Sakuchii: Finally! The Shirou x OC I have promised! Whohoho!

Aiko: Well now, it took you only... let me think...

Yukiko: Almost three years to get this done. You're amazing.

Sakuchii: I'm sorry for negletting this story for so long. It's also only recently that I managed to ingnite the old fire of Inazuma fandom.

Aiko: I can see that on this month you're on roll.

Yukiko: Yeah, it's your fourth update already.

Sakuchii: On to the story!

Pairing: Fubuki Shirou x Anami Hitomi

Rating: T

Gender: Romance

Summary: Hitomi was always reminded that a love relationship between a maid and a master was forbidden. But then, after that one incident she couldn't hide her feelings from Shirou anymore. That one incident made it impossible to restrain them.

The Maidens' Love
~ Shirou x Hitomi ~

"Shirou-sama, it's morning." Fubuki Shirou heard a light female voice speaking after the door to his room was opened. The boy mumbled something incoherent in his sleep and turned to his other side. He was still tired, and had no plans on getting up. He wanted to sleep few more minutes.

A silence fell upon the room. Shirou continued sleeping while the girl remained silent. After a short while, Shirou felt someone pulling his blanket. "NOW YOU GET OUT OF THE BED OF I WILL DRAG YOU OUT!"

Shirou was startled awake as the girl shouted her lungs out.

"I'm awake , Hitomi-chan! I'm awake!" he yelled in half asleep while jumping up in startle. He stopped when his eyes met with hers. Only after a short while, he understood that their faces were just few centimeters apart.

Both of them blushed hard as turned their faces to opposite directions. Shirou felt as his heart started to beat faster. "I… I'm sorry…" he apologized, his face red like a tomato. He then glanced at the cinnamon-haired girl.

Her facial expression had already turned back to normal and with swift movement she turned around and headed towards the door. "The clothes I prepared are on the chair as usual. Once you have dressed up join your family for breakfast. I'll go and wake up Atsuya-sama." With those words Hitomi exited the room.

Shirou was left standing alone in his room, with dumbstruck expression on his face. It was until few minutes later that Shirou finally made a move and put on his clothes. His parents were already in the dining room, it was rude to make them wait any long.

Hitomi sighed long after closing the door to Shirou's room behind him. It was so hard to keep her act before the young master. She knew her personal feelings shouldn't disturb her at work, but she just hadn't been herself ever since the announcement of Shirou's possible marriage partner. What bothered her the most, that Shirou had actually refused the meeting announcing he had someone he loved and planned on marrying her. Another sigh escaped from Hitomi's mouth.

"Dreaming about my brother, it seems." The cinnamon-head heard a voice breaking through her thoughts. She looked up and saw Fubuki Atsuya – fully clothed – standing before her. Various expressions varied on her face till she settled on her usual profession-expression, a wide smile. "Ah, Atsuya-sama. Good morning. Good to see you are already up, I was about to come wake you up."

Atsuya's eyebrows narrowed, showing a face of disgust. He despised when the girl was pulling off such an obvious fake smile. He hoped that she would just come into her senses and admit that she was in love with his older brother. He had tried to convince her for countless times, but each and every single time she brushed it off with a change of topic. This girl just couldn't be honest to herself.

Well, his brother was no better.

The pinkette decided to leave it at it and headed downstairs to join his parents for breakfast. He was getting tired of Shirou's and Hitomi's game of secrets, but he didn't want to get himself anymore involved that he already was. At the moment he had his own troubles. Just what he could do to seduce that student council president?

Shirou soon exited from his room and Hitomi, who had waited for him on the hallway bowed at him. After that the duo headed towards the dining hall, Hitomi walking behind her young master. Upon entering, the gray-head greeted his parents and younger brother after what he sat down and started his meal.

"Shirou, have you thought of the day you would like to meet your marriage-meeting partner?" The Fubuki father questioned all of a sudden, making his son almost choke on his drink. Shirou kept of coughing hard and Hitomi approached him, worried if he was alright, while trying to come up with something to help him. The gray-head then told he was alright, and finally his coughs calmed down.

Finally he turned towards his father and gave his reply. "I'm sorry father, but I already told I have a girl I love and she is the one I want to marry." The gray-haired boy then turned his eyes towards his younger brother. "If the marriage-partner is important and you don't want to shame them, why not have Atsuya go there in my stead."

The father gave a thoughtful look at the pinkette who didn't dare to move his eyes away. Inside, he was sweat dropping, how dared his brother drag him into the conversation. "Not a bad idea. But in return I'm waiting to meet the girl on Friday. You'll bring here, right?" The head of Fubuki family smiled widely while staring at Fubuki.

"Ah…" The young master let out a sigh. "That might be impossible." He then confessed, making all three of his family members look at him with surprised expression. Shirou was putting on a desperate smile, now this was getting troubling.

"What do you mean by 'it's impossible'?" His mother questioned, not understanding why her son couldn't bring the woman he planned on marrying for them to see. Was she such shy person, she wouldn't come? Or maybe she was currently studying over-seas?

"Well you see…" Shirou had troubles explaining the reality to his parents. "I haven't told her yet that I love her. Also I'm not sure of her feelings towards me." The gray-head kept a deadly silence. "…I'm not sure if she loves me back and is willing to marry me." He finally got the confession out of his throat. Man, it was such a hard thing to do.

"I wouldn't worry too much about it. If it is Shirou-sama, then any girl will surely love you back." Came an interrupting comment from Hitomi, who was standing next to Shirou's seat. Shirou raised his head to look at her, but she hadn't even moved to look at him. Her chin was slightly pulling up and her gaze was strait forward. Her form was so beautiful.

"I do agree with Hitomi-chan. If it's you then any girl will fall in love with my Shirou-kun." The mother announced happily after what her husband continued. "So I will be waiting to meet this captor of your heart girl on Friday." He smiled happily and then excused himself from their presence. He needed to hurry to his company, they were having an important meeting there in half an hour.

After finishing his meal, Shirou stood up from his seat and headed towards his room, Hitomi following him just few steps behind. Once in his room, he sighed loudly and feel on his bed, all depressed. "Mind me to remind you that the car will come pick you up in an hour. Your school starts later than usually today." Hitomi announced, to which Shirou didn't make any gesture of even trying to answer.

The maroon-head watched her young master sulking while moving anxiously in the bed and closed her eyes. "If you're still worried about your fathers' words, I suggest you to stop. Like I already said, the girl will surely accept your confession and come to meet the rest of your family. After all she's the girl you choose." Hitomi tried to keep her face from cracking while putting on a smile.

Despite of her try to cheer her master up, it had completely opposite reaction on the gray-head. Shirou lifted his body up to sit on the bed. "After hearing your words, I'm even more positive that she will surely reject me. It's no good after all." His self-confidence started to fall, and the mood in the room was getting heavy.

Hitomi was preparing for countermeasures. "Don't say that just yet. Please, do tell me who the girl is and I will bring her to you immediately. Then you can say to her what on your mi-" But she got interrupted by Shirou.

"It's you."

"-nd." Hitomi finally managed to finish her sentence.

She was staring at her master with frozen look. Shirou's expression had gotten serious all of a sudden and slowly he stood up. "You're the one love and the one I want to marry. Anami Hitomi, I love you." Shirou approached the girl with slow and careful steps.

Hitomi backed off with every step Shirou made towards her. And she planned on doing so till her back hit a wall, and all of her running routs had been cut. By this time, her head was steaming like a hot pot and she was unable keep eye contact with Shirou. And so, the cinnamon-head was staring at the floor all freaked out while Shirou was still coming at her.

"Wha- what do you mean by that? There's no way you could lo-lo-love m-ee… After all I'm a mere maid." Hitomi tried to convince herself it was only a dream. No matter what her heart was telling her she should use her head to reason, and currently this was the best answer she could get. This was all a prank, the boy was getting desperate on his one-sided love and decided to use her to relieve some of that frustration. There was no way he could be in love with her.

"Ah, this is the very reason why I didn't want to tell you. I knew you wouldn't believe me anyway." Shirou had finally reached Hitomi and was staring right into the girl's eyes. More precisely, he was staring at her eyes as Hitomi's gaze was glued on the floor. "I knew it by your reaction the other. How you rejected me and ran away after a kissed you."

She had nowhere to run. Hitomi was stuck between wall and Shirou, who had suddenly turned into very offensive being. Her mind was slowly getting black from having the man she crushed on making an attack on her. Her heart wasn't prepared for it. Also it seemed kind of forced, giving the situation, making her being in denial even so.

"You know, the reason I kissed you in half-sleep, was because I dream on having you before me. Before I knew, I was drawn towards you in my dream and pulled you into a kiss, only to realize that you were standing before my eyes in real life too." Shirou admitted, his expression softening for the first time as he placed his arm on Hitomi's cheek.

The girl flinched at the sensation of an unknown warmth. This made Shirou's expression to fall and he sighed. "You can't even realize how much it hurt to have you slap my cheek all of a sudden and then run away. Even now you're doing your best to avoid me." The boy closed his eyes and slowly drew aback from Hitomi.

He was ready to end the game in complete defeat and rejection from the girl, when suddenly something grabbed his hand. Something tiny, hot and shaking held onto it, refusing to let him go. The gray-head turned his head and saw Hitomi's small hands keeping firm hold on Shirou's palm. She had finally raised her head and was staring at him with her incredibly beautiful maroon-colored orbs.

"I… I… I lo-" Shirou's intense stare was making Hitomi embarrassed. She was already giving up and lowering her glance, but then she looked up again. "I love you." She finally confessed her feelings, and it felt like a heavy rock had been lifted from her chest. Cheeks burning hot red, she looked up at Shirou, who had frozen.

Hitomi looked away. "Actually, I've liked you for a long time already… but was denying my feelings till the very end. I was freaked out when your father suddenly announced about the marriage partner… and even more when you suddenly blurted out that you have a person you love. I loved you, but because of my position as your personal maid there was no way I could reveal my true feelings." The girl then confessed.

"And about the kiss… I didn't mean to slap you, Shirou-sama. Young master approached me so suddenly that it was the first reaction. After I realized what I had done I was so ashamed that I ran away." Hitomi continued her explanation brining Shirou's hand back to her cheek.

The couple kept staring at each other, wandering into their own world of love and happiness. Neither of them dared to blink eyes so that they wouldn't destroy the perfect moment they were sharing. "You really are so cute. I want to kiss you." Shirou chuckled and drew nigh Hitomi. As the girl showed no signs of resistance and instead closed her eyes, the gray-haired boy connected his lips with her and they shared a sweet and innocent kiss.

"That's our second kiss," The boy smiled happy, to which Hitomi answered with an expression full of embarrassment, love and joy. She was truly happy at the moment. "And as you accepted my confession I'll be bringing you in front of parents on Friday." Shirou told happily and retired from Hitomi's side. He chuckled upon seeing her expression.

Hitomi had completely frozen to that place. When confession to Shirou, her mind had been so messed up she had completely forgotten about the marriage part. So wait, now she was going to become the bride of Fubuki household's eldest son? His future wife? This made the girl have cold sweat run down her whole body.

"Or wait, instead of waiting till Friday… How about we go greet my mother right away?" The gray-head told playfully and grabbed hold of Hitomi's arm. The panicked girl was unable to form any decent words and ended up mumbling something uncertain. Shirou only laughed at her reaction and pulled a quick peck on her cheek. This made Hitomi flush completely red.

"Shirou-sama!"

Sakuchii: I think I completely blew up this chapter. A complete clichee fluff... uff.

Aiko: Don't worry, at least you tried your best.

Yukiko: Yeah, trying is better than doing nothing.

Sakuchii: Ahh... trying to comfort me? Next Time - Title: Bet On It! || Pairing: Atsuya x OC

Aiko: The next story just might happen in the same universe as this one.

Yukiko: Stay tuned to find it out! Also, comments and thoughts about this chapter are very welcomed!

~ deshii