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Bloody Kiss Chapter Ten

Mikan stood in the middle of the doorway. She felt a few glares on her. She felt a light tap on her shoulder. She turned around and saw that it was Hotaru. Natsume and Ruka were standing behind her.

"You're in the way." Hotaru pointed out. Mikan moved quickly out of the way.

"Oops. Sorry." Mikan whispered and looked down. The three vampires sat down in their seats. She decided to sit down too. She hid her face under her bangs. She reached into her bag and took her material out: a pencil case, a block of paper and her English folder. She looked up and saw some people staring at her. Some of the people looked dazzled. Mikan glanced at Hotaru, who was talking to Ruka. She saw Mikan looking at her and smirked. Ruka smiled gently. Mikan dared to look at Natsume, but he was busy ignoring the fan girls.

Hotaru walked to Natsume's desk.

"I know you know." She glared at him.

"Know what?" he asked darkly. Ruka joined the conversation.

"Are you going to leave it at that, Natsume? The three of us know who it was that made an attempt to drown Mikan. Why aren't you doing anything about it?" Ruka asked, concerned. Natsume shifted his eyes to him.

"Why don't the two of you avenge her then?"

"Because she's your girl and your responsibility." Hotaru hissed.

"Don't say it like that. You're the ones that brought her to me."

"You're the one that wants to kill him so much!" Ruka patted Hotaru's shoulder and pulled her back.

"Hotaru is right, Natsume. You can't just leave her like that. She's not as strong as she seems to be. She'll start to crumble." Ruka said quietly. They all looked at Mikan, who was currently digging through her bag. They left Natsume and went back to their seats. Natsume threw a last glance at Mikan before organizing his notes.

Sumire strut towards Mikan with her club members.

"What's up with that new look?" She asked Mikan, pointed a finger at her hair. Mikan looked up at her, blinked once and preoccupied her self with her pencil case, testing all the pens, pencils and erasers that Mrs. Hyuuga supplied her with. Clearly, she was aggravating Sumire.

"Ha! I get it. It's the 'get pretty and steal' tactic right? I'm sorry but Natsume is already taken." She snapped a finger at Mikan. She paused and waited for Mikan to start yelling at her. But to her disappointment, she just raised her head and made an innocent confused face.

"Me? Steal?" Mikan asked astonished. "I'm sorry but it seems you've mistaken me for somebody else. Or maybe you have a headache? I could take you to the nurse. Or maybe you need glasses. I think the thick ones will do. But that will just make you uglier than you already are..." Mikan made a fake worried face.

"It seems that incident didn't teach you anything." Sumire whispered. Mikan's eyes widened.

"It was you? You were the one who tried to drown me!?" Mikan pushed her chair away. Everybody faced them. Sumire made a panicked face but then copied Mikan's innocence.

"What? Drown? Me? You?" She put one hand to her collar bone. "Oh my, I think you need to go to the nurse." She put one hand on the shoulder of the horrified Mikan.

"Akira, would you help me bring her to the nurse's office? Mikan doesn't seem to be feeling well." Sumire batted her lashes at a boy in the class. He had dark blue hair and midnight eyes. His hair was messy. Akira walked over and smirked at Mikan.

"Sure." He pulled her out of her seat. He took her waist. Mikan struggled to release his hold but it didn't work. She was too horrified to talk. It was only a few days ago when she had been pulled into the river and felt pain all over her body. It reminded her of her parents.

"Make sure you get there all the way." She threw a glare at Akira. She whispered something into his ear and walked to the class door.

"Class is going to start in ten minutes, so make it quick." Akira walked out the door with Mikan. The fan girls giggled and complimented Sumire. Hotaru and Ruka made eye contact with Natsume. He grunted and rolled his eyes. He slowly put his notes in his folder and stood up.

Mikan was being walked down the hall and down the staircase. Akira didn't stop smiling. It scared Mikan. She knew that he was not bringing her to the nurse. She didn't even want to go to the nurse. He pulled her closer to his side and tapped his fingers on her waist. She looked down at the stairs. She tried to release his grasp and tripped. Akira quickly caught her arm before she fell down the stairs.

"Don't even try running away." She stared at him with astonished eyes.

"Let me go." Mikan managed to squeak. They went down three flights of stairs. Under the last staircase was a hall. There were no lights, meaning that nobody usually passed by here. Mikan kept squirming in his arms. Akira mumbled something under his breath. She looked at him, breathing hard. All her struggling didn't bring her any work. A sly smiled played at his lips.

"Did you know that the more a girl struggles, the more the guy will want to play with them?" Mikan frantically shook her head and stopped moving. Akira came to a halt at the end of the hall. He leaned over Mikan giving her no other choice but to back away from him. He trapped her at the corner. She stared up at him and trembled. She had no idea what was going to happen. He took a hold of her hands in one hand and stroked her cheek. Mikan shook her head.

"I'll show you what I mean." He whispered. He lowered his head.

"NO! Don't touch me!" Mikan screamed and kicked him in the stomach. Mikan wasn't a violent person, but it just came to her. Akira bent down and glared at Mikan. He held his stomach and stood up again. He grabbed Mikan's face in one hand. He was enraged.

"I...I'm sorry!" Mikan squeaked, shielding her head with her hands. Akira slung her over her shoulder and opened the door that was supposed to lead to the room that controlled the gas that went thorough the school. He threw her in and slammed the door shut. It was one of those doors that you couldn't open from the inside without the key. Mikan hit her head on the floor. She couldn't see a thing in the darkness. She heard ticking noises, which came from the pumping of the gas. She crumbled into a ball on the floor. Her head hurt so much. She successfully tried not to cry. She felt like throwing up, but she knew that she didn't have a concussion. She had gotten a concussion before, when her parents hit her too hard. She crawled towards the door and tried to open it but it didn't budge. She slumped against the door and leaned her head against the cool door to ease the pain in her head.

'Why do I always get into these kinds of situations?' Mikan started pant from the pain and the heat in the room. She closed her eyes and faced a more comforting darkness.

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Natsume walked over to Ruka to Hotaru and sighed.

"Now would be a great chance to go save her." Ruka whispered making sure no human could what they were saying.

"She's in bigger danger than you think." Hotaru warned him. Natsume sighed.

"Would you both shut up if I went in shining armor to go save her?" Natsume asked coldly.

"Pretty much... just where are you going to get the shining armor?" Hotaru asked sarcastically. Natsume glared at her for a moment and walked towards the door.

"Don't forget the horse!" Ruka called after him and laughed.

In the hallways, Natsume saw Akira coming back to the classroom. They glared at each other. Natsume stopped in front of him, keeping his hands in his pockets, preventing him from using any violence which he could not control...

"Where did you bring her?" Natsume asked darkly. Akira stopped in his tracks.

"Bring who?"

"You know who I mean. The idiot who always gets in trouble."

"Ah, the cute one that I just brought to the nurses office?"

"Get out of my sight." Akira shrugged and walked passed him. Natsume sprinted towards the staircase. He first checked the nurse's office to see if he had been telling the truth. He asked the nurse and she said that she wasn't there. He ran through the hallways and checked all the small cramped storage rooms that she might be locked up in. He couldn't find her.

"Damn those bitches." he cursed. (A/N: He's talking about the fan girls.) A normal person might have been tired of running around the whole time, but vampires barely have a limit to running. Natsume was not out of breath. He jumped down the flight of stairs and came to a hall. Yes, the same hall that Mikan was in. He heard the noise of cloth rubbing against each other through the door.

"Mikan?!" He shouted putting his hand on the doorknob. He heard a questioning grumble from the other side. He pushed the door lightly but felt that there was weight on the door.

"Mikan, can you move?" He asked gently not trying to give her any more panic.

"Hmmm?"

"Can you move?" Natsume repeated. He heard some shifting. He pushed lightly again, but Mikan was still leaning against the door. He tried to control his anger and pushed the door open, causing Mikan to fall over. It was dark in the room and the temperature was really high. He found a wooden piece and put it under the door to keep it from closing. He found Mikan slumped on the floor. Mikan had one arm around herself and her other hand was covering her nose and mouth. He found her black sweater next to her, which she managed to zip off. The first two buttons of her blouse were undone and her necktie was loose. She was coughing and sweating. He started to panic at the sight of her. He put his left arm under her legs and the other arm under her back. He held her sweater in one hand. He carried her out of the room and took away the wooden piece under the door and let the door close. He walked to the brighter place of the brick hall and sat down, leaning his back against the wall. This position reminded him of the incident on the weekend.

Natsume thought it was strange that it felt like so many of his worries were gone when has Mikan in his arms. He looked through her pockets and found a red handkerchief with a black outline. He wiped the sweat off of her face and hands. She looked so indecent with her clothes all wrinkled. Her panting lessened. It seemed that Mikan was in between the point of consciousness and unconsciousness. He buttoned up her blouse again and did her tie, trying not to blush. She seemed to calm down. He looked at his watch and saw that his first class was already half way done. He stood up with Mikan in his arms and rushed up to the nurse's room.

"Oh my...what happened here? Is this the girl that you asked about?" the nurse asked pushing her glasses up. Natsume nodded.

"Well, she is our first visitor. Place her on the bed. Good. Now tell me, what happened to her?" The nurse asked again kindly.

"I just found her in the gas room. It seems that somebody threw her in there."

"Oh my!" The nurse put her hands to her mouth. She quickly opened the freezer and found a plastic bag of ice. She wrapped in a thin towel and handed to Natsume.

"Could you hold this to her forehead please?"

"Yes ma'am." He sat on the stool beside the bed and held the towel to her forehead. The nurse found another towel and wet it with cold water. She walked over to Mikan and started wipe off all the sweat. Natsume watch Mikan's face.

"I'll give you a note that you can give to your teacher afterwards so you won't be marked absent. You can stay here with her until she wakes up if you want to."

"Thank you, ma'am." She stood up from the stool and smiled. She didn't ask any other questions. She wasn't one to meddle into other people's lives. She closed the drapes around the bed.

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When Mikan's eyes fluttered open, she found that she was lying in bed. Why did her left arm feel so warm compared to the other? She touched the stool at the bed and found that the seat was also warm. Somebody was there. She rubbed her eyes and slowly got out of bed. She moved the curtains and found the nurse typing away on the computer. She looked up to see Mikan awake.

"Oh, you're finally up. Your boyfriend just left. He said that you were waking up. He was sitting beside you the whole time holding your hand." The nurse smiled.

"Boyfriend? I don't have a boyfriend though." Mikan asked confused.

"Oh, you know the one with the black ruffled hair and crimson eyes!"

"Natsume?" She asked confused. She was still a bit dazed. All she could remember was being thrown into that really hot, dark room.

"Yes! That's what he said was his name." The nurse nodded.

"Umm...well, thank you for taking care of me." Mikan bowed her head and walked out.

"No problem."

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Mikan walked through the halls and saw that the clock said that it was 10:00 AM. She had sports class now. She walked to the gym and found her class on the track. The teacher told her sit aside since she had just come from the nurse. She found Natsume, Ruka and Hotaru on the track, running. After a lap, Hotaru came running up to Mikan. She was obviously pretending to pant.

"Don't worry. We took care of those idiots." Hotaru said. Mikan knew what she meant and looked down.

"Who saved me?" Mikan asked looking down.

"Your knight in shining armor."

"My what?" Mikan asked looking up.

"Natsume, you idiot. He went all over the school looking for you." Hotaru went to run beside the two vampires again. Natsume glanced at Mikan and kept on running.

"Oh." Mikan whispered. Why did she feel so weak? She couldn't help her new family like this.

'That's it! I'm leaving today!' Mikan thought to herself. She stood up and quietly left gym class and sprinted out of school campus, leaving all of her things there.

A/N: Over 2,600 words! That's a new record!! Whoopee! That was a long chapter. I took a big detour on this one. I added too much detail. I made the gas part up while I was writing this chapter. I didn't intend to put it there, but... it's there so face it!

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