Countdown in Business
Chapter 2
What?! Fiancé(e)?!
A single dark blue bike with a tint of silver rides through the night at an insanely high speed ignoring the red lights and the cars it passed. As it approaches a corner it swiftly turns and on the other side of the corner you could hear screaming and shouting, lights everywhere, and single girl right in the middle of it all with a checkered flag. The bike flew pass the flag and comes to a dramatic stop. The young, girl in her teens ,was dressed up in a leather bike suit, slowly got off and move toward the girl with the flag.
"Looks like I win, again." As she said that a black sports car turned the same corner and stopped right in front of the two girls. A man in his twenties got out of the car and approaches the girls.
"Man! What the hell! How come you're already here?!" Then sighing he continued. "Looks like I lost, but man Natsuki you're fast. At first I didn't think that the rumors about a little girl beating us but you proved me wrong. Here." The same guy said handing Natsuki the keys to his car and left. "It's all yours."
The crowd around the heard everything and exploded.
"Natsuki!"
"You're the best!"
"We love you!"
The cheering continued with more and more compliments. But the raven hair biker just ignored it all. From the crowd a red haired girl, also in her teens, makes her way through to biker.
"Hey pup looks like you won again."
"I'm not a pup! But yeah it was easy. Either way what do you want Nao?" The raven hair girl replied.
"What makes you think I want something? I'm hurt!" Nao said with a fake hurt expression.
"So you don't want to tell me anything? K, then later."
The red head smirked. "Wait, you know me too well pup. Uncle wants to see you."
"I knew it! Fine, take this to a shop or something and sell it." Natsuki said and threw the keys to the black sports car at Nao. The red head caught it and replied.
"K, go back first, I'll be there after I sell it."
The two girls parted ways, heading in two completely different directions. Natsuki jumped on her bike and left. While Nao got in the black sports car and scurried away.
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The dark blue motorcycle stops in front of the gates of the Kruger mansion. The raven hair biker flips the visor on her helmet up for the guard to see who she was. The moment he realizes who she was he immediately opened the gate and went to welcome her home.
"Welcome home, Natsuki-ojou-sama!"
Natsuki, being used to this, just ignored the guy because she knew that even if she did acknowledge the guy he would just be surprised and faint from it. She then enter through the gates and parked her bike, making sure it was at a safe and protected place before she left and entered the mansion. While she walked down the halls she could see the maid whispering and blushing as she passed the and the butlers looking at her with great respect or, like the maids blushing at the sight of her, it was the usual so she
just ignored it. The raven hair girl stopped in front of a large wooden door and knocked. A voice came from the room.
"Who is it?" The deep voice questioned.
"It is I father."
"I see. Come in."
Natsuki entered the room to find her father sitting at his desk doing some paperwork like always, but this time when she entered he placed the paperwork down and motioned for her to sit. She did as she was told and her father smiled slightly at her obedience. If only you obey me like this all the time, then this would be a lot easier. He thought to himself.
"Where is Nao, Natsuki?"
"She'll arrive here shortly." As she said this the door flung open the reveal the red hair girl.
"Speak of the devil." Natsuki chuckled.
"Did ya miss me that much pup?" Nao teased but since Natsuki was used to Nao's form of teasing and the fact that she was in front of her father she calmed herself and responded smoothly.
"Is it me that missed you or you that missed me, Nao? I mean if I remember correctly it should have taken longer than that to get here."
Nao, annoyed at the fact that in front of her uncle she could never get on Natsuki's nerves, turned her attention to her uncle.
"I'm sorry of being late, Hirohito-oji-san."
"It's alright." Her uncle replied. He then started so speak again after everyone was seated.
"Now today I have called you here to tell you something very important and I hope you will hear me out before you say anything." He paused and waited for a response from either girl. They nodded and he continued.
"In about a week there will be a party and I wish for you both to attend. Will you?"
Nao just shrugged and said, "Sure, why not?"
But Natsuki responded negatively.
"I am sorry father but I do not wish to meet with more of your business partners."
"Natsuki, you haven't met any of them other Tokiha and in Tokiha's case you already knew him because he was my childhood friend!" Hirohito said in an amused and slightly unhappy tone.
"Look, Natsuki, I won't force you to come with me to the party but I do wish for you to at least be there if not as my daughter then you could just pretend to be a guest. I just want you to know the faces of my business associates." He said in a pleading yet finalizing voice.
Sighing Natsuki said, "Fine but I will pretend to be a guest ok?"
Relieved that his daughter even accepted he said yes. Now only if the other two things are as easy as this. Hirohito thought.
Natsuki, thinking that the party was the only thing that her father wanted to talk about stood up to leave but was stopped by Hirohito voice.
"Natsuki, where are you going? There are more things I need to tell you."
Sighing Natsuki went back to her spot.
"The other thing, Natsuki, is that I want you to find a fiancé."
At the mention of that Natsuki stood up so fast that her chair landed backward on the floor.
"WHAT?! You want me to get married?!" She screamed at the top of her lungs.
"NO! I mean that's not what I meant Natsuki. I just want you to start thinking about it."
Natsuki flat-out refused. "NO!"
Hirohito frowned.
"Then you leave me with no choice. Natsuki, I command you to find a suitable fiancé before the end of this school year, I don't care if you want to or not, this is final!" He raised his voice to the point when it sounded like he was screaming at her.
"But…!" Natsuki tried to argue but knew that she could not win because her father never yelled at her ever since the day that her mother died and now he was.
"There will be no buts, you will attend the party and see if anyone there catches your eye. Also you will be transferring to the school that Nao is going to because the students there are all from well off families and it will help you choose your fiancé. Oh and Tokiha's daughter and the rest of my partner's daughters and sons about your age go there too so it would be good for you." He finished.
Her mind, not knowing what to think now, could only feel rage. She stood up walked swiftly to the door, existed the door and slamming it shut.
I'm sorry Natsuki but I just want you to have someone next to you when I'm no longer here to comfort you. If I left you only you would have never attempted to. Oh well it went better than I thought. Saeko, if only you can see her now.
Nao who was sitting there the whole entire time was being ignored so she just stood up and left the room still shocked about everything, just not as much as Natsuki.