Alice Festival Arc

Ruka smiles to Mikan and is more friendly with her days later, which makes a lot of students aware that he is growing to like her. He, Sumire Shōda and Narumi go to the special classes RPG, because they had nothing to do. While there everyone commented how his bunny ears made him look cute (including Mikan which made him embarrassed). Ruka blushes when he sees her in her genie outfit and thinks she looks cute. He became one of the first challengers for the RPG game, his weapon was a rope. He lost on the first round, because he could not figure out which was the real Misaki Harada before time ran out.

Ruka is playing Snow White in the a play and asks everyone not to come, but they do anyway, telling him how cute he is (putting him in a bad mood). A accident with slime balls occurs that put most of the cast out and having Mikan play the prince in the play. Mikan puts on her prince costume, which makes Ruka blush and he wanted to say she looked cute. The play starts and he and Mikan are in a tower scene with Permy/Sleeping Beauty saying she will separate them. In the next scene Ruka with the fake animals then the real animals that are in the

Ruka as Snow White.

audience come on stage and sing along. The scene changes and now Ruka is with Narumi who says that he will kiss him causing the animals to attack Narumi. Ruka is then with the dwarves where he gets bitten by a poison(-free) apple. Mikan is told to kiss Ruka on the lips, which makes both uncomortable. However, they attempt to kiss for the sake of the play, but are interrupted by Natsume, who throws an eraser (or apple in anime) at Mikan, and Hotaru, who shuts off the lights, ending the play. afterwards, Mikan and Ruka are shy around each other, but congratulate each other and say they did a good job in finishing the play.

During the Alice Festival Last Dance, he and Natsume have many girls who want to dance with at the last dance. but, both have no desire to dance with them. Ruka, however, wants to dance with Mikan and can't bring him to sat so when she asks if either of them wants to dance with her. Natsume pushes Ruka to Mikan so that he would dance with her. Mikan and Ruka enjoy dancing with each other. After Mikan and Ruka finish their dance, Hotaru then grabs Ruka's hand and tells him that girl (Mikan) is so dense, which he does not understand. When he goes to get a piece of cake, he overhears Mikan and Natsume talking and hears Natsume call Mikan by her first name, which surprises him. He is further surprised when he sees Mikan blushing as she walks away, this leads him to believe that Mikan likes Natsume. when he sits with Natsume, he mentions that he called Mikan by her name and says that Natsume should dance with Mikan. They bicker over this until Hotaru chooses Mikan as her last dance partner, which makes them laugh.