Chapter 21:

I stared at the girls. Their heads quickly tunred to me. They glared at me.

"N-Natsume?" I said with nervousness.

I can't really defend myself and I guess by now they know what my alice is.

"Get her!"

Honestly, I don't know why they love natsume so much.

BAKA! BAKA! BAKA! BAKA! BAKA! BAKA!

I looked behind me and saw Hotaru with her baka gun. Somehow, that thing's useful.

She saved me!

After all the girls got hit by Hotaru's gun, I ran towards Hotaru.

BAKA!

I got my own dose of the gun.

"That doesn't mean you can hug me." Hotaru said.

Ruka knelt down beside me.

"Are you okay?" He asked me.

I nodded with a smile and then stood up.

Natsume could've saved me from those girls, but he didn't.

"Those girls could've killed me because of that tape, Hotaru." I said. Hotaru ignored me. "Natsume could've saved me from them. I hate him."

"Oh, now you do?" Hotaru said, her voice still as dead as ever.

Now that I think of it, I never really told myself that I love Natsume. How could I love a boy who doesn't want any frineds, who hates having company, who thinks girls are idiots. Pish tosh. I don't and I won't love a boy like Natsume. I hate him.

Ruka sighed.

"You know Natsume's like that, I guess he's got his reasons." he said.

"Even so, he---" I was interrupted by Ruka.

"Can't you see, Mikan?" He asked me.

"See what?" I asked.

What's he talking about?

Ruka sighed again.

"Natsume---" Ruka was also interrupted by Hotaru. Hotaru simply gave Ruka a look and that's it.

I looked at both of them. There's something they won't tell me

"What is it?" I asked.

Ruka cleared his throat and shook his head.

"Nothing." He said with a smile.


Ruka's POV

Mikan looked at Hotaru and I with a little confusion.

I still don't get it, Why not tell them? Isn't it hard enough for Natsume to know that the girl he likes hates him? Ah well.

"Okay, if you say so." Mikan said, beaming. "C'mon, Ruka, Hotaru, let's eat. I'm hungry." Mikan took my hand and Hotaru's too.

"No, I'm going to talk to Natsume." I said.

"Oh, okay." Mikan said as she let go of my hand.

I waved goodbye and went to the most obvious place where Natsume would be. I pushed the bushes aside to make my way inside the forest. The same Sakura tree. But no one was there. So again, I pushed the bushes aside to make my way outside the forest. As I walked towards the dormitories, girls still greeted me. It's nice of them to still say hi or flirt with me eventhough I have Hotaru by my side, who shootsany girl who greets me except Mikan, although she shoots Mikan everyday.

I got to Natsume's room. I knocked twice. No one answered. I looked if the door was open, and it was! Natsume wasn't in his room, instead the windows were oepn. I climbed out of the window with ease since I was used to this already. And there he was, looking up at the sky, lying down.

"Hey Natsume!" I greeted.

"What?" He asked me.

As always, he seemed in a bad mood.

"Nothing. I'm just wondering how you've been." I said,

Clearly, it wasn't in his natsure to answer those questions. He simply looked at me. I sat down beside him.

"You know, you should've saved Mikan from your fangirls." I said.

Again, telling Natsume what to do wasn't the right choice.

"They are just idiots, they're your fangirls too." He said.

"They used to be besides they're more of yours anyways." I said. "But my point is, you should've saved her, with just one look from you, the girls---"

"Why would I save that idiot?"

I sighed.

"Here we go again..." I said.

Natsume's the worst person to persuade. He insists on what he thinks and he always gets what he wants, well, except Mikan, for now.

"Not because you have a stupid girlfriend doesn't mean I have to have one too." He said.

"Hotaru's not stupid!" I exclaimed.

Natsume rolled his eyes and stood up. I followed. I still continued talking about him and Mikan as we walked out of the room.

"I mean, I know she slapped you but--"

"That's the point, Ruka, she slapped me, why should I save her? Don't be stupid." Natsume said as we walked through the hallways.

I rolled my eyes and sighed. Natsume stopped walking after we opened the doors to reveal the outside. I stopped too, Natsume looked at what's infront of us.

Kokoroyomi.