Not a laughing matter

By: Blinking Cursor

Six months prior to present time

Natsume's POV

Hyuuga Natsume's eyes twitched in annoyance as the ticking sound of the grandfather clock behind him became apparent to his ears. It had been only twenty minutes since Narumi and that good-for-nothing-assistant's latest escapade. He couldn't help but kept on thinking about the latter. He sighed, giving a tell-tale sign of worries over one of the two male.

He couldn't comprehend his current distress. Heck! He just met that boy with that, that annoyingly big brown beautiful eyes today. He shook his head quickly to clear his mind but imagining that naïve looking boy fell into wrong hand, such as Narumi, did not bode well with his current thought.

He turned his attention back to the presentation folder lying open on his table, one that was prepared by the brunette boy and started working on it, albeit reluctantly. After the first three pages he cursed aloud, shoving his palms into his hair, "Shit, shit, shit, damn it!"

The more he tried to stop thinking about the brunette (with those big radiant happy eyes) the wilder his imagination had became. Without much thought, he jumped off his chair, grabbed his coat and keys and stormed off of his lavished office. At that very moment a blond figure was heading his direction, which he pretty much ignored.

"Natsume, where are you going?" Gentle blue eyes stared at him. "I thought we are having an important meeting right now?"

Natsume stopped right inside the elevator and faced the blond, assessing him for a short while before saying, "Cancel it, a moron's life with beautiful eyes needs saving right now-" Natsume's voice trailed off as the elevator door closed shut with a loud ding!

Nogi Ruka could only stared, his fair brows lifted so high that they nearly reached the hairline. His mind was spinning with many questions which one of them being: What makes Natsume Hyuuga so worked up? His cell phone rang twice and he quickly answered them seeing that Natsume's father's name flashing on the screen.

"Ah, Mr. Hyuuga," He said, trying to keep his professional voice up to notch. "I'm sorry sir, he cancelled it." He winced when Hyuuga Senior's voice turned louder, obviously in anger and that annoyed Ruka very, very much.

Why me? He thought bitterly, after a couple of seconds listening to the older man demanding for an answer, he replied as calm as he could, "Well, Mr. Hyuuga, apparently, your son decided that today he wants to be a superman."

Hyuuga Natsume threw his cell phone at the passenger seat and hit the steering wheel repeatedly. Saying he was furious was an understatement, he was extremely furious. That idiotic blond-headed monkey, namely Narumi, had switched off his cell phone to avoid him. He needed that yellow monkey's location; he could not go around and asked random people where that man was, could he? No, that would spoil his sense of superiority and pride.

He thought of many possible places where that yellow monkey could be, but he was greeted with surprise, surprise, a dead end. He stopped his car at the side and calmed himself. Narumi could be anywhere with Mikan Sakura. He frowned when his assistant name came into his mind, his name sounded uncannily like one that belonged to a female and that name was somehow familiar. So feminine. However, seeing that this was an alternate universe where everything impossible made sense, he just shrugged it off.

He stopped at the random thought, shaking his head. He was going insane; he didn't understand what he was thinking about. For all he knew, he would probably say he could summon fire and blasted half of the world.

His eyes stared at the GPS in his car and his face broke into a huge conniving grin that matched the devil himself. He remembered installing a special sensor in Narumi's car seeing how much that man kept on shirking from his responsibility.

I got you now, Narumi…you think you can hide from me? He drove his car towards the directed location and stopped at a large shopping mall. Mall? Natsume thought incredulously as he stepped out of his car, sporting a dark sporty eye wear and loosened his dark blue ties, going for a casual look.

It won't be hard searching for them, right? He thought as he stepped inside the particular shopping mall.

Hyuuga Natsume thought wrong. It was a large place and he was currently on the fourth floor out of seven. One floor took him more than an hour, providing that he was actually running. He silently cursed the person who thought of constructing this monstrosity but stopped when it came to him that he was the owner of the said shopping mall.

At long last he reached one store, though doubting that Narumi would ever be there, he still entered and much to his delight; he spotted the yellow monkey, though his assistant was no where in sight.

"Narumi!"

The said Narumi turned to him, smiling widely as if nothing had happened. He marched towards the handsome crimson eyed man and quickly hugged him.

"Natsume, you are here!" He said in a voice too happy much to his annoyance. He never understood how someone could be that happy.

He narrowed his eyes and pushed away from the older male embrace, "Where is my assistant?" He demanded.

"You miss him already?" Narumi cooed, eyes twinkling, "Well, you will see him later Natsume. Oh, he is so cute, you wouldn't believe it!"

"Uh, Mr. Narumi," An almost feminine voice came out from the dressing room.

"Ow, Mikan, I thought I told you to just call me Narumi." Narumi sighed, apparently depressed over the brunette reluctance to just call him Narumi.

"I'm done."

"Well, come out, show the world or maybe show Mr. Hyuuga here how cute you are,"

"Mr. Hyuuga?!" A squeaky voice came out, again female sounding. "No, not him, not him…"

Natsume could only roll his eyes and was slightly offended with the negative response. What was wrong with seeing him? He was not that ugly looking. Heck even the Oh-so-popular web announced he was in top 10 of gorgeous men alive.

"Ow, come on Mikan, I'm just kidding. Come out, come out."

The boy finally came out and was greeted with Narumi's everlasting smile and finally the dreaded Mr. Hyuuga whose jaws had currently dropped five feet into the ground, crimson eyes widened to an impossible stretch, and face turning into ten shades of red. He was literally speaking: Shock beyond word!