Chapter 4: Unpack my heart

RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINGGGGGGG GGG!

"Right!" I excitedly packed up my things, before I could zip my bag, Nonoko just appeared in front of me.

She grinned and said," Mikan-chan! Wanna hang out with us?"

I shook my head "Sorry, there are some things I'm going to take care of…" I apologized as I carry my bag on my left hand. I smiled at her and said, "I hope you had a really good time, bye!" I quickly ran outside the classroom.

Well, I'm happy for Ruka-pyon… I'm also happy that no matter how stupid I am, he still likes me, like he told me yesterday:

'You're weird… And that's the only thing I like about you…'

Diary-san, I feel like thanking to the Lord, for giving me the wonderful thing in my life! Maybe he could forget about Ho-

Oh yeah… I forgot, the only reason why he joined soccer… Just for Hotaru…Always been for her…

In deeper thought, I absent-mindedly kept on running until, I bumped into a person. Then I fell flat my butt. I opened my eyes and was about to apologize that person when a familiar voice spoke to me, "Sakura-san? Are you okay?"

I blushed to know that voice was actually Ruka-pyon's.

I quickly carry my bag, stood up and said, "Y-y-yeah! I'm sorry I bumped unto you, I'm so careless…Well, anyways, how are you?"

He looked down and response, "Well, it's just that… I'm nervous… I never actually played soccer again for years…since I broke my leg…"

I leaned my head down for a bit and said, "Well… You remember how you played it right?"

"Yeah… but, what if I go wrong again?"

I looked up at the ceiling and sighed, "Well, being screw up is part of being you… No matter how funny or embarrassing it was, as long there is Ruka-pyon… In front of me…" I blushed at that part.

"…" He stayed silent.

I touched his shoulder and said, "Oh come on! Cheer up! I know you will learn something positive with those screw ups, you're still learning, right?"

"Sigh… Alright, fine… I'll just try it again…" he smiled with a bit of nervousness, "Is that okay?"

-X-

"Oof!" Ruka fell down when he was trying to retrieve the ball from his opponent. When the opponent saw him falling down, he stopped and tried to approach him,

"Can you stand up?" he lends him a hand.

He grabs hold of his hand and tried to stand up, "Yeah… Thank you…"

"Nah! Don't mention it! Well, you're good at playing this since… Umm, when was that again? Oh yeah! Since you're twelve years old!" he happily punched his shoulder lightly.

"Yeah… But it's different now…"

PRRRRRRT!

"Breaktime!" the couch yelled after blowing the whistle, "And… Nogi-sama, I need to talk to you…"

After coach was being called, he approached to him. All I heard was just whispers.

Few minutes later…

"Ruka-pyon, here!" I waved at him at the bleachers, and when he noticed me, he tried to climb up to reach me.

"Sakura-san, I'm glad you're here the whole time." He smiled,

"I'm your best friend, right?" I said.

"Yeah…" he laughed

When he stopped laughing, I soothingly asked him, "So… What did the coach told you?"

He placed his hands on his forehead, "Not good…" he replied

"What? What is it?" I asked him again.

He looked up, "I'm just not too good for their team. They gave me a chance, but when we lose again in the next match, they'll kick me out of their team."

I looked down in pity, "Oh… I'm sorry about that…"

He grinned, "Don't worry! This time, our team will not lose again! This is for Hotaru!"

I lowered my head deeper in jealousy, "Riiight…" I said sarcastically and sadly. "Oh! I brought you something." I dug my hands in my bag and gave him a bottle of Gatorade.

"Thanks!"

-X-

2 hours later… I leaned down one of the columns at the locker hall, waiting for Ruka-pyon to finish his chat with his teammates. I was about to approach him, but I stopped when a voice behind me said coldly,

"What are doing here, polka?"

I turned around and I saw Natsume holding a soccer ball and a bag on the other side, he looked at me in disgust, or Maybe?

"I'm just here for Ruka-pyon… Any problem with that, jerk?" I gave him an irritated statement.

"Humph, slut…"

"What did you say?!" I was about to punch him, but someone stopped me.

"What are you doing with my boyfriend, you ugly b*itch?!" It was Luna, her voice can be heard all over the hall, even Ruka-pyon and his companions could hear us. She ran towards us and slapped my hands away from him. Then she pointed one long well-manicured finger at me, "Lay even one finger on him, and you're dead!"

She took a tight grasp on his arms, sashayed her hair away, and said "Just stay out of our way, hag!" then they just turned away in a snobbish way. Ughhh… I just hate that girl. "And where's that little brat?!" She yelled at him.

Brat? What does she mean?

"Let's get out of here!" a childish voice just appeared at my back. I turned around and saw a scared little boy was hiding behind me, holding my skirt.

"Youichi-kun? What are you doing here?" I asked him with a surprised look.

"Oba-san… save… Natsumenii-chan…" He whined with his little voice.

I knelt down and said, "Youichi-kun, you need to go to him, or else he'll leave you alone."

"What?!" He his eyes widened as he lets go of my skirt, then he ran away and cried, "Natsumenii-chan!"

I was shock in the way he was running so I tried to warn him, "Youichi! Slow down, or else you'll-"

Too late, I already found him lying helplessly in the floor, "…slip." I said the last word.

His tears started to form then he cried so loud like a baby. I knelt down again and soothingly stroke a part of his hair, "Stop crying now…" I took a stare on his wound, then I quickly dug my hands in my bag, and I removed the covering of Band-Aid. "Here… so stop crying…"

His loud cries slowly turned into a sniff. He looked at me while I wiped the wound with Betadine, and finally he stopped crying. He still looking at me but with awe, then he said, "M-am-mama…"

"Huh?"

"Mama… Mikan…"

"Eh?"

"Papa… I need to…go…..to Papa…" he stood up, then I saw Natsume walked down the hall, yelling,

"Youichi! Where a-"

"Natsume?"

"Youichi what are you doing here? Don't you know that were looking for you?."

"Papa, you meanie! You left me with that ugly slut!"

"Come on we need to go, now." Natsume pulled his little hands towards him.

"Wait! Can mama come with us, too?" Youichi pointed at me.

I was shock and confused, "W-what?!"

"No" he said, straight-forward.

Then Youichi looked at at Natsume in disagreement, "But you said you wa-"

Before he could say something, Natsume closed his mouth and he seems embarassed.

"Eh?"I looked at them; a bit curious of what Youichi is going to say.

He sighed, "Fine, she can go, but you promised me, don't tell her my secret." he warned him

"What secret?"

"Oh. shut up."

"Well, what about Ruka-pyon?" I said, worriedly.

He sighed again, "I already talk to him, don't worry, he said he's going home, all by himself."

I feel a cold, suspicious aura around him, "Are you sure?"

"YES, I'M SURE! Now let's go, before it's getting dark!"

"Alright, alright, sheeesh..." I rolled my eyes, "...what a jerk" I whispered.

He turned around,"What did you say again?"

"Nothing..." I looked away

-X-

Outside the campus... 'Weeeelllll... This is getting awkward" I thought while Natsume and I were holding hands with Youichi in between. (a/n: like a family lol)

"Oh, look a an ice cream!" Youichi pointed the truck.

Natsume tried to stop him, "Youichi, stop it, or you get cavities," then he looked at me, "Oi, polka, do something."

"Oooohh, save some for me!" I started to run, while Natsume smack his own forehead in disbelief.

"Uncle, can we have one strawberry, one chocolate and one vanilla, two scoops each!" I ordered the man in the truck.

"Ok, here you go!"

"Yay!" Youichi jumped for joy, after recieving the ice cream.

I reached my hands inside the pocket, "Oh wait..."

Then he stopped jumping "What is it, mama?"

"My wallet, I think I left it at my dorm." I smiled fakely, then I look at Natsume, he smack his forehead again.

"Look, I'm going to pay this, kay?" he put his hand in his breast pocket, then he gave his money to the vendor, "Here, thanks for the ice cream, you can keep the change."

"You have a very cute kid back there, and you two are a perfect couple." the veondor complimented us,

"Oh, no! Were no-" Before I could say anything, Natsume just circled his arms around my neck.

"Yes, I'm her boyfriend..." he said

I was shock of his statement, "What? Natsume, you perv-"

He cut me off again, "Any problem with that?"

-X-

Later at the park...

"Thanks for that 'truth', you jerk." I glared at him while licking the strawberry ice cream, "You literally destroyed my reputuation."

"Your reputuation?! And at least we got an ice cream he wanted... and you even left your wallet at your dorm, you're really that stupid and clumsy."

"Urrrrgh... Why you-" I tried to slap him, but Youichi stopped me, "Mama, Papa, stop fighting!" he yelled.

"Youichi-kun..." I looked at him, he started to cry. "I'm sorry, I-I-"

"It's okay, my parents do that everyday..." He wiped his tears.

"Your parents?" I widened my eyes

Natsume cleared his throat and started to explain, "His parents fight each other everyday, he tried to interfere them but he can't because no one is paying his attention, but one time, his mother said she can't take their situation anymore, so they plan to divorce and abandon him to this school."

"Oh... So you're the only one who's taking care of him?"

"Yes."

After Natsume told me everything about Youichi, I thought that not only he's rich and spoiled brat, but he has a family problem, too. Well, unlike me, I'm poor but I am loved by my family, though I lived far away... I feel bad this one young little kid, never felt loved by his mother or his father... Are all rich people like this?

I looked at Youichi, he seems desperate, he need someone to take care of, besides Natsume... Or that coould be me...

I knelt infront of him, "So that's why, you were calling me 'Mama'."

He nodded and pleaded, "Can you be my mom?"

"B-but, I-"

"Just let him be, moron, he never felt calling someone as mother for 5 years. He even call me as his father." Natsume said and I look at Youichi, he was looking at me with his puppy eyes.

I smiled and said, "Alright..."

Suddenly he hugged me and said, "Yay! Mama!"

"Ack-can't b-reathe!"

-X-

Infront my dorm gate...

"It's getting dark now, we should go home, Youichi." Natsume said

"But what about Mama Mikan?" he asked him

He looked at me for a while and said, "This is where she lives, we have to go to our house, right now."

"Aww..."

Before he could walk away, I said, "Heya, Natsume?"

He turned around to see me, "Hn?"

"Thanks for bringing me home..." I said gratefully, "...but there is this one thing..."

"What?"

"I still owe you that punch before, at the locker hall." I giggled

"Punch?" He said, then I punched him hard in the left shoulder, "Ow! Hey!"

I laughed while shaking my left hand in pain, "You really have a hard muscles in there." Then I knelt down infront of the little boy, and said, "Good night, Youichi-kun, be a good boy."

I hugged him then he said, "Yes, mama, I'm going to miss you..."

"I'm going to miss you, too."

"Ahem..." Natsume cleared his throat

"Oh yeah, here, I think you need to go, now." I stood up.

-X-

Inside the house...

"Amenatsu, I'm home!" I yelled through the hall, "Amenatsu?"

"Oh hey, where have you been for the whole afternoon, are you dating with someone?" She asked as she stepped down the stairs.

"Oh no, I was with Nats-oops!" I covered my mouth

"Nats?" She lowered her head, sideways.

"Umm... like I was saying, I was collecting nuts...with Youichi." I said in a hard panic

"Well, where are they? Can I see some? " She tapped her heels while looking at me.

My sweat dropped, "Umm... They were with Youichi, I let him keep those."

"You... are... lying." She raised her eyebrows.

I blushed, "NO, THIS IS THE TRUTH!"

"Uhh... no.. I just saw you outside with Natsume and Youichi at the balcony!"

I blushed hard, "Well excuse me cause I'm going to my room!"

Arghhhh... I thought Natsume was out of my life, well not because of Youichi, just because he told that vendor he was my boyfriend, I want to punch him! I hope that vendor won't tell everybody. And by the way, what was that secret did Natsume didn't want to tell me?

-M. SAKURA

Hey guys, well maybe kinda more CHEEEEESY about those two couples! XD

Sorry for the late update I hope ya like it, hehe ^^;

MERRY CHRISTMAS MINNA-SAN!