AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Hi everyone!

I've decided that i'm going to be updating this story every day. ;

But please don't kill me if i accidently miss a day or something. I have lots of work that i need to do often.

Anyways, the story seems to be prgressing well. Natsume is getting more and more jealous of Ruka-pyon, and Mikan is becoming more and more confused. ;D

It was already late morning when Mikan finally got out of bed on the day of the trip. Her friends had been calling for her for the past hour, and yet she still couldn't seem to get up. Oh well, she thought, we don't leave until 12:30 anyways. Dressing quickly, the brunette girl rushed out of her room to join her friends in the cafeteria.

"Hotaru! Good morning! What are you having for breakfast?" Without even asking, Mikan took a fork and began sampling some of her friend's food.

The short haired girl watched for several seconds as Mikan ate then pulled out one of her baka-guns to punch the brunette with. BAKA! BAKA! BAKA! Mikan's fork clattered to the floor, and she began crying loudly.

"Don't eat my breakfast." Hotaru scolded Mikan coolly as she walked towards the front of the room to get another carton of orange juice. "Get your own."

"But Hotaruuuuu." Mikan was following Hotaru like a lost puppy dog, her eyes swimming with tears.

"Hey there, scavenger." Natsume was thrown into the mix, with his usual frown.

"I'm not a scavenger!"

"You sure seem like one." Smirking at her, Natsume gave her a pat on the head. "Bye now."

Fuming, Mikan returned to her seat. Hotaru was long gone, and she was sitting there alone. I'm bored, I'm bored, I'm bored. What time does the bus leave, anyways? Racking her head, she couldn't remember it for the life of her.

"Hello, Mikan." Ruka was there, with a silly smile on his face.

Without thinking, Mikan replied to him. "I like your greetings better than Natsume's." Smiling, she continued. "Anyways, what time does the bus leave today?"

Confused about the first part of her reply, Ruka just told her the time.

"Want to sit together, Ruka-pyon? Hotaru already told me that she doesn't have time to sit with me. She wants to work on her invention, or something."

"You really want to sit with me?" Ruka flushed slightly. "I'd love to sit with you, Mikan."

"Okay, it's settled." Her tone was decisive. "You and I are seatmates." 3

…

The luggage was all loaded onto the bus, and it was almost time for everyone to board. Everyone was so excited to finally be going.

"Who're you sitting with, Mikan?" Perm figured that Mikan would be sitting with someone like Hotaru.

"Me and Ruka are sitting together!" Mikan announced proudly.

Natsume glanced up quickly. What? Why were they sitting together? He should be the one sitting with Mikan. The boy wandered up to Ruka, who had just gotten to the scene. "You're not going to sit with Mikan today, Ruka. Sorry."

With that, he walked over to Mikan and grabbed her arm. "You're going to sit with me." When she protested, he just smirked at her. "You said you would do anything for me. This is just the start of anything."

"WAAHHH." She took her seat next to him. "Why do you want to sit next to me anyways. You are just going to bully me the entire way."

"Shuddup."

"I don't want to sit next to youu."

"Shuddup."

"I want to sit next to Rukaaaa." Mikan was whining now.

"What's so different about me and him anyways."

"Well, Ruka is really, really nice and sweet to me. And you're just a mean ol' pervert that likes to tease me." Mikan had already begun to talk and it was pointless to try and stop her. "He always talks to me, even if I'm annoying."

"Well, isn't that sweet?" Natsume's voice was dripping with sarcasm.

Mikan, not catching his bitterness, kept plowing through. "Oh! And he's always really polite, unlike some people around here."

At this moment, Natsume was highly pissed off. He didn't want to hear any more from Mikan about Ruka (his rival) and yet she kept spouting it off. "Will you PLEASE stop chattering? I've got a headache!"

Mikan merely pouted. "Well, you shouldn't have sat next to me, then."

Good point, thought a disgruntled Natsume.

...

…

"We're here!"

The excited voices rose into a spiral of shouts and screams as the students exited the bus. Mikan was one of the first students off, calling out to all her friends. "How was the bus ride?"

Perhaps this question was only posed because she wished to complain about how horrible Natsume had been. For some reason, he kept telling her not to talk about Ruka. Who knows what that was about…

There was Ruka now! Mikan quickly nudged all of Natsume's annoying orders from her brain and wandered over to where Ruka was.

"I'm so sorry that I couldn't sit with you." She pouted. "Natsume's a real jerk for kidnapping me like that."

"It's fine." Ruka looked rather uneasy. His gaze was over Mikan's shoulder a few feet away. Natsume had fixed a good hard stare at the back of Mikan's head. He had obviously heard what she had said, since Mikan's normal tone was rather loud.

"What's wrong?" MIkan looked worried for a moment.

"Natsume doesn't look too happy right now."

Mikan glanced over at him, and watched him amble forwards with that scary expression on his face.

"I though you were going to listen to me." He hissed in her ear as he passed her. Coming to stand next to Ruka, the two of them trudged off, leaving a very confused brunette girl.

What? Why would Natsume care if I talk to Ruka or not. Natsume's just a big pervert who likes to order me around. She pouted for a few more moments, then ran off in search of her friends.

END NOTE:

Next story will have some more interesting interactions between Natsume and Mikan. I promise. ;D