"See you tomorrow Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura said and walked back to her house.
"See you Sakura-chan!" Tomoyo waved.
Sakura skipped back to her house and saw some cars and a… man? woman? arguing with her dad.
"She doesn't have an Alice. I'm afraid you're mistaken," her dad said.
"No, we're positive," the person with blond hair said. "We can either take her peacefully or we'll have to use… different methods."
"What's going on?" Sakura asked running up to them.
"Ah, I take it that this is your daughter?" the blond man asked. "I'm here to take you to a new school, for kids like you."
A school for kids with magic powers? She thought.
"No, she doesn't have an Alice," her dad insisted.
Sakura's brother, Toya, came home with his bike.
"Hey, what's going on?" he asked parking his bike.
"They say that I have to go to a new school because of an Alice or something," Sakura said.
"The monster? With an Alice? Please," he snorted.
"Don't call me a monster!" she yelled and stomped on his foot.
"Ow!" Toya studied the man and the black car behind him. "For Gakuen Alice or something?"
The man nodded.
Toya had a brief exchange with his dad. "Okay Sakura. Get packing."
"But…!"
"Come on!" Toya dragged her inside the house and up to her room.
"What was that for?" she demanded.
"I know you don't have an Alice!" he hissed. "But if you don't go, they're going to hurt everyone you care about."
Sakura gasped. Her friends came into her mind, Chiharu-chan, Naoko-chan, Tomoyo-chan, Rika-chan, Yamazaki-kun, and Syaoran-kun. "I'll go! But how do you know this stuff?"
"It was on the news," he said. "Of course a monster like you wouldn't watch it."
Sakura got ready to stomp his foot but Toya quickly moved away.
"Improve your aim too," he said. "Remember to take your stuffed animal with you."
"Eh? You mean Kero-chan?"
Her brother didn't answer and left her room.
"Kero-chan," Sakura called. She stuffed some clothes in her bag. "Do you know a place called Gakuen Alice?"
"Huh? No, didn't hear of it, but it does sound familiar," Kero said closing a food magazine.
Sakura put some other stuff in the bag. "Should I bring the Sakura cards?"
"Sure, you don't know what's going to happen," he said. He slipped in the bag as she closed it.
"I wanted to see Syaoran-kun for a while, but I guess I can't," she mumbled.
She picked up her bag and went back outside.
"So you're ready?" the man asked.
Sakura nodded. As she got in the car, she looked at her brother. "Oniisan, can you tell Tomoyo-chan what happened today?"
Toya nodded and he and their father waved her good-bye.
They arrived at the school at night. During the way, the man had explained all about Alices and a bunch of other stuff.
"Welcome to Gakuen Alice!" the man said. "You're going to be a student here starting tomorrow! By the way, I'm Narumi-sensei."
"I'm Kinomoto Sakura," Sakura said. "Nice to meet you."
"Well, Sakura-chan, can I call you that?" Sakura nodded. "Okay, so anyway, Sakura-chan, here's your uniform."
"Arigato!" she said and took the uniform.
"Now, don't be late to class tomorrow!" Narumi said with a smile.
Sakura groaned. She was almost certain that she was going to be late.
She went to her room (it was a guest room because they didn't know her star rank yet, whatever that was) and unpacked.
"That was torture!" Kero yelled flying out of the bag.
"Sorry Kero-chan! But it was a long ride, and I couldn't let you out in front of the teacher!"
"Yeah, yeah. Do you have anything to eat? I'm starving!" he said looking around.
"Well, there's some snacks I packed—"
"I ate them all."
"KERO!" she yelled.
"Sorry, but I was hungry! You get hungry when you're stuffed in a bag for several hours you know!" Kero protested.
"Fine Kero, I'll forgive you this time," she laughed. She turned off the lights. "Good night Kero."
"Hooooeeee! I'm late!" Sakura wailed. She put on her uniform and grabbed her hairbands.
"You're going to be late in this school again?" Kero sighed. "Why didn't you set up an alarm?"
"I did, but I turned it off and slept in," she said tying her hair. She looked in the mirror and decided that she looked okay. She widened her pocket. "You want to come with me?"
"Sure, why not? There's nothing to eat and nothing to play."
Sakura checked the time. Only five more minutes until homeroom.
"Hooooeeeee!" she said and ran.
"Today we have a new student," Narumi said with his arm around Sakura. "Why don't you introduce yourself?"
"Ohaio!" she said. "I'm Kinomoto Sakura from Tomoeda!"
"Sakura, why don't you go sit in the back next to Mikan?" Narumi said.
A girl in the back stood up. The girl had light brown hair tied in pigtails and big brown eyes.
"Ohio! I'm Sakura Mikan, but just call me Mikan since it's going to be confusing with both of our names being Sakura," she said with a big smile.
Sakura smiled back and sat down next to her.
"Tch. Another new student?" a boy sitting next to Mikan said. He had black and startling red eyes.
"Be nice Natsume!" another boy said. The other boy had blond hair and blue eyes.
"Oh yeah," Mikan said. "The one with black hair is Hyuuga Natsume and the one with blond hair is Nogi Ruka."
"Nice to meet you Kinomoto-san," Ruka said. "Just call me Ruka. My Alice is animal pheromone."
Sakura smiled. His personality kind of reminded her of Eriol though they looked nothing alike. "Nice to meet you too." She looked at Natsume. "What about you Hyuuga-kun?"
"What about me?" Natsume said. "And just call me Natsume, that's what most people call me."
"Your Alice," Sakura said.
He opened his hand and a ball of fire appeared in his hand. He shot it at Sakura's hair which caught on fire.
"Hey!" she said and tried to swat out the flames.
"Stop it Natsume," Mikan agreed.
"Fine," he grumbled and the flame went out.
Sakura smiled a bit to herself. Natsume reminded her a bit of Syaoran when she first met him.
"Okay, I'll be leaving homeroom up to you, my dear substitute!" Narumi said and walked out leaving the sub telling him to come back.
"Can Narumi-sensei do that? I mean, just leave the class to a substitute?" Sakura said a bit shocked.
"Yeah, I thought it was weird too at first, but I got used to it," Mikan said. "By the way, what's your Alice?"
"Um, my Alice?" Sakura said caught a bit off guard. What should I say?
"Sakura, lie. Hurry up and make up an Alice!" Kero hissed from her pocket.
"Did you hear something?"Ruka asked.
Mikan looked around but everyone else were in groups chatting and bullying each other. "Don't think so."
"Um… My Alice is… well…"
"Hurry up and spit it out," Natsume said coldly.
"Well, I can… uh, summon different kinds of… elements," Sakura lied.
Natsume narrowed his eyes, obviously not believing her. "Show us."
BTW, this takes place after the ESP, but Natsume isn't dead and Mikan is still here. And of course for CCS, it takes place after she turns all the Clow Cards into Sakura Cards. Anyway, R&R!
