Ohayou, minna. I'm back. Sorry if I kept you waiting, but this one was quite hard to write, I had absolutely no ideas. grin

But… enjoy…

Me: "…"

Mitsuki: "hey, why are you so quiet?"

Me: "…"

Mitsuki: "Hellooooo? Earth to sternenhagel! Can you hear me?"

Me: -looking up- "Gomene, but I was just thinking about something"

Natsume: "You can think?"

Me: "Yeah, I can." –angry-

Mikan: "What were you thinking?"

Me: "If I should draw a picture of Mitsuki and show it to the ones who read this story."

Mikan: "Why would you do this?"

Mitsuki: "Because I'm good-looking."

Natsume: "Not really"

Me: -ignoring Mitsuki and Natsume- "Because I'm not good at describing people and if I draw him, they would know how he looks like, but…"

Mikan: "But what?"

Me: "I'm still not that good at drawing, especially boys."

Mikan: "Oh"

Me: "…"

Mikan: "She's thinking again. So please enjoy reading" –smiles-

--Central Town--

„Hurry up, we'll miss the bus! "

The brunette laughed and twirled around over and over.

"Come on!"

A grey-haired boy at the same age looked at the cheerful girl. He chuckled a bit and caught up with her.

The girl suddenly stopped to twirl around and tried to walk straight ahead to the bus stop, but she felt dizzy and almost fell on the floor.

Before the brunette could reach the ground, he caught her and helped her to regain her sense of balance.

After she was able to stand safe with both feet on the ground, he let go of her.

The girl laughed again and ran to the bus, which was about to leave.

"Whaaa, stoooppp!! We want to go to Central Town too! Waiiitttttt!!"

They managed to get to the bus on time.

The brunette let herself fall on the seat and smiled at the boy next to her.

"I'm completely pant out of pant breath, pant hahahaha"

He grinned. This would be a fun day, for sure.

"Wow, it's great here."

Mitsuki turn around and looked at Mikan, who was a little behind, because he was so excited that he ran almost the whole way.

The nullifier smiled. She had known that Mitsuki would love Central Town.

"Come on, let's look around a bit. I'll show you the best places here."

"Hai!" He smiled brightly.

Click

"Let's go!" Mikan smiled and dragged Mitsuki to the nearest store.

"Wow! Look, look! The teddy bear is moving. Kawaii!"

The nullifier turned around to the boy, who was watching a little teddy bear which was running in circles.

"Kyaa, hontoni, it's moving! But…" she sighed, "its costing 300 rabbits. It's so expensive."

Mikan looked sadly at the stuffed bear. Mitsuki couldn't stand the disappointed eyes.

"Hey, smile, little angel. I'll buy it!"

The brunette looked at the guy beside her.

"You can't, it costs too much. Besides, you don't know your star ranking yet."

Mitsuki laughed.

"Don't worry, its okay, really"

Her face lit up!

"Arigato" She smiled brightly as she hugged him.

Click

Hotaru laughed evilly. This would sell perfectly. And, she would earn more money, much more money, from that certain person.

"Imai-san, you are scaring, you know."

A nervous Ruka objected. He looked at the inventor and couldn't help to shudder a bit.

He never wanted to come with her, he found that still wrong.

But the stoic girl had her methods.

"I have that picture with the cute little baby boy in bunny pyjamas."

She smirked.

"It will sell perfectly." With greedy eyes she looked at Ruka.

The animal lover sweat dropped. For a normal person there would be no way to get these pictures.

'But Hotaru Imai is not normal.' He thought.

They heard a chuckle from behind them. Both of them turned around and saw a amused Koko standing a few steps behind.

"You're right, Ruka-kun. She's definitely not."

Hotaru looked annoyed. She pointed her Baka-gun at Ruka.

"Mind telling me what's going on?" Her eyes looked dangerous.

"Because I can't read other's mind, you know. And I hate it when I don't know something."

The inventor kept her stoic face and her cool attitude, but inside, she was furious.

"Ano, I…I…Imai-san. I…it's nothing important, s…so please, w…w…would you be so n…n…n…ice and stop p…pointing t…the Baka-gun on me?"

Ruka looked nervous at the stoic girl, who was still pointing her gun on him and was obvisually

"Stop stuttering. It makes you an idiot! And if you are an idiot, I can't sell your pictures anymore! Get it?"

Hotaru looked at the boy in front of her. Her partner was such an idiot. She let out a sigh.

The boy grumbled and looked away.

He hated it when Hotaru insulted him as a weak idiot.

He hated it when Hotaru was stronger than him, when she had the control, he hated those things. But the fact was that Hotaru was always stronger, she always insulted him and she always had the control.

But although he hated all these things Hotaru did, he just couldn't hate the stoic inventor.

And to know that one fact, that he couldn't hate her, Ruka hated the most.

"Snap out of it, Baka!"

A cold voice jerked him back to reality. The animal pheromone boy looked at the girl beside him.

"What?" he asked annoyed.

"I'm hungry" she pointed at a café called 'blue pelican' and then she started to walk away.

"Your treat"

Ruka sighed. That was so typical for her. Then he caught up with the raven-haired girl.

Koko was standing at the same spot as before and he had no intentions to follow the couple.

He giggled, muttered "Love" and skipped out of sight.

Meanwhile, Mikan and Mitsuki were almost done with shopping. The nullifier cuddled into the teddy bear she got from her friend. Mitsuki held a lot of bags in both of his hands, grinning slightly and following the brunette.

"Hey, little angel, where are we heading?"

Mikan turned her head and looked back at Mitsuki. She smiled and her eyes were shining.

'She's so cute.' He blushed a bit.

But when he noticed that matter, he stopped surprised. Why was he blushing? He had known her since they were three and he knew that she was cute and adorable. But he always thought of her as a good friend, or?

"Mitsuki, is something wrong?"

Confused looked Mitsuki at Mikan. He knew she was worried.

"No, I just asked myself where we are going to go." He lied.

"Oh, I won't tell you, it's a surprise." She twirled around with a beautiful smile and Mitsuki blushed even more. 'Damn, what happens to me?'

The brunette didn't notice anything wrong and went straight ahead to her favourite place in Central Town.

And of course, after a few minutes, they were standing in front of the Howalon sales stand. Mitsuki looked at the white sweets in disbelieve. He turned to Mikan, who was already standing in the line.

"This is your favourite place in the whole town?" But, before she could answer, a cold voice interrupted them.

"Yeah, she's a pig after all." His crimson eyes focused on Mikan, Natsume came out of the line with a big box in his hands. Beside him, there was Youichi, who was holding the fire caster's hand.

"Mou, Natsume, you don't have to be so mean, you know." She pouted cutely and this made Mitsuki blushed even more.

Natsume, who noticed of course, became pissed of.

"Why shouldn't I?" he asked coldly.

The nullifier looked angry.

"Because I'm your friend, for some reasons."

Natsume kept his cool attitude, but inside he was a bit hurt. So she didn't even know why she was his friend. Maybe there was no reason; maybe she just wanted to have some more people to talk with.

"Nobody forces you to talk to me, polka. So you can chancel the friendship anytime you want. I won't stop you."

He managed to keep his face emotionless, but he couldn't control his eyes. Those eyes showed pain and regret, but Mikan was too dense to notice. She was furious and hurt, not believing what she had heard. So her friendship didn't mean anything to Natsume. 'So that's the reason why he is always so mean' her heart was heavy, but she didn't want to show it.

"If our friendship means nothing to you, I'll chancel it. But I want a proof."

Natsume looked at her. He didn't know what to answer.

"Slap me." Mikan looked at him with painful eyes, but her voice was still strong. She wanted to know if it was true or not.

The fire caster was shocked. He could never hurt her in anyway. There was no way he would do this. But his damn proud told him to do something.

"Hn, I don't hurt little girls." He said and turned away.

Yay! The next chapter is done. It took me soo long to write this one.I'm not really good at writing good things and so on, I'm better at fighting parts. Hehehe. I hope you enjoyed it. I think, the next chap will be already the fight between Natsume and Mitsuki, but I'm not sure yet. But I have to go on with the story, because till yet it's more the prologue than the main story, hehehe.

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