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Author's Notes: Hello This is very my first fan fiction, as in, ever 0.0, so go easy on me. 3 All flames will be used to roast marshmallows while constructive criticisms and comments are very much appreciated.

Now, on with the story!

Firefly Daydreams

It was just another ordinary day in Alice Academy—birds were chirping, the sun was shining and, as usual, Sakura Mikan and Hyuuga Natsume were fighting.

"NATSUME!" Mikan screamed at the top of her lungs.

"Shut up, polka dots," Natsume just said coldly in reply, not even bothering to lift his eyes from the manga he was currently reading.

Meanwhile, Nogi Ruka just smiled at his two bickering best friends before he shifted his full attention to Mikan. True, he still liked her, but, it was more of like how friends liked each other, and not the way that he used to four months ago. It was as if his love for her was slowly faded away in those four months.

Subconsciously, he shifted his gaze from Mikan and onto the raven-haired genius in front of him. Yes, it was none other than, Imai Hotaru. He stared at the back of her head for about five minutes or so before he realized what exactly he was doing. A small blush crept up onto his cheeks. But, thankfully, no one had noticed. Or so he had wanted to think.

"Ruka-pyon? What are you doing?" Mikan asked him forgetting about her quarrel with Natsume for a second.

Good question. What exactly was I doing? Was I...daydreaming? About Imai! No it couldn't be...

"Ruka-pyon? Are you okay?" Mikan asked, disrupting his thoughts.

"Yeah, I'm fine. You needn't worry." Ruka replied with a smile on his face as to reassure her that he was indeed fine.

But he knew he wasn't. He knew that something, or rather someone, had been plaguing his thoughts for quite a while now.

Maybe it was just nothing. Maybe I was just imagining things. Maybe...

Suddenly, he felt a tap on his shoulder. He looked up and saw Hotaru just standing there with her usual blank expression. He blushed yet again, but this time, it was a lot more noticeable. He mentally slapped himself for that. That was the second time that happened when he was around her or, at least, when he was thinking about her.

Why was I doing that anyway

"Meet me after class," was all she said before walking back to her seat.

It took a few seconds for everything to register in Ruka's brain, whether it was from surprise or he just wasn't listening at all, and when it did, sure enough, the bell had rung, signaling the end of class and the beginning of what would seem like a very awkward conversation for him.

Ruka was just about to gather his things when he noticed that everyone else had already left, making him wonder how long exactly he had been sitting there after the bell had rung. Although he could swear that it hadn't been very long.

After getting his things, he stepped outside and saw Hotaru leaning on one of the walls, holding her baka gun in one hand.

"I hope you're not going to hit me with that," Ruka said trying to start a conversation.

"Well, I was planning to, if, that is, you were going to make me wait any longer," Hotaru replied.

"Did I really take that long?" Ruka asked.

"Not really, I suppose. Unless you think fifteen minutes is long," she replied.

Ruka wasn't sure whether that was supposed to be sarcastic or that she was really serious. He had hoped it was the former. After all, he couldn't possibly have zoned out for fifteen minutes...could he?

"Wh..what did you want to talk about, Imai?" Ruka asked, changing the subject.

What the...did I just stutter? I could swear that I wasn't doing that earlier

Hotaru raised an eyebrow slightly at Ruka's stuttering for a few seconds before returning it to it's original position.

"I was just wondering, in class, were you staring at me?" she asked with a tinge of pink, that was small enough so Ruka wouldn't notice, on her cheeks.

Crap...she found out...

"Uh...Of course I wasn't. What gave you that idea?" Ruka answered quickly with a small laugh while blushing quite furiously.

Hotaru smirked, "Well, the fact that you were staring at me gave me a good idea."

Ruka decided to change the subject, "Is that all you wanted to talk about?"

Sounding a bit unsure, Hotaru replied, "I...guess so," and with that, she left.

Ruka waited until she was out of sight before pondering on what exactly happened today.

Well, let's see, I zoned out a lot today, blushed in front of Imai for about three times, which is definitely a lot of times in one day! And then I stuttered while talking to her, and even though it was only once, it was still very strange. Hmm...all of these things could only mean one thing...and that is...Imai must have drugged me while I was asleep to make me act strange! She must have been enjoying this since the beginning!

And with that, the author sighed in defeat and wished she had a very large baka gun to hit Ruka-san with. Even though, we all know what he really meant in those last sentences.

THE END

Aren't you glad it's over? ;)

Author's Notes: I know the last part sucked. But I had an extremely large, as in, it was massive, writer's block and I was lucky enough to have even finished this. x.X

I hope I didn't waste that much of your time making you read my cough crappy cough story.

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