A/N: sorry for the long wait... had so much studying to do since its midterm week and writers block... ^-^
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Chapter 11: helping or falling?
After a few 30mins of driving, singing, the occasional whining of Natsuki who bump her head to the bus' window and the pleading of Shizuru to let Natsuki lean on her, they arrived at park where cherry blossoms bloom and glide in the wind and people walk and admire its beautiful sight. Shizuru poked Natsuki's cheek which made the blunette woke up and unconsciously wiped the drool on her mouth. "Love… Mayo… Shizuru… Shizuru?" she said groggily, blinking a few time to clear her foggy gaze to look at the smiling brunette beside her. Shizuru was pointing to the others who were now exiting the bus. Natsuki understood what Shizuru pointed at and decided to exit the bus as well.
Everyone had gone under the shade of a large cherry blossom tree where they laid out the picninc blanket and the food that they made for the occasion. As for Natsuki, she merely stretched out her left arm in the air and yawned. Shizuru was amused at the sight of her wolf and smiled sweetly. "Ara! if Natsuki would yawn like a bear, the flies might go inside your mouth." Shizuru teased. Natsuki glared at the brunette but as always her glares had no effect on Shizuru. She sighed and scratched her cheek before looking at her friends under the tree. "Let's go and eat. You're hungry right? Considering your boyfriend was asking you out for breakfast awhile ago." Natsuki said coldly as she started to walk towards Kanade and the others.
"Is Natsuki getting sick again? Why would she keep on repeating that I have a boyfriend?" Shizuru said in her cheery voice.
Natsuki stopped as she heard Shizuru's words. She let out a disbelief chuckle and looked at Shizuru with a fake smile. "Why? Because he has the right to hug you." She said with a small tone of pain. She began walking to Kanade and the others in a slow pace, hiding her eyes with her blue bangs. She was about to heave a sigh when something caught her left arm and pulled her in a tight and warm hug.
Eyes wide open in surprise, heart beating fast; she inhaled the smell of tea and lavender from the body that trapped her in a hug. No words escaped her mouth as if a huge lump had got stuck in her throat. 'I think I died and went to heaven…' she thought.
She locked her arms around Natsuki's waist, being gentle not to let her hug hurt the blunette. Inhaling the intoxicating scent of Natsuki's hair, Shizuru felt a light blush creeping on her face. She mentally thanked the fact that she's hugging Natsuki because she doesn't want the blunette to see her blushing.
"Does Natuski now think that she also has the right to hug me? Maybe Natsuki should know that she's the only one who has the right to be hugged by me." Shizuru whispered in a teasing tone.
Natsuki's body stiffened and she could only nod in response. She couldn't give a response on Shizuru's hug; she was just standing in place while Shizuru hug her gently. Her heart was practically jumping for joy at her current situation. 'Shit! I can't move! What to do, what to do?!' she was panicking inside.
"Shizuru! Natsuki! It's time to eat!" Kanade said which made Shizuru and Natsuki break the hug and look at Kanade and the other who was now starting to eat.
"Ara! Kanade's right, it's time to eat Natsuki." she said in a composed manner. 'Is that woman doing it on purpose?' she asked herself. She was smiling but her aura seemed to let out some venomous trickles. Natsuki nodded a response, still speechless from what Shizuru said and did to her. They went their way to the others who was now trying to get a hold of food while Mikoto was munching everything she laid her hands on.
RIno was happily eating her spaghetti and Kanade was wiping some of the sauce from Rino's face. Nanaho and Kuon were silent but enjoyed eating Mai's food. Sayuri and Kaori were still amused at how Puuchan able to eat human food, while Siena was busy trying to make her sister stop arguing with Mikoto who was still trying to gobble everything. While Reito was trying to dtop hr sister from eating everything.
"Hmm this food's delicious! It's like eating land lady's food!" Rein said happily as she munched on the sandwich on her hand.
"Ping pon! Tokiha-san's cooking can be matched with the land lady. I would like to see another cooking battle, but with the land lady and Tokiha-san" A smiling Siena said, wagging her index finger.
Natsuki looked at Siena and tilted her head. "I would put my bet on Mai then!" Natsuki said while trying to use a chopstick with her left hand. Being a right-handed, Natsuki always ends up falling her food or chopsticks.
"ara! Natsuki should ask for help if she can't eat properly." Shizuru pointed out. She offered to feed Natsuki but the blunette shook her head.
"No" Natsuki answered, still trying to use her chopsticks but failed. "argh! If I can't use my chopsticks, I'll just use my…" She then started raising her left hand and readying to grab hold of her food but felt an evil aura towering her.
"Natsuki, are you planning on eating like a native?" an irritated Mai asked while her brows are twitching.
"How the heck can I at my food if my right hand is in a cast?!" Natsuki roared while pointing her right arm.
"Ikezu Natsuki! You wouldn't allow me to help you!" Shizuru pouted which made all of them look at her and Natsuki.
"ohh! Natsuki-sempai's making the pretty lady cry!" Rino pointed out.
"tsk, tsk! Here I thought you were the ladies woman." Puuchan insulted with an aura of grinning and crossing his stuff arms.
Natsuki began to panic because everyone was looking at her and saying that she's bad. She looked at the pouting Shizuru and blushed as she tugged the brunette's shirt. "U-uhm Shi-Shizuru I'm hungry… please help me eat…" she said in a low voice. Everyone was looking at them, waiting on how the event would turn out.
Shizuru smiled like nothing had happened. "hai, hai my Nat-su-ki!" she said cheerfully. She took a forkful of spaghetti and offered it to Natsuki. Natsuki, whom was blushing furiously, opened her mouth and let Shizuru feed her like a child. This made the whole Miyagami seitokai (except Kanade and Siena) to drop their jaw. It was unbelievable to them that the ice princess, whom only Kanade can touch, will be whipped by Shizuru.
Nanaho looked at Mai with how-did-she do-that look and Mai just smiled. "Fujino-san is our school's kaichou and Natsuki's, how can we say this, best friend." Mai moved close to Nanaho and whispered, "Sometimes more than a friend if you ask me." Nanaho looked at Natsuki's blushing reaction and nodded in agreement with Mai.
"Ara! Natsuki's so cute!" Shizuru squealed at how Natsuki obeyed her.
Natsuki just avoided looking at anybody straight in the eyes and chew on her food. 'Last night it was Kanade-kaichou, and now it's Shizuru. Kami-sama, are you punishing me?' she mentally cried. Her heart was pounding harder than usual and faster, but even if she wants to enjoy the moment, the fact that there are many people with her made her hid every enjoyment feeling she has.
Kaori, who was amazed at how Shizuru was feeding Natsuki turn her gaze on her secret-crush, Kanade. She saw Kanade was watching Natsuki aswell but somehow she felt that something's wrong. "Kanade-kaichou, are you alright?" she asked suddenly.
Kanade looked at Kaori and smiled. "Yes I'm fine kaori-chan." She said sweetly, making Kaori blush. She looked back at Natsuki and Shizuru and heaves an unnoticeable sigh. 'Why am I feeling like someone's tugging my heart?' Kanade asked herself.
Kanade's unnoticeable sigh to everyone had somehow and exception to a certain covert ops leader whom just smiled at her and looked back at Natsuki. 'It seems the Jinguuji princess wants to have the puppy.' She said in her mind as she shifts her gaze from Natsuki to Kanade.
Back at Natsuki and shizuru, Shizuru was having the time of her life in teasing and feeding the hungry Natsuki. Natsuki was trying to give her outmost glare to anyone who looked at her and tried to laugh. She looked at Kanad who was having a little troubled look. "Ne kaichou, are you alright? You seemed troubled." Natsuki asked in concern. Even Shizuru looked at the Miyagami kaichou in concern.
Kanade snapped back from her troubled trance and looked at the worried Natsuki. She forced a smile and nodded. "Oh I'm fine Natsuki so don't worry. Would you like some cake?" She said in a cheery voice. Raising a small paper plate of sliced cake and cutting a small part, she offered it to Natsuki whom Natsuki at without any hesitation. Seeing Natsuki ate her offered food gave Kanade a warm feeling inside. She smiled and went back to eating her own food whil Nastuki smiled back and began glaring at Nanaho and the others again.
"ara, ara! It seems that our little wolf puppy is a bit pampered, right Tokiha-san?" Shizuru teased, pattng Natsuki's head like a little puppy.
Mai laughed at what Shizuru said. "You're right Fujino-san. Oh I wonder what does Natsuki did to us to be pampered like this. Especially by two kaichous." she said with a laugh. Everyone laughed aswell due to the fact that Natsuki was indeed pampered by two kaichous.
"OI! First off, Shizuru don't pat me like a dog and second, if you value your lives, stop making fun of me!" Natsuki roared with a kuga-death-glare that made them stop laughing. But the two kaichou and Mai still giggled for they have gotten immune to Natsuki's harsh reactions. Well on Kanade's part, she's just rather courageous. Natsuki crossed her left arm over her broken arm and put up a puppy pout.
"hehe, I see your infamous death-glare has no effect on these beautiful and sexy women!" Puuchan insulted again. Rino, who forced to clamp down her puppet's mouth asked for apology on the now enraging Natsuki. "S-sorry Natsuki-sempai! Puuchan say sorry to her!" she scolded the doll.
Natsuki sighed and waved her left hand to show that they are forgiven. She couldn't go ballistic on the puppet due to the fact that it's in the hand of Rino. And she knows quite well how Kanade treasure Rino. "Bah! Let's just continue to eat! Ne Shizuru, uhmm… can you?" she looked at the smiling Fuuka kaichou with a slight blush. Shizuru was internally yelling happily as she saw Natsuki's blush and actually asking her to be fed again. She tried to contain her happiness with a sweet smile and she just nodded in reply to Natsuki's request.
Watching how Shizuru and Natsuki interact somehow made the Miyagami kaichou to feel sad. She was sighing a lot more than usual and can't avoid looking at the how Natsuki was having fun. Fun in a way that she was smiling behind those scowls and glares. She smiles whenever she sees the blunette bing happy with Shizuru but deep inside, pain is striking in her heart. 'Why… Why am I feeling like this?' she questioned herself from the odd feeling.
"Kaichou shouldn't frown, it doesn't suit you and Rino might become worried about you, as well as a certain bodyguard." someone whispered to Kanade that mad the Miyagami kaichou to look beside her.
"Siena-san…" she smiled and looked back at Rino who was playing with Mikoto. "Last thing I want to do is to make them worry about me. I am fine so you shouldn't worry aswell." She explained with a smile on her face.
After a few hours of having fun, the Miyagami seitokai decided that it's time for them to go back to their dorm. They began packing up and bid their goodbye to Mai and the others. Mai had decline the offer of escorting them home since the Fuuka dorm was near the park. but upon hearing that Kanade and the other Miyagami seitokai was leaving, fear made its way to Shizuru. Fear of losing Natsuki. Shizuru asked Natsuki if they could talk for a while before she leaves with Kanade and the others.
"N-Natsuki… Do you really need to go back to that school? y-you're not feeling well enough, I can take care of you for a while." Shizuru said with a slight of hurt in her voice. She grabbed Natsuki's left hand and gently squeezed it.
Natsuki looked at her hand and then to Shizuru. Despite of the calm look on the brunette's face, she can feel that she was troubled. She cocked her head and looked at Shizuru with a confused look. "Are you alright Shizuru? ofcourse I need to go back, I have classes tomorrow." she said while intertwining her hand with Shizuru's.
Shizuru looked at their hands and her smile disappeared. "Natsuki… I… I don't want you to go back there. Can't you stay here in Fuuka?" she said in a pleading tone.
Natsuki shook her head and bowed her head to apologize. "I'm sorry Shizuru, as much as I missed Mai and the others… as much as I missed you… I can't go back anymore. Miyagami is my school now… and…" she looked away from Shizuru and sighed. "And I can't bear to see anyone following you around or flirting with you." she said softly. She let go of Shizuru's hand and started to walk towards the bus.
Shizuru felt her heart sank at what Natsuki told her. She mind began to reprocess that Natsuki was hurt because of her, because of her ignorance. She bit her lower lip to stop herself from crying. "Natsuki… please don't leave me… I-I like you Natsuki!" she said sadly, hoping that Natsuki would reconsider from leaving.
Hearing Shizuru's confession, Natsuki felt her heart race like the speed of her Ducati. But the past memories of those same words that she spoke to Shizuru just made her looked back to Shizuru and put up a fake smile. She cannot let those words pull her back and make her imagine that what Shizuru told her was the same as her own feelings. "I like you too Shizuru… but the two of us have different meaning in the word 'like'." She sighed and still held up her fake smile. "Hey I'll still be visiting Fuuka after my bike is fixed by the Miyagami mechanic club." She said with a cold yet calming tone. She turned around and ran towards the bus where everyone was waiting for her, not waiting on Shizuru's reaction and letting the brunette see her now falling tears.
Shizuru froze on her spot as she heard what Natsuki just said to her. Even if she wanted to move to stop the mini bus, her body can't seem to follow what she wanted to do. She just stood at one place and stare at the leaving bus with tears flowing down from her crimson eyes.
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