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Me : Yeah! At last the chapter 8 is here!!!!
Mikan : she does not own gakuen alice!
Yuki : But she owns me!! I'm Yuki Sho… Natsume's senpai!
Natsume : Whatever… Loser… (beads eyes, fingered 'L' and put on his forehead)
Yuki : (send some ice towards Natsume who melts them…)
Hotaru : is it me or had I had been missing in this story for so long… when will my part shall came, sarahpatrick?!
Me: omg… I just realized that… gomen gomen… you'll be in the next one all right?
Ser Leen (sarahpatrick's friend) : sarahpatrick, please repeat after me… non-stop…repeat after me…non-stop…(teaching sarahpatrick how to say the word 'non' properly because sarahpatrick kept on saying none-stop…)
Me : non-stup…
(Everyone sweat dropped)
Me: okay okay… bad joke… bad joke… (face reddens)
Ladalada : (sweat drop) So can we read now?!
Koko : Well of course! Enjoy people!
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Natsume X Mikan X Ruka
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My First Fan fiction: Don't Leave Me, Mikan…
Chapter 8 Don't Leave me, Mikan…
Written by Sarah Patrick
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Mikan can't believe her eyes. A small spark from her small silver lighter caught fire on some leaves when she was asleep under this tree and spread to a huge blaze. In a minute, she was standing amongst the vigorous fire. She was standing on a wet puddle which was less than two meters in radius. Mikan knew that the water would evaporate and she, Mikan Sakura, will get burn.
"My lighter!" she gasped as she saw her lighter amongst the flames. It was not silver anymore. It was blackened already.
"This was supposed to be a nice autumn night… but it turned out this way…" she petrified. She didn't know what to do. The wind blew harder caused the fire to get closer to her.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH! HHHHEEEEELPPPPPPPPPP!" she shrieked in pain. Then, she found herself in the situation where she can't breathe properly. Her oxygen supply is decreasing… 'I'm going to die…' gasped Mikan. She started to cough non-stop
"HH-HEELLPP! –Cough- Help! –cough- -cough-" Mikan can't stop coughing this time and she can't breathe. She inhaled the smokes and it choked her. She fell on her knees and gasped for air, clutching her collar.
"H-help…" she whimpered weakly. She can't breathe. Her sight darkened. 'This is it… I'm going to die…' cried Mikan quietly and tears ran down her pale cheek. Her heart beat was decreasing. At the same time, a dark figure running towards the fire.
"MIKAN!!!" screamed a familiar voice. Mikan collapsed. She had inhaled too much smoke and had choked her too much. Her heart stopped beating. The dark figure jumped through the fire and grabbed her and jumped out the fire in a flash. Natsume had saved her but—
"Mikan! Wake up, please! Mikan…" whimpered Natsume shakily.
"Don't leave me, Mikan…" cried Natsume as he shook her. He held her closer to him and found that she was not breathing. Tears ran down his cheek.
"M-Mikan…?" he gasped as his eyes widened.
"Natsume!" shouted a voice in a distance. Natsume swiveled and saw Yuki Sho. He uses his Alice to put the fire down and walked towards Natsume.
"What are you thinking burning this forest—Mikan?!" gasped Yuki as he saw Mikan in Natsume's arm. He knelt down and found that she was not breathing.
"We need to do the—CPR thingy…we need to give a start on her heart," blurted Yuki, sweating. He was about to take Mikan from his hand but Natsume burned his sleeve instead.
"I'll do it, idiot!" hissed Natsume at once.
"Okay, alright! Don't be mean…" said the offended senpai.
"Lay her on the ground first…" continued Yuki as he looked at Mikan without blinking. Natsume obeyed. He put her gently down.
"Then… put her chin up… like this…" showed Yuki as he holds her shoulder.
"…now, kiss the bride…" mocked Yuki and he laughed. Natsume found himself blushing furiously but he gave Yuki a deathly stare.
"This is not a joke, Sho!" shouted Natsume. Yuki stopped at once.
"Alright… I won't see you…" he said as he turned his back to Natsume. Truthfully, he was jealous. Natsume quickly put his mouth on hers and blow hard. Her body responded but still no breathing. He did this many times (oh… this sucks… sorry but I don't know how this is done…) and even give a push on her chest but—nothing happen.
"Nothing…" he gasped in fear. Yuki turned his head.
"Do it again… but do this instead…" he demonstrated (sorry… I can't tell you in detail… I don't know how to do CPR). Natsume did it and Mikan coughed. She opened her eyes and coughed again and again as she gasped for air. Her eyes watered and her cheek went pink again. Natsume pushed her to sit up straight. Yuki stood up and began to walk away.
"Oy!" said Natsume loudly as he stared at his senpai.
"Thanks…" he said quietly and Yuki gave him a twisted smile and walked away. Mikan was too dizzy to notice her surroundings and her head ached a lot. She cried loudly and shakily. She was so scared. Natsume hushed her. She looked at him with her watery eyes.
"N-N-Natsu-tsume…" she cried and hugged him. Natsume was shocked but he knew that he have to comfort her. He patted her back.
"It's alright, Mikan… I'm not going to leave you…" he said quietly. Mikan hugged him tighter as her tears streamed down her cheek. She was petrified of course and with Natsume around her made her feel so safe. They remained like that for a moment before another familiar voice approached them.
"Mikan… are you all right?" asked Ruka as he and his animal friends ran towards them. They broke off. Natsume knew that Mikan would go to Ruka instead of him. 'She is Ruka's girlfriend…' he told himself.
"The animals told me that you were in troubled… I tried to come here as fast as I could…" he panted as he tried to catch his breath.
"But yet… Natsume was faster…" he gave a smile at Natsume who replied him back.
"Mikan-chan…," said Ruka softly as he knelt and hugged her.
"I'm glad you are alright…" he said again. Mikan kept quiet. She was confused. She doesn't know what was going on to her and why on earth she felt better with Natsume than Ruka…. Natsume stood up and began to leave. The pain on his body came back again. He started to cough. Ruka looked up upon him.
"Natsume? Are you alright?" asked Ruka, worried. Natsume gave him a small smile and walked away. Ruka did not take his eyes of Natsume. He was afraid that Natsume would collapsed or something. He knew that Natsume was hiding something from him but Ruka doesn't know what that secret was. Natsume tried to walk in a straight line. He found that harder and harder as he walked. His cough got worst. Natsume held his collar. 'Why am I coughing like this? Why is my body ache so badly than it supposed to be?'
"I need to run away from here before—" whimpered Natsume and he collapsed. The pain has overborne him. Mikan and Ruka ran towards him. Natsume's face was all pale and sweaty.
"We need to bring him to the hospital…" said Mikan immediately.
"Yeah… so must you," chuckle Ruka.
"D-don't b-bring m-me t-there…" whimpered Natsume.
"B-but—" began Ruka as he crouched down.
"B-bring m-me t-to m-my r-room…" he whimpered again and he fainted. Ruka stared at him and stared at Mikan blankly.
"Help me, Mikan-chan…" said Ruka softly as he put Natsume's arm around his neck and lift him up. Mikan took his other arm and put it around her neck and carried him to his room.
"Boy… he is surely heavy…" pouted Mikan and smiled at Ruka who replied back. They brought him to his room and laid him carefully on the bed. Once Natsume was laid properly on his bed, they aided his wounds which he got them from the mission and then sat on the couch.
"He overused his Alice… I have never seen him like this before…" stated Ruka quietly. He was looking rather worried.
"Don't worry… he would be fine, this is Natsume we are talking about…" she smiled at him. Ruka looked at her. Then he realized that Mikan too need to be aided. He took the aid box out again and washed and cleaned her wound.
"You know, Mikan…" he said as he clean one of Mikan's wound on her shoulder.
"…You are different than the Mikan I knew long time ago…"
"Different? How?"
"Mikan I use to know was a total idiot!" he said at once which made Mikan hit hard on his head. He chuckled.
"Mikan I knew once is not as mature as now…" he said playfully as he played her hair which was now let down instead of tying into two ponytails. But then, he looked serious.
"Mikan I knew last time always know how to smile…"
"Eh? Are you saying that? Don't I always smile?" asked Mikan befuddled. Ruka ignored her.
"Mikan I knew once doesn't know how to lie…" he finished and he walked to the sink to wash his hand. Mikan doesn't understand why she felt as if someone had slapped her hard on her cheek. 'Mikan that I knew once doesn't know how to lie…' said Ruka voice in her mind, over and over again. She looked at Ruka slowly.
"What do you mean by that, Ruka?" she asked him. Ruka didn't answer her. He took a seat opposite her instead.
"Do you really love me, Mikan?" he asked her seriously. Mikan hesitated. She does not even know the answer to the question.
"You see… I believe that silence is the answer, isn't it?" he said at once.
"Ruka—I" she began but Ruka stopped her.
"I know that you love someone… but let me guess… you don't even know if you are actually in love with that person, isn't it?" asked Ruka as he looked at her straight into the eyes. Mikan eyes watered. She tried to find her words. She was lost and confused.
"Yes, I don't know…" she admitted and looked away from his eyes. She looked at Natsume instead. 'Do I love him?' She asked herself. Ruka followed her gaze. There was a complete silence in the room.
"It's Natsume, isn't it… the one who took away your first kiss," he said so suddenly that Mikan startled. Mikan looked at him but didn't answer. She could remember that moment really well as if it just happened yesterday. She blushed furiously at the thought of it.
"I know… the way he called you… the way he looks at you and how you look at him back… I know the truth, Mikan…" said Ruka calmly. Mikan was panged with guilt. She liked Ruka but not love him. However, with Natsume, even though she hated him, she found herself in love him even more. But to call him Hyuuga, it hurt her a lot. It hurt her when he never come and bullied her even for one day. It hurt when he never called her polka-dots. It hurt when she wasn't able to be there to cheer him up. 'It hurts…' Mikan covered her face with her hands and started to cry.
"I am sorry, Ruka… Gomenasai, gomen, gomen…" she cried hardly. Ruka sat beside her and hugged her.
"I must admit… that you have cheated yourself in convince yourself to love me… and also I too was selfish as I also wanted you… I am sorry to make you my girlfriend… but you really had given me chances… and that is already good enough for me… arigato, Mikan-chan…" said Ruka as he kissed her forehead.
"So… we're breaking up?" asked Mikan as she looked at him. Ruka gave her a sad smile.
"Yes, Mikan-chan… I think it is time for us to break up…we can't be together anymore…we are not meant to be…" said Ruka. Deep inside, he was sad. He loved Mikan so much that he would do anything to make her happy…even if it means breaking up with her… Mikan laid her hand gently on his cheek. She knew this is hard for him. She was taken by his kindness.
"Arigato, pyon-pyon…" she said softly and kissed his cheek.
"We are still friends, right, Mikan-chan?" asked Ruka. Mikan nodded.
"Yes… we're still are and always will, pyon-pyon… itsumo (forever)…" she said and smiled at him. Ruka glanced at his watch and it showed twelve-thirty.
"Oh my… it's so late… I think we better leave…" said Ruka at once.
"I think I'll stay a little longer for a while… my feet got pins and needles…" she pouted cutely and giggled. Ruka chuckled and wished to himself that she was still his.
"Good night, Mikan-chan…"
"Good night, pyon-pyon!" she said after him and Ruka left. Mikan sighed. She was still scared after the fire incident but what worried her most was Natsume. Just then, something caught her eye. Something orange and familiar was among the plates…
"My Tupperware?! What?! How can my Tupperware be here?!" gasped Mikan almost shouting. (The lost Tupperware from chapter 1). A pillow was thrown at her made her shrieked. She looked back to know who threw it to her and saw—
"Natsume!!!" she screamed (as Mikan doesn't tie her hair anymore… so imagine Mikan hair was all straightened and stiffened, very very very upset facial expression, many vain bulged out, smokes puffed out from her ears like a tut-tut train… dark blue background and fist held up high—anime style) . She threw the pillow back to him which where he caught it gracefully. This made her angrier (steam popped out of her ears even more). Natsume smirked at her.
"You are so noisy, Polka-dot!" he grunted quietly as he was still sick and weak. Mikan flushed (ring eyes, waterfall tears, fist is still held but lowered, no more vain bulge but instead many dark strokes, a large sweat-dropped, two blue fire orbs appeared on her head—anime style!).
"Gomen… gomen… I didn't mean to wake you up, Natsume," she said (waterfall tears still).
"I'd better leave…" she said again and walked towards the door (actually she was more like gliding slowly than walking, waterfall tears, many dark fire orbs, large sweat drop, dark tone background—anime style!). Natsume whimpered loudly. Mikan stopped at once.
"Natsume…?" she called but there was no answer. She got worried and walked towards him.
Whimper…
"Natsume!" she called again, almost running towards him. Once she reached and looked at him, he was sweating and looked in pain. She held his hand.
"Natsume…" she cried softly. Natsume opened his eyes slowly, still in pain.
"Don't leave me, Mikan…" he whimpered and pulled her into his blanket. She was so shocked that she didn't realize that she was obeying him. He hugged her closely and tightly and closed his eyes. Mikan was still speechless and her eyes still widened. 'What is going on?' She asked herself. She was so confused. She tried to move away but he held her tighter and locked her legs with his.
"Oy! Polka-dots! Sleep!" he grunted at her emotionlessly with his eyes shut. She stared at him and wondered to herself how close can she get to him. She laid her head on his chest and hugged him back.
"Good night, Natsume…" she said sleepily and closed her eyes. Natsume who heard her call him Natsume again, smiled in satisfaction. His pain has just disappeared. He then realized that it wasn't his body that ached all this while… it was his heart…
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END OF CHAPTER
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Me : I really really hope that you guys enjoy this chappie… because I am so depreeeeeessssseeedddddd when I wrote this story…. (waterfall tears)
Shermine (sarahpatrick's sister) : Yeah… lt's your fault by the way... no one asked you to download any illegal stuff… twelve Trojan at once… AVG gone! now you have retyped your additional mathematics project all over again… hahaha…
Shireen (sarahpatrick's sister) : (stare) shush, shermine… look at her now…
Me : (crying waterfall tears) sob sob… please cheer me up both of you…( pointing at her sisters)
Sarahpatrick's sisters : ja ne… (leaving sarahpatrick alone in the darkness aura)
Mikan : This is not the end of the story, isn't it?
Hotaru : Baka! No, of course not! I'm going to be in the next! (shot Mikan with her baka gun)
Mikan : Hiiiiyaaakkkkkkk…..(thrown away into the sky by the baka gun)
Everyone sweat dropped…
Yuki : I hope Mikan's alright…
Natsume : Oh my… Have you been upgrading your baka gun?
Hotaru : Well of course I did… since I have not been here for quite a longggggggggggg timeeeeee….. (staring sharply at sarahpatrick)
Me : (glup and sweat drop) (squeeking) send some reviews and ideas… everything is alright… quickly… I have to do the ninth chappie fast before the baka gun hits me…. Eeeekkkkk!!! (Blown to the air by the baka gun and disappears into the sky and can't be seen anymore)
Ruka : Err… if sarahpatrick is not here… who will be writing the next chappie?
Everyone stared at Ruka… Ruka sweat dropped…
Ruka : No way… no no… not me… no no… no no…( shaking seriously vigorously as if the ghost is standing just right behind you!—anime style)
Hotaru : If you didn't put me into that chapter… I'll sell this…( eyes shone brightly in the black and darken background)
Ruka : (Freaked out and Cry….) No…..! sarahpatrick… come back!!! (Typing the next chapter :P)
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