A/N: first of all, i would like to say sorry for two things:
1. this is not a long chapter...
2. for updating oh so late... (the mixture of flash and the login glitch of FF made it hard for me...)
sorry guys for the trouble -.- i do hope you forgive me...
thanks to those who reviewed my story... ^-^ honestly you guys never failed to make me smile...
kikyo4ever: don't worry about Kanade.. I won't let her be alone in this fic ^-^
chum-san: indeed, Shizuru was just afraid of lose Natsuki... i got this insipration from a some fanfic i read ehehe..
miyuki mai: its nice you fulfilled your promise in giving a review.. Ookini.. and i must admit, it's a half hobby and a half stress reliever for me.. ookini...
Chapter 12: new task?!
A month has passed since Natsuki's birthday. A long and painful month for the two of them. Natsuki's broken arm has healed and her bike has been fixed by the mechanical club in Miyagami School. Shizuru on the other hand, still has her usual façade. Sipping calmly her tea during free time, giving her most charming façade to her fans and staring at the drawings that Natsuki gave her.
"ATTENTION! NATSUKI KUGA! YOU ARE NEEDED IN THE SEITOKAI OFFICE ASAP!" A loud speaker echoed to halls of the whole academics building of the Miyagami School. It echoed the whole building for more than three times, making the students and teachers look at Natsuki who was carefully transferring some chemicals from a beaker to a graduated cylinder.
Natsuki, who was now getting annoyed at the speakers, placed the lab materials down, glaring at those who were looking at her with either dreamy eyes in adornment or the annoyed look from her teacher. She stood up from her seat and stormed out of her classroom with a loud 'thud' sound from the door closing.
She was muttering some annoyed complains about the speaker calling her. "They could've just went to the chemistry lab and get me! argh!" she was still stomping towards the grassy path to the seitokai office when a stop and looked at the small crowd at her left.
The crowd was rather composed of girls in all year levels. They're gathering by the cherry blossom tree, saying praises on a certain student in the middle of them.
'hm? I wonder who's the unlucky person in the middle of that crowd.' She thought as she just went on her way towards the seitokai office.
Arriving at the office of the seitokai, she was greeted by an angry Nanaho, a calm Kuon and Siena, a worrying Mayura and a smiling Kanade. She sighed and prepared her ears for the loud yelling she would receive as soon as she sat down to her seat.
"YOU"RE LATE!" Nanaho yelled at Natsuki.
Leaning back to the chair, Natsuki just waved her hand, gesturing an apology. "I was in the middle of an experiment. How can you expect me to come here fast? And your damn speakers are really annoying! You could've just fetch me in the lab and NOT advertise my name!" she retorted with her death glare at Nanaho.
"Oh my, so that's why we felt an ominous aura coming here. The speakers were indeed very much advertising." Kuon said with a smile.
Natsuki stopped her glaring contest with Nanaho and gave Siena her death glare. But seeing that her glare was not even dropping the covert ops leader, she sighed and rubbed her temples to calm her down. She looked at the calm kaichou that's seated at the middle end of the circular table which gave her a calm smile.
"tch! So what is it you guys want that you have to use that damn speakers!?" Natsuki said with a low growl. She has her arms crossed as she eyed the main members of the seitokai.
"Natsuki-san I believe that you know that you're the bodyguard of kaichou and you can be in either the assault or the covert, correct?" Nanaho asked in a calm demeanor. Resting her elbows at the table and leaning her chin at her clasped hands.
"So? I'm your errand girl as far as I can remember. Making me run around and do stuff for you. No offense kaichou." Natsuki replied in a harsh tone. The speaker incident was still hot in her mind and whether she was calm outside, she was forcing herself on not to strangle either Nanaho or Siena.
Feeling the slight tension between Nanaho and Natsuki, Siena stood up from her seat and looked at both Mayura and Kuon with a smile. "Would Mayura-san and Kuon-san join me at the dorms for a round of poker?" she asked.
Both Kuon and Mayura have a perplexed looked before looking at how Natsuki was slowly getting irritated with the whole situation that would come.
"uh yeah, I suppose I can play a few rounds." Kuon agreed, slowly standing up from her seat. "Coming Mayura-san?"
"I gues it won't hurt there than here. But no bets okay?" she said nervously.
"Seeing that you two agreed kaichou we'll be leaving now. Good luck Natsuki!" Siena said as she left the office with both Kuon and Mayura in tow.
"What's up with them?" Natsuki asked.
"back to the topic at hand, Natsuki Kuga, you are appointed as bodyguard-"
"Hello, I'm already a bodyguard!" Natsuki cut Nanaho's words with a sarcastic tone.
"We know idiot! Let me finish first before you cut in!" roared back.
The two began their glaring contest again, rising the tension even more. Kanade was now starting to worry that the two might start a brawl. "Nanaho-san, Natsuki." she said in her sweetest tone, making the two stop glaring at each other and bow their heads in apology to Kanade.
"just tell me already so that we can finish here!"
"Alright! You are to be assigned to guard, be a guide and as well as a personal attendant to the new exchange student here in our school." Nanaho said flatly.
Natsuki was about to nod in acceptance in her new task when her mind process the words after the 'guard part' of Nanaho's assignment for her. Her eyes went wide and she stood up from her seat, slamming her hands at the table.
"Did I hear it correctly? You want me to babysit some foreign-germs?" Natsuki asked, clearing what she just heard.
"Natsuki, please no rude insults." Kanade said with a sweet smile.
"Sorry kaichou. Let me make this clear fuukukaichou, you want me to be some attendant to a transfer student?" Natsuki said while gritting her teeth. She was tryng hard on not to burst out in anger towards the fuukukaichou.
"She's an exchange student. She'll be here for one semester. If you want to put it that way, then yes you'll be her attendant." Nanaho said with a smirk.
"And why, may I ask, would you think I'll agree to that?"
"Because after your accident, the kaichou insisted that we didn't give you hard tasks and now you're healed you need to catch up on you duties." Nanaho said with a smirk again.
Noticing Nanaho's smirk, Natsuki felt like she was being taunted by te fuukukaichou. But seeing at the worried face of Kanade, she sighed heavily and mentally counted one to ten. 'she won't get on my nerves, she won't get on my nerves!' She mentally chanted, hoping that she won't act like a barbaric wolf hunting her prey.
"I guess your silence means you agree. Very well, from this day until the end of the semester, you'll guard the exchange student everywhere. You may leave now Natsuki-san." Nanaho said cooly.
Natsuki could only growl in annoyance before bowing her head to Kanade and leaving the seitokai office.
Nanaho sighed and rubbed her temples. Handling the assault team was hard for her but handling Natsuki's short temper was even harder. Even if Natsuki was a pain for her, she still respect her fellow seitokai member since she indeed proven worthy of her position in the seitokai. Since the blunette was capable of driving away the kaichou's obsessed fans and her die-hard suitor, Ryuuheita.
"Nanaho-san, do you think it's a good idea on giving her that task? I believe Kaori-san could fit that job. Putting Natsuki in a tight situation might be a little harsh." Kanade said with a worried look.
Nanaho smiled weakly and placed a hand over Kanade's shoulder. "you worry too much about her Kanade. Don't worry, if she hates it, she's very much welcome to decline on her new assignment." Nanaho said in assurance.
Upon hearing Nanaho's words, Kanade smiled as well and looked at her watch. "Oh my, it's already lunch and I do believe that Rino might be waiting for me. And also Natsuki might be hungry now too." She said calmly before standing up and making her way towards her own office to get her picnic basket.
Nanaho chuckled at how her kaichou was very much caring to Rino and Natsuki. "oi! you're not forgetting that you're going to give me my lunch too Kanade!" she said cheerfully, following her kaichou to her office.
Meanwhile, as Natsuki was walking down the trail back to the cafeteria, it seems that every student that she came across to was either getting away from her path or not looking at her. She was still angry at Nanaho's orders but she was needed to comply since Nanaho was fuukukaichou. But a thought stopped her from walking. "Wait, she didn't told me who that exchange student is and when will she arrive!"Natsuki said in frustration, scrunching her own midnight hair. "argh! Whatever! It's her loss why I can't comply with my task." She grumbled as she continued to walk towards the cafeteria to buy some lunch since she was getting hungry.
Again, her path towards her mayo-filled sandwich was put to a halt when she saw the bunch of students she saw earlier was still by the cherry blossom tree. Raising an eyebrow, she tried to look at who they were talking to but the flock of the now-forming-fan-club blocked her view of the person.
Somehow, that incident reminds her of the person dear to her heart. Shizuru Fujino. How the Fuuka seitokaichou had to be followed around by numerous fans, both male and female; how she would glare at them so they would leave Shizuru alone.
She chuckled at how she remembered her time at Fuuka academy. It had been a month since she had seen Shizuru and the others. she started drawing as soon as her arm had been healed, and all her three drawings were about Shizuru in a park filled with cherry blossom trees.
She cleared her mind by shaking her head and heaved a sigh. "Shizuru…" she looked at the blue sky with a distressing look. "I wonder how she is…" she whispered. She closed her eyes to feel the air that pass her body and heaved another sigh.
She looked back to the path towards the cafeteria since she felt her stomach grumbled once again. Chuckling at her recent reminisce about the crimson-eyed brunette. "I guess it's time to eat some mayo sandwich!" she said cheerfully to no one as she began her pace towards the cafeteria.
A/N: i hope you guys wouldn't kill me for this short chapter.. *hiding under my blue blanket* i'll try and update faster.