"The 12 Days of Christmas"
Disclaimer: This is not the last chapter; I didn't make the manga or the song. I typed the fanfiction. This chapter is in two parts, oh dear.
December 23rd
Animal Pheromone and Invention
"On the twelve day of Christmas
my true love gave to me
twelve drummers drumming..."
There is arguing in the animal lover's room. "Mochiage, I beg of you, you have to sleep between Hotaru and I!"
"Why?" Mochiage asked simply.
"Now that she's normal again, she'll blackmail me, I swear!" Ruka was frantic, since this was his room, it scared the hell of him thinking about what Hotaru could find or notice. During the past two days, it was only until now that he thought of this possible event.
Hotaru wasn't back from her errand yet, so the two boys could talk openly about her. This was pretty much a one sided conversation. "If I sleep in between you two, what happens if you don't notice that she leaves the bed to find something?" This was strangely a good point that Ruka needed to take into consideration. Even more stranger and awkward was what baldy had suggested, "Why don't we put Imai in the middle, that way, you can keep an eye on her and it will be harder for her to get out secretly."
Ruka contemplated the thought, "I don't know how you think of these brilliant ideas, but they seem to work out brilliantly!"
"I think that's why they're called brilliant," his friend said indifferently.
Hotaru entered the room, prepared for some sleep after hundreds of students asked her questions about her attempted suicide. Ruka and Mochiage were awaiting her return; they were sitting on his bed. "Welcome back Hotaru," Ruka greeted unusually.
She stared at the two boys suspiciously, "Why?"
"What?" Ruka asked.
"Why would you welcome me back, when clearly I've been sleeping over for the past few days?" she inquired.
"Because we wanted to, why else would we say it?" Mochiage stated.
"It's sort of cold in this room, and I'm not talking about the temperature either...Something's up and I intend to find out," Hotaru said with suspicion.
The two boys jumped off the bed and directed their arms towards the middle of the large bed. "Hotaru, if it's so cold, do you care to sleep in the middle of the bed tonight?" Ruka suggested.
"I just said..." Hotaru was cut off from her words, everyone is these days. Mochiage pushed her towards the bed and she was forced under the blankets to her surprise. "What the?" Before she could say anything else, Mochiage snuck into the left side of the bed and fell asleep. Ruka snuck in through the right side and fell asleep as well. Both faced the opposite direction from Hotaru and she just sighed and fell asleep facing the ceiling.
Now, are you wondering about Natsume and Mikan? Look at the topic of this chapter, if it says Fire, Nullification and Stealing, then we'll talk about them, but wait, it doesn't. That kind of sucks doesn't it? Then again, not like I'd make it interesting either.
Ruka was a bit cold, it was snowing hard tonight. His cheeks were getting icey, so he turned in the bed and face towards the middle of the bed, towards Hotaru. When he did, he just barely opened his eyes, enough so, that he noticed Hotaru was already facing him as well. She was asleep, with no eye mask or egg head because they forced her in before she could bother to get them on. Noticing this, he opened his eyes in surprise, he thought she was looking towards the ceiling last he saw. Of course, it's hard sleeping facing the ceiling all the time, it sort of hurts the neck. His body was already relaxed facing this way, as you know, there is always one side that you particularly like to sleep on, on any time.
He felt Hotaru's breath as she continued to sleep. It was warm on his cold nose. But comparing the height as which each were at, with Ruka's odd sense of pride, he just couldn't lose to a girl. Ruka scooted up in the bed so that he was slightly higher than Hotaru. That was when he realized that no longer his nose across from her mouth, his mouth was across from hers now.
The animal lover never looked at the inventor's face so close up before, her face was inches away from his own. Her skin looked smooth like porcelain and her hair was dark and soft; a complete contrast of himself. By accident when he was about to put his hands under his head to sleep, he scathed Hotaru's arm and felt its extreme softness. Utterly surprised by these turn of events, he quickly forced himself to sleep.
"In art, every color has a complimentary color. Depending on your color, your complimentary color will be the person you are destined to fall in love with. Green and red are complimentary. Blue and orange are complimentary. Lastly, purple and yellow are complimentary."
"The complimentary color will be a hint, like a characteristic will be something of that color."
"Her hair is like a dark purple color."
"You have yellow hair. I think it's called blonde."
"Opposites happen to attract wouldn't you know? Like magnets and people."
Ruka woke up all of a sudden and woke to see Hotaru's hair in front of him. It looked purple to him, dark purple. He thought to himself, "Dark purple!? Noo, it has to be black, black! It can't be purple. Maybe it is, what if it is!? My hair, then my hair isn't yellow. It's blonde right? Right, if it's blonde, it can't be yellow. That's right! That means it's only...DARK AND LIGHT? THOSE ARE OPPOSITES! Hold on, dark and light are opposites! I'm a boy and she's a girl...but she acts like a boy, so that doesn't count. Tssk. But people say I act like or look like a girl! Our personalities, now that I think about it, we're exact opposites. Opposites attract? Noo, opposites repel each other! Her alice is of technology and mines is of animal pheromone. Technology class and somatic class… Hers requires mental use and mines requires physical use. THOSE ARE OPPOSITES TOO! She invents stuff and I attract animals. There's nothing opposite about that except, TECHNOLOGY VS. NATURE! My goodness, I need to stop thinking about this."
He sat up quickly and was held back because something was holding him down, perhaps someone. It was... "MOCHIAGE?" Ruka exclaimed in surprise.
Mochiage woke up from his sleep, finding himself with his arms wrapped around Ruka. "Huh? WHAT?" Both scanned the room around them and Hotaru was nowhere to be found.
"Oh crap," Ruka started, "where is she...?"
"Right here," she smiled.
He saw a spoon in her hand. "What are you going to do with that?" he asked cautiously.
"You do know where this is from don't you?" Hotaru smirked.
Ruka thought about it, "A spoon...a spoon…Oh hell no, you can't mean!"
The blonde glanced at his clock and it was almost time for breakfast.
He quickly got prepared and ran out of the room and towards the food hall. Once he got his food, Ruka sat down with Natsume explaining to him why he were almost late. Mikan joined their table along with Hotaru. Mikan opened her yogurt and started eating it; licking the spoon as she went. Then she stood up, "I'm going to get a napkin." After she left, everyone else went to throw away stuff or get something else as well. Ruka was left by himself and stared at Mikan's yogurt, even worse, drooling. Out of instinct the animal lover took the spoon and licked it.
"Indirect kiss," a voice said behind him.
Ruka put the spoon back and turned around to see Hotaru. "Uhh...no, it wasn't what you thought I was doing. I was spacing out and umm...I thought it was my spoon. So umm..."
"I'm pretty sure you need a spoon to eat your sandwich," Hotaru joked, "You have a dirty mind Nogi, but it's time for class. We'll talk about this later."
"Gah! Damn! Been caught, I can't believe it!" He threw away his stuff in anger, but he put the spoon in his pocket.
Ruka sighed, "You've got to be kidding me." Mochiage was completely oblivious to what was happening.
"I'm not," Hotaru said blandly. Both of them have been through this process hundreds of times, but Ruka was still surprised and Hotaru never was; another opposite for both of them.
"Am I really going to get blackmailed by yogurt?" Ruka asked disappointedly.
"You are."
"No way."
"Yes way."
"I am not."
"So negative all of the time, you should be more positive, like me."
"NOOO! NOT ANOTHER OPPOSITE!" Ruka objected immediately.
Mochiage jumped into the conversation, "What opposite?"
Ruka clasped his hands over his mouth, "Nothing," he mumbled.
Hotaru was interested, "It's something, tell." She came in closer with a tape recorder behind her back.
All of a sudden they heard a crash coming from outside. The trio flew out the room and found Natsume and Mikan in the hallway. Mikan was bawling her eyes out and Natsume was holding her in his arms. There was someone outside of Natsume's window.
She's the complete opposite of me, like yin and yang, why do they go together though?
He's in denial.
Typer's Note -
Where's the rest of the song? Well...I said this was in two parts right?
Then the rest of the song is in the second part, you know? Yeaah...
Two more chapters you guys! Even though this was a short chapter :P
Now that I think about it, it really IS short...Oh well.
Err...Review and stuff, hoped you laughed? Mhm...
Before I forget again, another thanks to Thomas for thinking of a weird way to blackmail someone ;D