*** Shotgun Marriage ***

By

Azurean

Summary: Shizuru is Natsuki's girlfriend and the two were making out on the former's bedroom when Shizuru's father caught them. Then Fujino Ken (Shizuru's father) forced Natsuki to marry his daughter. And so the eventful married life of the two begins.

Disclaimer: I don't own Mai Hime.

Genre: Humour/ Romance

Warning: There are chapters that contain LEMON.

A/N: This chapter is short! Ciao! ^_^

Chapter two

Another frustrated sigh was heard from a certain cobalt haired woman as she drinks the remaining beer from the can she's holding. It's Friday night, women's night out. So Natsuki along with her friends/ teaching staff; Midori, Youko, Yukino and Haruka were out on a beach and rented a cottage for the night. Their group started drinking right after having their dinner because they don't have to worry about having hangovers later on since the next day is weekends and they got two days to rest before returning to the harsh reality of school. She watched as Midori makes fun of Haruka, who in return would retort and try to counter the red haired woman's teasing. With another sigh, she decided to leave the room to get some air.

Yukino sat down next to Natsuki, who was sitting on the three step wooden stair in the front porch of the cottage they rented for the night and smiled timidly when the cobalt haired woman looks her way quizzically. "I saw you leaving the room and noticed that you had been sighing all night... something on your mind?" Natsuki shook her head and smiled at the woman before turning her gaze on the dark sea. "You know that you can tell me anything, right?"

Natsuki ponders on the things that have been going on to her life since the first day she took the position of being Garderobe U's school director. And if she's going to confide into someone, her best choice will be the woman sitting next to her, Yukino. The two of them were introduced to each other by their common friend Haruka during their second year in Tokyo U. At first, Yukino was distant and shy around her but things had change as they spent more time with each other and eventually became a confidant with one another. "What can you say about the number one rule for teachers?"

"What rule?"

"Teacher – student love affair..."

"Was forbidden ..." Yukino finished for Natsuki who nodded in return.

"Was it really wrong if a Teacher falls in love with their student?"

Yukino frowns as she watched Natsuki stared in the dark sea with a distant look on her face. She let out a breath and looks up at the stars that were trying to lighting up the vast dark sky. "I don't think it's wrong if a Teacher falls in love with their student. As long that their feelings for each other were true love and not just lust because those two has different meanings. So, are you in love with one of your students?" she asked unabashed.

Hearing Yukino's blunt question, Natsuki felt her cheeks burning but decided to tell her friend the truth. "... I think I am..."

"Did you confess?"

"Not yet."

"Are you scared?"

"Maybe..."

"Why?"

"Because she might find it disgusting, I mean... I'm the school director, the students supposed to be second parent in school... and I'm a woman."

"So, it's a she...? Well, I don't know how to respond with that but you'll only know the answer after you tell her about your feelings."

"What if she rejects me? I mean some people don't like homosexual relationships."

"Then life must go on and find someone else... if she rejects you that is..." Yukino said and a smile was formed on her lips as she turned her head to face Natsuki. "Why don't you make a wish?" she suggested.

"What? I'm not a chi..."

"Come on make a wish! It's almost time for meteor shower!" Yukino yelled in excitement as she stood up dragging Natsuki with her before turning her gaze back at the dark sky. "You'll never know your wish might come true!"

"W..."

"It's starting!"

Natsuki's eyes widen as falling stars lighted up the vast dark sky and couldn't help but to hope and say her silent wish. 'I wish everything will be alright.'

Yukino smiled and shouts on top of her lungs. "I WISH FOR NATSUKI'S FEELINGS TO BE RETURNED BY THE PERSON SHE'S GOING TO CONFESS TO!"

"B... BAKA!" Natsuki exclaimed in flushed face after hearing what Yukino had just shouted.

"So, who's the unlucky woman that you had fallen in love with?" asked Haruka behind Natsuki and Yukino, making the two women whipped around in surprised and saw the three women they left inside, now standing in the door while looking at them with unreadable expressions on their faces.

"How long that you three has been standing there?" asked Natsuki with a sigh as she digs her fingers on her hair.

"Since Yukino left the room." – Haruka.

"You know that you could talk to us, right?" – Youko.

"We are your friends, Natsuki – chan. So if you have problems don't hesitate to ask us for help." – Midori.

"Don't worry everything's going to be alright." – Yukino.

"You're right." Natsuki said and smiled appreciatively at her friends.

"So, who's the woman?" asked Midori and the other three looked at Natsuki in anticipation for the cobalt haired woman to tell them.

"Fujino ... Shizuru..."

"WHAT!" "NO WAY!" "WOW!" "THIS WILL BE TOUGH!" was all the different reactions Natsuki got after mentioning the young woman's name, the woman who completely captured her heart.

*** Shotgun Marriage ***

Shizuru stared confused at the ceiling of her dorm room as she recounted in her mind the events that had happened in the library earlier. The warm body of Kruger Natsuki pressed up behind her, making her knees go weak and the comfort and secured feelings that she had also felt when the woman's arm holds her steadily. All those feelings were confusing her because it's the first time that she felt this for someone. 'What is happening to me?' she turned her gaze on her roommate/ friend who was busy doing her homework in one of the study tables provided for each occupant in a room. "Hey, Mai..." she hesitated as she sat up on her bed.

"Hmmm...?" Mai hummed without looking at Shizuru since she's trying to finish her homework that is due by Monday. And she doesn't have much time to do it later since she'll be working on her part time job for the following two days.

"How does it feel to fall in love?"

Mai's hand halted from its fast writing when that one single innocent question was aired in the room and she never expected this question coming from her friend/ roommate Fujino Shizuru, of all people. And before she could even open her mouth to give an answer, another innocent question was shot to her.

"How would you know that you're in love?"

With this question, Mai let go of her pen and turned her chair around to face Shizuru and saw how lost her friend was. She let out a defeated sigh and this caught the brunette's attention. 'Now what am I going to tell her.' she thought silently when carmine orbs looked at her expectantly. "Shizuru, do you have someone you like?"

"I do... You, Nao, Chie, Aoi..."

"Shiz, not that kind of like..." Mai cuts off and rubbed her scalp trying to find the right answer to her friend's question. 'I never knew that Shizuru was too innocent about this kind of stuff.'

"I don't understand, you asked me if there's someone I like so I..."

"I know, I know... how should, I put it... I mean you like me, Nao, Chie and Aoi, right?"

"Yes."

"Then that feeling of like was for a friend... The like that I was talking about is somewhat like love. A feeling that you will only feels when the right person comes into your life. I really don't know how to explain it but when the right time comes you'll know it." Mai tried to explain to the best of her ability.

"What are the things you've felt when you realize that you liked Tate?"

Mai blushed at Shizuru's question. 'God! Being asked about this kind of questions is embarrassing!'

Seeing the hesitation on her auburn haired friend, Shizuru looks down on her hands. "You don't have to answer if you don't want to."

"It's okay... I'll answer that. The first time, I met Tate... I hated him because he was such a pervs until I finally saw the real him and found myself falling for him..."

"How?" asked Shizuru frowning.

"Uh... every time I see him, my heart would start beating fast and sometimes he makes me smile just after seeing him... and he even makes me blush whenever I caught him looking at me or just simply smiling at me... and when he holds me, he gives me this strange feelings that I felt like I was safe and warm and the comfort that he's emitting was far more different from what my family could give... I mean being with him was confusing..."

'Heart beating fast, those blushes, strange feelings? It's all the same on what I always felt around Director Kruger! Does that mean I'm in love with the Director? Oh! God! This mustn't happen these feelings are forbidden!' Shizuru thought and shook her head in denial at the things that she had just realized.

"So, do you like someone, Shiz?"

Shizuru's eyes widen after hearing the word like and shook her head. "No... No, I don't like anyone."

"Oh, okay then..."

To be continued...