Disclaimer: Everything is mine, except the fact that Higuchi owns every character.

Writer's Note: Hello to everyone! This is my first time writing a three-shot, so I'm not sure if any of you will like it. On the other hand, this is my third story! I'm thankful for those who are reading and reviewing my story, Think About Love, so I dedicate this to all of you. I also need someone to beta-read my works so if anyone is interested to lend me a hand, please PM me! I badly need someone to look for my errors.

I accept constructive criticism. :D

Stuck With Each Other

Stuck No. 1: Bad Guy

Unfading Beauty

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It was a pleasant day. It was enough for a good travel to some places. A certain brunette with her floral sleeveless shirt, denim shorts, flip flops, big sunglasses, and hair tied up messily went in the bus. She scanned the vacant seats until she decided to sit beside a cute girl.

"Can I?" She asked the girl.

The girl looked up at her, "Oh sure!" she replied with a smile.

When the brunette was about to take a seat, someone pushed her aside, and caused her to fall back. She looked for the one who pushed her and saw a raven haired guy with his sunglasses on and his tongue out. She glared at the lad but she just got ignored by him.

"Look here, I saw that seat first!" She yelled.

"So?" Replied the lad nonchalantly.

"So? What the hell is wro—"

Everyone, please take your seats. We will move in a minute.

Their tourist guide said, cutting the brunette. The brunette sighed and just sat at the back of the bus with a pout. She murmured different things about the lad that made her seatmates looked at her indifferently.

Her name is Mikan Sakura. A seventeen year old gal who planned to had a tour for the first time of her life. And yet her first time was not so good because of that certain damn raven haired guy. She was planning to be friends with the cute girl, but he ruined it. She shrugged her shoulders, placed her head by the window, and closed her eyes.

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The bus was on the zigzag road at its normal speed. The people on the bus were listening to their tourist guide as she explained the mountains around them. Until the bus driver saw a gasoline station. The driver told the tourist guide to announce that everyone will have a break by the station. Then the bus stopped.

A raven haired guy woke up by the sudden stop. He removed the earphones in his ears and inspected the place. Then he suddenly had the urged to go to the comfort room, so he stood up and went out of the parked bus. But out of the blue, someone tripped him. Though, he was able to maintain his balance. He spun his head back and saw a brunette girl who laughed at him.

Ah, that was the girl he pushed before. He just smirked and proceeded to his destination. He could feel the irritated girl behind him. After all, that was one of his skills; to annoy people.

He is Natsume Hyuuga, eighteen years old. He was actually enjoying this trip even if it was his first time traveling alone. Thanks to that brunette, his reason to completely enjoy the whole travel. Looks like his best friend finally gave him a good way to get pleasure from his work.

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Mikan pouted irritably with the way that guy treated her. Added the fact that his face did not fall on the floor when she did her best to trip him! Oh, how unfair. But she just couldn't give up. She looked sideways to search for something. Then a pail of water caught her eyes. She walked towards the man holding the pail.

"Hi. I have a little favor." She said flirtingly with her eyes blinking.

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After he looked at his reflection to the mirror, he walked behind a random guy to go out of the comfort room. All of a sudden, water was splashed on the guy's face. Natsume was taken aback and speechless at the now drenched man.

"Dude, are you alright?" Natsume asked, trying his best not to laugh.

"Who the hell did this?" The man shouted but when Natsume looked in front, he saw no one.

"Hey, maybe it was the rain?" The man looked at Natsume angrily then stomped his feet into his car.

"I was kidding and pissing you off, sir." Natsume snickered at his own prank. He practically praised his bullshit attitude.

"Uh," A small voice caught Natsume's attention. "I hope he was fine…"

Natsume raised his brow to the voice. A girl went out behind of the door of the comfort room. "You did that?" Natsume asked her.

"It was supposed to be you!" She wailed and threw the pail angrily. "Revenge for what you did before in the bus."

"Whatever." Natsume walked ahead of Mikan towards the bus with both of his hand at the back of his head.

Mikan heaved a sigh for the umpteenth time and decided to just buy some foods in the shop.

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Natsume went to take a seat and listened to his iPod once again. He tucked his hand to his pocket to see his phone but he felt nothing in his pocket. His heart beat stopped for awhile as he stood up and searched all over his seat. The girl who was sitting beside him looked at her in curiosity.

"Is there something wrong?" The girl asked worriedly.

"M-my phone…Ruka will kill me…" His eyes widened as he realized where he came from. "Damn! Comfort room!"

We will go in a minute, please take your seats.

The tourist guide stated. But Natsume ignored it and ran out of the bus to the comfort room. He slammed the door and kicked the cubicles' doors one by one. Well, he forgot the cubicle that he went into last time. And because he was so lucky, his phone was in the hands of some random guy by now. That was because he couldn't find it. He walked out of the comfort room while rubbing his forehead. Surely, Ruka, his best friend will kill him.

He raised his head only to see the bus which has started to leave the station.

"Fuck."

"OH MY EFFING GODDD!" He turned to his left and saw Mikan dropping her snacks. She ran as fast as she could to catch the bus but it went faster making her unable to catch it and got tripped by a stone.

People started to gather to have a great look at the poor Mikan on the road. She cried hard and scratched her head annoyingly. People murmured things about pitying her and some were wondering if someone knows her. And guess what, our Natsume knows her although not personally.

Natsume turned his back and pretended that he does not know Mikan for he didn't want to be related to a stupid girl. "Oh my, I think she's bleeding!" An old woman said and made Natsume stop as well as frown. "Someone should help her! What a poor girl." The old woman continued with matching Mikan's bawl as a background.

"Fine, fine! Geez! I'll help her!" The old woman was startled by the sudden outburst of Natsume while he launched towards Mikan. He stopped and looked down at her. "Oi."

Mikan stared at Natsume and sniffed. Natsume gazed to her bleeding knee as he bent down to her. "You were left behind too?" She asked between sobs.

"If you still plan to see tomorrow, walk out of this road." Natsume said, ignoring Mikan's obvious question. But Mikan just stared at Natsume. "What?" He asked.

"I want to!" Mikan screeched.

"Ugh, can't you speak without killing my eardrums? So what now? Don't tell me to carry you because I won't." Natsume stood up and was about to walk away but Mikan grabbed his pants and stopped him. He rolled his eyes, bent once again, cupped Mikan's back and legs, and carried her in bridal style.

"Waah!" Mikan shrieked and almost fell on the ground.

Natsume glared at her, "Keep moving and I'll throw you."

Mikan blushed to the husky voice of Natsume. She wrapped her arms around Natsume's neck as she waited till Natsume place her somewhere. Natsume did not mind the sudden action of Mikan as it was necessary or else she would fall flatly on the ground. He saw a bench on the side of the road and that was weird for him. After all, this place was full of mountains with very few houses. He placed Mikan on it and dropped his tired body too. He was catching his breath.

"Thanks," Mikan smiled at him. She looked behind him and saw that the station that they were before has nowhere to be seen. It must be hard for Natsume to carry her that far so she pulled a hanky out of her pocket and reached it to Natsume.

Natsume fixed his eyes on the hanky. "What's that?"

"A handkerchief, duh?" Mikan rolled her eyes. Natsume glared at her. She bit her lip. "I mean, wipe your sweats."

Natsume ignored her and instead, he looked up above the sky. Mikan scowled and threw her hanky on the ground as she stomped her foot on it until it was rusted. Natsume took a side glance and got scared at Mikan's angry face. Indeed, girls were scarier when they were mad.

"I never waste my energy over something useless." Natsume uttered as Mikan looked in his eyes. But, well, Natsume was still wearing his sunglasses.

"Your personality reminds me of that hateful newbie model." Mikan replied, crushing the hanky by her foot as she gritted her teeth.

Natsume flinched. "Hn."

"His manager gave me this hanky. He said it was from that guy." Mikan rolled her eyes, crossing her arms with each other. "Hmmm, I think his name is…errr…somewhat N&H?" She picked up the hanky and wiggled it as she saw the engraved 'NH' on the bottom left side.

"Natsume Hyuuga." Natsume muttered. Mikan turned to him and nodded frenziedly.

"Yeah! Natsume Hyuuga is his name! That damn newbie, I hate him! He thinks he's the most popular already! And he is a playboy! Grrr." Mikan pulled her hair out of aggravation, dropped the hanky, and stomped her foot on it for the second time.

"Tsk, it's just your opinion." Natsume replied.

"How can you be so sure?" Mikan asked angrily then sighed. "Anyway, my name is Mikan Sakura." She offered him a handshake but Natsume took no notice of her kindness. Mikan glowered at him and punched him.

"Don't act as if we're close." Natsume stated and rubbed his shoulder where Mikan punched.

"Why are you so cold?" Mikan pouted and as she was about to open her mouth to continue, her phone rang. "Oh gosh! I forgot that I have cell phone!" She pressed the answer button while Natsume shook his head in dismay. "Hello?"

"How can you be so stupid?" Natsume whispered but enough for Mikan to hear so she glared at him.

She disregarded the rudeness of Natsume, "Hotaruuu! I'm stuck with some bad guy here!"

Natsume snapped. "Oi, what?"

"Where am I? Uhh, I'm near a gasoline station! Hello? Hello? Hotaru?" Mikan looked at her phone but the screen showed nothing. "Shit! No battery! Ugh!" She then smiled a little since she was able to avenge for the rudeness of Natsume by calling him as a bad guy. Yep, she thought it was already the smartest retort.

"It's my first time meeting a stupid creation." Natsume sneered at Mikan who pretended to be trying hard to figure out if her phone could be revived or not.

"And it is my first time meeting someone that whenever he opens his mouth all he says is words that annoys me to death!" She tossed the phone to Natsume and banged her nape to the bench. "Don't you have a phone?"

Natsume got choked by his saliva. "No. I don't have one." Of course he wouldn't just reveal his own stupidity to a girl whom he just called the most stupid he ever met, right? He must find who stole his phone.

"Tch, are you from province or what? Or maybe you're from Jupiter?" Mikan guffawed and slammed her hands on the bench. You couldn't blame her since it was a century where most of the people had their cellular phones and yet this guy beside her had nothing? Well, that was what she knew but Natsume actually had one. He just doesn't want to admit it.

"Find someone else to talk to, little girl." Natsume put his earphones in his ears and listened to some music. Glad that his iPod was not stolen. Although it would be a big help if his phone was with him. He could have dialed Ruka or a police station.

With that, both stayed quiet.

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The bus had arrived at the last station. Ruka saw this and immediately ran to the bus. He went on it and searched for his best friend. He remembered that Natsume said he would sit to the second row, so he went to that area. But only Natsume's things were there.

The driver was about to get out when Ruka shouted, "Excuse me!" The driver stopped and turned to him while Ruka went near him. "Are you sure that the passengers are complete?"

"Not really. We usually don't check if we are complete. Why?" The driver replied as Ruka sweat dropped.

"I-I think the passengers are not complete since I only found my friend's things," Ruka showed Natsume's things to the driver, "and not my friend."

"I'm sorry to interrupt," Ruka and the driver snapped their heads to the owner of the voice. "I called my friend. She was supposed to be in this bus but she said she's stuck with a bad guy."

"Bad guy?" Ruka and the driver asked her in chorus as if it was amusing information.

T.B.C