THE DISTANCE OF LOVE
A Gakuen Alice fanfic (my second fic)
By: Ryuamakusa4eva
Disclaimer: ...I own nothing...right?
Summary: This fic is based on a movie called The Lake House, so, the story is about Mikan and Natsume's love...but they're on a deferent time. Mikan on 2007 while Natsume on 2004, how will they meet each other? Rated T for safety.
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Chapter 1.5: Mikan's Past
TWO YEARS AGO
(It means this is in 2005)
Spring was the best season in a year. The weather wasn't too hot or cold and the breeze felt so nice when it made contact with skin.
In a small town at the outskirt of city, there were a few houses that surrounded by forest. Unlike the city, there were gaps between houses so the building didn't look being squeezed to each other. The gaps between houses were used by the owners to plant flowers, vegetables, spices, or medicinal plants. The road hadn't been replaced by asphalt, still the natural ground that sometimes created a few puddles of mud when rain came.
Suddenly, a door of the house that was near the forest was slammed open. A brunette ran out with a big smile on her face. Not long after she ran out, an old man hobbled out of the house, worry etched all over his face as he watched the girl running to the forest.
"Mikan-chan!! Don't go too far away!!" the old man yelled to the brunette.
"It's okay, Jii-chan! I'm only going to the Sakura tree that I showed you before!!!" Mikan yelled back, waving at him while she kept on running to the forest in front of her.
"But it's inside the forest!! That's too dangerous!"
Too late, Mikan had already run into the forest and she was out of the old man's sight by now.
She ran deeper to the forest, passing trees and bushes, until she found the Sakura tree she had been searching for. Her smile widened when she finally reached her destination, small pants coming out of her slightly parted lips.
"This is it," she breathed in excitement as she approached the tree. She touched its brown bark and circled the tree once before she sat under it.
She always liked the tree which had the same name with her surname. Whenever she was sad or happy, she came to the tree and stayed there for a while. It had been her habit since she found the tree when she was lost in the forest months ago. She ever showed the tree to her grandfather and he also admired the beauty of the tree, but he didn't want Mikan to wander to the forest often since it was dangerous.
Mikan looked up to the pink flowers that bloomed on its thick branch and smiled. The tree never failed to amuse her when it was fully blooming.
After watching the rows of trees in front of her for a while, she sang. Her beautiful voice could be heard throughout the forest.
(Before the Dawn, By: Evanescence)
Meet me after dark again and I'll hold you
I want nothing more than to see you there
And maybe tonight, we'll fly so far away
We'll be lost before the dawn
If only night can hold you where I can see you, my love
Then let me never ever wake again
And maybe tonight, we'll fly so far away
We'll be lost before the dawn
Somehow I know that we can't wake again from this dream
It's not real, but it's ours
Maybe tonight, we'll fly so far away
We'll be lost before the dawn
Maybe tonight, we'll fly so far away
We'll be lost before the dawn...
As she was done singing, wind blew smoothly to her, stroking her hair gently, making anyone that witnessed this sight faint because of her angelic feature. But the said girl wasn't aware of the beauty she emitted. She closed her eyes instead and enjoyed the breeze.
Not far from the place where she was sitting now, a guy was smirking upon seeing her.
The smirk wasn't a kind one. It was a devilish smirk; full of malice and bad intention. And no, it wasn't lust. Though the girl was beautiful, he just saw her as a mere target only.
"'Target' is in sight...hehe...prepare to get a promotion after capturing the little girl," the guy mumbled to himself behind the bushes, dark atmosphere surrounding him.
So evil the aura he emitted that it reached the girl. She broke out of her reverie and looked around, wondering if there was someone watching her, and mumbled, "Hm...Why do I feel like someone is watching me?" Whoever it was, she wished it wouldn't harm her or do something along that line.
But unfortunately for her, what she was afraid of was already in front of her eyes when she was about to lean her back on the trunk and enjoy the calm atmosphere again. A guy in black came out from bushes and stood in front of her, a devilish smirk on his face.
Startled, the brunette immediately recoiled, only to let out a surprised gasp when her back met the hard trunk of the Sakura tree. "Wh-who are you??" she asked, trembling with fear.
The guy's smirk widened, satisfied to see his victim's reaction upon seeing him. "Well...I'm...your FEAR," the guy said, stretching his hand to her.
But before the guy could touch Mikan, there's a boy at her age appeared in front of her all of a sudden and burnt the guy's hand with fire emitted from his hand. "Ouch! Godammit!!" The guy stepped back, clutching his burnt hand to his chest while taking in the boy's appearance.
Raven hair and a black cat mask.
Those two simple things were enough to make the guy's eyes widened.
"Hey it's The Kuroneko!" the guy said out loud. "What a lucky day! I could get a 'treasure' and beat the Kuroneko's ass!"
"As if you could beat me," Kuroneko said with a monotone voice.
"Wa-wait! Wha-what is going on???" Mikan asked, looking at both males in confusion.
"I'll tell you later, 'Orange'!" Kuroneko said as he threw a fire ball to the guy, only to be dodged easily by the man. The young male continued throwing fire balls to the man's direction, until his fire balls hit the guy right on the stomach. The man's shirt got burned, but, strangely, it didn't injure him a little bit.
"What…?" Kuroneko mumbled in perplexity.
"Ha! You didn't know my alice yet!" The man laughed in triumph, black smoke appearing on his right arm. "My alice is Darkness, no weakness! I could absorb your power and change it to my power!" Then, something like a black smoked sword appeared on his hand. Once he got a firm grip of the dangerous thing, he immediately aimed his sword to Kuroneko.
Mikan was dumbstruck and trembling with fear at that time, but her body suddenly moved by itself, running to the space in between both males. Without they realized, she had been standing in front of the Kuroneko. She quickly mumbled something that no one could hear it, and then she blocked the guy's attack easily with a simple touch.
The guy's knelt down after the unharmed impact.
"Wh-what?" Engulfed by bewilderment, Kuroneko looked at the brunette, searching for her face to get an answer about what just happened. When the brunette didn't turn to look at him, he hesitantly touched her shoulder. "H-hey...are you-" But the girl fainted and fell backward before he could finish his sentence. That caught him by surprise.
He stretched his hands out to the brunette and caught her before her body made contact with the hard ground. "Hey!" He shook Mikan's body back and forth, trying to awake her. But the girl didn't budge. Giving up on waking the fainted girl, he scrutinized her sleeping face in silence.
'Her alices have already awakened huh? ...She used her nullification...and then she used steal...I bet she could use that bastard's power now. Good job...Mikan,' he thought as he lifted her in bridal style and started to walk away, burning the villain to a crisp before he left the forest.
Once he was out of the forest, he took in the new surrounding and walked to the nearest village, where Mikan's house was.
On the way to her house, the brunette came back to consciousness. She stirred a bit before opening her eyes after feeling the intriguing, comfortable warmth that she wasn't familiar with.
Kuroneko, feeling the small movement, shifted his eyes to the girl in his arms and asked, "Hey...you're awake?"
"H-huh…?" Mikan blinked the rest of oblivion away and looked around her, before she finally realized that he was lifting her up in bridal style. Her eyes widened at the awkward position she was in at that time. "What the!??" she yelled.
"Ouch! You'll make my ears bleeding!"
She smiled at him nervously. "Sorry...but can you tell me what happened and who you are? ...And first, put me down. I can walk," she said.
Kuroneko put her down and stuffed his hands in his pockets. They resumed walking together to the village.
Mikan was a half running now, trying to keep up with the boy's pace. When she had reached his side, she stole a glance at him and asked, "So? Care to explain what happened?"
The boy glanced at her for a while then sighed before he started to explain what just happened minutes ago to her for good ten minutes. His explanation was fast and straight to the point and, thought she had a bit difficulty in catching a few words he said, Mikan nodded in understanding.
"I see...So, someone wanted to kidnap me and you're here because 'that' Alice Academy higher-ups said so?" she confirmed.
Kuroneko just nodded then said, "Not only because the academy said so. It's too because I wor--...oh, nothing," He said, avoiding her eyes.
(Mikan already know about Alice Academy and alices)
Mikan nodded. "Okay…So...why is 'that' Alice Academy higher-ups sent you here? I'm just an ordinary girl right?" she asked him.
"Because you have an alice too...or should I say...alices."
She immediately stopped dead on her track. "What???" she yelled exactly to his ears, causing the poor boy to cover his ears with his hands. "I have an alice???...wait, ALICES!!???"
"Jeez…Don't yell will you?" he grumbled in annoyance, pulling his hands away from his ears when he thought it was already safe. "Yeah you have alices. They're Nullification, Copy, and Steal."
"WHAA-" Mikan quickly covered her mouth when she spotted his glare. "Oops...sorry..." She smiled sheepishly and cleared her thought. "Oh and, who're you?"
At the question the boy looked away for a moment before fixing his gaze on her again. "Kuroneko," he murmured. "The Academy always calls me that."
Mikan jutted her bottom lip out in a dissatisfaction pout. "I wanted to know your real name."
Kuroneko sighed. "Oh...well, my name is-"
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The loud sound of alarm clock made her jolt up on her bed. "WHO???" she yelled, her eyes still in daze of sleep. Yawning, Mikan rubbed her eyes and blinked the sleepiness away, her right hand reaching for the alarm clock on the bedside table and turning the noisy thing off.
When she had regained her full consciousness, she took in her surrounding, finally realized that it was just a dream and she was still on her bed. "...That was a dream...about two years ago..." she mumbled to herself as she scratched her head and thought for awhile.
"…Wait a sec…" she gasped when something dawned upon her. "KURONEKO! So that Kuroneko from yesterday is him??? That pervert is the one that helped me at that time?? ...oh my god!" she yelled to no one.
"That perv...so he has raven hair. Too bad I couldn't see his face. If I could, I'll find that guy and beat him up! Hahahah!" she laughed maniacally, and then stopped when she felt like an idiot who laughed like someone that had a mental problem. "...What am I doing? Oh well…"
Sighing, she stretched her arms, releasing the stiffness on her back and then took a glance at her clock. Her eyes widened in the next second. "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!" she yelled again in horror, making herself an alarm clock to those who were still sleeping in that dorm.
TO BE CONTINUED
A/N: once again, i wanted to say thank you to illutia for have Beta Read this fic!!!
