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Fire and Ice

Chapter 4: Partner?

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What happened last time:

"It's…It's…The PERVERT!" screamed Mikan as she threw an ice ball at the boy.

Now:

The ice ball was half way to its target when the boy's piercing red eyes turned to look at it. The Ice ball immediately melted and sprinkled everyone with water.

He then proceeded to walk over to his desk like nothing had happened. The boy sat down, rested his legs on his desk, and covered his face with his newest manga. The cute blonde haired boy just shook his head and sat down beside the pervert.

Mikan was really shocked now. That boy just made her ice attack melt with just a look. She was about to stomp over and yell at the boy for just ignoring her like that when a group of scary looking girls blocked her way. Mikan noticed that the curly, green haired one was leading them.

"Keep your ugly hands off my Natsume!" the leader shouted at Mikan with all the girls nodding their heads behind her, looking like a big group of bobble heads on a car's dash board. (lol)

"Natsume…?" Mikan wasn't afraid of the evil girls because 1) she could easily freeze any one of them, and 2) her mind was desperately trying to remember where she heard that name before.

"I am Shouda Sumire; Leader of the Natsume/Ruka Fan Club….How dare you get my rightful place of being Natsume's partner!"

Sumire, or permy, as Mikan had just thought that name suited her better, was getting hysterical and the other girls who were part of the fan club were joining too. But, Mikan didn't notice any of that because she had just remembered something Narumi had said before he left so quickly.

"Her partner will be Hyuuga Natsume."

"Nooooooooooooooo!" Mikan suddenly shrieked out, causing everyone to turn to her and sweat drop, "Why him?!"

Mikan then proceeded to run out of the classroom. She decided that she needed to have a little talk with Narumi about this whole partner thing.

"What was that all about?" the blonde haired boy, Ruka, asked his black haired friend.

Natsume just shrugged in indifference but behind his manga he was wearing a big smirk.

'So, the ice girl's in my class,' he thought to himself with an evil glint in his eyes, 'This should be interesting.'

Mikan had searched everywhere for Narumi, finally finding her gay teacher in the staff room.

She had furiously asked him why he had paired her up with the jerk, which Narumi simply replied with "for entertainment".

Since Narumi knew about her other Alices and there were no other teachers in the staff room at that time, Mikan proceeded to throw objects at Narumi with her Telekinetic Alice. Narumi had dodged for a couple minutes before she had trapped him in ice up to his neck. Finally she had gotten an answer from the stupid blonde teacher.

"Since Natsume has the fire Alice, I found it only natural that he should be paired with the only person in the class that could control him. Ice and Fire do cancel each other out you know. Plus, you guys are the same star level, and in the same Alice class. So, you better learn to like Natsume because you'll be seeing a lot of him at this school!"

Mikan was now walking down a secluded path behind the school with her fists clenched together, cursing Narumi for his smart advice.

After Mikan was done interrogating Narumi, she had headed back to class. Through the day she managed to make many friends and get invited to go to central Town with them. So she was now walking along a secluded path behind the school.

She needed to think some more about this because one thing was certain; Mikan would have to try and be nice to Natsume or she wouldn't get to go to Central Town with her new friends and Hotaru! Yep, that's right; Narumi had told her all the rules that came with being someone's partner.

Mikan was silently contemplating how to become friends with that pervert, Natsume, when she noticed someone off to her left.

'Speaking of the devil…' Mikan thought as she saw Natsume leaning against a beautiful Sakura tree with his face covered by a manga.

'Man this guy reads a lot!' Mikan sweat dropped, but nonetheless walked over and sat on the other side of the tree.

"Hey Natsume, since you're in my class, I've decided to be nice to you now," She said joyously while she turned her face towards him plastered with a big smile.

"…"

"Natsume…?"

"…" silence.

'That's it!' Mikan was so mad that she forgot about hiding her other Alices and made Natsume's manga fly out of his hands.

'What was that?' Natsume thought to himself, but he didn't get any time to ponder it because he looked up to see that Mikan was now kneeling down in front of him with an annoyed look on her cute….ugly face.

"Natsume!" she screamed as she held his shoulders. His ruby eyes turned cold as he glared back at Mikan.

"What do you want, ugly?"

"Phew," Mikan sighed and then smiled, "You finally said something, moron!"

'What the hell?' Natsume thought with confusion, 'I just called her ugly and she smiles at me…?'

"Anyway," Mikan said happily; redirecting Natsume's attention back to her, "I want to go to Central Town!"

"So?" Natsume retrieved his manga and sat back down with it in front of his face only to get it thrown again by an angry Mikan.

"I said that I want to go to Central Town!" Mikan yelled at him.

"And I said 'So'!" Natsume was angry with this girl now and gave her his fiercest glare.

"The school won't let me go to Central Town with out my partner, dummy!" Mikan crossed her arms and glared right back at Natsume.

"Then go ask your partner to take you and leave me the hell alone, idiot!" Natsume yelled back in confusion.

'Why is this baka girl yelling at me?' he wondered silently, and then he got his answer.

"I am asking my partner!" Mikan screamed in frustration.

"What…?!" Natsume's cold expression was broken by his shock at this new development. He hadn't had a partner in years, and then they spring this idiot of a girl on him?

"Oh, you didn't know?" Mikan asked in a gentle voice. Now that she thought about it…Natsume wasn't there when Narumi introduced her and told the class he was her partner.

"Gomen, Natsume," Mikan looked down at the grass; she now felt very ashamed about yelling at him, "I thought that you knew…"

"Hn," Natsume grunted out as he returned to reading his manga.

"So, now that you know," Mikan crossed her fingers hopefully and asked, "Will you come with me to Central Town?"

"Hmm…" Natsume put his manga down and pretended to think before uttering something that shattered Mikan, "No."

"Natsume no baka!" Mikan screamed in frustration before calming herself down and turning back to the stubborn jerk, "How about if I buy you something while we're there?" She asked in a cute voice that most boys couldn't say no to, but Natsume wasn't most boys.

"No." He simply replied before once again picking up his manga and reading it.

'This girl's bipolar reactions are throwing me off,' Natsume thought to himself as he pretended to read, 'She's really entertaining and fun to annoy though.'

"Please!" Mikan now had her hands clasped together in front of her in a begging gesture while wearing a pout on her lips, "I will do anything you ask…just please come with me to Central Town!"

Now this caught Natsume's attention.

"Ok then," Mikan was jumping for joy, literally, until he continued with, "You will be my slave for a whole day whenever I feel like having one."

Mikan's eyes bugged out at first, but then she remembered that she'd get to go to Central Town!

'Plus, maybe Natsume will forget since it sounds like he's not going to make me his slave for awhile yet!' She thought to herself, and then shot a huge smile at Natsume.

"Deal!" She said as she stood up, took Natsume's hand, and started running for the bus stop; dragging him along behind her.

A light blush appeared on Natsume's face at the contact of their hands.

'Why am I blushing?' he asked himself with confusion, 'She's just a girl…and a loud, ugly one at that!' But, no matter what Natsume forced himself to think, his conscious kept saying 'She's not just a girl…she's an interesting, entertaining, and pretty girl!'

AN: Haha…sounds like Natsume has already taken a liking to Mikan! Stay tuned for the next chapter:

Chapter 5: Room Mates?! (Why are Natsume and Mikan called to Narumi's office?)

On a side note:

Happy New Year!

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