Romeo and Juliette

"Then I'll leave." He said as my foggy sky formed a rain again.

"Natsume… I want you…" My lips spoke. I couldn't hold them from saying that.

Hearing what had just dropped from my mouth, I saw his eyes widening as if he had seen a ghost. After a few seconds, I felt his breath near my left ear. Wait! He must have misunderstood what I had said. He was sitting on the couch beside me, getting ready for something nasty! Feeling that, I took my head away and opened my mouth to save my life!

"Hey! Wait! Wait right there! What the heck do you think you're doing!" I yelled as usual. He was always waiting for a chance! That pervert!

"I'm doing what you want me to do." He answered, leaning on to my face, looking directly at my eyes. 'What the! He hasn't changed a bit!' I thought, as I looked away. His gaze was disturbing. His crimson eyes could kill a woman without any pain. 'Oh how charming they are.' I thought, for the very first time in my whole life. Many girls around the globe had died for them. I was having that pair of eyes inside my house, but I never had seen the beauty of them till now. They were amazing, I had to admit. 'What a girl you're Mikan Sakura. You are running after a blonde prince, keeping the King of Spades at home.' I remembered what Sumire had told me once at school. I was thunderstruck before Natsume for the first time in my whole life. His angelic appearance had started to mess around with my feelings. 'What! Wait! I should quit thinking of these! What the hell is wrong with me?' I asked from myself as I hit my head with my fist. Natsume must have thought I was going mad.

"You're falling for me." He said, smirking, nearing me some more. His breath was tickling on my lips.

Wait!

'Now that makes sense! He's gonna take me as a bite! I won't let that happen!' I thought as I drifted from my dreamy state.

"Natsume! Dream on!" I said out in a babyish tone and stood up, leaving him on the couch alone. If I had stayed there another minute, he could have seen the blush I had on my face. I felt so embarrassed, for the first time inside this house.

I didn't even turn back to see what Natsume's expression was. I was being a typical woman.

I started to step towards the kitchen. That was the best place to hide my oh-so-red face. I never thought the idea of falling in love with Natsume would make me blush to this extent.

'Natsume won't see me now! He won't ever step inside the kitchen. Ha-ha' I was speaking alone until -

"Move aside. You're to rest today." A well-known hoarse voice called out.

'Excuse me? What did I just hear?' I thought as I turned only to see that raven haired guy towering me from behind. His gleaming crimson eyes pointed on mine.

"Na-Natsume?" I asked, stammering. My eyes opened wide as he stepped passing me to the freezer and took out the frozen dinner for two.

'Whoa! What's he gonna do? Make our dinner? No way!" I felt dizzy.

"Why are you overacting? This isn't a scene of a stage drama." He said coolly as I gave out my stupid grin for the second time for the day.

"Leave. Your stupid grin annoys me." I heard Natsume saying. Typical! Duh. I stepped out like a rabbit.

"What's gotten in to him?" I started mumbling as I sat up, waiting for dinner.

After a few minutes, Natsume came out from the kitchen, carrying two plates of heated food. I was watching with my widened eyes as he put my plate on the table, in front of my wide opened mouth.

"Why? Are you nuts? Eat!" He said with a slight anger. But his eyes were gleaming as if they were smiling with me.

'Wait! Something must have gone wrong with me! This is not the first time I see him!' I said to my mind. I was acing strange.

"Food poisoning?" He asked as he started having the dinner. Not looking at me.

"W-what did you say?" I asked, not understanding a word.

"What did you have for your lunch?" Natsume asked as if he were so damn serious.

"What kind of a question is that?" I asked him back, astonished not understanding what he was coming for.

"You're acting strange. That's why." He answered, busy with his supper. That was when I caught up with what he meant.

"Ooh… That…" I answered while smiling. He was actually making me smile. I felt like all my gloom had blown away.

"Hn" He answered as he looked at my smiling face. He stopped eating for a second and then started again.

After our peaceful supper, both of us silently walked towards our rooms. As I was stepping, something hit my mind suddenly. With that, I turned and ran up upstairs just to find Natsume inside his room.

Knocking on the door had never been my style. Nor was his. So I bang opened the door and stepped inside, only to see a topless Natsume with a sleepy face.

"Why?" He asked as I stepped forward, smiling. Silence was making a beautiful atmosphere for what I was gonna do next. As moved closer to him, jumped forward and kissed his left cheek, smiling. I didn't know why I did something like that. I wasn't being myself. Yet I was happy.

I saw Natsume's eyes widening in surprise.

"Natsume… Thank you…" That was all I could say.

After taking another glimpse of his angelic face, I turned to leave. I was really happy. I was happy about what I had done.

I was happy about having him around me.

As I stepped inside my room, I felt extremely at ease. Natsume had changed my day. I could remember how I started that day. With tears in my eyes and fears to lose someone who had never made me smile. But Natsume changed everything. He was always like that.

He would come out when I needed him so badly. Then again he would return to his 'so cold' posture again. That was Natsume. That was indeed him. He always confused me.

As I was laying on the bed that night, I remembered something that had happened a few years ago. When I was sixteen. Natsume was 17 by then.

I was playing around with Hotaru. I used to go to the park nearby with Hotaru just to talk, walk and to get hit by Hotaru's so-called inventions. It was a Sunday morning as I could remember. Many people were there in the park. But we didn't care. Hotaru was overdosed with my crazy talking so that she told me that she wanted to go to the washroom. She asked me to wait there and disappeared into the crowd. I sat on a bench near me and started watching the crowd as I had nothing else to do. Before long I felt a presence next to me. So that I turned my head to see what was there. What I saw was a group of four guys, staring at me, laughing wickedly. I knew something bad was gonna happen. I stood up to leave as someone grabbed by my hair. And that, hurt me!

"Where're you going honey?" A guy called out, mockingly. I tried to break free but no chance.

"Look Serio! Your chick's got scared!" another spoke out. Hearing that, I turned my head to see the guy who was grabbing my hair. I knew that name. Natsume had told me of him. 'Serio? That bastard's here?'

I thought as I met his eyes. His raven hair and ghostly eyes caused goose bumps on my skin.

"W-why a-are y-you after me?" I asked, wanting to know why that was happening to me. Hearing that, he laughed more. His fellows followed to suit.

"The answer is so simple." He replied with a smirk, still holding my hair.

"That's not an answer!" I yelled. "Let go off me you idiot!" I added as he tightened his grip.

"What do you want with me?" I asked again, sighing painfully. He was hurting me.

"You'll know." He answered as his friends started laughing wickedly.

Then he grabbed me to a darker place and started to rip my clothes and hurt me. I couldn't yell as one of them had clamped my mouth with a piece of cloth.

"See my friends… I'm hurting Natsume Hyuuga!" Serio shouted out lout as he removed my shirt and took it in his hand. Hopefully, I was wearing a skinny under it. I was scared to death by then. After he had taken away my shirt, he threw me away like a piece of paper and left the scene with his friends.

"This is enough to give him a heart attack." Said Serio, pointing at my shirt which he was carrying.

After they had left, I walked to where I had been before that horrible incident, without my shirt. Hotaru sat there, licking an ice-cream, not knowing anything.

I went to her, weeping, as if I had lost everything. Before I open my mouth to call her, she saw me with bruises all over my body.

"What the hell did happen?" She asked. Her face got darker and darker. Seeing my state, she stood up at once and ran over to me.

Then she covered me with her jacket immediately and hugged me to take away my fear.

"Ho-Hotaruuu…" I cried so hard.

"They came… they came to hurt me…" I was sobbing as Hotaru made me sit on the bench.

"Who came?" She asked, terror was clearly shown in her eyes.

"Th-that Se-Serio… He took my shirt…" I mumbled as tears were oozing down from my eyes. Hearing that name, Hotaru's expression of fear changed into astonishment.

"Serio? Why would he come to torture you? You guys don't have connections right?" Hotaru asked. She knew Serio well. She knew all the people around the world. Especially the students of Natsume's high school.

"He- he said he wanted to hurt Natsume…" I said while sighing in pain.

"Ahh… now that makes sense." Hotaru said. It was like she had figured things out.

"Why would you say so Hotaru? If he wanted to hurt Natsume, why would he hurt me?" I asked surprised.

"You're such an idiot Mikan! If someone wanna hurt Romeo, the best way is to hurt Juliette instead." She said as she hit my already bruised head.

That day I couldn't understand that. But today I can.

After all we walked to my house together and Hotaru explained the whole story to momma. Momma was so upset and she treated all my bruises. When Natsume arrived home that day I was laying on the couch covered with plasters. As soon as he got to know what had happened, he left the house even without having the dinner and I didn't know when he returned home.

The next day I got to hear that Serio and three of his fellow mates had been hospitalized for having severe injuries from a fight last night.

I remember what Hotaru said after telling me of those.

"I knew Romeo would take revenge."

Hi my friends! So this is my 4th chapter! How was it? Was it boring? :(

Do you see something better in this story? Or is it just flat? :(

When writing this story, I feel like I'm inside these scenes. I feel like I am Mikan. Do you feel the same? :)

Anyways, I want you to feel the same!

This is still the beginning! More to come!

Don't lose hope!

And yeah umm one of my friends had asked me to change this to Natsume's POV. I'd love to! But if I do so… there won't be a 'Hidden Love' right? Every feeling of Natsume would be out in the open.

That's the problem! :( I'm sorry darling… Don't be sad! I'm gonna make it more and more interesting in the future!

:D

Love you all!

-Awful nightmare-