LOVE LOCKDOWN
By: Animecutee13
CHAPTER 1: Being the Young Master's Maid makes you go.. "What the F?"
~You're my silver lining covered in gold. –Breathing Underwater
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It was a sunny morning. I liked sunny mornings. There was something about it that made me smile the second I wake up. I got up and suddenly the alarm clock went off. Stupid contraption. Why do I need to keep that when I wake up before it goes off? I fixed my bed and trudged over to the bathroom and smiled at my bed hair. My auburn hair was all askew. And I leaned closer to the mirror to see if I had any zits I should take care of. Apparently there weren't any. Good. I really hated zits. They are my worst enemies.
I stripped out of my clothes and stepped into the bathtub. I turned on the shower and savored the lukewarm water flowing down my back. Ah, so refreshing! This was a good way to start the day before going to work. Work, as in, going back to being a maid at the Hyuuga Manor. It wasn't easy. I've been working there for five years now, so that I could earn some money for my sick mother. I didn't get to experience college but I really want my mom to get treated.
I snapped open the shampoo bottle and its scent instantly filled the whole bathroom after ten seconds, tangerines. Yes. It was my favorite smell. All fruity and stuff. Like my orangish redish brownish hair; it also reminded me of tangerines. So I didn't like cutting it short, because if I swished my hair it wouldn't leave much scent of my fruity shampoo. By the way, my name is Mikan Sakura. I'm seventeen. Turning eighteen next year when the fireworks are all up at the sky making loud noises and pretty shapes. I massaged the sweet shampoo on my hair and reached for the soap.
The things I like doing are keeping my stuff neat disorder, thus the job –maid-, I like showering! Uhh. I like.. going out to watch a movie, especially horror or whatever, as long as it is not boring the daisies out of me. I like eating and sleeping. I like singing. Uhh. And many many more that you'll have to find out some other time. I scrubbed the soap all over my body and of course the scent also matched the shampoo.
When I finished rinsing myself, I stepped out off the bathtub and my celphone began ringing. I grabbed my yellow towel and ran over to where I last put it, beside the lampshade.
"Hello?" I said quietly.
"Get over here!" It was a he and was whispering I swear I could make out the noises that were his saliva spewing at his phone.
"Ruka? What's wrong? I thought my call time was at nine. It's only seven here, or maybe you're clock's wrong or something." I whispered back jokingly as I wiped myself dry.
"I suhh-wear you need to get over here, now! ASAP!" Ruka said forcefully. "I need to go, Young Master Hyuuga might catch me phoning you, and it's against the rules. Come quickly okay? See you." He snapped his phone shut.
"Well you could have at least expuhh-lained to me, Ruka?" I muttered at my phone that was staring back at me lifelessly. I picked up my weapon and rolled it on my underarms. Two rolls per side. I call my deodorant weapons (picked it up from a friend) because I use them to keep safe and away from scary body odors. Ew. I don't have them but I need to be protected from armpit germs!
Ruka Nogi. He is my friend, and he's also working at the Hyuuga Manor, but not as a maid. He is one of the few people in charge of the maids. He's got ashy blonde hair and he wore these round glasses, he's a nerd you see. But it's fine with me; he's still a cool person in my eyes. His hair is always messy like he's been haggard the whole day; but that doesn't bother me. He's a bit feminine when it comes to his actions and stuff but he is not gay. Maybe he just has an extra X chromosome or something. I put on my under garments and wore something easy to change out of – a white long sleeved shirt and some black capris would do- and shoved my maid uniform in my brown duffel bag. I put a few things necessary in it and put on some shoes.
"Ah! Mikan?" My mother was already up, she was sitting on her rocking chair drinking a cup of tea.
"I'm off early today, mom." I smiled and went to get the medicine box and took one capsule for her to drink. "Here, you might forget."
"Thank you, Mikan." She gulped it down, "Have fun at work. And take care!"
"Have lots of rest, mom. Love you!" I raced outside the door after taking a cookie from the cookie jar next to the medicine box.
I grabbed my bike, it was quite rusty and old and the pink paint was falling off, but it's the only thing I can depend on to travel without wasting money. It was a good thing that the Hyuuga Manor was only like three, four.. five? Yeah. Five blocks away from our tiny apartment. I am so thankful of the engineers, architects, carpenters or whatever that made that place so pleasurably convenient in my life right now, if it was very far, I would be the Hulk by now.
I pedaled faster and only a block away now, I could see the manor, it was really tall and wide. And today I could see a lot of fellow maids running around outside. I hopped off and rushed to the maid's locker room and changed into my uniform. Well, it didn't look that bad, but I really hated the frills, I mean; they could've saved themselves from the trouble of making us itch and wasting cloth. I really like things simple. That's another fact about me. I tied my hair in a bun and put on the matching headband of the uniform. I went out of the room and joined the other maids huddling at the living room.
"Nobody panic!" I could barely hear Ruka from the loud voices of my fellow maids. He was standing up on a chair. "Everybody just shut up!" his voice boomed. Suddenly, it was silent and everyone was looking at him. He looked really haggard again. He cleared his throat and fixed his glasses.
"I am your maid squad leader (what is this, an army?). You need to learn how to respect me, sisters!" He had on a serious face. Maybe something serious was happening. "I am going through all this tuhh-rouble trying to save your asses from the cut-off, now listen."
Everyone let out a gasp, even I! I mean a cut-off? Really? That hasn't happened for like forever. Now, everyone was intent on listening.
"Now, as we all know. There are three maid squads working in this mansion. And we're the Alphas." He was speaking with pride in his voice. "We have to be the ones to stay! I mean c'mon, Alphas rule!" The maids let out hoots and yells. What is this camp? Things are getting really funny around here.
"Twenty maids are all they're keeping. We need to be those twenty maids! Is everyone with me?" He punched the air goofily and almost toppled over the chair.
"But, how can we make the cut? Each squad in here holds only exactly twenty maids? Young Master will probably cut a few from each." I asked above all the hooting.
"Oh I never thought about that." He scratched his jaw and thought for a while. And then his phone rang. He talked to the person on the phone for a bit and when he snapped his phone shut, he was uneasy.
"It was another leader. She informed me that.. The Young Master himself will make the cuts. There will be no silly contests held, he will handpick the twenty maids." He was eyeing us with a twinge of sadness. I looked at everyone else and they had the same expression. I don't know the Young Master well but, from all the rumors I hear, he is one absurd and arrogant man. He is very selfish, evil and spoiled. All I could hope for is to not be cut-off, I really needed the money. As if on cue, the doors opened and the other two maid squads entered. Then fell in line, alphabetically, we did too. I suspected something huge was about to happen.
"Silence." a slightly familiar cold but rough voice spoke, everyone's head turned to the direction of the door. It was the Young Master. He was tall probably a hand taller than me. His raven hair was styled very eye-catchingly, his face was emotionless, nothing giving his thoughts away. He was wearing a suit, it was worn casually, but otherwise it looked expensive. Everyone bowed.
"Stand straight." I could hear footsteps coming closer to us. "As you all know, I am the Natsume Hyuuga. I own this mansion. And I've decided to cut down on maids. Because there's an awful lot of you here. Now, does anyone have a complaint?"
No one spoke. Too scared to question him actually. He chuckled. Seriously, this guy's ego is probably larger than Asia. I thought.
"Okay. I am starting with you." He pointed at the maid farthest on the right, opposite of the door he came in of. A bunch of guards followed him. I was probably the twentieth person from that spot, and I could see beads of nervous sweat trickle down the poor girl's forehead. He walked over smoothly with his hands in his pockets.
"Yamato, Aiko."
"Yes, sir?"
"I don't like your bangs. You're out." I heard her run off sobbing. I didn't know this is how he'd be cutting down maids? This is several levels of rude. Talk about obnoxious! The Aiko's bangs weren't ugly, they were in fact very cute.
"Takumi, Funaki."
"…"
"You look like a clean person. You're in."
"Takozawa, Hamu."
"…"
"You're too quiet."
"But Young Master—" he moved on to the next one.
"Taka, Subari."
"Hai!"
"You're too .. loud." Same fate as the others.
After several more people. I was up. I tried to keep my cool and put up a refreshing expression.
"Sakura, Mikan."
"Yes, Mr. Hyuuga." You conceited pig.
".. You smell like.. Fruits. I find that unappetizing." Oranges? Tangerines? Whatever.
"W-what is so dis.. unappetizing about that, sir?" I was the first one to talk back. How could he not like the smell! "I find it wonderful."
The nerve of this girl. He eyed me speculatively. "Do you think I should care on what you think?"
I scoffed. Idiot. "Yes, you should. It helps make a connection between a master and his maids."
"And.. What exactly do I need with this connection when I have all the money in the world, Ms. Sakura?" He smirked.
"You are unbelievable. Not everything can be bought by money." I lost all sense of respect towards him.
"Can you be bought?" He took a step closer and cupped my chin. I felt a blush creep my neck to my cheek. He smirked.
"Y-you are one big bag of douche!" I pushed him and stormed out of the large room and stopped at the next room behind the wall. Trying to calculate what had just happened. The last thing I saw after I pushed him was his shocked face. I guess no one ever did that to him. People should push him more often. I heard him continue.
He cleared his throat and.. "Mashiro, Daime."
"Yes, Young Master."
"Hmm. You have good body proportions, I like you. You're in." He cocked his head to the front next to Ruka and I could practically hear her hopping out of happiness. What was wrong with that? I have good body proportions too.
"Kazawa, Okumi. Kamoya, Taro. Kusane, Ruko.. you are all out. I do not like the letter K." This man is so freaking messed up I tell you. This is not just.
"Imazawa, Kyoko."
"Yes."
"You are too fat."
What the F?
That was it. This was the last string. He should really be taught a lesson. I saw all the sobbing ex-maids come out of the door which inspired me more. His ego is not the only thing he should care about! We work hard. All of us do. And we work hard because we need the money so badly for many reasonable reasons. He is a colossal jerk.. and I need to get some revenge.
~Animecutee13 here! I hope you liked the first chapter. The next chapter is a huge part on the 'lockdown' part of the title :DDDD please review! Pretty please! This is my first ever Gakuen Alice fiction! :DDD TY in advance! ;)