Before we head into the story, I want say that I had changed the title if you haven't noticed already. The reason was that the story is going a different direction then what I had imagine when I first wrote this back in 2014. What I had initially thought was that to have Mikan to be this complete badass person, who will reign hell over Natsume for him cheating on her and also ruin Luna's life too.

But as now, as in this present now. I had grown mature over the years and realized how far fetched and unrealistic that was, yeah sure, there's quite of real life vengeance stories of girlfriends or boyfriends getting revenge back at their exes. But I just think it's not fair for Kaito, it kind of makes it looks like Mikan is just using him to get back at Natsume and I don't want that. I don't really care that he was a made up character, it's still cruel. To know your just being used to get back at somebody and after that is done just to be thrown away like garbage. That's why I had changed this story.

So I hope you guys understand where I'm coming from.

And I'm sorry for the very, very late update. I have been rereading all of my stories and thinking over them and trying to fix my mistakes and I've been gone because I was at a summer camp. But mostly, I was just plain lazy and didn't want to do anything at all.

But I guess I'm back? Whoop, whoop.

But enough of that, let's get onto the long awaited chapter!

When Mikan got to her dorm room, she slid down to the floor. Raising a hand to grasp at her heart that rapidly thumped, Mikan breathed before realizing what she had done. "I went against Natsume." A smile lifted upon her face, "I went against Natsume!" A bellow laughter slipped out of her lips as she slid down to the ground as tears pooled down her eyes. After the laughter had left her, all that came out of her was the sounds of anguish sobs. An arm was covering her eyes as she cried in her silent room.

She didn't quite understand yet.

Understand the emotions she was feeling at the thought that she was finally moving on.

She never realized how much it really hurt to know she was actually letting go of that hand, that hand that has guided her through the darkness.

Maybe it was because when she was with Kaito, Kaito just somehow manages to erase all of her worries and doubts and pains. All she could think or imagine was just the smiling face of Kaito and no else.

So to realize that she had let go of Natsume's hand, a sudden pain and happiness shot through her heart. Mikan couldn't help but feel grateful though, if she didn't happen to cross upon Natsume together with Luna.

She would've never had met Kaito, the person she adores and growing to love even more.

To say the least, it was all thanks to Natsume that she had met one of the greatest person who she was lucky to fall in love with.

In that moment, that very moment. Mikan finally let go of the bitterness and hate and vengeance she had for Natsume and Luna. Decided to finally accept and forgive them even though they had wronged her. It was just better to just forgive than holding onto a swirl of hate and bitterness.

A knock was heard from her door before a familiar voice echoed from behind the door, "Mikan? Are you in there?" The said person quickly wiped away her tears and got up to open the door. When the door opened and Kaito saw Mikan behind the door, he became relieved. "Are you alri-" Kaito was cut off as he felt Mikan pull him into her room and close the door behind him. Kaito turned around in confusion before he was hugged all of a sudden, "Mikan?" His girlfriend only tightened her arms around his waist, face buried in his chest. "You know that I love you right?" Kaito glanced down at Mikan with curiosity sparking in his eyes. "What brought this up?" Mikan shrugged before nuzzling his neck, making him chuckle in return. "Well, I just thought that I don't say that enough to you." Mikan paused before looking up at him, leaning closer to him to peck the corner of his lips. When she withdrew, Kaito sucked in a breath. Mikan had such a genuine love and adoration in her eyes that it made Kaito's eyes water a bit.

"I love you, Kaito." Mikan earnestly said again with a deeper meaning to it. Kaito burst into a bubble of laughter, a laughter of pure happiness. He threw his arms around her before twirling her around making her squeal in shock of being lifted, he put her down and closed his eyes before kissing her gently on the lips.

"I love you too, so much."

When he opened his eyes, beautiful brown eyes were filled with tears and slowly began to dribble down her cheeks. Mikan brought her hands up to wipe away her tears, "S-Sorry, I got caught in the m-moment." Kaito smiled softly before taking her hands away from her eyes, confused brown eyes stare at him before it closed as he kissed her eyes to rid the tears. "Tears don't suit you Mikan, I would rather have you smiling then crying."

"Sorry."

"No need to apologize."

Kaito noticed how the aura around her had changed from a complete pitch of blackness and red to a soft blue with a mixture of pink. He stared at her eyes to see the difference in them, before, her eyes were clouded by anger and bitterness. Now, it just feels like her eyes were like glistening gems that shined brighter the before. Like a murky water and when then the murkiness had finally cleared away, it only revealed a beauty hidden by a veil.

"You changed."

"Heh? Did I?" Mikan tilted her head with a thoughtful look on her face, "I guess I did." Kaito nuzzled her nose.

"I like it."

Mikan hummed, resting her face on his shoulder.

"So who exactly are you?" Sumire questioned to Ruka who was sitting at the opposite couch. "Ah, sorry. I haven't introduced myself fully to you guys. Well, my name is Ruka Nogi."

They were currently in Ruka's room after Kaito had said that he would go and find Mikan.

"And what is your relationship with Mikan?" Hotaru asked with a narrowed look on her face as she worked on her newest invention. "Mikan and I are cousins." Ruka responded with this puppy love look on his face as he glanced bashfully at Hotaru. "Cousins?" Everyone said to which Ruka nodded.

"Well that explains some things, but who was that guy? Hyuuga? Why do you two hate him?" Misaki questioned, "Did something happened between Mikan and him?" Anna added on with furrowed brows. Everyone glanced carefully at Ruka who had fisted his hands, "Yes, something did happened between them." Ruka paused, "Which is?" Nonoko pressed forward. "Hyuuga and Mikan used to date..." He trailed off to let them soak it in, half of the girls lips formed into a 'O' shape as realization hit them. "And Hyuuga cheated on her. It was a dare between him and his friends, Natsume would date Mikan for a whole week in exchange to get to date one of the most popular girl in the academy, Luna. I was there when they made that dare, I had warned him to not hurt Mikan. He had said he wouldn't, but he did anyways." Ruka closed his eyes tightly before continuing, "He had hurt her so much, that it driven her to go back to America." Misaki was starting to emanate a dark aura and soon after, the other girls were emanating one too. "At that time, Mikan knew just how terrible Natsume was. But yet she still ended up falling in love with him, it had changed the way she thought about him as a terrible person and she thought that this was true love. But only to be failed in the end by him." Hotaru stopped working on her invention in favor of listening more, her hands gripped her skirt tightly as her bangs shadowed over her face.

The sound of the door being opened got their attention. Mikan and Kaito came through the door to noticed the heavy atmosphere in the room, "I hope you guys didn't fight." Mikan said taking the atmosphere as a sign that they were fighting. "No, we were just talking about the asshole of an ex of yours." Misaki said cracking her knuckles while staring off to space with a dark look on her face.

Mikan looked at Ruka to which Ruka sheepishly scratched the back of his head. "Yeah what about him?" Mikan sat down on the ground before glancing at everyone of her friend's faces. "Why didn't you tell us about him?!" Mikan winced from the sudden loudness before smiling sheepishly. "Well, first off, I'm sorry for not telling you. The reason why I didn't say anything was this was what I know exactly you would've done to him if I told you what he had done. You would've probably try to track him down and give him a piece of your mind. So I didn't say anything."

"I already let go of it, I forgave him. There's no point in holding unto negative feelings, plus..." Mikan stared at Kaito with loving eyes, "I have someone who I love now." All of her friends stared at her and Kaito before heaving with an irate look on their face. But then changed to an exasperated fondness as they watched Mikan and Kaito smiling at each other with so much love in their eyes.

"Fine, we'll let this go." Sumire submitted and the rest of the girls nodded their heads. Mikan smiled gratefully at them before resting her head against Kaito's shoulder.

"Thank you, everyone."

The rest of the evening was spent laughing and talking to one another and simply getting closer to each other. Kaito was relieved that he wasn't the only male in the group since he has Ruka now.

And during that evening, Ruka and him made a promise to each other. And that promise was...

To protect Mikan from harm.

The next morning, all of them went back to their respective room after accidentally crashing at Ruka's dorm room. They all got ready for school and did their necessities. All of them all had met up at Mikan's dorm room before going to the cafeteria for breakfast and hung out around the cafeteria for another hour until the school bell rung at 8.

They walked through the busy hallway as students passed by to get to their destination, once they got inside the classroom. They had simply all talked to each other since they sat right next to each other.

And it was that morning, that very morning that things became difficult.

Natsume came through the door making all female students, except Mikan and her friends, squeal loudly. His eyes scanned through the room before landing on a certain brunette beauty who was talking to Kaito.

"Mikan."

The said person looked up to see who had called her to only see Natsume making his towards her. Sumire hissed with a look of anger on her face, heck all of her friends had angry faces as they stared at Natsume who was getting closer.

"Mikan Sakura Yukihira, I'll make you fall in love with me again." He declared out loudly, glancing at Kaito who had his blue eyes narrowed down as he stared right back at Natsume's gleaming red eyes.

"Heh?"

Brown eyes were wide opened with incredulous.

"Are you being serious?"

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