A/N: I am totally giving up on the prequel idea for Deadly lovers...I'll just force myself to say in this story. Or I won't. If you know about Utena and the revolutionize crap...yeah. Uh,...no beta...you know me..I'm a HORRIBLE writer. So read at your own peril!
Azure Monarchy Chapter 4 by Kara Papas
Destiny was a thin word in the azure haired woman's mind as she walked through the tremendous doors that beckoned for a true leader. The entire thing seemed as her hands opened and closed with anticipation. The hallways were vacant mostly, with the rare exception of errand runners, patrolling security, and stationed guards. Natsuki found an oddity to their array of weaponry; hand guns, machine guns, and a sword at the hip. The ornamentation of the soldiers seemed a bit off however the azure haired woman couldn't voice any opinion justly since these soldier heralded from the nation of Roses. So the lone soldier of Webstein continued down the vast and expansive hallways, turn after turn. A pleasant irony ran across the lone soldier's mind for she had never once been in the capital building during all her years in the military of this said government. So, defeated the azure haired woman sighed realizing how very lost she seemed.
"Are you lost?" A voice said from somewhere making Natsuki go into a defensive mode. She looked around the open hallway scanning the terrain, but no one appeared to be there so she huffed to herself and did not respond. Natsuki contemplated to herself if she was going crazy or not and decided to move on ignoring the strange voice she had heard earlier.
"Do you realize how rude that is to just walk off after someone asks you a helpful question…" Natsuki stopped still knowing she had just scanned the hallway. In her mind there should be no one there, but this voice confirmed otherwise. "Now let me ask you again, and this time please respond, are you lost?"
"Yes, but where are y…." Natsuki had started to say cautiously when the voice snapped at her question.
"It doesn't really matter where I am at. Now are you looking for a place or a person?" the voice said with an odd wisdom. This again, made Natsuki question her personal sanity. She wondered if this was all really happening. Was she really standing where she was at? Natsuki had to mentally check with herself. Yes, she was having a conversation with a disembodied voice however this was a nice disembodies voice that wanted to help her. Natsuki nodded outwardly to herself because she needed the help or she'd be stuck in the hallways forever.
"I'm looking for a foreigner to this country. They are the current head of the occupying force. Their title is General Arisugawa of the nation of the Roses." Natsuki said as if she were in a briefing.
The strange disembodied voice let out an interesting sound as if they were updated on information that they hadn't heard. "So, the new title is General now, interesting…." The first part of their statement seemed to Natsuki as if the voice knew Juri, but she wasn't about to tell Juri about it. However none of it made sense in her mind anyhow. Natsuki thought it might not be a bad idea to go and tell the immortal about the disembodied voice. The voice coughed to get her attention. "Now, to get to the general you need to go back to the corridor you just left. It should be your third door on the right when you get there…"
Natsuki smiled to herself. The instructions seemed very direct. "Ah, thanks…." Natsuki said waiting for the voice to say something, anything, but as the seconds started to pass there was no response. So the soldier took her leave to the former corridor.
The walk to the said room was a much steadier walk as her thought went back to the sanity thing one last time. Natsuki huffed as she saw the door and she became suspicious wondering if something was in there waiting but she had to place her silly paranoria aside. She did not see the need in announcing herself thinking that the general would not be busy. The General always seemed like a private woman so Natsuki naturally assumed she'd be alone. Natsuki was sorely mistaken as a voice boomed forth form the room as soon as she opened the door.
"That's it! Where do you get off thinking you can hang up on me! I am the chairwoman of the Gaia Global Committee!!! The GGC!!! ME!!! You irreverent immoral person!" The loud female voice boomed shortly followed by a much softer voice.
"Haruka, I think you mean immortal, not immoral…"
Natsuki watched the scene unfold before her in awe at the incredible stupidity of the famous leader of the GGC. "UGH! Whatever you are?!" Haruka said slamming her right hand down keeping her left hand firmly planted on her hip. Juri could only glower at her present company hating every last moment of it. She leaned back in her chair as she rested her head in the palm of her hand while resting her elbow against the air of the chair. Juri rubbed her temples as the loud mouthed blonde went on about the importance of the GGC and the importance that her position held in the world of Gaia. Juri's right eyebrow twitched ever so slightly as Haruka finished one topic and started another. This topic was pertaining to the occupation of Webstein, but Juri didn't care as her veins in her head throbbed with pain letting her know that the voice of the blonde woman was very troublesome. 'This is worse than listening to field reports from Nanami.'
Juri looked up avoiding making eye contact with the chairwoman. She chose to scan over the woman's stance instead. Her brilliant green eyes saw over the blonde's shoulders and were met by another set of green, emerald, eyes. Juri was delighted to see that Natsuki actually came to her office and this gave her an excellent excuse to kick out the blabbing blonde. She smirked devilishly as she leaned forward slamming her own hands against the desk as she stood. Haruka mouth stopped and Yukino gasped as the loud sound. Juri's face had become emotionless as her slender lips parted.
"Please, remove yourself from my office…" Juri said in that coarse monotone way that made even noise wish it hadn't existed.
Haruka's mouth was just as wide as her expression that was slowly melting into a strange vacancy that hadn't been there before. Yukino Kikukawa was just as equally astonished by the general's directness. Her hand was at her mouth as she took two steps backwards . Haruka was about to start up again, but Juri simply turned her head to face the proud chairwoman of the GGC. Haruka gulped as the icy orbs of jade drilled into her soul making her regret ever showing up. The chairwoman quickly turned heel to get out of the office as soon as possible, but momentarily halted upon seeing Natsuki. A gasp rolled out of the chairwoman's mouth as she had once thought that there were no such things as people coming back from the dead, but there was a person behind her who had never aged or died after a particular year of their life. Natsuki Kuga was suppose to be dead, but she didn't really care as she still felt the burning eyes of General Arisugawa upon her form. The blonde quickly stormed out with Yukino following her as best as she could.
Natsuki's head was still turned in the direction of the fleeing politicians as she let out an amused chuckle. "Impressive display, General, very impressive…" Natsuki's eyes remained on the waked of the two women before laughing some more. Juri joined in as she fell back into her chair rubbing her forehead. The pained expression explained only so little and it was followed by a haggard sigh.
"I tell you…this is one of those points in my long life I regret being immortal. People like that make my immortality absolutely miserable. Especially when I have to deal with them almost every year…." Juri said in a strange tone that revealed her age. Natsuki walked towards the desk and obediently waited for Juri to ask her to be seated. Juri glanced up and chuckled at the good military rearing Natsuki endured. "Please be seated oh wonderful hime-sama." Juri said in drawn out tone saying one unfamiliar word.
"What language is that General? Hime-sama? I don't believe I've heard that before." Natsuki said as she sat down. Juri clasped her hands together interlacing her fingers as she looked at them with confused and solemn eyes.
"It's a language from another time…I believe. It makes me think about many things, Kruger, many things." Juri kept her eyes fixed upon her hands as her chest rose and fell from a deep breath.
"Another time when, I dare say, this world was something else. I cannot be certain, but then again I am so old. I am older than my queen but strangely enough it isn't by a few centuries it is by a few years. Yet, we have lived long and the one thing I cannot remember is then. I only remember the one word that meant everything to me; revolution…" Juri finally looked up seeing Natsuki was keenly listening to every word. Juri for a moment saw someone else within that young woman and was filled with an old emotion of intense hatred and glared at Natsuki. Natsuki took notice of this very open glare and sat back wondering if her proximity was too close. Juri shook her head. "I apologize for my ramblings. It is all I can do when I am thrown into that ocean I call my memories. I have so many and the ones I want the most don't seem to exist and I know they did. Must be another life…but yes. Here you are Kruger. Soon…yes….soon I will tell you something very important about your personal lineage."
Natsuki's face remained not phased by the rather cryptic tone the General got towards the end. Lineage had not been important to Natsuki and had not been the focus of her life. Natsuki had been an orphan as long as she could remember. The orphanage she grew up in was decent but still was bad enough to remind her that she was without something or someone to call her own. The character building make-up of a profoundly great leader would prove to be the results of her early years all thanks to the orphanage.
"General Arisugawa, I have come here today as Natsuki Kruger, heir to the lost monarchy of Webstein…"
Mini Feed Special Shizuru!
Shizuru(Azure): -still asleep-
Shizuru(racer): -busy with her natsuki-
Shizuru(LFIY): -singsong voice- I will kill anyone who dares to harm Natsuki...
Shizuru(LFIYAU): Ara, ara..I seem to be occupied or crazy it would seem... -glares at kara-
Shizuru(FuFu): -sigh- I'm a bit worried about my role...all I ever do is have sex with Natsuki
Shizuru(racer): -moans-
-Kara has momentary nosebleed problem...mini feed canceled-
Oh...yeah...I so violated the "let's get sleep" sleep plan. ugh I hope you enjoyed.
