Hello again. I hope the wait wasn't too torturous for anybody. Even with most of the story written I'm having trouble making the final product. Anyways, here is the next chapter deeply apologize if it doesn't meet your standards. Special thanks to Avadan232 for giving me that long wonderful PM, I enjoyed your feedback! Once again be sure to look down in the author's after notes for clarification for the numbered statements.


She trudged through the empty hallways lazily. Everyone had gone home for the day including the student in clubs and sports. The lone work however, was not given the pleasure of being dismissed on time. She yawned loudly and stretched her arms, but then groaned in pain when she felt the soreness in her muscles. After being forced to clean the girl's locker room and handle the equipment for the baseball team, Natsuki was anything but cheerful.

Note to self, don't piss off Sakamoto-sensei...she thought to herself as she continued her slow strides down the hall. Turning around the corner hastily, she didn't notice the other person walking in front of her and they collided. In her urgency the brunette did not notice the agitated girl and as a result the lone wolf was left with sore shoulder.

"Ow! Hey watch where you're going!" She began massaging her shoulder and mumbles something incoherent.

"Ah, I am deeply sorry. Are you okay?" The brunette outstretched a hand towards the injured girl on the ground. It was then that their eyes met a second time, concerned red ones with irritated green ones. Silence engulfed the two for a moment as both minds worked to decipher why the other looked so familiar. Surprisingly, the lone wolf was the one to break the silence between them.

"Oh, it's you again." The blue haired girl's voice was monotone.

Blinking twice, she quickly formulated a reply, "Ara, well if it isn't the little troublemaker. I hate to be nosy, but may I ask you for the reason why you're still here at this daunting hour?" She held up her hand as to politely reject the other girl's outstretched hand and stood up off the floor by herself. She began dusting off her skirt.

"Oh you know just doing all the things that you'd expect out of a delinquent like me; painting graffiti, destroying classrooms all that good stuff." She let out a low chuckle. The other girl raised an eyebrow and looked skeptically at her.

"Hmm is that so? Though I highly doubt that you would stay longer than necessary at a place that you don't want to go to in the first place even if it were for the sake of rebelling."

"You have no idea just how far some delinquents are willing to go to show their apathy towards authority and the school." The blue haired girl crossed her arms.

"As someone who's in charge of punishing said delinquents, believe me I have seen my fair share of such extreme displays of indifference." Natsuki nodded and shifted her weight onto one leg. "You still haven't answered my question."

"I told you didn't I? Delinquent stuff." Shizuru frowned slightly and continued to look at her skeptically. Natsuki just shrugged. "It's up to you whether you want to believe me or not."

Shizuru nodded. "I see. Well I assume you were on your way before I rudely bumped into you so I won't hold you up any further. Have a good evening." She turned around and began to walk away. Green eyes stayed on her for a moment observing her briefly before looking away. The lone wolf soon began her own walk to the door on the opposite side of the hallway, but something stopped her. Out of the corner of her eye she caught sight of a silver pendant lying on the floor. Stopping her gait, she bent down and retrieved it. Green eyes examined the necklace briefly before noticing the faint etching of 'Fujino' on the back.

Fujino...why does that sound familiar? A light bulb went off in her head and she smacked herself on the forehead. Immediately she stood up and turned around shouting.

"Oi!" She lightly jogged up to the student council president who looked both curious and surprised. "You dropped this just now." She held out the necklace. The president's hand instantly went to feel her neck. Her face became aghast when she couldn't feel the metal against her skin and looked down at the necklace in the wolf's hand.

"Ah, thank you for retrieving that for me." She held out her hand and the wolf dropped the necklace into her palm. "It must have fallen off when we bumped into each other just now."

"Probably." She pulled back her hand and placed it in her sweatshirt pocket. "No need to thank me, just be more careful next time." The brunette president flashed her brilliant trademark smile much to the dismay of the lone wolf who scowled.

"I will do my best to make sure this doesn't happen a second time. Thank you again."

"Ugh."

"Excuse me?" The air turned tense. Green clashed with red. "Is your throat sore? Perhaps we should take you to the infirmary and check to see if there are any cough drops."

"How considerate of you Kaichou. However there will be no need of that I can assure you my throat is doing fine. What's not so fine is that fake smile on your face." The brunette's body tensed. No one had called her out about this in a while. (1)

"What ever do you mean?" She kept up her smile. She almost smirked at seeing the lone wolf get even more irritated.

"Tch. I could never understand you people." (2) Crimson red eyes squinted. "Why do you hide your true emotions under a mask? If you feel a certain way then express it. If you don't then you're just like a doll." She took her gave off the window to stare at deep crimsons. "You're just another machine Fujino."

The brunette president winced at the wolf's surprise mention of her name. Sure she was used to hearing it being said by her friends, but for some reason hearing it from this stranger had an effect on her. It was criticizing, judgmental like another all too familiar voice. Faint echoes of that same voice consumed her mind with words that she had heard constantly in the past and even now in the present.

"You must be someone presentable...Don't cause trouble...You're different from everybody else...Get out of my sight...You aren't worthy." Whilst reminiscing about her past and struggling to contain the pain in her head without making it noticeable that she was hurting she failed to notice the lone wolf sigh and begin to walk away.

"See you later Kaichou!" The loud shout brought her back from her trance. Down the hall Natsuki could be seen giving her a small wave without even glancing in her direction. She was about to open the door when, "Wait!" She stopped her movements. Hand still positioned on the door she turned her head slightly enough for the president to know that she was listening, but otherwise didn't respond verbally.

"Why are you being so critical about the way I act?"

"I don't owe you any explanation." Gripping the handle of the door harder, she began pushing open the door.

"No, but you do owe me a favor." Instead of meeting the floor her foot stayed above ground. She turned her head more towards the direction of the voice and furrowed her eyebrows.

"What?" Amused by Natsuki's confused expression the president smiled a bit more genuinely this time, but still kept her guard.

"You owe me a favor." She repeated. "Remember I got you out of detention with Armitage." At the mention of the name, Natsuki's eye twitched and she frowned.

"I didn't ask you to do that for me."

"Either way what's done is done. Pay up." She boldly took a step towards the agitated girl.

"What you're asking for is an explanation not a favor." The partially ajar door was pushed wide open. "I'll happily return the favor. I hate owing anybody anything." She took a step forward, but stopped the door from closing with her arm. "But after that." Her hand balled into a fist against the old wooden door and she squeezed tightly. "I owe you nothing." (3)

"Well then can I at least know your name stranger?" Crimson eyes examined the way the lone wolf's head moved ever so slightly and how her hand seemed to loosen up just a bit.

"Kuga." She proclaimed loudly and walked out the door, but surely not out of the school idol's mind. No, she would remain in her thoughts for a long long time.


1. I think you all can guess who decided to call her out on her fakeness.

2. "You people" as in not just Shizuru or the student council/rich people in the school.

3. She isn't mad at Shizuru here per say, but more at some memories she's recollecting while also expressing ill feelings towards other people that I haven't introduced yet.

That wraps up chapter 2 finally. I meant to type this earlier but school and lack of motivation stopped me. I basically have a majority of the story written out already, but I make a lot of last minute changes like at the end of this chapter their encounter was changed though it still seems OOC to me. I feel like Shizuru and Natsuki would actually disagree in real life, do any of you agree or is that just me? I'm excited, in my first drafts I am finally nearing the part of the story where we get some Shiznat moments and backstory aren't you all excited? Well i guess not since that's a few chapters away, but at least I'm getting there right? So as always leave a review please it helps me write the story and improve your experience. Also don't forget to please favorite this story and me and put both me and the story on your alerts. Next chapter preview is on my page and a quick thank you to everyone who reviewed and faved and followed this story it really means a lot to me. Until next time,

Zai Jian!