Again, edited. The same reason as before, millions of grammatical errors could be seen. I also noticed that Mikan gritted her teeth a lot in this chapter, so I changed a few things. We don't want to see Mikan with blunt teeth, no? 130910.

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Chapter 2: Changes in life

'Bye, I love you too'

Hyuuga Natsume whispered to the other person on the line as he pushed the 'end call' button and carefully placed his cell phone on the mahogany desk in front of him. He sighed as he leaned back on the office chair and was now letting his thoughts wander to Luna Koizumi, his – "What's the meaning of this?" a screechy voice interrupted his thoughts as he twitched in response. He reluctantly cracked an eye open and was greeted with the sight of Mikan Sakura in her childish looking pyjamas standing at the doorway of his study - looking as if she was ready to kill someone.

Natsume slowly sat up as he lazily drummed his fingers on the mahogany desk. "Meaning of what?"

"Your grandfather announced in a press conference that his current girlfriend will be marrying his grandson." Mikan snarled as she glared at him.

"What the heck do you mean by that?" one of Natsume's eyebrows rose. This clearly meant that he's not buying it.

A corner of his lips tugged upwards as a thought came to him, not to mention that his eyes were twinkling with mischievously, "You didn't have to go that far to make me marry you. I know I'm too charming to resist." he said to her in an amused voice while waiting for her very predictable reaction.

As expected, she's now fuming with anger and was about to punch his oh-so-handsome face but then stopped on her tracks, when she heard the door slam open. She faced the door and saw Hotaru Imai standing on the doorway. Mikan instantly smiled when she saw Hotaru, she ran towards her - wanting a hug from her but Hotaru evaded her hug which resulted to her sprawled on the floor.

Hotaru ignored the whining which came from her best friend and glared at Natsume who was rather entertained at the sight of her best friend sprawled on the ground, "Why it is that Mikan's marrying you? It was never stated in the contract." she had menacingly interrupted his thoughts.

"What? first ugly and now you, I never plan to marry someone as ugly and idiotic as her. Where the heck did you get that?" Natsume said as he has finally lost his patience, 'Seriously, this joke is getting out of hand' he thought as he shook his head.

"The television. Your grandfather announced it in a press conference." Hotaru monotonously said as she steadily glared at him.

"It can't be."

"Yes, I announced in a press conference that you will marry your current girlfriend." a familiar voice interrupted their conversation; it was none other than the mastermind behind the marriage announcement – Hyuuga Kotaru. He was standing at the doorway, looking innocent but the smug smile on his face gave it away.

"What did you do?" Natsume rose from his seat and glared at his grandfather; his voice dripping with furiousness.

"I announced your marriage with Mikan." Kotaru casually replied as he took a step forward.

"And why the heck did you do that?" Natsume intensified his glare as he balled up his fist.

"It was done to erase the doubts of the society. The pictures, remember?" Kotaru sat on the red coloured couch which was placed in the middle of the room and stared at him.

Natsume now remembered the pictures that showed him and Luna together. The pictures certainly caused uproar in the society, after all – He is the heir to the Hyuuga Corp. His anger lessened when he heard his grandfather's reason, it's reasonable but the thought of his grandfather deciding everything without his consent made him more furious.

"Why didn't you ask for my permission first?" He further questioned his grandfather as he stood in front of him.

"It would be bothersome to wait for your permission, you wouldn't agree to it." Kotaru explained with hand gestures.

"To hell with you, it's my life we're talking about. MY LIFE! You can't just do that without my permission." Natsume furiously replied to him.

"Why don't you sit down first, the entire household can hear you." Kotaru calmly said as he patted on the seat right next to him. He was then given a grunt as a reply from his only grandson, how… fitting. His eyes followed his grandson's movements as he sat down on the seat that faced him, not the one next to him. Figures

"Now, calm down and relax for awhile. We have a lot to talk about." Kotaru said in a stern voice. He could see that his grandson has now calmed down as the dark aura around him just now was gone. He sighed and had locked gazes with Natsume.

"Natsume, if you're mad because I didn't ask your permission, it's because it must be done immediately." he stopped and looked at his grandson; he got a nod from him, ushering him to continue.

"If I asked for your permission, it would take about 5 days to win you over. Think about it Natsume, by that time Luna's father would've thought the deal was off. You wouldn't want that, right Nastume? "

He looked at Natsume who stayed still; he took the silence as a no and decided to continue, "It was your fault that this has to be done, right? If you didn't act so carelessly none of this would've happened."

Natsume sighed, his grandfather was right.

"You should just die, the useless must die." A female voice suddenly interrupted their conversation; he searched for the source of the voice and found Hotaru sitting on one of the couches with Mikan next to her, glaring at him – Truth to be told she sucks at glaring. 'So they have not left this place yet' he thought.

Right after that Natsume and Hotaru were engaged in a glaring war leaving Mikan trying to stop their glaring and Kotaru clueless. Kotaru let out a sigh and shook his head as he thought no matter how many times they had seen each other they always will end up glaring at each other until he intervenes.

"Stop it you two. Tomorrow, the two of you come here around 7.00 AM; we have a lot to discuss. Do I make myself clear?" Kotaru said it in a tired voice as he pointed at Hotaru and Mikan. Both of them nodded and went back to their respective homes while Kotaru stayed back for awhile until Natsume shooed him away.

It was 7.45 AM and three figures were seen sitting down on the couches in the living room while taking sips from their cup of coffee waiting for a certain someone. Suddenly, the front door slammed open revealing a tired brunette who looked like she had just ran a marathon. One of the three figures, a girl with black shoulder length hair paired with amethyst coloured eyes looked up saying the only thing in her mind, "As expected of an idiot, you're late."

"For once, I agree with Imai." A man with messy raven hair and tantalizing crimson eyes said in a somehow surprised tone.

The exhausted brunette dragged her feet to one of the couches and plopped down on it. "Hotaru, I'm sorry that I'm late and Natsume, shut up." She grunted as she closed her eyes in attempt to calm herself. Right now the thing that she needs the most is peace and peace can be found here.

Oh peace and – "Oi, you're drooling on the couch." Instantly, her eyes fluttered open which revealed her furious brown orbs and the next thing you know she was sitting down properly with her glaring at the suspected person who disturbed her peace.

"Pray tell, why do you even care? You can always buy a new one. Pfft, you can even ask one of your maids to clean the couch." Mikan said as she gritted her teeth.

Natsume shrugged, which was then followed with him shaking his head, "I just pity that couch, the things that you do to torture it. " he looked at her and saw that she was twitching and her hand was balled up to a fist, a corner of his lips tugged upwards forming a smirk at the sight.

"Y-You ah… Pig." Mikan randomly accused him.

Natsume raised an eyebrow at her accusation, "As far as I know you're the pig, being your pretend boyfriend taught me that."

He snickered at the thought of one of the dates that they had. 'Ah ... Good times'

"You P-I-G." Natsume slowly said it to piss her off more. He then casually chanted those words but this time a bit faster which resulted to Mikan sighing exasperatedly and covering her ears while chanting "I don't care."

However, Mikan had reached her limit and screamed but was then silenced by Hotaru who had hit her head hard using her fan, "You idiots, shut up. I can't enjoy my crab sandwich."

"But Hotaru…," The one who was hit whined but then stopped when she could sense Hotaru's dark aura. She looked at Natsume who was now smirking and mouthed to her 'You got what you deserved'

Mikan was now prepared to start another war when the forgotten figure, who had bright red hair and mysterious black eyes suddenly butt in, "Stop it right now, I need your cooperation or else you won't know what I might do." and with that the three of them paid attention to the person and ushered him to continue.

"As you all know, now Mikan and Natsume now have to act as a married couple courtesy of me." Kotaru smiled but then stopped when he noticed that all of them were glaring at him when he made this particular statement.

"C-Continuing, we would need to prepare a lot of things and during my leisure time I did a list of what both of them would need," Kotaru took out a folded paper from his pocket as he unfolded the paper. He looked at the three of them – Hotaru was staring at him, Natsume did the same while Mikan smiled at him.

"Let's start now and finish before night comes, any problems with that?"Kotaru looked at the three of them who remained unfazed at his stare but he could tell that they were waiting for him to start. He sighed for the last time 'this will take a while' he thought.

"Finally, it's done." Kotaru Hyuuga said in an exhausted voice, as expected it would take a long time as currently it's 5.30 PM . He could see the others were tired too, Hotaru was emotionless like Natsume but he could see that they were tired from their eyes while Mikan showed the obvious, she was already asleep.

He then cleared his throat to grab their attention and said, "Let's go over what we had agreed,"

He then glanced at the three of them and started to read the paper in a very tired voice, "First, the married couple are to move in an apartment together specially picked by me. Second, Hotaru would move in with them to ensure that World War 3 won't break out. Third, Natsume's supposed to show his affection for Mikan in public in many ways to avoid suspicion from the public. Fourth, if Natsume wanted to meet up with Luna he would first tell Hotaru and me before going. Fifth, Mikan and Natsume would have their wedding by next month and I would prepare the wedding. Sixth, this marriage act would only last for 2 years. Lastly, Mikan and Natsume will have a baby by next year." When he said the last point Natsume and Hotaru glared at him.

"J-Just kidding and that's just about it." Kotaru said in a Seriously-I-Was-Just-Joking voice.

"Tomorrow, we'll meet up here again at something like 7.00 AM and please bring your luggage with you. You're moving into the new apartment tomorrow. " Kotaru continued as he put down the paper on the coffee table and looked at the Hotaru who nodded.

Hotaru took out a fan from her sleeve and hit Mikan's head with its end which resulted to a VERY loud 'Ouch'. Then both of them stood up and went outside leaving both Kotaru and Natsume at the living room. An hour had passed and Natsume had reached his limits, he stood up and went straight for his bedroom to get a good night sleep. As for Kotaru, he had decided to stay over at the mansion so that things would be easier for him.

Watch out for Chapter 3: Adjusting to the changes in life

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