Cher Onee-sama

A "Maria-sama ga Miteru" Story

Author's Note: I, mer007, do not own a single thing to do with Maria-sama ga Miteru, but man I wish I did! Oh, also, I absolutely adore Sachiko for some reason and so I totally wish I was Yumi! And I've only seen the first ten episodes of the series so…yeah.

Chapter Two

Daydreams and Tears

"I do need you, Yumi…" Those words would echo in Yumi's mind forever.

Yumi was again daydreaming during class. Not long after the teacher began to talk she had floated far away to the greenhouse. She closed her eyes and smiled, remembering the other day. It didn't even matter that their date had come to a sudden end; all that Yumi could remember of it was Sachiko's strange smile.

She could hear Sachiko's voice in her ear, she was laughing merrily. Yumi let out a satisfied sigh. There was just something about Sachiko that made everything alright.

Yumi suddenly felt Sachiko's hand upon hers. "Onee-sama…?" she asked her dreamily. Sachiko was looking at her with an unfamiliar expression upon her face.

"Yumi…" Sachiko whispered, her face was just inches from hers.

"Yes…?" Yumi said looking deep into her eyes. Her heart was racing, what was happening? "Yes, Onee-sama?"

"I need you…" she said kissing her softly. "…so much…"

"YUMI!" Sachiko said loudly in Yumi's ear. "Wake up!"

Yumi opened her eyes to see Sachiko shaking her arm vigorously. She blinked at her confused. "Onee-sama, what are you doing in class?"

"Are you okay?" Sachiko said watching her worriedly.

"Yeah I'm fine…" Yumi said rubbing her eyes. What had she been doing? She looked around the empty classroom and suddenly realized she had been dreaming. "…I just fell asleep I guess…"

"Yeah I know…" Sachiko said following Yumi's gaze around the room. "Is something the matter?"

Yumi looked up at her with a sudden pang of embarrassment as she remembered what she had been dreaming. Yumi felt her cheeks turn hot pink as she met eyes with Sachiko. There was a confused knot in her stomach and a disappointed ache in her heart.

"I'm….okay…" Yumi said desperately struggling to keep calm. "I just had a… dream… a very confusing dream…"

"You seem to be having a lot of those…"

"Huh?" Yumi said looking up at Sachiko with surprise. "What are you talking about?"

"Tsutako asked me to talk to you. She says that this is the fourth day in a row that you've slept through class. Have you been sleeping okay?" Sachiko said watching her anxiously.

"Yes." Yumi said shortly before she even thought about the question, but when she thought about it that wasn't entirely true. She seemed to be spending a lot of time sitting up thinking about things during the night. It wasn't really that she couldn't get to sleep it was that she didn't want to go to sleep. "Well actually…no…"

Sachiko placed her hand softly on Yumi's shoulder and looked her in the eyes, a serious expression on her face. "Please tell me what's been bothering you?"

Yumi smiled but desperately tried to avoid Sachiko's eyes. "I've just been thinking a lot, I guess."

"About anything in particular?" she asked with a worry sparkling in her eyes.

"Please don't worry about me, Onee-sama." Yumi said standing up and collecting her things. "I'm really okay…"

"Then why won't you look at me!" Sachiko said angrily to Yumi's back as she turned away. "Why do I see you staring off into space? Why do you flinch every time I touch you? Why do you blush every time I speak to you?"

Yumi stopped dead in her tracks. She closed her eyes and let out an uneven sigh. Sachiko had noticed, exactly what she hoped she wouldn't do. Yumi could feel her heart beating wildly; she had absolutely no idea how to explain.

"I…I don't know what you're talking about…" Yumi said trying to escape the uncomfortable subject. "I've got to go…"

Yumi was gone before Sachiko could say another word. She ran out of the room, down the hall and outside into the warm spring air as tears began to flow from her eyes. She was so confused and so upset with herself for leaving Sachiko like that.

She turned and looked up into the classroom window. There Sachiko stood, looking out onto the grounds, tears flowing down her cheeks as well. Yumi could see her clenching her pale fists, her head against the glass in surrender.

How could she have done this to Sachiko? Yumi despised herself for being so unsure, just because it hurt her Onee-sama so much. She watched Onee-sama miserably. Yumi had never seen her so upset.

Suddenly in a flash of swirling black hair she was gone. Yumi's heart leapt in a painful way, as if an angel had flown away discontentedly. Yumi wiped her eyes, trying to recover herself, but it was useless. She had about as much control over her tears as she had over what she dreamed.