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MY FOE IS MY FIANCÉ?!

Chapter 5 MY FOE IS MY FIANCÉ?!

Written by Sarah Patrick

Mikan stormed across the canteen, pouting angrily as disbelief pang on her petite chest. She couldn't believe that she had made an astonishing discovery. 'MY FOE IS MY FIANCÉ?!' I don't believe this!! This must be a nightmare! Nightmare!!' And she started to run. She ran as she listened to her heart shattered into million pieces. The mysterious guy whom she was in love with all these years… who gave her supports and happiness… was actually that… Natsume Hyuuga?!

Natsumi Hyuuga was slapped with guilt… when he discovered that his brother was Mikan's fiancé, he laughed his heart out… He found it amusing for he had known that his brother hated the girl with all his life, then secretly in love with his fiancée without knowing that the girl was his fiancée!

"I hate you! I hate you!" the voice of Mikan Sakura booming through the canteen earlier echoed into their ears as they saw her pointing at Natsume. Natsume fell silent. He didn't say anything since he discovered that Mikan was actually his fiancée. That discovery was too irony which shocked him entirely. The once-cheery atmosphere in the canteen now thickened with worrisome and depression for the students found it unfavorable to see their beloved masters to fight. It was not their first time to witness Mikan and Natsume fighting. As a matter of fact, they knew that even thought they were fighting, it wasn't that critical. However, this was...

Mikan burst into her special star room and jumped on her soft queen size bed as she cried hard. To know that her fiend, her very foe… the only person on Earth she hated the most… the guy whom she always prayed that she has no relationship or whatsoever with… and to acknowledge this… it broken her heart… Mikan Sakura loved the so-call mysterious guy wholly. She had always waited for this very moment to meet him face-to-face and to tell him straight into his eyes how much she had loved him… but earlier just now, instead of saying those words…

"I hate you! I hate you!" was the only words she screamed out loud as she poured her heart content to him… Mikan sobbed harder. She couldn't and doesn't want to marry him! Mikan opened the drawers and tore each of the letters into bits and pieces. She hated him. She hated him! Channeling her anger and frustration at the lifeless pieces of letters as she tore them… she tore them with all her might and will… she doesn't want to see him anymore. She hated him!!

Mikan then buried her head into her arms again as she laid down on her bed… unaware the presence of a certain raven haired boy before the opening window… Natsume Hyuuga stood still as he leaned dejectedly against the wall outside the room close to the opening curtained window… He held his hands on his chest and his crimson eyes shut tight; feeling despair as he heard the letters where torn apart… which was ripping his heart too… for the girl he loved… hated him deeply….

For the next few days… which were also the last few days of schooling before the holidays started, Mikan had constantly arrived late for classes and also returned to her room quickly when the last bell rang. Everyone was aware of her avoiding Natsume as much as she could and only to talk to others but not Natsume. Mikan was pleased that her partner was not Natsume anymore. So, doing chores or experiments or exercises together with Natsumi was much more fun than with Natsume who had always skipped them all.

Even though Ruka loved Mikan, but to know that she was Natsume's fiancée made him to stop courting her to respect his best friend. Ruka even tried to start a conversation which would make Natsume and Mikan to talk to each other but nothing succeeded. Mikan would simply look away and the scary silence came strolling in after that… freaking Ruka out.

It was the last day of school, Natsumi and Mikan was doing their chores as that day was their turn. Mikan was dusting the blackboard while Natsumi arranged the table.

"Ano(Err) Mikan-chan," began Natsumi. After a week schooling there, his French accent had disappeared.

"Hmm," replied Mikan, not looking at him. Natsumi sat on the table and stare at her with his crimson eyes.

"Do you hate my brother that much ne?" he asked as he felt sad about it. Mikan hesitated as she stopped dusting at once. She was staring down hard on the ground.

"Yes," she muttered quietly and kept the feather duster in the closet behind the classroom. Natsumi was silent. Mikan was about to look at him when she realized something weird about him. Because Natsume and Natsumi were so alike that even the slightest details of their faces were almost identical… but to differentiate them was only to look them into their eyes and observe their hair… Natsume has deep crimson eyes and Natsumi's was brighter and shinier, likely to describe them as cerise colored. Natsumi's hair was slightly longer and curlier at every end than Natsume which was straight and slightly spiky… and the person who was standing in front of her was not Natsumi at all… it was Natsume. Mikan gasped.

"N-Natsume…" she muttered as Natsume approached her. She walked backwards… only to be pinned on to the wall. She went panicked and stunned.

"Do you hate me that much?" asked Natsume again as he looked down at the petite girl. He clenched his jaw in despair when he saw the hatred burn in her hazel eyes. She was speechless. She couldn't believe that Natsumi would trade in his place of duty for that day with his brother. She felt betrayed. Mikan's silence saddened him. "Tomorrow… even if you like it or not… you have to come to my house… we are still engaged if you didn't notice that,"

Mikan didn't answer him. She didn't want to look at him either.

"Get off me," she muttered quietly with the tone of loathing in her voice. Natsume bit his lips as his heart was crushed to hear her.

"No," he said as he lean closer to her. Mikan was scared.

"GET OFF ME!" she screamed and she slapped him hard on his cheek. She ran out of the class… leaving Natsume feeling devastated… his fiancée whom he loved so much… hated him deeply.

"I don't care! Cursed traditions or whatsoever… it's none of my business," yelled Mikan as she folded her arms and ignored the shock stare of her parents. Mikan parents were stunned to hear what Mikan had said. They had never heard her talked like that to them. Mikan had always been a good and obedient child.

"Are you saying that you already know who your fiancé is and you hate him, Mikan-chan?" asked his father, Dr. Shirou Sakura as he pressed his fingers on his lower lips. Mikan nodded. Her mother, Yuka and her father was taken back and stare at each other.

"How do you know him?" asked Yuka as she looked at her pretty daughter lovingly. She caressed her cheek gently.

"School," answered Mikan shortly. Yuka laughed shakily.

"There there Mikan-chan… you should know those are only rumours… furthermore… you don't even know what his name or who he is …" began Yuka but Mikan cut her.

"Natsume Hyuuga," she answered her curtly and her parents gasped.

"How do you know your fiancé is from Hyuuga family?" asked Shirou at once. He and his wife has promised not to tell Mikan about her fiancé for it was a little play they had with Natsume's parents just to make their child's love story to be interesting. This was not what they had in mind at all. If the Hyuuga's knew about this… how would they react?

"Because he is my schoolmate, my classmate, my foe,my ex-dancing mate, my ex-camp mate, my ex-partner, my ex-tutor… and I want him to be my ex-fiancé too!" snapped Mikan angrily. Her parents were speechless. They knew that Natsume went to the same school with Mikan but they didn't know that Natsume and Mikan were actually that close all these years… even as partners.

"Oh…" muttered Shirou quietly. "When you said he is your foe… do you mean that you have been fighting with him all this time?" he asked.

"YES! We had become enemies since the first day of school! Since that-that idiot… becomes a pervert!!" screamed Mikan. Her parents were shocked to hear her called him a 'pervert'.

"Pervert?!" gasped her parents in unison. "Oh my goodness!" cried her mother. She had taken the situation wrongly. So does her father. Yuka quickly walked towards her husband and they talked quietly in a corner.

"This is bad, Shirou. He's a pervert!" began Yuka with a worried tone.

"Does that means our precious daughter is no longer a virgin?" asked Shirou, disbelieve. He slapped his mouth in horror.

"I think so! I didn't know that both of them had in love this mad and wanted to be together this much…" gasped Yuka as sweat trickled down her neck.

"Did you hear how Mikan talked about him? She is actually trying to tell us the opposite! I think she really want to marry him fast!!" cried Shirou happily. "Kyoya would be happy to know this!!" His eyes glittered in happiness as he imagined Natsume's father's smiling face.

"I'll call Hikaru fast! She would be thrilled!!" cried Yuka as she ran towards her mobile phone to call Natsume's mother.

"I'll call Kyoya!" said Shirou as he too sped out of the room to reach his mobile phone, after a few clicks on the pad, then…

"KYOYA!!" boomed Shirou into the phone as he began to talk fast and animatedly about Natsume and Mikan… (Imagine Tamaki Suou and Kyoya Ootori from Ouran High School Host Club XDDD)

"You are too loud, Shirou. Slow down. Slow down," snapped Kyoya Hyuuga in annoyance at his best friend.

Mikan couldn't believe her bad luck. She was a little confused when she found herself standing in front of the Hyuuga mansion, when she remembered that she was in her large room of her massive bungalow just a few minutes ago. She stared at her parents angrily as they kissed her cheek and bid her goodbye. Her mother had abused her power as a mother and Alice user as she had brought her whole family from Fukuoka, Kyushu to Sappora, Hokkaido with the transportation Alice she had stolen with her Ability Theft Alice. After her parents left, she then turned and looked at Kyoya Hyuuga and his wife, Hikaru who both came to help her to bring her luggage in. She smiled at them sweetly. Natsumi ran towards her and greeted her.

"Mikan-chan! Glad you finally come!" said Natsumi happily. Mikan looked away, ignoring him.

"Traitor," she muttered dully as she began to walk away. Natsumi chuckled.

"Ah! Gomen ne! Natsume really really want to talk to you… and you kept running away from him… so that is why we switched place," explained Natsumi.

Natsumi paused, hoping for an answer but it didn't come.

"He's my brother you know… I, at least as his younger brother has to help him, don't I?" said Natsumi again; sadly. He knew exactly Mikan's weaknesses and used it to make her accept his apologies. Mikan felt guilty.

"Okay, okay… you're forgiven, Natsumi-kun," smiled Mikan sweetly as she laid her hand on his cheek and pat it playfully. They laughed as they walked at the flowery front yard towards the mansion. At the third floor in the dim lighted library, Natsume Hyuuga stared down at them through the window, wishing that he too could talk like that with Mikan. She was wearing a simple light pink dress with flowers embroiders and her hair lay loose with small clips on her hair… he thought that she looked pretty in them.

"Mikan-chan is here, Natsume-chan," called his mother lovingly at her eldest son as she entered the library. Natsume swiveled and smiled at his mother.

"Yes, okaa-san (Mother)… but okaa-san… would you do me a favour?" asked Natsume gently. His mother nodded. "Please don't call me with a –chan, okaa-san. Its embarrassing," said Natsume pleadingly as his mother patted his head.

"Fine then… I'll call you Hana-chan (flower) okay?" teased his mother with one of his nickname.

"Anything but not that too, okaa-san," said Natsume again now feeling worried if she decided to call him with his other nicknames.

"Teddy bear-chan?"

"No,"

"Chokoreeto-chan? (Chocolate),"

"No,"

"Okashi-chan? (Candy),"

"No,"

"Koneko-chan? (little kitten),"

"No… just Natsume, okaa-san… just Natsume, onegai (please)," begged Natsume at his mother. He felt embarrassed. His mother had always loved to tease her sons especially Natsume for she loves him very much.

"Oh… so the koneko-chan is here," teased Natsumi as he entered the library.

"Koneko-chan? Where's the kitten ne, Natsumi-kun?" chirped Mikan happily as she entered. She gasped as she saw Natsume. She was about to walked away when…

"Mikan-chan," called Hikaru, the twin's mother. Mikan walked towards her. She wished Natsume would just walk away from the woman but instead he just stood there beside his mother. Mikan bit her lips.

"Yes, O-Obasan (Aunty)," began Mikan as she looked at her. She could feel Natsume's eyes were piercing through her face. Hikaru smiled at her.

"I hope you would enjoy this one month holiday with us, Mikan-chan. If you need anything, don't hesitate to ask, okay?" assured Hikaru. Mikan smiled at her and nodded.

"Yes, Obasan," she chirped. Natsume was hurt for Mikan doesn't even want to look at him. He knew that they had hated each other since elementary but yet secretly in love each other without knowing it since elementary too. It saddened him to know that Mikan choose her hatred over their love. 'Can't you just let that enmity aside and be with me already?!' Natsume sighed inwardly and was about to walk away when his long sleeves got caught by accident on Mikan's dress.

"S-Sorry," he muttered quickly as he tried to undo the loosen thread from his sleeve.

"I'll d-do it," she said quietly as she slapped his hand lightly and she untangled the knot. Unaware by the couple that they are now alone in the library for Hikaru and Natsumi had left them.

"Tsk. That hurt, polka dots," he snapped at her, receiving an angry glare from her in reply. Mikan then went back to the knot as she doesn't like the idea to get stuck with Natsume. Natsume on the other hand, was taking this opportunity as he stared down at her with his crimson eyes. His heart lightened to see her pretty face. He had never known that Mikan has smooth fair skin for all these years; he had never cared about anyone at all.

'Curiosity might kill the cat' for he suddenly wanted to feel her red lips… Unnoticed, Mikan bit her lips as she tried harder to untie the knot. It was somewhat, stuck. She needed a pair of scissors. She was trying to search for one when her chin was cupped by him and his lips were on hers… kissing her gently…

Mikan was stunned.

"Na—" began Mikan but he deepened his kiss. Mikan tried to push him but his arms held her tight. Just then the door clicked opened.

"Mikan—" began Natsumi but he was shocked to see Natsume was kissing her. Jealousy and anger took over him entirely. He ran towards Natsume and punched him. Mikan fell into his arms as she began to cry.

"SHE DOESN'T LIKE IT, NATSUME!" yelled Natsumi as he held Mikan tightly in his arms. Natsume who was on the floor, glared at his brother as he wiped the stain of blood at the end of his mouth… for he noticed that Natsumi wasn't actually so-call protecting Mikan from him… He wanted her for himself.

TBC!

Okay. Natsume might be OOC here, but if we are talking reality, he should act like that, am I right? Hmm, I don't know... The question now is… Does Mikan love Natsumi? What do you think? Should I write it that way? This story must end as Natsume x Mikan, btw.

If you don't mind, characters from 'The Ugly Duckling' will/might appear in every story I am writing now. So far, they had appeared in two other stories. They might appear in here too. I love my OC. You can use them if you like. Tell me if you did. I really want to read them. ... Well, some of you did and I am happy!—The Hyuuga twins and the Akira twins! Arigato!

Anyways, I really hope you enjoyed reading this chapter minna. Thanks to those who send your reviews.

Don't forget to read my new fanfic which I published earlier today—'Bestowed Upon You' (A HotaRuka fanfic with supporting character of NatsuMikan) Okay. I should start writing 'The Ugly Duckling' now. Maybe I could update that tonight…

Now, Review!

--Sarah Patrick