Wail of the banshee~ snowballfight part one

A/n : Sorry to make you wait! The snowballfight somehow developed into a very large story and I'll have to split it in several parts. I called the latest chapter "snowballfights & bad news", but now snowballfights and bad news will be several chaps.

The beginning of this chap is rather lame, gomen !

Claimer: plot is mine, characters belong to Higuchi tachibana.

Flashback: "A match?" Mikan asked that with a dumbfounded face. Natsume facepalmed inwardly. Damn, Mikan is stupid, he thought. "A snowball fight. Every one from our class is going to participate", Natsume replied with a firm and patient voice. I guess you can all imagine Mikans reaction very well.

After Mikan had begun to cry for joy, Natsume left her alone. Damn, he couldn't stand it if she began to act like a little kid; it was so easy to make Mikan Sakura happy. One part of Natsume really hated this cheering Mikan, and the other part loved it. She was as obvious as a badly written detective novel. But deep inside Natsume knew that he admired her and her easy-going ways.

Natsume went down the hallway and met up with Ruka, Iinchou and Hotaru. All of them wore thick clothes and their usual facial expressions- Ruka and Iinchou shy smiles and Natsume and Hotaru pokerfaces."Yo", he greeted them. "I bet it will take while until Polka shows up, but she agreed to participate". All of them nodded in unison and Natsume saw Ruka smiling.

It was an innocent smile that made him want to patt Ruka's back and burn himself to ashes, so that Ruka won't be standing in his shadows anymore. But their friendship couldn't be possibly broken by a girl?

░ Mikans point of view

I've been so happy and deep in thought that I didn't notice Natsume leaving. Maybe I shocked him with my hyperactive reaction. I sighed and turned towards my cupboard, searching for suitable clothes. The excitement was still gleaming in my eyes and I felt like a little girl once again; no wait, I still am a little girl. Well, I guess I felt like a toddler, then.

I joyfully hummed a random melody and danced through the room, I was taking out random pieces of clothing and holding them in front of my body, just to throw them back into the cupboard after taking a brief look at them, leaving behind a mess. Usually, my cupboard was full of clothes, but if a girl searches for certain clothes it never finds anything suitable.

After all, I ended up in putting several sweatshirts on since I didn't find a thick pullover. I placed my ugg-boots on my feet and put on a jacket, probably the others were already waiting for me. I hurried up and found them waiting on the halfway. I greeted them enthusiastically and only half of the group responded to my greetings. Like usual.

░ neutral point of view

Afetr they met up, the group quickly went outside in order to meet the other participants and to begin the match.

The rules were explained by Sumire. She was the one to come up with the idea of making a match. Next to Mikan, the other guys participating were Natsume, Ruka, Sumire, Youichi, Iinchou, Hotaru, Anna, Nonoko, Mochu, Luna, Koko, Kitsuneme, and two other guys which Mikan barely knew.

"Okay guys, listen up". It was Sumire speaking, with Mochu and Luna flanking her. "I'll explain the rules now. The first rule is not to use your alice. If you use it, you will be disqualified immediately; you will be disqualified together with another teammate of your will be five teams which consist of three persons each. You better don't use your alice since it will result in one of your team members being left allone in the team", Sumire exclaimed with a bright smile.

Of course she hoped to be paired up with Natsume or Ruka.

Iinchou continued to explain the rules. "Everytime you get hit by a snowball, our judge will cross one of your lives on the blackboard." He pointed at the judge and at the blackboard, where names and symbols were beaded neatly. "If all of your 15 lives are used up, you're out. The team which remains until the end wins and choses a task for the loser-team. That's it. We will decide the teams now."

Iinchou smiled brightly and Mikan's eyes shone the whole time. She didn't quite understand the complicated rules, but her teammates would surely explain them to her again. Mikan saw Hotaru approaching the ballot box and Hotaru began to pick little pieces of paper with names on it. "I will now announce the members of team a", Hotaru remarked, picking the first piece of paper.

"First member is Kitsuneme". All pairs of eyes wandered to Kitsuneme which stepped out of the crowd. Excitement was written in their faces, although Natsume and Youichi remained as calm as always. Somehow Natsume reminded Mikan of snow. She didn't know why she suddenly thought of him. But bloody crimson eyes and snow usually don't fit together very well.

Mikan didn't listen, but the next one to be announced was Mochu. Obviously he had been chosen to join "team a" as well, and Kitsuneme highfived him. Sumires name was next to be announced, so she joined her new team, with a mad and depressed face, looking like a volcano ready to explode since she wasn't paired up with Natsume.

Mikan herself didn't have any specific wishes with whom to be paired up, but she didn't want to be in the same team as Luna because that girl would probably let herself get disqualified to leave Mikan alone in a one-man team.

After a while, all teams were ready and the names were already written down on the blackboard. Team B consisted of Anna, Ruka and Hotaru; Team C consisted of nonoko, Luna and Natsume; Team D consisted of Koko, Mikan and Youichi, and Team E of Iinchou and the two other guys which Mikan didn't know. Of course Luna happily clung to Natsume, while Hotaru blackmailed her team to win. Sumire omitted a dark aura and her teammates –Kitsuneme and Mochu- were forced to diverge from her. Mikan was really glad because she had some of her best friends in her team.

Another guy from their class,obviously the judge, told them to get ready. Our Mikan was smilling happily (like always) and Koko approached his teammates to whisper something into their ears. Both of them nodded determined. They had a plan.

Thanks for reading! Hope you liked it : } (I know this chap was a bit boring and didn't have much action, but I had to provide some preparations before the action finally starts).

The next chap will be the second part of our snowballfight !

I'm trying to change my point of views a lot to make it exciting. You can look forward to Youichi and Mikan pov in the next chap.

Next issue: "snowballfight part two"