CHAPTER 21: A little acting would be fun

The next day, our little flame caster decided to go to class with his little girlfriend. And as of now, his patience is getter lesser and lesser since he was already knocking on the door of Mikan's room.

"Oi Polka Dots! Hurry up!"

"I'm coming! Sorry to keep you waiting." She said as she went out of her special star room. "Shall we go?" she asked with a smile as her boyfriend just answered her with a "hn."

They both entered the room while their hands were intertwined. They headed to their seats while Mikan was greeting everyone else with her sweet smile that can always brighten a person's day. Everyone was shocked with what they saw but no one dared to ask something since they are fearing of having third degree burns and such.

"So, you're finally together huh?" asked Hotaru with a smirk.

"Kawaii! They look so perfect together!" Anna and Nonoko squealed in delight.

"Congratulations to the both of you." Yuu and Koko said.

Mikan went over to the seat of Hotaru to have a little chit chat while Natsume just proceeded to his seat.

"You've finally done it, buddy. Good for you." Complimented Ruka.

"Hn."

"Now, I know that you can really be happy." Ruka continued.

They were all very peaceful in doing minding their own businesses. There were a few groups who were having a little chat with their friends just like Mikan, some are playing with their Alices and some just prefer to be quiet in their own seats just like Natsume and Ruka. everything else was alright until they heard an ear piercing scream.

"WHHHHAAAATTT?!?!?!?!?" Sumire shouted as she entered the room while stomping heading towards Mikan's direction. "Sakura! How dare you steal my Natsume from me! Ruka having a girlfriend is already too much for me and now my Natsume?!?"

She kept on blabbering things out while Mikan just ignored her. It was as if she doesn't even exist. When she was done talking to her friends, Mikan decided to go back to her seat, still not minding the blabbering Sumire who was standing right in front of her.

"Sakura! Don't you dare turn your back on me while I'm still talking to you!" Sumire yelled. She then transformed into a cat-dog like creature and started running towards Mikan. She was about to scratch Mikan's back with her claws but a fire wall suddenly appeared right in front of her. She backed out due to too much shock and fright while Mikan just stood there, dumbfounded to what happened to Sumire.

"Oi, Permy, don't you even dare try hurting her in some sort of way. You got that? If you hurt her, you have to suffer the consequences." Natsume said as seriously as possible while the class just kept quiet. One thing was now sure that was registered into their minds and it was: Mikan was off limits.

Just right then, their teacher, Narumi, entered the class. He started teaching about Figures of Speech and Diagramming Sentences. And after the discussion, the gang went on separate ways.

Anna had to go the bakery, Nonoko had to go to the pharmacy, Yuu had a meeting which involved the class representatives, Hotaru went to her lab to finish her inventions, Ruka went to the barn to tend to the animals and Koko had to go to Mochu's room to watch a few movies. And since everyone else was busy, our couple decided to go to their favorite spot.

Mikan was happily sprinting her way to the Sakura Tree and she was a few meters ahead of Natsume. She arrived right in front of the tree seeing Persona.

"Oh, hello sensei. What brings you here?"

"Nothig much, my little kitten. Let's put up a little act for our dear Black Cat shall we? This won't hurt a bit so just play along."

"Okie dokie sensei. Just don't overdo it, okay?"

After a little while, Natsume heard a scream. He recognized very well that the voice belonged to Mikan so he hurriedly ran to the Sakura Tree right away and then saw Persona, gripping Mikan through her neck while fear was apparently written all over Mikan's face.

"Mikan! Why you demented bastard! Let go of her now!" Natsume bellowed as he lit some fire onto his palms trying to hit Persona.

"I see you got yourself a girlfriend, Kuro Neko. You don't want her to get hit by your own Alice don't we?" he asked with a smirk. "Nice acting Mikan, just keep it up for a little while. And is it really true that you're together?" he asked through telepathy.

"Hai sensei. We're together since last night when you went here. I promise that our relationship will not cause any changes on my performance so there's nothing to worry about." Mikan answered back. "Oh, and take it easy on him sensei, he's getting really mad."

"Just let her go! She has nothing to do with this! And heck, she's not even doing anything!" he answered back while got even more shocked when he saw Mikan gasping for air.

"Na-natsume, I *gasp* can't breathe! *gasp*" said a struggling Mikan while a tear fell from her rosy little cheeks. "How's my acting sensei?"

"Very good but I guess we should end this now. Your little boyfriend is already raging with fire."

"What is it my little Black Cat? Can't stand the scene where your little girlfriend suffers right in front of you?" he said with a smirk. "Oh looky here. She's lost her consciousness. I guess I'm done with her for now." He said as she let go of Mikan causing her to fall flat on the floor as he left.

"I'm reminding you again, Kuro Neko. This little relationship of yours should NEVER AFFECT your performance in your missions because of it does, you know what could possibly happen to her." He said while vanishing into thin air.

Once persona was out of sight, he immediately ran to Mikan's aid. After a few minutes, Mikan woke up finding out that she's now in Natsume's arms. "Huh? What happened?"

"The bastard teacher came. Are you alright?" he asked with much concern in his voice.

"Hai." Mikan replied followed by a little yawn.

"Let's get going. You need some rest." Natsume said while helping Mikan up.