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Another Life Journey -2

Chapter 2 --

*summary:
Two different people together in a mission where dangers abound and feelings developed. Face with a difficult situation, what will she choose, to live in a dream where there's no pain or to come back to reality where somebody is waiting?

Did you like the 1st chapter??? I hope so. Well this chapter is the start of the mission and of course the start of awkwardness between hotaru and ruka! Haha. Hope u like it.

Meanwhile Mikan was currently having a nap under the big Sakura tree where she and Natsume were supposed to meet. She knew if she stayed inside her room waiting till the supposed time she wasn’t going to wake up on the right time. So she just decided to just sleep under the tree.


It was a full moon and everything was perfect. The lake was occasionally being rippled over and over again by the gentle blowing cold wind. The rustling leaves made by the flying birds as well as the wind. The one thing that made the sight perfect for Natsume was the figure lying on the ground sleeping soundlessly.


He walked over to the girl sleeping and sat beside her still body. There was still a good half an hour before he would wake her up to be on time. While he sat there, he thought about his life. How will it be if he didn’t made the mistakes he made back then? Will he meet the same person as the result? What would his life feel like when he didn’t meet Ruka and the others? Especially the girl who has been clouding his thoughts for quite some time now, how will his life turn out?


Natsume just stared at the moon and it’s accompanying shining stars with the clouds while he listened to the rhythm of Mikan’s breathing. He felt so peaceful, no worries, no problems, no sadness, just pure peace. He even forgot the mission for a while. After a while he abandons the moon and the shinning stars and instead stared at Mikan’s face and started memorizing every inch of it, her long eyelashes, her small nose and her lips.


Time must have flown by quickly because Persona emerged from darkness and revealed himself.


“Wake her up” Persona ordered


Natsume looked up at him with a scowl. He really didn’t want to wake her up, it was better for her to stay inside the academy. So he waked up Mikan, irritated.


“Hey little girl, wake up” Natsume said, Mikan began to stir but still didn’t wake up. “Idiot… Wake up, ugly!”


“Why don’t you try waking her up with your alice?” Persona suggested giving Natsume an interested glare.


“She’ll just nullify it” Natsume said not really wanting to use his alice on her


“Hmmmm…. If I knew better Natsume, you’re starting to develop feelings for this girl…” Persona said “Now wake her up, time is running out”


Natsume was really mad now. How would Persona know he was developing feelings before him? Natsume sent a death glare to Persona and knelt down beside Mikan. He stretched out his hands and shook her shoulders.


“Wake up, little girl” he shook her again


Each shake on Mikan, she began to stir more and more. Once she opened her eyes and revealed her brown eyes, Natsume’s heart at the same time slowly opened up. Mikan smiled at Natsume and hugged him tight, completely unaware of another presence with them, Persona.


Natsume almost melted under her hug but prevented himself from that by doing the opposite, he stiffed. Even though he faked his reaction, he can’t fake what he was feeling inside. Mikan hugged him tightly and said “It’s good to see you, Natsume- Kun!”


Persona cleared his throat getting Mikan’s attention. She looked at Persona still hugging Natsume. She looked at him curiously and asked “That’s weird… you weren’t there a while ago, sensei… dreams can be bad sometimes”


Persona almost let out a small chuckle but caught it just in time. “This is not a dream, little girl”


“What dream? Of course this is a dream, it’s exactly the same place” Mikan explained


Natsume flicked Mikan’s forehead really hard that made Mikan yelp out.


“What did you do that for?!” she demanded


“You felt that right?” Natsume asked “That means you’re not dreaming anymore, little girl”


Mikan blushed crimson red and stepped away from Natsume and Persona as far as possible in embarrassment.


“Let’s get going now, Idiot” Natsume called out jumping up to a tree branch “I want to be done with it already”


“Alright” Mikan murmured. Then she looked up searching for Natsume but only saw Persona looking amused.


“He went that way” Persona said pointing at his right where you can see a shadow on top of a tree


“Thanks” she said then ran into that direction. When she knew she was out of earshot from Persona she wondered aloud “How am I supposed to follow him? I can’t jump from tree to tree”


“I thought you were a natural athlete... why not ran after me?” Natsume said landing in front of Mikan who screamed in shock “Shut up will you”


“Sorry” Mikan said, she looked at the trees and decided, “Why don’t you teach me how to jump from tree to tree?”


“And why would I do that?”


“So that we can travel faster”


“Be more reasonable next time if you want me to teach you”


“It is reasonable”


“No it isn’t”


“Is”


“It isn’t”


“Is”


‘I can’t believe I’m having this absurd argument with her!’ he thought, ‘this isn’t making the mission done sooner’


As if reading Natsume’s mind, Mikan suddenly sighed irritated and said “This isn’t getting anything done sooner”


“It’s good you realize that” Natsume said and started to teach Mikan her request, but not before he told her the rules “First of all no complaining; second, don’t come crying to me if you’re hurt or something”


The second rule made Mikan gulped loudly, and began to regret to even ask the favor. She was just about to back out when Natsume stated the third rule smirking with a touch of a smile, “and the most important rule, always have fun”


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While Mikan and Natsume were having a lesson, their friends were also having a time of their own. Ruka has been chasing Hotaru at least half an hour already but she just won’t give up, not that she ever gives up.


“Come on Imai-san!” Ruka shouted behind Hotaru “It’s already quarter to midnight!”


“I’m not asking you to chase me, Idiot” Hotaru said


Ruka didn’t reply, Hotaru looked back and saw that Ruka had sit down on a bench panting. She sighed and walked toward the boy and sat beside him.


“Why do you always want to blackmail me?” Ruka asked after he was shocked that Hotaru sat beside him.


She didn’t answer; she just continued staring at the stars above them. Ruka looked at the stars above and rated the view from one to ten as eight. He looked at Hotaru’s peaceful face with a tug of smile on her lips as 10. He considers her as the most beautiful sight ever seen by his own eyes.


“Beautiful” she muttered


Dazed by the sight in front of him, he agreed “Absolutely”


Hotaru noticed that he wasn’t looking at the stars instead, he was looking at her. She turned to look at Ruka. “I was talking about the stars”


“Huh? Wh-what?” Ruka asked looking up at the stars, blushing


“I said I was complementing about the stars,” She said again, looking at Ruka suspiciously, “I said they were beautiful”


“Yeah, yeah, you’re beautiful” Ruka said.


A moment of silence.


Ruka wondered why the two of them were silent for a while. Then it hit him, hit him like a roll of thunder from the sky, he said Hotaru was beautiful. He risked a glanced at her who seemed to be at shock. She was just staring at him, mouth slightly open, and eyes wider than usual.


Ruka slapped his forehead hard and said “Sorry, Imai”, and then he ran off.


Seconds later, after Ruka ran off, Hotaru called after him, silent tears falling.
Hotaru Imai is crying.


--End of Chapter 2
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posted by ~*april*~ @ 9:44 AM