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A/N : Please don't get confused. The dark haired guy from the first chapter is not Natsume Hyuuga.
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" Narumi-sensei," she spoke as she turned and looked at him with an unwavering gaze.
" ahh…hai, m-mi..mi..mikan-chan," Narumi stuttered for he was startled. He looked at her unblinking. The tip of his tongue felt foreign to him, calling that name. He had not uttered the name ever since she left.
But now, as much as he was happy that the girl was back, it was still hard to digest the thought that the girl stood in front of him was his not-so-little Mikan and yet, she wasn't. Mikan's a sweet innocent bubbly cheerful girl. What in the world had happened that she turned out to be like this? Mikan had nice warm eyes. The girl in front of him had cold eyes and they weren't entirely warm either.
"They're my friends. They can seat with me," she said in a monotone voice.
" but Mikan-chan," he responded, finally getting hold of his voice and taking control of his mind again, "the seats in your row are filled. They can't sit with you unless two of your friends in your row changed their seats."
"That's not going to be a problem," she said and smirked, before adding with a low dangerous voice, "and they're (she meant, the kids who shared her seat) not my friends." and a cold deathly glare.
"What the-?!" Koko's panic voice suddenly came from the back. Everyone else immediately turned around to see what was going on. Daichi and Chiaki who were sitting next to him had disappeared. Like somehow, they had vanished into thin air.
"Oh, no need to set the hell loose, Yome." Her voice came coldly but sarcastically. "Your friends aren't gone. I just teleport them to other seats. Look." She pointed to the desk infront of the class, where Daichi and Chiaki sat next to each other, with their backs straighter than the ruler and eyes wide with fear, so still that the rest of the class thought they had been frozen. They looked harder; the two were trembling.
"Now that they changed their seats, I think Yome, Nogi and Hyuuga won't have any problems scooting over so my friends can sit."
She walked down the aisle and headed for her seat with the two transfer students tailing her from behind. When she reached it and saw that the three still had not move, her eyes twitched. She sighed.
" thehell-?!" Natsume cursed when suddenly, without his own will, his body moved to the right side of the seat. So did, Koko and Ruka; leaving a wide space on the left.
"Tch. Typical boneheads," she murmured as she slid into her seat. Taking that as a cue, Kazuki too, slid in and sat on her right while the other one sat on her left, which was the leftmost of the seat. Natsume had no choice but to just let the new kid sat next to him, even though he would like better if he could sit close to Mikan.
' Tch, now this idiot is sitting between me and Mikan," he thought angrily.
" uh, minna, self study! Sensei.. uhh.. sensei has some work to do at the staffroom," Narumi informed before dashing out of the class.
Though he didn't say anything, the kids knew how much the Mikan impact had gotten him. Hence, the awful make up reason he chose to get out of the class. After all, he was the closest grown up Mikan had. Narumi must be sobbing at some corner, heartbroken by now.
The class became clamorous as soon as Narumi was gone. Some had gone to Daichi and Chiaki—who were still in shock and trembling—to calm them down. Glances were sent to the row at the back of the class. Distant whispers and murmurs were faintly heard. But the owners of the seats at the back row didn't give a damn about the surrounding at all.
"Yoh! Since we're going to be close seatmates, I thought I could at least know my neighbor's name." The blue haired smiled widely at Natsume and put out his hand for a handshake.
"Don't be so friendly with the enemy, Kazuki. Hyuuga doesn't shake hands with people. He doesn't like his hands dirty. "
Only understood the beginning of her words, he whined and looked at Mikan. "what? Whyyy?" Mikan didn't say anything back nor did she look at him so his gaze went to Jun, who was yawning, instead. Sensing his gaze, Jun turned to look at him and furrowed and shook his head.
Kazuki furrowed in response. Alas, the last two sentences finally registered in his mind. He gulped.
Finally understood who the guy sat next to him was, an "oh," escaped from his lips. He faced to the front, with cold and yet bored expressions. Without even looking at Natsume, he mumbled, "Right. I forgot I often talk craps."
Natsume looked oddly at him and wondered what the hell the guy's problem was.
"Miss me?" a faint voice on his far left came.
" hm-mm. so much," a familiar voice replied. The answer set him fire. With gritted teeth, Natsume inched his head a little to the left to listen more.
"It pleased me to hear that." Jun smiled and wrapped his fingers around hers. "It makes me think that I'm not the only one who's going crazy missing you so bloody much."
"I can't sleep at night, my pillow is not with me."
His free hand traveled to Mikan's face as he took a closer look at her. " Hmm. You're eyes are red. How long has it been?"
"Ever since I got here. I had been so restless. Been taking sleeping pills. "
He smiled and tenderly brushed her long fringe away from her eyes. "Don't worry. Now that I am here, you won't have to take sleeping pills anymore. Just leave the door to your balcony open and call me, I'll be there ASAP," he mumbled. A yawn escaped from his lips.
"You're sleepy? You kept yawning."
"Yeah. Just a little bit tired. I'm still jetlagged from my flight."
Jun's head fell on Mikan's shoulder and spontaneously, Mikan put on her right earphone in Jun's right ear.
"Better?" she asked.
" Hmm-mm," he mumbled and slowly closed his eyes.
Mikan smiled at his clingy childlike side. She had been missing this part of him for the last one week.
She turned her attention to her right. "You're not jetlag? Ehhh, that's new." She looked at him in astonished. Usually it would be Kazuki ended up in horrible state after the plane landed.
" I am. But not as much as that guy. I don't think he slept much in the plane. Too worried about his sweetheart that he couldn't even sit still." He chuckled.
"You should have knocked him down, hit his head or something. He doesn't look too good, not with lack of sleep. You know that. "
"And get myself tortured with that dark mist of his? No thank you. I don't want to get my throat slit open in my sleep."
"You are his best friend. You should at least pay attention to his welfare."
"Well, you're here now, missy. You can take care of him. You know what he needs better than I do."
"You're such a useless best friend, Kazuki." She sighed.
"And I take that as a compliment. Thank you for the nice regards, Mikan," he replied teasingly.
"Eh, wait! Where are you going?" Kazuki suddenly asked when he saw Mikan's body slowly disappearing along with Jun's.
"I'm taking Jun to my room for a proper sleep. I don't think he would feel comfortable sleeping on my shoulder."
"And you're leaving me here all alone? Oh come onnnn. That's hardly fair," Kazuki whined.
"Are you going to sleep as well? I don't think my bed can fit both of you giants."
"If I said I don't want to sleep, you're still going to leave me here? You're unbelievable, Mikan Sakura," he said in a heartbroken tone, deliberately using her full name on purpose.
Mikan winced as she heard he said her full name. She usually wasn't like that but Kazuki's a special case. Only the brat Kazuki Akio; she didn't like it when he called her by her full name. It's like he had some other childish mean method to get her to bend to his needs, if not now, probably later. Thus, she had no choice.
"Fine. As long as you don't destroy my room."
And that's it. They're gone.
Natsume stared at the now three empty seats next to him, stupefied.
To be continued.
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Spoilers.
"Did they just disappear?"
"I don't know, Ruka. I'm sure they just walked out of the door just now." He rolled his eyes.
"I don't know Mikan has teleportation alice."
"That's hardly surprising. She has SEC."
"Because it's Mikan. That's why I'm surprised. And now she's even skipping class! That's not her at all."
"Baka, you're the one who said 'Mikan isn't Mikan anymore'. Why are you still shock?"
"Yeah I know, Natsume but still…"
