Chapter 1
A Bad Score
Ps: Mikan and the others are still 11…its Mikan's second year in the academy…
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Mikan Sakura was heading towards the classroom skipping all the way with a big smile on her face. She's not late today, that's the reason. But maybe…
"Ahh!" Mikan shouted as she tripped and fall on top of the raven haired boy.
"Watch your step Polkadot, or maybe Strawberries today." Natsume said while he accidentally saw Mikan's under wear.
"Prevert!" Mikan shouted then she pushed the door and enters the class.
"Ohayou!" She said with a warm smile on her face.
"Ohayou Mikan chan." Yuu greeted her, should I say the only one who did that.
"Good morning Hotaru!" Mikan said while she jumps to hug her best friend, but instead…
Baka…Baka…Baka… (Okay, the famous baka gun is out)
(Just then Natsume and Ruka enters the class)
"Ohayou Ruka-pyon!"
"Ohayou." Ruka greeted Mikan with a smile.
"Ohayou Natsume-kun!" Mikan greeted Natsume but Natsume head straight to his seat without even bothered.
(Mr Makihara enters the class)
"I'll announce the score for the test last week." Mr Makihara announced.
The class was now full of 'ah' and 'ih' from the student.
"The highest score was 100 scored by Yuu Tobita."
Yuu stands up while the others were clapping, some of them even cheered. Yuu is a top scorer.
"Second highest was 98 scored by Hotaru Imai."
Hotaru stands up while the others clap again. Mikan cheered for Hotaru full force. Hotaru was a top scorer too.
"Hotaru! You're the best!" Mikan shouted and the result is another baka bullet hitting her head.
"Next is Natsume Hyuuga with a 95."
Natsume stay seated reading his manga while everybody cheered for him, excluding Mikan. Sumire and the fan girls are cheering for him full force.
"Natsume-kun! You are the best!" Sumire cheered while Natsume was remained there without hesitation to at least appreciate them. Mikan was just clapping her hand.
(Okay, let's speed things up a bit…)
At recess time…
"As I had been expecting," Mikan said while her hand clutching the paper. Her vein pop out and everybody started to sweat dropped.
"I got the LOWEST mark! Even Natsume beats me!" Mikan shouted as she ripped the paper off into pieces. Mikan's volcano erupted. How could she beat Natsume? He's a genius.
"It's okay Mikan-chan… You just need to revise some more next time…" Yuu said while he pat Mikan's back and comforted her.
"You've improved a bit. Last time you scored 14 for your test and now you scored 15" He continued. Well, actually each time Mikan improved by a score but is that it?
"Are you making fun of me?" Mikan said while he looks at Yuu in evil eyes which make Yuu sweat dropped. But then she snapped out of it and sighs again.
"I guess that I'm just an idiot that I couldn't get the question right…" Mikan said with a sad intonation. She continued to walk with her eyes reflect her sadness.
"Don't cry baka!" Hotaru started to get annoyed with Mikan's behavior.
Mikan cried so hard and hugged Hotaru. She's very sad since she always scored a poor score and she feels soo embarrassed about that. Hotaru patted her head and Yuu comforted her.
"Oh well, I think that the ability class is starting soon. Catch you later." Yuu said trying to change the conversation and ran off.
"See you baka…" Hotaru said while she walk off with her usual expression.
"Well I guess that I'm just ruining Hotaru's and Yuu's reputation by scoring poorly." Mikan said while she head to the sakura tree. She remembered that Mr Jinno had reminded Hotaru and Yuu for not playing with her. She cried when she remembered it.
"I can't go to the ability class with this kind of face." Mikan said while she wiped her tears and sat under the sakura tree and cried again. Just then she caught a glimpse of Natsume sitting at the opposite side of the tree reading his manga. He's the person she wished to talk to now.
"Hey Natsume."
"Hnn."
"Do you think that I'm an idiot?"
"Yes."
"I mean a troublesome girl who will make trouble everywhere she goes."
"What's your problem?"
"My problem is that I don't know where to go. I don't want to make people in trouble just because of me. I want them to fell happy, but instead I just make them…" Mikan couldn't finish her sentence and she cried while she hugged Natsume's hand.
"Oi! If you make my hand wet then I'll never answer a single question because your tears might make me stupid." Natsume said while he pulled his hand away and he gave a slight blush but Mikan is too busy crying to notice.
Mikan really take Natsume's word seriously and she cried even more.
"I'm just a stupid girl… I can't do anything to help… It's pointless for me to actually be here…" Mikan said while she wiped her tears away and tried her best to smile.
"Hotaru told me that I look better when I smile, is it true Natsume? Because that's the only thing that I can't do right now…" She asked her partner with a sad expression.
"You know, if you fail then the only thing you could do is to try it again. Don't ever think that if you failed once then you'll fail for the rest of your life. It's not only you who failed. But everybody ever failed. But they keep on moving forward." Natsume finally finished his sentence and saw Mikan smiled at him, he looked away just then.
"You know Natsume, sometimes you could say a good thing that will cheer people up. You were just like Hotaru. However I'm failing for my 16th time, I'm not going to take it as a fail. I'll keep studying then." Mikan said and she smiled.
"Thank you Natsume. I owe you one. I'm going to my ability classes now. Are you going for your class too?" Mikan said while she took her books and stands up.
"Whatever."
"See you around." Mikan said while she ran to her ability class with a better fellings.
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This is my second Fanfic. Please send me reviews. Hope you like it…
-mimi95-
