Attention. I do NOT own Gakuen Alice, the owner of this manga is Higuchi Tachibana. Also the idea for this manga was thanks to the author Yumesakura and her story That Was Then, This Is Now. I decided to write a story similar to theirs with mystical creatures and forbidden love. This story was written for Higuchi Tachibana and Yumesakura. Please enjoy :]
Chapter 1: The Rules: Natsume's POV-
Let's just say my kind is cursed. For centuries, we've lived in secret, posing as humans, when that was the farthest thing from the truth. We have powers, great ones, and one of those powers allowed us to change our appearance to look human. We're forbidden to show what we really look like to humans. Sure there are few humans that know of our existence, but we wipe their memory clean as soon as possible. They don't like us getting too close to humans. We can have human friends sure, even our best friends can be human, as long as they don't know what we really are. However, falling in love with a human is strictly forbidden. Though I shouldn't say it's forbidden, but cursed. We aren't allowed to reveal who we are, however, if we believe we love a human, we instantly have to go to him and get permission to reveal ourselves, and when we do reveal ourselves, if the human accepts us, and isn't afraid of us without hesitation, then we will have permission to spend our lives with that person. But face it. That never happens. It's obvious why. When we are in our normal form, we look unapproachable, are skin, it's pale, well I shouldn't say pale, it's a creamy color. Much like my human skin color. Our hair grows longer then our hair in our human form, for most of my kind, their hair grows very long, but for me, it grows an inch and a half longer. It also changes color, usual my hair is a raven black color, but when I'm in my normal form it turns into a gothic dark purple. My eyes, which normally are a crimson red, turns into a bright gold. My kind had huge dark raven wings when in our normal form that are majestic and actually don't look as bad as you'd think. I guess I can't say we looks scary, but beautiful, and unapproachable, a good word is different. Sane humans won't go near us, insane humans however tried to hunt us, they learned later that that was a mistake. We don't really have a name, but back when everyone knew we existed, they called us Dark Angels, because our appearance was one that looked like angels, but in humans eyes we were "evil". They believed this because we had long claw like nails that were deadly along with sharp fangs. Anyways, that was then, this is now, and humans don't know we exist. We walk among them every day in our human forms. We all have amazing fighting abilities and powers, the strongest one amongst us is me, for I have the ability to control fire. Also due to my heavy training I'm very good at fighting.
"Natsume, it's time for school" I heard my sister call from downstairs and I groaned. Our mother decided to enroll us in a school in order to get us use to life outside of our realm. The entrance to our realm was located in the Northern Woods, next to this academy named Alice Academy. I sat up and looked at myself in the mirror. I was in my normal form at the moment, so I let my wings wrap around me and saw a faint glow as I transformed into my human form. I got in the shower and when I finish changed into the schools uniform, which was long dark dress pants, with a white button up t-shirt with a collar, and a purple tie. I ran my fingers through my hair and messed it up putting it in my normal style before putting on the dark shoes and heading downstairs. Aoi was sitting at the table in her human form, usually when shes in her normal form, she had long gothic dark purple hair like mine that reaches her waist, with golden eyes. She would also have her fangs wings and claws. But in her human form she had raven colored hair like mine that reaches her shoulders and crimson red eyes like mine. She was younger then me by two years, so she'd be in middle school while I was starting my first year of high school. While I was able to control fire, she could sense the presence of any living creature. "Morning Natsume Onii-san" she said with a perky smile and I looked at her.
"Morning son! Here eat breakfast, Ruka is on his way over" my mother said and I nodded. Ruka was my best friend. In his normal form he had white hair that's as long as my hair when in my human form, and sapphire blue eyes, with his wings fangs and claws. However in his human form he had blonde hair that was shorter, and blueish grey eyes. He was able to communicate with animals and they seemed to be in love with him. His mother decided to let him go to the school to so I would have someone there to relate to. I heard the door open and looked up and saw Ruka there pulling at the collar of his uniform uncomfortably.
"G-good morning everyone" he said and sat down next to me and smiled. Seeing Ruka in his uniform made me realize how stupid we looked so I loosened the tie and unbuttoned three of the top buttons on the white collared shirt. "Isn't that against dress code?" Ruka asked and I shrugged. I could care less, I thought this was a stupid idea. What was the point of being around humans? Befriending them just showed weakness. Also, because I'm the strongest of our kind do to my power, I'm watched by a man who is suppose to keep me in line. This is because they feel like I will try to run away, and so I felt that if I ever got close to a human, it would end badly.
"Your going to be late! Hurry and go to the opening in the realm" my mother scolded and we nodded and sat up. Aoi and Ruka said good bye to my mother then we left. When I opened the door, I looked up to see Youichi starring at me, wearing the middle school uniform. (A/N: Youichi is the same age as Aoi in this story).
"I'm going to school with you" he said and I saw he was in his human form. When in his normal form he had pitch black hair and lime green eyes. However in his human form he had silver hair and misty blue green eyes. He was able to control evil spirits. He looked very young for his age, but he was still a heart throb to every girl in our realm besides Aoi. He had a group of fans just like me and Ruka, but he treated them the same as we did. Me and Ruka hated our fans. I hated them because they claimed to "love" us, and I never believed such a feeling existed, it was too good to be true. Ruka hated them because he was too nice to ignore them like I did, so they thought that he felt something towards them. However Youichi hated them because he already had feelings for someone, and that was Aoi, but my younger sister was dense, that and he never showed it. I nodded and the boy started following us the the entrance of our realm. I could tell why he insisted on going with us, he didn't want human boys flaunting over Aoi. When we reached the opening that would lead out of the realm and into the human world.
"Aoi, are there any humans on the other side of the portal?" I asked and she closed her eyes and knotted her hands together as if she were praying. I saw a faint pink glow surround her for a couple of minutes before she opened her eyes and the light disappeared.
"Nope nothing but a few birds and a squirrel" she said and smiled. I nodded and entered the portal, which was more like a worm hole. I felt a weird pulling sensation and when I opened my eyes I looked around to find myself in a forest. Not long after I went through I heard Aoi behind me along with Youichi and Ruka. "Oh that was weird" Aoi said and giggled. We've never been outside our realm, the four of us had to stay in our realm and train for missions that that man would give to us to fulfill in the human world. I heard Aoi gasp and turned around and saw her looking around the forest in amazement. "Wow! I've never seen something like this. Oh I can't wait to see the school and people!" she said enthusiastically and started roaming the forest.
"Aoi, theres no time for that, let's go" I said coldly and when she turned around to argue I gave her a deadly glare showing her there wasn't any discussion. We walked in silence after that, well, until we reached the road that led to the school.
"Oh. My. God." Ruka said and starred at the buildings and cars that raced by. We didn't have huge buildings in our realm, our realm was very village like, and there weren't any need for cars since we could fly where ever we wanted to go.
"I've seen cars on tv...but they are so much bigger in person!" Aoi said and moved herself so she was hiding behind Youichi. "T-they're kinda scary" she said with a nervous laugh.
"Pft whatever, let's just go to the stupid school" I said and started toward the school and I heard their foot steps behind me. When we made it to the school, there was a teacher standing outside the door watching the students file in. I started heading towards the teacher to ask where the principle's office was when I heard running coming from my right. I looked over to the source of the sound and saw a girl with light auburn hair that was in two pig tails that were tied up with a purple ribbon that matched the collar of her skirt running towards me. I noticed she was wearing the high school uniform for girls, which was a short purple skirt that was the same color of my tie, and a white button up short sleeved shirt with a purple collar and a red bow tie. (A/N: To see uniform look on my profile :] it's the same uniform for elementary and middle schoolers besides the collar.). She didn't notice I was standing there until she collided with me.
"Uh oh Natsume's not going to be happy" I heard Aoi say nervously when I landed on the ground with the girl on top of me. The girl sat up rubbing her head before opening her eyes revealing liquid brown orbs.
"Ugh what hit me?" she said before looking down and noticed me glaring at her. "Ah! I'm so sorry I didn't see you, my names Mikan Sakura, this is my first year in highschool" she said and stood up, and due to her short skirt revealed her panties, before offering me a hand.
"Pft watch where your going Polka Dotted Panties girl" I said and got up on my own before continuing walking. I heard Aoi and Ruka gasp while Youichi laughed slightly.
"Wh- You saw my!" I heard the girl scream before she appeared in front of me. "You have some nerve to peek at a girls underwear then walk away like nothing happened, pervert" she said and stuck her tongue out at me. At that moment she was really starting to piss me off.
"Like I would peek at a annoying ugly girl's panties like you, it's not my fault you wanted me so bad that you jumped on me and in the process showed me your panties, stupid polka dotted panties girl" I said and I saw her mouth drop open before I walked past her. "Aoi, Ruka, Youichi let's go" I said and I heard them following me but then I heard Aoi's voice.
"I'm sorry, my brother is very rude, I'm Aoi Hyuuga, my brother is Natsume, and that's Ruka Nogi and Youichi Hijiri, it's nice to meet you" she said in her cheery voice and I knew we were screwed. No matter what, Aoi would befriend this girl.
"Hi I'm Mikan, are you new here?" the girl asked in a cheery tone practically forgetting what just happened. I looked at her, she had a bright smile on her face and her eyes were shining like today was the best day ever. What was with her? She was so cheery, she was worse then Aoi.
"Yeah we just transferred here!" Aoi said, and I could tell she was excited about making a new friend already. "Uh do you know where the principle's office is?" she asked and I saw the girls eyes brightened...if that was even possible.
"Don't bother Aoi, we can find it on our own, we don't need that Baka's help" I said and glared at the girl, who glared back.
"Natsume don't be so rude" Aoi said and then turned back to the girl. "I'm sorry about him, he's just not use to this kind of school. Where we come from, school doesn't...school isn't like this" she said and I was a clueless expression on her girls face.
"Not all schools are like this?" she asked and I saw Ruka and Aoi nearly fall over at the girls comment, while Youichi just pinched his nose in frustration. "Where do you come from?" the girl asked and we all froze.
"Um...uh you see...we-" Aoi started but I could see she was getting nervous so I walked in between them.
"That isn't any of your concern, Baka, learn some manners, Polka Dots" I said and I saw the girls hands clench into a fist and her face turned red due to anger. "Let's go" I said and glared at Ruka Youichi and Aoi telling them that it was a command. They nodded and started walking towards the school.
"Bye Mikan! See you later!" Aoi shouted over her shoulder and when I was walking next to her she glared at me. "Natsume! Why were you so mean to that girl, she's so friendly and nice!" she scolded and I didn't even glance at her.
"Hn" I said and kept walking. What was it about that girl, she always had a smile on her face, it disgusted me, yet, something about her smile. "Shut up! Stop thinking about that human" I scolded myself and put my hands behind my head. When we reached the office, the principle handed us our schedule and had a teacher bring Aoi and Youichi to their class. Before they left I grabbed Youichi by the collar. "Watch her" I said and he nodded before running to catch up.
"Now lucky for you, your teacher is right here, so he can bring you to your class" the principle said to me and Ruka before standing up and opening the door. "Narumi, your new students are here, please bring them to class" she said and a man with blonde hair, who looked a lot like a women, walked in. "Have a good day boys" she said before closing the door leaving us with our new teacher.
"Why hello there my wonderful new students, I'm Narumi-sensei, it pleases me to make your acquaintance!" he said and I glared at him. He cringed and rubbed his head and laughed nervously. "Well what are your names?" he asked and I was about to tell him to suck it but Ruka stepped in front of me.
"I'm Ruka Nogi, and this is Natsume Hyuuga" he said and the teacher smile.
"Well it's nice to meet you. Oh gosh, I'm late, we have to go!" he said and with that left the office with us following him. On the way he talked about random things, and mentioned that we would have "partners" or something like that.
"This guy is nuts" I muttered and Ruka laughed softly. When we made it to the room, the teacher swung the door opened and smiled.
"Hello my wonderful students, please forgive me I'm late again!" he cheered and twirled into the room and we followed a safe distance behind him. "Now first off, these are our new students! Ruka Nogi, and Natsume Hyuuga!" he said and I scanned the room. Right away my eyes were starring into a pair of liquid brown orbs. The girl from earlier. I could see she was shocked, but I also noticed that she seemed to have a dilemma. The gay teachers voice broke me from my trance. "Now Ruka's partner will be...Imai-chan, would you mind being Ruka's partner?" he asked and petite girl with short black hair and purple eyes starred at him.
"Fine, but at a price" she said and I swear I saw her eyes gleam. The teacher sighed and pulled out his wallet, and took out 240 yen and handed it to her.
"Now a partner to Natsume" he said and scanned the crowd. Many girls raised their hands but I didn't notice them, I was starring at the girl, I think her name was Mikan. Naru must have noticed this because I noticed him smile and he looked up at Mikan. "Mikan would you mind taking on the job?" he asked and I saw the girls eyes widen.
"Eh? You want me-?" she started but she was cut off by the teachers clapping.
"Splendid! Mikan move to the back, and Natsume sit next to her, Ruka sit in Mikan's spot next to Imai" he said and Ruka nodded and I headed to the back. I sat down in the chair next to the window, and put my feet on the desk. The girl walked over and sat in the seat next to me before looking at me.
"Hmpf" she said and stuck her nose in the air and turned her head. This made me want to smile, of course I didn't, but the way she acted...she was like a 9 year old in a 15 year olds body. For some reason I couldn't help but stare at the girl. The gay teachers voice once again broke me from my trance.
"Well now that everyone is hereā¦it's free period! Ja!" he said and with that he left. The girl immediately stood up and ran towards the girl who was partnered with Ruka.
"Hotaru!" she called and tried to hug the girl, but the girl pulled out a weird gun shaped object and shot the girl with a round plastic like ball.
"Mikan-chan are you okay?" a boy with blonde hair and glasses said running over to the girl who was rubbing her head.
"Y-yeah, I'm fine Yuu. Hotaru! Why are you so mean?" she asked and the girl with purple eyes looked at her.
"Baka" she said simply and the girl Mikan pouted her lip. For some reason seeing her pout her lip like that made me feel weird.
"I told you already, stop thinking about that girl" I scolded myself and then saw a small book under the desk. I picked it up and looked at it. I remember seeing these kind of books on tv, they are called manga books. I opened the book to the first page and began to read, only to get interrupted by Ruka.
"This place is weird" he said nervously before sitting down next to me. I looked at the classroom again, and again, my eyes rested on Mikan who was smiling and laughing along with a girl with pink wavy hair and a girl with straight dark blue hair. What was it about this girl that made me constantly stare at her? "Natsume, what are you starring at?" Ruka asked pulling me back from my thoughts.
"Nothing" I said before turning back to my new book. That's what I did for the rest of the day, and when teachers would yell at me or start to at least, I would send them a glare that would make them leave me alone. But in return I would receive a glare from a certain brunette sitting next to me. At lunch, me and Ruka went to the court yard to wait for Aoi and Youichi. I sat under a Sakura tree while Ruka went to get something to eat. I didn't care that much for the food here, I could wait to eat something at home.
"Aoi-chan!" I heard someone yell and looked up to see Mikan walking towards Aoi and Youichi with a smile on her face. Aoi smiled and walked over to her and waved. "Aoi-chan do you and Youichi want to come with us into town after school to go shopping?" she asked and Aoi smiled.
"Sure!" she said and she looked at Youichi who was glaring at her. "Please Yo-chan" she said and pouted her lip causing Youichi to grind his teeth together.
"Fine" he said and Aoi jumped up and down clapping her hands in excitement. I saw Ruka walking towards them and Youichi grinned slightly. "Ruka" he said and nodded at him.
"Hey Youichi, hi Aoi, how's your first day so far?" he asked and Youichi shrugged. Aoi smiled and looked around.
"It's been great, everyone is so friendly, I heard you and Mikan-chan are in the same class! Isn't that great?" she said and Ruka smiled.
"Oh Ruka-pyon do you want to come shopping with us after school? C'mon it'll be fun" she said and smiled and Ruka sighed before smiling.
"Sure" he said and she smiled and started counting her fingers as if to keep track of something. I didn't understand why I couldn't stop starring at her.
"Yay! That's Hotaru, Ruka-pyon, Aoi-chan, and Yo-chan" she said and smiled again. That's when she noticed me sitting here watching them. I quickly turned my head so I was looking at the sky, but she still made her way over. "Natsume do you want to come with us to town to go shopping?" she asked and smiled at me.
"Why would I do that?" I said and narrowed my eyes at her. She blinked like she was confused and when she opened her eyes I saw that she really was clueless. It surprised me when she laughed and smiled again.
"It'll be fun! C'mon Aoi Ruka and Youichi are coming" she said and she pouted her lip. For some reason whenever she did that I got this weird feeling. I went to say no, but the words got caught in my throat. I groaned then turned away.
"Whatever" I said angrily. She smiled and clapped her hands.
"Yay! That makes it Hotaru, Ruka, Aoi, Youichi, me, and Natsume! Eh? Why aren't you eating? Aren't you hungery? Here have some of my lunch" she said and shoved a brown paper bag near me. I leaned away from her and sneered.
"I don't need anything to eat" I said and she glared at me. She opened the bag and pulled out a container that contained what looked like soup
"Here eat it, I made it myself, it's red bean soup with mochi, it's a little spicy, eat it!" she said and shoved it towards me. I placed my palm on the container and pushed it away.
"No" I said and I saw her eye twitch in frustration.
"Eat it"
"No"
"Eat it"
"No" I said then she closed her eyes and sighed. I put my hands behind my head and smiled to myself knowing I won, but then she pressed the container against my lips and tipped it causing the soup to pour into my mouth. My eyes widened in surprised but it was either swallow of have the soup spill over onto my uniform. After I had drank all of it she smiled.
"There" she said and I saw her eyes sparkling. I have to admit, the soup was really good, but I wouldn't say that out loud. Instead and glared at her and wiped my mouth. I looked at her, she was annoying, no...she as completely obnoxious, loud, careless, and not very smart, yet here I am, sitting in front of her, and not only that she just forced soup down my throat, and I'm not angry. "Did you like it?" she asked and I saw her eager to hear an answer.
"Pft, what'd you do? Make this blind folded? I had to force it down" I said and that wasn't a lie. I did have to force it down, considering she nearly poured it down my throat. Also it was amazing, and I bet she could cook it blind folded and it would still taste great. But of course I couldn't be completely honest, I had to twist my words, and of course it worked.
"You're so mean!" she whined and I closed one of my eyes, as if in pain. I cringed away from her and lifted my hand to my head as if I had a really bad headache.
"Geez what are you trying to do? Make my ears bleed?" I complained and her cheeks puffed out in anger and I saw her hands clench into fists.
"Hey you two" I heard someone say and looked up to see Ruka smiling at us with Aoi and Youichi next to him. "What are you two talking about?" he asked and I put my hands behind my head.
"Nothing, she's trying to make me go deaf with her screaming" I said I swear I could see a vein pop on her forehead. Ruka laughed nervous and I heard Aoi mutter something around the lines of "thats cruel".
"Oh Natsume, he dropped by Youichi and Aoi's classroom today, he told them he will give us our first assignment later today at home" he said and I sighed.
"Already huh? Whatever" I said and stood up. Without even saying anything more I started walking towards the woods to be alone.
"Natsume! Don't forget we're going shopping, meet us here after class is let out!" Mikan yelled, completely forgetting about earlier again. I turned my head so I was looking at them and narrowed my eyes slightly.
"Whatever Polka Dots" I said and with that, I walked into the forest, leaving Ruka, Youichi, Aoi, and a screaming Mikan behind me. I went deep into the woods before climbing into one of the oak trees. It wasn't long until I drifted off into a nap.
"Natsume, Natsume get up" I heard someone say and I opened my eyes and saw him standing there in front of me. I've never seen him in his human form, but the mast and black suit showed that it was him.
"Persona. What do you want?" I growled and he smiled. This man I absolutely despised. He threatened my family and friends in order to make me follow him, and who knows what he might do to them if I didn't listen.
"Oh Natsume, you don't seem to happy to see me. I've come here to give you a...special mission. I notice there is a hunter in the city, and I couldn't help but notice that you are planning to go there with a group of "friends" after school. So during that time, I will make an appearance showing you where the hunter is at that moment, break away from your group and take care of him" he said and smiled. "Is there a problem with that?" he asked and I growled at him before glaring.
"As if I have a choice" I said bitterly and he grinned his evil smile. With that he jumped down from the tree and disappeared into the forest. "Dammit" I muttered and jumped down from the tree and headed back to the school. When I got there, the classes were being let out, so I went to the Sakura tree and sat down to wait for those idiots.
That's it for chapter 1 !! thanks for reading ! please comment :] I need to know if I should continue, though I probably will :] have a good weekend everyone !!
