Author's Note: Yay! I squeezed in some time to write this:) I write I the morning, right before I go to school so don't expect it to be in the best of quality… LOL. It's a weird habit, I know…
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"Mikan, wake up," a gentle hand shook the sleeping brunette.
The boy had warm chocolate brown eyes and jet black hair, he kept shaking the stirring girl with long silky light brown hair.
"Ugh, Masao?" she rubbed her eyes in a cute manner. Her eyes were adjusting to the lights of the room she was currently in.
"The one and only," he smirked as he patted her understandingly.
"What's the time?" she squinted due to the brightness of the room.
"It's 11:00 a.m. and it's currently free period," he explained to the tired brunette.
Mikan stretched and yawned as she mumbled, "Is that so?"
"Do I need to repeat myself?" Masao teased as they both found Imai Hotaru yelling, "PICTURE GOING FOR 1,000 YEN!"
Mikan cocked her head to the side as she asked, "What's that all about?"
Masao clenched his fist and gritted his teeth, "Its. Nothing."
Mikan stifled a laugh, but failed as she snorted, "Sure… Whatever you say."
Masao glared at his cousin as evil as he could muster as Mikan laughed even harder as she giggled, "That. Look. Doesn't. Suit. You. Masao."
"Hello Mikan," a blonde haired boy with dazzling sapphire eyes said as he patted his rabbit's head.
"Ruka-Pyon!" Mikan looked up and squealed as she attacked her best friend. She used her best friend's nickname from ages ago and she was still the only person that was allowed to call him that.
"Mikan, you can calm down now," Ruka sweat dropped.
"If you're here," Mikan tapped her finger against her chin, she scanned the room…
"If I'm here, than what?" asked a completely mystified boy with shocking blonde hair.
"Where's your friend? I thought the two of you were like inseparable," Mikan as she kept her eyes trained at the empty seat next to hers.
"Oh, he had a mission last night, so he decided to ditch classes to sleep. His sister has a habit to keep him awake all morning after his missions," Ruka answered.
"Oh…" Mikan frowned a little.
"Ahem…" Masao coughed with exaggeration as he sat in the chair that was right next to his cousin's.
"Hello Masao," Mikan said as Ruka waved politely.
"Aren't you going to introduce us?" Masao asked Mikan.
"Ruka this is my impatient, obnoxious, glutton of a --!" Mikan was cut off due to a door slamming. The boy always had perfect timing you know?
"Natsume-kun!" girls everywhere swooned as they saw their secret crush with wet hair and panting ever so slightly. It looked like he just got out of the shower and ran his way here. He must have been in a lazy mood.
Mikan rolled her eyes as Masao jumped out of his seat and sat on Mikan's desk.
"What was that for?!" Mikan questioned innocently as she overlooked the irritated-ness in the crimson's boy's eyes. Only Mikan Sakura can do that.
"Natsume walking and I don't want to get him mad…" Masao mumbled as Ruka laughed at Masao's expression.
"What he's trying to say is that he's in Natsume's seat and Natsume looks a little pissed," Ruka explained to the dense brunette.
"Oh," the brunette mumbled as she heard the chair next to her scrape against the floor.
"I heard my name," Natsume looked suspiciously at everyone that was near him.
"You must be imagining things," Mikan skillfully lied as Natsume calmed down a bit after he heard from the brunette.
"Anyways, I have to go to meet Hotaru," Ruka said as he bid them good-bye and walked over to his girlfriend that was still selling the pictures of Masao smiling.
"And she's still selling them. Once I get my hands on her, she's going down… But I need to get Ruka out of the picture first…" Masao muttered under his breath.
"Huh?" Mikan looked at her cousin in confusion.
"Hmm? Uh, nothing," Masao snapped out of his reverie of how to kill Hotaru.
Natsume listened into the brunette and her cousin's conversation as he put up a manga and pretended to read it.
"How's it like being partnered up with Surmire?" Mikan suddenly asked.
"Way better then sitting next to you," Masao teased.
"Hey! That's not fair!" the hazel eyed girl pouted.
"Just kidding," Masao rolled his eyes as he asked, "Did you really believe me?"
"I don't know… I mean you flirt with a ton of people…" Mikan shot her cousin a sly grin as Masao covered his face with his hands.
"You'll never forget, will you?" the boy with jet black hair mumbled.
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FLASHBACK
"Hello beautiful," a boy around 12 said. He had alluring chocolate brown eyes and shocking jet black hair. He threw an arm around his new 'find.'
"Are you hitting on me?" innocently asked a girl with wide hazel eyes.
"Is it working? By the way, I could get lost in those beautiful eyes of yours."
"Umm… No?"
"WHY?!"
"Because you're my cousin… Is that a good explanation?"
"I knew that!"
"I'm sure you did…"
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"Nope because that was funny and when you have kids, I'm going to tell that story to them…" Mikan smiled as Masao shot her a death glare, but Mikan challenged it with her own look.
"Thanks to that, I am permanently scarred for life," he said.
"I'm special because I have my ways for being able to do that…" Mikan said eerily.
"I'm sure you do…"
"You know I do, so stop denying it."
"I'll deny whatever I want and you can't stop me."
"Okay… Which one do you want me to start with first?" (A/n: She's talking about which Alice she'll use on him. I don't know why though… o.O)
"Hmm… How about--" Masao was cut off by Hotaru aiming her baka gun at him.
"Hotaru!!" he complained as Natsume watched with an amused look on his face even thought he was lost in the little ramble. He was just happy to see Masao get hurt.
'Those two act like a couple…' thought a certain boy with jet black hair and blood red eyes as he was burning with intense jealousy.
Hotaru dragged Masao and Mikan to a deserted corner of the room as hissed, "Are you TRYING to tell everyone that you two are cousins and Mikan does missions?!"
"No…" the two cousins answered with ashamed looks on their faces.
"Good," Hotaru marched back to her seat and the close cousins walked back to the seat next to Natsume.
"Hotaru is a life saver," breathed the hazel eyed girl.
"Yep, yep," agreed her cousin.
"Better off if he didn't know anyways…" decided Mikan.
Masao eyed her with concern as he asked, "If you keep telling yourself that, then that means that you will aren't over…"
"Ugh, I am completely and totally over it," Mikan answered as she looked at Natsume that was still pretending to read his manga.
"Hello Natsume! I didn't noticed you here!" Mikan faked as she put on a dazzling smile that only she can pull off.
"Hn," answered the raven haired boy.
"How was the mission last night?" Mikan asked cheerfully even though she knew exactly how it went with full details.
"…" he answered back.
Masao decided to break the silence and offered, "It's lunch time, want to come with us, Natsume?"
Natsume shot him a glare as Mikan's cousin shrugged helplessly as he led Mikan to the cafeteria.
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"You're such a pig," Mikan giggled as Masao took some of her sugar cookies. Wait… Some?! He took ALL!
"I can't help it," Masao shrugged as he bit into another one of Mikan's soft cookies.
Unknown to the two, a pair of red eyes have been following them since the start…
"And who said you could take that?!" Mikan yelped as Masao dug into her pudding.
"I did," Masao said simply.
"Nuh-uh, get your own!" Mikan said as she took back her pudding and ate it all before her cousin could 'save' it in time.
"JEEZ! And you call ME the pig!" Masao shook his head, making his black hair swirl back and forth.
"YOU'RE the one who's eating 2 lunches!" Mikan shrieked.
"Going to make me deaf…" Masao winced at the high pitched voice ringing in his ears.
"Good because you deserve it!" Mikan huffed as she continued eating her lunch.
Masao noticed that the room was getting warmer and warmer so he decided to cool down the temperature.
As the two cousins bicker about nonsense, Natsume couldn't handle it anymore and decided to walk over to the infamous Sakura tree.
As he leaned against the rough trunk of the tree, he heard a whispered conversation between two people…
"I can't believe that Mikan!" fumed a high pitched voice.
"I know! She gets ALL the guys! Natsume, Ruka, Tsubasa, and NOW Masao!" a second voice seconded the first.
"I thought Natsume was mine!" whined the first voice.
"Yeah right, we need to plan…" said the second voice.
"What should we do?"
"Honestly, you are SO clueless! I wonder why I even hang out around you," the second voice said disgustingly.
"Whatever, just continue on…"
"We finish off what we started 3 years ago."
Natsume's eyes widen as the two voices got farther away from him.
'What the hell?!' he angrily thought.
"Well, see you, pig!" a feminine soprano voice said.
"Hey! You're the pig!"
"I don't think so, glutton!"
"Loud-mouth."
"Eats all my lunch."
"For your information, I just ate the cookies."
"Yeah add on half of my pudding and a third of my pizza. THAT'S HALF OF MY LUNCH!"
"Whatever, bye."
"Bye."
Natsume stared at the two people as they parted ways; Masao to the special star room, and Mikan to the Sakura tree… The one Natsume was at.
"Natsume…" the brunette sighed wearily as she sat on the branch just above him.
"Polka dots."
"Pervert."
"Loud-mouth."
"Oh my god!" Mikan banged her head against the tree, "You're driving me nuts!"
"Hn."
"You and Masao are the exact same," she huffed, "I am NOT loud-mouth!"
"Then why are you screaming?"
"I'M NOT SCREAMING!!"
"What do you call that?"
"Ugh," Mikan rolled her eyes as she sighed in defeat.
Natsume smirked as Mikan said in a quiet tone with a gentle smile, "This is like old times."
With that Mikan looked at her watch and gasped as she jumped off the branch. Hotaru wanted to meet up in her lab in 5 minutes and she's going to be late! No one can keep THE Hotaru Imai waiting without a price to pay.
"God, you're heavy," a voice from under her grumbled.
"Sorry," Mikan apologized.
"So it's oranges now, huh?" Natsume smirked a bit.
"Pervert!!"
"It's not my fault if you showed them to me…"
"YOU PERV!!"
"Hn."
"Can you let go of me now?" Mikan struggled out of the tangle of limbs.
As soon as she sat up, she felt a pair of arms hugging her.
"Stay like this for a moment…" the boy with ruby eyes murmured as his bangs covered his flushing face.
Mikan closed her eyes as she leaned back into the muscular arms that made her feel protected and safe. The heat that emitted from his body made her feel snug. She felt secure in the lap of the person that she cared deeply for.
The two stayed like that until the sun blasted its rays into the sky and turned the sky into the perfect combination of pinkish-yellowish-orange.
A boy with silver hair came across his father figure hugging Mikan.
'Guess I have a Mommy now…' the boy thought as he approached the two.
"Hello Youchii!" the brunette opened her eyes and smiled at the young boy around 8 years old.
"Hey little guy," Natsume nodded to let Youchii know that he knew that he was there even though his eyes were closed in content.
He sat on the ground next to Mikan and Natsume.
The young boy closed his wide emerald eyes a few moments before he felt a pair of warm arms wrap around him gently and lifted him into a lap of someone.
Youchii thought, 'Well, if SHE'S going to be my new mom, I guess I have to be nice…'
The boy with the piercing green eyes laid back as Natsume and Mikan looked surprise.
'Wow he's actually being nice to Mikan/me,' they two teens thought in surprise at the same time.
"Mikan…" Mikan felt a tug at her sleeve after a long pause of peace.
"Hmm?"
"Do you want to be my mommy?" he asked innocently with his emerald green eyes were wide.
"Huh?!" Mikan jolted up for a second, but Natsume's tight embrace kept her from leaping up altogether.
"Does that mean you don't want to?" Youchii asked in a teary voice.
"Hmm? No, I'll be your mom…" Mikan said with a warm smile as Youchii smiled back.
"Okay," Youchii said as Mikan asked, "Who's the dad?"
"The person behind you," Youchii answered simply.
'Oh great… I'm partnered up with the devil again,' Mikan thought as Natsume smirked as he thought, 'Nice going, little buddy.'
The three stayed like this and Mikan completely forgot that she needed to be somewhere else until…
RUMBLE.
"Umm…" Youchii's young face colored a bit with shades of pinkish red.
"Let's go to get dinner," Mikan smiled down at him as he returned the smile.
"Daddy come with us?" Youchii questioned his father figure.
"Hn."
The three got up and went into the cafeteria and a lot of trouble was expected…
As they walked, discreet clicks from cameras could be heard.
"I can smell the money that I'll make!" a violet eyed girl said as she had this greedy look on her face. Her violet eyes contained money signs.
Her boyfriend sweat dropped as he let his girlfriend drag him into the cafeteria for their dinner a.k.a more spying on Mikan and Natsume.
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Ending Notes: Hello everyone! I hope that you all enjoyed this chapter! I had fun
writing it and this is the longest chapter so far for this story! So I'm happy! I hope
that it wasn't too boring… And I wanted to ask, is Masao a good character? And
Youchii acting like that, is okay, right?
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