Damn that took foreveeeeer. Sorry for the late update guys i've been having serious writers block lately and just didnt know how to write this chapter. Once again this chapter is raw until further Notice so please excuse any mistakes!

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I can feel it, her breath tickling my chest and neck, and I can smell the autumn scent that engulfs me every time I'm near her or in her room. I can also no longer feel the wet marks on the t-shirt I'm wearing, where her tears once were. I open my eyes a little to see her face buried where she cried herself silently to sleep and I cant help but feel my heart ache in pain of something I'm not familiar with. I take in a shaky breath trying to calm it but, it doesn't want to be calmed. I try to ignore it but I know I cant, how could I when earlier events caused the girl I love to cry so hard? This had been the first time I had seen her cry besides the night we strung our feelings for each other out into the open. I let out a sigh and shake my head slightly not sure what to do.

"Nn." I hold my breath and stay still not daring to wake her with anymore of my self pity then I already have. She adjusts and snuggles deeper into my body a smile on her face and I think I turned into puddie cause I have melted. I lean down and plant a soft loving kiss onto her head and whisper how much I love her, but I know she cant hear me, she's finally escaped from her sadness. She's in a wonderful world where she cant get hurt, I only hope she's dreaming of me in that world along with her. I close my eyes again, and feel jealous of her, she's enjoying a world of happiness behind her lids and I keep going back to earlier watching her cry. My mind then shifts to the woman from earlier, Alyssa Sears…who the hell is she, and how was she able to turn my strong wolf into a whimpering puppy? She was older than us I knew that much, I could only guess she must be a collage student. She was probably hitting her 20's or maybe 21, Natsuki is only 18 and I myself 19.

I knew one thing though, and that is that they have some sort of past together, but what? I mentally kick myself in the head for idea's and I cant come to any. Natsuki had told me she'd tell me, but who knows when. She's always so stubborn and locks up her emotions, always playing the tough guy. Perhaps I should ask the others, but would that be going behind Natsuki's back, would that anger her? Sighing again I look at the clock and see that its only 4:30pm, and some how I fall back to sleep.

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Shizuru gently shook her sleeping beauty awake or maybe she was more of a snow white, her hair black as night skin pale as snow and her lips as red as a rose. Either way the young beauty grumbled incoherent words and turned onto her side trying to get away from what ever was trying to disrupt her sleep. Sadly what ever was bugging her kept pestering on, she turned once more and the intruding force left. Except now there was another, she had almost fallen back to sleep until she felt a soft pressure upon her lips and slowly her lids opened revealing gorgeous emerald orbs that met cardinal red. Shizuru pulled away slightly to smile at her love and Natsuki couldn't help but to smile back sleepily.

"Hey there." Came the a slightly hoarse voice of Natsuki's, her throat still felt raw from all her crying.

Did my Natsuki sleep well?"

Natsuki rubbed the sleep from her eyes and nodded before yawning and giving a silly smile. "I had a dream, I was in the land of Mayo! And there were waterfalls except they were made out of mayo like everything else!"

"That's interesting…" Shizuru scrunched up her face in disgust she wouldn't ever understand her lovers undying love for the icky white substance.

"Heh you were there too, in fact you were making that same exact face."

"Ara, what face." Shizuru tilted her head to the side purposely, hiding the face she had on earlier. Natsuki pouted and crossed her arms.

"You know what face!"

"But I don't."

"This one!" Natsuki and all her forwardness, and ability to make herself look silly attempted to scrunched up her face like Shizuru's which only caused the older girl to laugh. "Oi! don't laugh!"

"But I cannot help it when Natsuki, is being so cute!"

"I'm not cute!"

Laughing Shizuru threw a pair of jeans at her love to get dressed since Saeko had made them breakfast. She heard Natsuki make a whining sound and grumbling about how she wanted to stay in bed forever with Shizuru where everything was perfect. How could Shizuru ever get use to the raven beauties blunt honesty when she said things like that which still made her heart pound and blood to rush to her cheeks. She was almost tempted to say the hell with it and climb back into bed with her younger lover. Sighing she knew she couldn't there were things to do and one of them consisted of getting Natsuki to tell her, her past.

"What's for breakfast?" Natsuki asked tiredly to her quite love, she could tell Shizuru was deep in thought, it was obvious, what she was thinking about was even more obvious and she dreaded the moment she had to tell Shizuru. She didn't want to bring up the past, or talk about the pain, she wanted it to vanish so she could enjoy herself with Shizuru. It hurt living through it the first time, why must she live through it a second? She debated not telling Shizuru, even though she had promised…but that would only start a fight and future arguments that wasn't worth it. Shizuru looked up from her thoughts at Natsuki who was staring into space but looking right at her. When their eyes met Natsuki couldn't help but see the sadness and worry in her loves eyes, and couldn't help but remember what she had been told a few nights ago, when Shizuru had spilled her past to Natsuki.

"Eggs and ham." Shizuru said softly. Natsuki looked at her confused for a moment forgetting she had asked a question.

"Oh ok sounds good." She felt sick, sick to her stomach, could she? How dare she even debate on not telling Shizuru when Shizuru had kindly told her, of her past. How dare she! Natsuki mentally groaned, she was a coward, a dumb ass, but she would change that, she would tell Shizuru her history and they could go against Alyssa together.

Before she did that she needed the energy so she followed Shizuru down stairs to eat their breakfast. Saeko chatted with Shizuru about random things like how it was good to see her again and what they had been up too. Shizuru told Saeko about how they won the game against Tomoe and it was a big victory. Saeko was confused about all the homeruns and such. Shizuru ended up explaining, that because they were so good they changed some of the rules which meant homeruns didn't earn you many points, thus is why they were able to get so many runs. Shizuru was about to ask Natsuki why she was being so quite when the doorbell rang several times which annoyed the exhausted biker to no end. Everyone ended up going to the door to yell at the dumb ass who kept ringing it. When Natsuki finally opened the door a worried Nao was trying to catch her breath.

"Nao what are you doing here?"

"She's…" Nao started panting trying to catch her breath still. "She's…back."

"Huh?"

"Alyssa!" Nao yelled with the last of her breath. Shizuru frowned at the mention of the woman's name and she could see Natsuki stiffen at it, Saeko shook her head back and forth sadly whispering a soft oh boy before heading back to the kitchen.

"I know…"

"You know?" Nao looked surprised, she had run all the way here from Fukka High in a panic and out of breath, she really needed to get back into shape…After finally catching her breath she stood up straight and looked at her rigid friend.

"She paid me a little visit the other day…She sat in the chair waiting for me to come home, I was just as surprised as you." Nao listened to Natsuki quietly as she glanced over at Shizuru who looked rather depressed and Nao wondered to herself if she knew Alyssa's and Natsuki's past.

"Ok we'll here's more news for you then." Nao said becoming panicked once more. "The Spot is on fire!" She yelled flailing her arms around. Natsuki's and Shizuru's jaw dropped.

"What do you mean its on fire!"

"I mean that the circus is in town! What else could I mean you stupid mutt that god damn place is on fire!"

Natsuki didn't bother to send a snappy comeback at Nao she just took off running with Shizuru and Nao on her heels. They ran as fast as they could to Fukka High seeing the black smoke rising high behind the trees, beyond the school. The fire sirens were going off as fire trucks rushed to the cause. The group was standing in horror watching the smoke and an ambulance was taking care of Aoi. Natsuki ran over to the pour soot covered girl.

"Aoi! What happened? Where's Chie?" Natsuki demanded looking over the girl for any types of wounds, touching her arm and face, as if only touching her could confirm she wasn't hurt. Aoi coughed a few times and swatted Natsuki's worried hands away.

"I'm fine Natsuki, and so is Chie, she wasn't with me, she's still at work." Aoi explained before coughing a few more times. "She'll be here soon."

"What happened?" Natsuki asked still worried, Aoi was one of her best friends, and now she was terrified something bad happened to her, She didn't even realize she had pulled Aoi into a bone crushing hug.

"I don't know I was just hanging on the water on the bed float reading my book and my head phones were in, when I looked up to give my eyes a break I saw nothing but flames!" Sighing Aoi hugged Natsuki back she could feel that she was still a little shaken up from the whole thing. "I saw that the cave was catching fire too, so I rushed to it since it's the only way out. I got a few burns but not to many because I was wet."

"I'm just glad your ok." Natsuki mumbled and finally releasing Aoi, in which Shizuru was next to give the girl a hug.

"Thanks guys."

"AOI!" Aoi looked up to see Chie running to her and pulled her tightly into a hug before kissing her face all over. "Oh god baby are you ok!"

"I'm ok Chie."

"Are you sure, maybe we should have the ambulance take you to the hospital, and and.." Aoi silenced her worried girlfriend with a kiss, when she was satisfied that Chie would stay quiet she pulled away.

"I'm ok Chie."

"O-ok…"

Shizuru and Natsuki let the couple talk and walked over to the rest of the group.

"I cant believe this…"

"Me either.." Tate agreed with Mai

"The fire's been put out." The fireman said as he came over to the group of friends.

Natsuki scowled and looked at the fire trucks that where all over the place.

"Do you know what started it."

"It was arson." The fireman said in a gruff voice answering Shizuru with a sad look. "I don't know why someone would set a watering hole fire though, luckily your friend got out. Though I'm guessing that whoever started this didn't realize someone was in there, since it started off away from the watering hole."

"I see…Thank you sir." The fireman nodded and went to the truck to put away his tools.

"I bet I know who did it." Nao said cracking her knuckles looking over at Natsuki who was glaring at the tree's.

"I bet I do too."

"Shall we go pay her a visit?" Nao watched Natsuki nod her head and they both left the group, Shizuru tried to protest but it went unheard. Sighing she gave up and looked at the others. They all gave her shrugs before looking back sadly at the charred tree's When they were allowed to go in the looked around the burnt watering hole the grass was dead the tree's bent over or just in heaps of ash.

"It's a disaster in here."

"Damn that Tomoe!" Takeda cursed kicking a pile of ash but ended up breathing in some and started spurting and coughing, Tate just laughed at him, Mai sighed and looked around.

"I guess she couldn't except that we won…I didn't think she'd take it this far…"

"I don't think any of us did." Aoi frowned and looked at the bandages on her arms and legs.

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"You piece of shit! You could of killed Aoi!" Natsuki yelled angrily. She had Tomoe pushed up against the wall, her feet where hovering over the ground where Natsuki held her by the collar. Nao had defended off Tomoe's goons and was making sure they didn't interfere.

"How was I suppose to know she was there!" Tomoe glared. Natsuki slammed her back into the wall making Tomoe grunt.

"I didn't realize you were coward enough to go play arson, your going to pay for putting Aoi in danger."

I'm not scared of you Kuga." Grinning Tomoe spit in Natsuki's face. This only sparked more anger and Natsuki threw Tomoe hard against the ground and wiped the spit from her face.

"Stupid Teal headed freak!" Natsuki pinned Tomoe down to the ground and punched her a few times in the face.

"Natsuki!" Nao yelled out to her as one of Tomoe's goons got around her, He charged at Natsuki throwing her to the ground and jabbed her a few times in the rips and once in the face.

"Ouch…." Nao winced watching Natsuki get punched at but she didn't bother helping her she new Natsuki could handle him. Nao grabbed Tomoe who was attempting to escape and pulled her back. "Oh no you don't!" Socking Tomoe in the ribs a few times The teal headed girl curled up in a ball trying to get away from the fury of punches. Natsuki managed to get the guy off her and decked him in the jaw before standing up and running over to Nao.

"You ok?" she asked Nao as she wiped the blood from her now busted lip.

"I'm peachy." Nao grumbled trying to to hold onto a squirming Tomoe. "Stop moving you worm!"

"Nao your face is bleeding."

"Yeah so is your's mutt."

"Lets just go, Shizuru and Nina aren't going to like that we got hurt, I think we taught her a lesson.. But if she fucks up again I'll put her into the hospital." Spitting out some blood Nao stood up and looked at her friend. She had never seen Natsuki so angry before, but she had a good reason to be, Aoi and Natsuki were close…Aoi helped Natsuki through her time getting over Alyssa.

"Ok…" They left Tomoe there laying in the ally with some of her goons that had been with her she groaned in pain and looked up at the sky, it would be a while until she could pick herself up,

"Damn that Kuga…" Tomoe closed her eyes and fell asleep until she was shook awake a few minutes later. Slowly she opened her eyes to see eclectic blue looking down at her. Tomoe's eyes widened upon seeing the woman's beauty and she sat up as best as she could.

"Are you Tomoe?" The woman asked. Nodding Tomoe took in the woman's appearance. She had long blond hair and amazing eyes she was wearing a tank top that show a lovely amount of cleavage and dark blue jeans. The woman smiled happily, at Tomoe, who just looked at her confused.

"I think we can help each other out, I heard you had your eyes on a certain Kyoto born."

Tomoe narrowed her eyes at the woman. "What do you want with Shizuru?" If this stranger even dared insulting her love she would deck her right then and there.

"I just want her out of my way, because you see I want my Suki-baby back and Shizuru's in my way. So you help me break those two up and you can have Shizuru."

"You want that mutt Kuga?" Wincing away as she saw anger in the strangers eyes after her comment Tomoe stammered. "I-I me-mean Kuga."

"Yes that's right, so we got a deal?" The stranger held out her hand and Tomoe looked at it for a few moments before taking it and sealing the deal.

"Deal."


So yeah this chapter is kind of short i know i'm sorry D: but the next chapter will be mostly filled up with Natsuki's past! so be happy i'll try and get that up soon :I but it might be a little while i'm really trying to finish Poisonous atm its an exhausting fic, Decay will be up again soon! so as always ~Ciao!