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Chapter 3: Adjusting to the changes in life

'I'm here!'

Mikan Sakura announced as she sat down on the brown coloured couch that was placed in the living room of Hyuuga mansion, not forgetting to drag her luggage with her that is. Today, she's feeling rather giddy as today she's early and that rarely happens since she's –

"I never knew that an idiot could be up so early." a husky voice came from the grand staircase behind her.

She looked behind and saw Hyuuga Natsume descending down the stairs with his luggage. He had a smirk on his face when he sat on the brown coloured couch which was positioned directly in front of her which enabled him to annoy her as much as he feels like to her annoyance.

"Sit somewhere far from me." Mikan grunted as she buried her face in the orange coloured cushion which was placed on the couch. Hoping that Natsume had complied with her request, she took a peek and saw that he was still sitting in front of her with his signature smirk on his face.

It seemed that he noticed that she was peeking and decided to speak up, "I know that I'm handsome, that's why you're peeking - your ego would get a big hit if you admit it, right? I now give you permission to stare at my face." He had a superior smile on his face when he declared those words – that bastard.

"Y-You, are you really sure that your name is Hyuuga Natsume? Isn't there something missing, you know like a middle name?" Mikan replied to him as she sat down and faced him with a heated glare.

"If there is, I guess it would be something like majestic." Natsume shrugged as he looked at her from the corner of his eyes, expecting an enraged reaction from her.

"Hah! Majestic? As if," she pointed at him while her eyes were twinkling rather mischievously. She continued, "It should be something like arrogant, conceit, self-centred or -"

"You're up early, aren't you Mikan?" A recognizable voice cut her off from listing off her long list of negative adjectives for Natsume's middle name.

Mikan searched for the source of the voice and found herself looking at Hyuuga Kotaru, she smiled at him, "Good morning, Uncle!" she cheerfully said.

"I told you to call me grandfather, didn't I?" Kotaru replied to her as he sat next to her, not forgetting to smile at her.

"I'm sorry uncle but I don't want to be associated with someone like Natsume." Mikan sweetly replied as she glared at the mentioned person.

"Haha, I guess that is understandable." Kotaru laughed as he patted her back not forgetting to look at his grandson from the corner of his eyes, his reaction was hilarious! It could be seen that he was jealous but seriously, jealous of his own grandfather? Talk about possessive. Ever since Natsume had started dating Mikan, he noted that Natsume had somehow changed – He's a little nicer now (please take note of little) and he smirks a lot. To see him smirking is very rare and – "Get your hands off her, old man. May I remind you, you're a grandfather – So, hands off her now." the said person had menacingly disturbed his train of thoughts.

"So? What is it to you? Hm?" Kotaru grinned as he averted his eyes to Mikan who was in her own world until now.

"Mikan, would you mind giving grandfather hug?" Kotaru opened his arms; he now had a smug smile on his face - which was clearly seen by Natsume.

'That pathetic excuse of a-' before Natsume can even continue his thoughts, he saw that Mikan had enthusiastically flew into his grandfather's arms.

He narrowed his eyes at this. "That's it, Mikan Sakura get your hands off that man. He -"

"Didn't know that you were that possessive Hyuuga." A well-known stoic voice had cut him off from reciting a sermon of words.

Natsume now noticed that Imai Hotaru was actually in this room, to be precise – sitting next to him. "How the hell did you manage to sit next to me without anyone noticing, especially me?" he glared at Hotaru who glared back at him.

"I have my ways but an idiot like you won't understand." Hotaru hissed at him.

"Isn't that your best friend?"

"She's a super idiot."

"HEY! What do you mean by super idiot? Hotaru, you meanie!"

"Ignore her."

"Agreed."

"What?"

"Now, you three stop it. We should go now," Kotaru interrupted to which the three of them nodded and are now preparing to depart to their new living place.

The ride in the Limo was awkward at first but then Natsume started teasing Mikan and the car was now noisy. The volume of noise annoyed our Hotaru, who silenced both of them with a hit from her fan. She shook her head thinking of ways how they managed to act as a perfect couple in public but constantly trying to mess with each other when not sighted. The limo came to a halt and it stopped right in front of a nice looking villa.

Hotaru furrowed her eyebrows. "Didn't we agree on an apartment?" she questioned Kotaru.

"I think it's better to live here rather than an apartment." Kotaru shrugged.

She sighed 'Guess that's that' and now her attention was on the will-be-married couple who were glaring at each other and were blocking the door. She could see that Kotaru was already outside waiting for them to come out.

"Mikan, stop glaring at him and go out already." Hotaru said in a commanding voice and after that she turned to look at Natsume, "While you, Get. Out .This .Instant."

Natsume shrugged and went out first, followed by Mikan and lastly Hotaru came out, what occupied Hotaru's mind right now is how stunningly beautiful the villa is.

It gave off a unique but homey feel to it, the designs were simple but with the sun shining brightly the colours began to sparkle and it looked magnificent. The landscape is what you call amazing; from here she could see different type of flowers lined up near stones which leads to the double glass door.

The pathway of stones divided the landscape to two sides, at the right she could see a small fountain, whose water was very clear and a collection of red coloured flowers surrounded it. Not forgetting the big tree next to it whose shadow was seen on the fountain and flowers, this would be an ideal place to relax and enjoy nature. At the left side she could see a pond which had a bridge over it and not to mention there are fishes swimming in the pond, other than that there was nothing else as the pond was big.

She wasn't able to evaluate the villa further as Kotaru called for them to go inside and explore the villa. The villa had a kitchen, a dining room, a living room, a bathroom and a laundry room downstairs while upstairs there were three rooms and a bathroom. Mikan's room was rather complicated to find, you have to enter Natsume's room first and you will find a connecting door to the next room. Kotaru made it like that so it will look like that they sleep in a room. After they had finished exploring the not-so-big-but-not-so-small villa, they gathered at the living room – doing their own work while Kotaru went home.

Everyone was contented on doing their own work until Mikan broke the silence.

"Uh, do we have food in the refrigerator?" she asked as she stood up and headed towards the seat next to Hotaru who was busy trying to find people to blackmail on her laptop.

Hotaru shrugged at her. "Check it yourself idiot."

She pouted at her typical response and headed to the kitchen only to find that the refrigerator is empty.

"Hotaru, it's empty!" she shouted.

"Then go buy some!" Hotaru shouted back at her.

"Okay!" Mikan said as she went outside, not forgetting to bring her wallet with her.

Mikan Sakura was seen at a supermarket's seafood section, looking for crab brains for Hotaru while driving the cart full of variety of food. Once she found the crab brains, she stuffed the almost-full cart with crab brains and went to the point of sale terminal and waited for the cashier to do her thing. Obviously, she was oblivious of the fact that people were staring at her since she was day dreaming at that particular time. Who wouldn't stare at her – she's Hyuuga Natsume's girlfriend and now soon to be wife, who wouldn't be envious of her? Her husband's the heir to the one of the successful companies in the world, one of the most influential people on earth, very intelligent and not to mention a very attractive lad.

"Mrs. Hyuuga, would you please pay?" the cashier suddenly interrupted Mikan's train of thoughts.

"Oh, here you go." Mikan said not forgetting to smile at her after she had snapped out of her trance and headed outside with her groceries. However, she stopped on her tracks when she realised what the cashier called her. She called her 'Mrs. Hyuuga'. The word echoed in her mind.

Her eyes widened in realisation and she went back on her tracks and confronted the now fidgeting cashier, "What did you call me just now?" Mikan said as she eyed the cashier.

"Mrs. Hyuuga, I -" the cashier was suddenly cut off by a furious Mikan.

"Don't you dare call me Mrs. Hyuuga!"

"What do you mean by that?" An all too familiar voice interrupted their conversation, before Mikan could even look at the source of the voice – that person had snaked his arms around her waist. She glanced at her side and saw Hyuuga Natsume standing next to her with his arms around her waist. She was about to retort at him but he swiftly led her outside into his car not forgetting the groceries of course.

He quickly went in the car, started its engine and began to drive the car back to the villa. In the car there was awkward silence until Natsume broke it, "What was that just now?"

"I don't like it when they call me Mrs. Hyuuga." Mikan replied as she sighed.

"You have to get used to it, we're going to get married you know." he replied to her, not taking his eyes of the road.

"I know, why I even agreed to become your pretend girlfriend is a mystery." she said in a frustrated voice as she looked outside the window.

"Didn't you remember? Imai forced you," Natsume said to her with a tinge of amusement in his voice.

"Oh yeah, now I remember," Mikan giggled at the thought.

Natsume almost smiled when he saw this – ALMOST. She just looked so adorable and he felt like pinching her cheeks at that time but he refrained from doing that. If he did pinch her cheeks, what would he tell her? 'Oh, I pinched your cheeks because you looked so adorable.' Pfft. Dream on, never in his entire life – "Natsume, why are you staring at me?" that prevented his thoughts from going any further.

He hurriedly thought of an excuse and said to her, "I was staring outside, why would I want to stare at someone as ugly as you?"

"Y-You, never mind," Mikan sighed as she stared outside and asked him something that had been in her mind for awhile now, "Natsume, why were you at the supermarket at that time?"

"Imai asked me to follow you just in case you did something stupid like just now." he casually replied.

"Oh but I don't think Hotaru asked you, she blackmailed you – didn't she?" Mikan said as she gazed at Natsume who remained unfazed. Natsume chose to ignore her question and slowed down because he noticed that they're nearing the villa. Mikan was now whining since Natsume ignored her until Natsume parked the car and turned off the engine; both of them went out of the car not forgetting to bring the groceries that Mikan had bought.

"Hotaru, I'm back!" Mikan shouted as soon as she stepped through the double glass door and ran towards Hotaru who skilfully evaded her hug and snatched away the groceries from Mikan so that it won't be ruined.

"Next time, be careful with the food, we don't want it to be ruined – money will be wasted." Hotaru monotonously said as she stood up and headed for the kitchen leaving Mikan trying to get up and catch up with her.

Once they stepped into the kitchen, they saw Natsume putting away the groceries and now had finished doing so. He looked up just to see Mikan gaping and Hotaru quite surprised, he raised an eyebrow at the sight, "What's wrong?"

"You, Hyuuga Natsume had put away groceries, is this a joke?" Mikan replied to his statement.

"Is it wrong?" Natsume questioned her.

"Apparently it is." Hotaru butted in the conversation and was now eyeing him.

"Whatever, I'm going to sleep – so don't disturb me, especially you." Natsume pointed at Mikan as he said the last word.

"Why would I want to disturb you?" Mikan raised an eyebrow at his statement.

"Whatever." Natsume replied with his most used word and went upstairs ignoring the two people who were in the kitchen.

"He's a weird person." Mikan said when Natsume disappeared from the kitchen.

"Understandable, let's just get to work and get our sleep after this." Hotaru replied to her declaration.

"Okay." Mikan said as she started to help Hotaru put away the groceries.

"What the fudge? Where the hell is my bed?" shouted Mikan as she stepped into her room, evidently this shout had successfully woken up the already sleeping Natsume.

Mikan inspected her new room; the walls were cream in colour while the floor was dark brown and there was a big window directly in front of her. At the right side of the room, there was a bookshelf full of books with a nightstand that had an orange coloured lamp shade residing, next to it. At the other side of the room, there's the huge white closet that occupied most of the space and that's that.

In front of the room there's a big plasma television with a DVD Player and a neat stack of DVD's on both ends of the plasma television and there's nothing else – nothing else, which means no bed. No freaking bed, tired + x = good sleep – what is x? It's bed! Why isn't a bed here? Where is her bed – "Oi, can't you keep it down?" grunted her somehow room mate who was now wide awake from her shout earlier.

She turned on the ball of her heels and dashed to him, "Natsume, there's no bed in my room. NO BED!" she said in a slow manner, not forgetting to emphasise the last few words.

"What the heck do you mean by that?" Natsume growled in response as he lazily stood up and headed for her room.

When he stepped into her room, he blinked twice at the sight before glancing at Mikan who was next to him, "Where the fuck is the bed?"

"I don't know! I just finished helping Hotaru put away the groceries. So, I went upstairs to sleep and when I entered the room, POOF! The bed's gone!" she explained to him in a fast manner and looked at him who was deep in his thoughts.

"Why don't we sleep together then?" Natsume suggested to her.

"What? I'd rather sleep with Hotaru." which she clearly disagreed.

"Would she let you?" Natsume was now smiling rather smugly at her.

"I hate you."

"I know."

Natsume sighed as he looked at the other person that was occupying his bed. He was thinking of reasons on why he didn't ask her to sleep on the couch just now. Did he really want to sleep with her? He dismissed the thought and came out with the excuse that both of them were tired from moving and they we're just too tired to think.

'Yeah that's it, it's not like I love her. Like seriously, I still have Luna – right?' he thought as he slowly closed his eyes in attempt to doze off to dream land only to find out that in his dream, he was sleeping with Mikan – Ha-ha! ;]

Watch out for Chapter 4: Little sister enters

I'll get on with editing chapter 4, 5 and 6 tomorrow cause they were the worst chapters that I have ever made in my entire life. And no, I'm not exaggerating at all.

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