If Only the Fairytale
Chapter Five
That infuriating girl! She's the one who did this! Her face still felt hot. Stupid pink-haired bimbo was really getting to her.
Nao sat down, willing the heat to leave her face. Damn that girl. She glanced at the mirror and her eyes grew wide. Her cheeks! They...They were red! Damn that girl! That airhead really was an idiot. Just wouldn't leave her alone. The girl had no common sense. Nao could make her life a living hell if she truly wanted to. She smirked. Maybe that would keep the brat away.
Scowling, Nao turned away from the mirror.
Mikoto stared at her reflection. It...barely looked like her.
She'd taken her hair out the usual braids and had actually run a comb through it. She's put on a semi-nice outfit and had even gone into Mai's makeup.
She didn't really look like a grown-up. She scowled. All she saw was a little kid playing. Mai would never even come close to recognizing her as a potential lover. She'd always be a child in the redhead's eyes.
Hopefully Mai wouldn't laugh too much.
Mai groaned. Their relationship had had more passion before it had actually become a relationship. Now, now it just bored her. Tate, well, he just Tate now. He'd rejoined the kendo team after the whole HiME fiasco had been resolved and he seemed happier. Of course, their love wasn't really love anymore.
Sighing, she tried to pay attention to what their teacher was saying. It wasn't working. Her mind just couldn't focus. All she could think about was her failing relationship, her dreams, and that final battle that seemed so much like a dream. It really did feel as though she had been asleep at the end of the fight.
There had been another person there. She had been there, Mikoto, Kokyo no Kimi, their Childs, and...someone else.
"What exactly have you been doing?"
"What I want."
"You need to be more careful."
"Why?"
"Sakuya, listen to me, I understand that you're happy you can finally be you again, but you need to show some restraint. You can't go around harrassing the HiME's. Or telling people who you are. You understand, don't you?"
"H-Mashiro, look, I've only been 'harassing' one of them. And yes, I know it was dumb of me to give my last name. But what was I supposed to say? 'Hold that thought and let me make one up?' She would have noticed the whole me not knowing thing. It's not like she's stupid.
"Shizuru!" The brunette turned around at the sound of her name.
"Hello Natsuki," she smiled. The younger girl grew quiet. Shizuru searched her face, wondering what the other was thinking about. Natsuki's face looked a bit pale. "Is Natsuki feeling alright?" The other girl blinked.
"I'm fine!" Shizuru wasn't really sure how that came out. "Shizuru! I..." Natsuki frowned. "I've been dumb." The blue-haired girl took a breath. "I realized...I do like you. A lot. The way you like me." She looked at the other woman, waiting for a reaction.
Shizuru stared. Out of everything she had expected, this hadn't been it. Natsuki was saying that she loved her. But...The other girl was surely just confused; there was no way that she'd feel that way for her.
Natsuki wasn't like that, like her. She sighed. "Natsuki, I-" She was cut off as the other girl kissed her.