HEY GUYS! New story, but this ones for NatsumexMikan, a gakuen alice pairing that i love! I hope you enjoy!
Prologue:
She was crying.
His eyes widened when he saw tears running down her face, her arms wrapped around her knee's, the scratches and bruises evident all over her skin.
Why? Why was she crying? She never cried when he hit her or insulted her. She only glared at him. No one had ever managed to even make her eyes water. People even tried throwing her over the Needle just to get her scared.
But she never even flinched!
So what was going on?
"Hey, you baka. Whats up?" He called, walking towards her, his red eyes narrowed.
She glanced up at him, her eyes dull and uninterested. She stared at him for a moment before slowly untangling herself and standing to her full height For a second she just stood there, but when he was only a foot away she broke into a trot down the street.
He would've gone after her but froze when she lifted a hand, her middle finger pointed up. She was obviously telling him to piss off.
He laughed softly. Of course, he mustve been seeing things. The great Mikan crying?
No way.
Turning towards the direction of his house, Natsume walked out of the courtyard and ignored the giggling girls who yelped his name in unison. When he was safely out of school grounds, he spotted Ruka sprinting towards him, two bottles of beer in his hand.
Natsume waved at him and kept walking, only slower so he could catch up.
When they walked side by side in silence, drinking their beers, Natsumes thoughts strayed to Mikan. Why had she looked as if she was crying? Why had she seemed so sad? And why did she have all those bruises?
The students couldn't have done it right? He had given them orders to leave the physical abuse to him, so of course not.
For once in his life, Natsume was perturbed.
And it was over the one girl he hated the most.
On the other side of town, a girl was running, her head down, and her bangs hiding her bloodshot eyes. No one could tell by her face that she was panicking. They could only assume she was hurrying somewhere. She bumped into several people, but ignored their shouts of anger and kept running.
He had almost broken her, and he had actually been there to see her cry.
She would never let him see that side of her again. If he did, that would be her doom. And she'd worked too hard to make sure he knew she wasnt going to give in. If he found out now...
Mikan held back a strangled sound.
No. He was never going to find out.
He would never find out her true feeling for him. Ever.