Chapter 7 – Forever and Always

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[Mikan's POV]

To say that I was angry, would be an understatement. I was furious, the insides of my body were boiling up with a thousand different emotions as Hyuuga yanked me hard out of senpai's warm hug. I shivered in disgust when two clammy hands snaked their way around my waist, and at that one moment, I could swear I felt his hands grope a little bit of my skin, through my kimono making my anger increase tremendously.

I froze when he started to rub little circles into my skin, hoping my kimono would fall off from this little 'magic show' he is doing, but this isn't funny.

He smirks and leans down into my ear and bites it making me hold my mouth from almost vomiting, saying, "Don't fight it. You know you love it."

Love it? Love it? Who would in their right mind enjoy the horrors of their virginity almost being taken away?! Who in the Hell does he think he is, he thinks he can just touch me any way he wants…..wrong. I feel his hands snake a little lower and to my demise I couldn't fight back at the moment.

He is sooo dead….

Senpai must've seen me wriggle uncomfortably in his grasp when he shouted out, "Let her go! She isn't enjoying it, she is seeing this as pure torture!" He takes a step closer to me and my eyes shine with plea.

Hyuuga sneered and spat, "Then why isn't she making any attempt to resist me?"

"Because you are starting to undress her with your eyes, you womanizer!" Tsubasa-senpai made an attempt to grab me out of this hell when he made a ring of fire around us two, making senpai think of ways to distinguish the fire.

He could try using his shadow alice, but he would need to be of close proximity with no barriers at all. A good walking distance is fine, but a barrier will render the alice useless, and the fire ring Hyuuga cast just made it worthless.

He started to lick my ear, and when I shiver in disgust, several Baka Gun bullets fly, aimed at Hyuuga's head. He takes all the shots and his head is slightly bleeding…. Only one person can do that…. Hotaru!

"I told you that if you ever try to take her mark of innocence with force, I would murder you," a voice with 150% menace makes Hyuuga shiver on the ground.

"Mikan, NOW!" Hotaru holds her Baka Gun up in case if Hyuuga tries to pin me down and slowly edge my kimono off, which in my perspective would sound gross, making me stick out of the other girls like a sore thumb, because all of them dream to be undressed by 'THE NATSUME HYUUGA' . Supposedly know in my class as the 'lady-killer'. Even Luna would want him to do this to her so if she was here I would gladly let her..…

I nullify the flames and run back into senpai's warm and fuzzy embrace. He tightly hugs back and checks my exposed skin frantically for something...I wonder what?

"Senpai, what are you doing?" I asked with an eyebrow raised. He looks at me and continues his search…. Weird…..

"He...uhh...didn't…you know….uhh..." he uneasily rubs his back of his head with a hand he unwrapped, "...MARK you, by any chance?" He says looking into my eyes and his grip on my shoulders tighten...

And that is when it hit me what he meant by 'marking'. Lovemarks, bruises from sucking too hard, or in a short terminology, 'hickeys'. Oh if Hyuuga ever gave me that I would murder him without any regret. Personally I would die if he ever even had just a small one on me.

I laugh nervously and said, "No, don't worry. I have no marks and I still have my mark of innocence."

He pouted at my light sarcasm and teasing, but the relaxed into a smile, a warm one when I told him everything was just fine. He pulled me into a warm hug, when a cough interrupted me.

I looked behind me, to see Hyuuga still poised in a seductive manner, asking me to do it with him and that gets me thinking: Does he read explicit magazines of women in scarce clothing in his free time? How does he pick up all this dirty things because he does not seem to get the hint that I don't want to. Even if he got down on his knees and pleaded me to the same answer would come up….NO!

"I want to know the answer to my question. I want you to tell me once and for all, who do you love, and don't worry. I am fine with it if you are head over heels in love with me still," he smirked at me making me want to go over there and choke him to death but Tsubasa keeps a firm grip on me because he knows if he lets go I will go on a rampage on Natsume Hyuuga.

"Don't you dare…" Hotaru was glaring bullets in the side of Hyuuga's head and Ruka was giving nasty looks at Hyuuga for making me feel uncomfortable.

Hyuuga waved her off, making Hotaru nearly snap into a whirlwind of molten lava and tsunamis and twisters and hurricanes all combined in one. Her glares turn icy-cold, glares that I didn't even know Hotaru could even muster up to do. Guess I was wrong on so many levels.

"I thought you would already be able to take a clue from the context you see before you? Or are you a natural failure at critical reading tests given out in English?" I smirked at him when I said that.

"Why you little…" and that he tried to charge at me and choke me of air for eternity.

"I think that is far enough, Natsume Hyuuga, son of Kaoru Hyuuga. Take a step closer and I will exterminate you myself." a calm and collected voice that seemed full of venom with each word came. My eyes widened. Mother.

"Trying to hurt my niece. Wasn't being forced to be a worker at AAO enough?" a calm voice laced with anger followed that. My breath got caught momentarily in my throat. Uncle.

"I agree, forcing ladies in so ungentleman like. Have you no shame..." an annoyed and genuinely angered voice came after that. I almost died of shock. Shiki-san.

I whipped around to see my mom in her jade green kimono from the Hana Hime Den. I went from senpai's arms and jumped into her soft ones.

"Mother, I-" I began but she shushed me and calmly ran a hair through my long auburn waves.

"Shh, Mikan, shh. Don't worry. I saw everything, and I mean everything from afar." And somehow, the way she put an emphasis on the word, made Hyuuga almost pee in his pants.

"E-everything…." My shocked voice echoed out loud.

"I saw everything," and with that mom was...glaring? But not at me, but at Hyuuga. Oh….whenever Mom got like this that means that the stuff just hit the fan...

"How dare you. You know if Mikan wasn't in my arms right now, I would gladly finish you off, you worthless pest. You are putting Kaoru's name in vain. Do you really think she would be proud of what you are doing right now young man?"She asks with a icy-cold glare that could kill….Now I know where I get my cold glares from…..Wow…..her glare looks like it can pierce through his perverted soul.

Hyuuga breaks away from her gaze and sends me a piercing pleading stare like a tortured black kitten with huge ruby eyes, but that will not work on me. I smirk waiting for him to receive his judgement. I give him a sorry and I just embrace my mom tighter.

I grin at mom and send him a hard glare at him making him shiver, "Like mother, like daughter, right mom?"

"Of course, Mikan. You know what to do..." she smiles at me.

I nod at her, and make my way, halfway, and blurt out the truth.

"Hyuuga, you have to accept this once and for all, but deep down in my heart, I don't love you. I'm sorry, but you have to move on. I never loved you in the first place." I look at him straight in the eyes.

He falters, and sputters, and starts saying, "But no one has ever rejected me before. Every girl loves me. We are even connected in a bond. Why, why, WHY won't you accept my feelings back."

I kept a straight look on as senpai had the urge to pummel him. I held my hand up, restraining any murderous thoughts senpai might have.

He looks at me, calmly nods, and then I focus my attention to Hyuuga, and say, "Well take this as a gift. The gift of change. If someone doesn't reject you and reveal you the true colors of your nature, then you will never change. You will forever feel that girls are just useless creatures that are meant to be played around like possession and money, rather than accepting that we are humans as well and have the right to be respected for who we are. Girls aren't just some sort of plaything you can mess with and then break up with, leaving that girl broken hearted, consider girls feeling too you know."

He looks at me with helplessness, and I give him no emotions. He needs to grow up, and I am doing him a huge favor by doing this. There is always room and time for change and the change starts now, instead of treating females like sluts they should be treated as ladies, but ladies need to stop doing just ANYTHING to get a guys attention as well.

"NATSUME-KUN FOUND YOU!~~~" a screechy yet girly voice called out I knew who it was on the spot. Even mom gaped.

"Luna…" mom called out, but by the time the name came out of her mouth, Luna was hugging Hyuuga like a vice, pressing her chest against him and running her groin up and down his own private place.

I blanched in disgust and whipped out my fan and hid my face behind it. I walked over to senpai and his arms slid around my waist and pulls my back lovingly against his chest. I sighed in contentment but then screwed up my face in disgust when I saw Luna Koizumi doing those nasty actions and also giving him a hickey, while he was grunting in discomfort. He pushed her away but she still clung to his arm.

She glared at me and I raised my eyebrow. Oh so she wanted a trophy boyfriend? Man she is nothing but an easy slut.

"He's yours,*Cough* slut *Cough*" I cough shrugging, and she intensifies her glare when I give him out nonchalantly.

"Disgusting," mom hid her mouth behind her green kimono sleeve.

"Eww, that girl needs some serious help." senpai knotted his face up in disgust.

"Agreed." We all say and begin to walk away from the horror show behind us.

Uncle and Shiki san were looking away and I said, "Uncle, Shiki-san. Thank you so much for helping me. If you have important duties, you can attend to them. Once again, I am very thankful."

Uncle smiled at me and ruffled my hair in response before dragging Shiki-san with him.

"Come on, we have paperwork to do."

"But, I am so tired…" Shiki says proving his point by yawning loudly.

"I don't care and do not try those sparkle eyes on me. I hope you learned from Narumi that sparkle attacks do not affect me."

"...shoot…lost again..." Shiki says pouting in disappointment.

"You will always lose when it comes to this because I am not affected… Stop trying…." Uncle says sighing from his harsh day.

"Never!" Shiki proclaims gaining his confidence back and Uncle continues dragging Shiki by his collar. Man those two really are one of a kind.

I laughed for the first time in a long while as I watched those two bicker as they made their way back into the office building where they had to do yet another 'meeting'.

I leaned into senpai's warm hands as he hugged me close. Hyuuga now knew that I would never love him because, well, it was kind of obvious that senpai stole my heart.

"I really feel like a fool," I said sighing.

"And why is that?" senpai raised an eyebrow at me.

"I wasted my energy trying to tell him to go find a worthy girl, not a slut," I sweat-dropped.

"Jealous?" senpai teased me, raising an eyebrow.

"No," I shrugged, "I just feel stupid for trying to tell him to find a girl who will love him for who he is. Inside. But I wasted my energy telling him something useful."

Senpai nodded, and said, "Well, let him do whatever he wants."

"At least that baka isn't going to touch you anymore. Remember that it is my job to make you cry," a cold unfeeling voice came from behind me.

Mom smiled, and senpai sweat dropped as I turned around to see Hotaru wearing a half smirk and holding Ruka by the collar, as if he were a possession item. But to be honest, Ruka IS her possession. Hotaru kind of threatened everyone not to lay a finger on what is hers.

Hotaru sighed, and said, "Well, beating up Hyuuga made my day. Nice to meet you, Ms. Yukihira. See ya later Mikan. And shadow freak…"

Senpai gulped, fearing the worst, like the world was going to end.

"You do the same thing Hyuuga did to Mikan, or if you do any form of betrayal, I will skin you alive, rip out your organs and burn them," Hotaru glared so hard that I felt so cold like it was snowing right now, at her command.

To prove her point, I started shivering and the moment senpai nodded, calmly, the cold scenery went away and she dragged Ruka to her secret laboratory.

I sweat dropped. That was Hotaru for you.

Mom shook her head in disappointment, "I can't believe what Luna had become."

Senpai nodded and I grimaced.

"I thought she just wanted to use Natsume because of the ESP. I never knew she wanted to seduce him, I mean, what was she thinking? This is enough to make me want to puke," I grimaced.

Mom sighed and nodded, "At one point, she was adorable."

"Was," I nodded.

"But now, she looks at Kaoru's son with lust in her eyes. She became a seducer."

We made our way to the Hana Hime Den, and mom said, "I think it is around dinnertime. Want to join me in the Hana Hime Den or do you want to eat in the dining hall? And do not forget, you have school, starting tomorrow."

I snapped my fingers in defeat and mumbled, "You and uncle are too much alike."

Mom smiled but still waited for my answer.

"I would like to eat in the dining hall, though do not expect me to have much of an appetite, okay, senpai?" I looked at Tsubasa senpai.

He smiled at me and said, "Oh and I need to hand you this."

He handed me a Special Star pin. I looked at him in surprise.

"Did you steal it from Hyuuga?" I looked at him with a doubtful eye.

"No! Your uncle decided to promote you all the way!" senpai held his hands in promise, and I smiled at him, to let him know I was just joking.

"He decided you needed to be promoted, okay?" Tsubasa senpai smiled at me before draping an arm on my shoulders, "I would suggest that you pin it on your kimono for now."

I smiled at him and did so.

When we got to the dining hall, lots of gasps rang through the room. No one would have thought that I would have fallen in love with senpai. Everyone thought that I fell in love with Hyuuga, by the way he flung boys away when they tried to get to talk to me.

Across the room, I saw Hyuuga with an annoyed expression at the Special Star table.

"Senpai, can we go over there to the Special Star table?" I said, once we got our dinners.

"But I am only a double star," he trailed off.

"So you want Hyuuga to get a shot at claiming me again?" I whispered to him.

"Not a chance. Not going into WW III with him, already had it with II. Your mine alone and I won't let another man claim you….I promise on my soul..." He says giving me a heartwarming smile, I look up into his eyes and I see love and care residing within them. My heart flutters in my chest and it makes me want to hug him so tight and never let go.

I laughed delightedly and dragged him over to the table. I sat a good distance away from Hyuuga and saw Misaki senpai send us shocked looks. Tsubasa senpai smiled at her and draped a hand over my shoulders.

I giggled and we started our dinner, me oblivious to Hyuuga, and Tsubasa senpai oblivious to Misaki senpai.

I never thought that being captured by the AAO would have strengthened my relations with senpai.

But now, I am more than grateful to the series of events that happened.

I happily sunk into senpai's arms. I felt content. This was exactly where I wanted to be. Right in Tsubasa-senpai's arms. Basking in his warmth forever and always…...forever and always…..

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I have to say that without Eri-chan, this chapter story would be a lot less romantic. And then all of you would be saying, "I thought this is a mystery/romance story! I see the mystery part, where is the romantic part?!"

Well I inserted some, and do know that because I am Gemini, I heard a lot from my family and friends that I am not romantic, which I am grateful for in real life but kind of unhappy when I am writing fanfics. Make a mental note that Eri-chan (animewriter808p) is an amazing writer. And to me she isn't just amazing or radiant. She is a lifesaver and a cute little imouto-chan. (*^o^*)