A/N: Thank you, thank you very much for reading the previous chapter. Hope you like the new one now. Enjoy~

I don't own Hakuouki nor the cover story. The cover story is actually a doujin that I found from Japanese shop online. But if you guys found the original artist PM me.

Warnings: OOC-ness, typos, grammar error, AU

Chapter 9

And so, the cultural festival has finally begun. Just as Chizuru expected, most of students and teachers were quite busy for the preparations of culture festival. In class B-49, they held a theme of 'Maid Cat Café', in which most boys were excited to go there later then. But of course, Kaoru is being an over-protective brother as usual, he wants to make sure only at least less than 10 students came into class B-49, just to make sure Chizuru wouldn't get panic when students or teachers want to order by her. While the other of classes, C-77, where Okita and Heisuke were, they were holding of making of Takoyaki Stand, outside of school buildings, volunteered by Chizuru's childhood friend since he's always been good in making takoyaki while he's working from one of his part-time job. As for class A-15, they were holding a theme of Haunted Mansion although the President wanted to be much more grand and elegant, and in the end, Kazama didn't participate of culture festival in class A-15.

"I feel a little uncomfortable somehow…" Chizuru said in nervous, as she already finished change herself into a maid dress and a cat-headband. The brunette also tied her long black hair into a lower pig-tailed hairstyled. The skirt was a bit short in which, it reached to her knees. Although her high school uniform is shorter than the maid's one, yet the dress still looked uncomfortable to wear it…

"Don't worry you look great!" Ibuki said, tried to cheer up his friend though it make her felt even more uncomfortable than before. "No need to be worry about, Chizuru. After all, we're all here too. You're not the only that need to take care of. We'll try our best for the sake of culture festival!"

"But… I get the feeling that they want me to be served one.." she muttered under her breathed, sighed softly.

As Ibuki returned back to continue on work before the culture festival started, a few classmates began to talk.

"It's very unlike seeing Ibuki looked excited before…"

"Isn't it obvious?" Student 1 said. "The Principal have announced to everyone that to those classes who have the most voting of all, the grand prize would be a voucher of free foods in cafeteria. You should've known that."

"Oh yeah…"

Chizuru accidently eavesdropping of their conversation and remembered that Ibuki is.. well, despite he's been adopting by a rich man named as Serizawa, yet the blunette boy's life still like a poor one, in which, he doesn't have enough much money to buy in cafeteria, though he only ended up able to eat anba(or sweet roll) and milk only, which is, most of her classmates felt pity for him…

"By the way Chizuru-chan," one of her classmate begun to speak her.

"Yes?"

"There's still some time for the culture festival. So why don't you go and take a look at other classes."

"Are you sure about this?"

"Yup."

"Well.. um, okay. If you insist.." at that, Chizuru bowed, thanking for the classmates for giving a permission to go out from class B-49, and left. She hated to admit herself, but she actually didn't feel good going out from class since the brunette could felt someone.. or maybe a few of students stared at her in suspicious way in which it gives her shivered down on all over her spine already.

As she took on the left side of hallway, her arm stretched to backward, as if someone was pulled her. Without hesitated, Chizuru turned around to see whoever it was and it's none other than the President. Feeling relaxed for a moment as she no longer could felt people staring at her already. She gets the feeling that most of them were still feared of Oni President.

"K-Kazama-senpai!"

"Why didn't you tell me that you're going to go out from class?"

"Oh, well, I.. I actually didn't know my classmates let me to go out for a moment that's all…" she answered nervously. "I'm sorry for not telling you earlier…"

The President sighed out, stroking her arm to reach her hand, and held it, letting his fingers entwined together with hers.

"As long as I'm together with you, then it's alright." He said, walking together with his future wife in the hallway as the others were busying in preparations of culture festival.

"So, um…" Chizuru began. "I.. I've heard that you didn't helping along with class A-15. Are you sure about this, senpai?"

"Oh, worry about me, I see." Kazama smirked, he can see Chizuru's face began to turn red already.

"O-Of course not! It's just that.. well, I'm worried that what would happen to class A-15 without your help.." she mumbled.

"There's no need to concern of. Since the theme of class A-15 was Tea Ceremony in last year, it's been decided that I'll let either of them volunteer any theme although I would've expected it would be much grander than the last one…." Kazama sighed.

Chizuru ended up giggling, feeling slight pity for the President.

"By the way senpai, I won't be out here longer since my class's preparations are almost done. They just let me take a look at other classes, that's all."

"Is that so?" Kazama said. "In that case, I'll visit in your class to pick you up after your job is over."

"I'm sorry for disappointing you but I can't do that."

"Oh? Why?"

"Well, after my job in café is over, I'll need to see Saitou-senpai for Music theme this time and I don't want to wait them longer for me." She replied, feeling regretful for refuse to go out with him.

"There's still some time to spend some precious time together for both of us. There's no need to concern of."

"Ah.. well, I-"

There's no point to fight with the President no matter what. Every time she's having an argue with him, in the end, Kazama will ended up winning. And so, she sighed out heavily, given up to fight him back, in which she can hear the blonde-haired man was smirking widely.

As the cultural festival finally began, Chizuru prepared herself before they're coming by practicing on how she wanted to speak to the students and teachers politely. Of course, she wouldn't forget of how she needed to add the end of sentences of '–nyan'. After all, the theme of her class is a 'Maid Cat Café', right? If it wasn't for Okita's help, everyone would've already laugh at her for not adding sound like a cat properly..

"So Chizuru, are you ready?" Ibuki asked after he finally finished wearing a butler suit, in which it actually looked good on him.

"I.. I guess you could say I'm a bit nervous.." the brunette laughed awkwardly.

"Don't worry. Just try your best, alright? Oh, there's your new customer! Go and serve him." He said, pointed at one of student from different class entered at their café and took at one of a seat.

Chizuru gulped down on her saliva into her throat and took a deep breathed to calm herself down, bravely went to her first customer, spoke with such a very soft and low tone, holding a small note too, while the other hand she held a black pen.

"Wel.. welcome home, Master. What would you like to have for today..nyan?" whispered very quietly at the end of word.

It took some time then the student took an order. He's been stared at the brunette for a quite while, couldn't heard what she said just now in which, she has to speak in second times. Despite how her other classmates helped along with her, some of students were quite disappointing for not able to serve by her.

After she served a few students then, a familiar student entered to her class. She confidently spoke to him since Chizuru has been closed with him little by little now..

"Welcome back, Master Okita. You must be tired-nyan."

"Oh, you're quite good on making a sound like a cat. That's good." Okita said.

The brunette nodded slightly. "Well, everything's all thanks to you. If it wasn't for you, I would end up embarrassing myself in front of people."

"Well, too bad that I couldn't able to see you in embarrass for today." Okita said in half-joking and half-serious.

"M-Master Okita…" she whined slightly, in which it make the emerald-orbs man laughed. "It's a joke Chizuru-chan~"

Her almond-brown orbs blinked for a moment, soon remembered that there something she curiously want to know of a few days ago…

"Okita-senpai, there's something I would like to know.."

"Hm? And what is that about?"

"About… a few days ago.. why did you… why did you kissed back then?" She asked softly, to make sure none of students nor her friends listening to their conversation.

She remembered how Okita suddenly kissed her chhek before she came into her house back, especially how strange behavior he had back then; suddenly called her name without adding '-chan'. It was… very unlike Okita at all..

She tried to read the emerald-orbs man's expression, though she couldn't tell what kind of expression he used right now.

Later then, Okita ended up smirking widely, spoke to her in his usual teasing tone.

"Kiss you? Since when did I kiss you, Chizuru-chan?"

"Eh?" Chizuru blinked in confused and puzzled.

"You must have daydreaming of kissing by me, Chizuru-chan~" he said in a sing-along tone then.

Chizuru stared suspiciously, wasn't quite sure whether he was answering her in truth.. or maybe he didn't want to talk about that. At that, she let it be as Chizuru served him some snacks and a cup of tea, until he thanked her for being his personal maid in which, it made her blushed a little.

After a few hours she's been serving students in her class, once another student or teacher comes into her class, that would be the last customer she would need to serve since she needs to go for Music Club then.

Ah, he's here!, Chizuru thought, as she heard the sliding door was opening. Took a deep breathed to use a very cheerful tone for her last customer this time:

"Welcome home Master-nyaan!"

When she turned around and greeted cheerfully to the customer, her world suddenly stop the time as soon as she realized the person that she greeted just now is none other than the Student Council President.

There, Kazama stood there with an unknown expression on his face that the brunette couldn't able to tell whether he's mad or angry, but she can tell it's not going to be good after this.

She knew Kazama would rather her calls him 'Husband' than 'Master'. Feared of seeing he anger for her, Chizuru shut her almond-brown orbs tightly.

"Master, huh…?"

For a moment then, the brunette finally opened her eyes, the President gripped his chin with his fist like Okita's as if he was in a deep thought.

His expressionless changed into a very big smirked on his face then. "Can't be help, for once then."

As Chizuru was about to ask what does he meant, Kazama gripped Chizuru's chin then, and moved her face to his until their noses were touching to each other. Her cheeks turned into brightly red.

"As much as I prefer you to be my wife more, since I'm your Master from now on, you'll have to obey my command whether you like it or not, yes?"

"Eh?! Wh-what do you mean by that?!" She said, flushed in red even deeper again.

"Oh, I think you know what I meant… right?" He said in seductively at the end of it, in which it made the brunette embarrassed. Kazama smirked once tilted his head closer to hers, as if he was intending to kiss her.

Feeling a little panic, she shut her eyes tightly, feared of what the President intended to do but soon feeling glad that someone stopped the commotion.

"Oh hey Chizuru. I think it's about time for you to take a day off." Ibuki said.

Chizuru turned away from Kazama, in which it disappointed the President a litt,e the brunette looked at her classmate in confused.

"Eh? Are you sure about this?"

He nodded.

"Sure. After all, wouldn't want your boyfriend waiting for ya."

At that, her cheeks turned into deep scarlet once more after what she heard from her friend.

"He-he's not my boyfriend!"

"Yea, yea.. whatever. Anyway, go on already. Your Music club thing is almost starting in a few hours, right?"

"Ah.. that's right." She said, bowed at her friend in thankfully. "Thank you for everything, Ryuunosuke-kun"

As soon as the blunette boy left them alone, the President smirked widely, wrapped his arms under his broad-chested. "As much as I don't like peasant like him, I'd really like him," his smirk widen once more, glad that someone like Ibuki has also thought the brunette was belonging to none other than the President.

Chizuru sighed once more. "I told you... you're not my boyfriend."

"Well, whatever." He ignored her. "Anyway, we should get going. Wouldn't want to waste our precious time, right?"

"O-oh... right." She said, ready to leave from her class with the President despite she hasn't had a time to change..

As they walked along on the hallway, Kazama's expression turned into grim as he could felt someone.. or maybe a few of them were watching both of them in suspiciously somewhere that they could hid themselves. The longer he kept ignoring from getting stares of, the President had a very bad feeling if he doing nothing. He can't tell what they intended on doing while they were hiding and at the same time, stalking the two of them in quietly right now. But what he knew that the reasons they've been following them since they've left from class B-49 is..

What they have an eyed for were only Chizuru.

It's obviously that all boys in Hakuou Academy were always staring with a very creepy expression on their faces, not to mention, they even drooling over for her as if it was the first time seeing a girl in a maid. Those bastards…! Didn't they know that the girl belongs to the President already? They should've known that since it's already proof that she mostly spent her times with him while the brunette rarely spent time with others even her own childhood friend.

As Chizuru finally noticed of Kazama's strange behavior, she looked at him in worriedly, wanting to know if her presence was bothering him..

"Um.. is something wrong?"

The President looked at her in stern for a moment shook his slightly, not wanting to make her worried although it still make the brunette worried even more..

"It's nothing, really."

At that, she let it be like that, following the President to wherever he wanted to go until the Music theme is almost about to begin.

At first, they went outside of school building, looking for the Takoyaki Stand where class C-77 owned it. As the couple finally found it, Chizuru happily to see her childhood friend again as Heisuke was busying on making takoyakis for the customers that they've been waiting for.

"Heisuke-kun~!" Chizuru greeted joyfully, waved her arm to her childhood friend, in which the brunette boy noticed her, grinned to her widely in return. "Yo, Chizuru! Taking a day off, eh?"

She nodded. "Yup. But I still need to go on the stage for Music Club."

"Oh yeah. I almost forgot. You must be tired since you've also had taken care of for your class too.."

"Yes… but I'm getting used to it of working a lot…" she laughed awkwardly.

"By the way Chizuru," Heisuke began. "Since you're here, I'll make takoyakis for you two." As much as I hate that Kazama bastard.. I don't want Chizuru hated me…

He mumbled under his breathed of how much he hated the President quite a lot. Of course, most of students in Hakuou Academy were truly hated him because of how rich he is and not to forget of his attitude. Then again, if the boy do admitted to himself in front of his own childhood friend, Chizuru wouldn't like Heisuke sooner or later then…

"Did you say something, Heisuke-kun?" Chizuru asked, noticed the boy was grumbling something.

"O-Oh! It's nothing really." He lied. "I was just talking to myself that's all," laughed once more.

"Oh, okay. But… are you sure about this? I mean, making takoyakis without any payment?"

"Don't worry, don't worry. It's my treat, Chizuru. After all, you've come visited to our stand and in return, I'll make the best takoyakis you ever ate!"

"Th-thank you very much, Heisuke-kun." She said gratefully.

As Heisuke grinned once more, his customers began to start angry and mad.

"Oi Heisuke! How long would my takoyakis finish? We could understand she's your childhood friend, but should you taking care for your customers that coming first?" a few students spoke in annoying tone.

The brunette boy almost forgot of his customers the moment he met Chizuru again.

"Oh, right! Sorry to keep you guys waiting!" he said, continued on making the takoyakis once more. "I'm sorry Chizuru but could you wait for a moment? I'll take care of the others first."

"Oh… It's alright, Heisuke-kun."

At that, the couple was waiting for Heisuke to finish on making takoyakis for them and when it finally finished, Chizuru thanked him once more, as they went someplace to sit for eating the takoyakis that her childhood friend made.

As Chizuru was about to eat it, the President stopped her in which she looked confused of him.

"It's still hot. You don't want to burn your tongue, do you?"

"O-Oh… sorry.." she muttered under breathed, could've sworn the President was smirking.

"Don't worry, I'll cool it off then," at that, Kazama took Chizuru's wrist where she held a stick of takoyaki with her hand, and blew it softly until they were no longer hot anymore.

As soon as Chizuru munched it, she didn't know the takoyaki was very delicious one. She also never thought Heisuke was really quite good in making of takoyaki since she always known him such a very lazy boy one who spent his life playing video games only..

"How is it?"

He asked her, on which she replied with nodding, smiling gently on her face.

"It's good. You should try it too, Kazama-senpai," as she said that, Chizuru moved a stick of takoyaki to Kazama as if she gladly to feed him like the fruit parfait one and say 'aaah', though she actually didn't realized what she was doing..

The President was a bit surprised how she intended to feed him when she always kept refusing to feed him back when it was summer vacation. Without hesitated, Kazama tilted his head, took the takoyaki and munched it all.

"So how is it, Kazama-senpai? Is it good?"

The President nodded slightly and grinned.

"I'm a bit surprised how you were gladly feed me even though you've kept refusing to do it when I asked you that in the swimming pool back then."

As his smirk grown into widely, Chizuru's cheeks turned into red.

"W-Well, the takoyakis are really good and all, and I just thought that maybe you should give it a try.." she mumbled, avoiding looked at his handsome face.

"Hmph. As much as I prefer something much more grand, but getting feed by my wife would be exceptional one."

And so, after finished on eating the takoyaki, they began to continue on looking some other classes' themes. When Kazama asked her if she would like to go to class A-15, the brunette shook her head without hesitated since she never gone to haunted mansion before so she feared she ended up on clinging onto him if something that made her shocked happened then. Though Kazama didn't looked disappointing when she refused. Instead, he ended up smirking once more, continued on going to different class then.

Once again, the President could felt the same suspicious stare from behind as before. Just like he expected for, it's gotten worse than before. For a moment then, Kazama gripped her hand tightly in which it confused the brunette a little. As she was about to ask him, he spoke first:

"I'm sorry, Chizuru."

She was surprised a little of how he apologized to her for a moment. But… why would he need to apologize to her, anyway? Did he do something that she didn't like..?

The next thing she knew, Kazama was dashing along the hallway, still holding Chizuru's hand, in which she forced herself to run along with him too. She started to become panic as to why the President suddenly ran on the hallway.

"K-Kazama-senpai, what's wrong?" Chizuru asked worriedly, still running together with him though the crimson-red orbs man didn't replied anything.

The President didn't say any word yet, focusing on where they needed to run off to get away from whoever was following them.

As his eyes finally laid on the familiar room, Kazama opened the sliding door, closed it then, leaning against the wall next to the door and put his other hand on Chizuru's lips to make sure she won't say any word of it as he embraced her body to his tightly. There, his crimson-red orbs focus on the door; wanting to make sure the people who were been stalking them are gone. Just as he thought, they were none other than the seniors from different classes who intended to take a picture of his future wife. Sure, she's very cute and all, and not all girls wearing a maid dress in culture festival before but Chizuru is belonging to the President only, not even anyone who could dared to take a picture of her.

As she waited to get out from a dark room, Chizuru could felt her cheeks were burning in red as she was getting embraced by the President tightly. She could smell his perfume as well as she could felt his hot breathed on her skin. As much as she's getting used to getting closer with him, but somehow little by little, she realized her heart-beat was moving swiftly than before.

What is this feeling she felt?

Why's her heart was beating in swiftly?

What kind of feeling she felt for President other than admiration?

As she was in a deep thought, she could hears someone was sighing in frustrated.

"Damn.. I think we've lost them already.."

"We should've known that Kaichou-sama noticed us already.."

"Can't be help but we've still need to look for them."

"Right!"

As a few seniors had finally left from the hallway, Kazama loosen their embracing, opened the sliding door and left from the dark room.

"As I expected, they've been following us all this time."

"What? Why?" Chizuru asked curiously.

"Isn't it obvious?" Kazama looked at her in grim expression. "Of course they were stalking you."

"M-Me?!," she exclaimed.

"Don't be surprise, waga yume. You should've known that already." He sighed. "Hakuou Academy is obviously doesn't have any student of girl and I guess that must their first time seeing a girl wearing a maid dress in school before. In my prediction, I think they intended to take a picture of you and possibility blackmailing you."

"B-Blackmailing me?!"

"Like I said, it's just my prediction. It may be true, but it may be also wrong."

At that, they've been stood there, not sure for how long, until the President held her hand once more.

"Let's go. I think it's almost start for your Music Club about to begin."

"O-Oh.. yes, you're right." She murmured softly, walking together along at the hallway once more as they were on their way to get to the school hall where the members of Music Club were.

"Yukimura-kun, where were you? We've been looking all over for you." Yamazaki said in a worry tone, feeling exhausted as he's been searching for the brunette all over the places.

"Ah.. I'm sorry, Yamazaki-san. I don't mean to make you worry for me.." she said in apologetically.

"It's fine. You might as well change yourself into your school uniform. You bring it, right?"

The brunette nodded.

"Then, change in the closet room right there," Yamazaki said, pointed his finger at where the closet room is. "It's about to start already."

She went to the closet, and started to change it with her uniform clothes. Once she was all ready, Chizuru and the other members of Music Club which are, Saitou, Yamazaki and another student, begin to go on the stage, starting to play music. Just the students were expected from the Music Club, they played very spectacular one. It was much better than the last year.. well, thanks to Chizuru, if it wasn't for her help, not a lot of students nor teachers would be grateful at all.

It was took a few music they played until the sky had finally turned into orange-red color. And the Music theme had ended already.

And so, the cultural festival has finally ended until evening, everyone started to clean up all the messes they made in classes, outside of school buildings and other place. Kondou had already announced of who's the winner of class's theme and in the end, it was obviously none other than the class B-49, in which it make Ibuki looked happy like a young child. Unfortunately, he soon became very disappointed as soon as he finally found out that the grand prize was actually a library card, not having free food...

Once everything's over, Harada told her to bring all of the things that they've been borrowed for class B-49 back to the Student Council room. What it relief her the most is that it's good thing Kazama wasn't in the office since she's still remembered how he held her tightly as they waited for the students to stop taking a picture of her.. just thinking how close she is with him, she could felt her heart was beating in swiftly.. she wondered why would she felt like that toward him, anyway…?

"Thank you very much for returning back all the things that your class had borrowed for your theme, Yukimura-dono." Amagiri said, as he took a box from Chizuru, putting it on the top of bookshelf.

Chizuru shook her head slightly, "Actually, it was I'm the one that need to thank for. After all, I did ask you, Shiranui-senpai and Kazama-senpai for permission to borrow it." She said, still wondering how would the Student Council Club would have some maids and butlers clothes…

"It seems so." The red-headed man chuckled slightly.

Chizuru ended up smiling once, bowed in politely to take a leave, but soon stopped at the door as soon as she remembered there's something she wanted to know about it for a while now….

"...Say, Amagiri-senpai?"

"Yes?" Amagiri faced to Chizuru, almost surprised to see her still in the Student Council room.

"There's something that bothered me a little now."

The red-headed man remained quiet for a moment, and when she still hasn't spoke anything, he began to say, "Did Kazama-sama done to you anything? If he does pick on you, there's no need to tell me in hesitated. I can always try and stop him."

"Ah.. no. He's..he's been very kind to me. But…," she trailed off for a moment, continued to speak as she looked at his eyes. "It's a bit bothered me.. how he calls me his wife even though I never agree anything about marriage before. What made Kazama-senpai has a habit of calling me as a wife when we're both of us just a friend, anyway?"

"I believe that, the reason why Kazama-sama kept calling you that is may be because of your family's background." Amagiri answered in honestly.

"My.. family's background?" Chizuru blinked in confused.

"Yes." He nodded, leaned against the wall. "Kazama-sama has taken liking you the moment you were introducing yourself as Yukimura Taiki. In Japan, there isn't a lot of family that known of tea ceremony. So far, the Yukimura family is the only one that knows of tea ceremony and also one of the richest families in Japan."

"But.. my family is no longer one of tea ceremony family anymore.." she murmured, as she remembered her life was no longer like it used to be ever since her family died in car accident. Somehow it hurt her a little just thinking about of that event…

"I'm truly sorry for your parent's demise, Yukimura-dono," Amagiri said in guilty tone, feeling regretful for talking about her family.

"Ah.. n-no.. it's alright, Amagiri-senpai," Chizuru flailed her arms in front of her in multiple, and laughed awkwardly.

Thanking him once more as she was about to leave from school building already, thought for a moment as to what would happened then if the brunette told him of her parent's demise? Would he changes his mind and stops calling her his wife anymore?

Feeling determined to herself, Chizuru decided to explain everything to the Oni President later then.

A/N: A very big thank you for reading Change once again :D Somehow, I'd really can't wait for whoever people make a walkthrough for Kazama's route in Shinkai. I get the feeling that, his route would be long like the Shinsengumi's and his main villain would be the badass one too than Kodou lol xD

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