REPLIES.@Zita: sorry, but I left it kinda open like that for my readers to decide on how it ended themselves
@bunny_rabbit: sorry for bringing your old memories back
but thanks for liking it
A/n. This is for granny BbSis, a Mariko-sama birthday special~ Hope you like this~
BEWARE. Might contain swearing, making out and implying on sexual intercourseSpiteful Feelings
"Another glass, miss?" A bartender asked and smiled in a pleasant way at the woman in front of him.
"Mhm, yeah." She looked at the name tag of the young man and sighed. "Two actually, Matsui-kun."
"Oh, call me Julian, miss~" The bartender said in a sassy voice and poured two glasses of martini for the lady. She seemed to be in a bad emotional state, despite her efforts to hide it. "You know, you can talk to me, if you need someone to hear you out."
"No." The woman shook her head and poured quite some amount of the martini into her mouth. "I will be fine tomorrow, I know it."
"Sorry to lecture you, I know it is not my business, miss, but you know that alcohol never helps and the next day it is always worse?" Julian asked in a serious tone and took one glass away, passing it to another bartender. "Give this to that cute lady over there in a red dress, say it is on the house."
"Mhm, did she perk your interest tonight, Julian? I thought you are faithful to Furuhata-chan." The female bartender asked but passed the drink to the beautiful lady. "This is on the house, miss."
"Oh, you don't need to lie, I know it's from Julian~" The lady in a red dress smiled and sipped from the glass. "Say to him that the red kingyo is not going to wait forever~"
"....Yes, miss..." The female bartender was confused but kept on her cyborg expression and retold the words to Julian who was still trying to carefully find out the problems of the lady in a business outfit. "Who is she, Julian?"
"My red kingyo but of course, Maya. My red kingyo." He smiled and turned to the business lady again. "You should head home and try to solve whatever matter it is after waking up, miss."
The woman just kept silent and watched the male bartender shrug his shoulders and walk to the rich lady in a red dress at the other end of the bar. The way the two looked at each other without saying a word spoke more than if they actually exchanged the common vocabulary.
"It is clear he is banging her every single night, no doubts about that. However, it is none of my business. I have my own problem to deal with. God, how do I get her voice out of my head?! She doesn't even exist!!!"FLASHBACK"Oi, Mariko, will you get rid of that skirt of yours? Such a sore to my eyes, yo!"
"Oi, Mariko, can your blouse get more old-fashioned than this one? I am sure the boss just waits for you to slip so she can dispose of you~"
"Oi, Mariko, you work here longer than I do but I seem to be more popular and loved around here. Just scram and let me get promoted."
And so on and so on. No matter what she did, the new public relation's manager Minegishi Kuu was like a sore thumb. He used every opportunity to make Mariko feel like she was an alien and he was the most human Earth ever has seen. She did admit her fashion style at work was not the best, but she had her reasons. It was a workplace after all, not a fashion runway. He hasn't seen her in personal life, he knew nothing about her wanting to become a fashion designer and slowly trying to achieve it by working here, at Dear J fashion line. Maybe she did not have a great work relationship with president Kashiwagi and it was clear the woman wanted to kick her out by any means possible, however, Mariko was best friends with owner Itano Tomomi and the woman even pushed her to not give up and continue working on her designs.
It all would be well if not Minegishi. He somehow managed to get on all her co-workers' A lists, he managed to do his job amazingly well as he was very outgoing and his ideas were modern and not too crazy at the same time. He was stylish, cool looking, was a hot topic between all women as they fought between themselves on who was next in line to get into his luxury king sized bed and make sure its sheets were not just creasy but stained also. The only problem for those women was the fact that Minegishi flirted with them all but never slept with any. His reasoning was that the guy does 'not mix work and private life', which to Shinoda Mariko was just unbelievable. Yet, it was true due to all women complaining about it to her.
Yes, they went to her and poured their hearts out, like if she cared about them or that Kuu guy. However, seeing how his reputation was better than hers all she could do was listen to their rants and hope that he just finally decides to sleep with them. Her life would be so much better without all complaints and cries she had to listen to. So sometimes, without even purposely trying, he still ruined and worsened her life. Mariko had so many reasons to hate him, she just honestly hated the guy to the point she dreamed of a car hitting him on the road or some building falling on top of him. That's how mad driven she was by the hate towards him. If only she could find at least one thing, one bad thing about him, it would be enough to wipe away that annoying smirk out of his face.
Sadly, he was mostly perfect. Mostly, because Mariko was sure he had something going on. There was something about Minegishi that Mariko felt was a mystery and she just couldn't figure it out no matter how hard she tried. She would usually drop the thoughts about him, yelling at herself inside her head for giving attention to that brat, but sometime later the thought of something about him bugging her would return inside her head and she would think about him again and again. She did talk about this to one of her close friends, Ooshima Yuuko, but very soon regretted it, hearing from the woman that it was all Mariko's inner woman wanting to get into the guy's bed. That was not it, like, never ever. She honestly felt there was something else, but what? She had no idea.
Luckily or unluckily for her, a day came where one sentence changed everything. Mariko was carrying important documents to events' budget manager Sato Sumire and in order to get to her office she needed to pass seventeenth floor, where Kuu's office resided. She was passing down the corridor and the door was slightly open. She suddenly heard a sentence and it made her halt to a stop. She even dropped the papers and checked if she has a phone in her pocket. Now was her chance.
"Do you think I can't handle a guy like you~?" A somewhat sultry husky female voice asked and then Kuu's laugh was heard afterwards.
Mariko smirked and opened a camera recording device on her phone. This was her chance. Her chance to catch a bad act from the 'perfect, good-doing guy' flirting while at work. She grinned and barged into office, not even bothering to knock on the door. Well, she was trying to catch him red handed, you don't knock when you want to incriminate someone, right? However, soon her grin was changed by a shock. She looked all around the office, double checked but there was no woman present in there. Kuu raised his eyebrow at her.
"Ah, sorry, one of my co-workers wants something, I'll call you later, 'kay?" Minegishi said to the person on the other end and hung up. "Oi, Mariko, has your mother never taught you what knocking on the door means? And what's with your shoes, does Yuki-chan not pay you enough for you to buy yourself at least decent ones?"
"Wa...." Shinoda was about to ask about the woman but making a fool out of herself really wasn't on her hobbies' list so she just shook her head, scoffed and walked out. While picking the documents she previously dropped, Mariko contemplated inside her head. She was so sure she heard a female's voice but her eyes saw no one but that brat Kuu in his office. She must have looked like some crazy to him, not that he had a different vision of her anyway. Quietly swearing under her breath Mariko rushed to Sumire's office, trying to push the haunting voice out of her head.
The problem was that the voice was too much her type. It was a voice she liked and longed for in her partner. She realized her concentration went down the drain and she was not even able to work on her fashion designs, because the voice was like some bug that rested inside her brain, eating it bit by bit every single day. Soon afterwards she started having dreams, where a woman with no face comes into her bed and whispers all kinds of nonsensical words in that husky sultry voice of hers. Mariko would wake up all sweaty after such dreams every night and it has gotten even worse, to the point where in those dreams she started having sex with that woman.
She just couldn't handle it all, especially today, when she passed out at work due to the lack of sleep and had another dream. There the woman pushed her against the wall, ripped her clothes off and massaged her body to the point where she moaned like crazy. Literally. Her secretary Iriyama had to shake her in order to wake her up. The poor girl had red cheeks and whispered to Mariko about her actually moaning while in her sleep. Anna decided to wake boss up despite feeling embarrassed, because she knew that if Minegishi or any other co-worker heard Mariko like that, it would be the end of her. So after work Mariko couldn't help but go to this club and get fully drunk. She hoped this would get her to forget the haunting voice, push away the haunting dreams and get back on track.
END OF FLASHBACKSo here she was, watching Julian eating the lady in a red dress with his eyes, as if he wanted to bend her over one of the tables and satisfy them both. More like, Mariko was sure that was exactly what the bartender was going to do once the club gets empty, but it was none of her business. She wanted to get wasted, yet again, he was right, saying it will not help her deal with the problem. The woman was contemplating if she should go home or stay for another drink, when a few go-go dancers appeared in the cages at different parts of the club. They had barely any clothing on them, enough to cover private parts, but still leaving little to people's imaginations and their bodies moved along the music's rhythm like a flowing river. Mariko usually would not pay attention to such things, but one of them was nearly in front of her so she couldn't help but observe.
The girl had long wavy black hair, huge doll like eyes, her body was quite curvy and she was one of those shorter ones. Her expressions was so on point with the music playing and her body moved in such a seductive and yet classy way that Mariko just couldn't take her eyes away. The more she stared at the dancing girl, the more she felt as if she knew her for a long time. There was just something very familiar about her but Shinoda couldn't really think of what that something was. The woman was sure she never has seen the girl in front of her and yet it felt as if she saw her every single day.
She shook her head and stood up. She really was going crazy. First, imagining that female's voice and now fawning over a random go go dancer, even to the point of thinking that she knew her. Mariko decided to go home and get a proper night's sleep, maybe tomorrow things will really become better. She felt somewhat dizzy, but still knew she can get home on her own. She gave the female bartender her credit card, put in the digital security code - managed to put in the correct one from the second try. Not bad, she thought to herself and, after putting the credit card back into her purse, started walking out of the club.
"Michelle, where are you going?" Maya asked the go go dancer, who stepped out of the cage and was about to leave the club. "You haven't finished your round of dancing."
"I'll be back, there's something I have to make sure of." The girl said and hurried out of the club. Seeing the figure in a business clothing trying to unlock the car, she couldn't help but sigh. Why was she about to help this woman again? Well, she will have to answer this question to herself later, now she needed to act. "Hey, miss, I think you are a bit too unsteady to drive. Maybe I can call you a cab?"
At first Mariko thought it was her imagination acting up again, but then she saw the go go dancer in front of her, speaking again.
"Um, are you alright?.. You look pale..." She was not supposed to approach her, damn, she was not even supposed to meet her like this, ever. However, Michelle couldn't help but notice the eyes full of terror boring into her. "Wh...what... Did I do something wrong?"
"You..." Shinoda felt her body shaking. This voice that kept haunting her for days and weeks now was in a shape of this seductive go go dancer. Mariko felt like the world was spinning too fast around her. "Your voice....it's...."
"Miss...?" Michelle started and then saw the woman falling onto the ground. "Mariko!!!"
She woke up and even without opening her eyes she knew right away that the bed was not hers. She also knew that a headache was about to appear if she moved her head or any body part more than an inch. There was also this feeling of someone's body next to her and despite it being alarming, the woman didn't move or open her eyes. One, she hated headaches while in a hangover stage. Two, she could feel sun rays on her skin which basically meant her eyes burning if she only opened them. Three, she knew who the woman next to her was as she all of the sudden remembered what happened yesterday. To think that the random go go dancing she noticed in the club was the owner of that sultry voice...
"Are you awake?" The girl asked and sighed. "Sorry for bringing you to my place, but I just couldn't leave you there on the street after you passed out, and it's not like I know where you live."
"Nnn..." It was all Mariko could reply. She was too busy basking in that wonderful voice to pay attention to the words it was producing. "You were saying?"
"Never mind..." The girl stood up and put on the hoodie. "I'll go make some breakfast, you come down whenever you are ready."
After the girl left the room, only then Mariko dared to slowly open her eyes. After she got used to the light, she slowly got up. The headache was not as bad as the woman expected.
"Time to inspect your room, missy." Shinoda whispered and started looking around. Everything seemed like what a usual girl would have until a certain object caught Mariko's attention. It was too familiar to ignore it and she picked it up, shock and confusion written all over her face. While holding it she went downstairs into the kitchen and was about to ask about the object, but the view was too mesmerizing and she froze, unable to take her eyes away.
The girl was in a hoodie and white lace panties, swiftly moving around the kitchen, cooking breakfast and humming a random song. She was trying not to think of Mariko being upstairs, in her bed...or even the fact they slept next to each other the whole night. Now she simply needed to feed the woman, ensure there are no misunderstandings, see her off and all will be well. Nothing could go wrong if the woman doesn't stay for too long.
"Hey, you...tell me how this thing happens to be in your room?" Mariko asked, closing her eyes and shaking dirty thoughts out of her head. "Because I've seen this at my work before, and I don't really have good memories connected to it."
"What...?" The girl turned around and opened her eyes wide. How could she forget to put that tie away....? God dammit, nothing escapes Mariko's field of vision, does it...? "Um...I got it from one of my clients...NOT REALLY..."
"Explain yourself." Mariko was not buying the crap the girl was spilling to her and sat on the chair, waiting for the proper explanation. "I will not leave your house until you tell me the actual truth. How do you know Minegishi Kuu? Because this is his tie."
"I..." The girl turned off the frying pan and sighed. "I guess I cannot hide it from you... If only I didn't go after you last night...maybe you wouldn't have found out..."
"Then why did you follow me? And find out what?" Shinoda was confused. So there was a woman after all in Kuu's office at that time, but then where was she hiding? Under the table or in the cabinet? "Spill the beans, missy."
"My name is Minami, Minegishi Minami." The girl whispered and looked away.
"....." Mariko had no words. And then it all stood into places. "That's why you felt so familiar. You are his---"
"I am him. I am Minegishi Kuu." Minami cut the woman off and looked her in the eyes. "I speak the truth so now you can come and beat me or i don't know, do whatever you want to me, because I deserve it."
"What?..."
"If you don't believe me, just go look around the house. You will see the wigs and clothes and everything work related scattered throughout it." Minami sighed and plopped on the chair. "I thought I can hide it from everyone, especially from you, but apparently the fate decided otherwise."
"...Why are you lying to everyone about you being a guy?" Mariko was trying to get over the fact that the guy she hated the most in the whole world and the girl she wanted to drag to the bedroom and make love to was the same person. "What's so good about being a girl that pretends to be a bratty Ikemen guy?"
"Oh, so you also thought I was Ikemen after all~?!"
"I don't think you should be happy over something like this in a situation you are right now." Mariko retorted and crossed her arms. "So, answer my question."
"I just always was a cool girl back at school, treated more like a guy than a girl. I felt like a king and it was just so cool and amazing to be called a hot Ikemen. I guess, it all got into my head... I became cocky, thinking I can rule the world and whatnot..." Minegishi sighed. "I know I was wrong, I told myself millions of times to stop it all. However, once I started I couldn't end it. That's how I got into the position I am in right now. Job application clearly stated that they need a male. I decided to try my luck and here I am."
"Why were you so rude towards me?" Shinoda asked. She was not angry anymore. Okay, maybe she still was. At least, she didn't want the girl dead anymore.
"Because...you looked like the keenest out of them all. It felt like if I act nice towards you, you might find out the truth..." Minegishi laughed ironically. "And look where I am, you still found out..."
"Mhm..." Mariko just didn't know what to think or say. She was supposed to be angry, or that's what she guessed... Despite all that, the girl in front of her was as alluring and captivating. "Tell me one thing then..."
"Yes?.." Minegishi was surprised by the weird look Shinoda was giving her. For some reason her heart was beating really fast from just that look alone.
"Why...?" Mariko was not thinking anymore. The urge to taste those pinkish lips was too strong to resist. She stood up and approached the shocked girl. "No, screw that question. Instead, let me ask a different question."
"....?" Usually Miichan, that's how friends called her, would feel very Ikemen and cool. Usually she was center of attention where she acted like a prince or a playboy, making all the girls swoon. Now...now her heart was already shattered into millions of separate hearts, and they all were beating crazier than ever. Her mouth was dry and her body was all tingly.
"Bedroom or kitchen?" She pulled the girl up from the chair and gazed into those beautiful big eyes. Maybe after she satisfies her urges, maybe then she will be able to think clearly and sort out this mess. Now all she could think off was how badly she wanted to make love to this idiotic girl.
"...what...?" Mariko was too close for Minami to handle. It was enough that she crushed on this woman at work but never had a chance to show it one bit, so her fantasies becoming reality was a bit too much for her to handle.
"No, screw that too. We're doing it here." Shinoda spat out, frustrated at her urges more than the girl in her arms. She should be raging, going to Kashiwagi with the proof or even calling Itano. Instead, she laid the still shocked Minegishi on the table and leaned over her. "I deserve at least this for all the pain you caused me."
"...." Minami breathed hard, sweat already forming on her forehead. She felt like the heat in the kitchen went thousand degrees up and it felt like her body was rolling down the cliff for ages before Mariko saved her, because every inch of her skin was aching and in dire need to be touched and attended to.
"And honestly, I don't care if you want this or no. I am gonna devour you and then walk off like a boss." Mariko said and took off the hoodie, ogling at the round breasts the girl possessed. "Okay, how were you able to hide THESE? Never mind, ignore the question."
Miichan moaned and groaned as soon as Mariko's teeth nibbled all over her mounds. She could feel the woman's hands traveling all over her body and her sanity started slowly drifting away. This was crazy, insane and yet, it was amazing and wonderful. To be in Mariko's arms like that, to be for once monopolized and devoured and not the other way around; it was just perfect.
"
This note, I leave it to you for a reason. I wanted to stay and eat you up again and again, fuck you senseless, even rape you while you clutch onto the windowsill, however... I realized I need to sort my thoughts and feelings out. I always had this dream of becoming a fashion designer. You made me realize I cannot waste my time and life as I've been doing it up till now. So I'm gonna go and realize my dream and you continue realizing yours. Then one day, after we both are successful, we will meet again. By then, I am sure you won't have to put an Ikemen act anymore and me... I maybe will be able to face the fact that I had feelings for you since day one I saw you in Dear J company. By then maybe I will be able to forgive you for all the hurtful words you said to me. By then I think I will be ready to let you into my now cold icy heart. By then.... No, I am sure that when we meet next time, I'll try to make love to you in the bedroom at least once. And I'll make sure that a bit later you have a chance to wear a wedding gown, created by me, at my wedding...
With spiteful feelings,
Mariko-SAMA."
[THE END.]