They had just reached Mikan's room when Mikan remembered the terms of his punishment. "Natsume! You can't be away from me for more than 30 minutes! That means you can't sleep in your room while I'm sleeping in mine!" Natsume, who had been considering the same situation in his head gestured towards her room, "Your room is not big enough for both of us. Go pack enough for a week and come out." Mikan gaped at him, "You want us to stay together in your room? Just us? Isn't that against the rules?" Natsume glared at her, "Wasn't it Narumi, a professor who told you to stay with me? Won't it be against the rules to go against him?" Stumped, Mikan asked. "Maybe we should go ask Mr. Narumi what to do?" Natsume shook his head, "You only have two options here. One - you come with me to my room. Two - you stay here alone and go against Narumi. I won't co-operate with any other solutions." Mikan frowned, "Why not? We can always stay with Mr. Narumi! His room is big enough for the three of us!" Natsume shot Mikan a scathing look, "Don't make me repeat myself. I'm not letting anyone else stay with me. If you don't like it, I can always disappear and let you take the punishment for losing me." Mikan huffed, knowing how stubborn he could be, "There's no need to threaten me. Fine, I'll go and pack my stuff!" Natsume considered whether staying in Mikan's room would be safer since people might come looking for him at his place but if a fight occurred it would be better if his place got damaged rather than Mikan's room. His security system was also much better and as long as Mikan was with him, he would be able to keep an eye on her and protect her too.. The only scenario that bugged him was one where he might be unable to protect Mikan due to his injuries, but it was too tiring to find a solution to that. Mikan came out rolling a huge trolley, making Natsume ask wryly, "Are you sure you got everything ? There might still be one or two things left in your room." Oblivious to his sarcasm, Mikan nodded, "I have everything I need for now.. If I'm missing anything I can always come back later." Natsume sighed as he took her trolley and dragged it towards his room, Mikan following behind. Once they had reached his room, Natsume entered his room code and opened the door to let Mikan enter first, only half-mocking as he said, "Enter at your own risk." Mikan simply ignored him and walked past him into his room. Although the room was larger than Ruka's room, befitting a student of the Top Star Class, it was sparsely decorated. Even the lone picture of Natsume, Ruka, Hotaru and herself on the desk with a chair at the left corner of the room was Mikan's contribution to the room. The spacious living room had a large couch and a center table in the middle with a window in the middle of the opposite wall. There was a small doorless walk-in space on the right wall with a door to the bedroom on the left and an open walkway to the kitchen, on the right. The bedroom had a bathroom attached to it which Mikan noted would have to be shared by them for the duration of her stay. The bedroom had a large king size bed on the left corner with a thick and soft red mattress and matching pillows and blankets. The windows were in the middle of the opposite wall as it was in the living room and a large wardrobe was placed at the right corner near the bathroom. The air conditioner was right above the bed. Having already been in his room several times, Mikan was familiar with its layout and comfortable in its space. She took her trolley to the room to begin unpacking her stuff and told Natsume, "Since you're injured, you can take the bed. I'll sleep on the couch after arranging my stuff." Natsume smirked as he mocked her, "Scared of sharing a bed, are we? Don't tell me you think you're some kind of irresistible bombshell that I won't be able to keep my hands off of.." Mikan flushed as she sputtered, "Ofcourse not. It's just not proper to share a bed when we're not..." "Not what? I didn't realise you were such a prude Polka.. Or maybe you're worried you won't be able to control yourself with me in my weakened state?" "That's not true! I would never take advantage of you like that!" Natsume mentally congratulated himself as he settled the issue, "Then there's no problem in sharing the bed. I'll take the left side, you can take the right." Not realising that she had been neatly manipulated, she agreed hotly, "Fine!" She arranged her clothes in a separate space in his wardrobe and placed her toiletries in the bathroom. Once the unpacking was done, she changed into her sleepwear in the bathroom, brushed her teeth and came out to find Natsume already asleep on the bed. He hadn't bothered to remove his socks or change his clothes. She realised he must have been absolutely exhausted. She automatically went to remove his socks and then tried to remove his jacket when his hand shot out to grab hers. He opened his eyes slightly, realised it was her, dropped his hand and went back to sleep. Hurting for him without knowing why, she finished removing his jacket, opened the first 3 buttons of his shirt so he wouldn't feel too tight, switched off the lights, switched on the AC, took her place in the bed and placed a blanket over them both before she too succumbed to exhaustion.