Messenger – Princess Princess story Episode five – Stalker

_x_ Miyamoto Kaoru _x_

-In school gym-

The basketball team is having a match with another school, while the princesses, which are us of course must be here to cheer the team up. "Did you see that, princesses!?" They shouted as we just clapped and cheer for them. "It was superior!" Tooru cheered, while Yuujirou shouted "It's great!" Mikoto and I just stand one side clapping. "It's work guys, work." Yuujirou reminded us as Mikoto shouted "good work!". "Please continue with the good work!" I cheered with a mono-expression as they cheered more.

"Ha…." "With the princesses' presence, the game sure got heat up, eh…" Shuuya-nii's voice appears as I turn to my left and saw Shuuya-nii, Yukito-nii, Keiichi-nii and Akirah! "Ah Akirah~" As usual, I chirped and run toward Akirah while Yukito-nii crying at one corner. "K-Kuu... Kaoru-chan don't want me anymore…" He cried as the rest choose to leave him alone. "Good work guys, here's some drinks for you guys." Akirah said as he pass us a bag full of bottle drinks.

"We're aren't that bad, just that the sports outside…" Tooru comments as we replenish the lost liquid in our body. Next moment, Yukito-nii's back to his usual form and pull me one side with Shuuya-nii and Keiichi-nii why Akirah talk to the rest of them. "Say, Kaoru-chan, you told them about your gender?" Shuuya-nii asked as the 'them' he mentioned meant the princesses. "Yeah, they promised to keep it a secret." "What about Yutaka?" Keiichi-nii asked as he frowns.

"OH HIS EXPRESSION IS PRICELESS. AHHAHA! At first he wouldn't believe me till I showed him all my previous schools Identity Cards, he then blushed deep red and all awkward 'cause he have been sharing a room with a girl all these while!" I laughed as they just look at me. "But we're back to usual now, even though it took quite a few days for him to adjust to that information." "They didn't gain any advantages of you, right!?" Yukito-nii asked, as if they gonna kill them if I said yes.

"No worries, no worries! They didn't do anything, and I know how to protect myself, Onii-chan." I look at Yukito-nii and smile. The only times I call him Onii-chan is when I'm in need of favor or when to assure him with things. He tends to get elated whenever I call him that. "Call us whenever you need help or being bullied. We'll protect you." Keiichi-nii said as I nod my head. I'm really blessed to have them to care for me.

"Say, why is Akirah here with you, Shuuya-nii?" "Ah, he's here to learn as the next candidate of the Student Council President." "Poor guy." I comments as Akirah just give his usual smile. Mikoto is being unusual, keeping quiet but the truth is that he's holding grudge on us as princess job ruined his perfect dating vacation. "There's no way to hide, since we're in the same boat now." Yuujirou said as he place his hand on Mikoto's shoulder. I shrugs, as Tooru gestures us to the next team.

After that day when I disclose my gender to them, they have been acting a little more caution than usual. Maybe they're afraid they may offend me if we got too close. It's not that I mind but I guess we just can't help it. "Wait a minute," Shuuya-nii stopped us as he reminded us to touch up our make-up. "Sakamoto-kun, could you mind following the princesses in ensuring their safety?" "Yes!"

-Makeup Room-

Looking at how Tooru and Yuujirou discussing about make-up, I kinda feel that I'm fail being a female now… Even Mikoto can't stand them. "AHHH! Why do male high school students like us-" He paused, looking at me as I just shrugs. "WHY DO WE HAVE TO KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT MAKE UP!?" "Well, it's our tools for work." Tooru replies, as he continue to touch up his foundation. "It's good in a way too, since you can suggest your girlfriend some tips."

"No… Megumi-san doesn't like putting on makeup. Yeah, she think no makeup is cute." Mikoto said as we turn to him. "Eh… So your girlfriend's name is Megumi-san~?" "No makeup? That's so cool~" And here's Tooru and Yuujirou's round of teasing. "Come to think about it, Megumi-san is older than you right~?" I ask, cheekily, as the rest continue to tease till Mikoto shouted "enough!".

"Is everyone done yet?" Akirah opens the door to check out on us. "Ah, sorry Akirah~ Let's head back to work!" I said. "DON'T IGNORE ME!" He shouted as we just left the room laughing. As we head out, I feel a stare somewhere, I turns to glare but I don't see anyone anywhere. 'Is it my imagination?' I thought as I felt someone touched my shoulder. "Are you okay?" It's Tooru. "Yeah, just felt like someone is staring at us… Maybe it's my imagination? Let's go."

When Akirah opened the Home Economic Room's door, everyone's shock from what we see. Roses, flowers, everywhere on the floor with our dresses all on the floor. "W-Who would have done that…?" Mikoto asked, as when Yuujirou and he going to head in, Akirah stopped them. "Don't head in. We must preserve the scene as there can be unknown under those roses too. I'll go and find the President." "Akirah, I'll go with you." I said, as he stopped me. "Being with them will be safer here, and remember you're a girl."

"T'ch, does it really matter though, my gender." I mumbles as the three of them shrugs. "Sakamoto-sama just worry about you." Tooru said, as they nod. "Expected from Sakamoto-sama, so calm." Mikoto said, as Yuujirou agrees with him. Very soon, the rest of the School Council members are here and start packing things up. "There's no one here." "Princesses' dresses were fine, no stain no nothing." "Just that those flowers must be expensive." The Student Council members report their findings.

"Is there a point there?" I look at Yukito-nii and heaves a sigh. Shuuya-nii turns to Akirah and praises him for doing a good job for calling them here the minute he saw the scene. "It will be a big issue if the rest of the students found out, and it will get out of hand easily, so good job, Sakamoto-sama." "N-No, to say the truth, we have no idea what to do too." He smiles as we just shake our head. Akirah you're too modest and honest!

"All members of Home Economics Club are on vacation, right?" Keiichi-nii nods his head. "Where's Natashou-senpai?" Shuuya-nii asks as one of the member replied that he's not being seen in the room. "It must be someone outside then. But I don't sense any ill intention from these actions." Yukito-nii concluded as everyone kept quiet. "It may be an act of a stalker…" Shuuya-nii said as Yukito-nii dashes to my side and hug me tightly. "I'LL PROTECT YOU WELL, KAORU-CHAN! DON'T BE AFRAID!"

I pushes Yukito-nii away as I turns and saw Tooru's expression isn't that well. "Are you okay?" I asks Tooru as he snapped out of his thought and shook his head. "Yeah, I'm fine." He smiles as I flusters a little. 'Since when his smile give me such an impact?'

"We can't conclude much for now, princesses please resume with your work." "But-" "Shuuya-nii, I'm not sure if this may help but, when we're on our way here, I felt someone is staring at us." I called out as Shuuya-nii told us to stop and head back to the dorm as soon as possible. "Sakamoto-sama, Yukito, please escort them back to their dorm." "Yes./Yes!" "For now, we need to contact the rest of the Home Economics members and then look around the school for suspicious looking person."

As we got back to our dorm, Yukito-nii does not want leave, saying that he can't bear to leave his precious sister at this situation, and if anything happens, he can protect me. I ensured him with all my might, to the extend of calling him Onii-chan in front of everyone, sweet-talking as the rest of them just judge me greatly. 'I can't even bear to see myself like this anymore,' I thought as my cheeks are as red from embarrassment.

-Night, at Dorm-

We gathered at Tooru and Yuujirou's room, discussing about what happened earlier. Seeing what Tooru's wearing (sailor-collar shirt and same color Bermuda), I can't help but think he's so cute in these. He seems to sense my stare, so he turn to me as I quickly turns away in afraid of getting caught being staring at him. I quickly starts the topic to stop my brain from thinking too much too. "What do you think about today?"

"Maybe those were just presents from someone?" Tooru replies, we look at him with the 'Are you serious' expression. "That's definitely impossible." Yuujirou said. "Why are you so sure about it?" "Giving personal gifts to princesses were prohibited." Mikoto enlightens Tooru. "Why?" I asked, as come to think about it, despite there's so many wolves, I mean fan boys but we didn't receive anything from them.

"If that rule's allow, there'll be no place for us to sleep already." Mikoto answers my question while giving me the 'Use your brain and think' expression, as I smacks his head as revenge. And eventually turn out to be a mini joke-fight between us till Tooru stopped us. "Stop side-tracking already, back to business." "We suspect that those flowers are from the person Kaoru noticed this afternoon." "Eh…"

"S-Sorry, excuse me for a while." Mikoto interrupted as he dashes out quickly. Sensing something fun, the rest of us decide to follow him, and found out that he is in the phone with his girlfriend. "Yeah, something happened so it will be delayed…" "…" "Yeah, I'll be back as soon as possible." "…" "Yes, I know. Yeah. Yeap. Good night, Megumi-san!" Mikoto's face is full of happiness, he took a look at the phone before put it down.

"Eh~ Such blissful expression~" I teased. "Calling your girlfriend~?" Tooru continues. "As expected, he didn't tell his girlfriend about our princess job~" Yuujirou added in. "How is it possible to tell her that?!" Mikoto protested "Why not? It's bad to hide thing behind your girlfriend's back, you know~? If she's the jealous type, she may start investigating about you~" I said as as Tooru and Yuujirou nod their head. "And this is such an dishonest relationship~ This kind of relationship can't last long too~" "Yeah yeah~"

The more we tease, the more Mikoto going to cry and agitated. "You guys don't even have a girlfriend, what you guys know!?" "I'm a girl, for your information." I reminds as he kept quiet. Yuujirou seems pissed as he stood up and walks toward Mikoto step by step. The next moment, Mikoto kneels down in front of us and apologies. "Well, it's not that you're not allowed to meet your girlfriend, as school reopen is still a long way." Tooru said.

"You're spoiling him too much." I said as Yuujirou agrees. "No, I wouldn't go." We turn and look at the pink-hair lad. "Since there's a stalker around us, meeting her or anyone who's close to me equals to bringing danger to them… If something happened to Megumi-san… I..." Mikoto says, as I squat down in front of him and ruffles his head. "Our Mikoto sure mature a little already, eh?" I grin.

Mikoto looks away, as I know that he's just being embarrassed and start on the girlfriend topic while I just look at him with a weird look. As I turn, Tooru and my gaze met and we quickly break it away. 'This is embarrassing…' I thought as I took another glance at Tooru, only realise that he doesn't look that good, more of stern.

-The next day-

"PRINCESSES!" Early in the morning, the remaining students rush back to the dorm and saying things like protecting us and everything. "So you guys came back because of this?" Tooru asks. They yell yeah and be guarding the dorm and school. 'Ha… It's not like we're real girls that we can't protect ourselves- Okay even if I'm a girl, I too, know how to protect myself…' Just as I thought, Tsuji-senpai came out with a bouquet of flower. "This have been found outside of the dorm, I have already contacted Arisada and I'll be more alert."

As a reward, we smile and thank them for their doing, and the guys all start to cry with tears of joy… 'Are you guys serious…' I thought, as we head back to Student Council Room to check if there's any progress. Just when the door opened, I felt someone hugs me tightly. "KAORU-CHAN ARE YOU ALRIGHT?! NOTHING HAPPENED RIGHT?!" It's your usual Yukito-nii.

I gently hugs back and give him pats on the back, ensuring him I'm alright, nothing happened. Shuuya-nii gestures us to sit down and reports us everything. "There's no trace of outsider being inside of the school, and asked the florist about those flowers. Apparently those were ordered by a young man." "A young man? Do you guys know his name?" Mikoto asked. "Unfortunately, we have no idea yet."

"For now we have no idea of anything except that the stalker is a young man." Tooru concludes, as he frowns. "Yes, even though there's no harm happened but we have no idea on what's the young man's motive in sending princesses those flowers. If it's simply gift, then he had already violated the rules." He pauses.

"Come to think about, I had this case before. The guy's a rich kid, and he would send me gifts every day. Of course, I rejected but he doesn't seem to take 'no' as an answer." "So… What happened?" I asks. "I had a firm talk with him." Shuuya-nii answers as his aura changes. The four of us look at him scarily as the rest of the Student Council members were as if thinking about that scene and find it nostalgic.

"Putting that aside… Do we have other clues?" "Nope, but we do have a way to capture him. If he doesn't come out, we'll lure him out." Shuuya-nii smiles. "… I'm willing to be the bait." I volunteers, as everyone look at me. "Are you sure, Kaoru-chan? It will be very dangerous for you." "But I'm the best bait, isn't it? I'm a legit female too." "I'll join." Mikoto said, as the rest start to volunteer. "We're in the same boat right now." Tooru said as I smiles at them.

We were ensured that there will be people protecting us but still can't help but to feel a little nervous. We walk around the school with our princess dresses and on guard in noticing any suspicious being. A yell appear at the corner, we jump and notice just a bunch of student happy to see us. "What was that…?" I whispers into the ear piece as Keiichi-nii replies, "Sorry, just regular student being excited to see you guys." "Okay…"

As usual, we doing our princess jobs, cheering everyone up and nothing weird seems to happen till the end of the day. "Ha… Is there really any suspicious being around us?" Mikoto asks, as we really start to wonder that too. "Anyone want some drinks?" I asks, as they told me their order and I head to the nearest vending machine alone.

Just as I reaches the vending machine, I heard the spammage of shutter sound somewhere near the bush, I turns and the guy stood up. "We've finally met!" "What-?" As that guy continue his shutter, walking toward me, I grab his camera and gives him a hard kick at his waist, causing him to fall and next moment everyone rushes to my side and capture that guy.

"You alright, Kaoru!?" They asks me as I nod my head. I'm more worried about that guy over there more. "D-Do you guys want to be idols!?" The stalker asks. "What." In the end the young man is an Entertainment agent, he wanted to scout us the moment he saw us. "Then what about the flowers?" "Flowers? What flowers? I only waited here." That agent clears out as there's silence among us, until Natashou dash up to us and went berserk.

In the end it's just Natashou-senpai and his designing, and everything cleared up. "Mikoto finally can go have a date with his girlfriend in peace, right?" I turn to Mikoto. "Yeah!" He said as the agent is pull by Shuuya-nii away, and I was pull away from Tooru. "?""In the end you still used yourself as the bait, right?" "What you're saying I don't-" "Kaoru." He called out my name. "It's dangerous and we're guys, we can protect you. Please rely on us. I- We're worried." He reprimands, as I lower down my head and apologise to him. He just smile and ruffles my head.

-The next day, nearest train station-

The three of us (Tooru, Yuujiro and Kaoru), hiding in the nearest bush, looking at Mikoto. "Look at that happy expression!" I comments as Yuujirou suggests that we should get close to see his girlfriend's features. Just as we going to get close, there's two guys appear in front of us. "Hey girls, are you guys alone?" "…" As the two guys babbles, we lost track of both Mikoto and his girlfriend. Yuujirou and Tooru couldn't stand it anymore, they stood up and chase those guys away while I shrugs. Oh well, it's only a short peace for now, Mikoto!

End.