"Natsume! Ruka! Try this!" Yue softly patted the seats next to her on the matted blue floor, in front of her a narrow black table while over it were rather sweet smelling mugs, the inside filled with softness and the top crunchy chocolate, some whip cream over the three white mugs.

Natsume and Ruka were in Yue's large room, just hanging out as always before Yue felt the desire to eat sweets and brought out the device a familiar ebony-short haired stoic girl gave her as a rare present.

They exchanged a curious glance and sat down next to her, both boys on each side. She smiled warmly and grabbed their mugs, handing them the long silver spoons when they had the mugs in their hands.

"Ruka I saved yours. Natsume, this one's new. It's sweet right?" She eye smiled while softly munching on the milk-chocolate mug cake, the silver spoon against her small lips. Natsume was staring at her face in thought, saving each of her movements in his mind like a photograph just as Ruka was blushing slightly, then blinked and nodded with a smile.

"Where did you get it?" Natsume questioned as he finished swallowing a bite. His eyes narrowed and he turned his head to her curtly before she could open her mouth.

"You didn't go back to that pervert right?" He stared hard, eyes narrowed. Ruka blinked and looked down at a shaking-her-head-calmly-Yue who licked the spoon.

"I don't get my sweets from him Natsume. This time Hotaru invented a machine that lets me whip out any type of mug cake I want if I just type it in!" She smiled close-eye, obviously excited at the wonderful news of being able to eat any type of mug cake at any time. Ruka chuckled and finished his mug-cake, placing the mug on the table in front of them. Natsume sighed softly before nodding stiffly, resuming his bites off the mug-cake.

Yue smiled and placed her finished mug on the table before leaning back on her grey bed that sat directly on the ground. She brought her legs up and put her arms stretched out on top of her knees.

"I won't say anything anymore, am not going to force you to befriend someone against your will, am not the teachers." She smiled when Natsume narrowed his eyes at the ground but smirked and Ruka scoffed with a smile.

"Just let time tell us everything~" She mewed yawning, her hand going directly over her small mouth before she blinked sleepily. Natsume stood up while Ruka sighed and patted her head softly.

"I wonder if I can bring Mr. Pillows with me today......." She wondered out loud, blinking slowly before chuckling sleepily and nodded to herself. She stood up and grabbed the soft white fat pillow that was right next to her on the bed.

Natsume smirked and walked to the door while Ruka smiled and waited for her to walk out with them, a giant pillow almost half covering her upper body, the familiar bunny now mysteriously on her shoulder just as Ruka's rabbit was in his hands.

Yue had noticed that Natsume had narrowed his eyes and slyly escaped rapidly, as if he remembered something and didn't want to involve Ruka or her. She let him leave seeing as it was something important and felt Ruka petting her head softly before trying to follow where Natsume went, even if he already disappeared.

She sighed and shook her head, hoping for the best since she knew that that person was already on his edges, trying to find Natsume. The first thing Yue did when she entered the class was jog softly to her seat, then proceeded to slowly lay her head over the pillow she was holding on the desk, sighing in satisfaction when the softness and the relaxed position hit her head.

Ruka was seated next to her after failing at finding the fire caster, and was staring at her, gazing and looking at her sleepy face, even if he wasn't the only one glancing at the sleepy girl.

"You mean Yue-chan and Natsume are a special star!? I can see Yue-chan, but Natsume!?" Yue was tuned out by most of the talk between Mikan's surprised and admired small speech on Yue, making students glance at the heavenly sleeping girl with curiosity and admiration, Ruka also staring in awe at the sleepy girl, never getting tired of her sweet looks and cuteness.

Though when Mikan began to angrily rant on Natsume, Sumire slammed her hands on the desk, -Yue sighed softly-, and defended him even though Mikan was a stubborn as a mule on her opinions. Abruptly Natsume interrupted the pigtailed girls rant and walked around her, ignoring her completely before Ruka noticed the black mask on Natsume.

He walked up to him in a hurry, questioning if he was alright. Yue blinked lazily and slowly lifted her head to the front, to meet the gaze of the mask that was staring directly at her. Her eyes narrowed upwards in pain and she sighed softly, waiting for Natsume and Ruka to walk where she was.

He sat down and almost rapidly the scared whispers of the class began to form, knowing of the mask and what it did, though they hushed down when a familiar wind-like sound made them blink in awe at the blue-haired girls actions, even if they have been classmates for some time, they never concede to get surprised at the way such a fragile-like small mature girl's actions affected both Ruka and Natsume.

"Natsume." Her voice came out like a whisper, he sat down next to her and she immediately but calmly raised her small hand and gently traced the marks around his neck. He sighed non-audible, but she felt it since she had her lean fingers on the side of his throat. She shook her head slowly, soft blue strands swiftly moving along, making him turn his head towards her.

"Let's go to the infirmary. I needed to get some new stuff anyway." She smiled lightly when he nodded once after a few seconds of thinking, Ruka sighing softly behind them. The soft atmosphere was replaced with a tense one when she tilted her head in confusion but was met with a familiar yelling from behind them.

"Yue-chan!! You shouldn't be hanging out with someone like Natsume! He's a bad person!! Why do you hang out with someone like him!?" Yue blinked and calmly turned her head around to a ranting Mikan, the class students gasped and froze when they saw Natsume curtly turn his head to the angry pigtailed girl.

"That's none of your business." He growled out in anger, then swiftly stood up and softly gripped Yue's hand, Ruka following them before Mikan yelled at him back in anger, something about being polite and that Yue was her friend.

He halted, almost making Yue bump into his steady back if it weren't for Ruka's hands on her shoulder, her bunny squirming comfortably on her shoulder as Ruka's was on his arm. Then turned his head to Mikan.

"Stay away from Yue."

"Mikan." Yue softly touched Natsume's arm to try to calm him, seeing him seething at the pigtailed girl through his mask. Mikan flinched at the soft ghostly sound of Yue's soft voice and blinked nervously with a light blush on her face then stuttered a yes out. Yue smiled almost painfully and tilted her head to the side.

"Don't believe everything they tell you here. Or you'll get hurt soon." Mikan narrowed her eyebrows slightly in confusion before Natsume tugged softly on Yue's hand, making her blink and send a small wave at Mikan's direction before following (or jogging lightly) by Natsume's hand and Ruka following after.

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"Natsume!" Yue pouted slightly when Natsume passed the infirmary in a swift fast movement.

"Am not going in there." He stated firmly, using almost no strength as Yue was tugging him back, her arms around one of his arms. Ruka chuckled.

"Don't you have one of those boxes in your room? We could just go there." He smiled when Yue blinked widened eyed slightly. She slowly let go of Natsume's arm and chuckled lowly.

"Right I forgot about that. I was so worried that...." She sighed softly with a small smile before a chuckle escaped her past her lips when Natsume bumped his fist softly on top of her head.

"Am fine. Don't worry so much Yue." He sighed short. Yue smiled up at him with one of her 'alright' smiles.

"Ruka, want another mug-cake while am working on Natsume?" Yue was sitting on the matted floor, her legs together in Japanese polite style with her graceful posture as usual while Natsume was in front of her, laying his back against her bed with a leg propelled up and his arm laying on the leg. Ruka was next to them close to the table where a simple black gadget that looked like a coffee brewer stood.

"You make me sound like a car." Natsume mumbled, the mask muffling almost all of his words. Yue chuckled lightly as Ruka smiled widely in amusement before turning his head to the supposed mug-cake-brewer.

"This makes mug-cakes?" He raised an eyebrow and poked it cautiously making Yue chuckle while grabbing the cream and medicine in the white box, opening it and taking out a familiar cream, and some white duffs of fluffs.

"It was a rare present from Hotaru. She said the first one's free so I shouldn't expect anything else." Yue laughed behind one of her fists, ending in giggles reminiscing.

"I...see." Ruka flinched the machine twitched but drew closer to it with a curious raised eyebrow.

Yue sighed as she saw Natsume flinch slightly when the cream that was on the soft duff was gently placed on his neck, her dabbing the place slowly for the pain to lessen.

"Geez he didn't have to grab your neck." She mumbled with a pout absentmindedly, not noticing how Natsume was silently staring at her though his mask.

"That guy when I get my hands on him one of these days I swear......" She began to rant in a mumble, her words not sounding like words anymore but mumbles to Ruka's and Natsume's amused selves.

Ruka laughed good-heartedly and Natsume let one of his small smiles out, knowing they couldn't see it through his masks. Yue felt his relax and calm state and stopped her mumbled rants before chuckling a bit, noticing how Natsume's tense state was in its most comfortable aura.

"So Ruka, what kind of mug-cake do you want?" Yue questioned without taking her aqua concentrated eyes off of Natsume's neck as she dabbed a new cream filled fluff cloth over the marks. She inched closer each time to get a better look and was now right in front of him, in-between his knees that were slanted upwards his feet on the ground and his hands to the sides calmly.

"Um.....vanilla? Since last time we ate the chocolate one." She nodded with a slight smile and turned her head around to see Ruka grumbling at the small machine.

"It's a big blue button on the right side." She chuckled as he froze and smiled with a nod, touching the side when a loud 'Poff!' made him flinch backing away.

"Since you said the vanilla when you pressed the button, woala!" She chuckled softly when he grabbed the white vanilla-mug-cake from the inside of the small machine and took the long silver spoon that was on the table next to the machine, dabbing it inside his mug-cake with slight sparkles and a blush in his eyes.

Yue turned around and blinked with a flinch to see that she was much more closer than she thought she was to Natsume, his masked face literally only a foot away, maybe even less. She could feel his heat through his body, that's how close they were. Or maybe it's cause she was always a temperature lower? Seconds passed and the only sound was the happy Ruka dabbing away and munching on his mug-cake.

Natsume almost too naturally wrapped his hands around her small waist, sliding her closer to him with almost no strength. Her eyes slightly grew wider and heat raised unexpectedly to her face as she stared up at him before narrowing her eyes slightly and pouting her lips a bit. She knew when she felt his chest make an abrupt movement that he had smirked, satisfied at her reaction to her dismiss.

"Am done." She sighed softly, forgetting how close they were and how his hands were around her waist protectively, and put the materials back into box next to her then glancing back to his neck that looked better already from that cream. She smiled lightly in relief, glad to see that it was healing nicely fast.

When she felt a soft tug on her waist, she looked up to his cat-masked face and tilted her face in question.

"Now I know why you have an obsession with these mug-cakes, they're addictive." Ruka sighed in satisfaction putting his mug down and turned back around only for his eyes to widen slightly and a full blown blush heated his face as he grunted and put his hands over his face.

"I feel like I just saw my sister in bed with my best friend..... At least get a room or something!" He laughed when he saw Yue rapidly turn her head around in surprise, her eyes slightly widened and a light pink blush on her cheeks and pale face.

"This isn't what it looks like!" She softly yelled and moved back to leave but Natsume's hands at that moment tightened and he pulled her back in, only with a stronger hold this time as Yue blinked in surprise. Sure they were close but they have never gotten this close before! For goodness sakes they were kids!

"Natsume!" Yue's eyes were confused but firm before he pulled her closer with his snaked hands on her small waist and plopped his head down between her neck and shoulder, her fresh flower smelling cotton candy like hair made him sigh in relish, his cheeks heating up slightly. He didn't bother to compose his face since his mask was over it.

"Am still hurt you know. So you can't hurt me." He mumbled and lazily moved his head to grow closer to her soft body that fit in his arms like a puzzle.

"No matter how many times I see this, it never fails to amaze me how spoiled you sound." Ruka chuckled and laughed when Natsume threw him the pillow that was next to him, but didn't move from his position. It smacked a laughing Ruka on the face, tumbling him down on the rugged carpeted floor.

Yue sighed lightly and chuckled with a shake of her head before placing her hands around his neck, bringing him closer as he tightened his hold gently, sighing at how relaxed he felt with her in his arms.

She patted his ebony hair with one hand, the other around his neck and chuckled lightly. "Alright, alright, since you know I can't 'hurt' you, let's clean up hm? Your skins hotter than before too, I wonder why." She tilted her head in confuse before he nodded curtly and slowly detached himself, leaning back on the bed just as Ruka smirked from behind a cleaning-the-box Yue.

Natsume's eye twitched when he noticed that Ruka touched his arm slowly, then drew back as if it was on fire. He snorted when his animal-lover best friend was laughing on the ground, and put his hands inside his pockets, waiting for him to calm down at the subject Natsume was ignoring. Of course he should have composed himself! Especially since Yue's skin was slightly colder than the average person and his was warmer with his emotions.

"Done!" Yue eye smiled and tilted her head, the blue strands gleaming in the evening rays that were reflecting inside the room from her large narrow window. Ruka smiled and nodded while Natsume merely nodded once.