The Past and Future

Chapter 4

Who is she?

After failing to 'lay low' and not to mention passing the tests and getting accepted by Garderobe Academy, Natsuki met up with little Yamada. To say that he was surprised was an understatement, he by no means expected Natsuki to pass the first nonetheless get accepted into Garderobe Academy.

"Kuga, you never told me that you were trained for this!"

Even though Natsuki expected him to be surprised she didn't think that he would assume that she trained for this test thing.

"What do you mean I didn't train for anthing."

"Then how do you explain doing about three hundred push-ups without even breaking a sweat!!"

Natsuki sighed. So they did notice after all… I guess I better try to fix this….

"Uhh… I didn't do three hundred yet…. And it was…. Ummm… tiring too ya know…."

Yamada was obviously not satisfied with that answer but dropped that part of the test.

"Ok then even if you're Hercules or something, how do you explain the other test?! You answered every question perfectly and not only that you got the last question right!"

Oh shit… what should I say?! Wait how did he even know that?!

"Wait Yamada why do you know that?"

"Well it was kind of hard to miss when they were broadcasting it everywhere!"

WTF!? They what?! Shit I didn't know that if I did…. Man! Focus… Focus… ok



Not having any other retorts Natsuki sent an infamous Kuga-death-glare at Yamada.
"Whatever, it's none of your business so just drop it."

"…" Yamada was frozen at the spot he stood at. He felt as if a blizzard had just passed by, after all these year there's no way that Natsuki didn't improve her death glare.

Satisfied with Yamada's reaction the raven hair girl hopped on the bike she got earlier and rode off into town. As she rode around and cleared her head she detected the urge to consume her favorite substance, mayo, but as said before that certain substance is extinct in this century. Therefore she decided to take things into her own hands and bought ingredients to make some mayonnaise but as she got out of the store her phone rang. She answered it and was simply shocked by the voice at the other end of the line.

"Hey! Natsuki, it's me! I can't believe you ran off like that after we passed! You didn't even stay to hear the instructions Miss Maria gave us afterwards!"

"Um… Sorry… I didn't mean…" She said that out of habit because the girl was just like Mai, physically and by the way she said stuff but Natsuki quickly regained her senses.

"Wait, Mai how did you get this number?!"

"Oh, that? Tadashi-kun told me when I asked him! Also Natsuki when are you going to get home I'm tired of waiting!"

"What!? Yamada did!? And what do mean waiting?!"

"I'm at your apartment right now. Tadashi-kun told me where you lived too."

Note to self kill Yamada and deal with Mai. I mean is it too much to ask… SHIT she's at my apartment! If she sees my stuff then she'll know! Or at least get suspicious!



"Ok Mai, sit sill I'll be there as soon as possible but DON'T and I repeat DON'T touch anything!"

Natsuki hung up, jumped on her bike, and rushed home to prevent anything from happening. She parked her bike at the nearby parking lot and started running toward her house but as fate intended she caught sight of three or four figures in an alleyway and a smaller figure being surrounded by them. Natsuki's logic was fighting against her conscience, should she help the smaller figure or should she rush home to stop Mai from doing whatever she's doing? It was like a tug-of-war game but in the end her conscience won and she decided to help the small figure and leave as soon as possible. The raven hair girl dashed to her destination at an inhumane speed only possible for supernatural beings, such as herself, a HIME. As she neared the place she jumped and landed on one of the larger figure, from what she can see now, it was a guy probably a gangster and landed on her feet with the grace that she had gained over the years. She went on to beat the crap out of the other three guys and left before the small figure could response to her actions and hurried back to her apartment.

Today was the day for the new Garderobe Academy tests to pick new OTOMEs and most of the campus's administrations were at the test site, which left the Trias, the top three pearls in charge to do whatever the pleased. Shizuru Viola did just that. Since her supply of tea was gone she decided to go buy some more. After disguising herself to fit in, even though because she was top pearl of Garderobe Academy most people knew who she was, she set off for the tea shop downtown. Even if it was not located at a safe place it had the best type of tea there, so she didn't care, after all she's the number one pearl right? Sadly she was wrong. Once she bought her tea she made her way back to Garderobe Academy but on the way there she, against her rational judgment, decided to take a short cut and walked down an alley. Three or four gangsters saw that and cornered her. It looked like they were about to say or do something when a raven hair girl descended from out of nowhere like an angel and landed 

on the guy closest to Shizuru. Within seconds the said girl's fury was bestowed upon the other thugs and she walked away. Not believing her eyes Shizuru blinked and then all she saw was the long raven hair of her savior, glistening as the sun's rays hit her, making her look like a goddess sent from the heavens, and fadeing away from Shizuru. The chestnut-hair Trias tried to response and ask for a name or to even say thank you but her savior had already left leaving Shizuru with her thoughts.

Ara, who was that? My savior is so cruel saving me then leaving like that…

As soon as she saved that girl, Natsuki, ran back to her apartment only to find Mai standing at her front door. Why is she standing out here? Shouldn't she be inside? Oh well at least she' s not messing around.

"Natsuki, you're finally here! I've been waiting forever!"

"Uhh…. Yeah sorry…. But why are you even here?"

"Oh that! Well since you left so fast Miss Maria didn't get a chance to tell you that school will start the day after tomorrow and we'll have to be there early to get examined and nanomachines."

"Nanomachines?"

"Yeah they enable us to materialize ROBEs, you have to have one if you're going to be an OTOME."

"Yeah… Thanks for letting me know, Mai. See ya tomorrow bye." Natsuki said in a rushed tone but it ensured that there would be no arguments about it so Mai left reluctantly after saying good bye to Nasuki. When Mai left Natsuki entered her apartment and dropped dead on her bed. She started to think about what Mai said hoping to find a solution to everything.



Shit… if I get examine then… they'll know… I'll have to think of a way to pass that…. And nanomachines… I think I heard of those before…. Wasn't it something that Fumi-san was working on a little while after Director Mashiro died… Most importantly… Will YOU be there? Are YOU there at Garderobe Academy?

Natsuki sighed and drifted off to her dreams hoping to find temporary peace.

Author's Notes:

So what do you think of the story so far? Is it a bit boring? Well if it is I can tell you that Natsuki will meet HER soon. Also I need some help and opinions, do you think I should let Natsuki remember Shizuru or not? If Natsuki remembers then the action parts will come in but if she doesn't then there'll be some ShizNat interactions. I'm really not sure about this… it could affect the whole story depending on whether or not Natsuki remembers. Please tell me your opinions! Oh and please review too! Thanks for reading!