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Co-authors: Crystal and Sapphire
Beta reader: Amber
Chapter 2 – Introducing… (part1)
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A/N: to avoid any confusion, we've put the narrative and students in italics and Yuki/teachers' speeches in a regular font.
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She turned around and came face to face with a pair of crimson orbs.
Mikan and Natsume stared daggers at each other.
Suddenly, Narumi, the head of the Dramatics Section entered the hall.
"Aww…c'mon guys! This is the first day of school! Pleaseee no fighting! Besides you'd look better kissing than fighting!"
Everyone slowly turned towards their teacher and fixed him with their stares. Natsume's was a death glare of very high intensity, Mikan looked totally lost and Natsume's fan girls had a mixture of horror and wrath on their faces.
Narumi sweat-dropped.
"I think I'd better go assist principal Yuki" he squeaked and fled, wondering why everyone had been glaring at him.
"Good morning students!" announced Yuki cheerfully. The students finally noticed his presence and took it as an unofficial signal to be seated, although poor Mikan still received incredulous looks from the girls and interested ones from the guys. Natsume, with his usual air of indifference, grabbed his friend's arm and said, "C'mon Ruka. We have better things to do than worry about dirty polka-dotted carpets."
Mikan heard this and turned, her face tomato red, "You…you…PERVERT!"
"Whatever, little girl" replied Natsume, walking away.
Fuming, Mikan took her seat. She could still hear Hotaru's gun blasting people who had dared to consider themselves more important than her crab-brain food containers and been presumptuous enough to take the seats in her row.
"Welcome to Gakuen Alice! New students, let me introduce you to your teachers: this is Narumi-sensei, the head of Dramatics"
Narumi sprung up like a jack-in-the-box and cried happily "Oooh… so many new faces!" he clasped his hands together and spun around "We're gonna have a fun year people and I …" he paused as he swerved left, narrowly dodging Hotaru's baka Missile, "Promise lots of Romantic Drama in the classrooms this year!"
"Is he serious?" whispered Anna to Nonoko.
"I don't know. Anyway I'm glad that I'm not in Dramatics."
"Err… thank you Narumi-sensei! I'm sure the students are as excited as you are!" said
Yuki, "Now, moving on, to the Technical Division which is headed by Jinno-sensei"
Jinno-sensei stood up and gave a slight bow. He looked so cold and forbidding that the people sitting in the front row could actually feel the frost on the tips of their noses. Only Hotaru seemed totally unaffected by his stern demeanor.
"I am Jinno-sensei" he said.
Off the stage, a croak was heard and a frog leapt up on to his shoulder.
The new students sat still, too petrified to move, staring, awe-struck, at the frog that had had the guts to sit on this scary man's shoulder.
"Honestly, why do we have to go through this every year?" mumbled Natsume.
Ruka chuckled as looked at the expressive face of the brunette who had collided with his friend earlier and said, "It's still very entertaining Natsume"
"And this" said Jinno-sensei, a vein pulsing on his forehead, "is my pet frog"
No one dared to laugh.
"Thank you, Jinno-sensei! Moving on, this is Reo Mouri, the head of our Music Department" A few gasps were heard from the audience. Yuki smiled. "I see that some of you have recognized Reo-sensei"
"He's the lead singer of the band AAO!" a/n: AAO….now where have I heard that before? ;-)
"Yes" confirmed Yuki, "You guessed that right. However within the Gakuen Alice campus he's only Reo-sensei, your Music teacher, so please don't bother him for autographs and…" Yuki's speech ended abruptly as he raised his arms to shield his eyes from the flash of Hotaru's camera.
"…and no photographs either!" he said, glaring at Hotaru.
"That's fine by me" said Hotaru, totally unruffled, "I'll just Photoshop these and make copies"
Reo rushed off the stage and started talking to Hotaru urgently. Mikan turned, curious to see why Reo-sensei had clambered off the stage in such a hurry that he almost tripped over the wires. Reo appeared to be pleading and Hotaru was shaking her head.
Ruka smiled softly, thinking how cute the girl with the violet eyes looked and Natusme noticed this.
"Hmm…looks like Ruka has a little crush on someone" he thought, "Speaking of crushes, those fan-girls are so desperate that one of them actually let me step on her to have the honor of saying a sentence to me!" (A/n: soo arrogant, no? Never mind, his head will soon be deflated, courtesy of Mikan Sakura of course)
Meanwhile, Reo and Hotaru appeared to have finished their conversation. Reo walked back to the stage, looking utterly defeated and Hotaru sat down on her chair with a smug smirk on her face.
"And finally," said the headmaster, "this is Noda-sensei, the head of Special Effects"
A few wolf whistles were heard as Noda stepped on to the stage and gracefully bowed.
"Those boys are so shameless, wolf-whistling like that" whispered Nonoko to Mikan.
"Huh? But I don't see any wolves! If the boys are blowing their wolf whistles were are the wolves?"
"And now, its time for you to get to know each other!" announced Yuki "Please go to the dining hall. Although you may sit with whoever you want to today, from tomorrow onwards you can only sit with people from the same section as you"
"Waah! Hotaruuu! We won't be able to sit together!" cried Mikan.
Hotaru started walking towards the dining hall, her face expressionless and her mind working super-fast to figure out how best to blackmail their principal.
…to be continued
A/n: (tune: Love Story by Taylor Swift)
Crystal, Sapphire and Amber-
I was crying on the staircase,
Begging you please,
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