Fight for Love!


4th Fight: Haughtiness

"Mikan, how is your club practices? Is that blondie making your life difficult?" Yoichi asked while munching on his cookie.

Hotaru chuckled and said, "You mean, Ruka-senpai? Ha! He and his pal always tease her and the three of them will always get into fights."

"Hotaru! It is their fault for always picking on me!" I retorted. "Yoichi, I am doing quite fine there. Tsubasa-senpai takes good care of me during club practices."

Yoichi dropped his cookie and spoke softly, or rather angrily, "Who is that? Another fan boy?"

I panicked and quickly reassured him, "No, no, he's not! He is the best senpai out there. Well, he is at least better than Ruka-senpai and Natsume-senpai."

Yoichi took another cookie and smiled at me, "I see. That's great to hear that you are doing quite fine."

I pretended to smile but deep inside me, I was very stressed out. Taekwondo Club was a very weird club after all. Not only did the people there have split personalities, they were always at the centre of attraction. Every morning or even lunch break, clusters of girls would gather around their favourite Taekwondo Club's senpais like Tsubasa, Ruka and Natsume. I did not mind that Tsubasa was the centre of attraction but why did Ruka and Natsume have to be the ones too? They were the worst! Whatever happened two years ago, why were they still habouring hatred towards me? It was just a small punch, for goodness sake! Furthermore, it was not on purpose either.

"Good afternoon, Yukihira. Can we sit next to you?" an irritating voice came from behind and I knew it was Ruka.

Without turning my head around, I replied sternly, "No!"

"Eh? Why not? The more, the merrier, right?" he continued.

I hurriedly swallowed down my remaining food and stood up, trying not to face them and walked away. Hotaru and Yoichi followed behind me but thanks to my super sharp ears, I heard extra footsteps followed behind me too. I stopped and turned around.

"What's up with you two, Ruka-senpai and Natsume-senpai?" I shouted. "After one month of harassing me, don't you think you should stop it?"

Yes, one month had passed pretty fast as well and that means I had been in that club for a month.

"What harassing?" Natsume snorted. "Flat-chested people are not worth to be harassed."

Taking a deep breath, I tried to remain calm. Natsume was obviously trying to irritate me and in order to stop it, I had to show no sign of anger. Instead, I crossed my arms and strolled away. Well, if flat-chested people were not worth to be harassed, that means, haughty people were not worth my time either.

After walking at least a kilometre away from them, Hotaru, Yoichi and I went separate ways as I headed for the restroom. There were four girls in there too but upon seeing me entered the restroom, they showed a kind of disapproval looks on their heavily make up faces. Instinctively, I immediately apologised and prepared to run out of the restroom but those girls stopped me.

"Wait, kouhai!" one of them shouted. "We need to talk to you."

I slowly turned around. My heart was pumping rapidly against my chest. I had heard stories about a group of girls bullying poor girls in bathrooms before and some of the bullies even had weapons on them too! I needed to escape fast!

"Don't you dare run away from us," another girl snarled and took out a pair scissors.

I screamed but a pair of hands covered my mouth.

"Are you Mikan Yukihira?" a very pretty girl stepped forward.

I nodded hesitantly and she continued, "I see. I heard that you have joined the Taekwondo Club just to be with our school's princes."

What did she just say? Why would I want to be with those jerks?

"I'm Luna Koizumi, second year student, and I am not going to allow you to seduce Natsume-sama and Ruka-sama," she said angrily. "So that means we will join Taekwondo Club together. By the way, I used to learn Taekwondo when I was young and therefore, I am a Red Belt. Cool, right?"

I opened my eyes wide enough to show my nervousness. Red Belt is the third highest rank and I was only a White Belt which is the lowest rank.

Luna laughed and ordered the girl who covered my mouth to let me go. She did what Luna had told her to do and she stepped back next to Luna. Luna flicked her fingers and walked out of the restroom while the other three girls followed behind her like disciples.

I heaved a sigh of relief. I thought I was going to get some beatings from those fan girls of Natsume and Ruka. My life was spared from that pair of scissors. How scary...

I walked out from the restroom and decided to head back to my classroom but guessed what? I saw the devil standing outside the restroom. That devil who stole my freedom as a high school student was that idiot Natsume.

"What are you doing here?" I hissed. "This is a girl's restroom. The boy's restroom is located at the other side..."

Natsume pressed his index finger against my lips and hissed back, "Be quiet. I am not that stupid, flat-chested boxer."

Before I could say anything, he pushed me back into the restroom and locked the door behind him.

"Hey! What are doing? Boys cannot enter a girl's restroom! Pervert!" I shouted.

Natsume glared at me and hissed again, "Shush!"

I gulped. What was he trying to do with me? Was he trying to get his revenge on me for punching him? That was not realistic at all!

"What do you want?" I asked angrily.

"Tell me," he whispered. "Who is that grey haired guy who is always with you? Is he your boyfriend?"

"Huh? What is your problem with Yoichi? He is only my childhood friend and that is all."

"I see. That means you are available..." As he said that, he touched somewhere where he should not be touching. "Hmm... I can see that you are no longer a flat board like the last time..."

Yes, that somewhere was my own landmine and he had touched it. He touched it and he must die! Without further ado, I clenched my fists really tightly and sent two punches straight into his face but he dodged them both and pinned my hands against the wall.

He brought his face closer to mine and whispered into my ear, "When I find something interesting, it will always be mine, but not others. Get it? So, don't ignore me like what you did just now and walk away with some other guy whom I don't know."

After he said that, my face heated up uncontrollably. I roughly slid my hands free from his and stumbled to the side. What did he mean by I was his? Natsume studied my flustered face and sniggered softly.

"Bye! See you in the next club practice!" he said while sticking out his tongue, and then walked out of the restroom.

After he left, my hand flew and slammed against the concrete walls so hard that some cracks visibly appeared. I was extremely frustrated. How dared he touched my body and made fun of me by saying such disgustingly romantic words! I was not going to fall for that, perverted Natsume!


Hi guys, thanks for reading up to Chapter 4. Please review. I don't mind criticisms but they have to be constructive. A simple review is more than welcomed! I wish to get some reviews before continuing to the next chapter. Thank you! :)

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