A/N: I'm back! Did I just miss something? haha! Anyway, thank you very much for all the support (reviews) you all had given to me :D I am very, very thankful! I am so sorry if I haven't been updating for quite awhile… just graduated from high school! woohoo! (I just want to butt that in haha!)

But I'll really try to update as much as my fingers could type faster! Promise!

If anyone would be asking about the first summary… the dialogue will be coming up as soon as my imagination will begin to process it but I'll surely put it in the later chapters. Okay? Well then, I guess that's it. haha! Enjoy!

DISCLAIMER: I don't own GA!

SUMMARY:
"When tomorrow comes, I'm giving you back... but right now... please... stay."

Natsume knew he changed. Everything he thought himself to be, the cold-blooded ignorant boy who didn't care for anyone in his life all came shattering in front of him. All because of a certain girl who managed to make her way inside his lost heart... Mikan.

P.S. Uhmm... so you might have been wondering why there are actually two summaries here... I have actually made another summary which would be the latter one above. The second summary will be the one that's going to be used haha! Thanks for reading this note (if anyone had read it O.O)

Naked
Chapter 3

Vulnerable…

"Do you love her? Answer me Hyuuga!"

Silence filled with deep and dark emotions that had once been empty enveloped both the dark mysterious man with a mask and the fifteen year old boy with jet black hair and piercing ruby eyes.

The boy who was trying his best to not let any kind of stupid, obtuse feelings show on his face knew in the depths of his intelligent thoughts the answer to what was being asked of him.

He knew everything from the very start but he continued to reject the unknown yet comforting feeling that was trying to let itself come to the very core of his cold-blooded heart. He tried everything to stop it. It was not easy to be enclosed on a small secluded part somewhere on his useless, vicious and cruel heart.

He thought he had managed to stop it. To stop it like wildfire spreading like virus in a man who was destined to get sick and die.

But, right now, it was too late. Too late to change anything.

It was damn too late.

For he knew she was already his everything. The one thing he had always hoped for in his dreams, of his long forgotten childhood dreams. The one who he had prayed for, for so many hours of every night. The one who would save him whenever he felt like the world's crumbling down on him.

He needed her.

He wanted her.

He loved her.

"I do. And no one could ever take her away from me. I won't let you take her away from me." Natsume said furiously to the person in front of him.

The masked man laughed disgustingly as if what he was going to say something that was going to be really funny. "But… I can take her away from you, my little Neko… I can take any possessions from you that you might have gotten a little too attached to."

Natsume was perplexed. He stared at the man who was holding the unconscious body of the only precious person he had cared for in his whole damn life.

"No… you can't…" Natsume whispered to himself, stricken.

The man smirked and laughed a little. "Well, I can Natsume. So shut that fucking feelings and be a good boy. I won't hurt her if you give that useless emotion up."

Natsume longingly stared at the lifeless body that was carried uncaringly by the man in the mask.

Natsume knew he was a very intelligent boy and he knew from his childhood that he could manipulate people and make them do anything he wanted.

He knew he had the power.

He knew that he was everything. He had a special ability of casting flames whenever he wanted to but right now he found himself to be nothing of that sort.

He didn't know what to do.

He was simply useless.

"Just one movement of this dagger, my Neko, and she would be poisoned." The masked man stated as a dagger appeared on his left hand. "The poison would spread faster than the flames you cast on people and it would kill this girl instantly."

Natsume's eyes widen as he followed the dagger inching up on the girl's neck.

"Persona… please…"

"Well, I've never seen that coming." Persona's lips curled into a smirk. "Who would have thought that a Natsume Hyuuga could actually say please to a person who he thinks is lower than him… Funny…"

Natsume ignored his sarcastic voice and looked back on the girl's pale face.

"I've never been that bad you know… At least you can save her and me when you answer this properly. I won't have to kill her and she could live a better life."

A better life…

Was this the right thing to do?

"Now, Natsume Hyuuga, do you still love this girl?"

Natsume's eyes filled with misery. Natsume swallowed, a lump stuck on his throat.

He couldn't find the words to say at all.

"Natsume, the clock is ticking. I don't have all day... She doesn't have all day."

"I…I…"

"Five…"

Persona counted slowly.

"Four…"

"I…"

"Three…"

No words were coming out of his mouth.

"Two…"

"I don't..."

"One…"

"DON'T!"

Natsume's eyes followed the body of the girl that soon fell hard on the cold floor. The body soon covered by its own blood.

"Too late." Persona said as he vanished whilst his laugh fading away with him.

"Mikan...? NOOOOOOOO!!"

"Natsume! Natsume! Wake up!"

Natsume snapped open his eyes as he felt a person shaking him to return to the world he was living in.

Sweat was trickling down his face on that cold Sunday morning.

"Are you okay?" Mikan asked as she saw the troubled look on his pale face.

"You're alive…"

Mikan laughed but was clearly surprised at what Natsume said.

Had he dreamt of her?

"Of course, Natsume! I'm strong, aren't I—?"

Just then Natsume pulled her down on his chest and hugged her tightly. Mikan was taken aback.

"Natsume…?"

Natsume didn't answer as he tried to bring back the calm self he had always tried to put on everyday of his whole life.

Mikan relaxed within Natsume's comfortable warmth.

It's not everyday that a guy like Natsume would actually hug her.

Mikan smiled.

They stayed there for a minute or two then Natsume, without any say, pushed her backwards which made her fell onto the floor.

"Ouch… Natsume! You could have at least…" Mikan didn't finish her sentence and just ignored what had happened.

She went straight back to inspecting Natsume. He had lost quite a lot of blood but at least she had managed. Natsume didn't want to be taken to the clinic and so she tried her best to do everything she could while Natsume was asleep.

Now, she felt proud of herself and kept the smile plastered on her face.

"Are you alright now?" She asked trying to look for any changes that may have occured.

Natsume went back o his own self, "Stop hovering at me like that, Polka. I am alright, until you came along and ruined it all."

Mikan stared at Natsume. "If you weren't on that state right now... I would have killed you with a poisonous dagger."

Natsume's eyes widen but Mikan haven't noticed it.

"So much for being good, Natsume. You're really such a meany!"

'I guess he clearly had gotten over his worries' Mikan thought.

Natsume knew better.

A/N: Yehey! I have finished a chapter! I'm already very, very sleepy and it's 1:36 AM on my bedroom clock.

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