Hello! I'm back… I know this update is way LATER than LATE… I'm sorry… but I can say that I did my best in this chap… but I guess you won't like it much since Mikan was still being bitchy… but I hope that you would still appreciate it. REVIEWS PLEASE….
chapter 7: date, huh?
It was a Thursday evening and Mikan still couldn't figure out what to do about her so called relationship with Natsume. She definitely wouldn't want to leave Japan but neither does she want to be with Natsume.
Reo and Yuka just kept an eye on her. They made sure that everything was going smoothly between the two. That evening, Mikan ate her supper in her room since she was expecting some bad news every time she eats with her parents.
When she finished eating, she washed up and got herself ready to go to bed. But unluckily, she couldn't sleep… AGAIN… (this girl definitely has insomnia…). She just kept on rolling around the bed and switching the television on and off…
She was really bored… and tired but she also doesn't feel sleepy… not at all… then she suddenly heard her phone (in the room) ring… she immediately picked it up since she was dying to have something to do.
"hello?" Mikan said expecting that the caller was Hotaru.
"um… so you still awake, huh? Sorry for the disturbance…" the voice on the other said
"do I know you?" she asked. She was pretty sure that Hotaru wasn't the owner of that voice… it sounded masculine…
"uh… sorry… it's me, Kaito…" he replied
"Kaito-kun?"
"yeah… sorry if you were already sleeping…"
"sleeping? I hope I was… thank you so much for calling… boredom was totally killing me…" she answered… they were having a pretty good conversation. She kept hearing these noises on the other line but ignored it thinking that it came from Kaito's place…
She was having a good time talking to him since they have so much to talk about like school, life, parents and everything under the sun, when Natsume suddenly barged in the room and ended their conversation. "what the--" Mikan uttered
Natsume just walked away but Mikan would never let him get away with that. "what was that for, idiot?!"
"it's none of your business, polka…" he replied coldly
"what do you mean it's none of my business… I was talking to my friend!!" she argued
"who cares…" he said and walked out of the room. Mikan was about to follow him but changed her mind, knowing that would all end up with nothing.
Natsume was on his way to the garden to do some thinking when he met Reo and Yuka halfway. They looked up at Natsume who was going down the stairs with a disappointed expression. Natsume just looked away and continued walking towards the garden.
Mikan just lay down on her bed and thought, arrogant freak! While reminiscing what Natsume did a while ago.
Mikan was about to doze off when her parents came in. Mikan sensed that something was going on… "Mikan, let's talk…" Reo said and they both sat on the bed while Mikan sat up straight.
"what now? Another UN-pleasant surprise?" she asked sarcastically. Reo just ignored her statement since he knew that nothing angelic would come from his angelic daughter when it comes to this matter.
"we want you to go on a date with Natsume this Saturday…" Yuka stated
"but--" Mikan's protest was cut off when Yuka looked at her with a no-buts look. Mikan just gave up on them and went under the cover.
"is that all?" she said still under the cover.
"yeah…" Reo answered. "leave… now…" she said without bothering to look at them.
"okay… g'night…" Yuka said and was about to kiss Mikan's forehead when she turned to the other side of the bed and said, "yeah, whatever…"
Reo just shook his head and signaled Yuka that they should leave. Yuka sighed and looked at her daughter sadly before leaving.
Another problem… as expected from them… she thought then slept.
The next day, Mikan didn't pay much attention to anyone. Her mind was always drifting to some other place. She also ignored the people in school which made Kaito conclude that there was something wrong.
It was already Jinno-sensei's class and she was still absent-minded. She just kept on looking out of the window. Jinno faced the class for some important instructions when he noticed that Mikan wasn't paying attention.
"sakura…" he called but Mikan didn't budge. Jinno was pissed. Nobody could ignore him just like that!
"Sakura…"
"SAKURA!!" with that, Mikan was totally pulled out of her trance. She was so deep in thought at that time that she forgot that she was in the classroom and it was Jinno-sensei calling her. So here goes the unexpected answer…
"WHAT!! You're being too noisy!! I'm thinking here!! SO SHUT UP!" everyone was shocked since no one… not one in the history of alice academy ever had the guts to do that to Jinno.
At this point, Hotaru closed her math book and watched the scene… she was definitely interested to see what's gonna happen next. This was something new to the alice academy students… since this would be the first time that someone has told Jinno to shut up.
Everyone was looking at Mikan now and they could feel the tension surrounding the whole class. Mikan realized that she had just made the biggest mistake in her life… she looked at Jinno who was glaring at her.
"s-sir…" she was about to give excuses when Jinno cut her off.
"thinking, huh? I'd be glad to give you something to think about…" Mikan gulped at his statement.
"answer this problem on the board…" he ordered
"but…" Mikan was about to object when the furious teacher cut her off.
"NOW!" he yelled. Mikan immediately ran towards the chalkboard and started to answer the problem, when the bell rang. Saved by the bell! She thought happily.
She was about to run back to her chair when Jinno stopped her. "where do you think you're going, missy?"
"uh… it's dismissal time…" she explained
"dismissal time for other students… you have to finish that problem then…"
"home?" Mikan hoped.
"you wish… you're going to detention… and you'll stay there for 3 hours…"
"what?! You've gotta be kidding me…"
"okay then… let's make it 6 hours…" Jinno said and left Mikan. The poor girl had a very hard time answering the darn question. "man! this subject has to be scraped from this school for good!" stop daydreaming… you still have to go to detention, remember… a voice in her head reminded her.
"yeah, yeah… shut up already…" she said… she didn't notice that there were students passing by and hard her talk.
"man! I pity her… that math equation is making her go nuts… talking to herself… poor girl…" one of the students said
Mikan heard the part when the student said that she was going nuts… and this made her outrageous… she glared at them and said… "what?! Who's going nuts, huh?!"
The students got scared and ran off. Mikan got back to business. After an hour and a half, she finally answered the question. (I didn't say that she answered it correctly… I just said that she was able to answer it… okay?)
She went to the detention area… she was all alone in that place… since no rebels were admitted to alice academy… the school had the reputation of no single student having to attend detention… and on this day, that goody-good-students reputation was robbed from them…
When Mikan entered, she received death glares from the disciplinary committee. God! If looks could kill, Mikan's so dead…
The members of the committee were seated on one side and Mikan's seat was in the middle of the room. Whoa! Hot seat… she thought while walking towards the said chair.
The moment she sat down the members of the committee started blabbing about what Mikan did. All kinds of lectures, mean words, so-called "words of wisdom", came from them. Mikan's action of sitting was like a signal for them to start reciting their litany… long litany…
Mikan went out of the room while touching her ears. It hurts a lot now due to all of their lectures trying to get in her ears all at the same time.
When she stepped out of the room, somebody grabbed her arm. Since Mikan was too shocked, she immediately performed some self defense moves and threw the one who grabbed her to the ground.
"ow!" the person said and it sounded like a guy.
Mikan went near him to give him a finishing kick but when she got near, she saw that it was a big misunderstanding.
"k-Kaito-kun?" she said. Kaito held his hand up while Mikan just looked at him blankly. After a while, Mikan finally realized what Kaito was doing and helped him up.
"you've got good moves, huh?" Kaito said the moment he got up.
"sorry… still hurts?" she asked worriedly, knowing that it's her fault.
"no… I'm okay, don't worry…" he answered while giving her a wide smile.
"okay… so… what were you doing there anyway?"
"well… actually… i… I was waiting for you…" he said while looking away due to so much shame.
"oh… why?"
"uh… I just thought that you were out of it today and I wanted to accompany you home…"
"ahahaha… thanks… I admit, I'm really out of it today… ahahaha…"
"it's nothing… if you don't mind me asking… um… what's bothering you?" he asked looking at her now. "I might be able to help…" he added
"no you ca--" she was about to say that Kaito couldn't help her but then an absurd yet possible idea came to her.
"of course YOU CAN HELP ME!" she blurted out. Kaito was shocked by that outburst.
"h-how?" he asked while backing away a bit.
"easy… (blah… blah… blah…)" she said. (sorry guys… it's a secret… you'll know later on… how Kaito could help…)
"okay… thanks… see ya!" she said and ran off. I thought I was gonna take her home… Kaito thought.
SAKURA RESIDENCE:
Mikan just got home from school and she was darn happy. She was like dancing with the wind while climbing up the stairs. She kept on dancing until she bumped into somebody making her lose her balance. She was about to fall when Natsume caught her just in time coz if he didn't, she could've been rolling down the stairs now.
"this doesn't look like a dance floor, idiot…" he said
"yeah right… let go of me now…" Natsume immediately let go of her and started his way down the stairs. "hey…" she called as if she forgot something.
"what now?" he asked without looking back. "Saturday… 10am…" she said and walked out. What was that? A date? He thought with confusion but that can never hide the fact that he was looking forward to it.
SATURDAY
7am:
Mikan was tossing around the bed waiting for her alarm clock
to go off.
5…
4…
3
2
1…
RRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGGGG…………………………………………………………
" yes!" Mikan said and jumped up from bed. We all know that Mikan never wakes up immediately when her alarm clock rings, but this is a special case. Today is the BIG day….
The day of her date with Natsume… she was so excited… don't get me wrong guys, she wasn't excited of going on a date with him… she was excited about ruining it.
She washed her face and groomed her hair. She looked perfect even if she was just in her pajamas. She went downstairs to take her breakfast. It was a silent breakfast.
After a while, Mikan and Natsume finished eating and Natsume was ready to exit the room when Mikan suddenly pulled him back and said, "don't forget, 10 o'clock…" then she left.
9AM:
The two… I mean the three of them were getting ready for the so-called date: Kaito+Mikan+Natsumechaos
Kaito and Natsume were both confused on why they were summoned while the brunette was just so excited to carry out her evil plan.
9:30 AM:
Natsume was already in the living room with Mikan's parents. They were waiting for the girl of the house to come down.
After a minute or so, the awaited girl finally arrived and she looked… more gorgeous than you could ever imagine. But Natsume hasn't seen her yet since he's reading his manga. "what took you so long, idi…" he was about to throw another insult at her but sorry to say… launch delayed… he was cut off when he saw Mikan by the stairs.
She looks… perfect… he thought. Seeing that kind of beauty was worth the wait. Mikan has always been pretty… but this time, she's even more beautiful that it made Natsume shut up.
Mikan was amused of seeing Natsume, dumbfounded. "what were you saying, Nat-su-me?"
Natsume got out of his trance and blushed, knowing that he lost his cool for some time. "I-I'm not gonna repeat myself, i-i-idiot…" he said and turned his back to her. It was really hard to call her an idiot when she looks like that…
"I see you're all set…" Yuka said. She thought that Mikan was finally softening on Natsume, but she was wrong… so wrong…
"no mom… we're still waiting for someone…" Mikan said while Natsume just looked at her with a puzzled expression.
"who?" Reo asked. "let's just say… my… chaperone…"
"who's your cha…" Reo wasn't able to finish since the doorbell rang.
DING. DONG… DING. DONG…
"that must be HIM…" Mikan said and went for the door. HIM? Natsume thought.
When Mikan opened the door, there was this guy with brown hair, tantalizing brown eyes and about the same age as Mikan standing at the doorstep.
"Kaito-kun… come in…"
"okay…" he said while smiling. Mikan pulled him and brought him to where her parents are.
"mom… we're going…" she said as she pulled Natsume's shirt…
"who's he?" Reo asked. He won't let his daughter do something unpleasant and plus he doesn't know this guy… while Natsume just stared at him trying hard that his stare won't turn into a glare so that they won't notice that he was pissed.
"oh… he's…" Mikan was about to introduce Kaito to her parents when the lad beat her to it.
"I'm Kaito Hikari… it's nice to meet you…"
"are you in anyway related to the Hikaris?" Reo asked
"um… my family owns the Hikari Group of Companies…"
Shock and happiness was visible in the eyes of the Sakura couple. "you… you are Shiro and Kana's son?"
"why yes… do you know them?" Kaito asked curiously.
"know them? There are our closest friends… we've been together since high school…" Yuka explained while Reo nodded.
"no wonder you look like Shiro and has Kana's eyes…" Reo stated.
"um… mom, enough with the interview… we're going…" Mikan interrupted.
"okay… take care you three… and Kaito…"
"yes?"
"ask your parents to come over sometimes…"
"okay…" then the three of them left. With a happy Mikan, confused and flattered Kaito and a totally pissed Natsume.
They went in the Sakura family limo with Mikan in the middle much as to prevent Natsume from strangling Kaito. Tsubasa who was again the driver kept looking at his rear view mirror, observing the three.
This is spelling D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R… he thought… while looking at Mikan who was having a good time with Kaito and Natsume throwing death glares at the two. Tsubasa could feel the heat…
Chaperone, huh? Yeah right… flirting with the chaperone… now how's that?! Natsume thought grudgingly.
Mikan was really doing her best to piss Natsume off and seeing that it's working is making her do it even longer. While Mikan was carrying out her plan, Kaito has a plan of his own: get close with Mikan.
So while Mikan was somewhat being sweet to him he was taking the opportunity and his right arm was on its way to Mikan's right shoulder. Just when it was about to land on its destination, the car came to a sudden stop, sending Kaito to the ground.
Right on time… Natsume thought happily.
Natsume snickered but it wasn't audible and looked at Tsubasa with a look which says "I owe you one…" and Tsubasa replied with a thumbs up. But when Mikan was about to turn her gaze at him, he immediately put his hand down and said, "we have arrived, Mikan…" while trying to hide his naughty grin.
Natsume snickered again but this time it was audible. "what are laughing about?"
Natsume just pointed a finger at… "you… PERVERT!!" Mikan screamed. Natsume could see Mikan's underwear since she was bending down to help Kaito up and she was wearing a mini-skirt. "so it's hearts now, huh?" he mocked.
"oh, shut up…" Mikan replied and helped Kaito up.
"you alright, Kaito-kun?" she asked worriedly while Natsume was kind of mimicking her. "are you coming or what?"
"can't you see I'm helping him up?!"
"whatever…" he said and walked onwards. Someone's getting jealous… Kaito thought.
(sorry guys… but I just don't want to get too much detailed coz it'll just make this chap even longer than it already is…)
The day was spent wisely. They bought a lot of food, played games (arcade), watched movies. But in all of that, never was Natsume glad since Mikan spent all of her time being so darn sweet to Kaito.
They were inside a private movie house owned by the Sakuras. Mikan was sitting beside Kaito while Natsume was sitting behind them. The two were watching the movie but the one behind them wasn't. instead, he was watching Mikan and Kaito's every move.
When they went out it seemed like Kaito and Mikan were the ones having a date. He finally had it so he made his move. When they were in an ice cream store because some sweet loving chick said she wanted to have one.
Mikan was the first one to sit and Kaito was about to sit next to her but then Natsume nudge him and sat next to her. Kaito was pissed but didn't have a choice.
Mikan was eating a strawberry flavored ice cream with chocolate kisses all over while Kaito was eating chocolate ice cream with caramel and Natsume was eating a banana split with 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream and one scoop of strawberry ice cream with chocolate kisses and whole strawberries all over. (yum!)
"you want some, Mikan-chan?" Kaito asked while raising a spoonful of chocolate ice cream. Mikan nodded and opened her mouth. Kaito was about to put the ice cream in her mouth when Natsume suddenly put two whole strawberries in her mouth.
"wodiuuator…" she muttered. It meant, what did you do that for?
Kaito was really pissed now so he stood up, paid the bill and took Mikan's hand. "come on, Mikan… let's leave that jerk…" and Mikan obliged.
"yeah… better leave him…" she said. They were about to go when Natsume caught Mikan's free hand. "what do you think you're doing?" he asked
"taking Mikan from an asshole like you, Hyuuga…" Kaito answered while Mikan was just being torn between the two. "oh yeah? well I think that it's more like stealing my date…CHAPERONE…"
"haha! Talking big when you're being dumped…" Kaito mocked.
"yeah… that's him arrogant and all… no one would ever like him... just go home, would you…" Mikan retorted.
"yeah… you're not needed… and it also seems like you're the chaperone here… following us around…"
"shut up…"
"what?"
"I said, SHUT THE FCK UP!" he yelled than grabbed Mikan's hand leading her somewhere. Kaito was about to stop him but Natsume was just so pissed he ended hitting Kaito straight in the face. K.O. (as in KNOCKED OUT) that's how you would describe Kaito now.
"where are you taking me?!"
""
After a while, Natsume finally stopped walking but he was still holding Mikan's hand. Natsume wouldn't look at her. He was hiding his face with his bangs and he had this gloomy aura surrounding him. But Mikan was busy complaining and throwing insults and curses at her so she didn't notice.
After a while she finally realized the silence that was only broken by her and her hand which was gripped tightly by Natsume.
"h-hey! It hurts ya'know!" Mikan exclaimed referring to her precious hand. "I know…" Natsume answered with a voice which wasn't cold but definitely not warm. It was gloomy, sad, and low. Far from the arrogant bastard that he is.
"how 'bout you?" Natsume asked out of the blue.
"what about me?"
"do you know it hurts?"
"hey! You're the one torturing my hand here… so don't you d--THAT"S NOT IT!" Natsume's cry didn't allow Mikan to finish.
Mikan was taken aback… she has seen Natsume pissed a million times but never has she seen him this dead serious that she just had to shut up.
Natsume was silent too but this time he was looking straight into Mikan's eyes. Mikan felt uncomfortable and tried to look away but couldn't. She also tried hard to retrieve her hand but Natsume just gripped even tighter. Natsume's eyes looked like a dark masterpiece. Filled with so much emotion that only a master artist could picture. Filled with pain, sadness, love… yet it was being held back.
"natsu-" she started but failed to finish when she noticed that Natsume's face was drawing closer. He was about to kiss Mikan but his eyes weren't closed. Mikan felt really uneasy but there was this soothing feeling that made her whole body disobey her mind's command.
Just when the gap was about to be closed, Natsume stopped and turned his gaze to the ground. Mikan finally got out of her trance and knew that she didn't have the need to pull her hand away from since he willingly but forcefully dropped it.
"you… don't know…" his masterpiece-like eyes turned into his usual dark, cold orbs.
"what do you mean?"
"quit the act… I know that you know…"
"now you may go and flirt with your chaperone… I'm going home…" he walked away.
Did I really-- Mikan's thought was discontinued and she just sighed.
Mikan was so tired and confused that she just wanted to go home. She called Tsubasa and told him to pick her up. Tsubasa was there in a jiffy.
Mikan got in. "let's go home now…"
"where's your date and chaperone…" he asked grinning
"the first one went home the other one was K.O.ed."
"ow…" he exclaimed feeling pity for Kaito. Man! It must've hurt…
"and why did Na--"
"TSU-BA-SA…" Mikan said trying to suppress her annoyance.
"yes?" uh-oh… chill Mikan… he thought
"DRIVE…"
"oh-kay…"
"and one more thing…" Mikan started
"keep your mouth shut, please…"
"y-yes…" then they drove off.
END OF CHAPTER:
Guys! I'm so very sorry about the excruciatingly late update. I was busy since I was attending some summer workshop. I didn't have the time to think much about this. I hope that you guys didn't lose hope. I made it a bit longer than the last chapter since a friend of mine asked me too. I hope you don't mind it's length. I swear to submit the next chapter one week from now. It's a PROMISE. Okay guys…
REVIEWS PLEASE… CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISMS ARE TOTALLY ALLOWED.
REVIEWS PLEASE… CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISMS ARE TOTALLY ALLOWED.
REVIEWS PLEASE… CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISMS ARE TOTALLY ALLOWED.
REVIEWS PLEASE… CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISMS ARE TOTALLY ALLOWED.
REVIEWS PLEASE… CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISMS ARE TOTALLY ALLOWED.
I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS CHAPTER… : ) bye… till next time…