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Summary:

Mikan Sakura, a boyish rich girl and Natsume Hyuuga, a playboy rich guy has to work together to get what they want. Can they succeed even if they always clash? But if freedom and fame means tying the knot, will they do it?

Previously… on BBP meets SPP…^^

"Join the competition." Natsume challenged.

Mikan raised a brow. "You've got to be kidding me." Mikan shook her head. "I don't have time for this.

"Fine. So the famous Mikan Sakura is afraid that she will lose?" Natsume said innocently, he's at it again.

"Fine. I'll join this stupid competition. Happy?" Mikan smiled cynically and went out.

Chapter 5.4: Freshmen Week ~

And Her Day Gets Worse… ^^',v …At Least, A Knight in Shining Armor Helped…^^

NATSUME'S POV…

They kept on bugging Natsume about his stupid act. The three boys were the only ones asking him because Luna was busy thinking. They were still at the greenhouse, Luna wasn't finished eating. The NaRuKoChu-sama groupies just left and said that they will go to the head's office.

~"I will not let this thing go so easily!" Sumire said before she went out of the greenhouse followed by the other girls. ~

"Wait! You said that the auburn haired girl was Mikan Sakura, right?" Luna asked the boys.

"Yup." Mochu answered, and then continued bugging Natsume.

"Did you guys mean Mikan Sakura of Sakura Group?" She asked again.

"YES!" The three boys chorused. They wanted some answers while Luna was bugging them with her own questions.

[a/n: three boys: Koko, Ruka, Mochu]

"Okay. Okay. No need to shout. I'm not deaf." She continued on eating.

"Natsume, why did you force her to join?" Koko asked again and again.

"You should've just let her back out. She's got a point." Mochu explained.

"They've got as point, Natsume." Ruka said.

"Besides, you two hate each other. Since the first day of class, you think you can win with her as your partner. She might do sabotage." Koko said bitterly.

"Well, I'd rather have Sakura as my partner than Shouda." Natsume replied dryly.

"You've got a point." Ruka agreed.

"Ruka, who's side are you really on?" Luna asked then laughed. This caused her to choke on the fries that she's eating.

"Are you okay?" Natsume asked worriedly and handed a glass of water. He's fast.

She drank all the water down. "Yeah." She coughed a little bit. "Thanks." She smiled at him.

After that, Natsume was back to being nonchalant again. "Did you forget your manners? No talking when your mouth is full!" He said angrily.

*Sigh. Typical Natsume. The others thought.

"I'm sorry." Luna said.

"Tch. You act like a child." Natsume stood up and headed for the exit, of course, followed by body guards.

Even though Natsume went out, the other three boys stayed with Luna.

"By the way guys, why did Natsume join anyway?" Luna asked when Natsume was nowhere in sight.

"We should've known." Mochu started.

"She wanted Natsume to leave so that she can bother us about the competition." Koko finished.

"Hey, it's not my fault he's the 'Walk out King'." She pouted.

"You scared the sh&% out of him. Who wouldn't be worried? You looked so red." Ruka said.

"It wasn't my intention to laugh at you." Luna said. "Guys, you haven't answered my question. Why did he join the competition?"

Dense! The three boys thought.

"Who knows? Only he knows the real answer to that." Ruka said.

"Come on. I know you guys know what his reason is." She continued on bugging them.

"You should know that yourself." Koko reminded her.

"Don't tell me he joined the contest because of me."

You got that right. The three boys thought.

"Or maybe, he just wanted to annoy Mikan Sakura." She said again.

The three boys sweat-dropped then sighed. "Maybe he does." Koko said sarcastically.

Maybe she's right. Ruka thought. But what he said was opposite of what he was thinking. "Or maybe, he just wants to protect you."

"Protect me from what?" She asked confused.

"Not from 'WHAT' but from 'WHO." Mochu explained. "Guys can't resist you. Do you know that if you weren't hanging out with us, they might have already made a move on you?"

"Come on, guys. Do you really think I can't protect myself?" Luna complained.

"Yup." Koko answered quickly.

"Aha." Mochu.

"No doubt about it." Ruka said.

"I've lived in a foreign country and met different people there. Whom I really think has more insane ideas on how to get girls than the guys here in Japan." Luna stated. She has had many indecent proposals from different guys from her school.

Since she was a transfer to a new school and a foreign country, she had to study the language for a couple of months. Because she was a quick learner, she wasn't held back with the lessons.

"You should know that guys. I know you've had your fair share of time in the other countries." She raised her brows.

"Well, yeah. But we're guys. We won't know the difference." Koko answered.

"Right, I forgot. You guys are like those from other countries." Luna realized. "But still, it's only a date."

"Yes, a date on a private yacht with some random boy." Koko reminded her.

"…by the sea at Jeju Island." Mochu continued.

"Alone. Only the two of you will be together on that romantic date." Ruka warned her.

"I can't remember the last time we went to Jeju Island?" Luna reminisced her times with the four boys at that paradise island in Korea.

"It was Natsume's birthday when we last went there. His 13th birthday, to be exact." Ruka said as he also remembered the day when they went there.

"How I wished it was winter when we went there. It should be fun to ski." Luna said.

"Forget skiing. It's snowboarding down those hills that would be fun." Koko said.

"And imagine the girls who would want to be taught on how to snow board." Mochu grinned with Koko.

"You're woman-hungry, do you know that?" Luna asked.

"We know." The two chorused and then grinned some more.

"Let's go. Natsume's probably pissed by now." Ruka said as he stood up.

"You guys, better go. I'm going to our class adviser to talk about the competitions." Luna said as she parted ways with them.

"Wait. Don't you have any body guards?" Koko asked.

"Nope, Mom promised me that I can have as much freedom as I want." She smiled at the three boys when she saw their reactions. There were in disbelief that she doesn't have any body guards. "What? Envious, perhaps?"

"Nope. It's just that…" Koko can't really believe it.

"What we were trying to say was that we can't believe why Auntie let you go to school without any body guards." Ruka explained.

"Like what you've said it is ONLY school. Besides, outside the school, I know my Mom has bodyguards."

"Okay. Well, take care." Mochu salute to Luna as she went on her way.

"Do you think we should make some of our guards follow her?" Koko asked worriedly.

"She'll be fine. Besides, everyone in this school has probably known by now that she's with us." Mochu said.

"Let's go find Natsume." Ruka told the two and started their search for Natsume Hyuuga.

MIKAN'S POV…^^

Mikan chased after Hotaru for a few minutes and stopped to taker a break. "You are so going to get it." She cursed.

"Try me." Hotaru challenged.

"YOU!" Someone called out to Mikan.

The two of them looked at that someone.

Now what? Mikan thought. "You need anything, Permy?" She smiled 'sweetly' at her.

"I thought you were backing out?" She said arrogantly and crossed her arms around her chest.

"' Can't help it." She just said and raised her shoulders.

"What you wanted to do was to humiliate me and you were trying to get Natsume-sama's attention by saying that you backing out of the competition but in the end, you still joined."

"You saw what happened. It was your Natsume-sama who… oh, just forget about it." She can't really explain herself what happened back there. She was giving this arrogant, self-centered snobbish guy the chance of a lifetime, but blew it. Oh well, it's his loss.

"Care to finish what you were trying to say?" If saying that Sumire's eyebrows could fly out of her face for raising it too high overrated, then call me one, because it is.

"Don't bother. I don't think cat's have that high of a thinking capacity to process this conversation." She walked out on her. Now where are those three? She thought as she looked around the place.

[a/n: Three: Hotaru, Anna and Nonoko.]

"Don't dare walk out on me!" Sumire grabbed Mikan's arm and turned her.

"What do you want? If you want to join, go to the principal." She pulled her arm, but Sumire wouldn't let go. "Look, I don't have time for this."

"Well, I do. And don't think that I would let you get away this time." Sumire's hold on Mikan's arm tightened.

"If you don't want Shouda Enterprise to go down to the sewers, I suggest you let me go." Mikan's voice was different from her eyes. Her voice was controlled, but her eyes show anger.

"I'm not gonna let this thing go easily." Sumire let her go. "Let's go girls. We're going to the Principal."

Then her three friends came out of nowhere. "Wow, Mikan! Can't you and Shouda have a decent conversation?" Nonoko asked then chuckled.

"Nope." Mikan just said and chuckled a little. "Good luck, Uncle."

"Now, what did you do this time, Sakura?" Hotaru asked as she raised her eye brows.

"Nothing. Hope he can handle her."

"Of course, you're Uncle can handle her. In a very diplomatic way of saying "Sorry, but the list is already submitted. No more participants"." Anna said. Mikan just shrugged.

"She can be very persistent." Hotaru commented.

"How could you say that?" Nonoko asked. "I mean, she won't make a scen-" She was cut-off.

"Attention, Ms. Mikan Sakura, please come to the President's Office. ASAP. That's all. Have a nice day students."

"Told you." Hotaru grinned.

Mikan sighed. "Let's go. I can't wait for this drama to stop." Mikan secretly held her stomach. She gritted her teeth.

So, the four of them went towards the main building in their school. When they reached the door of the building, they had to present their ID's by the scanner beside the bulletproof door.

"Tell me, how does this thing work again?" Mikan asked to take her attention off of her stomach.

"The President slash your Uncle, updates the students or visitors that are expected to come to this building with the security head. Each one of our ID's has some electronic chips installed in them for the scanner to approve or disapprove upon their appearance to this building. But on special cases, the door scanner could be deactivated so that anyone can come." Hotaru explained. Of course, this technology came from their company.

"Can't they just put up security guards, like other schools?" Anna asked as they entered the building.

"There are some behind those two-way mirrors." Mikan said. She's starting to have little darts of sweat, even though it was fully air-conditioned in the building.

"And I'm not asking why you know that." Nonoko chuckled. "Where's the door?"

"The doors are barely visible from outside. The doors are voice activated." Mikan answered as they entered the elevator to the 12th floor.

"And why is your Uncle's office by the 12th floor again?" Anna asked as she looked at the floor indicator.

"Some floors were for conference halls, a function hall, and offices. Besides, you won't feel like you're the owner of the school if your office is in the 1st floor. And it's his favorite number." She chuckled a little. She hoped it sounded right. It didn't help one bit. Her stomach was hurting badly by the minute.

"8,9,10,11,12,13." Nonoko counted. "This elevator's fast." She commented.

Mikan didn't bother to reply. She might suppress a gasp if she talks again.

They went to the reception area. There, they found a 20 year old woman.

"Hi girls, the President is expecting you." Misaki Harada greeted them. If you're wondering why she's only a 20 or so aged woman and a secretary to a rich man, she's Mikan's cousin by the mother's side. Mikan recommended Misaki to her Uncle. "Mikan, are you okay? Why are you sweating?"

"I'm okay. It's just the heat." Mikan reasoned out.

"It's fully air-conditioned here. How can you be sweating?" Anna asked.

"Hormones." She just shrugged. "Let's go, the President is waiting." Mikan pushed her friends to her Uncle's office. "See ya." She smiled.

Hormones? What type of answer is that? Hotaru thought but didn't want to ask questions. She gets answers in her own way. By observing.

If the ones, who will enter that office, don't know the one using it, they might be shocked if they were lost or their eyes are deceiving them. It was more of a studio-type office than a school owner's office.

And when they entered, they saw 2 familiar girls standing in front of Mikan's Uncle's Desk.

"Hi Uncle." Mikan greeted his Uncle who looked relieved when he saw them. He stood up hurriedly from his chair and went to them.

"How have you been girls?" Mouri Sakura asked then smiled. He was wearing an expensive tailor-cut suit that looked like your everyday clothes yet elegant.

"We're okay. Except for your favorite niece." Hotaru motioned Mikan.

"I'm his only niece." Mikan commented.

"Why? What's wrong with you Mikan?" Her uncle asked worriedly, which was visually shown in his face.

"I'm fine. Hotaru's just overreacting." She tried to fake a smile.

"No. You're not okay. Let's go to the clinic."

"Uncle, if you just want to visit your girlfriend, why don't you just go there. Don't use me as an excuse." Mikan teased. "Now, let's finish this thing." She said and looked at Sumire and Sonoko. "Give her what she wants Uncle; let her join the competition as an independent participant. Let other students who want to join participate in the competition too. Happy?" She said cynically.

"Yes, I'm very much happy." Sumire said and clasped her hands together in front of her chest. *sighed happily. "Where's the sign up form?" She looked at Mikan's Uncle.

"I guess I'll be going now Uncle." She ran towards the door and headed for the elevator. She ran so fast, that Hotaru, Anna and Nonoko, couldn't catch up with her. When the elevator door closed, she pushed the 'G' button then leaned by the elevator wall and held her stomach. Stupid stomach. She cursed in her head.

The elevator rang the 'ding' sound, and then she hurriedly went out of the building. She looked for a good place to hide from her friends, she couldn't stand the pain anymore and she doesn't want her friends to see it. She was really sweating when she found a bench near Sakura tree, which was far from her Uncle's office building. She was running towards that tree when her vision slightly blurred. She bumped into someone. She was about to fall to the ground when strong arms held her by the waist. Although her vision was blurry, she saw a raven haired boy when she looked up. She couldn't recognize the face, but she could sense he had good looks, and then it was all black.

NATSUME'S POV…

Natsume went out of the greenhouse and tried to think things through. The reason he said to his friends about not wanting Shouda to be his partner, was only ¼ true. He knew to himself that he really wanted to challenge Mikan, but he doesn't even know what made him push her. Wait! Why am I calling her by the first name? But then, he also found out that she's not like any typical woman he had met, because this woman was so controlled in her emotions, but when lost control is driven by them. Maybe that's why he was so fascinated by her. Why am I even thinking about her?

Natsume shook her head and thought of 7 names of people whom he hated today.

#1: Mochu

#2: Koko

#3: Ruka

#4: Luna

#5: Mikan

#6: Natsume

#7: Hyuuga

Well, he thought that the 1st three had the same sin to him. They indulged them into joining that stupid competition. #2 was because she made him so worried earlier. It's not really hate, its concern. Ba-ka! He contradicted himself. #3…hmm… he doesn't really know what she did, maybe because he can't really blame her for accepting his challenge. Her pride was struck that's why she didn't back out. Why did he even challenge her in the first place? That's the reason why he hated himself the most.

He was thinking like this, when he saw a beautiful Sakura tree nearby. He continued on contemplating about his own dilemma when someone bumped into him. The girl lost balance, and if it weren't for him, she would have landed by the cold ground. He held her by the waist and helped her up. The girl in his arms looked up to him, and seemed to be trying to recognize him, but then she fainted. Good thing, the woman in his arms wasn't so heavy and he had a fit body, if not, they would have fallen to the ground together.

Wait! I know her, its- "Sakura." He said. He shook her slightly, she didn't move one bit. She was petite, and had all the curves in the right places. She has beautiful eye lashes and perfectly shaved eye brows, which looked natural. The part that got her attention was her lips; it was pinkish and looked untouched by any beauty product except for lip gloss and by any other man's lips. Her face was a little sweaty, but it didn't scar her beauty. Beauty? Get a hold of yourself, Natsume. He castigated himself for assessing this beautiful woman in his arms.

He carried her bridal style to the nearby bench and laid her there. He took out a special phone given to every student of TU in case of emergencies. He looked at the serial by the back of the phone and dialed it. A voice of a middle-aged man answered the other line, and then asked whether there were any emergencies.

"I have an unconscious woman in my arms right now." Natsume started. "We're by the forest part of the school, near a big Sakura Tree."

"Are you sure, this is an emergency? If this is a prank-" Natsume cut him off.

"Look, if you don't want the owner of this school to fire you for not believing that his niece fainted in the middle of a forest, I suggest you come here right now." Natsume said in an authorized tone.

"W-what? The girl who fainted is Young Mistress Mikan?" The man sounded nervous. "We'll be sending help right there. Don't turn off your cell phone." Then the call was ended.

Natsume knew why the man told him not to turn the phone off; it had a GPS tracker to help track them faster. He put the phone back to his pocket, good thing he didn't leave it at home. You're doing it again. He thought to himself again. His protective senses were triggered again. Can't I stop being the knight? He chuckled at the thought.

After that, people surrounded the tree and two men in medical suits carried Mikan and put her into a stretcher. That place was a bit secluded, that's why the Ambulance was parked out of the forest. Then a blonde haired man in a gray tailor-cut suite that made him look younger despite being in his mid 30's. It was their school owner, Mouri Sakura, Mikan's Uncle.

He stood up. "Good day, sir." He slightly bowed as respect.

"Thank you very much for helping my niece. I can't think of any words to thank you enough."

"A simple thank you is fine sir." He said formally.

"Don't be so formal, Natsume. I would love to hear more about the details, but I have to go now, maybe some other time." He just smiled at him and followed the stretcher. That smile has a hidden meaning to it, he knows it. Then Mikan's friends went near him.

"Thank you very much, Natsume, for saving Mikan." Anna said to him. He recognized her with her jolly personality. "She ran so fast we couldn't catch up to her."

"It's okay." Normally, Natsume would have given his killer smile and stare at this girl, but he didn't feel like it. Koko might kill him; he saw that he wanted to target this girl.

"Are you sure you didn't molest her?" Nonoko asked him doubtingly.

"Look, I don't take advantage of unconscious women." He snapped. "What's wrong with her anyway?" He asked.

"Stop it, Nonoko." Hotaru said to stop the heated conversation. "She's lactose intolerant, and she ate cheese earlier. Thank you for saving my best friend, Hyuuga." She said emotionlessly, but he saw the truth in her eyes, she was really grateful.

"Your welcome." He just said to them. Now it's time to go back to them.

[a/n: Them= Luna, Mochu, Koko, Ruka]

When he reached the opening of the forest, he saw people gathered around the ambulance as they started loading the stretcher where Mikan lay unconscious. Then he saw the school owner, give some orders to a woman in her 20's that looked like his secretary. He then entered the ambulance instead of riding in his limousine. Mikan's friends used the limousine because it would be overcrowded if they ride the ambulance too.

After the ambulance left, the crowd started to disperse and he saw his friends. Koko and Mochu waved at him like to monkeys dancing. He went near them, but then he noticed, a certain woman was not with them.

"Where is that girl?" Natsume asked Ruka.

"She had to meet with her teacher to talk about the competition." Ruka explained. "By the way, what happened to Sakura?"

"He's concerned about her. Oh, yeah man!" Koko and Mochu teased.

"She fainted. Good thing I-" He stopped mid-sentence. Me and my big mouth!

"So, you were the one who saved her." Koko said in a teasing tone.

"Someone is gonna get jealous of his best friend. Oooohhh!" Mochu teased.

"Shut up." Natsume and Ruka said at the same time.

"They really are best friends." Mochu commented.

"Well, you two are the most annoying cousins I've met my whole life." Natsume punched the two by the shoulders lightly.

"What can we say? It runs in the blood." Koko said and laughed. "So tell us about your heroic act…hmm…hmm..?" Koko said as he raised his eye brows at the same time. The type when someone kept on bothering you.

"You it happened when…" Then Natsume started to tell them how he 'saved' Mikan in a comic way. He exaggerated things. Well, just use your imagination. ^^

Next on…BOYISH BRATTY PRINCESS MEETS SNOBBISH PLAYBOY PRINCE…^^

MIKAN'S hands balled into a fist by her sides. She's really irritated now. What type of partner is this guy? She looked at Natsume with eyes as sharp as a knife. Wondering what's happening? It started out like this…

Can't a day finish without them fighting? Hmm.. I guess not..^_^v

NEXT CHAPTER~ Chapter 6:

Weird Becomes Weirder…

1st Practice Day…^^

Hello Everyone,

Whoa! This is my longest running episode, so far… heheheh…^^ I'm trying to challenge myself to keep on writing longer chapters.

I made it 5 part etc … because it's all about Freshmen Week. And all at the same day... so I guess, I'll try to separate it after this chapter… I'm getting tired of the Chapter Updater telling me that it's chapter 8 already… heheheh…^^

BTW. Thanks for all the reviews and readers… I can't cite all of them… you know who you are… without all your comments wanting to read more, I would have stopped writing this story… hands down…^^ Thank you very much again! Arigatou!

I think I might be off in updating for a while… I'm not feeling well these past few days… I'm having asthma attacks… hope that I'll get better soon… I really want this to be the first story I'll finish…^^

PS: Please read "Natsume Hyuuga Must Die". It is also by me. Another unfinished work, but I'll try to work on it. Also, try to write comments/reviews in it...^^ Flames accepted.

BYE! Thanks for reading...^^ Ja-ne.

-fierce_writer- a.k.a. Fatima008