"YUEEEE!!" Mikan screamed while throwing herself on the already weak girl. Yue stumbled but kept her balance as she gently patted a crying hysterically Mikan's back. She sighed softly with a small smile before glancing up, tilting her head in a confused manner.

Yuu, the feminine president of the class, Hotaru Imai, Mikan's best friend, and a confused tied up Ruka who looked worried, all behind the pigtailed girl. Yuu's face was frantic while Hotaru remained passive, as always.

"Am so sorry for tricking you Yue-san! But we need to pass by Mr. Bear and Ruka-kun already worked on Pyo, and we heard your one of the people that can control Mr. Bear!" Yuu frantically said, eyes tightly closed with hands clasped in front of him.

Yue smiled softly. "He isn't a thing to control Yuu-san. Mr. Bear is alive, as silly as it might sound." The boy blushed in embarrassment and shame at his childish mistake and rapidly apologized numerous times.

Yue chuckled lightly. "It's alright. Now, Mikan, will you please explain to me what is going on? I wasn't exactly at the right place at the right time you see." Yue close eye smiled and calmly detached a nodding Mikan.

"I remember, are you alright? You looked like you were in pain Yue-chan." She held a worried look. Yue's aqua-like eyes blinked.

"She got worse no thanks to you." Ruka mumbled while turning his face away due to Yue glancing at him. Mikan's eyes widened and before she started loudly rambling off, Yue put her soft pale hands over Mikan's mouth, a shock Mikan froze at the slightly cold skin against hers.

"Medicine works miracles." She smiled softly just as Mikan nodded absentmindedly before blinking and shaking her head when Yue took off her hand.

"So Mr. Bear huh?. It's been awhile since I visited him, hope he still remembers me." Yue chuckled lowly, a sad tone hidden beneath. Before anyone could comment, just as they came close to a familiar lil house, the three (Mikan, Hotaru, and Yuu) rapidly hid behind a large green bush, and Ruka sighed as he walked to hide with them, despite his unwillingness.

"Mr. Bear! It's Yue~ Do you remember? Am still alive!" Yue joked the last part as Ruka shot her a glare, hating when she jokes about that incident.

The three gave curious glances and before anyone could comment, a rapid brown small figure came out towards and Mikan and Yuu yelled before Mr. Bear plopped into her small open frail arms, closing them just as he hugged her tightly, Yue almost felt tears in her eyes but she willed them back in, she could feel the happiness and sadness that overwhelmed his lil body, his eyes glistening with what looked like tears.

"Woooah." Mikan mumbled out as the three (four) came out from their hiding places, walking up to a softly smiling Yue with a rather clingy Mr. Bear still hugging her.

"Mr. Bear, I see you've met them already. Hope they didn't cause you that much trouble nor you to them." Yue chuckled lightly when he shook his head.

Mikan's mouth went wide open in ridicule and index pointed at him. "B-but...he..! Wanted to kill me and..!" She stuttered before squealing when Mr. Bear slapped her hand down then turned back around to continue his reunion with Yue.

Yue chuckled and patted his head with her free hand. "I'll come visit you soon Mr. Bear alright? If you want you can always come visit me." Yue smiled gently down at the sad nodding of Mr. Bear before patting his head softly.

"Come visit me." She stated with a soft smile and a small chuckle at the end. He nodded more enthusiastically this time before grabbing his axe that was on the floor and turning around back to work, not before waving at her though.

"That was amazing Yue-chan! I knew you were amazing!!" Mikan brightly smiled while walking next to a calm Yue who smiled slightly at the too-cheery girl.

Yue felt Ruka walk up close to her, now next to her just as Mikan was hit on the head by a baka-machine of Hotaru's.

"You're being too noisy." She stated with a tiny glance to Yue who chuckled softly.

"Ehhh~?" Mikan held her head and comforted it with her hands. "Where are we?" Ruka asked with slightly narrowed eyes. Yue was holding her arms with her hands, the wind slightly picking up. Yuu, Hotaru and Mikan looked around.

"Ah." Hotaru took out a familiar picture to the group except Yue as she tilted her head with a raised eyebrow.

"Here Yue-san. I think you'll get a kick out of this though I doubt it's something you haven't seen before." Yue blinked and gently grabbed the picture from Hotaru before scanning it as mouth rapidly curled upwards she felt herself giggle.

"Now I can finally save the picture in the album. He just wouldn't let me take one that stubborn fellow." Yue smiled with a chuckle. Ruka blushed deep pink and began to stutter away, trying to grab the picture just as Yue shoved it down her small yet proportional cleavage.

Ruka flushed an even darker shade as Yue chuckled softly, knowing she won this match. Again.

"Thank you Imai-san." Yue smiled softly and tugged on her cardigan, hoping to get more warmth. The short-haired poker-faced girl stared for a few seconds at a confused Yue before letting a tiny smile appear.

"Call me Hotaru. I don't mind and I already call you Yue anyway." Yue chuckled lightly but nodded with a smile.

"Awwww we're all becoming friends!! Yay!" Mikan exclaimed while jumping up and down as Yuu laughed nervously, trying to calm her down. Ruka gave up on the picture and sighed.

He stood closer to Yue, trying to at least block some wind off her frail body. "That's right, so Imai-san when you said you knew where this place was...." Yuu left it hanging as Hotaru nodded.

"This place is where we trapped Ruka-kun." She stated. And just in luck that at that same moment a fast yet quite "eep!" made way through the echoes just as they looked around and noticed a worried looking Ruka running to what seemed to be a dusty new open hole.

"Guess we forgot to dig it up.." Hotaru mumbled to herself.

"Yue! Are you ok!?" Ruka yelled in worry and kneeled down, hoping she didn't get hurt.

"Yes, Am fi-!" She made a silent grunt sound before finishing her sentence and glanced down, sighing and shaking her head at how clumsy she was sometimes.

"Just a bit of ankle bleeding, that's all. Nothing to worry too much about." She softly stated and tried to move, successfully ignoring the pain by pressing her weight to other parts of her body, she managed to stand up and grab Ruka's hand as the others helped her up.

"You're bleeding!! Hotaru she's bleeding! Don't die Yue-chan!!" Mikan was smacked on the head by a rarely angered Ruka.

"Don't say that!" He yelled narrowing his eyes at her. It was the same way when she talked about Natsume. "A-am sorry....." She cried as Hotaru sighed, Yuu comforted her and Ruka shook his head and bent down to where Yue was on the ground.

"Mikan, he's just worried. Don't take it personal alright? I won't die, am a tough cookie after all." She chuckled lightly, making Mikan chuckle back through her sniffs.

"Even cookies crumble under hard pressure." Ruka mumbled low beneath his breath, Yue shot him a soft glance as he sighed and looked up with worry.

"Where has that positive boy gone? Come on Ruka its just bleeding and maybe a sprain. Am not losing any bones or cells." Yue tried to reassure him. He smiled slightly. She nodded with a small smile in return, happy he turned to the positive outlook.

"We should-"

"Yue! Ruka!" They all turned their heads to the low familiar voice and froze at the eyes of a very dangerous looking Natsume. Yue, however, as foolishly as it sounds, smiled happily and hopped on one foot, the other almost bleeding on the floor, and hugged the shocked Natsume as he tried to register how she looks.

"Natsume! How did you find us? We got lost after the trip to Mr. Bear's house then I fell into this hole and they helped me out and we were just going to-"

"What?" He interrupted her and gently yet gripped her away from him as his eyes roamed her dirt-filled body, he didn't care about that until his eyes widened a fraction before narrowing dangerously when he found the clear red blood that was slowly dripping down into her socks, daunting them a darker green bluish color.

She stayed silent and only hoped for the best when he slowly turned her behind him with his arm, his back to her but she could feel the wrath radiating out of his body coming out in heat.

"Ruka, were going back." His voice was dark and threatening, not at a slightly shocked Ruka, but at the poor pigtailed girl that didn't know what to do.

"The game's over. She's disqualified." He stated. Yue remembered what Ruka had explained to her about the bet Natsume and Mikan had made.

"Hurry and get the hell out of here." He said before his hand rapidly reached out to her forehead, tightly gripping her bangs and hair, then pushing her to a tree. Yue gasped slightly and turned to stand up but gasped tightly and cringed, putting her hand slowly over the cut that slightly opened up.

"How dare you take advantage of Ruka with your dirty tricks and hurt Yue with your stupid plans!" His eyes were slanted glaring deep to Mikan's shocked and scared brown eyes.

"I've had enough of your damn nonsense!" He gritted his teeth angrily, eyes slanted even more. Yue put her hand tightly to the cut and turned back around.

"Natsume!" She softly yelled, her voice ringing in his head yet her weak and pained voice only filled his anger as his grip tightened and Mikan winced.

"Natsume stop! Were all right! Remember what you said? You're using this game to see what her alice is, right?" Ruka tried to persuade him, standing behind him.

Yue mumbled a bunch of lines under her breath, making Hotaru and Yuu raise their brows in shock. Her words consisting mostly of 'boys in puberty', 'boys', 'males', 'no limit', 'idiotic'. If only they would have just tried more simple things to figure out what pigtails Alice was, nobody would be in any situation right now. Of course Ruka dislikes the girl, but he didn't want her in a bloody pile of mess.

"I don't have the patience to figure out how to expose her anymore." Natsume stated with more calmness yet firm in whatever decision he made in his mind. Yue sighed long and tried to stand up, only to tumble and fall if it weren't for Hotaru who caught her side. She gave a small smile of gratitude before looking back at Natsume.

"Natsume you moron you could have just asked me!" Yue let out a soft yet as loud as she could yell, closing her eyes tightly in the process. Natsume flinched and turned around before Hotaru threw an orange ball that smacked into the floor, pink puff surrounding the area almost instantly. Burning flames appeared around a scared Yuu as he brought his arms up in guard against the heat.

"All you have to do is show me your alice and he's free. Hurry up, or he's going to die." Natsume glared at a frightened Mikan that glanced frantically to a scared shouting Yuu and a dangerous Natsume with fire in his palms as well.

"If I had I would have shown it already! Please, stop already!" She shouted. Yue narrowed her eyes slightly. This was getting out of control, even for Natsume. And she's scared of the punishment he might get since the teachers are watching through that ball of theirs like a camera.

"Natsume enough!" Natsume glanced at Yue who was standing with her weight on one foot, his eyes narrowed when they stared at her wounded leg.

Another flame grew into his other hand as a fire ring appeared surrounding a shocked Hotaru. Yue sighed. Even if he was doing this to see her alice, someone could get seriously hurt.

When Yue was thinking of trying to use her other alice, Mikan jumped to tackle Natsume all of a sudden the flames disappeared and a giant blue light and whish of air surrounded both of them, cancelling the burning red flames.

Tuning out once more when Narumi began to talk (after walking out of freaking nowhere really), she sighed when he bent down and kissed Natsume's temple, then sent an apologetic expression to Yue that was now hopping to Natsume with Ruka helping her along the way.

She bent down placed him on her lap, Ruka wrapping a handkerchief around the dry cut. While he talked to the three group, Yue sighed and shook her head when they celebrated on Mikan's Alice.

Things could have been so much easier, yet these troublesome boys always seem to have a way with troublesome situations. "You're sighning a lot." Ruka chuckled.

Yue chuckled softly herself. And sighed. Finally it was over. And Mikan knew her alice. It would have been just as easy for Yue to just tell her but now that wouldn't be as fun as it would have if things didn't take such a drastic turn for the worse.

She chuckled softly while patting Natsume's hair. Today had been the longest day Yue had felt she had lived. Literally. "Congratulations Mikan." Yue smiled lightly before Mikan jumped up and down, not wanting to get close to the fainted Natsume that was laying on Yue's lap, a sighing Ruka beside her.