Oi Maid!

Disclaimer: I do not own Maria Holic (the characters, the show, the music, zip, zero, nada) I do however own the creativity and making of this story.

Rated M for language and sexual references.

Summary: This story follows the crazy adventures young Kanako has when she's asked to become the family maid for the Shido family in order to help her struggling family.

Let's get right to it!

NOTE: Rindo and Matsurika are older then Mariya, Kanako, and Shizu.


Chapter 4: A Maid's Schooling
xooox

"Kanako-chan! I did it, I did it!" Mariya-chan's voice forces me to stop my vacuuming as I see jumping up and down with a huge grin on her face. "Did what, Mariya-chan?" I ask as I take the opportunity to rest my back on the soft velvet couch. "I did all my homework right, which means I get to go on the trip to the Central Museum tomorrow!" she explains as she spins in circles and squeals in delight.

A giggle escapes my lips as I watch her in her happy fantasy- Mariya-chan reminds me so much of Miki-chan. Sometimes it's as if I'm back home, in my room with Miki-chan helping her with her school-work. I miss having to do that with her which is why I try to always help Mariya-chan with her'a as much as I absolutely can.

"This is all because of you Kanako-chan, your really smart!" She says as she takes hold of my red hands which are also sweaty due to how much I was doing today. "Oh well I don't know about all that..ehehe" I confess as I look towards the ground feeling my cheeks heat up at the unknown praise. "Seriously Kanako-chan, I think you could be a teacher if you wanted to!" she suggest.

"Hm, I actually never really thought about that until now." I confess. What did I want to be exactly? I was always worrying about my parents and about how I could help in any way that I never actually took the time to figure that out.

"Whichever school decides to hire the maid might as well shut down the whole school bored all together." Ughh...and here I thought I would finally have a nice conversation with Mariya-chan for once. "I would be an amazing teacher FYI!" I argue back as Shizu makes his way towards us and takes a look at his sister paper not before giving me his annoyingly evil smirk. "All because of this, you think she's a genius. This is all child's-play, even a baby can do this." he states mockingly.

"I happen to let you know that I'm very smart!" I state confidently as I stand up; he walks up to me and stands in front of me-a distance of two feet away. "Are you challenging me Maid?" he asks. With my puffed out cheeks I nod "I am! I'll show you how smart I really am!"

"Come on, Onii-chan leave Kanako-chan alone. She has to finish her work, it doesn't matter who's smarter right?" Mariya breaks in; she's so right. I don't want to have another petty competition that results in an injury upon my well being. "Hmph, she's right. I don't care what you think!" I state as if I realized how childish I was behaving. (It's clearly the opposite however)

The little demon is silent for a while, and I decide to get back to vacuuming. Until I feel a hand top the top of my shoulder and a soft breathing near my ear. "If you really don't care...how about reviewing my homework?" he obviously is a rather persistent human being...I sigh in defeat knowing already very well how this is going to end. "F-Fine.." I say. I can even feel him smirking at me as he pats my shoulder before leaving along with a gust of air following right behind.

"What did I get myself into..." I whisper to myself as I restart up the loud machine.


After a couple hours and all refreshed and cleaned I make my way downstairs hoping to find the little bastard and get the humiliation done and over with. I head towards the living room and don't see him there. "Hm, where is that guy?" I say to myself.

"Onii-chan's in his room" I jumped at how close the voice was to me, Mariya-chan stared at me before apologizing. "It's ok Mariya-chan, I'll go ahead and head upstairs then.." I say as I head towards the stairs, as I'm walking the steps a suddenly realized that it will be the first time I go into Shizu-sama's room. I'm a bit frightened and excited at the same time. I seem to imagine Shizu being the type to be into voodoo and witchcraft-I wouldn't be surprised at all if I were to find a voodoo doll of me one day.

"Maid...you seem to want to be tortured mysteriously, keep that up and I have ways of making your dream a reality." i hear his voice as I stand in front of his door and look inside to see him sitting on his bed concentrating on his work. I'm suddenly shock when I notice how focused he looks in his work, it's a bit nice to see him whenever he's not sending telepathic death glares to my direction nor mocking me with his smug grin or sinister smirk. He looks actually human/normal for once.

"Oi Maid, didn't I tell you it's not very polite to stare.." He scolds me as he keeps his eyes on the text the entire time. Ok now I will give him that it's actually rude to stare at someone but it just caught me off guard. "Y-Yes.." I say embarrassed. "However I don't blame you, of course you'd be mesmerized by my charming looks. Don't worry some day when your pretty and worthy enough you will know how it feels to be envied by people who you pass by on a daily basis.

"Yea..I guess your-" Hold on there! "Wait a minute, I'm not ugly! And why would I want to be such a cocky drag queen as-!" His death glare stops me from swearing at that moment. "douchebag like you!" As if that was the answer he was looking for he turned his body toward me and stared at me from the top of my hand all thge way towards my feet, his eyes glancing around every corner, every curve, every mark...it made me nervous to no control. "S-Shizu-sama...please stop that." I say with a tone of not being able to yell at the top of my damn lungs!

" I don't know why your calling me a male, clearly you have the body one one." He comments with a smirk and a chuckle. I HATE HIM! I HATE HIM!, "W-Why you... I do not have a body of a man! Y-you..." How I wanted to call him so many things but remembered that everyone else is downstairs and will most certainly hear me and my sailor mouth.

"No need to be upset Kanako-chan, I'm sure you'll be worthy of some poor, desperate old sap in the near future." He says it with such an innocent voice and a smile of an angel that makes me want to ravish his stupid face for years and years to come! "Did you really want my help or are you just gonna insult me the entire time I'm here?" I ask getting impatient.

"Sit on the bed then and stop messing around..." He makes it seem as if I'm the one to blame! Ughhh calm down Kanako, control yourself...your better than this goddamn little pr-

"Unless you don't want me to wash your mouth with soap I suggest you shut it." I know for a fact that he's capable of doing it so I be quiet but not before sticking my tongue out at him. "Geez...sometimes I wonder if your really a year older or just 5 years younger with your whole being." He complains as he rubs his eyes together. "Well too bad because I'm older then you, which means you have to respect me!" I add proudly. "Only by a year, that doesn't count for nothing.."

"Yes it does count!" I complain right back. "The spam of intelligence doesn't advance that much by a year, the most it advances is the idea of recognizing and memory but the learning capacity can remain the same till after 2 years the most, DEPENDING on the person.." I had a feeling that when he said that he was referring to me. " I happen to let you know that I'm very smart now then I was when I was 10!" I admitted.

His smirk let's me know that I may have screwed myself over once more as he hands me his text book. "Then prove it to me Kanako-chan.." He was so cynical, so evil that it made a knot on the pit of my stomach at how his eyes gazed at me. I always feel as if he knows what I will do next, he never seems shocked or a little taken back at what I say or do. "Is my Maid trying to know about her superior, I thought that superior's and maids are to have no more of a relationship then that." I really can't stand him...

"Enough, let me concentrate on this!" I yell annoyed as I look carefully at the text...It's been a while since I've last held a book that I seem to have forgotten these problems, wait..I don't remember doing that. Huh? Where did that answer come from? 'All these problems are confusing to me...' I think hard at trying to understand the problems, I didn't want to but I couldn't help it; I took a quick peek at Shizu-sama and saw him smirking but wait? The corner of his lip was quivering, he's holding in laughter!

With a nerve-wrecking feeling I carefully skip to the last page of the textbook and looked at the box in the top right corner where it says where the book corresponds to. My eyes went wide and I literally felt my brain flatten. A burst of laughter is heard throughout the room, as I remain frozen in place with no movement what-so-ever. I can not for the life of me BELIEVE this guy! Who does he think he is anyway?!

'That's it, who cares if I'm heard! I'm gonna show this little prick how wrong he is!' As I turn to yell my frustrations out "You good for nothing jack-!" I stop myself. I see Shizu laughing uncontrollably, his back on the bed, arms wrapped around his stomach to protect his intestines from falling out. (A saying my Oka-san told me about over-laughing) and an unknown smile plastered on his face.

I was stunned at how nice it looked.

Normally I find his other smiles annoying and irritating, mostly because he uses them to taunt me and show how he's at the top of the mountain and I'm in the bottom not having even begun to start climbing it yet. But this one, has a more gentleness to it, his cheeks are not exaggerated up like the other ones just the perfect height, for once he really looks to be a caring person and not the sadistic annoying jackass he really is.
I carefully sat the book down in the bed and leaned my face to get a closer look at him, he was laughing nonstop, even though I should be upset that it's because of my misery I can't help but smile.

'I guess having Shizu-sama annoying the hell out of me isn't as bad as I thought.' I think as lay back on the bed and stare at the ceiling, so maybe Shizu-sama is smarter then me, but it's only natural right I mean he's surrounded by riches so of course he needs something to pass the time.

But..I wished that I was that smart too, I love school and I love teaching. I get so happy when Miki-chan or Mariya-chan ask me to help with homework cause I just love explaining it. Sometimes in school I used to pretend I didn't understand a problem just so I can see the different way to get an answer. I was one of the smartest kids in my school-but to know that Shizu-sama can do even high school level problems makes me feel like I have nothing else that's good about me.

"Oi Maid, don't just randomly make excuses for yourself and others" I blink and turn my head to see Shizu now laying next to me also facing the ceiling. "What do you mean! I'm not making any excuses!" I state remembering his words from a few seconds ago. "Just because your not rich you can't be smart? Is that how you think?" His questions catches me off guard, I don't want to answer him. He's just gonna rub it in my face. "It doesn't matter..." I say as I sit on the bed.

"If that's the way you feel, then I pity your children in years to come." He says it so irritated that it seems like he's serious and not joking around like usual. "You don't understand anything Shizu-sama, so please shut the f#^*& up.." I say it softly as I quickly leave the room hoping he doesn't see my tears.


School is what made me feel like I mattered, I strive for all A's, perfect attendance, extra credit, and volunteer work. I was sorta like Shizu-sama in the education department, stubborn, cocky, annoying as hell but most of all...happy. Remember that I was still 14 and did nothing but clean and buy groceries, make food, and all over and over again so I thought that as long as no one took my education that I will survive., but seeing how smart Shizu-sama is made me think that no matter how hard I try I will never be nothing more then a sacrificing daughter, a 'seemingly' happy-go-lucky sister and a Maid.