Chapter 2
"Kiyohime!"
"Shizuru! Stop!"
Shizuru's eyes shot open, her breathing was heavy and her skin felt wet from sweat. She pushed her body up, noticing that she was still wearing her dress from the ball and that she was in her own room, still feeling a little sluggish from the alcohol.
Her hand made its way to rub her eye and the moistness there made her frown. She turned on her bedside lamp and noticed there was moistness all down her cheeks... salty... she was crying!
What had she been dreaming about that would make her cry?
"Shizuru! Stop!"
Shizuru felt a pain in her head and gasped, shutting her eyes to a close tightly as images of red flashed in her mind. She was crying again.
"Kiyohime!"
"Kiyohime!"
There was a large monster with many heads... it was calling to her...
"Kiyohime!" She spitted the echoing name out in a painful breath and all the pain stopped.
She tried to calm her breathing and wiped the escaping tears from her eyes, feeling many emotions at once that she simply didn't understand.
She was so confused! She felt guilty, angry, violent, and needed Natsuki.
She didn't care, but she simply had to see her.
Shizuru was about to get up when she stopped.
Where was she?
Suddenly her vision blurred and she fell back on her mattress unconscious.
()()()
One thing Natsuki also decided she hated about her job was the fact that Miss Maria always checked up on her.
Damn it, Natsuki would have loved to spend the whole day cruising on her D-porter S7 but when Miss Maria was checking up on her she had to ensure that all of her pending paperwork and documentation was complete.
"Fuck it!" She cursed while searching for the most important document: Shizuru's mission statement from the week before.
She slammed her hand on the desk, not even thinking twice about how she had been more violent lately and tapped her gem to communicate with the Third Column.
"Yes Natsuki?" Shizuru's voice came through the gem.
"Shizuru, do you know where I put the file you gave me on your Wind mission?"
"Natsuki gave the documents to Youko-sensei to copy."
"..."
"Natsuki?"
"Oh. Right."
There was an awkward silence before a red-in-the-face Gakuenchou disconnected her gem communication and groaned into her hands.
She really worked way too much, she couldn't get any sleep lately without having uncomfortable dreams and Shizuru was being awkward with her ever since the ball two nights ago.
Fuck it all!
And now on top of everything she was losing her memory.
()()()
"I promise to be everything you want of me."
A mirthless chuckle reached Natsuki's ears.
"How can Natsuki be everything I want when she does not love me?"
"I want to!" Natsuki snapped, feeling her eyes burn.
"Natsuki is too kind, to give herself for my sinful desires."
Silence, Natsuki felt the burning of her eyes release salty tears down her face.
She was angry. She didn't want Shizuru to be so sad, to be so depressed, and to be without what she wanted.
She would love Shizuru, she would make sure of it.
"I want you and no one else!" Natsuki hissed out, grabbing Shizuru's wrist and jerking her around.
Shizuru gasped at the pain in her wrist and sudden movement and the pure devotion and honesty of Natsuki's words as her other hand fiercely wiped away the rare tears.
Shizuru wrenched her hand away and then pushed Natsuki in sudden anger, "Natsuki can not understand what she is foolishly promising."
Natsuki charged forward and tackled Shizuru to the ground where they fought in a struggle until Shizuru felt lips pressed harshly to her own which stunned her enough to stop struggling.
Natsuki realised then that she had a physical advantage over Shizuru involving sexual things and so to prevent another argument she moved to kiss those lips again, not even thinking twice when Shizuru's hands started to remove her clothes.
Anh Lu was ignoring her girlfriend's calls.
How Shizuru had the nerve to act as though nothing happened on the night of the ball ticked her off, and the fact that Shizuru had gotten mad at her on the last message only ticked her off even more.
Shizuru apparently did not remember herself clinging onto the Gakuenchou and claiming her, completely dissing Anh. And to add insult to injury she had said, "Anh, if I flirted with another girl I don't see why that upsets you."
But this was not just any girl! Not another girl, not a fan girl, not simply a girl! This was Natsuki Kruger, the Gakuenchou, the person half of Earl believed through gossip columns was Shizuru's girlfriend already!
Excuse her for being mad.
()()()
"Tell me what the fuck is going on between you two!"
"E-excuse me?" Natsuki stuttered in surprise at the sudden finger pointed at her.
"Anh, we are in the middle of a Column meeting-" Shizuru started, surprised at the Princess of Annam's angry burst into Kruger's office.
"Shut up!" Anh shocked them all with her anger for she was usually a very amiable person; the other Columns and even Miss Maria were speechless.
"How long have you two been at it behind my back, huh?"
"At what?" Natsuki was truly confused, whereas the other silent members flushed brightly.
They all had their suspicions that Kruger and Viola had office sex. And they were all in the likely office.
"Can we have some privacy?" Shizuru turned to the other three Columns (Maya, Nao, and Sara) and Miss Maria who all nodded and practically ran out of the office.
"I thought Anh and Shizuru broke up way back?"
"Wasn't Shizuru cheating on Natsuki with Anh, not the other way round?"
Their quiet wonders were not heard by the fuming Princess of Annam or the other two Columns.
"Fuck you Kruger!" Anh hissed after the door had shut, "are you such low scum that you had to get at Shizuru behind my back? You're pathetic. I wouldn't be surprised if you manipulated her into having sex with you-"
"Enough!" Shizuru rose form her seat, gaze hard and firm though at the same time absolutely shocked that Anh would accuse such things.
"I do not know where you got these ideas from, but Natsuki and I are not having an affair."
Anh paused in her tracks, seeing Shizuru's look of horror. Then she snarled.
"Oh yeah? I can't believe I was so blind! I only had to buy one of those trashy magazines and flip to a page spread about you two for the evidence! Not to mention how you acted at the royal ball!"
Shizuru uncharacteristically snapped back, "I do not remember-" until she stopped mid-sentence.
Both of them suddenly felt a chill in the room and turned to see Natsuki with her hands on her desk, her green eyes blazing with fierce anger as her hair started to blow with a wind.
The windows were closed and the fans were not on.
Her hands gripped tighter, her jaw just as clenched as her hands when snow started to fall from nowhere and fly with the wind.
"Natsuki?" Shizuru squeaked out with the air near her breath fogging at the exhale.
Anh's eyes widened even more and her mouth went slack as Kruger's desk started to freeze up with ice from her hands.
Those green eyes stayed glaring at Anh.
"Natsuki!" Shizuru reactively said her name to try and snap her out of her trance.
Suddenly her eyes cleared and Natsuki stared in confusion at the sight of both Anh and Shizuru looking at her as if she had seven heads.
"Wha-" her words died in her throat as she felt cold and noticed her frozen desk.
Looking back up, the two pairs of eyes in shock had changed to seven.