Chapter 15: Can We Talk?
It's Monday and Mikan have classes and she'll be late for class again. Then someone wake her up.
"Hey little girl wake up!" Natsume said while shaking her.
"Huh!" she said
He pull her, they fall down. She opens her eyes.
"Natsume! Good morning!" she said she was still sleepy. She gives him a peck on the lips.
"Good morning to you too lazy pig. It's already 7:15. Get up" Natsume said to her, they stood up.
Mikan headed at her bathroom. Natsume sit at the sofa, waiting for her.
20 minutes passed…
Mikan finished bathing; she wore her checkered olive uniform. Put some powder and lip shiner, spray some perfume and get out of her room. She saw Natsume waiting for her.
It is already 7:45
"Come on" he pull Natsume up and exits her room. "Mr. Jinno might get angry"
"You are the one who is lazy here, bears" Natsume said.
"Hm" then she realized something, "Natsume! You perverted freak" she shouts at him.
"Hmm" is his only responds. They reached their classroom. It was really noisy inside.
They went inside
"Good morning everyone!" she greeted them "Good Morning" they greeted back her cheerfully.
"Don't we have any teachers?" she asked them.
"Yes, they said they are going to have meeting" Yuu answered her.
"Oh, is that so" she think about something "Then why don't we go at the Central Town"
"That's fine by me" Nonoko said (she still ignores Koko).
"I'm not coming, going to upgrade some of my inventions" Hotaru said and drag Ruka out.
"Okay" Mikan reply to her.
"I cannot come also because we are going to have a meeting" Yuu said he look at Sumire like saying sorry to her.
"Hmm, fine!" she said, frowning.
"Thanks" he said and kissed her on the cheeks.
Sumire blush and then she smile at him.
'That trick always work on her' Yuu said to himself and then he smile. He bid them goodbye.
"So are you still coming?" Mikan asked them.
"Yeah" Anna said.
Nonoko grab Koko's collar and drag him out. Sumire is with Anna and the levitating boy. Mikan clutch too Natsume's arms while smiling.
At Hotaru and Ruka…
"Hotaru didn't you already finished upgrading your inventions" Ruka asked his girlfriend puzzled.
"Yeah" she said coldly.
"Then where are we going?"
Hotaru didn't answer him. They reached her room. She gets her video camera and get out of the room. (By the way she is still dragging Ruka. Poor Ruka…hehehe)
"What was that for?" Ruka ask her.
"I just think that something might happen" she said.
At the Central Town…
"Fluff puffs, fluff puffs!" Mikan said childishly.
"You are so loud" Natsume scolded her.
"And so?" Mikan replies to him sarcastically.
"You are embarrassing me" he said to her.
"Hmm"
Nonoko is buying many things and well Koko is bringing all of them for her. She says that it is her payment for him not noticing her yesterday.
Mikan check the time 'Oh no! Its 2 already, Persona and Eiji might wait for me! I should go now' she said to herself
What she didn't know is that Koko heard her. (Koko didn't read her mind he just hear it)
"Shall we go now? I'm tired already" Mikan excused to them.
Natsume look at her. 'How could she be so tired all of a sudden she was so energetic before?'
"Can't we eat first? I'm starving" the levitating boy said.
"Okay" Koko said in agreement.
"But—" Mikan was reasoning to them but she was cut off.
"Let's go" Natsume said.
"Alright" they headed at a seafood restaurant.
They sat at a table for seven, what they didn't know is that Ruka and Hotaru is at their back, hiding and video taping them.
The waiter takes their order. Anna, Nonoko go at the C.R and Natsume and the levitating both went outside. They say that they were just going to buy something.
So Mikan and Koko left alone.
"Hey! Can we talk?" Koko said. his smile was faded as soon as their other friends leave.
"Yes" she said smiling.
"Who's the person you're going to take revenge with?" he asks her.
"What do you mean!" she said, pretending that she didn't know what he meant.
"Don't pretend that you didn't know what I mean, what is this controlling Alice?"
"I didn't know what you are talking about" she said
"Tell me"
"I can't"
"Why?"
"I just can't"
"If you're not going to tell me, I'll tell it to Hotaru" he said threateningly.
"Please don't" she pleaded to him.
"Then tell me"
"Please don't let me tell it to you" her eyes became watery.
"Why?" he ask her again.
She didn't answer. It is hard for her keep a secret, she always tells what she feels or what is happening to her. Not her feeling for Natsume, though that was before.
"What do you think Natsume will feel if he knows that you are meeting Persona? You know that he didn't want is to get close to that person."
"Please Koko; don't tell it to Natsume or Hotaru or anyone. I beg you"
"Why can't you tell it to us" We are your friends for God's sake" he was controlling his anger to her.
"I…I have my reasons" she said.
'What is—" before he could continue what he was telling to her, the girls already came. Mikan wiped her tears.
"Are you two arguing?" Sumire asks.
"No" both of them said at the same time.
"Well, okay" Anna said.
Natsume and the levitating boy came in. Natsume notice Mikan's eyes were a little bit red. He sat beside her.
"Did you cry?" he whispered to her.
"No"
The waiter arrived with their food. They ate it.
At Hotaru and Ruka…
She videotape Mikan and Koko's conversation, but there voice are too low to hear.
"What are they arguing about?" Ruka asked Hotaru.
"I don't know" she played the whole scene again. However, there are no sounds and they can't hear what they are talking about.
"Something happening to her" Hotaru said "I must know it" (By the way they are already at the academy.)
At Mikan and the others…
They are already at the academy. They separate their ways. Natsume and Mikan are together.
She's not saying anything since they arrived at the restaurant.
"Any problem?" he asks her with concern.
"No, I have to go now. I need to do something."
"What is it?"
She just smiles at him.
"Okay" he said
She ran as fast as she could. She saw Persona and Eiji waiting for her.
"What took you so long?" Eiji asks.
"I can't escape them" she said.
"Now, Mikan why don't you try to use your alice again" Persona commanded her.
'What should I control now' she thought, she saw the lake "That will be fun" she said.
'Water, water, water, water'
The water is moving forming a shape but you can't really tell what its shape is.
"Stop now" persona ordered.
The water suddenly stops moving, she fell weak again. The pain is much stronger now.
She gets her pills in her pocket and just swallows it because she can't stand the pain anymore now.
"Now do it again" Persona said.
"Can't she stop yet, she still feels weak" Eiji said.
"No, she can't stop if she wants to master her alice."
The ground just shakes "Are you happy now?" Mikan said
"Not yet"
Then a giant monster that is made of sand appears.
"Very good. That's enough for now" Persona said.
The pain is traveling all over her body.
"Here wear that every time" he gave her a round blue earring "It will control your alice" after saying that he walk away.
"Mikan are you alright?"
"I'll be fine" she swallows two pills again, to stop the pain.
She stands up but she is still weak, Eiji hold to her arms to help her walk. She was wobbling while walking.
Natsume saw them again "What the heck!" he can't approach them because persona called him, urgently.
"What room are you in?" Eiji ask her.
"Room 306" she said to him in a very low voice.
He walks her up to her room. What they didn't know is that a camera attach to Mikan's room.
At Hotaru's room…
"Who's that?" Ruka ask.
Hotaru find the guy at her computer.
"Kikumaru Eiji, he has the dream alice he can also make nightmares that's why he is in the dangerous ability type"
"Why is he with Mikan?"
"I do not know"
Back at Mikan's room…
Mikan already fell asleep when laid her on her bed. He smiled at her. He brushes her hair and kiss gently on the forehead.
"Natsume is lucky, he have you" He exits her room and headed at his room.
Natsume arrived already after he finished another mission. He still feels weak but he wants to see Mikan. He quickly goes to her room. He saw her sleeping.
She didn't change to her pajamas.
"Lazy pig" he muttered he fined a dress at her closet and dress it to her.
He folds her uniform, them the bottle of her blue pills dropped.
"Why does she have this?" he asked his self. "It must be Eiji's medicines" he just said to his self.
He caresses her face and kisses her on the forehead.
"Good night, my love"
He headed on at his bathroom and sleep.
It's been a month since Mikan practicing her controlling alice and it is also been a month since Natsume got jealous at Eiji. It is wondering why Eiji is always with Mikan.
Natsume is resting under a tree. Peaceful and quiet birds chirp. It is a cloudy day. The fang on autumn filled the air. Then a certain brown haired girl disturbs his peacefulness.
"Natsume!" Mikan shouts.
"Oh brother!" Natsume muttered.
Mikan slap his cheeks, not so hard though. He opens his eyes and saw the smiling face of Mikan.
"What do you want now?" he said.
"You" she smiles widely.
"Hmm" is only his reply.
"Are you still angry at me?" Mikan ask him.
"Why should I be?" he said hiding his fury on her because if he tells she will start to cry.
"I don't know" she embraced him "You always avoid me lately"
Natsume felt his shirt becoming wet. He reached out his hand to touch her hair, tentatively, with finger's that looked too clumsy but weren't, all they touched was a single curl that fell beside her cheeks, barely grazing her scalp.
"Don't cry"
He saw something, a thing that he is not supposed to be seen, and Mikan's blue shape earring.
"Wait her alice is not that dangerous yet. Why does she have this?'' Natsume asked his self. He took it off from her ears but she didn't seem to notice it.
"Natsume!" Mikan yells at him "You are ignoring me again!" she pouts childishly.
"Mikan, why do you have this?" he ask her, half curious half angry (he's angry because he thinks Mikan is hiding something to him)
Mikan look at Natsume's hand, her ayes widened she quickly snatch it.
"I just brought it at the Central Town" she lies to him. She really don't want to but she need to.
"Why doesn't it have any partner?"
"I lost the other one"
'Why do you still wear it?"
"It just looks great" she looks at it, playing on her hands, pretending admiring it.
"Don't lie to me"
"I'm not lying to you" she saw Eiji waving at her calling her.
"I need to go now" she said to Natsume.
He looks at his back, where she is looking. He saw the smiling face of Eiji his blood boil in anger.
She stands up but then Natsume grab her wrist.
"Don't" his bangs cover his ruby eyes.
"I need to" she reasoned to him.
"I said don't"
She kneeled down to reach him. She kisses him on the lips. It's been moment before he kisses her back. She broke the kiss.
"I'm yours, don't worry." She smiles at him.
He releases her to his grip "Be sure of that"
"Yes sir!" after that she ran off.
Eiji's thought
'I really wish I am Natsume'
Thanks for the reviewers. I think there is only 5 more chapters left, it depends on my crazy head of course. I already wrote 16 and 17, and I don't think you will like chapter 17. just please watch out for the next chapters, I'll be uploading next Wednesday.
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