Chapter 8: Being with You
The crowd sighed inwardly and felt disappointed as they didn't have the chance to get the 10000 yen. They began to go away and murmured about the 'prize money'. Hotaru also went away and meet her two 'subordinates'. She had the satisfied smirk on her face.
Ruka sighed in relief. Mikan did the same.
This was one hell of a day. Maybe they won't forget about this incident forever.
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"Today is so much of a chaos…." Mikan sighed as she walked side by side with Ruka their dormitories. She had Natsume on her back in piggy-back ride. Ruka helped her to carry her stuffs. "Yeah, totally it is," he agreed. Natsume had fallen asleep like an innocent little child on Mikan's back.
"Kawaii ne, Ruka-pyon?" Mikan asked, smiling while looking at him.
"What is it?"
"Natsume," Mikan giggled a little. Ruka felt slightly hurt that Natsume got her compliment. But he just smiled along anyway, to hide his true feelings.
"Hahaha… indeed. He looks like an innocent child,"
"Ano… Ruka-pyon, can I take him to my room instead? I'll give him back to you tomorrow,"
"Eh? Why?"
"Well… it looked like he needs me. So... I have to take care of him," Mikan smiled.
"It's okay. You can take care of him. I think he doesn't matter though. He is kind of… believed in you," a smile crept on his lips. Mikan blushed a little hearing that Natsume believed in her.
"Arigatou, Ruka-pyon!" she thanked him happily, glad that she had a good friend as him.
"No problem!" Ruka smiled happily.
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Inside the lab...
"Ehehehe... I'm gonna be rich!! I also need money for my research!" a girl with purple eyes and violet hair smirked evilly. She was playing the scene that she recorded that afternoon.
"I think I will make copies for this video and burn it into CDs and sell them to everyone!" she started calculating how much money she shall get after she finished making copies.
"Ano, Hotaru-chan, don't you think you have gone a little too far?" Yuu asked, trying to stop her evil plans. Hotaru just simply glared at him. He gulped.
"Okay, okay! I won't stop you! You can continue your evil plans!" Yuu flailed his arms as he said this.
"It's not 'evil plans'. Its 'good plans'. It's for the sake of the both of them. They are real idiots when they are together. So I'm going to help them." she explained. She connected the video camera's connect wire into her laptop's connect socket. Then the laptop's screen showed 'loading'. After that a box appeared. She clicked 'open' button and the recorded video appeared. She played the video again to make sure the video functioned properly.
Yuu watched her doing her 'work'. Koko was also there inside her lab.
Hotaru proceeded to click on the 'start' button and go to 'programs' after making sure the video was in high quality.. Inside the 'programs', she clicked on Nero Start Smart and its box appeared. She clicked on the 'make video CD'. She paused for seconds to talk to the boys.
"You guys have to help me make more than 1000 copies of the CD," she said nonchalantly, turning to them.
"WHAT??!" both of the boys shouted in unison.
"Don't 'what' me. You guys have to help me make successful business."
"But how do you want to make more than 1000 copies?! You don't have so many CDs, right?" Yuu asked worriedly.
Hotaru took a big black plastic bag. "There, I have more than 1000 CDs in this junk. All of them are DVDs. Now get to work."
Yuu and Koko sweat-dropped. They finally knew never to underestimate Imai Hotaru, the girl prodigy. If Natsume is the boy prodigy, then Hotaru is a girl prodigy. They make perfect combination.
Yuu and Koko had no other choice but to help Hotaru in her 'good' plans.
"What are you guys doing, now work!"
"Hai..." they sighed.
Looks like they will not have enough sleep...
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Ruka waved goodbye to Mikan as he walked back to his dorm. Mikan waved back. She closed her room door. She still had Natsume on her back. She walked to her bed and placed Natsume on her own bed. She smiled looking at Natsume's sleeping face. "He looks really cute and peaceful while sleeping."
"Alright, time for me to take warm bath..." she said in a singsong voice. She took her pink towel on the banister and stepped into the bathroom to take a warm bath.
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Natsume awoke and opened his eyes a little. His eyes got blinded by the light of the room's lamp. He got up into sitting position. "Where is this place?" he wondered. Then he heard sounds of splashing water from the bathroom. He looked around him.
"This isn't my place... and who is in the bathroom? Wait, isn't this room Polka Dots' room? How the hell I'm in her room?!" he thought. He tried to recall back of what happened. But he still couldn't remember anything of what happened to him. "That's strange. I'm supposed to have strong memory..."
While he was still thinking, he didn't realize Mikan had stepped out of her bathroom. She was clad in her towel and wiping her brown hair with another towel from the bathroom. She thought Natsume is still sleeping, but she was wrong anyways... As she went to her brown cupboard, that was situated in front of Natsume, suddenly Natsume yelled a little, "P-Polka Dots!"
Mikan turned her head around-in slow motion-and faced Natsume. He had a horrfied look on his face, as if he had seen a ghost. Well, a beautiful ghost anyway. Besides, his face flushed the moment Mikan faced him, still in towel.
"Natsume? You're awake..." just then Mikan realized she was clad in her towel. "Kyyyyyyaaaaa!!!!" she screamed really loudly and held another towel in her hands to cover her upper body.
"What was that?!" Sumire woke up, surprised by the sudden scream, rubbing her eyes.
"What happened?" Nonoko woke up from her sweet dream.
"Mikan-chan?" Anna wondered if the voice was really hers. She quickly went out from her room and went to Mikan's room. She knocked on the door. "Mikan-chan, what happened?" she asked worriedly.
Mikan noticed someone knocking on her door. Anna called her again. "Mikan-chan?"
"A-Anna-chan! Gomen!! I-it's nothing!! I was just..."
"Mikan-chan what happened to you? Is there any robber in your room?" she asked worriedly again.
"N-no! Actually I saw a cockroach crawling on the wall, so I kinda freaked out! Don't worry, I'm fine! I've killed it!!" she assured her friend and giggled nervously. She sweat-dropped.
"Are you sure?"
"Of course! I'm perfectly fine right now! You can go back to sleep, Anna-chan!"
"Okay then..." Anna went back to her room and yawned. Mikan sighed in relief.
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"What was that?" Yuu wondered. He was sitting in front of Hotaru's computer to do the copies.
"Probably some idiot's voice," Hotaru said nonchalantly. She was sitting at her small table, drinking a cup of coffee. She looked elegant with legs crossed and drinking coffee while reading some newspaper.
"How do you know?" Yuu turned to look at her.
"Coz I know that was Mikan's voice." She said, sipping her coffee. She flipped the newspaper to the next page.
"Really... but hey! You want us to help you but you just sit there reading and drinking!" Yuu said, feeling unfair.
"Shut up. I'm thinking here," she said as flipping to the next page.
"What 'thinking'? You didn't do anything!" he complained again.
Hotaru held her baka gun on Yuu's forehead. "Shut up and do your work. You guys are my subordinates after all. Subordinates do not complain and do not disobey their master," she said, eyes glinting evilly.
"O-okay, ma'm..." Yuu gulped nervously. Koko sweat-dropped.
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"Natsume no hentai!! How could you?!" she yelled again, this time with not so loud voice. She was hitting Natsume with her pillows.
"I didn't do anything! Don't accuse me like that!!" Natsume shouted, shielding himself with his arms.
"Then how come you're in my room??" she shouted. Gosh, she really forgot she's the one who brought Natsume in her room...
"Hey! You think I would sneak into your room and slept on your bed just like that? You're the one who brought me here, right?!"
Mikan suddenly remembered. "Oh yeah, I brought you here... ahahhahaha! Gomen ne!" she apologized, laughing in guilty.
"Geez, you're really an idiot after all. You're so slow," Natsume said, crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"What did you say?!" Mikan yelled again.
"I said you're idiot and slow," he repeated nonchalantly. Several invisible spears pierced through Mikan's body. She growled angrily.
"By the way, put on your clothes. You're still wrapped in towel. I don't want to be accused as a pervert if I continued looking at your body," he said looking away, face flushed.
Mikan blushed as she realized what Natsume said. "Umm..." she opened her cupboard and took out her bunny printed pajamas. She slid in her pajamas and looked at herself in the mirror. "Good."
"For a high school student, you still wear kiddy pajamas. Same with your panties," Natsume's voice commented. Mikan's vein popped on her head. She turned around to face him. She had that fake smile on her face.
"So what?! It's my pleasure, anyway! It doesn't matter to you, anyway." She humphed, turning her head to left side, eyes closed in irritation. Her arms crossed in front of her chest.
"Well, of course, it doesn't matter to me. But people will find out I'm sleeping with someone wear kiddy pajamas when she is already 15 years old," Natsume smirked his infamous smirk.
"You... you really want some, you know?!" Mikan snapped.
Mikan jumped on her bed to get her revenge on Natsume. She hit Natsume with her pillow and Natsume did the same. They had a 'pillow fight' for about an hour. They were also laughing and giggling. Looks like they enjoyed each other's company. Mikan tried to tickle Natsume's
little body but Natsume was fast. He blocked her attack and tickled her instead. Mikan laughed wildly, couldn't stand the ticklishness.
"Natsume, stop!! Please! Ahahahahhaa!!!!"
"There's no way I would stop!"
"No!! Natsume, stop!! I'll die from laughing so hard!!" she laughed, holding her stomach.
Natsume continued tickling Mikan and Mikan just couldn't stop laughing.
Natsume finally stopped and slumped on the bed. Mikan lied on her bed too. Both of them panted exhaustedly after all that playing. Mikan sit up and Natsume did the same. They looked at each other for a while and laughed again for no reason.
"That was... great," Mikan commented, happily.
"Hn."
"Do you want to do that again some other time, Natsume?" she asked him, smile on her face.
"Hn..."
"Wow! You agreed! This is the first time you agreed with me!" she giggled.
"Shut up. Now it's time to get to sleep."
"That's right..." Mikan started to yawn, mouth opened widely.
"You yawn like a crocodile." Natsume slid into the covers.
She ignored him and went to turn off the switch. The room became dark, just a small table lamp lit on the dresser. Mikan also slid into her covers. She was just about to drift of to sleep, but suddenly she remembered something.
"Ne, Natsume, you're already asleep?" she asked, looking at his figure.
"Kind of..." he said shortly.
"I wonder what will happen tomorrow... I have a bad feeling bout this..." Mikan placed her right palm at her heart.
"That's just your imagination," Natsume said, eyes still closed. But he still hasn't fallen to sleep.
"I don't know... but something tells me it's not imagination..." she said. Natsume opened his eyes slowly and turned to Mikan. Mikan's heart skipped a bit, seeing Natsume so close to her, in front of her face. She blushed furiously. Her eyes landed on his soft lips. Her face reddened more. Her heart skipped again.
"What?" Natsume asked, feeling slightly annoyed.
"No, nothing..." Mikan still had her red face. As she started to turn the other way around, Natsume held her face. She looked at Natsume's face. She saw some passion in Natsume's eyes that she could not comprehend. His eyes didn't look as cold as they usually were. But this time it's different. "Natsume..."
Natsume neared his face to Mikan's and closed his eyes. His lips touched hers. Mikan's eyes widened and she blushed redder than ever. Natsume kissed her passionately and Mikan had no choice but to respond the kiss. She closed her eyes and kissed as passionately as him. They kissed for about 20 seconds and let go. Both of them blushed.
"..."
"..."
"That was... good," Mikan said, lowering her head.
"You're not a bad kisser after all..."
"That's my... first kiss... I never thought sharing it with you..." Mikan whispered for him to hear. She was still blushing.
Natsume fell silent.
"Wh-why the hell am I respond?! I'm so stupid!! Mikan, you're the biggest idiot in the whole world!! Now he will hate you!! Wait, he's the one kissed first..." Mikan's mind screamed.
"That's a goodnight kiss," Natsume said, looking at her.
"Eh?"
Mikan turned her head to look at him. She saw he still had that kind of passion and love in his eyes. She blushed and avoided eye contact. "G-goodnight, N-Natsume..." she slid down the covers and pretended to sleep.
"C-calm down, heart! Don't get affected just because he kissed you!" her heart was still thumping loudly. She gripped her pajama tightly.
She took a glance at him and saw that he had fallen asleep. Mikan had no choice but go to sleep. She closed her eyes and she was already in her dream land. Today was her happiest day ever...
On the other hand, Natsume still hadn't sleep. He took a glance at Mikan too and saw that she was already asleep. He proceeded to sleep as well. He also felt that was his happiest day ever...
TBC...
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