A/N: Wow, it's been two years since I updated this thing. XD
well, for all my reviewers who've begged me over the years, here is the update for you. Now that I'm back from Japan, I hope to update more regularly, but don't hold your breathe. The only thing I can give you now is the promise of chapter 5 in a week or two. Btw, even I don't know where this is going, that's why most chapters are only a few paragraphs long.
Disclaimer: I hope to own a car soon, but as of now I don't own a car or Mai Hime.
"Let's go home Shizuru!"
Even though she had said that with such confidence, Natsuki now had a serious (embarrassing) problem to deal with. To put it simply, now that she had properly (gentlemanly even) escorted Shizuru home, she was faced with the fact that she no longer had a place to return to herself. She had been kicked out of her room by her (insert random cuss words here) former roommates, and since that Bastard (Tate) wasn't her Key anymore, she didn't have any reason (didn't want) to stay there anymore.
Upon deciding that she couldn't (wouldn't) go back, Natsuki now had to face another (more terrifying) prospect.
~I can do this, I just have to act cool.~ Natsuki took a deep breath and gritted her teeth in anticipation (stomach twisting anxiety) of what she would have to do.
"Ara, Natsuki has such an interesting (adorable) expression on her face right now. I wonder what she could possibly be thinking of."
Natsuki jolted out of her concentrated attempt to shatter a teacup with the force of her (anxious) mind at the sound of Shizuru's (amused) sentence. She frowned briefly at the cup she had been looking (staring intensely) at, before taking a deep breath and confidently (nervously) looking Shizuru right in the eye (to the slight left) and nerving herself to say what needed to be said.
"Can I... stay here with you, Shizuru?"