Chapter Two
Bonding
Hold me without touch
Keep me without chains
Never wanted anything so much
Than to drown in your love and not feel your rain
_Gravity
Sara Bareilles
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Mikan sighed quietly as she sat on the plush chair across from Natsume. He sat up in the bed, glaring daggers at her.
"I marked you, I bonded you to me…" she said, and she sounded about as thrilled with the prospect as he was. She watched him open and close his mouth a few times before evidently deciding to stay quiet. Probably a smart choice.
"I didn't mean to, but it happened…" she stood up and stepped to the window, looking outside. "His Majesty has sent for your things." She said. Natsume stood up.
"What?" she turned around and glared at him, her golden eyes were less fierce than they were before, but they were still golden.
"Your things are being sent for, you are to live here…with me." With that, she turned and left the room.
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Mikan stared blankly at the dull gray walls of her bedroom. What was she to do? She thought about what being bonded meant. When a Primary bonded with another Vampire, they could not feed from any other, if one side of the bond was hurt, the other side would feel the same pain, and more often than that, the bonded pair often became mates.
Mikan fought the queasy feeling that churned up in her stomach. Mates? With that conceited Hyuga brat? The thought was deplorable. Of course, many of the women she knew were attracted to him, he was easy on the eyes, and his stoic bad boy nature had many of them falling to their knees. But he had tried to set Mikan on fire. And she was supposed to turn around and say: 'Hey lets be mates!' it would be a cold day in Hell when that happened. She flopped onto her bed and closed her eyes.
Narumi had seemed all too happy with the situation, even bringing up the mate thing. She groaned, she knew that Narumi had always had a soft spot for the Hyuga family. Did he orchestrate this? She drove the thought away immediately, there was no way he could have known this would happen.
Could he have?
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Natsume and Mikan glared at each other from across the breakfast table. Mikan with a fork half way to her mouth. Narumi was sleeping in late, as he had a right to do, so they were left entirely alone. Other than the help of course, who bustled in and out every now and again to check on them.
"Would you quit staring at me?" Mikan asked.
"I'm trying to eat." Natsume's only response was to intensify his glare, he hadn't touched his food. Mikan set about ignoring him, eating steadily but gracefully, the way Narumi had taught her, admittedly, she was showing off a little.
When she looked up again he was still glaring at her. She scowled at him and slammed her fork down on the table.
"What's your problem!?" she half yelled. He didn't even flinch, this was average, brown-eyed Mikan, there was nothing to be afraid of.
"You marked me." He bit out his words.
"I didn't mean to!" she told him. One of the maids peeked out from the kitchen door, but seeing the Primary in a temper sent her scurrying back.
Without really thinking Mikan scooped her carefully prepared eggs onto her fork and flung them at Natsume, they landed square on his forehead. With in moments they were having a full on food fight, when the poor maid chose to peek out again she was pelted with rice, she quickly retreated once again.
"Someone like you doesn't deserve to be the Primary." Natsume said coldly after he had run out of ammo. Mikan simply grinned smugly at him, folding her arms over her (food stained) chest.
"Do I detect jealousy?" she asked. Natsume snarled. They stood there, covered in food, glaring daggers at one another, until they heard a loud "Ahem" from the corner of the room.
High Emperor Narumi had woken up. The pair of feuding vampires blanched, and quickly sat down, bowing their food covered heads respectfully. Each of them expected swift punishment, but that never came. Narumi threw back his head and laughed, long and loud.
Natsume and Mikan exchanged a glance. After a while, the laughter subsided.
"I see you two have been bonding?" Asked the High Emperor, Mikan and Natsume nodded.
A/N: Worse case of writers block ever! Help! Maybe I'll work a bit on some of my other stories for a while…