Turning Point

Chapter 3

Days passed peacefully in Fujimori Gakuen. No one ever knew the 'incident' which involved Tooru, Yuujiro and one bed. Yet. Even Mikoto. Maybe they weren't really interested in the princesses personal lives – translation: the princesses lives as guys, or maybe they were only being considerate by not asking why both Yuujirou and Tooru ended up having several mouth bite's size bruises on their neck and shoulder (thanks to Natashou who suddenly changed the outfit for choir concert from turtleneck to square neckline sailor dress. Because he thought it would be 'fun' to give them 'surprises' once in a while. Natashou suffered from jaw pain afterwards but refused to tell his two assistants 'why') the important thing was they hadn't found out, and that's what matter most for Tooru. He had enough problems already, he didn't want any addition thank you.

Princesses' tasks surely helped him to take his mind off his problem though, that's why Tooru loved doing his jobs. That and he could see Yuujirou in a girl's outfit, which was definitely something he always enjoy doing. Not that he would ever admit that in front the blond princess. Oh, and there was another thing he enjoyed doing while wearing the frilly gown Natashou made: teasing Mikoto. Like what he was doing now.

From a distant, the blue princess knew that Mikoto was heading to home economics (Mikoto always dragged his feet whenever he went to home economics) to change clothes. He quickly exchanged winks with Yuujirou, his partner in crime – that's if teasing Mikoto could be consider a crime, and when he was sure that Mikoto was close enough to hear their conversation, he started 'operation teasing Mikoto: plan #24'

"You look stunning as ever, Yuu-kun." He said in his high pitched feminine voice rather loudly. He could see Yuujirou laughed inwardly at his voice and decided to stomp the blond's feet later, and let Yuujirou made a comment at his statement.

"You are also beautiful, Tooru-kun." He answered after he let out a fake, heavy 'hohoho' sound. It was only a matter of time until the pink princess burst in and started to yell something like…

"Stop doing embarrassing things like that!!!"

Yeah, something like that.

"Geez! I don't understand you guys. How can you be so happy wearing that frilly gown?" Mikoto grumbled as he halfheartedly walked and grabbed his own outfit. "Arisada Kaichou wants us to gather at student council room this morning." He muttered, adding 'with the hime's outfit on' darkly.

"That's rare…" Yuujirou commented while Tooru nodded in agreement.

Mikoto didn't care. Seriously. Arisada could say anything he wanted, he'd end up hating each and every proposal the ex-princess (now SC president) offered then being forced to do it anyway in the end, as long as it didn't involved him in wedding dress PUBLICLY. Just by remembering that made him shuddered. No one knew about this but every night since he heard from Natashou that he would design a wedding dress for 'moral boosting' – cheerleading, really, only without short skirt and pompom, in the finals he prayed – as he started learning the art of voodoo, you know, just in case – sincerely, from the bottom of his heart, so NONE of the team made it to the finals.

"Btw…" Mikoto stopped changing as he rolled his eyes to the other two princesses, who suddenly gulped in nervousness as Mikoto snapped a serious, heavy aura, then continued "Kouno, is there something happened between you and Shihoudani?"

"What makes you think there's something?" Tooru answered quite hesitantly, but at the same time Yuujirou gave 'perhaps' as an answered, which earned him a glare from the blue princess.

"Hm…" He stared the two for a while before he continued putting his wig. "Nevermind. I'm just curious. You both shared similar bruises yesterday and all…" He stopped again, rolled his eyes again, then asked (again) "You sure there's nothing?" There's a hint of 'I know there's something going on, I just don't know what exactly' in his tone. Before Tooru could said 'what makes you think there's something?', Mikoto quickly changed the subject. "Shihoudani, there's a letter for you. I put it in my bag, take it yourself."

"Letter?"

The princesses could take all day long chit-chatting in home economics if Akira didn't show up and tell them to hurry and gather at student council room because Arisada had become bored of waiting.

Oh well, Yuujirou thought as he gave a quick glance at the white envelope in his hand, I'll open it later.

"Give it up, Sayaka."

The dark haired girl just shot her 'friend' – if you could call two people having a meal together during lunch as 'friends' – an irritated glare. She hated them because they kept on telling her to give up on loving his stepbrother. Well, actually, she hated all females in general since Tooru might just fall in love with one of them, but now she started to hate males too since it looked like her brother was a bi.

Since Sayaka radiated an irritated aura, the girl decided to clear some distance between her and her psychotic friend, mumbling 'She's so scary, no wonder she doesn't have any friend.'

Sayaka glared again, did that girl think she couldn't hear her? Scary? Who's scary? Who needed a 'friend' anyway? She didn't need one. She only needed Tooru.

"Tooru-kun.." She mumbled, feeling rather nostalgic as she saw the leaves falling from the tree outside the window. "Liar."

"A dance party?!" The three of them yelled in unison.

Arisada laughed, looking as excited as the trio.

"Next week?!" They continued yelling, this time they get their faces closer to the SC president.

"Hai, I know it is an exciting news but please hold yourselves together." The vice president commented, looking rather annoyed by the fact that the freshmen had gotten too close to his idol.

"This school sure has lots of festivals.." Tooru suddenly commented, and both Yuujirou and Mikoto couldn't agree less.

"Who said it's a festival?" Arisada asked, there's a sly smile carved on his face as he folded his hands and straighten his back so gracefully. "It's a dance party (at this, the princesses was thinking the same thing: is there any difference between the two?!). And not just any party, it's a conjunction dance party with St. White students." Arisada was waiting for the others to respond his statement with shriek of joy or something, but nothing happened. Not even the Sakamoto Akira knew what he meant. He quickly pat his forehead with a fan, "I forgot, I haven't mention the most important thing I need to discuss in today's meeting. Sorry, I got too excited back then. Ahem," He began to clear his throat before explaining the whole thing. "Our Fujimori Gakuen is an all boys school, correct? Well, St. White is the opposite. Just recently, the management of both schools was being merged therefore next week dance party will be our first activity with them."

"I heard the old director of Fujimori Gakuen had been replaced by his son." The student council treasurer stated from behind Arisada's couch, "So it is kind of his welcoming party."

"Hey, does that mean we don't have to wear hime's outfit?" Mikoto asked excitedly. Since St. White WAS an all girls school so it was natural that there were, well, GIRLS there, right? What's the point in having guys dressed in girls outfit when you could see the real one?

"Yutaka-kun, you're so naïve.."

"Huh?"

There's an evil glint on Arisada's eyes before he giggled and took a look at his wristwatch. "They're late…"

"We're expecting someone else?" Yuujirou asked to Akira who only shook his head as a sign that he was also clueless.

"Anyway, be it male or female, both have the same hormonal problem during their puberty phase."

There's a knock on the door along with a voice of a girl asking for permission to enter the room.

"Ah, here they are." Arisada nodded to his vice president and ask him to open the door as he continued his conversation with the three princesses, "Let me introduce you with St. White Ojiisama."

"Somehow I get a bad feeling about this…" Tooru mumbled to no one in particular. The world was filled with absurd people doing absurd things after all, the Hime system was a good proof of that statement, so he wouldn't be surprised if there was an Ojiisama system in an all girl school like St. White.

The door swung open slowly, revealing a pale girl with long silver hair wearing a white blazer with St. White logo stitched on the left side pocket and white skirt with slightly above-knee hemline. The girl looked fragile btw since she was so skinny, pale and coughing once every three minutes. And her silver hair just magnified her porcelain doll image. But she's pretty, nonetheless.

"Sorry we're late."

"She's Ritsuko Haruna, St. White SC president." Arisada explained as he took her hand and gave a light kiss on it. Amazing at how fast Arisada got up from his couch, walked toward the door and kneeled down before her, wasn't it? It made three certain SC members got a liiittle irritated with that girl. Lucky that there was no sharp, tiny objects around or they might just throw it at her. Repeatedly. Though they doubt it would be necessary since Ritsuko was coughing hard again.

"Sorry," She said, trying not to excite her body more than it already was (she's tired of the looong walk from Fujimori Gakuen front gate to SC room, which was only twenty meters away), "My body is a little weak but don't mind me. Are they the princesses?" She gazed the three, who suddenly sat straightly while waiting nervously. She might look fragile but she has this sleek aura around her, just like Arisada. "My, they are all beautiful…" Mikoto was banging his head mentally while thinking 'I don't want a girl calling me beautiful!!' while trying not to commit suicide by jumping from the window right then and there. Because he would least likely die seeing it was located on the first floor, he could suffer from a bone fracture then get hospitalized for the rest of his freshman year if he was lucky.

She walked in, after that another one followed her footsteps.

The trio plus Akira couldn't stop gazing the other person with amazement. She's tall, very tall, in like 6ft tall, short dark hair, sharp blue eyes and tanned skin. They might just think she's a guy since she had a rather masculine face for a girl. She's wearing a black tuxedo at the moment, unwillingly if the princesses might add. Poor girl, wearing a tuxedo complete with the gloves in the mid summer. Her sweats were falling from her bangs if you observed her closely.

"Her designer must've in to western clothing like Natashou-senpai…" Yuujirou mumbled sympathetically. Poor girl…

"I'm Kishimoto Akira." She bowed, while Akira – I mean, Sakamoto Akira – was surprised for a brief second before he smiled happily. Somehow he felt like he could get along with that prince for they shared the same name. "Nice to meet you, himetachi."

After that, Mikoto, Tooru and Yuujirou were speechless. Especially Tooru who suddenly thought that the idea of killing a certain girl dressed in tuxedo was a good, feasible idea.

It's not that they were shocked because there was a girl who looked manlier than them.

Heck it wasn't because Ritsuko almost suffocated herself by coughing nonstop for the entire three minutes without a break, her body turned paler and paler every seconds.

It was because Akira – Kishimoto Akira – walked closer, and just like Arisada, she kneeled down and kissed Mikoto's, Tooru's and Yuujirou's hands. In Yuujirou's case, she didn't only kiss his hand, she also gave a quick peck on his cheek.

Yuujirou was his, dammit!!

Wait…

Yuujirou's not his, not yet anyway, but still!

Arrgh, he was SO gonna strangled her later!!

And what made it worst was Yuujirou seemed like he was enjoying that light kiss. He quickly elbowed the blond princess un-happily then pouted. Little did he knew that Yuujirou was happy because the girl succeeded in making the idiot Tooru – seriously, Tooru was an idiot especially when it came to love matters, jealous.

"I'll be looking forward for our cooperation."

"As you can see," Arisada cut in again, still looking excited as ever, "St. White has only one prince so one of you princesses will aid St. White and become a prince at the party. Therefore we will have two princes and two princesses."

"Let me volunteered at that task!!" Mikoto suddenly yelled. He never got excited with the princesses' jobs so far but this time, it's different! He got to wear a NORMAL clothing! Well, he doubt the clothing would be normal, he was imagining an extravagant prince's outfit from medieval era, but at least it wasn't something which had laces and ribbons on it. "I'm way manlier than Shihoudani and Kouno!"

Yuujirou and Tooru rolled their eyes to the pink princess. Way manlier than them, he said? Yeah, right. Keep on dreaming, Mikoto…

"Denied." Ritsuko, who had finally gotten over her cough, started to observed the three princesses carefully. "I want him to aid St. White."

"Me?"

a/n: yaay!! Finally, another chapter!! I'm trying to update but I'm trapped with tests and stuffs.. is it weird??