Obedience
By: akima-yuki-chan
Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice and its characters.
Author's notes: This one is longer than the first. I think I overdid it, but yeah I had fun writing this.. Hope you like this chapter. Enjoy! =)
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Chapter 2: Crimson
It is a cold November night. Anxious aura surrounded the Hyuuga castle as they wait for the birth of a baby. After several minutes, they let out an exasperated sigh as they heard a baby's cry. "Finally…" said King Mitsui Hyuuga, relief present on his voice. He walks towards the room where his wife gave birth to their first child.
Smile forms on his lips as he sees his son cradled by his beloved wife. "What should we name him?" his wife asks softly. "Natsume… We'll call him Natsume…" King Mitsui answers, looking intently at his son. The sleeping baby raises an eyebrow as he hears the mention of his would-be name.
The whole Kingdom celebrate as the crown prince is finally born. Every corner of the castle is filled with joy. The king and queen of the kingdom are the happiest among the townsmen. King Mitsui Hyuuga ruled the Hyuuga Kingdom when he turned 21. His parents are now on a vacation on a far away land. Despite of his age, his face still didn't change. It is still young-looking. One might even think that he's just a prince instead of being a king. He has brown locks and crimson orbs making him look more terrifying when he's serious.
On the other hand, Queen Inoue Hyuuga is a very young-looking, elegant woman of her age. She has long raven hair with curls on end and a tantalizing green orbs. She always wore a smile on her face anywhere she goes. She is a serious person with child-like personalities at times. No wonder, King Mitsui fell in love with her. It's her 3rd year of being a queen to the kingdom.
Two weeks later, a pink fairy appears on the balcony of the castle. The king is surprised at her sudden appearance. He is wearing green attire over his brown cloak. He was, at that time, carrying his child. The pink fairy bows in respect and walks towards his direction.
"A pleasant morning, Your Highness," she greets. This fairy is wearing a cherry strapless dress with red cape. She has green eyes and wears a rose moss coronet on her head.
"My name is Elrina, your son's Fairy Godmother," she said politely. "I'm here to give him my gift."
The queen joins their conversation. "I'm glad you're here, Elrina."
"Yes, Your Grace… Now, if you may…" Elrina replies, starting to wave her wand over the baby.
"I, Elrina the Fairy of Destiny, bestow you the most powerful Elemental Gift, the Fire. You'll find it useful when you grow up and learned to use it. And I give you the Red String." She chants, grinning. Your soul mate is yet to be born, my child.
"What is the Red String? I think I haven't heard of that before," asks Queen Inoue curiously.
"Akai To…The String of Destiny, of Love," the king answered.
"Exactly. A string that binds two souls together," agreed Elrina.
"I quite don't understand," Queen Inoue states, confused.
"It's hard to explain, my dear. You see, the red string appears when you find your soul mate. That means, the red string was in your hand the first time I saw you, and the other end of the string was in mine. I knew at that moment, that we're meant for each other," King Mitsui explains.
"Only a man can see the Red String. His soul is already bonded to its mate," adds the pink fairy.
"So you mean his soul mate was born?" inquires the queen.
"I'm afraid I can't tell you that. It's time for me to go. Farewell," she says, and by that a gleam of light surrounded her then she's gone, leaving behind a confused couple.
-7 years later-
A certain brunette girl is skipping down the forest merrily. Her hair is tied in two pigtails and she wears a red fluffy dress with white knee high socks. She went away from her house to see her favorite place, located at the heart of the forest. She found the place when she got lost on the forest 2 years ago. Even though she's just seven-year-old kid, she memorized the whole wooded area. Subsequently her parents, Yuka and Hayate, always permit her to go there alone. She's wise and witty despite her young age.
Her father Hayate, came back home on Mikan's 3rd birthday. He gives her everything and often tells stories about their ancestors. He has brown hair and sapphire orbs. With his reputation and magnificence, everyone in town knows and respects him. However, they are still puzzled about where'd he go and what'd he do on the years he was gone.
No one knew, even his wife, about his history. Hayate met Yuka in the forest while he was being chased by several palace guards. He dragged Yuka with him and over time, they fell in love with each other and got married. Yuka then, didn't question him about his history, or even about why he's been chased guards.
Mikan's sanctuary, which she called Pink Haven, is an enclosed area with a big fountain in the middle. It is surrounded by a circular field of Cherry Blossom trees and behind that where a pool of tangerines. She already memorized the place by heart. She knows the exact location of the things found in her Haven. Out of excitement, she spreads her arms, closes her eyes and twirles around the fountain.
THUG! She bumped onto something or rather someone. She was really astonished by what happened. She didn't expect that. She closed her eyes, ready to feel the ground, when two arms grabbed her hand preventing her fall. Slowly, she opened her eyes and saw two cold crimson orbs staring at her. Being taught well by her parents, she immediately stood up and said, "Arigatou."
"Hn," is the boy's reply.
Being just a little kid, she ignores him and climbs a tree instead. As she goes up, she doesn't notice that the gush of wind flipped her skirt up, revealing her polka-dotted panties for a moment. The crimson-eyed boy is staring at her that time.
Mikan successfully reaches the treetop and sits on its branch. "You know what, why don't you join me here? It's so cool up here," she offers smiling at the boy.
The raven-haired boy just stares at her with blank expression. Suddenly, they heard a faint voice shouting.
"Huh? What was that?" asks Mikan, looking around. She starts climbing down the tree.
"Your Highness, Prince Natsume, where are you?" the boy heard the old man's voice. Fortunately, the brunette girl didn't hear what the old man said.
The raven-haired boy is alarmed. His butler is getting near from where they are. As if on cue, he turns his back on her and starts running. However, before he's totally gone out of sight, Mikan heard him shout, "See you, Polka!"
It took her a moment before she realizes what does that mean. She felt her blood rushed to her face. "Pervert!" she uttered, before walking away and head back to her home.
-4 years later-
"Mikan, your best friend's here." Yuka called. The brunette girl is busy playing the piano at the moment, blocking her mom's voice. "Mikan!" her mother calls again a little bit louder. This time, she hears her mother. She replies to her in a loud voice but not enough for her mom to hear, "I'm coming."
She is so fascinated with the piano that she forgotten that today is her best friend's homecoming. "Mikan, stop playing the piano and come down here now!" Yuka bellows once more. Hearing this, she automatically stopped playing, stood up then went down the stairs silently to her mother's side. "Mom, is something the matter?" she asks.
"Hotaru's here. She's at the living room." Her mother replied.
She immediately went to the living room and found a certain jet black haired girl there, sitting. She is about to hug her best friend when a flying ball hit her forehead.
"Hey, what was that for?" she asks, rubbing her forehead.
"For being idiot," she bluntly replies then stood up. "Come on," she orders and Mikan follows her out.
Mikan and her best friend Hotaru are walking in the forest. They are going to the Pink Haven. "I'm glad you're back, Hotaru-chan," says the brunette girl as they walk, breaking the silence between them.
"Yeah,"replies the said girl with a stoic face.
"I missed you too," Mikan states, smiling. She knows Hotaru won't say that out loud being the kind of girl she is.
Hotaru Imai has jet black hair and deep amethyst eyes. Her hair was cut short adding to her stoic expression. She received the Gift of Knowledge from her own fairy godmother Odette, making her a real genius. She spends most of her time inventing amazing things that a child wouldn't ever think of making. One of her inventions was the Baka gun which she always uses for Mikan to shut her mouth. She has known Mikan since they were three years old, no wonder she sees her not just as a best friend but also as a sister now, being the only child of their family. Even though Mikan is talkative and loud, she really loves her. Aside from Mikan's parents, she's the only one who knows about her 'obedience'.
They are drawing nearer the sanctuary. Mikan keeps blabbing about her hard life at home when Hotaru left for school. Mikan was home schooled by her mother without her knowing her parent's reason. She's taking the same curriculum in Hotaru's school, though it's lonelier for she's studying alone. Hotaru's school is known as the Alice Academy, where gifted students go. 'Gifted students' means those kids who received a magnificent gift from their fairy godmother, that's when developed would be the child's power known as alice.
-Meanwhile-
A raven haired lad is running towards the castle grounds. He is escaping again from his tutorials. He's wearing a commoner clothes, navy blue shirt and black pants. He manages to lose the guards and stops for a moment at the big Sakura tree standing on the east side of the castle's territory.
"Those chumps…" he says, leaning on the tree. After few moments, he continues on his tracks. Hope I'll see her.
He's strolling along the forest area towards the place where a big fountain can be found. As he draw nearer, he hears a familiar voice. Just as expected. He hurriedstowards one of the Sakura trees which surrounds the fountain, then climbed onto its branch. After a moment, a brunette girl came into view, behind her was a short-haired girl. The brunette twirled around the fountain happily, not noticing his presence. A tiny smile crept on his face.
"Finally, we're here!" Mikan exclaims. She twirls around the fountain, leaving Hotaru beside one of the Sakura trees. When she came to a halt and opened her eyes then heard, "boo…" a pair of crimson orbs was looking at her, inches away from her eyes. She let out a loud shriek. She quickly runs towards her best friend, hiding behind her. Hotaru just stared at the guy who scared Mikan. The crimson orb lad looks at Hotaru then at Mikan. When Mikan gained composure, she pointed her index finger at the lad and says, "You again? Are you stalking me?"
"Hn, and why on earth would I stalk you, huh, little girl?" he replied sarcastically.
"I'm not a little girl," she retorted, sticking out her tongue and walking a bit near him.
"Fine, Polka." He says, smirking.
Polka? Why- she thought for a while before realizing what it means. She felt her blood rushed to her face, making it beet red. "You pervert! How could you look at it? You're such a pervert!" she shouted at him.
"Me? Hn, you're the one who's showing that to me," he replied sarcastically, smirking.
But before Mikan could retort back, they heard voices.
"Your highness!" called someone from faraway.
The raven-haired lad cursed silently as he recognized the voice. It is his bestfriend's. He immediately ran away but before he could do so, he was smacked in the head by a brunette lass. "What the-!" he utters.
"And where are you going huh? Do you think I'll let it pass? Hmp, pervert!" Mikan said agitated, holding Natsume's shirt.
Since Natsume was in a hurry, he grabbed Mikan's shoulders and said, "Who said I'm going somewhere? Huh Polka?" Then he leaned closer to her, nearing the distance between their faces. Mikan flushed and stiffen on her position, letting loose her hold on Natsume's shirt. He grinned at her reaction. Getting a chance of going away, he pulled away from Mikan then ran away. "See you Polka!" he said as he sped off.
The raven haired boy has gone away just in time when a certain blonde hair boy appeared. "Hello!" he greeted the girls. "Did you see a boy around here?" he asked.
Mikan is about to answer yes but Hotaru spoke first. "No." she said. She mustn't know yet… Then she grabbed Mikan and walked back home, leaving a flabbergasted boy behind.
Unknown to Mikan, Hotaru hides something from her…
~End of Chapter 2~
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