As Mikan and her group watched, riveted by the sight, a bean in the palm of Narumi's hand suddenly morphed into the form of a whip, and he immediately attacked the boy, further appalling Mikan and her band mates.
The whip slapped away the cat mask from his face, and he fell with a thud on the ground. Apparently, the whip delivered quite a nasty blow, causing him to fall unconscious.
Perturbed, Mikan and her friends rushed over to him to see if he was all right.
His flawless skin and handsome face immediately caught Mikan's attention, leading her to blush at some point.
To her amazement, Nigel put his hands over the boy's chest, which instantly, glowed a mysterious white light.
"W-What are you doing??", Mikan asked, her face pale with alarm.
Nigel didn't answer her question, but said, "Don't worry, he's going to be alright..".
The other band mates nodded in acknowledgement, and for the first time, Mikan noticed that there was something they weren't telling her.
"What's going on here you guys??", she asked, suddenly angry, and worried.
Pierre looked at Mikan, and was about to say something, when Narumi-sensei interrupted him.
"Mikan-chan, how would you like to attend this Academy??", he asked.
For a second, Mikan forgot about the problem at hand and said, "Does that mean I get to see Hotaru??".
"All the time you want.", replied the teacher.
Mikan shouted with glee, as the men watched her with silence.
"In that case, let's get this guy inside before anyone comes along and sees this…", Gary spoke with authority, and Narumi-sensei proceeded to carry the knocked-out teenager into the school.
Unbeknownst to the people around him, the boy Narumi-sensei carried over his shoulder was actually half-awake.
He heard crickets chirping from the school grounds together with some guys following from behind the platinum-blonde teacher, chuckling and talking to one another.
"Oh great. I'm caught..", he thought to himself grimly in the back of his mind.
His mood was then completely lightened by the sound of some girl giggling...
He couldn't hear what she was giggling about, but the sound of her hushed happiness had a soothing effect over him since it somehow lulled him back to sleep in the process.
His only final thought was: Who is she?
"Hotaru!! We shall meet again soon!!", Mikan kept muttering to herself, sitting on one of the red couches in the waiting room they were lead into by the teacher.
The boy was lying down on another couch, fast-asleep, so she didn't have anything to worry about.
Narumi-sensei and the others have left her alone with him, saying they had some things to discuss about with the paperwork, and that they needed someone to watch over the guy in case he does something...rash.
Why they decided to appoint Mikan as the chaperone, she had no idea, but the fact she got to see Hotaru again made her so happy, she just wasn't in the mood to start complaining.
She stared at the pictures taken of her with Hotaru in her photo album, and was reminiscing through the memories they had together when, all of a sudden, somebody pulled her hair from behind. (: She does not have pigtail here, by the way. In this scene, she has a ponytail.:)
"Who are you?", growled her captor.
Mikan blinked and saw that it was the boy who they carried to the school. She didn't answer.
"I asked, 'Who are you?'!! Are you too dumb to answer??", he growled once more.
But Mikan wasn't listening. Not really anyway, since she was more aware of the awkward position they were in.
Finally finding her voice, she quickly protested by saying, "Get off me, you stupid perverted pig!!", as she tried to squirm away from his surprisingly strong grip.
Natsume reddened at the accusation in anger and said, "Who are you calling pervert, weirdo? As if anyone would attempt to molest an ugly girl like you!".
Overall, Mikan was a sweet, nice and caring girl(though quite daft), but insult her too much, and she'll become your worst enemy.
"HOW DARE YOU CALL ME UGLY, YOU POMPOUS JERK!", she yelled back at him.
Natsume was taken aback by her sudden outburst that he accidentally lost hold of her, and they both ended up falling off the couch and onto the ground.
It was the first time Natsume ever got contradicted by a girl, and insulted at the same time, too, so all he had to say was:
"Whatever, polka-dots."
As predicted, another volcanic eruption is on its way, or in other words, let the flames begin.
I was honestly gonna write more, but I gotta go study..
RxR if you can...
(BTW, in case you're wondering why this story was named "Pressured" in the first place, it's because this story is going to have Paramore stuff in this..)