Because of Prank Calling
(The After Story)
by: ShinJinIchi23

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-Chapter 1-

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The oh-so new great day for our auburn haired lady was ruined due to the phone call that she received from that not-an-engaged-man-anymore. Now she regretted being bored that night. Too much for her fun. She remained in her room, sitting in a corner and rocking back and forth while biting her fingernails.

Damn phone.

Continued…

"Damn it! Onee-chan disconnected the phone! I'm expecting a call from a classmate!" A furious voice echoed all over the house.

Damn phone.

Kring. Kring.

She jumped in surprise when she heard a familiar ringtone filled her room. She suspiciously glanced around her room, looking at the source of the noise.

Damn. Now a cell phone.

She stood up and slowly approached the ringing device. She gulped and picked it up, staring at the blinking screen.

Number not saved.

Her whole body shivered and she could feel her hear beting rapidly thinking that it was the not-an-engaged-man-anymore again. She closed her eyes and pushed the green button.

"OH MY GOD! I'M SO SORRY FOR RUINING YOUR ENGAGEMENT! PLEASE STOP CALLING ME! MY MOM WILL FREAKING KILL ME IF SHE DISCOVERED THAT I CRASHED AN ENGAGEMENT! PLEASE! PLEASE!" She shouted in a very fast pace. She could feel warm tears forming in side of her eyes threatening to gush out any second.

"Baka." Was the reply from the other line. Mikan blinked thrice in recognition.

"H-H-H-H-H-H-HOTARU! It's only you!" She yelled and wiped the tears that formed in her eyes.

"Will you stop shouting?" Hotaru scoffed icily. Our auburn haired lady quivered a little and then sighed in relief.

"You won't believe what happened to me! P – "

The other line cut her before she could continue. "I don't care. Go to my house now." She commanded and Beep. Beep.

Oh, awesome.

And so, the young woman hurriedly took a bath, changed her clothes and tied her long honey brown hair in ponytail. Her best friend didn't like to wait for too long. She didn't want to suffer the wrath of her scary looking gun. She stared in the mirror, her brownish eyes reflected with relief. Maybe somehow, her best friend could help her in her problem.

She silently went out of her room, trying to avoid more questions on why she disconnected the telephone.

"Mom! I'm going to Hotaru's house! Bye!"

She didn't wait for any reply and dashed out the house.

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She decided to walk because her best friend house was only few blocks away from their house. But just when she was about to cross the street, a raging vehicle came out of nowhere. She tried to step back but…

Too late.

It lightly hit her left hip, making her lose her balance. She groaned in annoyance, not in pain. She tried standing up, but instead bumped her head on the bumper of the car. She unexpectedly fell on the ground lying down, her eyes looking directly at the dim, blue sky.

'Holy Schmoly! How worse could this day go?' She thought and a vein popped out her head.

She diverted her eyes to the car, still lying in the ground. She saw someone came out from the driver's seat.

It was a guy. Wearing formal attire and black sunglasses.

She saw him examined his car and slapped his forehead. "Damn it! Are you blind woman?"

Mikan's eyebrows rose upon hearing his words. She slowly lost her temper. "Duh? Thanks for your heart-warming concern!" She replied mockingly and slowly stood up and dusted her white blouse and skirt. "Don't act like you're the king of the road, moron!"

The man crossed his arms in his chest. His lips formed a smirk. "Well, it's your fault anyway."

Her face became red in anger. Smokes started to come out in her ears. "Argh! So it's my fault?" Mikan threw a look of disdain in the car. "Not because you own a luxury car gives you a right to brag!"

The man shrugged his shoulders. "It's not my fault if it's your first time to see a luxury car. This car is much expensive that your life, Ichigo kara-san."

"Rot to hell with your stupid ca – " Her eyes widen in realization. "Y-y-you SAW! You're a PERVERT!" She yelled in exasperation.

"Tch. Say, who was the one lying at the street with her legs wide open." He paused; glint of disgust was visible in his voice. "Good thing there's no passerby's or else their eyes will be tainted like what happen to mine. That sight seriously hurt my eyes" He informed with a mocking smirk.

Mikan stomped her feet childishly, her hair swayed at her every move. "I hate you! Just moved that stupid car away, it's blocking my way!"

His brows twitched. "Tch, you still need to pay for bumping in my car."

Mikan's level of irritation reached its peak. She approached the man and pulled his necktie until it went loose his neck. She glared at the car and wiped the red necktie to the headlights angrily. Then she shot a shrill look and threw the necktie at the face of the stunned man. "Happy?"

The man gritted his teeth in irritation. "Now you also need to pay my 10,000 yen necktie." He breathed out behind his teeth.

"Get my payment in hell! Oh, bastard! Get lost!" She boomed.

He rolled his eyes in reply and looked at his wristwatch. "Oh, shit." 'I'm late at work this annoying lady is not helping for Pete's sake!'

She noticed that. She arched her eyebrows. "Hey, my time is more wasted than yours. Damn, men bring nothing but trouble! "

The man shot her a menacing glare. "How annoying that mouth of yours can be?"

"And how annoying your arrogance can be?" She glared at him. "Do you expect me to talk like a modest little girl when you almost kill me with your annoying car and then peek at my undergarment!" She walked in his direction simultaneously which made him to step backward.

He stopped walking backward and held her right arm. "Hey Ichigo-kara…" He called with a meaningful smirk on his face.

"Eeew! Get off your dirty hands off me, perverted shady man! !" She yelled in disgust.

He smirked and then in one quick movement, he grabbed and pulled the collar of her blouse and then gave her a sudden hard kiss on the mouth. Before she could fully realize what was happening, he pulled away.

"Did you even brush your teeth?" His face became sour in disgust. "How unhygienic."

Her eyes widen in disbelief. "Well, I forgot to brush my teeth, sorry for that!" She took out a handkerchief out of her pocket and wiped it furiously. "Eew. The bacteria, I could feel them entering my body."

"I'll take that as a compliment and payment for crashing in my car."

Her eyes widened, finally in realization. "You—"

She was cut off in mid-sentence when he entered his car like nothing happened and drove away like lightning.

"Pervert! An asshole with no manners!" she yelled after the leaving car, "You think you kiss well, you pig? I'd rather suck a snail than to have a saliva exchange with you again! I'll take vengeance for my stolen innocence, you'll see!"

Crook. Crook. Crook.

"MOU!"

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Continuous hitting of slippers was heard on the graphite floor. A bored raven haired lady raised her brow in annoyance. Her amethyst eyes narrowed in irritation.

"Will you stop doing that?"

"Can you believe my misfortune? I ruined an engagement because of my boredom, being threatened to be dead by the supposed to be groom and now what? I met a despicable, arrogant and perverted bastard! How gruesome my life could be! In my 19 years of existence, why these things only happened to me now!" Mikan exclaimed in exasperation.

Hotaru rolled her eyes. "Blame yourself for your prank calls and for being stupid." was her best friend's helping reply.

Their conversation got cut when a shivering man with rounded glasses approached them, holding a tray with two cups of coffee and cake. He nervously placed the coffee and cake on the table with his shaking hands.

"Hotaru, who is he?" Mikan asked in low tone and eyed the nervous man.

"He's our new butler. Yuu Tobita. He got fired in his first job because of his nervousness."

"NO! I got fired because my stalker called me at work saying that she loves me! My boss at Jollibee call center got angry because I suddenly slammed the phone. It was really creepy!" Yuu frantically explained.

Mikan's mouth hang wide. Her eyes bulged out of the socket. She felt a sudden flow of electricity in her body when she realized something.

'Oh god damned prank calling!'

"Tobita-san, stop being nervous or you will be fired... again." Hotaru threatened. The poor butler again trembled in fear of being fired again. To be fired was a traumatic experience and he didn't want that to happen again.

"NO! Don't fire him Hotaru, please! No matter what happen, don't fire him!" Mikan suddenly pleaded hysterically which made her raven haired best friend to look suspiciously to her.

"Mikan…" Hotaru started radically. "I never knew that you like nervous men."

Blink. Blink. Blink.

Sigh.

I guess its better this way.

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On the other side of the world map… A Ferrari stopped at the front of a luxurious hotel. The man that was wearing the formal attire and sunglasses hopped out of the car and a hotel staff welcomed him. He tossed his key to the staff and started to make his way inside the hotel.

"Good morning, Hyuuga-sama." The receptionist greeted with a flirting smile.

"Hn." Was his answer and continued walking to the elevator. He entered the lift and pushed a button.

Ding.

Many more employees greeted him and he ignored all of them. Finally, he reached his destination – the hotel manager's office.

"Good morning, Hyuuga-sama, you had an ugly visitor waiting inside your office." Her secretary with dark green curly hair informed with dark aura around her. The man's eyebrows arched.

"What happened to you?"

The secretary snorted. "Well, my bloody boyfriend accused me of two timing! I'm just cursing him silently sir." She answered grimly. His boss showed a scornful expression in his face.

"Ms. Shouda, don't bring your personal life in work." He reminded and left the gloomy secretary.

"Sorry sir. That's why I said I'm cursing him silently." She mumbled under her breath.

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The hotel's manager entered his chamber and saw the expected visitor of him. He sat on his executive chair stared coldly at the man with gleeful smile on his face.

"Yo! Natsume Hyuuga-sama!" The goofy man with spiky blond hair and cheerful narrowed eyes greeted cheerfully. Natsume removed his sunglasses and eyed the man with deadly stares.

"What happened to your search operation, Kitsuneme?" He asked icily. Kitsuneme remained smiling even though he was really panicking inside.

"It was a success!" He proudly said. "Here's the complete file of the girl you've been looking for, Hyuuga-sama!" He added and gave a folder to Natsume.

Natsume opened the folder. He scanned it and saw a photo of the girl he was searching for. It didn't take long time before his ruby eyes widen in recognition on the girl in the photo.

His jaw tightened, eyes brimming with anger but in the same time… with amusement.

He picked up the photo and stared at the cheerful expression of the woman in the photo. "That Ichigo-kara with bad breath…was the freaking prank caller?" He muttered, his eyes twitching.

He looked at Kitsuneme again and was about to say something but… the door of his office burst opened and revealed a 20 years old woman with an angry expression in her face and a bouquet of flower in one of her hand. Her cold blue eyes showed nothing but resentment. Her long strawberry pink haire swayed as she stomped angrily to Natsume location and threw the flowers… hard on his face.

"Stop sending flowers to me, you cheater! I don't want to have communication with you again!"

Natsume stood up, setting aside his embarrassment. "Wait! Will you let me explain? That girl is a goddamned prank caller for god's sake!"

"You're a liar as always! I hate you! And don't forget that our engagement is off! I already said it to my parents and in no time the press will know it too!"

He clenched his fist in exasperation. His eyes narrowed, "Don't do this."

"Of course I will! Goodbye, Natsume." She said with unknown emotion written in her face. She spun around and left the room.

"Wow. That was quite a show." Kitsuneme muttered, his hands still extended in the air.

Natsume gritted his teeth and began to mumble incoherent words under his breath. He shut his eyes closed and massaged his forehead. "My life is a mess now, thanks to that prank caller. She's really dead." He murmured and sighed in irritation.

Oh Really.

To be continued…

-End of Chapter-

This chapter was posted years ago, but I had to take it down because I needed to go on hiatus. Now, I'm back! I will finish this story as my original plan!
I might post one chapter every week, depending on my schedule. Have fun, lovelies~