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Here's the 10th Chapter. Enjoy! :D
It's A Boy Girl Thing
Chapter 10 - The Wicked Woo
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"Okay class," Narumi chirped merrily once Mikan and Natsume had taken their seats. Mikan had carefully walked over to where Ruka was sitting. She was about to go sit in her normal place next to Hotaru out of mere habit, but then remembered whose body she was in. She had already pissed Hyuuga off with her 'Sorry sir' so being the smart girl that she is, she sat down next to Ruka instead. She saw Natsume sit down next to Hotaru. Mikan frowned slightly, did she always look like that when she was about to sit? Her butt was shaking far too much for her liking. She dismissed that thought, it was all probably Hyuuga's fault. She was sure her butt did not shake when she sat down.
"We're going to run through the poem, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Narumi continued as he made his way over to the front of the classroom, picking up a book from his desk.
That caused everyone, save for Mikan, to groan. The Ancient Rime of the Mariner was a huge poem. Huge would be an understatement, it was big enough to be a novel (well not really). It had five different acts all of which had at least 83 lines. Each line had a meaning behind it and every stanza had numerous figures of speech in it- simile, metaphors, refrains, you name it. However, Mikan didn't see why everyone was complaining. It was such a famous ballad! She couldn't wait till Narumi started the lesson.
"Now now, class, don't moan. This is an excellent poem!" And with that he started reading the poem out loud. Mikan quickly scribbled down notes as he read explaining each sentence line by line.
"It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder fit ; the Helmsman steered us through! Can anyone tell me the meaning of this verse?" Narumi asked looking expectantly towards who he thought was Mikan...but was in fact Natsume.
"It means that the Albatross was fed food by the humans which had never tasted before as it was used to eating the sea fish. The bird then started circling around the ship. Somehow the large chunks of ice split which allowed the ship to move."
Narumi stared at Mikan his expression one of utter astonishment, "Natsume!" he sputtered walking towards Mikan, "How did you know this?"
Mikan bit back a groan. Oh hell! She had totally forgotten that she was in Hyuuga's body! She glanced nervously at Natsume who was glaring daggers at her. She winced, she'd never make it through this.
She thought before spoke, wondering what Natsume would say, "It was obvious."
There we go! Hyuuga called any knowledge of his as genius or smartness and whenever she knew anything it made her a nerd. Everyone else had always just bought into that lame explanation. After all, to some people, Natsume Hyuuga can't possibly be wrong.
Narumi smiled, "On the contrary, only very talented people can interpret so accurately! Everyone, let's give Natsume the five finger woo!"
Mikan's jaw dropped. The five finger woo? Oh fuck.
Natsume Hyuuga was so going to kill her, maybe before he was just thinking about maiming her or humiliating her but now she was dead meat. He had never ever gotten a five finger woo from Narumi.
To many people getting the five-finger woo was almost as bad as getting suspended. It wasn't that bad, Mikan reasoned but she got how they felt that the humiliation wasn't worth it. Narumi believed that by giving the Five-finger Woo to people who had answered correctly in class, he would encourage everyone to participate in the classroom discussions. Instead it had the total opposite affect. Nobody ever answered, (well besides a few people like Mikan and Yuu), because they didn't wish to become a victim of the Woo.
Never in her dreams did she imagine Natsume Hyuuga getting it, Mikan was pretty sure no one else did either.
"Okay class, on the count of three all of us will point our five fingers at Natsume and give him the five-finger woo!"
Mikan felt like banging her head on the table. Sure she herself had gotten the 'five finger woo' many times, but this was totally different.
"One!" Narumi started counting.
"Two!"
"Three!"
"Woooo.." Everyone but Narumi said gloomily while wiggling their five fingers towards Mikan. She noticed Natsume showing her a veryparticular finger, which ironically belonged to her body. She gulped. She didn't want this class to end- if it did she would have to face Hyuuga and just pray that there were people around when it happened.
"Is something wrong with you?" Ruka asked Mikan after the whole five finger woo incident was done.
Mikan shook her head, "Didn't get any sleep."
Ruka chuckled, "Well would you care to tell me how you knew all that shit? I mean, seriously I know you get good grades, but you never seem to give a damn about what happens in the classroom."
Mikan shrugged, "What can I say? Polka and her nerd lectures must be rubbing off on me."
Mikan noticed Ruka's lips turning down ever so slightly but perhaps it was just a trick of the light, it was hard to tell. She thought sounded enough like Natsume just now. If you asked Mikan, her conversation with Ruka was probably the most she had sounded like Natsume to anyone the whole day. Then again, nothing less than her best would do with Ruka- he was Natsume's best friend. He probably knew him better than anybody.
~()~
Till date, Natsume had always scoffed at girls who had said that wearing miniskirts were such a hassle. Seriously, how could they be so trouble-some? It wasn't as if your legs were glued together. But that, he concluded, was a total lie. Even though mini-skirts were open at the bottom, they were incredibly uncomfortable to wear. Natsume had learnt this the hard way. His denim miniskirt hiked up his thigh- no, Sakura's thigh - he corrected himself and made it so damn hard for him to walk around the school.
"How much did you get in the Trig test?" Hotaru asked him randomly as they both walked down the corridor and on their way to Lunch.
He opened his mouth to say that he flunked but then remembered who he was. Trust that stupid Sakura to ace the test. Who in the world cared about Trigonometry? It was just a bunch of useless ratios.
"Aced it," he replied, blowing the bangs off his face. How he wished he could just cut them off...
Hotaru frowned, "You know you can just tie up your hair like you normally do."
"Well I wanted to try something new."
Hotaru looked at him curiously, her amethyst eyes boring into him. "So you decided to dress up as a striper?"
Natsume nodded. "Yeah. I dream to be a flashkan."
Hotaru raised an eyebrow, "Are you all right Mikan? You want to be a flashkan? What the hell is that?"
"Like a flashluna, except I'm Mikan. But 'Flashmi' wouldn't sound right because it would sound like 'flashme' and I don't want random people flashing me. So hence, 'flashkan."
"Have you been doing all-nighters again?" Hotaru asked as she stopped in front of a locker. Natsume assumed that it was hers as she punched in the code and the locker door opened. She then dumped the books she had been carrying into it and swiftly closed the locker door. "Aren't you going to put your books in?" she asked him.
"Oh right." Natsume mumbled as he fidgeted with the lock. Stupid BBL. She was going to get it the next time he saw her. First the thing in English then this? He hadn't signed up for a one on one chat with Hotaru Imai.
"What is wrong with you?" she snapped eyeing him as he fiddled with the combination, "Just open the damn locker already."
Natsume frowned, "I think I forgot my password."
Hotaru rolled her eyes, "Not again." She sighed. "Honestly Mikan you need to stop studying all night long. It isn't good for you."
"I was reading manga." Natsume immediately answered not caring about the fact that Mikan simply loathed manga.
"Manga." Hotaru repeated.
"Yeah. Manga."
"Which one?"
"Bleach." The last thing he read the previous day, while he was still in his own body.
Hotaru's eyes hovered on his face for two seconds before she cast them at the emptying hallway in front of them.
"Come on, we'll be late."
Natsume let out a sigh of relief under his breath. Any encounter with Imai was going to require his full attention. He needed his wits about him if he was about to fool the Ice Queen. Thankfully he could hold his own in terms of acting. Natsume wasn't too sure how Sakura would be doing with Ruka however.
~()~
Natsume set his tray down on the table next to Hotaru. They sat outside the freakin' cafeteria. What if they wanted seconds? What then? It wasn't like they could send freshmen to go get it; well, at least he couldn't order them around in this body without raising suspicion.
Good thing Sakura was a pig. No one at the table looked wary of how much food was piled on his tray. He had been eating his lunch silently, listening to Anna and Nonoko talk about how hot some guy named Neal Caffrey was, that is until Anna turned to him and went, "By the way, do you have an extra tampon? A girl in my class was looking for one and I remembered you usually have one."
Natsume nearly choked on his food and coughed until he cleared his airways.
Hotaru gave Anna a look, "What the hell Anna. We're eating, not now."
He raised his glass to drink some water- that was when he saw her through the glass wall of the cafeteria that allowed a view from the bench where they sat.
He- no Mikan –was standing with her tray of food, as if unsure on where to go. Stupid girl, all she had to do was look for Ruka and sit with him. Was that too hard for her or something?
Natsume was about to continue eating when he saw a blond figure approach Mikan from behind in his peripheral vision. Luna wrapped her arms around Mikan who gave a very unmanly flinch at the sudden intimacy, whirling around to find herself in Luna's arms.
Natsume frowned. This was weird- usually his girlfriend stayed at the steps during lunch, to supervise her minions and their little power plays. He hadn't considered Luna in the equation by then. He figured it would just be bad for Sakura to put up with her.
"Here we go again- live porn."
"Nonoko!" Anna reprimanded, smacking her on the arm. "It's just a display of personal affection, you know, PDA? There's nothing wrong in it."
"PDA? Yeah right," Nonoko scoffed. "The 'P' ought to stand for possessive. Just look at her face! It's like she wants to eat him alive."
Natsume scoffed in his head; he would make out with his girlfriend all he wanted. If people didn't like it well then they shouldn't look but this girl thought that Luna was possessive. Yeah she kinda was but that made it sound like she was in charge, like he belonged to her. Natsume Hyuuga owned people, it didn't work the other way around.
He turned his attention back to the couple beyond the glass.
The two had a brief exchange and then Mikan pushed Luna away saying something Natsume couldn't hear but surely everyone inside the cafeteria could, since they all stopped what they were doing to stare at the two of them.
"Look like there's trouble in paradise." Hotaru commented, with her lips twitching upwards slightly on one side. Natsume knew his best friend's girlfriend didn't hate him. She didn't like him but she got along with him well enough. He had decided that it didn't matter what she really felt if she wasn't going to act on it.
Mikan walked away with an exit that Natsume might claim as his own if it weren't for the lack of people looking at her. They were mostly looking at Luna who was almost frozen in- what was the expression on her face? She was blushing, but in which way? She said something to the crowd with a haughty face. A boy came up very close to her and asked her something. Luna shooed him away from her and stormed off, presumable to the steps.
"Maybe she asked for a quickie, that kid seems up for it." Nonoko suggested, faintly amused.
"Ugh! Why do you think of Luna like that?"
"I call it like I see it, Anna. Besides I might be right."
Natsume was tempted to say that he did not do 'quickies' but quickly caught himself.
First Sakura made it seem like he- Natsume Hyuuga –apologized, then she made him receive the five-finger woo, and now…she was ruining his relationship with his girlfriend in public. He'd be damned if he didn't make her regret it. Man did she have it coming to her.
~()~
Mikan liked and disliked this particular moment in time. It was a good thing that it was lunch since that meant the end of school was almost here. It wasn't so good when she thought about having to sit with Hyuuga's gang. They were jocks- they had no sense of sanitation or table manners. And she was not being stereotypical; Mikan had seen the way they behaved through the window-wall. They threw food at each other, shoved each other around, and bullied their juniors.
These thoughts left her standing with her tray of food, a bit away from the table that the status quo required she sit in. She doubted even theNatsume Hyuuga could break the seating pattern and get away with it.
Suddenly a pair of arms wrapped around her. Mikan nearly dropped her tray and jumped out of her spot. She turned around to see that it was Luna Koizumi.
Natsume's girlfriend remember?
The thought left her feeling bitter, since now Luna was going to think that Mikan was her boyfriend. She didn't know what she would do if Luna made a move on her. She didn't care what the hell he did to her, she was not about to experience her first kiss- even if it was in a boy's body –from Luna. She was not homosexual, she loathed Luna, and she didn't think having someone's tongue down your throat would be a pleasant sensation.
"Hey Nattie," Luna said in a coy voice, her finger creeping up her boyfriend's chest in an endearing manner. "My parent's aren't gonna be home tonight. Maybe you wanna come over to discuss what to wear to the homecoming dance?"
"Uh I have things to do." Fastest guy response she could think of. Being in Luna's company in Natsume's body was bad enough but alone in her house? Who knew what would happen there!
"What I mean," Luna reasserted, moving both her hands to rest on Mikan's chest. "Is that we'd both be alone. And we can do that thing where I…" Luna whispered the rest into her ear.
Mikan couldn't believe what she was hearing. She shoved Luna away from her and exclaimed without thinking, "You dirty little slut! You do that?"
Then somehow, immediately aware that the eyes of the entire cafeteria were on them, she exited the room with as much of Hyuuga-esque gait as she could manage.
Behind her she heard Luna say to the crowd, "Well last week he begged me to do that."
Faintly she heard a boy ask, "So what is it? What do you do?"
At least Natsume wouldn't have seen, he would be sitting with her friends- who thankfully didn't sit in the cafeteria. Mikan had found a place to eat her food in peace when she remembered that she had looked into the cafeteria many a day while eating her lunch. And if she could look through the window wall- so could he. At least he couldn't hear what she had said but he would find out what happened soon enough. Rumours spread like wildfire in their school and this was A-grade gossip.
What else was Mikan supposed to do? She was well aware that if Natsume Hyuuga had a hit list, she'd have just bumped herself up to the top back there. She was sick though- sick of caring about what Hyuuga would think or of what he'd do with her body. Mikan Sakura had had enough of letting him push her around. She was in his body now. The odds were in her favour. Natsume Hyuuga never lost right? Well right now she was Natsume Hyuuga, jock extraordinaire, and he was Mikan Sakura, bookish slut.
If he wanted to mess with her life in retribution for her honest blunders today well then fine. Two could play at that game.
~()~
She looked down at her tray and then frowned. She was already done! She shook her head, she really had to control her rate of consuming food. Then suddenly a horrid thought ran through her. She would have to put the bloody tray back! Meaning she had to go back inside the cafeteria. Mikan groaned, going back there would mean she'd have to face Luna's wrath/seduction. Sitting on the bottom of the steps near the Physics lab was a much safer option.
Her eyes shone with relief as she saw a freshman boy walking down the hall.
Normally she wouldn't have done this...but since she was in Hyuuga's body, she might have well taken advantage of that.
"Oi, freshman!" she called out to the boy. She smiled to herself; she was starting to sound exactly like Natsume!
The freshman boy paused mid-walk, "Do you mean me?" he asked meekly.
Mikan smirked "Do you see any other freshman here?" she questioned, enjoying each and every minute of this. Damn, this was actually fun!
The freshman gulped nervously. "Umm...is that a trick question?"
Mikan rolled her eyes. Trust a freshman to ask such stupid questions but she decided to ignore that. "Go put my tray back in the cafeteria." She ordered.
The boy nodded, "Yes, sir." And with that he took the tray and headed off towards the Cafeteria.
Mikan couldn't believe this. She had actually bossed someone around! Sure she was in Hyuuga's body but this had to mean something. Grinning triumphantly, she stood up from the step and started walking towards the soda machines.
"Hyuuga!"
But Mikan didn't turn around- it didn't register that the person was probably calling her. She hadn't gotten used to responding to his name yet as she was still adjusting to the fact that she was in Natsume's body. So she continued walking and stopped right in front of the soda machine. She fished out a few coins from her pocket and shoved it into the money slot. Hmm...what should she choose; coke or root beer?
She decided to take root beer - it had been ages since she had that. She pressed the button and waited for it to come out of the opening. She then bent down to retrieve the can and opened it. Just when she was about to take a generous sip, she felt herself being pushed up against a wall.
"What the hell!" she sputtered, the whole can had almost spilled on her!
"Are you deaf, Hyuuga?"
Mikan froze.
Oh shit.
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