naitou's AKB48 fics

[naitou]

Hi

Through a request I decided to register here and post my fics. The reason I didn't make multiple topics was because I'm already writing multiple fics and I'll make an index for all them as I post the chapters.

I'm mainly a KojiYuu writer and I tend to write weird fics (like the Beginner I'm doing). Also I developed a fascination for the Torigoya character and I paired her with Yuko or Sado, depends on my mood. Also, I'm writing a Kokoro no Hane PV inspired fic.

So far the index would go something like this (I'll link the chapters as I post them to make it easier for those who are following my fics, also, I don't know yet how to link and name in the same code, if you know and can help me I apreaciate the tip):

[Kokoro no Hane](TEAM DRAGON: Hasana/Ylava ; Akana/Miu ; Yuhi/Mandi) - On going

Pilot (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg867877#msg867877)
Chapter Two (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg872046#msg872046)
Chapter Three (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg872049#msg872049)
Chapter Four (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg872459#msg872459)
Chapter Five (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg872460#msg872460)

[Majisuka Gakuen: Rappappa's Rebirth] (Yuko/Torigoya ; Yuko/Sado) - On going

Chapter One (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg867879#msg867879)
Chapter Two (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg868314#msg868314)
Chapter Three (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg876594#msg876594)
Chapter Four (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg876597#msg876597)
Chapter Five (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg876598#msg876598)
Chapter Six (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg880139#msg880139)
Chapter Seven (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg880140#msg880140)
Chapter Eight (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg880141#msg880141)
Chapter Nine Part One (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg880142#msg880142)
Chapter Nine Part Two (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg895047#msg895047)

[BEGINNER - The Game] (AtsuMina) {contains strong violence} - hiatus

Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four

[Undisclosed Desires] series (smut/NSFW)

[Undisclosed Desires - SaeYuki] (Perv Access needed)

#Issue One http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=30790.msg872462#msg872462

[Undisclosed Desires - SaeYaka] (Perv Access needed)

#Issue One http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=30790.msg868310#msg868310
#Issue Two http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=30790.msg895049#msg895049

[Undisclosed Desires - Majisuka Gakuen - Torigoya/Yuko]

#Issue One (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg870239#msg870239)
#Issue Two (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg870240#msg870240)

[Collide] (KojiYuu ; Mariko/Haruna) - On going

Prologue (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg867881#msg867881)
Chapter One (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg868307#msg868307)
Chapter Two (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg874494#msg874494)
Chapter Three (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg874495#msg874495)
Chapter Four (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=28710.msg874492#msg874492)

[naitou]

AKB48 starring as TEAM DRAGON

presents,

[Kokoro no Hane]

by naitou


Featuring:

Kojima Haruna as Hasana

Oshima Yuko as Ylava

Maeda Atsuko as Akana

Takahashi Minami as Miu

Itano Tomomi as Tabya

Watanabe Mayu as Mandi

Kashiwagi Yuki as Yuhi

"The 7 members of Team Dragon gather after work at Dragon Tower. After donning skysuit gear and ingesting hover-orbs, they leap from the tower and soar through the sky!"

In the 21st century two worlds collide. The war's blood covered the hands of many soldiers and it didn't seem to came to it's end. In one of these worlds, there was a girl, a revolutionary one, whose ideas and wishes for peace were her strongest force.

Fly stronger, fly faster

Do your best and never give up

Keep on believing

Spread your wings and soar

Pilot Chapter

Her name was Ylava and she was a secretary in the Propaganda Ministry. She basically worked as a messenger through affairs and traveled a lot to deliver information and important packages. She didn't work alone and her partner's name was Miu. Miu was a hardworking girl, very serious and with a strange sense of humor. She was one of the smallest girls Ylava ever worked with but also one of the most reliable she would ever met. In a world where emotions and feelings tended to disappear as soon as you were assigned to a certain line of work, Ylava tried as best as she could to keep her heart alive, making sure she would always feel her pulse.

The war began a decade ago and she became a part of a group of people who were meant to serve, either by choice or forced to, and basically lived for it. They had a created and artificially personality and acted in a way to always please. But then people grown bored and tried to make them go away, the war began. It was a huge matter and those who wanted to be more than servants revolted themselves and were called rebels. Ylava was born in the last generation. This generation beard all the stories and wishes for peace and silently Ylava was working to find the means to stop this war. In ways that couldn't be described, it became such a huge deal that her world had to be divided into districts and everyone had it's rules. And on top of everything, it ended up resorting to military forces.

Hasana was a generation older than Ylava. She worked as an officer at the Information Control Bureau. Through her, in every second that passed, a million of sequences and information passed in from of her eyes. Her job was to descodificate it, read it and process it. The Bureau was the heart of this world. Everything that happened, every information, every step, it was all seen and archived by the officers of the Bureau. She basically knew everything that was happening and to be able to handle all that, she and all the officers had to do the ultimate sacrifice: renegade to all their emotions and feelings, becoming empty on the inside and unable to feel while working. For a human being, it was the worst thing and the pain they had to go through to make that sacrifice was unbearable. They were drugged and their sense of humanity too became an-almost-something-else and gradually disappeared.

Ylava and Hasana used to be partners. They did their training together but when Hasana was chosen to became an officer the old Hasana Ylava used to know disappeared. She became a secretary one year later and once a week she met up with her...and their friends.

Akana was Hasana's and Yuhi's superior. She enrolled at the same time Hasana did but had the potential to be more. The Bureau possessed a great deal of power and Akana not only was in charge of her sector but also had the authority to punish or pursue traitors. She became good friends with Ylava after their first encounter and was very close with Miu.

Yuhi was a part of the generation to-be after Ylava's, but it never became as known as the "last generation". The children of that generation had yet to prove themselves and without doing it they weren't recognized as more than a failure. Yuhi and Mandi were a part of that generation.

Yuhi was chosen to be an officer and worked close to Hasana and Mandi was a Kino-plasma Generator Operator. She worked with Tabya, a very frontal and confident girl; she was her superior but it didn't really seemed so, since Tabya didn't really behave like a experienced operator. They worked in a different sector and their job involved Kino-plasma modeling and production. They also had to keep the levels stable to prevent contamination and basically all the connection and processing via Kino-plasma was controlled by their assistance.

[...]

Hasana was checking and processing codes from the government when an unidentified server emitted a strange sequence. First, only a few fragments of the code were displaying on her screen, then longer sequences appeared. Hasana quickly tried to decode it and found it very strange and suspicious.

When she finally was able to see in what it would display, a small video played on her screen and something shocking made her spine feel a terrible chill. The sequences generated a small video displaying Ylava in an interrogatory room, along with the now deceased Captain. Hasana was confused by what it meant and she knew it meant trouble for her friend. She took her head out of her cabinet and checked on Yuhi. She too was now receiving the sequences and if Akana saw it, Ylava was screwed. The video registered the last hours of Captain and Ylava was on it.

Without really knowing what was going on and the real reason for this, she too realized that the others officers were also receiving the same video. Soon Yuhi would see it too and so the others. This was spreading fast, like a massive virus and without thinking consciously, Hasana opened the line and tried to contact Ylava. She was with Miu in the district taking care of business and Hasana's call took her by surprise.

"RUN!"

As soon as Hasana's "run" came out from her mouth, her eyes crossed with a serious Akana and on the other line of the call, a group of soldiers appeared and both Ylava and Miu didn't know how to react. Ylava sensed something wrong and started to run, but the soldiers were faster than her and knocked her down. She fell on her face and with both arms crossed on her back, she was told to shut up and give up.

"You're under arrest for murder on first degree."

[naitou]

Majisuka Gakuen – Rappappa's Rebirth
by naitou

Chapter One

It was cold and Yuko had forgotten her coat. As she walked past the street, it was clear how soon the business closed. There was no one to be seen around, so she was calm and mumbling some chants. With her hands on her pockets, her footsteps were loud and her head was in an entirely different reality. She hated the night though. Because she had to go home and it was by far a pleasant thing.

She had spent the whole afternoon joking around with a bunch of guys. It was nice, but somehow was becoming predictable, especially when it starts to become obvious the sexual advances of some of them. Not that she didn't enjoyed the attention, but sometimes it just became meaningless and she wasn't always in the mood for it. But one thing was for sure, she couldn't spend a day without messing something up.

As she turned around the corner a pinched shout was heard. There was a bunch of guys surrounding a girl a couple of meters away from her. Fortunately they didn't seem to have realized her presence. Yuko watched them for a few moments. They were five, all with their uniforms and styled hairstyles. The girl was in the middle of their circle, with her head facing the floor and hugging herself. They started to push her and without doing anything she could only but wander from one hand to another. Yuko watched everything and some sort of pissed off aura was starting to form within her. She was always getting into fights because of her rebellious personality, but she didn't really enjoyed it. She couldn't quite put it into words but everytime she threw a punch or landed a kick, something inside of her reacted and there was this feeling, this strange feeling that triggered, but she never let herself fully experiment it by fear and rejection. She never got to meet her father and her mother left her with her grandmother, who raised her as best as she could. But Yuko grown with anger for the rejection of her parents and her grandmother obligated her to repress her feelings. Now she was on her own and still couldn't cooperate with all her feelings.

It was starting to piss her off the fact that the girl wasn't stooding up for herself and so she decided to turn around and get the hell out of there, so that she wouldn't do something rash. In that moment she heard one of the guys shouting.

"This is what happens when you decide to ignore us. Hope you like it bitch!"

The girl was kind of thrown into something and the guys ran the hell out of there. She started to scream and it sounded so desperate. Pure horror was the best description for her agonized screams. Yuko rand as fast as she could to see what was happening. As close as got the louder the screams were. The illumination on the street was awful and she barely could see a thing. She realized it was a butcher's shop and next to it was a small poultry yard. This kind of street had indeed weird ways to maintain it's business, she thought.

"Hey, are you there?...Are you okay?"

Suddenly the scream session ceased, but no answer came to Yuko. She opened the door and a chicken's head fell right in front of her feet. Her eyes wide opened and she almost puked. How morbid! She decided to enter it and asked again expecting some sort of answer. The thing looked smaller from the outside and was even harder to see a thing on the inside. Every step she took her shoes always met some kind of mole thing. There was a little reflection from the outside and when she looked down she realized that all the chickens were cold dead and she was walking over them. Now she really wanted to get the hell out of there and throw up hard, but she finally found the girl. Well, at least she was sure it was her. She tried her last call to get her to answer her, but as soon as she opened her mouth she was completely thrown backwards. Her body flew so hard and hit the ground even harder. Her head touched the floor and when she opened her eyes she was no longer in the inside of the poultry yard. It hurt so bad and when she faced up there was a strange face covered with hair looking at her. She wasn't heavy and when Yuko's eyes cleared from the shock she could see the cuts and blood on the girl's face and uniform. She recognized it, it was the same school she was enrolling, Maji's High. She also had a perverse smile and Yuko was starting to feel violated and assaulted, so she throw a punch right into the girl's face. She felt even pissed off when the girl grabbed her hand and made her next move. The moment the girl grabbed her hand, with the other one she got a grip on Yuko by the top of her head.

As she made the contact, flashing images started to appear in her head. Memories of when she was younger. Memories from her whole past were being shown and she wasn't enjoying it in the least. She hated to remember them and this girl was making her. Not only was it hurting her but it also seemed to start breaking her. But the worst came when the girl came closer to her ear and whispered something.

"Weakling"

She also laughed, in a way that was so sick. All the fights Yuko had been a part of were now being re-lived and it meant also the feelings she felt when doing it. As it approached the climax, Yuko felt as if the trigger was almost been put off and fearing that, all her anger and strong will weren't able to prevent it and it just broke. That was when she realized for the first time that she was enjoying it. It was a nightmare seeing the truth, but now it all felt so great. Such pleasure she was denying herself for so long. She love it so much it was almost a crime and in that moment her feelings were as perverted and creepy as the girl.

She now feared being too much into it and wanted to stop. But she was feeling weak after so much struggling and in a last attempt she gathered all her force will and now her perverted and obscure aura just to break free. It worked and the girl fell on her back. Yuko screamed as loud as her lungs allowed and she did it like a crazy. Now she was the one on top and furiously started to aim punches at the girl. Her head had hit the floor and she looked at Yuko with little fear. But Yuko's punches weren't aiming her, instead it was the floor, really close to the girl's ears. She was so mentally unstable, like something really screwed her head. When her breath was short and tired, she grabbed the girl by the colar of the uniform and breathing hard she hit her with her forehead. She was shorter than the girl so she hit her in the nose. Blood started to come out and the bizarre expression disappeared from the girl's face. She was beautiful and had a funny mole on her lips. She could see this because the lightning from the lantern of the other store was right up illuminating them. Still in her mad being, Yuko suddenly hugged the girl who never even said a word. Her arms were making so much pressure it became hard for the girl to breath and because she was still dizzy from the headbutt she fainted.

[...]

Lost in her thoughts Yuko was trying to put everything into it's place. It was almost like she woke up. The girl invaded her mind to crave into her deepest being and it made her realize something. It made her realize her worst fear. She would never tolerate being called weak or even take the next step in her fights. She had always repressed herself not only because of what was taught to her, but because she was the dangerous one and she knew it. Re-visiting her worst memory would mean to admit who she was and she would never do that. She was just too coward to admit it. And this girl violated her just to show her that. The feeling of being weak and rejected terrified her, because she knew she had to be strong, it terrified her so much it turned into anger and all of that anger was released through fights, resulting in a climax of pure pleasure just by beating other people, feeding her ego. She had to send this message, so that people wouldn't dare to look down on her. But of course...this was her secret.

Her hands were sore and covered in blood and the sweat already dried up. She didn't felt like going home and specially sleeping on the street. She glanced at the girl who was asleep. The blood on her nose stopped coming out and she seemed so peaceful. A completely different person from the one who assaulted her. Fresh emotions still poped up everytime she let her mind slip way. Carefully, she reached out her hand and softly placed it on the other's girl cheek. And she smiled.

Time flew by and when the girl woke up it was already morning. Yuko was around, with her knees closer to her chest and holding them with her arms. She was looking away and didn't noticed the girl waking up. Only when she made a sound her attention turned to her. And now she was curious.

"You woke up."

The girl seemed a bit confused and rose all her defenses.

"Who are you?"

Yuko seemed a bit surprised but tried to leave alone the details of what happened.

"You were attacked by some weird guys. They shove you into some sort of cage and left you there. I was on my way home and saw what happened. You started shouting and I went to take a look."

"In other words...you released me."

Yuko pouted. Something in the girl's speech was weird.

"Yeah I opened the thing. And then you assaulted me. It was really annoying and you pissed me off. You went crazy and did some pretty weird stuff to me. No, to my mind."

The girl only looked at the floor. She seemed somehow disappointed and frustrated. But then she lift her head and spoke seriously.

"You shouldn't have done that. Freeing me, I mean."

"Why?"

"You saw with your own eyes right?"

"Yes...pretty amazing and mindfuck at the same time, but...why? Why does the cage triggers it?"

"It doesn't matter. I don't even know you, why bother even explain it. And why are you still here? Why didn't you left?"

That caught Yuko a bit off. She really didn't know why she stayed in the first place right after she returned to her senses.

"I don't know. What's your name? I'm Yuko, Oshima Yuko by the way."

She hesitated at first.

"I'm Kojima Haruna."

"Nice to meet you Haruna."

"You're a strange girl. Why are you acting like nothing happened? We're not friends so you should just go."

"And I will". This time Yuko was laughing. "Just wanted to know your name first. You're from Maji's right? Me too. I guess I'll see you around then. Bye."

Before the girl could even say anything else, Yuko was already walking back. She couldn't hold it much longer. She enjoyed the girl's frontality too much and it would be a problem for her to cut the chase, so she finished it off for now. She would make sure she would see her again and make her explain everything, after all, she had never met anyone like her before and was curious. But she also always had to make her goodbyes look cool. Yuko was still pissed by the whole thing, but needed time to sort everything out. She would have time for it and she'll get her revenge on this event.

The girl didn't even make a move and Yuko returned all the way smiling. Little did we know that that smile meant more evil thoughts that it seemed.

[naitou]

Collide

by naitou


Prologue

Yuko never felt her chest so tight. She swore that if she tried to breathe in her heart would stop beating and she would collapse. She had never felt such pain and she didn't know what was worse: the fact that all this made her realize that she truly was in love with Haruna, or the fact she let her escape and now someone had a chance to make her happy, someone who after all couldn't be her and wasn't her.

She watched the two kiss. It wasn't one of those smooches she sometimes stole from Haruna's lips, but a mature, long and passionate kiss. Miichan was with her when they caught them doing it. She was worried for Yuko. Haruna and Mariko were also her friends, but lately she had the chance to get to know Yuko more and she just couldn't get out from her head the possibilities that were running on the Team K's ace head.

Yuko's eyes were watered but she wasn't crying. She swore to herself that she wouldn't. After all, if Haruna was happy she should feel the same at some point. Mariko was right after all, she was indeed a much suitable person for Haruna than she was. Mariko wouldn't hurt her and the reciprocation on their friendship was always so much notable than with her.

In the end Haruna chose Mariko.

Miichan put a hand on Yuko's shoulder and pushed her to the side. She was now facing her and the look Yuko gave her made her feel so hurt. Since Yuko was always joking around no one would have thought that she was indeed falling for the tall beauty. But that look on her face, those lost and watered eyes...they spoke so many words that a book wasn't enough to fit them all in. She warned her tough, she didn't wanted her to get hurt…because something like this was meant to happen.

Miichan held her in a hug and dragged her out of the room. She took a last glance at the two other girls and Mariko was whispering something to Haruna's ear, which made her blush slightly. Miichan breathe out. It was only a matter of time it seemed and in the end even something she thought to be improbable happened. Sure Mariko and Haruna were spending more and more time together, but to the point of Haruna actually falling for the older woman…She didn't knew what to think about it.

[naitou]

Collide

by naitou


Chapter One

"One day we'll go to Disney Sea together, it's a promise Nyan Nyan!"

I know I told you that but at the same time I knew I would never be able to take you there. It was almost an impossible promise and still I told you those words. I saw the smile on your face but we both knew it wasn't meant to happen. That's why you smiled and didn't say a word to shut me or even nod.

I really wanted it to happen and have a good time with you. You're a special person to me and when I'm around you everything looks so right and fun. And it hurts my heart to think I spoke so lightly of something I really wanted to do.

Forgive me Paru. I'll never be reckless again and give us false hopes.

[…]

Monday started like a usual busy day. For the longest time Oshima Yuko finally returned to the theater and performed with her teammates. Miichan was already there when she arrived and quickly the two of them started to mess around with Sae, who was still half asleep. She was resting against one of the chairs and Yuko went to one of the sides, making gestures for Miichan to do the same but at the other side. They counted to three and then each bitted Sae's ears at the same time. The genki girl jumped on her seat and the two girls burst into laughs.

"Mouu, what the heck? Sae is still sleepy…"

"Sorry Sae-chan but you looked so cuuute half asleep and we couldn't resist."

"So we took a bite! Ehehe."

Sae didn't look very pleased but was still too sleepy to scold them anymore. Hearing the loud laughs of Yuko, Sayaka appeared behind them and greeted the three girls.

"Good morning. What's going on so early?"

"We just took a bite at Sae."

Sayaka frowned her eyebrow and looked confused, not really liking the answer for reasons she couldn't put into words. Then she looked at the genki girl and noticed she wasn't too happy too. She put down her bag and took off her coat.

"You two are terrible. It's not even past eleven and you guys are already making pranks, unbelievable."

Even though she was saying it, Sayaka was laughing inside. She knew how crazy her teammates were and then when Yuko and Miichan got together something had to came out from it. This new bond was something she felt happy for. She was afraid that the new members on Team K would take some time to get used to their routines and philosophy, but Yuko took no time in making Miichan feeling at home. The same happened to Tomochin who firstly seemed the one more troubled after the shift.

After some more laughs and Sae's protests the other girls began to arrive and when they were all there, the sixteen girls began their rehearsal.

[…]

The shooting was finally over and Haruna could take a long and felt breath. Since the beginning of the morning that she, Mariko and Takamina had been taking photos for a magazine. Acchan and Akicha were supposed to be there too, but some other work was delaying their presence, so their shoots would be taken later when the other three girls would take a break and eat lunch.

Mariko was playing with her Iphone sending tweets to Yukarin, playing with the busy girl that wanted some sort of break from her dull morning. Haruna decided to join Mariko. She always felt at ease with her and had a great time in her company. Lately they have been spending lots of time together and she couldn't deny that it helped her notice Mariko's charms. When the older woman saw Haruna's coming into her direction she waved at her.

"Hi there! Taking a break?"

"Yes. Takamina is finishing so then we only have to wait for Acchan and Akichan. What are you doing?"

"Yukarin seems to be having a dull time, so I'm cheering her up."

"More like teasing her I suppose."

Sharing some laughs the girls were interrupted by Takamina who finished her share of work. She already had change into her daily clothes so the two tall girls assumed she had business elsewhere. The thing was…she had again put on a strange attire.

"What's with those loose pants Takamina? Are you trying to hide something maybe we should know about?"

Haruna patted slightly Mariko on the shoulder and then decided to enter the teasing.

"Yeah, wanna talk about those pants?"

Takamina obviously got all embarrassed and pissed, throwing her hands to the air.

"That again? Geez give me a break! And stop looking at me, these are cool."

"Cool? You can't be serious. Wait until Acchan's here, you'll see what I mean."

"Leave Acchan out of this! Besides…I'm in a hurry so I can't talk, but expect to hear from me later. You guys are going right?"

Haruna and Mariko exchanged looks and shook their shoulders in confusion. Mariko tried to remember if she had made plans but nothing occurred to her. Haruna pouted and titled her head to the side. Takamina watched the two and wondered if they were teasing her again or just really didn't know.

"You know...dinner, with Noro, Yuko and Miichan?"

It didn't seem to click anything so Takamina gave up.

"We don't know of any dinner. Any occasion?"

"Well yeah! To celebrate SDN's single debut! Anyway, Yuko was supposed to tell you so you'll hear about it anyway. Gotta go, bye."

The little captain began to speed up and joined her manager at the door. Mariko exchanged looks again with Haruna and then spit something before Takamina was out of reach.

"Oh! And drop those pants somewhere, they blind me!"

But Takamina didn't seem to hear it.

[…]

During the afternoon more shooting sessions where scheduled and the various rooms were filled with girls. Because of their game release, some girls were still shooting for the posters and promotional videos, but some samples of the game were already distributed for the girls to check it out.

Haruna was testing it on her PSP when Mariko appeared with two lattes on her hand.

"Already playing the game? It is fun?"

She put down the lattes and took a seat closer to the girl, opening her latte to put some sugar. Haruna seemed very concentrated into the game and didn't even hear Mariko.

'She is so into the game…So cute!'

She took a slip on her latte and put some sugar into the other she brought for Haruna. When she bended to the table to mix it, she noticed whose girl she was playing with. Her lines and image appeared on the screen and she felt somehow happy to see Haruna playing with her. Her cheeks turned slightly red and she fangirled on the inside. Haruna's eyes left the screen for a bit and she finally realized that Mariko had brought her a latte.

"Oh sorry, I didn't realize you were here. Thank you for the latte, I needed something like this. I'm so tired, my cheeks hurt from smiling."

Mariko watched Haruna drinking it and decided to seize the moment to tease her friend.

"You know…If you want to seduce me or play the right cards to get me, why play a game when you can get the real thing?"

"What?"

Haruna opened her mouth in disbelief. Her eyes were blinking furiously and Mariko couldn't stop herself from adding more salt to the wound.

"I didn't know you had those kind of feelings for me. I'm honored, but someone is going to be jealous too…"

"Geez Mari-chan it's nothing like that! I just happened to be curious. You meanie…"

They laugh it off a bit more and then Mariko was called by her manager. Her break was over and she was needed in room 2.

"Seems like my break is over. Oh and try not to hurt my feelings on the game, 'cuz you know…I would like you better if you were a lady and did everything I ask for."

Sticking out her tongue and winking, Mariko left a dumbstruck Haruna looking at her in her natural oblivious state. Mariko had to admit it was the cutest thing ever and that's why she did it all the time. What Haruna didn't know was that Mariko's heart was beating faster than usual, but she understood it as an effect of surprise at seeing Haruna playing her story. It was a bit embarrassing but funny and it felt kind of good on the inside.

[…]

Later on that day, Yuko joined the girls on the shooting. Most of her teammates had already did it in the afternoon, but because she had another job to do she had to leave it for the end of the day. Team A had passed the day there, since most of their frontgirls had time to wrap the Theatre photo's shooting and she would join them to had hers taken.

She spotted Haruna coming out from one of the rooms and waved her, making a sign for her to come closer. The other girl waved back and walked to her. Yuko was seated at one of the sofas around the place and when Haruna was in front of her, she slapped softly her own hands on her lap telling her to take a seat. Haruna ignored her and seated next to her. Yuko felt disappointed but started conversation anyway. She was in a good mood after all.

"Today's a busy day huh?"

"Yeah, I'm a bit tired. I heard you're doing fine on your new drama."

"It's lots of fun and I get to wear all these cool sets of nails, but it's also very tiring sometimes. I miss being you guys…especially with you."

Haruna blinked and Yuko noticed that her hand was touching Haruna's fingertips. She gave the girl that look of honesty that only she had for her, but Haruna felt embarrassed.

"Don't say things like that."

"Oh but it's true. I miss chatting with you and about all those things that only us talk about. Don't you like to be with me?"

"It's not that, it's the way you say things. You always make it look like you're cooking something else – "

Before she could finish her sentence, Mariko bumped in and smiled at the two. Takamina returned from her other job with some of the girls and was still mumbling about how cool her pants were, but no one seemed to pay attention to her anymore.

"Are you two already flirting? How cute! Can I snap a picture?"

"No one's flirting!"

"Nyan Nyan you're hurting my feelings…"

The three laughed and the previous seriousness from Yuko's tone completely disappeared. She was back to her jokes and like usual, Mariko was the first to get them started. The three of them have been bonding a lot lately. Mariko was really cool and well, Nyan Nyan was Nyan Nyan, so whenever they were together it was a blast.

Takamina was left alone and began reading some One Piece manga. She needed to high her spirits. Everyone had been making fun of her pants and she had enough of it.

"Ah! Takamina, what is that?"

Said a mouth opened Acchan. Itano came behind her and pointed her finger at Team A's chibi captain.

"I can't believe you own something like that! Those are even more hideous than the banana's parka."

Itano started to feel Takamina's legs up, feeling the texture of the pants and jokingly trying to find something manly on her friend. Takamina was now so pissed, reaching the top of her patience. Mariko, Haruna and Yuko were laughing their lungs out. Acchan was just perplexed, it felt just like that banana's parka fashion episode she shoot before. It made her wonder why she was such good friends with Takamina.

Takamina had enough and got out of the room scowling. Miichan passed by her, but because of her mood, she didn't even greet her no3b's partner. The sassy girl looked surprised but as soon as she got into the room she understood what happened.

"Someone's in a bad mood…"

"Oh don't mind her. We were teasing her because of her pants, I guess Itano went overboard with her leg groping."

Mariko had seat and was playing with her Iphone again. She was updating her status and took advantage of it to tweet Haruna. The girl was still beside Yuko and they were very close at the moment. Yuko had her hand on Haruna's lap and every time she said something energetically, her head would touch Haruna's shoulder and stayed there a bit, resting. She felt like smooching her, but the right moment was still nowhere to be found.

Haruna's bag vibrated from the other side of the sofa and she quickly cut contact with Yuko to see what it was. She grabbed her cellphone and smiled at Mariko's tweet. She answered back and put her cellphone back on the bag. Yuko watched, not so amused. It wasn't like she was jealous or even upset, she just didn't understood the whole Twitter scene and wanted to spend some time with Haruna and the mood she usually was able to set just wasn't happening, like something else was occupying Haruna's head. Yuko had a busy schedule and lately she's been feeling kind of lonely, so any free minute she was allowed to have, she decided to spend it between friends.

Their break eventually ended when Mayuyu, Yukirin and Sumire finally got to the place. It was already time for the AKBINGO's shootings and they needed to change places. The staff kindly asked the girls to leave and enter the buses on the outside. Since everyone was already gathered they didn't needed to wait any longer.

When they arrived to NTV, the girls began to change into their AKBINGO outfits and were full of energy to shoot. Mariko looked to her side and Haruna was having trouble with her hair. It got stuck on her thin necklace and she was having a hard time trying to take it off. Mariko put her hand on Haruna's shoulder and smiled.

"Nyaro do you need some help?"

"Yeah…It got stuck and I can't pull it out."

Mariko made motion for Haruna to stop and carefully with her fingers tried to untie the knot that Haruna's hair was making around the necklace. With a little patience and care, she was able to release it without pulling or breaking any hair. Yuko was staring at them with an open jaw.

'Why do I feel like I'm getting some sort of vibe…?'

Because she was staring for too long, Miichan patted her in the back.

"Hoy, you look like a pervert."

Yuko tried to cover her mouth and looked away. Haruna was finishing and Mariko already went to the make-up chair. Miichan facepalmed herself and shook her head. Could Yuko be any less obvious?

"I was closer to Haruna…couldn't she just had asked me?"

"Oh come on! Mariko offered herself. You're trying too hard not to try getting her attention. Come here I'll give you a hug."

Yuko embraced Miichan and looked at Mariko. She didn't know what it was she was feeling. It was like she got some sort of wicked vibe, not about that specific moment but about the future. She had read about it somewhere before, but even now when she wanted to reach a point, her head didn't let her.

Her good mood was slowly changing as time passed by. She was just feeling weird and was pissed by not being able to understand why. The shooting was being kind of boring and nothing funny was happening. Mayuyu was beside her and once in a while she tried to draw Yuko's attention by elevating her hands in a oshiri hand sign. Yuko did it a couple of times but got bored. Mayuyu felt that something was wrong.

"Are you feeling okay?"

"Huh? Oh yeah, fine. Just fine don't worry."

Mayuyu decided to drop any further questions and wrapped her left arm on Yuko's. The squirrel girl seemed surprised but because it was a good thing, she smiled and kept on watching the girls dodge balling each other's. It was so much funny when she was playing, she thought.

[…]

It was already too late when they finished the day. Everyone was a bit tired and some were really dead tired. Yuko got a message from Noro telling her the details of the dinner. For some reason it had to be rescheduled and it gave more time for Yuko to invite the other girls since she had forgotten about it. She had so many things to do and to think about, and seeing Mariko teasing Haruna somehow didn't helped, so she ended up forgetting to invite them.

She waited for them at the entrance of NTV and said goodbye to Takamina, Mayuyu and Tomochin.

Meanwhile Mariko was doing her hair and spotted Haruna playing again on her PSP. She was about to make a comment about Haruna still being playing with her but she quickly realized that this time she had picked a different character. She was playing with Yuko and she automatically mailed Yuko about it. She loved to see the squirrel girl riled up and this was just the perfect excuse.

'Your Nyan Nyan is seducing you on her PSP 3 3 Careful with that \|^-~|*'

Yuko's answer was incredibly fast, making Mariko jump on her step.

'WHAT?'

Mariko laughed like crazy and put her cellphone on her back. She was such a teaser! After dropping the bomb she was going to ignore Yuko's e-mails and just pretend she was busy to let the girl waiting for more. She patted Haruna on her back and they walked to the exit, not knowing that Yuko was there, waiting for them.

When they appeared at the entrance, the squirrel girl ran towards Haruna and jumped into her arms.

"Nyan Nyan I love you soooo much!"

"Hoy!...Yuko…what, stop!"

Mariko sighed and decided to take a photo. This was too priceless to miss. Still, while doing it, it crossed her mind that she didn't mind to be the one jumping into Haruna's arms. She blinked twice when her senses returned and she made herself aware of what just happened. She shook her head and went silent for a moment.

'What was that?...'

Yuko's loud voice interrupted her thoughts and she saw Haruna hitting Yuko on the shoulder. Yuko calmed down and told them about the dinner party. The girls seemed pleased with the idea and marked it on their agendas.

Because it was already too late, they called a taxi. Haruna made sure Mariko would seat next to her. Yuko was still just too excited about something she absolutely had no idea of and Yuko's hands tended to move on their own when they were together.

All the way home, Mariko stayed a bit quiet and her head made a serious travel through her thoughts.

Something was changing…

[naitou]

Majisuka Gakuen – Rappappa's Rebirth

by naitou


Chapter Two

Author's Note: I'm aware that Kojima Haruna is not a part of Majisuka Gakuen's characters and her character is indeed Torigoya. I just wanted to do something else with her character and since she didn't get exposure enough on the series, I can work on it.

Disclaimer: None of the characters is own by me. Being this a fiction work, only this plot is own by me. This may also contain Yuri stuff, so if you're not into it or are against it, please don't read it and go look for something else that fit your tastes. Thank you.

Next day started like any other. Yuko hated to wake up in the morning, especially really early because of school. But well, she ought to give it try, at least once. She groaned all the way and sometimes she would kick some garbage on the floor just to look tough. Her school uniform was so plain. The only thing that really saved it was the red scarf. Since she was a yankee in no way she would wander around in something so plain, so later she would "fix it".

Maji's High was just like your regular yankee school. This one was an all-girls though, so even more drama was expected. But Yuko came with a mindset and soon she would make it known to everybody.

Since that night, Yuko has been reflecting. It was all a bit twisted though. The one who she really was and the one she's been letting herself be. Haruna was one hell of a pain and what she did to her really mixed with her head. She was powerful, she recognized that and in a way, put her in some sort of spell. All she knew was that she didn't felt like herself anymore.

As she passed the gates, there was all kind of girls and gangs. Some had really freaky styles, others just grossed her out. It was also known that Yabakune was a big rival and often invaded their campus. It had only passed a few days since she enrolled the school, but somehow she already felt like it belonged to her.

She saw a huge group of Yabakune girls passing the gates and one of them pushed her aside. Yuko looked down at her own fist and suddenly the conversation with the Principal came to her mind, adding a bit more fuel to her pissed off reaction.

"There is a reason why I sent you the application, Oshima."

Yuko was right in front of her, not really feeling like sitting down and listen. She hoped the conversation to have its end pretty soon.

"Yeah and why is that?"

"You see, you're not very clever, you're dumb and stubborn. You are arrogant and rebellious. Most of these kids here are, but you put passion into it. Right now you already want to punch me for insulting you, but I'm not. I'm pointing a finger at you! You have passion and also a leader quality."

The woman was watering her plants. How rude to not even bother looking her in the face, she thought. But in a way she preferred it this way, it avoided direct eye contact. But in another note, the woman had some guts, I mean, running a yankee school might give her some pretty horrible headaches.

"And how would you know that? Being spying on me?"

"Yes, I did some research about you before sending you the application. You're famous in all your previous schools. You have a reputation for taking the top. I need someone to take the top around here too. Someone who would make them understand who rules this place."

Now the conversation was getting weirder. Yuko's eyebrow went up and didn't she knew herself any better, she was beginning to feel challenged.

"You know, I don't give a crap about orders, so why should I follow yours?"

"Oh no, you're wrong! I don't want you to receive orders or am I intending to give you some, I want a figure to clean all this mess. I know you will. It doesn't matter how, but your ego will make sure that happens. And so you have my permission to do whatever you want to do."

"I still don't buy it. I'll do whatever I want. And it's none of your business!"

Yuko's tone rose a bit and came a bit harsher than she intended to. The woman finally turned around and seemed pleased. Inside of her head, Yuko wondered why she was smiling so confident and self assured.

"Actually it is. I used to be a student here."

Yuko jaw almost dropped.

"I was even at the top. I was the best around here and I founded a club. The Rappappa club."

"Rappappa?"

"Yes, because I had a thing for wind instruments. It became known as the best and strongest club, even Yaba's High feared it."

The revelation seemed to lead to something. Yuko didn't took the Principal as someone who would just spit things without having a point, so she felt compelled to make her next question.

"What happened to it?"

The woman smiled.

"We wanted it to leave a legacy, to be remembered, so obviously we trained our underlings so that they could take the club to the next level after we left. It happened for a few years. But without notice the last generation of underlings refused to continue the legacy. Most of them had no passion or real pride for the Rappappa. The seniors graduated and the music room closed it's doors."

Yuko crossed her arms. So many words to get to the point.

"I watched it all, the fall of Rappappa and the beginning of the chaos. Without a fearsome figure, of course this school was bound to become a mess again. As the leader I did great things, as a Principal I'm invisible. I founded it, a shame what it has become. I hope you get what I mean."

She turned her back and went back to watering. Yuko took that as an ending of conversation and was ready to leave when heard her last words.

"You do your thing Oshima. I'll do mine. Just wanted to let you know that I won't interfere."

Back to reality, the idiots of Yabakune were already at it. Maji's wasn't really giving up either, but the ones fighting weren't strong enough. Sometimes when the girls had any problem with the Yabakune girls, they would come out and solve it, but when it was none of their business, they would mind their own stuff and the first to encounter the Yabakune would face them.

Yuko closed her first really hard and tried to shove away the weird conversation. The truth was that she got the message but was still thinking about and the Haruna's encounter helped it. Her mind resounded Haruna's voice and it totally fired her up. The soft but straight voice repeated her words from that night and her body warmed up. An urge to kick something exploded on her and when she got a hold of herself she was already pushing some Yabakune girl. She fell flat on her face and Yuko laughed. The other girls stopped what they were doing and focused her attention on the small Maji's girl. Yuko kept laughing until she got tired of it and then looked at them with a serious expression. An arrogant smile was all over her face too.

"Got a problem, idiots?"

This totally got them fed up and two of them ran in Yuko's direction. The girls though didn't seem to be very clever, because they ran right into Yuko's fists. One of them ran into a clothesline and fell on her back and other met Yuko's punch on her left cheek. A couple more followed and because they were more, Yuko had to be faster getting rid of them. One of them saw an opening and placed an elbow strike on Yuko's back of the head. Instead of falling or covering her head, she laughed again and then kicked the girl in front of her on the knee. She held her knee feeling so much pain and Yuko dropkicked her on the chest.

There was a bokken in one of the Yabakune's girl's hand and she kept on waiting for a chance to take Yuko down. The whole fight lasted for a while and both Yuko and the Yabakune girls were getting their punching and kicking session.

The weaker ones were already down on the floor, but there was still like nine girls trying to take the lunatic monster down. Yuko was indeed enjoying it. For the first time she had no problem of kicking someone without a reason. And God, how good it felt! She almost couldn't believe why she thought it was even bothersome to fight and that gave her even more stamina. The bones of her hand were so bloody, just like the corner of her mouth that had a small cut and her knee that kicked someone's face. She was breathing hard and her heart was beating so fast. The Yabakune were probably about thirty girls and so far, most of them were down.

Unconsciously she was sending a message to all the Maji students who were watching her with their open mouths and curious eyes. It was just like those arenas from ancient Roma, with the gladiator entertaining the crowd. Yuko was the gladiator and soon the students would make their judgment and acknowledge her existence. And either way it would give them a reason to talk.

While handling two girls who seemed to struggle on getting her on the same place, the girl with the bokken found her opening. As Yuko turned around, the girls were unable to hold her still and while one fell on the floor, the other pushed Yuko backyards. She got a glimpse of the bokken and just by a few millimeters it missed her head. The girl's body got closer to hers and Yuko punched her so hard and then grabbed her into a choke slam making her hit the ground with so much intensity, she coughed blood and screamed with pain. Not knowing where all that strength came from, Yuko looked at the bokken that fell right in front of her feet. She grabbed it and lifting it up, swung it in the air and her aura got darker. She looked dangerously deadly to all the girls.

"This is so fun!"

Her voice was so loud and bitter that it was heard in the whole campus. The Maji's girls stopped talking. Yuko placed her eyes on the girl who seemed to have lead her group into Maji's. No one made a move except Yuko, who got closer and closer. The ugly girl was on the floor with hateful eyes and feeling completely useless. Yuko passed her bloody hand on her long hair and with her face covered in blood, she smirked. In a blink of an eye she swung the bokken and when it seemed like she was about to crush the girl's skull, it stopped. The girl closed her eyes with her heart on her mouth and almost cried. Yuko just laughed.

"This was so fun!"

And just like that she walked away. Just like it was nothing. Ignoring the girls on the floor and showing no further emotion. Like the exhaustion on her body didn't felt itself from all the stamina she was still feeling.

She grabbed her bag and putting it on her back she simply headed to the inside of the school. Everyone was with their mouths open. They just couldn't believe in what happened. Who was this girl? There was lots of strong girls around Maji's High, but this one was no ordinary human, she was a monster. A monster born to fight. And the reason why she realized that was just staring at the scenario along with the other students. Haruna was watching her at one of the windows and seemed apathetic about it. But right after her, a tall, short haired beauty was smirking at the scene. And she meant serious business.

[bou-j525]

Hey naitou! I read your fics on Nihongogo and I have to say you're really good!!!  I hope you will finish all those stories

[naitou]

Hi bou-j525, I remember you too 

And yes, I'll finish all of my stories. May take sometime, but I will 

Majisuka Gakuen: Undisclosed Desires
[issue one]

by naitou

You trick your lovers

That you're wicked and divine

You may be a sinner

But your innocence is mine

She felt so hollow between those bloody walls. They followed her like shadows, scratching the words in pieces of paper, willing to drown her mind in the ink. She would ignore the weak figures that walked on the outside, unsettling her bad temper. She could explode if she wanted.

But someone was watching.

The first time she noticed her everlasting stare was on that afternoon. She should have known she would be there haunting her. However, the darkness seemed to surround her as well. Her eyes were tired and her expression was emptier than usual. Every time she took a step the tension would drag Yuko closer. Her eyes noticed Yuko's study of her fragile body. But she didn't move or respond to her glare. She never did. They continued to study each others thoughts as if they had been anticipating them. Yuko was too intense to confront Torigoya and seemed broken beyond repair.

Her surroundings were filled with people she despised and who would never comprehend the extent of what she was archiving. They wanted to climb it. Everytime. And she was regretting her selfish and arrogant decision. She wanted to run, to not be held responsible for her fantasies and projections. She regretted having stayed there to try and fix all the problems and tasks that rested on her shoulders, when lately all she could think about was one single thing.

Nevertheless, she did not feel alone anymore. She shared her mourning hours with someone else. She was there everyday. It was as if they both believed that watching each other would take away the guilt of being alone. Though, this was Yuko's wishful thinking for the most part. Her eyes sought her out in those uneventful hours during which she blurred forms of faceless students, who would walk past without noticing the starving couple in their midst. Watching her desperate face dissolve into a picture of pleasure and danger caused Torigoya to completely give up.

Yuko swallowed hard and watched her body freeze. Torigoya turned her head and saw her observing her and waited for something to happen. But Yuko didn't do anything. Torigoya stepped forward. Everytime she would take a step forward, Yuko's breath would stop but Torigoya's hands turned into fists.

Yuko wasn't going to force her. Not this time.

When Torigoya stopped in front of her, the moment Yuko's hand touched her shoulder, her eyes closed and she sighed deeply. All Yuko could think then was how her hand was caressing her neck and how her thumb was gently rubbing her soft, cold lips.

She didn't know what she was thinking when she turned her around. Yuko touched her body, tracing every curve, forcing her hands on her and keeping a strong grip on that body. They seemed to fit together perfectly, as if their bodies had been waiting to touch each other since they first met.

But why was Torigoya always letting her mess with her?

Yuko moved towards her lips and now was unintentionally licking them. But she could almost feel the wanting in Torigoya's eyes. She decided to give in and kissed her desperately. Her hands immediately tangled in her hair and pulled her closer to her. Her hand lifted the shirt from her hips and caressed the skin that burned for her. Their lips swirled in a dance that filled them with desire. Their bodies rubbed and the friction warmed their hearts. Yuko had longed for her since the moment she entered her mind.

There was only desire to rip each others soul.

She quickly transcended the barrier between them and possessed her as hers. The moment it ended was the worst. She feared the next moment. She would not leave her. Never.

They never spoke to each other after that. Torigoya continued to act as always. The undeserving and unqualified Queen who had no motive to be associated to Yuko. And the monster who stood alongside with Sado. Would their secret and lustful encounters ever change? Would Torigoya ever show her true feelings?

No.

Torigoya would behave just like always.

Because Majisuka was watching.

[naitou]

Majisuka Gakuen: Undisclosed Desires
[issue two]

by naitou

I know you've suffered

But I don't want you to hide

It's cold and loveless

I won't let you be denied

Yuko was running forward, holding Torigoya's head in her right hand, forcing her to ran along with her. They were at full speed and Torigoya was in her crazy state. Yuko awoke her and once again regretted it. She saw a window in front of them and closing her eyes she ran faster and made Torigoya's head pass through the glass, breaking it along with the two bodies crossing through it too. They fell forward and Torigoya is back to her normal state, bleeding from her forehead.

When their weakened bodies rise from the floor, Yuko watched Torigoya going in her direction and puts her arms in front of her, grabbing her by the collar of the uniform. Torigoya broke free and did the same to the president. She thrusted Yuko to the wall across them and made her hit hard with her back. Yuko felt the intense and pissed gaze on Torigoya's eyes and began to feel a very strange and disturbing excitement.

She gulped, breathed hard and wide opening her eyes, lets her arms grab Torigoya's collar once again, forcing them to switch places. Torigoya's back hits the wall and she holds high her head grinding her teeth in disapproval. Yuko got her nose closer to her neck and forcing her body onto girl, she smelled her.

Torigoya began felling dizzy and the wound on her head started to blur her senses. She pulled Yuko away and the president kisses her. It's an intense, raw kiss. One of those that completely take your breath away and leaves marks on your lips. The unromantic glowing on her eyes was present, as well as that dangerous profound on her iris.

What was it that she wanted and why did she always do this?

Yuko observed her for a while and then stroke for the second kiss. Much longer than the first and deeper. Then her hands began to touch Torigoya's body, feeling her, grouping her, exploring her...At one point, Torigoya's forehead blood mixed with Yuko's cheek, but she doesn't even care. She can't seem to be able to stop herself anymore and once she began, she can't turn her back to it. She needed someone to fulfill the turmoil in her head and Torigoya always drove her crazy, in a dangerous kind of freaky crazy.

She couldn't figure it out why in the first place she initially wanted to see the true monster in Torigoya and after living through it again, she was out of herself. It seemed like she wanted to be sure she was alive, because to get out from her curse she had to possess an enormous self control and force will. But instead of just feeling alive, this time her body was asking for something else, something that Torigoya's spell revealed her.

It was already dark in Majisuka and Yuko's hands were already underneath Torigoya's clothes, feeling the soft and warm skin. Torigoya bit her lip and in a call to reality pushed Yuko away.

"What are you doing?"

But Yuko was no longer listening. Forcing her to go to the floor, a chill ran through Torigoya's body as she felt the cold of the ground. Yuko was seating on her waist, still holding her, keeping the control on her side. For seconds Yuko reminded herself of how harmless Torigoya was when she's normal and how cruel she was for trying to shove her feelings on her. She couldn't possibly make Torigoya like her and abusing her power is all she knew in these situations.

Her high after seeing that monster blurred her thoughts, she felt naked around her. Nothing escaped from Torigoya, she always could bring the worst in a blink of an eye.

Yuko looked for a sign of agreement. Torigoya was too easy, she just wanted to get over with it. But could there be any trace of something else? That, Yuko would never know, only that this circle has been going on for a while.

She moved her hand to Torigoya's skirt and slowly traveled underneath it. For the first time Torigoya did something different and put her arms around Yuko's back, in a sort of embrace. Yuko could hear her panting closer to her ear, as well as her soft and quiet moans. She kissed her neck and played with the back of her ear, just to see more reactions from Torigoya.

They were hurt physically, emotionally and yet their bodies kept them going. They were after all only humans, who didn't love each other, who possibly didn't even like each other, united for one bond, for one reason, which one never predicted this intimacy state. But as they once again went down that path, one thing could be said, it certainly wouldn't be the last.

[naitou]

AKB48 starring as TEAM DRAGON

presents,

[Kokoro no Hane]

by naitou

"The 7 members of Team Dragon gather after work at Dragon Tower. After donning skysuit gear and ingesting hover-orbs, they leap from the tower and soar through the sky!"


In the 21st century two worlds collide. The war's blood covered the hands of many soldiers and it didn't seem to came to it's end. In one of these worlds, there was a girl, a revolutionary one, whose ideas and wishes for peace were her strongest force.


Fly stronger, fly faster

Do your best and never give up

Keep on believing

Spread your wings and soar


Chapter Two

[Those who dreamt of a peaceful world once believed in one man. He was known as the Captain and was loved by many. He had an idea to stop all the war and when finally had a chance to brought it to discussion, few days before the reunion he was brutally murdered. The culprit was never found. There wasn't a single clue to find suspects, so the case was dropped. Many were the hearts broken by such news. Some stopped believing in a world with no war, others cried and the perseverates wanted revenge, in a way that only the search for peace could make it up to such act.]

[…]

Hasana turned off the line and faced Akana straight in the eye. Yuhi came in exhausted and for seconds distracted Akana's attention from Hasana.

"The whole sector received the video and by now everyone has seen it. I was able to access the Central Server and turned off the transmissions. I was able to shut the channels on time to prevent it from reaching the upper sections."

Akana took a deep breath.

"Stop talking Yuhi. I really appreciate the effort but could you leave me alone with Hasana right now? Thank you."

Yuhi nodded with her head and pressed a button to close their cabinet. It was a rare procedure and even though her actions weren't credited properly, she understood the situation. She too noticed that seconds before Akana emitted the capture, Hasana's line was trying to reach Ylava. Hasana was very professional but this action provided enough material for a serious penalty.

Hasana was still in shock and her lips formed a straight line. Her heartbeat was disturbing and Akana was furious with her.

"What were you thinking?", she shook her friend by the shoulders but the tall girl showed no reaction.

"Why would you do that? Tell me!"

"I don't know!"

She shook Akana's hands aside and pushed her. The drugs on her system were cleaning up and she was slowly getting her emotions back. Akana was still so angry but tried her best to contain it. Ylava was their friend. They were on difficult positions and it was up to Akana to do something about the content on the leaked video. By itself the content on the video wasn't harmful; it was the displayed time of it that raised a problem. Both Akana and Hasana were aware of the murder case and it didn't help that Ylava used to follow the Captain's believes. She was in a way his pupil and there was even a rumored affair between them.

This video was the first clue to accuse someone. Ylava became the primal suspect.

"What you did…I have the power to fire you and send you to jail for trying to corrupt and omit serious information during an investigation."

"I know that. But Ylava is our friend-"

"So what? Did you watch it? I know you did and so did I. You know what it means right?"

Hasana kept her mouth shut for a second. She sure knew what it meant. Ylava was a believer but also a very close person to her. But could she also be a murder? She needed to hear it from her and see it in her eyes – the truth.

"I know. But still…I couldn't help it."

Akana touched Hasana's shoulder and tried to offer some comfort. She too couldn't quite believe this, but she was in charge and had to make the tough and dirty decisions. She couldn't step on the law to help a friend.

"You know I had to do it, right? I had no choice.", said Akana.

"I know."

Hasana pressed the button and the cabinet's door opened. Her eyes couldn't quite meet Akana's and she was in a state that was so hard to define, that she gave up trying to find the right words. She felt a slight pain in her chest and gut and her head was now starting to hurt a bit. As she turned her back to Akana, her feet rose slightly from the floor and suspended on air, she heard Akana one last time.

"I'll erase your latest line records. It'll be like it never happened. Take the rest of the day off, I'll cover for you. And please…don't hate me for this."

Hasana wouldn't be able to fully understand the meaning behind that last sentence. But for all that she could bear at that moment, she had no reason to hate her friend. It was a delicate situation and she knew Akana's position. She nodded with her head and left.

While floating through the sector she found Yuhi working.

"I still can't believe in all this. This is madness and the whole sector became such a mess!"

Yuhi was a very competent girl. She worked a lot, in a way to prove that her generation was worth it's praise and in another to improve herself. She loved it almost as much as Hasana did. With that, in a crisis like this she was the best to keep things in order.

"Look, I'm taking the rest of the day off, but I want you to look into something I noticed when the first sequence appeared. I don't really want to go back and bump into Akana, so I just want you to copy my log for the day and send it to me. Could you do that?"

"You want it now? I can do it pretty fast."

"No. I don't want you to do it through the main system. I want you to use the remote sector and then erase your log in."

"Why would you want that? I mean…"

"Trust me. The last thing Akana needs to know, is that I'm taking information from the Bureau to look into it myself at home. It could be nothing but I have to be sure that what I saw isn't real."

Yuhi was a bit uncomfortable with the request. She usually knew that when Hasana suspected about something it was bound to be serious. But using the remote sector was risky because of its complexity. In a way, Yuhi saw it as a way for Hasana to prove the video could be fake. Ylava and Hasana were, in a weird way, soulmates. Ylava was a believer, Hasana lost her faith as time went by, but still, their souls had a strange and strong bond that not even Hasana's lost of humanity could dissolve. It was connected with their old days at the Academy, something that few had the privilege to follow.

Yuhi typed something on her screen and Hasana touched her shoulder. They had a small moment of understanding and then Hasana left. There was still something she had to do and it couldn't wait.

[…]

As she parked her car the turmoil in her head continued to tire her. It seemed like there wasn't going to be an end to this and that she forever would stay in this disturbing state. Her fingers were still shaking and her eyes couldn't focus on one single thing. She felt like the first time she was drugged. All she knew was that she couldn't stay like this and to stop her heart from hurting her chest, she had to see her.

Security was benevolent with her and scouted her to Ylava's cell. The girl had her knees closer to her chest, while her arms hold them and was facing the floor. Her usual delivery's brown suit was replaced with a white one and her long hair was tied up in a ponytail. Hasana got closer to the glass window and the girl looked up. As soon as she recognized Hasana she ran to meet her. She had the most confusing expression ever and her dimples didn't bother to show, after all, not even the joy of seeing her friend could pump that usual warm feeling in this situation.

"Hasana!"

The tall girl didn't know what to do or say. Her eyes met Ylava's and couldn't stop her focus. She came to that place to know the truth and there was no doubt that Ylava's eyes would spill it for her.

"Hasana, they won't tell me what's wrong! I need to know why I am here."

It became harder to tell since she could still not believe in it. But to know truth she had to read her eyes from the moment she started describing the situation. She took a deep breath and clearing her throat she began her narration.

"This morning, when I was working, I received a very strange video."

"Video?"

"It was a…security video where you appear with the Captain. It's in some sort of room, an interrogatory room, I don't know. What I know is that the moment I saw it I knew it meant trouble, so I tried to reach to you, but Akana saw it. And since she is my superior you know she had to request your capture."

Ylava was speechless. In her head a torrent of thoughts were running at light speed. She tried to place herself at that supposed day. She knew that she had been with him on that day, but when she did, she had no way to predict that it would be his last day alive. It was a horrible day and she didn't remember to see anyone else on that building, because their meetings were always a secret and very well planned. And on that moment she realized her worst mistake – that was the problem, only she was supposed to meet and be with him.

Hasana kept her gaze forceful and watched every twitch from her friend's face. It was hard for her to watch it all, because she once was able to recognize all those feelings Ylava was feeling and now she couldn't understand them. She was losing it, day by day and the worst was that she couldn't even feel sad about it.

Ylava's lips were trembling, not from cold but from her nervous state. She placed both of her hands on the glass window and rested her forehead on it too.

"You know I didn't do it right?..."

Hasana's absence of answer worried Ylava.

"I didn't do it Hasana…"

…

"I swear…please believe in me."

She pushed the glass window and cleared her throat. Her eyes tried to reach Hasana's and trying hard, she only hoped for this person to believe her. It had to be her. Otherwise she wouldn't be able to get through it. The situation was bad and no one would believe her if no other clues appeared and since the people wanted revenge, even for a weak clue, someone would have to pay. Hasana felt almost like crying. She couldn't explain why. But she saw the truth in Ylava's eyes.

"I…I believe you…"

"Hasana…you have to tell them the truth. I'm innocent. I didn't do it. You have to prove it!"

Too much time was passing and Hasana fell into the silence again. So much tension could be felt between the two friends. How could she prove something like that?

"How?"

"I don't know! But you have to. You are the only one who can do it. Please…"

Suddenly Hasana reminded herself about the video and the strange thing about it that she noticed. Maybe she could figure out something.

Ylava calmed down a bit and pressed her hand on the glass window. Hasana understood the sign and did the same. Then their foreheads met and with only a thin window separating them, they tried to comfort each other. No more words were need, just being like that was enough. For Ylava this was the closest thing to their old friendship and cherished Hasana's effort to remember it.

They stayed like that for a while, until someone came to retrieve Hasana. She left with the strong conviction to clean her friend's name, even if it meant to get her hands dirty.

[naitou]

AKB48 starring as TEAM DRAGON

presents,

[Kokoro no Hane]

by naitou


"The 7 members of Team Dragon gather after work at Dragon Tower. After donning skysuit gear and ingesting hover-orbs, they leap from the tower and soar through the sky!"


In the 21st century two worlds collide. The war's blood covered the hands of many soldiers and it didn't seem to came to it's end. In one of these worlds, there was a girl, a revolutionary one, whose ideas and wishes for peace were her strongest force.


Fly stronger, fly faster

Do your best and never give up

Keep on believing

Spread your wings and soar


Chapter Three

[Later on that day...]

The view from the Dragon Tower was beautiful at dawn. The lights and noise from the city were gorgeous and nothing would make you think that once it was a peaceful place. Once, the sky was clear crystalline, but now was full of clouds and dark.

On the top of the Tower, five girls were standing with their skysuits. They met almost everyday since their graduation from the Academy and took their time to fly the wide skies. Ylava used to say that the skies were their limit and that there was nothing they couldn't do if they spread their wings. But Ylava had a very controversial way of thinking for the times that were running. Her words easily would fall on disbelief. Akana, Miu and Tabya knew that living on fantasy and optimism wasn't going to take them anywhere and that they couldn't do anything to reach their freedom. After all, they were the generation that felt on their skins the raw cuts from the war.

All of them knew what happened to Ylava and no one was able to make their minds about. Miu was with her when the soldiers appeared and had never felt such uneasiness and useless in all her life. She knew her partner, her secret life and not ever admitting it, Ylava's words used to comfort her in her harsher times and shake her believes. From time to time it gave her strength and hope, but also lots of headaches. Tabya was the rightful from the group and no matter what she would do anything to keep the group together, even if it meant to keep them away from Ylava. But Mandi didn't believe a word of it.

"This is all a huge mistake. Ylava would never do it."

"Why not? If anything she has the training for it. We all have.", said Akana, her reasoning always misplaced.

"Oh stop it Akana!"

Hasana arrived to the Tower and lost no time shutting her friend. Their eyes crossed and almost a burst of rage shot Akana.

"Why do you keep being like this? Keep your jealousy quiet for once, you even look like you really want her to be guilty."

"And what if she is?"

Everyone kept watching the two colliding. In a way Akana could be right. The goal for all the children to attend the Academy was to train them to serve if necessary. They all learned how to kill and pass through the process of eliminating the feelings towards the target. Friends or not, if the order is made, they would do it.

"Look Hasana, we understand how you feel. Can we just not talk about it? It's painful to see friends fighting."

Miu was so naïve. Hasana couldn't blame her, if she attacked Akana she would always come in between and protect her. In a way none of the parts could hate her for stepping in. It wasn't that Hasana didn't get along with Akana, but the girl was just so weird sometimes. Something about her changed in the course of the years and lately she was just too harsh on Ylava. They had their differences but it never had Akana actually being mean towards Ylava. It pissed Hasana and made her come out as protective.

Tabya was biting her lower lip and had her hands in fists. This whole conversation wasn't smelling too good to her. She came here to fly, like all of them, and this looked more like an fighting arena. Yuhi was incredible calm with Mandi by her side. The two were close and could only rely on each other. They were invisible to their world and even within this group they still felt somehow out casted.

Hasana tried to calm down and shut her eyes for a few seconds. She wasn't going to let this split them apart. No matter what, these were her friends and all had their traumas from this war. It was all so simple when the experiments weren't a part of their lives. If only she could turn back time.

"Since everyone seems to be stress out about this issue, I guess we should get going. Mandi?"

Tabya looked at her partner and with her eyes, pointed the girl to the small box she was holding. The hover-orbs on the inside of it were their secret. They had many utilities and Tabya modified them to allow the girls to fly. When they were at the Academy, something similar was used for their training, but because they were of illegal use outside of Academy, Tabya tried to reproduce them. It was Ylava's initial idea but only after Tabya looked into it, she found it was actually possible to reproduce the effects. She grabbed secretly some from the Generator and handled them during their meetings.

It was something they couldn't describe but that mainly draw them together. They all loved the skies and all of them gathered to appreciate it. It was their secret pleasure and somehow the only thing that reminded them of their roots. Adults grew losing their fate and emotions, they became afraid and closed. But they hated the idea of growing into something like that. They weren't the only ones, all of the children thought like that but eventually would give up their dreams. For these seven girls, the bound they shared, kept their growing up slowly from evolving.

They swallowed the hover-orbs and their eyes changed. Miu went for the first time ahead and jumped. Akana followed her and then Tabya did the same. Hasana had still her eyes closed but felt a hand on her shoulder.

"I've done what you asked me to. I hope you find what you're looking for."

Then Yuhi held hands with Mandi and the two of them went ahead. Hasana felt her lips curving in amusement and got closer to the cliff. She watched the girls spreading their arms and finally decided to join them. She missed Ylava's smile, but wouldn't ruin her moment because of this, after all she truly believed her and soon the truth would come clean.

"This one is for you…"

[...]

Next day started like any other busy day. Hasana checked in and swallowed the morning pills. The effect was felt almost like instantly as her emotion rate decreased. She always felt the kick quickly, since her shyness rapidly faded away and her focus doubled.

Changed in her black suit, she entered the cabinet and started to work. The infinitely sequences started to appear and she started to work on them.

Minutes later Akana appeared and greeted her.

"Good morning.", Hasana was still a bit stressed with Akana and her words, but because of the drugs, she couldn't feel or express it.

"I was called by the Office and they want you to look for the source of the video."

"Or rather, you want me to look into it."

"Okay, you got me there. I want you to work on it."

"I don't want to see it again."

"Look…Hasana, I know it's hard but if you really want to help her, you need to analyze it. We need to know who sent it so we can track it down. And there is no one as skilled as you to do it."

"You're as skilled as I am. And Yuhi too."

"I received orders to keep this as quiet and private as possible. I don't want to involve anyone else unless I have to. Besides I'm loaded with work and got trainees sent here today."

"I'll report to you when I find something."

Akana nodded with her head and being as professional as she could, she left Hasana and went elsewhere. Hasana scratched her forehead and felt weird. Her emotions were so strong at the moment that the drugs were having a hard time erasing them. She reached to her drawer's desk and grabbed the small black bottle. She needed more drugs to deal with this, or rather, don't deal with this.

Inserting her logging from Yuhi's file, she opened her last logging and started to search for the first sequences from the video entry. Her log was so big and long that regular humans would take a first look and immediately close it. But she, she ran it carefully to find the only thing that first awoke her curiosity. Something strange got registered, or rather speaking, something that should have been registered didn't. She compared it with the registries on her machine and they were different.

Only the first entry displayed the sender numbers and it wasn't even a known code. It was fragmented and incomplete. She looked at the second sequence and there wasn't anything identifying or continuing the code. This was supposedly impossible. The system only allowed receiving sequences if those were identified, otherwise them were refused and considered spam.

Thinking as hard as she could she tried to conceive an explanation for it. How could a series of sequences pass through the system, messing up with the security configurations and be displayed only with a few digits making it impossible to be tracked back?

Hasana wrote a few combinations and tried to use the few numbers known trying to find something about them. She tried almost every protocol to decode them but it was useless. The one who sent it, really worked hard to cover its tracks, making it impossible to discover him.

Unless…

A weird and old method crossed her mind. It couldn't be, could it?

"A ghost server?..."

Hasana was sure that those didn't exist anymore. When she was in the Academy she heard of them. They were the first service to be used by the military to send information. It worked rather well for a while, since it could only be used serving as a way to inform the soldiers of something. The message sent, always had the information necessary to inform where help was needed and when something was up. It couldn't be tracked back since there wasn't an official code for the bases. Years later all bases were shut down or destroyed and the Bureau was created. With the existence of the Bureau, something like Ghost Servers were no longer needed.

If bases of it still existed they surely would be registered within the Bureau database. Hasana searched for them and found no entries. Something really was wrong in this story. And who would keep an unregistered base from the database? And better yet, knowing how to work with it, since only the military received instruction on how to use it?

All these questions were making her head hurt. Was Ylava really right when she said it was all set up for her?

Hasana decided to give it a try and ask for a favor. She filed a report on the situation, omitting some details for her own investigation and sent it to Akana's desk. She had to be careful and not screwing up her cover. If everything was the way Ylava warned her, then it would only get dangerous. There was no need to involve her friends, especially Akana who lately was more of a pain in the ass than an understanding friend.

[naitou]

AKB48 starring as TEAM DRAGON

presents,

[Kokoro no Hane]

by naitou


"The 7 members of Team Dragon gather after work at Dragon Tower. After donning skysuit gear and ingesting hover-orbs, they leap from the tower and soar through the sky!"


In the 21st century two worlds collide. The war's blood covered the hands of many soldiers and it didn't seem to came to it's end. In one of these worlds, there was a girl, a revolutionary one, whose ideas and wishes for peace were her strongest force.


Fly stronger, fly faster

Do your best and never give up

Keep on believing

Spread your wings and soar


Chapter Four

She closed the car's door and spared a second to look at her old home. It seemed like it was yesterday that she stopped there for the first time and also the last day when she graduated. The Academy seemed unchanged and a feeling of nostalgia was filling her warm body. She locked the car and entered through the gates. It was calm and little noise could be heard. The cadets were probably having their classes so no sound was allowed. She took her time visiting her old memories, crossing the huge corridors and touching the frigid walls.

She missed that place.

When her parents gave her up to the Academy, it became her new home and there she met wonderful people.

As she walked trying to remember where the library was, an old man, wearing a long and wasted black coat called for her.

"Hasana."

The tall girl smiled and made her way to the man, bowing gracefully when in front of him.

"Master. How are things going around here?"

"Oh you know, the usual. It's been a while since last time you visited."

"I've been busy and now something happened."

The man cleared his throat. Hasana knew that he knew about Ylava. After all, this man was the core of the Academy. Every student needed his approval and he was both the ears and the heart of the Academy. Hasana saw in him the father that she never had but also the kind of person she wanted to be. But reality was a bit unfair and those things she got through completely destroyed her dreams. In the end he let go of her and allowed her to join the Bureau, something he regrets but never shows and Hasana never forgot about it.

"I've heard what happened to Ylava. It's pretty serious. But…I guess I can see why she's a target."

"She didn't do it."

"Her heart was always in the right place, but she often forgets that she can't do it all. But of course, as her senpai you always knew that."

"She's not my kouhai anymore…"

"Ah, I see…And to think that of all people she choose you – a civil. That is something that definitely doesn't happen much."

If there was something that Hasana couldn't deny, was the fact that the Master always seemed to want to destroy the father's image she had of him. He trained with everybody and prepared everybody. When the officers came to graduate and choose them, he always made sure his cadets would be placed in the right spot. But he had always wanted something from Hasana and until today she still couldn't say what it was. He kept on reminding her of her place. She knew what it meant to be a civilian and the shame it represented to get involved with someone from the military.

"Ylava's parents never approved of it, but as the spoiled and arrogant child that she is, she couldn't care any less. That opposition that she has and represents to the roots from where she came from…She shouldn't ever had met him and starting to associate with that man."

He had a point. Even tough Hasana's and Ylava's ages were similar, the line between their generations was thin. A couple of months sooner and Ylava would be a part of the same generation that she belonged to. She never got to know why Ylava choose her as her senpai, but just like Ylava, Akana had chosen Miu, who was like Hasana, a civil. The military had the money and voice of the city, they shouldn't bend with the civilians. They only needed them to make numbers, their blood should never brewed with them. Ylava and Akana crossed that line and in Ylava's case, she almost turned her back on her status. And then she associated with another rebellious, the Captain, who just like her were from military families but desired peace and freedom.

But Hasana couldn't waste much time with the facts, she needed information.

"What do you know about Ghost Servers?"

He frowned his eyebrow. He didn't seemed pleased and showed a bit of worry.

"You shouldn't dig about this. I'm warning you, stay away and don't try to dig on this."

"Is there a file?"

"As you know the Bureau keeps everything, but a parcel of old archives was transferred here. I'm sorry, but if you want them I'll need you to use your authority to let you see them."

"Why?"

Hasana could see his discomfort. This was hard for him, to warn her and deny her something. This made her realize that something was really going on and second after second she convinced herself that she needed to get Ylava to a safe place and to clean her name.

"I care for you Hasana. I care for every single one of you and what you are doing is dangerous. I don't want to take responsibility if you don't stop at my words."

"Then I'm summoning my authority under this place to enter the Archive Room and have full access on the old reports."

The man shook his head but indicated the way. She felt weird, the drugs were still acting on her body. She entered the room and asked to be left alone. As he closed the door, the locker shone and somewhere in the Bureau someone was notified that someone from the Bureau used its authority to access the Archive.

Akana was in a meeting when that information biped on her belt.

[...]

At the meeting room, Akana was standing in the middle of the the room. Her senior was looking her in the eye and he seemed pleased.

"Are things going according to the plan?"

"Yes."

She seemed calm. She seemed controlled and focused, just like he expected her to be.

"I gotta tell you, I never thought it would work. When you first came to me I didn't knew it would be that simple. But here we are, all done and done."

"I told you Sir, it would fit."

"And how are you feeling? After all you were acquaintances with her."

"The hard part is behind my back. I'll manage to deal with it."

"Good good. Because you know, I've only agreed to do this having in mind that if this goes wrong, full responsibility falls on you. I'm hands washed with it and it's your head that is on the plate."

"Don't worry Sir. I'll make it work. That file cannot be brought and presented to the Congress. I'll do what I have to do."

"Even if it means the sacrifice of a friend of yours?"

"Yes…"

Akana felt her belt receiving a transmission. See took a look at it and rushed back.

"If you excuse me."

She left the room after the man braced his arm to the exit. She seemed pissed and rushed back quickly to her cabinet.

"Hasana…"

[...]

As she went through all the piles of old files, she found little relevant information about the active state of the old Ghost Servers. Just as she thought, there really seemed to be no more use of those. But still, she needed their localizations. In the huge mess of files, she was able to grab a red file and after sparing some minutes on it she found the said list. Her eyes scrolled to the latest date and only two bases caught her attention. Especially because one of them brought her memories.

"This place…"

As a cadet, sometimes they were brought to some bases and did field training. Until today she didn't know that one of those places used to be a Ghost Server base. And also, her memories had more to do with her private life than her Academy formation.

It was on that of trip to the now known as a Ghost Server base that Ylava stole her first kiss. It was so stupid and sweet at the same time. They had finished their separate trainings when Ylava escaped from her teammates to invade Hasana's tent. Tabya, Miu and Akana were with Hasana on that moment and Ylava simply told Hasana she needed to tell her something. Their friends started to giggle and teased the two. Hasana was oblivious to what was going on and simply took Ylava's hand and went with her.

Ylava took her to a secret and discreet place she spotted during her training. She told her that soon Hasana would graduate and that had been thinking of a special gift or something to show her gratitude from Hasana's guidance. Hasana felt embarrassed and simply denied the need of something. Ylava tough, seemed really serious about it and in the spur of the moment got closer and grabbed Hasana by the shoulders, kissing her on the lips. Hasana was shocked by a second and pulled her away. Ylava smiled and the last thing Hasana could remember from it was that Ylava then made a comment about the sunshine.

Following her instincts, she decided to start her search on that same base and see if she could find something that could lead her to the right way. The only thing she knew was that she needed to be fast, because Ylava's time was running out.

She grabbed the file and copied the right coordinates, then shoved the piece of paper on her pocket and rushing, she got out from the Archive and left the Academy.

[...]

Ylava had her head resting on her arms when two friendly faces knocked on the glass window. She lifted her head and recognized her two friends, Miu and Tabya. They were on their skysuits and for seconds it reminded her how much she already missed the vast skies. She got up from her bed and walked to the window that divided them.

"How you're holding up Ylava?"

Miu was the first to talk. She seemed really worried for her friend, but she was always the one who worried the most in the group.

"Little by little I'm trying to keep strong."

"You know we need to talk right?"

As always, Tabya was the best at cut to the chase and focus on the important matters. Miu nodded with her head and Ylava lost the smile on her lips. She knew it wouldn't be easy and only hoped for her friends to be as understanding as Hasana.

[naitou]

AKB48 starring as TEAM DRAGON

presents,

[Kokoro no Hane]

by naitou


"The 7 members of Team Dragon gather after work at Dragon Tower. After donning skysuit gear and ingesting hover-orbs, they leap from the tower and soar through the sky!"


In the 21st century two worlds collide. The war's blood covered the hands of many soldiers and it didn't seem to came to it's end. In one of these worlds, there was a girl, a revolutionary one, whose ideas and wishes for peace were her strongest force.


Fly stronger, fly faster

Do your best and never give up

Keep on believing

Spread your wings and soar


Chapter Five

Hasana got out from her vehicle and took a look around. She was kind of in a middle of a desert and the place still belonged to the government. There seemed to be very little activity and if she didn't jump on the name she would never return to this place again.

After locking her vehicle, she kept the keys in her jacket and put on her black glasses. They weren't regular sunglasses, that is why she didn't even refer to them like that, they were a little device Mandi gave her once and for the first time they were useful for something.

Hasana cracked the glasses and messed with the device's program to change it for the situation. She wasn't that good at electronic but her few bases came in hand every once in a while.

Her entrance in the building was smooth and it really seemed like it no longer was active. But as she got closer to the core of the place she realized that electricity was still running and the main computer was still working, as well as the other monitors. Her eyes soon caught movement on one of the monitors, so she had to make her intrusion quick. There wasn't time enough for her to run a hand all over the place. She needed answers regarding the leaked video and the rest could be done another time.

She took from her pocket a small device and tried to access the main database. Curiously the passwords were still very old and fell on the pattern she learned on her training days, making it easy for her to hack into the system. Everything seemed so far very simple and without risk. For someone like her who was a trained kill machine and a competent officer, this ringed wrong and odd in her head.

She kept an eye on the other monitor to follow the movement while she harshly ordered for the main system to transfer all information regarding the last two years. Fortunately it was being rather quickly transferred. Then the monitor's status alarmed her. The person was closer and could appear any moment now. If these were still her training days, she would be equipped with her baton and her Beretta 92FS Inox. Curiously she carried always the crimson tracer lasergrip, but ever since her graduation she never touched a weapon again. Maybe it was because she discovered the skies again and it was all she needed to get some sort of life into her; even when that life was sucked out of her as soon as she became a trainee.

Small drops of sweat were forming on her forehead and the minute the transference ended she heard someone bumping into one of the desks of the room. Purposely or not, after she removed the device she fell to the floor and hide behind one of the desks.

Hasana recognized the man as one working for the government. His suit gave it away. He seemed unbothered as he checked the monitors. Then Hasana got a flash that she didn't had the time to cover her tracks and that if he knew the basics he would know someone accessed the database without much effort. She smacked herself on the head and took off her glasses. Peeking again she saw the man making a phone call and listened carefully.

"Yes. The database was accessed and all the secret information was modified. Yes, I'll take care of it."

The government was known for its strict orders and politics. If someone had to be taken down no one would question it. Things got a little safer and fair in the last couple of years, but Hasana knew that a special operations team was still being trained underground. This was also one of the reasons why she believed in Ylava. After all, the girl's behavior was a stress to all of those from her health and because she didn't followed the rules, it caused damage for years and her family also felt the dishonor for their daughter's actions.

Hasana knew the meaning in his last spoken words. She received them before too. For those who never took the drugs and had to live through their own heads and emotions, such words would be tattooed on their conscience forever, but Hasana was beyond human at some extend. The first time she got that order, she changed forever, then the new protocol was approved and her drug subscription took care of her brain. She barely recollects her state during the mission or how she reacted after, the only emotion she had after and during it was buried in her forever, but her memory couldn't access it even if she wanted. That's why Ylava always worries for her. Ylava is so against about the things Hasana had to go through that sometimes she wished it was done to her and not to her friend. But it was Hasana that was chosen to be at the Bureau and not her.

She was at a disadvantage because of the man's build so the only way for her to leave with life was to act on him fast and in a lethal way. She had to think and act both fast and to fight against the odds. All her training was the real deal she could count with and she was going to use it once again to get out of the situation. She studied him as fast as she could and created the images on her mind. Visualizing the action was one of the things she was the best at, beating Ylava and Akana on their skills.

He got closer to her spot and thinking fast and acting fast, she pulled her left leg out and kicked him right on his knee, applying strength enough to crack his knee cap. The man growled in excruciating pain and bent down to touch the leg, creating the right moment for Hasana to get up and kick him again, this time in his chest, forcing him to fell backwards. With him on the floor it was easier to take control and knock him out of his senses. She could be murderer but somehow she still could retain that fragile human guilt, so it didn't cross her mind to kill the man. She also needed proof that something was being done to Ylava, that someone was taking care of it, so she needed him alive.

On the floor, he urged to fight back, but Hasana knew what she was doing, so she grabbed the collar of his white shirt and looked him in the eye while her forehead met his nose in a strong blow.

She got up feeling the pain and breathed out. It was her time to leave.

[...]

Mandi got out from her work earlier and decided to pay Yuhi a visit. They always hang out together whenever they could, being it with the rest of their group to visit the skies or just the two of them. For Mandi, Yuhi was family, a big sister and also the most important person in her life. Their friendship was in a way similar to Ylava and Hasana's one, except that they both shared the same kind of blood. They weren't breaking any rule like Ylava and Akana and their families had no reason to feel ashamed. The only problem between them was in what Yuhi was becoming.

As she presented herself in the Bureau, Yuhi came right after to meet her. They shared smiles and walked out to the outside. As they were heading to Yuhi's car she remembered something.

"Oh wait. I forgot something on my cabinet. Here take the keys and open the car, I'll be right back."

Mandi nodded with her head and watched Yuhi running back to the Bureau. It was nice to spend time with Yuhi, but Mandi could stop to worry about one aspect: ever since Yuhi was called for the Bureau she came up with the strong idea that she had to be the best she could, so that one day their generation wouldn't be looked down. She strongly believed that one day things would change and that she needed to do something to help with it. She really had to prove herself worth of her Bureau position. The problem with that came with the atrocious drugs they were forced to that. All of the girls knew how special and unique Hasana was back in her training days and all of them could see how dead inside she was now. It was all because of the Bureau. Akana was different, her personality already fell on what a Bureau officer was, it only got a little closer after she chose Miu to be with; a decision she will never regret.

But Yuhi, she began to have a problem. She always worked so hard that at one point she had to take more drugs to bear with the work. Doing it repeatedly lead her to initiate an addictive behavior. Mandi knew of what those drugs were made, it used to be her initial job, working at the lab and developing them. In the long run they could become lethal and it worried her that Yuhi never admitted her addiction to the drugs. Sometimes she couldn't even believe how her body could handle the aggressive drugs in those huge doses. Yuhi had a problem but she never discussed it with anyone and nowadays she could even be hiding it from her friends.

When Mandi ended her reflections she noticed it had been a while since Yuhi went back inside. Thinking that maybe something happened she got out from the car and went to check on her.

After passing through the security she spotted Yuhi talking to one of her colleges and got closer to them, closer enough to notice that Yuhi was accepting a package similar to the ones that contained the drug's daily dose. Yuhi didn't seem to see her, so Mandi hide behind one of the walks and sighed.

Back in the car, Mandi returned first, so when Yuhi got in her friend was already there, with her eyes narrowed and a heavy expression.

"Sorry about the wait. I bumped into one of my colleges and he simply wouldn't let got."

"Yeah, I bet your hand didn't too."

"What?"

Yuhi seemed perplexed and confused at Mandi's words. She rested her hands on her lap and blinked her eyes.

"Look Yuhi I saw you. I saw you accepting the drugs and don't tell me he was the guy who gives them to you, because we've done this before and I know that your drugs are placed everyday on your cabinet with the prescription according to your profile. So spare me the bullshit and answer me this one question. Are you taking the drugs from your colleges again?"

It hurt Yuhi to realize that once again she had failed at hiding her behavior. She knew how much it hurt Mandi and her friends to know what she was doing. She could no longer feel the same kind of pain she would if she didn't change, but her human self still felt at some point.

"Mandi…"

"Are you even high right now? I don't know how you can keep up with it and still being able to hide it from all of us, from me! You need to stop this, you're only getting yourself killed if you don't stop."

"I can't! You know I can't and now it's too late."

"It's never too late. You just never tried enough. With Ylava arrested you think we need to worry about this too?"

"I'm sorry Mandi."

"If you were you wouldn't be doing this, you wouldn't be making me go through this again. You is giving you the additional drugs?"

"I'm stealing them from Hasana sometimes, fooling Akana telling her I didn't get them and ordering new prescriptions for people who don't work for the Bureau anymore…"

"WHAT?"

The sudden burst made Yuhi jump on her and wide open her eyes in shock. Mandi was burning with annoyance and rage. She simply couldn't believe what she was hearing. Yuhi, her sister, her bestfriend, her most important person was ruining her life in the most pity and feared outcome, slashing in the way every person in her life, fooling them and lying to them just to feed her needs because she thinks she's never good enough. It both enraged and hurt Mandi, and she no longer knew how she could handle. Her will was to slap her, get out of the car and leave her to herself to think, but she feared that if she did that not only she would lost Yuhi but also not help her at all. Yuhi had to be the first to try, the first to take a decision, but it seemed that it wouldn't happen so soon by the way she has been doing things.

"Yuhi…you really need to stop this. If you leave me alone I'll never forgive you."

"I know."

"Then act on it. My love for you has no limits, but you need to stop or I don't know how much longer I can handle this."

Yuhi turned on the engine and both fell into an uncomfortable silence. They were going to see Ylava and all the way was filled with that annoying and reflecting silence.

Meanwhile, Tabya and Miu were having their conversation with Ylava. One that would also put their friendship on a plate.

[crazywota]

yay~! naitou-san 
i've been reading your fics in nihongogo. awesome writer 

[riama]

Naitou I like your 'Collide' fic, waiting for the update

[naitou]

Thank you for your comments. They always give me motivation to continue 

A cheesy update to please 

Collide

by naitou

Chapter Four

Twenty minutes had passed since Yuko arrived to the party and she simply couldn't stop staring at the beauty that was now talking to some pretty SDN girls. She seemed to be engaging into an entertaining conversation. The girls were delighted with her and when one of them touched her in the shoulder, Yuko felt a bit jealous. Miichan and Takamina were still giggling at her behavior but it didn't seem to bother her in the least. Itano was getting a bit bored and decided to leave them to grab more snacks. Tomomi was chatting with Acchan when Sae came to greet them.

"Nice party huh? You guys look so good!"

She took a seat next to Tomomi, one that was empty by Itano's departure and poured a glass of wine to taste it.

"Someone seems to be enjoying herself."

The girl's heads turned to the left to check on who spoke and they found Mariko licking her lips with amusement.

"Mari-chan! You look so cool!"

Miichan was the one to speak first. Mariko decided to pull on her Danso costume, the same one she used in AKBINGO and to everyone's happiness they still found her quite charming. Tomomi was having the time of her life. Maybe a bit too much, but Takamina feared the poor girl's heart wouldn't be intact by the end of the night. Every time someone appeared she would drop her jaw and giggle like a fangirl, not really keeping still in her seat.

"Yes, seems like Yuko got her eyes on someone and is looking so dumbstruck. Are you sure you don't want to tell her hi?"

Putting a finger on the wound, Miichan decided to tease her hard. After all, she couldn't stay so oblivious to what was happening for such a long time. The obvious answer was right in front of her eyes, so why getting so shy about it? Sae burst in laughter when she finally realized what was happening and poked Tomomi's cheek to check on the girl that seemed to have fainted from Mariko's attire.

"Yeah Yuko, go say hi. If you keep staring like that your eyes will probably explode behind that mask."

Mariko swallowed her drink and put a hand on her shoulder to spice the girl. But Yuko simply froze. Somehow she didn't seem to be able to formulate words and her train of thought was cloudy. She felt shivers in her body whenever the girl laughed and her body was getting hotter by the second. Maybe she should quit the wine, it wasn't making her any good.

"I can't believe you of all people are still here. What happened to pervert Yuko who wouldn't let a chance like this slip under her finger? Stop being a rock and get your butt out from this seat."

Acchan finally decided to speak up. She was the easiest to become bored when people acted shy with no reason. Everyone already knew who the girl was and it was so obvious who was the missing person at the table. If her squirrel mind decided to guess and answer Sayaka she would get hit in the head right away, since the tall captain was at home studying her role for a play. Sayaka was a devoted person and wouldn't fool around when working at something, so coming to a party to loosen up wasn't even a possibility.

The lights in the room changed to oranges, reds and light pinks. The music changed to ballads and a romantic atmosphere filled the place.

Mariko grinned and clapped her hands to wake Yuko from her daydreams. Her plan was working.

"Oi Yuko, are you paying any attention to what Acchan just said? Get up! If you're not going to approach her at least go get us more food."

Finally slapping from her trance she decided to get up.

"Okay, okay. I'll be back in a minute."

"Oh and by the way, tell the girl to save a dance for me."

Yuko shook her head and head to the buffet. As she passed in between the crowd she chit chatted with her teammates and greeted new faces. Almost everyone was there and it filled her with joy. When she arrived at the buffet table she found Itano chewing some chicken and looking at her with teasing eyes. What was wrong with everyone tonight and their mischievous teasing?

"This chicken is amazing, but not as amazing as what is happening here. You really are something."

"And I don't get any of you tonight! What is wrong with you people?"

"Tonight you just became the new Takamina."

Trying to process what Itano meant by her words, she grabbed a plate and started to fill it with food for the girls. Her mind was a bit off and now even her was noticing her own weird behavior. Was it because the day went so smooth?

After a couple of minutes looking for the best food she looked up. Her eyes meet the girl's. She was right in front of her, behind a curtain of shinny and tiny stars, looking in her direction, often looking at her and then to the random figures behind Yuko. It seemed a scenario out of a movie and Yuko began to feel it was exactly what was happening. The question was, would this night have a happy ending too?

The dawn is breaking
A light shining through
You're barely waking
And I'm tangled up in you

At the table the girls were watching the squirrel and with smiles pestered in their faces. Acchan got up and extended a hand to Takamina. She wanted to dance and this song was filling her heart with warmth. Takamina blushed a little behind her mask. Even though she didn't quite understood the lyrics, the melody sounded pretty intense on romance. She held Acchan's grip tight and followed her to the center of the room. Miichan felt some sort of happiness and rested her head on Tomomi's shoulder. Mariko looked ahead and contemplated her plan progress.

Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the wrong words seem to rhyme
Out of the doubt that fills my mind
I somehow find you and I collide

The mysterious girl decided to make the first move and passed through the curtain, getting a bit closer to the buffet and of course, a bit closer to Yuko. The small girl's hands began to shake slightly and Itano smiled, leaving the table.

In that moment it seemed that only the two of them were in that large room, with no sound or color. Yuko was isolated in her thoughts and time slowed down. In the back of her head she knew who the girl was, but the answer didn't want to come out. It was in that moment that for the first time she questioned her feelings.

The girl stepped ahead and stopped right in front of her. Yuko's eyes wandered from her head to toes and observed every inch of her. For a girl she could be a perfect and handsome boy, either way she seemed to enjoy it.

Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the stars refuse to shine
Out of the back you fall in time
I somehow find you and I collide

The girl curved her lips in a small smile. Yuko couldn't see it but the small mole in her lips was still there, ready to give her away at any second if it weren't for the warm lights.

She didn't know if it was because of the melody, but for a second she imagined her lips locking with the beauty in front of her. It was a flash, fast and sloppy, but the sensations stayed glued to her brain. She blushed at her thought and felt a bit dizzy because of the wine. Then she murmured something under her breath, still quite audible to the other girl.

"Kojipa…"

The girl slowly brought a hand to her face and slowly put the mask down. The enigma vanished and Yuko's eyes almost popped out from her cavities. A stunning Haruna was the girl behind the mask and she couldn't believe that for moments she was the one her little tipsy self was lusting for – and well, Tomomi too.

Haruna smilled.

"Hello Yuko."

She didn't know what to do or say. She was in awe with everything that happened in the last hour. And behind her a very amused Mariko watched them, with a very happy Miichan, a dumbstruck Tomomi and a mouth stuffed Sae. Takamina was dancing in an embrace with Acchan and they completely missed Yuko's reaction.

Suddenly, Yuko felt the song coming to an end and felt the urge to touch Haruna to check if she was real. Out of nowhere she hugged the tall bishoujo and before she could have reacted, Yuko brought her lips to her ear and whispered into them; warm breath tickling Haruna and husky tone spoken.

"Dance with me."

Haruna didn't answer but her feet were already slowly moving. Yuko wasn't able to break the hug and she feared that if she did she wouldn't be able to look Haruna in the eye and maybe even, do something she would regret in the next day.

I'm open, you're closed
Where I follow, you'll go
I worry I won't see your face
Light up again

Their bodies were moving slowly, almost not moving at all and Yuko didn't know if it was because of the atmosphere or the melody, but she felt this so right and embarrassing at the time, that a couple more glasses of wine would probably help her. Haruna caught a glimpse of Mariko's stare and bowed her head slightly, showing that she did what was asked to.

The song came to its end and in the seconds between the new change of lights and beat, the two girls stared into the emptiness of the moment. Each one of them lost in their trail of thoughts and absence of reality.

[naitou]

Collide

by naitou

Chapter Two

If I could ask you one single thing, would honestly tell me your feelings?

As the sun appeared behind those heavy and dark clouds, Yuko's alarm ringed explosively. It seemed like fireworks every morning, but still, it was the only way to make the girl jump out from her bed. She really enjoyed being beneath the sheets and had a hard time getting out from her comfy warm. As an Idol, she never got that much sleep. She had a busy schedule and even more now that she was shooting for a drama. She wasn't the main character but still had a good share of spotlight. She loved it! Every chance she got to enter in a drama she gladly worked hard for it. After all, it was her dream to become an actress that could one day represent Japan.

Still, with her eyes closed, she tried to turn off the alarm and after she successfully did, she slowly got out of bed.

[...]

Haruna had been shooting for almost two hours. She and Miichan were now having some coffee, waiting for Takamina to arrive. The short girl had been talking with the producers and was asked to tape an announcement. It was about her photobook and she looked radiant. After all these years she finally had a chance to release one and even though she was shy about her appearance, it didn't hurt so much to take the photos. She wanted her fans to have a look at her and to get to know her better. She still had a lot to show and wanted her fans to enjoy it too.

"Ne Koji, do you see that? Takamina's blushing."

Haruna's eyes left her cellphone and she glanced at Takamina. She really looked embarrassed with something.

"She is too shy! After all this time she still isn't able to cover up her feelings properly. I wonder what she is thinking about..."

"Maybe she's thinking of Acchan."

"Haha, I wonder...Hey! Why did you bring her into the picture?"

Miichan patted Haruna on the shoulder and grinned. The sassy girl would never lose a chance to spice things up.

"I don't know, I was thinking of her and thought it would make a good joke."

She laughed and Haruna poked her in her cheek. This girl was just too nuts and lately she noticed that hanging out with Yuko had been changing her a bit. She seemed even more of a teaser and always made up manga scenarios out of the blue. Not that Yuko was entirely at fault, but ever since she got into Team K, something changed in her.

Takamina joined the girls and grabbed a seat. She looked relieved and put her head on the table.

"What's wrong? Already tired?"

"Ah no. Just that whenever I think about the fans reactions to my photobook, I wonder if they will like it. I really want to know their responses to it. I'm excited."

"Will you relax! It's a fine photobook. You actually look cute in a couple of pictures."

Hearing Miichan didn't help her expectations. It would go on sale in a couple of days and she could never stop worry. It was a part of her inner self and she couldn't help it. Sometimes she just couldn't stop showing her fragile and insecure side.

"What do you mean "I actually look cute in a couple of them"?"

"Just that. You worry too much. It'll be fine. Here, have a cookie."

[…]

Noro Kayo had been texting Yuko for the last thirty minutes. The preparations for the dinner were all set up, but the older girl needed her friend to talk to her. It was important and because the older girls were making secret preparations, Noro and Yukari had to take cautions about what could leak about the dinner.

Last time Yuko was responsible for the invitations, she almost forgot to tell Haruna and Mariko about it. When Noro heard of it, she felt like killing Yuko!

"YUKO! I know you're not taking a nap, eating or even pooping, so will you please answer my e-mails? \(-)'''/"

The truth was, Yuko was snacking some poki into her huge mouth and reading a manga. After getting to the office her mood changed. She didn't pay too much attention to it because soon she would need all her energy and smiling face to do a job, so she was simply enjoying her waiting moments to do random stuff.

Whenever she thought about it, lately she really had been feeling a bit lonely. She and the rest of the senbatsu had gotten more and more individual jobs, and, she hadn't been that much in the theater. Her only contacts with her teammates and friends were via cellphone and it just wasn't the same.

'Now that I think about it…'

She finally realized that Noro probably would e-mail her about the dinner. Since it had been planned for another day, she ought to receive the details. As she opened her cellphone her jaw dropped at the number of notifications on it. Her whole screen was full of e-mails from Noro and when she checked the hours, she realized the girl had been for quite some time trying to talk to her.

She put her hand in front of her mouth and tried to cover her laugh, but to no result, because as soon as she read the word "poop" she bursted out loud.

"Kayo-chan! Good morning for you too! Sorry about the non-response mode ^,^ I was busy with my own stuff, what do you wanna talk about? Maybe the dinner party? :3"

Noro's response came pretty fast. Almost like the girl was relieved that finally Yuko returned to the living world.

"Your own stuff? Like what girl? Don't tell me, it's better not even ask since I smell a very bad thing (and no it's not a fart, just in case you wanna crack a fart joke so early). Anywaaay ^^ tonight is the dinner party, don't forget! The girls have been working hard on the preparations."

"What preparations? Isn't it at a restaurant, like a formal dinner? PS – I don't feel like cracking a fart joke "

"Yes it is! But…OH YOU'LL SEE! PS – you're getting me worried…"

"Do I need to bring anything special? You guys aren't planning anything weird are you?...OMG, you ARE! .''''"

"Meetan is not at fault, this time was Yukari's idea. But it's a secret, so come and bring a smile. Yeah because I'm sure you are not wearing one right now. As an advice, drop "your own stuff" into a box, don't over think about it! You are ALWAYS like that ^^ Well, I got a job. Will text you the dress code. See you later! Xoxo"

Yuko's eyes stopped at the dressing code part and made a weird face. Something seemed suspicious. She decided to just relax and also drop her own thoughts about her supposed loneliness. Tonight she was going to see her friends, so at least it wasn't going to be that bad – it was going to be awesome!

Her manager called her name and asked Yuko to go to the reunion room. Her next job would start shortly and some details still needed to be confirmed. Before she headed to the room, she decided to e-mail Haruna.

"Good morning! 3 Hey, do you wanna pass on Maris later to do our hair? I wanna get pretty to the dinner "

[…]

Mariko was taking a break and drank some water. It was a bit hot in the studio and her clothes weren't helping. She then cleaned the sweat from her face with a tissue and heard her Iphone vibrate. Taking a quick look at it, she read the e-mail Yukari had sent her.

"Mari-chan, don't forget about the dinner tonight. We've decided on the dress code: {gender bending roles} – now, before you wonder what it means, well, it's simple, we want you to come dressed as a boy. Don't ask why, we just want our dinner to be different and fun! :3 See you soon *"

The tall girl seemed confused.

'Gender bending roles? That is a very weird theme for a formal dinner. Maybe something is up and no one told me about it. But I guess…it will be fun?'

She let out a sigh and drank more water. As the photographer and her stylist approached, she knew the studio was ready for the next session. She smiled and got up, completely forgetting to twit Haruna about the dressing code.

[…]

It was already 5PM when Haruna checked her cellphone. She was surprised to receive a Yuko's e-mail. Two days had passed since last time they saw each other at the AKBINGO studio. The dinner had been changed so before she opened the e-mail she thought that maybe it was about that.

As she flipped it, she read the small request. It seemed like a very good idea and her hair also needed some repair. She rushed to send an answer back and minutes later Yuko responded.

"Nyan Nyan! Let's meet up at 6PM in our little coffee place. I'll be waiting 3"

Haruna smiled and sent confirmation. Meanwhile Miichan appeared behind her back and hugged her.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm meeting Yu-chan in an hour."

"Wow! A date?"

"What! No, we are going to Maris."

Takamina spotted the two and walked to them.

"Hey I've received an e-mail confirming the dinner tonight. Seems like more people were invited at last minute, so they changed the meeting place. Are you guys done for the day?"

"Kojipa is leaving, she's meeting with Yuko."

"Uuu really? How's she doing? I haven't heard from her since AKBINGO's shooting."

"She's fine, I guess. Anyway I gotta go. I'll see you guys later."

Haruna grabbed her bag and waved. When she passed the door, she brought her head back, peeking at the door and shoot a straight glare at Takamina.

"And Takamina, pleeeease don't bring any fashion fail."

Takamina sulked and Miichan patted on the shoulder while laughing louder. The two girls also searched for their stuff and dressed their coats, getting ready to leave also. The dinner was scheduled for 9PM and everyone wanted to look pretty.

They were giggling on their way to the station when both received new e-mails. Both were from Yukari and both said the same.

'Dressing code?'

The two girls looked at each other and by the way they were exchanging looks, they both realized that they received the same e-mail. They didn't even confirm the subject, just stared speechless for an eternity, interrupted by the train's arrival.

[…]

When Haruna met with Yuko, the squirrel girl was all full of smiles. Since it was still soon, they decided to eat something in Shibuya before heading to Maris. They ordered something light and chat a bit.

"How's the drama shootings?"

"I love it. Everyone is so nice and fun. I have lots of fun everyday and learn something new."

"That's good."

Haruna could see in Yuko's eyes her excitement and she always liked that passion she had for acting. Haruna liked lots of things, her only problem was to just like the things and never attribute any other meaning or even deepen her affection for it. Miichan usually reads her as someone who can't differentiate her liking to things to something deeper as loving and gets oblivious to most things around her.

They talked for a bit more and then decided to check into Maris. They were warmly received and each seated on a different chair. Their conversation continued from where they last left it and joined by the stylists they had a great time together. Doing this kind of this always left a very warm feeling on Yuko. She simply adored this moments where she casually could have fun with Haruna.

Two hours later they were ready. Both colored their hairs and dried it properly. The shampoo scent on Haruna's hair was teasing Yuko, but she held her instincts as best as she knew. They paid and head out for the station.

"So, what are you wearing for tonight?"

Haruna put a finger on her chin and tilted her head slightly to the left. It felt like that thought hadn't yet crossed her mind. This made Yuko grin.

"I'm not sure yet. Since more people were invited maybe I'll dress the one piece Mari-chan offered me."

"Mari-chan bought you a present?"

"Ah…I don't think she bought it. She got the present from a job but she thought that it may fit me better."

"Then I guess I'm eager to see you."

Her smile no longer had that small jealously that began to form. She didn't knew why but lately she has been very protective of Haruna. Could her loneliness be a part of this new state?

Their way fell on a weird silence.

As they walked to the station, Yuko couldn't stop the butterflies on her stomach. She would just get so nervous and anxious around Haruna.

Haruna had her arms crossed and it was getting cold. She forgot to bring gloves and the pockets of her coat were a bit tight. Yuko was struggling to find something right to say to break the ice, but all she could think about was in how much she wanted to hold hands with Haruna in that moment. But because she had her arms crossed she couldn't get much closer to her. Haruna then decided to break the ice, the silence was kind of making her fell awkward. She knew Yuko and the girl's strange behavior. Something was up.

"Uwa so cold!"

"Yeah..."

"Hum, it there something wrong Yu-chan? Are you tired?"

"Oh it's not that, it's just...you know, I noticed you weren't wearing any gloves and I kind of feel like holding your hand, but with yours arms crossed..."

Haruna looked at the poor squirrel, who was flushing with embarrassment and stumping on her words. She uncrossed her arms and reached for Yuko's right hand. The smaller girl looked surprised but happy at the same time. It has been a while since last time Haruna did something to her. They've been so busy with their jobs and moments like these looked so yesterday's news.

When they got to the station Yuko stopped in front of Haruna.

"Then I'll see you later."

"Yeah see you later."

The moment their hands separated the atmosphere seemed to change. They followed their ways and then they received an e-mail. It was about the dressing code and both on their exists looked confused.

'What kind of dinner is this?'

Yuko decided to mail Noro back. On the other side of the station, Haruna received a tweet from Mariko and it wasn't about the dinner…

[naitou]

Collide

by naitou

Chapter Three

It was almost everything ready for the secret party and the girls from SDN48 were working hard. It began as a simple dinner idea, organized by Noro, Yukari and Meetan, but then Meetan decided to turn it into something funnier. Yukari was the one with the party idea, since it could be safer than any of Meetan's ideas. Noro then decided that a big party would be more considerate and it could be a good idea to join the SDN's girls and her ex-teammates from AKB. Once again it was Yukari who suggested the theme for the party and everyone got excited, but to be even more interesting the three girls decided that it was better to keep it low profile from the AKB48's girls. Noro gathered the girls and they began preparing everything. Some girls like Acchan and Yuko were busy with their drama shootings and other AKB's activities, but it would be awesome if they could attend. Yukari made sure Acchan would attend. She always had that effect on the Team A's ace and she knew that if she pushed the right buttons, the girl next door – Acchan – wouldn't be able to refuse.

So their initial plan was to schedule a dinner, but somehow Yuko messed up some invitations and they changed the date, but the plan was still to make sure the girls thought it was just a simple dinner and a more private one. Just a little celebration.

The day arrived and to surprise the girls they sent e-mails informing them about a dress code. This was to both get them excited and curious. A gender bending theme party: where the girly girls would reveal their masculine poker faces and the sporty ones try out cute dresses.

[…]

As soon as Haruna received Mariko's message, they set up a quick date. The airhead girl was curious about Mariko's vague choice of words and changed her train route. She still had to look for her dress code, as she had yet no idea how to fulfill the expectations. It was a weird dress code, fit for jobs and parodies, and she wondered if it was all but a joke. Riku's character popped in her head as she thought about it, but it was bit too much for a simple girls dinner and besides, she couldn't take Riku's clothes for personal use.

She walked out from the train station and head to a small coffee shop outside of it. Mariko was already there and waved to her.

[…]

Ever since they drove back on the taxi it had been bugging her. She was friends with Haruna since their early days on AKB and they shared a lot in common, but the past months had been the best. They had lots of work together and the use of Twitter spiced up their interactions. She had always teased Yuko about her never-ending-crush on Haruna. It had been there for years and she couldn't take Yuko serious. A crush wouldn't last that long, would it? But then again, it was Yuko she was talking about; the thin line between seriousness and joking/fooling around was too blurred in her case.

The thing was: Mariko's always flirted with boys, being them her co-workers or funny people she crossed paths with. It was her nature. But lately Haruna has been in her mind a lot. She tweets more just to call the bishoujo girl attention and flirts with her a sometimes, and to top that, last time she even felt jealous of Yuko.

She asked for this date because she really needed to see her and it couldn't wait until the dinner. When Haruna said she would meet her, her heart felt weird. She felt it warm, excited and a bit anxious. She even felt her mind spazzing a bit with random thoughts of her and her voice.

Something was wrong with her and she feared that maybe her little crush on her friend was evolving into something else.

[…]

Yuko was coming home still wondering about Noro's message. It was a bit weird and she began suspecting of something. What kind of dress code was that when they would be in a public restaurant?

She opened her apartment's door and took off her shoes. She made her way into her room and jumped to the bed. Her eyes watched the ceiling and her mind drifted away for a moment. Remembering her moment with Haruna awoke her fangirl side and a big smile appeared on her lips. She was so happy with it that couldn't even tell the different sensations at that moment.

She knew that what she felt for the girl crossed the line sometimes and being around her too much drove her crazy, but couldn't help but want more and more. In her head she thought that there was nothing wrong about how she felt, but at the same time she had to act and think rationally about it. She was an Idol and all she could do was to spice up the fans with fanservice, to delude them and keep them happy. But what if after so many jokes, fooling around and listening to the fans, a mere girl crush would blossom into a reality that could be both painful and troublesome?

She got up from the bed and went to cool off her face. She had only a couple of hours to get ready and by the intention of the message, she ought to present herself as a cute girly girl.

[…]

When Acchan arrived to the scheduled spot, her eyes frowned to the name of the restaurant. She spotted Yukari with a beautiful red dress and walked to her. The older girl smiled as she did her inspection on Acchan's clothes. She was wearing a black tuxedo and her hair held in a ponytail. She even put on some light make-up.

"Acchan you made it!"

"Hi Yukarin! Congratulations for the single, it is awesome! You girls are awesome."

"Thanks. And look at you, sooo handsome!"

"Yeah…about that, I didn't have much time to prepare anything but I hope I understood what the theme was all about. But at the same time I feel so embarrassed."

She brought her hands to her face and tried to cover her heated cheeks.

"It's perfect! I like this side of you. Listen, almost everybody is already here, so go take a look inside."

Something in Yukari's tone left Acchan suspicious and the mischievous smile on her lips didn't help the thought. She followed Yukari's instructions and then entered the place. It seemed like a fancy place with a little hall at the entrance. A tall girl with a Veneza mask came to greet her and carried a plate with other masks.

"Welcome Maeda Atsuko. Here, please choose one of these and come inside. The party is about to begun."

This was only getting weirder and weirder. How the girl knew her name she had no idea and a mask? Besides the suspicious dress code she had also to wear a mask? Somehow Meetan's figure crossed her mind and she wondered if this wasn't a trap.

She chose one the masks, choosing the one that would fit better with her clothing and followed the girl. She pulled up a curtain and made motion for Acchan to come in. She stepped in and arrived to a huge place, with a weird choice of lights and all decorated.

[…]

Almost failing the schedule hour, Yuko presented herself at the front door, waiting for someone to greet her. Noro told her to text her when she got to the place and after Yuko did so, Noro came a couple of minutes later to check on her.

The older woman took a look at her squirrel friend and giggled a bit. Yuko was full of grace in a beautiful short black dress and had her hair down and straight.

"Damn Yuko! Heads are going to roll tonight, you are HOT baby!"

Yuko had to admit that maybe she over did it. She didn't know the restaurant and because it was in Shibuya she wanted to look good for once. The harsh critics at the AKBINGO show got the best of her and little by little she was trying to dress better and change her sense of fashion. But maybe this time she went a little too ahead for the occasion, after all, only her closest friends and acquaintances would be present.

"Is it too much Kayo-chan? I mean…What the heck is this place?"

"Oh no…"

Just like Yukari, Noro made a mischievous smile.

"You are just perfect. Come, lets greet the others. Some of the girls are running late but why not start catching up now?"

They entered together and after the same girl greet her and handle a mask to her and to Noro, Yuko felt something was off.

"Kayo-chan, a mask?"

"Shh, just put it on. It was Yukari's idea, you know…Meetan's idea was kinkier so we played it safe."

Yuko put on the mask reluctantly. This could only mean bad stuff. The SDN's girls have been all secrets during the whole week and even if she understood how important it was for their group to finally release a single and have it succeeded, this way of celebrating was still off.

She passed the curtain and felt Noro at her side giggling. It was then that she finally noticed how clueless she was and dumb. She wasn't at a restaurant! And she wasn't invited to a dinner, but instead a secret party! Her first thought was to kill Noro for the lie but then she took a closer look around and in the crowd she began to spot familiar faces. Well…all of them had masks but the girls with dresses and causal girl clothes were the only ones that she could somehow identify. Then she wanted to smack herself for not considering it too.

She turned her head to yell at Noro but she was no longer with her. Her eyes couldn't find her friend in the crowd, so she looked around a bit more. The original small group she was expecting to meet was replaced by the four times more people she could count.

"Wow, this is one hell of a mask party!"

As she let those words become louder under her breath, someone poked her on the cheek. She turned around and found a short little boy. She eyed him from head to toes and when her eyes returned to his eyes she realized that it was Miichan.

"Even behind that mask and beautiful dress I could tell it was you Yuu-chan."

"And look at you Miichan! You look like a little boy."

"I sense that this party was made up for coupling, there are no boys in here. But it wasn't that hard, I mean, I already crossdressed once."

"I wonder if Meetan isn't having second thoughts…"

"You think? I think the girls just want to have fun and tease us. Besides, they also invited SND48 members. Wanna meet them?"

Yuko could tell who the SDN members were, or at least almost all of them. Most of them were tall and mature looking, even those who were wearing suits or cosplaying male characters. She only knew those who were ex-AKB members and Nachu because of her Daruma character. Curiously she couldn't spot that weird looking person.

"Where is Harunyan?"

Miichan blinked and brought a finger to her chin.

"I don't think she's here yet. At least I haven't spotted her around."

She adjusted her black wig and put her hands in her pockets. Miichan looked like a rock star, with the black wild wig, heavy jewelry on her chest, her wasted black pants and cream dirty t-shirt.

"Let's eat Yuu-chan! They have the best snacks in here…and also…some booze."

She smacked weakly Yuko's arm at her sentence, trying to imply crazy ideas on her partner on crime. Yuko just facepalmed.

"Miichan! You little…"

Miichan grabbed Yuko's arm and they walked into the crowd. They spotted a very cute Acchan chatting with a very feminine Takamina. Then the two Tomomis who came looking like twin brothers. They stopped closer to them and engaged conversation, with Miichan clinging on Kasai crushing like mad. Itano was a bit annoyed for agreeing to come the party and it was then that Yuko realized that the only girls who knew about the party were the ones who weren't supposed to be a part of the initial dinner. Acchan had a weird glowing in her eyes, slightly hidden behind the huge mask. Yuko wondered it that glow was because of Takamina. The small leader had her hair down and straightened, with no ribbon to be seen, pink lipstick on her lips, a light orange skirt and a white shirt. Her mask was also big and with an exotic cut, giving her a very different look, an almost mature and sensual look.

After a while they eventually sat down at one of the sofas and placed some plates with food and drinks on the small table closer to them. They were discussing the pleasant atmosphere at the party and how mature it seemed. They randomly saw Maeetan talking to the younger girls and drinking all kinds of drinks. Noro was always speaking with her teammates and also with some girls from old Team K.

"Say, where is Sae, Yukirin, Mayuyu, you know…the rest of the people?"

"Last time I saw Sae she was talking with the twins from SDN. Yukirin is hosting a radio show and probably won't make it. Mayuyu had an event in Akihabara about some Anime and must be tired or dead from too much spazzing over her otakuness. The rest is all here, but it becomes hard to know who is who with the masks and the disguises."

Itano was astonished with Takamina's description. The girl really knew everything that every member had to do. Acchan could only feel proud of her friend, it was small things like this that showed how devoted and caring Takamina was for AKB and the girls.

Yuko slipped the rest of her wine into her mouth and closed her eyes to listen to the beat. As she opened her eyes, she looked at the entrance and spotted someone coming in. Something kicked on her as she watched the mysterious figure making its way inside and grabbing a drink. She had a white, black decorated mask and was wearing a dark blue suit with black shirt and a tie. She was elegant and had an enigmatic aura. The mask was too big to make out her features but her hair was done in a way that it was short but not a wig. Kasai noticed the focused gaze Yuko was putting on the figure and observing it more, Kasai felt hot inside.

"I wonder who it is…"

Itano and Miichan heard the Chiu's girl words and soon all the girls at the table stared at her.

"Boy…this is the best illusion party ever."

Everyone was laughing at Kasai's sudden spazzing but Yuko couldn't stop staring. Not everyone at the party was an Idol, familiars and friends were also attending, the only rule was that it was a girl's party. As she watched the figure enter the crowd and receive half assed greetings from shy girls and curious ones, Yuko got up and filled another glass of wine.

She was pulled to the figure like a magnet and her mind was completely absent of thought. Not even the eager to see Haruna could interfere into this raw attraction she was feeling by an illusion figure. She knew it wasn't a boy, but she couldn't care less since the wine was already kicking in. Miichan watched her trying to decide either or not to approach the girl, and she smiled at the realization of who she was. She whispered to Takamina's ear and they giggled like kids. If only Yuko wasn't so oblivious…

'Just who are you?'

[mode107]

You have any interesting way of posting the order of your chapters.

I definitely thought Mari was flirting with Kojiharu on Twitter. Their exchanges are quite cute.

I'll never get tired of Kasai fangirling over the girls during Danso. (Not in your story) but I like when she 's all over Sae. Not just in Danso, but in blog posts as well.

[naitou]

LOL, well I only realized that I updated the wrong chapter first after I posted it. Most of my chapters were already written, I've been posting in another forum so here until I catch up with the material I already have, will take a bit 

Mariko was definitely flirting with Haruna. She can't help it! And Tomomi will always be all over Sae, she's the funniest to write.