Chapter 11: Beach!

Disclaimer: I wish...

"Wow!! The sea is great!!" squealed a 15 year old girl Sakura Mikan as she was gazing at gleaming bluest sea she had ever seen. She wore a plain collar shirt with her bikini underneath. She inhaled the air. The air was very fresh and the white-chocolate sand felt very smooth under her feet.

Mikan couldn't hide her excitement anymore. So she ran around and around, flailing her arms like a happy little girl that got overexcited.

"Waiii!! I want to build a sandcastle here with Hotaru!" she squealed happily, jumping on the sand.

Hotaru got irritated with her best friend's behaviour. "That baka always acts like an idiot..." her right eyebrow twitched. She fired Mikan with her baka cannon. This time the bullets were much bigger than the baka gun's.

"Ouch!! What's that for Hotaru!" Mikan wailed in pain, rubbing her head.

"That's because you're an idiot, jumping and screaming like that, making me, your best friend, embarrassed," she said emotionlessly and put away her baka cannon.

"Hey! I'm not an idiot! Waahh... Hotaru, you're so mean! And what's with that gun, bigger than the other one?" she said, pointing at Hotaru's baka cannon.

"Just in case," she said, and walked away to the seafood restaurant, not far away from the beach. Mikan followed.

"What do you mean 'just in case'?" she asked, feeling very confuse.

"Just in case some idiot tries to hug me," she said with a fake sigh. Two veins popped on Mikan's head.

"Are you saying that idiot is ME?!" she snapped angrily. Hotaru shrugged.

Mikan saw a smirk appeared on Hotaru's lips, she get even angrier. "Hoootaaaaaruuuu!!" she yelled.

Suddenly, Hotaru's baka cannon aimed on her forehead. Hotaru's eyes flaming. "Don't make me feel regret bringing you here with your behavior."

Mikan sweat-dropped. She sighed in defeat. Hotaru put away her baka cannon.

"That darn Hotaru... she's the one asked me to go to the beach, and now she feels like regretting?"

Flashback

1 week ago

"Mikan!" someone knocked softly on Mikan's bedroom door, making her jerked up from her dreamland. Mikan didn't notice she was drooling while sleeping. She ignored the knocking, thinking it must be a dream. She proceeded to pull the covers over her, when the knocking came again, this time louder. Mikan still didn't want to get down her bed. Instead she covered her head tightly with her pillow.

The knocking became banging. Mikan still didn't want to open her door. At last, her door broke down, revealing Hotaru's knocking robot. Mikan shifted her pillow away from her head and saw her room was in mess. Her eyes widened in shock. "Nani sore (what the hell)!!!!" she screamed on the top of her lungs.

"That darn Hotaru, breaking my door like that... she will pay for this..." Mikan thought angrily.

The robot suddenly moved again and walked over to Mikan. Its steps made metal sounds. Mikan shrieked. "Don't come near me!!" she backed away from her bed.

"This is Hotaru-sama's orders. I must bring you to her," the robot said in robotic manner.

"I said, don't come near me!" Mikan yelled, but the robot seemed ignoring her yells.

The robot finally grabbed Mikan's shirt pajama, along with Mikan's body. Mikan squirmed, kicked, punched and screamed noisily, but the robot ignored her. Of course, it's just a robot, and it only listened to Hotaru's orders.

"Nooo!! Put me down, you hentai robot!!" Mikan yelled along the hallway to Hotaru's room.

At last, Mikan and the robot arrived in front of Hotaru's room and knocked on the door. "Hotaru-sama, I have brought Sakura Mikan."

Hotaru opened her door, nodded and let the robot with Mikan hanging in its left hand. Hotaru closed her door. The robot released Mikan and she fell down harshly on the hard floor. She whined in pain.

"Ow ow ow ow ow..." she began to stand up, rubbing her sore butt. Then she glared at her best friend, who just looked at her emotionlessly.

"What do you want, Hotaru?! Disturbing my peaceful sleep like that! I was dreaming a candy house that I can eat! As I was about to eat the house, you disturbed me!!" she shrieked angrily. Three veins appeared on her head.

"Oh? So that's why you had saliva there at the corner of your mouth?" she smirked, pointing at Mikan's saliva.

Mikan noticed it and wiped it angrily with her sleeve.

"So what do you want, Hotaru?!" she began, glaring.

"First of all, I have a plan for us 1 week from now," she said, sitting at a table, drinking coffee.

"Eh? What plan? What is it? What is it? Tell me please!" she begged, shaking Hotaru's shoulder. Hotaru twitched. Mikan obviously forgetting her anger.

"Listen to me first before you say anything!" she said, hitting Mikan's head with her horse glove.

Mikan rubbed her head in pain. Hotaru sighed. "The thing is... I want to bring you to a beach,"

Mikan eyes widened happily. Her eyes twinkled in delight.

"Really?! You should have told me earlier! That's good! Hahahaha... it's like a dream come true, Hotaru asked me to go to the beach with me!"

Hotaru stared at her, smiling a little, seeing her best friend very happy.

"When is it?!" she asked, her face very near to Hotaru's. Hotaru saw her eyes filled with amusement, she became irritated.

"Don't get so near to me," she pushed Mikan's face. Mikan whined.

"It's 1 week from now."

"Yay! I'll try asking Anna-chan, Nonoko-chan and Permy too!"

"Didn't you and Permy have a fight?"

"Yeah... I want to make it up to her by asking her to join us. I think she will be happier."

Hotaru smiled a little. She really loved Mikan's caring attitude towards other people. And that's why Natsume fall in love with her.

"Yosh! I'll buy a swimsuit!" she squealed.

"No, buy a bikini instead." Hotaru said.

"Eh?" she turned around to face her friend.

"I'll wear bikini too. This time, change our beach styles, okay?" she said, patting Mikan's left shoulder. Mikan eyes widened and she smiled brightly.

"Okay!" she waved and went back running to her room.

Mikan noticed her door broke down. "Shit, I forgot to ask her to pay me for the damage her robot made." But she didn't care as long as she will spend time with Hotaru.

End of flashback

Mikan sat opposite of Hotaru on the long bench in the seafood restaurant. The restaurant is crowded. She felt nervous yet happy at the same time.

"Ne, Hotaru... you don't feel nervous at all?"

"Why would I? There's no person gonna eat you here,"

Mikan sweat-dropped. "Well, I know that... I meant, this place is very crowded... and we haven't even get our order yet..." she sighed.

Just right after she mentioned order, a waiter came holding 2 menus of food and drink. He wore a flowery shirt and plain black shorts. He also wore sunglasses. He smiled widely at Hotaru and Mikan. Mikan felt a bit scary looking at him smiling like that with teeth twinkling.

Hotaru read the menu, and so did Mikan. "I want a big plate full of sea crabs that freshly roasted." Hotaru ordered. The waiter jolted down her order.

Mikan still couldn't decide what she wanted to eat. "Hmm..." she scratched her head. Hotaru eyed her.

"I think I'll just share with Hotaru the roasted crab. And for drinks... both of us will have mixed fruit juice," she smiled and handed the menus to the waiter.

"Thank you for the orders, young ladies. Hope you will enjoy yourselves here," he said, his right fang twinkling again, before he walked away. Both Mikan and Hotaru sweat-dropped.

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Mikan observed her best friend eating sea crabs greedily. She sweat-dropped.

"Ne, Hotaru, you're eating too much. See, the other people are all looking at you," she laughed nervously.

Hotaru paused and stared at Mikan. Mikan gulped. "What?"

"Well, I really love crabs. I can't resist not eating them. You could say I'm addicted to crabs," she said, munching one of the crabs' stomachs.

"O-oh..." Mikan laughed nervously. "I thought you only addicted to money... well, I never thought you're addicted with other things," she whispered to herself.

"Did you say something?" Hotaru looked at her. Mikan caught off guard.

"N-no! J-just eat your crabs okay?" she smiled nervously and took one of the crabs and munched on it.

"Eh? Isn't that Mikan-chan?" a male voice said not far away from behind. He was with a beautiful girl with dark pink hair. The girl nodded and they went to Mikan and Hotaru.

The guy slapped Mikan's back, causing Mikan to choke on her food. "Hey Mikan-chan! Nice meeting you here!"

"Hi, Hotaru-chan!" the girl waved at Hotaru who was munching the crab's pointy leg. Hotaru just eating her food.

Mikan still had her throat choking. She coughed and grabbed her mixed fruit juice and quickly drinking it. She panted and wiped her mouth with her tissue.

"What are you doing?! Making me choking like tha--" her eyes widened when he saw the guy. "Tsubasa-senpai!!" she squealed and hugged him. Tsubasa stroked her head and laughed. "Glad you're being well!"

She released him. "And Misaki-senpai too!" she hugged her female senior tightly. Misaki hugged her back. Then Mikan released her.

"Long time no see! What are you guys doing here?" she said after giving way to Misaki next to her. Tsubasa sat next to Hotaru.

"Well, actually we also have summer break like you guys do. So we were planning to come to the beach."

"Eh... You guys already going out on a date?" Mikan snickered. Tsubasa and Misaki went red.

"Ahhahahahaha! You guys should look at your face now! Your faces are very red!" she laughed again. Hotaru smirked. I should bring my camera with me. But sadly I left it at the chalet. (dat's weird, for hotaru 2 forget something fun as this)

The two blushed harder. "There's nothing going on between us, Mikan-chan! Don't laugh!" Tsubasa said.

"That's right, Mikan-chan! Nothing's going on between us!" Misaki agreed with Tsubasa.

"Okay, okay... enough with the gossips. So what are you guys doing now?"

"We are seniors right now in a college in Tokyo. We will have our finals in November." He said, crossing his arms.

Then he remembered something. "Huh? By the way, where's that Natsume and Ruka?" he looked around.

"We're here, Tsubasa-senpai," a pink haired girl replied his question. She is accompanied with Nonoko and Sumire.

"Anna-chan, Nonoko-chan, and also Permy!" Mikan squealed happily, glad her friends cou come too. Permy twitched at the 'Permy' nickname. She snapped.

"Who are you calling 'Permy'?! You slut!" Permy snarled and stomped away to the next table and sat there, sulking. Mikan and the others sweat-dropped.

"What was that?" Misaki asked, her left brow raised. Anna and Nonoko excused themselves to go to where Permy is.

"I don't know what I did that made her angry... since that incident," Mikan sighed.

"What incident?" Tsubasa asked, confused.

Mikan put her chin on her palm. "Since Hotaru played that stupid video on the stupid screen," she sighed and glared at Hotaru, who just wiping her baka gun. Her baka gun looked shiny and she smirked in satisfaction.

"What video?" this time Misaki asked.

"Video about me and Natsume dating," she said, fidgeting. Mikan blushed as she said this. Tsubasa and Misaki just stared at her. Hotaru sipped her mixed fruit juice.

Silence...

Suddenly Misaki burst out laughing. She laughed so hard that she couldn't hold it anymore. She held her stomach and banged her fist on the table. Mikan and Tsubasa sweat-dropped.

"Ahahahahhaa!! I can't hold it anymore!! Mikan-chan, you should look at your face in the mirror right now! Your face is very red! You really like Natsume after all!" she laughed and wiped her tears that came out because of her over-laughing.

"Wrong, she loves him," Tsubasa said nonchalantly.

Mikan let her words sink into her brain for a while. After that she blushed furiously. "Misaki-senpai! Stop laughing please! I don't like him nor love him! I swear!! It's not like that! I never feel like that towards him!" she yelled. Misaki kept on laughing and Tsubasa joined her.

At the next table, Sumire overheard the conversation between Mikan, Tsubasa and Misaki. She snorted.

"What's the matter, Sumire-chan? You don't look happy..." Anna looked at her worriedly.

"Do I look happy to you?! Didn't you hear it? She's bluffing!" Sumire said angrily. She glared at Anna. Anna gulped.

"What if it's true?" Nonoko asked while eating fried prawn. Sumire gulped.

"Th-then... Natsume will disappear in my life..." she sighed sadly.

"Don't worry, Sumire-chan! Natsume really appreciates everyone he cares around him. Meaning, you're important to him since you were once saved his life from the AAO," Anna patted her back playfully.

Sumire lit up. Her eyes filled with happiness in a split second. She held Anna's hands. "Really?! I'm really important to him! Wow! I've never thought about it!"

Anna and Nonoko just sweat-dropped.

"Actually Mikan-chan really loves Natsume-kun... but she's just didn't notice," Nonoko thought.

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"Hey Mikan-chan let's play at the sea!" Misaki said as she stretched her muscles.

"Yay! The sea! I've been waiting so long for this moment!" Mikan squealed happily like a 10 year old.

"Don't get overexcited, baka," Hotaru said and shot Mikan with her baka gun. Mikan groaned in pain.

"Mou, Hotaru! I was just being being happy! What's wrong about that?" she rubbed her sore forehead.

"Ahahahaha!! Of course not, Mikan-chan! We love seeing you happy!" Tsubasa gave her a thumbs up.

Mikan smiled.

"I would be happier if you shut up and control your excitement," Hotaru said nonchalantly and strolled towards the seawater.

Mikan pouted cutely. "What's that, Hotaru?! Ah, wait for me, Hotaru!!" she ran towards her best friend and joined her.

Misaki smiled. "It's good to see her all happy again. It's like an old Mikan is back,"

"Yeah, it is..." Tsubasa agreed and wrapped his right arm around her shoulder. Misaki looked at boyfriend and smiled happily.

"I love you, Tsubasa..." she whispered only for Tsubasa to hear.

Tsubasa blushed a little. He smiled back. "I love you too..."

Then he leaned in to reach Misaki lips. He kissed her passionately and Misaki responded and kissed him back. She deepened the kiss as she looped her arms slowly around Tsubasa's neck.

"Ah! Look at that, Hotaru!! I told you, didn't I?" Mikan squealed happily and pointed towards Tsubasa and Misaki kissing.

Hotaru looked up. She had a small smile. "Yeah, I know that,"

"They are so sweet! I wish I were them too!" Mikan crossed her fingers and started fantasizing.

"Oh? Are you fantasizing about you and Natsume?" Hotaru snickered. Mikan went red.

"N-no, of course not! Who would want to fantasize about that jerk?! I feel sick!"

As Hotaru was about to reply, a cheery voice called them. "Hotaru-chan! Mikan-chan!"

Mikan saw Anna, Nonoko and Sumire and waved to them with broad smile on her face. Anna waved back. Nonoko just smiled. Sumire stared at the sea.

"Let's play together, Anna-chan!" Mikan grasped her arm and dragged her to the sea.

"Mikan-chan! Wait---!" but too late, Mikan had pushed her into the sea. Mikan laughed. Anna appeared from the water. Her pink swimsuit drenched with salty water and she coughed a bit. She also had seaweed on her head.

"Anna-chan, you look terrible!" Nonoko joined Mikan, laughing too.

"Mikan-chan, you's so cruel! How dare you push me like that when I'm not ready?" Anna pouted and went over to Mikan. She grabbed Mikan's elbow. Mikan kept struggling to get away, but Anna was fast and yanked her into the sea. This time Anna got her laugh.

"Anna-chan, that's not fair!" Mikan whined and went out from the water. Anna kept laughing. Just then she noticed Sumire was all alone, sitting on a huge rock. Mikan walked over to her.

"Permy, wanna play with us?" she said in a cheery voice and stretched her hand out for her.

Permy narrowed her eyes at her. Mikan was oblivious of this. "No," she said shortly and looked away.

"Eh? Everyone is having fun. What else could people do here instead of having fun?" Mikan pouted and frowned.

"Just sit and watch." She said, still not looking at Mikan.

Mikan sat beside Sumire. "That's no fun at all. At least everyone is having fun."

"I would rather sit here and do nothing,"

"... I'm sorry," Mikan said suddenly after a couple of silence.

"Huh?" Sumire glanced at her.

"I know I did something that upset you... but I don't know what it is..." she said sadly.

Now Sumire felt a little guilty. "Wh-what are you talking about? Y-you didn't do anything!"

"I know I did something that upset you! But at least forgive me and don't ignore me!" she looked at her friend with pain in her eyes.

"It's just I'm being emotional, you know... I'm just... jealous... it's not your fault, it's my fault," Sumire looked away and sighed.

"No... I was the one who made you upset... so it's entirely my fault..." Mikan said.

Sumire smiled at Mikan and said her thanks.

"You're welcome," Mikan replied and smiled back.

"Mikan-chan! Sumire! Let's play with us here! Let's build a big sandcastle!!" Anna and Nonoko called them from a few meters away.

"Let's go, Permy!" Mikan grabbed Permy's hand and dragged her to go to Anna's place.

"W-wait, Sakura-san!"

But Mikan didn't hear her wailings. She pulled her harder until Permy's hand slipped out of her hand. She fall flat, her face into the sand.

Mikan and the others laughed seeing Permy's face covered with white sand. 3 veins appeared on the back of her head. She growled in irritation, seeing the others still laughing at her. She wiped the sand on her face with her back hand.

Seeing the others laughed, she laughed too. She cancelled getting angry at them and joined in laughing.

TBC

Ah... it's been a long time since I updated this story.. hope I would manage making the story as interesting as possible. plz read Another Mikan too. jaa! next chap i don't know when will be out. i'm on the half way writing chap 12...