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Hey everybody! I know haven't been around for a while. Sorry about that. All I can say is OVERTIME, OVERTIME. That's right I have been working a lot of overtime. But I have been working on this story at work and was finally able to get to my computer and type it up. Hopefully another chapter will be up later this week.
Well here you go the 11th chapter of Lovely Voice
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-Monday Morning-
-Dorms-
The three student council members got ready for school.
"I'll ask Kanazaki-san if he can cover the hotline tonight," Yukino said as the girls left the dorms.
"Don't even think about skamping kaichou," Haruka noticed that Shizuru looked like she was about to bolt.
"Skipping, Haruka-chan."
"That's what I said Yukino."
"Ara, ara what is Suzushiro-san thinking?" Shizuru faked shock. Haruka glared at her. "Don't worry I will stay until school is out," even though it is pointless for her to stay. Her mind was only thinking of her young, strong biker girl. 'Please be safe my Natsuki,' she thought as the girls went into the school building.
-At Nao's-
"Let's go pup the tournament starts in an hour," Nao was shaking Natsuki up.
"Mmmm….Shi….zuru," the biker mumbled out through a drooling mouth.
"Shizuru? You are so telling me who she is," she said as she started smacking Natsuki.
"Uh, uh, owowowow. What are you doing Nao!?" the biker yelled while pushing the red head away from her.
"Waking you up. I figured you needed to redo your bandages before you go. What is that on your neck?" she pointed to Natsuki's neck.
Natsuki blushed and covered her neck. "It's nothing. Don't worry about it. Get out so I can get ready."
"I think I saw an S shape on your neck. Could that S belong to the Shizuru that you were dreaming about?" a smirk crossing her face.
Natsuki's face became a tomato. "Just get out so I can get ready," Natsuki said while throwing Nao out of the room. "I'll be ready in 20 minutes spider."
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During the drive over to Death Hustle, Nao got Natsuki to tell her everything about Shizuru.
"Great just great. I get really good teasing material and now you will be leaving. Life is unfair," she shrugged.
Natsuki only sighed and waited for them to pull into a parking lot. Nao stopped her car about two blocks away from Death Hustle. Natsuki got out and reminded Nao of the plan.
"Don't worry. I'll look for some beat up guys and go after them. When I got them taken care of I'll call Len to come and help me. See ya mutt," Nao then drove to Death Hustle.
Natsuki was going to walk the rest of the way. The biker told Nao that Asa might have told the guys about her but Nao figured that Asa forgot all about her. The jade eyed biker walked into the bar in a few minutes before everything started. She was directed to a table and told to wait for further instructions.
The gambler thought she saw her old man but she ignored it. The owner of the bar spoke to the contestants.
"Hello everyone and welcome to Death Hustle. It seems that this tournament will be a quick one because only 31 people signed up. So today we will have 16 people play and tomorrow the rest will play. The last person standing will play the winner of the next set of people on Wednesday. So on Wednesday the top two people will play against each other. With that said let the games begin," he signaled for the dealers to start the games.
There are four tables with four people a piece. There is a fifth table that is in the center of the other tables. The winner of each table will go to this table when they are done and play for the first spot at the final table. The one that will go to the final table on Wednesday can come to watch on Tuesday or wait until Wednesday to play the winner of the second set of people. The card tournaments usually are longer than three days but a lot of people didn't sign up because they didn't want to play Duran.
Natsuki was happy that it would go quickly. All she had to do was win today and she could lay low until Wednesday.
The tables started their first hand. Natsuki beat her table by 1 o'clock. Two of the tables had three people and the other one had only two people left. The dealer told Natsuki to take a break until the final game. But Natsuki was willing to wait. So she went and grabbed a bite to eat and then went and sat at the final table.
5 o'clock rolled around and arms wrapped around the girl's waist. Natsuki's body tensed until she smelled tea and flowers coming from behind her.
"Ara, ara I've missed you my Na-tsu-ki," a whisper followed by a nibble on her right earlobe.
"So this is Duran's girl I've heard about," a man said as he sat down at the table.
"Yes I am and you are?" Shizuru replied while not removing her arms but she did turn to look at the guy at her left.
"Name's Hachi," he nodded his head toward the girls.
"Hey Hachi I can't believe you beat me to the table," a woman said sitting down between Hachi and Duran.
"Whatever you say Saki," Hachi responded.
"I can't believe it took you guys so long," Duran told them. She placed her right hand on Shizuru's arms.
Shizuru wanted to talk to Natsuki privately but when she went to tell her that the last person came walking toward the table.
"Excuse me miss but the final game today is going to start. You will need to join the crowd," the dealer told her.
Natsuki turned to face Shizuru and whispered in her ear, "once I'm done here I don't have to come back till Wednesday. Wait for me okay." Then the raven-haired girl gave her chestnut-haired girl a quick kiss on the lips.
"I'll be waiting," she then went to join Haruka and Yukino that were in the crowd.
"Saw Len and Roku walk out with a girl. Then I got a text that said there are just four left to deal with," Yukino told Shizuru when she rejoined them.
"What did she say?" Haruka asked looking around for the General.
"Duran said that when this game is over then she doesn't have to come back till Wednesday," she turned to watch Natsuki play.
"Duran?" Haruka asked.
"That's the name she goes by here," Shizuru answered.
The girls watched as the game went on. By 7 o'clock Natsuki, Hachi and Saki were left.
"It's always us at the end," Saki commented.
"Don't worry I'll be the one left sitting," Hachi smiled.
"Let's just play guys," Natsuki could feel crimson eyes taking in her body.
"Oh that's right. Duran needs to go be with her girl," Hachi said. A tint of red appeared on Duran's face.
The game went on and after a couple more hours Saki had lost. Now it was just Hachi and Natsuki left. The game didn't end until after 11 with Natsuki being the winner. The dealer told Natsuki she had to show up at 2 p. m. on Wednesday. This allowed the winner of Tuesday to get a good night of sleep. Natsuki walked over to the girls that were waiting for her.
"Congratulations Duran," Shizuru pounced on Natsuki.
"Congratulations," Yukino said. Haruka only nodded.
Len was in the corner and he caught Natsuki's eye.
"Hey guys give me a second," she pulled Shizuru off of her and walked towards Len.
Ruby eyes followed Natsuki. They watched all of Natsuki's reactions. Shizuru saw Natsuki finish talking and the two went their separate ways.
"Is everything alright Duran?" Shizuru asked when Natsuki walked back to the girls.
The raven-haired girl ignored the question and asked her own. "Can we go out together after school tomorrow Shizuru?" the young girl blushing a little.
"Yes," joy wanting to burst out of the kaichou even though her question was just ignored.
"Cool then I'll come to the school to get you. So I will walk you to your car now," she led them to the exit.
"But I want to talk to you," Shizuru said. She was getting concerned that she wouldn't be able to ask Natsuki her questions.
"We'll talk tomorrow on our date. Now you guys be careful heading back," she told them as they got to the car.
Yukino and Haruka got into the car. Shizuru however, held her ground.
"Is something wrong Shizuru?"
"I," she collected herself, "I will see you tomorrow right Natsuki?"
Natsuki looked at her confused. "Of course you will. I'll come to school and we'll go on our date," she said then she kissed Shizuru on the lips while she pulled down the kaichou's collar. Natsuki broke the kiss and leaned to kiss and give a quick lick on her brand that was on Shizuru.
This action caused the calm, collected kaichou to collapse into the passenger's seat.
"See ya tomorrow," Natsuki said as she shut the door and waved them off as Haruka drove away.
Len was waiting for Natsuki with Nao.
"Alright, so I'm taken care of Asa, Natsuki will be playing cards, and you and Roku will take care of the General and the other two guys," Nao said.
"Actually Natsuki will probably be dealing with the General. He signed up so if he plays like she does then it will probably be them on Wednesday," Len informed her.
"I only saw that one guy here tonight."
"The others are probably looking for their friends. But they'll definitely be here Wednesday." He saw Natsuki walking toward them.
"Hey pup not going with your girl," Nao smirked.
"I'll be seeing her tomorrow. Len, we can discuss everything Wednesday. I don't need to be here till 2 so we can meet early. Right now I want to get a lot of sleep so I can give Shizuru the best day of her life."
"I agree Natsuki. Plus I got everything set up for you to leave. But that can wait. Nao get her out of here. I have a feeling Shizuru is going to wear her out tomorrow."
"Wow you meet the girl of your dreams just to lose her a few days later. Well, be sure to enjoy yourself tomorrow," Nao told her.
"Shut up spider," the biker said not able to hide her blush.
It was a little after midnight by the time the two girls collapsed onto their own beds.
-At the dorm's-
"I'm happy for you kaichou-san," Yukino said not being able to miss the happiness evident on Shizuru.
"Thank you Kikukawa-san." Shizuru was trying to calm her beating her heart.
The three girls went into the dorm room they were sharing. Haruka stopped Shizuru before she went in.
"Remember that tomorrow may be the last time you see her for a while kaichou. Make tomorrow count," Haruka then went into the room.
That comment brought Shizuru back to reality. 'I will make tomorrow count,' she thought to herself before going into the room to go to sleep as well.
Well what do you all think? The tournament has started finally. What is going to happen?
Yeah I know this chapter is a bit short but I thought it would be better to separate the days of the tournament.
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Thanks for reading!