A/N:
Hey guys! I'm back! Due to the overloading of imaginative imaginations that keeps running inside my mind, I've decided to update! Yey!
By the way, thanks for all the people who had read and actually used a couple of minutes of their lives to comment! Thank you very much!
I'M GONNA TO GRADUATE ALREADY! I can't believe this… leaving my high school life already… sniff
I'm happy about graduating but who wants to leave something that has always been a part of your life for so long? I mean my friends and I will soon all be graduating and going on our separate ways… It's really quite depressing… haha! So much for the small talk… just want to let it out. XD
Anyway, read and enjoy!
DISCLAIMER: I am not, and never will be, the owner of Gakuen Alice! Kapish?!
SUMMARY:
"When tomorrow comes, I'm giving you back... but right now... please... stay."
Naked
Chapter 2
Don't Leave…
It was one of those unexplainable occurrences when all were still sleeping peacefully, not wasting any stored energy, except for a girl who slowly exited her two-star room.
Being the clumsy person she were, it had taken her ten precious minutes of her life just to disentangle herself off her warm blanket which was tempting her to just go back to bed and rest her sleepy head. But because of her stubbornness, it all just came down to her, crashing on the wooden floor while the books and objects on the bedside table shook violently from their place.
It really made quite a racket now that you've thought of it, but instead of having a sea of girls come her way to investigate what had just happened, she just heard the deep silence in her room as the leaves of the trees outside moved its arms freely around.
6:00 am on a Sunday morning…who was even in the right mind to wake up that hour?
Mikan, who clearly the one who had caused the havoc of disturbance, knew that she wasn't in the right state of mind.
Who in the hell would sneak out of bed in the crack of dawn just to check up on someone!?
Well she would.
Mikan sighed as she walked out of the girl's dormitory building and into the deserted grounds of the Alice Academy.
In the first place, she really was having the best dream a girl could have. Dreaming of fluff puffs in a Sunday morning was rare! And at the first place, she didn't even know why she was walking towards the boys' dormitory just to check up on him.
Mikan sighed again.
Mikan ran up the stairs to the topmost floor where she turned right going towards the door on the end. The hall was deserted and very much like the doors' surrounding her. This was the topmost floor where all dangerous ability students were placed. She wasn't scared of the students but come to think of it, she ran believing that a ghost was actually just behind her.
It was still vague on her mind why in the name of 'fluff puffs' was she awake right now. It's as if someone had awakened her.
Well, she thinks that something or someone awakened her.
It was a sound she'd never heard before but it felt like it was something that already became part of her.
It felt like someone needed her.
Someone really important.
She doesn't know why she ever bothered doing this… it's as if the guy was appreciating her efforts! He would just make her leave him; he would always ignore her and do unordinary things to her…
But here she was.
In front of Natsume Hyuuga's room.
She was definitely not on her right mind.
She knocked.
"Natsume?"
No answer.
She knocked again.
"Natsume? Are you there?"
But still, no answer.
"If you won't answer me, I'll open this door right now! I am going to! In 3 seconds!"
Still, no answer.
Mikan grunted. "Fine! If you want it that way!"
She burst open the door and the next thing she found were the blood trails coming from the open window on her right to the bed on the edge of the big dark room.
"Natsume?" Mikan ran as fast as she can to the boy on the bed whose face looked like he had just gone through hell.
Mikan looked at Natsume's right arm that lay lifelessly on his side.
It was covered with blood.
"What have they done to you now?" Mikan worriedly asked more like to herself and kneeled in front of Natsume's body which was lying on the bed.
Natsume opened his eye. It felt like someone was hovering over him. He didn't need one but as he became aware of the place and the person, he was stunned.
How did she…?
"Polka…"
Mikan looked up and saw Natsume utter 'what he calls her' deliberately in a very sluggish tone. "What happened to you?"
Natsume was about to talk when Mikan cut him out. "Okay, just shut up. You shall not answer. You've wasted enough blood and I need to clean that already."
She pulled him with his uninjured arm, up from the bed but with all the energy he could muster, he pulled away.
"It's just a small cut, little girl. Just need sleep…" Natsume muttered; he just wants to rest his head on the soft pillow.
Mikan pulled him up again, "I'm not letting you sleep until you let me clean that! You think that's small?" She quirked pointing at Natsume's arms.
"Quit fighting me, Polka-dots…" Natsume groaned.
"I won't until you listen to me."
Natsume looked at Mikan's glaring but focused orbs.
Why wouldn't she leave him?
He sighed. He knew he was not going to win this fight and he finally gave up and let himself be supported by Mikan's small body.
"Why?"
Mikan looked up at Natsume who looked a little in between annoyed, confused, and empty. (as usual :D)
"What do you mean why?" Mikan asked as she started wrapping Natsume's arms with a cloth.
"How come you're here, little girl?"
"I'm not that little anymore and I also have a name!"
Natsume ignored her remark. He likes what he calls her. It already became part of his life.
"Answer the question."
To be honest, Natsume was actually glad that the stupid little girl was here with him. He would never tell anyone why he felt that but just so you know…
Mikan sighed. "If I knew… I would've told you from the very start…"
Natsume stared blankly at her.
Mikan looked up and smiled at him. "I am still your partner, Natsume, if that mission of yours erased it from your mind."
Natsume just continued to look at his 'partner' while the girl's voice echoed through his mind.
"I am never going to leave you even if you think I would…" A ten-year old girl shouted, to the boy leaning at the Sakura tree on that cool autumn afternoon. She wiped her watery eyes with the back of her hand as the boy leaning on the tree, stood up.
The ten-year old boy wanted to hug the girl in front of him. He wanted to show that everything the girl had done for him will always be part of his memory and life but a lot was pulling him down back to the darkness he'd never let anyone see. He wanted to hug and comfort the girl and tell her sweet things that would make her smile and make everything alright. He wanted to see that smile that always makes him believe that there was still a tiny spec of hope for him.
He needed her comfort.
He needed her laughter.
He needed her smile.
He needed her.
The boy stood up and faced the girl who was a little bit shorter than he was and pulled the girl's head down onto his chest where the beat of his heart was pulsing.
The girl was surprised. It wasn't everyday that the cold-blooded partner she had would give at least an acknowledgement that she was there and he knows it.
"You look ugly, little girl… so stop crying."
The girl whimpered and sniffed. "I was not crying. I only had something on my eye and I'm definitely not ugly!"
The boy had a small smile on his face. It's true that the girl he was holding in arms wasn't at all ugly, she had never been ugly at all, but he can't find the words to express how beautiful she was to him.
"Mikan…could you smile for me?"
He'd always remember that day when Mikan got the courage and told him everything she wants to let him know.
He never felt that kind of feeling except for that autumn day five years ago.
He'd never felt anything like that of what he felt for the girl who was always on his mind and heart. It's as if all the walls he had managed to build for the past ten to fifteen years came crumbling down on his feet.
All because of Mikan Sakura.
Natsume continued to stare down at Mikan.
How long will you be here?
He badly wanted to hear the answer from Mikan.
How long will you stay?
He wanted to hear her voice saying she'll stay forever.
How long…
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