AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hi everyone... thanks for all the support and everything... so this is a special chapter in my story in relation to Mikan and Natsume's weird moments while they were chained... This chapter is not a continuation of the real chapter series, only moments... I really hope that you like it... I'm really sorry I hadn't updated so soon enough. It's just that I'm having a writer's block every now and then and I couldn't really find my inner muse. I'm so sorry but thanks for the reviews everyone. Please enjoy the short chapter I have made for you.

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SPECIAL CHAPTER: MOMENTS

"Natsume-san,"

Natsume turned his head slightly to acknowledge the girl behind him. He knew what her problem was but didn't pay any attention to it. In fact, if he were truthful, he was having the same problem as hers. He had made ingenious plans for his discomfort to be relieved, however every time he had thought of it, the chain that attached him to Mikan made it impossible.

It didn't help that the Mikan now was not the Mikan he was accustomed to. If the Mikan now was quite clueless and naïve, then it would be troublesome if she saw him half-naked. He was sure that she would be like every girl in school campus. She would shout or probably faint.

This was going nowhere.

If the 'passive' Mikan was here, she could handle the situation very maturely. But with the 'innocent' Mikan, he was sure that she would panic.

He sighed inwardly, a headache forming yet again. In the back of his mind, he could see the mocking gaze of Narumi laughing at his current predicament. The great and famous Black Cat defeated merely by a chain. Oh yes, how the mighty have fallen.

He raised a brow, an indication for Mikan to continue. "I… really don't feel comfortable with… with my body right now."

"Don't say something so suggestive, Polka Dots." He sighed and brought a hand to cover his face. "If people were to hear you, they'd think that you're sexually frustrated. You're not frustrated, are you?"

Mikan blush a pretty pink, bringing a hand over her mouth to cover her embarrassment. "O-of course not! It's just that…"

"I know…" he whispered silently. "However, what do you expect? We can't just do it together."

"Yeah," she said before sighing and closing her eyes. "But… I think we could do it… only if we face back."

"Yeah?" he snorted. "And what if your hand comes in contact to something with my person? And what if I had done the same thing to you?"

Mikan frowned sadly. "But Natsume-san, are you satisfied with only sponge baths?"

Natsume sighed for the umpteenth time in the morning. Lucky for them, it wasn't a school day. Today, they were free to do whatever they wanted to do and lucky for them it was a day to think about their current predicament. Their current predicament was how to take a bath without seeing each other's body.

It was a torture to both of them, going to school with only sponge baths. At first, it had been okay. Nothing to worry about. After all, they had thought that they should be thankful even if it was just little. However, it wasn't just enough as another day came. They didn't like the grime and sweat sticking to their bodies. Despite the wet sponge applied to their skin, it just wasn't satisfactory. It didn't give the satisfactory feeling like showering. For Pete's sake, it was only sponge wetting their skin and no soaps or shampoo or hot water.

It was seriously frustrating!

"Let's think of a plan for a moment," Mikan suggested. "How about we try taking a bath with blind folds?"

"You want to take a bath together?" he asked with a raised brow. Despite his cool façade, the blush on his cheeks stated otherwise.

"Well…" she blushed. "I-it's not what y-you think b-but… I mean… Well… I…"

Natsume sighed. "Mikan," he said softly. "Why don't we try it?"

"W-what!" she asked, almost shouting. "Are you serious?"

"When have I never been serious?" he asked back, his eyes almost accusing.

Mikan swallowed the lump on her throat. Tough luck. What was she going to do now? She was going to be taking bath with Natsume which was almost every girl's dream. 'I mean, every girl in the academy,' she thought with a shake of her head. Now that she mentioned that, she wondered what Natsume's body underneath his uniform was. She bet it was muscular, manly –

'Hold up!' she chastised herself. 'Stop going to that part! Bad Mikan! You're such a pervert! Stop thinking about him and think about the nice warm bath… yes… warm bath with Natsume next to me… his muscular-'

Mikan widened her eyes at her imagination. What were these wicked thoughts entering her? Where were this all coming from? She groaned. If she didn't know better, she would say she had developed a 'thing' for Natsume. She looked over to Natsume who had passed her a towel and a long handkerchief.

His looks were sinful and she knew for a fact that it wasn't hard to fall in love with the man in front of her. After all, he was charismatic, handsome and nonetheless quite a soft hearted person oppose to the mask he had showed to everyone in campus.

"Here," he said, almost tired. "Let's just make this quick and fast."

Mikan nodded her head, doubtful. "Let's blindfold together…"

"How will I know that you blindfolded yourself?" he asked, almost taking delight on her red cheeks.

Mikan furrowed her brows. "Let's just say… we'll touch each other's faces so that we can be sure that we blindfolded ourselves."

Natsume sighed and quickly tied the long handkerchief around his eyes. If he were to think of the plan set forth by them carefully, he'd say it was stupid and too risky. In fact, it was really stupid to go ahead with this plan. There were too many flaws on this plan. In fact, he didn't like it one bit. However, maybe… maybe just this once, something good will come out of it.

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"Natsume, we're at the shower now." Mikan whispered softly, almost too afraid.

Natsume nodded his head despite the fact that he knew Mikan couldn't see his gesture with her eyes blindfolded. Gently, he searches for the shower, reaching for it. Once the familiar metal contraption touched his skin, he turns the knob gently as it made a weird sound.

Soon, the sound of water entered their ears. And they both sighed in comfort as the water cascade down their backs.

It was absolutely heaven… Natsume felt so liberated. The familiar sound of water echoing through the bathroom and the warm water cascading his back. Ah! The taste of luxury. It was too comforting and he wished it wouldn't end. He closed his eyes behind the blindfold. 'Now… for the soap.' He thought before he heard a high pitch scream from his side.

"Natsume!" he heard Mikan said.

"Huh?" he mumbled and moved his hand to remove the handkerchief.

Mikan quickly beat him and pulled his hand away. "D-don't!" she said, almost shouting. "I-It's too embarrassing!"

'Embarrassing?' he thought all the while staring ahead. 'What was embarrassing?'

Mikan closed her eyes too tight that she could feel the muscles strain on either side of eyes. The blindfold on her eyes had fallen accidentally. It was not her doing… well maybe yes when accidentally tip it with her arm. But nonetheless, it wasn't her fault. It was entirely an accident. She shook her head.

Damn her curiosity. She really hated it. No wonder why cats die when their curiosity gets the better of them. Apparently she was no better. She had almost lost her purity by gazing at Natsume's sinful body. Well… she did saw his upper torso. She blush a darker shade of red when her mind supplied thoughts of his body.

His body was corrosively white and pale, ripped with muscles. However his muscles were not entirely bulk. It was manly enough. Despite the perfection of his body, there were a bit of scars on his arms and back. An evidence of his dangerous missions every now and then.

Mikan shook her head wildly. "I-I'm going ahead!"

"Hn," he grunted to acknowledge her.

'thud'

Mikan grunted as she unceremoniously fell and bump Natsume, her eyes still closed. Gently, she laid a hand over bruised forehead. 'Ow,' she thought hard. "What had hit me?"

"M-Mikan!" NAtsuke choked.

Mikan look up to see Natsume's eyes looking at her straightly. The blush on his cheeks was very red and he looked very embarrassed. "What?" she asked before widening her eyes in comprehension. As soon as it dawned her, she did what every girl would do when someone saw her naked. She shouted at the top of her lungs.

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Mikan sniffed. "I'm never going to get married!" she wailed.

"Just because I saw your flat chest doesn't mean that someone won't marry you." Natsume retorted heatly, his blush staining his cheeks madly.

"You saw my body!" she cried in horror, large tears strolling down her cheeks.

Natsume quickly looked at Mikan. "W-wait," he said, completely awkward with the situation. "Y-you have an excellent body! There's nothing to worry about it. It looks good."

"So you did saw my body! You're really worse!" Mikan sobbed, her tears still strolling down her cheeks.

"You were the first one who removed your blindfold! I'm the victim here, not you!" he shouted at the weeping girl.

Mikan glared at him through her crocodile tears. "It was an accident!" she retorted back, her lips quivering. "And plus, I had the dignity to close my eyes! You on the other hand kept on staring even after I shouted!"

"I was not staring!" he argued back, cheeks becoming redder. "It's your fault in the first place for making such a stupid and idiotic plan!"

"Oh yeah?" she glared at him hard. "Well, who was the one who suggested that we do it?"

Natsume felt his brows quivering under her gaze. "I had given you the choice to decline the offer! It was not my decision to go to the bathroom together idiot!"

"As far as I remember you said you were serious!" Mikan huffed.

Natsume looked at Mikan, his resolve cracking under her stare. He couldn't stare at her. How could he when she saw her body. Well… he did saw the upper part but lucky for him, with the steam surrounding the room, he didn't see well. But even so, no matter how little it was, he saw her. It was so embarrassing. How was he going to face her or give a smart retort?

Mikan could feel her lips quivering in embarrassment. Her mind was not helping her either. Instead of helping her relieve the situation, they were making it worst. Her mind kept on replaying the body of Natsume when he was showering. And Gods help her she couldn't stop herself from thinking about it. It was all this man's fault for being so sinfully perfect.

They both looked away, too embarrassed to look at each other.

What were they going to do? How were they supposed to finish their baths?

"What is going on in here?" a shy voice entered their ears.

They both tilted their head to look at their visitor. "I heard Sakura-san shouting and I thought that maybe something had happened… bad?" Ruka asked before entering his head in only to see both his friend wrap in towels. Not only that, they were both… blushing? And almost out of… breath?

He widened his eyes in horror. "Natsume! Did you and Sakura-san-"

"NO!" they both shouted simultaneously, all the while getting redder.

"Then… why are you half-naked?" Ruka asked and entered their room.

Mikan opened her mouth only to close it. She didn't have the strength to explain. She was too embarrassed with the situation. "We were trying to take a shower. However, things gotten out of hand… and well… it was entirely not a good plan." She heard Natsume explain as he scratches his scalp.

They had expected Ruka to do anything but never laugh to laugh at them. Yet here he was, laughing very hard that tears were starting to form on the corner of his eyes. Natsume and Mikan stared at each other before looking at their 'derange' friend.

"What's so funny?" Mikan asked. "It's not funny."

Ruka chuckled. "Well… the two of you are."

"I don't get it…" she said with a shake of her head.

"Didn't you two ever know that the chain can pass through solid things? They even pass through solid walls and even clothes. How come you never thought of it?" he asked with a laugh.

Mikan and Natsume stared at each other. This whole time of planning had been absolutely for nothing. If they had known about this stupid chain's ability, then they probably wouldn't have this kind of problem in the first place.

"Very well," Natsume sighed, breaking his eye contact with Mikan. "We will resume our shower Ruka. You can go out now."

"Huh?" he asked.

Mikan closed her eyes in exhaustion. This day was uneventful. "We're going to take turns when taking a bath from now on. Thank you for telling us."

Ruka looked at Mikan and Natsume's back as they walked into the bathroom, forgetting what had transpired earlier.

"What exactly happened?" he asked.

'What does Natsume mean resume their shower? Does this mean that a while ago, they were both showering together? And then that means that they…' Ruka widened his eyes and stared at closed door. "They took a bath together!"

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Natsume leaned his head on the blurry glass separating him from the shower. As a gentleman, he had given Mikan the shower first. So right now, he was sitting, patiently waiting for her to finish.

"Natsume-san," Mikan's muffled voice asked, almost childlike.

"Hm?" he asked before closing his eyes. His body relaxing as the sound of water from the shower continued flowing.

Mikan looked over to the silhouette of Natsume's frame from the inside. "I'm really sorry…"

Natsume raised a brow. "Sorry about what?"

"Well… I shouted and… I got carried away with my embarrassment. I'm really sorry."

"Don't worry about it… Let's just forget that this day had ever happened and continue like nothing had happened." He sighed.

Mikan looked at the frame of Natsume in disbelief. How could she forget this day? This was the most embarrassing moment of her life. She couldn't forget this and here he is, proposing that she should just forget that something like this… something so embarrassing like this had happened?

"Okay," she whispered before closing the shower.

Unknown to her, Natsume had been thinking with the same lines of her thoughts. He knew he couldn't forget this day, especially to see Ruka laughing at them like they were children who had done something so silly. He had just said that so that she wouldn't feel so awkward when they were walking together.

"Yeah," he whispered back and listened as Mikan opened the shower. "Let's just forget this day…"

Oh how he hated this day… but despite the misfortune he had gone through, he was happy that at least… it was Mikan who he was chained with.

With that thought, Natsume smiled and closed his eyes to relax once more.

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