Wolf Girl - The Tale of two Sisters
by
Silver-Eyed Rukia
Summary: That girl, has a thin, slender body. Yet she does not seem weak because of a peculiar, uncouth taste she possesses. She emits a vitality.... A vibrant, beastial vitality.
Disclaimer: I do not own Mai-HiME or Mai- Otome, nor do I own the characters. All rights go to Sunrise.
I will never let you fall
I'll stand up with you forever
I'll be there for you through it all
Even if saving you sends me to heaven
A pair of dazzling emerald eyes starred at the small object in the owner's hands. This morning, when they had been about to drive off to school, her older sister had given her a package and a small smile. She had said something about their father telling her to get one of these things for her, but Natsuki hadn't really listened as she had ripped the mobile out of its packaging.
And now she was sitting in her classroom, paying her teacher Midori no attention again, and looked at her new, in the sunlight glittering, mobile.
`That's awesome! Now I don't have to run around the whole school to ask my sister's something. Thanks dad.´ A certain redhead one seat behind her found it rather irritating that something as simple as a mere mobile could keep the raven haired girl busy for almost, she looked at her watch, forty minutes straight. `What a weird girl.´ And the even more irritating thing; why did she even bothered herself with something like that?
Nao turned her attention towards the spiky haired redhead in front of the class when Midori began walking towards the third Fujino offspring.
"Are you here to warm this seat or are you here to learn something, Fujino?", she asked and got a blank look from the girl, before Natsuki snapped out of her daze and put the mobile back into her pocket. She blushed, her cheeks gaining a soft pink color, and grinned, scratching her head sheepishly. "Sorry Sensei, just got caught up in the moment, I guess." Her classmates began to snicker and Nao turned away, annoyed for some reason and starred out of the window. Midori just went back to teaching her class whatever she was teaching before she had scolded the raven head.
Natsuki was bored out of her mind. The teacher was explaining how to solve a certain problem a student had asked about and the werewolf wondered just how the hell someone couldn't know the answer. Or was it that she was too smart? Yeah, that sounded better; for both parts. `Shizuru's a good teacher, I have to say.´ Her thoughts started to wander off again and a sudden thought crossed her mind. She turned around and came face to face with a certain redhead, who rose one of her slender brows in confusion at the sudden action.
"Nao, can I have your number?"
Said girl snickered. "My, are you hitting on me, Fujino?"
Natsuki scowled and shook her head. "Why should I hit you? I just want the number of your mobile."
Nao did a face-palm. `How dense can a single person be?´
"No Mutt, to hit on somebody is like flirting and trying to get someone's attention."
"…Just give me your number already."
She crossed her arms and gave Natsuki a blank look. "And why, for God's sake, should I do that?"
To her surprise the girl just took out her new mobile and held it out for the redhead to take. "Fine; if you don't want to tell me your number, type it in yourself."
Nao starred at the small object in her hands. This one looked rather expensive and for some reason that pissed her off pretty badly. All this stuck up chicks could just go to hell, as far as she was concerned. But yet, she found herself typing in the number and giving the phone back to its owner; who accepted it with a sincere smile, a polite nod and then turned around.
`Did I just give my number to a total stranger?´ She looked the raven haired girl over and a small grin tucked at the corner of her lips. `No, not a stranger; rather an interesting soon-to-be partner in crime.´ Nao starred out of the window again. `Or something like that.´
Class ended with the usual ring of the bell and the pupils rushed out of the room as if it was on fire. Natsuki stood up and was about to join Mai and her friends to lunch as the voice of her teacher stopped her. "Fujino, can I have a word with you?" Somehow it felt like this was no question. "Sure", she replied and gave her friends an apologetic smile before walking to Midori's desk.
She gestured her student to take a seat, what she did, and folded her hands on top of her table. "Fujino, the first thing I want to say is that I noticed that you seem to space out a lot, yet, when I looked over your records you seem to be a rather clever girl. How is that?"
"Natsuki is just fine, and I get home schooled by my older sister, so I already know the most stuff I get taught in school." Midori thought that over for a moment.
"The Student Council President Fujino Shizuru, yes?"
Natsuki nodded. "Yes, I got home schooled for my whole life, but my parents decided to send me to a public school."
"I see", Midori murmured and got out a paper from one of the many drawers of her desk. She handed it the curios looking raven head. "I think your sister already told you, that you will have to be part of a club to be allowed to stay at this school. This is an application form; after lessons you will go trough the school and search for a club you want to join. Then you will come back to me and hand over the by then filled out paper, got that?"
Natsuki just nodded again and stood up, her eyes scanning the paper and her legs moving on their own accord. Midori sighed; that girl sure did space out a lot.
The green eyed girl found herself standing outside the building and searching for her friends; she spotted them sitting under the very same cherry-blossom tree she and Shizuru had been sitting under just yesterday. She walked over to them and Chie, who noticed her, waved for her to come over.
"What did Midori-sensei want back then", the busty redhead asked when Natsuki seated herself on the soft grass and took out her lunch box.
She shrugged and answered before beginning to eat, "She just told me that I should choose a club after school and gave me an application form." She looked around after Mai had nodded her head in satisfaction.
Chie was currently busy with trying to get her girlfriend to kiss her and said girlfriend was trying as hard to not do that; not in front of the others, but gave in when the Harada offspring gave her one of her most charming smiles. The two of them were in the Journal Club; they wrote the school newspaper. Aoi was responsible for the news and Chie, well, took care of the section called "Rumour Factory". `How fitting for Fuuka's gossip queen´, Natsuki thought.
Behind her were Kazuya and Akane, both members of the Drama Club. The Drama Club was currently practicing Romeo and Juliet for the upcoming school festival, and guess who got the leading roles; right. Akane was Juliet and Kazuya Romeo. Natsuki could almost feel the love radiating from the bodies of the two and so preferred to stay away from them; you never know how your body would react to such hormones, after all.
Mai was in no club, but she helped out in the canteen of the school. In the eyes of the Student Council that was enough, so she was allowed to do just that and no one seemed bothered by it. And Mai's food was beyond delicious, judging from the smell of it. Natsuki hadn't tasted it yet.
Tate Yuuichi, Kanzaki Reito's right hand in the student council and somehow the target of everyone's of Mai's outbursts, was a member of the Kendo Club. He was on good terms with the leader, Masashi Takeda and a good swordsman. He had stopped training for half a year due to an injury in his knee, but caught up fast with the rest of the club after re-entering it.
Natsuki sighed. Everyone seemed to have chosen the perfect club for him- or herself, but was there even one for her to fit it? She hoped. `I don't want to end in some club I don't want to be in.´ The group finished their meals and got up to head back to class, when the raven haired girl spotted the crimson eyed beauty coming out of the hallway were the Student Council room was.
"Hey guys, I'll just say `Hey´ to my sis, okay? Be right back!" And she left, leaving some confused classmates behind. "My, she seems to really like her sister" Mai said and got a nod from her friends, and a comment from Chie. "Maybe there's something else going on between them?"
"Chie! They're sisters for Pete's sake!"
"But not blood related", she smirked.
Aoi blinked. "And how would you know that?"
The dark haired girl just chuckled and gestured for her girlfriend to follow her, "It looks like you keep forgetting that that's my job; to know everything going on in our school."
Well, that was an argument.
"Shizuru!", the raven haired girl yelled as her sister turned around, revealing the sight of a boy of nearly the same height Natsuki didn't notice before; the crimson eyed Fujino heiress had blocked the view.
"Ara, Natsuki, what are you doing here?", came the ever calm reply as she took in her sister's expression; a mix of confusion and what seemed to be joy? `A penny for your thoughts, dear Natsuki.´
Before she could answer though, Shizuru continued. She pointed at the boy to her right and smiled at him, before repeating the action, this time pointing at the emerald eyed beauty. "This is Kanzaki Reito-san, a member of the Student Council. Reito-san, this is Fujino Natsuki; my younger sister." The black haired boy took a step forward and took the left hand of a surprised Natsuki and kissed it. "Pleased to meet you, Natsuki-san."
Said girl blinked. `Already first name base, huh?´ She looked over the handsome looking guy and fought back a frown. `I don't like him for some reason; he gives of a weird feeling vibe.´ But as she was taught being polite, she just forced out a smile and bowed a short bow. "Same."
But Shizuru noticed her sister's stiffness, she didn't seem to like Reito all that much. `Why, I wonder?´ When Natsuki turned around to face her, she dropped her thoughts and looked at the girl's face, waiting for some kind of response. Natsuki would have squirmed under the intense gaze of those crimson orbs if she hadn't been used to them for now.
"Just wanted to drop by and say hello as I saw you, so well. I guess I'll see you later, bye Shiz", she gave Reito a blank look, "Kanzaki-san."
When Shizuru was sure her sister was out of earshot, and she could hear pretty good, she gave the boy an apologetic smile. "Kannin na, Reito-san, Natsuki seems to be in a rush and forget to bid farewell properly."
Kanzaki just smiled at her. "No worries Shizuru, I think after getting to know each other she'll start to like me." `Never coming down from your high horse, are you, Reito-san?´ But when said boy was going to place his hand on her shoulder, she avoided it by beginning to walk again. `And never getting tired to try to hit on me´, she added sourly, but her mask remained polite and calm; how she hated it.
When the bell released the pupils from their classes, Natsuki made her way to her first destination; the Music Club. She made a turn, walked down the hallway and knocked on the third door before entering. She had heard instruments being played so she guessed this was the Music Club, and well, she had been right.
Kikukawa Yukino was, besides a member of the Student Council, a pianist and the Music Club President. She smiled warmly, but yet kind of shy, or was it fearful? Natsuki couldn't tell, because as fast as the smile had come, it had disappeared. She shrugged and took a seat somewhere in the last row and listened, as the members began playing their instruments to the lead of the brown haired girl on the piano. After only ten minutes of listening the werewolf was getting bored. Don't get me wrong, she loved music, but this was classic…and she preferred livelier music. She excused herself and left the room, sighing and scratching the words "Music Club" from her list.
When she set eyes on the next name on her list a grin spread across her face. The Tea Ceremony Club was led my no other than the chestnut blond Fujino heiress, and Natsuki was happy for every moment they could spend together.
She just followed her nose and was standing in front of the small tea house just a few minutes later. The ceremonies were held in a separate house in old Japanese style; the ones Shizuru seemed to love. The raven head pushed the door open and slipped inside, nearly unnoticed. But one pair of crimson orbs had spotted her and they instantly lit up in joy. Sighs went through the room at the sight.
Natsuki took a seat behind the members, sitting on her knees in a rather uncomfortable position. Her sister gave some instructions and handed out the stuff you need for making tea in the traditional way before she got over to the raven head. To her surprise though, Natsuki was currently holding a hand over her nose and was fighting back tears.
"Ara, what is wrong, Natsuki?", she asked, concern clearly audibly in her voice.
"I can't stand the smell; it's so intensive", the owner of now teary emerald eyes choked out and bit back a cough.
"Why are you still here then?"
She pointed to her legs. "My legs got numb and I can't stand up."
Shizuru laughed and got some looks from the members and a pout from her sister, before she helped Natsuki onto her feet and hold her until she was sure said girl could stand on her own. After a quick goodbye, the werewolf got out of the house and took a deep breath.
"Dear Gods, how can she stand that?", she mumbled and looked onto her list.
Next was the choir; not that she really wanted to join it; she just wanted an excuse to see her younger sister and hear her sing. She couldn't get enough of it. The Choir was in the room next door to the music room, so she already knew the way, and so, after knocking, she entered and found herself surrounded by the calming and beautiful voice of Alyssa. The members seemed to ignore her as they listened to the "Golden Angel's" voice.
Emerald eyes met azure ones and Natsuki smiled at her sister, who returned it and made several people in the room nearly faint. Nobody could resist the Fujino charm, and Alyssa wasn't even them flashing her brightest smile. And heck, she was just twelve! After giving one final wave, she went to visit the next club on her list; the Chess Club.
Chess was a quite funny game, if Shizuru was your opponent, that is. She would make you go to your limits of logical thinking to beat her, yet, Natsuki hadn't won once in her lifetime against the oldest sister.
She entered the club room and found several pupils playing chess. `What a surprise´, she thought sarcastically and smirked, before seating herself somewhere near one game of chess. Natsuki watched them, but nobody did a move. After five minutes she began to feel sleepy and her eyelids dropped closed. She snapped them open and looked at the clock on the wall, noticing that she was out for another ten minutes. She looked over to the players again; they still hadn't made a move! If she hadn't know it was impossible, she would have sworn neither of them had did as much as blink.
Natsuki felt a headache creeping into her skull so she went outside to get some fresh air. She strode through the school grounds and soon found herself near the running track and the sport fields. Maybe this was something for her?
"Watch out", she heard a familiar voice yell and she turned around just in time to avoid being tackled to the ground by stepping to the side; she hadn't even noticed she had been standing in the middle of the running track. Nao stopped running and gave the raven head a glare that could kill, yet Natsuki didn't seem affected for some reason.
"Mutt, what the hell are you thinking standing there like a statue? In case you haven't noticed, this is the running track. You have to run and not stand."
"Yeah, thanks for pointing out the obvious. Maybe if you had been faster you would have past me before I got here."
The redhead's eyes narrowed. "Is that a challenge?"
"Do you think it is?"
"Yeah, I sure as hell do!" She got into a starting position and made a motion with her head for Natsuki to do the same.
"The first one who reaches the finish line wins."
"And gets what?"
"A milkshake?"
Natsuki smirked. Nao was so going to regret having challenged her. "Deal."
"Okay", she said and prepared herself.
"3", they bend their legs,
"2", lifted their backsides,
"1", glared at each other,
"GO!, and made a mad dash towards the finish line.
Needless to say, Nao didn't stand a chance.
Arms crossed over her chest and not even having broken a sweat, Natsuki smirked at the panting redhead who had just made it over the white line on the floor.
"Damn it…Fujino...how the hell…did you do that", she said, rather, panted between breaths and fell flat on her back, gasping for air. They had just run something over 500 meters.
"I moved my legs, one before the other, and you?"
The glare she got made her burst into laughter. "That wasn't funny, Mutt."
Said girl just wiped away tears of mirth and spun around afterwards, having heard someone approaching. A smaller girl with two pigtails and two longer strands of hair, which were braided, was standing there, clipboard and chronograph in her hands and wearing an expression of utter disbelieve on her face.
"You just ran these 500 metres in barely more than a minute. I'm the fastest and I need something over two minutes. Impressive! How's your name?"
"Isn't it the polite way to introduce yourself and then ask for the name you want to know?"
The girl seemed embarrassed for a moment before she nodded and held out her hand. "Wang Nina, President of the Track and Field Club, nice to meet you." It looked like the raven haired girl was making friends pretty fast on this school.
"The name's Fujino Natsuki, the pleasure is entirely on your side", she joked but dropped it as she saw the puzzled look on the other girl's face. "I was joking."
"Ah, okay, sorry about that." Nina turned her attention towards a certain redhead, who was still lying on her back, glancing at the white clouds above. "Nao-senpai", she yelled and got the reaction she had awaited. Said girl shot up and saluted, before blinking twice and growling afterwards. "Wang, that wasn't funny either. What, is today the "tease Nao" day?"
"Seems to be, Spider."
"What the hell? You're calling me spider, Mutt?"
"Yeah, I did and I suggest you should wash your ears."
"You-", Nao started but was cut of by the president.
"Enough, both of you! Yuuki, go take a shower and wait for me in the changing rooms. Fujino, come over there."
After her usual "Natsuki's just fine" they went to the tribune while Nao was taking her shower, as ordered.
"So, do you want to join the Track and Field Club?", was the first thing that came out of Nina's mouth and it surprised the emerald eyed girl at first, but she recovered quickly and flashed her fangs in a smile. "Sure, guess that's the only club I'm actually good at or don't fall asleep in", she laughed and scratched the back of her head in light embarrassment. Nina just starred. "Are that…fangs?"
"Huh? Ah, yes. Genetic defect, don't worry, I won't bite. At least not you; I'm not sure about the Spider though…."
The younger girl snapped out of it and they finished their talk, which ended with Natsuki having a filled out paper and Nina having another great member for her club. Both were happy.
Natsuki entered the changing rooms and waited for Nao, the damn spider was owing her a milkshake after all. She wrote a short mail that she would come home later than usual and sent it Shizuru, then put away her mobile and leaned, arms crossed, on one of the cold walls and waited. The sounds of running water stopped and out came a wet Nao, a towel covering her lower body and another one on top of her head; that was it. And Natsuki immediately noticed the absence of one more towel that should have covered the girl's bosoms, but to her relief, or should I rather say, horror, the redhead noticed it too.
"Damn it Fujino, what the hell are you doing here", she barked and grabbed another towel to cover the nudity of her upper body while the raven haired girl was blushing like mad, her head turned away. But she had to admit; Nao was good looking. `What the hell…´.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know you would came out of the shower like…this. Why aren't you covering yourself anyway?"
"Old habit."
"Don't want to imagine what your mom's thinking about that."
When she got no response she turned around and noticed the sorrowful and sad look on Nao's face and Natsuki felt guilty.
"Sorry, did I say something wrong?"
"Shut up and get out."
And so she waited outside the changing rooms, and whatever seemed to have bothered Nao before had vanished so Natsuki went to hand the paper over to her teacher before the two of them went into a café nearby the school, riding Natsuki's bike. This was the first time for the slightly smaller girl to ride a motorcycle, and as a result she clung herself onto the werewolf's body like a bur, feeling the well trained muscles beneath the clothes. `No wonder she can run like a champ.´
An hour and some small talk later, they had finished their milkshakes at Nao's charge and were now lazing around in the small café.
"So…were do you live?", Natsuki asked out of the blue and the redhead raised an eyebrow at the random question.
"In the dorms, why?"
"Just curious. May I ask why you're living there?"
"No, but I'll tell you anyway", was the reply. `Even if I don't know why tough´, she added mentally.
"I don't have a father and my mom is hospitalized, I don't have the money to live in an apartment."
When she got the response, she knew why had told her that; first, because it felt nice telling somebody about it and second, Natsuki wasn't a person to say "Aw, you poor thing".
"I hope your mom gets out of the hospital soon. Living in the dorms is fun, I think, but being with your family can't be replaced by friends; it's a whole different feeling."
Nao smiled a sad smile. "You know, for someone as dense as you you're pretty sharp behind your innocent façade, Natsuki."
Said girl gave her a weird look. `Did she just call my, dense, intelligent and Natsuki in one sentence?´ She inspected Nao's face for a short moment and nodded her head imperceptibly. `She did.´
"So, want to ride back to school again? I have to be home for dinner or I'll get scolded again."
"Sure, Mutt." Nao smirked at the girl's reaction; she glared at her.
"Whatever, Spider."
"About that spider thing…", was the last sound before they exited the café and the door closed.
When Natsuki finally arrived home, it was well past eight pm and every fiber in her body was already itching. She felt bad about lying to Nao, but what should she have said? Sorry, have to be home before moonrise before everyone sees I turn into a furry, oversized pup, called werewolf? Sure thing.
"Natsuki!", came a worried call before warm, strong arms wrapped themselves around her body, and she found herself returning the hug Shizuru gave her. Her sister always carried the scent of blooming cherry blossoms with her and was radiating one of the strongest auras of affection Natsuki knew so far. If was a warm, cozy feeling, that left the younger girl always a little dazed after such a strong physical interaction.
"I was worried sick because Natsuki didn't show up at the promised time, I thought something had happened", she said as she pulled away, even if she didn't want to; she didn't want to force herself onto the girl either.
"Sorry about that Shiz, I sort of got carried away and forgot the time." She walked over to one of the small tables in the entrance and put down her mobile, keys and CDs. "Ah yes, I got accepted into the Track and Field team."
"Ara, so Natsuki did find a club that suits her. I am glad it went that smoothly."
"Yeah, I just had to outrace Nao", she snickered at the thought of a panting and sweating Nao; that was a nice moment.
"Yuuki-san?"
"Hm, we made a bet; the one who wins would buy milkshakes. I won, of course, so we went to a café afterwards."
Shizuru let the scene play in her mind: She and Natsuki in a café, sharing a strawberry flavored milkshake with just one straw….She shook her head. `I should save these moments for my dreams´, she thought with a smug smile, but said smile dropped in an instant when the body of her sister seemed to squirm under her hands, which were resting on Natsuki's shoulders.
"Sh-Shizuru, get me the hell out of here, fast!"
In her panic the chestnut blond took her sister bridal style and raced out of the house and into the direction of the giant woods behind the mansion; said forest was nearly as large as Fuuka Academy, just build for Natsuki to live out her needs.
The raven head was set down onto her legs with so much care, she felt like she was floating and gave her sister a thankful look before the adrenalin began rushing through her veins. The transformation was like being in frenzy; a special hormone, only possessed by werewolves, was being pumped trough the body that would numb the flesh and muscles to the sharp pain that someone gets with turning from an average human into an 8.5 feet tall creature.
The sounds of the transformation sounded grotesque to Shizuru's ears; she heard bones popping, claws scratching and skin stretching, if someone ever heard a sound like that. It didn't sound all that good.
As fast as it came, it was gone. Not even thirty seconds had past and yet, before her very eyes, stood something looking intimidating yet graceful all in one. A perfect mix of the world's two population; animals and humans. A beast known from fairy tales and ghost stories, made into something it never was, and never will be. Wolves were no monsters, nor were werewolves. And the one person that was imaginable the most less monstrous being in the world, at least in Shizuru's crimson colored eyes, was the one that raised its head and let out a melodious howl into the moon filled night sky, that sent shivers down everyone's spine.
Natsuki; the first creature born into a new generation.
Annotations
Kannin na - I'm sorry/Forgive me; Kyoto accent
Kendo - The Japanese version of sword fight, practiced with bamboo-swords
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Nina is the captain of the Track and Field team because the former one graduated and she was the next best member in the club to that time. She's 12 and in Alyssa's class.
And now; English is not my first language. German is, and I'm still visiting school; I'm 15, so please don't be too harsh with correcting me, please. ;)
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