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Hello and welcome to my first FanFiction! This chapter might me slightly boring but I promise it will get a lot more interesting with romance, mystery/plot twists and friendships!

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Chapter 1 - Sakura

By gaukenalice101

The cherry blossom was in full bloom this April, everybody in the town loved to admire the shades of pink covering the streets of Nagoya, especially one young girl in particular, her name was Mikan Sakura. It was 8am when the girl of 11 woke up to the warm spring mornings sun, gleaming through her blinds. She pounced out of bed realising "I'm late!"

Mikan rushed to put on on her elementary uniform for the first day back. She brushed her long, golden brown locks into two pig-tails and brushed her teeth. The girl hurried out the door, not forgetting to give her Jii-chan a kiss on the cheek "I'm off! I'll see you later!"

Running to school she saw her friend Hotaru walking to school, not a care in the world of being late. Mikan pounced at her friend when, expectantly, she was pushed away. "Aw Hotaru, why are you so mean! Anyway we are going to be late, why aren't you runnin-" "Shut up, dummy. Its too early to hear your voice" Hotaru said stoically.

The girl had short, raven hair with dazzling purple eyes that seemed beautiful yet threatening at the same time. Hotaru is the polar opposite to Mikan, the idea that they could be best friends almost seemed so preposterous it worked for them. They met a few years ago when Hotaru had transferred, they didn't seem to get along until one day they realised their indifference where almost comical and have never been apart since.

"Why are you so late anyway Hotaru, you get up at like 6am?" Mikan asked incoherently.

"I was working on a doll that talks and got carried away, also I don't really care if I am late, we have that substitute again who acts like a quack." Hotaru answered while her friend just laughed cheerfully.

They walked inaudibly together, admiring the beautiful spring day when Hotaru asked a question. "Have you managed to hide it from everyone, or did your blabber mouth give it away."

"I-I haven't told anyone, although I think I may have used it in front of a man but one person couldn't hurt right? Like its not like I froze up the whole park? Anyway why do you know so much about all of this 'Alice' stuff?"

"Well, I have one but mine is easy to hide and my brother got sent away to an Academy for Alice's when I was born my parents told me. I have had a few post cards from him but I have never met him" Hotaru said emotionlessly. Even though she hid most of her feelings, Mikan could still tell when Hotaru was hurting and she could see it in her eyes that she was.

"I am sorry" Mikan said sadly but soon changed her face into her usual gorgeous smile and hugged Hotaru to find she didn't resist this time.

They arrived at the school with minutes to spare for Mikans relief when an announcement on the speakers was unexpectedly made, "Mikan Sakura, Hotaru Imai please report to the general office." The lady with a kind voice called.

The two girls looked at each other with concerned faces but reluctantly walked to the office. When they arrived the lady smiled "You must be Hotaru, I have a note for you." Hotaru looked relieved it wasn't anything to do with Alice academy until "Mikan, we have a man here to talk to you, he is from another school so please be on your best behaviour" the receptionist announced kindly. Hotaru and Mikans eyes immediately shot to one another, the usual stoic expression was no longer her façade and Mikans smile turned into a shaking line.

Mikan whispered to Hotaru "Please stay here and don't leave". The girl nodded when she saw her friend walking towards a young man with a stupid smile on his face, blond hair and purple eyes. The man led Mikan into an empty room with just two couches and a beautiful bunch of flowers on the table. He began talking as soon as they sat down.

"Hello Mikan-chan! May I call you that?" the man questioned.

"Yes you may" Mikan said politely forcing a cheerful smile upon her face.

"Yay! Alright my name is Narumi, I am a teacher from Gauken Alice! It is a pleasure to finally meet you."

Mikans eyes went wide. Gauken Alice, what! No please No. Mikan remained with her smile but inwardly was petrified that he might know. But much to her dismay, he did.

"I am here because our school has become aware of a power you have called an Alice. They are magical things which you have been blessed with! We had noticed you had the Ice Alice, which is in some fact true but looking at your records we realised that it is partly not. You have an Alice called SNC (Stealing, nullifying and copying) something that your father had."

"My father?" Mikan felt shocked, she barely knew anything about her parents but could it be true that they too where Alices?

"Yes, your father" he looked down sadly and paused as if thinking back on a memory. "The ice alice we have realised you must have had accidentally stolen it from someone without realising I-" before Narumi could even finish his sentence Mikan cut him off "Please don't take me away from Hotaru" she exclaimed.

His eyes shot open and frowned but soon looked up with a guilty and weak smile "That's another thing I wanted to discuss with you Mikan-chan, I am going to have to be honest. I may have to take you to Gauken Alice. I won't give you the details now but I'll be taking you home now so I can have a chat with your Jii-chan, okay?"

Mikan nodded but was whimpering and curled into a ball. She didn't want to leave Nagoya or her Jii-chan or Hotaru, she was happy with her life. What was going to happen? "Mikan-chan? I know this is a lot to take in but I promise I will do everything in my power to make you happy and to keep your lovely smile on your face." Mikan looked up at him and realised, he wasn't to blame, she felt as if he was like a father even though she barely knew him, without realising it she had pounced onto Narumi and hugged him tight with her tears falling onto his white cotton t-shirt. He held her and calmed her down until it was time for them to leave.

When they left the room Hotaru ran to the door waiting for explanations, when she saw Mikans puffy eyes and realised they knew. They hugged each other tightly at the doorway when Mikan sobbed "I don't want to leave you, Hotaru" the raven head girl looked her in the eyes and paused "I wont leave you, dummy."

Hotaru paced towards the blonde man who was looking at the ground, he looked as if he was sad? She took a deep breath when the young man looked up and smiled to see what she needed. "I am an Alice as well, if you are taking her take me too." His eyes widened as well as Mikans "Hotaru! What are you doing?!" ignoring her, Hotaru continued "I have the inventing Alice" she said bluntly.

He looked at her shockingly then closed his eyes and reluctantly told the young girl "I understand" knowing that she was not lying and that she was doing this for Mikan. Hotaru walked over to the sobbing girl and guided her to a seat while they waited for the car to take them. Mikans eyes didn't leave the girl next to her. why did she do that!? Now she will be taken as well, could she have done this… for me?

"Hotaru, you do realise what this means don't you?" Mikan asked hesitantly.

"Of course, dummy. I am not going to leave you."

End of Chapter 1

Hi! Thank you for reading, I hope the story was okay. I always knew that chapter 1 might be a bit boring as I wanted to explain how Hotaru and Mikan ended up at Gauken but I promise that they will have lots of time at Gauken alice with Natsume, Ruka etc.

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