Natsume Gets a Twitter

written by: A Lucky Penny

Full summary: Natsume Hyuuga, on a very boring day, suddenly decides to make a Twitter. Weeks after making one, he indirectly tweets about Mikan Sakura almost everyday. Unknown to him, he left his account public; making everyone who's following him know what he's doing or thinking. And on another note, Mikan Sakura stumbles to his Twitter profile. Being the curious and naive girl that she is, she decides to stalk him.

Disclaimer: I don't own Gakuen Alice. Or Twitter.

Author's Note: I think there are fan-made Twitter accounts of our beloved characters. But I didn't use them to write this fanfic. I made up all the usernames and settings. The GA gang are all 15. The usernames won't have the "at" sign before them when in mentions or just simply stated.


ONE: NATSUME GETS A TWITTER

It was a very peaceful day in Alice Academy. The halls were awfully quiet and no one was out and about. Right after the Alice Festival, no one really had the energy to do anything else but sleep in.

Except maybe one person.

"Welcome to Twitter. Find out what's happening, right now, with the people and organizations you care about," a raven-haired lad said; completely uninterested. He was clad in a black t-shirt and trousers and effortlessly made such a simple get-up look cool. There was absolutely no question why he remains the most popular boy in the Academy. Ruffling his hair, he filled out the needed information and clicked "Sign Up for Twitter" on the website's page.

As the page loaded, he recalled the conversation he had with Ruka Nogi, his best friend.

"I'm telling you, Natsume, that site is addictive," Ruka told him. Eversince the guy made an account, he'd been going on and on and on about how Twitter was the best site humankind could ever make.

"I'm telling you, Ruka, I. Don't. Care," he replied nonchalantly, punctuating every word. They were walking around the school's grounds, skipping classes as always. He felt Ruka shrug.

"How about a dare then?" he heard him say. This effectively caught his curiosity.

"And this dare is?"

"If you get THE Hotaru Imai to back off of taking pictures of me when I'm not looking, I won't force you to make an account. If you don't however..."

"You'll make me make an account," he finished flatly. He glared at his 'friend.' To think he, of all people, would pull out the Imai card on him because of Twitter. He clenched his fist.

"Do you want me to burn you?" he asked seriously, making a ball of fire appear on his formerly clenched hand.

"C'mon Natsume, if after two weeks the Twitter fever doesn't get to you, I'll stop bothering you. Would it actually hurt you to make an account?" Ruka looked at him pleadingly. He had always hated it when his 'friends' walked over him as easily as that. He made the fireball vanish after coming to a decision.

Slapping Ruka's back as painfully but as restrained as he could, he walked away from him saying, "Let's just hope you end up alive after this."

When the page had completely loaded, he read the form and typed in 'kuroneko13' as his pun username then clicked "Create my account." "I'm going to regret this soon," he thought.

Yes. Yes, he would.


As the day dragged on, with still no active students, Natsume was starting out on Twitter. He decided to follow Ruka and the other guys as the site suggested he do, clicked "Next" and was asked to follow five more. Grunting, he searched for his favorite mangakas and followed them, clicked "Next" and immediately skipped the part where the site asked him to add five more through emails and stuff. He was then asked to supply a profile picture and bio.

"Stupid Ruka," he muttered as he struggled to look for a picture that wasn't his face in his files as a profile picture. Finally settling for a red-eyed black cat as a pun, he typed in his bio ('you should know who I am, dimwit'). Then, he came face-to-face with the profile settings; starting with his header.

"What the hell should I put here?" he thought, irritated. Scrolling mindlessly in his folders, he settled for a picture of flames; a mixture of red and orange - another pun.

Who knew the genius and handsome Natsume Hyuuga liked puns?

After leaving his location and website blank, he clicked "Save Change", got back to his Twitter Timeline and turned his attention to the left side of his profile.

Ruka was the number one person Twitter recommended him to follow. Amused at that, he followed a couple more users that he actually knew or was interested in.

After following more than 20 users (which consisted of the guys who hung around him and famous mangakas), he decided to officiate his account by tweeting. "Well damn. What the hell am I going to type here?" he asked to himself in rage. Muttering colorful words with Ruka's name with it, he decided to look at the guy's profile for reference.

And for the nth time, he was speechless. Ruka Nogi had a tiled background of pictures of animals. His profile picture was a picture of him smiling happily at his pet rabbit. His banner was the picture of him and Piyo; taken by Imai. His username was " nogipyon." His bio read, "Ruka Nogi | future vet." There wasn't anything written there to serve as location and website. The guy had almost a HUNDRED followers but was only following 10. Natsume proceeded to read his tweets. To his utter shock.

"'Got together with the animals at the barn again. I will never get tired of those guys!'" he read. Ruka, who was also stoic like him to some extent, could actually tell the WHOLE WORLD something like this.

He scrolled down more and was silently surprised with each one. All he tweeted about was his moments with his pets. "How was tweeting all of this ADDICTIVE?" he thought.

Closing the tab of Ruka's profile, he prepared himself to type in a tweet.

"If this account ever goes out, I'll burn nogipyon."


~Two weeks later~

It wasn't his intention to actually get addicted to Twitter himself. He just seemed to like the challenge of typing his thoughts there for exactly 140 characters; strangely enough. He tweeted about anything and everything. Mentioning Ruka and the others when they hung out, if he should burn the former yet after some random girl announced it to the whole school, and other normal stuff for the flamecaster.

He didn't particularly give a damn about his follower count anymore (he had 500 followers and growing), as long as he was only seeing the tweets of those he knew. Occasionally, he'd search "Mikan Sakura" on 'People' but no one matched the Academy's former no-star; to his utter dismay.

He planned to stalk the idiot's profile to know if she was doing anything that would raise cause for his concern. Sure he saw her during the day, being her partner and all, but he wasn't with her at night; where most displeasing activities took place. He almost burned his mouse at thought before getting back to reality. He began to type.

"To think she almost made me burn my mouse. Damn it." he tweeted.

And at the mention of a "she", Alice Academy almost shook by the ear-splitting scream of most of the female populace.


Author's Note: My first fanfic after so long! What did you guys think? The idea came out of nowhere honestly and I was bored out of my wits. I actually made a dummy Twitter account to help me lay out Natsume's. XD Mikan Sakura would appear in the next chapter! Yay! Please leave a review! Don't be too harsh on me please!