Disclaimer: I've got a few. But not K-on! One day, my friends. One day! And I shall share! Mwahahahaha ^_^ *ahem* that's creepy. Yuri in the hole! *boom*boom*
A/N: This is AU so it tends to be OOC and there's OC, too. I got this idea after watching the Korean movie My Little Bride. Then I was like, "Hey! That would be nice." This was supposed to be my new Shiznat story but nah. I don't think the roles are appropriate for them. And I'm already busy with my Shiznat story Hopeless Romantic as it is. So I present you my new MiTSU fanfic!
As for my prologue. Hahaha. Been wondering who they are? It is for certainty that one of them is Ritsu. But wait! Who's the other girl? No. I'm not telling. YET. *evil laugh* Neither the time setting for that prologue. You'll see if it is something that WILL happen or something that already HAPPENED.
Zinthos XIII: Yup it's a girl. And yes the main character for that prologue is Ritsu. About My What's Your Type, I know! Maybe I'll get to writing the next chapter. MAYBE ^_-
Djyxa: Yeah! Ritsu will be the tallest amongst the HTT in here. You cried? Oh no! lol I know. What's happening to K-on yuri. I'm always "under dosed". Lol
Random Stranger Person: No. It was not YuiAzu on that prologue… The only thing we know is that One of them was Ritsu. (As I indicated)
Zmzn: You hate Mugitsu? HAHAHA. I have no say in that. Lol
Thanks for the reviews!
P.S: For those who read my other MiTSU story title Enishi. I deleted the entry. So yeah. lol
Fools Rush In: Where Angels Fear To Tread
Chapter 1
Meeting You Is Inevitable
"We always believe that our first love is our last, and our last love is our first."
The bedroom was serenely quite albeit the sound of the second hand of the wall clock, hanging just above the huge plasma TV. White shiny glass shelves were hanging at one wall, carrying small glass works and a few light books. The whole room had black carpets, complementing the black lamps on each sides of the bed, and emphasizing the white bed frame. Just above the bed was a black and white wooden board, decorating the plain white wall. The room was neatly maintained despite the few articles of clothing that littered the floor, indicating what had happened the night before. Two lumps were evident under the black thin sheets. The only feat that was visible is the peaceful up and down movement of the bodies hidden underneath the warm covers.
Perturbing the silence was a soft beeping sound coming from the black phone sitting atop the bedside table. The unknown body started to stir after a minute of continuous beeping the phone was emitting. Slowly, brunette locks came out of the thin sheets. Her body was facing down on the bed as it sluggishly supported its upper weight by the folded arms in front of it. The sheets started to fall smoothly along the curves of the firmly toned yet feminine body that was covered with bite and scratch marks. She grunted softly as she blindly reached for the still beeping phone on her side. The screen displayed the time, indicating that the alarm was off. 7:30 am. In the background was a picture of four girls. One was evidently the brunette together with a girl who had long silky blonde hair. On their back was another brunette who had a much darker tone than hers, together with a young black haired girl in a low pony tail. The brunette groaned as she let her head plopped back down on the smooth, fluffy pillow with her eyes still closed.
She shut her eyes tighter as the alarm went off, trying to ignore the annoying beeping sound. After a few more beeps, the alarm went silent by itself. The only visible occupant of the extremely large bed opened her eyes slowly, revealing the enticing amber orbs behind its heavy eyelids. She lazily eyed the black phone on her hand behind her half-closed eyelids. One message received. The brunette stirred in the bed, positioning herself so that her back was now against the comfort bed. She brought her left hand over her eyes, trying to block off the radiating sun that escaped into her room. She brought her black phone up, reading the lone message that was sent to her. Yui? Her finger tapped to its keypad, selecting the message from the one named Yui.
Ya ho~ Ricchan! Don't be late for school. The brunette chuckled to herself. Her high school friend sure changed over time. Who would have thought that she would be reminded not to be late by their very own goof of a friend, Hirasawa Yui?
The brunette slowly and sluggishly got off her bed, walking towards the walk in closet. Ritsu rummaged through her clothes, stopping after tens of hundreds of her clothes were already thrown anywhere on the closet. She nodded after looking at herself on the full body mirror. She was wearing a pair of ragged blue jeans and white tee with a printed "THE WHO" across its chest under a black cardigan. After inspecting her choice of clothing one more time, Ritsu walked over a small drawer, taking the lone black hair tie. Ritsu sighed in defeat after failing to tie her hair up in a low ponytail. Not one to give up so easily, Ritsu tried again and for the nth time, she successfully tied her hair up in a neat manner.
"Shit!" Ritsu cursed after looking back at her projected analog clock on the wall. It was already 8:15 in the morning and she needs to be somewhere at 9. Another course of curses were heard within the silent room as Ritsu tripped over her scattered shoes. "Dammit. Who put this in here?" Ritsu asked, looking around the luxurious apartment. "Oh wait. It was me." Ritsu grumbled. She had transferred in this apartment half a year ago. She transferred in a much smaller place from that ridiculously large mansion she was staying at from after she graduated college.
The other body in the bed stirred after the loud crashes and heavy thumping of feet on the floor. Ritsu walked over the bed after she noticed the other occupant. "Hey!" Ritsu insensitively pulled the cover out of the bed, revealing a half-naked woman huddled on one corner. "You need to leave now. Uhm. Ah?" Ritsu paused, looking at the dirty-blonde stranger on her bed. "What was your name again?" She asked bluntly.
Tainaka Ritsu had always been the playgirl amongst her friends. The ultimate ladies' girl. She was certainly the epitome of a happy-go-lucky girl in her mid twenties. Last night was another one of her routinely escapades—a night out at the bar her friend, Hirasawa Ui, owns. Then if some girl were lucky enough, she would get to experience first-hand at how good they say Tainaka "Taicchan" Ritsu was in bed and if she were to push her luck, Ritsu would bring her directly to "Taicchan's" humble abode.
"Mou, Taicchan. You're really forgetful." the blonde girl whined. "It's Saori. Sa-O-Ri."
"Hai. Hai." Ritsu shrugged, gathering the scattered clothes of Saori. "Here put this on." Ritsu forcefully pulled the girl out of her bed and pushed her into the bathroom. "Put this on, quickly. Then we're leaving." Ritsu ignored the pout of the girl.
Gah. I should've listened to Azusa and stayed at home last night. My head's killing me.
"I'm ready." Saori walked over to Ritsu who was putting on her shoes. "Where are we going?"
"Hm? What do you mean we?"
"You said we're leaving." Saori answered, putting her own doll shoes on.
Ritsu sighed, no matter how she acted as a playgirl, she never had the heart to be mean to these girls. "I need to go somewhere. I'll drop you at the station so you needn't need to walk."
"Can we meet up again?" Saori asked hopefully at Ritsu. It was already a common knowledge that the Tainaka Ritsu rarely associates with other girls, but what's a girl to do but hope? "Maybe for tea or something?"
"I guess we could do that." Ritsu shrugged, putting on her Ray-Ban eyeglasses after contemplating on whether to wear her contact lens or not.
Saori squealed at the sight. "Wah. Megane Taicchan! I could just eat you up again!"
"Shu—Shut up." Ritsu blushed slightly. Way to be smooth Tainaka. "Come on. I hate to say this but I don't want to be late for my appointment."
A black sedan car parked outside Sakuragoaka. It was already 8:30 am and the students were walking towards the large school building. A tall raven-haired girl stepped outside the black sedan. Some students stopped to greet her, making her flustered slightly at the attention she was getting.
"Are you sure you're walking home today? I can still pick you up later, Mio-chan." the middle-aged man behind the wheels talked.
"No, it's okay, papa. I can go home with Yuko and Emi today. You guys should not worry yourself over me," the 15-year-old Akiyama Mio said. "Have a safe trip!" Mio waved to her father, watching the withdrawing sedan car. Mio's parents would be gone for the rest of the year. It was not news to her though. Her parents would be always out of the country to do humanitarian works as members of Doctors Without Borders.
Mio was sitting four chairs away from the chalkboard. It had been a month since she started her first year of high school. The raven head was chatting with her childhood friends, Kawana Yuko and Tejima Emi animatedly when their math teacher, Kamakura Arin, entered the classroom.
"Good morning, everyone!" Kamakura sensei greeted and soon the students scampered back to their respective seats. "I need you to sign your name in this paper. Let's start with Kawana-san," she said as she placed a white piece of paper on top of Kawana Yuko's desk, "and I have an announcement to make." Soft murmurs erupted from the students. Whispers of "new student" were exchanged between seatmates.
"As you all know, Tanaka sensei will be on maternity leave starting today." Some of the students grunted while others did not really seem to care much about the missing 32-year-old teacher. "You are having a substitute until then."
"I wonder who the new teacher is."
"I hope he's some hot guy. Kyaa~" Kamakura sensei clapped her hands to capture the swerving attentions of the students before her.
"Hai. Let me finish first, okay. It's her first time teaching, so be nice to her."
"Her?" a student from the back asked.
"Oh man. Not some old hag." Another student sitting near the window grunted in disappointment.
"I know! They usually hire unmarried old hag, directing her unmarried unhappiness to us poor students."
"Hahahaha! That was mean!"
"How old is she?"
"This school needs some action!"
"Is she single?"
"Is she hot?"
"Can we eat now?" a longhaired brunette shouted loudly than she intended. All heads turned towards the girl who was sitting one row to the left behind Akiyama Mio.
"Eri-chan!"
"Taki-chan!" Taki Eri's classmates chorused at her.
"No you can't Taki-san! And class, be nice, got it?" the math teacher shouted while trying her hardest not to laugh at her students' curiosity and antics.
"Hai!" the student answered in unison.
"Sensei," Kamakura sensei addressed the new teacher who was standing just outside the door. Students started to chatter amongst themselves about this new teacher while others had their necks stretched out trying to catch a glimpse of the new comer first.
Students stopped all their businesses when a tall, lean young woman entered the classroom. In the room, entered a shorthaired brunette with her hair tied in a low pony tail. A few strands of her brunette locks were touching the black rim of her eyeglasses.
"Everyone, she will be your new Graphics teacher, as well as your substitute teacher advisor starting today."
"Wow." a blue-haired girl gasped loudly at the sight of their new teacher. The new teacher was wearing the unorthodox clothes for teaching—a pair of ragged jeans and a white tee under her black silk vest.
"Sasaki-san!" Kamakura sensei half-heartedly scolded the girl sitting at the farthest left of the class.
"Sorry." Sasaki mumbled shyly.
"Anyway, Sensei?" Kamakura sensei urged the new teacher to introduce herself.
"Huh?" the new brunette teacher looked at Kamakura sensei quizzically before realizing that she had yet to introduce herself. "Oh yeah! Ahem. " the new teacher cleared her throat when she felt the intense gazes the students were giving her. Her amber orbs were scanning the room when here gaze stumbled upon an alluring obsidian orbs looking straight at her. Whoa. The student had a light tinge of red on her cheeks before turning her head away from the sight of the new teacher.
"I'm Tainaka Ritsu." Ritsu said as she impishly scratched the back of her head. "Please take care of me." She grinned at the still quiet students. Dammit! Yui, you owe me big time! And to think I ended up as a teacher considering I hated school. Ritsu thought as the awkward silence shrouded the classroom.
*ring**ring**ring*
Glasses clad Tainaka Ritsu tried to ignore the constant ringing of her phone and concentrated on the task at hand.
*ring**ring**ring*
Ritsu angrily grabbed the phone where the name 'YUI' appeared on the screen.
"Yui?" Ritsu pressed the loudspeaker button as her eyes fell upon a certain picture in display on her office table.
"Ricchan! How are you?" the girl on the end of the line beamed.
"I'm good. I'm working on one of my projects right now. How about you, Yui?" Ritsu asked, still focused on her computer.
"I have a problem!" a mouse click was heard from Ritsu's end.
"Huh? What is it?" Ritsu glanced at her phone for a moment before going back to her computer, adjusting the third monitor of her four monitor set up.
"I need your help. Will you help me?"
"…" Ritsu thought of the right words to say, she did not want to agree on her childhood friend's plea hastily. "…on what?" Ritsu said while typing like there was no tomorrow.
"I need you to substitute for Tanaka at work."
"Tanaka?" Ritsu asked, trying to remember the name.
"Yup! Tanaka sempai from Todai."
"No." Ritsu out flat rejected the request of her childhood friend.
"What! Ricchan! Why not?"
"Tanaka's a teacher, right? So, No." Ritsu said coldly as she rummaged through mountains of paper loads on her desk. "Ask someone else."
"But Ricchan! Onegai~" Yui pleaded to Ritsu, her voice was starting to sound so Yui-like, whining. "Azu-nyan and Nodoka-chan can't, since they have work. Same goes for my Ui-chan. And she's not here, so you're the only one left."
"I have work too, you know! And can't the school look for one?"
"I know! But it's not like you really go to your office or something." Yui mumbled selfishly, "You work at home most of the time anyway. And you just idle around during the day."
"What? Hira-sawa! I have a very busy work schedule, you know!" Ritsu emphasized each syllable of Yui's name as she glared at the phone. If Yui were just present, the other brunette would have received a choke hold from the great Tainaka Ritsu. "Fine!" Ritsu conceded at her friend's request after five minutes of continuous whining from Yui. No matter how hard she tried, she would always end up agreeing to the brunette anyway—especially when she does the teary puppy eye look—just imagining it defeated Ritsu's resolve to decline. Damn that Yui.
Ritsu's thoughts were pulled back to the classroom when she heard cries of "Sensei" and "Tainaka sensei". She even heard someone called her by her first name. And did someone just call her Ricchan?
"I'll leave the class to your care now, Tainaka-san." Kamakura said before exiting the classroom, "Nice to meet you."
"Yeah. You too, Kamakura-san." Ritsu flashed a smile on the teacher. Her smile widened when she caught a glimpse of Kamakura's slightly red cheeks. Ritsu's eyes stuck like a glue to Kamakura's retreating form. Weetwew. Maybe this idea is not so bad after all.
"Sensei! Sensei!"
"Tainaka sensei!"
"Why did you decide to teach here?"
"Are you really a teacher?"
"How old are you?"
"Where did you graduate?"
"Are you an alumnus of Sakuragaoka, too?"
"What's your favourite food?"
"Color?"
"Are you in a relationship?"
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!" Ritsu said as she raised her hands up in a surrendering fashion, chuckling at her newfound students. "Let's do introductions first then you ask. First row on my left!" Ritsu beamed excitedly at the girls.
The girl sitting on the first seat of the row stood, "Kawana Yuko." Her long blonde hair was tied up to one side. Whoa. What a pretty girl. Do high school students look like this nowadays? I did not look like that during my high school days. That was unfair. To say that it was unfair was an overstatement. Tainaka Ritsu was one hell of a popular girl back during her high school days. Popular in a lot of different ways.
"Makigami Kimiko." a black haired girl that was shorter than your average 15-year-olds introduced next. Whoa. She's so tiny.
"Sakuma Eiko."
"Sasaki Youko." One by one, the girls started to introduce themselves to the substitute teacher.
"Sakei Mika desu!" a red haired girl said as she brought a peace sign to her teacher. Students and Ritsu laughed at everyone's unique and bizarre way of introducing their selves. The laughter died and changed to cheering when a certain timid raven-haired girl stood up from her seat.
"Ha-hajimemashite. A—Akiyama Mio desu." Ritsu mused at the raven-haired girl who was fidgeting at her place. Why is she blushing? Mio looked down on her table when she noticed that Ritsu was staring at her. Fighting the urge to look back to her teacher, Mio blushed instantly after meeting the gaze of Ritsu. Moe?
"Nakajima Nobuyo!" a girl with a huge body frame and husky voice shouted. Wah. Scary.
"Tejima Emi, yoroshiku!"
"It was nice meeting all of you." Ritsu said after 38 students introduced their selves. "As I told you earlier, my name is Tainaka Ritsu. I'm 26. Believe it or not, I graduated from Todai. I'm not really an education major graduate, which answers your question if I am a teacher.I have another work, which I mostly do at home." Ritsu paused, looking around the classroom to see eager students listening to her. "And yes. I went for high school here."
Nobuyo was the first to ask, "Eh? How come you ended up teaching?"
"Well, I'm doing this as a favour to my childhood friend." A sigh escaped Ritsu's mouth. The rest of the class time went by with random questions coming from the enthusiastic students of class 1-2. The questions varied from her favourite food to what color of underwear she was wearing. Groans were heard from the students who flocked around the new teacher when the bell echoed throughout the whole school, indicating the end of first period. Tainaka sensei politely rejected requests to eat lunch with the students. Ritsu laughed heartily when she heard someone shouted, "Sensei, stingy!" as she stepped out of the classroom. Teenagers.
"Mio-chan~." Yuko said while placing a desk beside Mio.
"Hmm?" Mio opened her bento box, revealing 3 pieces of meatballs, tamagoyaki, a pork croquette and some rice.
"Wah! Tamagoyaki!" Emi beamed, bumping her shoulders with Mio in the process, taking a piece of tamagoyaki on her mouth. "Hmmmm! Delicious!"
"Ne, ne!" a dark haired brunette joined the three childhood friends. "What did you guys think of the new teach?"
"Tainaka sensei, huh?" Yuko answered for the girls.
"Kyaaa!" Mio jumped from her chair when another head popped right beside her. "You're talking about Tainaka sensei? Right? Isn't she cool? And she looks really young for her age! So hot and cool."
"I know, Mika-chan." Emi spoke, addressing the newly arrived girl, Saeki Mika. "I was really shocked when she said she's already 26. I thought she's just fresh from college or something."
"Wait till you see what she drives!" Mika excitedly said to her friends. Mika fortunately arrived the same time that the new teacher parked just a few blocks away from the campus.
"Why? What kind of car does she drive?" Mio asked out of curiosity. What's there not be curious about if all her friends were getting ecstatic about the new teacher?
Mika's eyes sparkled, "She's driving a silver BMW!"
Yuko choked on her tuna, "A freaking BMW?" The rest of the girls on the table cannot help but mutter a huge "wow".
"I wonder what she does for a living?" Mio asked again.
"Well, one thing for sure. A mere high school teacher cannot afford a super expensive car unless she came from a really wealthy family."
"Well, she did say that she has another job." Mio went silent, listening to her friends' chatter while her mind was actually wondering off to a certain new teacher. There was something about Tainaka sensei that made Mio's curiosity peak more. What a mysterious teacher.
Akiyama Mio sighed. Of all the days to rain hard, the almighty clouds decided to pour its all today. Mio was the only student left at Sakuragoaka. She had to stay to do classroom duties, while her friends had to go home immediately after class because of their own arrangements.
"I even forgot my umbrella. I should've taken the offer from my dad." Mio murmured to herself before sighing again.
"You shouldn't sigh too much. It's a waste of your beautiful face."
"Kyaaah! No!" Mio screamed at the top of her lungs upon hearing the invading voice from her back. Startled, Mio cowered over to one corner.
"Whoa! No need to shout so loud." Tainaka Ritsu looked around. "People might think I am doing something weird to you." She hissed.
"Se—sensei!" Mio stuttered after calming her still fast beating heart, slowly getting up from her place.
"Hahahaha. Sorry. I did not mean to scare you." Ritsu laughed at her student's flustered face. "No umbrella?" Ritsu asked, opening her own black umbrella. "Here," Ritsu offered the black umbrella to Mio, "Akiyama-san was it?"
"Huh?" Mio's eyes widened when her teacher's offer caught her off guard. "Yes. Uhm. No, I-I'm fine. I—" Mio waved her hands in front of her while backing slightly away from Ritsu.
"Take it." Mio blushed more when Ritsu took her hand placing the umbrella's handle.
"Eh? What about you, sensei?" Mio asked shyly. She did not want to impose on the new teacher.
Ritsu shrugged, "It's fine. I have a car. You can also keep the umbrella. It's a cheapo anyway!"
"Wai—!" Mio sighed happily, as she watched the fast retreating figure of her running teacher. She laughed when she saw Ritsu indiscreetly bumped into their strict head teacher. "What a child." Mio giggled while watching Ritsu apologise under the pouring rain.
Mio started to walk towards the bus station, bothering one last glance to her teacher before mumbling to her self, "I should get home before the rain gets hard."
"Achoo!" Ritsu sneezed as she slumped on one of the bar stools of the still unopened Kallistēi bar. It was a very long day for her. She imposed on the youngest Hirasawa's residence to take the long awaited shower after being drenched in the rain.
"Captain!" Hirasawa Yui beamed and playfully saluted the brunette who was squinting her eyes on the screen of her tablet computer.
Ritsu's mood immediately lightened up at the sight of her childhood friend, "Oh! My subordinate!" Ritsu humorously saluted the other brunette back.
Yui comically asked, "How was the mission?"
"It was good." Ritsu grinned. "Quite an interesting bunch, I say. But I've been memorizing gazillion faces and names the entire day already." Ritsu grimaced. She never liked memorizing things. Habits sure die hard, huh?
"I told you! Now you have the reason to come out of your freaking large place! At least 6 times a week!" Yui said dramatically. Ritsu had been caving on her luxurious apartment, refusing to go out during the day and would only go out during the night, "helping" Ui manage one of her pub.
"Yeah. Yeah. And my place is not large." Ritsu chortled as she waved a hand to Yui who was already halfway done eating a large hamburger. "So, how are you?" Wah. She still eats so fast.
"Well, compared to where you lived before of course it's small! I'm fine, I'm fine! Aren't you gonna eat, Ricchan?" Yui said as she stared at the hard-working brunette. She cannot help but giggle at the dramatic change on her friend's personality. Who would have thought that the high school girl who was undecided until her senior year and as lazy as a sloth can be and was labelled delinquent would be the same working passionate girl in front of her? The only thing that had not change was the fact that the girl still tends to play around with women.
"I already ate a yakisoba pan I got from the convenience store on the way here." Ritsu said while continuing on her work.
"You should eat healthier, Ricchan. You're gonna get it from Azu-nyan." Ritsu shuddered at the mention of the other half of the brunette in front of her. Despite being the youngest among the quartet, Azusa never failed to look after her sempai. Azusa and Yui had married three years ago. The rest of the gang gave a honeymoon trip for the couple at Paris. "Ne, Ricchan." Yui started slowly, thoughtfulness was evident on her voice. "How have you been putting up?"
Ritsu stared wide eyed at her friend but her expression suddenly changed softly. "I can manage." Ritsu smiled warmly at her friend.
"Really?"
"…"
Yui placed a hand on Ritsu's shoulder and said, "Just remember. We're here for you."
"I know." Ritsu's eyes softened.
"You should go home more often. When was the last time you went home?"
"I know. It's been almost a year, too."
"Oh, by the way. Mugi-chan called last night." Ritsu's ears perked at the mention of their other childhood friend.
A small smile formed on Ritsu's face. "Really. How is she doing?"
"She's doing better. She said she miss us."
CHARACTER PROFILE I:
Name: Tainaka "Taicchan" Ritsu 田井中 律 "Ricchan" to Yui,
Birthday: August 21
Age: 26
Height: 180 cm
Blood Type: B
Occupation: Substitute Graphic teacher for Sakuragoaka/?
Character traits: Can be really lazy at times, happy-go-lucky, outgoing, extrovert
Other info: Drives a silver BMW Z4
A/N: Oh no! Not another student-teacher fic! lol I actually wanted to write a fic where one of them is older. So yeah. Hahahaha *awkward laugh*And I also want to write a fic where Ritsu would be the "mature" one between the couple. I've seen Mio as the teacher, but I don't think I've seen one where Ritsu was the teacher? So? What do you guys think? Should I continue? Or just go hide on my cave and stop writing? Please R&R! It makes me happy. I would also appreciate suggestions and whatnot. ^_^
P.S. Any guesses on what the tie of this main story is to the prologue?