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CHAPTER 3: Leave everything to mother

Mikan was busy with doing some reading in her library while Natsume entered her room. "Your highness, the queen and prince of the Shadow Kingdom has arrived. Your father requests for your presence at the main hallway." Natsume declared while Mikan furrowed her eyebrows at him.

"Your highness? What's with the sudden formality again? Wait…" Mikan paused for a while. "He's here already?" She asked with a worried expression on her face. "Do they really want me to get married THAT early???? They didn't even tell me that he'd be coming today."

"Finally, I would be able to see the guy who's be the first one in my list of people to turn into crisps." Natsume thought as he lead Mikan to the main hallway.

At the main hallway…

"Good morning, your highness. It is my pleasure to see again. And I hope that you remember my mother, Queen Tsukiko Andou." Prince Tsubasa greeted Mikan as he bowed down while Mikan curtseyed at him. "Whoa. Is this really Mikan? She has changed a lot. Not to mention that she has become more beautiful than ever. I never expected that a flower could bloom this way."

"Good morning to you too, Prince Tsubasa." Mikan greeted. "The pleasure is also mine, my good sir. You don't have to worry about a thing because I remember your majesty very clearly." She replied as she smiled and did a slight head bowing to acknowledge her presence as Tsukiko bowed back.

"I see that Tsubasa has changed. He's been formal in language and then became taller. I admit that he also has the looks but no one, not even him could compete with Natsume. I love him. Now how would I tell him that I do not want to push through with the wedding? Would he even agree?"

"Queen Tsukiko and Prince Tsubasa would be staying here in our palace until the day of the wedding comes." King Izumi announced.

"When do you plan for the wedding to occur, your highness?" Queen Tsukiko asked the king.

"Will about a week from now do?" Izumi replied while Tsukiko just nodded.

"In two weeks?!" Mikan squeaked and then looked at Natsume who was just simply glaring at Tsubasa. "What am I going to do now? Oh Hotaru, how I wish you could be here. I need you very badly."

"Is there anything wrong, sweetie?" Yuka asked her daughter who just shook her head.

NATSUME'S POV:

Polka Dots practically yelped when she heard that she was going to be married in two weeks. Well, who wouldn't be surprised? Her best friend, the blackmailing ice queen from the Technology Kingdom wasn't even married yet and their arranged marriage was announced even before hers was announced. I guess it was too much of a shock for her.

"Is there anything wrong, sweetie?" I heard her mom ask while I saw her shake her head. Tch. Why does she always have to keep everything to herself? It was obvious that the decision was not ok for her and yet she prefers to be quiet. What the heck.

Crap. I have to do something. I just can't let the one that I have loved get married right in front of my two eyes without even doing anything to stop her. I might be just a commoner in their eyes but I still have to do something. I won't give her up that easy. I may not be a member of the royalty but I have the will to fight for the one that I love.

"Don't worry Mikan. Everything will be alright." I heard the shadow freak suddenly say. Mikan? Tch. Does he even have the right to call her that way? Even if they are childhood friends he still have to show some respect to the princess.

"Now my son, call her with respect. Even if you're going to marry her, it doesn't mean that you're going to call her just like that." His mother interrupted. Tch. Good for you. Jun was supposed to be here so that he would receive one of the you're-being-impolite-to-a-royal type of lectures that he gives me whenever he hears me calling her Polka Dots.

"It's alright, your majesty." Polka Dots stated. What?! I thought I was the only one whom you allowed to call you by your name?! What the?! Okay, if looks could kill that guy would be dead by now. "It's alright if he calls me by my name. We're childhood friends anyway." She added.

"You see…" Shadow guy started as he held Polka's hand.

END OF POV

MIKAN'S POV

"You see…" Tsubasa started as he suddenly took my hand.

Ok, this is not good. For some unknown reason the temperature suddenly rose and I saw Natsume glaring at him. Uh-oh. Rising temperature plus a pissed off Natsume equals something that's not pleasant to see so I quickly nullified Natsume's alice instead. What could have possibly happened that made him this mad?

"Mikan and I are really close." Tsubasa continued. Eesh. If only I could tell him right now that I like somebody else and that 'somebody else' is standing here in this very room as well. Maybe by then he would finally stop blabbering.

"I see that this is going to be a good thing. You two would be a very happy couple." Daddy stated.

"And not to mention a good-looking one too. You look so perfect together! Maybe you two were really meant to spend your lives together forever!" Mommy added with twinkling eyes while I heard Natsume grunt behind me.

"Excuse me, but I must take my leave." Natsume muttered only enough for me to hear and then he left. Eh? What the hell is going on?

END OF POV

NORMAL POV

Natsume left and then Mikan sighed as she followed her gaze towards wherever Natsume went. And then she looked at the Andou royals and bowed at them.

"Excuse me, but I have somewhere to go to as of the moment." Mikan excused herself as she left, treading the path that Natsume took. On the other hand, Tsubasa was watching her every move.

While they were out, the Andou royals were lead to their rooms. They were both sharing a room since the queen insisted that she wanted to share a room with his sin to avoid too much bother to the Sakura Family.

"I hope you don't mind if I told them that I wanted to share rooms with you, my son." Tsukiko stated.

"Not at all." Tsubasa replied as he was fixing his stuff. "Mother, do you still think that I should still carry through with this arranged marriage?" He asked.

"Of course. Why not? Marrying the princess will give you a lot of advantages in life." Tsukiko replied with an evil glint in her eye plus a matching smirk to go along with it.

"But mother, didn't you see how Mikan-chan looked at Natsume a while ago?" Tsubasa asked again.

"With what? With pity? With disgust?"

"No mother." Tsubasa replied as he shook his head. "With love. I have always wanted ever since I was young that I would be marrying the girl that I truly love."

"Love? I surely didn't love your father when I married him. it just a mere arrangement like yours and then I had no other choice but to comply." Tsukiko stated.

"But mother, I don't wanna be like that. Can't I decide for myself just this once? I have been living by your rules my whole life." Tsubasa retaliated.

"Tsubasa, mother knows what's best for you so don't argue." Tsukiko replied.

"But mother, even if I marry Mikan-chan it would be no use since the both of us are not happy and then Natsume would also be threat to our relationship."

"I already told you not to worry about a thing. Leave everything to mother and then everything else would be just fine. You just have to go with the flow, my dear son." Tsukiko replied with an evil glint in her eye.

"You two would get along pretty well since as you have said a while ago, you're really close. You'd be able to like each other in one way or another after the marriage. And Natsume? What's so much of a threat about him? He's just a plain commoner. And commoners are not allowed to harm the royals. That's one of the top rules here in alice. You have everything that he does not."

"And even if he does make an attempt on hurting you, what can he do? You're skilled in martial arts and you could easily control his body with your Shadow Manipulation Alice."

"Yeah right. I probably would have everything else that he doesn't except for Mikan's love." Tsubasa thought.