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Natsuki sat on the low wall that surrounded the school, lightly smoking a cigarette while Nao leaned against the wall beside her. They were as usual skipping the last class of the day as it was a free study session, and to the two of them that really meant 'free-do-whatever-we-want' session.
Natsuki lightly kicked the back of her booted heels against the wall, and tilted her head up to let a small circle of smoke blow into the air above her.
"You know that you'll probably die early of cancer if you keep smoking those," a soft, accented voice spoke near Natsuki's side.
The emerald-eyed girl slowly rolled her eyes and head downward, until she was looking at the beautiful chestnut-haired girl she'd met earlier in the day.
A mischievous grin spread across Natsuki's face, as Nao snorted in amusement beside her. Natsuki then hopped down from the wall, and swaggered her way over to the scarlet-eyed girl. Once she was finally standing before her, Natsuki took a long drag on her cigarette, leaned her head forward, and lightly blew a small puff of smoke-filled air across the honey-brunette's lips.
Shizuru let out a soft gasp at the very light pressure of lips against hers, before she stepped back to escape the smoke being blown her way. A mild expression of disapproval came to her face, but then her features smoothed over, and she suddenly surprised Natsuki by holding her hand out for the cigarette.
"If you wanted to share your smoke so much with me, you could have just let me take a smoke for myself," Shizuru said with a teasing lilt to her voice, as she continued to hold her hand out for the cigarette.
Natsuki's head tilted slightly, as she looked back at the scarlet-eyed girl with new appraisal in her eyes.
She hadn't expected this response from the girl.
Normally when she screwed around with people they either got mad and stomped away, or they got up into her face and that always ended with a few good rounds of fist-throwing, which always made Natsuki's day because she always won.
But this new girl wasn't doing either of those things.
She was just standing there looking back at Natsuki with a small, teasing smile on her lips and a twinkle in her brilliant, scarlet-red eyes.
A strange feeling began to overcome Natsuki. One that she couldn't really remember ever feeling before. It was almost...protective. Like she didn't want to give the beautiful girl before her the cigarette, because as much as Natsuki already knew that smoking was detrimental to her health, she didn't want to pass on the cigarette's bad effects to the girl before her.
So, instead Natsuki scoffed lightly, turned her back on the other girl, walked back over to a smirking Nao, and hopped back onto the wall to sit and continue smoking her cig.
Natsuki was not going to allow some new chick to rattle her and throw her off her game.
"What the hell do you think you're doing to my girl, bitch. Stay the fuck away from my Shizuru," a new, grating voice screeched, and Natsuki let out a sigh of pure annoyance. Nao just got a bright gleam in her eye, because she just knew where things were going to go from here.
Tomoe suddenly burst onto the scene, and wrapped her hand possessively around Shizuru's, while pointing her free hand straight into Natsuki's face.
"I really have had quite enough of you, you delinquent punk! I'm going to have my Daddy call the principle, and have you kicked out of this school. Then I'll never have to see your ugly, ignorant, stupid face ever aga—AGH!" Tomoe's rant was cut off as she screamed in pain, and released Shizuru's hand to hold her now bloody nose. She hadn't even seen the punch coming, as the bitch she had been cursing off had moved so quickly from the wall straight towards her.
"I'LL KILL YOU!" Tomoe shrieked, as she made a dive for Natsuki's throat to strangle the girl before her, but before she could take two steps she found herself being tripped, and she had just enough time to look up and see the smirking face of the redhead, before her face slammed into the ground.
Shizuru let out a loud gasp as she watched the fight going on before her, but before she could move to do anything, a hand reached out and clamped down hard on Natsuki's shoulder.
The ebony-haired girl swung around quickly with a scowl on her face, to see who had dared to touch her without permission. Her scowl only deepened when she was greeted with the smiling face of one Reito Kanzaki, the President of the school's Student Council. He was also the head of the school's Kendo and Martial Arts fighting clubs, and Natsuki had learned the unfortunately hard way to just let Reito do whatever he had to do, whenever he caught her in fights on school grounds.
"I see you're only back to school one day, and you're already picking fights Ms. Kuga," Reito said in that congenial tone of voice that always grated on Natsuki's nerves.
Natsuki raised her hand and gave him the finger, which only made Reito chuckle in amusement. He then turned his golden-eyed gaze towards the blond female who had picked up the teal-haired girl from the ground, and was now physically holding her back from trying to commit murder on school grounds.
"Let...me...GO! I'm going to KILL her! Do you hear me! Release me AT ONCE!" Tomoe cried out, as she tried to wrestle her way out of the iron-clad grip holding her tight around the shoulders, but she just couldn't break free.
"Would you shut the hell up already! All your damn screeching is pissing me off, and I will go Judo on your ass," Haruka Suzushiro, the Student Council Vice-President's voice rang out in Tomoe's ear. As the serious sounding threat was leveled at her, Tomoe finally stopped struggling, and just stood scowling deeply and angrily at the jade-eyed girl before her.
"Wonderful! Now that we're all calmed down, I'm going to be taking all three of you to the Principle's office now," Reito said in that annoyingly pleasant manner, that continually grated on Natsuki's last nerve.
Nao let out a loud exclamation of "what'd I do!" which Reito completely ignored, as he clamped his other hand down hard on the redhead's shoulder. As he began leading the two delinquents away, with a loudly-protesting Tomoe being led by Haruka, Natsuki slipped a quick glance over her shoulder at the chestnut-haired girl, who stood with her hand raised and a stunned expression on her face.
Natsuki allowed a small smirk to cross her lips when Shizuru's gaze settled on her face, and she gave the honey-brunette a quick wink while mouthing the words, "I'll see you later."
Shizuru blinked lightly as she read the words the ebony-haired girl had just mouthed to her, and a strange feeling of excitement curled up in the pit of her stomach, as she continued to watch the 'bad girl' of Fuuka Academy High be led away.
Shizuru had the feeling that her life was about to get very interesting from now on.
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