Hey peoples! Long time no see! I have to really apologize to everyone for updating so late… I was about to make a realllly long excuse for that, but to make it very short and simple – I got hooked on One Piece -_- … Oh! And about the 10 reviews or no chapter thing.. I'm sorry about that, too… I seriously wasn't planning on quitting. I just felt really selfish for a moment, I guess. Anyways enough of this! On with the story! XD

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"…." Means they're talking

'….' Means they're thinking

--previous chapter--

"Oh well, I'll sell it to one of my friends after your concert."

"You know I'm not going to give you another one by me! My autographs are really rare! Don't come begging me for another one!" Mikan yelled as Kai left her bedroom.

"Whatever. Your so-called 'rare' autographs can be found on any one of your failing test papers," Kai said before he closed the door.

"Hmph! Baka Kai!" Mikan said. Afterwards, she changed into her PJ's and went to sleep thinking about who 'Mysterious' could be.

--end--

Chapter 8

The next day was Tuesday and Mikan, Hotaru, Natsume, and Ruka were meeting up again. Mikan was waiting in the gym when Hotaru arrived.

"Hotaru-chaaaaan! I missed you so much!" Mikan went running towards Hotaru as soon as she arrived.

Of course, Hotaru's cat popped out and interfered. This time, it stuck it's tail out in front of Mikan, and she tripped, falling flat on her face.

"Owwwww! Hotaru, do something about your cat! It keeps hurting me!" Mikan whined.

"I can't. It's programmed to keep idiots away from me."

"What! But, I'm not an idiot!"

Hotaru's cat jumped up to Mikan's mouth and covered it. "Mmmmmmph moomaaamuuuu!!"

"Just be quiet."

After Mikan quieted down, Hotaru's cat hopped back into her bag. "Gosh, Robemat is so mean!" Mikan exclaimed.

"Robemat…?" Hotaru questioned.

"Yeah, because it doesn't have a name, right? So Robemat. 'Rob' because it's the beginning of robot, 'em' because it's in the middle of demon, 'at' because it's the ending of cat. Robot Demon Cat! Robemat!" Mikan giggled.

"That's the stupidest name I've ever heard."

"Huh?" Mikan turned around to see Natsume and Ruka enter the gym. "Natsume-kun! What do you mean it's the stupidest name? Didn't you hear the clever way I came up with that?"

"What clever way? Oh, you mean the idiotic way you came up with that? Then yeah, I heard it."

"Uuuuuuuuuuggghhhh!" Mikan screamed at the top of her lungs. "Nevermind! I'm gonna be the adult here and ignore you! Bleeeh!" she said as she stuck her tongue out.

"… Baka…" Natsume mumbled.

"What was that? I heard that! You called me a baka, didn't you? Natsume-kun, don't ignore me!" Mikan yelled. Natsume just turned around and walked away while blocking his ears with his hands.

"Hello Imai, Sakura," Ruka greeted.

"Hello Ruka….-kun!" Mikan yelled happily, completely forgetting her anger for Natsume.

'What's with the pause..?' wondered Ruka.

"Mikan, let's practice now. Do you still remember how you did it yesterday?" Hotaru asked.

"Yep."

"Good, Hyuuga, turn on the music. And don't even think about complaining or else."

Natsume sighed as Hotaru looked at him evilly and turned on the music.

Mikan and Hotaru started to dance. Hotaru was dancing with confidence and knew exactly what she was doing. On the other hand, Mikan was still dancing awkwardly and she was still a little stiff.

"Mikan, relax. You're doing it too rigidly. You dance like a robot."

"Okay, let's start over!" Mikan exclaimed. Natsume turned on the music again.

Hotaru danced the same way as before. Mikan danced differently, but this time she danced way too relaxed.

"Mikan… This time, you're way too sloppy. You dance like an octopus."

"Huh?"

"Try to dance somewhere in between those two extremes." Hotaru said.

"What do you mean?" Mikan asked.

"… Nevermind. Just watch me." Hotaru said. Hotaru went through the dance routine.

"Oooohh. That was really awesome, Hotaru-chan!" Mikan started clapping.

"Now try it."

"Ok." Mikan started dancing with the way Hotaru did it in mind. She was still a little sloppy, but Hotaru approved of it and said it was ok.

"Yaaay! I'm soo good at this!" Mikan exclaimed.

Suddenly Robemat jumped out of Hotaru's bag and started dancing to its own music. It danced it as perfectly as Hotaru and then jumped back into her bag after looking at Mikan.

"………."

"Hotaru, what was that?"

"I think it was trying to make you feel worse about your dancing…" Hotaru said.

"Does Robemat hate me?"

"….Probably."

Robemat popped out of Hotaru's bag again and kicked Mikan's face. "Oowww!" Robemat went back into Hotaru's bag.

"Yeah, it definitely does." Hotaru stated.

"Why?" complained Mikan.

"Isn't it obvious? It's because you're so annoying." Natsume said.

"Why you, Natsu-" Mikan was cut off.

"Ruka, come on, let's practice," Natsume said. "Polka, turn the music on."

"Why should- and my name is NOT POLKA!" Mikan shouted.

"Tch, whatever, just turn the music on," Natsume commanded.

"Ok, ok, but I'm only doing this because you did it for us." Mikan retorted.

Ruka went over to stand next to Natsume as Mikan started to start the music.

Mikan pressed play and the two male teens started dancing.

"Wow, Hotaru, they're really good together, aren't they? I wish I could be better, so we could be like that!" Mikan said.

"Don't worry about it. They've been working as a unit for three years, so of course they can work together nicely," Hotaru said.

They watched as Natsume and Ruka completed their dance routine.

"Wow, that was really good, Natsume-kun, Ruka….-kun," Mikan complimented.

"Thank you, Sakura," Ruka said. 'That pause again.'

"Hmph, that was nothing," Natsume said.

"Show off," Mikan accused.

"At least I can do it," Natsume scoffed.

"Whatever."

"Oh, that's right! Imai, Sakura, we won't be able to come practice for the rest of the week, well, maybe a little bit on Friday," Ruka announced.

"Huh? Why not?" asked Mikan.

"Because we have a photo shoot tomorrow, and on Wednesday, we have a magazine interview. Then, on Thursday, we're showing up on Bang!, you know that talk show. Friday, we're going to be practicing a new song for our next album, but we should finish around 7:30. If you guys still want us to come practice with you, we can probably make it."

"Wow… Ruka…-kun…. Can you repeat that? Hehe," Mikan asked while laughing and blushing a little.

They all fell anime-style. Even Natsume.

"I'll explain it to you short and sweet," Hotaru, the first one to recover, said. "Basically, Nogi, and Hyuuga can't come to practice for the rest of the week, except a little on Friday."

"Oooh, I get it," said Mikan

"How in the world am I supposed to work well with an idiot like you… Damn that old man for cheating us," Natsume sighed, referring to Narumi.

GASP "Natsume-kun! Take that back! Hotaru's not an idiot!" Mikan said honestly.

Hotaru's cat jumped out and kicked Mikan's face. Then, it went back inside her bag.

"I'm not the idiot, baka," Hotaru said calmly. "By the way, I'm not going to be able to come for the rest of the week, either."

"Why can't you?" Mikan complained.

"Work," Hotaru said bluntly.

"Oh. Then, I guess I can practice by myself. And I think it'll be alright if Ruka…-kun and Natsume-kun don't come on Friday," Mikan said.

"Whatever, I wasn't planning to anyway," Natsume said.

"And I didn't even consider asking you to come on Friday! Hmph," Mikan said.

"Anyways, we haven't practiced singing yet because we were so focused on the dance steps. What do you say we practice now?" suggested Ruka.

"Sure," Mikan said.

"Whatever," said Natsume.

"Why not?" said Hotaru.

BAKA~ YOU ARE A BAKA~ THERE'S NO ONE AS STUPID AS YOU~ DING DONG~

The sound of a child's singing voice was suddenly heard.

"Hm? I wonder whose ringtone that is?" wondered Mikan.

Hotaru, Ruka, and Natsume just stared at Mikan.

"What? It's not my ringtone! Honestly! I set my ringtone to Hotaru-chan's debut song! Look here for yourself!" Mikan looked for her phone and took it out. "See? It's not mine!"

The other three just continued to stare at her.

"It is your phone, lamebrain," Natsume said.

"Huh?" Mikan looked at her phone and saw the words 'Calling:Kai'. "Oh, I bet Kai changed the ringtone again! He always does! I wonder what he wants?" Mikan wondered to herself.

"Hello, Kai? Yeah, what do you need?.... Right now?..... Do you know why?.... Where are you right now?.... Already?.... Uh, is it important?..... Did she tell you anything?.... Surprise?.... Um, okay, I'll be there in a few minutes…. Yeah, bye." Mikan hung up the phone.

"Sorry guys, I have to get going right now. Bye, I'll see you guys on… Saturday, I think," Mikan said as she rushed out.

"Well, I guess we should continue practice, right?" Hotaru said.

"Yeah."

And the three continued practicing.

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"Hey, Kai, Mom, I'm home!" Mikan said.

"Mikan, welcome home," her mother greeted.

"So, Mom, what's going on? Why'd you call me?" Mikan asked. "And where's Kai?"

"I'm right here." Kai said.

"Whoa! Where'd you come out from?" Mikan asked, shocked.

"… I was here the whole time." Kai sighed. 'I really don't know how in the world she made it into high school…' he thought.

"Oh really? I didn't see you at all, hehe!" Mikan said.

"Whatever. Mom, what's the 'surprise'?" Kai asked.

"Do you remember when you two were kids. We had some nice neighbors we were really close to? They had two children about your age that you two always played with? There was a guy who was a year older than you, Mikan, and another guy that was a year younger than you, Kai. You all played together when you were all in elementary school. Do you remember?" their mom asked.

"Yeah, I do," Kai responded.

"What about you Mikan?"

"Um…" Mikan said. (a/n:1 minute passed…. 2 minutes passed…. 5 minutes passed… a day passed… a month passed… a year passed… im kidding, it'd be funny if it did though right?) "Were they the ones who were scared of being in the light?"

"… No… Who are you talking about?" her mom asked.

"Oh wait! Nevermind, those are vampires," Mikan said, suddenly remembering.

Kai and her mom fell down and sweat-dropped.

"Hm, I guess I don't remember them," Mikan finally said.

"Well, either way, they said they're going to move back here to their old house. They sent the message in this package." Mikan's mom took out a brown box. "They also sent some pictures and gifts to us so I wanted you guys to see them as soon as you could."

"Really? Gifts? What are they?" Mikan asked excitedly.

"Oh, some jackets, chocolates, and other things," her mother replied. "Here's the photos they sent us the ones in front are when you guys were kids and they have some pictures of them now in there so you can recognize them when we see them."

"Wow, I remember when this happened. When Mikan-onee started crying because of the haunted house," Kai said as he flipped through a few of the pictures.

Mikan looked at the pictures. "Oh! I remember these guys! They were the ones we were talking about? We were so close! I can't wait to see them again!"

Yeah so that's the end of this chapter~ I was planning on putting this chapter up a month earlier but then I couldn't finish it and I had to go somewhere so now I finished it now that I got back. And I hope the chapter's ok cuz it's been some time since I posted the last one… Anyways, I hope you guys love this chapter, and always NEVER forget to Review~

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