Chapter 1

"Normal talking"

"Thoughts"

One day Mikan was walking down the halls to her classroom when she heard an explosion. Soon after an alarm began to go off, and screaming echoed throughout the hallways. She jolted up in bed, realizing that the screaming was her own and the alarm was only her clock yelling at her to get up. It was just another day at Gakuen Alice. Mikan got out of bed slowly and started getting ready, mindless of the time. As soon as she finished she had to run to class because she was late, as usual. As she was running she ran into something and landed hard on the ground.

"Ete." Mikan groaned as she stood up and brushed off her skirt. "Ah gomen!" she apologized as she lifted up her head. But what she saw was her worst nightmare, Natsume Hyuuga.

He looked up ar her and said, "Oy Hearts, you should stop running in the halls you know." It took Mikan a moment to realize what he meant. "Natsume no hentai! It's your fault now I'm late!" Yep just another day at Gakuen Alice.

A few hours later found Mikan and Natsume in class with the others waiting for Jin-Jin to arrive. Jinno walked into the class room only to find two sleeping figures; Natsume had a manga over his eyes while Mikan was snuggling her face into her arms. Irritate, Jinno pulled out his metal rod and shot a bolt of lightning at the two. Natsume detected the dangerous aura well before it hit him and managed to evade it but Mikan had no such luck.

The sleeping girl was struck by the lightning and quickly jolted out of her blissful dreaming. She lifted her head up and looked around the room groggily. She spotted Jinno and quickly snapped to attention "Ah gomenasai Jin-Jin I mean Jinno-sensei!" she said quickly while jumping up to bow to him. He ignored her and started class as usual. In the middle of class, a voice came over the intercom. "Mikan Sakura come to the High School Principles office immediately." Curious as to why she had been called, Mikan slowly walked over to the High school building.

When she reached the door of the office she cautiously knocked. "Come in!" a voice called through the door. She creaked open the door and peered inside and was surprised when the principle greeted her. "Hello, Miss Sakura. Thanks you for taking the time to come see me." "Oh please call me Mika, if you wouldn't mind," She replied. The principle smiled at her, "So Mikan, the reason I have called you here is to tell you about some important information." Mikan was curious about what he was about to tell her. "What information?" She asked with a note of curiosity in her voice. "Mikan you will be leaving this academy soon."

He said looking at her with a soft gaze, "If you refuse then you will have to be put into solitary confinement until you chose to leave." Mikans eyes widened and she began to tear up "Why?" she managed to choke out. The principle looked her in the eyes and sighed, "Mikan, you actually have two very dangerous Alices and if you don't learn how to control them, you could hurt your friends and other members of the school. Because of this we decided that when you were ready we would send you to go train with a good friend of mine who also has the nullification and S.C.E Alices." "You mean … I have two alices? What is the other one?" Thinking, she added on, " You also said "we" … Who else planned this with you?" "Your other Alice is the S.C.E. alice, also called the Steal, Copy and, Erase alice. With this you can steal any alice you like and erase it or you could simply just copy it." The principle replied. "So you're say that if I wanted to I could copy, let's say Hotaru's Alice, and use it as if it was my own?" Mikan asked, the possibilities of such an alice tumbling through her mind. He nodded his head. "Basically, also you asked who I had planned this with. So I'm just going to be honest with you. I planned this entire thing with your father."

"My father? No, offense but why would my father plan this with you?" Mikan asked "Ah, no offense taken." He chuckled "But as to why he would actually work with me is because I am your uncle." Mikan was shocked to say the least. She thought that the only member of her family left was her grandfather. "My uncle ….. you're my uncle!" she cried out, excited to know that she had another family member in this world. " Yes, and I have been watching over you and protecting you but now I need you to go and train you' alices so that you can live a semi-normal life." He said as he walked up to her and gave her a hug. "How long will I be gone?" Mikan asked worriedly, she didn't want to be away from her friends for a long time. Her uncle looked at her apologetically. "For you to fully train your alices you will have to train for three years." "Three years!" She yelled in shock. "I have to leave my friends for three years? "It's necessary for you to master your alices." He explained. "Also you can't tell you're friends about this because there are many AAO spies lurking about the academy." Mikan sighed "I guess if it's necessary. I understand uncle." She turned to leave then looked back at her uncle despairingly "But what will I tell Hotaru and all of my friends?" "You can just tell them that you've lost your alice and can't stay at the academy anymore. How does that sound?" he suggested as he pulled out a bag of rabbits. "Oh yes! Why don't you take these rabbits and buy whatever you need for the trip?" "Okay uncle. Thanks for telling me everything." Then Mikan walked out of his office as that door slammed behind her.

When Mikan got back to class everyone was crowding around her asking her what had happened. Except for the usual three. "So what did the principle want to talk to you about?" Nonoko asked. "Nothing much , he only wanted to talk to me about my grades." After that everyone just walked away grumbling about how stupid she must be. Then she noticed Hotaru giving her the "look", implying that they would talk about it later. As class ended Mikan Started to walk to her bedroom but Hotaru grabbed her by the sleeve and pulled her into an empty class room. "Okay Mikan why were you really at the principle's office?" Hotaru asked with a serious look on her face. Mikan took a deep breath. "I don't really want to lie to Hotaru but…." "Since its you Hotaru, I'll tell you. I've lost my alice and I'm not allwed to stay in the academy anymore." Hotaru was shocked. She had heard of others losing their alices but it never crossed her mind that it could ever happen to Mikan. "I … have to go I'm so sorry Mikan." And she ran out of the room. Once mikan was sure she was gone she broke down saying "Hotaru im so sorry I hope one day you can forgive me for lying to you." Then she thought "Well at least Natsume will be glad to get rid of me."

Mikan had gotten bored of sitting around once she was finished packing so she made her way to her favorite sakura tree. She sat down and began to sing. Natsume was sleeping high up on a branch in his favorite sakura tree when he was awoken by the sound of someone singing. He thought that it was just some girl passing by until the sound didn't fade so he began to listen to the song.

Walked away, heard them say
"Poison hearts will never change, walk away again"
Turned away in disgrace
Felt the chill upon my face cooling from within
The song was sweet with a melancholy undertone but what bother Natsume the most was the lyrics.
It's hard to notice gleaming from the sky
When you're staring at the cracks
It's hard to notice what is passing by with eyes lowered

You... walked away, heard them say
"Poisoned hearts will never change, walk away again"

All the cracks, they lead right to me
And all the cracks will crawl right through me
All the cracks, they lead right to me
And all the cracks will crawl right through me, and I fell apart

It sounded as if she was about to leave forever.

(the leaving song by AFI)

He looked down curious as to who it was singing and was so surprised that he almost fell off of the tree. Mikan had heard the rusling in the tree and looked up, only to see Natsume falling. She scrambled out of the way to avoid getting flattened. Once he had hit the ground she went over to him to see if he was hurt. "Yo cherries, why were you singing under the tree?" he asked looking up at her. She was thinking about telling him the truth then she had remembered what he had called her. "Why would I tell you pervert!" She yelled " And anyway how did you see?" She asked with a slight blush gracing her cheeks. Natsume smirked "While you were running away your skirt flipped up." "Oh…" Mikan mouthed to embarrassed to actually say anything. "So, anyway why were you singing so terribly?" he asked insultingly "I don't sing that bad." Mikan huffed " and as for why I was singing its none of youre business so I don't have to tell you."

"If you didn't sing horribly then why did I fall out of the tree? I don't believe that that is a normal occurrence for me." He shot back at her. "You fell because you're clumsy, baka." Mikan shouted. Then she quieted down and went to go sit by Natsume. "Ne, Natsume ? What would you do if I were to leave the academy?" She asked and wondered why she was so nervous for his answer. Natsume was taken aback by her straight forward approach and immediately replied. "I don't know but it would be a lot more peaceful around her and no one would bother me anymore." In his mind he was wondering why she had asked him that "Why would she ask that? It's not like she's actually leaving. Right?" Then he thought " Wait what if she really is leaving, then I will follow her and protect her. FOREVER" "Figures that he would say something like that" Mikan thought "What did I expect 'oh Mikan please don't leave me I love you so much kiss me now'" she found it funny that she would actually think that. So she stood up to leave but as she was getting up natsume had grabbed her wrist. They were both shocked by his actions and Natsume quickly let go. She ran back to her room blushing. "stop thinking about Natsume, you idiot." She chastised herself. "He's you're worst nightmare, remember." Natsume could only watch as Mikan ran back to the building, feeling a blush rise up on his cheeks. "No, no, no, no! She's Mikan, got that Natsume?" He shook away the feeling, but a dark cloud of foreboding hung in the back of his mind for reasons he was not sure of.

Hey readers thank you soo much for reading my story I'll try updating weekly but because of breaks, school, and other suck things it may take longer. I will notify you if its will take longer thn planned. Oh and a special thank you to my beta Yemi Hiakri she's the best. Arigato minna!