Summary: Before we had stopped to realize, push and pull was the only thing we were good at. It was the definition of our dubious relationship. Neither of us willing to meet the other halfway. Run and chase was the rule of our idiotic games; and in the end what do we have left to show when fun and games are all over? Nothing. We never made an effort for progress. So what did we lose? Everything.

Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice... at least that's what everyone keeps telling me.


~Prologue~

"People who are sensible about love are incapable of it," - Douglas Yates


You want to know what they're love was like, I'll tell you this much...

Do you know what it's like to fall in love with a person? It's a type of feeling where you want that person but at the same time you don't want them. Have you ever experienced that before? One thing was absolute though... both Natsume Hyuuga and Mikan Sakura were experiencing this feeling, they were living it. Caught up in the moment, caught in the motions, the emotions, and the feelings pushing and pulling at the two of them.

They could gaze into each others eyes, and see the love that the other held for the other. But love sometimes cannot be enough. Other emotions begin to fill in that cavern along with love. Emotions, you'd rather not experience, but come with the package. These emotions feel the void one would call the human heart. Laughter and happiness have long since passed the two of them by leaving behind bitterness and sadness. But love couldn't keep them together. How can it? When you love a person, you love yourself just the same. So if you know what its like to love another person... what is it like to have that very love destroy the both of you? This the two of them also felt.

Love was destroying them and they understood that, but yet neither of them willing to throw love and they're foolish desires away. How can you throw away what brought you together, even when it hurts you, and continues to hurt you? To feel you're body start to tremble, to have you're feelings and your heart twisted. Angry words that have become unintentional and hurtful. Why was love doing this to them? What did love want from them? Love like the moon pulling and pushing at the tides. This was them. Why did love push them together, then cruelly pull them apart? They're feelings not once being considered.

While the two of them continued to love one another. They continued to destroy one another. Why? Why didn't they just walk away? Neither of them knew the reason they decided to stay. They could see it in each others eyes. Even if they wanted to hold on, a force stronger than them was convincingly, cruelly, aggressively, pulling the two away from each other. The two of them wishing that they could be together, not being concerned with stupid worries. Impossible, was the only thing love would whisper to them. Love was cruel, love is horrible, love hated lovers, love was like a double-edged sword. When did something so simple like hate become so complicated like love?

Argues insure as they grow and become weary. Angry, sad, and depressed was all they had felt. Love one another, is what everyone convinces them to do. Hate each other, is what love urges them to do. They were both smart people, so why were they stupid enough to fall in love with each, when they knew love hated them. They were just two people playing a game. Playing a game called run and chase. But when did they catch each other? They never did, there were moments where the two would catch up to the other, running the same speed. But too stubborn to be caught. Constantly they asked idiotic questions... screaming, crying, how did they come to have animosity towards each other?

'How can we be together when we're like this?!'

She loved him.

'We weren't suppose to feel this way about each other...'

He loved her.

'Idiot!'

They loved each other.

'Why did I fall in love with you?!'

Yet...

'Why did you make me fall in love with you?!'

She hated him.

'Why did we fall in love with each other?'

He hated her.

'Were both smart people, we should have known better!'

They hated each other.

'Why do we love each other, when its obvious we hate each other?'

They hated to love each other.

'All we do is push and pull lately...'

They wanted they're relationship to work.

'I hate loving you...'

But love is cruel.

'I'm leaving... don't try to stop me...'

They were done chasing each other. They were tired and exhausted.

'I won't...'

Because love was already done destroying them.

'Surely one day you'll find another girl... smarter, prettier, and much more mature than me, one who'll love you more than me...'

So in the end all they could do was lie to themselves and try not to see the truth before them that...

'Surely you shall also find another guy... understanding, caring, and much more gentle than me, one who'll also love you more than me...'

No matter if the two continued on the paths that they followed, that even if they separated... that they would always know, they could never love another person the way the two of them had loved each other.

At the time they were just seventeen, barely even eighteen... they couldn't possibly understand the burdening reality about the dangerous game that they were playing... the result was that all they could do was be burdened, feeling heavy, getting crushed by their own ignorance... the crushing truth that the rationality of love was larger than they're capacity... and now they are twenty-one paying for the commission of they actions... paying with they're harsh love one another...

This is the tragic story of how the arrogant Natsume Hyuuga and the prideful Mikan Sakura fell in love, a torturous love that the two shared and were destroyed by... their brutal love story...

Will you listen while I tell you the rest of they're heartbreaking story?

To be continued...


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