Hey everyone! I'm really sorry for not updating my other stories… but I'll try my best to update them now. Really sorry!
Disclaimer: Gakuen Alice and Naruto don't belong to me, it's a fact I can't change.
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Chapter 1 Wait for me
Mikan and Natsume both sat under their favourite sakura tree. Four years had passed since Mikan came to the academy and Natsume finally got over his ego issues and confessed to the brunette. He was surprised however when she told him she loved him back. So it was pretty obvious that after that incident, the two of them got together and nothing could separate them.
The brunette had changed quite a lot during the past few years. Mikan had developed a very nice body and she was no longer the dense and innocent child she once was. Her hair was now waist-length and she has become one of the prettiest girls there was in the academy. Much to her (and Natsume's) annoyance she had her own official fanclub and plenty of fans.
Natsume hadn't changed too much. He was still cold to everyone except for a few friends and he looked pretty much the same; just a bit taller and still very handsome. Natsume still had a fanclub and was admired by many fangirls who he hated.
"Sakura Mikan please report to the headmaster's office."
Mikan looked up from Natsume who had his head lying on his lap. "Nastume-kun, I have to see the headmaster."
She stood up from her spot and started to head for the office. "Oi, Mikan."
Mikan turned her head to the crimson-eyed boy. He stood up and pecked her on the forehead. (So un-Natsume like!) "Come right back polka-dots."
The fourteen year old girl blushed. "Natsume! I thought I told you not to call me that anymore!"
Natsume smirked at the fuming girl. "Get over it, that's my special nickname for you."
"Some nickname." she muttered. "Ja! I'll see you later!" Mikan said as she ran off.
"Tch." the boy smiled a little as he headed towards the classroom.
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Headmaster's office…
"Ano…" Mikan stuck her head into the headmaster's office. "Headmaster-san? Are you there?"
"Mikan-chan!!" a man in his thirties or so pounced onto her. "My kawaii little niece!"
"Can't breathe!" Mikan gasped turning blue from the bear hug she was stuck in.
"Oh gomen!" the man released his grip and Mikan slid to the floor taking deep breaths.
"Now… what did you want to talk about?" she asked standing up.
"Oh yeh!" Mikan's uncle danced to his desk and sat down. "I have some news for you Mikan."
Mikan sat down opposite him with a worried look on her face. Her usually care-free and happy-go-lucky uncle was looking serious so it meant that he has some very importants news for her.
"Well… Mikan-chan, you know how you posesss the steal, copy and erase alice along with nullification?" the headmaster asked.
Mikan nodded slowly. 'Just where is this heading?'
"Well, we have decided to offer you a very rare oppurtunity for you to go to Konoha to train your fighting skills and also train your alice." he said.
"Konoha?" Mikan asked.
"Yes, Konoha is also known as the Village of the Leaf, and according to the information we have, it's a ninja village."
"NINJA?!" the brunette yelled. "You mean the people in black I see on tv?"
The headmaster sweatdropped. "Er… I think the tv version is a little different from the real thing."
"Oh ok…" Mikan said sitting back down. "Does this mean I will learn how to fight and stuff?"
"Um yeah, and Persona will help you train your alice."
"Wait…" Mikan said thinking. "How long does this 'training' go for?" she asked.
"Half a year?" her uncle said.
"WHAT?!" Mikan yelled again. "THAT'S TOO LONG!!"
"Not really considering all the things you have to learn…"
The brunette plopped back down into her seat again. "Can I have some time to think about it?"
"Sure.
Tell me your answer by tomorrow." the headmaster said as Mikan
walked out.
"Bye my kawaii niece!!"
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Mikan slowly trudged her way to the classsroom thinking about what had just happened.
"Should I go?"
"But I'll miss all my friends!"
"But this is such a rare chance!"
"How are you going to tell Natsume?"
"If you go train you can protect everyone, including Natsume…"
Mikan gulped nervously. She wanted to go, but she had no idea how to tell Hotaru and her other friends… worse, how was she going to tell Natsume?
She opened the door and everyone turned up to look at her. "Konichiwa Mikan-chan!" everyone greeted.
"Konichiwa…" she said walking to her seat.
Everyone looked at the brunette. They knew something was up because she wasn't acting like her usual cheerful self.
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After class …
"Natsume-kun? Meet me at the sakura tree, I need to tell you something really important." Mikan said before disappearing out of the classroom.
"Hyuuga, did you do something to upset her?" Hotaru growled holding her baka gun in her hand.
"No, I didn't Imai. I would never hurt her." he said as he stalked out of the room.
Natsume headed towards the sakura tree wondering what Mikan was going to tell him.
'Omg… is she gonna dump me?' (I know he's acting OOC)
He saw Mikan sitting under the tree and sat down beside her.
"Natsume?" Mikan turned to the boy beside her. "What would you say if I… had to leave for six months?"
"What?!" he whipped his head to face the girl. "You're leaving?!"
"The headmaster offered me a chance to go and train in a village somewhere, and I… don't know if I should go or not…" she said trailing off.
Natsume hugged the girl. "Do you want to go or not?" he whispered in her ear.
"I do… I want to become stronger so I can protect everyone but… I don't wanna leave you and everyone else…"
"Baka." Natsume boppede her on the head. "You'll only be gone for a few months. It's not like we'll never see each other again."
He ruffled her haid and chuckled. "If you want to go then I won't stop you."
"Natsume…" Mikan looked at him with watery eyes.
"I'll wait for you…" he said as he smiled gently.
"Natsume!" Mikan cried as she bawled her eyes out. "I'm gonna miss you so much!"
He smiled. "I swear on this sakura tree that I will wait for Mikan, even if I have to wait forever… Now stop crying polka-dots!"
"I told you to stop calling me that! Natsume no Hentai!!"
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Headmaster's office…
"I have decided to accept your offer." Mikan said smiling. She was happy now because she knew Natsume would wait for her. "When do we leave?"
"Next week. Persona will be escorting you…" the headmaster said looking down. ""I DON'T WANT MY KAWAII NIECE TO LEAVE!" he wailed.
Mikan smiled. "I'll be back before you know it… I promise."
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A week later…
Mikan stood outside the academy's front gate and she looked at the school, the place which had become her second home…
"I'm gonna miss everyone, wait for me Natsume…" she whispered fingering the locket around her neck.
It was a shiny gold locket with a red stone embedded into it. The red stone was not just a ruby, it was something far more precious. It was Natsume's alice stone which he gave to Mikan as a momento.
"Mikan-san, are you ready to leave?" Persona asked. (He respects her now because she has very powerful alices.)
She nodded looking back one last time. "Konoha, here I come!"
Mikan stood next to Persona and a man with the teleport alice. "Go." Persona ordered and the three of them disappeared without a trace…
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Someone's office…
"Now as I was saying a young girl will be coming here to train and all of you guys are gonna help her." a woman with blonde hair said.
"Who's this girl?" an excited boy with blue eyes asked.
"It's a girl from a special school called Gakuen Alice… Naruto! I TOLD YOU NOT TO EAT RAMEN IN HERE!" the Hokage yelled.
"Sorry…" he said as he gulped the rest down in one bite. Everyone else in the room sweatdropeed.
"As I was saying, Gakuen Alice is a special school for people with unique powers. Some have the telepathy alice, the invention alice and etc. Sakura Mikan will be coming here and all twelve of you are gonna train her. Understand?" she said eyeing everyone in the room.
"Hai, Hokage-sama…"
Poof!
Three people appeared in the room. One was a young girl, another was a masked man and the other… is not important enough so I won't even bother explaining.
"OMG! A GHOST!" Naruto yelled hiding behind Sakura.
"You dobe. They're people." Sasuke said.
"Teme."
"Dobe."
"Teme."
"Dobe."
"Tem-"
"Both of you SHUT UP!" Sakura yelled in their ears. The two of them 'shut up' right away, neither of them wanted to suffer from her fist.
"Where am I?" Mikan said woozily. She was not feeling 100 as she was not used to teleporting.
"Hai Mikan-chan." a girl with her hair in buns helped her up. "Welcome to Konoha!"
"Konoha?" she asked.
"Yup. Oh, I'm TenTen by the way." she said pointing to herself. "This is Hyuuga Neji and Rock Lee. The two of them are in my team."
TenTen zoomed through the rest of the introductions. "Now, introduce yourself."
Mikan stood up. "I'm Sakura Mikan. I have the SEC alice and the nullification alice. Pleased to meet you!" she said bowing.
"Mikan-san?" the brunette turned to the Hokage.
"Yes? Tsunade-san.?" she asked the blonde lady.
"During your stay here these guys will be training you and you will study as my third apprentice." she said.
"Hai!"
"What's the SEC and nullification alice?" a boy with white eyes asked.
'Hmm… I think TenTen-chan said he was called Neji or something…'
"Oh! Um… the SEC alice enables me to steal, copy or erase other people's alice and the nullification alice… nullifies other alices." she said explaining.
"Well Mikan-san I hope you enjoy your stay here." Tsunade said smiling warmly.
'I will!'
Mikan looked at the new friends she had just made. (Yes she even considered Sasuke, Neji and Shino her new friends because she's so nice)
"Tsunade-sama can we go?" Sakura asked.
"Yes. Go tell Shizune to buy some sake for me when you go." the Hokage said sinking into her chair.
Mikan sweatdropped.
She felt someone grab her arm. "Huh? Oh Ino it's you… Why are you smiling so evilly?"
The blonde girl chucked madly. "IT'S SHOPPING TIME!" she yelled as she dragged all of the girls out of the room.
The boys watched as they ran off and sighed in pity. Going shopping with Ino was hell (according to them) This was going to be one hectic trip for Mikan…