Class was going to start in 10 minutes. So everybody was chatting in the hallway waiting until their teacher to show up. Well, some people were chatting. Natsume was having a passionate makeout session with his current girlfriend right in front of everybody.
Out of nowhere, Mikan suddenly appeared in the hallway. Panting, she slid down against the wall and landed on her butt. A moment later, Yuki walked into the hallway with a hard expression on his face. He sat down beside Mikan and looked like he was thinking hard.
Obviously something had happened.
Natsume pushed off of his girlfriend, and was about to walk over to Mikan. But stopped when he felt a hard grip on his wrist.
"Hey, I'm your girlfriend. Not that girl. Stay here." the girl commanded.
Natsume glanced toward Mikan. Yuu, Koko, Anna, Ruka, Hotaru, and Nonoko were already questioning Mikan. Usually he wouldn't have worried, but that Yuki had been with her. He needed to find out.
Without even flinching, Natsume tossed her arm aside. And told her with an emotionless tone, "We're breaking up."
The girl's eyes widened. Crying loudly, she ran out of the hallway.
No one was surprised. Natsume had always been a playboy. Really. She should have known that he was never going to actually stay her boyfriend.
Natsume walked over to Mikan. With his hands in his pockets, he glared at Yuki.
"What happened?" Natsume asked, looking at Mikan. But the question seemed to be addressed to Yuki.
"Ne? Oh, n-nothing." Mikan said, looking panicked. She stole a glance at Yuki. Which Natsume noticed.
"Did this bastard to anything to you?" Natsume demanded to know.
Mikan laughed nervously. "No, no. Yuki didn't do anything. We should probably go inside. Okay?"
Natsume decided to let it go. For now.
"Good morning, class! Today we have a new student. His name is Yuki Sohma." Narumi announced.
Yuki had been standing just a little behind Narumi. He stepped up and stood next to Narumi. With a smile, he introduced himself. "Hello. My name is Yuki Sohma, I transferred here from the main Alice Academy. Nice to meet you."
For the girls in the class, it was love at first sight.
"Okay Yuki," Narumi says, "You can sit next to........Mikan! She can also be your partner."
Out of the corner of his eye, Natsume noticed Mikan sitting a little straighter, and grinning as if she had just won the lottery. Apparently, she had forgotten about what had happened that morning.
Natsume glared hard at Narumi.
"B-B-But, then again, it wouldn't be aproppriate for a girl and boy to be together." Narumi stuttered.
Nobody bothered to tell Narumi that Mikan and Natsume had been paired together years ago. The deadly aura in the air was obviously emmiting from Natsume.
"Why don't you just pair up with Koko? I need to get your schedule from the office, so come with me." And with that, Narumi skipped out of the classroom. Yuki followed him out.
Mikan's enormous smile faded into a frown.
Oh, he's going to be mad. Mikan thought. She opened her mouth to protest.
Suddenly, the tips of Mikan's childish pigtails started to catch on fire.
At first, Mikan didn't notice. Then she felt something hot near her neck. She turned her head to see what was wrong......
"Aaaaaaah!!" Mikan screamed, "Hotaru! My hair! Help me!"
Hotaru looked up at Mikan, and answered in a deadpan voice. "I'd help you if you had 300 rabbits, but I highly doubt you have that much money." Then turned back to whatever she was working on.
Mikan fell to the floor on her knees and started bawling. She didn't notice when Yuki and Narumi entered the classroom.
Yuki, with a flick of his hand, formed a stream of floating bubbles from his fingertips. Everyone was amazed, even Mikan stopped crying as she saw the magical bubbles dancing in the air. The bubbles bobbed toward Mikan, and lightly tapped the tips of her pigtails. The flames, and the bubbles, disappeared without a trace.
"Are you alright, Mikan?" Yuki asked, his face troubled.
Tears started streaming down Mikan's cheeks. She was about to run over to Yuki and give him a hug, but Natsume grabbed her collar before she could even move.
"Sit." He hissed in her ear.
Mikan sniffed, and plopped down in the seat next to Natsume. Then she leaped up and ran over to her own seat, looking scared.
Narumi snapped out of whatever daydream he had been having. "Oh! Did I forgot to mention? Yuki has the alice of water manipulation. He can move it around, heat it up, and even freeze it into snow . According to his past instructors, Yuki has trained his alice very well, and is actually quite powerful with his alice. Now, I think school should be starting, so everybody take out your books."
Later that day, everyone was at lunch. Yuki's table was crowded with boys and girls, each of them wanting to know about the pretty new student.
Mikan was sitting at a table with Ruka, Natsume, Anna, Nonoko, Hotaru, and Koko. With a sigh she started to eat her three-star lunch. Her Stealing Alice had brought her up to a three-star.
"I hope they aren't bothering Yuki." She wondered aloud. "Maybe I should go over there...."
Natsume looked up temporarily from his manga to tell Mikan, "So what if they're bothering him? You're going to stay right here."
Despite Mikan's protests, Natsume had plopped down in the seat next to Mikan. She sat on the edge of her seat the whole time. Refusing to talk to Natsume, or even look at him. She glanced from side to side as if checking to see if anybody had seen Natsume sitting beside her.
Mikan strained her ears to hear what the kids were saying to Yuki.
"What do you eat to be that good-looking?"
"Do you have a girlfriend?"
"Will you go out with me?"
"Shut up! He's mine!"
Mikan jumped out of her chair and walked quickly over to where Yuki was sitting.
"You guys! Are you bothering him?" Mikan asked, pouting slightly.
Guys started drooling, and girls started glaring.
Using one hand, Yuki grabbed Mikan's waist, and pulled her toward him. He gracefully picked her up, and dropped her in his lap. He wrapped both hands around her waist, and watched her cheeks turn pink.
Jealousy was practically filling the lunchroom. From girls AND guys.
"Why? Were you jealous?" Yuki teased.
"N-No, I just wanted to make sure they weren't b-bothering you." Mikan stuttered. Feeling embarrased, she tried to crawl out of Yuki's lap. But Yuki's grip was too strong.
Yuki glanced sideways at Natsume, who was using the term "if looks could kill" quite literally, and smiled evily. As if taunting Natsume, Yuki nuzzled Mikan's neck, making her blush even harder. Using two long, slender fingers, Yuki lifted Mikan's chin. He leaned down, his lips slowly heading toward Mikan's......
Suddenly, there was a long bang. Everyone jumped, and looked around wildly, trying to find the cause of the noise. Natsume's chair was on the floor beside his desk, and he was walking toward Mikan. Even though, he looked like he didn't care, everyone could feel the temperature in the room getting hotter and hotter.
Natsume grabbed Mikan's wrist. With a hard yank, Mikan flew out of Yuki's lap and was dragged out of the classroom by a very angry Natsume.
Natsume didn't stop walking until they reached outside. He flung her arm aside, harshly Natsume turned around and clenched his fists.
"Couldn't you see he was flirting with you? He was about to kiss you!! Why didn't you push him away?" Natsume shouted.
He waited.
He waited for Mikan to start bawling.
Then he realized she was actually yelling back.
"What does it matter to you? So what if he was flirting? You're always flirting with girls! It doesn't matter what I do with him!" Mikan screamed.
Mikan's eyes widened, as if she had just remembered something she shouldn't have forgotten.
"You know what, Natsume? You really don't know what's going on right now. Look, we should stop hanging out, okay?" Mikan said quickly.
Suddenly, the temperature started to rise. Mikan didn't notice, because she unconsciously used her nullification alice.
She smoothed down her skirt and rubbed her sore wrist. Before she knew it, her arms were pinned above her head against the tree.
"What's going on Mikan?" He hissed in her ear.
Tears slowly trickled down her cheeks. "Natsume, please stop. I told you, I just don't want to hang out with you anymore. We just can't. You don't know what happened. If anybody se-"
In one quick movement, Natsume interrupted Mikan by crashing his lips roughly onto hers.
Author's Note:
I just wanted to say:
- I'll try and update once a week, maybe two.
- I made some changes to Ch. 1, so that the story would flow better. So please check it out!
- Ya, Ya. I know it's OOC for Yuki. But hello? He has an alice doesn't he? So I can change a few things about him.
