Shizuru smashed the phone on the table and covered her head in a nearby pillow growling loud in it.

"Oi, Shizuru, you still coming right?"

"NATSUKI CAN YOU JUST PLEASE SHUT UP FOR A MINUTE?"

Shizuru's actions made Natsuki flinch a little. She had never heard Shizuru raise her voice to anyone. Natsuki took a few steps to where Shizuru sat on the couch.

Shizuru raised her head and got out of the couch walking over standing a few meters away from Natsuki, but still facing her as their eyes met. Shizuru was looking rather pissed off, but somewhat sad.

She pulled of a fake smile, smiling with that mask of hers. Natsuki hated whenever her lover would put up the mask. Natsuki had lived with Shizuru for almost six years now, and she would defiantly know when she put up her mask. She opened her mouth yet another time, but seemed a little calmer. "Ne Natsuki? Will you just be quite for a while? "

Natsuki was staring at Shizuru, with worry written all over her face. 'What in the world happened?' she thought to herself and finally spoke "Oi, Shizuru what is wrong?" she was walking over to Shizuru, trying to pull her in for a tight comforting hug.

But Shizuru just swiped it off running to the bedroom to lock the door, leaving a worried blunette all alone on the floor, with probably a thousand of thoughts running through her mind.

Natsuki sat down on the couch with her hands covering her face. 'What was all that about?' she was thinking. She got her eye on the clock; it was already time to leave for work. She knew there was no point in trying to talk to Shizuru, at least not right now. 'I guess I better call her in a few hours' with that she grabbed her coat and her keys to her loving Ducati and drove off to work.

-Later on-

Natsuki parked her Ducati in the garage and walked inside the building towards the elevator. On the elevator in hang a note saying: 'Out of order!' Natsuki sighed as she started to run up the stairs to the fifth floor and to their apartment. She was eager to see Shizuru. The girl had not answered the phone when Natsuki had called, and she was worried that something was bothering Shizuru, and she needed to know what.

She locked the door open to find a Shizuru standing a little further in. looking into the kitchen with an angry look on her face. She noticed Natsuki and smiled with eager while closing the kitchen door.

"Ara, Natsuki is finally home… How was work?"

Without an answer she walked, well actually she nearly ran towards Natsuki, and gave her a quick peck on her chin and hugged her tightly, causing Natsuki to almost lose balance.

With Shizuru hugging her beloved little wolf, Natsuki wrapped her arms around her lover. Even though the blunette was confused with her lover's actions and wanted to ask about Shizuru's previously behavior that morning.

Shizuru loosened her grip on Natsuki and took a few steps backwards. She started to walk towards the kitchen. As she neared the kitchen door, she let out a deep sigh, then slowly turning around facing Natsuki "I called Nao a few minutes ago. She will come pick you up for that motor cross race, so you better go change… and no complaining!" What Natsuki just heard nearly made her cry. Natsuki had been looking so forward to take Shizuru with her to the Motor cross race, even though it was not Shizuru's favorite thing to do in the world. 'What the hell does she mean with that?'

"Oi, Shizuru!" there was a tiny break as she continued. "Why are you acting like this? Ever since this morning you've been weird, did I do something, if so I want to apologize? Please… just tell me what's bothering you!" It sounded a bit more like a command than actual question and Natsuki was soon to notice and made weird face as she realized.

Shizuru noticed that something was weird with Natsuki making such a weird face, but she couldn't help herself with holding back her teasing personality.

"Ara, do Natsuki need to use the bathroom that much?"

Natsuki blushed at the thought, and realized that she had meant her expression. "B-Baka!"

Shizuru always found Natsuki's reactions adorable and always made Shizuru smile at the thought. But then the brunette sudden got serious. "I'm sorry Natsuki. But I have some things to take care off today, so I can't keep you with company at the Motor cross race, therefore I called Nao. And she will pick you up at 5 p.m. so you better go get ready." With that she went inside the kitchen closing the door and left Natsuki standing in the hallway.

Natsuki heard a voice inside kitchen, at first she thought it was Shizuru, but it was diffidently not hers. She decided to hang around at first to get to see who it was. She was about to open the door as she heard Shizuru saying the most shocking thing. "Let's wait until she has gone into the shower, I don't want her to know anything."

Shizuru was walking into the kitchen with blank mind. Thinking about no other than Natsuki, she doesn't want to break her heart, so what should she do? It was an older woman with brown colored hair. Shizuru let out a sigh and turned to the person in front of her "Let's wait until she has gone into the shower, I don't want her to know anything"

Then she heard a few fast steps and a door that slammed really hard. She turned around walking towards the hall where she left Natsuki and looked in the directions of the entrance, the door was wide open. 'Shit! Natsuki! '

'What the hell is this?' Natsuki was thinking while running down the stairs trying to escape from their apartment. Since they lived on the fifth floor she had to run down a lot of stairs.

Thousands of thought ran through her head. Tears started to press forth. She couldn't hold them back, she didn't bother to try. It was hopeless. She had just witnessed her one and only, her only reason. The only reason while she still lived… was cheating on her.

'How the hell could she do that?'

Back at the apartment Shizuru started to run towards the elevator and found the note 'Out of order', she cursed and started running down the stairs with the older woman running behind her telling her to wait up, but Shizuru just ignored her.

As she finally came out of the building she saw Natsuki crawl inside a taxi and the taxi drove off, she was just about to run, but a hand grabbed her arm causing her to turn around. And the older woman slapped her in the face and pulled Shizuru into a hug. Shizuru standing unknowing of what just happened collapsed on the ground and burst into tears. The older woman went down on her knees still hugging Shizuru, and the younger brunette hugged the older brunette back.

Natsuki waved at a taxi driver that stopped and she crawled into the taxi. Sobbing and ripped apart of tears she forced forth Nao's home address. The taxi set off in the direction of Nao's apartment. Natsuki looked back, seeing Shizuru hugging another woman. 'Why Shizuru…? Why?' she turned around to see the taxi driver staring at her. She gave him a scary glare as she forced 'Mind your own business' to escape her lips.

As they reach Nao's apartment she paid the taxi driver and walked into the building where Nao's apartment was. She stumbled down the hallway crying it all out as she rang the doorbell.

"Hai! Hai! Stop nagging I'll be right there!!" A red headed girl opened the door to find a certain blunette standing outside her apartment. "What's the time? Am I late or some- " She stopped the sentence as soon as she noticed what kind of state Natsuki was in.

"WHOA! You look horrible, what happened to you?" Nao dragged Natsuki inside her apartment and closed the door.

Natsuki looked at Nao with the saddest eyes in the whole wide world. "Shit! Something big must really have happened since you come this early looking like that, not to mention that I was going to pick you up"

She placed Natsuki on the couch bringing her a sandwich filled with Mayo hoping to cheer the little wolf up, but Natsuki turned the offer down. (As you can see Natsuki is really down and not even mayo can cheer her up).

Natsuki started to tell Nao about what happened in the morning and how her loved one had screamed at her and about her strange behavior in the morning. Nao suggested that it could be PMS, but Natsuki assured her that it was not the case. She also told her about that other woman and how she had seen them hug outside their apartment

Nao listened carefully and every now and then she said that it all might be a big misunderstanding. But then it hit her 'So that's why Shizuru called me telling she was going to be busy'. She clenched her fists staring down at her lap, and began to curse inside her mind, scolding Shizuru with the worst possible words.

Shizuru was standing outside her apartment, still crying out her tears. But there was one differences, the older woman was gone. Her tears slowly slide down her cheeks. She placed her hand on her cheek and felt the warmth of where a red mark of a hand that had been slapped. Her thoughts went back to what had just happened a few moments ago.

`'´Flashback`'´

"After all you called me, didn't you?"

"WHY DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?"

Shizuru was practically screaming at the older brunette. Glaring at the person in front of her, like she was some kind of disease

"DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THAT MY LIFE IS HERE WITH NATSUKI!?"

The older woman looked down at the girl sitting on the ground. There was an uncomfortable silence.

"You are just like when you were little aren't you? Being all stubborn to get what you want." The woman finally replied.

"You are to come back with me to Kyoto whether you like it or not. I'm not intending to let you stay here in Tokyo, with that girl to ruin your life. And I'm not going to let this girl, a no body, stop you from run… "

"NO MOTHER!" she was cut off by Shizuru that had just risen up from the ground standing face to face with her the older woman staring her right in her eyes. "My life is Natsuki, whether YOU like it or not!!! I do not have an intention to ever hurt my Natsuki!" she panted. "I don't ever want to see you again if you talk ill about my Natsuki!"

The older woman, which appeared to be Shizuru's mother, raised her hand and then the sound came, 'smack' it echoed inside Shizuru's head, repeating it over and over. Her cheek hurt.

`'´End of Flashback`'´

Shizuru gazed upon the sky thinking so hard and painfully of what to do. The tears had at least stopped coming, because there was no more tears to be shed. She brushed some dust of her skirt and went inside the building and slowly and insecure started to walk up to Natsuki and hers apartment on the fifth floor. 'I need to find her'

Nao and Natsuki were sitting on the couch in Nao's apartment when a phone rang. "Who dear try calling me at this sort of time? Probably one of those phone sales men! DAMN THEM!!!" Nao made Natsuki giggle a little, but the thought of giggling made her think about Shizuru and she started to cry yet another time. "ARRRG! Look now what they made me do…" she let out a sigh and picked up the phone.

"Hello. Nao here, if there isn't anything important I rather not talk to you because I'm simply busy!"

"Yuuki-san is t-that y-you?"

'Shizuru, that bitch! How dare she call me after what she did to Natsuki?'

"What do you want? Not enough to make her cry a hundred times, want her to reach a thousand?"

"M-My Na-Natsuki… is she t-there?"

"Oh you bet she is! And she isn't coming anywhere near you!"

"Please, Yuuki-san! I need to talk to Na-"

"NO!!"

"E-excuse me?"

"You heard me. Do you think I'm just going to let you talk to her after what just happened?"

"Yuuki-san, this has n-nothing to do with you. This is between me and Natsuki, so please put h-her on the phone!"

Nao grabbed the phone and went inside her bedroom slamming the door, but thankfully that the phone wire is long so the line was not broken. Poor Natsuki, she was left alone yet another time, listening to Nao scold people over the phone. (Obviously Natsuki didn't notice that Nao was actually talking to Shizuru).

After a long time of scolding and a heated discussion Nao came out of the door with a smile around her face.

"Natsuki tell me… How did the other woman look like?"

Natsuki looked surprised at Nao standing there smiling.

"What do you mean Nao?"

Nao let out a sigh. "We will go for a little ride. Do you think you are up for it?"

'A ride, what does she mean?'

Without waiting for an answer Nao grabbed Natsuki's arm, pulled her up from the couch and started dragging her out of the apartment.

Meanwhile Shizuru made herself ready to go out for a walk. She looked at herself in the mirror thinking about what Nao ad said over the phone.

'What were you thinking? Cheating on Natsuki like that? How could you? '

Shizuru was sure caught on bed with surprise when finding out the real reason why Natsuki left their apartment in such a hurry. She couldn't help but feeling relieved that her Natsuki only had misunderstood the whole thing. So basically everything was ok now… or was it?

Nao's car stopped outside a recognizable school. They were at the Fuka Academy. Natsuki peeked at the school, still looking like it had many years ago. 'Oh how many years hadn't it been since I last was here? But why did Nao bring me here?'

"I will take my leave, there's someone here that would like to talk with you. I know you might don't want to talk to her, but I really insist you to, so please trust me."Nao showed Natsuki a warm smile, unusual discovery for Natsuki really, so she felt she could trust her.

She hesitated a little but came to a conclusion "umm… ok Nao, but if you fool me, you will pay the price!"

"Lovely! Oh, and Natsuki don't forget to go where your heart takes you. Don't ever forget, even though how painful it can be, you must listen to your heart"

"Nao…"

"I'm supporting a friend am I not?"

Natsuki nodded her head and dried out a tear in the corner of her eye with the sleeve.

Nao drove off leaving Natsuki alone on the old school.

Natsuki let out a deep sigh of depression. 'Why bring me here after all that happened?' She started walking towards the entrance gate, watching the cherry blossom fall from the trees. 'The flowers don't get a second chance do they?' She leaned her back against the wall.' No wait! What did I just say now?' Flowers… 'Everything here…. It all reminds me of her'. She ran to the rose garden where she and Shizuru met for the first time, while trying to remember what she really was doing here something hit her mind 'There is someone here that would like to talk to you…' she ran faster , and arrive the garden, but she couldn't see anyone around. Suddenly she remembered some of Nao's words 'go where your heart takes you'

"Natsuki…"

The voice made Natsuki lose her breath, as she turned around gasping for air. 'Shizuru...? ' She was way too surprised, and all that came to her mind was to run. She started to run not knowing what to do. 'What is she doing here?' She felt something snatch her arm, she lost balance tripping and as she fell she turned around closing her eyes and landed on her back. It was a very hard bump to the ground and Natsuki felt the pain in her back. 'Damn that hurts'.

"Don't ever run away from me Natsuki, don't ever leave me again!"

Natsuki opened her eyes to find Shizuru lying on top of her.

"Promise me you won't leave me Natsuki!"

Natsuki felt the heat grow in her. 'She doesn't have the right to say something like that'. A tear escaped her eye. She didn't know how to feel about the situation, all she wanted was to hold Shizuru, her beloved sweetheart, her one and only, her reason. Hold her tight and kiss her softly on the perfect shaped pair of lips, a passionate sweet kiss. But the thought of what Shizuru had done changed it all… or did it?

All these thoughts made Natsuki go crazy, she couldn't handle it any longer. She tossed herself in the arms of her lover, screaming out her name, burying herself into Shizurus soft chest.

Tears began to find their way out of Shizuru's eyes, falling down like the rain would on a rainy day.

"It will be alright, it is ok now."

They stayed a little longer like this, comforting one another, giving each other the feeling of being loved.

"Shizuru…?"

Natsuki pulled her face up from the brunette's chest. Her cheeks were colored red still wet from her tears. Shizuru reached up to caress her lovers cheeks, she wiped away the tears in Natsuki's face and kissed her on her eyelashes. "You must have cried a lot today, have you not?"

Natsuki's eyes expanded.

Without waiting for an answer she continued. "I am so sorry Natsuki, I am so sorry for shouting at you!" Now it was Shizuru's time to cry out. She burst out into tears, making an overflowing river down her cheeks. "I t-talked to Yuuki-san, and asked her to t-take you h-here…" She crawled onto Natsuki's lap sobbing hysterically. "I needed to tell you something!"

Natsuki grabbed Shizuru and pulled her closer in fear of losing her.

Natsuki wanted to know who the woman was, the one Shizuru hugged. But somehow she felt it would only hurt Shizuru if she asked. She was about to open her mouth as Shizuru got at it first. "You are p-probably wondering w-who that woman was, are you not?"

Natsuki only nodded, not knowing what to reply.

"I am so sorry Natsuki…"

Natsuki felt a pain in her chest not being able to avoid the feeling still thinking it would never end. 'Oh no, here it comes. She is going to leave me.'

"I am so sorry that you I made you believe something like that, you really misunderstood the whole thing."

'Eeeh? That I misunderstood?'Natsuki was confused, what did she mean with 'misunderstood'?

"What do you mean Shizuru?"

"There is no one other than you that can make me feel as special as I do every day with you! I treasure every single moment we spend together, and I would never let anyone take you away from me! I would never let anything come between us. Because I love you! I love you so much, and if I lose you a part of me would die, I wouldn't be able to live any longer, because my life would be ruined, and you are my life!!!"

Emerald eyes were only able to stare into crimson shining eyes. That's all she could to. She was completely shocked. 'Shizuru… '

Shizuru, still sobbing, looked straight back into those pair of beautiful emerald eyes. "The woman…. She is a hurtful woman and… s-she wanted to tear us apart... a-and now she will never bother us again, but she is also my mother…" Tears sliding down her cheeks were soon to stop…

No words had ever made Natsuki happier than hearing this, her mouth automatically made the happiest smile Shizuru had ever seen. Shizuru giggled at the reaction, but it still hurt in her heart when she came to think of all Natsuki had been through today.

Shizuru opened her mouth to speak, but Natsuki was quick enough to seal those pair of lips from saying no more than necessary. Enough had been said that day and they were both tired, and with that Natsuki broke the kiss and laid her head in Shizuru's lap closing her eyes to fall asleep. 'I will never lose you again'

Shizuru gazed upon the surroundings, the sun was about to go down behind some hills in the distant far of mountains. It was very romantic. She placed a kiss on Natsuki's forehead and whispered into her ears "Will you marry me?"

Without words said, Natsuki smiled and without opening her eyes she got a grip behind Shizuru's neck and pulled her down for a deep passionate kiss.