Hige: Another update…again thanks to those who read my work and left a review, I love you! bows and sorry for the OOCness and the grammatical errors, I'm not good in English… no flaming please…and now I want to present to you my guest Reo
Hige: Hi Reo!
Reo: Hello, I just dropped by to say hi!
knock knock
Hige: Who's there?
Natsume: It's me
Hige: Come in opens the door Oh and I want you to meet, Re— where's Reo? looks at the open windows He escaped; I thought I tied him tight enough he'll even have trouble breathing…Natsume: What do you want me to do anyway?
Hige: Burn him to crisp
Natsume: Why?
Hige: Because he kidnapped you, and Mikan
Sumire: and me too!
Hige: Yeah, whatever… and also because… err… I hate him… personally…
Natsume: I see --;
Mikan: Sorry for this bows ehehehehe… read on… enjoy!
Disclaimer: Gakuen Alice… definitely not mine
Natsume broke the long silence between them
"I asked you, so answer me" he stared at her expecting an excuse
"I asked you too, answer me first!"
"Hn." He shift his gaze to anything but Mikan
"Don't be rude, Ruka told me—" Natsume didn't let her finish what she was saying
"What did he told you?"
Mikan answered immediately knowing Natsume's serious (and will definitely burn her hair if she didn't answer at once) "He said you wanted to talk to me, that's all"
What? Then this is a set-up… I wonder what Ruka is up to…
Natsume turn around ready to leave when Mikan called his name "Natsume…" He stopped but didn't look at her "Hm?"
"Is something wrong?" her voice obviously shows concern
"Nothing's wrong." We're alone, and you talking to me… then you ask me if something's wrong? Right…..
The black neko walked away leaving a confused and worried Mikan. Actually, Natsume's planning to go straight to his classroom and maybe sleep for a while then he just realized that he's not yet ready to talk to Ruka about anything especially about Mikan. He then went to a park with Sakura trees, he sat under the shade of a tree, closed his eyes. Natsume was about to fall asleep when a cherry blossom landed on his nose, his eyes snapped open—
What am I doing here? I'm supposed to go somewhere I can relax and forget about that little girl, resting under a Sakura tree will just make things worse… I got to find a place to rest…I know… the rooftop is a perfect place…
He runs toward the stairs leading to the rooftop then he began running, running…. still running… he's nearly there...
At last… I just want to go straight to sleep… I'm so tired
He settled down on a side where no one will notice him immediately, he just wants to take a nap, thinking right now and analyzing 'those' events isn't the best things to do. He was about to sleep (again) when he heard a familiar voice
"Are you sure, he wants to tell me something important?"
"Yes."
"But, he didn't tell me anything at all."
"Eh? He didn't? Try to think it over; maybe you just forgot it…"
"I can't remember any, sorry… "
Natsume quickly searched and found the person talking, his eyes narrowed to the boy Mikan was talking too
Ruka…
The two were still arguing about the important-thing-Ruka-said-Natsume-will-tell-her stuff that they didn't noticed Natsume approaching them.
"Ruka, what's going on?"
Ruka faced Natsume, surprised that he didn't even sensed him coming
"Answer me now, what's happening?"
"Natsume, it's noting… really."
"I heard what you and Mikan were talking about, now tell me!"
"But I—"
I hate to do this to you Ruka, but this is the only way… to force you to tell me what's up… by using my Alice on you
Natsume's right hand began to glow, fire appeared on his palm
"Tell me… now!"
"Natsume, listen—"
"Spit it out!"
The fire on his palm increased and his eyes shows nothing but anger, the blazing fire now charged to Ruka's direction and Mikan, left with no choice, spreads her arms in between Ruka and Natsume's flame, and unintentionally uses her Alice
"Stop it!"
The flame didn't affect her at all, it just glowed blue then vanished, and again she neutralized Natsume's Alice
"What's wrong with you?" Mikan shouted at Natsume
What have I done… Natsume opened his mouth to say something but no words came out, for the first time in his life he didn't know what to say, he doesn't have any reason why he almost burn his bestfriend, he didn't know what happened, but he remembered a certain emotion he felt before he attacked Ruka with his fire… Was it really anger? Confusion or jealousy?
"Huh, Tell me!" she shouted once again
Natsume turns his back to them and begins to walk away while Mikan slowly lowered her arms.
"Wait, where are you going?" Ruka finally spoke
"None of your business" He stopped on his tracks, answered coldly
"I am you friend, so it is my business"
"Not starting from today."
He continued to walk and before he gets out of the doctor Ruka whispered
"Coward"
But even though it's just a whisper it's enough to reach Natsume's ears
"What?" He faced them once again
"You're a coward because all you want to do was backed out, run away from everything."
"What are you talking about?" they looked deeply into each other's eyes
"Natsume, I did this because I knew it's a perfect timing, I'll be a great time and place for you to confess."
"Confess what?" Mikan butts in the conversation
"You see Mikan, Natsume here li—"
"Don't say it!" he covered Ruka's mouth with his hands, immediately shutting him up.
"Huh?" Mikan began thinking, confused about everything
Ruka then removed the hand from his mouth and said "If you're not going to tell her, then I will."
Ruka, being Natsume's childhood friend and bestfriend, knew Natsume all too well, he knows exactly how to push him and make him do thing he didn't wanted like this one.
"Fine. I'll talk."
"What?" She's still confused…
"Little girl… Well you see I….well, I… I"
"What?" she asked again
"Tell her." Ruka said in a lone tone so that only Natsume will be able to hear him
"I'm trying." He whispered back
"Okay, Okay, I had enough," Natsume closed his eyes and told her "I like you…." It's not a very loud confession but she got it clear
"You what?"
To be continued…
Hige: Oh yeah, thanks to those who reviewed … again I wanted to thank these people: sparkling-saphyre, KLiC 015, danavalkyrie, glenda23, alf05, Chin-92,Soul of the Rain, Natsume+Mikan, Yuuki Ishikawa, Saf, bostafu, kionkichi