DISCLAIMER: I do not own GA.

CHAPTER 15: A whole day with my brother

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Natsume then opened the door revealing a brunette wearing a white pleated mini skirt and a pink halter top with matching pink doll shoes.

"What do you want?"

"Natsume-nii, would like to go to the mall with me? Pretty please? Hotaru can't come with me since she told me that she would the rest of the day with Ruka so I have no one else to accompany me." Mikan asked.

"No." Natsume responded. "Just bring mom along or even that little housekeeper. I wanna sleep."

"Puhleeeeease??? " she pleaded with one of her cute pouts that no one can really resist. "Okaa-san needs to rest since she just arrived from her flight and Reika-san has a lot of house duties to do. So could you please go with me?"

"Ugh. Fine." Natsume said as he sighed in defeat. "Just quit the pouting act. It annoys me." he said as they both drove off to mall while Mikan was being all hyper. "Baka." He murmured.

"Huh? Did you say something onii-chan?"

"Nope. You must be hearing things." He replied with a smirk.

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They were both walking around the mall while some people were staring at them all saying the same thing: "They are a cute couple." They just both ignored it since they knew that it was not true but deep down in their hearts they somehow wished for it to come true.

Mikan was strolling around while Natsume was just beside her until a cute dress caught the attention of her eye. She then came into that store while he was dragging Natsume along with him.

"Tch. I told you I don't wanna go in." He said while glaring at her.

"Oh c'mon. just sit there while I check out the cute dress. You would just look stupid if you just stand there at the entrance doing nothing while you wait for me to finish." She replied. "And besides, I need someone to tell me if the dress looks good on me or not."

"Tch. Baka. Why would you ask me? I don't know a thing about dresses and stuff and you know that."

"Whatever. Just tell me if it's good or not, okay?" she said with a smile as she entered the fitting room.

"Baka. No matter what attire you wear, you'd still look stunning to me." he thought as Mikan was fitting her dress on.

After a few minutes of waiting, Mikan finally came out of the fitting room. The dress fit her perfectly revealing all of the fine curves of her body. It was spaghetti strapped type of dress which was light pink. It reached about two to three inches about her knee and it has Sakura patterns embroided on it. Natsume just stared at her thoroughly. "Damn! She looks so beautiful!" he thought.

"Well, how do I look?" Mikan asked while twirling right in front of him as he was cut off on his little daydream.

"Looks nice… for a baka." He said with a smirk.

"You meanie. It would have been nicer if you didn't say the last three words! Hmp!" she said as she went back to the fitting room to put on her casual clothes. "But either way, I'll still take this dress. It looks so kawaii! I love it!"

They were now on the cashier as Mikan was about to pay for the dress. She was just about to get her wallet when Natsume placed his credit card on top of the cashier table. "I'll pay for it." He said.

"Huh? Why? Are you sick or something? You've never brought something for me on your entire life." Mikan said as she chuckled for a bit.

"Baka. Do you want the dress or not? Just take it as your early birthday present if you don't wanna get ot for free." He explained as he took the paper bag and then gave it to Mikan.

"Thank you, sir. That dress will look perfect for your girlfriend." The cashier said while handing him the bag. "oh, no ma'am. He's my brother." Mikan replied while blushing for a bit.

"Oh, gomen ne. it's just that you two looks so good together so I thought you were an item. Sorry for that." She apologized.

"It's alright. No harm done anyway." Mikan replied with a smile as they walked out of the store.

After a few moments, Mikan then dragged Natsume to an ice cream stall. Mikan brought 2 ice creams, one was strawberry and the other one was chocolate. "Here, take this." She said as she gave him the strawberry ice cream.

"I don't want one. I don't eat sweets." Natsume replied.

"Just take it onii-chan. I know you love anything strawberry so eat it. And it's the least I could do for buying me that dress." She said as Natsume took the ice cream and then started to eat it.

"Ano… onii-chan? What would you do if you have to make a decision that could probably change your whole life?" Mikan suddenly asked.

"Why ask me something like that all of a sudden?"

"Betsuni. It's just that you always seem to know the right decisions to make so I asked you." she replied. "Oh, you have some ice cream on the side of your lip." She continued as she pointed to her cheek. Natsume then took out his hanky and wiped it off but he was wiping the wrong direction so in the end, Mikan was the one to wipe it off with a little chuckle.

"What's funny?" he asked as he glared at her.

"Nothing. It's just that you still eat ice cream in a messy way. I guess that's something that you'll never improve. Hahah."

"And that's the darn reason why I don't want one in the first place." He replied. "And my answer to your stupid question would be it depends."

"Eh? What do you mean by it depends?" Mikan asked curiously.

"Baka. It depends on the situation that I'm in. Before I make any type of decision, I make it a point whether someone will be involved along the way. Why'd you ask anyway?"

"Nothing. Hahah." Mikan replied with a nervous laugh. "Uhm… Natsume has a point. But what'll happen when I decide? If I choose to be a Hyuuga, everything will stay the way it is right now, including these weird feelings that I feel for Natsume. If I choose to be a Sakura instead, some people will get confused like my other friends. And if ever that I'll return to where Miyu-san is, okaa-san, Reika-san and even Natsume will be lonely." She thought as she sighed.

"What're you sighing about? It's irritating you know." Natsume said while looking at her with concern.

"Betsuni. I was just thinking of something." She replied.

"Whoa. For once, the baka was actually thinking. I never even knew that you could actually do that." Natsume said with a smirk.

"You meanie! Hmp! Since you're done with the ice cream, shall we go home now? I'm tired already." Mikan said while standing up.

"Who wouldn't be tired? You almost dragged me into every damn store in this damn mall." Natsume retorted. "Let's go flower prints. It's getting late."

"Okay. Huh? Flower prints? KYAAAAA!!!! Get back here you perverted moron!" Mikan yelled while running after Natsume who was now on the way to the parking area.

"Baka." Natsume muttered. "Whatever you were thinking about, I'll find out about it soon enough. I just hope that the thing that you're hiding from me is not something disappointing."