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Chapter 3: Jealousy
The next morning…
(The three of them, Natsume, Mikan and Youichi, were sleeping together, read chapter 2 if you didn't read the part where they slept in Mikan's room.)
"/Knock, knock, knock/ Natsume, are you ready to go to class?" Ruka asked as he knocked on the door of the boy with the fire Alice, "Natsume? Open up." Still no answer, "Natsume, I'm coming in."
The blonde haired boy opened the door to Natsume's room and found no one, the room was empty, "Natsume? Where did you go?" He asked himself.
"What's the matter Ruka?" Yuu asked from behind, "Are you looking for Natsume?" Hotaru asked.
"Yeah, have you seen him?"
"Nope, we're just on our way to Mikan's room," Yuu explained, "Maybe if you come with us, you might be able to find Natsume on the way there."
"Okay, sure, I'll come with you." Ruka said as he patted the head of his bunny.
"Okay, come on." Hotaru said icily, "Or else we'll be late."
"Okay." Then the three went to the brunette's room and the dark-haired girl knocked on her door, "/knock, knock, knock/ Mikan, are you ready for class?"
"……" No answer.
"Mikan… If you're still asleep, please wake up," ordered the blonde haired boy with the glasses, "or else all of us will be late for class."
"……" still no answer.
"Why don't you try opening the door?" Ruka suggested.
Hotaru and Yuu didn't say anything; the two of them just looked at each other and then nodded at each other.
Yuu reached for the door knob and turned it, he looked inside, he gasped at what he saw, and he couldn't even say nor do anything after seeing what he saw.
"What's wrong, Iinchou?" Ruka and Hotaru asked as they looked into the room of the cute brunette, "…" No one could say a word because they saw Mikan, Natsume and Youichi sleeping together, Natsume's arm was around Mikan and Mikan was hugging Youichi.
The brunette's eyes started to open when suddenly she saw her friends by her bedroom door, "Guys, what are you looking at?"
"…" No one could say a word they just pointed at the two boys sleeping beside her.
She was confused, so she just looked at what they were pointing at, "Uuuuuhhh…" Mikan didn't know why Natsume was there, "I have no idea why Natsume's here, I swear."
"Then how come his arm was around your shoulders a while ago?" Mikan blushed upon hearing what her 'so-called' best friend said.
"Uuuuuhhh… Natsume, Youichi, it's time to wake up, we'll be late for class." When Natsume and Youichi heard what Mikan said, they finally woke up.
"Huh? Is it morning already?" Natsume asked the brunette.
"Yeah, and I think we have visitors." Mikan said pointing to the door.
Natsume looked and he saw the three of their friends, "Natsume, what are you doing here?" Ruka asked his best friend. (A/N: Do you think he's jealous?)
"Huh?" Natsume was confused, "Hmm… I must've fallen asleep."
"Well, I'm surprised," Hotaru said out of the blues, "Even Youichi is with you."
Ruka was speechless, completely speechless; he didn't know what to say, he stared at Natsume and Mikan, he just couldn't say nor do anything, except to cry and to run away.
"Ruka…!" Natsume shouted as he ran out the door of the brunette, but he didn't continue running, he first looked at Mikan with an is-it-okay-for-me-to-go-after-him look on his face.
Mikan just nodded and Natsume ran off going after his best friend.
"What's the matter Mikan?" Youichi asked the brunette sitting down beside him, "Why did Natsume go out?"
"Don't worry Youichi," Mikan said with a concerned look on her face, "he just went out to comfort Ruka."
"Okay," Youichi said standing up and heading to the door, "I'm going back to my room to change to my uniform."
"Okay. Just be careful now, okay, Youichi?" she said smiling.
"Okay."
The second Youichi walked out of Mikan's room, Hotaru and Yuu started asking her questions, "Okay, Mikan, spill…" Hotaru said trying to let Mikan tell them about what they just saw.
"Spill? What? I- I didn't spill anything." Mikan said trying to keep her, Natsume and Youichi's secret.
"Come on Mikan, just tell us," Yuu said, "We know all about it, we just want to hear it from you, just to make sure it's true." This made Mikan shocked, 'Are they really telling the truth? Or are they just saying that because they want me to tell them?'
"Come on Mikan, spill, we won't tell anyone." Hotaru said.
"We promise." Yuu said.
"Okay…" Mikan said with her head down.
"Finally." Her two friends said in unison.
"You see, the day before yesterday…" she started explaining, "We were at Central Town, remember? You guys didn't want to go with me because you guys said that I should start saving up money. But I really wanted to go, so I went around the school looking for someone I could go with, and then I saw Natsume by the Sakura Tree, so I decided to ask him…"
Flashback…
"Natsume come on. It's getting late. We have to go back to the academy now." Mikan suggested as she walked out of the store.
"Umm… Mikan… I" Natsume couldn't help it he had to say it before Ruka because he knew that Ruka liked Mikan as well, 'It's now or never'
"What is it Natsume-kun?"
"The next bus doesn't arrive in another 20 minutes, so would you please sit down with me for a while? I need to tell you something."
"Umm… sure." She followed Natsume to where he wanted to sit down. He led her to a place with lots of flowers and a lake. The place was surrounded by lots of Sakura Trees and a beautiful atmosphere.
"Look Mikan… I..." to his surprise, Mikan wasn't listening to him at all.
"Wow, what a nice place. I never knew there was a place like this in Central Town"
"Why don't we sit down?" He said as he pointed to a nearby bench in front of the lake.
"Sure why not?" they both sat down on the bench and then there was silence. They both blushed because they were sitting next to each other.
'Why is he blushing? Does that mean he… no way…' Mikan thought.
'Why is she blushing? Does that mean that she's… that's impossible…' Natsume was thinking the same thoughts.
"Ne, Natsume-kun?"
"Huh? What is it?"
"A while ago, you said you had something to tell me… So, what is it that you wanted to tell me, huh?"
"Oh, that? Ummm…" Natsume was so nervous because he thought Mikan would reject him.
"Huh?"
"I… Listen Mikan… I… I lo… IloveyouMikan!" Natsume said it so fast, even as fast as a speeding car going a thousand miles per hour.
"I didn't quite catch that." Mikan said as she scratched the back of her head, "Sorry, can you repeat it please?"
"I said I love you, Mikan." Mikan was shocked at what she heard from Natsume, she could barely say anything.
"It's okay if you don't love me too. I didn't expect you to love me back anyway, I'm just a guy who makes fun of you and teases you all the time, so I deserve not to be loved by you." Natsume said as tears started to form in his eyes, (A/N: Wow, Natsume? Crying? I'm surprised.) "I'm just glad that I was able to tell you that I loved you."
"That's not true, Natsume."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"Natsume… I" Mikan tried to say it but she was too embarrassed, her eyes were covered with her bangs and her head was down, trying not to look at Natsume, "I… I love you too… Natsume."
"What?" Natsume was shocked, he never thought that Mikan would love him back, after all those things he's done to her, she still loved him? "Thanks." He said as he hugged Mikan and made his hug tighter, and Mikan was shocked by Natsume's actions she wanted to step away, but she hugged him back instead.
End of flashback…
"And that's everything I remember…" Mikan said, with her index finger on her chin, after explaining the whole story.
"Okay," Hotaru said, "then how do you explain what we saw just a while ago, huh? Natsume and Youichi were sleeping with you here in your room?"
"Well, I couldn't sleep last night, so I decided to take a walk outside in the Academy Gardens, then I saw Natsume sitting under the Sakura Tree, so I sat down with him, and then Youichi said he had a bad dream, so he sat with us there, then after a while, Youichi said he was really sleepy, so we decided to go back inside here in the dormitory, we passed by the tree outside my bedroom window, then Youichi suddenly fell asleep here in my room, Natsume stayed here for a while to wait for me to fall asleep just in case I couldn't sleep again." Mikan explained, "And that's as far as I know, I fell asleep after that, I don't know why Natsume was sleeping here with me and Youichi. I guess he fell asleep by accident."
"Is that so?" Yuu asked, "So I guess there's nothing to worry about then, if Natsume cares for you that much, then Hotaru and I won't have to worry about Natsume hurting you, right?"
Mikan just nodded.
"Aaaaahhh…!" Mikan screamed the minute she saw the time.
"What's wrong, Mikan?" Yuu asked with a concerned look on his face.
"We're almost late!" She said pointing to the clock hanging on the wall of her room.
"Huh? Aaaaahhh!" Yuu said as his glasses almost fell off his face.
"I'll change right away, you guys go ahead." She said as she opened her cabinet door and reached for her uniform.
"Are you sure Mikan?"
"Yeah, I'll make it quick."
"Okay, just make sure you're not late for class."
"Okay, I'll be there before the teacher even gets a chance to step into the classroom."
"Okay." At that second, they both left Mikan's room.
(A/N: Full of Okays in their conversation… nyahaha…!)
Mikan hurriedly changed to her school uniform and ran to the classroom.
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When she entered the classroom, it was really noisy and there was a note written on the blackboard written by Mr. Narumi:
Class, I have some important things to do.
So your substitute teacher will take over the class for me, enjoy.
Mr. Narumi…♥
And then beside that note was another one, it was from the substitute teacher, it wrote:
Class…
I don't think that I'll be able to handle such wild children like you,
So you can just have a free day for today…
"Wow, all that trouble of moving so fast for nothing…" She had a why-did-I-even-have-to-bother-to-do-my-morning-routines-so-fast-if-I-didn't-even-have-to look on her face.
Then suddenly, her face went back to normal when she saw Natsume sitting alone, Ruka wasn't sitting beside him like usual, actually Ruka was nowhere to be found inside the classroom.
She walked to him and asked, "Natsume," she called out to him, "Where's Ruka? Is he still mad?" she asked with a concerned face as she sat down beside Natsume.
"I don't know," Natsume said looking at Mikan and away from his manga, "I couldn't find him after we left your room."
"Oh…"
Everyone was staring at them, they didn't notice because they were talking about their 'problem' with Ruka.
Then suddenly, a certain girl with dark green hair walked towards the two 'lovers', (A/N: Yup you guessed it.) "Hey, you!" she walked to Mikan pulled her arm so that she would stand up and then… "/Slap/ What do you think your doing to my Natsume?" she scolded the poor brunette after slapping her on the right cheek.
"Ow…!" she exclaimed rubbing her right cheek so that the pain would go away, "What did you do that for?"
"You're trying to steal my Natsume away from me!" exclaimed Sumire trying to embrace Natsume; the whole class just watched what was happening, but before Sumire was even able to get one finger on Natsume, he held her hand, Sumire was blushing because she thought that Natsume was going to… (A/N: Okay… you decide what Sumire will think Natsume will do to her… I had no idea what I would type when I was typing this story… so… you just think of your opinion, and imagine that Sumire's thinking of it… you know what I mean… Right?), but he didn't, after holding her hand, he pushed her away, "I don't belong to you." Natsume scolded the girl right in front of him, "Since when did I even become yours?"
"But… Natsume…" She didn't bother to say another word after this, she just ran outside the classroom crying.
"Are you okay?" Natsume asked as he went to where Mikan was sitting, she was on the floor, Natsume offered his right hand to the brunette who was on the floor.
"Yeah, I'm alright," she said grabbing his hand and trying to stand up, "Aaahhh…" she screamed after she felt the pain of the wound on her cheek, she removed her hand and found a bit of blood on it. (A/N: here in my fanfic, Sumire can turn any part of her body into any part of the body of a cat.)
"Are you alright?" Natsume asked, "That annoying girl must've used her Alice on you."
"I'm fine, don't worry about me… ugh…"
"No, you're not alright, we have to take you to the clinic."
"Okay."
"We'll come with you." Yuu said with Hotaru beside him, together with Koko.
"Oh come on, guys, it's not that bad, it's just a little wound, Natsume and I will be okay."
"Okay." Said Yuu.
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When the two arrived in the clinic, they found the nurse and told her what happened, "Do you have ointments for wounds?"
"Yes, of course we do, come into my office while I look for it." While the nurse was looking for the medicine, she talked to Natsume, "Wow, Natsume, you've changed, the last time I saw you, you kept on picking on girls and rejected those who are from your fan club, and now look at you, you have a cute girlfriend with you." The nurse giggled.
Mikan was confused, how did the nurse know Natsume?
"Oh, sorry if I'm confusing you," the nurse said looking at Mikan, "I used to be the one who treated his wounds whenever he got hurt during his missions."
"Oh really? So you two know each other then?"
"Yup." The nurse said after she found the ointment, "Natsume is as grumpy as ever, but at least he's already a bit nicer now."
"Oh yeah?" Natsume said in an annoyed tone, "Well, you're as annoying as ever."
"Why do you say that Natsume? She's such a nice person." Mikan asked as ointment was being put on her cheek along with some bandages.
"She's annoying." He said in a cold voice.
"Okay you two can go now, just remember to put this ointment on your wound before you sleep." She said handing Mikan the ointment.
"Okay, thank you." Mikan thanked the school nurse and walked away with Natsume.
When they were walking to their classroom, Mikan spoke, "Thanks for coming with me to the clinic, Natsume."
"… No problem." That's all he said.
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When they entered the classroom, they were, again, being stared at by all the other students.
"Mikan…" the same girl who slapped her a while back was walking to her as if trying to tell her something really important, "I'm sorry Mikan, I was just… you know… jealous. That's all. Please forgive me for what I did." She fell to her knees crying and begging for Mikan's forgiveness. Natsume didn't say anything, so he just watched the scene in front of him, even the whole class was watching.
"Of course I'll forgive you." Mikan said kneeling on the ground as well trying to comfort Sumire, "I understand how you feel."
"Thanks, Mikan." Sumire thanked the brunette as they stood up, she hugged her immediately.
"No problem." Mikan said hugging her back.
Sumire let go of Mikan and looked at Natsume, "Natsume, I know that you love Mikan very much, so take care of her, she's a really nice person and she's pretty as well, and I understand why you love her." She said, "But remember, I will always love you and if you break up with Mikan, or get bored with her, you can always come to me." She said winking at the boy in front of her.
"Yeah, whatever…"
Sumire walked to her seat, but before she sat down, she said something to Mikan, "Oh, and Mikan," she said looking back at the girl who owned the Nullifying Alice, "Take care of Natsume for me." And with that, she sat down on her seat.
Mikan just nodded at what Sumire told her.
"Hey, Mikan," Natsume started talking (A/N: At last! He's been quiet for a really long time, now.), "I, uhh… I'm just going to look for Ruka and try talking to him again."
"Okay, I hope he understands." Mikan said with a concerned face, "Because you do know how I feel when two of my friends fight, right?"
"Of course I do," Natsume said smirking, "that's why I'm trying to fix this."
"Oh, and I'll meet you in front of the gate after classes," Mikan said smiling again, "We're going to Central town with Youichi today, right?"
"Yeah," Natsume said walking away, "I'll meet you at 4:00 then."
"Okay."
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'Where did he go?' Natsume thought as he walked in the Academy Gardens trying to look for a certain blonde haired boy.
He looked in the library, his room, the cherry blossom tree they always sit under, and the fountain in front of the Academy Dormitory, but still, he was nowhere in sight, 'I've looked everywhere, where could he be?' Natsume had his right hand on the wall to stop himself from collapsing on the ground, he was panting heavily because he was tired of looking all over the school for Ruka, everywhere, except, 'the Northern Forest.' He thought.
He was running towards the Northern Forest when he saw a figure by the Oak Tree, he walked towards it and noticed a certain blonde haired boy crying while seated on a branch, Natsume waked closer, but the other boy didn't notice him. Natsume didn't want to disturb Ruka, so he just sat down under the tree, he just stayed silent so that Ruka wouldn't notice him, but the silence was deafening, so he decided to break it, "Hey," Natsume finally started talking, "We need to talk."
"What's there to talk about?" Ruka asked trying not to look at Natsume.
"Everything." He sighed.
"Look, there's nothing to talk about right now." Ruka said, "I know everything, you don't even have to bother explaining anything."
"That's not true." Natsume said almost shouting.
"What's not true? What do you mean? What are you saying? Huh? Of course everything is true! You confessed to Mikan! You two got together! You confessed your love for her even though you knew that I loved her as much as you did as well!" Ruka exclaimed as tears started to form in his eyes, Natsume just continued listening to his friend, "Natsume, you knew I loved her, as much as you did. So… Why did you do it? Why!"
"Look Ruka, don't cry." Natsume said looking at his friend with concerned eyes, "It was all a misunderstanding, I was asleep with her and Youichi on her bed because Youichi was really sleepy, so he slept with Mikan, then suddenly I felt sleepy as well, so I accidentally fell asleep with the two of them."
"…" No reply came out of his lips.
"What do you think I would do if you were the one who confessed to Mikan first? Huh?"
"…" still no reply.
"I'd be hurt as much as you are right now, I'd feel the pain you're feeling. Because I love her… as much as you do."
"…" Still no reply from the blonde haired boy.
"Look," Natsume started talking again, "If you really want to know the truth, then here it is," Natsume continued, "I really wanted to tell you about this, actually, I was about to tell you about this. But to tell you the truth, I didn't want this to affect our friendship. I didn't want it to affect our friendship because you're the best friend I've ever had, Ruka. I really didn't want this to affect our friendship at all."
Ruka still didn't say anything, he just sat there on a branch of the Oak Tree, and he was looking at the ground with his bangs covering his eyes.
"I'd better be going now." Natsume said as he walked to the exit of the Northern woods. (A/N: Does the Northern Woods even have an exit? O.o)
Ruka just watched his best friend walk away thinking if he would forgive him or not. 'Well, yeah, Natsume is the best friend I've ever had in my entire life, but I don't know if I can forgive him for doing this to me. I know that he knows I love Mikan. But I know that he loves her too. So, should I forgive him or what?' Then suddenly, something interrupted Ruka's thoughts, someone was walking to his direction. The figure of the person looked like a girl so he thought, 'Who could that be?'
When the person came closer, he saw a girl with raven black hair with a concerned look on her face, "Follow your heart." Were the first words that came out of her mouth.
"Huh?"
"Follow your heart," she repeated, "If you think that you should forgive him, then just do it," she continued her sentence, "He is your best friend, right? So think about it. If you don't forgive him, Then think of the advantages and disadvantages of it. You should think very hard, if you think that you shouldn't forgive him, then don't. But trust me, this isn't just any person you're dealing with, this is Hyuuga Natsume, your best friend, so the best thing to do is to forgive him, that is, if you want to, I'm not forcing you Ruka." She said walking away.
"Forgive him huh?" He said to himself almost whispering.
"And remember," she said before leaving, "Mikan isn't the only girl in the world you know? There are lots of girls out there." And with that she walked away going back to the classroom where Mikan and Yuu were.
"So… Should I forgive him?" Ruka asked himself once again, "Or not?"
'That's it,' He thought, 'I know what I should do. I'm…'
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"You think he's going to forgive Natsume?" Mikan asked her three friends who were comforting her.
"Ruka is a really nice guy, Mikan. Don't forget that." Yuu said.
"Yeah, there's a bigger chance that he'll forgive Natsume because he's a caring and considerate person." Sumire added.
"He's going to forgive him for sure, so don't worry Mikan." Said Koko.
"Thanks guys." Mikan said thanking her friends as she stood up from her seat.
"Where are you going Mikan?" Yuu asked.
"Oh, don't worry about me, I'm just going to take a little walk in the gardens that's all. I just need some fresh air."
"I'll come with you." Sumire offered.
Mikan shook her head, "That's alright, I'll be fine."
"No," Sumire said, "I have to talk to you about something."
"Huh?" Mikan asked with a confused face, "Okay."
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Mikan and Sumire were walking side by side in the Academy Gardens, they were quiet until Mikan broke the silence, "Umm… So Sumire, what was it that you wanted to talk about?"
"Oh, that." Sumire murmured, "You see, I…" Sumire closed her eyes knowing that she would be humiliated if she told this to Mikan, "I… I'm in love with… Uhh… You see I'm in love with… I love Y-- Aaaaaahhh!" Sumire screamed when she saw Mikan's face right in front of hers when she opened her eyes, "Mikan! Don't scare me like that!"
"I'm sorry Sumire." Mikan said still grinning widely, from ear to ear, "I just wanted to hear what you wanted to tell me."
"Well, I was about to, until you scared me." She said crossing her arms right in front of chest and looked away.
"Oh? Did I really? I'm sorry Sumire, you can continue what you were saying to me a while ago." Mikan said scratching the back of her head.
"That's alright." Sumire said as she sweatdropped, "Now back to what I was saying."
"Right."
"But promise me that you won't laugh at what I'm going to tell you, okay?"
"Okay, I promise."
"First of all I want you to take good care of Natsume for me okay?"
"Okay, I promise. Is that everything you're going to tell me?"
"No, there's more."
"Okay then, what is it?"
"As I was saying a while ago…"
"Yeah, it was something about being in love with 'Y'. So, who's 'Y'?"
"That's not his name, idiot." Sumire said furiously.
"Oh, sorry."
"/Sigh/ As I was saying, I love Y--"
Mikan just looked at her curiously, wanting to know who this 'Y' guy was.
"I love Y--" But before she wanted to continue she paused for a really, really long time.
"Hey, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing." Sumire said, "Just promise me that you won't tell anyone, not even Natsume or Hotaru."
"Why's that?"
"Because you're the only one I'm going to say this to."
"O-okay, I promise."
"I'm only telling you this because you're the only trust-worthy friend I know. So… here it goes." Sumire said closing her eyes, "I like Yuu."
"Really?" Mikan's face was serious at first but then… "Aaahahahahahaha! You like… Wahahahahaha… Yuu…Hahahahahahaha!"
"Hey, you promised not to laugh."
"Oh, uhh… Sorry. Ehem /Pretending to cough/"
"Well, Mikan, thanks." Sumire smiled.
"No problem," she said smiling back, "I understand why you like him, he's a nice guy and he's smart and good-looking too."
"Thanks for understanding Mikan. I guess you really are a reliable friend." She said hugging the brunette.
Then after Sumire let go of Mikan, she said her thanks and good-bye's and left to go back to the classroom.
Mikan didn't follow Sumire to the classroom; instead, she just continued walking in the Academy Gardens.
As she was walking peacefully, she saw someone sitting by the Sakura Tree. She neared the figure and saw a certain dark-purple haired boy reading his comic book / manga, "Hey there Natsume."
"Huh? Oh, it's you." Natsume said looking at her then back at his comic book again.
"So, how did it go with Ruka?" Mikan asked as she sat down beside the dark-haired boy.
"He wouldn't listen to me."
"Oh." She said in a very sad and depressed tone.
"/Sigh/ I know how much this is upsetting you Mikan." Natsume said putting down his comic book and looked at the cute girl beside him, "But don't worry," he finally said as he held both Mikan's hands, "I'll try to fix this as soon as possible." He said smiling, letting Mikan see the smile that no one has ever seen before, not even Ruka or Youichi.
And after seeing this, Mikan smiled and said, "You know Natsume," Mikan giggled, "You look a lot cuter when you're smiling."
"I know," Natsume said smirking, "You already told me that in detention yesterday."
"Really? I did?" Mikan asked.
"Of course you did, idiot."
"Hey!"
"Hn…" After that, they stayed silent for a while.
"Hey, Natsume, I think we should look for Youichi and head to Central Town, or else we'll miss the next bus. The next bus will arrive in 20 minutes."
"Yeah, I'll go get ready and look for Youichi, you go get ready and you can wait for us by the bus stop." Natsume said standing up.
Mikan nodded, "Okay. I'll see you by the bus stop in ten minutes."
Natsume just nodded.
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Mikan was waiting for the two boys by the bus stop that was heading to Central Town, "Where are they?" She asked herself, she was starting to become impatient, "Don't they realize that the bus will be arriving in 5 minutes?" Just after she asked herself this question, she saw two particular boys who were going towards her direction.
"Natsume, Youichi." She called out to the two boys, "Where've you been?"
"I couldn't find him." Natsume said pointing to the cute little boy who was walking beside him.
"Well, there's no more time for excuses," Said the brunette pulling the two towards the bus, "The bus is about to leave us. Hurry up!"
When they entered the bus, Mikan and Natsume sat beside each other and Youichi sat on Natsume's lap.
Mikan was just staring outside the window being amazed by the scenery she's never seen before.
While on the other hand, Natsume couldn't keep his eyes off Mikan. He just couldn't resist her beauty and the way she dressed today, he never saw her dress that way before, I mean a yellow sleeveless blouse which had a tangerine on the lower left corner of the blouse, a mini pleated skirt which was violet in color and plain white sandals were placed on her feet. And instead of wearing her hair on pigtails like when they were ten years old, she just wore it in a ponytail at the back of her head.
While on the other hand, Natsume just wore a simple red shirt with black pants. And as usual, his hair stayed like last time, as messy and raven colored as ever.
They arrived at Central Town, they ate some snacks, they went to some stores, then they bought Fluff Puffs as usual and just walked around when they couldn't find anything else to do. At the end they just sat down on a nearby bench and continued eating their Fluff Puffs.
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Then the three of them went back to the Academy and looked for a place to stay while waiting for it to be the time to eat dinner with the rest of the students, they finally found the place they were looking for, the lake which was just nearby the dormitory, they sat down on the grass before the lake.
"You know Natsume, it was very tiring today." Mikan said with the usual smile on her face.
"What makes you say that?" Natsume asked smirking at the girl.
"What? You mean you didn't get tired?"
"Not at all."
"I don't believe you." Mikan said pouting.
"/Sigh/ I'm just kidding." Natsume said since he couldn't stand seeing his 'loved one' so upset. But of course Mikan didn't know this.
Mikan didn't reply to what he said, she just complained, "You know, Youichi seems so quiet now." She said looking at the boy beside Natsume. And to their surprise, he already fell asleep.
"No wonder he's so quiet, he fell asleep." Mikan said.
"Yeah, and it's because he got bored of what you were talking about." Natsume joked.
"Natsume!" She shouted trying not to wake the sleeping boy.
Natsume just laughed. And not long after that, Mikan just laughed along with him.
After that long laugh, they were just sitting there quietly, watching the sun go down.
Mikan laid her head on Natsume's shoulder and stayed like that for a while.
"Huh?" Natsume looked at her with a confused look on his face.
"Can I stay like this for a while? I'm really tired you know. Don't worry, I won't fall asleep." She said still smiling.
"Fine."
"Thanks."
And after that, they woke Youichi up and they ate their dinner with their friends.
After eating Natsume walked the two of them to their rooms like usual and said goodnight to the two of them as usual.
But something was different that night. Natsume didn't just kiss her on the forehead but instead, he kissed her somewhere he knew that Mikan would appreciate more than a kiss on the forehead, this time he kissed her on her left cheek. Since her right cheek had a band-aid on it.
And that's how this chapter will end… Just like the other chapters, it ends when they all go to sleep.
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Ridley: I hope you all enjoyed this chapter!
Mikan: Please leave a review if you think this fanfic is nice or however you want to put it.
Ruka: There are lots more chapters to come, don't worry.
Hotaru: Please don't forget to read this story up to the ending.
Natsume: Hey, Ridley, why do I have to be so OOC in this fanfic?
Ridley: Because that's how you were meant to be in this story.
Natsume: I hate you so much. I'm going to burn you to death.
Ridley: What! No! I promise that in the next chapters, you'll only become OOC when you're around Mikan.
Natsume: Good. /Puts out fire that was about to be thrown at me/
Yuu: Please stay tuned for the upcoming chapters.
Youichi: Click on the 'GO' button down there /Points at the go button on the lower left part of this window/ if you want to send a review.
Ridley//Crying and pleading at the same time/ Please give me suggestions or you own opinions! I lack inspiration! I need inspiration!
Sumire: She's desperate for inspiration. And when I say desperate I mean desperate. I've seen her typing her stories, and oh man do they—Aaaahhh//Running around the room because I'm chasing her/
Ridley: Have you been watching me when I type my stories//Shouting while chasing Sumire/ I'm going to kill you for doing that!
Mikan: Okay, let's just leave those two alone first.
Ruka: Yeah, you're right.
Hotaru: Okay, that's all for today. And don't forget, if you want to buy some pictures of Ruka Nogi blushing madly looking like a tomato right in front of Mikan Sakura, you can buy them from me, for only 200 rabbits. /Raising the pictures right in front of the camera./
Ruka: What! Where did you get those? Give those back.
Yuu: Okay let's leave all of them alone for a while shall we//Points at me chasing Sumire, Ruka chasing Hotaru and Natsume and Mikan watching everything that was happening around them/
Youichi: Goodbye//Covers the screen with a black cloth. Together with Yuu/