. G for Girlfriend .
. Snowmirage .
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. Summary .
Valentine's day is here! And Natsume makes Mikan his girlfriend? What is going on? Has the bug called l.o.v.e. finally caught up with our dashing enigma? Or is there something darker at work here? Expect OOCness
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. L.O.V.E. Dictionary .
jeal·ous·y /ˈdʒɛləsi/ jel-uh-see–noun, plural -ous·ies for 4.
1. jealous resentment against a rival, a person enjoying success or advantage, etc., or against another's success or advantage itself.
2. mental uneasiness from suspicion or fear of rivalry, unfaithfulness, etc., as in love or aims.
3. vigilance in maintaining or guarding something. 4. a jealous feeling, disposition, state, or mood.
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Chaputa muttsu: The Love letter In Question
Sakura Mikan trudged to school unhappily, her amber eyes darting occasionally around her surroundings warily.
How could one be happy when there was a giant thundercloud floating behind one? The thundercloud in question was one leader of the HNFC, who was emitting sparks that formed the words 'She raped Natsume-sama' into the air as she hovered behind Mikan, a very dark atmosphere surrounding her.
Beside Mikan, an amethyst-eyed female sat serenely on a floating mechanical duck, oblivious (or rather, too lazy to care) to the fact that her best friend was the target of a mad, deranged fangirl.
Imai Hotaru had much more important things on her mind than to worry about the safety of the brunette beside her, things like Valentine's Day presents from her boyfriend, the very beleaguered Nogi Ruka.
For the brunette, she was busily looking over her shoulders for any signs of glinting metals or eyes for that matter in the small shrubs they were passing by apprehensively. Even for a baka, she was able to detect the enormous amount of killer intent from the black-haired female.
So there they were, the oddest pair of best friends one would ever see in the academy, one nonchalant, the other afraid for her life, moving towards school for yet another day in their lives as students of Alice Academy when it happened.
It started with a small snow-white rabbit bounding across the grounds to meet them, a rose clenched between its teeth.
As it bounded its way towards the oblivious pair, loud coos of 'kawaii!' and heart-shaped eyes followed it as it made its long and arduous journey.
Mikan was the first of the two to notice the incoming rabbit.
The brunette blinked a few times before a smile spread across her face and she crouched down with one hand outstretched to stroke the rabbit's fur as it reached them.
"Ooohhh, is that for me?" Mikan beamed happily as she reached out to take the blood-red rose from the rabbit, only to have to slip from beneath her stroking hand and hopped over to look up adoringly at Hotaru.
"I think it is for you Hotaru!" the brunette got out excitedly, her amber eyes shining as she looked up wide-eyed at her violet-eyed friend.
Unlike the very eager looking brunette by her side, Imai Hotaru was emitting a very bad vibe, a glint in her usually impassionate violet eyes.
She was looking at the rabbit as though she would like to throw it far far away from her.
If one looked really closely enough, one would notice that her gaze was NOT fixed on the rabbit; rather it was on the innocent rose clamp between its teeth.
She opened her mouth, seemingly to say something, when a sharp whistle distracted her.
As one, all the students milling nearby tilted their heads back as a dark shadow swept across the school grounds.
Together with them, intense and murderous looking violet eyes pierced the sky as the huge pack of twittering birds approached at breakneck speed.
With the chirping at an almost deafening pitch, the birds swooped down as one gigantic entity towards the stone-faced Hotaru, their beaks opening together as blood-red roses seemingly rained down from the sky, together with a couple of stray feathers and a few bird droppings.
Feathers and bird droppings aside, we find ourselves looking at arose covered Hotaru, eyeing a certain blonde unpleasantly as he emerged a few meters in front of her and a starry-eyed Mikan.
An impatient hand reached up and jerked off a stray petal that had lodged behind her ear.
If looks could kill, Ruka would have died many times over in the most creative ways mankind has never witnessed before.
However, the blonde was oblivious to the look on his girlfriend's face or the positively black atmosphere that surrounded her, so nervous was he in wondering what his girlfriend's reaction would be to this surprise he spent most of last week thinking up.
Reaching her, he dropped down on one knee, much to the delight of the females around, Mikan in particular.
"Happy Valentine's Day." He flourished a rose flower up to the violet-eyed girl, a tentative smile wobbling on his lips as his uncertain azure eyes searched her face for her reaction.
Hotaru finally opened her mouth, but what came out was not what everyone had expected.
"AAAAACHOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" A loud, breath-taking sneeze ripped through the grounds, jerking everyone's attention to the violet-eyed female who was looking worse for wear suddenly, a few red spots appearing on her pale skin.
She whipped out the Baka cannon, and with a single blast, blasted her boyfriend once on the head, a glint in her eyes as she stated, halting between sneezes.
" I. Am. –sneeze- Allergic. To. –sneeze- Roses."
With that, she fainted right away at his feet.
Oops.
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Mikan looked on mournfully as her best friend was carted off to the hospital for treatment for her allergic reaction to the roses her boyfriend had showered her with literally, Ruka trailing behind worriedly.
Hotaru had explicitly stated that only Ruka was to follow her to the hospital (which makes us fans of Nogi Ruka wonder if the blonde will survive whatever the violet-eyed female had in stall for him.) and that left Mikan to her own devices.
She let out a heartfelt sigh as she eyed the fair distance between the school building and herself from where she was standing.
It was so farrrrr away!
It was then she spotted something that solved all her problems.
Hotaru's floating duck.
Abandoned at the side when its owner met her 'mishap', the shiny surface of the invention glint a silvery white in the pale sunlight, it was an irresistible beckoning to anyone, anyone at all, to climb on.
A smile broke across her face as she ran over to the contraception and climbed on gracelessly.
After all, if she didn't say anything, who would know?
Now then, where was the start up button?
Amber-eyes fell on a huge purple button on the head of the duck.
A gleeful smile spread on her lips and she reached up to push it.
Nothing.
Hmmm…maybe it is that green button over there-
"KYAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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Meanwhile, in classroom B…
"He isn't going." The dejected statement from Mochu had the small gathering sighing together in despair.
Youichi, the only minor there, let off a small ghoul as a statement of his disappointment.
Perched on a desk, Koko tapped a finger against his jaw as he added thoughtfully, "We can't give up now after all we did to get them together."
The others nodded vigorously, thoughtful looks on their faces.
After having been forced to see both Natsume and Mikan pretending and being (respectively) oblivious to the feelings that they so obviously had for each other, their close friends came together with a fool-proof plan to bring them together.
"All that writing of the love letters…" Anna sighed out.
"And stuffing his room full of roses and chocolates…" This came from Nonoko with a doleful look on her face.
"Not to mention having to haggle with Imai (shudders) so that she would agree to have Natsume seeing her and Ruka in a compromising position…" Koko finished up with a forbidding look on his face.
"That cost me three thousand rabbits…" Yuu uttered miserably as he pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose.
"Although we do have to say that the entrance of the HNFC was a plus bonus for us," Kitsuneme grinned as he added.
A small snort of laughter escaped all the occupants as they remembered the look on Natsume's face at the scene of the 'sixteen panties in a row' debacle.
"Shouda, are you still mad?" This was from Mochu, who cast a questioning look at the sulking female seated far away at the side of the classroom.
"Hmph!" Was all the answer he got from the female.
Due to the lack of 'human resource', they had no choice but to cast Sumire as the villain of the whole thing and she was still none too happy about appearing as such in front of her beloved Natsume (though she had somewhat given up on him reciprocating her feelings).
Shrugging, he turned back to the impromptu meeting.
"We need to come up with a plan to get him to go." Yuu continued to nods of agreements. "Or, if worse comes to worse, we will have to take his place."
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With a heart-rending shriek, Sakura Mikan found herself hurtling off the speeding contraception and landing butt-first onto the marble-grounds of the school corridors.
"Itai…" She moaned out as she rubbed her sore backside before shaking a fist at the already disappearing speck that was Hotaru's favorite transportation.
Apparently, it had been the wrong button to press and instead of the normal speed it moved at, it had zoomed off at an inhuman speed that had caused its rider (aka Mikan) to scream her lungs out.
Left to her own devices again, she picked herself up from the floor grudgingly, swiping off the dust on her skirt and headed towards the classroom, grumbling about the machine as she did so.
Upon reaching the slightly opened door, she placed a hand on the handle, planning to enter when she heard the mumble of voices within.
Curious, she shifted nearer to the slit, crouched like a crab, the muffled voices becoming clearer.
"-if worse comes to worse, we will have to take his place."
Yuu?
Mikan peeped through the slit and saw half the gathering of her classmates within.
Were they having a meeting?
And what did they mean by take his place? Who was his referring to?
Even though she knew it was bad to eavesdrop, curiosity finally overcame cautiousness and she pressed her ear against the slit.
"Lets see…Do not let Mikan-chan know that Natsume is not going to the Ball."
Ball? What ball?
Basketball? Soccer ball? She didn't know you could go to a ball. Well, it is so small and there is like no opening…
Mutters of agreements met the announcement by Yuu, drawing Mikan's attention from her futile attempt at deciphering what Yuu meant.
"If she knows that Natsume is just using her as a shield against those maniac fan girls, she would be so hurt." Mochu's voice floated out.
Amber eyes widened in shock.
This she understood.
Natsume was…using her? All this while?
Her mouth drooped down slightly from the light smile she always carried on her face, inexplicable hurt throbbing through her.
He was using her all this while and she…had willingly gone along like the idiot she was.
They still hadn't finished.
"So Koko, you will go to the ball disguised as Natsume. Make sure Mikan doesn't know."
By the time the last word was said, Mikan was no longer listening.
She was glancing out of one of the tall windows that lined the corridors, her expression strangely blank.
Slowly, a tear bright as the facet of a diamond slipped down her cheeks, unbidden.
Sakura Mikan finally understood the meaning of heart-break.
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Back in the classroom...
"It won't work." The declaration came from the silent Sumire, who had finally risen from her stupor and was looking at them, her olive eyes glinting.
"Demo naze?" the chorus came from Anna and Nonoko and was echoed by nods from the rest.
"Because it won't solve anything! It wouldn't bring the two of them together!"
'Ooh's and 'Ahh's filled the air.
"So what we need is a … "She paused dramatically as the rest leaned closer in anticipation "LOVE LETTER!"
"To Natsume?"
The seemingly innocent question was rewarded with an elbow on the head by Sumire.
"To Mikan of course!"
By now, Koko's face had an eerily knowing smile, probably from reading the whole plan from Sumire's mind.
"And we 'accidentally' drop it somewhere Natsume would see-"He continued knowingly.
"-and he will get jealous and go to the Ball!" Sumire finished up triumphantly with a wide smirk.
Claps and cheers met the declaration with gusto.
"So now all we need is to write one and slip it onto Mikan's desk… …"
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Ten minutes later…
The letter was written and the scene set.
Now all they need was the hero of this extremely angst-y tale to notice it.
Natsume was slouched in his seat as usual and ignoring everything around him, much to the annoyance of the conspirators, owners of the diabolical minds behind the 'Get-Natsume-and-Mikan-together' club.
They had done everything to get his attention to the letter in pink lying on Mikan's desk to no avail.
Finally, desperate, they decided to initiate Plan Desperado.
Step one: Koko walks over to Natsume to 'speak' to him.
Step 2: Koko trips over imaginary object on floor.
Step 3: To 'regain' his balance, he reached out 'desperately' to grab Mikan's desk in front of him.
Step 4: He 'accidentally' sweeps off the letter from Mikan's desk to Natsume's feet.
Step 4 fulfilled, it was now up to Natsume to make everything work.
Anticipation rose as Natsume's crimson eyes flickered to the letter lying at his feet.
Heart beats soar as Natsume bent down to pick it up.
Blood pressure rose as his eyes narrowed at the name on the letter.
And narrowed further.
And further.
And further.
And further.
And further.
Finally, impatient to know the outcome of their plan, Koko prompted, "What is that?"
Natsume never answered.
There was a sharp ripping sound as he tore open the letter and pulled out the contents within, oblivious to the satisfied grins that suddenly filled the faces of his classmates.
There, written in multiple colored markers…was the worse and least unromantic love letter Natsume ever saw.
My love♥
When I first saw you, my heart went pittar-patter like an animal stampede, just like when I see my favorite fish and chips! ♥♥
Your hair is like the color of my favorite chocolate pudding and it makes me wish I could gobble it up in one go. But that would leave you without hair, so I shall just proceed to admire it from afar and from near! ♥♥
Your eyes are like bitter chocolate balls, so bitter it is hard to look at you ♥ yet I am bowled over by the sheer…chocolaty-ness of them! ♥♥
Your skin is as shiny as the pureness of white chocolate at its best and it makes me wonder if you would melt if you walk out into the sun! The very thought fills me with awfulness so I cried the whole day yesterday ♥♥
And your ears...kyaaaaa! ♥♥ They are like the superior sausages I have for breakfast!♥♥
I shall await you at the Valentine's Day Ball tonight, my lovely Princess! ♥
Dazzle me with your beauty by sleeping early tonight (eyes-bags are SO unsightly) ♥
Until then, sleep tight and know that when your right eyelid twitches, it is because I am thinking of you! ♥♥
From your secretest secret admirer since yesterday ♥ Muacks ♥
Secret admirer
PS: I would tell you my name, but then it wouldn't be secret anymore and if it wasn't secret anymore, I can't be called Secret Admirer and then I would have to change my name and it is so troublesome and so I shall stick to NOT telling you my real name but that makes me wonder if you are suffering because of it so I am reconsidering here whether I should tell you my name but then again, if I did, I have to change my alias from secret admirer to secret admirer with a name and it will require more ink so lets stick to the Secret Admirer! ♥♥
(Manufacturer: Kokoroyumi and co™)
There was a loud crinkling sound as Natsume balled up the paper and a thwack as it hit the wall behind him.
As sudden as the sudden movement, a ball of flame suddenly consumed the paper until there was nothing left but ashes.
Natsume tucked his hand back into his pocket and snapped, "Mochu. Central Town. Now."
With that, he stormed out of the room, deadly intent in his every step.
Koko grinned.
"Plan Desperado: Success!"
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a/n: Sorry if this is a tad rushed, because I really need to go in a few hours time and i haven't packed (queen of procrastination XD)...gomen ne..do point out any mistakes you see okay? thanks!
The big finale is up next! What with the ball, Hotaru in hospital and a seething Natsume, this might just turn out to be the most entertaining Valentine's Ball ever in the history of gakuen alice! (this last chapter will be out after the 23th of december because i'll be off on a cruise trip :'))
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