Summary: AU. What if everything was reversed? What if Natsume was the new, hyper-active, naive boy, and Mikan was the anti-social, rude, arrogant girl? How different would everything be?
Disclaimer: I don't own Gakuen Alice.
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Reversed: Prologue
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"I'm going where?" A small, ten year old boy asked his parents. He had long, raven-like, onyx black hair and dark, crimson red eyes.
His mother smiled weakly. She was where he got his looks from. The woman had long, onyx black hair and the same crimson colored eyes. "You are going to a boarding school for special kids."
"Special kids?" He questioned. He looked up at his father. He didn't seem too happy. Actually, neither did his mother. They both looked pretty upset. "Is Aoi going too?" Aoi, his little, five year old sister.
"No, sorry, hun. Aoi isn't..like you." His mother tried to explain.
He raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean, Mom?" He really didn't understand what she was talking about. What was so special about him?
His mother took a deep breath. "Hun, you remember how sometimes when you're around fire-"
"I swear, I didn't start that fire!" The boy yelled, interrupting his mother. He was talking about the fire that had started last month in the house. There was no oven left on, nothing cooking.. just a random fire that started out of no where. He didn't know how it worked, but his father had gotten pissed. And the weird thing was, this wasn't the first time this happened to him. He always seemed to be around whenever an accidental fire was started. But they were never started by him.
"I know, sweetie. I know, but.." His mother bit her lip. "You're special, like I said before." he only nodded, not really understanding, but wanting his mother to continue. "You're an Alice."
The boy blinked. "An Alice?" He questioned out loud. What in the heck was an Alice?
His mother nodded. "An Alice is a name given to special people...with special powers."
"Powers?" Was his mother serious?
"Yes, Natsume. I'm being a hundred percent serious." He raised an eyebrow. His mother sighed. "This might sound ridiculous, and trust me I was hoping you'd be normal like your father and sister and I'd never have to have this chat with you, but you're ten years old now.." She trailed off.
"Kaoru." His father said, nudging her in the side. Apparently his father knew what his mother was talking about. Whatever that was.
"I know, Ioran." She said grabbing her husband's hand for support. "People with an Alice, like yourself, are to be sent to this school called Alice Academy where they help train kids just like you. Each child has one Alice, and they all differ in powers. That will all be explain to you at sch-"
"Wait. I have an Alice?" Natsume interrupted his mother. She only nodded. "What is it?" He asked confused. "What is my power?"
"Well, you're Alice is fire." Kaoru explained with a sweet smile.
"Fire? Really?" Nastume asked, not believing a word his mother spoke. This was bogus. It had to be.
"She's telling the truth, son." Ioran, his father, said. "Your mother knows because she too is an Alice." Natsume's eyes widened a bit. His mother was an Alice? "Like you, her Alice is fire. You see son, Alices are hereditary and passed down from generation to generation. The reason your sister doesn't have one is because she took after me."
"So.. Aoi is going to get to grow up normal, while I'm being shipped off to some boarding school for freaks with super powers?" Natsume asked. His mother gasped, shocked by his tone. "I'm sorry, Mom, but you really expect me to believe all this?"
"Yes because it's true." She said firmly.
"Prove it." He called back.
His mother smirked. She actually looked pretty wicked. She held up her hand in a position as if she was about to snap. "Ready?" She snapped. Natsume starred, in disbelief. His mother was holding fire in her hand as if it was nothing. It wasn't burning her or anything. She was controlling it. Had she been serious about all that Alice nonsense? Kaoru opened her hand and the fire disappeared. "See, Natsume. I wasn't lying. I control fire just like you will learn to."
Natsume stayed quiet for a minute, thinking. His mother had said he'd be at a boarding school, so that meant he'd be living at the school, right? For long long? When would he be able to return home? How often? He had so many questions. "When?" He finally asked.
"When, what, sweetie?" His mother asked softly.
"When do I leave?"
Kaoru looked at Ioran. They both turned to their son. "Tomorrow."
"Tomorrow?" Natsume shouted, shocked. "Aoi and I wouldn't even be going to school for another three weeks!"
"Alice Academy is a year round school.." His mother explained sheepishly.
"Of course it is." He said, sighing. So this was all really happening? "So what's gonna happen?" He asked softly. "Am I gonna be able to come back and visit you guys next weekend or-"
"Natsume.." His mother started softly. "A thing about being an Alice is that you can't tell anyone. So once the school finds out about you, they keep you there until you graduate."
His eyes widened. "That sounds like a prison!" He hollered. How could his parents want to send him away for eight years?
"Sweetie, it's not like I wanna send you there. If we don't, they will come find us and take you. Trust me, hun. And they let one person go home every summer for a week. That student who get the best grades of his or her class." She pulled her son into a close hug. "This is the last thing I want to do, but I can promise you it isn't bad there. It's a beautiful place, and you will meet people there who you will know for life." She smile sweetly. She gently kissed the top of his head as he hugged back. "I love you, Nat-chan." She whispered, calling him by his nickname.
The next morning, Natsume woke up earlier than normal. He wanted to spend as much time as he could with his family before these people from Alice Academy came and got him. "Nat-chan, it's like five in the morning." His little sister wined when he woke her up. He only smiled and picked the girl up in his arms. "We are making breakfast for everyone." He explained kissing the girl's forehead. He wasn't sure how he could go eight years without seeing his little sister. Would she even remember him?
"Breakfast? Why so early?" She asked sleepily.
Natsume put the girl down on one of the chairs in the kitchen. He smiled at her. "Because your big brother is gonna be gone for a while." He explained softly. "And I wanna spend time with my favorite little sister while I can." He said ruffling her hair.
Aoi groaned, trying to fix her hair. She glared at her brother with the same crimson red eyes as her brother and mother. "I'm your only little sister." She muttered, standing up. "So, does that breakfast include pancakes?" She asked with a small smile. Natsume smiled brightly back at her.
Natsume and his family had a great morning. He wished he'd spent more days like this now knowing he'd be missing so many days, weeks, months..years with his family. It wasn't even but an hour passed noon when the people from Alice Academy arrived. They came a lot earlier than Natsume and his family would have liked. They also showed up in more style than he expected with a limousine. There were two men, they looked rather nice, both dressed in black. One man was taller with short, dirty blonde hair. He explained he was the high school history teacher, Makihara. The other man had longer dark brown hair. He was the high school science teacher, Misaki.
Natsume and his family said their goodbyes and the boy was off. He got in the back seat of the black stretch limousine, and the whole time he never took his eyes off his house and his family until they were out of sight.
