"Good morning!"

"Morning!"

Since the beginnning of the day, a cheerful atmosphere is spreading through Alice Academy, especially at the elementary division where a certain girl with sunny aura is greeting every person she met on the corridor. "Good morning, Miss Sakura," a teacher answered then pat her head, "You seem happier today. Is it because of the new comer?" She nods as an answer. The older person knows very well about her. He is also the one that told her secretly about a transfer student.

"Okay, sit down everyone! You'll have a new friend today," He manages to calm the children by his speech. "Come on in, Mister Hyuuga," as he spoke, a certain raven haired boy walks into the class. With his blood shot colored eyes, he quickly shuts everyone. "Please introduce yourself,"

"I am Natsume Hyuuga,"he said, leaving a wide silence before teacher Narumi coughs on purpose. "Okay then. Starting today Natsume will be studying here. Please be nice to him," after saying it, he let the young man walks to his seat near the window. Right next to him, a pair of wide hazelnut eyes stares until he reaches his place. "What are you looking at?" he asks her rudely without the teacher noticing.

"Oh, nothing. You've got pretty eyes there," she says while smiling. "Nice to meet you, Natsume. I'm Mikan Sakura," she reaches out her hand only to get ignored by him, but then she withdraws it while still smiling. "It's okay if you don't want to shake hand. I hope we will still be friend," after saying it the girl is drawing back her attention to the whiteboard, not noticing the glare from the new student.


Since that day, Mikan whom known as anybody's girl is struggling just to make Natsume answered her greeting, but it failed every single morning. Her friends begin to feel sorry toward her and thinking that Natsume is being too rude, but the last-year girl denies it by saying that Natsume is still not used to the new environment. All she does everyday is thinking of a strategy to make Natsume his friend.

"Mikan, dear," her mother walks inside her room after knocking several times. "Are you busy?" she asks. Her beloved mother has just arrived yesterday after 6 months business trip, there's no way she would turn her down so she quickly shakes her head. "I just want you to give the food I've prepared to our new neighbor. Is it okay?"

"Totally fine, Mother!" she jumps off her bed to cling to her arm. "Anything for you, Mother," she says but her mother seems a bit off even though she smiles. "Is there something wrong, Mother?" but the older woman shakes her head "I want to tell you something after you deliver the food, okay?"


With red hoody jacket and white skirt, Mikan looks totally similar to the girl on little riding hood and the fox fairytale. She knocks her neighbor door but no one appear. She knocks it again several times until the hurried foot step can be heard. "Wait a sec—,"

Seconds of silence appear between them. The first one to wake up is the brunette. "Natsume? You live here all the time?" she asks excitedly when he urges himself to slam the door right in front of her eyes. "I'm your neighbor. You are my new neighbor. Wow! Just amazing!" she exclaimed but he quickly cut her words "I'm outta here," he nearly closes the door if she doesn't stop him by her saying "Wait, Natsume! I'm here to deliver my mother's home made cake to your family. She said sorry because she was in a trip for a few months," her explanation definitely changes the boy expression. Unreadable. It is as if he hates her cake but at the same time he doesn't have the right to reject it. He quickly take it from her grasp. "I'll give it to my grandpa then," before slamming the door.

"So he doesn't live alone as the rumor said. He does live with his grandpa,' she murmurs before walking happily back to her house. To talk to her mother.


She is called to her room. The hall seems quieter than usual. The maids gone. Her father doesn't go back home after a long time. It's only her and her mother. "Mikan, I'm so sorry," her mother said with teary eyes. "We have to move abroad," the words seem unclear, but Mikan has already knew the next word. "We can't bring you along with us, b-but we should sell the house," she finally says it then hugging her little girl tightly. Mikan Sakura knows the reason all along. She is just their adopted child. She is more than grateful to have this rich and kind family to take care of her since she was baby, that's why she can't cry. She shouldn't cry.

"It's okay mother. I'm okay to move out. Thank you for all this time," she says, smiling and patting her mother trembling back. Her mother explains about moving her to the orphan near their house, where they took Mikan when she was baby, much to her surprise. "Hey, I can easily make a lot of friends there, Mother! It's completely fine!" she grins so her mother won't be worry about her even though she and her father has already invested a lot of money for her and make Mikan having the largest room alone. She still grins a lot until the exit exam, feeling grateful until the day she takes her to the airport for saying good bye for the last time.

The entrance exams for middle high division of Alice Academy has already passed. Nearly all of elementary students passed it, but only two of the brightest score could give a speech on the entrance ceremony and everyone has already know the person even before the exam results out. "Congratulation, Mikan! Don't get nervous on your speech or tripped on your shoes lace, 'kay?" some seniors ruffle the grinning freshman. "I'm not the first place, you know," she quickly changes the topic so they won't make fun of her. One of her senior says, "The Hyuuga, right? He's already the first since he moved here. What's so special about it? He's just being too all of himself,"

"Hey, I was the first too, so it won't be any different, right? He's a good person, he just can't express it well," she says while checking her appearance once again. "I gotta go! Bye Tsubasa, Tono, Misaki!" then she rushes to the front line of the student. Her seniors look at her petite figure while thinking how generous she could be. She was always the top scorer every year but suddenly a cocky new student take her place away. She should be mad to him, but instead she just wants to befriend with him.


The entrance ceremony speech was great thanks to Natsume and Mikan. In a blink of an eye, both of them has already had a lot of fans and haters. Mikan's with the boys while Natsume's with the girls party which also at the same time become Mikan Sakura's haters, especially when they are seatmate again even after Natsume hating her so much.

The environment goes around as usual, when Mikan wants to befriend with Natsume but he rejects it as fast as the wind blows. The event is getting more excited with a lot of love letters in each other's shoe rack. Some of them is hateful letter, for example a letter from Mikan lover who hate him goes near her (Natsume quickly snorts) or a bunch of garbage in her locker (and her fans quickly help her clean it all). It happens everyday even until today, after a half year studying on the middle school division and their age turn twelve.

"Oh what a coincidence! Are you going home too, Natsume?" a happy go lucky Mikan greets the raven haired boy who has just finishing his soccer practice, but he's just silent. His expression looks serious before crumbling the paper then toss it to the trash bin. He doesn't seem to notice the girl near him until walking out of the school ground. Her hazel eyes follows him until he's gone afar by the cloudly weather before the heavy rain, then she quickly looks inside the garbage can. She opens the crumbled paper ball only to finds out his biggest secret.


#TBC

Hello there. It's hotaruzuyuka again!

Thanks a lot for the comments in my previous story. It really made my day :") Even though there's a lot of grammatical error or short explanations in here, I hope you'll still enjoy my multichaptered story and don't forget to leave me some comments which really become my strength for days. Ciao!