Well first of all I want to say thanks to the ones who left a review, I'm not going to name you basically because I'm too lazy XD but anyway thanks.

Here's the second chapter! hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Mai-hime.

Chapter 2: VS!

Natsuki wasn't a morning person but since she had to meet with Reito she was awake and ready to go at eight thirty. She checked herself in the mirror one last time. She was wearing beige waterproof pants, a black polo shirt that matched with her sneakers. Since it was one of the most freezing days she had seen in years she decided to wear a dark blue 'V' neck sweater and on top of it her favorite dark blue hoodie. Once she was done checking herself, she grabbed her black waterproof jacket, her car keys and went out of her apartment. She reached the parking lot, got on her car and drove towards the 'Lone Wolf'

After twenty five minutes she reached the place. It was a rather big log house, it had, what Natsuki liked to call, a common room where you could have drinks and warm yourself after a day in the mountains. Also it had a few rooms for people to stay if needed and a ballroom for parties. The place was built two years ago and its name was to honor Natsuki, even if she didn't want that, the manager had asked her and she wasn't able to refuse. Once in there she went directly to her personal couch. After a minute or so Reito appeared behind her with two cups of hot chocolate. "It's really cold today" he said, she just nodded. "So against whom are we racing?"

"Don't really know, I never got her name" Natsuki answered after taking a sip of her drink. Reito looked at her bewildered.

"You got a competition against someone you don't know? How did that happen?" he asked

"Long story, now let's start with this class of yours so I can get rid of the stupid fans"

Reito chuckled but nodded in agreement. After that he decided to start in a different way, instead of talking to Natsuki about the basics he asked her to copy him, so in that way, he would be able to corrected her. The class went on like that.

To any outsider they seemed like a couple playing a smiling game, although most people knew that wasn't the case but they couldn't understand why they were smiling either. After a while they started smiling towards other people, most of them fainted but Natsuki wasn't able to completely perfect the smiling art, yet, after all she had made two girls faint, nothing more.

For our red eyed goddess, who was at the other side of the place, they were a couple of strange people. After she had entered the 'Lone wolf' she had seen the girl of the previous day and decided to take a seat as far as possible, while waiting for her friend to arrive.

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When the clock marked ten thirty Natsuki and Reito got up and headed towards the pitch. Once there they started to prepare themselves. They zipped their respective jacket and put the gloves on. But Natsuki was having trouble with her scarf so Reito came to her aid and arranged it "You know, I bet Mai would be jealous" she said winking at him. He chuckled and backed off. A second after he was done a chestnut haired girl appeared with a noisy blond and a mousy brunette.

"Well, it seems that someone wants to get kicked, but I recall saying it was a pair competition, do you know how to count?" Natsuki asked with venom in her voice.

"Who do you thank you're?!" the blond shouted. Natsuki really hadn't understood what the girl had said, it seemed to her that it wasn't 'thank' what the blonde wanted to say. As if on cue the brunette with glasses said "It's think Haruka-san"

"That's what I said!"

"Eh… no, you didn't" Natsuki said. The blonde one, apparently called Haruka stared at her in disbelief, it seemed that she had never received such an answer in her life. Reito chuckled but took a step forward. "Forgive our rudeness, my name is Kanzaki Reito and my friend here is Natsuki Kuga"

"WHAT?! You're keeping right?!" Haruka said

"Haruka it's kidding"

"Whatever" the blonde turned towards the red-eyed girl and said "You set a match with the best two boarders?!"

"Ara… I didn't know they were famous" the other one answered. For her, the girl was a spoiled child who didn't know what she was saying and a very arrogant one from what she had seen in the 'Lone wolf' smiling to everyone that way, just to make them faint, they probably only carved for attention, besides if what Haruka had said was correct then the place was named after the blue-haired girl in front of her, which only helped to confirm her suspicions. At that time she didn't know that the girl was far from carving for attention. Also she didn't know that because about a little incident that was about to come she would get to know much better the other girl and fall in love with her.

The girl with glasses took a step forward and said "Hello, my name is Yukino Kikugawa, my blonde friend is Haruka Suzushiro and the red-eyed girl is Shizuru Fujino, a pleasure to meet you"

"Well, well you're quite famous yourself" Reito said smiling, Natsuki gave him a confused look. "Really Natsuki you should pay more attention to other sports when we go to the X-games" he sighed and began explaining "Fujino-san is the best skier of our generation, together with Suzushiro-san" Natsuki was a little shocked but kept a calm exterior, she wasn't afraid, she would beat the girl even if she was the best skier. "Well then if we compete with the best and win, which is what we're going to do, we'll prove that snowboarding is better"

Shizuru smiled at her and said "I think it will be the other way around"

Natsuki furrowed but retain herself of making anymore comments, she would give the other girl a piece of her mind once she had won. "Well, let's get going, I want to finish with this before lunch time" the other ones nodded but Shizuru and Haruka stopped in front of Yukino and gave her their respective coats. Shizuru was dressed in black fitted pants and a purple sweater with a scarf and gloves. Haruka was dressed in the same way but instead of a purple sweater she had a green one. "Huh? Aren't you going to get cold?" Natsuki asked the blonde

"A little at first but nothing too serious, besides it's a rate, so we should be over soon"

"Race Haruka-san" Yukino said from behind

"That's what I said! Well… come on bubuzuke onna we have a race to win" And with that Shizuru and Haruka seated in one of the lifting chairs and where out of sight.

"Isn't bubuzuke a food?" Natsuki asked to no one in particular

"It's a long story" Yukino answered smiling. She nodded and went to a lifting chair together with Reito.

Once they were on top of the mountain Reito decided to put some rules "So… the first one to reach Kikugawa-san is the winner ok?" every one nodded, they putted their helmets on, Natsuki pulled her goggles down and the other three followed her example. Her snow board was a mix between dark blue and black, also it had a little silver because of the wolf that was drawn on it. Reito's board had a katana and it was red and black. Shizuru's skies were purple and they had a snake drawn in each one. Haruka's on the other side where green and they had her initials.

"Okay at the count of three… one…two…three!" Reito shouted and four figures could be seen descending at top speed. At the middle of the race Reito and Haruka were left behind. Natsuki and Shizuru were approaching Yukino at the same speed, none of them was more fast than the other and… past Yukino they went, they continued speeding until they heard a loud cry " Shizuru-san Kuga-san there's a cliff in that way!" Yukino shouted, they tried to stop, but it was useless. After all they were racing at an extremely high speed, which could only be reached by the top competitors. They fell from the cliff onto the floor, they thought that they were lucky because it was covered with snow, but their luck didn't lasted. Because the two of them had shouted while falling they had caused an avalanche that took them somewhere far form where they had been and left them both unconscious.

Well as always, feel free to send me a message and/or a review. Let me know what you think about this chapter and the stroy so far.

Mary