Hyaku Monogatari Chapter 7: Theme 7, a mai hime fanfic

"Hyaku Monogatari"
by: s16thunderjet

Series:
Mai Hime

Special Guest:
Orihime Inoue, Tatsuki Arisawa from Bleach (AU insert)

"Thank you for your purchase. Please come again!" Orihime Inoue cheered, a warm smile on her lips.

The store owner waved good-bye at the little brunette girl excitedly clutching her newly bought stuffed panda in one hand and her mother's hand in the other, even as she welcomed the next customers in line.

Expecting the usual kindergarten and elementary kids and their mothers, the strawberry blonde girl visibly blinked in surprise at the potentially awkward scene brewing in front of her.

"No."

"Yes."

"No!"

"Yes!"

"Noooo!"

"Yesss!"

"If you don't stop pestering me, I'll stop cooking for you."

"But Mai..."

"Uhm, can I help you at all?" Orihime carefully interjected, hoping to defuse the situation without overstepping her boundaries.

"Yes! You can give me free glitt..."

"Mikoto!" The taller, orange haired girl scolded, glaring at the still sulking shorter and, Orihime presumed, much younger raven haired girl.

"Sorry about that, Miss. If you could just wrap these up for me then we'll be out of your hair."

Reaching for the small plastic basket of assorted stationeries and trinkets, Orihime could only smile apologetically at the one called 'Mikoto'. Announcing the total amount for all the items to the one called 'Mai', she chanced a glance at her customer's companion and felt her heart clench at the sniffling teary-eyed girl.

Already thinking of a way of slipping a small pack of said shiny, colorful little things to the golden eyed girl in front of her, Orihime was exceedingly grateful when the violet eyed girl's mobile started ringing.

"Sorry Miss, could you put them in separate bags please? Thanks." Mai Tokiha stated before turning to answer her phone.

Still grumbling and pouting like nobody's business, Mikoto Minagi reached up for all three bags and was pleasantly surprised when she was handed a fourth, albeit much smaller one.

"Our little secret." Orihime leaned down and whispered as golden eyed girl's face suddenly lit up with a huge smile.

The strawberry blonde received a hurried 'Thanks' and a somewhat awkward hug from the now cheered up girl. Smiling in reply, Orihime watched as Mikoto caught up to Mai and handed her one of the bags as they headed out of the store.

The slight creaking sound that accompanied the opening front door echoed into the apartment. Preoccupied with cooking dinner, Orihime called out a greeting to the new arrival as she continued stirring the pot of curry.

"Welcome home, Tatsuki-chan. How were your classes today?"

She received a barely audible grunt as a reply.

Attributing the disgruntled answer to the other girl having a particularly difficult teaching day, she continued with the one-sided conversation, hoping to alleviate her love's frustrations with what she considered to be a lighthearted story.

"There was a young girl at the store earlier. At least, I think she was young since she was all pouty and kinda childlike. Anyways, her... guardian, I think, was refusing to let her buy glitte... Oh, darn."

She paused as the curry began to overflow. Reaching for the cleaning rag, she wet it with water from the nearby faucet before wiping the sauce dripping off the side of the pot.

"Anyways, where was I? Oh yeah. So I gave her a bag since she was so sad. I figured, 'What harm could it do?', y'know?"

Unbeknownst to the voluptuous girl, her spiky haired love had made it through the hallway and was standing at the threshold to the kitchen with a grim expression on her usually kind and calm countenance.

"This young girl... she's not named Mikoto, is she?"

Placing the cover back on top of the pot, Orihime turned around quickly, amazed that her girlfriend was able to guess correctly.

"Oh! How did you know that, Tatsuki... chan?"

Covered head to toe in the aforementioned shiny, colorful, harmless little things is Tatsuki Arisawa.

"Oh no..."

"Oh yes." Tatsuki snapped back before grimacing slightly at the frown that instantly appeared on the other girl's face.

"I'm so, so sorry Tatsuki-chan! I didn't think she would bring it to school. And wait, she's your student? I thought she was in elementary."

"That girl is a first year believe it or not. Look, let's just forget about it, OK? I'll get cleaned up then we can have dinner." Tatsuki offered, hoping to get her love to smile again.

"OK. I hope I can make it up to you. I love you Tatsuki-chan." Orihime replied with a loving smile, causing the ebony haired physical education teacher to forget everything, including her own name.

The End

Theme #7: Glitter

Author's Notes:

1. First off, as I mentioned up top, the Orihime and Tatsuki I used here is AU. I'm basically borrowing their physical appearance and parts of their personality. You may want to at least do an Internet search to find out what they look like. Their relationship is definitely AU as well.

2. I hate, hate, HATE this theme because: (a) it's taken me months to figure out what to do with it, to the point that I gave up on this for a while; and (b) I still don't like what I came up with. I apologize for posting this one even if it really, really sucks. I just had to post this so I can at least try to work on the next themes. I'm trying to do them in chronological order, in case anyone's wondering.

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