Disclaimer: NO I do NOT own Gakuen Alice, but all non-gakuen alice characters in this story belongs to me, so does this story.
Written By: YamYum-Chan
Special Thanks: Kathy and Ziwei who helped me think of names and the name of this story many thanks for you!
Entwined Fates
Chapter 1: Must we go?
Far far away
Is a fairy tale land
Where dreams and adventure lies
But I don't want to go
I don't want to leave home
MIKAAAAAAAAN!! WHERE ARE YOU?!" yelled an impatient mother, she crossed through the main hallway of a small but comfortable townhouse, and went on a search for her one and only child.
"Mikan! Where've you been? We need to leave NOW!!" she exclaimed finding a
brunette sitting in the middle of her now empty bedroom.
"Yea sure mom, but did you pack my paints?" I asked not taking my eyes off what used to be my bedroom.
"Yes I did." said my mother in an annoyed voice "Now sweetie-''
"Did you pack my inks?" I asked wandering off to the window.
"YES! I mean-yes I packed everything except one thing" said her mother looking at me with a pointed look.
"Hmmm? What would that be?" I said finally facing her.
She looked at me and said "YOU!"
I sighed I just had, to what would you do if you were moving away from the town where you had grown up in, made friends, had parties and HAD A LIFE in.
I muttered a few words and picked up my backpack off the floor near the window and followed my mother out of the room. I went down the stairs and went through the hallway and stopped at the door leading to the outside world.
"Well good-bye to the house where I lived and grew up in for 14 years of my life!" I said.
Then I heard my mother snort in the car, real touching mom. I closed and locked the door. I walked up to the other side of our car, slid into the passenger seat and passed the house key to my mother.
"Sweetie, Kumi's older brother Tory is going to rent our house" my mother said squeezing my hand and giving me a smile.
I tried to smile back but I couldn't I was homesick already and we didn't even leave our driveway! I gave her a very small smile. She started the car and pulled out of the garage and …off we went.
My mom turned on the radio and listened to some corny country songs and started singing to them in a really really REALLY off key voice. Sighing once more, I plugged the earphones of my mp3 into my ears and dug around my backpack for something to do during the 7 hour trip. Then I pulled out a thick leather photo album, I flipped through its pages reminiscing the memories each picture held.
Tara, Suki, Kumi, and Yoko I miss you guys already, tears welled up in my eyes and I darted a glance at my mom who wasn't paying any attention to me and was still singing. I raised the album higher up on my face and looked back at the pictures once more. Tara, Suki, Kumi, Yoko and I, knew each other since preschool! After an accidental mix-up of hats we had years of birthday parties, sleeping over at each other houses, secrets, crushes, hard times and happy times. But Suki and I were especially close we were and still are best friends through pinky promises, friendship bracelets (which I still have), and oaths of our friendship lasting forever to the afterlife.
Tara is most mature out of all of us, not only did she play mother to the rest of us 4 making sure we didn't get into trouble or that we didn't accidentally kill each other in one of "fights" or some experiment gone wrong.
Yoko is the most delicate of us all but she is extremely talented in music, she could play the flute, clarinet, harp, piano, violin and the cello. She had the best voice out of the whole school and even got complimented by professional singers.
Kumi was the most violent out of all of us, I mean sure we all knew self-defense (including Yoko) but Kumi was a STAR in karate and taekwondo. Mainly because her father owned a dojo and if a "jerkish" guy came too close to us, they would find either her fist in his face or her foot in a place where IT DOESN'T BELONG.
Suki is a really energetic person; she plays basketball, volleyball and soccer and got into our school sports teams every year from gr.6-now. She is also our student body president and she is a supporter of animal rights and organized our class to visit the animal shelter regularly to give the staff there a break and to play with the pets. Some classmates even adopt pets right there and then!
I smiled and flipped through the pages once more till I landed on one special picture of a boy with black hair and blue eyes smiling.
Aki…
Aki was Suki's twin brother but he was 5 minutes older than her. So that made him my best guy friend, but lately I had strange feelings about him and because of that instead of looking at him like a brother he became more and more like…well I don't know but instead of high-fiving him, I would turn red and my heart would start hammering like an idiot. Tara, Kumi, Yoko and even Suki would tease me about him.
"Mimi you are just SO CUTE!!"
"It would be great if you were my sister in law Mimi!"
"You two DO look good with each other"
"Good thing he is actually one of the nice guys not those jerks we have to beat the crap out of everyday."
Mimi was my nickname.
The when Arata, Kenji, Daiki, Jiro (my other guy friends) found out they kept dropping hints (which I eventually strangled them for doing that) to Aki about it, but he didn't seem to have figured it out. I stroked the hair of the picture and smiled only if I told him how I felt before I had moved. I closed the album and smacked myself on the forehead with it, hard.
"Mikan sweetie…are you ok?"
I looked to my left and saw my mom looking at me with concern in her eyes. Looking at me as if I belong to some asylum or something.
"Yea I'm just fine mom" ignoring the sinking feeling of embarrassment at the pit of my stomach. Great I just embarrassed myself in front of MY MOM!
She gave me a smile that read "oh-my-gosh-is-my-child-a-idiot?" and looked back on the road. I stretched and put the photo album back into my backpack and pulled out a very battered journal and opened it, the musty scent of pen ink and nights of staying up late to write wafted up. I put my hand into a pencil case and rummaged through gum wrappers, bitten pencils, broken lead pieces and nubby erasers to find a pen. I lifted it up and flipped to a fresh page.
"Writing again Mikan?" My mom stopped at a gas station and looked over at me.
"I am going to head over to the ladies room." She looked into her purse and pulled out a small container of wet naps and climbed out. She locked the car and strolled over to a small grey building that was labeled "washrooms" in nasty rusty letters. I shuddered; my mom had to really go in order to stop at a gas station's washroom.
I started to pen down some words:
3 more hours till we get to my new school
Hope I can keep in touch with Suki and everyone else
Wonder was it a really good idea to leave without telling Aki how I felt…
Well doesn't matter now does it? I am already halfway through my journey…
Sigggh I miss everyone I'm not even going to try and hide it
But the surprise good bye party they threw for me was nice though
Oh yes the surprise party everyone had thrown for me week earlier from today…
--xxxxxxxxxxFlashBackxxxxxxxxxx--
"Mom why do you want me to go to the basement?"
"Aw sweetie it's really dark in there and mommy is scared of the dark remember?" then after she had said this sentence that was absolutely dripping in sugar she shot me a puppy eyed look.
"sigh "Sure mom all you have to do is turn on the light switch!" I climbed down the last few steps of the stairs that led down to our basement. And opened the door and my hand ran on the wall looking for the light switch. Then when I flicked it on…
"SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURPRISEEEEEE!!"
Several party crackers exploded, balloons were popped shooting confetti everywhere and there was a racket of noisemakers and kazoos, then silly string was sprayed into my face.
"HUH? WHA?"
I looked around shocked and found many (unpopped) balloons littered the floor white, gold, orange and silver streamers hung from chairs, the mini kitchen, doorways, the walls and the ceilings. And a HUGE white banner with bright orange letters printed on it read:
"HAPPY GOOD-BYE PARTY MIMI!! WE ARE GONNA MISS YOU!!"
"Oh geez what is this?" I said and more silly string was sprayed onto my running shoes and then I shot an angry look at Arata who simply giggled like an idiot.
"It's a good-bye party Mimi!" exclaimed Suki.
"Don't you mean a farewell party?" I said.
"Oh so THAT'S the proper name for it" – said Yoko somewhere in the mass of party favors.
I looked skeptical at everyone in the room who were just grinning madly. Sighed it was rather surprising (no duh) and nice of them to do something like this for me.
I smiled and said "Thanks everyone!" then everyone started to cheer and Suki steered me to the table where Tara, Kumi and Yoko sat (and away from Arata's silly string can). They each gave me a brightly coloured bag.
"Oh what's this?"
"It's a farewell or good bye gift stupid." said Kumi
"OPEN THEM!!" shrieked a very excited Suki
I grinned as I tore each of them opened and gasped,
"OH MY GOSH I LOVE THEM THANK YOU GUYS SOOOOOO MUCH!!"
There was a delicate flower chain necklace from Yoko, a remix CD of ALL of my favourite songs and my friend's songs as well from Kumi, and "Breaking Dawn" from my all-time favourite Twilight series from Tara.
"And mine!!" said Suki
I opened it and loved it the instant I set my eyes on it.
It was a teddy bear (I simply loved bears) and it was the colour of soft toffee and the fur was even softer, and around the neck was a silk orange ribbon that had letters that read "love me" and on the left bottom paw it said "From Suki love always!"
"You get it?" said Suki
With tears in my eyes I said "Yea I get it, thanks everyone I love you all so much you don't know how much it's killing me to leave." (suki means love/like in Japanese.)
My mother came to our table and handed me a small box "Here sweetie it's for you"
It was a black cell phone.
Now I was really touched, my mom didn't have a lot of money (ever since my father moved to America to find some money but never came back but kept sending letters, but recently they stopped coming last year.) Now the tear factor was really creeping up.
"Thanks Mom" I said in a wobbly voice.
"HEY HEY HEY!! DON'T FORGET OURS TOO!" yelled a very rowdy Arata.
Kenji, Daiki, Arata, and Jiro gathered and gave me their gift.
"Don't worry it isn't gonna explode or something" they said.
"Gee didn't cross my mind till NOW!" I shot right back at them and pulled the box's lid open.
"OHMIGOSH THIS IS AWESOME!!" I exclaimed
It was great really it was even though it was a little corny…it was a picture of all 10 of us when we were little. Suki and Tara were in sun dresses and sun hats waving madly at the camera, Yoko was on the soft earthy grass gazing up into the sky, Arata and Daiki had a bit of dirt smudged onto their clothes and faces while Jiro was holding a soccer ball up in the air. And my favourite part (and I am not ashamed to admit it) were me and Aki when we were little and smiling at each other…holding hands….
Aki…
Then it hit me where was Aki? I looked around wildly till I saw him in a corner looking at someone…me.
"You like it?"
"Huh?"
"DO YOU LIKE IT?"
"OH! Yea I love it!"
Daiki glanced at the direction I was looking at and snickered to himself, and everyone around me traded smiles and glances. Then I turned red, great even when he was across the room from me I STILL turned red.
Then my friend dispersed leaving me with my gifts telling me they'd be right back and was going to get some food. I fiddled around with my gifts putting them into a large gift bag. When a shadow crossed my lap, I looked to see a serious face…Aki.
"Hey"
"Oh! Hi"
"Guess you really are leaving huh?"
"Yea, I-I-I am gonna really mi-mi-ss you Aki."
He grinned and handed me a blue box tied with a white ribbon "It's from me, not from THOSE idiots." Meaning Arata, Kenji, Daiki and Jiro.
"Oh! Thank you Aki I-''
Suddenly Aki swooped down and kissed me gently on the side of my cheek, "I am gonna miss you too Mikan." Then he stood up and left the room.
I sat there stunned not knowing what to do until I remembered the box and looked at it; a card was attached to it.
It read, "Open this at your new school and when you are thinking of me. Aki"
--xxxxxxxxx Flash Back Over xxxxxxxxx--
"MIKAN!!"
"Huh wha?" I woke up
"We here!"
"Where?"
"Your new school!" squealed my mother.
I turned my head so fast it gave me whiplash.
"Aw OUCH!" and I looked at the window and my jaw dropped the campus was HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE like bigger than the small country town where I grew up in.
"Welcome to Gakuen Alice!"
Ok DON'T KILL JUST YET!! I know all Natsume&Mikan fans are like dying to kill me (get it?) BUT! As a fellow fan of this pairing there IS going to be Natsume&Mikan moments in this fan fiction.
Also don't flame me too badly this IS my first fan fiction so yes if it sounds noob-ish then that's because I am a noob at this.
But thank you ALL (yes YOU!) for reading this fan fiction and giving it a try!!
Please review on it (but you DON'T HAVE TO but it would be preferable.)
-YamYum-chan