"Polkadots?"

Natsume was shocked when he saw a girl with white hair and was wearing a mask that covered her eyes. He didn't know why but somehow when he saw that girl, he instantly thought it was her.

"Natsume?" Ruka asked concern for his friend when Natsume was suddenly quiet.

"Nothing," he shrugged but still kept a careful eye on the girl.

"When will the concert start anyway?" Yuu asked.

"The concert start at 10 and the fireworks start at 11. We still have about one and a half hour left before it start," Ruka answered.

"Look everyone! We got her autograph!" Nonoko squealed as she waved her fan excitedly with Anna behind her. They ran towards the group and showed them a pink and blue hand fan with sakura all over. In the middle was a signature.

"Did she gave that to everyone?" Yuu asked.

Nonoko and Anna suddenly grinned like two Cheshire cats and held out the hand fans proudly.

"Nope! We were the ONLY ones to get them!"

Ruka raised an eyebrow.

"The only one?"

"YUP! She suddenly walked towards us and gave them! We're so lucky!"

Natsume eyed the girl suspiciously. Just then, the said girl turned her head towards the group.

"Oh my god! She's looking this way!" Nonoko and Anna excitedly waved their hands.

Both of them practically made the whole group deas when she smiled at them.

SNAP! SNAP! SNAP!

Hotaru was endlessly snapping photos with her camera with a gleam in her eyes. Natsume's suspicious grew when he saw the singer giggling slightly.

'Why is she giggling?'

"Natsume, let's go"

Natsume snapped out of his thoughts. Ruka was waiting for him while the group was already walking ahead. The singer was also gone. Without a word, Natsume left to follow the group with Ruka trailing behind him.


"Youichi-kun,"

Youichi stopped walking when he felt a small tug at the hem of his sleeve. He turned around to find Aoi pointing at a crowd.

"Ne, what do you think what's happening over there?"

Youichi shrugged.

"How should I know,"

Just then, Youichi accidentally saw the figure that was causing the crowd. The figure, although wearing a mask, also turned her head at his way and for a moment their eyes met. Understanding passed through Youichi's eyes as the singer smiled.

'Mikan-nee...'

Youichi knew that the older brunette doesn't want anyone to know her secret, that's why, when she directly walked towards them, Youichi was completely surprised.

Mikan slowly walked towards the couple, ignoring the screams of her fans. She smile lightly when she saw the surprise on Youichi's face and the very dumbfounded face of Aoi. She took out a red hand fan with sakura patterns and a signature in the middle from her kimono and gave it to the surprised Aoi.

Screams of protest and dissatisfaction roared around her fans that were crowding her but she only ignored them. Mikan gave one last smile at the blushing Hyuuga before she left them with the fans pleading for her to give them a hand fan too.

Aoi was stunned with her face slightly blushing when a few reporters snapped her pictures, wanting to get a picture to the few lucky people that got the very very very limited hand fan with the singer's signature on it. When they were finally satisfied did they left the couple alone.

"Youichi-kun..." Aoi called out softly with a still dazed face.

Youichi didn't respond but she knew that he was listening.

"She was really beautiful..."

Youichi watched as Aoi stared at the hand fan.

"Snow Angel..."

Youichi was left to ponder the brunette actions. He let out a sigh of frustration when he couldn't find any logical reason.

"Are you okay, Youichi-kun?" Aoi asked worriedly when she heard the frustrated sigh.

"It's nothing. Come on, let's go eat something. I'm starting to get hungry," Youichi quickly changed the topic when he realized his mistake.

Aoi only nodded halfheartedly, not convinced at all that he was okay. However, that was soon vanished when she heard the word 'eat'.

"Let's go, Youichi-kun!"

Without waiting for an answer, Aoi left him and rushed towards a Taiyaki stall to buy some. Youichi was slightly amused when he saw Aoi's change of behavior when food was mentioned. He slowly went to follow her when she was happily waving a fish-shaped cake at him.


Mikan was getting ready for the concert. She was wearing a white kimono with sakura petals at the hem with a light pink obi. She wore a white mask that covered her eyes and half of her nose. A dark pink choker was around her neck that had a silver metal cross at the white hair was left flowing behind her. Her eyes were midnight blue courtesy of contact lens.

"15 minutes!" a random worker yelled.

Mikan took deep breaths to calm her nervousness but it was in vain. Her hands refused to stop shaking as ugly memories from her past continued to replay themselves in her mind.

I'm scared...

"Snow Angel you're up!"

Someone roughly pushed her shoulders.

"Don't you dare embarrass me," a cold voice warned.

A voice that made her froze in place. Mikan forced herself to nod stiffly and clenched her fist to hide her shaking hands. Mikan willed herself to move onto the stage as the roars and screams of the people engulfed her. Pure terror started to invade her whole being as she was frozen stiff.

"SNOW ANGEL!"

"SNOW ANGEL!"

"SNOW ANGEL!"

Before Mikan could start a panic attack, her eyes fell onto a particular group among the crowd. Nonoko and Anna was screaming like the rest while waving proudly the hand fan that she gave them. Ruka was blushing while asking Hotaru to stop taking pictures Natsume was looking as bored as ever with Yuu waiting patiently for the concert to start.

Beside the group was her most favorite couple, Youichi and Aoi. Aoi was asking Youichi millions of questions while Youichi was a little annoyed to answer her endless questions but she could see the worry on his face. She knew that he was worried about her. With this, a surge of comfort embraced her as her shaking slowly ceased.

Mustering her courage, she walked onto the stage and grabbed the awaiting microphone.

"Good evening, everyone. I would like to thank everyone for supporting me. This is my first concert so I hope everyone will enjoy. I'm dedicating these songs to everyone that are supporting me," Mikan tried her best to keep the stammer from being heard. She was careful to make her voice as soft and angel-like and very much unlike Mikan as possible. She didn't want her friends to recognize her voice.

She cleared her throat as the band behind her started to play the opening of 'Angel of Darkness'.

She sang 5 songs all together. Two were her song, 'Angel of Darkness' and the other 'Concrete Angel'. The other three were traditional Japanese songs to turn up the festive mood.

Her songs were a big hit as the crowd went wild when she was done. Mikan allowed a smile to graced her lips as she watched the happy crowd. Somehow, watching everyone smiled filled her heart with happiness and another warm feeling. She gave one last bow before she left the stage with the bad following behind her.

Her father said nothing when she passed by him. People immediately started to surround her as soon as she left the stage. Mikan smiled as she gave her autograph to the crazy fans.

Suddenly, she caught sight of Youichi between the crowd. Their eyes met for a moment as Mikan smiled at Youichi's relieved eyes. As soon as she broke the eye contact, a hand grabbed her hand. Mikan wasn't able to react on time when another hand slightly brushed her choker. She turned around to meet the owner of the said hand.

Midnight blue eyes met with crimson red eyes.

Mikan was momentarily glued in place as those piercing eyes look as if they could see passed through her disguise. However, the moment was short-lived as another hand roughly yanked her away from the crowd. Mikan looked up to see her father dragging her away. Pain started to form from her father's tight and rough grip but she said nothing about it. Mikan didn't dare look back cause she knew if she did, those crimson eyes would be watching her.

"Natsume-nii..." Aoi called her brother. Natsume snapped out from his thoughts to face a worried Aoi.

"Hn," was his only answered as he left with Aoi's worried eyes following him.

Natsume roughly ruffled his hair in frustration. He didn't know why he just did it! His body moved by itself! However, because of that, he saw something at the singer.

A faint kiss mark on her neck.

When his hand managed to touch her choker, it moved slightly but enough to expose the faint pink kiss mark.

Exactly at the same place where he gave to Mikan a few days ago.

Again, Natsume shook his head.

He was suspicious when he saw his younger sister got the same hand fan as Nonoko and Anna. He only wanted to have a closer look at the singer but his body moved on instinct when he felt the familiar aura. Natsume let out a frustrated sigh. He knew one thing for sure.

Snow Angel was Mikan Sakura.


Before you guys start complaining, hear me out first. There are several reasons as to why this chapter is shorter as usual.
First, there was only one person review at the last chapter so that lost my motivation a little. I don't really mind that much but I need those reviews to let me know that if I'm doing okay. Just tell me that it's okay or it needs to add something or anything. Reviews are really important for authors so please review.
Second, I finally managed to get my vacation so I don't really have much idea.
Third, I'm going to school in just a few more hours so I'm in a rush. Please remember that I am staying at a dorm in my school so computers are NOT allowed.

PS: I'm not able to update for a few weeks for both 'When will it end' and 'The mask that never shows' so please be patient. I'll try my best to get my teacher to give me permission to use the school computer but I seriously doubt it.

Once again, I'm sorry for the bad grammar. I don't have time to re-read it.