Writer & Editor: Sakura-chan (Aaand Kyoko-tan managed to find some mistakes still. .-.;)

Disclaimer: No, unfortunately I do not own Natsu- I mean, Gakuen Alice. -sigh-

Being a royal is not as easy as it seems, thinks Mikan. Well, it was all a nice ride until she met the Prince from next door. They embark on the matters that all humans face, as well as what no human would want to imagine themselves to be in...

"Remember when we first met?"

"Pfft, yeah, how can I forget?" She laughed as tears streamed down her face.

I. Once Upon a Time

An alarm clock rings in a room in a mansion in the land of Hanakura. A certain girl in her bad doesn't budge, or heck, even move. It seems that alarm clocks don't work for her...

That's why there are various alarm clocks in her room!

One goes off, then another, no two having the same ringtone. Finally, the girl shuffled in her bed.

"Arg, why is it so loud? I can't sleep..." She says, half-awake. She looks up at one of her clocks on her bedside table. She has five on each bedside table, having ten in total.

She glances at one of them. "Oh, it's only 9:35, and I have to be downstairs at 9:30..." She lies down onto her bed and closes her eyes.

A few seconds later, they burst open. "Wait, it's 9:35, and I have to... oh no," she kicks off her covers, goes to the washroom to do her morning routine, tripping when she came out of the washroom in the process.

"I'm almost done," she says between her breaths as she put on her pink top, orange knee length skirt, and white knee high socks. She runs out of her room and run-

Plip~

BANG!

"OW!"

Okay, I mean fall down the stairs.

She gets back up and limps to the kitchen, where her mom and dad are sitting at the table. Her dad is drinking coffee and reading the newspaper and her mom is reading a book.

"Good morning mom and dad!" She smiles a big smile, trying to act as if nothing wrong happened, like she wasn't late, and she didn't just trip on the stairs.

"Good morning late Mikan," her dad replies.

"..." Mikan puffs her cheeks. "It wasn't my fault, the alarm clock-"

"All ten of them," her mom adds onto her sentence not looking up from her book. Both of her parents laugh.

They are the more relaxed-type parents.

"Okay okay, all ten of them didn't wake me up," she explains to her parents, then suddenly realizing that it's her fault, again.

Her dad gave a sigh as he puts down his newspaper, and looks at her. "Mikan, you're 16 now, most kids your age don't need a gazillion alarm clocks to wake themselves up."

"Well-"

"And you're a princess of this kingdom too."

"But I-"

"You are going to eventually be the Queen of this Kingdom, and judging from the way you are acting now- "

"Okay okay dad, I get it. 'Judging from the way you are acting now, I won't be fit enough to take care of the land,' blah blah blah."

"Good, understand and do it," her dad gets up and looks at the fridge door, "and since you understand that, can you go get milk for us? We ran out it seems."

"Why can't you get the butlers to go to the store and get it?"

"Because of what we just talked about."

"Can I at least eat something first?"

"You came down too late."

"... fine," Mikan crosses her arms at her waist, "but do I have to get bodyguards?"

"Yes, of course. We're not letting you out of this house without bodyguards."

"But, as you said before, I'm 16. I don't need bodyguards."

"Oh yes you do. No matter how old you are, since you're a princess, you need a bodyguard. Your mom has bodyguards when she goes out too," her dad goes up to her and ruffles her hair. "I'm sorry Mikan, but I can't let you out without bodyguards. It's much too dangerous without them with you," her dad smiles at her.

"Fine..."

'I'll just escape from the bodyguards when I get out...' Mikan thinks to herself as she puts on a sweater and walks out the door of her mansion.

~(^^)~

"Arg, where can you find '1% Partly Skimmed Milk?'" She grunts to herself as she was walking on the sidewalk with her bodyguards walking behind, in front and beside her.

"Uhhm, we passed a few stores already that sells it..." the butler replies. Her parents in the last minute, in fact, made her bring a butler along just to make sure she gets what is needed.

"Ehhh? Why didn't you tell me?" She moans. "All of the stores look exactly the same! Why don't they say 'We sell 1% Partly Skimmed Milk' on their front door? It would have been so much easier..." She cries as she hits her forehead. "I guess this is why my mom and dad wanted me to go buy it myself..."

"Yeah, you just need to go out more often and get to know the places, Sakura-sama. Don't worry, we'll help you." Her butler replies, and gives a smile.

"Thanks," she replies, and they continue walking down the street while the butler explains what each store contains and about the city near their house.

Meanwhile while that was going on, in the kingdom directly beside them...

~(^^)~

"Hit that target with your Fire now," the butler in the land of Kiminatsu orders.

A fire ball emerges from one certain boy's hand, and he launches it at the target, right in the center, as usual.

"Good Hyuuga-sama. Seems that you get better and better each day," his trainer taps the target. The center of the target is completely black from the lad's fire. He had to admit, he's getting very good at this.

"Tch, this stuff is too easy." He replies bluntly while he was wiping his forehead with a towel.

Since he was discovered with this strange power a couple of months ago, his parents made his "most professional at self-defence" butler train him. As much as he doesn't want to, he doesn't have a choice, and neither did his butler. His butler knows how much he hates these trainings that he must do at least 4 times a week for a couple of hours. If he doesn't, he'll get a big scolding from his parents.

It's not only because of the fact that he was apparently "gifted" with this magical ability, but also because of safety. He was almost kidnapped several times now when he was around the forest behind his mansion, and his parents thought that it'll help "decrease the attempted kidnappings."

The farthest the kidnappers have gone though, was grabbing his arm. Natsume was smart, and knew what to do whenever that happens. However, because of this special power, his parents thought that it's best for him to get trained with it so that he can be safer.

Of course, he doesn't tell anyone this. Only the people who he's closer with know about this. This stuff doesn't make it to the press because this happens in the back of his house, where people are not allowed to go to.

-Except for the people who would do anything to get power and/or money from his kingdom.

"Okay Hyuuga-sama, I think your training is done for now."

"Thanks." Natsume left the training room, and went straight to his bedroom and straight into the showers.

He throws on some clothing, jeans and a random shirt to be a bit more precise, and is about to walk out of the mansion when...

"BIG BROTHER!"

"What."

"Aoi-chan needs help with her homework!"

"No. Do it yourself."

"But-"

"I helped you yesterday already." He replies without looking at her, and continues tying up his shoelaces.

"Please? I don't get this one question," she gives the so-called "puppy-dog" look. Natsume isn't attracted by it at all. However, he realizes he hadn't done his homework yet. He has to give some credit to his sister for reminding him, despite the fact that he hates doing homework.

Natsume sighs.

"Fine," He takes his shoes off and walks with his sister to the living room, where she did her homework.

After a few minutes, he manages to help her on a few questions.

"Thanks big brother!" Aoi replies back and makes a wide grin.

"Go ask mom or dad next time, idiot." He hits her gently in the head.

"But they're always too busy. It's been so long since we've had some family time..."

"I'm fine with them being busy." Last time they had family time, Aoi barfed on the roller coaster.

Natsume almost chuckled when he remembered that. They went to an amusement park, and their dad dragged the whole family onto a roller coaster. What his dad didn't know was that the roller coaster he just dragged them on was one of the fastest and longest roller coasters in the world.

Natsume didn't mind and thought his dad knew that, but when he realized that his dad wasn't aware of it, they were already at the top, and then, they heard a loud "BLECHH" as they were going down.

Aoi interrupts his train of thought.

"Yeah, but when they talk to us now, they're only telling us what to do, and giving lectures to us for not behaving the way they want us to." Aoi looks down at her homework and starts fiddling with her pencil.

"Better than having them staring at us 24/7." Natsume says as he walks out of the room, one hand in his pocket, and the other carrying his manga.

"Hey, I have one more question!"

"No. Do it yourself, or you'll never-"

"Yeah yeah yeah. I get it, 'or I'll never learn, and I'll be an idiot forever,'" Aoi sighs. "I'll do it myself. Just don't give me a lecture like what mom and dad does. 'You're the princess of this land, and you, Natsume are going to be the king. Act like one!'" She mimics what their parents say to them all the time.

"Pfft, I hate hearing that," He replies as he walks towards the door, again. "I don't want to own this dang place anyways." He mutters to himself as he walks out the door, with his bodyguards.

Who knew that their fated meeting would be like this?

Aaaaand there's chapter 1.

Of course, next chapter will be much more interesting, I hope. Review please~ and please read our other fanfictions too! :D

-Sakura-chan, aka, the obsessed Natsume fan.