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Chapter 2 I'm back minna!

Mikan let out a sigh as she flopped back onto her soft bed. She was feeling a little sad but nonetheless she was feeling excited and happy.

Today was the last day of her training in Konoha and she was looking forward to going back to the academy again.

Although she knew she was going to miss her new friends she really wanted to see Natsume, Hotaru, Ruka and all her other friends.

During these past six months the young girl had accomplished and learnt many different things through her training. She had learnt and studied many things including-

Healing techniques with Sakura

Taijutsu with Hinata and Lee

Weapons with TenTen

Genjutsu and mind strategies with Ino and Shikamaru

Poisons with Shino

Chakra control with Naruto

Ninjutsu with Sasuke, Chouji

Sharpening her senses with Kiba (like training her hearing, sight etc)

Now she was one of the strongest kunoichis in the Village of the Leaf (the others being Sakura, Ino, TenTen and Hinata) and she was a very strong fighter.

With her cheerful personality she had managed to befriend everyone (that includes Sasuke, Neji, Shino and Gaara!) and she changed them. Instead of being the anti-social guys they were before they were now a little tiny bit more friendly.

Mikan was well known throughout the whole village not only for her charming smile and her bubbly personality she was also known as 'Matchmaker Mikan.' Want to know how she got that name?

The brunette had done the thing that everyone believed to have been possible. She had actually managed to bring Sasuke and Sakura, Neji and TenTen, and Naruto and Hinata together. (Don't ask me how. She just did.)

She had become great friends with the other kunoichis. The boys who were usually cold and stoic had learnt to accept her and they now looked out for her like a little sister.

Mikan sighed again as she recalled the happy memories she had made with her friends. She knew she was going to miss them but she really wanted to go back. She smiled.

"I may not be by their side but they will be in my heart forever…"

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Next day…

Mikan stood at the entrance gates to the village and looked back at the place she thought of as her second home.

"Mikan!"

She turned to see everyone there. From Sakura to the Hokage, to Kakashi to the owner of the ramen store.

"Guys…" Mikan said as her eyes started to tear up.

"Don't cry Mikan." Hinata said softly patting her on the back.

"Oh that's right!" Sakura said as she mysteriously grabbed a small back-pack out of nowhere. She handed it to Mikan. 'Here!"

"What's this?" Mikan said taking the bag from the pink-haired girl.

"They're presents from the twelve of us. " TenTen said. "Don't open until you get back ok? There's also presents from Gaara, Temari and Kankuro"

"You're looking forward to seeing your boyfriend aren't you?" Ino said teasingly.

The brunette nodded and blushed. Farewells, hugs and a good amount of tears were exchanged as Mikan said goodbye to everyone. She walked to the limousine waiting for her.

"Bye guys! I'll remember you forever!" she shouted waving from the window.

"Mikan-chan remember to keep in contact!" Ino shouted.

Another lot of goodbyes were said as the limo drove off. Mikan clutched the bag close to her and a tear fell from her eye.

"Thank you so much…"

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Back at Gakuen Alice…

Mikan transferred her belongings to her room using her teleportation alice. No one knew she was back yet except for the teachers and she was eager to see all her friends again, especially Natsume.

She decided to talk a walk around the school's campus. The brunette sat down on a bench and watched as the clouds drifted across the sky.

With her sharp ears Mikan heard footsteps approaching and she hid in the branches of a tree. Mikan did not want to be seen yet, she wanted her return to be a surprise.

She looked down at the two people who were getting closer and placed her hand over her mouth to stifle a cry of horror. The two people were Natsume and… there was a girl with bright orange hair clinging to his arm.

"Natsume-kun! Let's sit here!" she squealed clutching tighter to his arm.

"Hn."

The two of them sat down and the girl began having a one-sided conversation with him.

Mikan turned away her eyes already filled with tears. One of them fell and hit Natsume's head.

"What was that?" he looked up but by that time Mikan had already gone.

Mikan was jumping away on tree branches, she wanted to get as far away as possible.

"Natsume… you broke you promise, you said you would wait for me…"

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Start of class…

Everyone was just mucking around in the classroom when Narumi pranced in.

"Minna-san I have very good news! Mikan-chan is back!"

Mikan walked inside the classroom with a smile on her face, happy to see all her friends again.

"Mikan?!" the class said looking at the teenage girl standing in front of them.

The brunette nodded slowly and took a good look at everyone.

Everyone was glad that Mikan was back because… it just felt really dull without her there. Even though she had a smile on her face they could see that her eyes looked a bit dull and sad.

"Is it just me or is Mikan-chan looking a bit down?Hmm… there's a strange look in here eyes today…"

At this precise moment the door opened to reveal Natsume and the girl Mikan had seen earlier.

"Mikan!" he said when he saw who was standing in front of him. He took a step towards her. "I-"

The brunette looked down with her bangs covering her face. "Don't come near me."

"What?"

"I said don't come near me!" she shouted.

Natsume looked shocked. "What?"

The class watched the two of them. They had known this was going to happen ever since Natsume had gotten together with Yumiko; a bitch who was only concerned about her looks, herself and Natsume.

The fire-caster tried to approach the girl again. "Mikan…"

"GO AWAY!" she screamed as she grabbed something that was hanging around her neck and threw it at him. "NATSUME NO BAKA, I HATE YOU!" she yelled as she ran out of the room.

Natsume looked at the object she had thrown and his eyes widened. It was the locket he had given to her, the one with his alice stone.

"Mikan!" he turned and ran out of the room to chase after her but she was already gone.

The class realised now why Mikan had looked a bit strange. The look of happiness in her eyes was replaced by a look of hurt… and betrayal…

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Mikan had teleported herself to her room and she sat on the floor crying her heart out. She knew the only people she could turn to know were her friends.

The brunette grabbed something from her bag that looked like a mini television and she calmed herself down.

"Clear you mind and focus…"

Mikan concentrated hard as she channeled her chakra through the small appliance and an image started to appear.

This is an invention that Mikan made. It is the chakra communicator. You channel chakra through it and you can you can talk to other people, sort of like a webcam.

"Hello?" she heard a voice call. "Mikan, is that you?"

"TenTen!" she said looking at the familiar girl.

"It's Mikan everyone!" TenTen yelled as she showed everyone the device, Mikan instantly recognised that they were in the Hyuuga's house. Everyone's face started surrounding the screen.

"Hi Mi-chan!" Sakura greeted.

Sakura peered closer to the screen "Are you crying?"

The brunette stayed quiet.

She saw the pink-haired girl stand up. "Out guys. It's girls only!"

Sakura shoved all the boys out of the room and locked the door.

"That's not fair Haruno! That's my room!" Neji yelled. Mikan giggled.

"Spill. What happened?" Ino demanded.

Mikan sighed and told them what had happened just moments before.

"I'm going to kill that Natsume-guy when I get the chance!" TenTen yelled as she cracked her knuckles.

"I'm in! Kill the guy who hurt Mikan!" Sakura said joining in.

"Me too!" Ino said.

"Hinata, what about you?"

"Hina-chan?" Tenten said waving her arm in front of her face.

The white-eyed girl looked up. "MIKAN TELL ME WHERE THAT BASTARD LIVES AND I WILL GO MURDER HIM RIGHT NOW!!!" she yelled.

Mikan and the other girls burst out laughing at her behaviour. After a few more moments of shouting and throwing things around she calmed down.

"Oh dear. What was I doing? What happened to Neji-nii's room?!" she gasped.

The girls sweatdropped and watched the girl frantically clean up the bombarded room.

"Don't worry Mikan. Just talk to us if you need help or just company." Sakura said smiling.

"We'll talk to you later girl. Neji is throwing a fit and wants his room back." TenTen said tying to ignore the shouts that were coming from outside the door.

"Bye!"

Mikan turned off the communicator and sighed. She felt way better after talking with her friends.

"I miss them already…"

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Next day… in Homeroom

"Now everyone Mikan is back. We will proceed from yesterday from where we left off before we were interrupted." Narumi said to the class.

No one was really paying attention to him. Everyone was looking at Mikan; wait the boys were staring with drool coming out of their mouths.

Well it wasn't really surprising since she was really beautiful and all. Mikan was wearing a black tank top and a mini red skirt with a short pair of leggings underneath. She was wearing rainbow coloured leg-warmers which were held up by suspenders and a pair of white shoes. On her hands were a pair of fingerless gloves and her hair was tied in two long pigtails that reached her waist. Around her waist was a ribbon-like belt that was tied in a bow behind her back with a sheath for a sword in it. One word: breath-taking.

"Mikan is a special star now and your partner will be-" Narumi said looking around but he was cut off.

"Sensei, I don't need a partner."

"But-"

"Where do I sit?" she asked.

"Well, I was planning to put you back in your old seat next to Natsume…" he said.

She sighed. "I'll sit in the bench behind him."

"What bench?" he asked. He turned and sure enough there was a bench behind Natsume's one.

"Oh… alright."

Mikan headed towards her new seat. "Mikan…" Natsume tried to talk with her.

"Shut up you bastard. I am not talking to you." she said. Inside she was still very sad but she was trying to cover it up with her 'rough' attitude.

"Don't talk to my Natsume-kun like that!" Yumiko shouted. (more like screeched.)

She was about to slap Mikan when the brunette grabbed the katana from her back. (A katana is a sword.)

"Stay back."

"You're so childish! Carrying plastic swords to class!" Yumiko laughed in a croaky voice. She did not pay attention to the warning Mikan had given her.

"Your choice." Mikan said shrugging as she sliced her hair off.

"You!" Yumiko tried to plunge at Mikan with her hair flying off everywhere.

Mikan pointed her sword a few inches from Yumiko's face. "Get any closer and your face will get even uglier than it is." she warned in a cold voice.

Yumiko backed away and ran to Natsume 'crying.'

"Natsume-kun! That bitch threatened me!" she said tugging his shirt in what she thought was a cute and adorable way.

"Piss off."

"What?!"

"I'm breaking up with you… not that we were together anyways. You just told everyone I was your boyfriend." he said pushing her hand away. "Get off me."

She fell to the ground and burst out crying which made her look like a snot-covered pig. (GROSS!)

"Mikan."

Said girl turned around to see Hotaru and her face broke into a smile. "Hotaru-chan!"

She started running to the raven-haired girl when Hotaru whipped out her baka gun from who knows where and started firing it at Mikan. Mikan smirked and dodged all the bullets and hugged her best-friend.

Everyone in the class was astonished. "She dodged ALL OF THEM!!! OMG!!"

"You baka." Hotaru said hugging the brunette back. "I missed you."

"I missed you too Hotaru-chan!"

An evil glint came into the inventor's eyes as she shot Mikan with the forgotten baka gun.

"Caught you off guard."

"Hotaru!"

"Sakura-san?" Mikan looked up to see Ruka, Iinchou and her other friends. Ruka helped her up.

Mikan broke into a smile. "I'm back everyone!"

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For the next week or so Mikan was acting more like her usual self but everyone in the class could see how much she was hurting inside even though she tried to cover it up.

The gang was sitting under the shade of the sakura tree just relaxing.

Mikan and the other girls were chatting and joking when Anna looked more closely at her shoes. "Neh Mikan-chan, who are all these people?" she said pointing to the names scribbled onto the shoes.

"Huh?" Mikan looked down. "Oh I remember now…"

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Flashback

Mikan was sitting in one of the training grounds along with the Rookie Nine and Team Gai. She was thinking about the academy when she felt someone poke her.

"Neh, Mi-chan can I ask you something?" Naruto asked.

"Er… what is it?"

"Can I sign your shoes?" he pleaded with large puppy eyes.

"Sure. I don't mind." Mikan said shrugging.

"Arigatou!!!" he shouted.

"Hey me too!" Kiba shouted.

"I want to sign!" TenTen said.

"Geez! Everyone can sign!" Mikan said kicking her shoes off.

Naruto produced an orange marker and wrote his name in big letters on the side of the shoe.

"Naruto you baka! You took up half of the shoe!" Sakura yelled punching him on the head.

"Itai! Gomen Sakura-chan. Please stop hitting me!!"

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"Well my friends just randomly wanted to sign my shoes." Mikan said thinking about how Naruto was beaten up and she chuckled quietly to herself.

"I'll tell you a bit about them!"

She pointed to the name scrawled in orange marker.

"Naruto. He is a loud-mouth who is obsessed with ramen and he is always working hard to become Hokage which is like the village leader. Blonde with blue eyes, and he can be a bit of an idiot sometimes." she said sweatdropping.

"Sakura. A strong fighter and a medic. She will bash you up if you diss her pink hair and she has tremendous strength so you wouldn't want that to happen. Often beating Naruto up."

"Sasuke. A bit anti-social but is actually very nice deeeeeep down. Best friends with Naruto and he has er… duck-butt hair."

"Duck-butt hair?" Nonoko asked.

Mikan laughed a bit. "His hair is always standing up like a duck-butt." she explained.

Natsume scowled. He did not like the fact that Mikan met boys during her stay in Konoha. (He still has feelings for her ya know)

Mikan noticed the look on his face. "Natsume, if you don't want to listen then you can leave. No one invited you anyway…"

"Ok… where was I up to? Oh Ino. She is a blonde with very pretty blue eyes and she is obsessed with shopping. Best friends with Sakura."

"Shikamaru. A lazy guy who thinks everyone is troublesome. Likes to sleep and watch clouds with Chouji."

"Chouji. Shikamaru's best friend. Likes to eat and he always has food whenever I see him. He likes butterflies."

She noticed a few extra names written on her shoes. "What the hell? When did Kakshi, Gai and Tsunade write their names?! Gaara, Temari and Kankuro too…"

"Kakashi is Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke's teacher. He is always wearing a mask and always reading … dirty books." Mikan grimaced when she thought about the little orange book Kakashi was always carrying around with him.

"Gai is Kakashi's supposed 'rival'. He is very energetic and er… youthful? Has horrible taste in fashion. Gai wears a green spandex suit and orange leg warmers… and he has VERY THICK eyebrows."

"Tsunade is the Hokage. She loves sake and gambling and is one of the Legendary Saanin. She took Sakura in as an apprentice."

"And Naruto says she has a very BIG chest. So does Jiraiya…" Mikan said to the girls who cracked up laughing.

"Oh, Jiraiya is another one of the Saanin. He's nice and all but… perverted."

"Gaara is very calm and cool. He has the ability to control sand and he is the Kazekage, which is the leader of another village."

" Temari is very mature and sophisticated. She is very good at fighting."

"Kankuro is Temari and Gaara's brother. He likes to make puppets in his spare time and he uses them during fights."

Mikan looked at her audience. "Do you want me to go on?" Everyone nodded as they listened to her.

"Who else? Oh right Hinata! Hinata is very shy but very strong. She can have instant mood changes and sometimes she doesn't know what she's doing. She has really nice hair."

"Kiba is very fun to be around with. He has a dog called Akamaru and they are best buddies."

"Shino is pretty mysterious and quiet and he doesn't really talk too much. He likes bugs."

"Who's next? Team Gai???"

"Lee is basically a miniature version of Gai and he idolizes him a lot." Mikan sweatdropped as she remembered how they had bonding moments os 'youth.'

"TenTen is known as the 'Weapons Mistress' as she is really skilled with weapons. She is a bit tomboyish and likes to spar with her teammates."

"Neji is Hinata's cousin. He has really long hair so sometimes he gets mistaken as a girl. Neji is a 'prodigy.'"

"There… that's basically it…" Mikan said sighing.

"Wow, Mikan you sure made a lot of friends there!" Nonoko exclaimed.

"Yeah…"

"Mikan what's in that bag of yours?" Hotaru said nudging the bag with her foot.

"Oh they're presents from my friends. Come to think of it I still haven't seen what they are yet…" Everyone sweatdropped.

Mikan tipped the contents of the bag out onto the ground.

"Hmm… I'll try and guess who gave me what." she said as she picked up a dog plusshie from the pile.

"This is from Kiba."

Mikan picked up a scroll from the top of the pile. "TenTen."

She picked up some gift cards. "Ino… she probably wants me to go shopping."

"Wow…" Mikan said as she picked up a hair pin with a small cherry blossom on it. "Thanks Sakura…"

"A book about clouds from Shikamaru? Why are't I surprised?"

"Chips from Chouji…"

"Aww… Sasuke's so sweet!" Mikan said as she cradled a kunai with her name carved into it. Natsume twitched.

She held up a pile of ninja tools; kunai, shuriken, senbon etc. "Hmm… Neji?"

"Shino gave me a mini encyclopedia on bugs…" the brunette said as she flicked through the pages.

"Hinata have me some healing ointment." Mikan placed it back into the bag with the other presents she had already looked at.

She picked up the next item. It was green. (Know what it is?"

"That Lee gave me a spandex suit!!!" sh yelled throwing it away from her while cracking up laughing.

"Who gave me this?" she held a hourglass in her palm. "Gaara I think…"

"Hm, a mini fan from Temari…nice."

"Chakra strings from Kankuro! Finally he gave me some after begging him for so long…" she said fingering the almost invisible strings in her hand.

"What's this?"

Mikan held up some slip of paper in her hand. "OMG ICHIRAKU COUPONS!!!" (It's pretty obvious who gave her these)

"Too bad I can't use them here…"

"Mikan-chan did you say Ichiraku?" Anna asked.

"Yeah why?"

"Well this new ramen store opened in Central Town and-" Anna stopped talking when something ran past her.

"Woot! ICHIRAKU HERE I COME!!!"

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