Edit: Decided to break it down to chapters. Nothing new added. (=.=) sorry for the mail alerts.
Natsuki suddenly sit up as she heard her own voice. Duran, startled, fell from Natsuki's chest making her way down on the floor with a light thud.
"What the hell?! That's just what I am supposed to…"
"Ara, Natsuki?" a Kyoto-ben woman entered her own room finding a surprised Natsuki on her bed.
"Shi-zu-ru!" Natsuki spat out as she turned her head to meet a pair of crimson eyes staring at her. "How… how the hell did you get this?!" unable to calm her voice, Natsuki asked her girlfriend and a blush was now forming on her cheeks.
Shizuru walks towards Natsuki; she stopped as she was met by a brown puppy looking happily at her other owner.
"Ara, what treasure did the two of you found now, Duran-chan? Hmmm." Shizuru asked the brown puppy, completely ignoring a flustered Natsuki.
"Tch, so my girlfriend finds our puppy cuter than I do?" Natsuki countered Shizuru's teasing.
"Natsuki! Ikezu!" the older girl feigns a hurt expression.
The blue haired girl knew that this was a fake. But who was she kidding anyway? She doesn't want to see Shizuru with that kind of expression.
"Shizuru…" she sighed. Come here." Natsuki pulled Shizuru to her lap to give her a tight embrace and thus giving her a quick kiss on the lips.
"See, I just wanna know how you got this song? Tell me, please?" the bluenette knew Shizuru was defeated by this action; a blush slightly formed on the older girl's cheeks.
"Ara, but first did Duran-chan made you play it? She loves listening to it as much as I love to." Shizuru smiled at Natsuki. "I will tell you how I got Natsuki's song for the price of serenading me with it, per-so-na-lly. You have your guitar with you, right?"
"Baka. Okay, I will." Natsuki shrugged, her purpose defeated, somehow.
Shizuru leaned forward and gave Natsuki a quick peck on her right cheek.
"Natsuki's so cute." Shizuru smiled at her girlfriend as she trailed off on the events that happened three days ago…
Three days ago…
A busty red-orange haired girl was trying hard not to laugh at her bestfriend's nth attempt on singing Bubbly the way its artist had beautifully executed it, though the bluenette was doing fine with the guitar.
…please stay for a while now
just take your time
where ever you go…
Natsuki suddenly stopped, slapped her right hand to her forehead then dropped it on the ground and grabbed a handful of grass then threw it to Mai's direction.
"Hey, Natsuki!"
"That's it! I am not singing this anymore you know!" a bulging vein formed on her temple.
"Well, its okay if you don't. Your guitar is just fine, perhaps you may have the need of me doing the singing thing for the sake of not literally destroying the mood." Mai said while laughing at Natsuki.
"Oi, Ma-i maybe I can sleep now since Natsuki have stopped from singing." a spiky haired girl interjected as she snuggled on Mai's lap.
"Mikoto, I doubt Natsuki will make it a lullaby now that she hears that from you."
"Gah! Dammit Mai, are you really my bestfriend?!" Natsuki shoved the guitar on its case.
"Hey, sure I am your bestfriend. If I were not, I would not be criticizing you, right?" Mai stopped from laughing and was now concerned on Natsuki's behavior. She was obviously restraining herself from giggling to laughing from the very beginning Natsuki asked her to listen to her.
"Say, are you planning on serenading Fujino-san?"
Natsuki just glared at Mai. Why would she even tell Mai about her plan.
'Natsuki.' Mai sighed to herself. "Neh Natsuki, you've been practicing that song for a week now. One week and two days to be exact. It's the only piece you said you want to give a shot. You did well with the guitar, but your voice…"
"Yeah yeah I know my voice sucks. Got it?"
"I didn't say that. Look Natsu,"
"What?!"
"You know, she'll appreciate it. No matter how much out of tune you are or how your voice, well err… Natsuki, the thing is, it is the thought that counts you put into it, nothing else."
"How do you know that?"
"Because that's how Fujino-san is. Especially when it comes to you Natsu." Mai beamed at her bestfriend. She was then aware that the discouragement that have settled on Natsuki earlier is now gone.
"Heh, alright." Natsuki smiled at Mai. She knew that if it's anything that's got to do with her, Shizuru would find it cute anyway.
Meanwhile, behind the bushes not far from the trio, a handsome girl wildly snapped at her cell phone as she caught pictures of them and managed to record Natsuki's performance awhile ago.
'Hee hee. This is amazing! It would be a big gossip.' She sprinted away to their classroom having only one goal in mind: to show off.
"Chie-sensei, this is wonderful!"
"Uh-huh, uh-huh." Chie nods enthusiastically at Aoi's comment. "And guess what I've got with that!" Chie browses her cell phone looking for the sound clip she had recorded earlier and hit the play button.
"Awww… Kuga-san's soo sweet…! Do you know to whom she's gonna sing this to?"
"Well, do you have anyone else in mind…?"
A sudden scream of fangirls filled the hallway breaking the two gossipers' conversation.
"Ara, Harada-san I thought Natsuki is here when I heard her voice. But I guess I thought wrong." A brunette entered their classroom with her usual smile on her face. Her tone sending an atmosphere of doom to whoever deceives her regarding the whereabouts of Natsuki.
"Eek! Fu-fujino-san?" Chie stutters, she was too afraid to face the still famous ex-kaichou.
"Yes, Harada-san?"
"If-if you're looking for Kuga-san she's with Mai at the garden." Chie hardly turned to Shizuru's direction as if having a sore neck.
"Thank you, Harada-san. By the way may I have a look at your cell phone? It seems that there is something in it I need to be taking care of." Shizuru snatched the cell phone out of Aoi's grip without even waiting for Chie's permission.
"Ara, ara." Shizuru's mask of perfection slipped for a bit, fumbling over her discovery. 'Fufu. What do I have here now? So cute! What was my Natsuki thinking?' Shizuru turned on her heel and exited the classroom, a shade of red forming on her face.
"Uhmm, Fujino-san?" Chie called Shizuru's attention.
"Yes, Harada-san?" Shizuru added a tone of annoyance on her voice as she turned her head to Chie, her smile never failing to deliver its verdict.
'God, help me! What's with this woman? Soo scary.' Chie mentally cried to herself. "What are you going to do with my cell phone?"
"Oh, I did tell you, right? I said there is something I need to be taking care of from this." Shizuru waves with her right hand the most precious thing ever granted to Chie. "I think I will be borrowing it for awhile and if something happens to this, I will buy you a new one. Is it okay now to lend me your cell phone? I won't take no for an answer." Shizuru added, her smile never wavering but now with its usual mirth.
"H-h-hai." Chie replied unknowing what she just had agreed to.
"Ookini!" Shizuru walked out of the classroom.
Aoi, who had just seen the events befall her friend, is now shaking Chie who seemed to be petrified.
"Chieee! Hey, you okay? Snap out of it."
"M-m-my precious thing… NOOOOOOOO!" She suddenly realized what she had just done.
And Shizuru was snickering away finding Natsuki.