DISCLAIMER: I do not own GA.

CHAPTER 11: Birthdays are no big deal

It was a fine Friday morning when a crimson eyed boy woke up all because of the constant vibration of his phone. He slowly opened his eyes and grabbed his phone to see what the heck was the reason why he was woken up earlier than the expected time. His phone was bombarded with many messages from his teammates, classmates, relatives, Ruka, and some were from unknown people. All of the messages were the same and it was to greet him a very happy birthday.

"Tch. So it's already the 27th? Why do people make a fuss about birthdays and stuff?" he said to himself as he sighed. "This will be a looooong day." He continued as he stood up and got ready for school.

"I wonder where Polka is? She's usually the very first to annoy me in the morning during this time of year with her irritating voice singing a happy birthday song over and over." He thought as he was going down the stair as he noticed a note that was on the cabinet near the car keys.

"Onii-chan, I already went to school earlier since I forgot to tell you last night that I have morning practice for the cheerleading club today. I didn't want to disturb you last night since I know that you're tired from all of the practices and stuff so I didn't bother telling you. Ja. Mikan." Natsume read as he ate his breakfast.

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"What the? Could it be that Polka forgot that it's my birthday? Tch. Why am I even thinking of this? I don't even want to be greeted by people but how come I want Polka to greet me?" Natsume thought while he was driving his way to school as his phone rang. Once he knew that it was his mom, he picked it up.

"Happy Birthday, Natsume! How're ya doing? I'm so sorry that I'm not there at home for your birthday since I'll be coming back on January. Maybe I would be able to watch your game." Yuri greeted.

"Hn. Don't worry 'bout it okaa-san. And I don't want to celebrate birthdays anyway so it's no big deal. You could come home whenever you want, I don't mind." He clamly replied as he parked his car.

"Well, I gotta go now and I still have to do some paperwork. I love you." Yuri replied as she hung up the phone.

While walking around the campus, many people especially girls are greeting him but he just ignored them. Some are even giving him gifts bit he refused them all. "Geez. These girls never learn how to stop." He thought as he passed by Ruka.

"Happy birthday, Natsume. I see you're more popular than ever today. Hahah." Ruka greeted with a chuckle.

"Hn. Thanks and whatever. These girls are driving me crazy. What're you doing here?"

"Well, Mr. Jinno cancelled class since they have a faculty meeting. Wanna go somewhere else?" Ruka replied.

"Hn. As long as there are no people annoying the hell out of me just because it's my damn birthday."

"Ok, I know the perfect place." Ruka replied with a smirk as they walked towards the cheerleading gym.

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"What? Why on earth did you bring me here? You do know that this stupid place is filled with more girls." Natsume said while raising an eyebrow at Ruka.

"But it's the only place I know and these girls won't even bother you at all since they are all busy practicing and such. You know their coach. She's even worse than Coach Izumi." Ruka said while sitting on the bleachers as they both watched all of them.

"Go warriors rock the gym! Jump and shout so we can win! Go warriors! Yeah, yeah, Go warriors!" the cheerleading club sang and danced gracefully while doing all sorts of different flips and stuff.

They were both watching there but Natsume only has his eyes on Mikan. "Man, she's so darn good. She looks cute too in that cheerleading dress. No wonder guys are not allowed here, they might get nosebleeds all throughout." Natsume thought as he shook his head vigorously to stop himself to continue on from his little daydream.

"Is something worng?" Ruka asked.

"Nothing."

And then they heard the whistle of their coach. They were given a five minute break since they have finished the whole routine. Mikan then noticed that Ruka and Natsume were there so she went up to them.

"Ohayo guys! What're you doing here? Are classes cancelled?" she asked with a smile.

"Hai. Natsume and I decided to go here instead to watch you guys since we don't have our practice because coach Izumi is out." Ruka replied.

"Oh, okay then. So how was the routine? Do you like it?" Mikan asked the both of them.

"It was great." Ruka answered.

"Hn. It's quite amazing… for a baka." Natsume said with a smirk.

"Hmp.. I'll let you off for the insulting portion since it's your birthday today. Oh yeah! I almost forgot! Happy birthday Natsume-nii! I wasn't able to greet you earlier since I wanted to greet you in person. And since I went to school early, I wasn't able to greet you first."

"Hn. Whatever." Natsume replied but deep down he was happy since he what he thought that Mikan has forgotten his birthday was wrong.

"Why don't you have practice today onii-chan? I thought the competition between the warriors and the wolves are just months from now? It's in January right?" Mikan asked.

"Dunno, don't care at all." He replied while another whistle from Coach Takashi as she yelled so that everyone would assemble back to their places.

"Oh, Coach is already calling us. She'll be crazier than usual if we're not following her immediately. I gotta go. Ja." Mikan said as she ran back towards the crowd of other cheerleaders as they started their routine.

"Hey, Mikan sure is good, isn't she?" Ruka stated.

"Hn."

"Hey, what do you wanna do today? It's your birthday today. Wanna celebrate or something?"

"Hell no. you know very well that birthday celebrations are not my things. Birthdays are no big deal for me." Natsume answered.

"Okay then." Ruka said with a shrug. "We'll see about that Natsume. We've prepared something all for you."