Title: The clocks still ticking

SUmmary: Its hotaru's 16th birthday! Its a big bash for hotaru's sweet sixteen. Everyone is invited but lo and behold! it looks as it a person is missing an invitation! Remember The #1 rule in hotaru's birthday bash is no invitation! no entry!

Chapter 1 :

"Its a monday again.. Yawn" .

Mikan walks along the middle school hallway, It was really early that not much people were in tha classroom. But not for Mikan's class ,its already filled because it was jinno-sensei's class. First thing on a cloudy Monday.

"Goodmorning Mikan!" Greeted yuu who was busy cleaning the board, anna and nonoko were already in their seats are waving for mikan to come and sit down.

As mikan took her seat she let out another small yawn. Yuu who was finished cleaning the board sat down at his seat beside mikan ( jin-jin likes to switch his students places )

"Something wrong mikan?" asked yuu in a worried tone.

" Not really yuu..its just too early " she answered trying to stiffle another yawn.

" Your right mikan for once you are early " commented anna as she took her seat infront of mikan.

Mikan just answered with a small grin and said "yeah.." She didn't even bother to hug hotaru today she was just too tired to get hit by the baka gun. But when she looked around to see if she was around. "Yuu? where is hotaru?"

" oh hotaru had urgent meeting with some of the teachers, i bet she'll be gone for the rest of the day."

"Oh" was all mikan can say. "Ohayo mikan! " popped nonoko.

"Ohayo!" answered mikan who seemed to be wide awake now.

"So Mikan what are you going to give Hotaru this year? Asked anna as she faced mikan .

"What are you talking about anna?" asked mikan clueless as ever.

"That so like you mikan!" nonoko smiled from behind.

"Mikan…This Friday is October 25" said yuu

" YOUR KIDDING!" Mikan can't believe it, it was Hotaru's birthday and she totally forgot!

"Baka mikan!" as mikan hit her head with her palm.

"Maybe you forgot because you got so many baka gun attacks from the past year.." yuu said all knowingly. Mikan just smiled and they all started laughing. A few moments passed , everyone was quiet. The pa system spoke up.. "Your teacher is currently unavailable you will be dismissed early for recess please-" Before the PA can finish all the students were outside already maybe a few who took time to get out. "I'm hungry lets go to the cafeteria…" said mikan as she stood up . "oh yeah mikan do you have one of these?" yuu held up a small purple envelope. " no I haven't.." mikan answered.

" NANI?" the two girls said in unison. " why what wrong?" asked clueless again.

"Its stated in the poster (yes hotaru Is making money out of this) that if you don't have an invite you can't enter unless you..you buy an invite at 500 rabbits each." Said yuu in a worried tone.

" WHAT!"

Outside, you can see it was a nice day since the clouds dissapered ,it was sunny with a little breeze, even though it was October. We see the purple-eyed girl walk past the middle school building, in a distance she heard the voice of a certain idiot screaming her head off.. hmph, so she knows that was fast ..an idea got to her, as she moved on she grinned and said to herself what an interesting idea..

Later that night in their respective rooms, natsume in his room, is woken up by a knocking on his window.. he alerted by this. makes a small fire in his hands walks slowly to the window.

Hotaru points at the window lock and makes him open it.

"What are doing here?" as hotaru got something her from her bag. she handed him the same small purple envelope..

"I'm not going." as he just stood there infront of the window.

"Then give it to someone else." As hotaru turned to go, natsume shouted "why two?"

Hotaru just left and said to herself 'you'll see..'

The Next Day, Natsume skipped class again. It was narumi anyway, so who cares..

After 30 mins his blond finally spoke up and asked "Hey natsume do you have an invite to imai's party? Because I think she gave me too much.."

"…." Ruka held up two small envelopes.

"Natsume?"

"I already have one…"

"Really? Weird..because I have one extra I'm sure imai won't give that much.."

Natsume just left ruka looking confused and looked up the sky..I wonder what Imai's up to now..