Chapter seven: Lots of stuff...
"Hey... Hyuuga," Ronald Weasly approached Natsume. He had his hands in his pockets and was looking really sullen.
"What is it?"
"I had a row with Hermione. Can I hang out with you for a bit? She's with Harry, right now..."
"Whatever."
Ron looked at their surroundings. "Why are we outside the Hufflepuff dormitory?"
"I'm waiting for Ruka," Natsume answered. He hated answering questions.
"Who's Ruka? Your girlfriend?" And Ron loved asking them.
"Ruka's a boy."
"Oh... is he your boyfriend?"
"Hell... no..." (AN: I cannot stress this enough...)
"Ah... okay..." Ron leaned against the wall. "Hey... Natsume? Have you ever... well... I'm a little embarrassed asking this... I don't even know you that well..."
"No, I will not go out with you."
"EW! That's not it! I was just thinking... you're a popular guy, right? So... have you ever been in... I mean... well... have you ever... do you... what I'm trying to ask is... What does l-love feel like? Have you ever been in love?"
Natsume stared at him. Ron was looking at him expectantly. Natsume raised an eyebrow when realization hit him.
"Granger..." he muttered, slamming the back of him head into the wall.
"W-wha-?! N-n-no! I don't like Hermione like that!"
"Don't give me that."
"I-I-!"
"Just shut up."
Ron bit his lip. Natsume wasn't paying attention to him anymore. He was done playing with Ron. His mind was on another memory. When someone else had thought that Natsume was so cool, so he must have kissed a lot of girls...
"Wow! That's so cool!"
"I bet Natsume's kissed lots of girls!"
Natsume was already walking away from them, leaving Mikan to take care of everything. She had tripped wile they were dancing and fallen on him. Their mouths met. It was a kiss, right? Natsume wondered. It was messy if it was. Her teeth actually cut his bottom lip!
Natsume found a sakura tree away from the Christmas party. It seemed like a nice place to be away from other people. And for a wile, it was.
But after a wile, a young girl showed her face up in that tree with him.
Mikan.
Suddenly, Mikan broke the silence. She started complaining, and she roughly blew her nose.
"Hide that..." Natsume mutters.
Mikan had been worrying about a superstition about the masks and the Christmas party. She was very upset.
"You're being stupid for believing in the jinx. If the wind blew off everyone's mask, would all in the room be jinxed? Stupid."
Mikan laughed.
"Hey," Natsume snaps, "Aren't you angry with me?"
"Natsume! You jerk!" Mikan yells, remembering, "How could you have said that we kissed in PUBLIC?!"
"Did something happen between you and Ruka?"
"W-what are you talking about? Nothing happened..."
"Say it."
"Even if something DID happen, it's none of your business. It's between me and Ruka-pyon..."
Natsume stared at her, not believing his ears.
"What?!" Mikan asks, "Erm... I heard the others saying this... Natsume, are you often kissed?"
"Did you kiss Ruka?" Natsume asked, getting mad.
Mikan blushed, "That was... anyways, what about you?! Have you really ever kissed before?"
"You don't suit Ruka, Ugly!" Natsume yelled at her. He was mad. Very mad. Ruka was his best friend. He loved Ruka. And Mikan was. . . . . He also. . . . . .
"Jerk! Pervert! Shmuck! Bastered! I wouldn't ever want to be in the place of someone kissing YOU, Natsume!"
"That's you!"
"Ah...! That... That wasn't a kiss. Don't count that..." Mikan said, turning away from him.
Natsume sits there for a moment. He looks to his feet for a second before...
He grabbed Mikan by the fuzzy collar of her dress, and pulled her into a kiss. Mikan was caught off guard, and is VERY shocked. Somehow (neither is quite sure) she got over it, and let Natsume kiss her. She blushes very much and closes her eyes. Natsume uses his tong and forces entry into her mouth. He felt hot breath come up from her throat. He could even fell his own breath.
Mikan pushed away from Natsume, breaking the kiss. She gasps for air, as Natsume's mouth had been denying it.
"It's because you said that earlier wasn't a kiss."
Mikan's eyes shot open, and she looked over at Natsume. Natsume looked away from her, and touched his lip.
"So, that's a kiss..." he said, basically answering the question Mikan had asked not too long ago, although Mikan couldn't remember their conversation at all after that. "I don't see what the big deal is about it."
Mikan is wordless. She stares blankly at him, her mouth hanging open slightly, and her hand clutching her chest. Natsume jumps off the sakura tree branch and lands on the ground perfectly. Cats always fall on their feet, right?
Natsume begins to walk away. Mikan is still staring at Natsume, lost for words. Natsume turns back to look at her, for a moment, with a small expectant sparkle in his eye. But the moment was lost, as Natsume began to walk away again. It was... a very...
White Christmas.
"Hey, mate! You still in their?" Ron's voice called Natsume back to the living. (AN: OMG! I've never been kissed, how the hell did I write that??)
"Hn..." Natsume answered. (Our favorite line!)
"Like I was saying, have you ever fallen in love?"
"Hn..." Natsume stepped in front of Ron and looked him strait in the eye. "Take my advice. Go find Granger, and make up with her. Don't let this fight go on longer than it has to. Make up as soon as possible, 'kay?"
"Huh?"
"Just do it, Baka!" Natsume enjoyed being able to use Japanese words around this guy without paying the consequences. He liked that very much.
"I don't know... if I make up with her too soon..."
"Your best friend's in a bit of a jam, right? Not being able to go to hogsmet? He'll need you both. Perfect timing to make up, don't you think?"
Ron stared at him, "Are you really this calculating?"
Natsume smirked. Suddenly, he felt a familiar presence.
"You might-"
Too late. The Hufflepuff dormitory door already swung open. Because the door looked like the wall, it just so happened that Ron was leaning against it, and was now laying flat on his back.
"Oh..." Ruka said, staring down at him, "I'm sorry."
"Don't be, Ruka. Let's go."
Ron felt Natsume's foot step on him. He thanked his lucky stars Ruka was a gentleman.
"That jerk," Ron muttered. Sitting up.
"Oh! Ron!" Hermione's voice was heard. Ron looked up. Hermione was standing to too far away from him, holding a bunch of books. She seemed caught between two instincts. Ron quickly stood up.
"Uh... Hermione! Fancy seeing you here! Uh! N-not that I fancy you or anything... I just... I... uh..."
"Was that Nogi-kun just now?"
"Uh... you mean that Ruka guy? Yeah. He and Natsume were just here."
"Don't do that!"
"What?"
"Don't call them by just their names! In Japan, if you don't have their permission to call them by just their first name, it can be very insulting! I read about it in-"
"A book?"
"YES! A BOOK!"
Suddenly, something hit Ron upside the head. A small squeak came from Hermione's mouth, when Ron fell forward rubbing the back of his head.
"OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!"
He looked down and saw a potions text book lying on the ground next to him. The cover was flipped open and on the inside was a name written in Japanese.
"Are you okay, Ron?"
"Y-yeah..." Ron said, looking up at her. Hermione's overwhelming beauty was shining down on him like the sun to earth. "Yeah... I just... wanted to apologize. Your cat's not so... evil."
"Well, um, thank you..." Hermione said. She seemed to be juggling her books and trying to help Ron up. Ron saved her the trouble by getting up himself.
"And, um, I guess I can keep Crookshanks out of you room, at least..." Hermione said, blushing a tidbit.
"Yeah... I guess I'm just so nervous because he's such an old rat..."
"I'm sorry!" cried a voice from behind, "That's mine!"
Hermione looked up and Ron turned around. Ruka Nogi was running towards them. Natsume was waiting for him at the other end of the hall. Hermione's face went bright red, almost as red as Ron's hair.
"Nogi-kun!"
"Ruka... urm... kun?"
"Sorry!" Ruka said, slowing down, "That book's mind. Natsume and Imai-chan are always taking my stuff. Natsume suddenly just grabbed a book from my bag and through it. I wish he'd treat my books with respect. They're hard to replace."
"I know..." Hermione's face HAD gone just as red as Ron's hair, "Books are so expensive... but they're wonderful..."
"Yeah," Ruka said, bending down to pick up his potions book, "I've done the math. Natsume has 265 worth of mangas."
"I like mangas. They're so much better than English comic books..."
"I've never read them myself. I prefer real books."
"So do I!" Hermione said, "We've got so much in common, Ruka-kun!"
Ron twitched.
"Sure. We should hang out sometime. Me and Imai are going to go to Hogsmet together. You wanna come?"
"Imai?" Hermione asked.
"Ruka," Natsume's voice called, "Come on! And what's that about going to hogsmet with Imai?! Why the hell would you want to do that?!"
"She's not that bad, Natsume!" Ruka yelled, running back to him.
"She?" Hermione said, gaping at him.
"Hermione?" Ron asked, venomously, "What's wrong with you?"
"Huh? Oh... well... really this is something I should be talking to Ginny about... I think I will! Thank you, Ron! You're a real pal!" Hermione punched him in the arm, smiling.
"Pal?" Ron muttered to himself as she skipped off.
Ron was feeling depressed all over again. He began shuffling off to the Griffindor dormitories.
"Paaaaaassword?" asked the Fat Lady.
"WhichNip."
"No, thank you," the Fat Lady joked, swinging open. Suddenly, just as Ron was climbing into the dormitory, a girl began climbing out.
"Oh! I'm sorry..."
Mikan Sakura stood in front of him. She was holding Hermione's demon cat in her arms, and looked cute as ever. She was smiling at him; Crookshanks's squished face looked very annoyed.
"Ohayo, Ron! How're things?"
"Um... fine. Urg... Ohio?"
"Ohayo!"
Ron didn't get it.
"Isn't that Crookshanks?"
"Yup! I'm taking him to Hermione. I think he's hungry."
"Why? He trying to eat my bloody rat?"
"No, my Howalon. Plus he looks just like Natsume when he's mad!" she buried her face in Crookshanks's fur.
"What are you doing back here?" she asked suddenly.
"I'm... not feeling too well. Um... Mikan was it?"
"Yes...?"
"What's you and Natsume's relationship?"
"Me and-! Me and-! N-N-N-N-N-N-NATSUME?! Why?!"
"Well, I was curious. Are you a couple?"
"C-c-couple? Did HE tell you that? I'll kill him! It's not true! Even if we DID kiss, it was only once, and HE was the one who kissed ME and HE was the one who said he was just PROOVING A POINT! NATSUME NO BAKA!"
"Whoa! It was just a guess! You and Natsume k-k-k-k-?"
"Uh..." Mikan stopped, "Oh... a-amo... d-don't tell anyone, okay?" Mikan blushed, "I didn't even tell Hotaru-chan... and she's my best friend. I don't think Natsume told Ruka-pyon, either. It... didn't mean anything. PLEASE DON'T TELL!" Mikan bowed, very deeply. Crookshanks kicked like crazy for fear of falling.
"I... I won't tell."
Mikan perked up very much at that. "Domo arigato gizayimasu, Ron-kun!"
"Hey, I can't hold this open forever!" the Fat Lady complained.
"Oh... gomen! C'mon, Croo-chan! (Crookshaks)" Mikan hurried out the door, and the Fat Lady slammed it shut behind her.
"I can't believe I told someone about that!" Mikan told Crookshanks, blushing, "I didn't mean to! I thought Natsume did! Oh! Natsume's gonna kill me! K-I-L-L... OOOFF!" Mikan fell backwards, Crookshanks leaping out of her arms.
"Itei..." Mikan looked up to see...
Natsume.
"N-N-N-N-Natsume!" She screamed, raising her hands into the air. She then winced. She looked up to see that when Crookshanks leaped out of her arms, he had cut her. A long cut bled from her elbow to just below the veins in her wrist. Mikan turned pale at the thought of bleeding to death via cat scratch. Thank god for just below!
"Baka..." but Natsume then noticed the scratch. He grabbed her wrist.
"Don't go around playing with cats, you'll only get yourself hurt," he said in a not-so-comforting voice.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuh-huh!" Mikan said, squinting her eyes at him. 'Stay away from cats he says. The infamous Black CAT is telling me not to go around playing with kitties.'
As if he read her mind, Natsume let go of her, and got right down to her level and looked her strait in the eye. "There will be no mentioning my job when we're here... Panda Print."
Mikan blinked. Panda...
He saw IT. AGAIN!
"NATSUME! HENTAI! HENTAI! NATSUME NO HENTAI! BAKA! BAKA!" Mikan hit Natsume many times in the chest, however it didn't faze him at all.
"If you don't want people seeing, stop wearing skirts, Panda."
"NATSUME YOU MEANIE! It's Alice Academy's dress code!"
"Not Hogwarts's. Ba-" Natsume flicked her forehead, "-ka!"
"Kya! Itai! Natsume no teme..." tears welled up in Mikan's eyes as the pain took affect. Even Natsume's fingers where powerful...
"I'm sorry."
Huh?
Mikan looked up at him. He shoved his hands in his pockets.
"All I ever do is make you cry, right? I'm the reason you cry." Natsume shook. The memory of Tsubasa's disappearance came back to him once again. "It's impossible for me not to cry... because of you."
"What are you talking about, Natsume?"
"I'm sorry." Natsume said, not looking at her, "It was my fault that Tsubasa went mission. I was on that mission with him. I could have done something..."
"There was nothing you could have done! It was an accident! Besides, Tsubasa-senpai's alright! He back at Alice Academy and is doing fine!" Mikan grabbed the front of his shirt, "What's wrong with you?!"
Natsume looked her dead in the eye. "You told me that day. I know, Mikan. I'm the reason you cry." He pushed away from her and walked away. Mikan watched him go. No... she thought, That's not what I meant, Natsume. I don't cry BECAUSE of you. I cry FOR you. Natsume... no baka.
(Please continue to chapter eight)
Author Note:
I'm so happy! This ones a lot longer! Nine pages! Yay. I'm trying to get in the RukaxHotaru relationship, please hold your horses. That relationship is hard to show. (Gomenasai...) And... OMFG! HOW THE H-E-double-hockey sticks DID I WRITE A BLEEPING KISS SCEAN?? Sure I just wrote what I saw, but still! Kya!
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