Me: Hehehe! I have finally begun a GA story!
Natsume: Why are you so proud, baka?
Mikan: Natsume, careful…she may call you Nat-chan. And I know you hate that.
Natsume: Of course you'd side with a baka, baka. Or should I say 'polka dots'?
Mikan: Ooh! Nat-chan is a perv!
Hotaru: None of these bakas own Gakuen Alice or the characters. Hisako- San owns nothing, especially not ME.
Me: Arigato, Hotaru-chan…I think.
1. What Had Changed
Mikan Sakura was now eighteen years old. She was completing her last year at Gakuen Alice rather sadly. It seemed to her that it wasn't as fun there without Natsume who had been gone for almost two years. The new Principle Akuhei was just as bad as the last principle. He began to send students as assassins again.
Natsume went along with it for one person he'd rather not mention lest he get angry with himself for leaving her vulnerable at that academy. But, he thought, it was safer now that Persona was no longer there.
Mikan was still gloomy. She probably would stay that way until Natsume returned. Now that he was gone, boys pestered her non-stop. The only time they left her alone was when she was with Ruka Nogi (since Hotaru Imai had left to study overseas) and even then Ruka was busy a lot with his animal friends.
Mikan was terribly lonely, but didn't try to show it. She didn't want to worry Narumi-sensei, since he'd become like a father to her, but his younger brother who was in Mikan's class was a different story. All he did was flirt with Mikan. Narumi-sensei had tried more than once to get his younger brother to leave the young Mikan alone, but it was to no avail. Akihito Narumi was fixated on Mikan. (A/N: I named Narumi-sensei's brother Akihito, just for reference here^^.)
Mikan was sitting on a bench on front of the main building, the sun shining down on her, the wind playing with her long brown hair. She had given up the childish pigtails and just let her hair down, now. She sighed, dejected.
"Mikan-chan, did that perv Akihito make you sad?" Ruka asked from beside Mikan.
Ruka had grown into a very handsome young man. His blonde hair hung long enough to rival Narumi-sensei's now. His eyes were still the bright baby blue color they had always been. If not for Natsume holding her heart, she was sure Ruka would have been the next-to-perfect match for her.
"Ruka-pyon, what does he even see in me? I only want that person. No one else will do for me," Mikan said. She still used the "pyon" suffix because she could still see the young boy that carried around a bunny at times.
"Mikan-chan, you are just too cute. That's incurable, you know. You'll just have to wait for him to come back," Ruka said.
"Why did they leave me alone when he was here? What was different?" Mikan asked her friend.
"Ah, now that is something you'll have to ask him yourself," Ruka replied dryly.
"Ask what guy what?" Akihito called to them, just appearing.
Akihito Narumi was tall and slender. He had smooth pale skin and emerald green eyes. He, too, had a Pheromone Alice.
"Aki-baka, leave before you say something you'll regret," Ruka replied.
Mikan groaned inwardly. Why did God make her put up with Akihito?
"Don't you mean before you say something you'll regret?" Akihito asked.
"No, I meant what I said, and I always say what I mean," Ruka spat angrily.
"Awe, Ruka-pyon* is taking up for his Mikan-chama*?" Akihito asked.
"Akihito, leave before I get Narumi-sensei," Mikan warned.
"I'm not scared of that old fool," Akihito replied.
"Really? So you don't mind if I call him over? He's standing right there," Ruka said, pointing in Narumi-sensei's direction at the building entrance.
Akihito gulped, "I have to go somewhere, catch ya later, Mika-ko*."
Mikan and Ruka watched as he sped off.
"Did he just call me "Mika-ko?" Mikan asked in surprise.
"Uh, yeah. Does he have no shame? I mean really, when that person returns Akihito is going to learn his place. It's his fault that all the guys won't leave you alone now because they just followed his example. They knew better before he came along after…after that person left," Ruka stated. He was fearful to mention Natsume's name in front of Mikan in case she were to cry. He hated when she cried. He loved her, like a sister of course, but it was love none the less.
"I get it now! They didn't bother me because I was friends with Natsume!" she said happily, before she realized the name she had spoken. She didn't stop smiling as to not alert Ruka to her pain too much.
But Ruka knew better. He noticed how her smiled fell just a bit, "Yes, pretty much."
But she didn't know that Natsume had threatened them with their lives to never touch what belonged to him and Mikan sure as heck did belong solely to him.
"Well, let's go to dinner, Ruka-pyon. I know you're hungry."
Definitions:
*pyon- meaning hop or bounce. Not really a real honorific, but commonly used among young children in mangas/animes.
*ko- its means something along the lines of love or sweetheart. Used among lovers.
*chama- it is the "baby talk" version of sama, the same as "chan" is the "baby talk" version of "san".
*that person- it is referring to Natsume Hyuuga.
A/N: Hoped you enjoyed chapter one. R&R, but no flames please! Natsume does that enough… Chapter one is a bit choppy, I know, but chapter two will be better!