Chapter Seventeen:
Stinkin' blackmail.
I know why she wanted us to kiss so we'll get closer. Heck, no. A kiss is a kiss, nothing more.
I don't like that idiot, how many times do I have to tell them?
I hate her smile, I hate it when she worries about me too, she irritates me a lot.
I walked towards the forest by myself. Ruka rarely accompanies me anymore since he's got to "spend time" with the blackmailer. He's sick. She blackmails him and he actaully fell inlove with her. Tsk.
I sat under the same Sakura tree, like always, to think.
I've got to kiss Polka-dots. Now, she'll think I'm a real pervert. I shook my head. As if she doesn't think I'm a pervert now.
"Hi Natsume!"
The idiot came running towards me.
"What do you want?" I asked her.
"Here." She held out a plastic bag.
"What's that?"
"It's a sandwich, silly. I made you one. I figured you haven't eaten yet and since you gave me a sandwich before, I'm giving it back to you." She said with a smile as she sat down beside me and laid the sandwich on my lap.
How did she know that I haven't eaten yet?
She noticed the wound on my arm that I almost forgot about.
"Natsume!" She said as she took my arm to take a good look at the wound.
"Stop being too loud." I said.
She ignored me.
"Stay here." She said then she left.
After a few minutes, she came back with a first aid kit, she sat down beside me and began treating my wound.
"You don't have to do this." I told her.
"Don't be silly, Natsume. If I won't, who will?" She said.
She was kind of right but still, I don't need her.
She wrapped the bandage on my arm.
"You shouldn't be doing those missions, Natsume." She told me as she fixed her things. "You might, you know, die. So stop."
"Don't be so dramatic." I told her.
She rolled her eyes.
"You're always like that. We don't need a savior, Natsume. We can take care of ourselves."
I ignored her drama.
"Now eat up." She told me.
"I'm not hungry." I lied.
"suit yourself. Just don't throw that away. I worked hard for that." She said then she smiled at me. "Take care of yourself, okay?" She stood up and left me there.
I waited for her to be out of my sight. I stared at the plastic bag.
Might as well eat it. I'm hungry after all. I haven't eaten yet. I opened the bag and ate the sanwich.
After I ate the sandwich, I felt thirsty. So I went to the nearest drinking fountain and went back to the tree.
I laid down and fell asleep immediately. I'm so tired after that mission last night.
I woke up, it was sunset already.
I'm not gonna be able to sleep again tonight, my nap was too long.
I stood up and walked.
"Are you sure Natsume won't be able to see uis?"
I know that voice, Kokoroyomi. He was whispering. I walked towards the part where I heard Koko's voice.
See them? Me?
"Just get it over with."
It's Imai.
Silence. I still can't see them.
"Natsume's asleep, go now."
Now, it's Ruka.
What the hell is this? They're hiding from me?
I saw four figures.
"Are you sure about this Hotaru?"
It's the idiot.
So, it's Ruka, Hotaru, Koko and the idiot.
"It wasn't my idea. My idea was for you to kiss Natsume, not Koko, but you didn't want to kiss Natsume. So, just get it over with."
WHAT? She backed out on me? What the hell?
I saw two figures getting closer to each other. This was the kiss the idiot was talking about.
I walked nearer, I can see them clearly now. They're getting closer. but Koko stopped.
"I can hear Natsume's thoughts!" He said as he immediately stepped away from the idiot.
