Wail of the banshee ~ snowballfight part two
A/n: So here's the second part! A doubled portion of story is my (poor) gift since I made my readers wait so long. *winks*
*sees readers running away* No please stay! I didn't mean to scare you away potential reader T_T . Anyways please enjoy & read my second remark at the bottom!
░ Mikans point of view
Damn, I was so excited. All teams stood quite far away from each other, but I could still see the emotions on their faces since I fortunately have good eyes. And they felt the same I did.
The blackboard was in the middle of our fighting area. Each team had been assigned to a corner 15 metres away from the blackboard.
I turned towards my teammates to give them a thumbs-up sign and began to make ammunition. Before the judge could give his start signal, my teammates both agve me a thumbs-up as well.
"Mikan-nee", I heard Youichis voice and turned back to see Youichi staring at me. "Be careful". I nodded and smiled, rushing towards the other teams. Koko told me that I would be our bait.
While the other teams focused on building up a defense line first, I was told to try hitting some of the good guys and good "casters" so that it would be easier to finish them off later.
After all, attack is the best defense. The other teams couldn't possibly disturb Youichi and Koko building our fort, then.
I quickly rushed towards Natsume's base; I caught them in surprise and hit Luna's and Nonoko's occiputs.
When I tried hitting Natsume, I failed. He cought my snowball in midair and smirked like the devil himself. Shit, my one and only chance to make a surprise attack and to hit Natsume was over.
"Tsk Polka, you really throw like a girl".
░ Youichi's point of view
I hurried up to finish our fort. My hands ached from the cold snow. But I didn't care. I just ahd to finish. To finish in order to help Mikan-nee. She was like a piece of cheese waiting for a mouse. And mice come fast if they smell cheese.
It was no good idea to turn her into the "bait" from the very beginning.
She was clumsy and supid. But she was my nee-chan. If this guy next to me wanted to heve a bait that badly, why didn't he go himself? Tch. This should be enough.
I stopped my work on the fort and saw Mikan-nee staring at Natsume, who was standing up, slowly approaching her.
That was bad. Natsume-nii could be dangerous if he wanted to. I doubt he'd hit a girl but I'm not sure. I dropped the snow in my palms and ran off towards the place where nee-chan was, leaving the dumbfounded blonde-idiot behind all alone. He pissed me off for sending a girl into war anyways.
░ neutral point of view
Mikan didn't move an inch. It was as if she was paralyzed. Natsume moved closer every second, throwing his snowball and catching it again carefully, to prevent it from crumbling. He was acting like a skilled thrower would.
Mikan tried to fight against hhr paralysis, she didn't want to be a helpless girl, instead she wanted to wipe this ridiculous smile of his face.
"Try to fetch me the snowball if you can", Mikan remarked with a sarcastic undertone and a challenging fake-smile on her face. "You sure you want that little girl?" Natsume smirked even wider than usual.
Suddenly something bumped into Mikans legs and sent her flying to the floor. A snowball supposed to hit Mikan's face buzzed through the air and fell to the floor. Mikan caughed up snow and looked at the little boy next to her. Youichi. "You-chan! What are you doing here? I thought you were supposed to finish the fort? Thanks for your help! My, you look so cute with snow all over your face!" She attempted to cuddle youichi, but Natsume pulled her away from him. Youichi pouted.
"Leave him allone idiot. You're spoiling him to much. I'm afraid he'll die someday from loss of oxygen if you press him against your boobs all time. Ooops, you don't even have boobs".
Mikan turned red. She wanted to kick that asses' ass badly. But before she knew what happened next, Natsume placed himself in front of her, pushing her to the ground and releasing some flames which immediately melted some snowballs in midair. Luna had attempted to hit Mikan's face several times.
"Stop flirting with him bitch", Luna shouted almost snarling. Her face was distorted with anger. WTH flirting with him (?), Mikan thought; her jaw dropped to the ground and Mikan's mouth made movements similar to a fish trying to breath while being ashore.
Then she remembred Natsume helping her and she remembered that polite as she was, she had to thank him. " T-t-t-thank you Natsume", Mikan stuttered. "I didn't do it for you polka, I just hate the way Luna is doing things." Mikan rolled her eyes thatrically. Annoying. Asshole. Her pride roared up in anger and Mikan wanted to kick Natsume's pride ass swiftly.
Natsume extended his hand to help her standing up, but Mikan declined pouting since she was still mad at him. The judge quickly arrived and told Natsume that he would be disqualified due to alice usage. He stuttered when Natsume glared at him. Poor guy.
"Wh-whom d-do you w-want to be disqualified alongside with you", the judge asked. "Ogasawara. I want this hag Luna to be elft alone in a one-man team".
The judge nodded and Luna glared at him furiously.
Natsume turned away to leave. "Oi, Polka. Your knight in shining armor expects to receive his reward later on." Mikan blushed crimson. "N-no way ! " He had his back turned towards her, but Mikan bet he was smirking now.
She looked at Natsumes back until he was completely gone, and the next thing she felt was a hard kick on her right hand. Mikan yelped in pain.
"Now that Natsume is away you earn what you deserve, slot." The tip of Luna's foot dug deeper into her hand and Mikan tried to free herself while screaming louder.
Luna glared down on Mikan, her arrogant eyes focused on Mikan's face.
Mikan really didn't expect Luna to be that strong all of a sudden. Her hand burned and pierced. She heard some of ehr classmates murmur and move, nobody helped her, though. But Mikan heard that some of them were slowly approaching her.
Why was Natsume gone? He would've helped her. Tears of pain began to rise in Mikan's eyes. "Move it hag". Youichi re-appeared next to Mikan, which almost forgot that he was there as well. He was omitting a dark aura and Mikan felt the air in her throat thicken, making it dry and uncomfortable to swallow. There was no teacher in sight.
"The demon-summoner, huh?" Luna moved her foot juct to look down on Mikan with an even more arrogant look. Albeit her hand hurt very much, Mikan tried to move it.
"You okay nee-chan?" "Don't worry You-chan". She tried to make her voice sound firm and strong, but her sentence sounded rather awkward in her own ears.
Meanwhile, the air arround Youichi continued to thicken. And Mikan knew that he would be using his alice soon if it continued like this. She couldn't allow anyone to get hurt, even if it was Luna. Mikan tried not to loose her composure.
"Y-you-chan, don't." She attempted to grab his hand and his gaze met hers. It was soft and undetermined. He wanted to hurt the people who hurt Mikan-nee, but he knew he'd be hurting Mikan with that, as well.
Meanwhile, Hotaru had approached them as well, kneeling down to face Mikan. "Mikan baka. Are you alright?" Her expression spoke volumes. "I'll make you visit Subaru later". Mikan attempted a smile. Her attention drove towards you-chan again.
"Look, you-chan, we won't have anymore fun together if you get disqualified. It's enough that Natsume has already been disqualified for my sake. I don't want you to get disqualified as well". She pressed his little hand gently. And youichi twitched. Still thinking about fun in a situation like this? She was sure something.
In the next moment, Mikan found herself surrounded my thick black smoke. She was lifted.
When the smoke cleared up, Mikan recognized that Youichi's older form was carrying her bridal style. Mikan blushed furiously and hid her red face in his chest.
Some girls giggled. She swore to kill them later. Damn, You-chan was like a brother to her, so why did she blush like this? Youichi dropped Mikan behind their fort and smiled one of his super-rare smiles.
He turned back to the crowd and shouted: " I declare war. Full charge at the hag !"
And the crowd followed his orders with pleasure. Mikan even had symphaty for Luna after they were ready for her. She swore that she heard Youichi mutter something about "knight in shining armor" and "I'm not spoiled", but she didn't bother asking him since possibly fantasized again.
This was the story of how Luna lost the snowballfight. She had to bear the punishment all allone, since the other teammembers –natsume and nonoko- had been disqualified.
Everyone announced Mikan's team to be victor, though everybody helped them to win.
After all, it was only fair for Mikan to chose Luna's punishment. And she did. Janitorial duties for a month, including cleaning of the whole cafeteria.
A/n: PHEWWWWW ! That was a piece of hard work. The last part of this chap really sounds like a Youichi x Mikan story xD Sorry ! I swear the whole piece is natsume x mikan, though! Please bear with me, I always wanted to write more youichi x mikan interaction w_w.
And forgive that thisd chap is so long. I bet I skilled all of my readers by now D:
Next issue: bad news