Summary: What happens when Narumi comes up with an abstract assignment? Very Slight NxM.

Disclamer: Disclaimed.

T.K.'s Rant: Hey everyone! Hope you enjoy this oneshot of Natsume's questionnaire. If you guys like it I may do Mikan's, Hotaru's, and Ruka's. Perhaps Sumire's and Koko's too if you guys like the idea. Please review and tell me what you think!

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"Burn Baby Burn.

Why? Because I like to burn things. Perhaps I should start with you?"

-TrigunsKitty

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OutsideThe Box

It was just like any day. I woke up early with the sun shining lightly through my curtains that were always drawn when I was in. I never really cared for the sun or rain; in fact I preferred an overcast day than anything else.

The weather had always remained a fickle thing for me anyway,

Drawing the black sheer curtains away from my view I looked to the outside. The trees were lightly sprinkled with white puffy snow, and the clouds were at its brightest, according to the idiot; but I removed the thought instantly.

Nothing would be accomplished with that kind of thinking; actually, whenever I thought about polka I would become further envious of her cheeriness. She always looked at the world as a blessing that everything was meant to be.

It was a bunch of croc.

Everything about her screamed, "Naïve!"

"Tch…"

Removing my hand that was clutching the curtains I turned around and walked to my personal bathroom. Since it was seven thirty in the morning, I figured I could take a shower and prepare for the day.

Thirty minutes later I was standing in front of my bathroom mirror trying to fix the stupid strand of raven hair that was popping up randomly. I didn't care for personal appearances, but that one strand was bothering me.

Don't ask me why, I don't even know why myself.

Further irritating myself, I gave up on the stupid thing and emerged from the bathroom. My white shirt was left untucked and the ribbon that was wrapped around my collar remained in a knot. The red plaid and black shorts remained the same, even if it was the last year for them to be wearing elementary school clothes.

At least it was better than that gaudy blue plaid they wore for middle school.

Not bothering with socks I slipped on my black boots and started my day by exiting my room with my backpack slung unevenly on my right shoulder and my hands in my pockets. Just a normal day.

Turning the corner I was unexpectedly hit by something and I fell back. Or at least started to before correcting my footing and stood over the one thing that made me so irritated.

My source of all annoyance, and perhaps many more: Mikan Sakura.

"Ouch…"

"What the hell are you doing?" I asked, not bothering to offer her any help.

Her two pigtails bounced up as she jumped right back up and into my face. Her angry expression was quite evident as I stood passively.

Her red plaid and black skirt was slightly askew, along with her slightly rumpled white school top that adorned that stupid one star that she received from that time we were kidnapped. She may have been ecstatic about getting her first star but I have a feeling that star she received was not for bravery but for making sure I didn't give myself up to the AAO.

"Natsume? Natsume? Nattie?" That brought me from my thoughts. Nattie?

"What did you call me?" I replied; I also noticed my hands were clenching inside my pockets. I could also feel my eyebrow twitching in agitation. No one, and I repeat, NO ONE was allowed to call me nicknames and get away with it unscathed.

"You weren't paying attention to what I was saying!" Her expression I noticed happened to be slightly mopping, and her eyes brightened when I spoke back.

"You were saying something stupid, so I decided not to bother." I could feel her anger emanating from her form and I brushed past her. Too bad I wasn't finished with that statement.

"Maybe I'll start paying more attention to you if you start wearing better lingerie. Panda's are sooo childish." I purposely spoke in a childish way to her, not missing her face flush in embarrassment,

Sticking my tongue out to her, I raised my hand and headed to class.

"Natsume!"

Ah, yes. An ordinary day….

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Is what I'd like to say, but what awaited me in class was another one of those stupid assignments Narumi made us do for his entertainment.

1.) There are many ways to express your appreciation. How do you show your appreciation and thanks?

2.) If you could invite any 5 people to your thanksgiving dinner, who would they be and why?

3.) What is something wrong with the world of today? What is something you can do with your Alice to help improve the world. How would you do it? Or if you couldn't, what some things would you leave behind so that you could help it out?

4.) Pick one abstract quote that matches you and explain how that quote relates to you.

Remember, Think outside the Box!

I stared at this piece of trash in front of me. Who came up with these questions? Right, it was from gay Naru. Narumi was standing in the front of Classroom B, holding more of his precious "Outside the Box" Questions.

"Remember to answer honestly and think broader! I won't accept a "I don't know" or a simpleton answer! Well, have fun I've got a meeting to catch!"

While he was walking out I was wondering how he would have felt if I started burning those precious assignments in his hand.

"Natsume?"

I turned my attention to polka next to me and blinked unenthusiastically.

"What is it Polka?"

"This assignment is a bit harder than his normal ones, huh?"

I shook my head and turned my attention to my own paper to check. The questions weren't hard to answer but it would just be a waste of time.

"Hn."

"Yeah, I'm not the only one who thinks that then!"

Wait… what?

"Where'd you get 'yes' from my reaction? Did I say yes? No, I don't think so."

"B-but!" I sighed inwardly as she started another idiotic rant. "Whenever you disagree with me you always use 'Tch,' "

I almost felt like laughing when she started imitating me.

"…and when you use 'hn,' you mean yes."

Rolling my eyes I turn away from her attention and start my first question.

"Whatever, start the stupid assignment, Idiot."

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Narumi was looking over the answers and found Natsume's near the bottom. The teacher figured that Natsume would have ignored the assignment and sleep through it, but he was quite surprised when he saw the answers he gave.

1.) There are many ways to express your appreciation. How do you show your appreciation and thanks?

I don't really know how to respond to this question. It's a complete waste of time and I should just burn this and rid humanity of this stupidity. I don't show my appreciation or thanks to anyone ¾ of the populace within this stupid prison they call school. If I do show thanks, I just say: "Thanks." That's the best anyone is getting from me.

2.) If you could invite any 5 people to your thanksgiving dinner, who would they be and why?

Another stupid question. I wouldn't invite anyone because the only people I need is father, Aoi, and Ruka. It's not like I can just go home and have dinner with them. If I felt generous enough I would invite polka, and the blackmailing queen… but that's only because it would be interesting to eat dinner with them.

3.) What is something wrong with the world of today? What is something you can do with your alice to help improve the world. How would you do it? Or if you couldn't, what some things would you leave behind so that you could help it out?

Why must we discover the wrongs of the world? How about we look at the problems within our grasp that we can fix with our Alices? One of them is this school. How I would solve it? Easy, I'd get rid of the administration… But since I can't do that I'll just wait until I have the power to actually do something. I can't leave anything behind because I don't need to. There's no point in thinking about the future when we have the present to still live through.

4.) Pick one abstract quote that matches you and explain how that quote relates to you.

You really want us to pick an abstract quote out of nowhere? This is annoying…

"Burn baby, burn."

Why? Because I like to burn things. Perhaps I should start with you?

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Completed: September 23rd, 2010; 5:42 p.m.