Chapter 7:

"WE'RE HERE!!!" Mikan said exactly as she hopped out of the bus. "Stop it little girl! It's so annoying and embarrassing!" Then something more embarrassing happened.

Mikan's stomach growled. Everybody turned to look at them. "Aw." Mikan said while hiding her blushing face in embarrassment. "Of all the place that this would happen, Natsume?" There was no reply.

When she looked up, she saw nobody. She looked around her north, south, east and finally west. Then, she saw Natsume walking away from her. "Hey! Natsume! Wait up!" She ran to the figure which is not stopping but slowed down it's walk a little.

After a while, Mikan finally caught up with Natsume. "You jerk! I told you to wait up!" Mikan said while panting and holding her knees. "If you didn't call my name, I would have stopped." Natsume replied looking at her. "Why? Don't you wanna be called by your name?" she asked. "Idiot! The reason you dressed me up ridiculously is because we are hiding from those violent fan girls. Or would you rather ran here in Central Town." Natsume said while holding his hood as if threatening Mikan that he will put it down.

"No! Uh, I'll just call you errr… What could I call you?" Mikan said while putting the tip of her index finger in her chin. As if she was thinking. Then it happened again.

GROWL goes Mikan's stomach. Then they both sweat dropped. "Uh, I think I'm hungry." Mikan said while doing a fake smile. "Fine. Let's dine." Natsume said walking side by side with Mikan. They saw a coffee shop and there were no people in it. Well, maybe two or three tables were occupied.

By the looks of it, everything there looks delicious and expensive. Then Natsume walked towards the door. "Uh Hoodie?" Mikan called Natsume. He looked back. "What?" he stopped moving to listen to what the girl has to say.

"Uh, it's just that, it looks like the food is expensive there." She said while looking down. "I won't be able to save money if we eat there."

Well, Mikan's word made Natsume's mind go round. And before he knows, his subconscious mind answered for him. "I'll treat you." He found himself saying.

'What?'

'You need to treat her idiot!'

'Why?'

'Because you like her and you're going to treat her so that she'll like you back.'

'Who told you that?!'

'Idiot! I'm you!'

'Really? I don't usually treat people their meals.'

'And you're doing this because she's special.'

'What makes you think that she's someone special when she smiles?'

'Hey! I didn't say that she's special when she smiles. I just said she's special.'

'Whatever.'

"Uh, Natsume?" Mikan asked in a whisper.

"WHAT?!" Natsume said pissed off.

"Hey! You don't need to scream. I'm just here beside you, you know."

"Let's just go inside." Natsume said while pushing the door but her phrase made him stop for a while and blush.

"Thank you, Natsume."

"Let's just go in." he replied. But inside he was happy.

As expected, the food is expensive. "What do you want to order?" Natsume asked Mikan after he said his desired food. "Uh, are you sure you're going to treat me? It's ju-…"

"Just double my order." Natsume said when he was pissed off. I mean Mikan was asking the same question for a hundred times already. The waitress just looked at him as if to say that what he did was wrong but he replied her glare by giving her his famous do-you-wanna-die glare. Then with that, the woman walked fast to the counter.

There was silence until Mikan decided to break it. "Uh, thank you very much Nat-…"

"SSSSHHH!!!"

"Oh right. Thank's very much Hoodie."

"What for?" he replied puzzeled.

"For helping me save, letting me eat here, feeding me, and giving me 500 rabbits a day, thank you for catching me a while ago. Thank you very much Natsume. You're really helping me a lot." Mikan said as she looked at Natsume straight right into his eyes.

"You don't have to thank me." Was his reply just before their orders came. It was 2 ham and cheese croissant for each of them. And there was this huge mango shake.

"Wow! Thanks Natsume!" Mikan said as she held the croissant ready to bite it. Then she looked at Natsume taking his first bite. Then he looked up and he saw her smiling at him. She was indeed very happy.

'See Ruka, I can also make her happy.' He thought as he looked away from her and turn his head to the window. Feeling silly for he was wearing a hood inside a café.

Fter awhile, they walked around central town and by now, people are really focusing their attention on Hoodie. Finally, he can't take it anymore.

"Polka-dots, let's go in here." He said while dragging Mikan inside a clothing shop. "What are you gonna buy Hoodie?" Mikan asked. "I'm gonna make you a Hoodie too, idiot!" he said while browsing throught the racks.

"M-m-me? H-h-hoodie? Why?"

"People are starting to look at me as if I'm crazy. And since it's your idea, you need to do it with me. This is what we are gonna do every time we are outside the school building. Got it?"

"No." she said innocently.

"Here, fit this." He said shoving her a pink long-sleeved sweater. It has a pocket on the middle-lower part. The pocket has two holes on the side which is united. It was a starry sweater.

"R-r-right here?" she asked.

"Yeah. Or do you want me to remove your jacket for you?"

(Incase you're wondering why they are wearing jackets, it is because it's already autumn.)

"Uh, I think I can manage." The she looked around the shop, no one was there. Just the cashier lady. This made her sigh.

"Alright" she said while she took off the jacket and wiggled through the sweater.

"What?" Mikan asked Natsume after a minute of silence. All Natsume could do was stare at her in amazement though he doesn't show it. She looks cute. She's like a kid on a school day.

Finally, Natsume realized that he have been staring at her so he browse for more of those sweaters hanging on the rack. He picked up a gray one with a huge yellow question mark printed in front and the pocket had two holes in the lower part. He held it up high and shoved it into Mikan's hands.

Mikan, who is by the way still in that pink sweater, was wondering why Natsume was shoving sweaters with hoods in her hands. He shoved her a gray with a question mark, a dark yellow with orange and pink stripes, a blue with thin red and yellow vertical stripes with it. He kept on shoving things but stopped when Mikan said "Natsume? This is getting heavy." She said but by now, those pieces of clothing were covering her face. This same pieces of garments were the once who absorbed her voice which made it hard for Natsume to understand. But he is Natsume Hyuuga that's why he still understood it.

"Just make your way to the counter." He said leading the way to the counter.

"How? I can't even see a thing." She said barely being heard.

"Uh, ma'am?" finally, the store clerk asked. "May I help you with those?"

"Yes please. Since that jerk did his shopping and treated me as if I'm a shopping cart." Mikan said glaring at Natsume then taking off the sweater. After that, she handed it to Natsume who placed it on top of the counter.

"Which of these are you going to buy sir?" said the clerk.

"All of it. But may I take this one already? She badly needs it." He said grabbing the blue with red and yellow stripes.

"Yes sir. Just let me scan it for a moment. Ah there." Said the lady then she handed it to him.

"Wear it." Natsume said as he shoved the sweater to Mikan's hand.

"What?" Mikan said looking at the sweater then at Natsume.

"Are you deaf? I said wear it."

"But why?" she asked puzzled.

"You need to do this hoodie thing with me."

"But-…"

"Hey remember? I'm paying you to do this! If you don't want to, you need to pay for all of these sweaters!" he said pointing at the pile of girly sweaters.

"Who are they for any way? Don't tell me you're wearing pink? You'll look like a gay." Mikan said laughing at her own joke.

"Idiot. That's for you." Natsume said and he turned to face the cashier lady. This made Mikan stop laughing and started stammering.

"F-f-for m-m-me?" she said then after a few seconds added another question. "W-w-why?" Mikan said running beside the counter.

"Because… I uh…" Natsume said and he was really getting nervous. "I-I don'twanttoattracttoomuchattention." He said fastly. Well, he almost spilled his feelings for her in public. Good thing he thought of a lame reason.

"Uh, could you repeat that agin? I didn't catch that." Mikan said. "I said that I don't want to attract too much attention. So for now wear that, fix your hair and carry your free sweaters." Natsume said while shoving her 4 huge paper bags stuffed with sweaters.

"Thank you Natsume." Mikan said while walking in front of Natsume after they walked out of the boutique.

"For what?"

"For these sweaters, for the expensive food, for your time, for your energy, for saving me and giving me 500 rabbits a day. Thanks a lot Natsume." She said in a very sincere way. You can see that she really was happy because her smile was very huge and warm and thankful.

"Whatever. Let's go home. I'm tired." Natsume said while walking side by side with Mikan. Those things that Mikan said made him shiver. But it was unnoticed for he was really wrapped up.

-end of chapter-

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