A/N: Writer's block on the other story so I decided to start something that has been crossing my mind for quite a while. Shizuru as a queen who totally likes girls and makes trip to Japan, oh who might she find during her search for dark-haired Sobame?
In the beginning it's almost the same as the Iono the Fanatics Manga but once Natsuki appears the plot will differ.
Disclaimer: I do neither own Mai Hime nor Iono the Fanatics.
A soft happy humming was heard and a figure entered the room, where Haruka Suzushiro once again was reading over some important notes.
The humming attracted her attention and she looked up only to see her queen smiling happily at her.
Haruka tipped two fingers at her forehead and sighed as the queen spoke up: "Ara, I've found two new ones~~~"
Haruka sweatdropped at the happy yet content face of her queen who dragged two girls with her: One shy looking with short, light-brown hair and a smiling one with long, blonde hair.
Haruka sighed again: "Again, Shizuru-sama?"
Two maids now came beside Shizuru as she started giggling happy: "Ara, yes!"
Next to Haruka appeared now Yukino Kikukawa, wearing a calm expression. "It's okay, right Haruka? Those girls came here because they wanted to…"
Before she could finish her sentence, Haruka interrupted her, her voice raised now: "Yukino!"
She again looked at her queen who was now being undressed by two of her maids.
Haruka got more and more angry and started yelling now: "What I'm talking about is a matter of procedure!" She was shaking her head dramatically and pointed at the queen, who was surrounded by four girls now: "Even now, this palace is overflowing with Royal Attendants!"
She swung her arm dramatically now pointing at a bunch of girls standing behind her: "There's been over one thousand added in less than a year!!"
The queen tipped her finger on her chin, making a thinking pose. She put on her most innocent look when she spoke up: "It should be enough just based on the fact that they are cute!" Of course all of the girls had tasks to do. But the queen sure tended to hire a lot more than really needed.
Haruka stood in front of Shizuru now, still yelling: "Queen! I! Oh! NO! Please think of the country's finances!"
Yukino watched the scene quite bored. After all it happened almost every time when the queen brought new girls to the palace. Meanwhile the maids left the room, scared of the shouting Haruka.
"If all you do is increase the number of girls, it doesn't make the country prosperous!"
Since Haruka didn't seem to calm down, it was now time for Yukino to interfere. She lay her hands on Haruka's shoulders and said with a calm voice: "Majesty… Haruka is just being jealous. Don't listen to her."
Haruka started blushing and tried to free herself from Yukino's grip. "YUKINO!"
Shizuru smiled at the scene in front of her. Haruka was too easy to be upset, really. But it was as easy to calm her again, that the queen had learned by now. "The only ones I keep close to me are my Sobame. Are you dissatisfied?"
She placed two fingers on Haruka's chin who tried to flinch: "Hmpf… no." The queen really could be a terrible person. Haruka hated to be blown off like that in front of Yukino. She'd never admit it, but secretly Haruka adored her. But she wasn't the type who enjoyed body contact that much so she always had to blush when the queen got too close to her. Thus everyone thought that she actually liked the queen.
Just a moment later the queen's serious face was gone and a graceful smile was shown again. "We should take a short campaign." Her smile grew even brighter now, "We'll work together better and it will fix your mood!"
Both of the Sobame were stunned for a moment: "Eh… campaign?"
Yukino immediately remembered something the queen had once mentioned: "Your Majesty, will it be the itinerary you once spoke about?"
Shizuru nodded in agreement. She coughed before she spoke up again: "All the Royal Attendants were selected by me and they're all skilled, but…"
For a moment there was a hint of sadness in the queen's eyes. But before anyone could notice she smiled again as she declared: "I've been unsatisfied with the proportion of dark-haired Sobame for some time."
Haruka's left eye-brow twitched when she repeated with a shaking voice: "Proportion of dark-haired…"
Before she could complain the queen throw her a flashing smile and continued: "I've been thinking of searching for dark-haired attendants from that famous land of dark hair 'Japan'!"
In Shizuru's mind popped up several words by the mentioning of Japan: Princesses, Maiko, Geisha, Yamato Nadeshiko…
Haruka looked at the queen shocked: "Queen, wait a moment, please. Are you telling me you're going to go to that country to buy slaves?!"
"Ara, I'm not buying."
Haruka's voice was raised again by now: "Don't bother me with details! You can't start diplomatic relations based on a pretty face!"
Shizuru giggles again as she looked up from a magazine she had grabbed a while ago: "Ara, I'll make sure that it's mutually agreeable."
"I… I know… but…"
Not again it was Yukino's time to interfere. Yet again she laid a hand on Haruka's shoulder and spoke up: Haruka… Her Majesty just wants to be reminded on the previous Majesty who came from Japan."
Indeed the former queen was a black-haired Japanese beauty.
That moment it snapped in Haruka who looked at the queen with a mixture of pity and guilt.
She then immediately kneeled in front of the queen: "I didn't think about your Majesty's feelings…"
"Enough! Ara it was me who didn't explain things. Yukino is just overly sensitive."
The same moment she gave Yukino a wink while thinking: "And she prepares wonderful lies."
Yukino gave the queen a professional smile: "To understand your feelings is my job."
Now the still kneeling Haruka spoke up again: "We will go with you. Protecting your life with our own!"
Shizuru clapped her hands happily: "We have Haruka's agreement." She then turned to Yukino, "Yukino, please ensure the country is in good hands during our absence."
"The responsible parties have been selected. For the group we will take Mai and Mikoto as special police." Behind Yukino now were standing two girls: A busty girl with orange hair and a shorter girl with black spiky hair.
"Of course Haruka and I will accompany you. We'll keep it a small, inconspicuous group."
The queen was quite content. Her servants were really reliable. "If so, then what if we depart tomorrow?"
"TOMORROW?" Once again Haruka's yelling could be heard throughout the whole palace.
The queen totally ignored Haruka this time and looked up. "But before that, I'll have to comfort my Royal Attendants. I will be leaving them and thus make them sad for a while."
Smiling she turned around again and looked at Yukino who immediately got the hint: "Alright, I'll have a tea-party prepared."
The queen then looked at Haruka quite seriously: "Haruka. I want you to listen to me without getting mad."
"What is it?"
Shizuru smiled brightly at her Obame, saying: "How many Sobame can I get?"
Haruka looked at her first dumbfounded, then annoyed and finally pissed: "FIVE IS MY LIMIT!"
The queen started sobbing dramatically: "I'm going to die from that limit!" How was the queen to survive if she was in a country full of dark-haired beauties and she only could take five out of several millions? That was not fair, that was definitely not fair!
"I don't care!"
Not really listening to the quarrel, Yukino was reading a guide about Japan while thinking: "I'm just going to enjoy the trip."
How the queen imagines her trip to Japan~
It's a bright sunny day, the sakuras just started blooming and she just enrolled to the academy. It was her first day of school-life and Shizuru was sure she'd totally enjoy it. After all she was at an all-girls school! Of course she's hiding her true identity.
At her school there will be the cute underclassmen, a hot school-nurse, a sexy kaichou and many fascinating glasses-girls!
Being the graceful and charming Shizuru-sama she of course receives confessions almost every day.
Then one day – after the time flew by very fast – it's only a week until she returns to her home country. A heart-breaking school life story…
Suddenly the queen's beautiful picture of her trip to Japan got cut into pieces by the yelling Haruka who hit the queen with the punishment-stick – some stick in hand-form that she pressed against the queen's face as it started hitting her.
The queen, unsure whether to laugh or cry only could form: "Ah hey, that hurts!"
So much to the prolologue...
Some words that might be useful to have a description to:
Maiko: Maikos are apprentice Geishas
Yamato Nadeshiko: a famous person