A/N: For the last pair, here it is :)

Chapter 8. Yumi's Troubles

When Fukuzawa Yumi entered the Lillian Girls Academy, nobody warned her that it would be troublesome. She had expected a simple and quiet high school life – attending classes, listening to the teachers, doing her assignments, and such. At the beginning, her expectations were met. However, suddenly, her world was turned upside down. Thanks to a crooked tie, she found herself pulled in the wonderful yet busy world of the Yamayurikai, the Lillian's student council. Most important of all, was her world being brought closer to the person she admired the most.

Ogasawara Sachiko.

The star of Lillian.

Beautiful, elegant, intelligent and rich.

And her Onee-sama.

She and Sachiko had been soeurs for more than a year already. Since then, many things had happened between them. Though she wasn't as worried or as clumsy as she was when she first met Sachiko, still, she was scared of Sachiko.

Of course Sachiko wasn't a monster. In fact, she was a very nice person although she was very strict and acted cold most of the times. Earlier, her fear when she became Sachiko's petite soeur, was that she wasn't suitable to be the petite soeur of such gorgeous, intelligent and famous person. That fear slowly disappeared as she spent more time with Sachiko. She had changed then. Now, though still a very poor comparison with her famous Onee-sama, she wasn't too worried anymore. She had acquired an amount of confidence and poise through the patience of her Onee-sama.

But just as she had overcame some of her troubles with herself in regards to Sachiko, another trouble sprouted. After much confusion, she realized that she was in love, in love with none other than her Onee-sama. How did it happen, she didn't know. Just that she was in love. How she would deal with her feelings was another trouble.

The other trouble was Sachiko herself. She was just too gorgeous! And Yumi couldn't help herself from being drawn closer and closer to Sachiko. She wanted to see her everyday. She wanted to be with her all the time. She wanted to be with her, period.

It was really difficult.

First, Sachiko's world outside school was very different from hers. A classic example of the rich and the poor.

Second and the most important, she knew that Sachiko didn't feel and would never feel for her anything like what she felt. Wasn't she the one who mostly disapproved Satou Sei's, one of their friends, flirting on her? Then what would she think if she found out that her petite soeur was gay?

It really scared the wits out of her when she thought that Sachiko would be disgusted with her if she ever found out her feelings for her.

Scary.

Really scary.

Scarier than when Sachiko was angry and hystirecal.

Going to school brought her happiness and excitement because at school, she would see her beloved Onee-sama. But it also brought her fear, immense fear, because the more she saw Sachiko, the more she was falling for her.

Wasn't it just the other day that she had ran to Sachiko and smiled widely at her until her cheeks hurt because they hadn't seen each other for some time? It took all of her might to not hugged Sachiko then. She almost did. But thankfully, her control won and she ended up holding her Onee-sama's hand as she told her that she had missed her so much.

And when Sachiko invited her to spend the weekend at the Ogasawara Mansion, she almost shouted with joy. Thankfully, she didn't or it would have been really embarrassing. Although her face must have shown what she felt because Shimazu Yoshino, their fellow Yamayurikai member, had laughed then, while Hasekura Rei, Toudou Shimako and Nijou Noriko, other members of Yamayurikai also, smiled at her. She had blushed furiously then, embarrassed, but seeing Sachiko's smile, she also smiled happily.

When the time to spend the weekend with Sachiko came, she was giddy with happiness. She had smiled all the time amidst her blushes. However, when it was night time and she was alone with Sachiko to the latter's magnificent room, all her troubles came rushing to her. She was going to sleep beside Sachiko.

Alone.

How was she going to handle it?

She was worried that she would end up taking advantage of Sachiko.

And so they lay in bed, having small talks and little laughs for a while before Sachiko bid her goodnight while cupping her cheeks. She almost sighed with pleasure but instead settled for a gentle smile as she bravely draped her hand on Sachiko's stomach.

That night, she couldn't sleep easily, her thoughts all about the beautiful person beside her and the person she loved so much. She waited then, until Sachiko's breathing evened, telling her that the latter was asleep. Slowly so as not to wake the beauty in rest, she eased up and through the pale moonlight, she watched Sachiko sleeping peacefully and beautifully. She stared at the delicate jaw, the smooth cheeks, the proud nose, the perfectly arched eyebrows, the fluttering eyelids, and the kissable lips that parted a little. She had a strong urged then to moved closer and touched hers on those lips. It was really hard not to. She was really tempted. She had wanted to do it so badly, but the thought of waking Sachiko up and being mad at her stopped her dead cold.

She would have had a difficult time that night had she not decided to push those worries away and just enjoy the moment of being with Sachiko.

And now, here at the Rose Mansion, the place where Yamayurikai members met, once again, she found herself staring intently at Sachiko, and how each of her gentle movements made her heart ache of wanting her, to be with her, to tell her that she loved her, and for her to love her back.

Unguarded, she was slowly and surely falling in danger of a heartbreak.

One thing that she had realized that time, Sachiko was a very dangerous woman.

Sachiko was a very beautiful dangerous woman against her foolishly beating heart.

And to make the matter worse, she didn't know how to fight it back.

A/N: You know, when I wrote this chapter, I thought about writing another fanfic for this pair. Something that has to do with the word 'dangerous'. But since I'm lazy for the time being, I'm not going to write anything.

Well, have a nice day! ;)

---Arvendell---

07 February 2008