This is my first Gakuen Alice story, and first story on this website in a long long time. I hope I get lots of feedback on this story I've already figured out where I want this story to go and where my ideas will lead me.
Coming up for a title for this story was definitely hard but I think I've got it It might change just in case
"The little girl looked over the boy's body, his lifeless looking body the girl began to cry she cried and cried and cried until she saw the boy's body twitched and he laughed a little. The boy began to smile and laughed harder and the girl managed to crack a smile as well. The tears on her face left from when she previously cried turned into a smile. She asked him if he was okay and if anything hurt. "No" he said "I'm okay, don't worry about me" the girl smiled "Swear to me not to do to me ever again okay" she said. The boy looked at her "hmmmm alright I swear" he said
The two enjoyed their day of fun together on the playground until the sun had settled on both of them. THE END"
"Mikan where did you get that book from" the girl asked the older girl
Mikan smiled "I didn't get it from anywhere, silly i wrote it myself"
" waaaaaa really I didn't know you could write like that " the little girl beamed "I figured you were always too busy swinging that sword of yours around to do anything else with those hands of yours."
Mikan had a look of hopelessness in her eyes "I have other hobbies than "swinging a sword around" Ashida." she ranted "I can do other things than just use a sword." Mikan
Ashida giggled "you eat with the sword, sleep with it, by god it might as well even be your oxygen too" she continued "in fact I've never seen you without it."
Mikan pouted "pha as if you didn't already know I have an exam tomorrow for the Royal Alice Academy" her pout fading and slowing turning into a smirk "with my skills there's no way they wouldn't accept me."
"Confident much" Ashida sweat dropped "In case you haven't realized it's a Royal Academy you know for Royalty, big castle, maids, fancy dresses all that stuff not low class-"
"Actually we're middle class." Mikan interrupted
Ashida sighed "I'm just saying let's say you get in what will the other students think of you. Mikan they're all royalty or of some sort of royal relation."
Mikan shook her head, laughed and stood up "I don't care about that stuff, like I said I want to be a knight, that's all I'm there for. It's simple really I'm just there for training and if I make a friend then why not but at the end of the day Knight Training is my just another step closer to my end game."
Ashida gazed up at Mikan as if she was crazy, chuckling she stood up "alright then I wish you the best and I wish you good luck." giving Mikan a hug she walked away I know you'll be something great one day I'm sure of it.
X X X
The next day Mikan gathered her things, whcihc consitsted of her sword and sheath then headed out the door. I've got this in the bag, there's no way they could deny me
Her twenty minute walk was all worth it in her eyes, there was nothing more she wanted them to become than a knight it had been her dream ever since she could remember and now she had her chance, it was right in front of her and she was both going to take it
It was also a good thing she applied early to Knight Training if she were in her twenties they would have immediately sent her off to training but since she was much younger this would go against the law
According to that law anyone younger than 21 was supposed to attend a sort of schooling. If she was applying to be a knight at the age of 25 for example that would mean training at the castle immediately, and since she was only 18 at the moment that means she would still need to attend school so with all this in mind Mikan was 98% sure they would be having her attend the Royal Alice Academy since it was the only school in the area. Alice or not.
How she would deal with a school of Alice's she'll figure it out. Some people in her community were infact Alice's but they were nothing fancy simple Alices's actually, Plant Alice, Cry Alice, things of that nature sure they would try to bother her but they were nothing special they didn't even make her flinch, but these students were Royalty meaning their Alice's were stronger and more powerful and more rare than that of a normal simpler Alice
Making it to the front of the castle she looked at the lines…... in fact to her surprise there were 4 other lines, she went to the head table and looked at the options
Maid
Healer
Knight
Cook
Taylor
Overlooking everything else she checked off 'Knight' and began to fill out her application, after sighing her application she handed it back to the young man at the table and walked away finding a spot on the line for 'Knight' all the way at the back, it was then she relized that she was dead last
She waited there for hours until finally it was her turn it was her chance to shine and give the evaluates a look of fine surprise and as the young man from before came over to bring her into the evaluation as she was about to enter she pulled down her hood and beamed with excitement
Finally she thought I'm here
Before she took another step he grabbed her by the shoulders to get a better look at her face and began to give off a creepy aura but quickly stopped when he got a better look at her face
"There's been a misunderstanding, women are not allowed to be trained as knights, so it would be best if you turned around and go back home miss"
Mikans P.O.V
No way this was happening now, not after all my hard work, not after I waited for hours to be rejected and told to go back home without even being evaluated. My ears were burning in anger not a chance this fool would think I would back down so easily I might be a girl but I'm not stupid and I am not so easily manipulated.
Puffing my cheeks, bawling my fist, and clenching my teeth. I looked at the guy in the face and I think he knew I meant business
"Listen" I stated, "I did not spend the past however many years of my life training just to be told 'no' mister so don't you talk to me about going home you hear me"
He breathed in and began speaking softer "Ms. it is not ethical for a woman to be even carrying a knife, let alone become a knight, I'm just saving you from wasting your-"
"Don't you dare end that sentence with "time" , I know time better than anyone else and I've been using swords for as long as I can remember, my grandfather himself was a knight for this Kingdom, he himself trained me in using a sword and from what I know he was one of the Kingdom's best and I will not let you tell me "no", I'm sure you're just following the "rules" now but I would like to talk to the evaluators themselves if you don't mind." by the time I was done I was sure it wasn't just my ears that were red at the time I think I might have scared the guy I hadn't realized that I had unconsciously brought my sword out of its sheath because he was sweating bullets
"Oh come now Yu, the girl has got some fire in her why not let her try, even if she doesn't pass what harm could it do" a voice said behind me Definitely male, possibly in his …...late twenties
"But-but Narumi sensei the rules-"
"Don't say a woman can't be a knight, it's just simply unheard of and impossible since no mother would want their daughter to be taught to become a knight, women are taught in the ways of healing. Not in the ways of defense and self protection but this girl claims her grandfather was a knight and had taught her, if this is all true why not let her demonstrate for us." the man named Narumi said and apparently he was a sensei which meant he might have been a teacher for The Royal Alice Academy
"What's your name girl" he asked with a sweet smile, quite the charmer
Somatic if I were to guess
I still had anger in my voice when I spoke "Sakura Mikan"
"Well Miss Sakura why don't we see what exact it is you are made of, whether you can meet the expectations of the Hyuuga Knights." he spoke, I took notice he was also dressed quite comfortably, as if he came from somewhere else, at this point I was positive he was a R.A.A teacher
"Well since all everyone of the other knights went out, we'll just have to find you another partners, hmmmmmmmmmm let's see" he put his finger on his chin and began think and quickly smiled "ahh Koko come here" and a boy with a wide grin and blond hair also around my age if I had to guess
"What do you need sensei" he asked
"I need you to spar with this girl while I evaluate her." he said guiding his hand towards me
The boy named Koko apparently had a look of confusion on him "but sensei that's a girl, is this a prank because if it is it's not a very good one" he kept staring at me with a huge smile, making me really really uncomfortable
"Oh come on now Koko….how about this if you do this I'll increase your previous test score by 20 points" Narumi bribed and this must have really caught the boys ears
"Really I just fight her and that's 20 extra points the test" Koko beamed "I'll do it"
Wow. That was all it took to get him to agree…. A boost on his test score,so if hes around my age that means he must go to R.A.A meaning he's an Alice. I'd have to fight an Alice for evaluation, this could go both ways for me depending on his type of Alice I could either beat him and impress Narumi since a non Alice beat an Alice or depending on his Alice I could lose and not be accepted. Damn it!
I brought my sword out of its sheath and walked toward the circle that was until it was taken from my hands "ah ah ah, during evaluation you have to use one of our swords" Narumi said
"fine it doesn't matter what sword I use, but if you think just because he's an Alice doesn't mean I'm scared of him"
Narumi chuckled a bit "yes of course I can definitely see that"
Koko grabbed his swords and met with me in the circle, I either knock him out of the ring or I put him in a position to where he cant defend himself
Still I had no idea what his Alice was and I didn't know how it could be used against me, but that didn't mean I couldn't categorize his Alice out of the five types. That would be my strategy for this fight, classify and go from there on instinct and they were almost never wrong. From what I can see just by looking at him and the way he talked he didn't seem that smart plus since he apparently needed 20 extra points on a test so that ruled out Technology. I doubt he's a Dangerous ability Alice user, he looked way too harmless.
He took a fighting position with his sword and came at me, taking his first strike to my right, leaving himself unguarded and open. With that I jumped to the left and kneed him in the stomach with my left knee and jumped backward, holding my sword up in defense as he clashed down on mine the friction was so hard that sparks erupted from out blades, he was looking at me in the eyes with a smile, which was still creepy and for a second I saw his eyes flash downward.
He's looking for an opening to strike me
Before I could do anything or have time to prepare to attack him he knocked my feet right from under me. Gasping at the sudden attack by the time I hit the floor not even 2 seconds later did I roll out of his way and was back on my feet.
Was he even using his Alice?
I took more observation on him while we clashed
Lacking in trying to communicate to me while fighting, any Somatic Alice would take the chance to catch me off guard with that type of Alice. That left Latent and Special out of these two he was one of them. Fighting him and trying to figure out his Alice was proving to be pretty hard
I spun out of his way with my sword blocking my back and I heard the clang behind my ears. His shoulders were moving up and down at a fast rate.
He was definitely losing this fight, he was very bad at predicting my attacks. If he were a Special Alice user he wouldn't be able to do so, giving the fact that Special Alice type Alice's were 98% physical or had to be used physically in some sort and surely he would've used it by now, unless he was actually being fair.
"Wow your really good for a girl" he smiled, maybe he really wasn't using his Alice
He's breathing really hard, my breathing was just fine.
By this time I was on the offensive, not giving him a single chance to catch a break. Up, Down, Left, Right, Down, Left, it was an inter mixable pattern I kept up for a short time. His defense was pretty good, I cant really say the same about his offence.
He's probably used to not using so much physical energy in a fight meaning his fighter were usually quick as if fighting for this long was uncommon for him or he had just been in a fight recently and was wounded or tired. If his Alice indeed have anything to do with it, it was definitely an Alice that allowed himself to do so, Predict an opponent's attack huh? I smiled
Our swords clashing neither one of us was giving ground, until I made notice of his struggle. His hands were shaking.
Gotcha I smiled. I kicked my right leg at his hand with that he yelped in pain his sword flew up out of his hand and crashed behind me. I guess he panicked he tried to out run me to his sword but I caught him with my right arm pulled him back towards me, using my whieght I wrapped my legs around his shoulders and brought him to the ground while being careful not to cut his head off while he was down, grabbing his hair and pointing my sword to his neck
" Laten Alice more specificaly Mind Reading Alice" I smiled "I win" I left go of his hair and walked out of the circle to Narumi who looked most certainly impressed
"Soooooo what do you think, am I good enough to join your Knight Training" I asked with a smug smiled
"You have a lot of promising potential that's for sure" he looked down at me with a smile then he looked over at Koko "hey Koko meet your newest classmate Sakura Mikan, what do you think, will she be okay as a student of Alice Academy"
Koko fell backwards with a light chuckle "I think she'll be just fine"
"How about you Yu, do you think she'll be okay" Narumi asked him
He gave a small awkward smile while rubbing the back of his head "Even without an Alice, I'm sure she'll fit right in"
"Well it's settled then, Welcome to Alice Academy Sakura Mikan, come back tomorrow and we will discuss you dorming, classes and training, also you could now start addressing me as "Narumi-sensei" or "sensei""
I might have squealed a little bit "Thank you sensei" as I bowed "uh also can I have my sword back"
"Oh yes my apologies, I'll see you tomorrow Sakura Mikan"
I practically ran home after that I could barely sleep that night it was so unreal. I am one more step closer to achieving my dream
X X X
"Hey Koko,did you deliberately hold back on the girl?" Narumi questioned the boys
"Umm at first I was going to use my Alice on her and I was actually but just for a second but then I realized that she didn't have and Alice and decided not to use mine. It wouldn't have been fair you know this was an evaluation not a sparring match in school. Besides I was in a sparring match with Natsume just before I came here and you know how he can be". Koko replied
Hm Narumi thought "How about you Yu ,you didn't use you Alice on her?"
"Well I'm sure I was but I guess she was so determined to be evaluated that shes either didn't care or didn't notice" Yu replied with a sweat drop "mabye I should practice my Alice more"
"Pshhhhh are you kidding me she figured out I was a Latent Alice, a Mind Reading Alice no less and I didn't even say anything to her, just on the way she was fighting she easily would have been accepted" Koko was said smiling "She was using her observation on me to figure it out. That's genius, imagine when she spars with the rest of the training class" Koko was obviously excited for this new girl
"yeah she was pretty remarkable with that sword of hers but did you see that technique she pulled on you" Yu commented "that was incredible"
"It wasn't so incredible when you were the one feeling it" Koko frowned "Never the less I can't wait till she becomes a student, finally a girl that can fight" he pumped his fist in the air.
While the boys were having their own conversation about the upcoming new girl their teacher was lost in his thoughts
That sword she had with her I've seen that handle design before Narumi thought
Sakura Mikan …...welcome to the Royal Alice Academy