Summary: My name is Mikan Sakura. Hotaru, and my parents died in a car crash a little while ago, so to get away from the memories that haunt me, I'm moving town to go to Alice Academy boarding school. Unfortunately, my life there didn't turn out exactly as I wished it too. RukaxMikan Non Alice

I reckon there are not enough RukaxMikan pairings so I decided to do it, plus it is my favorite pairing!

Mikan is 16 years old in this and in year 10.

No Alice's in this story.

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A New Home

Chapter 1 – Going to Gakuen Alice

Mikan's Pov

When dawn came, I was waiting outside of my apartment with a small suitcase which contained my clothes and money. I couldn't believe all the event's that had happened which brought me up to here.

I remembered I was always so happy, so cheerful. Hotaru was always cold, but I could see through that. Everything she did had done had been for a purpose. She honestly cared about me, even though she hadn't once told me. No words were needed to be communicated between us, but now, no words could be communicated between us again. All that was left of her was memories, memories that could soon be forgotten or start to fade.

It had been a rainy day, and I was stuck at home alone. My parents went to pick up Hotaru seeing as her parents were busy. I remember that after 30 minutes that they had been gone I felt that something didn't feel right. Something was off. It was all hazy after that. The door bell rang and I rushed to open it. There standing outside was a police officer. He told me my parents and Hotaru had been in an accident. I was in denial. It couldn't be real. It was all a dream, but somehow I knew it was not. It was all real.

He tried to bring me to an orphanage, but I decided I would go to the Alice Academy boarding school where I could live for two years until I became 18, which would mean I would be a legal adult.

So that was a really quick version of what brought me up to here waiting for that stupid taxi to arrive.

But just as I thought that, a taxi turned the corner and stopped right in front of me. Talk about great timing. I quickly greeted the taxi driver and got in, telling him where I needed to go.

I sank back into the seat, and looked outside. The sky was a nice orangy red color that looked beautiful. But it just didn't feel right for everything to be so bright when the three people I loved most were three metres underground.

'Hotaru, mum, dad' I thought sadly, my eyes were brimming with tears. It had only been a week ago that all this had happened and there was not one part of me that had moved on. I often had flashbacks of them which usually made people worried about me, since I was sort of in a trance, but somehow I felt content when I had them. But after I had them was a totally different story.

I think I soon drifted off to sleep, I'm not quite sure, but one minute we were heading out of town, the next minute we were pulling up outside a gate. I sleepily wiped the sleep away from my eyes and dull fully looked at the academy.

My eyes grew wide. Alice academy was huge! There were numerous buildings, which all had at least three storey's to each one. The grass was maintained with not one patch of dirt showing.

I was literally stunned. I thought Alice Academy would be like a little shack or something like it, but never in my mind did I think of something as good as this! I felt a stab of regret hit me that Hotaru didn't get to see this either.

I stepped outside the taxi, while grabbing my suitcase and walked to the edge of the gate. As I walked I grew more and more nervous. I knew I shouldn't be, there was nothing to be nervous about. It was just a boring school. I tried to tell myself that I didn't have any right to be nervous when Hotaru was gone, but it didn't help.

I heard the taxi drive off, but otherwise didn't take notice in it. At the side I pressed the intercom hesitantly.

"Yes?" A voice said. I gulped nervously.

"Uh.. I'm Mikan Sakura," I said into the intercom feeling a little stupid.

"Oh, You're the new student!" The voice said excitedly. "We don't usually get new students, hold on, Ill open the gate for you,"

The gate opened. In a weird sort of way, it made me feel like a princess. I slowly walked in and was met with a blonde haired woman with a skirt on.

She rushed to me and took my hands, a smile graced her face.

"Mikan, you're the first new student in ages, did you know that?" She said excitedly. I felt a pang in my chest. She was so like me before the incident, it was unbelievable!

"No miss," I stated emotionless. It felt as if I would break down if I tried to smile. The woman's smile faulted.

"Uhmm," She said laughing really awkwardly. I blinked. Was I really that freaky.

"I'm a guy," He said finally. If I was drinking something, I would have choked, but since I wasn't I just gapped. Now that I thought about it, as I stared at him, I started to see the more defined features of a man.

"Oh," I said blankly shocked. But before I knew it, the cross dresser started cackling madly.

"You're the first one to think I was a woman!" He said in between laughs. I turned away from him, sure that my face was red.

"Sh-Shut up," I muttered. He soon quietened down and dragged me down the hallway towards where I suppose the dormitories are.

"I'm going to be you're homeroom teacher. My name is Narumi," He stated, and started to hum. I rolled my eyes, but inwardly his happy mood was a little refreshing.

We moved through the hallway's. On the way, Narumi told me there are two people to a room but soon afterwards, Narumi suddenly stopped as if he remembered something surprising.

"Oh, I forgot," He said sheepishly while rubbing the top of his head. I frowned. Forgot what?

Narumi suddenly looked at me with a look that clearly said 'uh oh' for me.

"What is it?" I asked suddenly wary and cautious.

"Well, there was a little incident in one of the girls room. We have to keep them in the room you were going to have," He started. I felt a pit in my stomach. I think I knew where this was heading too.

"So, the only spare bed we have left is in the boys dormitories," I stared at Narumi sensei in horror. What would happen if I was with some pervert?

I think Narumi Sensei saw my stricken face because he quickly added on that the boy I was with was very nice. That calmed my nerves down a tiny bit.

In the end, Narumi left me standing at the door to one of the boys rooms. Stupid Narumi said he had business to run too, so he just had to leave me here.

I lazily brought my hand up and knocked. There was a small groan from inside before I heard scuttling feet. The door opened and I saw a blonde haired boy with glasses on staring back at me with surprise.

"Hello," He said blinking. I hesitated. At least he wasn't some pervert.

"Hello," I said fidgeting, not exactly sure how to tell him I would be living with him for two years. We stared at each other, until he noticed my suitcase. His jaw went slack.

"Um... I think I'm you're dorm partner," I said after much courage.

"Ehh?"He yelped before calming down slightly. I shifted on my feet. The boy then smiled and grabbed my suitcase before seemingly inviting me in. At least he was well mannered.

"I'm Yuu Tobita, the 2B class representative," Yuu shyly said to me.

"I'm Mikan Sakura," I said back to him. There was much tension in the air after that but I tried not to think about it.

"Narumi Sensei brought you here then?" Yuu prompted.

"Y-yeah, I though he was a woman," I mumbled the last part under my breath but unfortunately, Yuu heard and started laughing hysterically. That definitely broke the tension.

"Seriously? No one has ever thought that before," Yuu said gasping for breathe. "My friends would all be hysterical if I told them that," I jumped and looked at Yuu somewhat betrayed. I didn't like being laughed at to me, after opening my heart to Yuu if only a tiny bit felt like being betrayed.

Something on my face must have shown him how much it disturbed me.

"I won't tell, this will be just between us," Yuu promised and for some reason, I didn't doubt him.

A bell suddenly rang and I looked at Yuu questioningly.

"Ahh, breakfast time," Yuu said brightly and started coming towards me, but before I could stop him he put his hand on my shoulder shocking me. Oh god, I was going to have a flashback!

"Come..." I didn't hear anything else he said.

"Hotaru," I yelled, "Meanie!" Hotaru glared at me coldly, but somehow I knew my talking was refreshing to her. I quickly ran up to her and put an arm around her shoulder, who instantly hit me in the arm a little harder than normally. I cried out, holding my arm painfully.

"Hotaru," I whined, clutching at my arm, hopeless tears started to fall from my eyes. Hotaru turned back to me, her eyes widening a little bit before coming towards me.

"Stupid," She muttered under her breathe before lightly taking my arm away from where she had hit me and placed her warm fingers there instead.

"You shouldn't cry, it makes you look ugly," She said. I stared at her stunned, before nodding my head furiously.

But before anything else could happen the view suddenly disappeared making me only see darkness which I realized were because my eyes were shut. Endless tears seemed to come out and I couldn't stop them. I moved my head slightly only to realize that it was on something comfy and soft.

"Mikan!" I heard Yuu shout worriedly while shaking me. It was like I couldn't respond. My mind was so wrapped up on the flashback. I also thought that this was the only time I had fainted because of a flashback. That was bad. Was it getting worse?

"Mikan, Are you hurt? Please answer me?" He begged. I could feel him quiver under me. Wait, feel him quiver? That's when realization struck me. My head was resting upon Yuu's legs!

I suddenly felt weak. Were those flashbacks addling to my brain or something?

"Yuu," I struggled to say but he heard me.

"Yes, I'm here," Yuu said desperately. "A-Are you okay?" I felt him put a shaky hand on my forehead, probably to check if I had a fever, fortunately or unfortunately for him, I didn't.

"Y-Yes, i-it'll pass," I whispered, feeling a little better already.

"I-It'll pass? You mean this has happened before?" I didn't have to see him to know that he looked horrified. If I was in his position, I would've looked like that as well.

"Hmm," Which was my answer for yes but he didn't need to know that. I slowly fluttered my eyes open. The first thing I saw was Yuu's pale face with his eyes wide in worry. I slowly breathed in and out trying to calm myself.

"I'm okay," I reassured him. Yuu relaxed a little but not much. I groaned and started to lift my head of his lap and stood up. I quickly closed my eyes as the surroundings around me swirled around.

"H-Hey!" Yuu said worridly while putting both of his hands on my shoulders to steady me. I must have been swaying.

BBRRRIIIINGGGG

Oh, god we just missed breakfast! Now I would be starving till lunch time...and so would Yuu.

"I'm sorry," I said quietly, ashamed of myself. Even though I had changed and buried all the pain inside of me, one of the attributes that didn't change was me being selfless. I would always put people before myself.

"It's ok, you're more important than breakfast," Yuu said shyly while smiling at me before putting his hand to my forehead.

"You sure you're up to going to class?" He asked concerned, but removed his hand when he felt no signs of a fever.

"I'm fine," I said trying to wave his concern away. He gave one more skeptical look before grabbing my hand and racing out of the room and down the hallway.

I kept up with him just fine but my mind started wondering. Would I be accepted by the class? Would everyone be stuck up and mean?

We suddenly came to a stop outside a classroom which said on the door 2B.

Me and Yuu glanced at each other, and just by looking at his face I could tell that this was the first time for him ever being late for class.

I shrugged at him as he opened the door to the classroom and awaited out doom.

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So whatcha think? I decided to make Yuu have a fairly big part since he is one of my favorite character's. R&R please. I'll update soon if it looks like people like the story.