Chapter 5
Author's Note: If there is one thing you should know about me it's that I'm indecisive. Sorry…Can't say if it's the last one till it's over. Please enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice
When Mikan woke up she felt so relaxed and happy. She felt the sun slowly glowing and warming on her face as she sighed in content and stretched out on the bed. When she stretched out on her bed though, she gasped as she realized that it wasn't her bed. She jolted up from her lying down state to survey the massive large bed she was on. It took her about a second to remember the events that had happened yesterday.
It took her another full second to jolt up and look at the sofa where Natsume should be lying on. To her surprise though Natsume wasn't there and she was freaking out. What could possible have happened to him? She was already half way through the possibility of the crazy fan girls kidnapping him till she heard the bathroom door opening and lo and behold Natsume was there clad in his uniform with one of his hands in his pocket. Natsume then slowly glanced at Mikan. He looked away in an instant and slowly walked towards the sofa and plopped on it and continued to sit on it till he glanced at her and gave an impatient look.
"I guess that must mean that it's my turn to change and he's simply waiting for me." Mikan thought. Mikan then sighed out loud while closing her eyes and slowly got off the bed and entered the bedroom. It didn't surprise Mikan at all though when she saw her clothes and her items to be used. Natsume was always like this. Whenever she got sick he would always think of everything. He would come in with soup and warm meals and armed with movies and TV shows that would cheer her; even the ones that would make him gag.
Mikan finished around ten minutes later and simply walked out and looked at Natsume who seemed not to move a single inch. Once Mikan closed the bathroom door behind her Natsume suddenly stood up and opened the door. Mikan hurriedly ran before he could close the door but surprisingly Natsume was still there holding the door open for her. "Old habits die hard?" Mikan thought as she glanced at Natsume when she exited the door.
Natsume then simply closed the door after her and walked beside her without saying another word. Mikan walked on without any clamor or any sign of irritation but deep inside she was dying with unanswered questions. "Is he still mad? Did, him giving me the bed mean anything? Is it possible that he still cares or did we break up the moment we had that fight? Is it possible that I'm single?" After thinking about these, Mikan's eyes widened then quickly darted to Natsume to see if he was showing even the slightest emotion. Once again, though Natsume's face was void of any emotion causing Mikan to feel a slight disappointment as she hoped that maybe this was affecting him in any way too.
Mikan lost in her thoughts hadn't realized that she had already exited the dormitories until the bright sunlight glowed onto her face making her squint reflexively. After adjusting to the sudden burst of sunlight Mikan then took in her surroundings. The clouds in the sky were so fluffy. It was as if they were made up of poofy cotton balls or better yet white howalon. "Hmm…Howalon…When was the last time I had Howalon?" Mikan thought happily and finally remembered "Ahhh! Yes I had it two weeks ago. I remember I waited in line for so long but to my dismay the Howalons were sold out again. I just sighed and when I turned around to leave, Natsume was there holding a box of Howalon. He simply gave it to me and smiled as he said 'I knew you would be too slow to get it.'" The memory though ended up causing her happy smile to slowly droop back to her serious and sad face. There probably wouldn't be anymore of surprise Howalons for her now.
Mikan didn't let this get to her. She then scanned the rest of the surroundings around her and looked at the green forest. She smiled at just amazing the forest was. It was incredible how it was so big, mysterious and magical. She would get lost in there a lot of times. Mikan then remembered when she got lost for the school dinner. She ended up being lost for who knows how long and she knew she was keeping her friends waiting the whole time.
It was a really cold night and she didn't expect to get lost in the forest. She told Hotaru to go ahead because she thought that she already knows the academy by heart. Apparently the forest was another story. She went in thinking it would be a short cut but sadly it resulted her in an even harder situation. She was all alone in the dark which resulted for her to be wary of any noises thus resulting in constant screaming and tripping on rocks and twigs as she ran away in terror. Mikan eventually gave up, sat down and laid her back on the tree. She was stuck in this terrible area and she would just have to wait because she could probably find some way to put herself in even more mortal peril if she continued walking. Mikan simply sighed and closed her eyes when a voice startled her.
"Are we just chilling now?" said the red eyed boy who was leaning on the tree across from her. His eyes were raised in a curious fashion but Mikan could sense his worried aura. "You do realize that the dinner isn't held in the garden?" Natsume said obviously trying to tease her.
"Sorry..." Mikan simply said while trying to stand. "It's hard to believe but I actually got lost…It's a big forest."
"Of course I knew you were lost." Natsume said while rolling his eyes. "I wouldn't be surprised either if you said you saw a bunny and tried to follow it to its hole so you can fall into wonderland."
"THAT WAS ONE TIME!" Mikan complained as she finally stood up and glared at Natsume. "Besides the school is named Gakuen Alice remember. Who knows maybe Alice started the school in the first place and named it after herself? Wonderland could exist!" Mikan defended herself.
"Mikan your name means tangerine. It doesn't mean that you were born from a tangerine does it?" Natsume clearly said destroying Mikan's explanation to bits. Mikan simply pouted, turned her face away from him not wanting to look at him. Sadly Mikan picked the wrong person to do it with. Natsume is the champion at giving people the cold shoulder and she knows that it would be useless to see who would break first.
"So are we going or not. The dinner will be over by now." MIkan said while looking at Natsume. "It's my fault that you're over here while you could be at that dinner with everyone." Natsume then simply walked towards to where Mikan was then sat down.
"I don't feel like it. It's full of useless talk anyway. I'm done with talking. I should congratulate you for finding this peaceful place." Natsume said, while leaning on the tree and closing his eyes.
Mikan simply looked at Natsume and smiled. She knew that he just wanted to spend time with her so she simply sat down beside him and leaned on him in silence.
Mikan once again snapped from her memory and felt her feeling down once again. "Silence…" Mikan simply thought as she looked at Natsume. Back then during the forest scene that silence was comfortable now it was awkward and scary. There goes another happy memory down the drain. Since when did her happy memories now revolve around Natsume?
When Mikan looked at her surroundings once again her heart received a jolt when she saw that the guards have suddenly appeared out of nowhere. The reality that they were back meant that she would have to face the fan girls once again. "Stupid fangirls." Mikan thought with hatred "Needy idiots. All of a sudden forming huge murderous crowds. Why don't they find their own boyfriends?"
While Mikan was lost in thought about the annoying and crazy fan girls she and Natsume had already arrived in the school building. The only time when Mikan was able to finally snap out of it was when the shrill sound started vibrating and echoing through the halls. Mikan looked up with a jolt to see the fans who lined the walls. They were all there wide eyed and giggly as they talked with one another. Mikan noticed certain things about them though. One would be the fact that they were all holding different types of presents from stuff toys, cards, cookies and brownies. She heard their giggles about how they wanted to give them to Natsume. She heard about them wanting to speak to him. Mikan could have sworn that she even heard some people saying they tried to spike his orange juice. "Good luck to them" Mikan thought as she knew how tight security was.
Speaking of security Mikan also noticed something strange about the girls. They were all lining the walls but neither one of them placed a single toe closer than that. Mikan knew right away that it was due to the guards. It was either because they were traumatized from yesterday or there was a shield guarding them. Mikan instantly knew the reason though when she saw a girl screaming and running at them from the end of the hall. You can see the hunger in her eyes as she headed towards them and Mikan couldn't help but instinctually glance at Natsume to see his reaction. Natsume was completely relaxed though which caused Mikan to think in a state of confusion. "How can he be so relaxed? She looks crazy and she's after him!" Mikan thought.
The girls was already too close and Mikan was about to grab Natsume's arm and cringe in pain, when it happened. The crazy girl slammed into the invisible force field and by the fact that she was running like a gazelle she hit it pretty hard. What's worse was that for some reason the barrier had some kind of electric element to it. Mikan cringed as she saw the girl's hair frizz up and the girl was left jerking on the floor. The other fan girls who lined the walls simply cringed and said "oooohhhh". Mikan wasn't sure though if they were cringing because of the girl or because they could have seen themselves in that position.
Natsume wasn't fazed at all by this though. Mikan watched him from her peripheral vision and saw that he simply looked at the girl and continued walking on as if nothing happened. Mikan rolled her eyes realizing how typical it was on Natsume. After all he used to burn her all the time without a flinch.
It wasn't long till Natsume and Mikan finally reached their destination, the dining hall. Natsume and Mikan simply sat down on the table as if everything was back to normal. Natsume went for his breakfast despite the fact that his table was surrounded by tons of guards and practically the whole girl population of the school was goggling at him. Mikan tried to look like she didn't care as she stood up straight and tried to concentrate on her breakfast. The sad thing was she couldn't help but hear random people start talking about her.
"Great she's with him again. I can't believe they got the nullifier to go with him. Poor Natsume, having to stay with a girl like her I don't think I can stand it. She must be feeling so good about herself." She heard one say. Mikan hearing this clutched at her fork in her hand.
"Poor girl she actually might think she has a chance with him. She should realize that just because she's protecting him doesn't make her any better or closer to her. She should be set straight about it." She heard another say, now Mikan was annoyed.
"What does she mean 'has a chance with him'?" Mikan thought angrily "I'm his girlfriend! I have a better chance then all of them combined. Stupid girls should know when they have no chance!" Mikan then glared at the girls who said those words which surprisingly made them gasp and turn away from them. "That was new…Oh no…I've been with Natsume for way too long…I'm glaring like him…" Mikan thought but her thoughts were disrupted as she heard an irritated groan.
"Are you kidding me?" Ruka complained as he saw Mikan and Natsume. "See Hotaru! I told you that you took so long. We were beaten by Natsume and Mikan and they have fan girls chasing them." Ruka said while looking frustrated at Hotaru.
"If you won't shut up Ruka I swear I'm going to push you into that crowd of fans and yell out Natsume's best friend up for grabs." Hotaru said while sitting down and taking a drink out of her glass of water. Ruka simply looked at Hotaru in horror and sat down without another word.
Mikan would have laughed at the silliness until she turned to look at Natsume. There it was, recently laid in front of him, a glass of orange juice. "Let's spike his orange juice". Mikan recalled as she was passing by the number of fans.
"Could it be…?" Mikan thought as she stared at the Orange Juice. "Nah…it couldn't…could it?" Mikan thought as she stared at the orange juice. Mikan felt a strange feeling though as she stared at the orange juice. It was as if someone was watching her that's when Mikan looked up to see Natsume staring at her with raised eyebrows. Mikan then flushed and coughed. "I…I thought I saw a fingerprint on the glass."
"A fingerprint huh?" Nonoko suddenly said as she and Anna sat down for breakfast. "Fascinating…" Nonoko said sarcastically. She smiled to herself as she looked at Anna who was looking down on the ground and frowning. "You are not jinxed Anna! Let it go! Natsume and Mikan aren't angry at you." Nonoko tried to comfort Anna. "Right Mikan and Natsume?"
Natsume obviously didn't answer while Mikan kept discreetly looking at the orange juice. "Yeah…Uhuh" Mikan said distractedly.
"See…" Nonoko said unsurely in reply to Mikan's distracted answer.
"Let's face it guys. I'm horrible. I bring disaster to the world. I didn't do anything right." Anna said while sighing and pushing her plate away.
"Oh come on Anna! It was just coincidence besides you have great talents. You are an Alice student. You can cook really well! You can't just simply say you have no talent whatsoever. You are better than you give yourself credit for. I can honestly say I love your cooking and everyone can agree with me." Nonoko said then turned to address the others.
Ruka smiled and nodded his head. "Nonoko is right Anna. Your cooking is really good. You shouldn't let yourself feel down about what happened. You are a really good person and you are really incredible in what you do." Hotaru nodded in agreement after Ruka spoke.
Everyone turned to look at Mikan as she was still thinking about the Orange juice. She looked up to see everybody looking at her except Natsume. "Huh…Oh Yeah! Yeah! I so believe in whatever you said!" Mikan said in an attempt to make it seem like she was listening.
Hotaru rolled her eyes and sighed. "You have nothing to worry Anna. You really are special and we love you for it."
Anna started tearing up causing tears to cascade down her face. As she wiped she looked up at her friends and gave them big smiles. "You guys are right! I will start cooking now!" Anna said as she stood up and went running out of the hall. Nonoko just sighed and shook her head.
"I guess I'm going too. Bye guys!" Nonoko said as she snagged two pieces of toast one for her and one for Anna and left to follow her. Nonoko was sure that this will be one eventful day and she didn't know if she had the stamina for it.
"Well…anyway…you guys would not believe how annoying it was this morning. It was horrible." Ruka said as he tried to tell what happened to him and Hotaru. Mikan on the other hand wasn't listening. She was still looking at the devious orange juice. It was nagging her continuously. Could they have spiked it? Mikan didn't have any more time to ponder about it after that because Natsume had picked up the glass. In that moment she instantly decided to be safe than sorry.
Mikan wide eyed as she watched the glass being picked up by Natsume and Mikan did the first thing that popped into her head. She picked up Natsume's spoon and let it crash to the floor. Luckily Natsume was listening to Ruka who is probably one of the only people Natsume actually listens too and apparently neither Ruka nor Natsume noticed it was her who did it. Natsume looked down to see the spoon and sighed as he put down the juice and went to collect the spoon. Now it was Mikan's time to complete her mission.
"Oh! Natsume let me help you!" Mikan said pretending to stand up to reach out to Natsume and help him. Mikan then 'accidentally' pushed over the glass of orange juice and out came all of the contents on the table. "Success!" Mikan thought to herself.
Ruka and Hotaru then jolted up from their seats in reaction to the spilling of the juice. "I'm so sorry! My fault!" Mikan said while putting on an apologizing face.
Ruka then looked up at Mikan and simply said "It's ok Mikan…it's not like you meant it." Normally this would have made Mikan feel bad but this time it didn't. In fact she was enjoying this. That is till she saw Hotaru. Hotaru was giving her a look, a look that she was able to understand completely. She had realized that Ruka didn't suspect anything but Hotaru on the other hand noticed everything and she wasn't happy. Mikan knew that she was going to hear about this later on.
Mikan was trying to avoid Hotaru's stare when she got pulled by the hair she turned to look at a Natsume who was narrowing his eyes at her. He held up his spoon and pointed to the mess on the table. "You owe me an orange juice." was all Natsume said as he released his grip from the spoon and it clattered onto the table.
"Don't you just love it when your boyfriend tells you such romantic words?" Mikan thought as she was walking towards the class room with Natsume. She felt horrible as she couldn't believe the only words he said to her were about his stupid orange juice.
Natsume had already opened the door to the classroom and she had a feeling that the schedule was different today. Why is that well because quite a number of Natsume's fans were there and that includes a variety from the three sections of the school. That could obviously mean the first few periods were free cut or they were just cutting class. There she saw them with their presents once again, their chocolates, cookies, stuff toys and other silly items to profess their love. Mikan closed her eyes and hung her head in irritation. "More fan girls…great…" Mikan thought and took a deep breath and decided to enter the classroom right after Natsume. She already had one foot in the classroom when she was yanked by someone.
Mikan was afraid that she was being nabbed by a fan girl and wanted to scream and bite when she saw who was grabbing her. It was none other than Hotaru who was pulling her and leading her to somewhere.
"Hotaru?" Mikan asked in a daze. "What in the world is going on?"
"Mikan…We're going to fix this right now!" Hotaru said as she opened the door to a room. Once released Mikan then realized that she was lead into the girl's bathroom. She scanned the room then she set hey sights on one point as she saw Sumire leaning on the wall opposite from her.
"Sumire?" Mikan asked in a daze once again.
"Hello Mikan." Sumire said as she stood up straight and looked at Mikan.
"Hotaru? What are we doing here?" Mikan asked as she looked at Hotaru.
"Isn't it obvious idiot?" Hotaru said while rolling here eyes. "Sumire is the president of the Natsume and Ruka fan club."
"Yeah?... and?" Mikan said not at all understanding what is the connection.
Sumire then groaned and shook her head. "I'm here to solve your fan problem idiot! I'm what you call your informant. Since I'm the head I should know what is going on."
"You see Mikan…Everyone is getting tired of this and we realized that this can be settled once Natsume starts burning all the fans. He obviously isn't doing that because of the bet so we have to end it!" Hotaru said while looking at Mikan.
"I'm not going to give up this bet. I will finally prove Natsume wrong once and for all." Mikan replied to Hotaru.
Sumire groaned and Hotaru rolled her eyes. "Mikan open your eyes! You practically lost. What you did with the orange juice this morning! I know that you did it because you thought it was poisoned."
"Pshh…me…thinking it was poisoned…pssh" Mika denied as she avoided looking at Hotaru in the eye. "How did you know?" she finally admitted after a while of Hotaru's stares.
"I told her." Sumire explained. "The girls are all doing this. I hear them go on about trying to spike everything with love potions. The thing though is that among all the things they spiked the orange juice wasn't one of them."
"Mikan see how stupid you are. We need to call off this bet now. You lost and you practically had no chance." Hotaru said. "Not to mention you and Natsume should really start speaking. It's exhausting just seeing you guys act like this."
"Pssshhh! No way! It's only a matter of a few days! Besides, Natsume is the reason why this fight began in the first place. If he didn't try to make me jealous then this wouldn't have happened in the first place!" Mikan exclaimed,
Sumire then rolled her eyes in disbelief. "Wait…what?" She said "Did you actually think that Natsume started this just for the sake of you being jealous?"
Mikan then looked down as she heard the tone of Sumire's voice. "Well…yeah…"
Sumire then closed her eyes and placed a hand on her forehead. "You are an idiot." She then dropped the hand and glared at Mikan. "Mikan! Natsume didn't start this to get you jealous. The reason why this all started, was because Natsume didn't burn the girls which is why they gained the courage to do this. In the end mob psychology happened then it affected all of them."
Now Mikan felt horrible again. "Could it be possible that it was jealousy that made me like this?" Mikan thought as she continued looking at the ground.
"Well..." Mikan said "They are stupid idiotic fans! They won't lay off a guy who has a girlfriend. They are sneaky idiots who are boyfriend stealers." Mikan said as he voice raised and she clutched her fist. "Oh great…I think I am jealous." Mikan realized.
Sumire laughed. "Well I can tell you they don't think they are stealing anyone's boyfriend."
"What do you mean?" Hotaru asked as she heard this information.
"Well…A lot of people don't know you guys are dating. It's probably either they don't want to admit it or the fact that you and Natsume were so close before you dated that the difference between than and now is hardly noticeable. Many people kept on asking if you guys were dating before and you said no so they probably don't think anything changed until now." Sumire explained while putting her hand on her hip.
Mikan was left slack jawed. "They didn't know. They didn't know. THEY DIDN'T KNOW?" Mikan furiously thought. "How could they not know? Right now they are ogling at my boyfriend and I found out that they don't even I'm his girlfriend? Oh no…They probably think they have a chance! The might take him away from me and get him for themselves!" Mikan thought in panic.
"Mikan?" Hotaru asked "What are you going to do now?"
"I honestly don't know…" Mikan said while staring at the bathroom door. "They probably wanted to do whatever to get him to be their boyfriend. I don't know what to do about it."
"Well…Luckily nothing happened. Thank goodness for the guards or Natsume might have taken in some of those dangerous treats." Sumire pointed out.
"Guards?" Mikan thought. "Aren't I part of that team?" That's when it hit her. She left Natsume alone. "There might be some things that the guards can't protect Natsume from especially treats that they would think would be harmless." Mikan thought and her eyes widened.
Mikan then jolted out of the bathroom and started running. "Mikan heard voices calling her back but she didn't care. Who knows what could have happened while she was gone. She was the only nullifier after all. Mikan ran and ran until she entered the classroom by slamming the door open.
Mikan searched through the throng of fans and looked for Natsume. That was when she saw him. Natsume was there sitting down beside Ruka and taking a cookie from a tray. Mikan freaked out as she saw Natsume slowly put the cookie near his mouth. Mikan did the only thing she could do. She did something stupid.
Mikan screamed out "DON'T" the loudest she could have and knocked down everyone in the way. She literally caused destruction in her path. She even tackled a girl down and immediately stood up wherein she was face to face with wide-eyed and confused looking Natsume and Ruka. Mikan then grabbed the cookie out of Natsume's hand and crushed it with her hands throwing the crumbs on the ground then crushing it. "DON'T EAT!" she screamed. Mikan then grabbed the platter while screaming loudly "EVIL! DEMON COOKIES!" Mikan screamed with so much fury as she slammed the tray of cookies on the floor. Mikan then kneeled on the floor as she started crushing them.
"THESE ARE HORRIBLE COOKIES!" Mikan screamed as she slammed the cookies again and again with the tray that held them. Each time she banged she screamed with rage "EVIL EVIL". She banged on the cookies until they were nothing more than crumbs.
Once the deed was done Mikan took a deep breath then stood up. Mikan tired from her outrage continued panting and looked around her. Everybody was wide-eyed and had their mouths opened in shock. All eyes were on her and every stare she had received were either stares of disbelief, shock and even fear. Mikan even saw Hotaru and Sumire at the doorway with the same facial expressions of disbelief. Hotaru seemed to be holding a camera but apparently she wasn't filming. Her arm seems to have drooped causing her not to be able to record it. Mikan then turned to look at Natsume and Ruka. They too both had those faces and Natsume was even still holding up his arm in the same position as when he was holding the cookie.
Mikan then finally spoke. "Those cookies were evil."
That was when she heard loud sobs. Mikan's eyes widened when she turned to see that Anna was crying. "Why is Anna crying?" Mikan thought then Mikan noticed how she was covered in powder and there were some chocolate smudges on her face. Mikan then put two and two together as she looked at the chocolate chip cookies. "Those were your cookies weren't they?" This in the end resulted in Anna crying harder.
"I told you Nonoko! Now Mikan even sees my talent to be a threat!" cried out Anna. Anna then cried out louder as she ran out the door.
"Anna!" Nonoko said with wide eyes as she followed Anna.
Mikan then looked down at her shoes. "Well…this is awkward." Mikan thought. Mikan was about to apologize when she heard a girl talk.
"What a hogger. That girl wants to be with Natsume so bad that she destroys his friendship relationships too. She probably thinks of him as her boyfriend." said the girl and what came after were giggles.
That made Mikan snap once again. Mikan then went to the girl who cowered in fear as Mikan advanced on her. Mikan grabbed her by her collar. "FOR YOUR INFORMATION IDIOT I AM HIS GIRLFRIEND!" she screamed at the girl then released her causing her to fall on the ground.
"THAT IS RIGHT PEOPLE, I, MIKAN SAKURA AM NATSUME HYUUGA'S GIRLFRIEND." She screamed. "NO! I'M NOT A CRAZY FAN BECAUSE UNLIKE ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE NO LIFE I ACTUALLY HAVE ONE! INSTEAD OF CHASING DOWN SOMEONE'S BOYFRIEND I ACTUALLY HAVE ONE. SO INSTEAD OF DREAMING OF YOUR CHILDHOOD FANTASIES BUILD A BRIDGE AND GET OVER IT! NATSUME IS MY BOYFRIEND AND IF YOU DARE TRY TO DO ANYTHING THAT CROSSES MY PERSONAL LINE I WILL PERSONALLY MURDER YOU THEN SKIN YOU AND SELL YOUR BONES AS JEWELRY TO SOME ETHNIC TRIBE!"
Mikan then turned to Hotaru and Sumire who were still stunned and motionless. "I LOST THE BET HAPPY?" Mikan then turned to Natsume and Ruka with both of them still motionless as they stared at her with even more shock. Mikan then grabbed Natsume's arm causing him to stand up with her.
"Well…good day. May I just say that I'm watching you guys. Do not test me." Mikan said while sending each and everyone chills. Even Hotaru and Natsume could feel it. Mikan then glared at all of them as she pulled Natsume along from the crowd. The girls in the end unconsciously made way for them as they feared her wrath. She passed by the guards who were gawking at her and glared at them. When she reached the door she then nodded towards Hotaru and Sumire who were eyeing her with shock. Pulling Natsume with her she then sent everyone glares and nodded her head to Ruka. She faced towards the hall with Natsume and closed the door behind her with a thud.
"Come on…say it…" Mikan said as she looked down at the floor of Natsume's room. It was an hour since that incident and Natsume still hasn't said a word.
"I know you want to say about how you were right and it's true. Now I understand why you get jealous so easily." Mikan said sheepishly, "I just don't know what got over me. I just…couldn't stand it anymore. I guess I should also apologize about me blaming you. I'm really sorry. I guess it was stress and jealousy. I'm so sorry about it."
Natsume then looked up at Mikan and looked at her in the eyes. "It's all right." He said. Mikan then internally rejoiced. His voice helped her feel so much better. It felt like the weight was being removed from her shoulder.
Mikan then laughed then went straight at Natsume with a hug. This surprised Natsume though as he replied a "Oof".
"Be careful there. I saw how you tackled that girl. That girl had the power of super strength and I can tell you how painful that looked for her." Natsume said as he hugged back.
"I really am sorry Natsume. I caused this whole thing to happen. It became such a huge thing. I never thought this would happen. I'm so sorry." Mikan said while burying in his chest.
Natsume chuckled. He shook his head as he looked at his Mikan. "You can see why everyone reacted that way earlier. The girl earlier was something different. Completely different then the Mikan everyone knows."
"I guess I got it from you." MIkan shrugged after giggling.
Natsume rolled his eyes and shook his head. "Me? Open your eyes idiot. You did something way crazier then I ever did."
"I said I'm sorry!" Mikan said while rolling her eyes.
"Uhuh…but you still have some more people to say sorry to. You might need to say sorry to our friends who ran for their lives. How about the teachers who you sent in peril?" Natsume said
"Me? You should be the one who should do it! They were your fans." Mikan said as she she narrowed her eyes.
"Uhuh…but apparently you lost the bet remember?" Natsume said as he raised his eyebrows in amusement. "In fact you should have the lost the bet ages ago including especially with the orange juice incident you did earlier."
Mikan's eyes widened. "You knew about that?"
"I've been trained to notice things." Natsume simply stated as he put his hands in his pockets.
"Why didn't you try to end the bet then and there? That way I didn't have to face what I did earlier." Mikan exclaimed
"Well…one reason would be because I wanted you to realize it yourself and two It was fun seeing you act like that. I'm still shocked about what you did. You have to apologize to Anna too you know?"
"Can you not remind me?" Mikan said as she rolled her eyes in frustration.
Natsume on the other hand looked away and said "Yeah right…like I'm going to let that down. I don't think anyone can. I mean come on Mikan you smashed Anna's cookies to bits calling it evil every time you did smash it. It was just amazing. Oh and the way how you screamed to everyone and about I was your boyfriend. You should have seen your face."
"I get it!" Mikan exclaimed as she took a breath. "I was jealous ok! Big whoop." Mikan then turned her face away from Natsume.
Natsume then simply looked at the face of his girlfriend looking at the ground. He then put a hand on her face to make her look at him. "At least now I know that I'm not the only one in this relationship. It's nice to know that the other feels the same."
Mikan looked at his red eyes looking at her so lovingly. "You idiot. You needed this to prove to you how much I love you?" Mikan asked in a daze as she looked at Natsume's eyes.
Natsume then smiled a small smile and said "It never hurts to hear it once in a while because I'll never get sick of it."
"Just promise me you'll burn those girls. I can't stand them gawking at you any longer. I might end up strangling one of them." Mikan said as she smiled.
"Usually that would be hard to believe but by the way you acted earlier it won't be that surprising." Natsume smirked. "I will do it but you won't get angry if I happen to do it to any of the opposite sex especially when they are within your radar.
"Deal." Mikan said as she smiled a huge smile.
The nullifier then took a look at Natsume's room and she realized that she had better start on the bet. Mikan walked towards the bed and started pulling off the sheets in order for her to fix it properly. Mikan was pulling one side of the sheets and to her surprise Natsume was helping her out with the other side.
"You don't need to do this Natsume. I lost the bet so I have to finish it." Mikan said as she looked at him.
"No…it's fine. I don't have to but I want to. I want to spend time with my girlfriend. Despite the scary fact that she can tackle a girl with super strength I still love her." Natsume said as he was fixing the sheets.
"And I love my boyfriend even though he is a jealous and mean person because I know and realize that I would do the same. That's just how much I love him. I'm reduced to a horrible person like him." Mikan said while smiling cheerfully at him.
Natsume then smirked at those words and raised his eyebrows. "Besides I need to stay here so that my girlfriend won't be so worried about me. She could end up freaking out about me going outside all alone. However will she be able to save me from killer cookies?" Natsume taunted. This then caused a reply from Mikan.
"Shut Up."
Author's Note: This calls for a celebration. I have finally finished the story! From a one-shot to a five shot, I have created a 10 thousand plus story! Thank you all for reading it. I actually wanted a story without a kiss this time. I hoped it was ok. Please comment and give me suggestions! Even story ideas! Hope you guys enjoyed this!