Dribbles on Paper
Drabble 01:
Partners in Crime
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Mikan Sakura was on a mission; observe and protect best friend Agent Hotel (a.k.a Hotaru Imai) from advances from Agent Romeo (a.k.a Ruka Nogi).
As much as she loved Ruka, as a friend of course, her best friend was Hotaru and they had never been separated by a male of their species – even though another of their friends, Natsume Hyuuga, told them that she and Hotaru were probably a different species of human entirely. Mikan Sakura wouldn't have minded that actually.
But yes, the point was that it was a very new experience for the both of them – even if Hotaru seemed chilled about it, Mikan was pretty that her best friend was about as spastic as she was – or so she thought.
Hotaru, however, wore a stoic expression no matter what the situation, so it was kind of hard to tell.
Mikan peeked at the couple on their way to central town through the gaps in the bushes. In a voice she thought casual she murmured into a microphone, "Agent November, they have boarded the bus – which shall be leaving soon – and then, as ninja-like as possible, Agent November and Agent Mike shall follow. Do you copy? Over."
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Natsume Hyuuga could not believe that he was doing this.
How on earth did he, the person who was as stubborn as mule, get pulled into yet another of Mikan Sakura's stupid, idiotic, stupid plans again? He was getting too soft. Those bloody puppy-dog eyes – it wasn't because they were cute, because they were anything but, but it was because they were so god damn annoying that he had to agree to go along with it.
It had also seemed that Mikan Sakura, now sixteen years old, was under the delusion that she was some sort of spy.
She had insisted that she call all of them by military code names, or agent names as she named them, during these 'missions'.
If anyone knew anything about missions it was he, Natsume Hyuuga.
"Hey idiot, don't be stupid – you aren't exactly fit enough to chase after a bus. Just leave them and just go back to school," he sniped back at her through the com system.
There was a moment of static before her voice crackled through, "It's Agent Mike to you, Agent November, and are you implying something? Over."
He snorted, she'd set herself up for this one, "Yes, I'm implying that you're a fat cow, idiot."
He could almost hear her brain exploding with anger over the come, not that it was hard to hear her frustration given that they were basically opposite sides of a tree. "Why you—Agent Mike requests that Agent November restrains from insults as they are supposed to be working together on this mission as this is both their best friends that they are observing. Do you copy? Over."
Natsume sighed, ruffling his hand through his raven hair. "Couldn't you have asked some other idiots to do this instead? Like Koko and Permy, or what's-their-names?"
"Agent Kilo and Agent Sierra are off spending some quality time together," Mikan emphasized the 'spy names' of Koko and Sumire, poking her head around the tree to glare at him. "And…Agent…Nonoko, and Agent Alpha are off buying cooking stuff or something." She frowned as she realised that Natsume and Nonoko both started with the same letter. "Over."
"So what your basically saying is that we are the only two creeping around bushes and spying on other people," Natsume said slowly, "You have a warped sense of what a date is, 'Agent Mike'."
"This is not a date," Mikan spat through the microphone. Natsume shrugged, whatever. Ruka did tell him that unless he spelt it out, the dense Mikan Sakura would never know.
Know what? Well – it's kind of obvious.
"Agent Mike informs Agent November that the bus is leaving, let's move, move, move! Over!" Mikan Sakura darted from the bushes, before Natsume could pull her back, with all the grace of a drunk elephant. "Come on Agent November!"
Natsume ground his teeth; he could just imagine this idiot being run over if he didn't go with her. He grabbed her arm and started to pull her along the road towards central town. "Come on then idiot, if you are so insistent on stalking your best friend whilst she's on a date!"
"Agent Mike would like to remind Agent November that they are supposed to move inconspicuously as they are currently being stared at. Over."
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They were at a café, eating what looked like a slice of mud cake and drinking a couple of lattes.
Well, Hotaru and Ruka were that is. The agent couple, Mikan and Natsume however, were staring at them through a bush – well Mikan was at least, Natsume was staring at his agent partner.
"This is stupid," he said for about the seventeenth time, watching Mikan's hazel eyes dart to meet his own crimson orbs. "If you want to spy on them, shouldn't we just act as if we happened to go to central town to and eat at the café?"
"No that's a stupid idea, everyone would think that we are together! Agent Hotel looks after Agent Mike in spy-like ways, so Agent Mike intends to be a good friend and do the same," she pouted, "It's just – Agent Hotel just did this without telling Agent Mike."
Natsume's breath caught in her throat, "Are you jealous?" The thought of the girl he liked liking his best friend didn't appeal to him very much at all.
"Well of course I am!" Natsume could've cried – except that would've completely ruined his manliness but Mikan went on. "I mean, Agent Hotel is Agent Mike's best friend but Agent Romeo has to go and snatch her away! Agent November should keep better control over his best friend. And Agent Hotel and Agent Mike made a promise that they'd grow up and do things at the same time – but now she has a date and Agent Mike doesn't!"
Oh. Natsume stared at the girl like she was stupid – and she was really. "Oh look! Agent Hotel and Agent Romeo are now headed towards counter – why is Agent Romeo paying for all the food? Agent Mike doesn't understand."
Yes, she really was an idiot. Dense and stupid – Natsume knew what he had to do to make her understand.
"Agent November has made the observation that Agent Mike has no experience what-so-ever in dating and she may be unable to complete this mission properly. However, Agent November offers to take Agent Mike on a date, so that she may gain that experience and therefore, next time, she may be able to observe and protect Agent Hotel properly," he said in a monotone through the com, "Do you copy, Agent Mike? Over."
Mikan had a look of pure surprise over her face as she transferred Natsume's words, "As Agent November has shown that he can indeed speak 'spy speak' after all, Agent Mike feels she has no choice but to accept. Over."
"Agent November feels that this is great,"
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Hotaru Imai grinned triumphantly as she glanced over her shoulder to see Natsume Hyuuga and Mikan Sakura, dressed completely in black, having tea at a café.
She was going to make millions in rabbits.
Millions.
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"Hey Anna, why did Hotaru blackmail us not to accept Mikan's offer to go on a spy mission? I thought she was like, totally into that stuff."
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"I can't believe Imai threatened to send a picture of me drooling on the bus if I didn't go with you to central town!"
"It's okay curly-perm, the feeling is almost mutual. Almost."
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"Agent Mike suggests that Agent November does not get any ideas, as this is just for training."
"…"
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End of Drabble 01.
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