Chapter 4

Natsume woke up to the sound of an angry woman shouting and pounding him with a pillow. "Who the fuck are you? Get out! Get out of my house! Subaru! Get the baseball bat!"

"What's wrong with you, woman? Stop screeching, for goodness' sake." Natsume said drowsily as he rubbed the sleep off his eyes.

"Hotaru! Good morning! I see you've met our guest" Subaru came out from his room with a baseball bat. He wasn't going to hit Natsume or anything. He just thought that maybe there really was an intruder or something.

"Subaru, why the hell is he sleeping on the couch if he was a guest? Of course I'd think he was an intruder. Who-"

"There, there, Hotaru, you don't need to explain... Just accept that you weren't right." Subaru teased as he started making coffee and setting the table for breakfast. "Now, if you don't mind, could you please call Mikan from the guest room? She told me she wanted to help in cooking."

But just as Hotaru was making her way to the guest room, a half-asleep girl came out from the room. "Ah! It's so noisy"

"Mikan! It's good that you're awake"

The once half-asleep girl was now staring wide-eyed at Hotaru. She didn't hear Subaru calling her name trying to get her back to her senses. "Y-you're Hotaru Imai."

"Yes, little girl, isn't it obvious? What's wrong?"

A hand hit the back of Mikan's head and brought her back to reality. "I knew it, you like girls. I should have known when you showed no interest in me."

Mikan glared at Natsume and said, "do you not know Hotaru Imai? Are you that much of a hermit?"

"Mikan, i could really use your help here" Subaru grinned and lifted the pan which contained almost-burnt bacon.

...

Over breakfast, Mikan explained to Natsume why Hotaru was such an iconic person. Said iconic person just kept her head down and preventing herself from smacking a certain brunette. She didn't need to talk about a person in such a way when the person is there. It was embarrassing.

"You see, Hotaru once joined an international beauty pageant. As expected, she won. She was awarded with this huge amount of money. During the interview after the pageant, they asked what she was going to do with the money. Instead of saying that she would donate it to the poor like everyone else says, she said she'll use it to fund her experiments. When they said it was selfish, she said that the poor would only use it for a short amount of time and her experiments could make lives easier for a longer period of time. As of now, she invented around 15 new devices that she mass produced and gave out to the ones who needed them."

Natsume, after hearing this story looked at Hotaru and asked "how could SHE win a beauty contest?" Hotaru snapped her gaze towards Natsume and glared.

Instead of being proud for annoying Hotaru, he was mesmerized by her eyes. They were of a unique color that shone under the morning sunlight. She was more beautiful than any model he's seen. Her eyes were striking and he fell in love with them.

Suddenly, he was happy that this woman was the one who woke him up. Suddenly, he was thankful for Narumi bringing him here. Suddenly, he knew this was the woman who he was describing back in the interview. Suddenly, someone pushed him out of his chair.

Score:
Mikan 3
Natsume 0

Late T^T i'm sorry. Been pretty busy lately. I still hope you guys read this though heh

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