The House Sitting Series
I do not own the rights to American Eagle, Facebook, or Gakuen Alice. The rights(of GA) belong specifically to Higuchi Tachibana. :) The House Sitting Series follows six months after Car Ride and Simple Revenge. Think of it as an interrelated fiction using the same character models. Also character POV changes from Mikan to third person to Natsume. You'll get it. Enjoy! :D
The start of summer is a beginning and ending for many things. One thing that has ended on a good note was the school semester. Luckily everyone passed all of their classes; even I have somehow succeeded in graduating. Now starts the hard part for everyone: going from a senior in high school straight into being a freshman into the bigger student pool of what we all call college students, and wondering when the bloody financial aid will come in. Or find a job. I have not been successful in either event.
Not many people can get financial aid like Yuu Tobita. Not many people are fortunate to have money to spend on a college education, unlike my best friends Hotaru Imai, Ruka Nogi and my current boyfriend Natsume Hyuuga. Yes, him; dark, dreary, perverted but handsome Natsume. If you remember back in January when we went to the club and then Natsume told my older brother we had hot, violent sex to shut him up… then we wound up using a social media source to get back at said boyfriend because of what he said. Yeah, no. Luckily Tsubasa did not wind up too bloody and I only escaped his wrath from some rather steamy kisses. Needless to say, we all learned a valuable lesson that day.
Hotaru is someone who should not be messed with either. Ruka learned that a couple weeks ago when his group decided to use some of her research materials as a senior prank. I think he STILL is her servant until she is willing to forgive; and trust me she does not forgive easily.
Ruka Nogi is one of my best friends who fall into the nice guy group. He is super sweet, loves animals, and absolutely has a terrible singing voice. He tends to wind up in the rebel groups but I think it suits him well enough. As long as he does not break the law, anything is game.
Thus ends the beginning of this scenario and brings me to my current position at his house… alone.
Whine
It is NOT what you think. I am NOT cheating. If I were to even consider such a thing I would have packed my bags well in advance, bought a ticket out of the country, and somehow find a way to kill Mikan Sakura without actually killing myself. Or face the wrath of Natsume and wind up dead somewhere… I'd rather stay alive; thanks.
Whine Whine
No, I am actually house/puppy sitting for him. Ruka's parents have left the country for the next three weeks and I volunteered to watch his new puppy. So far I have had the house to myself for three days in a row. Apparently he had both of his jobs to work from ten in the morning with a small break from four and five, and then his other job from five thirty to eleven at night. How on earth he still manages to live is beyond me. I suppose working for Hotaru Imai has its advantages but sometimes I wonder if it is worth it. I love her, but sometimes she can be stingy with her money.
Whine Whine WHINE
I forgot to mention that this puppy has some serious anxiety issues.
A pure white bred Siberian husky with the clearest sapphire eyes named Everest jumped up into the lap of Mikan Sakura as she put down her phone. The puppy was just five months old and was not accustomed to being left alone. Period. When someone did leave the poor puppy girl alone, she would whine, bark, claw, chew, mutilate, stop eating and drinking, slobber, shake, and throw up continuously. Mikan had never seen a dog so terrified in her life, except now.
"Shh puppy, you're okay. I'm here!" Mikan would say and peck the puppy with butterfly kisses until she fell asleep on top of her lap. Hopefully Everest wouldn't become a lap dog when she was bigger. Unfortunately the main reason why Everest was freaking out and whining was because a fire detector with low battery life had been beeping.
Whenever it did beep the puppy would instantly cower run straight for Mikan and shake like she had seen a ghost. The only thing Mikan could do was hold her until the beeping stopped. Or find the blooding batteries to replace the almost dead one.
With a puppy licking her face non-stop, Mikan grabbed her discarded phone and texted Ruka.
Ru, Fire detector keeps beeping. Everest is having another panic attack. -M
Sometimes she was able to handle the puppy, but this was the seventh time this happened that day; and it was only 11 am. Her phone buzzed twice, startling not only her but the puppy shaking in her lap.
"Shh Everest, it's just the fire detector. Nothing to be scared of." She looked at the text before sighing. Very Ruka-like.
Poor baby! Just cuddle with her Mi, I promise to get some batteries tonight and replace them. I was wondering why she was shaking all of last night! Give her kisses for me! -Ru
Sighing Mikan put her phone down on the table top next to the chair she was in and started rubbing the puppy behind the ears and down her back. "Hey hey, Ruka will get some batteries to replace them later tonight! Can we wait 'til then, neh?"
The puppy just shook in response.
When twenty minutes had passed Mikan had laid Everest on her small bed. The poor puppy finally stopped shaking and had also gone to sleep. With this Mikan thought it was a perfect time to jump into the shower and get out of her sleepwear.
She had just started her shower when that incessant beep went off once more. It was like the universe was saying: Nope, we want to terrorize this poor puppy and the puppy watcher while she was stark naked in the shower.
Whine WHINE WHINE WHINE
"Everest It's okay!" Mikan shouted over the water. She had spritzed some shampoo into her open palm to comb it through her wet auburn straight hair. The sooner she was out of this shower, the sooner she could keep Everest pre-occupied.
WHINE WHINE WHINE
"EVEREST, IT'S ALRIGHT!"
Whine
SCRATCH SCRATCH SCRATCH
WHINE
This dog was going to scratch the bloody paint off the door!
"OH MY GAWD, EVEREST!"
WHINE
The scratching did not cease and the whining continued getting worse. Mikan, worried that Ruka would get mad if the door got damaged, jumped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around her. She unlocked the door and the puppy bounding inside the room. She was shaking like a leaf and barking now.
"Everest I am taking a shower. Stop. I'll help you when I'm out of the shower. Wait."
When she picked up the puppy and placed her in the hall Mikan went to close the door. When she closed it the puppy started to whine and scratch again. Bloody hell, this dog would be the bane of her and it was not even noon yet.
"ALRIGHT, I get it. Come in. See me in all my naked glory while I take a bloody shower!"
Mikan opened the door allowing the dog inside the bathroom and she made her way to the tub. Dropping the towel, she went behind the curtain where the hot water was still running. Everest freaked out as she went out of view and ran straight to the tub jumping into the tub. Mikan had to catch the puppy before it had brought down the whole curtain with its jump.
"Stop Everest, I'm here. See?" She scratched behind her ears once more before spritzing the last of the conditioner into her palm. "Hang on for a sec Ev."
Luckily the puppy seemed to understand her and was leaving her alone. Finally, some peace and quiet. She finished her shower two minutes after that and then turned off the water. She thrust opens the curtain to find the puppy ecstatically happy… in the arms of her boyfriend while she is standing, naked and dripping water in the shower.
"AUJHGDY!?" Mikan screamed before slamming the curtain closed while Natsume was supporting a shaking puppy. "You PERVERT! Get OUT!" She grabbed the closest thing to her, which happened to be the sponge sopping wet and tossed it at Natsume.
Natsume bolted with the puppy in tow shouting just as much ferocity. "It's not like I haven't seen you naked before!"
"In fifth grade and that was a DARE." She retorted before crying. "Now I'm never going to be married!"
Yup. Day just got worse.
Natsume was playing catch with the puppy with a tennis ball down the spacious hall when Mikan emerged from the bathroom in her cargo American Eagle shorts with a pink tank top and white button collared shirt. She had pink socks on to warm her feet since Ruka's house felt like it was 50 degrees all the time.
"I should kill you for walking in without telling me!" She started when she saw her boyfriend.
Natsume shrugged before taking the ball from the puppy. He threw it passed Mikan's shoulder where the puppy bolted past her to the hall.
"I did text you. You just didn't read it apparently." Mikan immediately went to her phone and to her surprise there was one missed call and two text messages.
Hey Mi, I had Natsume buy some batteries. He's going to replace the old one in the detector for me. I figured my poor puppy would be better off without the panic attacks all day! –Ru
And the last one was from her boyfriend
Since you didn't pick up, I'm assuming you're in the shower. Don't blame me if I walk in, scare the living shit out of you, or see you naked. –Natsume
Mikan sighed before tossing her phone. "Stupid technology."
Everest brought back the ball to only have Natsume take the ball from her mouth to throw it back down the hall. Just like that the puppy was bounding down the hall again. "Don't blame technology for your stupidity, idiot."
"Don't call me an idiot, pervert." She stuck her tongue out at him and he shrugged.
"I did warn you in the text. You can't get mad at me polka dots, and just for the record blue and purple dotted bras won't spare you from your christened nickname. Find some sexier lingerie or something."
She flushed a deep shade of red before wanting to drown in her misery. Mikan did leave her underwear out in the open in the bathroom. "Shut up Nasty fox. Just fix the fire detector already before I yank the entire system out."
"Hn."
"What do you want for lunch Natsume?" Mikan was standing in the kitchen with a bag of Japanese rice with edamane, tofu, and water chestnuts. "I am not eating meat this month because I am trying a Pescetarian diet, but I can still cook food for you."
Natsume shot a sardonic look at his girlfriend from the lazy-boy chair he was sitting in. The puppy was passed out near his feet from all the playing they did in the past two hours.
"Honestly, you don't need to stop eating meat. You already barely eat and now you're cutting your diet even more. What can you even eat? A bread slice?"
"I eat more foods that range from veggies, nuts, dairy, and fish." Mikan stuck her tongue out.
Natsume gave her another look. "Fish is meat, Polka."
"Seafood then! You're avoiding the question, what do you want to eat?" Exasperated she stood with her free hand on her hip while waving her rice in the air. "Do you want what I'm having or something else?"
Natsume nonchalantly waved his hand in the air. "Whatever you're having I guess. Hopefully I don't die from food poisoning."
"It can't be worse than that Filiberto's taco's we had that one evening." Mikan brushed his comment away.
Natsume smirked before reaching for the remote. "Anything is better than that shit. Well like they say: the universe is in the right place if the woman is in the kitchen; Even if it is a clumsy polka-dotted one."
"Japanese fried rice for me, and one poorly made sandwich for the boyfriend. Coming up."
Natsume just smirked from his seat. "At least you know how it works."
"JERK!"
Mikan and I finished eating her food that she had prepared. Mikan just zapped it in the microwave for two minutes before adding a small bit of soy sauce to it, which defeats the purpose of her so call diet if she was avoiding sodium intake as well. Sometimes I wonder if she is changing her diet just to irritate me. It makes me concerned that she stopped eating meat, only because she's small as it is. In fact she probably should eat more than an average person so she could get some figure. Boyfriends are allowed some opinion in what their girlfriends eat.
I got up from my chair and took both of our dishes to the sink where I started cleaning up her mess she left over the past few days. Normally I wouldn't even allow her to stay at another guy's place by herself but since Ruka's parents' house was a 3000 square foot mansion with 5 bedrooms to pick from, well I was more lenient to the idea, even more especially since I have a key to the place. When Ruka came and asked Mikan to watch the puppy and his house I thought it might give her something to do, seeing as how she had yet to find a summer job.
See, when you're the boyfriend you hear all the miseries that come to and from the girlfriend. He understood that the economy was bad, but honestly, all Mikan had to say was: "Help me Natsume?" And he would instantly help her. Of course that would mean breaking Mikan's pride and stubbornness down into a pulp. She was not the type to ask for help, and even if she did need the help, she would word it in a different way.
"Hey, if you wind up in a hospital don't expect any sympathy from me."
See, I say things I don't exactly mean to rile her up to get her to think about her situation. Such as this food diet she's trying.
"Oh come on Natsume, I haven't fainted yet. I'm okay. I'm bouncing with energy!"
I blankly stared at her with a deadpan before blankly stating that the key word in that sentence was yet.
"Are you concerned about my health Natsume? I'm okay, really!" She jumped out of her chair and walked to the granite countertop where the sink was situated. "I promise to stop the diet if I feel sick, or if there isn't any food to eat."
I look at her and see her promise in her eyes. She lights up when she says she'll do something. That's just the person she is.
"Well if you wind up in the hospital, I won't be there to ask how you're doing. I'm going to slap you a couple times while security is trying to drag me out."
Mikan laughed at the threat seeing the slight smile on my face. "Yeah, love you too."
"Damn straight." I say before leaning over the counter top to where she is leaning over and kiss her forehead. "Now help me dry these dishes before I think of doing something else instead."
I watched her face flush a deep crimson when she caught my innuendo. "Pervert! We haven't even done anything yet!"
I made it a point to mention the yet and was rewarded with another bright red face.
Facebook Application
Mikan Sakura has logged in. (3:45 p.m.)
Mikan Sakura is watching a cute and adorable puppy! –with Natsume Hyuuga
Ruka Nogi, Sumire Shouda, and three others like this…
Anna Umenomiya (3:50 pm): Aww! Pictures! ASAP!
Mikan Sakura (3:52 pm): Hold on, Natsume won't hold still. Lol
Hotaru Imai (3:53 pm): Normally he doesn't.
Ruka Nogi and Mikan Sakura like this…
Natsume Hyuuga (3:56 pm): Now facebook will never get that picture. Umenomiya, you'll have to thank those three for that.
Anna Umenomiya (3:57 pm): OMG! D'= I just want to see the PUPPY! I could care less about Hyuuga!
Hotaru Imai, Ruka Nogi, and Mikan Sakura like this…
Mikan Sakura (3:58 pm): Hahahahaha rofl!
Natsume Hyuuga (3:59 pm): I'm right next to you polka. :)
Mikan Sakura (4:00 pm): Oh shit, he smiled. NOT. GOOD!
Kitsune Me (4:02 pm): DAYUM, Natsume you got BURNED by ANNA no less! And Mikan, I'd run if I were you.
Yuu Tobita (4:03 pm): This is why I love Anna. She speaks her mind freely. :)
Anna Umenomiya likes this…
Hotaru Imai (4:05 pm): Oh, Mikan's running alright. Camera's picking her up running down into the garage with a stalking, brooding Natsume behind her.
Ruka Nogi (4:07 pm): How is there a cam… nevermind. Not going to ponder that. NATSUME, whatever you two do, do NOT have sex in my house. o.O
Hotaru Imai (4:08 pm): I would be more worried about blood stains and your puppy seeing as it ran out of the house into the garage. The garage was open by the way.
Ruka Nogi (4:10 pm): WHAT?! EVEREST! D=
Natsume Hyuuga (5:30 pm): has just uploaded a picture.
Natsume Hyuuga (5:30 pm): Look at how tired these two are. And Anna there's Everest. And I'm not even in it.
Anna Umenomiya likes this…
Anna Umenomiya (5:31 pm): SO CUTE!
Anna Umenomiya (5:32 pm): And you could have been in the pic too Hyuuga, just teasing.
Anna Umenomiya (5:32 pm): …why is Mikan out too?
Hotaru Imai (5:33 pm): Natsume chased them both down AND carried Mikan back like a sack of potatoes when he caught her.
Sumire Shouda (5:34 pm): How do you KNOW EVERYTHING IMAI?! .
Hotaru Imai (5:35 pm): I just do. Just like I know how you, Kokoro, and Mochiage went to dinner at Kabuki near East Gate last night. Didn't even invite me.
Sumire Shouda (5:36 pm): o.O The fuck?!
Ruka Nogi (5:37 pm): It's Imai. She knows everything. I'm sooo glad Everest is safe!
Natsume Hyuuga (5:35 pm): Ruka you better teach this dog some discipline. It might help her anxiety too.
Ruka Nogi (5:36 pm): But… but… I can't discipline Everest! She's soooo cute!
Natsume Hyuuga (5:37 pm): I fear for the next puppy that comes into this household.
Hotaru Imai likes this…
Tsubasa Andou posted on Mikan Sakura's Wall:
Tsubasa Andou (7:12 pm): It's been three days, almost four at Ruka's. You did NOT tell me your BOYFRIEND would be there with you! COME HOME!
Mikan Sakura (7:13 pm): What? No, Natsume and I haven't done anything. I have to be here for another three to four days before Ruka can get some leniency in his schedule.
Tsubasa Andou (7:14 pm): Then I'm coming over to supervise! No sex on my watch!
Mikan Sakura (7:15 pm): My god, why does everyone think we are having sex when we are by ourselves?!
Tsubasa Andou (7:16 pm): Because you're horny teenagers!
Izumi Yuikihara likes this…
Natsume Hyuuga (7:16 pm): Because they're perverts at heart.
Mikan Sakura (7:17 pm): Takes one to know one. :P
Yuka Yukihira (7:18 pm): Mikan, Natsume; Izumi and Tsubasa both left the house with some shovels. Hope that is ample time to barricade the house before the come torch the place. :)
Natsume Hyuuga (7:19 pm): Thanks Mom.
Yuka Yukihara (7:19 pm): No probs. Wouldn't want any trouble to befall you. :)
Tsubasa Andou (7:19 pm): MOM! Don't warn them!
Mikan Sakura (7:20 pm): Shut up Tsubasa, and Natsume, She's MY MOM!
Natsume Hyuuga (7:21 pm): I can have two Moms. Just like you do.
Kaoru Hyuuga (7:22 pm): Couldn't resist. I want to be Mikan's Mom too!
Mikan Sakura and Yuka Yukihara likes this…
Mikan Sakura (7:24 pm): Yeah! :D That's awesome!
Kaoru Hyuuga (7:25pm): You guys should probably barricade yourselves. :)
Natsume Hyuuga (7:25 pm): Got it covered. I know a surefire way to level things out mom.
Kaoru Hyuuga (7:26 pm): That's my son. :)
Natsume Hyuuga and Aoi Hyuuga like this…
Ruka Nogi (7:27 pm): Please don't burn down my house! D'=
T.K- Thank you for reading. Please feel free to leave a review! :) There is so much more... deliciousness coming up. Muahahaha. :D