More than Real, Less than Fake
 Chapter 1:

Someone new

Mikan opened the car door and stepped outside into the warm spring breeze thanking the driver. She got her 2 pink suit-cases with white polka-dots out of the trunk of the taxi. Next she took out a big bag that matched the suit-cases.

The main gate into the academy was a whole block away but Mikan got anxious and refused to wait for the traffic to calm down. She would rather walk. At least it would give her something to do.

Mikan couldn't believe it had been 3 years. 3 years since she and her mother Yuka escaped the academy and lived in the outside world. Now that the principal and all his clones were destroyed, Mikan could come back and this time stay in the academy without a worry.

Yuka disapproved of her decision. She didn't want Mikan to go back to that school, but Mikan wanted to see everyone again. So she convinced her mother and now she was going back.

It was hard to believe that the last time she was here, practically the whole school was after her.
Mikan turned a corner and saw the main gate to Gakuen Alice.
She was excited but kept her pace steady.

She couldn't wait to see Hotaru, Ruka-pyon, Tsubasa-sempi, Narumi-sensei, Misaki-sempi, Tono-sensei, and even Jinno-sensei. And Natsume…
She blushed, remembering the last time she saw Natsume. He was the last person she saw as she was sucked into the key whole... ' I wonder…does he still think about me? After 3 years?' Her heart raced a little but she tried to shake her thoughts free of Natsume at least for now. She didn't want to enter the academy red as a tomato.

Nearing the gate she saw 3 figures waiting for her, patiently speaking among themselves. They looked down the street looking for the car that would bring Mikan back but only saw the same sets of cars that have been standing there for the past 10 minutes.

Mikan smiled brightly and ran toward the gate forgetting to keep a steady pace.
"Mikan-chan! You've grown so much!" Narumi-sensei said. He was the first to notice her running towards them and hugged her as she ran into his arms.
"Narumi-sensei!"Mikan hugged Narumi tighter and then pulled back. "How are you Narumi-sensei? How is everyone? Did you miss me? Did anyone change?"
"Now, now I'll answer all your questions but first you should greet these two." Narumi said pointing to the two men behind him.

Mikan looked behind Narumi and looked at the two men.
One had light blonde hair that covered half his face and blue eyes. He wore a strange uniform that made him look like her was from the military. Mikan recognized him instantly.

It was her uncle, the High School principal of the Academy.
She untangled her arms from Narumi and greeted him with a hug. "How have you been High School Principal?"
"It's nice to see you again Mikan, and it's nice to see that you've hadn't changed, how is your mother?"
Before Mikan could answer someone cleared their throat loudly.

Mikan looked up to see a tall man with black hair and dark red eyes staring at her.
Mikan started back at him. The man looked like Natsume, but…. Different.
"Ah, Mikan I'd like to meet the new elementary school principal, Yamamoto Hiroto." Said her uncle.
Mikan looked at the man then bowed down. "Nice to meet you, my name is Sakura Mikan."
"You don't have to be so formal."

When Mikan looked up again the tall man with black hair and red eyes was gone and in his place was a boy that looked about her age with dirty blonde hair and chocolate brown eyes.
Mikan jumped back in surprise. "WH… WH… WHO…"
"Don't worry; it's still the principal, Mikan." Narumi explained.
The boy with dirty blonde hair covered his mouth with his hand to try to stop himself from laughing.

"Sakura-san let me tell you about my alice. I have two alices. My first one is a metamorphous alice."
"Metamorphous…?"
"It means I can make myself look anyway I want. I can make myself any age, any hair color; even turn myself into a dog if I wanted to."
"Wow principal-san's alice is amazing." Mikan awed.

"Now my second alice. It's a memory alice, which means I can look into any persons memory. I can erase memories and even create false memories." She nodded still awed by both alices. Over the years in hiding Mikan met many new alices but never anyone with two outstanding alices. The memory alice was also something she wanted to see for herself ever since she heard about Natsumes' mothers' alice (but she didn't think that she could erase or make fake memories.)
"But my second alice is recent so it's not very good." Laughed the principal. "It's hard for me to look into someone's memory, and when erasing memories it only works when the situation happened in-between 2 to 5 minutes. Puls the false memories are really weak and most people mind's can find their way around them and think they are part of a dream."

"I see…um Principal-san how old are you really?" Mikan asked suddenly.
"Right now is my real self-appearance, so I'm 14 years old."
"The same age as me! But then what should I call you? Yamamoto-san? "
"Just call me Hiro-kun." He winked at her.
"Ok, but you have to call me Mikan." Mikan smiled at Hiro-kun.

"Well let's just go to the principal's office then." Narumi said in the background.
Mikan looked back a Narumi and her uncle about to ask why the principals' office, when suddenly a light flashed brightly forcing her to shut her eyes. Reopening them once the light cleared she found herself in a big room.

"Mikan,"Hiro-kun called from behind her.
When she looked back at him, Hiro-kun was no longer the 13 year old boy with dirty blonde hair, he was now an adult with black hair and dark red eye's.
"Welcome to my office, now we have to discuss some things." He said in a serious tone.

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First off this continues from chapter 135. Also this story…well plot doesn't really belong to me either. It's my older sister who wrote the first 3 chapters to this but never went on and when she started high school ( she goes to a privet high school and now lives in a dorm.) I got her laptop and found this story and asked her if I could finish it and she said ok. Anyways the first three chapters could be considered hers but I rewrote them in my own words (actually nothing changed much but the wording)but the rest completely mine. The point of writing that was to give my sister the fair share of credit. Love you sis!
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