Countdown in Business

Chapter 8

Keeping a Secret Part 2

As soon as Natsuki entered the office she was meant with a familiar sight.

"Welcome to Fuka Academy, Natsuki."

"WHAT?! You're the principal of this place?!" Wait! If she's here then! NO!! Duck and cover! No, wait there Fujino too!

Natsuki thought and quickly glanced at Shizuru. No! She not prepared!

With that thought in mind Natsuki lunged in Shizuru's direction and tackled her to the ground. Shizuru was, of course, caught by surprise and tried to question Natsuki but the raven hair biker was too preoccupied to notice this. Natsuki, with Shizuru in her arms, rolled out of the principal's office, in a fluid motion, and hid behind the door, waiting for an explosion that never came. All this was done in mere seconds.

Laughter sounded from inside the office and got closer and closer. Natsuki thought that this was, like always, just another way to distract her and reveal where she was. She held Shizuru closer thinking that the devil in the office had something extra planed for them. But the laughter stopped and that devil's voice was heard by Natsuki.

"Awww!! Come on Nat-chan! We have not seen each other for a year or two and you already don't want to see me?"

Natsuki still didn't answer thinking that it was a trick for her to lift up her head but Shizuru's voice will soon change that. It was, at first, a calm and smoothing voice coming from Shizuru but as the words flowed out of her lips the teasing voice slipped in.

"Ara, Natsuki, I don't mind being like this but shouldn't you wait until after you finish talking to the Principal?"

"Huh?" Natsuki said and slowly lifted her face up and stared straight into Shizuru's eyes, following them down to where her face was just at, she realized that her face was, until a moment ago, situated in between Shizuru's chest and jumped up backing far away from Shizuru.

"What! No!! I mean…" A blushed graced the raven hair girl's face, making Shizuru giggle a bit.

"Umm… HELLOOOOOOOoooooo! I'm still here you know." The principal said.

"YOU!" Natsuki said and faced the principal.

"Nat-chan, I have a name you know or did you forget? But, still on your first day and you already seduced Fujino! Ah, my little Nat-chan has changed soooooo much!"

"Midori! What the hell are you saying?! I didn't do that nor would I! And either way it's your fault I ended up like this! In the past every time I saw you, you've always tried to fire that thing of yours, Gakutenou, or something!"

Stopping Natsuki from going on was the voice of the student council president. "Ara, so does Natsuki think I'm not good enough to be seduced? Does that imply that I'm ugly? Natsuki, Ikezu!" Shizuru sobbed, in a fashion which everyone knew was just teasing, in an attempt to trick Natsuki, everyone but Natsuki herself.

"What!? No! That's…That's not what I meant! I would love to seduce you!" Natsuki said then blushed furiously after she realized what she said when she heard Shizuru's attempt to not crack up. "BAKA!"

In between giggles Shizuru apologized. "Fu fu, kannin na Natsuki, fu fu fu."

Natsuki just growled and sent Shizuru an infamous Kruger-Kuga Death Glare. She was once again sent into annoyance when she heard Midori laughing.

"Hahaha! Nat-chan I didn't think that you'd get whipped so soon!" Midori teased but as soon as Natsuki sent her Death Glare to Midori, Midori had to change the subject, not because she wanted to but because her life depended on in. "So… Nat-chan from now on you're going to this school right?"

"Yeah, but why are you here? Last time I saw you, you were on your way to Egypt."

"Oh that! I was! But, when I was in Egypt a friend from here called and asked me for a favor. She wanted me to be the principal for the school she works at and since I have the degrees to do it I accepted."

Natsuki deadpanned. "You were drunk weren't you." It was more of a statement than a question.

Midori just laughed it off and proceeded. "So Nat-chan, hmm… wow, you're in Mai-chan's class!" The principal said as she read Natsuki's file. "Hmmm….. That's weird I thought you skipped a grade or two… oh well! Shizuru-chan can you take Nat-chan to classroom number eight?"

"Ara, why of course principal." Shizuru said while Natsuki was grumbling about something that had to do with stupid Midori and nicknames. The two high school girls were on their way out when Midori said.

"Nat-chan stop by some other time! We need to catch up!"

Natsuki just answered with a 'whatever' and left.

Once outside the office

"Ara? Is Natsuki still unhappy from the fact that she had to get off me? I would…" Shizuru said, teasing evident in her tone but before she could finish Natsuki blushed furiously and said in a defeated tone of voice.

"NO! Just… Just don't say anything else ok? Please."

Shizuru could have continued on with the teasing but decided that it was enough, for now that is.

"Ara, if Natsuki say so."

"Yeah, thanks. So, where's class eight? I can go by myself."

"Does Natsuki want to get away from me that much?" Shizuru feigningly said but nevertheless she got an expected response from Natsuki.

"No! That's not what I mean!"

"Ara, I see Natsuki can't even stand that sight of me being here!" Shizuru said and used both her and to cover her face, making look like she was about to cry.

"Ah! Come on don't cry again! I!" The raven hair girl sighed. "Fine, let's go. Led the way."

Shizuru removed her hands from her face and revealing a face with no tearstains at all and smiled. "Of course, I would love to accompany Natsuki on her trip to class." But then, she remembers Natsuki's reactions to the Principal. "Natsuki, considering how you reacted to the principal, I think I should tell you that…" She was cut off when Natsuki suddenly stopped.

"Hey, look! This is room eight right?" Natsuki said and opened the door revealing something much unexpected but yet at the same time it was expected, only not now. A 'boom' sound echoed throughout the school leaving a certain raven hair heiress with a face as black as coal. An amused red haired teacher with a gun, cannon like thing in her arms, smirked. Finally last but not least an orange hair busty girl looked at the raven hair girl with a synthetic but angry look, while the rest of the class was just staring at what had happened, clueless. All that changed as the biker who was with a black face exploded with anger and rage.

"MI-DO-RI!! I'm going to KILL you!!" She said but was held back by the ever graceful student council president.

"Now, Natsuki you shouldn't try to kill your homeroom teacher on your first day here."

"WHAT?! How could I not? She freaking shot a cannon at me!" The maybe future murderer said but rationalizing herself she realized something. "Wait, did you just say homeroom teacher?! THE HELL! She's already the stinking principal and now she's a teacher!"

"Ara, well I was just about to tell Natsuki that but she didn't give me the chance to. And yes she is both."

Just as Natsuki, being not satisfied by the explanation was about to launch herself at Midori again an irate voice warningly called her.

"Natsuki. You're here. But better yet care to explain why you didn't pick up your phone last night when I called to ask you about your dad saying…" The busty red head was stopped by a hand at her mouth, covering it up.

"Mai, it's nice to see you too but shut up."

"What?! Shut up? That's what you say to me when…" Mai said behind the hand until Natsuki applied more pressure to her mouth and whispered in her ear.

"I'll tell you later ok?"

"Fine, but you better or else!"

Hearing that Mai wouldn't talk about that anymore Natsuki let her hand go and backed away but was caught by surprise when she felt her cheeks hurting. It was Midori pinching her cheeks. She realized when she heard that annoying voice and squealing.

"Aww!! Nat-chan is just her first day here and she's already seducing not only Shizuru-chan but also Mai-chan?! Not fair!"

"WHAT?! NO! I DID NOT!! SHUT UP Midori!!" Natsuki said while elbowing Midori in the stomach and a kick in the midsection preceding that but unfortunately it was all dodged by Midori, who had jumped away.

"Now, Nat-chan you know you shouldn't be so violent in school right? Normally I would punish you but I'll let it go this time since today is your first day. Mai-chan why don't you and Shizuru-chan go eat lunch with Nat-chan since class just ended? Are you free Shizuru-chan?"

"Ara, why yes I am and I would love to accompany Natsuki for lunch." Shizuru replied.

"HEY! Don't I have a say in this? And it's not my fault! You started it!" Natsuki interrupted.

"Ara, then I take it Natsuki does not want my company? That she would rather I disappear elsewhere that accompany her?" Shizuru said in a hurt voice but as we all know too well, it's fake, and Natsuki was learning that and she was going to say yeah but the glaring from everyone in the classroom but Mai and Midori prevented that. She gave in. She planned to talk to Mai about everything at lunch but that can wait. She didn't want to get trampled by mad wild fan girls.

"No, you can come along."

"Kannin na Natsuki, I'm so honored to be able to come with you." Shizuru replied teasingly.

"Yeah yeah." Natsuki tiredly answered and existed out of the classroom with Mai and Shizuru. They bought their lunches and went to the roof to eat in peace without fan girls squealing about Shizuru, staring at Mai's chest, or whispering things about Natsuki being so close with two of the most popular kids in school.

As Natsuki squeezed the bottle of mayonnaise dry on her sandwich Mai and Shizuru stared in disgust.

"Ara, does Natsuki eat that much mayonnaise usually?" Shizuru asked even though she feared the answer.

"Yeah, why? It's good." Natsuki replied with obvious confusion thinking who wouldn't like mayo.

Mai sighed. "You still haven't change have you Natsuki?"

Hearing Mai say that Shizuru wondered what the two's relationship was. "Mai-san do you and Natsuki know each other?"

Mai opened her mouth to answer but Natsuki swallow her mayo filled sandwich and answered for her in a speed practically impossible for normal people."Yeah! We met at a karaoke place once and became friends!"

Mai stared at Natsuki in confusion but the look on the raven hair girl's face made her hold her tongue. "Uhh…. Yeah."

"I see." Shizuru said halfheartedly, not entirely convinced by the reply but let it drop.

Suddenly Mai wondered in what way Natsuki know Fujino-san. "By the way Natsuki do you know who this is?" She said while motioning to Shizuru.

"Huh? Yeah that's Shizuru. Why? Don't you know her?" Natsuki responded.

"Natsuki, do you know her last name?" Mai said with a worried look.

"It's Fujino right?"

"Yes it is." Frowning Mai said and repeated. "It's Fujino."

"So?"

"It's FU-JI-NO!"

Fujino… Humm…. That her last name right? Fujino, sounds kind of familiar. Fujino. Hmmm… Red eyes… That guy at the party… Fujino. Business…. FUJINO! THAT FUJINO!? Natsuki thought and spoke her thoughts. "FUJINO?! THAT FUJINO?!"

Author's Notes:

Finally! I have time to update! So, what do you think? How's the ShiNat? I know that I didn't update for so long but I was really busy with work and stuff so sorry. You know what? I think just because I took so long I'm going to give you a short little preview at the bottom. Once again, really sorry but I might not update that fast anymore so sorry! Thanks for reading and please review! Oh, and feel free to make suggestions about the next chapter!

Chapter 9: They came. They saw. They conquer?

Many cars or limos to be more accurate surrounded the school. Shuffling off the cars behind them were some men in black with guns and sunglasses, the usual. Out of the limos four figures got out. Natsuki couldn't believe it. Everything was happening too fast. First her dad tells her she had to get married soon and makes her go to this school, everything that happened in the school and now this. She didn't know how much more she could take.

"Tsuki-chan!! It's been sooooo sooooo long!!" One of the figures exclaimed.