Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice... yet (mwahahaha)!

Claire: Hi everyone, welcome to the long-awaited sequel to my other story, Cupids' Game! If you have not read Cupids' Game, please do so! I'm very excited to start the summer with a new project!

Mikan: Thank you so much for reading!

Claire: It means a lot to me that you enjoy this, so I won't hold you back any longer ,so please read and review!

Mikan: We love you all!

Cupids' Game II- Chapter 1

The morning was clear, and the small stands with the weekly Alice People magazines were in sale just in time for Friday. Since the super couple of the school was so popular, and their friends' love and fashion life was gossiped around all the time, the black mailer (ahem, photographer) started the magazine with the school board's permission. So much had changed since last Valentines, but some good things still stayed the same.

HEAD-LINES: THE SCHOOL "IT" COUPLE SEEN ENJOYING A DATE AT CENTRAL

On Saturday, our beloved sweet girl and popular hot boy were seen at the newly opened café, Love Dove. The cute atmosphere of the store matched the relationship between Mikan Sakura and Natsume Hyuuga. Rumor has it that they had celebrated their one-year anniversary in Hyuuga's special star dorm. Perhaps the rose gold cherry-blossom necklace Sakura is wearing is the present from him? Seems like the cold black cat had learned some romantic style from the happy girl next to him. The weather was cold outside, but the cute couple looked warm and cozy, with Hyuuga stealing a kiss from the blushed girl every chance he got. More on page 15…

"Natsume! We're late for class! Oh my god, I still can't believe Jinno-sensei is our math teacher AGAIN! I mean really, he was the math teacher in fifth-grade, so why is he with us again?"

"Just hurry up. God, how long do you take to just do your hair?"

Mikan looked up from the mirror and glanced at her bored boyfriend who was leaning against the door of her private bathroom. Then she rolled her eyes and went back to pinning down her long, brown hair. The raven-haired Natsume was impatient, and with a flick of his hand, Mikan's hairclip burned.

"Ow!" She exclaimed when she felt the burn and dropped the clip, "what was that for?!"

It was Natsume's turn to roll his eyes. He turned and said,

"It looks better down."

Yes, how sweet. After finallygetting the girl of his dream, Natsume had learned how to be more… expressive. Although sometimes he is harsh and get easily jealous, Natsume was more kind and soft. Even Ruka noticed how his eyes had lost the dark look, and hanged out with their group more rather than disappearing somewhere. Well, sometime he would disappear and soon the group would hear about an "accident" about a Mikan fan-boy coincidentally (yeah right) getting burnt. Of course, seeing how much the academy valued Natsume's powers, they covered the truth up and said that they burned themselves in home-ed class. But Mikan knew the truth. She was mad that her boyfriend would hurt their peers, but sometimes she felt lucky to have someone who was willing to protect her. Being abandoned by her mother when she was little, Mikan had thought that only Hotaru and her grandfather cared for her. After coming to the school, she had met people who even risked their lives to protect her.

"MIKAN SAKURA! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING ARRIVING THREE MINUTES LATE?! FOR GOODNESS SAKE, IT'S ONLY THE FIRST WEEK OF HIGH SCHOOL, AND YOU STILL HAVEN'T FIXED THIS INTOLERABLE BEHAVIER? I EXPECT YOU IN MY OFFICE RIGHT AFTER SCHOOL!"

Mikan winced at the loud voice as the mean Natsume fan-girls snickered and the boys only shook their head, afraid to stand up to the man teacher. Cowards.

"You don't even have an office," Natsume said next to Mikan. Jinno-sensei's face grew red, and his metal baton twitched in his hand, but did not dare to say anything. Finally, after having a staring contest with the near-height teen, he calmly replied,

"I meant the staff office. You two sit at your seats now."

"Sorry, sir," Mikan said quietly.

Natsume strode to the back of the room next to Ruka while Mikan nervously moved to her seat with Hotaru. To Natsume's dismay, she had insisted on sitting next to Hotaru at the beginning of the year because Mikan believed that they weren't spending enough time with eachother. While Jinno-sensei went on lecturing about trigonometry, Mikan felt a poke from Anna behind her. She turned around and whispered,

"What?"

"Oh my god, did you see this week's issue of AP? They have such a cute article about Sumire and Mochi-kun! They are so meant to be!"

"No way, let me see! I didn't have time to buy it this morning."

"Okay, here."

Before Anna could pass the Alice People to her friend, the glassed math teacher screamed,

"Miss Sakura! If the area of a sector of a circle is 248 meters square and the central angle is 135 degrees, what is the diameter of the circle?!"

"Darn it! I really wanted to read that article!"

"29 meters, sir."

"Did you cheat?"

"Always count on him to think I cheated."

"Of course not."

"Then if two cities 270 miles apart lied on the same meridian, what is their difference in latitude?!"

"God, did he have to be this loud?"

"3°54.4', sir."

"The radius of the circle with a sector of a central angle of 50° and the area of 605 centimeter square is…?"

"Haha, you can tell that his hair got a bad cut… okay, radius is…"

"37.2 centimeter, sir"

"A train is mobbing at the rate 8 miles per hour along a piece of circular track of radius 2500 feet. Though what angle does it turn in one meter?"

"Why would you have a circular track? It wouldn't get you anywhere."

"16.13°, sir."

"The minute hand of a clock is 12 centimeter long. How far does the tip of the hand move during 20 minutes?"

"What, clocks? God, why me? Um, okay I should know this from last night's homework. So during 20 minutes, the hand moves though an angle 2pi/3 rad and the stupid tip moves over a distance… Arg! Who cares about clocks?! Okay, back to work, s12(2pi/3) which is 8…"

"MISS SAKURA, DID YOU EVEN DO THE HOMEWORK LAST NIGHT?!"

"Yes, I did."

"SIR!"

"Madam."

"Excuse me?!"

"I'm a girl, as you aware, sir. Therefore, you should call me 'madam' not 'sir'."

(Yes, I know, I sort of got this from Harry Potter)

The whole class snickered at the clever comeback, and the toad on Jinno-sensei's shoulder sounded like it was snorting. Feeling Natsume's glare on him, he coughed and decided to torture Mikan with a math question one more time.

"16,500 was invested in three accounts, yielding an annual return of 5 percent, 8 percent, and 10 percent, respectively. The amount invested at 5 percent was equal to the amount invested at 8 percent plus twice the amount invested at 10 percent. How much was invested at each rate if the total return on the investment was 1085?"

"What the hell?!"

"Sir, I believe that we did not study this material yet."

"Well, madam, since you are a three-star, you should know this."

"Well, I'm sorry, sir, but in fact I do know the answer."

"Really, madam? Well, then please kindly tell me and your classmates the answer."

"I'd be glad to, sir. At 5 percent, 9500 was invested, 4500 at 8 percent, and 2500 at 10 percent, right? I apologize; did I go too fast for you, sir?"

"YOU LITTLE…"

There was a knock on the door just in time to save Mikan from another hour of detention added to her already ample one. She was relived when she saw their new language arts teacher, Saitou-sensei at the door, looking for Jinno-sensei. She was a young teacher whom Mikan liked very much. She was not like Narumi-sensei, but she was still very kind. With the alice of birds, she was a pretty lady with her sharp black hair in a loose bun. Jinno-sensei lowered his voice when he saw her, and did he just blush?! He coughed and stepped out to the hall and all the class could hear was their whispers about something. Mikan sat down and turned to Nonoko, Hotaru and Anna.

"God! What the heck was that about! I bet he loves torturing me!"

Nonoko shook her head, and replied,

"Definitely. I mean I once overheard that that he's the reason you're still a three-star…"

"WHAT?!"

"Yes, Miss Sakura, WHY IN THE WORLD ARE YOU TALKING WHEN I AM NOT EVEN IN THIS ROOM?!"

"Er… sorry."

"SIR!"

"Right. I mean, right, sir."

After a cold glare, he turned and went up to the front of the classroom and announced,

"Class, all your teachers will be in a meeting regarding new students from the Alice Academy from England, so please behave yourselves for an hour."

The students jumped up in pleasure and celebrated. But being the sadistic person Jinno-sensei was, he immediately assigned homework.

"Pages 205 to 270 in chapter 17 and all supplementary questions at the end of chapter 18 for homework!"

The class's mood swung and they complained.

"SHUT UP, YOU KIDS! GET STARTED NOW!"

Sadly, the students got out their dreaded text book and flipped to the homework as Jinno-sensei marched out the classroom to the group of terrified teachers waiting for him out in the hall. The class was silent until Anna poked Mikan again and she turned around.

"What?"

"I can't believe we're going to have new students! I mean, from England?"

Sumire cut in from the front and had hearts in her eyes.

"Oh my god; they'd better be guys!"

Her friend, Wakako Usami had similar eyes and nodded in agreement.

"And like, totally HOT too! I mean, I, like absolutely love HOT guys! They're like, totally fabulous!"

Nonoko rolled her eyes at them and tossed her princess-cut hair and said to the snotty Wakako,

"Well, like yeah like what like happened like to like your like boyfriend?"

Being the dumb bimbo she was, Wakako twiddled her hair.

"I mean like, Kitsuneme-kun is like cute and like all, but his like, not as like, hot aslike you know, like Natsume-sama."

Sumire nodded in agreement.

"I like totally like agree. Mochi-kun is like sweet and all, but Natsume is like, divine! You like, get me?"

Mikan scoffed and stopped typing in numbers on her calculator.

"Like how like many like times like do like you like have like to like say like LIKE?!"

Wakako and Sumire tipped their head sideways and replied at the same time,

"Like, Hunh?"

"God, this is going to be a LONG day."

In the teacher faculty room, there were about fifteen teachers talking about the new students. The room was a large meeting room, with large windows and table. The meeting was about to end, but a dark figure entered and surprised the staff.

"So… I hear about these three students, now do I?"

"Ye…Yes, Persona."

"Answer me clearly, Moriguchi-sensei."

"Yes."

"Good. Now, what are these students' names?"

"Fuyuto Komaguchi, Haruki Daun, and Akira Hyuuga."

"Akira Hyuuga is…"

"Natsume Hyuuga's cousin."

"Interesting… Their alices?"

"Fuyuto Komaguchi's alice is water, Haruki Daun's alice is air, and Akira Hyuuga's is earth."

"Really…"

"Yes."

"Since you are the history teacher, Moriguchi-sensei, do you mind telling me the history of the relationship between the four elemental alices?"

To be continued…

Claire: Yes, chapter one done!

Mikan: God, those math questions were so hard!

Claire: They're from my trigonometry text book, haha. I hope it was a nice math class for you, readers!

Mikan: So... what do you think so far?

Claire: It's really fun writing this I'd say. It's going to have a lot of drama, action, and ROMANCE!

Mikan: I wasn't asking you, Claire. I was talking to the readers.

Claire: Right, sorry, haha. So everyone, please review! It means the world to me!

Mikan: Thank you all for reading and please review!

Claire: And look forward to the next chapter (this will be a very long series)!