15. I'll snatch her away!
"Natsume! Where are you taking me?" Mikan asked while being dragged away.
"We're leaving to Kyoto."
Hearing his answer, Mikan's sweat dropped. She knew she had to do something about this matter, but she never had dreamt to run away from home. She wanted an answer for her situation, but indeed, not this one.
As her thoughts and memories started to process inside her brain, her legs automatically stopped, making Natsume turn back and look at her, questioningly.
"Why?" Natsume asked, probing her now pale face with his inquisitive eyes. Feeling his gaze, Mikan looked at his eyes, directly, tears were rising in them.
"Natsume… How could I… How could I leave momma behind and… and elope with you… like this?" Asked Mikan as a tear rolled down her face and touched Natsume's warm hand which was holding hers. Natsume had known that this won't be that easy.
"Now you say it. Did you think…" Natsume stopped and gave out an exhausted sigh before he continued. "Did you think of her feelings when you handed yourself to that bastard!" He couldn't help saying it. He never had meant to hurt her but he just couldn't help but say it all at once.
Hearing his sudden outburst of words, Mikan's shower of tears stared to pour hard and fast.
"I… I know… I was wrong! But…" She stopped and looked up at his eyes, half crying. "But won't you help me get through this Natsume? I never thought my fate would be decided in one night like that! I know… I know I'm the one at fault but I… I just can't leave my family and friends behind and disappear!" She stopped with an exclamation mark on her face. Hearing her saying those words with an outburst of emotions, Natsume dropped her hand and walked towards the car, not knowing what to do next.
"Isn't there… Isn't there a proper way of doing this?" Mikan asked out suddenly, making Natsume stop in the midway. But he didn't dare answer in a blink.
"There is. But it has consequences." He said as he walked towards his car and leaned on to it, facing Mikan. Hearing his answer, Mikan beamed through her tears.
"Eh? What's that? I don't care a damn about the consequences! As long as it doesn't separate me from momma and Hotaru!" She said looking confidently at Natsume's eyes. Hearing her including only "momma and Hotaru", Natsume's heart ached. "Tsk. She still doesn't care." He thought, bangs covering his eyes.
"Oi, baka." He said, making Mikan pay full attention to what he was gonna say next. Then he looked into her eyes, his crimson orbs were both curious and mysterious at that moment.
"You have someone in your mind that you'd like to get married with? Other than that bastard of course." Natsume asked, still looking into her eyes with the same steady expression.
Hearing him asking that question out of the blue, Mikan's sweat dropped.
"Wha—what!" Mikan asked, surprised, her eyes gaping at Natsume's burning eyes.
"Answer me." Natsume said, still concentrating on the main subject.
"This guy sounds so serious! What am I gonna say now! Ohhh Kami! Wait! Lemme think! Do I actually have someone in mind? Umm Kaname-senpai is… he's already gone… Umm who else! No one comes to my mind! How come!" Mikan's thoughts started to interfere again.
"The clock is ticking." Natsume broke into the middle. Only then Mikan came back to earth.
"Uh…umm… I can't think about anyone at the moment! How come you ask such a weird question all of a sudden! And… and even if… even if I had someone in my mind, do you think that person would accept me?" Mikan asked, half complaining and half crying.
"You don't have to worry about that. That'll be taken care of." Natsume said, disappointed. He was disappointed for some unknown reason. Maybe He had been waiting for her to…name him.
"You'll make them marry me, won't you Natsume? No… That won't work. That won't work at all. No one would marry me in this condition." Mikan said, looking down at the ground.
"Then you leave me with no choice." Natsume said as he opened the door of the car and stepped in, moving to his plan B.
Mikan looked at his sudden movement, wide eyed.
"Where are you going?" Mikan asked as she stood still on the lawn, surprised.
"Home. You wanna join?" Natsume asked as he lowered his shutter, looking at her wide hazel orbs, blankly.
"Natsume no baka! You're gonna leave me behind and go?" Mikan asked, raging, totally forgetting her current condition.
"Get in." Natsume said as he opened the other door from inside, gesturing Mikan to hop in. "I won't leave you behind, baka." He felt so much like saying those words, yet kept them inside for future needs. Deep down his heart, he was sure that she wasn't ready to hear them yet.
"Whoa! What! OMG! What're those!?" Mikan asked soon after she had stepped inside the car. Her shocked eyes were running through the baggage that was thrown in the back of the car, as if a hurricane had hit it back there.
"Our gear." Natsume said without turning his head to look at the stuff.
"What do you mean our gear? Were you planning to go on camping with me?" Mikan asked, terrified. Sarcasm could also be seen in her tone.
"Camping huh? With you? I won't do it even if you paid me." Natsume said, smirking.
"Me too!" Mikan said as she stuck her tongue at him and suddenly shifted to another horrified look.
"Wait! Don't tell me you… Uhhhhg! Did you search my closet?!" Mikan asked, raging again.
"Yup. You'll have to rearrange it btw. Since we aren't leaving anymore." Natsume said out coolly, focusing on the road as Mikan gritted her teeth, irritated to death.
"Here!" Natsume said as he threw one of the huge travelling bags on Mikan's bed. It made Mikan look at him with disgust.
"I really shouldn't have asked you to help me, Natsume!" She said, exhausted. Rearranging the closet was the most terrible thing on earth for her.
"You didn't." Natsume said and left the room at once, happy to see his idiotic angry bird restored to her real person. Of course, she hadn't asked him to help; it was he who had offered to help without being asked.
Mikan was left alone in her room, exhausted and… "And what! I don't feel pathetic at all! How come! I should feel hopeless but… but I don't feel anything other than just weariness!" Mikan was thinking. She was totally confused. It was on that day she got to know that she was pregnant, but still, she didn't feel broken apart.
"Why! Why am I still… dreaming about tomorrow? When my life…itself is so… uncertain?" Mikan thought, as she sat on her bed, looking at her so-called "gear".
"Natsume…" She spoke and smiled dreamily.
His heart was restless. He couldn't imagine what his mother's expression would be like when she heard it. Yet, he had to do this. For her. For the woman he loved the most.
Natsume was about to step outta his room when he saw his mother appearing from the door, smiling.
"Natsume… I'm so glad to see you at home tonight!" She said as she walked in, beaming with happiness. Seeing her walking in, Natsume stopped in the midway and wore his emotionless expression again.
"So… were you home all day hon?" She asked as she sat on the couch near the doorway, still smiling widely. Natsume didn't know how long that smile would last.
"We need to talk." Natsume said out of the blue, bangs covering his eyes. With that, Kaoru looked up at her gorgeous son, who looked too damn serious at the moment, surprised.
"Oh… What is it Natsume?" She asked, trying hard to peek at Natsume's eyes which were covered with his bangs.
There Natsume felt a burning sensation running through his spine, making him look straightly at his mother's curious eyes.
"I'm getting married." He said it.
Kaoru almost fell off the couch.
"What?! With… with who?" She almost yelled. Kaoru Hyuuga couldn't believe that her woman-hater son, Natsume had just said that he was getting married.
"With Mikan." He didn't hesitate at all. But this time, Kaoru couldn't help but stand up at once, her eye balls struggling to come out.
"Natsume! Are you outta your mind?!" She yelled, looking directly at her son's calm and cool crimson orbs.
"Nope. I guess." He said out coolly, keeping eye contact with his mother.
"Mikan is my daughter!" Kaoru said as she approached Natsume, raging with each step she took towards him. "And both of you haven't even completed your college degree. How could you say such a big thing this calmly? Answer me Natsume!" She said, pointing her index finger at her son, accusingly.
"We have no choice." He replied, his tone sounded serious this time. Hearing that Kaoru stopped in the midway.
"What do you mean no choice?" She asked, her eyes widened. She could feel something bad was to come outta her son's mouth. Natsume had to be very careful with this. He really didn't want to break his mother's heart, but he actually had no choice.
"She's pregnant." He spilled it at last, looking at his mother's shaking figure.
Kaoru thought she had started to hear things. She didn't wanna believe what she had heard. Regardless of what she believed, her tears had already started to pour like a heavy shower.
"What—what do you mean? Pregnant? My—my baby's pregnant? That—that's impossible!" Kaoru said, weeping. Now it was Natsume's time to make up an answer.
"That night, about two months ago…when you weren't here." He stopped, letting his mother imagine the rest of the story, satisfied with his lie.
Kaoru couldn't stop her hand from reaching out for her son's face, slapping him across his cool tight expression.
"Natsume! I never thought I'd have to look at my son with this much disgust!" Kaoru said, her eyes burning with sorrow and rage. "I thought I had the most decent son on earth! But you! You ruined both my reputation and family!" She shouted her lungs out as Natsume stood still, bearing all her curses calmly. He was more than prepared for this.
"You… you could've think of her—" She was cut off by the annoyed voice that walked inside the room all of a sudden.
"Natsume! You've taken my—" Seeing her mother sobbing in front of Natsume, Mikan stopped her sentence in the midway, looking at Kaoru, shocked.
"M—momma! What's wrong?!" She asked, not knowing anything. Seeing her baby girl standing beside the door, Kaoru rushed towards her and grabbed her hand.
"Tell me Mikan! Is he telling the truth? Tell me at once!" Kaoru asked hurriedly, her hands shaking with anxiety and fear. Hearing what she had asked, Mikan's eyes started to get damp.
"Tell me honey! Why did you hide this from your mom!? Tell me this isn't true!" Kaoru asked, trying hard to suppress her sobs.
"Momma…" That was all Mikan could think of saying at the moment. Her eyes had already started to sparkle with tears. Natsume on the other hand, couldn't stand this drama anymore. He had to put an end to this, this way or the other.
"You!" Natsume started, nearing the two sobbing women with determined eyes. At this both of them looked at him, surprised. But Natsume's eyes were pointed on his mother who was holding Mikan by her shoulders.
"Did you ever think of your sons feelings? Did you ever think how he felt when you always forced him to be only a so-called good brother to the women he loved the most? Did you ever notice how unhappy he was throughout his whole damn life? Just because of your damn ideology!" Natsume stopped, looking directly into Kaoru's shocked eyes. Hearing what her son had just said, Kaoru's throat went speechless. Mikan on the other hand was standing still like a pillar, not wanting to believe a word that Natsume had said. Her knees had started to wobble and her mind was a total mess. "Woman? Loved the most?" Her mind was repeating those words and phrases.
But Natsume wasn't done with his speech yet.
"If it wasn't for this baby she's carrying now!" Natsume said as he grabbed Mikan's hand and shoved it in front of his Mother's surprised eyes.
"Your son would've lived a life of a dead till his last breath!" Natsume completed his sentence, still holding Mikan's sweat oozing subtle hand.
Hearing that, Kaoru's expression changed, visibly. Her anger seemed to have replaced by regret and sorrow.
"Natsume…" She managed to say those words, shaking.
"If you…" Natsume started again, this time, looking down at the floor. "If you still wish to separate me from this woman…" Natsume said as he tightened the grip on Mikan's hand, making Mikan look at him, both surprised and shocked.
"I won't have any choice but to snatch her away from you." Natsume said and Mikan's jaw dropped.
Hi there my dear readers! Did I keep you waiting for so long? :-( I'm sorry if I did so… But here I've given you a chapter of 2200 words! Haha pretty long in my POV!
Umm I actually started typing it last night and umm I wanted to make it my special gift for you on Valentine's! 3
Umm but now I feel like I should've given you more… ;-(
Sorry about the short chapter and please do wait some more to find out more about this Odd Couple! Haha
Bear with my grammatical errors!
And oh…
HaCel:- gotta say that you've got the same wicked brains as I! :-D
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Happy Valentine's Day people!
BTW! I don't have a boyfriend! :'( When will I start to feel in love again… God knows! Anyway!
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