[Shinrigaku: Anyone wanna know my inspiration for this one?

Muses: No...

Koga Muse: It's always, and I quote, "Some stupid idea I had."

Aika: You're very predictable.

Shinrigaku: Awww, but it's my first Shoujo Kakumei Utena fic. That's gotta count for something.

Aika: It counts for you being pretty self assured. You only have one manga and a few spoilers.

Shinrigaku: ...That means nothing. Oh, and the index of weird symbols for this story is as follows:

**Flashback!**

"talking"

'thinking'

~stuff to put emphasis on. Kinda like italics.~

Disclaimer: I don't own Shoujo Kakumei Utena. I own one manga of it, but I don't have it copyrighted... damn. ]

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Roses in the Ice

Utena Tenjou; athlete of Otohori Academy, winner of the Duels. Only one thing was wrong, she couldn't skate.

'How'd I let her drag me into this?' Utena muttered to herself as she fit her feet into a pair of rental ice skates. 'Oh yeah, that's right, Anthy knows how to ask me.'



**Two weeks ago**

"Pleeease, Lady Utena?" Anthy pouted, with her emerald eyes sparkling in her glasses. Not wanting to be under the look, Utena looked away. As a reward for being good students, the entire academy was going on a skating party. And Utena would be the only one not going if Anthy weren't begging. "It's very important to me and I'm to be with you all the time."

Utena sighed. Everything she came up with, it was usually given a decent comeback. Defeated, she only had one choice. "Fine... I'll go. But only because you need to see some humans."

**Present**

Tying the laces tightly, Utena looked around for Anthy. The arena itself was huge and was echoing with students chatting to one another as they glided around the ice. It smelled of fried dough and other peoples breathe. She recognized Touga Kiryuu, Juri, Mika, Wakaba... her eyes grew wide. Wakaba? Hooo, boy.

"U-~TE~-NA!!!" a high pitched voice squealed, followed by a force knocking Utena off her feet. "Utena, I didn't know you were coming here!"

"I wasn't at first but I changed my mind," Utena said. 'Or, more or less, ~Anthy~ changed my mind."

"Utena, do you want to do the first couple's skate with me?" Wakaba asked, her eyes lighting up with excitement.

"Ummm... I can't skate. "

"I can teach you. Pleeeeeeeeease Utena? "

'What is it with drawing out that one syllable?' "Err..." Utena's sapphire eyes flitted to Anthy who was chatting happily with one of the girls in their class. "Sure."

That made the Greek girl happy. "YAY! I'll find you when I hear the skate being announced. "

"Ok... " 'Oh boy...'

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[Shinrigaku: Curse the shortness of this chappy!!

Aika: Geez, you only have ONE manga. You don't have much to judge off of.

Shinrigaku: I have mangas AND spoilers. Aaaaaanyways, ignore the idgit muses and review!]