In love with the Jerk
A Gakuen Alice FanFiction
A/N: Alright, so this isn't my first fanfic. I've got a lot in a notebook, and I'm inspired to write another GA fic. I created a new account, and seriously, I think I've got issues with typing and updating. Please give me about a week or two to update, and don't hesitate to press the review button below!
I've got one more thing to say. This story is more than meets the eye. This MAY look like an average love story to you, but I hope you'll read the other parts.
Disclaimer: Disclaimed. I only own the plot and my OC/s to be revealed in other chapters.
Beta by Shimmering
Act I – Meeting the Transferee: Partner Activity
Alice Academy's class 2B of the Middle School Division is expecting a new student today. The whispers were getting louder and louder, as homeroom's time crept nearer. Suddenly, Alice Academy's Black Cat, along with his best friend, entered the room. The class piped down a bit at the sight of the two boys. The raven-haired fire caster, who had piercing crimson eyes was wearing the standard uniform, minus the tie. He slumped on his seat at the back. Meanwhile, the blonde, who has charming azure eyes, also wearing the uniform and carrying his rabbit, Usagi, sat beside his best friend. Before Natsume could fall asleep from boredom, a blonde with amethyst eyes and was wearing an outrageous outfit, fit for a prince, waltz into the room.
"Ohayou, my lovely students!" Narumi Anjo, class 2B's homeroom and English teacher exclaimed as he walked to the table at the front.
"Don't you ever get tired of the stupid greeting?" Natsume murmured, as he used his hand to support his face. Natsume then looked, more like glared at the teacher, causing him to animatedly sweatdrop.
The cross-dressing teacher straightened up, and gave his students a huge smile. "We have a new student today." The class went silent and all eyes were on him. "Please welcome your new classmate, Sakura Mikan-chan!"
As the teacher motioned for the student to come in, a coffee-coloured ponytailed girl walked into the room. Her glassy hazel eyes looked sweet and like most girls, she was wearing the academy's standard uniform for the middle school division,. The short academy skirt revealed her long, slender legs, and the uniform itself showed the right amount of curves, making some of the boys immediately dumbstruck.
The brunette came to a halt beside the blonde teacher, her lips curved upwards to flash the students a perfectly toothed smile, and said, "Good Morning, everyone! I'm Sakura Mikan, but please call me Mikan. I hope we could all be friends!"
Narumi then gave her a small smile and said, "Well then, I suppose you need a partner." He put his hand to his chin and with mockery 'hmm..' he suddenly exclaimed, "Mikan-chan, please take a seat beside Natsume-kun at the back. Ruka-kun, please raise your hand," Ruka then raised his hand, and the teacher continued, "Natsume-kun is the person at Ruka-kun's right please take the seat at the end, okay?"
The brunette thanked the teacher by bowing her head slightly and proceeded to take her seat beside the flame caster. She faced him and said, "Hi, Natsume-kun! Let's be friends okay?"
The raven haired boy resumed his previous position, preparing himself for a nap. "Shut up." He said, never looking at the brunette.
The brunette seeing his reaction, puffed her cheeks and said, "and I was trying to be nice." She turned to a raven haired girl, known as the Blackmailing queen of Alice Academy, Imai Hotaru.
"Hotaru!" she exclaimed, and hugged her. Hotaru didn't seem to acknowledge the fact that a cute brunette was clinging to her neck. She wouldn't admit it, but she felt a tingle of happiness inside at the sight of her best friend. They last saw each other 2 years, which was when Hotaru got her student award.
Homeroom ended quickly because Narumi gave them free period and people began crowding around Mikan after her little episode with Hotaru. Questions such as 'how do you know Imai-san?' and 'where did you get your hair done?' were being thrown around the place. Natsume was never one with crowds and noise, and it began to drive his head in. He went out of the room, not before slamming the back door. Mikan misinterpreted the action and decided to try and cheer him up later.
Mikan was already popular by the end of the day. She patiently answered all the questions asked. When Narumi called for Mikan to be assigned her rank, she was given triple star, in which Narumi explained that she was better than the rest considering that she was only a middle school student. Narumi explained what star rank was, no star, being the lowest and special being the highest. The blonde teacher also told her that single star was needed to graduate elementary, double star for middle school, and triple star for high school. He also explained to her that special star was for executives, meaning people with high grades and mastery over their Alices.
The brunette was thrilled with her rank, but before going to her own triple star dorm, she asked him, "Sensei, is there anybody who got the special star rank?"
Narumi patted her head, and said, "Every person in the student council has it, Mikan-chan. And there are only two people with the special star in the Middle School division." Mikan pouted in fustration.
"Who are they, sensei?" Mikan said, bobbing up and down.
Narumi patted Mikan's head again and answered, "One is Imai-san, and the other one is Natsume-kun."
Delighted upon hearing her best friend's name, Mikan smiled a 100-watt smile and gave the blonde teacher her goodbye. She decided to push through with her plan of cheering up Natsume.
The ever-so-cheery brunette made her way to class 2B to ask for directions. She called Tobita Yuu, or Iinchou, as he was known, and asked where she could find the fire caster.
"Well.. No one really know where he goes... But usually, he's reading under the Sakura tree or in his room..." Yuu stuttered as he fixed his glasses. "Those are the only places I know. I'm sorry I'm not much help, Mikan-san."
The brunette smiled at the class representative and said, "No, you were a lot of help, Iinchou! I give you my thanks. I need to go now, see you!" as she ran off.
The said flame caster's location was under the Sakura tree, much to Mikan's glee. He was on the branch, reading a manga. When the black cat sensed a presence in the area, he went higher, up the branches and conjured a flame.
"Who's down there?" he said, with a menacing glare below.
The brunette then went under the tree and looked up. "Hi, Natsume! It's me, Mikan!" she said, smiling at him.
Natsume extinguished his flame and just went back to his position below and said, "Go away."
Mikan pouted and said, "I'm sitting here and you can't stop me!" She sat at the base of the tree, much to Natsume's dismay. "And I'm following you until you talk to me."
"Shut up, annoying girl." He said, getting ready to jump down. "It's better for someone stupid like you to leave me alone." Natsume glared at the girl below the Sakura tree.
Mikan, being stubborn looked at him, and shook, because his glare was sending chills to her spine. "N-Natsume, y-you won't get k-killed talking to m-me, right?" she stammered. "N-no, nobody g-gets killed b-by talking so w-why are you being Mr Anti-Social?"
'Tsk. Just leave me alone.' The raven haired boy thought. "You're obviously freaking out. As I've said, go away, stupid." He told her.
The brunette snapped at the insult. "Oh come on! I just wanted to make a new friend, Natsume! See, I even asked around just to find that you're always at this Sakura tree!" she then pouted cutely below. After she said that, a blonde came rushing to the said tree. Holding his rabbit, he motioned for the fire caster to notice him, but the brunette gave the blonde her greeting first. "Hi, Ruka-pyon!" she said as she gave him another 100-watt smile just like she did with Narumi-sensei.
"Ruka-pyon..?" the blonde said with confusion, but shook it off. "Oh… Hi too, Sakura-san."
Still smiling, she poked the bunny, which she assumed as 'super cute' and looked at Ruka. She pointed at him and said, "Ruka-" and then pointed to the bunny and said, "-pyon. Besides, you always carry him around!" She glanced at the fire caster but looked at the blonde again. "Call me Mikan too! I'm not really used with being called with honorifics, Ruka-pyon."
"You're too noisy, baka." The raven haired boy said, and jumped to the ground, and landed as if he didn't jump as good 10-feet distance. "Let's go, Ruka."
"Mou, Natsume!" She said, and went back to pouting.
Ruka was telling Natsume not to suddenly go, since it was rude. The crimson-eyed boy didn't seem to give a damn, and just went on walking. "Bye, Sakura-san. I'm sorry for Natsume's behaviour though."
Natsume, feeling that Ruka shouldn't have apologized in his behalf, looked behind, gave the brunette an annoyed look and said, "You're too loud, Megaphone."
The brunette was definitely pissed, which was clearly evident on her face. "Natsume!" she screamed. She then dumped her plans of cheering Natsume up and stormed to her triple star dorm.
"He's such a jerk." Mikan said, sulking in her room. Suddenly, a knock came on her door. "Coming~" she said, as she walked towards the door and opened it. "HOTARU!" she exclaimed. The said brunette tried to hug the ingenious inventor and much to her dismay, the blackmailer dodged it. Mikan, on the other hand, landed roughly on the carpet of the Middle School dorm hallways, and pretty much cleaned it a little already. "Mou, Hotaru! Not you too!"
"First of all, because you hugged me earlier, it's best not to push your luck. Second, I bet you already tried to talk to Hyuuga but you ended up being pushed away by the cold-hearted jerk, because I pretty much heard you say 'not you too'. Am I right?"
Mikan then put on an astonished face. "How did you know, Hotaru!" Mikan then beamed at her best friend and said, "You truly are the best! I'm so proud of my Hotaru! Now I know why you're a special star." Mikan then remembered the other special star student in the middle school division, and added, "But I don't get why Natsume's a special star though, Hotaru…"
"Since when did I become yours, Baka? And of course I am. They couldn't doubt my skills, Mikan, no one can. Concerning Hyuuga, I don't really care about the jerk, but he's smart for someone who isn't me. But I'm smarter, of course. He could also manipulate his fire Alice pretty well." Hotaru drawled before a small smirk on her face.
"Of course you are! No one could be better than my Hotaru! And you've always been mine!" Mikan continued, with a smile plastered on her face. "A hug?" she pleaded, with a cute expression.
The inventor couldn't refuse her best friend, and just said, "Come here, dummy." And the brunette hugged her tightly, as the amethyst-eyed girl returned the hug.
The next day, the brunette woke up extra early so she wouldn't be late on her second day. When Mikan was little, she was frequently late for classes. After her morning rituals, she got her stuff and locked her dorm. The hazel-eyed girl happily skipped along the long hallways of the academy, not forgetting to greet people, even her newly-formed fan club full of fan boys. She then entered the door, revealing only a sleeping fire caster and an animal-lover.
"Ohayou, Ruka-pyon and Natsume!" she greeted cheerfully. She smiled at the two and took her seat beside Natsume. 'Where's Hotaru?' the brunette thought.
"Again with the loudness, Megaphone." Natsume said irritably. The crimson eyed boy glanced at the person beside him. It was the first time the fire caster got a close look at his new seatmate. He took note of what he thought was easy-to-read eyes, perfectly pointed nose, and most likely, her 'kissable' lips. 'Brush away the stupid thoughts. Tch.' He thought.
"Who are you calling a megaphone, stupid!" Mikan threw him an annoyed look.
Natsume returned the annoyed look, with a glare. "I'm not the stupid one here, Megaphone. Now shut up." The smell of burning hair began to emit and he quickly extinguished it before it burnt her more.
"You jerk!" Mikan yelled, as she tended the damaged ends of her hair. "You're lucky you caught me off-guard. After I master my Alice, you'll never be able to burn me again!" She said, and showed her tongue at him.
"You're so annoying, you idiot." Natsume said icily.
Mikan then thought of a plan and said, "Well then, you'll be annoyed whether you like it to or not. I'll be following you!" and then she smiled triumphantly.
"Whatever, do what you want." He said, and then read his manga.
After Mikan told Natsume of her plan, the rest of the 2B were filling in the classroom. She then saw Hotaru and greeted her with a smile, remembering not to hug since she'd get hit by the inventor's baka gun.
5 minutes passed by and Narumi entered Class 2B's room with a smile. "Ohayou, my lovely students!" he greeted once again.
Mikan, seeing as Natsume's eyebrow twitched, decided to ask him why. "Anything wrong, Natsume?"
"Mind your own business." He said, and looked away from the brunette.
Mikan again pouted and said, "Okay, if that's what you want." with a sigh.
"Everyone, eyes here!" The blonde teacher said. Almost the whole class, except Natsume, looked at the teacher, not wanting to be a victim of Narumi's pheromones. "Alright, so you all know who your partner is. Now I'd like you to face your partner and I'll be putting you all on an activity." Narumi then looked at Mikan and said, "Your partner is Natsume-kun, okay?" earning disappointed sighs and groans from who Mikan assumed were Natsume's fan girls. Mikan didn't deny the fact that she was first mesmerized the fire caster's appearance, but she, unlike the other girls, she doesn't go gaga over Natsume.
Mikan then faced Natsume and smiled at him, "That's great, though. I could talk to you more and know more about you!" she said in glee.
"Tch. I'd like to see you try, Megaphone." Natsume said in annoyance.
"Oh come on, Natsume!" she then pouted. "It's going to be fun!"
Narumi then silenced the class and said, "The Middle School Principal provided us a portion of the Eastern Woods to use for the activity. I'd like you all to line up and we'll get on a bus. I've already told you days ago that this is the only thing you'll be doing the whole day. Make sure to enjoy yourselves, alright?"
Class 2B arrived at the Eastern woods, excited for their activity. Well, not all, but you get the idea. 'Most of them' are the proper way to put it. "Alright, class! The flags around the area, planted by the high school students as the principal requested, are the boundaries. I know Giant Piyo's in the Northern woods, but you'll never know. Each flag is 3 meters apart. The flag's appearance is triangular, with red and orange linings. You'll notice a rectangular flag one you meet a corner. The area set for us is a rectangle, so don't get confused. Any questions so far?" The class was silent so the blonde teacher spoke again. "Seeing as how there are a lot of trees in here, you'll need to use your Alice to get a ribbon on a branch of a tree. It's a test of mastery over your Alices. The trees are embedded with an electric, ice or immobilization Alice so you shouldn't climb it. I'll be giving you all 7 colors to find and I expect you all to be here at four. Is that clear?"
"Hai, Narumi-sensei!" the class chorused.
Mikan jumped in glee and said to Natsume, "This is fun! Although I'll be relying on you Natsume…" She trailed off.
"Whatever." He said, and walked off.
The brunette then hurried off to the teacher and got a list of colors. She then dashed to where her partner is. "Natsume, I got the list!"
The raven face-palmed and said, "Quit the noise, you idiot!"
"Be nice for a change." Mikan said, and caught a glimpse of a ribbon. "Wait, Natsume!" When she saw that the fire caster stopped, she then checked the list for the color. "Where's red… where's red… Oh! There it is!" she then looked at the raven haired boy and said, "Hey, Natsume! I found one!"
"Tch, I don't have time for this." He then burned the branch off and Mikan got the ribbon. The truth is he just went on a mission last night and finished at dawn, so he was quite sleepy at that time.
Mikan looked at the crimson-eyed boy when he yawned and said, "You look tired."
"No need to point out the obvious, idiot." Natsume said.
The brunette sighed and did as she was told and said, "Okay, you rest there. I need to talk to sensei and we'll stop."
"You're really stupid." He said and slumped slightly burnt tree.
"Look, I'm already doing you a favour and you're calling me stupid! Give me a break." She said, pouting.
Natsume sighed and closed his eyes. "Quit talking for a second, would you?" He felt like snapping, but he couldn't. He knew that the girl beside him was worried. He just stood up and said, "Come on, let's continue this, Megaphone."
"Natsume!" she yelled. Mikan grabbed his hand and said, "Rest for a while, you idiot!"
The fire caster forced his hand away and just walked away. Mikan, worried, didn't follow him for a while and ran off to find Narumi.
"Narumi-sensei!" the brunette yelled. The blonde teacher, hearing his name, turned to face her.
The teacher gave Mikan a puzzled look. "What's wrong, Mikan-chan?"
"I don't know the reason but Natsume's tired. Could you please let him take a break? I'll do any extra credit, sensei." She said, obviously concerned.
The blonde patted Mikan's head and said with stars in his eyes, "Truly what Yuka-senpai would do. Alright, Mikan-chan. I'll allow you two to be excused. Go ahead and tell Natsume-kun."
"You know okaa-san?" Mikan tilted her head to the side innocently. "I guess I'll force sensei to answer all my questions later!" she said, and made a run for it.
"She's definitely Yuka-senpai's replicate." The teacher murmured, then chuckled.
Meanwhile, the brunette was running, searching for her partner. She went back to the tree she had last seen Natsume on and remembered he had walked off when she came to Narumi. She searched for any signs of the fire caster and she saw him on the grass, asleep.
A/N: Okay, I know this isn't what you've expected. Same goes for me. I already have everything on my mind though the only stuff missing is the documents on word. I'll do my best to make long chapters. I mean, longer than of this one and more interesting. Please give me a week or two to update. And don't hesitate to leave me a review!
