~Flight H1127~

SUMMARY: Natsume Hyuuga has to marry before his 23rd birthday to inherit his family business. In Paris, he is dating Koizumi Luna, a popular model, but he finds her cheating on him with his best friend, Ruka. Stressed, Natsume leaves for Japan. Will he find true love at last with anyone? Or will Luna ruin everything again?

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This Chapter Is Dedicated To: Everybody who reviewed (except for the Rukaru moments, which are dedicated to rukaruromancepassion , a hardcore fan of RukaXHotaru :D )

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By The Way:

Yasashi, your 'airport comment' made me laugh like crazy.

DappleSora, Natsume in driving school is definitely something I wanna laugh about :D

chrisca123456789, don't worry, I'm not gonna kill Mikan. Otherwise, there's no story ;)

crimson eyed girl, Youichi WILL appear *wink* but I can't say WHEN. This story is NOT a YouichixAoi though. And, Mikan won't get hurt badly!

rukaruromancepassion, you wrote such a long review, and you called it short??? :O *shocked* The Rukaru moments in this chappie are dedicated to you :) sorry, my computer refuses to let me write your name properly :(

JeZrA-Amutolover110 (anonymous), thank you so much for reviewing my stories. I read your other reviews to my stories and I can see that you wish for me to end at least one of my stories. (One-shots don't count, I know.) So here's a piece of good news for you: I won't be ending them! They were just on hiatus for a little while though I didn't mention that fact in my profile (I think!) and there were really a lot of things I needed to think through the past few months (plots and stuff for the on-hiatus stories), anyway, I'll definitely finish this one :) Wow. Now I'm wondering if any of my readers are tired of me not updating :p Thanks, JeZrA, for helping me realise that.

My apologies, minna! I'll just concentrate and finish the ones I already have for now then :) Thanks again, JeZrA! I was trying to figure out how to do that. I have problems doing that kinda thing; dunno why?

BTW, JeZrA, just curious: do you prefer me to finish ALL my stories or finish some of them first before I continue with the others? Maybe I should make a poll on that.. Hmm…

Everybody, please do the poll in my profile if you haven't done so :) It's to help me find out which stories to finish. I'll be happy to hear everybody's opinions.

I'm not good at describing a car accident. (Never been in one before, though I nearly got involved with one sometime ago. Saw somebody in front of me at the traffic light near my house getting hit on the shoulder by a passing vehicle. Ouch, that frightened me half to death. The guy who got hit was okay though.) My apologies if the scene sucks. Some swearing below?

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Flight Two – To The Hospital, And Hotaru's House

Mikan saw a bright flash of light as she started crossing the road. Her eyes widened as she saw a sleek vehicle rushing towards her at what seemed like the speed of light.

'Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!' screamed the brunette in terror, her face ashen.

Time seemed to slow to a crawl as Mikan hurriedly moved back to the pavement. She was too slow, unfortunately, and as the car Mikan identified as a Ferrari raced past, she felt her left foot suddenly bear a weight.

The sensation lasted for a moment before the car's tyre rolled completely over her foot and the Ferrari stopped a few metres away with a loud screech.

Mikan gasped in pain as a shock ran through her body. She collapsed to the pavement, trying to press her left foot as if attempting to prevent more pain coming.

It didn't work.

Mikan's face turned even paler as she gritted her teeth while trying to bear with the pain in her left foot while watching out of the corner of her hazel eyes, a young, harried-looking man quickly getting out of the car and coming towards her.

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Natsume spotted the woman the moment she started crossing the road, even though he was some distance away. His Ferrari's headlights flashed onto the lady, bright.

Natsume swore under his breath and started pulling the car's brake. This Ferrari ran on manual. Would he have enough time to prevent an accident?

The raven-haired man sensed his car quickly slowing down on its speed. He glanced out through his windshield at the woman, who was staring at his car, seemingly frozen with a terrified look on her face.

He swore again as his car went past her, and felt his car jerk up slightly on one side, before going back to normal.

SCRREEECHH! The Ferrari stopped a few metres away.

Natsume breathed deeply. In and out. OK.

'What do I do now?' he thought. He opened his car door and looked at the lady wearing a skirt lying on the pavement, her features screwed up in pain.

'Oh boy,' thought Natsume, starting towards her.

Natsume Hyuuga didn't know that this meeting with a girl he nearly ran over in an accident would change his life completely from top to bottom.

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The first thing that Mikan Sakura did when she saw this guy who was apparently the driver who nearly ran her over?

She screamed at him as she got up slowly and painfully from the pavement, leaning on the traffic light.

'WHAT KIND OF DRIVER ARE YOU?! You could've killed me you know!'

Natsume groaned inwardly. Who the hell was this weird woman who was screaming at him?

He decided to try and make her shut up and pulled off his aviator shades.

'Take a good hard look, little girl,' thought Natsume in glee. 'You'll probably fall for me.'

Mikan looked at him and did fall, but not in the way Natsume had expected.

She accidentally tripped over her purse which was on the floor. Her skirt flared as she fell, and she collapsed back onto the pavement with a string of profanities.

Natsume shut his ears to block out the noise this weird woman in front of him was making while thinking, 'Wow. Is Japan full of females who aren't that crazy about me like I thought? This woman like that Imai lady I met on the plane looked at me but didn't give a damn about me either.'

'What is with you, Polka Dots? Looks like you seem to be a klutz too…'

The brunette stared up at his smirking face from the pavement, and realisation hit her and she sucked in her cheeks deeply.

'WHO THE HELL ARE YOU? PERVERT!!!!!!!!!!!'

Mikan used the traffic light for a support again and slowly got up. Her face was burning.

The raven-haired guy looked at her, amused.

'You know,' he began, 'most women would normally scream and beg for forgiveness that they insulted me when I meet them in such a situation like this, but you're different.'

Mikan snorted. 'I'm not most women.'

Natsume couldn't help it. He just had to add an extra comment. 'Of course; most women don't wear polka-dotted panties, do they?'

Mikan flushed redder than ever.

'Pervert,' she muttered under her breath. Natsume heard this; he ignored it.

'What do we do now?' asked Mikan slowly.

'Hn?'

'Don't you 'Hn' me please. Listen. My foot's injured. I. Need. To. Go. To. The. Hospital. Do. You. Understand. That. Pervert?'

Natsume smirked again. 'Whatever. Get in my car. I'll take you to the hospital.'

'No way,' protested Mikan. 'I won't be able to sleep tonight. This car accident will haunt my dreams.'

Natsume rolled his eyes. Why do I care about that? Wait. Why am I even thinking about it?

Natsume shook his head irritably and moved towards Mikan, who shivered.

'What are you trying to do?' she asked through clenched teeth.

Natsume groaned. 'You really are weird, Polka. If you don't take my car, how am I going to take you to the hospital?'

'My name is not POLKA!'

'Oh, that's right. My manners seem to disappear when I meet you.'

'WHAT?' The bastard! thought Mikan furiously. He's insulting me!

'I forgot to introduce myself. Pardon me,' said Natsume meticulously, a huge smirk on his face.

He suddenly picked Mikan up bridal-style, and dumped Mikan's purse in her lap as he started walking back to the Ferrari with her in his arms.

Mikan took five seconds to realise she was being carried by him and shrieked.

'AAIIIEEEEE!!!!!!! PUT ME DOWN, WHATEVER-YOUR-NAME-IS!'

'You're really rude, little girl. My name,' said Natsume, 'is Natsume Hyuuga.' He dumped her in the passenger seat with her purse, and then got into the driver's seat.'

'Now, to which hospital?'

Mikan barely managed to finish saying, 'Alice Hospital, Alice Avenue,' before the car peeled down the street at a frightening speed.

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In Hotaru's house, there was silence. Ruka hurriedly got rid of the rest of the remaining dust hanging about his person before sitting down again on Hotaru's lounge chair.

'Hotaru?' asked the blonde cautiously.

'Speak,' said the amethyst-eyed woman, seating herself opposite him.

'I-I went to Koizumi-san's house because I found out…' his voice trailed off.

'Found out what, Nogi?'

'I found out that Koizumi-san is just dating Natsume for money.'

Hotaru's eyebrows rose slightly. 'Really. And how did you get that information?'

'The last time I spoke to Natsume before the trip to Paris, it was by phone. He told me something about Luna asking him to pump in more money for her business career, so I started smelling a rat. Then Natsume spoke about the fact that he was thinking about asking her to marry him, but he wasn't exactly certain of his feelings for her. That's when I realised that Koizumi had been playing him, so…'

'So we went to Paris, at your suggestion' - Ruka winced as he remembered the previous conversation at the airport – 'and you went not to have a holiday but to help Hyuuga?'

'Well, yeah, that's the gist of it…'

'YOU COULD'VE AT LEAST HAVE TOLD ME WHAT YOU WERE GOING TO DO, YOU KNOW! WHEN I HEARD ABOUT KOIZUMI AND YOU, I WAS SO UPSET!'

Hotaru slumped in her chair, blushing and embarrassed. She wasn't used to saying such *mushy* stuff like this. Ruka stared at her, stunned.

'Wait…' Comprehension dawned on Ruka. He grinned. 'I see.' He got up from his lounge chair and went over to Hotaru.

'So. You, the Ice Queen, were jealous, were you?' Hotaru flushed.

'No!' she protested. Ruka simply grinned. 'Whatever.'

He leaned down. Hotaru felt uncomfortably aware of his proximity immediately.

'What are you doing, Ruka?'

Ruka smirked now. 'So you forgave me huh?'

Hotaru clapped her hand to her mouth. Crap. I called him Ruka instead of Nogi.

'Oh well.' The blonde guy kissed Hotaru on the cheek. The Ice Queen blushed a brilliant red.

'RU-NOGIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M GOING TO KILL YOUUUU!'

'You can't catch me,' teased Ruka, jumping a little way away from Hotaru's outstretched arm. Hotaru smiled a tiny smile. Ruka never failed to make her happy. Wait. What the hell was she thinking?!

Hotaru blushed again, and pulled out her Baka Gun. 'You're doomed, Bunny Boy.'

Ruka grinned and braced himself for the Baka Gun.

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'Put on your seatbelt,' ordered Natsume, annoyed.

'NO!'

'Why, you idiot? I'm driving at 117 km per hour; you'll die if we have an accident.'

'We already have had one. And I can't put my seatbelt on because I daren't move my hands!'

Natsume groaned again. He slowed down.

'Why the hell are you driving so fast, Mr. Hyuuga?' asked the brunette peevishly, trying to nurse her hurt foot.

'Because I'm supposed to be home in exactly 1 minute. When I'm late, my sister kills me. And the hospital is another 4 minutes' drive away?'

Mikan sighed. She finally put on her seatbelt. 'You're gonna get fined. I noticed a lot of speed-camera flashes on our way here.'

'The hell I care about fines,' muttered Natsume, driving again. 'It's already dark out, stupid cameras.'

5 minutes later…

Natsume drove into the hospital's carpark lot and parked the car in a lot just as his phone rang. He sighed.

Natsume answered the ringing phone. 'Hello?'

'WHERE ARE YOU?!' shouted the teen on the other end of the line. Natsume immediately got a headache.

'Aoi!'

'WHAT? YOU'RE NOT HOME! WHERE ARE YOU?'

'Listen, I accidentally ran over somebody-'

'YOU WHAT?'

'-and I'm taking her to the hospital-'

'Her? A GIRL! Oh yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so calling Mum and Dad!'

Natsume sighed. Mikan was staring at him in the car and her face expression was 'unbelievable'. She could hear Aoi screaming.

'Aoi. I am not interested in the girl I'm helping.'

'Ha. You say,' replied a gleeful Aoi.

Mikan rolled her eyes. 'Can I talk to your sister?'

Natsume glared at her. 'Whatever,' he consented and handed over his phone, groaning as he massaged his painful head.

'-sume, you know I heard from Dad about your breakup with that weird lady yesterday. You were so smart to dump her, and you know-'

Mikan's eyes grew wide. Too much personal information.

She cut through this girl Aoi's tirade.

'Um.'

'Hey, wait, you're not Brother, who are you?'

'I'm the girl Hyuuga-san's taking to the hospita-'

'REAAAAALLLY?????? You know, before you, Natsume never lent his phone to other girls!'

Mikan's eyebrows rose. Natsume glared at her. No doubt Aoi is spouting rubbish again.

'No, listen, Aoi…-san. I'm not interested in your brother one bit.'

Aoi's voice was full of admiration upon her reply.

'WOW! You're the first girl Brother's met that isn't a b*tch!'

Mikan winced at the crude word.

'Um. OK. I'm sorry about this whole thing; your brother's late because of me.'

'Oh, no matter,' sang Aoi into her end of the line. 'Have fun with Brother. Bye.'

Aoi hung up, and Mikan was left staring at Natsume's phone like it had some disease.

'What the…'

Natsume took his phone back from her. 'Apologies about that. Aoi is a little…'

Mikan wearily shook her head. 'I understand.'

Natsume could see she was trying to control herself. Plainly she thought his family was crazy.

'Thanks for taking me as far as the hospital,' said Mikan quickly. 'Well, bye!' She hurriedly climbed out of Natsume's Ferrari as fast as she could with her injured foot before Natsume could stop her.

Natsume sighed as he saw her disappear into the carpark's lift lobby.

'When I finally meet somebody who's not a fan-girl, she's weirded out by me and my family… Wait. She's weird too. Why am I even bothering about her? Better go home. I'm gonna kill Aoi. She probably said something to Polka that scared her off. And besides, Polka's not the best woman in the world, right? Wait; why am I even considering that my soulmate could be her? I'll never meet her again anyway. Plus, she's too different from me, and I don't think she's rich. Father and Mother would probably never approve…'

Natsume shook his head of raven locks as he started driving the Ferrari out of the hospital carpark to go home. What's wrong with me? he thought, annoyed.

He didn't know how wrong he was about assuming he would never see her again, because…he met her the very next day.

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Author's Note: I don't know if this chapter met everybody's expectations. This chapter is longer than the prologue…I think. Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! :) And about the ending, I know how much readers dislike cliffies, but maybe I should let you guys guess how Natsume meets Mikan again! Whoever guesses close or right will get the next chappie dedicated to them along with a mini-prize of computer chips :D

Well, till the next chapter, Sayonara ~Rainbow-chan