Hey everyone! New multi-chaptered story! I really shouldn't be writing more when I haven't even finished my others, but writers block is hard to write with. Please read and review, and I am sorry Natsume's such an ass in this story.

Parings: NatsumexMikan, KokoxSumire, KitsumexAnna, YuuxNonoko, TsubasaxMisaki, RukaxHotaru

Summary: She thought she chose this for the better; he thought for the worst. If only he knew what was really going on when he came home drunk.

Disclaimer: I don't own Gakuen Alice, and I probably never will.

Mikan and gang are 27

Tsubasa and gang are 30

Youchi and gang are 22

Do you feel like a man when you push her around?

Do you feel better now as she falls to the ground?

-The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

"Natsume, are you okay?" Mikan asked her husband as he came home from work.

Natsume eyed Mikan, "None of your business women!"

"Sorry Natsume, I was just worried that you might be drunk again," Mikan's bangs covered her eyes, as well as her tears.

SLAP

"Don't talk to me like that, bitch!" He shouted after leaving a red mark on Mikan's cheek.

"I didn't mean to!" Mikan tried to defend whatever she did wrong.

He struck her harder, "You are not innocent, so stop trying to be! I hate your guts! Please remind me why I even married you! You are nothing but a useless money waster!"

Mikan didn't even try to stop the tears anymore; this happened every night when he was drunk, and she still couldn't get used to those hurtful words.

Mikan hung her head down, "Sorry."

Not being able to take her apologies, Natsume, once again, hit her as hard as he could, "I can't take you anymore. Leave the house."

Mikan faked a smile, "Okay, let me just get my things. I will stay at Hotaru's tonight." She went upstairs not bothering to whip the tears that are now cascading down her cheeks, 'When did all this start?' she thought to herself, 'He wasn't like this until he was hired by a girl named Luna Koizumi.'

Before she packed for the night at Hotaru's, she stared in the mirror at the new bruises forming on her cheek. Applying some make-up to any where bruise was about to form, she sighed. No one knew what Natsume did to her, and she was grateful for that. They would force her to get a divorce, and she didn't want that. She loved Natsume, and she couldn't bring herself to leave him, even if he wanted it. Not wanting to deal with Natsume again, Mikan climbed with her belongings out the window and to Hotaru's house.

"Mikan?" Ruka said surprised when he opened the door to find her with a luggage, "What are you doing here at 2 in the morning?"

Looking down to avoid contact with Ruka's eyes, Mikan began, "Natsume was too busy for work, and I figured it would be better if I just left him alone until he finished it all, so I came to stay with Hotaru."

Ruka's eyes softened, he knew it was a lie; they probably had a fight. Ruka opened the door and invited her in, "Hotaru, Mikan's here!"

Hotaru sighed, "Let her come upstairs. I am in the guestroom."

Mikan ran as fast as she could up the stairs and into the guestroom. Mikan hugged Hotaru, and Hotaru responded. Mikan didn't know, but Hotaru knew what Natsume had been doing to her. She had once saw him hitting her through the window, but never said anything, knowing it would make her best friend sad.

Mikan sobbed uncontrollably, "I am sorry Hotaru. I didn't mean to wake you or ask to stay at your house again."

"It's okay."

"It's just that Natsume's always busy with work," Mikan lied as she tried to smile, but only a frown appeared on her face.

"Thanks again Hotaru, Ruka-pyon!" Mikan waved goodbye to the couple with a smile, and started waking towards her house. 'Natsume should be sober now,' she thought.

"Hey!" A voice greeted her.

Mikan spun around and as she saw the person the voice belonged to, her eyes widened, "Tamon?"

He smiled at her, "It's been a long time Mikan." His cerulean eyes met her hazel ones.

"Your hair, it used to be blonde, but now it's the same as mine! What happened?" Mikan asked staring at her childhood friend with wide eyes.

Tamon stifled a laugh, "That was for an acting job, I dyed it back to my normal hair color." Mikan sighed, Tamon was successful, by the age of six, and he was already a well-known actor. Between the ages seven and ten, Mikan and him were inseparable best friends. But, at age thirteen he had a job in Spain and had to leave her behind. That's when she met Hotaru.

"Silly me!" Mikan laughed, "How was Spain?"

Tamon's face turned serious, "We will talk about that later, but first, last night when I got back, I saw something."

Mikan smiled, "What did you see?"

Flashback (Tamon telling Mikan what he saw)

Tamon's POV

Mikan is going to be so surprised when I show up at her door; her parents gave me her address.

When walking by the window, I saw a raven haired lad entering the house, and Mikan greeted him asking, "Natsume, are you okay?" I was excepting him to smile and say, 'Yes Honey,' but no, what he did was not what I had hypothesized.

The man named Natsume shouted at her, "None of your business women!"

Mikan was on the verge of tears, "Sorry Natsume, I was just worried you might be drunk again."

Then I heard a slap as well as him say, "Don't talk to me like that, bitch." I couldn't take it anymore, and ran away looking for help, but didn't find any.

End of Flashback and Tamon's POV

Mikan frowned, "Oh that."

"Mikan, that raven haired boy is abusing you!" Tamon shouted, "Why do you still stick by him? HE HURTS YOU!"

"I do admit when he is drunk he hurts me."

"So this is a regular thing?" He asked, worry etched in his eyes

She nodded "but when he is sober, he is sweet. I love him, and I promised myself I would stick by him."

" Are you wearing make-up to cover it up?" He asked.

Once again Mikan nodded, "I have to buy new makeup every two weeks."

The two stayed silent, until they heard a husky voice speak around them, "Oh Mikan, I don't know why I married her? She is so annoying." Mikan's eyes widened; right now he was sober, and usually he wouldn't say that when he was sober.

"Natsume, she is your wife, you love her, that's why you married her!" A voice, Mikan recognized as Ruka's reasoned.

"Love her my ass. I hate that bitch." Natsume calmly replied. Tamon couldn't listen to that bastard talk anymore, so he walked up to Natsume and slapped him.

"What the hell?" Natsume asked.

"Don't you ever, I mean ever, talk about Mikan that way! First you abuse her when you drink to much alcohol, and even when you are sober, you are an ass. You are lucky to have her. Anyone else would have realized that a long time ago!" Tamon shouted at him. Natsume's and Ruka's eyes widened.

"Tamon, stop!" Mikan said grabbing his hand trying to pull him away from Ruka and Natsume, "They don't know about what happens at night! No one does, expect for you!"

Tamon's eye twitched, Natsume doesn't even know what he does to Mikan, "Well allow me to enlighten them. Every time you come back to Mikan drunk. You yell, swear, and hit her. Have you ever noticed why Mikan buys make-up so often, but she seldom wears it! That's because she buys it to cover up all the bruises you give her!"

Natsume's eyes widened as he watched Mikan dash away from him with Tamon following, "Mikan wait." Natsume began to chase after him, but Ruka stopped him.

"Natsume, she isn't going to want to see you. Besides, now don't you have what you want! You guys can finally get a divorce; now you don't have to deal with her!" Ruka said getting angry at how insincere his best friend is, "Don't try to get back with her. You don't deserve Mikan." This was the first time Natsume had ever seen Ruka so mad.

AND THAT'S A WRAP! I might have used the wrong wrap there, but whatever. Please drop a review saying as to whether you think Mikan should end up with Tamon or go back to Natsume. For me, right now it is Tamon, but things may change as the story progresses. Natsume does have reason behind the things he said when he was sober, but I still don't think they are acceptable! Please review.