Chapter 17: why are you doing this?

The whole class of Natsuki was just plain weird to her. First she was escorted, note: escorted, by both Shizuru and Kanade to her room, making her dumbfounded on the fact that it was supposed to be her job to escort the two. Then there was recess where the two would go to her room just to give her a pack of bread and a can of tea. All of her classmates squealed when they saw their beloved kaichou and their newest goddesses Natsuki and Shizuru, all together in their classroom. She gave those fangirls one of her deathglares but it just earned her a hug from the two since they both think it was cute. After recess, she decided to skip her remaining class in order to avoid her two charges.

"Man! What's wrong with those two?!" she yelled out. She was laying down on the grass under a huge tree which gave her shade from the hot sun. she sighed. Everything was very fast for her. 'first Shizuru was completely dense before I left Fuuka and now she's like a…' she paused and sat up in an Indian sitting position. she scrunched up her dark locks and frowned.

"Kuga-sempai?"

Natsuki looked at the person who called her and saw Kaoru standing a few meters away from her. she raised a brow and cocked her head. "Kaoru? What are you doing out here? Shouldn't you be in class?" she asked.

Kaoru looked around cautiously and approached Natsuki. "uhm Kuga-sempai, it's already end of class and kaichou is looking for you. And also your friend, uhm.. Shizuru-san's kinda being surrounded by a flock of crazed fans at the canteen." She said with a slight quiver in her voice. She knew in Natsuki's previous scandalous action that the seitokai bodyguard was harsh when it comes to the exchange student.

And what Kaoru's thinking was right. When Natsuki heard that Shizuru was again being flocked by tons of students, she bolted up and ran towards the canteen, leaving a very surprised Kauro who only saw a blink of blue pass her.

At the canteen, a large group of students were making a huge fuss and Natsuki knew what the main reason is. She stomped towards the massive crowd and decided to 'calmly' have crowd control.

"WILL ALL OF YOU GIVE SHIZURU BREATHING SPACE?!" Natsuki yelled out with her canines showing .

Everyone who heard Natsuki's yell, or as they heard it, a loud threatening howl, they looked at Natsuki and parted a way to Shizuru when they saw Natsuki's fiery emerald glares at them.

Shizuru suppressed her giggle when she saw Natsuki glaring at her new fans. She pretended to ignore Natsuki and continued to entertain one of her fans that asked her to be tutored on a certain lesson. She obviously knew that the girl just wants to be close to her but as she plans to lure her wolf guard and that news travels fast, she allowed tutoring the girl. She smiled when she felt an ominous aura looming over her and the girl she was tutoring had dropped her wide smile and was replaced by fear.

"Ara! Are you alright?" she asked the girl. The girl's response was only a shook of her head and grabbing of her things before giving Shizuru a quick apologetic bow and ran away.

"What in hell are you doing here Shizuru?" Natsuki asked, gritting her teeth. She has her usual annoyed expression and has her both arms crossed.

Shizuru looked at Natsuki and giggled. "I was teaching a fellow classmate about our recent lesson. But I wonder why she left?" she said as she put up her innocent thinking pose.

"Well I don't see anyone sitting beside you or anywhere near you, mind if you come with me back to the dorms to have something to eat?" she asked again, keeping her temper in control.

Seeing how her bodyguard was keeping her cool and practically sending out an aura of 'I'll-have-your –heads-if-anyone-objects' coming out of her. She chuckled and stood up from her seat and gave her fans an apology. "Kannin na everyone. As you can see, MY bodyguard's already fetching me for our date. Fufufu!" she said to her fans, making Natsuki blush.

"It's not a date! Baka! And all of you shouldn't bother Shizuru if it's not a life and death important!" She gave out her warning glares and the Shizuru fanatics nervously nodded and scooted away.

"Now, as for you Shi-zu-ru!" Natsuki said with her annoyed tone. she was still holding her temper down in order to not yell on the brunette. Yet her eyes soften when she saw how Shizuru smiled at her and gracefully stood up from her seat and approached her.

"Ara did I anger my bodyguard?" Shizuru asked in her sweet Kyoto-ben accent.

And just like a speck of dust in the wind, Natsuki's annoyance had dispersed and a heavy sigh just came out from her mouth. "Whatever, just…" she lowered her head to hide her now creeping blush on her face. "Just don't wander away…" she mumbled softly, hoping that Shizuru wouldn't hear her.

But Shizuru heard her loud and clear. She happily grabbed Natsuki's arm and cuddled closer to the blunette. "ara, then I must be close to my Natsuki so that she won't get mad at me." she said happily.

Natsuki blushed at the contact of Shizuru's body to her arm. She coughed and started walking out with Shizuru walking beside her and still clinging at her arm. 'shit! If she hugs even tighter, I can definitely feel her… *mentalblush* shut up mind!'

Shizuru felt Natsuki tensed up as they walk towards the seitokai dorms. she looked at the young brunette and gave her a warm smile. "is there something wrong my Natsuki?" she asked, hugging Natsuki's arm tighter making it wedge down to the middle of her uniform covered chest.

This made Natsuki feel like fainting. She could feel Shizuru's chests and it wasn't doing any good to her imagination. 'get a hold of yourself Kuga! She's your ward and…she can never…' she was in deep thought and didn't noticed that she was walking towards the glass door of the miyagami seitokai dorms and didn't heard Shizuru's warning about the door opening by Minamo.

Without hearing or noticing the door, Natsuki was hit by the glass door in the forehead. She was snapped out of her trance and had fallen down to the pavement.

"OUCH! DAMMIT WHO HIT ME?!" Natsuki yelled out as she placed a palm over her now red forehead.

"Sempai! Sorry!" Minamo said in apology as she bent down and tried to look at the area where Natsuki was hit in the head.

Buit Natsuki swatted Minamo's hand away and stood up. She dusted the dirt off her skirt and grumbled as she went inside.

"did I made Kuga-sempai angry?"

Shizuru gave Minamo a charming smile that made the child blush. She placed a hand over Minamo's head. "ara! don't worry Minamo-chan. My Natsuki's not mad at you." she assured to Minamo which earned her a childish nod. She smiled and went inside aswell to follow her bodyguard.

When Shizuru caught up with Natsuki near the stairs, she happily grabbed the blunette's hand and offered her a warm true smile. "ara, what is my Natsuki thinking?" she asked as she see Natsuki still deep in thought.

"nothing…" Natsuki lied. The truth was she was thinking about her and Shizuru. if the brunette was just teasing her again and was not intending to make her fall inlove again. she was thinking if she should still hope or give up.

Yet, Shizuru had seen through Natsuki's lie. She held Natsuki's and tighter and looked at her worryingly. "I feel that my Natsuki's hiding something from me." she said seriously.

"hiding? No… I'm…" Natsuki sighed and looked away. "why are you doing this Shizuru? Why are you treating me like this if there is someone already there for you? Naming Reito, whom you assume is your 'k'." she said in a pained tone. all of the bad memories she had when she was in Fuuka had came back in her mind, making her feel hurt and hopeless in Shizuru's heart.

Shizuru can sense the hurt in Natsuk's voice. She sighed, which is rare for her, and pulled the younger blunette in a hug. "what if I tell you… I know who my 'K' really is? And that I want my 'K' to continue loving me since as I told 'K' before that I reciprocate the same feelings. The SAME feelings." She whispered in Natsuki's ear. She tensed up the word 'same' to prove to Natsuki that she love her aswell.

But Natsuki, being dense at the moment, sighed and pushed Shizuru gently away. "I bet Reito's very happy then." She sighed again and let her bangs all down to cover her now tearing emerald eyes. "I'll be in our room…" she said sadly. She ran upstairs and left towards her room, leaving Shizuru at the bottom part of the stairs.

"how can I tell you that I know you are 'K'?" Shizuru asked to no one as she trailed the fleeting figure of Natsuki. "how can I tell you that I was stupid enough to not notice your feelings?" she chuckled at her stupidity and decided to let Natsuki have an alone time. She went towards the living room of the dorms where she was met by the Miyagami seitokai fuukukaichou.