A/N: sorry for the late update... im doing my system thesis and still not finished yet... i do hope this chapter would be up for your guys liking...
Chapter 14: Seitokai advantage
Natsuki dragged the silent yet smiling Shizuru to her dorm room across the academic building. She ignored each and every stare she got while walking and just glared back at them menacingly. She was confused, surprised and happy. Her mind was practically buzzing with tons of questions, and the number one question was-
"Why in heaven's name are you here Shizuru?! Oh wait, don't answer that yet, why you are letting that flirty teacher of mine flirt with you?!" Natsuki asked angrily as soon as they entered her room and slammed the door. Her jealous mind clouded her prideful instinct and just let her burst out the things that pop in her senses.
Shizuru ignored Natsuki's question and began to scan the white painted room with shades of light blue. She saw a balcony with two sliding doors that has a view of the whole outside world, a bed with a blue colored covers, small paintings hung around the wall and the small study table that's filled with papers and untouched books.
"Ara, is this my Natsuki's room? Oh my, if Natsuki wants to do this and that with me, she should've waited until tonight." The fuuka kaichou teased, making Natsuki blush with brows furrowed.
"What?! I'm not going to do this and that to you! And don't go claiming me as yours!" Natsuki blurted out, mind all straight and processing correctly.
Shizuru put up her trademarked thinking pose with a small smirk on her face. "Ara, as I recall, my Natsuki proclaimed to her class that I was hers. So in a sense, I must reciprocate that proclamation and claim you as mine. Correct?" she said with a small victorious smile.
"Uh... Yes? Oh wait, don't say anything I'll think of my answer to that!" she said unsurely. She then closed her eyes and softly started poking her forehead with her index finger, thinking if she answered correctly.
Shizuru giggled at the sight of Natsuki thinking. "Ara, my Natsuki's so cute when she's thinking very hard. But if Natsuki and I won't go back to class, we'll be absent." Shizuru said playfully.
"We're already absent considering its past 1pm. And I bet that damn flirt already told Nanaho fuukukaichou." Natsuki grumbled and flopped down to her bed. "Argh! That damn flirt!" she yelled out in frustration, scrunching her blue hair forcefully.
Shizuru moved towards the bed and sat beside Natsuki. She smiled, knowing that Natsuki was somehow jealous at their advance literature teacher. Then the thought struck her. "Ne Natsuki, why are you in a 3rd year class? You're only a first year yet you're my classmate in my advance literature subject." she asked with a perplexed look.
"Being in this seitokai has its advantage. And I happened to get that subject inorder to have another science subject during my 3rd year." Natsuki answered with a smirk. She sat up and puff out her chest with full of pride.
"Ara, ara! It seems my Natsuki loved being in the seitokai now. I wonder, does my Natsuki like the seitokai here rather than the seitokai in Fuuka." Shizuru said in her sad-acting voice. "Maybe Natsuki doesn't like the Fuuka seitokai because I'm the kaichou."
Natsuki's prideful look had fallen into a panic expression. "wah? N-no!" Natsuki retorted, waving her hands in denial.
Shizuru beamed Natsuki a jesting smile and giggled in amusement. "Ara, I was just joking Natsuki." she said with an apologetic look. Her teasing made the blunette pout. "Kannin na Natsuki. But like what you said about being in the seitokai, i guess my answer to your question earlier about being here is because of the Fuuka seitokai" she said in a cheery tone.
"Let me guess… you thought that this would be a vacation to you, am I right?" Natsuki guessed with a suspicious look on her face.
"My Natsuki knows me too well." Shizuru said with a smile. She patted Natsuki on the head like a little puppy.
Natsuki swatted Shizuru's hand and glared at the giggled brunette. "I'm not yours! I just said that to annoy my freaking teacher!" she lied. She start grumbling some complaint, the door suddenly burst open with Nanaho looking furious and Kanade trailing behind her with her calm aura.
"KUGA!!!" Nanaho yelled out.
Natsuki stood up from her bed and looked at Nanaho with a taunting smirk. "Hey fuukukaichou, Kanade kaichou… I guess you guys found out my little scene at class." She said, crossing her arms and leaning over the wall behind her bed. Nanaho's brow twitched at Natsuki's sarcastic action, restraining to pounce on the bodyguard. Kanade on the other hand smiled at Natsuki, making the blunette shrug.
"Sorry…" Natsuki mumbled, looking at her side.
"Nanaho, Natsuki said her apology so please calm down. And aren't we here to say our apology aswell?" Kanade said calmly.
Nanaho sighed and scratched the back of her head. She then looked at the girl beside Natsuki and grinned mischievously. She cupped her chin and slowly rubbed it like she was thinking of something evil. "I guess we don't need to apologize to her kaichou. It seems she already found her charge." She said with a grin.
Shizuru knew what Nanaho meant and gave the fuukukaichou a smile. "Ookini fuukukaichou, Jinguuji-san, for accepting me as your school's exchange student." The Fuuka kaichou said in her sweet Kyoto-ben accent.
Both Kanade and Nanaho smiled and bowed their head to show formality and acceptance of the exchange student in their school.
"We are also thankful in accepting our offer. But I must say that you, of all the candidates that applied, have decided to come. Won't the student council be in a mess without you Fujino-san?" Nanaho said with a smile.
"Yeah Shizuru, won't that loud mouth go on a 'Justice Rampage' at school? And won't your ever-loyal-we-love-Fujino fan club be sad? And that Kanzaki boyfriend of yours…" Natsuki said while looking at the balcony to hide her pout.
Shizuru put up her thinking pose again and remembered why she was the exchange student.
-Flashback 2 weeks ago, Fuuka seitokai office-
Shizuru was staring absent mindedly into the window with her right elbow resting at the table and her chin resting at her right palm with her left hand holding a cup of tea. The seitokai were having a meeting about some vandalism around the school and Haruka Suzushiro, the Fuuka Executive Director of the Suzushiro Executive Team, was suggesting some punishment to the suspects. But to Shizuru, her thoughts were more important than the mere punishment on some violators, her thoughts on a certain blue haired girl.
"OI BUBUZUKE ARE YOU FINISHING TO ME?!" Haruka yelled as she slams her hands at Shizuru's table.
"Its 'listening' Haruka-chan." Yukino corrected. She was trying to calm the enraged Haruka.
"Now, now Suzushiro-san let Shizuru wander her mind for a few minutes." Reito said calmly with her signature flashy smile as he looks at the pre-occupied Shizuru.
Haruka glared at the Fuukukaichou and to Yukino. But seeing her childhood friend worried at Shizuru, she sighed and faced the kaichou with an annoyed look.
"Fujino turn your attention to me for a sec. this concerns about your delinquent, that Kuga girl." Haruka said while restraining the urge to strangle Shizuru and her calm demeanor.
Upon hearing the name 'Kuga Natsuki', Shizuru whipped her head to face Haruka. Her attention was all on Haruka and her usual playful façade smile was replaced by a serious but still façade smile. placing her right elbow atop the table and interlocking her hands in a praying manner, she rested her chin atop her hands and eyed Haruka like a hawk.
"Ara, I guess Suzushiro-san got my attention now. What do you want to tell me about Natsuki?" she said with a venomous cheery tone. Her sudden attentiveness somehow made the whole seitokai office filled with a fiery aura.
Haruka stood her ground but shivered at the sight of crimson eyes staring at her like burning her soul in the underworld. 'Who knew this bubuzuke would pay attention when it comes to Kuga.' She coughed and put up her strong composure.
"Ahem, anyway… I'm guessing your mind's all occupied by the thoughts of that Kuga, and don't deny it Fujino." Haruka stated, cutting Shizuru's almost interruption on her statement. "That Kuga, before she transferred left something for you." pushing the laptop at Shizuru's desk aside, Haruka picked up a dusty paper that had been hiding from the laptop and gave it to Shizuru, making the brunette's eyes widen in surprise.
"T-this is…" Shizuru stuttered, shifting her sight from the paper to Haruka and back to the paper.
"It's from that delinquent. She left it before she had her voluntary expulsion. It still bothers me on how come you didn't notice it under your laptop bubuzuke." Haruka said calmly. (A/N: 0.o calmly?!…)
Yukino and Reito had moved forward and looked at the dusty paper that Haruka gave to SHizuru. Both of them were taken aback in awe at the content of the paper.
The parchment paper, like any other parchment papers that Shizuru receives from Natsuki, has her drawing and poem in it but with a slight difference.
"I-it's Kuga-san…" Yukino said softly, pointing at the paper in Shizuru's hands.
The drawing was about Shizuru drawn as an angel that's levitated in the sky with a true smile in her face and just below her, a drawing of Natsuki standing at the ground and reaching her right hand up to Shizuru. The whole background is filled with cherry blossom petals, dancing in the air.
Haruka looked at Shizuru with concern in her eyes. She sighed and crossed her arms as her kaichou stared into the paper while tears began trailing off from her crimson eyes. "Fujino… here I thought the mighty Fujino can never cry, but the mere sight of a drawing that Kuga gave you would make you fall. You must really love her then." She said in a half taunting and half concern tone.
"Suzushiro-san's must be worried about the kaichou. Showing her the paper that Natsuki left is truly honest of you." Reito teased with his wide toothy smile, making Haruka glare at him coldly with a dangerous snarl.
"Shut up you lazy toothpaste model! Yukino get me the invitation from that school!" Haruka yelled, making Reito cringe but still maintain his smiling poise. Yukino on the other hand just adjusted her glasses and went towards her table. Grabbing a piece of paper from the desk and handing it to Haruka, she gave Shizuru a calm smile before turning her gaze at Haruka.
Haruka thanked Yukino and turned her attention to the crying Shizuru. She slams the paper into SHizuru's desk, making Shizuru look at Haruka with her teary crimson eyes.
"What's this?" Shizuru asked sadly.
"Just put your name at the blank part of the paragraph and signed it at the bottom! The director already signed this and I'm only looking for the candidate. This is a once in a lifetime feel Fujino, so you better make this worth it!" Haruka proclaimed. Shizuru just looked at the paper and examined it carefully.
"Its 'deal' Haruka-chan. But are you sure about this?" Yukino whispered into Haruka's ear. But haruka ignored her question since the blond was busy in waiting Shizuru's response.
As if a curse has been lifted from the office, the once fiery aura has been changed into a calm windy aura. Shizuru had finished reading the paper and hastily grabbed a pen and signed the places where Haruka instructed her to sign without considering any pros or cons. She gave the paper to Haruka with a wide playful smile on her face.
"Two weeks bubuzuke, after two weeks you're not the kaichou anymore and that 'I can flatter you with my smile' for a fuukukaichou will handle your job. C'mon Yukino, I think I'm done for today." Haruka said, turning around and grabbing Yukino's arm and started walking towards the door. But before opening the door and going out, Haruka faced the smiling Shizuru and sighed. "Don't let this go to waste Fujino." she stated before going out.
"She's a good friend Shizuru. Well I guess it's up to me to break the news to your loving fans, I bet they'll be crushed. Be sure to win her over alright?" Reito said with a playful wink.
Shizuru nodded her head and tok a calm sip from her tea cup. 'I won't… I won't waste this chance again.'
-End of flashback-
Beaming a smile, Shizuru summed up all the reasons why she's at Miyagami and filtered it to minimal information. "Suzushiro-san insisted that I go and accept this once in a lifetime deal as she put in her own terms. And about my fans, I think Kanzaki-san can deal with them, as he said to me that it was the least that he can do after what he did." Shizuru said, tapping her smiling lips.
Natsuki's brow twitched upon hearing the name 'Kanzaki'. She wanted to ask what did Reito did to her to make him amends for his doings to Shizuru. Her blood boiled upon thinking that Reito hurt Shizuru, but she hid her anger perfectly with her glare and soft growl. "Whatever! Ne kaichou, seeing that Shziuru is the only new student here and hearing the fuukukaichou say that she's my charge, I believe my duties to her will start now?" Natsuki asked the calm and smiling Kanade.
Kanade nodded her head and looked at the amused Shizuru. "as part of the deal in the transfer agreement, Shizuru would you mind having Natsuki as your bodyguard?" she asked sweetly.
"I wouldn't asked for anyone else Kanade." Shizuru replied with the same sweet tone.
Nanaho noticed the oddness of the two girl's smile just sighed and gave Natsuki a 'goodluck' look. she knew that Natsuki's daily school life in Miyagami would be one hell of a punishment for not being able to participate in the seitokai's activities.
A brow rose up as Natsuki saw how Nanho gave her a pitied look. She glared at the fuukukaichou and snarled, showing her white gritting teeth like a wolf.
A/N: would a calm Haruka be a nice sight?? 0.O maybe the world would be annihilated if that happends XD