Angels

By: Iceyicecream

Angels

Chapter Eleven

A special thank you to all of the people who have read my story so far! I love you guys! And thank you for leaving comments! Oh this chapter is going to be mostly about Ruka and Hotaru I didn't forget about them okay?

Hotaru coughed violently and then threw up into the trashcan. "Damn it brother." Hotaru cursed as she wiped her mouth, "If he hadn't had given me the flu I'd be helping Mikan right now."
"Now, now." Ruka said as he patted Hotaru's back, "I'll go check on her if you want me to?"
"Thanks." Hotaru said, "I'm going to go to sleep."
"Oh…okay then, later."
Hotaru had a coughing fit again as he walked out. She closed the door behind him and sighed. "I hope she gets better." He thought, "Or else we won't be able to go to that science convention she wanted to go to."
Ruka walked all the way to Mikan and Natsume's house and knocked on the door. There was no answer. Ruka looked at his watch to find that it was only eight. "Gee." Ruka said, "She's still a heavy sleeper."
Ruka locked around and found a large rock near the door way and lifted it to find a key under it. He sighed, "Some things never change." He thought as he opened the door.

"Mikan?" He called.

There was no reply so he just walked up to her bedroom and knocked on the door. "Mikan? You still in bed?" He asked.

No reply as usual so, he let himself into her room to find it a mess. There was a bunch of trash every where and her room was unorganized unlike Hotaru's. At least none of Mikan's lingerie was lying around. Ruka rolled up his sleeves and started to clean. "No wonder Hotaru has to keep coming here with her cleaning robots." Ruka said.

He was about to put the trash into Mikan's trashcan when he noticed a bundle of pictures. Out of curiosity he looked at them and his eyes widened. They were the pictures Luna had given Mikan and that Mikan had denied was the truth but, now, Ruka was having mixed feelings for his best friend who was deceased and his first girlfriend that actually understood him. "…what if these pictures are real? What if she actually loves him? What if Natsume lied to me all this time about loving Mikan? Was he even going to propose to her?"

Millions of questions ran across his mind but one stuck him the most of all. "What am I going to do if she actually was cheating on me for Natsume?"

Ruka grabbed the pictures and stuck them into his back pocket and resumed cleaning Mikan's room as she slept sound asleep. Ruka then stopped abruptly and turned to Mikan who was whimpering. "Mikan?" Ruka said as he walked over to her.

Mikan was crying and was clutching a beautiful crimson orb that was hanging on a golden chain. "Natsume." She said through her sobs, "You lied to me…about always being with me."
Ruka felt hurt for some reason to hear Mikan say that…what if Hotaru were to say that or something else in her sleep? Ruka shook his head and walked out of Mikan's now clean room.

Ruka patted his back side to make sure the pictures were there and caught a taxi that took him to his house. After the taxi had pulled up at his house, he looked through his numbers in his phone and looked for Yuu's number. Once he found it, he dialed the number and then waited for Yuu to answer. "Yuu speaking?" Yuu said through the receiver.

"It's me Ruka." Ruka answered back.

"Oh! It's a pleasure to receive a call from you."
"Yes, ummm…I have a favor I'd like you to do for me."
"What is it?"

"Um…I'll tell you the details when you come over to my house, but the basics are that I want you to find out if these pictures are actually real or not."
"Okay…I'll be there in an hour I'm having breakfast with Nonoko-San right now."
"Oh! My bad! Well I'll see you later."
"Bye."

Yuu had hung up and Ruka was already in the living room with the pictures all spread out and scanning each and every picture. He gasped at the picture of Natsume and Hotaru kissing. He just couldn't believe it! He grabbed the picture and put it in his back pocket and left it there. An hour pasted and Yuu was at the gate with his computer bag. Ruka opened the door and let Yuu in. "Thank you for coming." Ruka said, "I owe you one."
Yuu smiled kindly, "No, its fine…anyways, what was it that you wanted me to check out?"
Ruka scratched the back of his head and turned a bit red. "Well…I found these pictures and were wondering if they were real…or just photo copied."
Yuu walked over to the coffee table where the pictures were laid out and gasped when he saw the two people in the pictures. "Natsume-Kun and Hotaru-San?" Yuu whispered.

Ruka nodded. "Yeah…and I think Mikan saw these pictures too but…I'm not really sure if she thinks their real or not…and…I really want to know if they are or not."
Yuu opened his bag and took out a portable scanner and his laptop. He hooked up the scanner to his computer and once it was already, he placed one of the pictures into the scanner and waited for the results. Yuu looked at Ruka and gave him a smile. "This might take a bit." Yuu said in an apologetic voice,

"It's fine." Ruka said, "Would you like something to drink?"
"Water would be fine."
"Okay then."

Ruka came back with two glasses of water and found Yuu typing things into his computer. "Something happen?" Ruka asked as he peered over at Yuu's lap top screen.

He gasped when he found that Yuu's screen had become a blue color. "I guess my little sister was messing with my laptop before I came and gave me some virus." Yuu said sadly, "I don't think I'll be able to help you find out the answer until next week when I get my computer fixed."
"It's alright." Ruka said with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work."
"Mm." Yuu said as he packed up,

As Yuu was walking to the door, he stopped abruptly and turned to face Ruka. "If you actually want to know the truth, why don't you just ask Hotaru-San yourself?" Yuu asked, "She is your girlfriend…and she usually doesn't lie to you…so I presume she wouldn't lie to you about something like this! Well…I'm just giving you some advice but…do as you please."
Ruka smiled. "Thank you…and I probably will just ask her."
Yuu smiled, "I hope it works out."

"Yeah." Ruka whispered.

When Yuu had left through the gates, Ruka had grabbed his phone and dialed Hotaru's number which was engraved into his skull. He just had to wait for her to pick up. "What?" Hotaru asked in an annoyed voice.

"Are you feeling better?" Ruka asked.

Hotaru started coughing. "Does that tell you anything?" She asked harshly.

Ruka's eye twitched and he was sweat dropped. "I have to talk to you about something."
"Go ahead." Hotaru said as she coughed again.

"I mean face to face."
"Then why didn't you just tell me while you were here?" Hotaru asked.

She sighed when she didn't receive a reply, "Just come over and tell me." She said.

"Mm…bye."
"Later."

Hotaru had hung up and Ruka and slouched over on his couch. "I don't think I want to ask her anymore." He thought, "What happens if she gets s mad at me for thinking that she was cheating on me?"

Ruka thought of all the possible answers that Hotaru would give back to him but all of them just were all plain rude or just hurt like hell. Ruka sighed. "I guess I better just get it over with then to have this feeling in my stomach just swim around."

Ruka then got up and walked all the way to Hotaru's house. Ruka rang the door bell and Hotaru's brother answered the door. "It's you." He said.

"Hello." Ruka said with a smile, "I'm here to see Hotaru."
"I know." He said and moved to the side.

Hotaru's brother moved to the side and Ruka went inside. Ruka walked up the stairs and knocked on Hotaru's door. "Come in." Hotaru said.

Ruka opened the door and Hotaru sat up in her bed. "What was it that you wanted to talk to me about?" She asked,

Ruka rubbed his arm and then nodded his head and grabbed the chair from Hotaru's desk and brought it near Hotaru's bed. "Please don't say anything okay?" Ruka said, "I want you to listen okay?"
Hotaru nodded. Ruka sighed and pulled out the picture of what is suppose to be Hotaru and Natsume kissing. Hotaru gasped when she saw the picture. "What the hell is this?" She yelled as she grabbed the picture.

"I found it in Mikan's trash can." Ruka muttered, "I don't know where she got it from but…most likely…from Koizumi."

Hotaru frowned. "So you came here to ask me if me and Natsume actually kissed? Or did any of the other things from the other pictures?"

Ruka nodded. "Is it true?"

Hotaru got out of bed and slapped Ruka across the face. "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?"

Ruka cupped his check and noticed that Hotaru was crying. He was stunned. Hotaru started to wipe her tears and she turned her back to Ruka. Ruka walked over to Hotaru and hugged her from behind. "I'm sorry…I was just…I'm sorry." Ruka said as he hugged her tightly, "I was just…I just had to hear it from you…that it wasn't true."

Hotaru turned around and buried her face into Ruka's shirt. "You idiot." Hotaru mumbled, "I would never date him. And besides…Mikan is with him as well."
Ruka smiled and kissed the top of Hotaru's head. "I just wanted to make sure."

Hotaru looked up at him and puffed up her cheeks. Ruka face turned bright red. This was one of the first time he had seen Hotaru act so…childish…and cute. Ruka smiled and leaned closer and kissed her on the lips. Hotaru kissed back. In the few seconds of silence, there was a clicking sound. Ruka and Hotaru turned to look at the door to find her older brother looking into a camera lens and taking multiple pictures. Ruka gasped and Hotaru ran over to her brother who had already dashed out. "Brother!" Hotaru yelled, "I swear if you don't give me that camera I'm going to literally kill you."
Ruka laughed as he remembered before him and Hotaru had started going out, that she use to take pictures of him and black mail him with them. Ruka walked out of her bedroom and watched as his girlfriend and her brother ran all over the house causing destruction. Ruka started to turn pale when he released the house was becoming a huge mess. "Should I stop her?" He asked himself.

He pondered it for a few moments and then sighed. "No matter what I do I'm going to either get shot by her gun or I'm going to receive the silent treatment for not stopping her."
He sighed but then smiled. "At least I know that Hotaru loves me and that I love her." He thought.