Hi Everyone! This story used to be about Azami and Azami only but I decided it would be more fun if Mikan was disguised as Azami! Of course the usual pairings apply as well. This is my first Gakuen Alice fic and I hope you all enjoy it!

-Usual Disclaimer-

One year after the current Gakuen Alice

"Mum. I am so happy that we are together." Mikan said as she walked beside her mother. It had been one long year since she had escaped the academy with her. And now both of them were walking side by side on an abandoned road. Secretly Mikan missed her friends terribly and she had no idea what had happened to them after she left. Yet she knew if she spoke to her mum about it, she would feel guilty about taking Mikan. The rain was really not holding back now. The clouds were overcast, almost like a giant shadow cast across the sky. It would really be horrible for anyone to be outside, Mikan thought.

All of sudden something flickered behind her. Mikan ignored it thinking it was lightning or something, but never the less quickened the pace of her walking- dragging her mother behind. "Well I hope no one is outside in this weather. They could get sick!" Mikan told her mum.

"It is just so like you to worry about other people when you are soaking wet," Yuka replied, "you know one of the reasons why I wanted more time with you is so that I could look after you for once."

Once again something moved behind her.

"Mum, something flickered behind me and now that flicker has flickered again! What do you think the flicker that flickered twice behind me is?"

"I'm sure it is nothing," Yuka said. Then the "flicker" caught her eye and she wasn't so sure anymore.

Mikan was sure that the flicker had stopped and was still. Still pulling her mother she started to walk towards the light. (A/N Get it? Walk towards the light? Oh I crack myself up sometimes.) Eventually she saw that the light was coming from a girl. The girl had long black hair and was wearing a small dress. She was drenched in mud and soaked beyond the bone. Yet, strangest of all she was glowing. Unlike a glow-in-the-dark-stick, she was emitting a soft, steady light.

"So are we going to take the glowing girl to our home?" Yuka asked Mikan.

"Well we can't leave her here!"Mikan insisted. She used a little of the flying Alice to hover the girl and carry her to their home. The home was a not like an apartment but more of a giant living space. Within the space included a couch, TV, dining table, beds and a bathroom that was sealed off. Amongst all this was a large wooden cabinet filled with glass bottles. The wooden cabinet looked rather old and dusty-as if it had never been touched. The glass bottles were filled with different coloured stones ranging from a deep blue to a fiery red. They were also different sizes and shapes. They were Alice stones.

Yuka had collected a range of different stones over the years. There was a stockpile of flying Alice stones. A mountain of teleportation stones and quite a few illusion stones as well. But among all these was a separate column. There were only three stones here. One was Mikan's father's Nullification stone. One was Persona's stone and one was Natsume's fire stone.

Mikan placed the girl onto her bed and wrapped her in a few blankets. Yuka ran to fetch some tea while Mikan did all she could to warm and dry the girl. Now that she was reasonably dry Mikan could see that her hair was not black but almost a deep purple. As well as that, there seemed to be strange markings on her back. The markings almost resembled…wings. After one hour the dress was still mud stained but other than that the girl seemed to be clean.

Yuka looked at the girl's face. She thought she reminded her of someone.

"Mikan I think she is… no… sorry… it really isn't possible…after what happened then…no one could have survived…but still…" Yuka stuttered.

"What is it mum?"Mikan questioned.

"Oh nothing. I just thought that she reminded me of a little girl I once knew."

"Once? What happened to her?"

"She was your cousin Mikan. My little brother's daughter. I saw her once-at the academy. But I don't know what happened to her. I asked around, but they all said that she had passed away. But I still don't know why."

"Oh." was all Mikan could say.

"Where the hell am I?" the girl groaned.

Mikan turned around abruptly. It was the next morning and she was wondering when the girl was going to come around. Now that her eyes were open, Mikan could see that they shared the exact same shade of eye colour. And come to think of it their nose was similar too. But other than that they were pretty much polar opposites.

"Hi. My name is Mikan Sakura and I live here with my mother Yuka. I am eleven years old and have an Alice. My alices are nullification and the stealing Alice." Mikan said.

"Well, you're pretty stupid. In your introduction you tell me that you're an Alice and you tell me what your Alices are. How do you know that I know about alices?" The girl replied.

"Well last night when we found you, you were glowing. I didn't think you were just a regular kid. Though I admit telling you what my alices were was a little stupid. But if you had no idea about alices, you would have said: What is an Alice? Instead of: how do you know that I know about alices." Mikan answered, "By the way, how were you glowing? I know about plenty of alices, but I have never heard of a "glowing" Alice."

"I don't have any "alices" so to speak. My name is Azami and I am 13 years old." Azami said.

Just that very moment Yuka decided to walk in. She heard the girl say her name was Azami. No, it couldn't be. Plenty of people are called Azami. But do plenty of people glow? It couldn't be her. She is dead. Yuka told herself. She is dead. She couldn't have survived. Just to make sure Yuka said, "Azami. Do you remember me?"

Azami stared at Yuka. She knew this face from somewhere. It was very faint. But she could just recognize the hair. The same colour and the same eyes of her auntie. Yuka was her auntie.

"Auntie?" Azami mumbled.

"Oh my. You are not dead! Thank goodness. I thought you could never survive. "Yuka ran to hug her.

"What is going on?" Mikan said to herself.

After the big reunion with her auntie, Azami sat down ready to explain everything. Mikan and Yuka sat across from her with a newly accounted smile on their faces.

Azami began, "When I was two years old, I was taken away from my family. The academy realised that I had incredible powers and wanted to use them for their own benefit. There was a massive raid for children with Alices back then. The government wanted to use them. Gakuen Alice teachers were paid incredible sums of money for each child- depending on their Alice ability. The man who captured me was the elementary school principal. He wasn't the school principal at the time, but merely a high ranking teacher. After he turned me in, he was promoted. I met Yuka at the academy. I didn't not know that she was my auntie; all I knew was that she was going to steal my powers away. Eventually Yuka explained to me that she was my Auntie and that everything was going to be okay. It obviously wasn't.

But somehow the elementary school principal took an interest in me. He said that I would do the world and my country good. He gave me a home, food and I almost became like a child to him. I helped him run the school for almost two years. During that time he was a good father to me. He bought clothes for me and helped me tie my shoelaces, but most of all he helped me train. He trained me to use my powers at will. Every week I would discover a new power. It got to the point were I was afraid to let him observe every power that I had, in fear of hurting him. Yuka had already left but I had no idea what was happening in the outside world. All I knew was that I was in an academy. I had completely forgotten abut my family. My new family was the principal. I had forgotten what he had done to me in the past.

One day I discovered a way out of the home. As soon as I went out I heard the principal talking to another man. They were talking about using different students to defeat enemies of the country. Horrible things were being done to these students by the man who had taken care of me for so long. I was four when I had found out. I was furious. My emotions let my powers go haywire. I set multiple things on fire and then put them out with water and then set them alight again. Things were exploding and I lost control of myself. There was a massive bang as half of the wall came off. Then the teachers came to stop me. They didn't do much good of course.

Then all of a sudden there was a bright flaming light. I don't know how to explain it exactly, but basically there was a phoenix, coming out of my back. It rose into the air and destroyed a lot of ground. I then kind of though it would be nice to ride it and it bent down. I could control this thing with my mind. I flew away on it. It was an hour before I realised that I had no one in this world. I had spent two years of my life in the same home. I had no idea what was happening out here. It took about a year to find somewhere to settle down. I was taken in by religious people who lived in a temple hidden in the mountains. They knew about alices, but they constantly said that I wasn't an Alice. I had no idea what I was until I was 7 years old.

I had a very vivid dream. I dreamt about whom I was and what I had to do and why my powers were unknown of. I am part angel. I know it sounds crazy. It took me a month for it to sink in. But it was true. My mother and Yuka's sister-in-law was an angel. Of course dad didn't know that and neither did anyone except myself and the monks. It all made sense. My powers were beyond human and even for an angel they were extremely strong. From that point on –with the monks' permission to use their temple- I practiced every single day. I learnt to use any of my powers whenever I wanted to wherever I wanted to. I even learnt to breathe underwater. Soon after, I received another vivid dream. I had been crowned the princess of the angels. You know every little girl dream of becoming a fairy princess. Well, I became one – but cooler- I was an angel princess.

I dedicated every moment of my life to learn anything I could about angels, and mastering my powers. Only until Last week I had realised that Yuka was still out here. I rushed immediately to find where you were living so that I could see you again. I flew here from the temple and because I was so excited I forgot to eat. Angels can get their food source from the sun but since it was such rainy weather there was hardly any sun to eat. Eventually I was exhausted and was struck by lightning. I fell and hit the ground. I was extremely weak and hungry but managed to make a little light so that hopefully someone would find me. What I didn't expect was Yuka and her daughter Mikan to find me and take me into their homes. This is truly fate."

"Wow." Mikan said, "You can glow!"

Azami and Yuka looked at each other and shrugged.

*******************************1 year later***********************************

"Stop it now!" Yuka yelled after Mikan and Azami. The two were chasing each other around and shooting whatever they had at each other. It was pretty much like paintball, but instead they were shooting alices at each other. Azami and Mikan were practically sisters. They did everything together. When she could, Azami taught Mikan what she knew about angels and about her powers. Mikan didn't really see the point in it but Azami insisted. She said it might come in handy one day.

"Take this Azami!" Mikan yelled and used a flying Alice on her. Azami floated around for a while enjoying the view and then replied, "Big Deal… I can fly anyway!"

Azami unfolded her two massive wings. Each one was as long as her arm and they resembled a swan's wings. Mikan let go of her flying Alice and Azami's wings flapped. She still hovered in the air and just to show off her talent, she flew around Mikan.

"Stop showing off."Mikan says to Azami.

"Okay, but lift me with your flying Alice again. Its fun not having to fly but still be able to fly!" Azami replies.

"Okay sure!" Mikan says.

"Catch me!" Azami says. Azami tucks in her wings. Because they are very big they take a few seconds to unfold and to disappear into her back. At the very same moment Mikan looks away- distracted by something. Azami falls from the sky and hits the ground with a solid thud. She groans.

"Hey did you see that…..Azami?" Mikan questions and then realised that she forgot to catch her. She felt o guilty that she fell and hit herself on the head. Little did she know, this was not just a simple bump on the head.

"What's wrong with her, mum? Why won't she wake up?" Mikan asks Yuka.

"I don't know. It's been two weeks now and she should be fine. And yet she is part angel. Maybe that has something to do with it." Yuka replies.

Azami had been unconscious for a two weeks after the fall. She had developed a high fever and was incredibly ill. Mikan wondered why she was acting so strangely. A little bump on the head shouldn't be too hard and she had extra body strength. A truck couldn't do more than give her a paper cut. Yet a little bump and she completely collapses.

Mikan decided to do a little research on angels. She remembered that once Azami told her that she studied about herself in the national library. Though it was a human library it was incredibly accurate in angel information. Mikan grabbed her coat.

"Mum I'll be back in an hour."

Mikan ran to the nearest bus stop and caught the next bus to the library. In the library she looked everywhere for the information. Then one section caught her eye. "Mythical Creatures."

Well, an angel was a mythical creature. She searched. Angel. Angel. It had got to have some information here.

"Aha!," Mikan whispered to herself," Angels." She held up the book and turned to the page of angel weaknesses and lifespan. On particular paragraph caught her eye.

It read: "When an angel breeds with a mortal the child's life span on Earth is very limited. It can last up to 13 years. Any child who lives longer can die at the slightest injury. After the child dies it may give its powers to a mortal. It will then go to wherever the angels go. Our sources do not tell us where but when in that place the child may keep in contact with earth. It has a special bond with the mortal its powers were transferred to- they are usually family or close friends."

Mikan couldn't believe it. Because of her Azami was going to die early. She only had one week left to live. Mikan ran back to the bus station and ran home. She approached her mum.

"Mum, Azami is going to die because of me!" Mikan burst out into tears.

"Shut Up. You're giving me a terrible headache." Azami groaned.

"Azami! I know about your lifespan and I killed you!" Mikan said in between sobs.

"Let me properly explain." Azami began, "Yes, I am going to die but I was pushing already a year and a half. It was bound to happen sooner or later. Even from a paper cut! I suppose you already read the part where I can transfer my powers to a mortal?" Mikan Nodded," Well I choose you Mikan Sakura. You need to do something with my powers. Something I didn't have the courage to do. The elementary school principal was like a father to me so when the time came, I couldn't do it."

"Do what?" Mikan asked.

" I couldn't kill him. Listen carefully. When I realised that I was an angel I decided to pay the principal a visit. While I was in Alice academy I overheard him talking to Persona. Three years from now they were going to use up all the children's alices to create an ultimate power. One that could destroy countries and even continents. The government would be in control of the world. They were going to take all the alices away, even if it meant killing people. They are going to build the ultimate killing machine. You will have to stop him. No, You will have to kill him. Or end him. But remember, He can break out of any prison. So you must do something big. That is what I ask from you. In return I will leave you my powers and wings."

"But, How do I do all that? I was practically banned from the academy when I left. Now I'm wanted by the elementary school principal." Mikan asked.

"You must pretend to be me. Because you are doing my job you must become Azami. The hair, the eyes and the attitude. You have to match me perfectly. No one must know that you are really Mikan Sakura. If someone finds out they could accidently tell someone else and you aren't going to do much if you're rotting away in the bottom of the academy. And that means prison. Please Mikan. Can you promise to do these tasks?"

"Sure. I'll be you and end the elementary school principal."

"One more thing. The principal will definitely remember me and will give you a hard time. But you will have all my knowledge and wisdom to guide you. God that was corny and sounded like it should come from grandpa. Please take care, Yuka and Mikan. You can contact me by pressing on the little phoenix on your shoulder blade. I will help you when you are in grave danger. Otherwise please refrain from touching it. And remember. This is one mission you cannot fail. Too many lives are at stake."

With that Azami's eyes closed and her voice faded into nothing. Mikan cried even harder. Yuka- who didn't get to say a word- was also crying. Suddenly a small golden phoenix rose out of Azami's body and into Mikan's. Mikan was too sad to notice this but after a few seconds there was a sudden wave of knowledge pouring into her head. What Azami's powers were. How to talk like Azami and act like her. All her experiences and what she had seen. Azami's secrets. Azami's likes and dislikes. She had to play her "Azami" perfectly. She had to learn how to control her new powers from scratch. And she had two years to do it.

"Mum. I'm going back to Alice academy." Mikan said firmly.

"I knew you would have to someday." Yuka replied.

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