Ohayo Minna!

Yeah, it's been awhile since i've last updated, but i did say that this story was going to take awhile...right? I'd like to thank my wonderful reviewers, i've gotten more than I've expected!! And I seriously thank you for that. If you think this chapter is way to short let me know, I mean... I know it's short but I tried to not make it too short. But... okay, on with the show!

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Baby

Fade to Black: Hide & Seek Chapter One!!

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Chapter One

Mikan giggled, spinning around as cool drops of water hit her skin. A few paces behind her, Yoichi and Natsume walked under an umbrella, watching Mikan amused. Suddenly, she stopped and turned around to face the two boys, her long brown hair whipping her face in the process. She combed her wet hair behind her ears and gave a wide smile.

"Hayden, come dance with me!" She called out, and Yoichi shook his head. "Oh come on, you know you want to!" The girl teased, and Yoichi looked up at Natsume, as if asking permission to go run around.

"Hn…if you don't mind being wet for your lessons." Natsume said, and a smile lit up Yoichi's face before he ran towards Mikan's open arms. She spun him around, giggling, as the rain pounded against their backs.

Natsume looked on, admiring how happy and carefree Mikan acted. Mikan was right, it was a struggle for himself and Mikan to stop acting so cold and guarded towards others, but slowly their guards diminished into almost nothing, and the child in them that had been locked up for so long came out to play. Mikan set down Yoichi and they began skipping merrily, their heads tilted back and tongues out, trying to taste the rain. Mikan's white uniform shirt was almost see through now, and you could see the light blue tank top that she had chosen to wear under it that day. Thank God, Natsume thought to himself. He didn't need another reason for those hormone driven boys in their grade to stare at Mikan any more than they did. Stupid American kids. Natsume thought viciously as he remembered when he and Mikan first stepped into their classroom.

Flashback

Mikan's hand gripped onto Natsume's tightly. After spending the rest of their summer getting to know New York, the two had decided to go to their new school a week into the process again. Natsume rolled his eyes remembering the secretary's words. 'This class is pretty notorious for acting up. They've never had a new student before, and have been together since preschool, so it might be a little hard to fit in…' All that meant to Natsume was "rich, spoiled brats".

They came to a stop in front of their class room, 214, and Mikan decide to be the brave one, letting go of Natsume's hand and pushing the door open. The room was loud, but all the chatter going on stopped when Mikan and Natsume walked into the room. A teacher walked in behind them, ushering them both inside and closing the door behind her.

"Class," The woman said calmly, happy that for once this class was actually quiet. "We have two new students. This is Nathaniel Simon and Michelle Tinsley." The students looked to one another, refusing to believe that they actually had a new student. They'd been the only class to never be separated, and never had any new additions. They had been together since preschool and had planned for it to be that way since… forever. These two where imposters. Very hot imposters…

A guy who was tipping backwards on his chair, readjusted his baseball cap. "Tell us about you. We want to know." And then, the class seemed to relax. David, the most liked, yet dangerous guy in their class had spoken. He had given his approval.

"Um…" Mikan said nervously. "Well, we're actually kids of really famous band members overseas." Mikan blurted out. Natsume shot her a curious look. "They wanted Nat…Nate and I to live normal lives so they shipped us and his little brother, Hayden here to New York to go to school." The class all looked at them wide eyed.

"So…" A blonde haired girl said, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. "You guys are living by yourselves? Where?"

"At some suite at the Palace," Natsume spoke, and some girls squealed. Not only where their new students rich kids like them, their parents where famous, and Natsume had obviously inherited their ultra cool looks.

"Welcome…" David spoke again, and suddenly questions erupted from all over the room.

"Nathaniel! Nathaniel! Are you single?" A girl cried out, waving her hands around.

"Michelle, I'll show you around New York if you want, there's so much to see!" One boy shouted.

"Michelle, please date me, you look so pretty!" Another shouted.

"Um… is it just me or is the temperature in here going up?" The blonde girl asked. Mikan's eyes flashed and a second later she was holding something warm in her hand. The room temperature turned back to normal.

"Michelle… is my girlfriend." Natsume said through gritted teeth, looking at Mikan sideways. Mikan plastered a large smile on her face. "Give it, back Mikan."

"What? Your heart?" Mikan asked innocently. "I don't think so." And with that, she walked towards the first empty seat and plopped her butt down into it, ignoring the gaping students behind her. "I hope we can all become great friends everyone, despite what I apparently stole from Natsume."

End of Flashback

Natsume had of course, gotten his alice back with the guarantee that he wouldn't use it again unless it was a complete emergency. But there had been several times that he wanted to use it though. Even though the boys in their homeroom backed off from Mikan, there where still a lot of people in that school after his lovely girlfriend, it was a K-12 school, after all. "Teddy Bears, slow down before you bump into something." Natsume called out suddenly, causing Mikan to freeze and Yoichi to look up worriedly, he knew what was coming, Mikan was going to blow a gasket.

"NAT-NATHANIEL ELIAS SIMON! YOU PERVERT!" She shouted over the ruckus of New York. Yoichi groaned and covered his ears, almost running ahead while Natsume smirked, unaffected, he walked right past Mikan who growled and began jogging beside his fast pace.

"Wow, Michelle, I'm certainly impressed. I think that this time your voice reached a pitch that even birds can't hear."

"You are such a jerk, Nate, I don't even know why I'm your girlfriend sometimes." Mikan growled.

"Aw babe, you know you love me." He teased, causing both teens to freeze in their tracks. Neither of them had technically said that they loved each other before. It was always, 'I love Yoichi', or 'you guys are my family, I love you and thanks for being here'. But Natsume and Mikan telling each other that they loved each other, nope, that hadn't happened. They both felt it, well, Natsume did. Mikan was still too dense in a way to know what that type of love was. Sure, she wasn't innocent anymore, or even naive, but secretly going on missions with Persona didn't suddenly make her gain common sense or cure up her denseness. She just had the instincts that helped her not get killed. "We should hurry, or we'll be late." Natsume muttered before speeding up his pace. Mikan nodded and ran to catch up with Yoichi, who had already reached the front door of the school.

And another day begins. Yoichi thought to himself.

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"Mistress Yuka!" Said a man, reporting to one of the top people in charge of the AAO. She wasn't the boss, but she was one of his favorites, his right hand woman.

"Yes?" Yuka asked, looking up from her paper work exasperated. The academy had stopped attacking them. Either they knew where the location of Mikan Sakura and Natsume Hyuga or the academy just didn't know where their new base had been moved to. She prayed that it was the latter. The AAO couldn't afford for Mikan to be on the academy's side again. Last time, she had taken down over 400 of their top men, found the hideout that had been kept secret for about two years, and had blown it up, destroying some important information concerning the whereabouts of GA alumni.

"We just sent out a group to Shanghai and a group to Mexico City."

Yuka looked up, her face void of any expression. "This means that you where unsuccessful in Istanbul and Karachi." She stated. It wasn't a question, because she already knew the answer. If they had, those two kids would be unconscious and in her office.

The general looked down at his feet. "No mistress. Gomen, mistress."

"The group who just did their year's worth of searching can two months off. I expect them to be back here when that time is over." The general bowed before scampering out of the room.

"Mikan Sakura… come out, come out, where ever you are…"

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Love,

Baby