# For those who have read chapter one, take note that I have made some very small changes to it so that it fits better in this chapter.

Disclaimer : Gakuen Alice does not belong to me.
Chapter Two : Mikan & Mitsuki
The whole of junior high school division class B, except their all-time favourite optimist who is still snoozing away untroubled and unaffected by the commotion, was staring hard at the new student that Narumi, had just introduced.

Mitsuki Sakura, huh? She definitely has an extra-ordinary aura about her. Natsume had this suspicious feeling that the new girl was not going to be an easy person to get along with. Somehow, this feeling was nearly similar to the one that he had felt when Mikan first arrived but yet different. Yes, it was slightly different. He decided there and then that he'll be keeping a very close eye on her.

The reason for their rudeness was understandable. After all, it isn't every day that this sort of miracle could happen. This was because this new girl looked exactly, right to the pout that she was now wearing, like their favourite brunette with the obvious difference being that she wore her hair down unlike Mikan who now ties her hair in a simple braid.

Meanwhile, Narumi Seisei, who is still their homeroom teacher after all these years, was quietly enjoying this scene until he realized that two large hazel orbs had bore sizeable holes into his back. Mitsuki was silently glaring at him. A wave of her hand urged him to finish what he started not too long ago.

"Ahh, yes, where was I?" Mitsuki frowned and deliberately step on his feet.

Narumi grimaced. "Ouch! Yes, yes, I remember now. You don't have to do that Mitsuki-chan."

He straightened up his outfit which was a surprisingly devoid of any laces or quirky hats this time around. Today, it was one of those plain blue shirts that actually looked far too big for his lean frame matched with a casual pair of black slacks adorned with small intricate designs of silver dragons at its hem. Narumi being Narumi, he wouldn't feel complete without some accessories to go with his outfits. To complement it, he wore a fine silver chain necklace which was a gift from Mikan last Christmas. It eventually became his favourite accessory item from then on.

"Mitsuki-chan has been traveling extensively since she was a child and has never been in one location for longer than six months thus making it a tough job for our Alice scouts to locate her when we were first notified of her existence."

Mitsuki was starting to fidget but it wasn't due to all the attention. No, it would take a whole lot more to get her reacting this way. Beads of sweat dripped from her temples. One drop. Another drop and then another. Drip, drip, drip …

"So, now that she's finally here at the Alice Academy, I trust all of you to give her a very warm welcome." At this, Narumi gave Mitsuki a brief wink.

"Is there anything that you would like to say, Mitsuki?" Mitsuki was silent. Narumi sensed that she wasn't going to say anything so he piped up, "Alright then, you may go and take up that seat there." Narumi pointed to a seat that was exactly in the next row opposite of …

"Mikan!"

An odd looking stick extended from Hotaru's hand. She used this contraption to poke Mikan in the ribs. This is actually one of her latest inventions which looked like any ordinary stick that you could pick up from the Nothern Forest. But this is Hotaru we're talking about so this stick is actually invention number 1003 which is a very useful extendable and malleable multipurpose all-in-one stick. So far, she has managed to poke Ruka at various places on numerous occasions and capture the effect of his reactions every single time, shaped it into a spring to bounce off Mikan whenever she was out of ideas for a new invention and most important of all, it's mainly used keep Mikan at an appropriate distance from her.

"Wake up!" Hotaru nudged again, poking harder than she had meant to.

"Ouch! What's this? Hotaru?!"

Wiping drool of her face as she finally woke up from her forty winks, Mikan looked up to find a very familiar face looking back at her. She blinked and rubbed her eyes. My eyes must be playing tricks on me. I thought I tied my hair this morning. Wait, this isn't a mirror. It couldn't be. She … she's standing and I'm not … Is this an illusion? Did Yuu did this? Argh, my headache's coming back again. That's it! It must be this horrible headache that's causing me to hallucinate. This couldn't be …

"Mikan, meet Mitsuki. I bet you didn't hear what I said just now." said Narumi noticing the dry drool on her face. "She's your new classmate. Go on. Why don't the both of you shake hands?"

Mikan absentmindedly held out her hand. Mitsuki seemed to be contemplating her next move. The class held their breath.

One minute passed and Mikan is still holding out her hand. She had started sweating as well due to the headache. Mitsuki notice this and swiftly grabbed her hand and miraculously, Mikan felt relieved as if the headache has been lifted by the mere touch of Mitsuki's hand.

Mitsuki shrugged and quickly proceeded to her seat. She couldn't stand standing there any longer; she was starting to feel light-headed when she plod herself in the most unlady-like fashion into her seat. She lightly massaged her temples, aware that there were still many eyes fixing their gaze on her. She doesn't really care about them anyway but … I need to get rid of this headache soon. It's getting on my nerves and weakening my defences. MItsuki kept on kneading her temples with increased pressure.

Mikan, cleared of her aches, started smiling in the direction of … Mitsuki. What a lovely name! And she seemed to have cured me of that nasty headache. I must thank her. But … Curious … We looked so alike. Could we be related? I really need to talk to her. Oh yeah, I wonder what her alice could be …

"Ok, class, we'll start today's lesson. Take out your … blah … blah …"

Mikan wasn't paying attention. She was still looking Mitsuki's way. Mitsuki was still rubbing her head but at least she was listening to Narumi. Natsume observed both of the brunettes. He wasn't the only one. In fact, many pairs of eyes were secretly flitting to the direction of those two throughout the whole of the lesson.

This is starting to get very interesting. Natsume's eyes flashed for a split before returning to his manga. Looks like I'll be attending classes more often from now on.

Phew, finally done.