Chap 12: Just another normal day

From previous chapter: "My only wish is to be with you but until I pay off all my debts to her family, I could not leave. Sorry, Midori."

"I already know but I have to try." Midori sadly smiled. She stroked her girlfriend's hair gently and pushed her a bit forward so their eye could reach each other. They shared a tender kiss.

"I wish you could stay." It was merely a murmur from Yohko but it was loud enough for Midori to hear.

"I want too but they need me. My people need me."

"I know. I know. It's just… life won't be joyful without you here." Yohko heavily sighed and rested her head on her lover's shoulder.

"Well, perhaps without me here, you could test your experiments on some stupid youkai and make their live more miserable than I already did." Midori straightened her shoulder and calmly waited for her girlfriend's wrath since she knew too well what Yohko could do when anyone dared to make a joke about her belove science projects then they would be punished in the most horrible way.

As expected, Yohko' eyes darkened and Midori swore that she could see the dark aura around her girlfriend. Suddenly she felt a horrible chill run down her spine. She swallowed hard and several sweat drops already formed on her forehead. Yohko could be really scary sometimes.

"Ano, Yohko, it's just a joke. Your…your…well your works are fantastic. They help us in many cases." Midori waved both of her hands frantically. However, instead of seeing the angry evil Yohko, Midori saw the most beautiful smile on Yohko' lips. It was rarely to see this girl smile, she was always too serious despite her age.

"Ehehe, you're not mad?" Midori nervously scratched her cheek and looked at Yohko sheepishly.

"Yes, I'm am." Yohko sternly replied and hardly pinched Midori's cheek with a sweet smile on her lips.

"Ouch..ouch…it's hurt." Midori rubbed her sored cheek and she pouted cutely which got her a soft kiss from her girlfriend.

"I'm gonna miss you for sure." Yohko sighed heavily while resting her head on Midori's shoulder. Nothing they could do at this time because each of them had different role in this story after all.

"It seemed our princess is gonna wake up soon. I think it's my leave then." Midori softly told Yohko and quickly gave a peck on her cheek. "See you soon. I miss you already." She whishpered then left without further words.

Yohko unconsciously touched her own cheek on which she just got a sweet kiss. She smiled like an idiot so she did not realize that someone was behind her.

"She left?" The soft and questionable voice took her out of her daze.

"Hai. How much did you hear?" Yohko asked straight to the point since she knew she could not fool this girl who had very sharp eyes.

"The part when she told you that I would be awake soon." She calmly replied and headed to the only couch in the room.

"Do you wanna ask anything?"

Yohko turned to the small kitchen in the infirmary to prepare some snack for them. It was around three in the morning and she knew that Sachiko did not have anything last night due to her unconscious state.

Sachiko kept silence until Yohko was back with a tray of tea and different kinds of cookies. They gave each other a pleasant smile to express that there were no need for having any heavy conversations at all.

"I don't think I need to know anything from your conversation." Sachiko gracefully blew the smoke around her cup and took a small sip. She slowly ate some cookies and asked Yohko about thing that happened after she was black out.

Yohko happily replied all the questions from this young lady. As expected from Rosa Chinensis en bouton who was famous for her beauty and calm manner. She showed no surprise or any sights of angry about those disrespected creatures that dared to step their foot in this school ground even though there was a treaty that clearly stated that no matter what happened, no one could set a foot on the school ground before there was permission from the principal. After telling everything Yohko knew to Sachiko, they continued with their snack and talked about other thing, but there was nothing about family, school work or even their world. It was surprise that they had many same interests, such as gardening, reading and collecting rare herbs.

They chatted until Sachiko felt too tired to continue so she wanted to return to her dorm but Yohko suggested that she should stay here since it was too late. As if Yohko could guessed the reason why Sachiko hesitated before giving in.

"You can use the extra uniform in here. However, it may a bit bigger than your size, but I think it's OK just for a day." She playfully winked at the serious young girl.

Not showing any surprise because Yohko could knew her reason of hesitation. Sachiko already heard about the ability of reading people of Yohko sensei so she did not gave any questions because she did not want to reveal her really true self.

"Arigato, sensei."

She gave Sachiko some pills to help her fully recover by the next day and gave her the uniform, which was brand new by the look of it. After saying goodnight to each other, both of them went to their respective places.

That was all for the day of a not so normal school doctor and a rich heiress.

-Sachiko's classroom-

She was sitting at her usual place when Rei came in. Sachiko was really appreciate her friendship between her and Rei because most of people that she knew only care about her family status. She cared for her as a good friend and never questioned about Sachiko's actions even though sometimes she was really overreact the problem.

"Ohayo, Sachiko. You look better."

"Ohayo, Rei. I completely recover now. Yohko sensei did well. It's her job after all." Sachiko gently replied. There was a hint of playfulness in her tone because Sachiko could loose herself a bit when she was around her true friends.

"Yeah, she's good." Rei slightly chuckle but she stopped immediately when other classmates looked at their direction. Not all of them admired Sachiko and her, there were enemy too so they are always careful. They shared a knowing smile to tell each other that they could continue their story at lunch break at Rose mansion. Before, turning to her seat, Rei said something that made Sachiko's heart skipped a beat.

"Ah, Sachiko. I hope you won't let Yumi chan get out of your hand since I think she cares for you a lot. You should saw how she acted yesterday. And she's strong too. Anyway, we'll talk later." Rei winked at her and walked to her seat.

That statement kept repeating in her head for the rest of the day. Her mind was wandering around the dream between Yumi and someone who looked exactly like her. However, deep down in her heart, Sachiko could tell that girl and her were very similar. The difference was she was not as happy as the girl in her dream.

"Hey, Sachiko. Earth to Sachiko."

A loud voice and waving hand in front of her misty eyes that snapped her out of the trance. Sachiko cleared her throat and quickly composed her usual self.

"How can I help you, Rei?" She formally asked without knowing that she was unfocused all day and their class already over ten minutes ago.

"Class is over. We have to hurry to our extra session, Sachiko. What's the matter?" Even though, she knew that she would not get any answer from Sachiko but Rei had to voice out her worry.

"I'm fine, Rei. Perhaps, I'm not fully recover. We should go, now."

Sachiko stood up and walked toward the door to imply that she did not want to talk about it anymore. Thus, they quietly left the academic area and slowly walked to their training area, which was a restrict area for normal student.

-FORBIDDEN WOOD-

When they arrived, the rest of Yamayurikai already was there. They was keeping other underclassmen in line since the teacher was not here yet. Only Sachiko knew that Midori sensei would not be here but she did not tell anyone because that was what Yohko asked her to do this morning before she left the infirmary.

"Finally, you're here. Sachiko, Rei help me control them. They're so excited at the thought of not having class today. Geezz. Whenever Midori sensei is late, they become like that. What happened to her anyway. She seemed OK last night. Ah, as for you know, Sachiko. Yumi is here too. You know what that means, right?" At first, her onee sama sounded really irritated but her voice became softer when she mentioned at Yumi.

When the name came out from Youko's mouth, the sound of it made Sachiko's heart flutter. Her eyes automatically searched for the beautiful brown hair girl who had saved her yesterday and also was in her dream for months. She was sure that unrecognized figure in her dream was Yumi since they had many similar features.

Her lips curved into a thin smile when she saw Yumi. She was having an animatic conversation with Yoshino Shimazu and Shimako Toudou. They were talking and laughing as if they were known each other for years. It made Sachiko feel a bit of jealousy because of their closeness toward Yumi.

"Calm down, Sachiko. Don't let the green monster out yet." Rei smirked when she saw the fire in Sachiko's eyes. She was curious so she followed her friend's gaze and immediately understand what is going on. That's why she playfully told Sachiko that which made her friend shoot one of her famous death glare.

It was noticed by their upperclassmen, which were three Rosa of Yamayurikai. They shared their knowing smile. It seemed one of them was ready to tease Sachiko mercilessly but she had no time for it.

They went alarm when the sound of running footsteps became closer and closer to their direction. They told all the students to prepare themselves. But it turned out that it was their new teacher.

Their new teacher was none other than Natsuki Kruger, right hand of their beloved principal. Half of them were thrilled with the news that they got an attractive sensei in their class. They had admired from far whenever she had to take over the class for Midori sensei when she did some errands for school. They liked Midori sensei too but not as much as Natsuki. Even though, she was cold but she was not a cruel type.

Anyway, after explaining the reason to her students, Natsuki ask the Yamayurikai to divide all the students into three groups, which were based on their ability. However, this was Yumi's first class so they did not know her ability yet so they let Natsuki handle this case.

For Yumi part, she felt a mix of calm and uneasy at the sight of this new sensei. She did not know why this girl had the smell of the special tea that only Shizuru Fujino had. It was the unique recipe so she was sure that there were noone could know it. Moreover, Natsuki' eyes reminded Yumi her purple haired friend who had helped her and Sachiko several hundred years ago. (Could anyone guess Natsuki's identity at this point of the story?)

Yumi could read all the thoughts of these students except the entire Yamayurikai members and their new sensei. She did not mind about Yamayurikai because she thought that they probably had been trained at advanced level. Otherwise, they could not get the part of protecting this school ground. However, not only she could not read her sensei's mind but she also could not sense her power either. Beside the ability of reading other mind, she could also sense other ability. Thus, she was kind of worry when Youko Mizuno let her sensei decide about her group. She inwardly wish she could get into Sachiko' group which was for advanced level. There were only twenty of them in this group including all the council members, as expected though.

Acknowledge the situation, even though Natsuki knew how well Yumi was but she did not want to reveal it so she made a safe move by testing Yumi in front of them. Being with Shizuru helped her reading people very well. She could see some hatred looks for Yumi among her students. Perhaps because of what happened yesterday. News flew fast.

"Alright, Fukuzawa san. Please come here." Natsuki pointed the place which was in front of her. She tried to act normal in front of Shizuru's master. Keeping her mind and her ability in control took a lot of energy from her and she did not get enough sleep lastnight and even this morning. All thanked for her girlfriend.

"Hai" Yumi quickly walked toward Natsuki's direction.

They stared at each other for awhile. The atmostphere around them became dangerously quiet but none dared to break the silence. Until Natsuki cleared her throat and looked at the Youko Mizuno.

"Alright, Mizuno san. Can you get me the best one in each group?"

Youko knew what it meant so she quickly followed the order. It was easily the find the best in the other groups but for advanced group she did not know how to choose. At advanced level, most of them already developed their own specialty so it was kind of difficult to know who was better than whom. Thus she told Natsuki her problem.

"Fukuzawa san, have you ever been any training session?" Natsuki politely asked Yumi, though she already knew the answer too well.

"This…uhm…yes." Yumi sheepishly scratched her head and tried not to sound too nervous, but she fell terribly. She desperately hoped that her sensei was not going to ask her detail of the training.

"I, see. OK. Class, today we have new classmate. She'll join our training from today. Since I don't know her ability yet so we'll have a trial fight to figure which group she would be. OK. I want a fair fight. No dirt play, please. Or you all know the consequence." Natsuki did not ask anything else; she faced her students, and sternly pronounced her decision.

She point at the best one from first group to join the circle which Yumi was in. The rule was whoever was out of the circle first was lost. They could use their power and combat skills but they could not cause any deep wounds so pointed weapon was prohibited. There would be great deal of consequence if they dared to broke the rule.

"OK. Begin now."

After Natsuki gave out the start signal, everyone focused to the upcoming battle. It was Aki Matsumoto, whom Yumi was going to fight with. She was known one of the most cruel student when it came to fighting for her position. She was first year so she could not compare to some senior but it was said that sooner or later in this year she would be in the advanced group. She would eliminate her competitor in all possible way to get their position.

"Hi, I'm…" Before Yumi could politely introduce herself, her opponent already stroked at her repeatedly with her punches. They all seemed to cause a bad headache if she got just one but Yumi was not any novice in this game of fight. She ducked the first few blow and started to fight back with the same amount of strength.

Yumi quickly figured out this girl only had physical strength and her magic power belonged to some low class being. Yumi intended to have a friendly fight to defeat this girl but since she used so many dangerous moves, Yumi decided to play with her a bit with some more strength. (Of course, not Yumi real power)

Out of the circle, Natsuki already knew Yumi's intention. She inwardly laughed at how stupid this girl named Aki something was. She dared to play rough with the head of Fukuzawa house. (The title that Yumi got when her mom and dad were not here.)

Yumi purposely reduced her strength at each move that hit the girl but this girl was so dense to realize that. Thus, she kept increase the amount of trikes toward Yumi and increased the level of strength in each trike.

"Stupid girl" Yumi murmured. She was a bit of impatient due to this girl's ignorance about her kindness. Normally, she would let Aki win but this time was different. This was the chance for her to be closer to Sachiko so there was no way she let her win. Thus, in a lightning move, Yumi smoothly caught Aki's writs and threw her out off the circle.

It caused many gasps from first year student because except Rosa Gigantea en bouton and Rosa Foetida en bouton petite soeur were in the advanced group, most of them were in the first group and Aki was the best among them. To them Yumi was just a new comer and she already defeated Aki completely. Some second year student who already had sparing with Aki were surprise too, because they did not expect the tough Aki was down within five minutes.

"Good. Fukuzawa san won. Matsumoto san, it seems you need to learn more." Natsuki casually pronounced the result of the fight. She signaled two of them stepped back into the circle for the bow after match. Of course, Yumi eagerly followed the order and Aki reluctantly did too.

However, when they were bowing at each other, Aki did a very stupid move.

Not much to say at this point.

Thanks you all reader. :D

Recently I prefer to reader rather than write my own story so it took quite a lot of time to finish this chapter. T_T But I'm assure again that I won't abandon what I started. :D