"Miss Haruka," Ruka called with a gentle voice as he stood behind the navy haired lady in a long classic dress.

From walking, she stopped gently, her skirt occasionally being blown by the gentle wind.

"Ruka! It's you!" she replied, seeing his ever calm face, stained by his ever exhausted expression after running.

He smiled, and she replied.

You may wonder why this once cold, arrogant, self-centered little maiden became a little colored. Maybe it's because of the things she had realized the days she spent with Ryoma... What would you expect from childish little Mikan? (Yet of course, as a boy, imagine the big leap he'd give girls' hearts!)

"What brings you here?"

They were now both in Haruka's private garden, where she spent most of her time in breezy afternoons, after she finished her half bath.

Ruka looked down and bit his lower lip, at the same time, the breeze went in. Her perfume smelled good for a fact.

"I've come... to tell you something really important." He bit out.

"Miss Haruka, your limo is ready and as well as Sir Ryoma. He is at the fourth lot." A bald footman called out from the entrance.

Haruka smiled at the old man and glanced back at Ruka in an excited way.

"Umm... I am sorry to say this, Ruka, but I have an earlier appointment."

"Wait. This is important!"

She paused. Her smile fainted, but she tried to understand his emotions. "Ruka, I hope you understand-"

"It's about Ryoma." He busted, catching her attention.

"Ryoma?" she smiled. "Oh, you must meet him, Ruka! He's a friend of mine and he's outside!" her smile deepened as she took his hand and lead him out.

Ruka's eyes widened, "She's my friend!"

"She?"

"I mean HE's my friend." He cleared, fighting with his mind.

Her frown immediately cleared out and she smiled, walking again and she made it out, pausing back at him as if waiting for him to catch up. "Now let's go. If it's that important, you may speak of it along the way."

But Ruka wasn't in his regular thoughts.

What, what? Now what? I don't understand. I can't understand myself! You caught her attention, then what? Tell her the truth!

But Ruka, you have no right.

Yes. But it's the only way I could get even.

Get even? With whom? Natsume?

Yes! He touched my poor innocent Mikan.

Your poor innocent Mikan? She's not yours. She was never-

She can be mine if Natsume wouldn't just be too confident on her!

He isn't. You're the problem, Ruka!

Why? What I'll do would be for Mikan's sake! She's safer with me!

You're acting selfish.

I was never-

YES YOU ARE!!!! YOU ALREADY KNEW MIKAN WAS NATSUME'S EVEN AFTER THE BALL, YET YOU STILL INSISTED AND HUGGED HER AND MADE HER CONFUSED! YOU AREN'T EVEN THAT SURE IF SOMETHING REALLY HAPPENED BETWEEN THEM AND-

"Ruka? Are you ok?" Haruka's voice disrupted him in his dazed thoughts, yet when he was about to reply, Ryoma's surprised disposition came to his view, standing ten feet before him.

"Ruka!" he greeted. "You've been here all this time."

"M-Mikan?!" he slipped after recovering from his brainstorm.

"Mikan? Oh I thought you knew each other. Ruka, this is Ryoma." She introduced, looking like a fool in front of them (since she was the only one not knowing the truth.)

"No. Umm... I mean... Yeah, Ryoma's my friend! I just slipped the Mikan thing." Ruka covered. "Mikan's Ryoma's girlfriend whom I really want to tell you about!"

Ryoma's face went pale at the instant he heard Ruka's intense lie. Haruka's reaction was just as the same.

"What?" she glanced confusingly at the two of them, her pastel becoming paler.

"Haruka... No. It's a lie. Let me explain everything!" Ryoma gasped, seeing Haruka drop her shoulders little by little and running beside her.

Ruka trembled and tried to compose himself. "I'm sorry about what I said. I wasn't watching my lips." He murmured.

"Ryoma? I.. I can't believe you..."

"No, I don't have a girlfriend! The fact is... I'm already engaged!"

Instead of fixing things, this made Haruka more downcast than ever. Her emotions mixed up and she felt she wanted to collapse. Imagine you finding the perfect one, and having a 'mutual understanding' with him, and discovering he had a girlfriend. Or worst, a fiancé?!

Tears started to crowed at the sides of her eyes as she knelt down the floor, feeling coldness rush along her spine.

"I didn't expect this would happen. My fiancé's name is Mikan Sakura and she's in Tokyo. I never expected this relationship would go into this. Haruka, I didn't want to trick you or anything..."

"Yes. I know Ryoma and he's... he's a good friend and a good guy... He never intended to do anything bad like hurting you!" Ruka aided, finally getting the picture Mikan wanted to plant in Haruka's mind.

Despite their 'confessions', Haruka remained silent. Slowly, the tears dropped and their hearts sank with pure guilt.

"Stop this stupidity!" a cold voice rang the two guilty guys to look up. Alas, they saw Natsume and Tsubasa, standing opposite each other with their hands in their pockets.

"You want to know the real truth, Miss Haruka?" Tsubasa asked with a smirk.

"Hn." Natsume grunted, glancing at a frog that leapt beside a rock. He pretended he wasn't interested, yet he really was!!!!!!

"Natsume?!" Ryoma gasped.

"Idiot, shut the hell up."

Haruka sobbed even more as she grabbed Ryoma's arm in a hug. "Ryoma! Please! Tell me... who she is... Please..." she murmured between sobs.

Natsume flinched, seeing his girl being hugged like that.

"OK, OK. Quit this drama will you? You're missin the real part here." Tsubasa continued.

Ruka stood up straight and yelled, "What are you talking about? You aren't telling anything!" (I really think Ruka's being an idiot in here, sorry Ruka fans....)

"Shut up." Natsume said in a nonchalant way, "And you. Woman."

Haruka looked up.

"Get your hands off my girl."

Haruka's sobbing stopped at that moment. "I, I can't understand you..."

"Ryoma doesn't want to be involved with you not because he has a gf or anything of the sort. The truth is he's a girl!" Tsubasa chirped coldheartedly.

Poor Haruka looked naively innocent at all of them, tears halfway down her cheeks. "You're gay?!"

"No-ho!!!!" Ryoma yelled, standing up. "It's the watch's fault!"

Tsubasa burst out laughing while Ruka couldn't get the point why he was overjoyed.

Haha, at last, Haruka lost patience and stood up. All her 'tears' have dried and her gentle demeanor gone, she clenched her fists and tried her best speak with her loudest voice possible.

"COULD EVERYONE PLEASE EXPLAIN EVERYTHING?!!!!!!!!!!"

Natsume sighed. He was already standing beside Ryoma, and with a single heave, the watch was off Ryoma's wrist.

Oh, what a stupid scene it was to witness. Tsubasa stared at them with his mouth opened after a laugh, Ruka was as pale as ever. Ryoma, was now transformed into a girl and was sogged in her VERY loose outfit. Haruka was still holding her hand.

Natsume, holding the timepiece grunted once more, and Haruka slowly formed the mural in her senses, and Mikan was left with no choice but to confess.

"Haruka... I'm so sorry." Mikan apologized, squeezing her hand tightly.

Haruka was still petrified with the extraordinary things that had been happening she thought it was all a dream.

"Haruka, no. This is real, not fantasy. I'm Mikan Sakura and the rest are as you knew them."

There was a long pause.

"I still can't understand."

Tsubasa dropped a sweat and began blabbering when Ruka covered his mouth.

Natsume crossed his arms before his chest.

"I don't know... This is such a trouble my carelessness had brought me."

In careful words, Mikan explained everything, detail by detail. Since Haruka wasn't that familiar with the magical world, she tried best to handle her emotions. It was a good thing Haruka was understanding.

"I'm sorry for all these things that had happened." She finally said, and closed her eyes. "I never thought it would lead to this."

"You've said that thrice in a row." Natsume smirked, breaking the mood.

"Natsume! Don't you have a heart? I'm trying to straighten things between all of us by doing the best I should and that's by saying sorry!"

"Oh come on. You really don't want my help? Piece of advice, tell her everything you wanna say and let's get this over with."

"What do you mean?" Haruka asked.

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"What?!"

"Yeah, so better finish all your stupid stuff so I could break this watch."

"You're so brilliant, Natsume!!!!!!!!" Mikan cried dreamily.

"Why'd they call me valedictorian for?" he grunted.

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-end-

What a long story!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yet...

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So what really was Natsume's great idea?

Who bought the watch in the first place? Yuu. The truth is, it was Yuu who was apparently missing in the recent scenes had consulted the merchant where he bought the watch. And that merchant, of course, told him tips the day he bought it. Yet he didn't tell it to all of them, except for Natsume, whom he felt was wise enough to know.

Since it was the watch's fault in the first place, it was the only thing that could fix it. By breaking its glass, every single trouble it would cause would be gone and everything would come back to the first place.

And so? After Mikan realized all her faults and learned her lesson, Natsume did the rightful thing.

It meant that after Natsume broke the timepiece, everything went back to where it started, the time when Mikan first tried the watch. (Of course, all memories were erased, except for the one who broke the watch who's supposed to keep it the rest of his life.)

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About three weeks earlier...

"Yuu! You're a genius!" Tsubasa exclaimed as he slapped his friend's shoulder.

Yuu scratched his sweat and smiled.

"So... when you wear this watch, you'll like turn into another person?" Ruka repeated Yuu's explanation.

Yuu nodded as Ruka's face lit up.

"Great!"

Mikan held out the wrist watch and examined it.

"I don't know... But..."

"Oh c'mon!" Tsubasa sneered. "You wanna join us or what?"

Natsume snatched the timepiece and eyed it suspiciously.

"Natsume! Be careful!"

Whoa. It's unscratched? Natsume thought deeply, remembering how he hammered the thing an hour before.

"You say it'll turn Mikan into a boy?" he muttered at Yuu who nodded once again.

Natsume's eyes widened. The words just jumped out from his involuntary mouth. I didn't intend to say that... but that was what I said in the past. Maybe it just got to be repeated.

"Like I said, it'll help Mikan without worrying if someone else might see her." Yuu said.

I have to do something to stop this from happening again.

"What if she bumps into someone with an identical face? That would be a problem." Natsume told them, again with involuntary words.

This made everyone flinch, except for Yuu who took the watch.

"Actually..."

"Wait!" Natsume screamed.

"Hey hey, get a hold of yourself, black cat. You might break it." Tsubasa joked as Natsume stared at the watch once again.

"Why don't you try it, idiot? Let's see what'll happen." Natsume smirked, his clever mind working once more.

And at that, he took the root of all trouble timepiece, snapped it in Mikan's wrist.

A bright light shown...

Yet?

Nothing happened.