The Moments Between Us
Summary: A collection of one-shot/drabble moments shared between Natsume Hyūga and Ruka Nogi as strangers, enemies, best friends, and lovers. Based on a list of 100 personal challenge prompts on LJ.
Rating: K – M (but will be mostly classified as T)
Disclaimer: really? you're just going to keep shoving the fact that i don't own gakuen alice in my face? really? every chapter?
Memory 8 –The Start to Start All Starts
Pairing(s): friendship(?)Natsume x Ruka
Warning(s): Some spoilers to Ruka and Natsume's made up past haha... 0.o
Rating: K+
Summary: It was their beginning, all rough edges and misunderstandings, but Ruka wouldn't have changed it for the world.
Based on: Prompt 001 –Beginnings
Dedicated to: MY FIRST WEEK OF MY SENIOR YEAR IN HS! :D whoo!
The first day that they had met, they had no idea that they would be so important to one another in the future. When they met, Ruka had actually scorned the silent new boy with his impassive crimson eyes and messy raven hair; Ruka had scorned him because he thought that Natsume would have been the same as all the other children.
See, the other children in the town either wanted to make friends with him because of his 'cool gifts' or because his mother was rich. They had never seen Ruka for himself, so instead of making friends and getting hurt—Ruka chose to just ignore and turn another cheek when the kids started labeling him as a snob. He didn't need people after all, not when he had the bunnies in his backyard and the deer that would sometimes come to play.
When Ruka had walked in to his classroom that fateful morning, Natsume was already seated next to a group of boys who sneered when they saw the blonde enter. The boys said something to Natsume who only raised a questioning eyebrow, crimson eyes unbelieving. But Ruka, who had seen him talk to the enemy, had already written off Natsume as a lost cause; just another boy who will be there to laugh when he falls.
That is, before Ruka was knocked out of his kidnappers arms by a fireball that seemed to come out of thin air. Then he had turned, caught Natsume's fiercely burning eyes, and suddenly understood that Natsume was the same as him.
Natsume was the same.
Their beginning wasn't one for the books of glamorous friendship moments. Their beginning was filled with rough starts, assumptions, and kidnappers—but it was their beginning, and if it all didn't happen, nothing in Ruka's life would have changed and he probably would have stayed the same recluse self. Natsume entered his life, all bumps and rough edges and misunderstandings, but if he hadn't have been there, Ruka would have never gotten to where he was today.
Even if some would point out that Ruka wasn't that social with others, the blonde would just shrug; he talked to his bunnies, the local deer in the academy grounds, and Natsume. He didn't really need anyone else to make him happy.
A/N: short but sweet? haha hopefully xD
&&thanks for all the 25% more muffin tops! :D and extra thanks to Nessie-san & knightinred who've basically commented on all of my chapters haha, you guys all make me happy xD but some of you guys are anon commenters, (which isn't bad) so sadly, i cannot message back and give you my thanks personally :/
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