Hey guys, I've been writing this and Written in the stars at the same time. I've been meaning to share this story, Outlaws. I hope you will enjoy, and provide feedback. I will be posting another chapter Written in our Stars soon, I'm just in a fickle on where to go next with it. So for now, I hope you will give my Outlaws a try, and really appreciate your opinion please:}

Disclaimer: Don't own Gakuen Alice or Robin Hood, just the plot is mine.

Money is the reason we exist

Everybody knows it, it's a fact-kiss, kiss

Money is the anthem of success
So put on mascara, and your party dress

Lana Del Ray

"National Anthem"

Chapter one:

Princess Mikan stood in front of her fancy mirror, while frowning at her reflection. Her Aunt Luna on her dad's side, recommended that she should wear this for her Welcome Home Ball tonight. Scratch that, her aunt demanded that she would wear this tonight, no exceptions.

So she wore the frilly, howalon pink gown, with the royal jewels that glittered upon her skin, and killer high heels that would definitely give her blisters later on tonight. She felt that the person staring right back at her was a fellow stranger, not her mere doppelganger. Mikan would never wear anything this extravagant, Princess or not, she would have definitely worn something less luxurious.

Mikan sighed out loud, taking a look around her room that she hasn't been in since she was twelve-years-old. She looked at her big canopy bed, with ocean blue curtains hanging around it, which always made her felt like she was being sailed away to her own dream land. Also, her fairytale books and her porcelain dolls that were lining up the white shelves, and her own wonderful paintings that was hanged up on the walls.

She always had a talent of drawing and painting, so her father encouraged her to embrace it. She always hanged her artwork with pride, especially with her forest paintings. She loved playing in those northern woods outside her castle, always on the run from being etiquette and the responsibilities you carried out as a princess. When she was in the woods, she felt like a butterfly spreading her wings and being quenched with absolute freedom. Also, playing in the woods with those commoners who were not classified as social class, but just regular children to her. She usually dressed up as mere peasant girl, so it would be a lot harder to recognize her and they wouldn't treat her any differently.

Mikan heard a knock at a door, she told that person with a polite, "come in". An unfamiliar servant entered her room and told her it's time to come down, so Mikan nodded her head with a friendly smile, and the servant's response was running out the door. She found it quite weird for the servant's response, it looked like she was afraid of Mikan's radiant kindness, just like how the maids were when they helped dress in her attire. However, she decided not to dwell on her perturbed thoughts any longer.

She held onto her gown gracefully, and made her way out the door. She felt her heart doing a somersault as she descended down the spiral staircase gracefully, praying to herself that she wouldn't fall down those stairs, which she had done oh so many times before.

She wondered how her Aunt Luna reigned the Yukihira kingdom, while she was away to princess finishing school? Five years is an awfully long time; it would have been longer if Mikan didn't beg for the principals at the academy to let her graduate early. She never got any letters from her aunt on how the Kingdom was doing? Or any report on how her father was doing of the arduous quest he was sent to do five years ago?

Once she reached the final step, she was dumbstruck at the ballroom and the people she saw. Everything was lit up with castle colors, also everyone wore a mystifying mask except for her, which made her felt exposed because she had no mask to cover her own face. She heard someone announcing her presence, the aristocrat humans halted their dancing and slightly bowed at their Princess for acknowledgement. Once they did that, they continued their dancing and she heard the music getting louder.

Her heels clicked against the marble floor, which seemed to reverberated around her, just like the instrumental music that was playing. She saw her aunt sitting on her father's throne, looking beautiful as a blooming rose.

When she approached her aunt, she properly curtsied at her like how she was taught at the academy. She smiled at her aunt, happy to finally really see one of her blood relatives. However, her smile diminished when her aunt didn't smile back. Queen Luna arose from her chair, while some of the servants were holding onto her fluffy dress so that she wouldn't fall down. Mikan had to restrain herself from laughing because she did find the dress quite eccentric.

"I'm sorry, I wasn't here to greet you when you arrived, my dear niece. You know how long it takes with dealing with politics, and I wasn't informed with your unexpected arrival," Mikan wasn't sure, but she felt like her aunt's honeyed voice seemed to thicken with too much sweetness.

"I kind of want it to be a surprise, but I also noticed something. It seems there's only humans here, where are the Alice users?" Mikan inquired with heavy curiosity.

"My dear, they tried to overrule me while threatening me to give up the throne with their dangerous Alice. So I put them in the lowest class possible, so that they would know their place. Mikan, it was quite a dreadful experience," Queen Luna began to cry, and it pulled onto Mikan's heartstrings.

She couldn't believe it, her own people doing something so barbaric like that. Maybe that's why her aunt send her away because she thought this might happen with her aunt being a replacement ruler. Also why her aunt never gave her the news on what's going on at her kingdom, just to keep her safe from harm's way. However, a nagging part of her was clawing through her mind to not believe what her aunt was telling her.

A servant gave her pack of tissues, and she blew onto it very lady like, which Mikan was still not available to grasp on how to do that yet.

Queen Luna pointed with her long, polished nails at a girl around Mikan's age. She had curly black hair, with pointy cat ears on top, and she had shackles on her hands.

"This is Sumire Shouda, she will be your lady in waiting or servant. Don't worry, those shackles restrain her from using her Alice, so you're in perfectly good hands,"

Sumire approached Mikan, and curtsied at her. She felt bad that Sumire had to wear those, when no one was looking, she would later take those dreadful things off of her. Even if it's for her own protection, she wasn't the criminal who threatened her aunt or even her, Sumire was only classified as having an Alice. Which is bad, in front of her Aunt's eyes. So does that mean her aunt could still use her Alice, just not everyone else? Heck, was she even allowed to use her own Alice at all?

"I am looking forward to working with you, your highness. Please take this mask, and let me see how much the academy has taught you with ballroom mannerism," Mikan took the mask from her shackled hand, and put on this beautiful swan mask.

As Mikan and Sumire both enraptured themselves in the ballroom atmosphere, unknown to them, a person wearing a black cat mask stared intently at the Princess.

He smirked, and whispered under his breath. "Welcome home, Princess. I hope you will be available to prepare yourself for the real war that has yet to come,"