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The Lion And The Lamb
Chapter 4
"ah, you" I have a lot of people looking at me like I said something funny or weird. I think I will go for weird. I like weird.
"uh, yes me. But who are you?" he chuckled a little as I felt a smile come up. Here I was talking to someone who looked like my dead brother. It felt so nice, it has been 8 years… so many years without him.
"you didn't tell your name" he raised his eyebrow perfectly like Younchi. Is it me or do boys do it much better than me? But when I looked at his eyes something inside me twisted. His eyes were pitch black. Is it normal to have pitch black eyes?
Wait, I forgot that Natsume has crimson eyes…so pitch black should be normal… or as far as normal goes.
"you said you. So I thought you knew me" I nodded my head as I tried to look away from his eyes, how stupid of me. Of course he would think I knew him.
"I heard about you from Ms. Talking Magazine" he sniggered at my nickname I gave Luna. I swear that girl was like a freaking gossip pit. She knew EVERYTHING. Well, that's at least what I think.
"Luna right? Yeah she talks A LOT. But my name is Shadow Hyuuga" he stuck out his hand. I looked at it for a while and then at his face. It wouldn't heard to talk to him a little right? Although his eyes freaked me out a little, but the fact that he looked like Tsubasa made me a little calm.
"ah my name is Mikan Sakura" he withdrew his hand as fast as he could even before I could shake it. I looked at his face and felt my blood drain away. I swear if he could turn any whiter than now he would most definitely.
"you should go home, it's not safe outside" and with that he turned around and walked away.
"It's very rude to walk away!" I yelled after him, I saw him stop for a second but he continued to walk away from me. Why did it felt like he walked away because I said my name?
I walked towards the coffin. It was silent… well except the crying around me. His friends were all here, his girlfriend was the one I felt truly sorry for. Her tears wouldn't stop. When she saw me she quickly hugged me and cried her eyes out. My tears fell but no sound came.
Not one sound.
"Mikan? Don't you want to say goodbye to your brother?" it was like my father's voice was in the distant. I moved away from Shelly, not before I pecked her cheek and walked up to the coffin.
With each step my weight felt heavier, I had to drag myself to the coffin. I took a really deep breath and looked at my brother.
A scream came from my throat. "t-t-that's… t-that's NOT TSUBASA-NII" my screams wouldn't stop and I felt arms around me.
"Mikan that's your brother, what are you talking about?" I gulped and peeked in the coffin. In the coffin was someone else…I turned around and looked at the tree which was far In the distant and then I saw him. My brother in a black suit. He put his lip to his finger to shut me up and turned around.
He walked away, out of my life.
Leaving me all alone.
"holy shit!" I woke up from my sleep breathing so heavily like I never had heard of oxygen. what was that? My freaking hell, it was like it was so real. Yet It felt like a complete dream.
"It must be a dream" I tried so hard to look for a logic explain. Maybe it was a memory?
No, I couldn't think like that. If it was a memory then my brother betrayed me. But no… he wouldn't do that. Never. NEVER EVER.
"a dream… yup, it was just a dream" of course it was. I mean, my brother died. I meet someone like him. Of course it was.
That time I didn't know how wrong I was…
"ugh, stupid alarm clock" I tried grabbing it but ended up rolling on the ground with the alarm clock falling… directly on my head.
"HOLY SHWIZZLE! That hurts" my whining was quite loud because my dad came crashing in my room with a broom in his hand. "what happened?" I looked around and grinned.
"well… I wanted to snooze the alarm clock but he ran away and I fell on the ground with alarm clock falling on my head" so that's a hell of a sentence to tell early in the morning… no good morning or how are you? Just a runaway alarm clock.
My dad looked at my desk and frowned. Did he see my empty pages of homework? "where is your homework. Didn't you finish it last night?" I think he noticed, just guessing.
"aliens took my homework" he shook his head as he walked out of the room, but stopped for a sec. "get dress and finish your homework that the aliens stole"
Crap. I will have to come up with a good excuse. I fell in sleep watching Disney channel? Or… I was on a adventure with Indiana Jones and lost my homework in the falls… nah. Although that would be cool.
The dog ate my homework? Can dogs even eat someone's homework. I swear the person who invented this excuse had an alien dog. Maybe he was a alien himself.
OH MY GOD! We have aliens between us. That's so cool. *sigh* if only werewolves and vampires existed… well, maybe vegetarian werewolves and vampires.
I like my blood to stay in my body. Heck, it would be so weird. If they did existed. Maybe they did? Okay. Note to self.
Watch a vampire movie or a werewolf thingy.
I got dressed up in grey skinny jeans and a sweater with Mickey Mouse's face on it. Yeah, I totally dig Disney channel. Sue me. I pulled my hair in a ponytail with a big red ribbon and put on sneakers.
"dad, I am leaving to school!" he was about to say goodbye when he looked at me. "Did you do your homework?"
"SUE ME!.. love you Bye" I waved innocently at him as I grabbed my bag and cheerfully walked outside. Younchi was already waiting and when his eyes fell on me he did the eyebrow thingy again. I think he has a genetic fault in his DNA.
"why are you so freaking happy in the morning?" well, because I have nothing better to do. Being dull is boring.
"well good morning to you sunshine! Isn't it a beautiful day?" he looked at the dark clouds and rolled his eyes. Damn, I really wanna know if you can see the inside of you brains if you do that.
"get in the car" I smiled and got in the car and put on my seatbelt. Last time we went on a rodeo ride, back in Miami and let me tell you… It didn't end very well.
"sooooo… let's ditch school and go to a circus!" Younchi almost lost control on the steering wheel as he glared deeply and I mean very deeply at me. What did I do wrong?
"seriously Mikan, you want to die that much?" well… dying doesn't seem very pleasant. it's not like I would walk around looking like the living dead… or would I? maybe I could come back as CASPER! Oh that would be so cool.
"you know what, don't answer" he rolled his eyes… AGAIN. Seriously, does he have some kind of I-can't-stop-my-eyes-from-rolling syndrome?...oh my god. He is mentally sick. That's so sad…
"we will find a cure for you, ducky. I pinky promise on the tooth fairy" and that's when the car abruptly stopped and my face squashed at the window next to me as the car made a 180 degree to the left…I don't think he takes my humor lightly… just a guess though.
"just breath… count to 10" oh my god, he is talking to someone invisible. Wow, he is like a wizard. Younchi Potter? Nah. Younchi Russo? Nah. Younchini? Sounds like someone is in a sugar fit. YounchiniiiiiiiXD. Okay, uhm… Younchi Malfoy? That sounds so creepy.
"Mikan! Please zap back to earth, what the hell. You space out way too much" I space out? I space OUT? I SPACE OUT? Okay, yeah I space out sometimes…too much. FINE I space out A LOT. But that's because I have too much thinking time to do.
"get out of the car we are here" I think about things like are alien green or pink? When they are pink are the like very cuddly or maybe they are red and can spit fire?
"you think you can find your next class?" I also think about cows. Would they eat pie if I gave them? Or would they prefer something with milk? Like chocolate milk.
"hey Mikan! Why did Younchi walk away annoyed? OH MY GOD! Did he confess?" cows are cool. But a parrot is way and very way cooler. I know, that didn't make sense. But anyways, I wanna be a parrot… I hope when I die I become a parrot in my next life… that would be flippin' fantastico.
"what's up with her? Is she even listening? MIKAN, SHADOW HAS BEEN LOOKING AT YOU FOR THE PAST 30 MINUTES!" *sigh* lovely parr- WAIT WHAT?
"huh? HOLY CHOCOLATE OF ALL SWEETS!" shit… Younchi was right, I space out way too much. I blame the chocolate… wait no, I blame the cows for not making chocolate milk.
Shit, spacing out again! Do they have a cure for this?
"when did I arrive at school" I looked dumbly at Anna and Luna as they burst out in laughing. Am I that funny? Wait don't answer that, I know I am awesome. I looked around and saw shadow no were in sight.
"stop laughing at me! OH HOLY CHOCOLATE! I didn't even say Younchi goodbye… poor ducky" I am such a bad duck friend.
"nah… he noticed you were spacing away. You should really stop that" I nodded as quick as I could, I should really really stop that. It's seriously dangerous. What if I get kidnapped and I start spacing out? Oh my god, if I get kidnapped I would totally ask the kidnappers to help me kidnap a monkey from the zoo… now that's chocotastic.
Did you notice I use chocolate A LOT? I think that chocolate is now running through my veins…cool.
"MIKAN!" I turned around as quickly as I could only to bump freaking hard against the wall. I was about to fall on my butt, very hard. But the impact never came. Why you wonder? Well because someone just saved my ass… literally.
Who you wonder?
Well… I will give you a hint. He has crimson eyes.
"oh…you look like a milk chocolate cupcake with hazelnut cream on top" did he hear any of my mumbling? Because right now my whole brain just shook like a milkshake. Damn, the wall hurts! It made a choco smoothie of my beautiful brain and I think the wall just killed some of my brain cells…
OH CRAP! MY BRAINCELLS JUST DIED!
"oh shit, she hit her head pretty hard… why don't you take her to the nurse?"
My eyes widened as I saw Hatume…Fatume…whatever his name was again looked at me with questioning eyes.
"don't look at me like that, Mickey! My brain cells just died! DO SOMETHING!" I grabbed his collar and tried to shake him. Well… he didn't budge of course, but he got the hint.
And that's when he lifted me off the ground in bridal style. Yes people and alien, bridal style… now it's time to curse.
OH MY FUCKING CHOCOLATE FUDGE CAKE! HE JUST DIDN'T DO THAT!
"your eyes are swirling… round and round and round and round" I think my mind is going blank. Damn, my head hurts a lot and his eyes are making me even more dizzy.
"don't look at my eyes, it won't help your condition" damn, that voice… it was like chocolate dripping with every word. So in my case, WAUW.
"your voice sounds like chocolate" if you say it out loud it doesn't makes sense at all. But his chuckling made it all better, his voice is so deep… like DARK CHOCOLATE!
"how do you know how chocolate sounds, it doesn't even makes sense" I know I know, the most things I say don't make sense…what to do about it…
"dark chocolate… so deep" I leaned against his shoulder unconsciously and dropped my eyes for a while, I felt suddenly very tired…. And I really mean very tired.
"stay away from me!" my yelling became louder. I looked at the approaching figures and crouched on the ground from fear…
I felt so terrified… absolutely terrified.
"p-please, l-leave me alone" my voice… it was stammering, oh my god… I was stammering in fear.
Why would I do that? I wasn't afraid. For what would I be afraid? That's when he answered to me…
"you're afraid of dying, Mikan"
"SHIT!" I sat up abruptly as I cursed at the same time. The rush of sitting up, made my head go woozy. The dizziness came back.
"Oof!" I fell back on the bed and closed my eyes… only to open them again.
Bed? Where the hell was I? I took this as a opportunity to look around and found myself in the nurse's office.
"ah, you finally woke up dear. How is your head?" well except the dead brain cells and the dizziness that joined hands with headache.
"I am fine" yeah, perfectly fine *snorts*.
"can I leave?" she looked like she was doubting my answer. I would too. But I didn't give her time to think. I stood up and gave her a smile.
"I will be taking my leave…BYE!" I walked as quickly as I could away from here. I hate nurses or anything that's linked to hospitals and doctors… even the school nurse gave me the chills.
I could hear her faint protest. But as further as I walked it stopped… so what shall we do? Classes? Nah… they think I am in the nurse office anyway.
Cafeteria? Nah... boring people take seats there. Hmmm, maybe I should go outside, fresh air is needed. Maybe they can bring back my dead brain cells.
I walked away from school and sat somewhere on the grass. It was really quiet here, very peaceful. A lot better than Miami actually…BUT no one's quiet time last long.
"weren't you in the nurse's office" I turned around as quickly as I could only to groan in pain. Damn, my head. I think I am gonna call Sabaru again… I opened my eyes as shadow sat on the ground next to me, looking very concerned… WAIT what?
"Woah, how did you do that? Sit next to me without me knowing it?" he chuckled as he waved it off like it was nothing… well I checked 5 seconds ago and no one sat next to me!
What the chocolate heaven is happening?
"your just oblivious to your surroundings… you space out" okay, he got a point with that. But I swear he wasn't next to me… or was he? Damn, my brain cells… curse that wall.
"touché" yup, that was like the only thing I could say to stop this argument.
"so back to my question, weren't you in nurse's office?" I nodded and then shrugged. I mean what was I gonna say? I hate nurses? I would have committed a murder if I stayed there any longer?
"I am fine you know… besides how do YOU know" he shrugged and then chuckled. Damn, his voice is just like Tsubasa.
"like I said, your oblivious to your surrounding… and whole school knows you hit your head against the wall… AND Natsume brought you to the nurse's office" at his last statement he frowned… he looked kind of disappointed? Maybe he was disappointed that Natsume helped me even when we barely knew each other, only by rumors.
"oh…okay" silence… I rather preferred this silence than hearing anymore of his voice, it makes me so uneasy. His looks, voice..EVERYTHING reminds me of freaking Tsubasa.
DAMN.
"I should go" I stood up quickly as I wobbled at the same time, but in no time he was standing behind me supporting me. HOW THE HELL DOES HE DO THAT? I was kind of freaked out a bit. I mean, he didn't even wanted to be friends. I think. Now he is all friendly and stuff. So confusing…
I shook his hands away and gave his a quick smile and walked off still swaying a little from left to right. I should really NOT forget to call Sabaru. Although he is really going to be angry at me. Knowing him… pfff.
Okay, so first thing first… find Mickey Mouse and thank him for catching and carrying me. If I was Mickey Mouse where would I be?
Walt Disney studio! "NOW HOW THE HELL DO I GO TO WALT DISNEY STUDIO!" Grrrr…. I feel getting aggressive.
I heard rustling noise behind, I turned around quickly only to be seeing nothing. But when I turned back.
"WALT DISNEY!" okay… that was kind of random. This makes me think about my friend back in Miami when someone used to scare her, she would say something really weird.
Like this time when we were in a haunted house. This guy scared her. So she yelled all of the sudden. STRAWBERRY FLAVOUR POPCORN! I seriously peed my pants. That was hilarious. But okay, back to earth.
"Walt Disney?" Natsume shook his head in disbelief… why disbelief? It's not my fault that he lives in Walt Disney.
"I was looking for you… but then I thought OH MYGOD what if he lives in Walt Disney?" he cocked his eyebrow in curiosity.
"why would I be in Walt Disney?" well that's actually a very very good question indeed.
"uh…because your Mickey Mouse?" and that's when he burst…. And I mean literally burst out in laughing. Wauw… I have been here just a few days and I already make people behave weird. I know, I rock. But back to me and Mickey. "your seriously calling ME Mickey Mouse?"
"I wasn't talking to the wall you know, well not anyways after he killed my brain cells" I glared at the wall. I will get my revenge wall… I will get it.
"I think your brain cells were already dead, idiot" he leaned his perfect muscular arm against the wall, making me almost drool. ALMOST! Because I didn't forget his rude comment. "hey! THAT'S RUDE!" I pouted, yes people. I pouted like a baby.
"you're talking weird things… who calls someone Mickey Mouse and then tells him that he sounds like dark chocolate?" omg, he is so stupid! I feel suddenly so smart. Yay! Some of my brain cells survived!
"well… that would be me, stupido. Look who has no brain cells now?" I gave a smirk and held my chin a little high. You know, the I-am-smarter-then-you look.
"Mikan Sakura right?" I felt my own eyebrow going up.
"duh, What was your name again? Fatume, hatume, something with ume" I think I just hurt his ego by not knowing his name, sucks being him.
"…Natsume" and here comes the silence again… I fiddled with my fingers as he looked around. He is so freaking handsome. When you look at him from the side he looks like those models who look around like they are thinking, but there just making sure you see the best side of them.
"so… I actually was looking for you to thank you for helping me" I quickly averted my eyes from him, I didn't want him to think that I was gawking at him. Because I was gawking at his sexy muscles… how would his abs feel if I touch them… Okay, Mikan…shut up.
"I just pulled you up" he shrugged his shoulder as if it was nothing.
"yeah about that, how did you appear? Because even though I was spacing away, you weren't behind me" I pointed at him as I talked, because it makes me look smarter. I just need a pair of glasses. Curses, I should've asked Yuu.
"yeah I was, idiot" grabbed my hand and made me stop pointing at him. Did I already tell you how cold his hands feels? Freaking chocolate, he is freezing! I quickly took my hand from his grasp.
"you weren't! you and shadow are different… well not only you two, that whole group you have… you're not normal" that's when he suddenly neared me and looked down. Yup people he seriously looked down upon me.
"you are hallucinating.. go home" and with that he quickly left and let me alone here standing like a statue.
That night when I went to sleep I dreamt about things I wanted to forget.
That night was the first time I dreamt about Natsume.
sooooo how is it so farr?
loves xxxx