It'd been a week since Natsuki's arrival to Earth. Ever since she'd met Shizuru, her life and view points had changed considerably for the second time.
Confused, was the right word to describe Natsuki's feelings. She was not one to care for anything but flying. So why was she living with a local girl? She wondered. Is it just for the assignment? Or was she having fun? Before, she was a loyal soldier, her only concern were her duties as a Meltran pilot. She was considered an ace among her peers, and also had a successful record complimenting her skill as proof. Although she was an accomplished pilot in the fleet, she was seen by others as a lone wolf. If she can, she would always prefer to do thing alone.
Going into battle against a squadron of Zentran's battle pods you say? "Sure no problem," was her trademark reply. And take down enemy vessel? She would confidently answered, "I'm already on it, you don't got to tell me twice!"
Never the less, the day did come when she was forced to change her view point, not only for herself, but for the entire fleet itself. It was the day when Commander Chlore's fleet of the strongest women had first encounter a long distance colony fleet of microns. The fleet, Macross 7 was a colony fleet that was headed by the mayor of the city ship, formerly known as the Meltrandi's ace, Miriya, who was part of the same lineage of clone as Commander Chlore.
It came to nobody surprise in the fleet seeing Miriya "639". After all, Meltrandi are clones consisted purely of females. But of course there are different lineage of clone, such as in the case of Miriya, or Natsuki, who's lineage are apart of the aces. Thus they have the advantage of retained memories and skills that are past along during the cloning process.
What was shocking for Natsuki and the rest, were seeing Miriya now married. That itself was shocking, but not as shocking as seeing "culture" for the very first time in their life. They had known little about thing like love, romance, and kissing, or music. So in the end, what would have looked like a bloody battle between the two fleet, ended up with masses of converted fan girls. That right, the fleet of the strongest women were utterly defeated by music. More precisely, from a man flying in a fighter singing across all open channels. To say the least, The two sides became ally, and thus leaded to the present situation.
Some time later, the Macross 7 fleet had picked up communications from Earth, and were considering the idea of contact. In most cases such as with the race of alien called Zolans, although not as technically advance as their counterpart, they were considered friendly enough to make contact with and thus a relationship was established between the two races. The same hope was also applied for Earth. Thus many intelligences were gathered about Earth, including how far Earth's space program were at, to the languages and social climate that were present on Earth. But none can be confirm unless experience first hand. At the end, somehow, it was decided, that since Commander Chlore's fleet was the closest in the area, the Meltrans would be conducting the investigation on Macross 7's behalf.
The past week was tough for Shizuru. In between the times it took her to help Natsuki adjust to her apartment, and for the times she needed for work was very demanding. Shizuru was an OL lady, she was the typical office lady working in the business district in Tokyo. It wasn't a glamorous job, or anything. At time she felt like a secretary, or everybody's errant girl. She worked hard, and hoped that one day that someone on the higher up will see her hard work and promote her. Or least she thought so, later that day as it turned out, just as her luck had always been; she'd found out that her new division manager was Tomoe, the CEO's niece. Her ex had been transferred in out of the blue.
'What a crappy day!' Shizuru thought, as she reached her hand over keyhole to unlock the door. She had wondered what Natsuki had been doing all day.
It was odd, she thought, that Natsuki intended to sit in front of the TV all day watching Music videos and catching the occasional news.
It's funny Shizuru thought, true to Natuski's word, all Natsuki had was money and money and money. For a girl that's had no place to live, and claimed that she'd only lived on a spaceship, where in the world did Natsuki get so much money? Heck, Natsuki had enough money to buy a mansion. But of course Shizuru wasn't going to tell that to Natsuki anytime soon.
As Shizuru made her way through the door, out of the corner of her eyes, she could see Natsuki sitting Indian style on floor staring straight at the TV.
Shizuru giggled, " I'm home!" She called out, hoping to catch Natsuki's attention. And it worked.
Natsuki was dressed in one of Shizuru's clothes, since the only cloth Natsuki own was a skin tight form fitting suit that apparently showed all of her curves. Shizuru thought that Natsuki was sexy as heck in that suit, but the poor girl can't sleep and shower in that, so she'd lend her some of her clothes.
"Hey you're back? Welcome home!" Natsuki turned around to smile, as Shizuru slightly blushed.
Shizuru had planned to take Natsuki out shopping, granted if time and the amount of work had permitted her to do so. There were so many things to buy, like a new futon, and clothes for Natsuki. Currently they were sharing the same room, but there were no extra futon, so Natsuki insisted on sleeping on the couch in living room, and thus she became addicted to the TV that was conveniently place there.
Intrigued, Shizuru decided to ask about the TV. "I see you're watching TV again huh?"
Natsuki laughed, "Yeah, but I don't understand some of it."
Shizuru laughed as well, and playfully asked, "so how's your day?"
"Hmm, I ate your mayo sandwich and watched TV."
Natsuki then hesitated. After a second or so, she then struck a thinking pose. With a her right index finger on her chin, she then rolled her eyes up and added, "well, I do like those music videos though."
Shizuru giggled at Natsuki response, and thoughtfully asked if Natsuki like music alot.
"Music is important in our culture, you know. I never really liked it before, until I watched the Galaxy Network." Natsuki replied off handedly.
'Galaxy network?' Shizuru wondered, "what is that? Do you get it on cable or something?
"Well it's a faster than light communication network. Something like your TV network, but far more vast. It's not limited to video or audio, but includes data as well." Natsuki continued to explain.
"You mean like the Internet, we have that here." Shizuru interrupted. With a confused look on her face Natsuki asked, "What's that?"
"Hold on," Shizuru answered, as she left to retrieve a laptop from her desk in the living room. She then preceded to show Natsuki various websites, particularly once about clothes.
Natsuki was surprised, but she answered with a smile, "pretty close, except ours are more robust. It could also simulate virtual reality."
"I see," Shizuru was happy, she wondered how Natsuki would react if she told her that she wanted to learn more about Natsuki. " That's wonderful Natsuki, I hope you could tell me more about yourself too."
"Oh, sure, I bet you want proof about spaceship and stuff right? Seeing as your world have no such things. I can do that, I can even take you for a ride!" Natsuki exclaimed.
Shizuru just giggled, " Sure thing Natsuki, but before that, how about we go shopping?"
"Shopping? What..is"
"Shopping? Oh, Shopping is fun, remember all the stuff you saw on the webpages? Well we can buy those stuff. So do you want to go?"
Natsuki genuinely excited. "Really? Let's go then Shizuru!" And so before the Night ended, both Natsuki and Shizuru went shopping.
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For people that are interested in this story, sorry I took so long.
