Mikan and Natsume have to find somebody to take over the throne before they leave for America and resign, but what about the council? Will Mikan and Natsume be able to live a peaceful life by themselves? Or will they have to go on being King and Queen until they die?

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Twenty-Six
Trying to Win the Battle!

"WHAT!? Are you two crazy!? There is no way you two are resigning the throne when we have no heirs to take your place and nobody to be there to pay us!" snapped the head member of the council as Mikan and Natsume sat at the head of the table, Mikan looked down, they were losing, drastically, it appeared to them.

"Is that all you care about!? Getting paid! it isn't easy to run a kingdom, and yes, maybe there are no heirs, but we'll try our best to get someone!" snapped Natsume as Mikan stared at her lap. Quiet as a mouse, which was strange for the young queen.

"You two will stay on the throne until you are at deaths door!" hissed the head, but Natsume glared at him and shook his head furiously.

"No way! If my wife wants to have a peaceful life, that's what she gets! If I have to take matters into my own hands, then I will! But right now, I'm going to look for the right heir to take over the kingdom!" snapped Natsume. This had been going on for hours, and Mikan had no say in it at all. She finally looked up, raising her hand.

"May I speak?" she asked, everyone stared at her, Natsume held her hand under the table as she stood, smiling.

"No! This has ended, with no heir to the throne, then I'm sorry, but you will have to stay, no choice in the matter." snapped the oldest one, and Mikan sighed, sitting down again, head low as Natsume stared at her, he would listen to her, wouldn't he.

"Let her speak, for crying out loud!" snapped Natsume, the elders glared.

"No." they said, walking off angrily as Mikan sighed silently to herself and Natsume sat with her, his forehead pressed against hers as her eyes closed and her hair fell from behind her ears, he gently kissed her.

"What were you going to say, Mikan?" he asked her as she opened her eyes to stare at him, yet again she sighed, much more loudly this time, though.

"Nothing, it's not that important." she mumbled, standing and walking towards the door as he followed her, walking by her side and holding onto her hand as she opened the door quietly, and started to exit the room.

"If it comes from that pretty little mouth of yours then it's important, Mikan, now spill or no more kisses for you." he said as she smiled faintly, and hugged his arm tightly then gave a small nod, looking back at the now closed door.

"Well... It's just... I know someone, a man, and he's my second cousin removed, and he's from royal blood, so, I think... Maybe he could be the heir? He was born into royalty, but has never experienced anything like we have, so, if he wouldn't mind..." Mikan mumbled to herself as Natsume listened to her, and grinned.

"Okay then, why don't we go find him then?" Natsume asked, Mikan looked up at Natsume and giggled.

"Sure, but he's from the Shadow kingdom. It's quite a long way from here, isn't it?" Mikan asked as Natsume raised an eyebrow, and sighed.

"Are you realted to all the special alices, Mikan?" he asked, she gave a slight shrug, a finger to her chin as she smiled, then giggled and hugged him tightly as he hugged back, his arms around her waist.

"I think so, some, I know that for sure, but you might like Tsubasa, anyway, let's go!" Mikan cried out, and took Natsume's hand as she ran towards the stairs, up to their room, to change for their journey to meet Tsubasa...

They were in a carriage, and were taking Aoi with them. Mikan smiled as Aoi slept on her lap and Natsume watched out the window, watching tree's pass by. He was very bored, to say the least.

"Are we there yet?" he asked, childishly just to annoy his beloved wife who tutted, she never knew someone to be as imaptient as she was, she realised her husband was fairly childish, even more so than herself.

"No, for the 10th time, No! I said it would take a long time, you should have brought the game boy!" Mikan snapped as Natsume stuck his tongue out babyishly while Mikan hummed sweetly to Aoi, who was still sleeping, and Mikan stared at the girl she held tightly.

"But it was on charge, Mikan!" Natsume cried, Mikan smiled at her childish husband.

"Because you were too lazy to put it on charge." she stated, then kissed his cheek as she blushed, and giggled. He would have hugged her, if Aoi wasn't sleeping peacefully in Mikan's lap, of course.

"So, what can I do?" he asked as Mikan sighed, staring out the window and looking at the setting sun.

"Play Eye spy, dear." she said clearly as he smirked.

"Eye spy, with my little eye, something beggining with M," he said, and Mikan simply sighed, that one was too easy as she turned to Natsume, smirking sweetly as he grinned.

"Mikan." she said.

"Ri-eh! Wrong, queeny. It's Moron, because that's what you are!" he grinned as she gasped, blushing furiously.

"NANI! How could you say that to your ill wife! Natsume, you baka hentai!" she yelled out as he grinned, poking her in the ribs as she glared at him and slapped his hands away playfully, he just snickered.

"Baka, baka!" he cried out, laughing as she yelled at him furiously.

"Hentai, baka, hentai, hentai! Natsume baka neko!" she yelled out as he grinned, then kissed her forehead as she pouted her cute pout, arms folded as he slid an arm aroudn her shoulders.

"Gomen ne, Mikan. But, you said to play eye spy, so, I did." he smirked, as she stuck her tongue out at him, he tweaked her nose.

"Put that tongue back in before something happens to it." he declared, but she kept sticking her tongue out, so he crashed his lips against hers, much to her surprise as he smirked. Once he pulled away, her tongue was back in her mouth.

"See, didn't I warn you?" he asked as she stared at him, slowly nodding her head, then staring out the window, a hand to her mouth, she was going to cough, or vomit. She thought, he saw the look on her face and took Aoi from her lap and slid next to her.

"Stick your head out the window." he said, she stared at him, panic stricken.

"Demo, Natsume," she said, he stuck her head out the window as she felt tears fall from her eyes as she, yep, you guessed it, vomited. Good thing they were on a dirt path where no one else went. It was a short cut through the woods.

"See, it's better than doing that in here, Mikan. Do you feel okay?" he asked, concern in his deep voice as she gave a mild nod and then sniffed, still crying a little as he gave her his hanky and wiped her tears away, hugging her.

"Aoi can lay on the other seats opposite, you're sitting in my lap." he said as she was about to protest, when he picked her up and put her on his lap, holding onto her firmly as she closed her mouth, and sighed.

"Do you need anything to drink?" he asked her, she gave a small, silent nod, and he smiled, passing her some water as she drank it, then lay her head on his shoulder.

"Arigatou." she mumbled, sleepily as he gave her a small smile. She rested her head, and when she closed her eyes, she was instantly in dreamland. She was quite heavy, but Natsume didn't mind, he just held onto her tightly and kissed her lips and forehead to keep himself amused, and her snoring wasn't so boring, either.

Natsume didn't fall asleep, though, he was too amused by Mikan's snoring and the way she whisteled, yes whisteled, when she slept soundly in his arms. He loved her face close to his, and the way her eyelashes swept against her cheeks.

It was a very calming and beautiful sight, he thought to himself. He brushed some hair from her face and kissed her lips before holding onto her more tightly as the carriage went on. The sun was setting, Mikan had said it would be a long journey, that's why she pakced alot of food. She wouldn't eat any of it, though, her cancer meant she wouldn't eat as it was too painful.

She was getting dangerously skinny, he thought to himself...

It took a day and 3 hours to get to their destination, and the carriage stopped outside the house that belonged to Mikan's cousin, it wasn't little, but it wasn't exactly a mansion, either. Mikan smiled as she breathed in the country air, and giggled.

"Natsume, it's so pretty! I wanna live in a place like this, someday!" she cried out, bounding to the door as he watched her, smiling to himself as he picked Aoi up, carrying her towards the house as Mikan stood by the door, waiting.

Mikan had made sure that before they left, someone would run the kingdom, it was her grandfather. He couldn't permanently take over, as he was too old to do so and had resigned himself years ago.

So why couldn't they resign so easily like he had?

"Did you tell your cousin that you were coming, then?" Natsume asked. One look at her clueless face told him all. She hadn't. He patted her head as she giggled and blushed cutely, bouncing on her feet.

Was she really a queen, or just a royal pain?

"I'm guessing no, idiot. Oh well, he will have a lovely surprise. One adult and two children." Natsume stated as Mikan blinked, looking around dumbly. She was searching, it seemed, for something, or someone.

"Where's the other kid..." she thought to herself, when suddenly, it dawned on her, a few seconds later as Natsume counted from his fingers, looking at the sky.

3...

2...

1...

Blast off:

"NATSUME ARE YOU CALLING ME A KID!?" she yelled it all so loudly that the ground shook as Natsume grinned evilly. Mikan was red in the face as she stomped towards him, while Aoi watched closely. She enjoyed this.

"Awwww... You finally figured out what I was referring to, my little wifey. Yes, you are a kid, you're my special little kid, Mikan." he said, kissing the top of her head as she growled, when suddenly, the door opened and out stepped a yawning, dashing, mouth-watering, sexy, one-of-a-kind, chocolaty fudge coated super special awesome rare state of the art, wonderful, handsome and daring, ruthless and caring, baby-faced son of a turkey, cute and wonderfuly topless young man.

He was, Tsubasa Andou, Mikan's cousin. Second cousin once removed, to be exact, and he stared at them all, sleepily. It was obvious, they had woken him up, well, Mikan had.

"TSUBASA!" Mikan yelled out, running to him and knocking her relative down before he could realise who she was.

"Huh? What the--- OH MAN MIKAN IS THAT YOU!?" he yelled out, and she smiled, standing and giggling, twirling around as he stared at her, mouth open, the male poked her as Natsume glowered, he was... jealous!

"Yep! Tsubasa, you grew up! You're taller?" she said, staring up at him as he smirked, and picked her up, laughing as she waved her arms and legs about, her cheeks red as roses as she laughed giddily.

"Yes I am, munchkin! Ahahahaha, Mikan, your bust grew! Finally!" he yelled out as she laughed manically while he held her in the air, tickeling her as Natsume made the tree's burn while Aoi watched him, sucking her thumb cutely.

"Kya! KYA TSUBASA KYA KYA!" she yelled out happily as he smiled, then, noticed the death glare plastered on Natsume's face as he stared at the young king, and he put Mikan down, and waked towards Natsume.

"Hey, who's the demon?" he asked, that was it. He suddenly found out his hair was burning, he screamed loudly. Natsume smirked as Mikan gasped.

"Natsume! Stop that!" she cried out, he stared at her and sighed, letting the flames die as Tsubasa sighed, Natsume turned to Mikan, the look of utter dread and murder on his face as she stared at him, oblivious to his jealousy.

"Natsume-kun, what's gotten into you!?" she snapped, hands on her hips, he put a hand to her forehead, smirking.

"Don't let him touch you, baka." he said, and walked off towards Aoi, and pciked her up, smiling as Mikan watched him, then turned to Tsubasa who was rubbing his sore head, he sighed as Mikan watched Natsume.

"I don't know what's wrong... He's normally well behaved and lovely." she said to herself mostly, but Tsubasa heard it, he smiled.

"Ah, he's just jealous. Come on, I'd better let you in now you're all here, plus, I wanna know what gives me the pleasure of having my cousin to visit. Tell me over breakfast." he said as Mikan stared at him, Natsume glowered.

"It's 6pm." he said coldly, as Mikan sweat dropped.

"Ah, okay, brunch then. Come on in to my humble abode, all though it might not fit to his Majesty's delight." Tsubasa said, staring at Natsume who glared at him, fire burning in his pupils.

"I've seen worse." he snapped, and walked in, holding Mikan's hand as Aoi ran after, and Tsubasa followed, sighing, he wondered if Natsume was Mikan's husband, he jolly well hoped not, but the rings proved it all. He was gutted.

"So, what brings you here?" he asked as Mikan smiled, holding onto Natsume's hand.

"We came to talk about you running the Alice kingdom!" Mikan cried out, but Natsume was trying to stop her, he didn't want Tsubasa running the kingdom, he had decided he hated the jerk.

As she had said that, Tsubasa was drinking tea, and when he heard those words, the tea came splurting out through his nostrils and all over his lap.

"N-Nani, Mikan... Are you serious?" he asked, as the female gave a nod and giggled. Aoi was playing with some rocks, for an unknown reason, and threw them at the wall. They didn't bother to stop her, she was having fun.

"Hai!" she cried out as Tsuabasa stared at her, and she then explained.

"Well, you see, Tsubasa. I have stomach cancer, and, I don't think I'm right for the throne, so, Natsume and I, we both decided to live in the country in peace and harmony, but in order to do so, we need someone to take over the throne. So, I thought maybe you could. If you wanted to, of course, I can't just force it upon you, although, it would help if you accepted this proposition, if not, then we have to look further. But, I have to go to America, for surgery soon, so..." Mikan said, trailing off as Tsubasa sighed, an arm over his arm rest as he closed his eyes.

"Well, you're in a bit of a pickle there, I must say. I don't know whether to object or not, but... You see, Mikan, I'm not right for the throne at all. I think you are, but, if you're ill... What about aunty Yuka?" he asked. Mikan paled. He hadn't been told.

"Er... She's not here, she's kinda deceased." Natsume started as Mikan covered her ears, not wanting to listen. Tsubasa's mouth dropped open, but one look told him not to say anything from natsume's thunderous face.

"Sorry... Hm, well, this is strange, you know... I guess I'm going to have to think about it, but this isn't definate that I'm going on the throne." Tsubasa sighed as Mikan gave him a faint smile, and ran over to him, hugging him.

"Arigatou." she whispered, then took Natsume's hand again in hers. Tsubasa smiled.

"Well, aside from that, you must be tired! I'll prepare some rooms for you, will you two share?" Tsubasa asked as Mikan nodded eagerly and Natsume hugged her tightly, glaring at Tsubasa, that kid didn't like him, did he...

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