FIREFLIES
Written by Aya Chyle
It was Hotaru's 12th birthday and knowing Mikan, she'll probably surprise party for her cold hearted of a best friend. When she suddenly asks Ruka to distract the stoic girl that had been blackmailing him with no mercy, fate began to joke around. It was certainly not a good idea to hang out with the Ice Queen herself even if it's just a day; or so he thought.
Hotaru's heels made soft sounds as she shuffled her way to her classroom. It was a quiet, breezy Friday morning. The morning air felt refreshing and relaxing on her fair white skin; to the point that she almost didn't want to get up of her cozy bed thirty minutes ago.
Almost.
She stopped on her tracks, facing the wooden doors that'll lead her inside the room. Her perfectly thin eyebrow twitched when she heard the noises-obviously created by her chaotic baka classmates-as her hand slowly reach out for the cold, golden doorknob and twisted it.
Without any second thoughts, she pushed the door open, gaining all of their attention. She caught Mikan's the most.
And she swore she met Ruka's bright blue eyes full of anxiety; and if her unnoticeable droopy eyes wasn't playing around, she saw how his blood drained out from his body when he saw her. She smirked at how scared he was of her. He was even sweating. It's cold, for goodness' sake!
"HOTARUUUUU!"
Her head snapped to the direction where the annoying voice came from; and it all made sense when her eyes stopped at a certain brunette who was sitting beside her seat.
The hyper girl with bouncing, childish-looking pigtails shouted with doubled excitement. The girl stood up with sparkling eyes and started to run to Hotaru's direction with wide open arms. "HOTARU! HOTARU! HOTARU!"
The stoic girl on the other hand,almost flinched at her best friend's squeaky and irritating voice. When the cheerful brunette was already five meters away from her, Hotaru grabbed a certain gun behind her back.
"HAPPY BIR-"
BAKA! BAKA! BAKA!
"Oww..." Mikan groaned. A lump was forming on her hard-literally-head. She just headbutted the floor while her Hotaru blowed the smoke that came out of her baka gun. It wasn't long when Mikan decided to stand up and dust off the invisible dirt on her red skirt. She turned to face her cold hearted best friend; meeting her blank stare.
"Mou, Hotaru," She said in a hollow tone. "I just wanted to greet you, since it is your day today." She reasoned out, her tears flowing from her eyes anime-style.
Hotaru raised an eyebrow inwardly; but her face still has no trace of any emotion. "What do you mean." She asked monotonously, and it was barely even a question!
Mikan eyes widened in shock. "HOTARU YOU SERIOUSLY-"
"Shout one more time and I swear I'll shove Nogi's white beast inside that big mouth of yours." She said in a cold but threatening tone; cutting off Mikan's loud words.
Mikan sweatdropped, her hands scratching the back of her neck with an appologetical smile etched on her face. "Hehe. Sorry, Hotaru."
Of course this didn't escape from the beloved animal pheromone boy of Class B.
"Hey!" Ruka Nogi stood up from his seat with the white beast on his arms. The two girls, and the whole class, urned to his direction. Hotaru stared at his azure eyes as if daring him to go on; and Ruka was at lost for words, for he had known right at that moment, the genius raven-haired girl won the argument again... even if there wasn't an arguement yet.
'Damn, why do I always feel like I lost even if nothing happened!'The blonde boy thought, still planning on how to escape the problem he got hinself into.
"Hey..." he said once again, his classmates' attention still on him. "Hey... Natsume, do you have a crosswise paper?"
Mental facepalm. Note to himself: Do not, I repeat, do not act violent at Hotaru's words for his animal friends if there are a lot of people around.
Koko and his friend snickered, as the class gave him confusing and weird looks. Hotaru fought the urge to roll her eyes at her favorite victim's lame comeback. Natsume, who asleep after all that happened a few minutes ago, woke up as soon as he heard his best friend's call.
"Sure." He said blandly, and got something from his leather bag and placed it down on Ruka's side of the table. "Here. I have a lot."
That did it; Koko laughed so hard that he almost rolled on the floor while his hand was on his stomach and the other hand pointing at them. They all turned to him, giving him warning looks. Unfortunately, the mind reader had forgotten how dangerous Natsume was; especially when the guy just woke up from a nap.
Natsume's forehead ceased. "Got any problem, Yome?" He asked in a cold, dark tone. Koko tried to calm down, but seeing the oblivious Natsume right now looking like an idiot made him laugh more.
But, well, everything has an ending.
No, Koko wasn't in a tomb yet. A small ball of fire just flashed on a tip of his hair and he started to run around the room like a lunatic, with a grin still visible on his face. "Help! Help! Mayday! Mayday!"
Kitsuneme, the brilliant helpful friend of Koko, just stood there watching him as the fire started to eat some strands of his blonde hair. "This just reminds me of a song I've heard once about a girl on fire." He said, and waved playfully at his friend. "Having fun there, bro?"
"Shut up!"
Hotaru rolled her eyes at the scene. Koko is a real idiot for laughing at Hyuuga like that, not thinking about the consequences he might suffer, until now. Natsume moved his sight to his friend, who was still standing while staring at the mind reader. "Oi, Ruka."
Ruka then looked at Natsume. "H-huh?"
"Wake me up if that baka is already toasted." He said coolly, then puts back his manga on his face with his legs on his table, probably going back to his disturbed sleep.
The blonde boy was gaping at his friend, not knowing what to answer. Hotaru caught a glimpse of this and sighed. "Okay, enough distractions." She said in a low tone, but everyone seemed to stop when they heard her words. "Settle down, bakas." She said while looking at Koko, his hair dripping wet because of Kitsuneme's water jog. She then moved her eyes to Ruka, who was still standing and dumbfounded. She smirked. "You too, Nogi."
Ruka flushed. He suddenly remembered the state he was in and chose to sit quietly. Hotaru turned to her best friend who had a distorted face. She rolled her eyes inwardly at the sight of this. 'Such a slow poke.'
"Now, you baka," she said and stared at Mikan. "What were you saying?"
Mikan looked at her with a confused look. "H-huh?"
An awkward silence occured. She stared at her with a glint of amusement and annoyance in her amethyst orbs, though it disappeared as soon as it showed.
She sighed in exhaustion. "What about today."
It took a while for Mikan's poor brain to register it all. And when it did, hey chocolate brown eyes widened. "You really don't know what today is, Hotaru?" She asked, with a worried and surprised tone.
The stoic girl's blood started to boil. Is this girl making her look oblivious or stupid? "I wouldn't know if you don't answer my question properly, would I?" She said with a glint of annoyance in her calm voice.
And Mikan's jaw dropped at her answer. "Hotaru!" She exclaimed, wailing her arms in the air. "It's the 25th of October today!"
She didn't respond as everything processed in her mind. And when it finally did, Mikan's next words felt like a slap of reality:
"It's your birthday today!"
A/N : Hoho, people of the country! This is my first fanfic here, and it's all about Gakuen Alice's bunny boy and ice queen! They're my favorite 'couple', next to NatsuMikan. How I wish they just ended up together since they are cute together.
Anyway. Please review! I'm new, Btw. XD
