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Mikan came out of her room with her books in hand and quietly made her way to Kaito's room. Mikan was never one to complain about other people's living space, but the AAO was quite weird. It was always warm no matter what. For a place like the AAO, you would expect the place to have a cooler temperature. Since it was warm, Mikan wore a fitted bandeau and a black cropped sleeveless chiffon shirt and fitted denim jeans.

Moments later, Mikan stood outside of Kaito's room. After checking her books one last time, Mikan knocked on the door and opened it.

"Hello? Kaito?" she asked, peering inside the room. Mikan heard a faint sound of water running inside the bathroom. Assuming that Kaito was probably taking a shower, Mikan let herself into the room and made her way to the table where they usually work. Setting down her books on the table, Mikan walked over to the wall full of books. There was a whole wall with shelves filled up with books. And as Mikan made her way closer to the shelves, she saw that majority of the books were educational. Walking towards one shelf, Mikan picked out a random book about medical stuff and flicked through it.

"Never knew Kaito would be interested in this stuff" Mikan muttered. She then heard the bathroom door open. Mikan turned around to greet Kaito, only to be greeted, herself, by a shirtless Kaito in faded blue denim jeans. Mikan raised her eyebrows from the sight before her. Kaito's head was still down, looking at the ground, drying his hair with a towel. Mikan leaned against the bookshelf, with the book still in her hand, and waited until Kaito realised she was in the room. A stupid grin appeared on Mikan's face. 'Well, I don't mind the view, anyway' she thought as she continued to watch Kaito.

After Mikan left, Kaito had made his way back to his room. As soon as Kaito entered his room, he took off his shirt and headed for the shower after he grabbed some clean clothes.

"Honestly, that girl needs to stop trusting people so easily. What if I was to reveal her plan to escape?" murmured Kaito before turning on the shower. Whilst washing his hair, Kaito thought about Mikan. He hadn't known her for long, but he felt as if he knew a lot about her. Heaving a sigh, Kaito turned off the shower and grabbed his towel.

"I swear, Mikan's going to be in deep shit if anyone finds out that she's trying to escape the AAO" Kaito muttered. Kaito then grabbed his jeans and put them on. He then threw the towel around his shoulders and started to dry his hair roughly, as if trying to shake out the thoughts in his mind. He then walked out of the bathroom, still drying his hair. 'What to teach Mikan today…' wondered Kaito. Kaito looked up to scan his wall full of bookshelves that were filled with books, only to curse at the sight before him.

"What the f- how the… when?" was all Kaito could utter since he was still recovering from shock. Mikan was leaning on a bookshelf, with a book medical book open in her hand, and staring at him with a smirk on her face. Kaito's gaze went from Mikan's face, to her body, noticing what she was wearing.

"Dressing to impress?" Kaito commented with a smirk. Mikan rolled her eyes as she leaned off the shelf.

"Whatever, Kaito" said Mikan. Kaito shook his head whilst chuckling.

"Although, nice shirt. Very… see through. You sure you don't want to cover up yourself a bit more?" Kaito asked with his eyebrow raised. Mikan raised an eyebrow at Kaito.

"I wouldn't be talking if I were you. How about you put some clothes on?" Mikan asked him. Kaito laughed.

"Right…" he muttered. "Later" he told her. Mikan laughed quietly.

"Though, I have to hand it to the people here" said Mikan, "they have good taste in clothes. I was kind of expecting all sweatpants and dirty shirts or something."

"I told you, they took good care of me. I doubt they would do any different to you…especially since they want to use you for any future plans they have planned" Kaito told her. Mikan poked her tongue out at him. She then turned around to place the book back on the shelf.

Kaito eyed Mikan as she lifted her arm up to place the book back on the top shelf. He caught a glimpse of her bare skin. Kaito strode over to where Mikan was standing to grab the book from out of her grasp and placed it back on the shelf for her. They both stayed in the same position for a moment. Mikan on her tippy toes, arm up in the air as if trying to put the book back, and Kaito behind her with his hand on the 'already-placed-away-on-the-shelf' book. Mikan was the first to move away.

"How is it that you're able to get the book off the shelf, but you can't put it back onto the shelf?" asked Kaito. Mikan didn't bother to answer. Instead she said "Thanks". Kaito fidgeted around and gave her a quick nod before heading over to the 'tutor table'. Mikan followed suit.

"So, what am I learning?" Mikan asked Kaito as she sat down on the chair that Kaito had pulled out for her to sit on.

"I was thinking…medical stuff, since you were looking at it before" replied Kaito. He then made his way towards to a section on a bookshelf and traced his index finger along the spines of the books. He then picked out a couple of books and placed them in front of Mikan in a pile. Mikan grabbed the book on top of the pile and flicked through the pages while Kaito walked away to grab some post-it notes.

It was normal for them to operate this way. This was pretty much what would happen during the lesson:

1) Kaito chooses what Mikan should learn

2) He chooses a couple of books and sets them down in front of Mikan

3) Mikan grabs the first book on top of the pile and starts reading through it

4) Kaito goes and grabs a pen and post-it notes and then marks pages for Mikan to read through and work on

After Kaito grabbed some post-it notes, he walked over to Mikan and leaned over her to flick through the books. It wasn't too hard for him to decide on what she should read through, since he had read all the books in his room multiple times already. Minutes later, Kaito pulled away and leaned against the table beside Mikan and watched her as she worked and took notes, on the information she was picking up from the books, into her book, as well as the things she didn't understand.

An hour passed, within that hour, Kaito had either watched her work, dawdle around his room, read a book, and look through papers.

"Are you going to just watch me for the next couple of hours?" Mikan asked him. Kaito let out a soundless laugh. Mikan noted the page she was currently reading before closing the book. She then turned her body around so she was facing Kaito.

"What's wrong, Kid?" Kaito asked her. Mikan raised an eyebrow at him.

"'Kid'? You're only about three years older than me. I'm not much of a 'kid'" said Mikan with her eyebrow still raised. Kaito grinned.

"Yeah, yeah" he replied as he watched Mikan get up from her seat and walk over to the book shelves again. "Why did you stop working?" Kaito asked her. Mikan stopped scanning through the many books on the bookshelves and spun around to face Kaito.

"Well, it's rather difficult to work with someone watching you like a hawk" Mikan replied. Kaito chuckled.

"I won't watch you do your work then. I'll just do some other work I need to do" Kaito told her. "Go back to work" he instructed her. Mikan obeyed and made her way back to her study table without a word and opened the book she was previously reading. Kaito nodded, pleased that Mikan listened to him. He then walked over to his closet and grabbed any random shirt he found. In the corner of her eye, Mikan watched Kaito as he put on his shirt. He had taken out a white dress shirt and was currently buttoning up his shirt… while his body was facing her. She then saw him rolling up the sleeves of his shirt up to his elbow.

"Alright, I'll be back soon" he told her and headed out the door after ruffling Mikan's hair. Mikan rolled her eyes and smoothed her hair out before going back to work.

"Pfft. 'Soon', he's so going to take more than two hours" spoke Mikan to no one in particular with a grin on her face, as if proud that she knew Kaito so well.

"Studio 8, studio 8, studio 8, studio 8, studio…8! AH HAH, gotcha!" Anna exclaimed before opening the door and rushing in. She had reached studio 8 about five minutes before noon. Anna sat down and quickly stuffed her mouth with lunch that she had made early in the morning. Five minutes later, she heard the door knob turn, and then the door swung open, revealing Hotaru with a big bag. Anna walked over to Hotaru and greeted her.

"Ah, hello Hota-"

"We have no time. Come on, hurry up" Hotaru cut her off. She then opened her bag and took out a folder and handed it to Anna.

"Read through that, try to remember as much as possible up until…" Hotaru then pointed to a line on the page "here" she told Anna. Anna sweat dropped.

"Alright then" Anna obeyed. She then walked over to the opposite side of the room and sat down on the ground just as Hana and Daichi walked into the studio. Anna looked up.

"Ah, you're the new students in my class" she realised as she quickly stood up and jogged over to them. "Hello, I'm Anna Umenomiya. Nice to meet you" she greeted them.

"Hi. I'm Hana Arakaki and this is Daichi Nishimura" replied Hana as Hotaru made her way over to them.

"Go and get ready. I bet he'll come any minute" she told them. Hana and Daichi nodded and silently made their way to the change room and each went into their separate cubical. Hotaru then turned to Anna and threw a bag at her.

"Hurry up and change" ordered Hotaru before walking away towards a music player and connected her IPod to it. Anna did as she was told and quickly made her way to the change room to her change clothes.

When she came out, she saw Hana and Daichi talking to Natsume, who was leaning against the large mirror that was stuck on the wall.

"Eh? Why is Natsume here?" Anna asked Hotaru. Hotaru didn't reply. Instead, she walked over to the trio and told them to get ready. Anna heard Natsume heave a sigh before pushing off the mirror.

"Wait, what?" asked Anna, hoping for a reply this time. This time, Hotaru replied.

"You, Anna, are going to perform a dance. Hana and Daichi have offered to help out. So, get into position next to Hana, across from Natsume" ordered Hotaru. Anna quickly made her way to where Hotaru instructed her to go, with a confused expression on her face.

"Alright, from the top" announced Hotaru. "Anna, just go with the flow"

"Wait, what?" Anna asked again. Every minute she spent in this studio, the more she wanted out.

Hotaru counted down from five and then played the music. Anna kept an eye on Hana to try and figure out the dance routine, only it wasn't much of a success. Anna was always at least two steps behind. About thirty seconds in, Hotaru stopped the music and had Daichi help Anna with the dance moves while Hana and Natsume start another dance.

"Whoa, wait, hold on here. How many dances are there going to be on the night?" questioned Anna.

"Well, two dances are planned for tomorrow" answered Hana. Anna let out a small 'oh' before turning back to Daichi and to learn the dance moves.

Meanwhile, Hana and Natsume were trying to kill each other throughout their dance. They were told what type of dance they were to work on, and at the moment they were more 'trying to kill' than 'trying to rehearse'. Hotaru, watching them, got annoyed and shot Baka bullets their way, hitting Natsume and barely missing Hana's head. Hana and Natsume glared at Hotaru, who merrily replied in a bored manner, "Hurry up. We can't let the students down. We want a god performance. And if we don't give 100% effort in this…" Hotaru then made her way to her big bag and opened it before continuing. "I will call it all off" continued Hotaru. In the corner of his eye, Natsume saw Hana and Daichi's body tense up.

"It's your call, of course" Hotaru added. And with that, she headed out the door after announcing that she would return after an hour to see their progress.

After Hotaru left, Hana got down to business. "Come on, let's start rehearsing" said Hana. Natsume raised an eyebrow.

"Why so determined all of a sudden?" he questioned her. "What was she threatening us with?"

Hana didn't answer. Instead, she grabbed the remote for the music player and played the music. Natsume's eyes narrowed, though he pushed the question aside for the time being.

Mikan was currently wandering around Kaito's room. Indeed, Kaito had taken more than two hours. He had left around 10:30 in the morning and right now it was about 12:41, according to Kaito's clock. Mikan placed back the book she had taken from the book shelf just as Kaito walked through the door.

"Welcome back, Kaito" she greeted him as she got out another book. Kaito replied with a nod.

"So, you done?" asked Kaito, referring to the work he had given her. Mikan nodded with a huge smile.

"You gave me enough time" she replied with a grin. Kaito gave her a half smile.

"Yeah, sorry. Had a lot of work to do" he told her.

"Nah, it's all good" said Mikan as she turned around to reach up for another book from the bookshelf. "So," she started off, "I had a while to think about how to escape. I plan to escape at about 4am" she told him.

"What…?" muttered Kaito.

"What is it, Kaito?" Mikan asked him. Before Kaito could answer, she continued.

"By the way, Kaito, I was hoping for you to come with me, back to the academy." Kaito's eyes widened.

"What…?" he asked her. "What are you going on about? Are you crazy? How could I go with you?" he exclaimed, taking a couple of steps towards Mikan. Mikan also took a couple of steps towards Kaito.

"You heard me, Kaito" replied Mikan with a serious expression. "You just…just- I can't just- you-you- I…" she stammered. Mikan closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

"You should come to the academy with me, Kaito. It's a better place than what you probably know it as" she told him. "I'm going to leave tonight- well, tomorrow morning, but whatever- and I want you to come along" she added. She then told him a whole lot of stuff that she was planning to do, where she was going to escape from, and other information.

Kaito shook his head and ran his fingers through his hair. "Honestly, woman, you trust me too much for your own good" he muttered.

"What do you mean…?" Mikan asked him, taking a step forward.

Everything suddenly happened in a blur. One moment she was taking a step forwards towards Kaito, the next she has her wrist within Kaito's grasp and held over her head, against the bookshelf, their faces close, barely two inches away from each other.

"Stop it" he muttered.

"Stop what?" questioned Mikan.

"Stop trusting me so much. I could do anything to you. Do you know what I can do? Hm? Do you? Telling me all this…all this stuff about you escaping from the AAO…it's just… You of all people to be so…" Kaito stopped. Kaito then leaned his face in closer to Mikan's face and whispered, "You…just… keep your guard up around me. Don't tell me so much. You can't trust me." Mikan leaned her face closer to Kaito's so their foreheads would touch.

"I already have, Kaito. I trust you enough to help me through this. I need to get out of here. Unlike you, I don't belong here. Actually, neither do you. You just fit in better than me" she murmured, her eyes half closed. Kaito half smiled.

"Honestly, what am I to do with you?" he mumbled. And with that, he leaned in and kissed Mikan on the lips. Mikan stayed still and unable to move though her mouth seemed to be able to move. Her mind suddenly switched back on and she thought of one thing.

'Natsume.' His name appeared out of nowhere in Mikan's mind. Out of nowhere, she thought of Natsume. And without thinking, she started to pull away from Kaito. They stayed in the same position until Mikan muttered that she was going to leave and grab something to eat, since she hadn't eaten lunch yet. Kaito didn't say anything. Instead, he stepped back and stared at the floor until he heard the door close. As soon as the door closed, Kaito kicked the bookshelf. Piles of books were on the ground, though Kaito didn't care. He walked over to his telephone by his bedside and punched in a number and as soon as the person on the other line picked up, he spoke.

"Hey, Reo? Yeah, it's me, Kaito. She's planning on escaping. Yeah. Mikan Sakura"

A/N: Well… I don't know about you, but if I wasn't the person writing this chapter, I would probably be screaming my ass off right now.

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