A/N: SUMMER TIME HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES!!! and that only means one thing for us.. VACATION!!! hahaha!! sorry if i didn't update, i caught a low fever a few days ago and i couldn't upload this one.. i do hope you guys understand.. ^-^ i'll start my update ASAP after i post the update on after a few short days ^-^
oh yeah i almost forgot, this chapter and the next chappiesw will show some OOC of Kanade and other chars.. tnx ^-^
Chapter 16: morning yell
"Since I only have one bed, you take it Shizuru. You can change into your nightwear while I change into mine in the bathroom." Natsuki said tiredly with a wide open mouth yawn.
Natsuki went to the bathroom and changed into her blue pajamas and went out. She didn't mind the violet pajama clad Shizuru that's standing by the bed with a smile on her face since she was tired from the entire fan invasion that she had to endure, glared and growled at. She went towards the bed grabbed a pillow and threw it to the couch beside the bed which Kanade happiky added to her room for being a nice bodyguard. She was too tired and decided to just slump down, face first to that same couch like a sack of potato falling to the ground.
Shizuru chuckled at the sight of her sleeping bodyguard. She made her way towards Natsuki and kneeled down beside the couch, smiling at the sight of Natsuki sleeping. She lifted up her left index and middle finger and used it to remove the strands of Natsuki's hair that covered her face and touch Natsuki's cheek, gliding it down to the blunette's soft lips. She blushed at the beauty before her and was thankful that Natsuki was asleep and didn't saw her blush.
"That time when you left… I felt scared… scared that I might never see you again…" she whispered softly. "But now… I'm here with you. I can touch you… tease you and…"
Shizuru sighed as her usual façade broke down and an emotion of sadness filled her face as she slowly closed her eyes. True to what she whispered, she really felt scared when she saw Natsuki leaving. A lone tear had sneaked out from the corner of her closed eyes but a cold yet gentle hand had wiped the tear away. She opened her eyes in surprise and saw emerald orbs staring straight at her.
"I fall asleep for a minute and I woke up only to see you like this." Natsuki said coldly with her emerald eyes staring at Shizuru.
Shizuru quickly put up her façade smile and leaned her head closer to the blunette, hoping it would distract the questioning look on Natsuki's eyes. "Ara! Natsuki always caught me in the most embarrassing predicament. I wonder if I would give her a reward because of it." She jested.
As expected, Natsuki blushed at the sight of Shizuru's face a few inches away from her. "Mou! Would you just go to bed and sleep? And dammit! Will you stop using your façade to me?! it annoying to see you all smiling yet you don't mean it." Natsuki said with a slight shyness in her tone. She turned around with her back facing the giggling brunette and shut her eyes.
"Well I'm proud that my Natsuki still knows when I use my façade. Ookini Natsuki." Shizuru said with a slight amused tone in her voice. She stood up and went to Natsuki's bed.
As soon as Shizuru had lain down to Natsuki's bed, she immediately whiffed the sweet aroma of Natsuki among the covers of the bed. She blushed as she felt the warmness of the covers as if Natsuki was hugging her. A soft, genuine smile had appeared on her face and she gradually made herself comfortable in bed. "Goodnight, Natsuki." she said in a cheery voice.
"pft! 'Night Shizuru." Natsuki said, adjusting herself to the couch. Despite of the hurtful things that happened to her with Shizuru, she couldn't help but smile at the fact that Shizuru was with her. No more duty bound Shizuru which takes a lot of her day; no creepy stalking fans. 'Well, she has new fans but they're not in the creepy level yet.' She mentally chuckled at the small relief of Shziuru's new fans not being in the creepy stage yet.And definitely no Kanzaki to ruin everything.
Both of them thought of how grateful the time of destiny placed upon them and didn't surprised them that both had fallen asleep with their smile still plastered on their faces.
The next day, the whole seitokai (minus Kaoru which lives outside the school) had been awoken by a lud screaming noise. Everyon, except Kanade had gone out to their rooms and went to the source of the loud noise, Natsuki Kuga's room.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT KUGA!" Nanaho yelled as she busted the door open angrily with the whole seitokai behind her, all pajamas clad and has sleepy yet surprised look in their faces.
"Fuukukaichou! That would go down with the budget!" Mayura complained as the door broke off the door frame due to Nanaho.
"Natsuki-sempai, you're too loud, noisy, and earsplitting! Your yell woke everybody up and it's only six 'o clock." Rein whined while rubbing her eyes with her left hand and holding the glasses-less Sayuri with her right.
"Well not everybody Rein-chan, I'm already awake even before Natsuki-san yelled." A calm Siena said, eyeing Natsuki's room with amusement.
Kuon noticed the amused look on Siena's face and looked at the source of her amusement. When she darted her sight at Natsuki's bed, her eyes went wide at the sight and noise. "I see why Natsuki-san yelled.
Inside the said room, Natsuki was standing at the edge of the bed, looking angry and pointing at the occupants of her bed. She was pointing at the two girls who have a sleepy look on their faces and was sitting at each of the side of the bed, making it looked like Natsuki slept in between them.
"Ara! Natsuki's so loud. She slept walked back to bed that's why you woke up here with me. Didn't you offer your bed to me last night?" Shizuru said in a teasing manner.
"OKAY! I'M SORRY FOR SLEEP WALKING, BUT WHY IN HEAVEN'S NAME ARE YOU ALSO HERE KANADE-KAICHOU?!" Natsuki roared, pointing at Kanade at the right side of the bed.
"I guessed I slept walk aswell." Kanade said. She has her left index finger over her lower lip and looked at Natsuki with a slight confused and amused face.
Natsuki's brow twitched. "The first time you slept here was my fault and now you're saying you sleep walks all the way here from you and Rino's room which is located at the other end of the hallway?!" Natsuki complained, she grabbed her own head and held it tightly to process everything that happened.
"ENOUGH!" Nanaho bellowed making Natsuki, SHizuru and Kanade looked at all of the seitokai at the door.
Natsuki flushed at the sight of the Rein, Siena, Kuon and Puuchan looking at them with grins in their faces while Sayuri and Rino has no clue on what's happening and Mayura was more worried about the door being busted than Natsuki.
"Now tell me, why is the kaichou in your room? And why are these two have their pajama tops open down to their cleavage?" Nanaho asked while pointing at Kanade and Shizuru with bith of their pajama tops open at the cleavage part.
Natsuki didn't notice at first what Nanaho was talking about since she was too occupied in yelling on how she woke up with two girls beside her. Her jaw dropped and a bright red blush had covered her face when she looked at the two with their pajama tops almost open. "i-i-i…" Natsuki stuttered.
Nanaho glared at Natsuki while the other seitokai officers only looked at them with amusement. The whole rom has an eerie silence at the declaration of the two whose tops were almost open.
Rein decided to end the silence with a quick whip and point of her left hand to Natsuki and grinned widely. "wah! Natsuki-sempai did a paya-paya with Kaichou and Fujino-san!" she pointed out, making Nanaho sigh and rub her temples
"WHAT?! I didn't do anything!" Natsuki retorted. "And what's this paya-paya thing?!"
"Ara! And I thought you would be responsible for us Natsuki? You told us yourself, right Kanade?" Shizuru said, looking at Kanade with unspoken words of 'play along'.
Kanade caught the meaningful look on Shizuru's eyes and placed a hand over her cheeks and pretended to look disturbed. "Indeed Shizuru. Was Natsuki lying when she proposed to us that she will be responsible?" Kanade asked in a distressed look.
"Responsible? KUGA! WHAT'S THE MEANING OF THIS?!" Nanaho yelled out upon hearing Kanade's distressed words. Her face was already getting dark from anger at the seitokai bodyguard and her fists was now shaking and clenching.
Natsuki looked at the two in her bed and at Nanaho and the other seitokai. Her face was blushing furiously and her emerald eyes were wide open in surprise. She was about to retort an answer to deny anything that the Nanaho accused to her when a hand pulled her down and encased her into a warm hug, making everyone gasp in shock. "ACK!" Natsuki yelped.
"aww! Natsuki-sempai looks cute, adorable, and delectable!" Rein squealed upon seeing what happened.
"Rein, what's happening? My glasses?" Sayuri asked confusingly since she couldn't see anything without her glasses.
"ne onee-chan, why is Natsuki-san blushing? And why is she with Kaichou and the new girl?" Minamo asked as she pulled her big sister's pajama sleeves. Her sister smiled at her and pulled her away from the scene, answering her little confused question with a, "not until you're old enough Minamo."
Rino was about to ask the same question when Puuchan pulled her back to their room, saying that they need to get ready for breakfast and school, while Mayura was still occupied with the newest monthly budget loss.
"aww! Natsuki's so cute!"
"KUGA!"
"Natsuki ikezu!"
"LET GO KAICHOU! AND SHIZURU DON'T GLARE AT ME LIKE THAT!" Natsuki said in fear and nervousness. She was being hugged by Kanade while Shizuru was glaring at her for being hugged by another girl. She wriggled her body away from Kanade's hug and flail her hands to help her be released.
Shizuru, out of jealousy, grabbed Natsuki's flailing arms and pulled her away from Kaande's hug and she hugged her herself like a viper wrapping herself to its prey. "Kanade should know her boundaries on other people's properties." Shizuru said with her façade and venomous voice.
But Kanade didn't even flinch and only grabbed Natsuki's other arms and hugged it. "Shizuru should know that Natsuki also has responsibility to me, so I can hug her if I want. And Natsuki isn't anybody's property, 'yet'." Kanade said with her smile.
Both started a glaring contest, making Natsuki look at Nanaho with a 'help me from these vipers' look on her face. Kuon giggled at Natsuki who looked like a trapped puppy but Nanaho, feeling sorry for the bodyguard, sighed and clapped her hands a few times. "Alright, alright! It seems that Natsuki-san is the victim here so will Kanade kaichou get up from the bed and change her clothes so that all of us can eat our breakfast? before Rino starts to ask silly questions about the 'other kind of love'. And Natsuki, do lock your door next time." Nanaho said. She went to Kanade and pulled the pale violet haired kaichou away from hugging Natsuki and dragged her away from the room.
"well, I guess Nanaho-san had shown her jealousy over you now Natsuki-san. Anyway, all this yelling and public display of affection had worked me up an appetite so I'll go and change into my uniform now, you two aswell." Kuon said with a sly smile as she gave Shizuru a wink and left the room.
Natsuki, having a confused look on her face just sighed and gave Shizuru a weak glare. "will you let go now? I'm getting hungry aswell Shizuru."
"ara! Not until Natsuki promise me to sit beside me during breakfast." Shizuru said with a cute pout.
"Even if I say no, you'll do anything that will make me sit beside you, right? Anyway, I'm too hungry to argue so you know my answer." She said with a yawn. She removed Shizuru's hug over her body and stood up to get her uniform in her closet.
"Natsuki make it seems that she's being forced. Ikezu!" Shziuru crossed her arms and puffed out her left cheek.
Natsuki only chuckled at the cute pout of Shizuru. "I'm not being forced..." She grabbed her uniform and went to the bathroom to change her clothes. "And beside, as if I'll allow you to sit anywhere away from me." Natsuki whispered before closing the bathroom door.
Shizuru didn't heard Natsuki's whisper but instead she smiled at how Natsuki showed her kindness even if she hurt her in the past. She stood up and walked towards her closet but stopped when she saw the study table with two sheets of parchment papers. 'is that?'
Her ruby eyes went wide when she looked at the parchment paper. She saw in one of the two a drawing of the Miyagami seitokai with Mai and Mikoto in a park having a picnic with the cherry blossoms petals, floating around them. "This is… her birthday back in Fuuka.. But…" she took another look at the paper but found not a single trace of her drawing. 'I guess she didn't want me in- what?'
Her body froze when she saw what the other paper contained. It's her and Natsuki. She was hugging Natsuki with a contented and happy smile while Natsuki has a slight blush on her face but with a small smile. It was plain and as if the drawing wasn't finished yet since there is no background drawing like the other one. A sweet, true smile had made it's was on her face and her heart began to beat faster. 'I hope that I'm not too late to prove to you that my like… no... My love is the same as yours Natsuki.'
After a few minutes, Natsuki went out from the bathroom and saw Shizuru all dressed up in her uniform. Her brow rose up when she noticed that Shizuru has a smile on her face. Thinking that she has some drool in her mouth, she unconsciously wiped her mouth but found not even a drop of saliva. "what are you smiling at? Do I have some dirt in my face?" she asked concusingly.
Shizuru approached Natsuki and hugged the blunette. "Ookini Natsuki. I do hope you still remember what I said back then. I like you." She whispered in Natsuki's ear before letting go of the blunette and leaving her frozen at where they were standing.
"oh and we'll be late for breakfast!" Shziuru yelled from the corridor.
After processing what happened, Natsuki blushed and whipped her head to where Shizuru went. "What the hell?!" she cursed as she started to ran to the dinning hall.
A/N: waah! next week i'll have my summer vacation at La Union and i hope they have wifi there so i can update ^-^ please review my story so i can think of futher ideas by your opinions ^-^ Ookini for always reading my story though i still suck at my english ^-^ it makes me very happy