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A Cup of Life, A Touch of Romance
Author: Whatever07
'I self destruct every relationship so that i don't get hurt...
but in truth i just hurt myself worse in the long run..' ~Anonymous
Chapter 1- Nice to meet you!
It was a whole new school year for Mikan, who is studying in Gakuen Alice and right now, she was inspired to do her studies better. Ruka Nogi, the student who has royal blood. He is so charming, shy and kind. This makes him very popular and makes every girl in the school fall in love to him and Mikan is one of them. Speaking of Mikan, she went on the other room to see her bestfriend Hotaru. Unfortunately, when she was searching for Hotaru, her eyes were caught by the handsome lad beside Mizuki. She had never talked to him since she studied there. She didn't even notice that Hotaru was already standing beside her………
"You like him, don't you?" asked Hotaru, surprising Mikan.
"Iie!" replied Mikan guiltily, "He's just cute."
"Don't deny it Mi-chan, it's palpable." teased Hotaru
Then Hotaru walked towards the handsome lad and whispered something. She paused a bit then, continued in what she is saying. After a moment talking to him, she then walked towards Mikan and…
"He had the same feelings." said Hotaru with a smirk plastered on her face.
Mikan's POV
What's that? What does it mean? I asked to myself, every now and then.
Hota-chan!! I yelled, trying to find her.
I asked her to reiterate and tell the meaning of that sentence that she uttered a while ago. (Do you think that she would do that for free? Of course not!) I chase her wherever she goes, trying to convince her but she didn't even utter a word. Until ……… Thud!!
Natsume's POV
I was just walking at the corridor and I was deep in thoughts, when I just felt that something or maybe someone just fell on me. I am trying to see who or what is it. Oh! It's Hotaru's bestfriend……
The girl constantly bows her head and says sorry every now and then.
"Konnichiwa! Watashi wa Mikan Sakura desu, to o-namae wa?"
Yes, of course. Natsume and Mikan knows each other but they never talked to each other unless it is something 'bout projects. ( and because umm…… I think Mikan has a memory gap?)
"Natsume…… Hyuuga" I replied.
"Nice to meet you." she said as she raise her hand for a hand shake. I on the other hand am pretending to be angry in what she did.
"I'm sorry, very sorry, my fault for not watching my steps." Mikan said in a worrying tone.
"So you're the one" I muttered……
Flashback
Natsume was chatting to Mizuki when Hotaru just whispered something to Natsume's ear……
"Do you know that girl?" asked Hotaru pointing at Mikan, but she got no reply.
"You know, she had a crush on you." Hotaru said. Natsume stared at her blankly and said………
"Tch. Whatever, I'm used to it." He's blushing a bit but he hid it with his long fringes.
"She's cute, can't deny it." thought Natsume. He doesn't want to tell to Hotaru about this, of course.
"Who likes to be blackmailed?"
End of Flashback
Normal POV
After they introduced themselves, (Wait… Do we consider what Natsume did as introducing?) Hotaru appeared suddenly and…
"100 rabbits for annoying me, 50 rabbits for chasing me and 20 rabbits for asking me many questions." said Hotaru at once, as she raise her hand to take Mikan's payment.
"You're so mean!" exclaimed Mikan, pouting cutely.
"She's really cute" though Natsume, these words are suddenly reappearing in his mind everytime he sees the brunette…
She went out for a stroll but after sometime…
"Tsukare mashita" Mikan sighed.
She took a glance at her watch and said, "There's thirty minutes more" particularly to herself. So she decided to take a rest under the Sakura tree. Because of her exhaustion, she didn't even notice that Natsume was sitting beside her, reading his manga and……
"Oi, Polka! What are you doing here?" snarled Natsume. Trying to make the overweary brunette to go away.
"Shut up, Hyuuga! I'm tired." muttered Mikan, trying to recall the name that he called her so……
"Don't call me Hyuuga!"
"Why?
"Coz it's just—tch. Whatever"
"Wait. What did you just call me?" asked Mikan, raising an eyebrow.
"Stop asking me that flapdoodle question, polka-dots." answered Natsume, he just said this to annoy the girl.
Mikan burst in anger that she almost explode and……
"HEEEEENNTTAAAAIIIII!!" squealed Mikan as she sends a punch to his face. Unfortunately, he dodged it.
"Oops! You missed me." teased Natsume, leaving the irate brunette.
Mikan stomps her feet and folds her arms as she leaves the place. Mikan took a glance at her watch.
"Oh no!" whispered Mikan, probably to no one.
Yes, she's late, and precisely to the class of Jinno-sensei (Math). Unlike Mr. Narumi, he punishes students who are going to be late and those who are not paying attention to what he is saying exemption for Natsume. (He's too harsh! Don't wanna be his student.) As Mikan enters the room……
"Sakura, answer the problem on the board" said Jinno-sensei.
Problem: The smaller number is two more than one-half of the larger number. If the sum of these numbers are 26, what are these numbers?
Mikan got the chalk and started to write…
Representation:
Let x be the larger no.
Let x/2+2 is the smaller no.
Working Equation
x+(x/2+2)=26
Solution:
x+(x/2+2)=26
x+x/2=26-2
2(x+x/2=24)2
2x+x=48
3x=48
3x/3=48/3
x=16 – larger no.
x/2+2=16/2+2=10 – smaller no.
Conclusion
Therefore, the numbers are 10 and 16.
"Finished!" chirped Mikan happily. Even it is for high school, she still know what to do. Thanks to Misaki, she let Mikan to borrow her book.
"Huh?!"
Her classmates' jaw dropped as they saw the equations and etc. 'coz they don't understand it. Jinno-sensei was astonished but not expressing at all.
"She knows what to do but um…wait… how did she knew 'bout algebra?" thought Jinno.
Mikan is so fortuitous for she only read the lesson yesterday. Then, she noticed that Natsume and Hotaru were in their classroom, so………
"Iincho, why are they here?" whispered Mikan.
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"You'll sit there" said Iincho, pointing beside Natsume.
Whose manga was on his face and feet was on the table. Mikan was frowning as she walks towards Natsume. He was amazed, but his amazement…… became…… admiration. Mikan take his manga off his face.
"Hey!!" shouted Natsume but not loud enough to be heard by the teacher.
"Give the teacher some respect! exclaimed Mikan.
"Give that back!" yelled Natsume. This time, 'twas heard by the entire class.
They didn't notice that all eyes were on them, including Jinno-sensei. Everybody sweatdropped when they saw that they're still arguing and teasing each other. Until………
"Is there a problem, Sakura…Hyuuga…?" growled Jinno-sensei.
"Sir, he's the one who--"
"What are you talking 'bout, Polka"
"It's true"
"I just--"
They were throwing words to each other as they are cutting each others' explanations and denials …
"Detention" said Jinno-sensei probably to Mikan and Natsume.
This will be done after classes but they don't know what's their punishment and the bell rang……
Narumi-sensei is now on their classroom to announce some important things to be done.
"Class! We will have new groupings for the whole school year for we have two students here that are from the other room and they'll be your classmate from now on." explained Narumi-sensei.
So, he read the groupings out loud…
"Anna – Koko
Sumire – Mochu
Nonoko – Yuu
Hotaru – Ruka
And lastly…
Mikan – Natsume"
"What?!" yelled Mikan. "But Narumi-sensei--" added Mikan but Narumi-sensei just cut her.
"No more questions?" asked Narumi-sensei.
Mikan frowned 'coz he ignored her for the first time.
"Looks like we're done here. So, class dismissed!"
He dismissed the class 10 minutes earlier than the time. The rest of them will go to their room to take a rest 'coz today is a very rough day specially for Mikan and Natsume. But they will get their thing (detention) done before they'll rest. Jinno-sensei talked to Narumi-sensei a while ago.
"You'll be cleaning the classroom for a week." informed Narumi-sensei.
"What the—" they said in unison. (But Natsume just said it with his common expression)
"This is your –" began Natsume.
"You two must clean these mess up, I'm sure you don't want to be here until night." said Narumi –sensei.
"If you'll continue arguing you won't finish that up." So……
They get the broom, dustpan, and everything to get started. Knowing for Natsume, he doesn't like to do this but he had to. They exchange glares while they were cleaning. They didn't know that Hotaru was there spying on them, taking pictures of Natsume.
After 30 minutes (of cleaning)……
At last they're finished. So, Mikan headed to her room and………
TBC!
Author's Note: Pls. Review and read also the story of kuroneko27 " OnCe UpOn A fAiRy TaLe"