Story: The Girl Meets The Loon (chapter 2)

Authors: Inyunaruto365

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Chapter 2

Title: The Red-eyed Oni

Natsuki was driving to the asylum which was the same size as a local state jail. It's the same color as a local jail as the brunette parked her motorcycle and walked in the front door. The person in charge showed Natsuki around. Where everything is, where the people with mental problems are being kept along with single cells for the people who can't be with other people.

Natsuki was impressed yet a little nervous about what will happen during the six months she will being going there.

“Now that you've seen where everything is, your principal told me that according to the paper work he sent me that you only have to look after one person here in the Fuka Asylum,” One of the workers said looking at the paper work the principal of Natsuki's school sent.

“Just one? I thought I was going to look after all of these inmates,” Natsuki said.

“No. I don't think you'd last very long looking after everyone here in this place,” The worker lightly laughed, “Follow me. I'll show you where she is.” Natsuki followed the man thinking of what he meant by 'She' as he asked the worker what he meant by that. “Oh, right. Her name is Shizuru. But don't worry. I don't think she'll hurt you. She's very nice, but for some reason, she doesn't want anyone to touch her.”

“Why?” Natsuki wondered.

“I dunno. We offered her to go to another asylum in Windbloom, but she offered us putting her in one of the single cells after what happened three months ago in Christmas.”

“I'm gonna regret asking, but what did this woman do three months ago that made her go to a single cell?”

“Do you know of someone named Shiho?”

“Yeah. The girl with swirly read hair?”

“Yes. She was talking a whole lot of smack about you which Shizuru didn't seem to appreciate. Then, the next thing I knew, I saw Shizuru beating the living daylights out of Shiho saying, 'Take back what you said about Natsuki! Take it back!!' It took ten to eleven people to take her down,” The worker said.

“Ten to Eleven people?”

“Yeah. After her little episode was over, Shizuru apologized for sudden behavior and explained what made her snap the way she did that day. But the only problem was that her sudden attacks have been happening a lot during that time. We explained to her that the people here are here to help Shizuru so you can go back into society. We asked if there was anything we could do to try and make the sudden snappings lesson and that's when we put her in one of these cells.”

“.....I see.” Was all Natsuki said before asking, “But how does Shizuru know me? I don't even know her at all.”

“I think she saw you once when you were in class once because we were getting a few things situated with everyone at the school. And I think you might have seen her once during that time,” The worker said as Natsuki began thinking about it.

“Well, now that I think about it, I did talk to Shizuru once before she had to leave.”

The worker and Natsuki stopped in front of a silver cell door that had scratches and dents in it on the outside. “Well, this is it. Do you want me to come in with you and introduce yourself to her again?”

“No, I think I'll be fine.”

“Okay. I'll be out her if things get out of hand.”

Natsuki nods and goes in. Hearing he door close behind her, Natsuki sees a girl who looks like she's two or three years younger than herself with honey blonde hair. Natsuki thought Shizuru didn't notice another person in the room who saw the honey brunette woman painting something as she put her painting utensils down and said, “Ara, ara. It seems I have company.”

Natsuki jumped from the sound of Shizuru's voice who saw her turn around showing her crimson red eyes, along with a warm smile.

“Yeah. I w don't know if you remember me from a few months ago.”

“Ara, of course I remember you. How could I remember a cute face like yours,” Shizuru said making Natsuki blush, “Your name is Natsuki Kuga, correct?”

“Y-Yeah. And you're Shizuru Fujino, right?”

“Yes. I apologize about my cell being a mess.”

“It's okay,” Natsuki said, “Anyway, for the next six months, I'm gonna have to look after you.”

When Natsuki said that, she could have sworn she saw Shizuru's grin widen hearing that. “So my Natsuki is my helper. I'm so happy!” Natsuki sweatdropped clearing her throat hearing Shizuru say, “So, I take it one of the workers here told you about me.”

“Yeah. He told me you kinda went insane for the past few months,” Nastuki said, “But I don't get it. You look like you're mentally stable to me. So why are you here in a place like this?”

Shizuru didn't say anything for a while before looking at Natsuki with a smile on her face and said, “I will tell you in good time, my lovely Natsuki.”

Another blush formed across Natsuki's face as she huffed in frustration of what Shizuru was saying. “I can see you're going to be a handful during the next six months.” Then the worker knocked on the door to see if everything's doing okay with Natsuki. “Yeah. Everything's fine. But what am I supposed to do during the next six months with Shizuru?”

“You can take her around the other rooms/cells in the asylum, along with talk to Shizuru along with making sure Shizuru doesn't get into any trouble. And from her reputation here, it's gonna be hard to do that, ” The man worker said, “Oh, I almost forgot. There's a game coming up in the summer of July and was wondering if you'd be interested when your six moths here are done.”

“A game?”

“Yeah. We have one every year. It helps the patients become more stable to society again.” The worker gives Natsuki a poster.

“Does it help?”

“Yeah. A lot. We started doing this ten years ago when we saw that some of the patients we had weren't changing. We were gonna call it quits until we saw a few of our patients playing a football game which seemed to calm them down and concentrate their mind on that one thing they were doing.”

“I see. It sounds cool. I'll let you know later on.” Natsuki folds the poster and puts in her back pocket as she went back into the cell Shizuru was still in, “Hey, Shizuru, I was wondering something.”

“Ara? What is it, my Natsuki?” Shizuru turned to face Natsuki who was drawing something when the dark brunette was gone.

“Do you want to take a walk through this place? They said they wouldn't mind as long as if you leave your room with me.”

Shizuru blinded a few times to make sure Natsuki wasn't lying. And she wasn't as Shizuru smiled and stood up from sitting in her bed. “So, my Natsuki wants to take a walk with me? I'm the happiest person in the world!”

Natsuki rolled her eyes at Shizuru's behavior. “So are you gonna take my offer or not?” Natsuki waited for an answer from Shizuru who responded by grasping on to the brunette's arm. “I'll take that as a yes.”

“Oh, wait. Before I leave.” Shizuru runs to get something from under her bed and put it in her pocket. “Okay, now we're ready for our little walk.”

Natsuki wondered what Shizuru put in her pocket along, but decided to ask her later as Shizuru and she walked out of Shizuru's cell and through the hallway.

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“Hey, Shizuru?”

“Yes, Natsuki?”

“I was wondering something. What did you put in your pocket. Just now when we were leaving your room.”

“Oh. Well, it's just this.” Shizuru pulls out a keychain that has on it an eight headed snake/octopus.

“Cool keychain.”

“Thanks. It's a KyoHime key chain. For some reason, it's like a security blanket to me if I'm going somewhere new or when I need my hands to do something when I'm staring to feel anxious about something that happened,” Shizuru said lightly gripping on the key chain before putting it pack in her pocket again, “I got this when I was seven.”

“Oh.” Nastuki said seeing other people stare at them, “Why are other people staring at us?”

“Maybe it's because my I'm getting all the attention with Natsuki being my helper for the next six months,” Shizuru said hugging Natsuki's arm tightly.

“Yeah. Maybe.”

“Hey, Fujino!” Shizuru and Natsuki turned around and saw a blonde woman who has dark purple eyes walking their way.

“Oh, hi, Haruka.”

“Haruka?” Natsuki wondered.

“She was my room mate two years ago. Right, Haruka?” Shizuru said smiling.

“Yeah, yeah. I was her room mate until you decided to move into a single room away from the everyone else!” Haruka said, looking at Natsuki, “Who's the dame? Another victim in this place.”

“Iya (no). This is Natsuki Kuga. She's gonna be taking care of me for the next six months.”

“You? Having someone take care of you? I thought I'd never see the day where Shizuru Fujino needs someone to watch over you like a child,” Haruka laughed, “But I guess it can't be helped, no offense.”

Shizuru smiled. “None taken, Haruka. I'm just happy that I'm here with my Natsuki.”

“Shizuru!” Natsuki exclaimed.

As the two continued to walk through the asylum, Natsuki saw that a few of the patients were practicing baseball, basketball and football.

“Hey, Shizuru, what are they doing over there?” Natsuki wondered.

“Oh, they're practicing for the games that will starting in the summer,” Shizuru explained.

“Oh, do you mean where you guys compete with another team or something?”

“Yes. I'll be joining the team again this year, too.”

“Really.”

“Yeah. I couldn't play last year because I was still going through a few things along with the doctors losing my medication that they mix with my tea bags whenever I make some tea (A/N: Well think about it. I always see her drinking tea all the time).”

“Oh. What are you going to play this year?”

“I don't know. I guess I'll play soccer this year.”

“That's cool. I know you'll do a great job kicking the ball into the goal.”

Shizuru smiled. “Ara, ara. My Natsuki is going to cheer for me when I go up against the Garderobe Asylum. That means she loves me!”

“Shut-up!!” Natsuki angrily yelled at the honey brunette who was still smiling “I almost forgot how you much you pushed my buttons like this.” Shizuru light laughed hearing Natsuki say, “And what do you mean Garderobe?”

“Garderobe is another asylum that we face every year. They're annoying when they win and gloat. We played them last year and I think one a girl who almost looks like Natsuki is always hitting on me.”

“Another girl hitting on you?”

“Yes. She almost looks like my beloved Natsuki, but with dark green hair that's shorter than Natsuki's hair and has lavender purple eyes,” Shizuru replied lightly swaying Natsuki's arm back and fourth like a child.

Natsuki lightly laughed at Shizuru's behavior. She still didn't understand why someone like Shizuru was in a place like an insane asylum as the brunette was taking Shizuru back to her cell.

“Well, I guess I'll see you this weekend, right?”

“Yes. I'll see Natsuki this weekend,” Shizuru said looking hugging as Natsuki left the cell and the asylum.

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