Best friends to rivals
Summary: They were best friends since who knows when. Who would've thought that they'll love the same girl? Who will be the one to win her heart? NxM pairing!! Slight RxM…
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Best friends to Rivals…
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Chapter One: Prologue
Mikan Sakura's happily making her way towards her classroom. She's been here in Academy for whole six years. And somehow, she became more mature now.
The School Festival had just ended yesterday. She can't help not to suppress a soft smile as she remembers the incident last night.
Flashback
"Thanks for the wonderful dance, Ruka." Mikan beamed, still holding his hand.
Ruka let out a sigh before saying, "N-no problem."
"Thank you." She thanked him again and again. They had been doing this for the past six years. "I'll find Hotaru now, I guess."
Ruka looked at her shyly,"Sure, I'll have to find Natsume too."
"Okay!"
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"Hey, Hotaru!" Mikan saw her best friend eating at their assigned table. "What are you doing?"
"Eating, can't you see?" Hotaru answered coldly as ever.
Mikan smiled at her best friend's attitude. She was use to her coldness. But she knows that she genuinely cares for her.
She took a sit beside Hotaru. She immediately searches for something to say, "By the way Hotaru, have you seen Tsubasa? I can't find him since we separated this afternoon."
"Why are you asking me? Hotaru asked, still eating. "We're not that close, you know."
Mikan sighed in defeat. 'There's no way to start a good conversation with this girl.'
She decided to join her best friend eating but then she was stopped when the announcer tried to catch all of the students' attention.
"And now, ladies and gentlemen!" the announcer cleared his throat before continuing, "Here's Hotaru Imai, together with her last dance, Mikan Sakura!"
Everyone turned their heads towards them. Mikan's body tensed. She smiled nervously at Hotaru. "Do… do we really have to dance, again?"
Hotaru rolled her eyes, dragging her forcefully to the dance floor and started dancing with the rhythm of the song. "Don't tell me that you're still not used to this. We're doing this every year, weren't we?"
Actually, that was partly true. "Yeah," she answered as she gave her a cheerful smile.
End of Flash back.
Mikan stopped at her tracks when she saw a familiar figure sitting under a Sakura tree. She smiled, knowing who it was. She quickly approached him.
"Hey, Natsume." She greeted sweetly. "What are you doing here?"
Natsume opened his eyes and stared at her irritably. "None of your business, idiot."
"Bastard!" Mikan yelled angrily. "Why don't you try to call me by my real and beautiful name, use it."
"Go away." He shrugged uncaringly.
"Grrr… What's wrong with you?" She asked, still looking down at him. "Yesterday, you're so nice to me. But now, it seems-"
"Is that so?" Natsume cut her off arrogantly. "Why don't you just shut the hell up and go to your respective room already?"
That made her shut up.
SILENCE
But then, Mikan looked away.
"If you're done talking," Natsume muttered coldly, "You're free to leave."
Mikan shot him a disbelieving look, but managed to say, "Fine, I'll leave you. Have a nice day Natsume-kun!" she stated sarcastically.
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"Tsubasa!" Mikan called excitedly as she made her way to a sleeping student up in the tree. "Hey! Wake up!"
Tsubasa woke up by an annoying voice calling him. He looked down at Mikan's smiling face. He took a deep sigh before climbing down the tree. "Hey, Mikan."
"I'm just wondering," Mikan started, still smiling. "Where were you last night?"
Tsubasa stared at her questionably, "What do you mean?"
"I didn't saw you at the dance." Milan answered straightly.
"Oh, about that?" He put his arms at the top of his head and continued, "I'm just tired. So I decided not to attend the dance."
"Oh, really?" Mikan clasped her palms together. "I guess I have to go."
"Wait," he placed a hand over her shoulder and smiled at him. "Let's talk for a while."
"Okay," Mikan nodded and sat under the tree. "About what?"
"Misaki told me that you and Ruka were dancing together last night?"
"True, why?" she asked.
"Well, I just thought that you and Ruka look so good together!" Tsubasa declared happily.
Mikan blushed a bit on his previous statement. "W-why would you …think that?"
"Nothing," Tsubasa shrugged. "But tell me, do you have a feelings for him?"
"M-me?" Mikan pointed her self.
"Yeah, you."
"Er, Ruka and I were good friends."
"And?"
"And what?" She stared at him intently. "why are you asking me these questions?"
"I told you, it's nothing." Tsubasa answered plainly. "But don't you like Ruka?"
"I like him, of course!" She exclaimed. "As… as a, friend?"
"What I meant is," Tsubasa turned his head to see her face more clearly, "Don't you like him? As a lover?"
Mikan blushed furiously. "We're… just friends… okay?"
"Fine," Tsubasa said, "but, I like him for you."
"W-why?"
"It's because I can see his kindness. And I can also see that he cares for you."
"u-uhmm.." Mikan stuttered, "I guess, I should go now. Classes will start in a few minutes."
Tsubasa nodded at her and waved his hand.
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Mikan shook her head. She'll not let their conversation will affect her feelings. She sighed as she entered her classroom and smiled widely,
"Good morning everyone!" She greeted cheerfully.
She saw Hotaru sitting on her chair, reading. "Morning Hotaru!"
Hotaru nodded and continued to read her book.
She saw Ruka looking at her. She smiled (a/n: she'll never get tired of smiling! ),
"Morning Ruka!" she greeted.
"Good morning." Ruka greeted her back, returning her smile.
"Ruka," she called again,
"Yeah?"
"Why did you disappear suddenly at the dance last night?" She asked boldly. "I thought you'll only search for Natsume? But then I didn't saw you after that."
Ruka looked away, trying to hide his blushing cute face. "I just decided to go back and sleep."
Mikan curiously looked at Ruka, "Is that so?"
"Yeah, why'd you ask?"
"Nothing." She simply shrugged.
Their conversation was stopped when Natsume suddenly appeared from nowhere and took his sit beside Ruka. He didn't even look at them.
Mikan looked back at Ruka and said, "Do you-"
She stopped talking when she noticed their teacher finally entered their classroom.
"Good Morning, my beloved students!" Narumi greeted energetically.
They were all startled. The reason? Narumi was now wearing a very weird clothes! Sure, they were quite use to his weird tastes about clothing but today was… different.
He's wearing a dead pink gown that reaches the floor. Then, there's a very big head of a brown bear on top of his head.
And the weirdest thing was…
HE HAD WINGS!!!
Unfortunately, Narumi took all their weird gestures wrong.
'Argh, I'm not using my Alice yet, they can't really resist my charm. Oh Kami-sama, it seems I'm a really good person in my last life to have this kind of treatment.' He thought dramatically.
He faked a cough to get all of his students' attention. "Now, my dear students. All of you will have a group activity."
All of the students growled. 'Damn this man! Can't he realize that we're still having a hang over because of our previous events?!' a student thought.
Narumi chuckled nervously. "Okay, this will be your activity."
"Each group will have two members. A boy and a girl. All you have to do is practice how to bake a cake-but it should be a damn delicious cake. And importantly, no one's allowed to used Alice. You can cheat and all… But, be sure I won't caught you."
"And one more thing," he said, folding his arms. "You'll have a week to practice."
Students started to stand up.
"And one more thing again," Narumi said, scratching the back of his head.
"What again!" another student asked, obviously getting annoyed.
"I'll be the one who'll arranged the groupings."
"What do you exactly mean by that?" another annoyed student asked.
Narumi took out a two boxes that appeared from who-knows-where and smiled sheepishly, "All of the girls' entire name was written in a piece of paper inside of this box." He pointed at the light pink colored box.
"And same goes for the boys in this box," he pointed at the dark blue colored box.
How stupid.
"Now, I'll pick." Narumi announced.
Mikan sighed in annoyance. Narumi-sensei is sick.
"Sumire," Narumi called, "Your partner will be…"
Sumire quickly stood up while smiling widely, expecting it will be either Natsume or Ruka.
"Kokoroyomi."
Sumire's jaw dropped. She bowed her head and looked away, fuming.
"Mikan Sakura," She heard Narumi say, he looked at the piece of paper he was holding. "Your partner will be…"
"Ruka Nogi."
So, she and Ruka, eh? Not bad, she looked at Ruka who happens to look at her as well. She gave him a thumbs up and said, "We can do it!"
Ruka can't help but to smile at her childish actions.
"Hotaru Imai and…"
She wondered who will be Hotaru's partner…
"And Natsume Hyuuga."
To be continued…
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