hey minna~!

me: yey~! chapter 14's up!

natsume: hoorah! *sarcastic*

mikan: yehey~! you finally felt happy for her!

natsume: baka. can't you hear the sarcasm?

me: anyways, i don't own gakuen alice!

mikan: so here's chapter 14!

Chapter 14

The group then reached the airport 30 minutes earlier than the original time planned. Everyone was keeping distance with mikan, even the ice queen is!

Finally, they reached a fast food chain, all their faces lit up as mikan rushed inside.

"ohayo miss, what would you like to order?" the girl in front of the cashier.

"do you still have your breakfast meal?" mikan asked with a cold tone, while she was giving off a deadly aura. This made the girl shudder in fear; misaki saw the situation and quickly went to the girl,

"hi, my name is misaki, and I'm a friend of her," misaki then motioned to mikan. The girl just nodded vigorously and asked,

"umm…you're one of the G5, right?" she asked, misaki then nodded happily while she removed her shades,

"but please be quiet about this, ne?"

"hai! Now, what's your order miss?" the girl then asked cheerfully,

"oh, mikan will be having a serving of pancakes, scrambled eggs with ham and cheese, oh and a cup of hot chocoloate!" misaki ordered for her friend, she looked at the girl, and saw the shocked, but happy expression on her face,

"nani? Are you okay?" misaki asked her as she waved her hand in front of the girl.

"yiiipppp! You mean the mikan yukihara? OMG OMG OMG! I'm her biggest fan!" the girl squealed.

"oh, and my name is iana akitoha, a pleasure to meet you girls~!" she then rushed to the kitchen while mikan went to an empty table and sat there. Her companions just sweatdropped and followed to the table.

Life is all about money money money! Everyone jump to t-

"hai." Hotaru answered her phone,

"damn damn DAMN! Did you feed mikan already? She didn't eat anyt-" tsubasa panicked at the other line.

"baka. Don't shout tsubasa, yes, we are in a fast food chain right now…BAKA. Don't worry, she'll be eatin- yes I know what she could be like! God, you're talking to her best friend if you haven't notice!...yeah yeah…..iie, about 4 pm, she'll be leaving to some photo shoot….well, blame your baka, insensitive best friend for that matter!...tsk, we're still waiting for the devil….hai, fine! Sheesh!" hotaru kept on shouting, and then with a heavy sigh, closed her phone.

"so, it's tsubasa huh?" nonoko pointed out.

"hai, oh and misaki," hotaru turned to her,

"your baka boyfriend said hi" misaki blushed at that and asked,

"really?"

"yep." Hotaru nodded as a waiter came with their order; well, for mikan, that is.

When everything was laid out already, everyone waited for mikan to start eating.

"itadakimasu." Mikan said as she clasped her hands together and began eating.
'wow, so she's that hungry, huh?' hotaru smirked at the brunette beside her. Mikan noticed this and quickly gave hotaru a glare, then proceeded in eating.

'she's the mikan yukihara? How can she eat that much without even gaining weight?' iana admired her idol.

After five minutes, the brunette sighed with satisfaction as she lay back in her seat.

"so, miss cranky pants, had enough already?" anna and nonoko asked mikan with a grin on their face. "hai~! Let's go~!" mikan shouted cheerfully as she raise her fist in the air.

'she's back!' everyone cheered in their mind as they follow mikan to the door. As they went out, anna then let misaki remember of tsubasa, and started a lively conversation.

"so….is tsubasa courting you, ne?" anna asked as she tip toed and place her arm around the nape of misaki's neck.

"ano…..ehh" but before she can answer, nonoko copied anna's gesture and asked,

"or better yet, do you feel something towards him?"

"maybe she does, ne?" hotaru teased her, 'she's gonna blow soon..'

"you like him, right?" = anna

"no, she loves him!" = nonoko

"gals…she's gonna bl-" too late, she already did.

"HAI, FINE! I LOVE HIM, OKAY?" misaki yelled, causing all attentions focused on them, while the trio all have an evil grin on their face, and mikan giggle in excitement,

"kyaaa~! Finally!" anna, nonoko, and mikan squealed in delight, as hotaru took the opportunity to take some pictures of misaki's blushing face.

BAKA BAKA BAKA!

"oi dummies, be quiet will you? Look, everyone's looking at us" hotaru stated as she keep her baka gun away.

"kyyyaa~! But still, I can't believe it, tsubasa nii actually has a chance towards you, huh?" mikan said as she poked misaki on her shoulder.

"wait, he is courting you, ne?" nonoko asked. Everyone waited for her answer, until a small nod was shown.

"kyaa~! Well say yes already!" = nonoko

"heck yeah!" = anna

"or he'll give up if you don't" = mikan

"d-don't worry, I'll a-answer him…." Misaki stuttered. But before anyone could react, misaki narrowed her eyes at the brunette with a mischievous grin, 'payback time, mikan!'

"so all of us already have a love life, ne?" she started, hotaru's eyes widen as she guessed where this will lead.

"nani?" anna asked as hotaru glared at her.

"well, anna has yuu, nonoko with koko, hotaru and ruka, plus me and….you know." Misaki blushed at her own statement.

"how about you, mikan? How's your relationship with natsume?" mikan's head shot up when she heard this.

"misaki!" nonoko warned her, they clearly knew that misaki has a dark side when she's provoked. I guess they did, really bad.

"do you like natsu-"

BAKA BAKA BAKA!

"that's enough! You crossed the line, so snap out of it!" hotaru shouted at misaki, who was now back to reality. Misaki then realized what she said hurt her best friend, and quickly went to mikan's side.

"too bad, who's this natsume guy?" a familiar voice came from behind, and a 14 year old boy with dirty blonde hair and silver eyes greeted their sights.

"youichi." Hotaru whispered.

Mikan pov

'misaki…how can you say that?' I shouted angrily in my head. Yes, we provoked her, but how? Why?

I quickly ran to a nearby bench, to catch my breath.

"mikan! Thank god *gasp* you stopped…" misaki then catch her breath, too in front of me. I just staered at her with a blank expression and shrugged.

"mikan…hey, I'm sorry I said some things to you. Yeah, I know, I'm evil, ne?" I guess she tried to cheer me up.

"…"

"hey, I'm really sorry mikan chan…..pleaase?" misaki pleaded as she showed me a sad smile, 'oh great…so smiling sadly is the new 'in' now, huh?' I smirked at my own thoughts.

"…"

"mikan chan! Please! I'll do anything for you~!" misaki nearly cried, then my head shot up in surprise, anything?

"anything, huh?" Then, misaki's expression lit up as she showed a cheeky smile,

"yep! Anything!"

Hmmm…nice.

"okay, first, you have to answer tsubasa nii, and your answer should be, yes!" I said happily. While I saw her face turns red, hahaha!

"h-hai…"

"oh, there's a second one!" I announced as I show a cheeky smile.

"nani?"

"hai! The second is….please, please don't say anything like that again, even if you're pissed off, please don't say such hurtful things to us, okay?" I asked as I showed her a small smile.

"gomen for what I said awhile ago, and I promise to do what you said!" she shouted as she showed me a reassuring smile, and so, I hugged her.

"hai~! Let's go back to them, they might be worrying about us." I said happily as I grabbed her hand and started our way back to the girls. But I can't stop wondering, 'how's natsume doing now?'

Meanwhile at the hyuuga residence….

Inside a black and white themed modern room, there lay our hot crimson eyed teenager on a queen size, with a black comforter and some little red flames dancing on the hem of it, white blanket, some soft, and red pillows.

BEEP BEEP BEEP

"ughhh….shut it…ruka…" natsume muttered, but nothing happened,

BEEP BEEP BEEP

"hn, five minutes…" he whispered.

BEEP BEEP BE-

"oh come on! Will yah shut up? Fine I'm up already!" natsume shouted as he removed the covers and sat up on the edge of his bed, '9:35 am…. Hn, there's a note.' Natsume picked up the note beside the clock and read it:

Natsume,

Oi, wake up sleepyhead! We're in the yukihara's house right now, so hurry up and follow us!

Oh, and you'll have a little hangover since you were drunk last night. But, as expected, you won't remember a thing about it, sheesh, well, just hurry up and get your butt here! -ruka

'tch, as usual, but, now that he mentioned it, my head hurts like hell! And he said just a little, huh?' He complained as he rubbed his sore head.

"shit…." He muttered under his breath as he went down to the bright, modern kitchen room and gets some pain reliever for his never ending headache. After getting some medicine, he opened the fridge and pour cold water into a glass. He then looked around and sat on a high chair. 'mi chi… mikan, what could be their connection with each other? I mean, mikan looks like mi chi. they have the same bubbly, hyper and cute character…tch, mikan even has the childlike character of mi chi!...ugh, now my god damn headache is getting worse.' Natsume thought as he headed back to his room and chose a navy blue fit, sleeveless shirt with a white emo smiley that is listening to its ipod, worn out pants with a pair of urban sneakers, and also, a large jacket and his signature aviator shades.

After doing his regular morning routine, he looked at the mirror once more and muttered to himself, "watch out ruka, you're so dead…" and headed out to the door, without even making a stop at the kitchen, and started the engine of his car.

"mikan…."

Back to the airport…

"hey gals~! We're bac- youichi~!" mikan squealed as she let go of misaki's hand and ran to her brother.

"I missed you!" she squealed yet again as she tackled youchii into a big bear hug. At first, youichi was surprised that she suddenly popped only from who-knows-where, and just grinned as he hugged her back.

Between of them, youichi was more mature, eventhough he's a year younger than her, and he also treats his onee chan as an imouto, so that kinda explains his being overprotective of mikan, alongside with tsubasa.

"I missed you too, baka" youichi whispered to her.

"baka? Mou~~ you're so mean!" mikan escaped from his grasp as she stuck out her tongue.

"tch, well, I just wanna go home…" he announced softly,

"before I got chased by those-"

"fan girls?" hotaru guessed.

"hai."

"then make a quick run for it."

"why?"

"c-cause here they come! RUN!" anna shouted, so we all followed, mikan quickly took one of his carry-on bags, misaki got one also, and youichi grabbed his rolling luggage. When they reached the SUV, they quickly got in with the luggage,

"welcome back-" the driver greeted.

"yeah yeah, just drive us home, NOW!" youichi shouted, the driver just followed his orders and abruptly stepped on the accelerator.

"damn those fan girl! Can't they leave me alone even for just a single god damn day?" he complained as his eyes widen.

"d-don't tell me that…you girls deal with this every day?"

" yep, you got that right." Misaki agreed.

"but, you always deal with this too in USA, right?" nonoko asked.

"hai. Typical of them." Then, when they lost those girls for good, they soon relaxed and anna, nonoko, misaki, and mikan slept, what an exhausting way to start the weekend, ne?

"psst, hey, hotaru nee, how's your plan going?" youichi whispered to the girl beside him.

"hm, no improvements yet, as you know, they're in a fight right now." Hotaru whispered back, she was now in her business mode.

"but, are you sure that he's the one?" he questioned as hotaru glared at him.

"what? I'm just making sure." Youichi stated as he raised his hands with defeat.

"are you questioning me, youichi yukihara?" hotaru glared even more.

"i-iie, it's just that, how can I make sure that he really is him?" youichi questioned softly.

"don't worry, we didn't thought of a way for hyuuga to show you, but you'll know, you're close to him, right?"

"hai. the him that I know is protective of mimi, will do anything for her, too." Youichi paused as he remembered his promise to him.

Flashback

"nii chan… where are you going?" a young youichi asked an 8 year old boy with an expressionless face, but deep inside, felt like his world was crumbling down since the only friends he have are him, mi chi, and tsubasa nii, but his tsubasa nii only visits their home every two months, and mi chi's a girl for god's sake! So only he is always by his side, but now, his only closest guy friend's leaving him…

"…I'll be going away, to Tokyo to be exact, but don't worry, i'll always be your nii chan, okay?"

"h-hai…" youichi replied as he tried to keep back his tears.

"you know, it's not a weakness for a boy to cry in front of people, it's actually a strength, it shows how strong you are, because it's really hard for a boy to cry in public." And as he said those words, tears then ran down across my face, he just smiled sadly at me as I hugged him.

"don't worry, I'll never forget you and mi chi… I'll always search for you guys, okay?"

I just nodded weakly as he rubs my tears away with his hands, and looked at me directly in my eyes.

"promise me that you'll take care of mi chi for me, okay?" my face turned serious as I stared back at him.

"hai. I promise, nii chan." He smiled gently as he hugged me for the last time, and turned his back at me,

"good bye, and take care, you chan."

And that's the last time I ever cried in front of anyone.

End of flashback

"he even made me promise to protect mimi for him." He whispered as he stared to the brunette who is sleeping like an angel at his other side.

okay! that's all that i got for now!

mikan: okay! don't forget to leave a review!

natsume: tch, as if she'll if she didn't recieve one..

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