Chapter 25: My favorite teacher

The rain continued to pour harder. Mikan ran on the school grounds, away from Natsume. She didn't know where she was going; she just let her feet do the running. She didn't care about how she looked at that moment and how drenched she was because of the rain. She just wanted to get away, she felt embarrassed, confused and heartbroken.

She stopped to catch her breath as she found herself near the Sakura tree. Tears started to fall, yet again from her eyes but they were not seen. The raindrops falling on her face made her tears appear invisible.

"I just said it." she whispered to herself. "I told him I that I love him."

The tears continued to fall from her eyes but again, it was not that visible. The sky seemed to cry along with her as the rain poured even harder and louder. She started to bawl like a baby but she could not be heard because the rain was too loud.

"I…love you." she whispered. "Natsume." and cried again.

"Do you honestly think that crying under the rain wouldn't make people notice that you're crying?"

She stopped bawling and lifted her head as she heard his voice.

He walked up behind her. Mikan took a step forward, getting ready to run but Natsume quickly wrapped his arms around her waist.

"Natsume, please…" she said softly. "Let go of me."

But he didn't let go.

"I bet tomorrow or maybe later you'll forget you ever did this to me." she said.

He held her tighter and finally, he said "I won't."

Mikan gasped as she heard that.

"Because I'm in love with you." he said.

Her tears suddenly stopped falling. A surprised expression was on her face. He let go of her as she faced him and stared at his crimson eyes.

"Repeat that again." she requested.

He looked away. "You're making me feel embarrassed, little girl."

She lowered her head, sighed and said "I knew it, you were just toying with m-"

He cupped his hands on her face and captured her lips with his. Her eyes widened as she felt his lips again, but you know what? This time, it felt different. She closed her eyes and felt the kiss because this time, as she was kissing him, it's as if he was saying "I love you."

He pulled back and whispered "I said I'm in love with you, Mikan."

"After all that drama," she said. "I never expected you to fall as well."

He stared back at her chocolate colored orbs. "It just so happened that I couldn't get a stupid little girl off my mind." He said teasingly.

Morning, the next day

"ACHOOO!"

"Geez Polka dots, you're going to infect me!" said the raven haired boy as he was walking along the corridors of the Academy.

"Hey! I didn't want to catch a cold in the first place you know!" she said in defense, walking along with him

"It's your fault for staying under the rain!"

She stopped and smiled.

"Huh?" he uttered as he stopped to look what was wrong with the girl.

"It was all worth it anyway." she said with a smile.

They entered the classroom together as all eyes were fixed on them, all eyes except Hotaru and Ruka's. Hotaru was with Ruka, Ruka was complaining because she was making him do all her errands.

"Hey! I have a life of my own you know! Don't make me do everything!" he argued.

"But you did agree that you would do anything I wanted you to do!" she argued back at him.

"Hey, you guys should really stop arguing this early in the morning you know." said Mikan as she and Natsume approached them.

"But Hotaru's making me do hard labor!" Ruka complained.

"Well, you agreed to that!" said Hotaru.

And they went on yapping and yapping.

Natsume smirked as he pushed his best friend towards Hotaru.

Ruka's lips fell on Hotaru's and he quickly pulled away as he turned a bright red. Hotaru remained cool as always and looked away, pretending nothing happened but after that kiss, they stopped arguing.

After classes

"Hey Natsume!" said Mikan as she walked up to the boy "I made you something!"

"Huh? What is it?" he asked still, with an arrogant tone.

"This!" she said as she presented a piece of paper to him.

He got the paper and stared at it, a few seconds later, he gave out one of his rare laughs.

"Why are you making fun of it?!" Mikan asked angrily. "I tried my best to make that you know!"

"You didn't listen in class again, did you?" he asked.

"Well… yeah" she answered as she rubbed the back of her head.

"Typical." he said as he folded the paper and kept it in his pocket.

"Well, it was so boring!" she complained. "Besides, you can tutor me, right?"

He sighed and replied "Only if you'll pay concentrate, your mind always drifts somewhere else you know."

"Of course I'll concentrate!" she answered. "Come on, let's get something to eat!" the brunette exclaimed as she took Natsume by the wrist and began dragging him.

"Wait." He said.

"Nani?"

The black cat then pulled his wrist away from the brunette. This made the brunette pout but then, he suddenly held her hand.

"Now let's go." He said.

What was in that paper?

Well, it was a stick people drawing Mikan made of her and Natsume, holding hands under the rain. At the bottom it said:

"I love my favorite teacher, Natsume."

Author's note: I can't believe that this fic is oveeeer! I would like to apologize because i took so long in updating! I had some problems with my computer(darn virus)! but now it's cured!So anyway, A BIG THANK YOU TO THE SUPPORTERS OF MY FAVORITE TEACHER! you guys rock! it's my first fic to have this much reviews! i'm so happy. :) thank you to everyone once again and i hope you'll support my next fic. I'm going to start writing it as soon as i get all my ideas together. till the next fic! ;)