A/N: Unsure of the title. It's from Cut Copy's song of the same name. I'll be using some of my favorite house/electro tracks as chapter titles. I'd recommend listening to them to get a feel of the story (or so I'd hope). Anyway, the errors are all mine. And forgive me if the story drags on too much, hehe.

Disclaimer: --this thing says it all.


LIGHTS AND MUSIC

1. Where's Your Head At (Jean Elan [Klaas remix])

University of Tokyo, Komaba

A couple of Literature books were hugged against her chest as Shizuru fumbled her jacket pockets, looking for her car keys. She was on her way to the campus parking lot when a loud roar of a motorcycle engine caught her attention. The engine slowed down to silent hum as the motorcycle, a black and orange Suzuki Hayabusa, was now parked next to where she stood.

Shizuru looked up at the biker as she removed her helmet. A pleased little smile was on the female biker's face as it emerged from the headgear; she had been eyeing this kouhai for a long time since she saw her in class. Sweeping her fringe, the biker strutted towards the girl who was still fishing for her keys.

"Hey, Shizuru."

For a brief moment Shizuru felt hopeful when she heard the sound of the motorcycle heading in her direction. Maybe…Just maybe, she thought. Her heart fluttered incessantly inside her chest, but the sensation abruptly vanished as she looked up to see the biker's face.

"Hello, Lu-san."

You're not her, Shizuru thought, now rummaging her bag, still looking for the damned keys. Even though they shared a class together, she had no time for this senpai at all.

"You headed home? I could take you on my bike," the biker suggested, unaware that she was too forward with the girl considering that this was actually their first conversation.

Shizuru smiled politely. "It's all right, Lu-san. I'll be driving my car as soon as I find my keys," she said, gesturing to the attractive coupe nearby.

Anh stepped closer towards her. "Want me to help you find them?" Her voice dropped to a husky whisper.

Shizuru grinned apologetically at her. "Found them," she said as she held the keys to her Nissan GT-R.

As Shizuru turned to unlock her sleek, silver two-seater, Anh grabbed her arm.

"You could have just pretended about not finding them," she whispered close to Shizuru's ear. The girl gingerly removed herself from the biker's tight grasp and unlocked her car.

It was Shizuru's turn to tease. "Why would I do that?" she said with an innocent smile. Before she slipped into the driver's seat, she looked up at the other girl who looked incredulous from the rejection.

"Good day to you, Lu-san." She shut the car door and started the engine. She wanted to go home and call her boyfriend to come over. As she was about to back the car up, a knock on her window caused her to sigh.

She pressed the button to unroll her window. "Yes?"

Anh grinned, recovering from the rejection. "Just call me Anh. And listen," she leaned over the window, closer to Shizuru's face. "Want to come with me to Zhang tonight? We'll have a great time, I promise."

Shizuru shook her head but smiled politely yet again. "I'm sorry, but I already have a date with Reito. I suppose we'll see each other there. Goodbye, Lu-san."

As the car disappeared from sight, Anh Lu chuckled dryly. "See you there, Shizuru."

Meanwhile in the car, Shizuru silently reprimanded herself. Silly, you thought it was her.

"Hey, Shi-chan! Get your ass off that chair and dance!"

Shizuru shook her head and giggled at Kanzaki Ryuu, one of Reito's rowdy brothers, who was now red-faced and sweaty on the dance floor. She had expected Ryuu and Ren to be just like her boyfriend but she was pleasantly surprised; they were lively and flirty and they definitely liked to party, unlike Reito who was quite reserved and soft-spoken. That was how they ended up at Zhang.

"Another Daiginjo please," Shizuru ordered her second shot of sake for the night. She opted to stay seated at the bar when the older Kanzaki brothers disappeared to the dance floor. She wasn't too fond of dancing, but she knew later she had to since Haruka would definitely make her. Reito had stayed with her for a while just enjoying the music from the DJ and laughing at the brothers' antics.

Now Reito was nowhere in sight. He excused himself to mingle in the VIP lounge a bit with Tate Yuiichi who was his fellow kendoka. He invited her to come with him but she told him she'd catch up later. It was still early in the night, and she was waiting for Haruka to arrive. Her gaze lingered at the entrance, and then she saw her.

Dressed in leather pants, a plain white tee, and Jeffrey Campbell boots, the girl entered the club easily while acknowledging the bouncers. She even argued a bit with the owner of the club and Shizuru watched her as she rolled her green eyes and proceeded to cut her way through the dance floor. Shizuru suddenly had the urge to get up on the dance floor too. She could pretend to be dancing with the Kanzaki brothers and then intercept the girl to dance with her too.

'Ara, Shizuru what's gotten into you?' she thought breathlessly as she kept her eyes on the girl. All her thoughts of dancing with the girl suddenly faded as she saw her glaring at another girl who tried to dance with her. With an annoyed expression on her face, she entered one of the elevators and disappeared inside.

'I think it's time to catch up with Reito,' Shizuru thought and got up. She eased her way towards Ryu, who was dancing with a younger girl, and told him that she'd be up at the lounge.

She took the other elevator and went up to the VIP lounge. She flashed her ID at the bouncer and he stepped aside to let her in.

There were less people on the fourth internal floor and she easily spotted Reito and Tate talking animatedly and 'a little close together', Shizuru noted. She merely shrugged and made her way towards them.

"Hello, Shizuru-san. Have a seat. I was just telling Reito about my last kendo match," Tate smiled at her and gestured to the space beside Reito.

"Ara, I think he should get points from you Tate-kun. He tells me his skills are getting rusty. He spends too much time with me nowadays," Shizuru teased, taking a seat.

Reito laughed. "I can never get away from my very beautiful girlfriend," he said.

"Damn right," Tate agreed, looking at Shizuru up and down and giving a low whistle. She was wearing a little white skirt with a fitting Comme Des Garcons top. Beautiful indeed.

She smiled deviously. "Is that why you left me down there then, Reito?" she teased.

Tate laughed. Reito's cheeks colored a little (Shizuru pretended not to notice). "I was just joking, Rei-kun," Shizuru giggled. "I'm going to get a drink. Would you like some?" She asked them.

"Oh no, please. Tate's made me drink too much tonight. You go ahead, Shi-chan. I'll have to go check up on my brothers before they pick up some underage girls," Reito said with a grin.

"And I'll have to see Mai, too. See you later Reito, Shizuru-san,"

As soon as the goodbyes were exchanged, Shizuru passed through the dancing crowd towards the bar and ordered a Fennel Shochu. As she waited, she glanced around the room hoping to find who she was looking for. The music was better here as she found herself nodding to the beat. Turning her eyes to the DJ booth at one corner, she spotted her again.

A cigarette dangled from her lips as she bent down to the mixers. Straight black hair fell on the front of her white tee and she frowned in focus. After a while she straightened up and took the cigarette from her lips, apparently done with mixing. As the girl took a drag, her green eyes flickered towards the bar and Shizuru looked away discreetly. She could feel warmth crawling up on her cheeks, and turned towards the bar to get her drink.

'This is crazy. It's a girl for kami's sake! You better behave, Shizuru.' Shizuru shook her head and sipped her drink. She was checking the time and wondering where Haruka was when a voice beside her said,

"I'll have a beer please, Midori."

Shizuru stiffened a little to hold herself back from looking at the girl, who was apparently the DJ. She was chatting with the bartender. Shizuru turned her head the other way as she felt herself blushing again.

"Do you like the music?"

Shizuru whipped her head towards the girl in surprise, the question was for her. She had a friendly smile on her face that was enough to make Shizuru a pathetic little puddle on the floor.

She composed herself and took in the catchy beat of the current song. "Ah, yes. It's better than downstairs, I think."

The girl laughed triumphantly. "Anh Lu wouldn't like hearing that. Thanks," she tilted her head in such a cute way that Shizuru didn't expect from a girl so aloof.

"I'm Natsuki by the way," she held out her hand with a smile.

Shizuru smiled back, very pleased that she was actually talking to her.

"Shizuru. It's nice to meet you," she held Natsuki's hand longer than she should.

Natsuki's cheeks colored. Shizuru mentally clapped her hands at this.

"Lu-san actually shares a class with me," Shizuru said, wanting to prolong the conversation. "That is if she actually shows up."

Natsuki scoffed. "Well, she better use that time to come up with more original tracks. Arrogant bitch keeps fucking her way to get shows."

Shizuru giggled. "Ara ara, I don't think I want to know who she's sleeping with. I already know too many of them at school."

Natsuki chugged her beer and gave her a sideways glance. "I'm surprised she hasn't tried to get in your pants. You're exactly her type. Heck, you're probably anyone's type," she said while not looking at her, trying to hide her red cheeks.

Shizuru's heart leapt.

She played it cool though. "Oh she's tried to," she explained. "She thinks staring at me in class all day is enough to work."

Then she brought out the big guns. "But really, does that mean I'm your type too?" she said with a teasing grin.

Natsuki gulped her beer and took another swig, cheeks completely red. "To be honest, yes." She gazed at Shizuru to prove it.

Shizuru was breathless. She didn't know how to respond to a girl. She hadn't thought about having a 'type' of girl, but Natsuki would be perfect. She finished her drink a little quickly and she started to feel heady and warm all over.

Natsuki ordered another beer and smiled at her shyly.

"I'm sorry, it must the alcohol talking…" she tried to explain.

"No, it's okay. I just…You're probably my type too," Shizuru confessed. "I've never been with a girl before." She had a curious look in her eyes.

Natsuki drank her beer silently for a while, glancing at her a few times.

"Would you like to try?"

Natsuki's voice was low as she brought her lips close to her ear. Shizuru shuddered and held back a gasp, surprised at her own desire forming warmth on her cheeks and in her stomach. Oh, would she like to try! She'd love to, but she had a boyfriend and—

She didn't have time to say anything as she was dragged by the hand towards the bathrooms. As soon as they got inside, a pair of hands gripped her waist and pushed her against the counter. She gasped and Natsuki's lips pressed firmly against her own. Shizuru felt her nipples stiffen against the fabric of her bra. Hands gripped her hips tightly, inching down on her butt as she kissed her furiously.

Shizuru whimpered as Natsuki groped her butt beneath her skirt. She was lifted up on the counter and she wrapped her arms around Natsuki's neck and her thighs around her waist. She moaned when Natsuki bit her lower lip before she nudged her face on her neck. She lifted her chin and allowed her to nip at her skin lightly. She could feel Natsuki's hot lips travel up her neck towards hear ear and kiss it. She had never felt this way with Reito. No, she had never felt so turned on in her life.

The muffled beats vibrating around the room came to a stop, but neither of them noticed. Shizuru held Natsuki's face and they kissed torridly again. She felt her hands on her breasts, caressing her through her blouse. Her breathing hitched and she gasped as Natsuki's hands trailed beneath her top and reached her aching breasts, pushing the lace of her bra down to stroke erect nipples. The DJ moaned as she felt herself growing wet from feeling the gorgeous girl in front of her.

"I want you so bad," she whispered lowly in Shizuru's ear, making the other girl only nod, too flustered to speak. Her fingers tickled her thighs now, making their way to Shizuru's aching center.

The bathroom door creaked open. "Natsuki, you in here? The songs stopped you baka, didn't you—"

Nao Zhang stopped abruptly as she watched the two girls hastily adjust their clothes with flushed faces.

The owner of the club seethed. "Fuck, Kuga! What the fuck are you doing?!"

--

Several moments later, Shizuru now stood outside the club. She wanted to go home. She found out that Haruka arrived shortly after she went to the VIP lounge. She hung around the Kanzaki brothers on the ground floor, and the three of them were now very tipsy. Only Shizuru and Reito were sober.

Haruka was clinging to Ren, red-faced and giggling. "Shizuruuu, where were you? We were having sooo much fun!"

"Ara, Haruka-chan you've drank too much. Yukino-chan won't be pleased. I'm driving you home now." Shizuru took Haruka's arm and said goodbye to Reito who was dragging his brothers towards his car.

"You better come back here, you little shit! I don't have anyone else to DJ in the lounge!" Nao Zhang looked furious clenching her fists near the entrance as she yelled at Natsuki who was striding purposefully towards the parking lot. Shizuru stopped momentarily to watch the scene.

Natsuki didn't even bother to reply. She grabbed her helmet and put it on before she swung a leg over her Ducati and started the engine.

Unfortunately, Shizuru was a little far away for her to be noticed. She sighed. Opening the passenger door of her car, she gently pushed Haruka inside, and then made her way to the driver's side.

A motorbike suddenly approached as she slid into her seat. Shizuru looked up to see Natsuki who lifted her visor and stared at her.

"See you around, Shizuru."

She smiled a little sadly. "You better."

After passing the tumultuous metro of Shibuya, she drove with ease as she arrived in her neighborhood. The narrow streets of Daikanyama allowed her to ponder, albeit rather guiltily. For the past few weeks, her mind had easily slipped from thoughts of her boyfriend to thoughts of having a girlfriend instead.

A week after that incident, she went back to the club. She even planned her outfit carefully. Hot damn, was all Haruka had said, and Yukino smiled approvingly; she went to Haruka and Yukino's apartment for a while (a building apart from hers) to unwind before proceeding to Zhang. But she was very disappointed to find that another DJ was at the booth. While she sipped her drink at the bar, a girl with short black hair tried to chat her up. She was rather handsome and her name was Hallard Chie, and she personally knew the owner of the club.

"Akira's really good, isn't she? She can really bring a party. I attended one of her events when I was in Chiba," said Chie while taking a swig from her bottle.

Shizuru seized the opportune moment. "Do you know where the other DJ is?" she asked Chie casually.

Chie eyed her with playful suspicion, "You're not one of her fangirls, are you?"

Shizuru giggled. "Ara, the DJ actually has fangirls?"

Chie shrugged, also laughing. "You better believe it. I'm actually her manager."

"That's awesome." Shizuru nodded at this new information. "So what happened?"

"All I'm saying is that she had a serious argument with Nao Zhang, the owner of this club. So she quit, and I saw no problem with it. I know other clubs are dying to have her anyway." Chie said. Shizuru tried not to look like she already knew.

"Oh. Were they…you know? Was Zhang-san her girlfriend?" she asked hesitantly. Chie raised her eyebrow at her.

"Oi, you sure you aren't a fangirl?" Shizuru laughed and convincingly shook her head 'no'.

Chie seemed to fall for it. "No way were they together. That girl is damn picky," she said. "She even picks out her flings carefully. Kuga Natsuki doesn't do relationships."

Shizuru's face faltered just a little bit. After learning that 'Kuga Natsuki' had quit playing at the club, she hadn't come back since.