A/N: Yay I'm back to bring you chapter 3! I'm really glad you all like it! Enjoy!
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Chapter 3 Polka-dots!
(Normal PoV)
"Stop the car, I'm getting off…" Natsume tells her.
"I'm not stopping the car, you can jump off if you want to, and then if you survive you can go to school on your own…" she answers plainly.
"You've gotta be kidding, there's no need to skip school. It's Friday, we have all weekend to start whatever it is that you want to start!" he tries to convince her.
"Well then the more reason to skip school, we need all the time we can get. Our dead line to turn you into someone else is Monday, and believe me, we're gonna need every second of this weekend to do it…" she brusquely stops the car in front of a huge gate which slowly starts to open. Natsume stares at it and as the car moves forward a huge mansion comes into sight.
"Your 'humble home' I presume?" he says in a mocking tone.
"Believe me, there's nothing 'humble' about it…" she answers laughing. (A/N: -Falls backwards anime style- yeah… well… no comment needed…) As they approach the house, Natsume notices another smaller building next to it. "That big place right there, that's the main house. We are going over there…" she says pointing to the smaller one. "That's my bedroom…" she finally says.
"Bedroom?! A whole family could live in there!" he thinks while she stops the car in a random place. "You're parking here in the middle of the park? Just like that?" He asks looking around.
"Yeah, nobody comes here besides me anyway… So it's okay…" she opens the door and gets out of the car, and the other three who had been sitting in the backseat silently until now do the same. Follow me…" Natsume quickly unbuckles his seatbelt and gets out of the car.
While they walk to Mikan's room he can hear them whispering to each other, apparently not noticing he's listening to every word they say.
"Yeah well clothes obviously… and look at his hair! We need to do something about it quickly, I can't even stand seeing it!" whispers one of Mikan's friends.
Natsume suddenly stops and turns around to look at the people who have been 'discretely' talking about him all along. "You know I can hear everything you're saying! If you wanna talk about me, do it while I'm not around!" he shouts. "And who are these guys anyway?!" he says pointing at the three people who'd been following Mikan.
"It's not like it's not meant for you to hear… We were gonna tell you, eventually, but we didn't want you to run away so we couldn't tell you just yet…" she retorts. "Oh! These guys! I'm sorry, you're right I haven't introduced you yet…" she continues as she grabs one of them and pushes him until he's face to face with Natsume.
"This is Hijiri Youichi, he's 15, and he's a freshman, 1st year class B." (A/N: OKAY! I know Youichi isn't just one year younger than them! But I really wanted to include him because he's such a cute character! I don't want anyone saying things like 'You know Youichi should be like eight years old here.' And stuff. This is my story and I wanted to change it. Writers have whims too you know.)
The kouhai doesn't move or say anything. (A/N: Kouhai – Underclassman / Senpai – Upperclassman) He just stands there expressionless staring at Natsume. 'Not a man of many words huh?' He thinks as he looks at the grayish haired boy. "Umm I'm Hyuu-." He's interrupted by Mikan.
"Anyway, moving on…" she pushes Youichi aside and grabs a blonde boy's hand. "You should know him… He's Nogi Ruka, like us he's 16 and is in 2nd year, but he's in class A." she says quickly, and starts pushing Ruka to the side. Pointing at the last person who remains without an introduction she says "Oh! And this is-." the figure she was pointing at starts walking forward, approaching Natsume.
An evil grin plastered on his face as he lifts a hand covering Mikan's face making her stop talking. 'If only I had known you could shut her up like that before…' Natsume thinks smiling inwardly.
"I think I can introduce myself Mikan…" he says confidently, slowly lowering his hand and grinning even more. "My name is Andou Tsubasa, I'm 17. I'm in 3rd year class A…" (A/N: OKAY! So, same thing as Youichi, I know Tsubasa isn't just one year older, but whatever, I wanted to include him too.)
"Hmph, self-centered bastard…" Natsume mutters.
"OH RIGHT! You guys, this um… possibly human thingy here is Hyuuga Kazume, he's in my class…" Mikan says turning to her friends and pointing at Natsume.
"What do you mean with 'possibly'?! And I thought I told you my name isn't Kazume!" he says, a vein popping on his forehead.
Completely ignoring him, she just goes on talking "We have to turn him into a decent person before he's presented in society on Monday. So we have to cover everything from hair and clothes to behavior-."
He walks up to Mikan and lifts a hand in front of her face hoping she'll shut up, but she just slaps his hand away and continues "You-chan, you'll help with the behavior part, you'll teach him how to remain calm and keep his cool at all times, got it?…" the grey-haired boy does nothing, not even nod. "Great, next up…" she says turning to look the blonde.
'Why doesn't it work when I try to shut her up? Has it finally happened? Have I become completely invisible?' he starts waving both his hands in the air expecting them to notice, but nobody even turns to look at him. The girl just carries on "Ruka-pyon, you're in charge of the clothes, we're going to the mall to choose those later on, okay?" he nods in agreement and she turns to her senpai "Tsubasa-senpai, I need you to teach him how to interact with people, you have to show him how to speak, what to say, how to move, what to do and what NOT to do …" Natsume starts making weird faces behind Mikan trying to get a reaction from someone, and when he is about to give up and admit defeat, a muffled chuckle escapes Ruka's mouth. 'Well at least I'm not invisible' he thinks smiling slightly.
"Is there something you want to share with the rest of the class Ruka-pyon?" she asks with a very annoying tone.
"I'm very sorry Minako-sensei. It's my fault, I made Ruka-kun laugh, don't send him to the principal's office!" Natsume says trying (to no avail) to hold back his laughter. Mikan glares at him and Ruka puts a hand to cover his mouth and starts laughing along with Natsume.
"Okay play time is over!" she shouts.
"Minako-sensei, please don't give us detention! My parents will ground me!" Natsume says holding his stomach from laughing too much, Ruka still trying to hide his laughter behind fake coughs.
"Kazume I'm warning you stop playing around or else!" she says curling her hand into a fist and holding it up.
"I don't know how many times I have to tell you my name isn't Kazume… It's Natsume… I bet your brain can process that small amount of information." He stops laughing.
"I don't care whether your name is Kazume or Minako or whatever just-." She answers angrily.
"It's Natsume… Okay? Now repeat after me Na-." he says in a mocking tone.
"Whatever…" she says rolling her eyes.
"No, not whatever… Naaa-." He opens his mouth wider and makes a funny face making Ruka laugh out loud. Youichi just stares emotionlessly and Tsubasa sweat drops and sighs, both of them thinking 'Such kids…'
"WHATEVER! Let's just get on with this already… I think I feel a headache coming…" She says rubbing her eyes.
'Now you know what it feels like…' he chuckles. They start walking to Mikan's room again, no one saying a word. When she opens the door Natsume's eyes widen. The first things he notices is the huge flat screen T.V and the multiple video game consoles lying around, and the gigantic collection of videogames sorted out on the shelves.
"This is the living-room; you can drop your stuff anywhere you want." She turns around and starts pointing at couple of doors and as she points to each she explains what it is. "Over there is the guests' bathroom, that's the kitchen, right there that's my room, and those other two doors are the guests' rooms." Natsume's jaw drops.
"You have a kitchen here? And you have TWO guests' rooms? What do you need TWO for? Isn't one enough?" he asks surprised.
"No, what if I have more than one guest? I need one more guest room! And two isn't enough either. You guys will have to share rooms since there's four of you and-." He turns to look at her.
"WHAT?!" he shouts. "What do you mean with 'share rooms'? We have to stay here?"
"I told you we needed every second right? We can't waste time having everyone go back home and then back here…" she explains.
"But… but I… What about my parents? They're gonna kill me if I disappear the whole weekend." He says trying to persuade her to let him go.
"Don't worry, I had my butler call your house and explain the situation to your parents… Changing a couple of details of course…" she says confidently.
"When did you do that? I've been with you the whole time and you never…" she cuts him off.
"This morning before I left to pick you up…"
"But you didn't even know if I was gonna say yes! And yet you call my house and… what the hell did you tell my parents?" he asks confused.
"Relax… I had my butler tell them he was calling from the Nogi household to announce that their son Hyuuga Kazume was going to Osaka for the weekend with master Ruka." Smiling as she explains her master plan.
"You DO realize that my name isn't Kazume right? I mean at least now you understand that my name is Natsume, right?" he says sighing not caring anymore about whether he has to stay or not.
"Yeah whatever… Anyway let's get on with your transformation. Take off those hideous clothes at once and we'll get started…" she says looking at him up and down. "They are too loose; I can't know what type of clothes will suit you better if I don't know what your body looks like!"
"I'm not going to undress here! Are you cra-?" Mikan glares at him and continues.
"Don't behave like a girl! You're not gonna be wearing those anymore so what does it matter?" she says with a disgusted tone pointing at his oversized old sweatshirt and his baggy jogging pants.
"There's nothing wrong with the way I dress! And I'm not undressing in front of a girl!" he retorts.
"I knew you were gonna say that, and if you're not gonna cooperate we're gonna have to do it the hard way… You-chan, Ruka-pyon, Tsubasa-senpai if you don't mind…" Quickly the three boys hold him so that he can't move. She grabs a remote control presses a couple of buttons and music starts to play very loud "In case you start shouting like a girl, I don't want people coming to interrupt." She says and smirks. "This is payback for before…"
"What the-? LET GO OFF ME!" he starts shaking to break free, but he's easily overpowered by the three males holding him.
Ruka looks him and says "You can spare all of us the suffering and do it yourself you know…"
"FINE! I'LL DO IT MYSELF! BUT LET ME GO!" he shouts at Mikan, as if it were her who was holding him.
"You're such a girl… -sigh-You can release him…" she says waving her hand. The three boys drop him on the floor and back away. Natsume walks into the bathroom and comes out only wearing his boxers. They all put a hand over their mouths trying to hold back their laughter.
"What?!" he asks slightly blushing.
"Na- nothing…" says Mikan not being able to contain herself anymore. "Nice underwear…" she says pointing at his boxers. "POLKA-DOTS! BWHAAHAHAHAHAH!!!" they all start laughing out loud
"Whatever can we just get on with this already?" he asks very pissed off.
"Yeah, yeah, sorry about that…" she answers wiping a tear away and still holding her stomach from laughing too much. "Okay so your clothes are to lose, they hide your body too much, we're getting you a whole new wardrobe, Ruka-pyon you know what I mean right?" The blonde boy nods and starts writing a few things down in a notebook.
"What about you? Your clothes are too tight and small. Aren't they cutting your blood circulation?" he retorts trying to imitate the tone she just used.
"Okay, I'm gonna start right away with my task…" Tsubasa tells him "Rule number 1… You NEVER under ANY circumstance make fun of a girl's outfit or the way she talks." He finishes and throws himself on a couch.
"We'll handle that later…" Mikan says disregarding whatever he said. "Right, hair… I seriously have no comment for this… You-chan would you pass me that comb?" she points at a comb that's lying on the table and Youichi hands it to her.
"What's wrong with my hair?" he says putting a hand on his head and sliding it to the back of his neck.
"Well the color is okay, but why do you have to comb it like that? You use so much hair gel it actually looks like a cow just licked your head!" she starts combing it to the sides and making it a little messy with her free hand. "Umm we're gonna have to cut it a little and umm we'll make it a sort of Tsubasa-senpai style…"
"Why don't you look at yourself in a mirror? What's up with your hair? I mean pigtails? Who the hell wear pigtails apart from five year-olds? Don't you think you look a little childish? And that color? A crossing between blonde and brunette, is it a new type of dye called blondette or bruonde?" he starts pulling one of her pigtails, accidentally undoing it, letting half of her hair fall on her shoulder.
"AH! Now look what you did! -Sigh- I don't have time to do them again now, geez…" she undoes the other pigtail letting the rest of her long 'blondette' hair fall down. "It's such a bother… I'll tie it in a ponytail later." She drops the ribbons on the table.
"You know, I think it looks… stunning…" he says brushing one of his hands over his now messy hair.
"Yeah right; and when I start saying thank you or something you'll just say 'I didn't mean it as a compliment you know?' I'm not falling for that one again!" she says sticking her tongue out.
"No actually, I really DO mean it as a compliment this time…" he answers plainly.
"Oh… Thank you… I guess…" she says looking away "Anyway!" she shakes her head and looks at him again "Now… what's with the Harry Potter glasses?" she makes circles with her index fingers and thumbs and puts them over her eyes simulating glasses.
"You know people who can't see well have to wear glasses right?" he answers doing the same gesture she did and sticking his tongue out.
"Yeah, I know so? Have you ever heard of contact lens?" she extends her hands and takes his glasses away. "Okay let's see…" Mikan's eyes widen and a slight tint of blush forms on her cheeks, thankfully for her no one notices because she's giving her back to everyone except Natsume who's apparently as blind as a bat. "Um… I- umm… eh…" she starts mumbling incoherent things.
"What? What's wrong? Is it really that bad?" he asks squinting his eyes to be able to see her face better.
"I'm… no- no it's not that it's just…" 'Damn it Mikan focus!' behind those thick glasses she saw two beautiful crimson orbs staring back at her, sparkling with the sunlight.
"It's just?" he repeats for her to finish what he had started saying.
"It's just that… your eyes… they are like… like fire." She finally says with a lot of effort.
"Oh… I'm… I know it's a family thing… Every male from my family has crimson eyes… weird huh?" he says looking away trying to hide his eyes.
"No, no… it's different." And realizing what she said isn't exactly encouraging, she extends her arm, grabs his head and forces him to look at her. "Umm… I mean it in a good way…" she says softly for the others not to hear and smiles a little (which he doesn't notice). They just stare at each other for a while. Mostly it's Mikan who stares because Natsume is… well, partially blind.
"Sakura we should get going, it's already ten o'clock…" when she hears Ruka's voice, she quickly pulls her hand away and returns his glasses to Natsume.
"Oh right! Sorry about that, seems it took longer than I thought… Go put your clothes back on, we're going…" she tells him and walks into her room. She approaches a mirror and stares at her reflection for a while. She grabs the sides of the mirror "What were you doing back there Mikan? What the hell happened to you?!" she snaps at her own reflection.
"Oi! Mikan let's go!" Tsubasa's voice takes her back to reality.
She picks up her purse "Coming!" she said as she opens the door.
A/N:Where are they going this time? Who knows? Well I hope you enjoyed it!
To be continued…