Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice and I think I never will. And if I did, it would be banned in several countries for its content. ,

Warning: This fanfic is a shonen-ai.. So if you don't like boy/boy relationship, better plant some explosives to your PC and ignite them.. OOC might be present.. Also.. This made by an amateur writer.. Better not to expect this as Shakespearean quality.. More importantly.. This fanfic is cursed.. Anyone who tries to copy and post this somewhere on the web with or without my permission will be unable to sleep for 5 months or until they die of fatigue...

Pairings: Natsume x Ruka; Natsume x Mikan; Tsubasa x Natsume; slight Narumi x Misaki

Note: The title is in French but you'll not find any French words within the story.. Except for chapter titles.. Honestly.. I don't speak, write, read, nor understand French.. I just like it.. I only speak English and Tagalog... Suggestions and comments are highly welcome through reviews.. Flames will be ignored..

Dedication: This fanfic is for my ever supportive friend, Your Majesty Niel Aika Therese Samudio Gonzaga of the Queendom of Babalandia..Who insisted me into writing this fanfiction despite the ton of projects to be done at school... Aning!

Caché et Interdit

They had been together for years by now. Ruka had been his friend and confidant since they were young. He was the only one whom Natsume trusted with his quandaries. He trusted him, as a friend.

But things are beginning to change.

Natsume started feeling odd towards Ruka. He can hear in his ears his heart pounding heavily whenever he is with his friend, or so it was. He can't look into him directly on his eyes. He feels uneasy whenever he talks with him.

'Am I,' Natsume asked himself silently, 'in love with him?'

"Hey Natsume," his friend called suddenly, causing Natsume to look into his bluish-grey eyes who was too, looking at him. This made Natsume to look away and caused his face to have shades of pink. "What do you think of the new girl Mikan?"

"Do you think I care?" Natsume answered rudely yet truthfully.

Ruka, who was expecting to hear this kind of response, had to think of a new topic to start a conversation with his friend for he himself was bored, sitting under an oak tree in the forest nearby the Academy. Girls? School? Food? Rabbits? Nah. He knows that Natsume won't respond to these kinds of things. But his list came into a halt when the silence of the area was vanished.

"Hey," It was Natsume. Ruka was surprised for it is very rare, so rare that it is the first time it happened, for Natsume to start off a chat. "What would you do if someone, who you least expect it, tells you that they like you?"

Ruka was shocked. The blonde didn't expect such question from his friend.

'What am I asking?' the purple-haired boy questioned himself.

Ruka, who also didn't know the answer to his friend's question, responded with a baffled sound.

"Why did you ask?"

'I also don't know!' His heart is trying to get out of his chest. It is beating so hard that he could hear it from his ears. But then there was, out of pure nothingness, an answer.

"I love you, Ruka," the crimson-eyed boy confessed.