Author's Note: I'm very sorry to all the readers who wants me to update this story before. I was soo busy during the few weeks of my school...I have issues with my family.
My big sister wake me up in the middle of 4 a.m this week and yelled -GET YOUR LAZY A# ON THE CHAIR AND START TYPING!!!- that's is something that I didn't want to remember -but I remember it anyway-.
Sorry for the late update... Big sis is not at home, so I think I take a peak at her story 'My Own Maid Doll' (just hope she didn't find out or else...)
Anyways...
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL THE VIEWERS WHO REVIEWED AND READ MY STORY!!!
I was shock to know that two of my favorite author also read my story -thanks and bows-
In return, I gave you chapter five as a sincere gratitude of mine..
Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice
Chapter Five: Me, And My Bestfriend
A pair of violet eyes stares blankly at the sky outside the windows. Blueprint of various inventions plan scattered all over a huge desk.
She was tired from her works. Yes, Hotaru Imai was busy doing her works.
"Miss Hotaru, would you like me to assist you or make some tea? Does paper works tired you? I can massage your back then"
"No thank you Amanatsu. I will appreciate it if you just let me some alone time"
"I guess I'll arranged the storage room"
The inventor doesn't seem to bother any of her robot's doings. She seems too preoccupied with the brightness shined by the sun from the outside.
"Miss Hotaru, did something bothering you?"
"…"
Seeing that she might not bother answering the question, Amanatsu made her way out from the room and headed to the storage place.
After a long paused, Hotaru take a seat near her working table and opened the drawer. Inside it lay letters that someone sends her and a picture.
Hotaru take the picture and put it on the table. It was a picture of Hotaru and her brunette haired friend when they were their third year at the academy.
"That Baka…"
Hotaruuu……
"But then, I felt lonely without her running around…"
Flashback
"Hotaru, who is your best friend?"
"Me"
"How about your second best friend?"
"Third?"
"Me"
The girls were walking at a snowy pavement. It was the time for the snow to fall from the sky.
After a while, Mikan finally stopped asking question that is silly to Hotaru's ears.
"How come you say that the most 10 best friends of yours is yourself? You even say that you only loved yourself more that anybody…"
"That's because you are annoying…"
"GRRR…How dare you! Fine, I'll find myself lots of other best friend…" Mikan was disappointed by the answer that was given to her. She began to sob from the sadness.
Suddenly, a snowball hits her right on her face.
"Stop crying…you're annoying"
"But…Hotaru…"
She stared at her blankly then turns her head to the other side.
"Don't cry, your face just look so ugly when you cried"
"What! How could you be so mean?" Mikan was angry but cut off by the next words spoken to her.
"I liked it much better when you smile. When I saw you smiling, it somehow eased the pain that I've holding inside me…"
The tangerine named girl look at her emotionless best friend. She almost believe she's gone deaf, but this IS Hotaru Imai we're talking about, she is too complicated for people understand.
"Oh, Hotaru, you're just too deep for me o to know!" Mikan threw herself for a hug. With a grin plastered on her face, Hotaru just think how naïve Mikan is.
"Ah! Get off me…"
End Of Flashback
Mikan was smiling widely in the picture while Hotaru…let's just say this she like her picture taken in her calm demeanor.
It's unbelievable that the so called Ice Queen or Cold-Hearted Blackmailer would let somebody to be that close to her.
Among many peoples that she knew, Hotaru never being friendly except for a few exception. Mikan Sakura, the girl with chestnut hair and warm smiles, is one of those exceptions.
'Although I hate to admit it, but that baka and I spent so much time together…'
She slightly chuckled but turn sadness at the thought of the memories when they were young.
It was 5 years ago, a day before the Alice Festival main event…the Last Dance. Ruka finally admit his feelings toward Mikan but she just stuck there dumbfounded.
Then, Mikan did the last thing that she can think of, asking her best friend for an advice.
"Hotaru…I have something to talk to you…"
'And I answered her nonchalantly'
"I don't have time for this. Can't you see I'm busy?" Hotaru was practically busy with her client request for new inventions.
Mikan insist for Hotaru to listen to her.
"Oh please…I don't have anybody to talk to…I promise I won't bother you!". Hotaru seems bored to see the whining face her best friend gave her since she already know the upcoming topic.
She stops and stares at her plans, but not facing Mikan, "so, what is it?"
"Well, you see…it's about Ruka-pyon…he"
"Is he asking you to be his date for the 'Last Dance'?"
"Well…yeah…but how do you know about that!?"
"It's obvious that you're too readable. Besides, they didn't call me a blackmailer for nothing" speaks her, still not turning her to the dumbfounded Mikan, "Now speak"
"Just like you say…Ruka-pyon just asked me about it. But I can't accept his offered. He said he gave some time to think about this before the dance. I know that he is Natsume best friend but I couldn't be with him since Natsume and I are already in relationship. If Ruka-pyon finds out about this, he will be broken-hearted to find his best friend had been keeping something from him and Natsume won't be happy about this! What should I do! What should I do! What should I do?!" Mikan starts panicking and running around the room.
BAKA! BAKA! BAKA!
"Stupid…"
Hotaru sigh heavily. What do you expect from a childish happy-go-lucky like Mikan is?
"You should tell him the truth…it wouldn't hurt him that much"
"But…"
"Mikan, you can't lie to him forever…"
'I was jealous at her back then…to get attentions from two guys at the same time, you're just too dense to know their feelings'. Yes, Hotaru Imai WAS jealous at Mikan.
"Mikan…you stupid idiot…" a drop of tear fell onto the frame, "You just follow me wherever I go, even though in the end you will gain nothing in return…"
She remembered the last thing that Mikan said to her before going to her mission…
Flashback
"Hotaru, I'm going to my mission again today! I hope you'll wait to me!" the thirteen-year-old brunette was standing in front of the half open door of the famous Hotaru Imai. She always meets her best friend before going to her missions because Mikan feared that this will be the last time they'll meet.
"Yeah…but you have to pay me for that. By the way, be careful…"
"How could you think about money at a time like this?!"
"Simple, you owe me. Don't forget that they promoted you into a special star, so it won't trouble you that much to pay what you borrowed from me"
Mikan stared at Hotaru with twitching eye brow, angry at her. She was angry at her friend's commitment towards their lovely/weird friendship.
"Besides, Ruka will kill me if he knows that I'm blackmailing him…are you done? I'm sleepy right now"
"Why you! HMPH! Hey, you should tell him that you like him! Or he will never know about you keeping feelings towards him" Mikan stated in a matter-of –fact tone, crossing her arm with a sly grin on her face but raised a brow at her.
"What?" she was taken back by Mikan. How does she know about this?
"One more thing Hotaru, take this" she handed her two books, "There's something special inside it…"
"What's this? And how you know"
"I'm your best friend. I'm asking you to take care this for me and please be true to yourself! Bye!" said Mikan and she run across the dormitory before transporting herself using her transportation Alice to the meeting place.
Hotaru watched her best friend's disappearing figure, she wore a slightly blush o her face, embarrassed by her discovered affection toward a certain blond haired boy.
'Why did I have this feeling that…I will never see her again?'
There's a feeing inside her who keep saying that this will be the last time she will face Mikan and her smiles…
"Bye Hotaru…"
End Of Flashback
"Why…why did you leave…Baka…you such an idiot!" more tears fall from her violet eyes.
Natsume Hyuuga values Mikan as the one he loves the most and vowed to protect her.
Friendship is what Nogi Ruka gain from Mikan when she didn't return the feelings he gave her.
To a cold girl like Imai Hotaru, at first she thinks Mikan is an annoying, clueless and clumsy. But when she saw those smiles, her felt relief from all the troubled that chained her.
From time to time, these feeling grow and in the end, Mikan end up as one of the person she cared in her whole life. Hotaru was glad that she did not turn out like her brother did, turning into somebody who forget everything about the family that he have.
Mikan is like the sun that shined her darken heart whenever she felt alone, despair and unhappy. Mikan is the person who tried her best to understand her.
But she left her, leaving with a dying message. This left Hotaru heartbroken. She pours all her feelings only to Ruka.
Hotaru Imai was unhappy…the one that she cared the most had left her.
"Hotaru, I will forever stay by your side forever. I will treasure this friendship that you gave me…Thank you so much. So please don't be sad, I promise…
that I will…
forever…
stay
by your side…
forever…"
Author's Note: I really sorry if this chapter was short...I made this chapter especially for Mikan and Hotaru friendship. It's not really fair if my story only involve Mikan and Natsume's moment, I really adored Hotaru's characteristic.
Please Read and and Review! It will cheered me up if you did. Tell me if I had any mistake, I will try to improve it! Oh, here's a hint for the upcoming chapter six:
"She's fine compare to that Mukouka, that girl had trouble controlling her Alices at the same time. I think My Lady will fix this for us"
Sorry,but that's all I can give you. I'm really busy with my upcoming fic 'Valentine Oh Valentine!'. Visit my profile if you to know more. Anyways, thanks for reading and again, please review if you can! If there's looking suspicious or you didn't understand, PM me about it and if I can, I will give you the answer... Bye!