I found this in my stash of unfinished work and I felt bad for not posting it.
I do not own Gakuen Alice.
Fetish
"There was one thing Natsume should never know."
Heartbroken Confession
Natsume never said it out loud. He never utter a word of it, but there were thousands of reasons why he loved Sakura Mikan. A dictionary would not have enough words to describe the way she makes the heart he once thought was withered away pound ruthlessly against his chest. No thesaurus could provide the accurate word to describe how he feels, when his mind is spinning and his world shakes whenever he thinks about her. Her smile was so stupidly beautiful and bright, that the dark barrier surrounding his world broke at the cracks and light shone in.
But there was one thing that Natsume did not know about the love the two shared.
What made Sakura Mikan fall for him in the first place?
The answer was simple.
His nails.
It was so absurdly odd and slightly disturbing, but Mikan couldn't help but notice. Natsume's nails were plainly perfect. A sort of perfect that no army of salon workers or beauty gurus could achieve even in their dreams. An impossible task, a hopeless ideal that they would strive to reach. His nails shone with a sort of Halo-like elegance that simply could not and should not have been humanly graspable.
And when Mikan, possessed by a rum inspired candidness under the dim glow of a tipsy Thursday night, revealed this odd fetish, she knew her best friend would never let her live it down.
"Hey, Natsume. I hear you're opening up a nail salon."
"…"
"…"
"What."