Chapter 2 - Jealousy
Louise could only glare at Saito and Amu. Ugh, when did she start feeling such...jealousy for the other rosette? Saito was her familiar, not the other rosette's!
She was about to whip out her whip, when she saw that Saito had been surrounded by the rest of Guardians. She felt... strangely, lonely? Unwanted.
They might think she would pose a threat...a whip isn't too bad, right? That mongrel deserved it, for abandoning her and going off on wild little adventures on his own.
She saw Amu ruffling his hair, and at that moment, a certain Tsukiyomi Ikuto and another certain Louise Francoise le Blanc de la Valliere felt like they were going to strangle Saito and Amu respectively. The two caught sight of each other and a devilish grin spread on their faces.
The other guardians, however, were very, very confused. What was with the lovey-dovey atmosphere between Hiraga and Hinamori? Why were Tsukiyomi and Valliere grinning their asses off? The guardians had absolutely no idea. Gosh, those four were definitely confusing. What happened to sticking with their respective canon couples?
Ikuto walked to where Louise was, and offered a hand to her like a gentleman would (of course Ikuto wasn't one, though; jumping off trees). Louise smirked and took it, leaning against him and they strutted to where Amu and Saito were.
"Eh?" Amu stuttered, seeing her kitty and the magician together. Saito was caught in the middle. One, there was pretty Amu...and on the other hand, was jealous, angry Louise. But...seeing Louise with Ikuto just didn't feel right.
"We're going. Louise's not native so I'm going to bring her around. No objections, right? And, Kairi, watch your dear, she's gone to nibbling the flowers. And that's a poisonous one." Ikuto winked at Saito, and Kairi sighed. Ah, troublesome little girl.
While Kairi was screaming at Yaya ("Oh my god, Yaya, that's poisonous! Don't eat it! I've got a lollipop for you~"), Louise and Ikuto got out of the greenhouse, arm over arm.
Strangely, Amu and Saito didn't follow the pair out to claim their partners. Saito didn't feel the heart-pounding and heat rushing to his face when he saw Louise anymore.
Ikuto and Louise, meanwhile, didn't seem to have any problems with each other. They conversed about casual matters, and strode around like any other couple would.
And gossip among the Seiyo students flew about. ("Who's that new girl? Is she Tsukiyomi-sama's new girlfriend?") The two went to a secluded area to talk.
"So how do we get our partners back?" Ikuto whispered to Louise. Louise simply shivered, having came to this new world in her pyjamas, though to the people here it looked like a lacy dress. Ikuto patted her head, and took off his winter jacket, placing it around her shoulders. At that moment, Louise felt her face turn hotter, and looked down. This was the first time she had actually felt this; with Saito it was hate and love.
She muttered a quiet "thank you", and began formulating plans.
"Well, we could always let them get jealous. It's pretty easy for us to act as a couple, anyway." Ikuto simply nodded, before asking, "Why were you even wearing that skimpy thing?" Louise, upon hearing that, flushed a deep crimson. "I-It's my nightgown..." and with that, it marked an end to their conversation.
"The uniform's pretty neat, really!" Saito looked down at his uniform, and smiled. Ah, good days when the guys in high school hidhis uniform. He was going to share a dorm room with Amu, and strangely, Louise had been all honey about it. Apparently, she was sharing one with the Iku-bastard.
You see, the two protagonists of Zero no Tsukaima were officially students of Seiyo High + dorms.
And since the portal had closed, Louise had to somehow get it to open by remembering her spell (she didn't pay attention is class, ever.) Meanwhile, they were going to the same class as Amu and the rest, and while Louise and Saito found it much too easy, Amu was struggling with Chemistry. Nagihiko had happily offered to loan her Chemistry Carl, but Saito had barged in and started ranting on about the elements before she could accept. Saito knew what Chemistry Carl was; the ultimate hell of an educational song.
Rima was sulking away at the mention of her mortal enemy, while Nagihiko plastered his fake, big smile at the 'Hiramori' couple. Nikaidou, as the teacher, didn't really care, since he knew the guardians would pass his class no matter what.
Or rather, he would pass them, no matter what. Nagihiko and Rima seemed to always have the same answers, though Rima always ended with the dumbass explanations and Nagihiko with the smarty pants ones. Yaya wasn't in his class, but as far as he knew, she ended up with cookie crumbs on her workbooks and the teachers were all honeyed into giving her perfect scores. Kairi was a natural genius, and so was Loiuse, but Amu seemed to be getting down on her grades. Her Math had always been pretty bad, but Chemistry was slowly becoming a garble. He made a mental note to have a confrontation with Ikuto. Saito...let's just say Saito wasn't that bright.
"Hey," Amu asked Saito. "Do you have a chara?"
"A what?"
"Never mind. Forget I ever asked."
Louise looked on, amused. She and Ikuto were going have to keep up the act, and she had started bringing cat food around.
The rest of the guardians were shocked at the newly-found couple.
Rima asked Nagi, "Do you think those two," she pointed to their visitors, "have charas?"
"No, we don't. But I can cast spells and make that Saaya Yamabuki have a pig's nose." Louise glanced meaningfully at Saaya boasting again, and sighed happily.
"That would be very much appreciated," said the singer, Utau, who was passing them by. "Oh, and Ikuto? Mama said to get some groceries going home. I've got to practice choreography for my tour so could you do it for me?"
"Yeah, yeah," he gloomily replied, while Louise stared in awe at the blonde. "You're a singer?" she asked, excitement tainting her voice.
"Yep," Utau said. She bent down a little towards the two, since they were the only ones left in the classroom. After all, who would stay in a classroom at lunch break. She said, "I know you guys are pretending. Don't worry, I'll help you." With that, and a wink, Louise turned into a complete Utau fangirl.
- Royal Garden -
"Utau~! Where are my double choco-chip cookies? Yaya wants cookies. Oh, and did you buy the sugar rolls, and dark chocolate cake, and the Oreo cheese cake, and some lemon biscuits, with the croissants, and Yaya's favourite sugar-dipped cookies, oh, and also..." Yaya came in and glomped Utau, grabbing the tons of shopping bags she was holding. They were having a party today since it was Yaya's birthday and while Kairi had volunteered to buy the toothpaste and floss, Utau had decided to get some stuff for Yaya with her paycheck from Uniqlo, after modelling a bit for them. Sometimes money just came by so easily for the talented Hoshina (a.k.a. Tsukiyomi). After all, the girl was famous! "Yes, I did, I did, Yaya, calm down..." she replied, chucking the whole bunch of bags on the rather unstable table of the royal garden. Yaya, being Yaya, got the contents out and marvelled at the amount of sweet things. Kairi had to be prepared for a whole lot of tooth cleaning. Kairi should be a dentist, Yaya thought. Rima and Nagi were at the opposite end of the greenhouse, finally talking to each other since the war over Amu's BFFness was over. Both had regretted losing the war to that Saito Hiraga.
While Yaya was busy trying to eat everything up with Kairi preventing her from doing so for the others to not starve (their pocket money had been used up for Yaya's food), Saito was sitting in a corner with Amu and conversing happily. Ikuto and Louise came in, and Yaya went to glomp Louise again, apparently taking her for a doll.
Louise tripped, and pushed Ikuto down. They both went crashing down, with Yaya on top of Louise and Louise's lips on Ikuto's.
The rest of the guardians stared. Yaya was still oblivious to the liplocking under her and got up, brushing herself off. Louise and Ikuto were strangely, absorbed in the kiss. It was sweet. So very, very sweet.
Saito and Amu looked on, shocked. Louise and Ikuto were not pretending, Utau could see. Uh oh. Jealousy, jealousy, love, love.
And here's the next chapter! Lol, not like anyone reads this anyways. Crossovers aren't really read. But it's fun, writing this. :D
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