Notes:
1. Gakuen Alice is not mine. I'm sure you know that already.
2. Alternate Universe (AU) setting. A little personality switch. Maybe not a little. /shrugs
3. Major OOC. Not even kidding. Some scenes and language may not be suitable for *some* young readers.
4. Megane is kewl.
Strange Interludes
Chapter 1
"Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electrical display of God the Father!"
- Nina Leeds
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Prelude 1: Encounter
I never believed in love.
It was just an excuse used by people who feared being alone.
I never feared being alone.
That was why I never thought of falling in love by any slimmest chance.
.
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9:59am…
The corridors were silent; no students could be seen around the halls. But in the boy's locker room, two students were together – muffled moans could be heard.
"Mmmm…" a manly voice groaned in pleasure. He had his eyes closed, panting heavily. He was leaning on the lockers for support as the beautiful auburn haired girl trailed kisses on his neck…
"Keep quiet… I'm just starting…"
One more minute…
The girl touched his chest lightly. The boy gave a slight shudder, feeling her fingertips and nails run so delicately over his chest. The girl wasn't satisfied with the feel and worked her hands to his back. He open-mouthed kissed her.
30 seconds more…
"Mmmmm…Good boy…" The girl moaned. Truthfully, there was no pleasure to her being lied on by this guy. The pleasure was in the taunting she did. The way she was toying with his own pleasures, manipulating his own thoughts into naughty little deeds at the tender age of seventeen. She stroked his hair with her hand down to his cheek.
10 more seconds…
"Oh, this is so great!" The boy licked his lips after a quick breath. He kissed down her neck softly to her collarbone.
5 seconds…
The girl searched for her cellphone on her pocket while the boy was busy trailing kisses on her… It was almost time…
2 seconds…
The boy was about to unbutton her uniform… but…
Kringggg… The bell rang.
Zero…
"Sorry lover boy, your fun is up." The girl said with a playful smirk on her face. She lightly brushed her lips to his and then winked at him.
"That was… awesome…" The guy said, panting heavily. Sweat beads were visible in his forehead.
"This is the last encounter we will have, okay? If you come near me and beg to do this again, you'll be kicked out in this academy and suffer some heavy punishment, understand?" The girl threatened with her sweet, seductive voice. The boy, who was still in cloud nine nodded in agreement.
"Good." Said the girl and fixed her appearance. She left the guy sitting on the floor, still fantasizing what happened.
It was just a heated kiss and few touches. How foolish a guy in this academy could be?
Unbeknownst to them, two people in two different places saw the scene with sadness in their eyes. Both of them walk in different paths, but their mind was only focused and concerned to the auburn-haired teen.
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10:05am…
The girl was now in the girl's locker room, preparing her things for the second subject. She obviously skipped the first subject to have fun with that guy. She sighed and closed her locker's door.
"Mikan…" a familiar voice called her. Mikan smiled and faced the owner of the voice.
Raven hair. Amethyst eyes. Hotaru Imai.
"Hotaru. Hi." She greeted tonelessly. Hotaru walked closer to her.
"You skipped the first class. Jinno-sensei was looking for you." Hotaru stated with her usual calm and distant tone.
Mikan snorted. "You know that I don't care about him, right?"
Hotaru shook her head. "I saw you a while ago. Jinno-sensei dismissed the class earlier than expected. When will you stop doing something like that?" Hotaru asked, glint of concern in her voice.
"I'm only enjoying the goodness of life." Mikan reasoned. She started to walked past Hotaru.
"Mikan…you don't know where you're bringing yourself into." Hotaru said that made Mikan stop on her tracks. She peered over her shoulder and a teasing smile curved in her lips.
"I know. Stop worrying about me, you're just wasting your time."
With that, Mikan left. The raven-haired girl massaged her forehead in disappointment.
"When will you stop doing this, Mikan. Playing with others feelings is not good at all." Hotaru mumbled then followed the path where Mikan disappeared.
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10:25am…
Chattering and whispers filled the whole classroom of Class 3B as they waited for their English teacher to arrive. The certain auburn-haired girl, who was sitting at the back, had one of her hand under her chin while looking outside the window. She simply ignored anyone who tried to talk to her even if it was her friends. She wanted the boring classes to end immediately and have some fun.
Five minutes had passed and as expected, the door of the classroom opened revealing their English teacher. The class immediately fell silent as their blond-haired teacher waltzed his way to the teacher's table.
"Good morning, my dear class!" Narumi greeted cheerfully. Some of the students replied him, some didn't. His lavender eyes scanned the room and saw that she was miraculously there.
"Good morning, Mikan-chan! Thank you for attending my class today." The auburn-haired teen rolled her eyes. She ignored his statement and just stared boringly in front of the classroom.
"Okay, I'll make this quick since I have a meeting to attend. My dear students, you have a new classmate. Actually, he's not new in the academy, he'll just transfer to our section due to some circumstances."
The door opened again and revealed a familiar teen to the class.
"He's from class 3A!" A random girl said.
"Yeah, the smartest student in high school division."
"He looks like a …geek?"
"Because he is one. Smarts are geeks you know."
And there he was, standing in front of the room filled with mostly strangers, not knowing what to do or say. He felt his head spin a little and feared that he'd faint, but he tried to remain calm. He had this messy raven hair with long bangs, hiding his forehead. He was wearing a think, rounded eyeglasses so no one could really see much of his eyes. He was also swearing the academy uniform with his necktie firmly hanging on his neck.
"Please introduce yourself to your new classmates." Narumi instructed. The teen gulped and raised his head.
"Nice to meet you all. I'm Hyuuga Natsume, 17 years old from class 3A." he briefly introduced.
"Everyone, be nice to him," Narumi started. "And for your seat…" Narumi once again scanned the classroom and saw that there were two vacant seats at the back. He plastered a smirk on his face. "You will sit beside Mikan-chan." Narumi announced.
Mikan, who was currently watching her teacher's actions, rolled her eyes.
"I won't mind it at all."
The class gasped.
Mikan didn't like the idea of having a seatmate since two years ago. But…now… even Narumi was surprised that she didn't complain about it.
"...and you will be his partner for the rest of the year." Narumi added with an evil grin.
Mikan's raised a brow with what Narumi said. She scanned the guy again. From head to toe.
Body build? Check. He was tall and the build of his body was not bad at all.
Looks? Pointed nose. Better removed that freaking thick eyeglasses.
What was new? Seems like a silent type.
"Fine. I'll be glad." Mikan answered sweetly which made the class gasp again. She threw a teasing look at Narumi, who was currently in a state of shock. Mikan loved that expression.
Narumi snapped back to reality and cleared his throat. "Then it's settled. Hyuuga-san, please sit beside Mikan-chan."
He nervously made his way to the back row. He tried to ignore the stares of his new classmates. His face heated up as he stopped at the front of his seat and saw her smiling sweerly at him. It made his heartbeat rush.
"Are you going to stand there forever, partner?" Mikan asked, the sweet smile she had suddenly replaced by a playful smirk. She emphasized the word 'partner' which made him to bite his lower lip in nervousness.
He sat beside her, feeling uncomfortable. He turned his head and stared at her alluring hazel eyes which were staring back at him.
Even guys like him have feelings. They were able to like and love.
Sadly, the girl he liked was completely out of his league. It was already two years ever since he fell for her.
She was rich, sexy, beautiful and popular.
And worst, she was a player. Yes, a player. Usually, it was the boys who were toying with girls feeling. But with Mikan Sakura, it was the total opposite.
"Okay, class dismissed!" Narumi bid goodbye and exited the room. The class started to create noises again. Some of them approached their new classmate and welcomed him to the class.
"Welcome to class 3B, Hyuuga-san. If you need anything, just ask me." Yuu Tobita, the class representative politely stated. Natsume nodded in recognition.
Mikan stood up which made the crowd in front of her partner's[aa desk to step back. She lowered her head to Natsume's ears.
Natsume froze as he felt her warm breath tickling his ear.
"Stand up, partner. We got some introduction to make, am I right?" Mikan whispered and lightly bit his earlobe. Natsume's body tensed.
No. Everyone felt the tension. Some boys in the class wished that they were Mikan's partner.
Mikan gripped his wrist and forced him to stand up. The students in front of them split up in two to give way. They watched her drag the dumbfounded guy out of the room.
"She's doing it again." One of her classmate and friend, Anna mumbled with worried tone.
Nonoko, who was at Anna's side nodded in agreement. "And what's worse, to an innocent stranger."
...
Mikan was still dragging the new guy away from the high school department. Finally, Natsume recovered from the shock and stopped walking which made Mikan to stop too.
"What are you doing?" Natsume asked in low tone as he eyed her hand that still gripping his wrist.
"Dragging you." Mikan answered in a matter-of-fact-tone.
"Why are you dragging me?"
"Because you're my partner, for the rest of the year." Mikan replied with a wink. She could feel that her four-eyed partner was trembling.
"W-why do we need to walk out the class?" He stuttered.
Mikan laughed at which seemed like an innocent guy in front of her. Didn't he know her?
"Don't you know me?" She voiced out her thoughts.
"Of course I do."
Mikan walked closer to him, nearing her face to him. She was still holding his wrist with her small hand. She watched his face turn red.
"There's something wrong in your face." Mikan stated and slowly took off his thick eyeglasses and threw it on the ground. The poor eyeglasses broke. Natsume closed his eyes due to sudden removal of his eyeglasses.
He opened his eyes and met the lovely gaze of the hazel-eyed teen.
"Crimson, how unique, I love the color of your eyes." Said Mikan seductively while staring at his crimson eyes. He is hot without those eyeglasses, just as she thought. Natsume gulped, feeling frozen on the ground. Mikan moved her head closer to his. Their face was only an inch away. They could even feel the warm breath of each other.
"Stop." Natsume managed to say which made Mikan to back off a little and stare at him like he was a madman. Who dares to reject her?
Answer? Him.
"You want me to stop?" Mikan asked, trailing a finger to his chest.
Natsume sighed. "Yes." He paused, walking back a little. "I saw what you were doing with a guy in the locker room a while ago. I'm not like that." Mikan got surprised to know that this guy saw her little fun a while ago. She became more interested at him.
Mikan showed him a teasing smirk. "So you were spying me?"
Natsume stared straightly at her eyes. "Yes."
She chuckled. "You like me, right?"
He felt lost in her hazel eyes again. He didn't like to answer the question but his head betrayed him. He nodded twice which made Mikan continue to tease him.
"I'm not surprise. Every guy likes me." Mikan brushed her lips lightly to his, teasing him more.
Mikan licked her lips. "Tastes good, huh?"
Natsume could feel that any seconds now, his heart would jump out of his chest. He couldn't complain. He was totally lost to her.
She let go of her grip from his wrist and started cupped his face with her hands.
She brought her lips to his with a pleasurable groan. Natsume eyes widen in shock.
Did he kiss her back? No. He was too shocked; he was totally frozen in his position.
He never kissed a girl before so instead of pushing her away, he just let her kissed him. He just closed his eyes. He didn't even know what to do. All he could think about was the girl he like was kissing him... and it felt so good for him.
After few seconds, Natsume tried to respond but Mikan broke the kiss and started to laugh. Natsume's face was red as a tomato in embarrassment. He watched the brunette laugh like an angel with total confusion on his face.
"Honestly partner, you're a terrible kisser." Mikan said between her laugh.
June 25, 2011 – Took eight chapters down for revision (which honestly didn't happen)
(Dates in between – Life happened.)
May 5, 2016 – Re-uploaded the eight chapters together with Chapters 9 and 10. - Completed