Best friends to Rivals Chapter 6: Ruka's first step?, a gakuen alice fanfic

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Chapter 6: Ruka's first step!

Mikan stretched her arms sleepily as she yawned for the second time. She puts her palm on her forehead, sighing a little. She was about to go to the bathroom when a knock from the door was heard.

'It's probably Hotaru!' she thought cautiously and got off the bed. She grasped the doorknob and opened it to see her supposed-to-be visitor. Her jaw dropped when she saw Natsume standing right beside her.

"N-Natsume?" she called slowly, making sure he was real. What makes him go here? She remembered some times when she's absent, he never visited her here and instead, Ruka was the one who was telling her that Natsume wanted her to get well soon.

Silence…

"Would you like to invite me in or what?" Natsume asked sarcastically, giving her a glare. He shoved his right hand inside his pocket and proceeds to enter her room.

"Gomen." Mikan apologized and followed him behind. "Take a sit." She said casually and went back to her bed. She took the cup on the top of her bedside table and drank it without any pause.

"Are you really that stupid to do such thing you did yesterday?" Natsume asked straightly while giving her dangerous stare. Judging by the look of her this time, he was so sure that she isn't okay yet. Heck, even her eyes looked tired and sleepy.

"Huh?" Mikan scratched the back of her head and looked back at him questionably. She can promise that he was pretty angry this time. She faked a laugh and tapped his shoulder. "What do you mean?"

Natsume sighed and answered her directly, "You know what I mean. That's because you're sick today."

Mikan smiled at him and gave him a peace sign. "Don't worry, I'm okay now, Natsume. I don't know why did I do such thing but I'm also happy that we accomplished our mission yesterday. And that was to make your birthday special." She said quietly.

Natsume didn't know why but it caused him to blush from her long statement. He shook his head immediately. "You're weird. I can say you're not yet okay. So stop pretending."

Mikan chuckled a bit. "No,no. I'm really okay. Arigatou for visiting me today. It really surprised me, honestly." She muttered while she took his hand and shakes it.

"What are you doing, girl?" he asked uncomfortably. He looked at his hand and can't help but blush for the second time.

'hell, what's happening?' he thought.

"Oopsss… excuse me for a moment." Mikan stated and went inside the bathroom. She looked at her own reflection and put a hand on top of her heart.

"W-why…" she muttered quietly. It's happening again. The feeling she felt from the very first moment when Natsume mentioned her first name was happening again. She'll admit, whenever they're having a moment alone, that feeling.

"My… my heart's pounding so loud… again."

Natsume puts his arms on the top of his head and closed his eyes for a brief moment. He doesn't suppose to experience and feel these things, really.

He straightened his position when he saw her coming out of the bathroom. He searched secretly inside his pocket for something and tried to hide it for a while.

"Here."

Mikan's eyes focused on a small box in front of her. She looked puzzled for a moment then smiled widely. Without hesitating, she opened it in no time and stared at it. She stared at the delicious-looking fluff puff in front of her then looked up and met his crimson eyes. "eeeh, Arigatou!!!!"

Natsume sighed and nodded. Surprisingly, he pressed his left hand over her forehead without a single word. He met her gaze and they stayed on that position for sometime. His stare became scarier as the time passes by.

Natsume was the one who spoke first. "You're hot." He said flatly.

This made the pig-tailed girl to stop from her tracks. "Er… but I'm really okay now." She muttered slowly, trying to be calm as possible. She tried to laugh a bit to lessen the tension between them right now.

Natsume shook his head lightly and looked at his hand for a brief moment before lowering it. "Be well. Imai's assigned to do something this afternoon."

Mikan stopped eating her fluff puff for a while and smiled a little to him. She tucked her hair behind her ears which allowed him see more of her small pale face. "Is that so? That's okay."

When she didn't receive another response from him, she took one piece of fluff puff and handed it to him.

"What?"

"Eat some of these." Mikan offered consistently. Frankly, she's not really used that someone was watching her while she's eating. It's just… kinda embarrassing or something.

Natsume didn't even move a muscle until he spoke, "Honestly, who the hell would want to eat that kind of shit?"

Mikan gaped at him in shock and closed her eyes dramatically. "You know what? I don't really know why are treating me like this… did I do something ridiculous to you? Have I done something wrong? Tell me now so that it'll be clearer to me."

Natsume grunted in response and crossed his arms quickly over his chest and sighed. "You're acting like you aren't sick at—mmp????"

He didn't have a time to finish his statement since Mikan shoved the fluff puff inside of his mouth recklessly. "There. Isn't it delicious?" she asked innocently.

Slowly, Natsume swallowed it and glared dangerously at the girl in front of her. "Just what are you thinking?" he snapped arrogantly.

And their useless argument continued…

Unknown to the two of them, a pair of blue eyes watched them carefully and very silently. Thinking that he heard enough, he turned around and left the two of them alone.

'Now, what?'

"Sheeesh, she fell asleep?" Natsume asked in no one in particular. He glanced at his watch to check the time.

7:10

"Polkadots, I'm leaving." he announced and was about to stand up and walk away when he shot her one last look and tugged her blanket upwards to make her feel warmer. He sighed as he stands up then picked the two mugs that they used which was being placed on top of her bedside table and put it on the lababo.

Moments after, he turned to leave carefully, not trying to wake her up.

Hotaru knocked on the door for the third time but then again, no one answered. She decided to enter already since no one's answering her. She expected that Mikan would be doing something this time. Besides, everyone knows that Mikan wasn't use doing nothing. But based from what she was seeing right now, she smiled a little.

She tapped Mikan's hair softly. She observed her features for a moment and nodded to herself. She's very sure that Mikan will be able to go to school the next morning. As she was turning to walk away, Mikan moaned loudly and slowly, her eyes fluttered open.

"H-hotaru?"

"Go back to sleep." Hotaru ordered.

"H-Hai."

Mikan opened the door of her classroom forcefully and flashed all of her classmates a big smile. "Goooood Morning everyone!"

"Ohayou, Mikan-chan." Nonoko and Anna greeted at the same time. They smiled at her cheerfully and were glad that Mikan's fine at last. They always knew that Mikan would never want to absent for a long time.

"Ohayou, Nonoko-chan and Anna-chan!" Mikan greeted back as she sits on her chair. She smiled back at them and gave them a peace sign. She looked around to search for Hotaru and fortunately, found her as usual on her place.

She quickly went to her and asked, "Ne, Hotaru, did you really came to my room last night or it was just a dream?"

"That's probably a dream." Hotaru shrugged and continued to eat her all time favorite crab brain. "Want one?"

Mikan blinked thrice and shook her head fast. "No thanks! But really Hotaru, did you visit me last night?"

"Yes."

"B-but why didn't you—"

"Mikan."

She was cut off by a familiar voice that called her name quietly. She turned around and saw Ruka staring weirdly at her.

"Oh, Ruka-pyon!" Mikan greeted energetically. She waved her hand to Hotaru as a sign of her departure and proceeds to sit on her assigned place. Ruka followed her behind.

"Are you okay now?" Ruka asked curtly.

He was looking down that time that caused her not to see his face for a while. She sighed and chuckled a bit. "Eh? Of course I'm okay now!! Can't you see, I looked so refreshed, ne?"

"Really? Maybe because Natsume was there last night." he whispered to himself.

"Nani?" Mikan asked, obviously puzzled. She saw Natsume entered their room. Quickly, she smiled charmingly at him. "Hey, Natsume!"

Ruka frowned at this. He whirled his head to look at him for a while. He sighed and looked back. "C-can I ask you something?"

It's Mikan's turn to frown this time. "What is it?" she stared curiously at Ruka's seemingly worried face.

"U-uhmm…"

"Come on, say it." Mikan chuckled childishly. She noticed Natsume approaching the two of them. "Hey—"

"Couldwegooutthisweekend?" Ruka exclaimed without any pause. He tilted his head on his right side a bit and observed her reaction.

"G-gomen. I didn't catch that." Mikan told him.

"COULD WE GO OUT THIS WEEKEND?" Ruka asked louder this time, causing some of the students to stare surprisingly at him. And also, Natsume was also able to hear it and made him stop walking.

Mikan, on the other hand, who was so innocent as ever, thought for a while before answering him.

"eh? Of course."

TBC

A/N: argh, done, done!!! I can't seem to find time to check this one. You know, school's sooooooo annoying!! Honestly, I'm not busy because of some school works and stuffs, well, I'm a high school student and my friends quarreled. And because they were really short-tempered persons like me, they kinda slap each other here and there, here and there and that made them sent to faculty room and ordered them to bring their parents. And worst, because they were my friends, my parents should be there too. Why am I saying these things anyway? Maybe I'm just being ridiculous.

Anyway, thanks for reading and please review.