Before everyone reads this chap...I have three things..

1. disclaimer: i don't own GA

2.warning: this chap has content that may be a little for 15 and older please be warned

3.this is a sequel to "A Summer Stuck with You" so if you want to understand it fully, please read it.

now you're ready to read it! enjoy! :D

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The room was quite small for the seven of them, but in these circumstances, they settled for it rather than staying along the murderous streets at night. With Mikan disguised as a boy, all six of them were hired on the job and were given a room with five beds. Youichi was too young to work, but with the hotel owner's kindness, he was allowed to stay in for free.

After the old man left them, Natsume quickly shoved his hands in his pockets and stepped before them.

"Okay, every one of you pick your own beds anywhere you'll like, as long as the last bed would be for me. And she'll be sleeping with me on it." Natsume muttered monotonously, pointing nonchalantly at Mikan at the last part of his statement, nailing the word she'll.

Ruka shot him a baffled look but remained silent when Mikan didn't respond.

Realizing the atmosphere, Mikan debated that she'd be on a separate bed, but to no avail. Neither of them could stand against Natsume's biting eyes. And not to mention...

"Anyone protests or this building'll come down in ashes..."

his unfair alice. Ruka thought.

"Alright! Natsu-boy you are my man!" Tsubasa yelled as he hopped onto the bed headfirst. "Do as you wish! This one's mine." He turned to his bed and flopped himself on it. "So I'll be sleeping on you for this whole week little pumpkin!" he said dreamily, fluffing the pillow of the orange bed beside the window. He seemed to have survuved the desperate feeling for Mikan and just ignored Natsume's words.

"Chicken," was all Ruka could mutter as he clenched his fists on his sides. he glanced away from Tsubasa and stared back at his bestfriend, who in turn played blind on him.

"Tch. Pathetic," Natsume grunted as he slid his hands in his pockets. He glanced away from the older boy who kept humming like a kid just rescued from a plate of veggies and felt Youichi's hands tug on his shorts.

"This place is dusty," Youichi complained.

"Okay, guys listen up. No matter how dusty and somehow small this place is for us, we should be grateful. It's way better than that bad hospital. Right, Youichi?"

"I'm hungry."

"That does answer why I feel a missing piece," Yuu scratched his head as his stomache made rumbling sounds.

"Do they accept rabbits?" Ruka asked, accepting the thought that Mikan would be sleeping with Natsume. (of course, he wasn't meaning his bunny rabbit but the academy's currency). Nothing would happen anyway as long as we're around. he thought, stealing a glance at Mikan, who was now in her true form with the hotel keeper gone.

"I don't think so. But I think Tsubasa has a few cash here!" Koko replied to Ruka as he dropped Tsubasa's frog-designed money purse which he fished out from his (Tsubasa) pocket without him knowing it. He threw it on the bed as it produce clattering sounds.

"You should've said coins. I'm short with bills since the last festival." Tsubasa corrected as he maneuvered on his bed, finding a good position. "Okay, so here's what we're gonna do. So, since we'll be paid here on an hourly basis, let's try to save this money first until we receive tomorrow's salary! Now is that fair enough?"

"Why're you suddenly in charge?" Natsume butted at him, crossing his arms before his chest.

"Now, now... I'm the eldest in here so that's supposedly no longer a question." he replied, towering over Natsume's face.

"You sound like the gay nurse back at the hospital, Tsubasa," Koko commented, trying to loosen the tension between the two.

"Okay, so let me tell you that your suggestion's illogical. We can't pass this night without eating."

"Cut it out. I'm not picking a fight in here." Tsubasa defended, waving his hands before his face as his sweat dropped. After that, his own stomache echoed throughout the room.

Without another word, Ruka, Yuu and Koko grabbed Tsubasa's coin purse and slid outside the room. Their eyes drawn like dots to portray of intense hunger.

Noticing this crime of theft, Tsubasa squealed and ran after them, smoke from friction following close behind him.

"We'll think of food later, Youcihi. Now go choose your bed," Natsume replied without even looking down at the little gray haired boy. He was slowly sorting out the room for a figure he had seemed to loose track of.

Funny I haven't heard the usual restraining voice while we were fighting...

His eyes fell to a halt on the face he was searching for.

Mikan was quietly sitting on a bed at a far corner, staring down at the small watch that lay lifelessly on the pillow on her lap. Natsume couldn't tell on the expression of her face whatever she was feeling and it seemed that her childlike feature had dissolved away as she sat silently on the bed, a serious look plastered on her. But, at the sight of the watch on her lap, he had somehow guessed.

This. Mikan thought as she touched the sides of the small watch before her. This thing. This small thing. I know I have just seen and used it. I know I do. But... How come? How come I... How come it seems... I feel weird once I would touch it...

"You look like a grizzly bear." he whispered, sitting beside her.

Surprised by his sudden voice, Mikan winced, nearly dropping the watch to the floor.

"Careful," the black cat whispered. He had caught it for her and fit it on her wrist. "Now when you want to use it just push this one."

"Natsume..."

"Hn?"

"I feel weird..." It seems like... This watch has something different on it.

"Of course. That thing's got magic on it," he said, as if he had heard her thoughts. "And maybe you're just feeling a bit awkward because it's your... first time to transform into a guy using that watch," he lied. I'm sorry for lying. I can't bring up such a stupid topic that you have once used this watch during our school trip and just lost the memory of it once before when I broke it. (If you haven't known of this, well dear reader, you have to stop reading from this point and start on 'A Summer Stuck with You')

"Oh. Maybe you're right, Natsume-kun... You're so smart!" she smiled at him, the old idiotic face coming back.

I wish she'd maintain that serious face even if she's well. Natsume thought, finding her even more attractive with her previous face. Yet, if she'd remained like that, she wouldn't be my Mikan...

"My Mikan." he repeated aloud, catching her attention.

There was silence within the room and it was just then that they realized they were the only ones left in it. (Well, except for Youichi, who was surprisingly sleeping on the first bed next to theirs. )

Unexpectedly, Mikan felt Natsume's head rest on her left shoulder, "Natsume?!"

It took a while for him to respond as he was breathing in deeply. "What?" He asked nonchalantly as he closed his eyes and enjoyed her scent of innocent lilac.

"Oh, nothing... I just thought you were up to something again." She replied, looking down at him by her shoulder with a calm smile that Natsume should've seen (It was such a sweet smile filled with naive love!). She felt calm that he wasn't going to do another sleazy lover's thing while everyone was gone like he used to.

"Come to think of it," he whispered with a weird tone, turning his head to face her shoulder, "We do need a little catching up, do we, baka sweetest?"

At this, a smirk stretched along Natsume's lips as he slowly looked up at her with his serious crimson eyes that entered her soul, expecting he compliance.

Mikan's face flushed instantly at his seductive glare. No! He'd always capture me with that look! No, Mikan! Don't look at him! "Waah.. Natsume! Cut it out!" She yelled, attempting to look away, yet when she felt his hot breath on her cheek and was forced to glance back at him, he was already only an inch near!

Slowly, he tried to close the gap between them yet realizing what he was up to, Mikan inched away in panic, feeling nervous.

"Na-Natsume... Wait..." her voice was trembling. She new it was supposed to be natural... She knew it was normal in their relationship... yet... She still felt awkward every time he proposed these things. These intimate things. "Please stop." She finally said, her face away from him.

"And why?" he snorted, still getting closer.

"Be-because... the others might come back... and it would be..." she answered, drawing here pupils back and forth his.

"They'll understand."

By this point, Natsume was already crouching on top of her, smiling menacingly as if he had won over her. As he raised his right hand toward her face and as he lowered his head, Mikan felt her spine shiver at the thought of her friends bursting in on them at a time like this. And at the same time, Natsume's reassuring words echoed in her mind.

"They'll understand."

After one last frightened glance at him, Mikan shut her eyes.

Only to be surprised when a heavy force dropped beside her on their soft bed.

When she opened her eyes, a sleeping cat greeted her view, completely harmless. "What the?!"

Snore.

Her watch read one thirty AM and it had explained it all briefly. A sigh of relief escaped her lips as she fixed her shirt and silently crept close to him.

"Oh, Natsume... You and I are both idiots."

And she leveled her lips with his. When she was about to press them on him for his goodnight kiss, his eyes immediately fluttered open, and again, menacingly...

"Yes... we both are."

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