Summary

Mikan a 16 year old girl who is w/o any family, worked during the day and studied during the night was shocked by reality. She had no social life.

Mikan Sakura, a dazzling brunette who was a workaholic at the young age of 16 was sick in bed w/ the flu.

Mikan's POV

I can believe I let myself become sick. Great! Now I have to catch up with the lessons when I get better. I'm already cramming and now this and it's only two weeks before exams! I think I'll call…oh, I don't have her number…that's not a problem I'll just call…oh yeah she moved to Switzerland last semester. Come to think of it I don't have any number to contact at school…or work…

She reached for her cellphone and looked at her contacts. How disappointing. She only has five

people on the list.

pizza delivery

operator

hospital

911

Shopping channel

What happened to me? It's like I don't exist! How come nobody pulled me out of my loner world?!

After a week…

Ohayo minna! Mikan said greeting her classmates. Was this true? Everyone thought, Mikan Sakura the workaholic loner of the class actually spoke! All the boys in the class turned to see whose angelic voice greeted them and were shocked to her HER. She was absolutely transformed!

Instead of the totally nerdy girl who wore her hair in a high ponytail, crisp white long sleeves, a plad miniskirt, shiny close black shoes with an extremely large bag. She usually wore this though they didn't have a uniform.

But today wore her hair down with a cute light pink headband, her hair reaching her mid waist. A plain white tee shirt topped with a blue denim jacket and a baby blue cloth layered skirt that reached below the knees, cute black doll shoes with white ribbons on each side and a ring that had a small pinkish diamond shaped like a cherry blossom and a flame shaped hole which everyone thought was for design.

It was 4:00, first period. They have their class until 6:00.

Good morning everyone! Their homeroom teacher greeted his students enthusiastically. He expected no one to greet him in return but today wasn't a normal day.

Good morning Narumi-sensei! Mikan greeted as enthusiastically.

Narumi obviously surprised that his most quiet, most with drawn and one of the most intelligent student actually spoke, happily with that!

Narumi smiled at her for a moment then realized why today was a not so normal day.

Class we have a new student coming today this afternoon at 4:30 and since today is Student's Day we will be going out to the country of your choice.

It has been a tradition that during Student's Day all classes are canceled and each classroom is given the chance to go to one country, but only one. So one student each class gets to pick their destination. The teacher fills a container with their students' names and draw one out the one who is picked will be the one to decide where they'll be going.

Narumi was now drawing the chosen name from the container.

"and the one who will be deciding where we'll be going is…..

MIKAN SAKURA!

The students sweat dropped. It's not like you have to make it so dramatic.

Mikan thought she heard her name being called. She looked up from her doodling and saw Mr. Narumi holding a piece of paper with her name on it. Oh she knew what it meant but she never wanted to be picked because the last time she was picked everyone was bored to death…she picked Tokyo, a computer convention. She had to say she became bored herself.

But there is a place she always wanted to go to…HOME

Miss Sakura have you made you made your decision? Mr. Narumi asked her.

The smile she had on her face made her glow. Yes she made her decision.

"Paris, France." She said the smile never leaving her face.

Well now come up front, and tell the class why you want to go there. Mr. Narumi said.

(When a student is picked that student must give his/her reason why they want to go there.)

She stood up and went in front her angelic smile playing her lips,

"There's not much to say except that it's my home."

Everyone wash shocked (so many times already!) none of them knew that Mikan was from abroad. Mikan returned to her seat her smile still there. Now everyone crowed her, asking her with questions over flowingly. She laughed, a pure rich laugh that would make angels jealous. Everyone stared at her first weirdly then slowly got affected by her laughter and laughed with her.

Excuse me Narumi-sensei. May I ask you a favor? Mikan asked him nervousness evident in her voice. Narumi only nodded since he was eating while he asked everyone to fill up their forms for the trip. Well I was going to ask if it's okay that we postpone our trip and have it tomorrow instead. Mikan asked.

Narumi studied her. She looked as if she needed this so much that she would beg if he said no. Narumi finished eating and asked Mikan to come to his office with him.

After a few minutes in Mr. Narumi's office

Thank you so much sensei! Mikan said as she exited his office.

She got him to say yes! Wohooooooo!

4:30

Class, may I have your attention for a while. The new student is here please be quiet so he can introduce himself. Mr. Narumi said trying hard to control his students.

But the new student didn't introduce himself he just said, "introduce me to them you seem good at doing it." With no emotion what so ever. Then took the vacant seat next to Mikan.

Thank you I shall do so. Class he is Natsume Hyuuga. As you can see he isn't very talkative but I encourage you to be friend him.

The look Natsume gave them told them not to or else. But one student didn't get the message. Yes, it was Mikan.

Good afternoon, Hyuuga-kun. I'm Mikan Sakura. She said trying her best to earn a friend. "whatever" was all she got from him. She noticed a ring on his finger it was similar to the one she was wearing only it had aflame shaped ruby stone and had a hole the shape of a cherry blossom.

She didn't realize she had been staring at it because he took his and away and looked at her sharply. Sorry. Mikan said embarrassed. Wait why was she embarrassed?! Just because he's a total hunk and he's deadly handsome doesn't mean she should be embaressed. Or should she?

Mr. Narumi had just announced the postponement of their trip. Everyone became more exited since it was postponed because their going to make it into a three day trip.

Early the next morning

Everyone was early to the airport since that is where they were asked to meet. Everyone wondered which flight they'll be taking since they weren't asked to pay for anything they all expected the lousy seats they get during each trip.

They heard a jet landing and wished they could ride one of those instead.

Mikan went towards the jet and signaled everyone to come towards her. The door of the jet opened and a man in a uniform cam out and the deafening sound of the jet ceased.

Good morning Ms. Sakura. The butler said to MIKAN?! She came up the stairs and handed the butler her luggage then entered. Come on everyone. She called out to them. Everyone scurried inside and were surprised by the luxury of the jet it was obviously first class.

Narumi-sensei how were we able to afford this. Anna a new found friend of mikan asked still wide eyed from it all.

"Mikan lent us her jet." Mr. narumi said oh-so-casually.

Then everyone's jaws dropped, everyone had the same thought in their minds "how could Mikan afford all this stuff? Well, hey maybe she'll throw in a nice pad to stay in too."

(And correct they were!)

EVERYONE WE'RE HERE!!! Narumi said excited… maybe too excited…

The still drowsy students stood from their seats and out of the bus. I think my ears are bleeding. Some said while getting out off the bus.

Mikan walked with Narumi. "Umm..Narumi-sensei did you really have to wake us up like that?"

Mikan asked checking if her ears were damaged.

"well no, but I had to let all that excitement out some way or another didn't I ?" Narumi said, "oh we're all going to have so much fun!!!! But mikan are you sure it's okay with you that our whole class is staying at your house?"

"oh its no trouble sensei, I would love them to stay at my house.. this will be the first time I'll be going back there in 6 years. It would be great to have my friends with me as I ……go there to pay my respects to my parents…and all my other relatives who……passed away….. and have some fun." Mikan said wiping the stray tears that came down her face.

Narumi just nodded. He knew her condition. She lacked love though she was so full of it she had no one to give it to.

When she enrolled , her school before had a full report of her situation.

She was 10 yrs old, she was given the choice of spending her summer vacation in Bora with the entire family or with her terribly sick grandfather in Taipei who wasn't allowed to travel long distances by his doctor.

She chose her grandfather. Her heart told her to go to him. She had so much fun spending her summer with her grandfather who took her to concert, plays, fashion shows and brought her anything she wanted. In short she enjoyed being spoiled by her grandpa. Until one night when her grand father came to her room and told her that the jet their family was taking to go to Taipei to pick her up crashed and none of them survived. She was to stay with her grandpa; he was the only family she had left. But after a month he died too. She was alone in a big mansion a group of companies to manage and every luxury life had to offer and she was 10 yrs old… and miserable. She had her entire family which composed of 28 people buried at their Huge back yard in Paris including her grandpa. After they were buried and were at peace she went back to Taipei to study, one of her teachers took pity on her and let her stay with her for a few nights then all of a sudden Mikan was with different FEMALE teachers per week. They said they didn't mind but Mikan knew she couldn't rely on the forever they have their own responsibilities to work. So she sold her grandfathers house for 4.5 million dollars and bought herself an apartment and hired an executive for the companies she would have to manage when she became older.