Opposites Attract Chapter 4: The Trip To the Mall

Hey peoples! I figured that you guys had waited enough for the 3rd chapter, why not make you guys wait a few more days and send you guys chapter 4 quicker?Well please tell me what you think on my story by reviewing!!! Thanks, and please enjoy! Gomen-ne for the laaaaaate update, but hopefully I made it up to you guys, right??? =3

Flashback of chapter 3:

"You'll see right now." was all Natsume said, just as the door opened to let in a tall, slender boy with dark, piercing, black eyes and matching raven hair that strangely reminded Mikan of Natsume... and, of course, of Natsume cloaked in that strange, weirdly arousing, mysterious aura as the Black Cat. But even stranger was that his eyes and some of his body movements, even the way he looked so sober and wise for a kid his age, and the way he kind of lit up at the sight of the 2 elder boys, reminded her of... No way!

They reminded her of Seiran onii-san. This boy and her brother...they were so...so alike! It was impossible! He could be a replica of her onii-san the last time she'd seen him, maybe a inch or two shorter and a few other things, but otherwise...

And then the boy smiled, without noticing that the two girls were their, and hugged Natsume and Ruka in turn. But what happened when he did smiled just stole her breath away. It was identical to Seiran-kun, which was truly impossible, because when Seiran smiled like that people could see why his name was what it was. Seiran's and this boy's eyes, they both turned from that mesmerizing black to an electrical, shockingly different, and very deep orchid blue...

:End Flashback

"Hey, I wanna introduce you to these ladies over here, the school made them our partner. Ya know what that means, now every time we go on our little 'vacations', they have to come along." Ruka said enthusiastically when the boy stopped hugging him. That was the first time he noticed them on the seat opposite that of the boys.

"Yo."was all Natsume muttered at seeing the boy. He seemed really tall, and mature looking, for his age. Mikan wondered what his name was. Whatever Ruka had said, he still hadn't introduced them. The boy got in the car as the driver closed the door. He took a moment to see where he would sit, then decided in between the two older boys would do just fine. After all, the seats were really spacious...

And that was when the boy and Mikan made eye contact.

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Mikan's P.O.V.(well, kind of, any way...w/e XP)

All of a sudden she felt this great...tug, I guess you could call it, of recognition. It wasn't just the similarities between him and her brother, she realized. She had actually met him somewhere. She knew it, she felt it, and so did he. But niether of them knew when, or where, or even how.

She knew all this and yet she had no idea how. Maybe it was all her imagination. Or not. Maybe...she knew it sounded crazy, but maybe, just maybe, she had known this would happen all along. Maybe fate was just playing with them.

How..how the hell could there be someone so similar to Seiran onii-san? Or...maybe...could he be???

"O-onii-san? Seiran, you're,"she whispered so that only she knew what she had said. "Seiran! You're back!!!" she cried suddenly and jumped into his arms, in a moving car, while he lay in between two guys which she absolutely didn't like. Not a good idea.

But it had been reflex, even if she knew that this younger boy couldn't be Seiran, for so many reasons. But like I said, it was pure reflex. Just like it was reflex when he caught her cleanly as she jumped into his arms and hugged her tight. Even though he knew he was not Seiran, whoever that was, and he didn't even know her name, it just came to him.

He even felt like the older brother she loved so much. She was actually about to cry! And he hugged her back firmly, as if somewhere he recognized her, from another place, another time. It just wasn't the same as this one.

Back to Regular P.O.V.

Everyone looked at them like they were crazy. Hotaru had never seen this guy before, and yet he seemed to know Mikan very well. Ruka was surprised that Mikan seemed to know him, and that his friend could hug someone other than him and Natsume. And Natsume...well, let's just say that he was aiming a death glare at a certain brunette while managing to stare in surprise (or as much surprise as he had shown to everything else, which was pretty mild) at one of his only friends.

"Um, I guess I won't need to introduce you two, since you seem to somehow know each other very well. Do you know him too, Imai?" said a surprised Ruka, with some disdain at mentioning Hotaru's name.

"Actually, we don't know each other at all," mumbled both Mikan and the slender boy, whom, may I mention, was still in the mood where his eyes changed to blue and his name still remained unmentioned.

" Then may I ask why the hell you guys are hugging so damn familiarly!!!!?????" said a frustrated and all of a sudden pissed-off Natsume.

"Um, well you see..." muttered Mikan.

"It was kind of like..." muttered the younger boy trying to put this feeling...I guess you could call it deja-vu?...into words that could be understood. The funny thing was, the two kept trying for about 3 minutes, and they were both acting so similar, with no great success.

Mikan finally got frustrated enough to start shouting for no reason. "I-Its none of your damn business!!!! We can hug each other if we want, its a free country after all!!!!"

"Yeah? Well there's no need to scream it out at me!" Natsume shouted back. They seemed to forget they were in a car, and were probably gonna give everyone a headache.

"But why the hell would you care, huh?!"

"Maybe because he's one of my real friends!"

"Well, pardon me for acting on gut instinct!"

"You call that gut instinct?"

"You don't know what I felt, how would you know what to call it?"

"Anything but what you said it was! Gut Instinct is NOT when you hug a random guy you don't know and just jump into his arms!"

"Yeah? Well what would you call it? No wait lemme guess! You'd call it being-"she was suddenly cut of by him.

"What, are you gonna say a slut? Cause let me tell you, you would've hit the nail had it not been you!"

"So what would you call it since its me?"

"Gut instinct."(a/n feel free to sweatdrop, even I did after I wrote it, but it is kinda cute the way they fought for no reason...well there was one, but they just went in a big circle XP)

"Why's it different?"

"I don't know, it just is."(btw, they already stopped shouting.)

"Can you guys stop...fighting already?"cut in Hotaru. "Ruka, tell me this kids name already, we're almost at the mall. m\Me and Mikan here still don't know this kids name. We might as well know it since we are going to be spending most of the day with him, since he's tagging along...and you can't leave us." the last was said with a note of depression and malice.

"Oh, um thats right I almost forgot. Hotaru Imai and Mi-"he was suddenly cut off.

"Mikan Sakura. Nice to meet 'cha! Sorry 'bout what happened..."

"Don't worry about it. I'm Youichi, 7th grader in the middle school section. And, by the way, whose Sei-"this time it was Youichi, who looked so much like Seiran, that interrupted himself. He waited for her to answer, seeming to know she didn't want that name mentioned, which she did after a few seconds.

"Oh, sorry, its just that you look so much like someone I know, someone I haven't seen in a while..."

"Why are you two acting as if nothing happened? Does it not bother you, especially with the...position you two are in right now?"Natsume asked before anymore idle conversation was made. At his mention, Hotaru and Ruka nodding in agreement, both Youichi and Mikan noticed that neither had let go. Mikan was still in Youichi's lap, her arms around his neck. Youichi still held Mikan in a firm grip, or hug, rather, and both were very, very close to each other....

Mikan and Youichi both blushed and jumped off/let go of each other. "S-s-sorry a-about that!!!" they both stuttered. Both were surprised to hear a chuckle coming out of Natsume. He seemed to be enjoying himself, whereas not even a minute ago he had been furious and had fought with Mikan, lookin' like he would jump and beat to a bloody pulp the next stranger that passed them in a red light. Ruka looked mildly surprised, too. Heck! Even Hotaru, the expressionless queen, looked mildly surprised at the crimson eyed hottie's change in mood.

For the rest of the ride they remained as they were. Hotaru typing away in a computer that she had stashed somewhere...in one of her weird inventions. Ruka played in it, since apparently Hotaru had created it and it could have multiple users in multiple sites without any interference if you wanted it. Youichi stared out the window, lost in his own world, in his troubled thoughts. Mikan stared at Natsume trying to figure out his mood swings today and if they had anything to do with their first mission and meeting as both of the people they were, the real ones and the two Cats. Natsume read his manga, which went with him almost everywhere, and absently thought of Mikan, his mood swings which he himself couldn't explain, and HIS Shiro Neko. Whoah, wait a minute! His White Cat?

Their thoughts going through way different things, unwillingly and unknowingly they had the same thought for the first time during the entire ride. If this was just how complicated the ride was, then how would the actual being at the mall be? Guess they'd have to wait, wait and see. I(yes I applies to all of the people in the car and an extra not yet mentioned...) can't wait!

Hey you guys hoped you like it as well as my new fanfic "7 Deadly Sins"! You guys know the drill, READ REVIEW ENJOY and most definitely GIMEE ADVICE! Its all welcome! Thanks again for everything! BYE talk to you guys in my ext chapter!

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Artemis2721