The red rose of his heart

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the next day, at the morning, I was in the middle of spraying water to my plants when mikan suddenly barged in my room with hotaru-chan and linchou following behind her

"Nee-chan?" She called out, I noticed the sad emotions on her voice and eyes, I let down the water can and walked to her

"Doshtino, mikan?" I asked, she explained to me that she wanted to see ji-san but, I know very well that at the moment you step in this academy, you never step out or communicate with the outside world until you fully graduate, But still I didn't said anything at all, linchou suggested that we go to yura otonashi, she have a divination alice, Mikan literally ran toward where yura-san is, I was still in my room and walking way behind them until I bumped into natsume-kun and ruka

"Ohayou, natsume-kun, ruka-pyon too" I greeted but my attention wasn't in it at all, I was still worried for my twin and the thought of her sad, betrayed face, just thinking about it breaks my heart

"Sakura-san?" I snapped back when ruka called out, I turned to him

"You can just call me Ai, ruka-pyon, and sorry I'm a little....... Distracted" I said in a low voice, My right hand on my right cheek as I leaned to it and closed my eyes, sighing out heavily

"Doshtino?" Natsume-kun asked, I still didn't opened my eyes, I shook my head

"It's nothing, it's just that, I'm a little worried about mikan" with that I saw mikan in the classroom dancing some sort of weird dance with yura-san, I guess that's divination alice, I sweatdrop while watching them dance, oh dear...

"She should have listened to my advice, I told her not to trust on people too much, especially the adults here" natsume-kun coldly said, the three of us sat on our desk while watching the scene unfold at the front row seat, natsume-kun have his right hand under his chin and his usual bored and emotionless face on..

Looking toward me and playing with the flowers on my braided hair, I didn't mind though, I'm still more concerned about mikan, Our English teacher yamada-sensie entered the room..

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"Narumi-sensie! Here" Walking along mikan as she ran to narumi-sensie and handed him a letter, Another letter for ji-san?

Narumi-sensie had a glint of sadness and guilt in his eyes before walking away with mikan's letter, But mikan was surprisingly more energetic than usual

"Yosh, come on nee-chan, let's go to hotaru" she pulled me by the hand, While running back to the classroom I asked her

"Matte, mika-chan, what did you do?" I asked her

"Hotaru put a robotic stamp on the letter so we'll see where are they putting my letters for ji-san, he haven't received a single letter at all!" Oh no...this will not end well....

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I didn't know what happened next, but I do remember that I fainted while we were listening into one of hotaru-chan's inventions that connects to the robotic stamp on mikan's letter..

My eyelids fluttering open, I saw the familiar white ceiling of my room, It took me some times before I slowly sat up, I scanned the room, Yup I'm in my room alraight

"You awake..." My heart nearly jumped out of my body when I heard natsume-kun that is sitting at the edge of my bed looking bored talked, I gasped in suprise

"Goodness me, natsume-kun, don't scare me like that..." I said lightly while calming my racing heart that is trying to recover from the shock, I heard him chuckled and a smirk on his face,

"What happened anyway?" I asked as soon as I remembered mikan, I'm sure what happened next after I fainted wasn't good at all,

"You forgot to take your medicine this morning so you past out, as for your idiot sister she found out about naru lying to her and now she's punished" punished? My eyes full of concern and pity for mikan, I didn't hesitate to jump off the bed, but when I stood up my legs went weak causing me to fall toward the floor but I didn't felt anything at all except for a soft and warm body hugging me, I opened my eyes..

"Don't suddenly stand up like that" I heard natsume-kun said in anger and clicked his tongue in annoyance, but his eyes held softness and fondness as he looked down at me, I stared at him with wide eyes, why is he acting like this?

"But mikan----" he cutted me off by clicking his tongue once more

"She's fine, Ruka is helping her right now" he said, ruka-pyon? Helping mikan? What are they doing? Went I felt my legs again, I gently push myself away from Natsume-kun's chest, stared at him with confusion

"What do you mean?" I asked, he didn't said anything at all as he stepped away from me, one knee on my bed as he reached out to push my window doors open, he gestured me to look as well, kneeling on the bed I looked out the window, I saw mikan and ruka-pyon on the roof next to mikan's attic window room, Eh?? Am I seeing thing or is it really true that mikan is wearing male uniform and ruka-pyon is wearing a........skirt?? Wait let's worry about that later!

I hope things won't go more unnecessary and complicated than it is right now, I sighed out heavily and looked up to mikan and ruka-pyon once more before I started to feel my body giving away again...

"Oi! Are you alright!?" Why does natsume-kun always caught me when I fall? I smiled at him weakly, my head against his chest

"I'm.... Alright.... But I was never like this in the past.... " I struggled to say, It's starting, I felt a painful pain in my heart, I gripped my uniform more tightly, pain written all over my face and eyes, I struggled to breath.....

"Oi! Ai!!" That's the last thing I heard before I once again passed out.. my vision turning black..