank you. I'm so excited that I couldn't fall asleep. I remembered how we used to sleep together when one of us couldn't sleep when we were younger so…." "Ookini Natsuki."
While Alyssa talked "ordinary" Japanese, just like Natsuki herself, Shizuru had gotten the typical Kyoto accent from her mother. Weird, two of three siblings were talking without an accent and one with. But the raven head liked the sound of it, she could listen to it all day long. It was a gentle and smooth voice, just like the owner was gentle herself.
And now, in the safety of these gentle arms, she found rest and calmed her excited soul, preparing herself for the next chapter of her life.
Annotations
Onee-sama: Big Sis, older sister
Ookini: Thank you; Kyoto accent
Ookami: Wolf (I have used it as a last name)
Well, that's it for the first chapter.
I have to get this of my mind or else my head will explode with all the ideas flying around in my head.
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