So since I have nothing to do on a weekend, I decided to get my progress going on this RukaRu fic.. XD
'The Scam' has been updated. You guys might wanna check it out and review, ne?
xoxo Lexi1989
Previously:
It took her mind a second to process what she saw. Her best friend was lying on her bed with her shirt unbuttoned halfway, her brassiere exposed for the world to see, her skirt partly hiked up her leg, and her hair disheveled. And lying on top of her was a shirtless boy who abruptly jumped off her when he heard the scream coming from Hotaru who just burst through the door.
"MIKAN SAKURA! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?"
CHAPTER 2: CRASH
"Hotaru, this is Natsume…." Mikan started to introduce them as she fixed her appearance while the tall, lanky, yet well-muscled young boy looked unfazed.
"Hyuuga." Hotaru narrowed her eyes at the crimson eyed, half naked boy in her best friend's bedroom.
"I'm surprised you know my name, good going Imai." Natsume drawled lazily.
"Who wouldn't when you couldn't even top my GPA if your life depended on it. What are you doing here Hyuuga?" She retorted.
"Well, I was supposed to make out with this gorgeous best friend of yours but seeing as you've made an appearance, I don't suppose it's because you want a threesome now, does it?" He said as he put on his shirt.
"So you do have a brain. Scram before I call Mikan's mom." She rolled her eyes as he took his time with his clothes before grabbing his helmet which was on Mikan's nightstand.
He gingerly walked up to Mikan, knowing Hotaru was still watching and gingerly kissed Mikan full on the mouth to which the brunette responded to with fervor. By then, Hotaru had had enough and had to clear her throat loudly while impatiently tapping her foot on the hardwood floor which gained a glare from Natsume and made Mikan blush beet red. She followed the now fully dressed pair downstairs and outside to where Natsume's bike was parked.
Mikan was standing next to him as he straddled the bike and once again kissed Mikan on the mouth before putting on his helmet.
"I'll see you later.." He bid the blushing brunette goodbye and nodded in Hotaru's direction to which the latter just ignored.
He revved up his motorcycle, causing the elderly couple in the house he was parked in front of to peer outside through their curtained windows with a look of disdain. He honked once, before taking off in top speed down the street and around the corner, disappearing from both girls' sights.
Hotaru glanced defeatedly at her best friend who looked like she had her head high up in the clouds. She knew Mikan had been seeing someone the past couple of weeks, but she didn't know it had been Natsume Hyuuga. He had the second highest GPA in their senior year, after hers. He was in a different class than Hotaru and Mikan, and was notorious for being insanely smart despite lack of attendance in classes. Which was why he was never able to get top grades.
"Natsume Hyuuga is the boy you're dating?" She knew she'd have to start the conversation as Mikan was still daydreaming when they got back to her house.
"Yes. I'm sorry you had to find out this way. But, what do you think of him?" Mikan looked at her with eyes wide with expectation.
"I don't like him." She said honestly.
"I know. But could you please, please, please, be nice to him? For me?" Mikan started giving her the puppy dog eyes that she used whenever she wanted to ask for a favor. Not that it would work on her.
"My being harsh on him is more with the fact that you've only been seeing this guy, what, two weeks? And now I catch you in bed with him. If I hadn't walked in at that moment…"
"Hotaru, stop it! You sound like my mother!" Mikan giggled.
"My point being, baka..." She gave the brunette a glare before continuing. "… is that, aren't you going a bit too fast with him?"
"Does it matter? I'm in love." Mikan said dreamily which warranted another rolling of eyes from Hotaru.
"Are you going to get all fluffy just because Hyuuga wants to do "it" with you? You can't just give in to the first boy who calls you gorgeous and asks for your number. Look at your mother, she's fine without a man in her life. My mother got heartbroken after my father divorced her because he "fell in love" with someone half his age. So you can't tell me you're already in love with Natsume Hyuuga this soon." She made the quotes gesture with her fingers as she looked at the brunette still daydreaming in front of her.
"Hotaru, I know it's hard for you to understand. And I'm sorry about your parents' divorce. But this is different. Natsume and I are in love." Mikan settled back on the couch next to Hotaru as she unpaused the movie. But pretty soon it was forgotten as they continued talking about the situation.
"Can't you just, you know? Date him, make out with him, but without the love part? You don't need to love him to make out with him. You're setting yourself up for this monumental heartbreak the moment he gets what he wants and dumps you. Then you'll end up like that girl from freshman year and I will have to clean up after your tissues and Ben & Jerry's pints. Do you really need to fall in love?" Hotaru asked. She was pretty pissed off that despite her warnings to Mikan, she went and fell in love anyways.
"Everyone wants to find that special person and fall in love, Hotaru." Mikan gave her a knowing smile.
"Not everyone." Hotaru muttered under her breath.
The girls all gathered at the quad after classes, Friday. School just got out. It was the first week of senior year at school. Hotaru was with Mikan and their classmates, Anna Umenomiya, Nonoko Ogasawara, and Sumire Shouda.
"So Mikan, I heard you and Natsume Hyuuga are an item." Sumire said with a Cheshire Cat-like smile.
"Where do you get your news?" Mikan asked amusedly.
"Oh come on, Mikan. We all saw him ogling you during the mixed P.E. class at the gym." Sumire retorted much to the amusement of the rest of the girls (except Hotaru). They burst into a fit of giggles as Mikan recounted how far they got before Hotaru interrupted them last week.
"Well, don't look now, but here he comes." Anna said as she gestured to the said topic of conversation making his way towards where the girls were gathered.
"Hello ladies." Natsume said as he stopped behind where Mikan was sitting. "Mind if I borrow Mikan for a bit?"
"Yes we do mind. She's not a thing you can borrow, she's a person." Hotaru said glaring at him. The rest of the girls shushed her and nodded their approval as Mikan stood up and faced Natsume to embrace him, earning hoots and catcalls from the other students hanging out at the quad.
"Let's leave the lovebirds alone and get some grub." Sumire said, watching as Mikan hopped onto Natsume's motorcycle after him. They stood up and brushed the grass of the back of their pants and skirts before heading to their favorite after school hangout. Alice Diner and Café.
They sat at their regular booth and they elected Hotaru to get their drinks since she wasn't inclined to talk about Mikan and Natsume. She went to the cashier to order and was heading back with a tray full of food and drinks when the door to the diner opened. She barely had enough time to swerve away as someone came in, walking backwards, talking to whoever was behind him. All she could see was blonde hair, before he crashed into her causing her to lose her footing, the tray's contents spilling and soaking into her shirt.
"OH MY GOD!" Sumire's shriek made the whole diner freeze.
"I am so sorry miss." She looked up to see a pair of piercing blue eyes looking down on her.
"Hotaru are you okay?" The blue eyes disappeared and were replaced with Mikan's honey gold orbs. She had pushed the offender out of the way and knelt down to help Hotaru sit up. Her front was a mess, with a mixture of soda, ketchup, and ice cream down her shirt.
She was walking in after the offender along with Natsume by her side. Apparently the blue eyed, blonde guy who crashed into her was talking to them. She stood up wobbily, making sure to avoid the spilt ice cream and soda that made the floor slippery, lest she fell to her feet again.
"I should've known you were involved with this." She muttered, glaring at Natsume who was standing near the blonde guy.
"He already apologized Imai. It was an accident." He defended his friend who looked at her guiltily.
"I'll pay for whatever food was ruined, as well as for the laundry expenses for your shirt." He offered.
"No thanks. I can afford it." She retorted before she left to go to the comfort room. Mikan and Sumire went in after her, bringing Hotaru's bag with her.
"That was rude, girl, the guy was basically offering to pay for our food. Not to mention he is super cute" Sumire whined.
"Having a jumble of ice cream, soda, and condiments shoved up on your shirt isn't my definition of cute, Shouda. Hand me my gym shirt." Sumire threw Hotaru's gym shirt at the top of the stall and Hotaru proceeded to change out of her soiled clothes.
"So Mikan, who's the cute guy?" She heard Sumire chatting Mikan and tuned out. She decided she'd had enough for one day and once she was done changing, stormed out of the comfort room and out of the diner before anyone could say a word.
She eventually learned his name when he made an appearance in school the next week. They were all gathered in their classroom, and homeroom was about to start in fifteen minutes. Nobody had dared to talk about what had happened at the diner the whole weekend, lest they be at the mercy of Hotaru's ire. Hotaru was known to be quite scary when mad. Mikan tried once, when the girls went over to Hotaru's to take a dip at their pool Saturday afternoon, but was met with the cold shoulder that they all decided to keep their mouths shut after and talk about something else.
Mikan was sitting with the rest of the girls when Natsume waltzed in to their classroom.
"Hey baby.." Natsume said with a smirk as Mikan squealed and launched herself out of her seat and into his arms.
Hotaru couldn't help but roll her eyes at how excitable her best friend could get. Every waking hour in between classes, she would have to endure having to watch Natsume and Mikan get all lovey-dovey and it was making her irritable. When the final bell rang, the homeroom teacher had to pry him away from Mikan and tell him to go back to his own classroom before announcing that they had a new student.
New students were rare in this town so everyone's interest was definitely piqued. And of course, who could it be but the blonde, blue-eyed boy who had caused the whole fiasco last Friday. Most of the girls seemed to swoon at his prince charming looks and the boys all tried to size him up discreetly, to see how much of a competition he was to them. Hotaru however, showed no change in emotion, just like she always was, and continued to browse through her NanoEngineering book. It was only when someone cleared their throat thus calling her attention that she looked up to find that the blonde guy had walked up and was standing in the aisle of her row of seats.
"Yes?" She raised her brow at him.
"Imai-san, right?" He asked with a soft smile.
"And you are?" He looked taken aback that she had not been paying attention when he introduced himself but quickly recovered.
"Ruka Nogi." He held out a hand as if to shake but she only took a look at it before speaking again.
"And you are talking to me because?" He stood there awkwardly with his hand outstretched before he put it back to his side and replied.
"The homeroom teacher told me I could sit next to you." Everyone in the room seemed to be holding their breath, waiting for her to respond.
"Then sit, he didn't tell you to talk to me." She said coldly.
"Well, he did say that you were to be my partner so I hope you'll take care of me. And I'm sorry about what happened last Friday at the diner. You left so suddenly, I didn't have the chance to apologize and introduce myself properly." He bowed before taking the seat next to her.
"Whatever Nogi." She said as the bell rang signifying the start of first period.
"I hope we can become friends." He said as he took out his notebook to start taking notes as the teacher came in.
"Don't count on it." She muttered under her breath as she pushed her seat a little further away from his and continued to ignore him for the rest of the day.
END OF CHAPTER 2
So Ruka makes an appearance. Will he be able to win her over?
Stay tuned to find out.
KawaiiGirl1215 – Thank you! And it takes a lot of work. LoL. In between work, real life and fanfiction, I got my hands full, hence my updates are in a cycle and intermittent/irregular. And yeah, I hope Ruka doesn't break her heart, if he gets a chance to her heart , that is.. haha
newroz – thankies! And how are you?
lychiis – Never heard of Perfect Chemistry so I guess I'll have to google that. Is it nice? Well, he is sorta a bad boy but this story will focus more on RukaRu. XD
Derp1Derp2 – Embarrassing indeed! Haha. But Hotaru's her bff so she will judge. Hahaha. And yeah it was Natsume ;)
YoNaMe – Yeah, I figured I'd stick with what I knew best, Rom-com-drama that way I know how I can give it my all with this story. Hope you like it ;)
STORY CYCLE:
Secrets - Fairie Tales - Starting Over Again - The Scam - Philophobia
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