Disclaimer: This fanfic will have lesbian content, if that bothers you, hit the 'back' button. This is VERY loosely based on the first two seasons of the anime, and bits of the light novel. So yes, there will be some spoilers.
Arifureta: The Yuri Divergence
(Or, how Shizuku Yaegashi became an unwilling Yuri Harem Protagonist.)
"Have you noticed all the girls being into Yaegashi?" one student noted.
Another boy sighed, "Well, she IS manlier than most of the boys in the class."
"Point." the first agreed.
"Shizuku is SO COOL," several random schoolgirls sighed dreamily.
"ARRRRGH!" Shizuku Yaegashi made a frustrated noise.
Even back on Earth, she had had girls at their school as fans. She had even had gotten a few love confessions.
"LIAR!" an imaginary Kaori Shirasaki jumped in cheerfully. "Shizuku had LOTS of love confessions. And notes from girls left in her shoe locker."
"Kaori...," Shizuku groaned.
"She turned all the poor girls down, though," Kaori added before just disappearing in a puff of raw imagination.
Ugh. Anyway... Shizuku seemed to get the girls, even though she was VERY heterosexual.
"What about all those times you and Kaori had what looked like yuri moments?" a daydream version of Suzu Taniguchi asked cheerfully. She had walked in on Shizuku holding Kaori in her arms, after Hajime vanished on them.
IT WAS INNOCENT SKINSHIP.
"Riiiight," the equally imaginary Suzu drawled.
Realizing she was having daydream conversations, Shizuku decided she needed to go out and practice, or something.
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Unaware of the striking figure she presented, Shizuku strode down the hall, black hair shining, poised and athletic.
"Oooh," the pretty redhead maid purred as she strode by. So beautiful! So MANLY! If Kris could choose a big sister, it would clearly be her.
"You, too?" a slightly older maid, Mara, noted.
"Too?" Kris echoed.
"I'll explain later," Mara smiled.
That evening Kris found herself at a meeting of various women, including some guards, maids and castle staffers. And one rather shocking figure...
The pretty, blonde haired Princess Liliana Heiligh tapped the table they were sitting at, "I hearby call this meeting of the Soul Sisters of Shizuku Yaegashi to order! First item on the agenda, welcome a new member, Kris."
"Hello Kris," various women echoed.
"Our organization welcomes every women who admires our Oneesama," Lily explained to her cheerfully.
Several women then explained how they fell for Oneesama, including the guard who ended up being princess carried by her. Everyone sighed enviously at that.
'She's just SO COOL,' Kris found herself thinking.
"Now, we must make preparations to protect her from THAT ONE." Lily said.
"That one?" Kris asked.
"The evil harem master, Hajime! He already has four exceptional girls, we must make sure he never ensnares our Oneesama!" Lily declared.
In another part of the world, Hajime sneezed.
"Someone's talking about you," Kaori noted.
"Wouldn't he be sneezing all the time?" the rabbit girl Shea asked them innocently.
"Ouch," Hajime winced.
Yue just patted his arm gently as they drove on.
Back at the meeting, the women discussed various bloodthirsty things they could do to keep Hajime away from their Oneesama.
'Sorry, Hajime,' Kris thought wryly.
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The next day, the sun was shining, Kouki was being stupid and unreasonable as usual, and all was right with the world.
"Huph!" Shizuku grunted as she swung the black katana, running through drills in an empty courtyard. She had received it when Hajime had rescued them in the Great Orcus Labyrinth, and was still getting used to it.
'So cool,' one of the watching guards thought adoringly.
The maids and other serving girls made sure to deliberately detour to pass the courtyard where Shizuku was practising. If cameras existed in this world, they'd be taking photos.
Shizuku spun, struck, then recovered gracefully. She stood straight, then puffed out a sigh.
"Would you like a towel, ma'am?" one of the maids asked, seeing that she was sweaty from her workout.
"Oh, thank you," Shizuku smiled warmly as she wiped away the sweat.
"Are you and the others heading back into the Labyrinth?" the maid asked worriedly.
"In a few days," Shizuku nodded, "we need to clear it."
"Well, please be careful," the maid said as she took back the towel.
"I will," Shizuku said, "really, we're not in all that much danger. I think you probably work harder than I do."
The maid blushed furiously, then left.
"Huh?" Shizuku blinked.
(The sweat stained towel would end up pasted around the next meeting of the Sisterhood. Eventually it would go missing, presumably taken home by one of the ladies.)
Suzu Taniguchi was walking by with her friend Eri Nakamura, and cheerfully noted, "You got another one, Shizuku?"
"What do you mean?" Shizuku asked innocently.
Eri pushed up her glasses as she muttered, "She's nearly as clueless as Kouki."
"Shizuku! That woman CLEARLY likes you," Suzu pointed out.
"She just admires all of us," Shizuku waved that off.
Eri and Suzu exchanged a weary look.
"Has something happened?" Shizuku asked, wondering why they were there.
"Oh!" Suzu nodded, "It's nearly dinner. You don't want to forget to eat."
Eri added, "And I think Princess Liliana was looking for you."
"Princess Lily?" Shizuku nodded, "I'll track her down after I wash up."
Eri noted all the soldiers and maids loitering around, and thought any of them would eagerly volunteer to wash her back.
"Hmm?" Suzu looked at her curiously.
"Nothing, nothing," Eri sighed.
(It was lucky that Eri wasn't one of the girls having fallen for Shizuku. No one knew that she was REALLY insane, a yandere and totally obsessed with Kouki. If she had ended up in Shizuku's orbit instead, there'd be women's corpses littering the kingdom.)
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Princess Liliana was probably the friendliest noble, interacting with the Japanese students regularly. To be honest she felt terribly guilty over how their people were forcing these students to fight their war for them. Liliana had been horrified when one of them had died, months ago. And then overjoyed when news came the boy survived.
Now, though, Liliana was troubled by something else: her increasing attraction to Shizuku Yaegashi. It was getting to the point all she could think about was the other woman... her noble bearing. Her beauty. Her athletic grace. The idea of licking the sweat off her abs...
'No no no no!' Liliana thought, trying to look dignified as she ate.
"Are you all right, Lily?" her brother asked.
"I'm fine! Really!" Lily said quickly.
The Queen gave Lily a thoughtful look. "You know, we wouldn't object to you growing... close to one of the heroes," she noted.
'Did Mother just give me permission to court Shizuku?!' Lily thought disbelievingly.
She finished dinner, then headed to the wing where the Japanese were quartered. Summoning up her courage she went to Shizuku's room, then knocked firmly.
"Coming!" the voice called then the door opened.
A still damn from the shower Shizuku was dressed in a towel... and nothing else. Her breasts nearly spilled out from the top of the towel, and her sexy long legs and thighs looked nearly edible. She was beautiful.
"Eeep," Lily 'eeped' as the blood rushed from her head, and she fell over in a dead faint.
To be continued...
Notes: Yes, I KNOW that canonly Lily falls for Hajime too. Damn annoying harem protagonist. Consider this a alternate universe, or something.