Title: My Demon Familiar
Word Count: 1,929
Rating: T for mild cursing
Pairings: NatsumexMikan, and slight RukaxHotaru

Summary: My name is Mikan Sakura. I am 14 years old and currently Alice Academy's number one jinx. One of the reasons why I'm a jinx is because my summoned familiar is none other than Natsume Hyuuga...How lucky of me...

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN the anime. I only own the story

Chapter 4: Love 'em Fairies! Hate 'em MS

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This is the first time...

In this new world...

I felt it...

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Mikan awoke the next day with a start. She had an awful dream that was like what happened to her yesterday night. Except only, in her dream, her friends were the one against her.

Beads of sweat fell from her face. Her body trembling terribly. As she hugged herself with her left hand, her right hand was searching frantically for a pillow.

Instead of feeling a smooth, soft pillow on her right she found a smooth, yet hairy, hard pillow.

"Huh? I thought I asked my Mum to change my pillows already" Mikan was curious. She asked her Mum for new pillows because all the other ones before were quite lumpy, not smooth and hairy. She felt for the pillow again. It was wet; it was as if it was sweating.

Mikan totally forgot her dream and was now curious at the strange pillow. Mikan noticed how long it was. "Maybe this is a hot dog pillow…" She smiled at herself but later frowned, it had boots. "I guess not…Maybe this is the new hot dog pillow, one that looks like a complete aterian!" She exclaimed and started poking the pillow's side.

"Mmmm…"

"Eh…" Mikan sweat dropped "Wow this must be the latest version! A talking one! Hehehe…"

She started poking it again.

The pillow turned. Mikan's faced dropped.

"Aho! I know how much you like me so much but this is ridiculous! This is sexual harassment already!"

Mikan's faced pale. Of course she thought. It was still dark when she woke up. It was explainable why she thought of her own familiar as a pillow.

Natsume turned around once again. Now his wings appeared and covered his sides and his head, he was almost completely shrouded by his wings.

Mikan regained her composure. She trembled again but not in fear.

"Natsume Hyuuga…" She said his name quietly, almost inaudible really. But Natsume being a high ranked demon familiar heard her. The way she said his name made him shiver. He sat up straight on the bed. Unmoving for a few minutes until he completely ran away.

"COME BACK HERE NATSUME!" Mikan screamed. If the students weren't used to Mikan's shouting by now they would have all woken up already.

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Mikan sat down on the grassy area of the Alice garden. There are only a few places in the Alice Gardens that were grassy; the garden usually consisted of plants not grass so you can't really sit anywhere but the benches or tables...

Mikan was near the Alice library. Only a few students could be seen inside and none of them could care less about Mikan so this place was safe. She sighed. The day was the same as when she first studied in the academy. Silent, everyone ignored her and or glared at her. Her friends were all in different places that time. Hotaru was making a new invention for the yearly Techies Convention inside her lab. Anna was in Dormaeus in a bake off; and Nonoko, well she really didn't see much of Nonoko. She wasn't really one of her classmates so…even if she did it was only for a brief period.

Natsume currently wasn't with her, what with what happened earlier.

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FLASHBACK

"COME BACK HERE NATSUME!" Mikan screamed as she chased after him. "Why the hell are you on my bed?"

"AHO!" He said as he ran around the room. "You asked me to stay there yesterday night!"

"I did not do such a thing!" Apparently, Mikan forgot about what happened yesterday night.

"AHO!"

"Natsume! Turn into a turtle now!" She screamed.

"What?!" No matter how much Natsume didn't want to do that he was at a loss. She was his master so he was required to oblige. Therefore, he stopped and said a weird incantation after that he turned into a black turtle.

"Hehehe…" Mikan had an evil grin on her face. "Turtles are notoriously known for being very slow. Even if you're a high ranked demon familiar you'll still be quite slow when you're in turtle form…"

Natsume's beady red eyes glimmered, as if saying it wasn't his fault.

Mikan paid no heed to Natsume's cuteness and tackled him to the ground.

After the tackling, there was the strangling and the shouting and the commanding eventually it stopped with Natsume getting a big bruise on his left arm and a black eye.

FLASHBACK END

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"Actually I do remember what happened yesterday night." She pouted "I just didn't want to remember it..."

"I wonder if Natsume's still mad at me for what I did…" Mikan wondered aloud.

"What did you do to him anyway Mi-chan?" A blue haired girl appeared in front of Mikan.

"Nonoko…?"

"Hi, ho! Sakura ma'am! (1)" A ferret said from on top of Nonoko's head. "That was mean, what you did to Hyuuga khan!"

"Koko! Hush!" Nonoko said to her familiar.

Koko's weird Mikan thought

"Ain't no weird in what I say. 'Tis your fault why he's irritated dare I say?"

Mikan's eyes widened.

Nonoko smiled apologetically at Mikan. "I'm sorry Mi-chan Koko has a very weird way of speaking and is very irritating when he reads your mind, but you'll find it entertaining when you're bored or sad."

"Oh it's okay…" She said quietly. "It was my fault anyway…," she added but Nonoko didn't hear her.

The ferret Koko jumped down from his master's head and transformed himself in his normal form. Koko was a fairy with dirty blond hair, yellowish eyes and who wore medieval time clothing, which was green, a fairy's choice of color.

Natsume appeared suddenly next to Mikan with a blackish circle like thing covering his left eye.

"Oh my! Natsume did you get into a fight with Shouda's familiar?" Nonoko asked. Mikan sweat dropped.

"Hi! Ho! Hyuuga Khan!" Koko grinned, "How's the black eye that the miss had caused? Does it hurt or has it healed?"

"Does this look like it's healed to you?" Natsume barked at Koko.

"Wait Mi-chan did that?" Nonoko asked. Mikan elbowed Natsume.

"No, she didn't…" Natsume said, gritting his teeth.

"Ain't no good in giving lies!" Koko said while doing a cartwheel behind his master. "It'll only bring more problems to you and I"

"Does everything you say have to sound like a total rhyme?" Mikan asked.

"Stupid faerie mind reader…" Natsume uttered silently.

"You're a fairy Koko?!" Mikan exclaimed "I thought you were an angel?!"

"You weren't supposed to hear that" Natsume scoffed

Mikan's eyes shimmered with glee. Nonoko sweat dropped. Natsume scowled and Koko's grin broadened.

"Aye! I'm a fairy!" He said "A jolly one to boot!"

"And irritating as well…" Natsume said smirking. Mikan elbowed him. Nonoko sweat dropped.

"My master, my master! Why are thou sweat dropping continuously?"

"Thou is sweat dropping because thou is an idiot" Natsume replied. Again, Mikan elbowed Natsume.

"How do you know if a familiar is a fairy or an angel?" Mikan asked.

"For once Mikan you asked a decent question." A monotonous voice said behind Mikan.

"Hotaru! You're here!" Mikan cheered,"You've come to see me!"

Mikan stood up to hug Hotaru but was pushed to the tree by one of her legendary Baka guns.

"Idiot…It's my break time from working. If you haven't notice this place is quite close to my lab." She replied monotonously.

"Hi! Ho! Imai Shi! Ruka Khan!" Koko said as he jumped to greet them.

"Koko! Ferret form now!" Nonoko said commandingly. "You've been noisy for far too long…"

"Aye, aye my master! Your wish is my command" Koko replied as he bowed and turned himself into a ferret.

"Wow! Koko must be a high ranked fairy to be able to do that!"

"Aho"

"Idiot"

Mikan stared at her friends. A big question mark forming on top of her head. "What?"

"In reference to your first question earlier, Angels aren't the only familiar to have blond hair. So does the faerie familiar."

"Oh I see..." Mikan grinned; she was learning more about faeries now.

"Hmph…" Natsume scowled.

"I have to say even I sometimes confuse faeries with Angels." Hotaru said bluntly

Mikan's eyes widened "You don't know as well?!"

BAKABAKABAKA

Mikan nursed the lump on her head "O-Ouch…"

"Well you see Mikan…" Nonoko started. "Faeries are quite the mischief makers themselves. They have different colours of hair ranging from the colours of the rainbow to the deep hues of the Aterian Sky (2). Since Faeries also look like humans like Angels you would only know when a familiar is an angel or a faerie if you test out their powers or if they have wings if they do they're angels. Though there's usually a rare faerie that looks and act likes an angel but is a faerie."

"So how will you know if they act like angels?" Mikan asked

"Well I guess …You can ask the owner or if you have the guts to break our tradition talk to the familiar himself."

Hotaru nodded. "That's the only way to know a faerie from an angel"

"Wow"

"See Aho, Demons are unique! Cannot be copied!" Natsume gloated.

Mikan glared at him.

Ruka who was with Hotaru sitting quietly, in his hare form, on her shoulder suddenly jumped down and turned into his human form.

"Why don't we go to the cafeteria now?" He asked

Hotaru just looked at him and nodded and off they went.

"Oh…what happened?" Mikan asked Nonoko

"MS I guess…" she replied

"MS...?" Natsume and Mikan said in unison

Koko yet again jumped down from Nonoko's head and turned into his human form.

"Well I guess koko will explain" Nonoko said cheerily as she sat down beside Mikan.

"Dear Aero (3)! No!" Natsume said. Mikan elbowed Natsume again for the nth time and gave him a glare. "Shhh…He's about to begin"

"Aye MS! Sakura Ma'am. Short for Mutual Synchronization." Koko started, doing a handstand. "The feeling of synchronization!"

"Eh…?" Mikan was very confused.

"For the Miss who can't understand what I is saying listen closely as I end my whimsical witty rhymes" Koko stood up straight and started tapping his chest with his fist. "When a Master and her familiar have reached the point of understanding something triggers in the familiars body to feel what emotion the master is feeling."

"Oh" Mikan said

"Didn't know that you could speak normally," Natsume stated bluntly

"So Ruka felt that Hotaru was hungry so he asked her to go to the cafeteria already right?" Mikan asked

"Aye! AYE!" Koko jumped and did a cartwheel "An eye for an eye!"

"How does that fit into the subject?" Natsume was skeptical if what Koko was explaining can be trusted. After all, he is a bit…weird. Mikan glared at Natsume and asked another question.

"When does the point of understanding occur?"

"Aye…That I do not know…" Koko replied grinning

"It is said it just happens…" Nonoko added "Well Mikan me and Koko need to go now so see you tomorrow!" Nonoko waved at Mikan who waved back.

"MS sucks…" Natsume suddenly said and for once Mikan couldn't agree more

"MS huh?" Natsume stared at His master, she was probably zoning out right now.

Natsume averted his eyes from his master and stared at the sky. The Aterian Sky, probably the most wonderful sky anyone would ever see. Natsume started to muse quietly, his eyes suddenly turning a brighter red colour than his normal crimson ones.

"The feeling I hate most...

The feeling...

…of Sadness

HER sadness..."

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TBC

1) USE OF MA'AM, KHAN and SHI – Koko has a weird way of using honorifics. Instead of saying –chan he uses ma'am. Instead of using –san he uses Khan. Instead of using -dono he uses Shi.

2) ATERIAN SKY- The ATERIAN SKY looks like an aurora. It's colors would be the intermediate colors of the color wheel, As the rainbow uses the primary and some secondary colors…? For example yellow green, red orange...something like that...complex colors.

3) AERO – The god of Aterians. Usually used by Natsume for the phrase "Dear God! No!"