Chapter 6

Confrontation

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Author's Note: Hey guys hope you enjoy this. I am trying to post as much as I can. I'll be swamped once school starts again. Hope you enjoy it.

They just didn't understand why Mikan would hang around with that guy. It just didn't make sense. Why would a great and nice person like her stay with a delinquent like him?

What Mikan saw in Natsume was a mystery to the new students. To them, Natsume was simply a person who would skip classes and when he would attend, he didn't seem to bother to listen to the class at all. He has a horrible attitude, scary aura and cold demeanor. To them, Natsume was simply a person who apparently was 'good-looking' (according to his fanclub).

For a while they concluded that Mikan must have fallen for his handsome appearance but they knew better than that. Mikan wasn't the type to like people based on how they look like. She was more than that, so if it wasn't his handsomeness then… what could it be?

Ruka was another mystery to them. He was as nice as Mikan and whenever they bumped into him he would greet them kindly. One could easily tell that he has a good heart just by the way he acts. The problem with him is that he always goes with Natsume all the time. They are almost inseparable. The gang just wouldn't really know what is up with Natsume.

If Natsume was really this bad why does he have Mikan and Ruka by his side all the time? It always confused Yoh and company.

"Seriously…that guy is just really annoying." Yamato said "He didn't show up again."

"It's Natsume. You shouldn't get worked up. It happens all the time" Tai Chi said as he sighed. He too was still annoyed. Who could forget their first encounter?

"Hey guys. It's Mikan" Meruka pointed out.

"Mikan, over here!" Sora called to Mikan who had just entered the door. When the group closely looked at her they realized that she had dark circles under her eyes.

"Woah…late sleeper are we?" Yoh said as he continued to stare at Mikan's eye bags that weren't there yesterday.

"Oh hey guys" Mikan sleepily walked over "What's up?" she said stifling a yawn.

"Well we were worried that you didn't meet up with us in the ice cream parlor" Yamato explained.

"Oh no!" Mikan jolted "I'm so sorry! It's just something important came up. I just forgot."

"It's ok" Tai Chi replied "You did miss out though."

"Yeah, you should have seen the way Chihiro devoured her coffee ice cream" Sora said.

"Will you guys stop pointing that out?" Chihiro complained "I couldn't sleep because of that and I got a huge brain freeze."

"It's your fault you couldn't control yourself." Hitomi pointed out.

"Wow…I really wish I could have gone." Mikan said again "Let's do it another time ok?"

"Sure, what happened anyway?" Sora asked.

"Oh…well…I was with a friend" Mikan replied quietly as if she was trying to avoid this subject.

"Uh huh. Who is this so called friend of yours?" Yoh asked curiously.

"Well…I was with Ruka." Mikan explained.

"Let me guess…that means you were with Natsume too." Yamato concluded "Honestly Mikan, why?"

"Why?" MIkan asked.

"Yes Mikan. Why do you like hanging with that guy?" Tai Chi asked "He doesn't seem like the right type to hang with."

"Well…you guys actually don't have any right to say anything about him. You don't know him at all." Mikan defended.

"Trust me Mikan, just by how he acts. We kind of get the idea of who he really is." Sora explained "He gives off this horrible aura and he is super cold. He has disregard for the rules too."

"Well you guys probably don't know anything else. Did you know that he is a special star?" Mikan defended once again.

"A special what??" Chihiro asked

"A special star is another star ranking. It's the highest wherein Natsume is the only one in our department who has it. He in fact is our department's student principal." Mikan continued explaining. The thing was once she explained this the new students didn't speak. They had nothing to say. In Mikan's mind though she thought she had won the fight.

"So are you actually telling us that Natsume is a student principal and he has the highest star ranking possible." Yoh said cautiously

"Yes, both of those are correct." Mikan said in satisfaction. In fact she was lifting her head high in appreciation of herself.

"So that guy is now a corrupt leader who is probably full of himself." Yamato suggested.

"Seems like the type to do it." Hitomi concluded.

"I wonder what dirty tricks he did to get to where he is." Sora said

"Hey, hey guys. Haven't you heard of the benefit of the doubt?" Tai Chi explained.

"Finally!!! Someone isn't trying to bad mouth him." Mikan said after sighing in relief.

"Yeah" Tai Chi continued "His fans probably did the dirty jobs for him" after saying this, the rest laughed along too.

"Hey guys come on" Mikan said irritably "Well you quit saying all those things about Natsume! All you guys keep on saying is--" Suddenly the door opened but that didn't stop Mikan from continuing.

"Natsume is a jerk who likes to slum all the time. That he just got to where he was because he is a conniving person who does not care about anything but himself." Mikan continued ranting "He is a selfless, cold-hearted human being and…"

"And???" said a voice from behind Mikan. Mikan who has already tired of trying to defend her friend was even more irritated by this guy who just pops out of nowhere. He had no right to barge into her business where he has nothing to do with it. Not to mention interrupting her in the process. In fact she was going to tell him right now. With that Mikan turned around and said "LOOK HERE!!..." that's when she saw who it was "Natsume?"

"Mikan?"asked a shocked Ruka who was right beside Natsume. He honestly did not understand what happened and couldn't believe what Mikan said.

"So would you care to explain or would you like to continue your rant?" Natsume asked. In truth Natsume was seriously annoyed. He didn't even want to go to class but Ruka told him to go. Ruka kept on saying that it will worry everyone especially Mikan. So against his will he decided to go and opened the door to hear Mikan bad-mouthing him.

"It's not what you think!!!" Mikan shouted quickly "I was just telling my point!!"

"And your point is how much you hate me?" Natsume replied sharply.

"No, no look. I was just…" Mikan was just confused. What could she tell him now? She was stuck and in for trouble.

"Look Natsume! It's not Mikan's fault" Meruka suddenly said. This surprised everyone especially since they didn't think quiet Meruka would actually talk and come to Mikan's defense. "Mikan was simply defending you! She was just pointing out the rumors going around about and how they are so wrong about you. Then you suddenly came."

With that Natsume simply looked back and forth between the two and breathed out a little to calm himself. "And what brought her to say that?" Natsume asked Meruka.

Sadly Meruka didn't know what to say. She couldn't tell them that they have been talking about him and how Mikan was pointing the things that they said. Tai Chi who realized Meruka's panicked face decided to come to the rescue too.

"I was kinda talking about you." Tai Chi said after taking a deep breath.

"And so it was you, huh?" Natume said now turning his glare to him.

"Well truthfully we had the right to talk about you with the way you act so high and mighty." Hitomi then said bluntly.

"Hitomi!" Meruka scolded at her and even slapped her arm.

"Hn, You guys don't know a thing about me" Natsume then said after giving Hitomi a deadly glare. With that he simply walked away towards the door with Ruka following him. Ruka was looking back worriedly while doing so.

"Typical, just because you have the fire alice makes people want to fear you. I bet it isn't even that great." Hitomi continued as she continued to scrutinize him.

"HITOMI!" this time both Meruka and Chihiro scolded her.

Sadly the damage was done. Natsume who was already opening the door stopped in his tracks. In fact the whole classroom itself seemed to be getting warmer.

"I can say the same about you." Natsume turned to look at Hitomi "If you think your stupid nullification alice can beat mine then let's see."

"Hey back off! She was wrong to say that but you know her alice isn't an alice used for offense." Tai Chi came once again to the rescue.

"Yeah why won't you fight against somebody who can actually fight." Yoh decided to defend Hitomi too.

"Ok…fine…I accept that challenge" Natsume said with a smirk and a raise of an eyebrow.

"Excuse me!" Yoh asked "I didn't say I was the one challenging you"

"So are you expecting someone to come to the rescue now?" Natsume asked tauntingly.

"Natsume stop it!" Mikan shouted to stop what was sure to happen.

"And you are just so cocky." Tai Chi said while glaring at him.

"Then prove me wrong." Natsume then said "Later after school in the forest. I expect both of you guys" with that he left with Ruka tailing along and looking at Mikan as if they were sending each other messages of worry and panic. Natsume then left the room along with Ruka and slammed the door behind him.

"It's all thanks to your stupid mouth." Meruka said to Hitomi angrily and hit her on the head once again.

"Fine! I'm sorry. Just quit hitting me." Hitomi finally said while rubbing her head.