Chapter 8: weekends and fieldtrips

"Ring……………………"

The bell signaling Lunch was entirely heard throughout the eight buildings of the academy.

"Natsume-kun, it's my last day," an 18 year-old brunette haired girl said inside a classroom labeled 1-b (that is also not a first year highschool sign)

"Get my lunch," Natsume said, it was the last day of their friendship deal.

"Ne Natsume?" Mikan said.

"What?" Natsume said.

"I didn't know that you were a fast sprinter," Mikan said and grin. Mikan was also surprised that Natsume can also run very fast, fast from what she expected.

"Experience," Natsume just replied.

"Ok, I'll be going," Mikan said and bounce all the way to the cafeteria while waving her hands around, her hair bouncing on the process.

Natsume cringed when Mikan was out of sight. The little scene this morning kept flashing in his mind like a broken CD. With the extra happenings and Mac's revealed secret.

Flashback:

It was supposed to be a normal Wednesday morning. It was supposed to be. Well, the birds are chirping and the morning glories are opening, but there is just one small detail that makes the morning not a normal very normal one.

"Kyaa! Baishonens!" shouted the stampede of fangirls, while chasing 11 persons namely: Shin, Kyo, Asi, Alex, Mac, Zap, Ryo, Kevin, Shiddo, Natsume and last but not the least Mikan.

"Why am I counted?" Mikan said while running with her friends. She doesn't really know why they count her to be a 'baishonen'. Are they blind? She's a girl!

"Because they think you're handsome?" shouted Zap, smiling widely.

They rounded up the corner and run to the back of the highschool building. The fangirls also run to the corner carelessly, making some of them trip and lay flat on the floor and be stomped by some of the other members.

"But I'm not in my guys disguise!" Mikan whined waving her hands on air in a chibi style.

"Hm, I think they can give us exercise every morning eh?" Mac added ignoring Mikan. The others look at him like he just had tentacles on his body.

"Shut up you idiots, it's dangerous if they catch us, we must find a place to hide before we get tired," Ryo said.

"Ohhh! I know a place nearby! Follow me!" Mikan said then runned to a nearby not-a-good-sight-to-see door. Natsume frowned at the door while Mikan go in front and open the door then they climb on the stairs. Upstairs was an open railings with a beautiful view of the academy grounds, the gold butterflies decorated in the bars leveled with the waist made it more beautiful. Mikan put her hands in the railing and inhaled.

"Wow, sugoi!" Alex exclaimed.

"Is that door full of germs?" Natsume suddenly asked. The group burst out laughing. "What?!"

"It's an illusion Alice, one of Mikan's," Shin said.

"Mikan how are we supposed to drive the fangirls away?" Shiddo asked.

"Patience," Mikan said. "Now please line up!" Mikan said.

They watch as Mikan split herself to eleven.

"So?" Kyo asked.

"I'm supposed to copy your faces and send them to the forest," all the Mikan's said.

Kevin, Mac and Zap along with Natsume watched as Mikan made the clone one of each of them. Mac and Zap approached their look alike and look at them. They tilted their heads to the right as the clones watch them like their heads turn into a bulldog's one. After a while the true twins look at each other.

"Cool!" the said and made high-five. Their companion's sweatdrop.

"Ok clones, I need you to touch me," Mikan said.

The Mac and Zap twins touch Mikan's shoulders and the rest followed. They disappeared like a bubble being popped. After a while Mikan goes back.

"We can eat now!" she said and walked to the stairs and go downstairs to the cafeteria.

"What did you do?" Natsume asked.

"I just distracted the fangirls into Mister Bear's House," Mikan said with an evil glint in her eyes as Mac cringed.

The said bear for your information is not a normal bear. It is a stuff toy that is made by an Alice, Kaname. But don't you underestimate it; it can send you to the central town by a punch. So if you're lazy enough to take a bus, you can always go to Mr. Bear's house, mess with him and he will willingly give you a punch then you'll arrive in central town in a small amount of time, not to mention the good scenery above the trees. Well if you're lucky enough you can land in the concrete road but if you have a bad luck that day you can land in the fountain or in a tree. But he send you to other places sometimes when he didn't control the amount of energy and instead of central town you go to other places and sometimes landed on ponds and look like a walking seaweed when you come out.

All the people in the group except Natsume and Mikan cringed at the Bear's mention.

Natsume doesn't know what they are saying due to the fact that he is new here. Mikan in the other hand has no problem of Mister Bear since she was one of the few persons that the bear is fond of, in other words, Mikan is one of the persons that the bear didn't hurt, she was safe.

"That bear is really scary you know," Mac said and looked at his twin who shuddered.

"Why?" Natsume asked walking ahead.

"You know mate, that thing sent Zap flying to nobody-knows-where when he accidentally spat his bubblegum few feets away from the bear's house," Mac explained as he act the scenery. Waving his hand like an upside-down U in the air and punched.

Kyo, Alex and Kevin laughed so loud. Zap's face is colored red, like a tomato while Mac was grinning ear to ear.

"You really have to embarrass me don't you?" Zap said to Mac. "You heartless twin!"

"Dude, it's déjà vu when someone take revenge on the things you did to them," Mac said, "Besides, it's my pay back for laughing me in front on Yuki when we were little, coz I made a mistake,"

"I just said the truth! Didn't you—mmmppp--," Zap didn't continue when his twin clamped his mouth with his hands to shut him up.

"Uh-uh, your not gonna say that to the members," Mac said and glared at his twin who nodded.

When Mac released Zap, he began to run and shouted.

"Didn't you call Yuki, Cara and pee on mom's newly ironed clothes in the closet when you were drunk?" Zap said as he runs left to right from tree to tree with a red faced Mac behind him, "And I remember, Mom was so angry that she punished you by making you laundry the clothes you pee on! It's such tons of clothes!"

"Shut up!" Mac said and draws to a halt and then took deep breaths. Sure he has stamina BUT Zap has more.

"Okay, okay," Mikan interrupted, "Could you please stop chasing like a cat-and-mouse so we can go to the cafeteria and take our breakfast? We only got 20 minutes left, worst, maybe that bunch of girls find us and chase us again,"

Zap then run to Mikan's side as Ryo held a red Mac.

"I think I have to use one of my Alice to prevent those crazy lunatics to come near me," Mikan muttered.

"Hey what about us?" Shin and Shiddo chorused.

"Oh, I mean us," Mikan said and run to the cafeteria door few feets away and opened it.

Then the same expression was seen as they made their way to their special star table. Meaning; stares and hearty eyes..

*~ End of Flashback ~*

Natsume shivered inside when he remember the scene when Sumire smiled flirty at him which -unfortunate for her- looked like a hags toothless smile when he saw it.

"Natsume!" Mikan shouted.

Natsume looked at Mikan and didn't find her alone; in her tail were her football members.

"Oi, what are they doing here?" Natsume asked pointing his index finger at them.

"They come to eat with us," Mikan said and pointed at the foods that Asi, Alex and Shin are holding.

"Hey bro, mind if we join you?" the one while baldy hair named Shiddo, Natsume remembered, asked him.

"Hn," Natsume replied.

"Man of few words dude," Kyo said.

They ate in silence until the twins broke it.

"Mi-chan Jim is out, we need a new member!" Zap whined.

"Yeah, we can't join the competition if we're missing one member.

"I'm looking for one okay," Mikan said. "It's just I can't see anyone,"

Zap and Mac look at each other and look at Natsume. Mikan followed their gaze and a smirk formed on her lips as her gaze landed to Natsume.

Natsume stopped biting his apple and looked up from his manga when he felt someone gazing at him. He looked up and found Mikan and the crazy twins, as he called them, starring at him.

"What?" He said.

"Nothin," Mikan said.

The bell rang and they all clean the foam where they ate their foods and the plastic bags and put it in the nearest trash bins.

As they made their way to the classroom, they watch in amusement as the fangirls watch them ten feet away from where they stood.

"Oi polkadots, what did you do?" Natsume asked.

"Nothin," Mikan replied.

"You did something," He said.

Mikan didn't reply as she opened the door to the room. As usual they made a grand entrance when all the eyes fell into them except for the busy Hotaru.

"I really like that girl Mikan," Kyo muttered out of no where.

Ruka who accidentally heard the comment suddenly make his head look up. Mikan noticed.

"Your too late, she taken," Mikan said and pointed at Ruka.

"Ohhh, Gomene!" Kyo apologized and breathe a sigh of relief when Ruka nodded. They made their way to their now-owned-space in the back row.

"Konnichiwa Minna-san!" Narumi's hyper, sweet and not to mention loud voice said followed by him in a white polo and black slacks.

"Good, he didn't wear one of those weird dresses of his. I'm tired of burning them," Natsume said.

"Today, I came here to announce that we have a field trip tomorrow morning, 07:30 in the morning," Narumi announced.

The class shouted while Zap and Mac made a high five.

"Hai, hai, please calm down and shut your mouths up!" Narumi said. "The rest of the day is a free period and you are allowed to go to your dorms to pack your belongings for tomorrow. Ja!" He finished and walked out of the door.

"So let's go so we can pack!" Mikan said and slumped her backpack on her back.

"What about the practice?" Shiddo asked.

"It won't hurt if we miss practice few times does it, besides we have many days for the competition ne?" Mikan replied and walk out of the door to pack her things.

To be continued……………

Author's note: you know, I really, really, really like to finish this…. Sooo… idea's are welcome!!!!