A/N: Hey guys, all of your wonderful reviews helped to remind me why I like writing so much! So with that good feeling running through me I was able to produce the next chapter!
Ruka and Hotaru
"Hey Imai, how are we going to find them? They could be anywhere." Ruka asked Hotaru while turning to look at her with innocent unknowing eyes.
With the smallest of smiles playing on her lips, Hotaru explained to Ruka how she had created an invention that was able to track people she was around most often.
"Invention prototype #68, Idiot Finder, will find any person that I have a close relationship with based off of the picture I've inserted into the program. Since this is just a prototype it is not perfect and will therefore not lead us to the exact spot they are, but it'll get us close enough.
"We need to find the others though and get them to help us, we can't beat the organization with just the four of us no matter how strong Natsume thinks he is."
"I can send some of the forest animals to find them, that way we can wait here and make a battle plan."
Ruka whistled into the woods and ten owls appeared with in a few minutes. Ruka tied a piece of paper onto the note requesting the assistance of ten different kids and sent the owls off to find them.
"Good bye wonderful owls! Good luck, I can't wait to hear back from you!" Ruka called out running after them as they flew away looking back at him with goofy big eyes.
Click Click
"Thank you for the new pictures, these will certainly sell for a good price." Hotaru said with a glance at Ruka while she placed them somewhere for safekeeping.
Groaning Ruka walked over to a tree stump and sat down. Hotaru followed him over and together they began working on a battle plan.
The owls carried out their duty and eight students still at the academy banded together and made their way towards the place the note said to go.
"I just don't under stand why we have to save that girl, I barely know her but I don't like her."
"Yes but miss fan club pres, we get to save Natsume!"
Natsume and Mikan
Running around can certainly take a lot out of you and let me tell you, I don't have much energy left. Looking up I saw Natsume running in front of me, he was close enough that he could keep an eye on me but far enough a head that he would most likely be attacked first.
The way he runs and takes charge makes it seem like he's been doing it for years. Curious, I decided to approach him on the subject, "Ne Natsume? How do you know all of these battle skills?"
Natsume stopped running and looked back at me. He seemed to be looking around and when his eyes landed on a small area that was secluded but still open he led me there and I sat down on the dirt.
"At the Academy there are different ability classes like the Technology class, the Latent Class, the Somatic Class, the Special Abilities Class, and The Dangerous Abilities Class. When you're in the Dangerous Abilities Class like me you get put through rigorous training sessions with Persona. The class prepares you to go out on special missions for the school. That's how I've learned to survive on the run like this."
"But Natsume, why would they put you in the Dangerous Abilities Class, you don't seem that dangerous to me."
"Tch, don't you understand Polka? I could melt you to the ground right now if I wanted to. I would be a threat to the academy and its students if I decided to go rouge so they keep me under Persona's watchful eyes."
"You may be able to melt me to the ground but you won't. You're cold on the outside Natsume, and I'm sure there is some kind of pain hidden deep inside you but I will never consider you to be a threat to me because I know that you would never hurt me on purpose."
"You're just a stupid girl, what do you know."
"Stop doing that!"
"Doing what?"
"Every time we manage to have a somewhat serious conversation you manage to change the subject. You can't keep on living with everything bottled up!"
"Do not tell me what I need and don't need to do, I was doing perfectly fine until you came to this idiotic school and ruined my life."
"Ha, well excuse me. Do you think I wanted to leave the only relative I've ever known to come to this Academy just so that I could be attacked a countless number of times because my mother who I've never even met before was some special and powerful person, because I didn't want to. Oh and not only have I been attacked but I've been molested, and kidnapped and to make matters worse I'm running from a group of people who either want to use me or kill me with a childish boy who can't speak his feelings." I said glaring at him right in his eyes.
"You would be dead if I wasn't here. You should be glad, and if your not then maybe you should just go turn yourself in. That would be better then having you be here."
"Fine if that's how you feel then I am so gone. Goodbye Natsume." With that I began walking away in a general direction. I got pretty far before I felt a hand grab my wrist.
I assumed the hand was connected to the arm of someone working for the Organization so I turned around with a right hook and connected a solid punch to his or her face. Before I could even comprehend what was going on I was swung around and my back was forced against the trunk of a near by tree. I looked up to find myself looking into some of the coldest eyes I have ever seen.
"Natsume, there is so much pain in your eyes. I just want to help take it away."
The look he gave me sent a blush racing across my cheeks. Unable to keep looking in those amber eyes, I looked away. He slowly grabbed both of my wrists and pinned them above my head, I felt a knot twist in my stomach and I looked back at him.
The next thing I knew, his face was slowly closing in on mine and his lips captured mine in a forceful and yet gentle kiss. I could feel the hunger in his lips and I froze for a few seconds.
This was unbelievable. Just five minutes ago I thought he would never talk to me again and yet here he was kissing me.
As his lips began moving against mine, all the thoughts that had been in my head previously vanished and I replied to his kiss hungrily. Natsume pressed his body against mine and I could feel the bark of the tree digging into my back. I bucked my hips so that it too was closer to him. He released my hands and placed his own hands on either side of me so that I was trapped in the safety of his strong arms. I wrapped my now free hands around his neck and ran my fingers through his hair.
Using his shoulders as leverage I pulled myself up and wrapped my legs around his torso, loving the way we felt together. He seemed to realize that I needed air and so he moved his lips to my neck and began gently sucking the tender skin that was there.
I moaned a little and I felt him smile against my neck. I slowly detached myself from him and stood in front of him. Looking up with a blush playing on my face, I sent him a shy smile. I sunk down against the bark of the tree and he followed. I tucked my head in between his shoulder and chest and rested there for a while.
Natsume finally broke the silence and whispered in my ear, "I don't need you to do anything special to take the pain away. I just need you to stay by my side."
"I'm sorry Natsume."
"For what?" He seemed genuinely confused.
"I'll try to never leave your side again."