"…" Natsume and Hotaru kept silent for a while.

"Yeah…" Natsume sighed. "Narumi-sensei said that she can't feel it, but" He stroked Mikan's cheek gently. "I think she is only pretending not to know about her own condition…"

"Huh? Hyuuga, are you saying tha-"

"Nngh… Stop hitting me with your bakka gun, Hotaru..." Mikan woke up, pouting while rubbing her forehead. "I'll turn into more of an idiot if you kept doing that to me."

Natsume signalled Ruka and Hotaru to leave the room as he wanted to talk to the brunette.

Ruka and Hotaru exchanged looks, but nodded anyway.

"Okay. Mikan, we'll be going first. See you guys later." Ruka smiled.

"W...Wait- What?" Mikan was shocked.

"Oh, and Hyuuga, if you dare to make her cry" Hotaru insert an 'ultra-nuclear' bullets into her newly improved pervert gun. "You'll regret it." She smirked.

They both then went out of the room.

"What…? Why was she even approved to invent such dangerous things anyway..?" Natsume exclaimed as he ruffled his hair. "So, Mikan, I wanted to ask you som-"

"I can't believe they left me alone with you…" Mikan cried.

"Mikan."

Natsume's POV

"W-Wha-" She reverted her gaze as soon as she turned to face me, which is two inches away from her. "W-What is it?" She pouted, her cute face covered with light pink blush, which makes her even cuter.

"Are you hiding something from me?"

"Eh? What are you talking about, Natsu-"

"Don't act dumb. You knew about it, didn't you? About your condition when you overused your Alice." I tilted her chin so that I could stare at her. Her eyes suddenly suddenly filled with shock. "Tell me, Mikan..."

She nodded her head, not trying to struggle away from my grip. "Yeah... I knew about it... I knew about it two weeks ago." She smiled wryly, but her eyes filled with sadness. So it's true huh? The fact that she's under such a terrifying condition. I deep-breathed. "Why are you trying to hide it? If you told us, we could have helped you earlier."

"That's the point. I don't want you guys to help. I don't know why, but I think someone's targeting me. With you guys getting all fussed up about this, it'll only anger the 'culprit' more and you guys will be in danger because of me..." She looked away, orange orbs filled with pain. "And I don't want that to happen. You guys are precious to me."

Precious. We are precious to here. "Huh. So according to what you just said, we are just weaklings that won't be of any help to you but just adding on troubles to you huh?" I joked. I know it's not the time for that, but that's the only way to cheer her up.

"What-? That's not what I meant-" She turned to gaze at me again. "Then trust us, four is always better than one." I smirked playfully. "Although I alone would be enough to find that 'culprit'." As expected, she blushed.

"D-Don't be ridiculous..." She blushed, obviously happy to hear that we offered to help. That she wasn't alone. "Okay. That being said, we need to try and get off of each other now." I said, scanning the surrounding once more.

In the corridor, Hotaru and Ruka are walking back to the classroom after getting out of the nurse office.

"So...Do you think there's any way to help Mikan? Something that'll help her control her Alice." Ruka asked, with a worried face that makes even his cute rabbit that he always had in hand to snuggle closer to him hoping to ease his troubles away.

"You mean to say something like Natsume's rings and cat mask? Sadly, no. The girl sighed. "I made some researches while we were at the library just now but nothing came up." The ever-so-emotionless Hotaru almost tear up after saying that.

Ruka then patted her head lightly, "Don't give up on her yet, we'll find a way—"

Bakk bakka bakka bakka

"Ugh..." The blond exclaimed in pain. "What did you do that for...!"

"I didn't gave you permission to touch me, idiot." With that, she walked away, with a small smile crept on her lips.

"Geez..." Ruka rubbed his head.

Mikan, just you wait. We'll definitely find a cure to help you.

...

At night

Mikan's POV

"Ugh, they are in my pocket, idiot. Left side, not right!" Natsume kept shouting at me for putting my hands in the wrong places. Don't get me wrong, I just can't differentiate 'left' and 'right' well when he's shouting so loud into my ear. "NO—Yeah, there!" Finally. "Now put the key into the hole and turn it."

"I know that." I pouted. He is making fun of me again. I turned the key that leads to a huge room. I just can't stop gasping at how luxury the room looks. It is totally different from my room. He even got a huge kitchen! Huh? Why are we in Natsume's room you asked? Oh, that's easy. It's because being a JERK he is, he doesn't want to sleep in, what he calls "a dirty storeroom". Ugh.

Natsume's POV

Man, how can this girl not know which is the left and right? We have being standing in front of my room for more than 10 minutes just for her to reach into the right pocket to get the keys. Trust me, I would gladly get it myself if it weren't for the pink potion. Our chests are stick tightly together, both my hands are stuck beside my body, so only Mikan's hands can move. And yes, the effect of the pink potion had worsen.

"Whoa." I heard her say. I smirked. See? She liked the room. And she kept nagging along the way saying something like 'I am not a gentleman for choosing my own room instead of hers'.

"Oh no. Natsume." I raised my brow, preparing for the worse. "I...Um...I need to pee."

"What? Just go then." I said, brain started functioning to think of a solution. "N-No, I mean. We are stuck together." Her face began to redden.

"And?"

"A-And...Well, you don't expect me to... You know..?"

What am I? A pervert? Well, of course, I wouldn't mind sitting on her lap while she pees...

I sighed. "There's a 'temporary removal potion' on the right shelf near the sink in the bath room." Her face instantly lightened up. "But let me warn you first, we will still stick together, but only our hands." I smirked.

"YOU PERVERT! There's no way I'm going into the toilet with you!" Sigh. Stubborn Mikan is just stubborn.

"So that means you don't want to pee nor planning to take a nice shower tonight and just go to sleep on my bed with that dirty clothes of yours?" I slightly glared at her, reminding her how I hated dirty stuff.

"Umm...No..." She started, admitting her defeat while her face just becomes redder and redder. "I'll use the potion, b-but you got to promise not to peek...!" I just smiled. She looks so cute when she's embarrassed.

In the toilet

"I got this during a mission last time." I squat a bit to read the instructions on bottle. "I think we would be able to see the effects after we each swallow a pill." Mikan then took the bottle and pour out two small pills. "Erm, I think we got a new problem." She looked at me. "How are you going to eat this?"

Haha. Such a naïve question. "Put the two pills in your mouth." Mikan looked confused. "Eh? Wh-" "Just do it. Before the movements of your hands are restricted as well." She then awkwardly put the two pills in her mouth. Without waiting another second, I placed my lips against her soft lips that I had longed to feel for a long time. I forced myself her and cornered her against the wall with my legs.

"Hm…MmMM!" Mikan placed her hands on my shoulders and tried to push me back but stopped when I slip my tongue in her mouth. Although I don't like to do things so fast, but scaring the girl and have her avoiding me is the last thing I want.

'I want more of you, Mikan. I don't want you away from me.' I struggled against that thought. I quickly used my tongue to push the pill that's in Mikan's mouth to mine. And the dream stopped there.

Man...sorry...Really, for the late update. Next chapter coming soon :)