Natsume's P.O.V

My lips burned from where they had touched hers. It was like she was fire, burning away my sanity with her kisses.

They where warm and sweet and oh-so-tasty.

I smirked and licked my lips at the thought of it.

"Come on, Lover Boy, lets get this mission over with," says Silver as he smiles widely and starts climbing the fence. We all follow his lead.

"We need to find the bastards that hurt Mikan," says Hate as we run.

"That's not the mission," says Greed.

"Like hell I didn't know that!" Hate hisses, his temper flaring. Not like that was unusual.

"We need to, but we don't know who it is. We need info first. You should know that, Dipshit," I say. Hate stops moving, he comes toward me and swings his fist toward my face. I easily dodge, but I didn't see his second attack until it was to late. It was about to hit my face when it stopped.

My eyes went wide. Hate's eyes went wide. Silver smirked and Greed rolled his eyes. Hate looked at his hand that had come into contact with a barrier. You could see where it had cracked because of the force, but it still stood, protecting me.

It was just like Mikan, protecting me from afar.

Hate got this pained scowl on his face, yet I could tell he wasn't in physical pain. It was all emotional.

"Your in love with her, too, aren't you?" I ask.

He glares daggers at me.

Behind him, I see Silver sigh and nod his head, and I see Greed just give me a knowing look.

I am silent for a while, knowing that this isn't something to tease him about. I mean I have been in those shoes before. Hell, I practically am in his shoes right now. We are on the same boat and only one of us can win.

"You know-" I start before he cuts me off.

"Just don't, Hyuuga. I don't need your sympathy because I don't plan on losing her. I know she used to be someone different, but that isn't the Mikan I fell in love with. I fell in love with the one that is heartless, yet at the same time she isn't. I took away her emotions, not her will. From the hell she is in now, and the hell you guys put her through, you know, I admire her. You might love her, but you will always hurt her." he says.

"I cant promise her life. I cant even promise her ill come home or she will come home. But I can promise her the only thing that I can do on while we are on this hell hole. I promise to love her." Hate continues.

I just look at him.

"We've lost enough time, come on, lets go," Hate says as he turns so his back is toward me, and we move on.

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Mikan's P.O.V

I lay on my bed motionlessly as I stare up at the ceiling. I just stare, so lost in thought about what the boys are doing. Are they safe? When will they be back? I hear the door creak open and I don't even bother to look up.

I can already tell who it is.

"How are you feeling?" asks Hotaru quietly. I don't respond. I don't even look up at her.

I refuse to acknowledge her.

"I know that you are probably mad at me. Even I will admit that what I said about you.. What we all said about you… it was cruel. Far worse then you deserved. Hell, no one deserved to hear that-" she said.

"Could you please leave?" I ask quietly, cutting her off.

"We just want to make amends before you leave." she says, her voice holding a hint of desperation.

I sit up and give her a weird look.

"Leave?" I ask.

"Yeah, were leaving in about 5 days. We just want to say what needs to be said." she says.

"You honestly think that after everything that you've seen they will just let you go? How do you think that we train? There are no training dummies. We use people. We have to be prepared. If you are lucky enough to survive, then you can stay, but chances are, your not leaving unless your in a body bag," I said.

Her eyes widen slightly.

"No, we are leaving as scheduled. This is just a field trip. They cant do that to us. They cant just kill us. People would know, and people would talk," she says.

" ' Right now, on this very island, you are under the leaders jurisdiction.' I am the leader, and I would let you go if I could, but I don't think it will be allowed." I say.

"And why not." she said, her face getting red with rage. She thought I was just trying to scare her.

"Because everyone who tries to leave always runs into technical difficulties. We are in the Bermuda Triangle." I say.

She scowls at me.

"I come in here to try to apologize and what do you do? You just lie and treat me like crap. You were better when you just smiled like an idiot all the time," she said and stalked out of the room, slamming the door in the process.

How did it make me feel that my once best friend tried to apologize? Why did it kind of still hurt that she said I used to be an idiot? Why am I even bothering to think about what I would feel? There presence here was doing nothing but mess with my head and my new standard of normal.

I sigh as I go back to my previous activity of staring uselessly at the ceiling.

I hope there home soon.

…

Hotaru's P.O.V

I marched back to my dorm and slammed the door angrily. Everyone was there except for Natsume.

"How did it go?" Anna asked.

"She just treated me like a jerk. Why is she making things so difficult?" I say as I flop down on the bed next to Bunny Boy.

"I don't really know if she can be healed by us anymore." says Ruka quietly. The whole room goes completely silent. You could hear a pin drop from a mile away.

Ruka nervously looks around.

"I just think that maybe she isn't ready to forgive us. I think that she will have to come to us, not us go to her. I think the only way she can be saved is by Natsume. Were practically useless until then." he says.

No I don't like that idea. I want to fix it. Now. I don't want anything to do with Hyuuga fixing her. He stole her away from me and gave me all that pent up anger against her that made me rant at her. Technically, its his fault. Now I should fix it.

Its my turn to fix Mikan again. Just like I used to.

"No, this is us-" I start.

"We aren't the ones who make her heart race and make her confused. We are her friends, but Natsume is so much more. She needs to make mends with him first. Then us." Ruka says.

"But I want to be first again! He stole her from me! She was MY friend. But then she became HIS. I LOST MY BEST FRIEND." I yell.

"I did, too. But the person who replaced Natsume after Mikan came was only someone that I had been trying to make him to be my whole life. Mikan fixed Natsume and made him a better person. it's the same for Mikan. You just don't want to admit that you wanted to be the one to do that," Ruka says calmly.

His calmness is just aggravating me.

"Its not fair," I whisper. The whole room just stares at me as Ruka wraps me up in a hug as a frantically wipe away a salt drop from my eye.

Its just not fair.

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I WAS STUDYING ALL WEEK! I HAD FINALS! SO SORRY ITS SO LATE! THANKS SO MUCH! HOPE YOU LIKED THIS!