Lucky! I didn't really expect to get any reviews for my first chapter but I'm really happy I got some! Thank you so much to Ichigo325, and bloodyrosey, you guys seriously made my day :) Anyway I know I shouldn't update so early but I have a ton of homework, three tests and one project this week. If I didn't update today I might not be able to do one every week as I had wanted, so I decided to write my second chapter one week early in case I didn't get to next week.

Mikan: You've updated already! I'm so happy!

Hotaru: Baka! Stop yelling!

Mikan: Hotaru! You're so mean!

Yoichi: When do I get to appear Sakura-chan? Sucks thumb

Sakura: So cute! In this chapter!

Yoichi: Really? Hurray! I get to meet Mikan-chan now!

Natsume: Who would want to meat ugly polka dots?

Mikan: Natsume! BAKA!

Ruka: Can't we get along please?

Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice.

Mikan's Complicated Life

Chapter 2: Friends Or Enemies?

Suddenly Mikan noticed the girl sitting in one of the seats near the front. "HOTARU!" Mikan asked the girl.

"This is going to be an interesting year." Naru said with delight.

"HOTARU!" Mikan said again, as if the girl hadn't heard.

"I heard you the first time dummy, I'm not deaf you know." The girl with the short raven-coloured hair answered, not even bothering to turn around.

Everyone stared and wondered why an Idol knew Hotaru the 'Ice Queen's' name.

"Do you girls know each other?" Naru asked to the girls as the rest of the class waited for Mikan's or Hotaru's response.

"Oh course!" Mikan said with delight. "We're best friends aren't we?" Mikan replied aloud. The whole class gasped. Suddenly Hotaru and Mikan were drenched in questions, while even Natsume wanted an explanation.

"Is it true?" One girl said.

"No way! Hotaru is best friends with an idol! That can't be can it?" Another said.

"Oh. Sorry please let me explain." Mikan said quieting the class down. "Since we were babies Hotaru and I were best friends. We would always play together and rowing up Hotaru was always right beside me even after I became an Idol. I'm surprised she hasn't told you yet, but we are friends right Hotaru? " Mikan asked with excitement.

"Baka! Stop screaming, I guess I am friends... With this dummy." Hotaru said stunning everyone including Natsume and Ruka. The whispers started all over again.

"Hotaru!" Mikan shouted lunging forward to hug her friend.

"Baka! Baka! Baka!" Hotaru shouted at her friend pushing her away.

"Hotaru! You you're so mean!"

Natsume, Naru, Ruka and the rest of the class stared in disbelief. Were they actually best friends? I mean sure the two said they were, but the two were complete opposites. First they looked nothing alike. Hotaru wearing nothing but an emotion-less look, had short raven-coloured hair with two violet-coloured eyes. On the other hand Mikan was wearing a radiant smile, with long auburn hair that was tied into to two pig-tails along with a pair of hazel eyes. Not to mention the two had completely different personalities.

Hotaru the class' 'Invention Queen' was quite and seemed emotionless. Anyone would probably be lucky to catch a smile on the young girl's face that preferred to be left alone in a quiet place.

Mikan was the complete opposite, as to Ruka was the opposite of Natsume. She was always exited to be around people and loved noisy places. She was anything but quite and preferred to live her life exited and thrilled. It would have been hard to believe if the two hadn't just told them so.

"Oh yeah Narumi-sensei! Why does Mikan have to be in the T.M.D Dorm?" One of the boys whined.

"Yeah let her be with us in the girl's dorm!" Another girl shouted.

"No! Ours Narumi-sensei!" The boys fought.

"Hello? She's a girl!" The girls shot back. So on it went the boys and the girls fighting over Mikan.

"Ahem. This is why the principal thought it was best for Mikan to stay in the M.T.D Dorm so there wouldn't be any commotion." Narumi-sensei said calming down the class. The whole class whined but eventually gave in.

That afternoon, after school several classmates went to Mikan and surrounded her like a pack of hungry wolves surrounding their prey. Her classmates were actually big fans of hers and they wanted her autograph. Mikan, being the friendly girl that she was gladly signed every autograph book presented to her. She didn't want to disappoint the fans. Besides, her classmates seemed pretty nice, except for the Natsume-Ruka fan club girls and Natsume himself. Even Hotaru had become popular in one day.

"Hotaru! Can you me and Mikan all be best friends please!" One girl had asked.

"Oi! Hotaru! Would Mikan go out with me!" Another boy asked.

"Baka! Dummy why'd you tell them? You wonder why I hadn't told them before." Hotaru asked Mikan hitting her on the head when they had finally escaped the crowed.

"Hotaru you're so mean! You finally get to see me after a year now and all you can say it that? You're so mean!" Mikan whined. "I didn't even know you went to school here, why didn't you tell me!" Mikan asked her friend.

"Because If I told you, I knew that you would follow me here. I didn't know you would be the new student and I wanted to keep a low profile, which I can't now because of this dummy." her friend replied. "Anyway don't make too much commotion here!" Hotaru replied with a slight smile.

"Hotaru I missed you!" Mikan yelled hugging her old friend. Surprisingly Hotaru let her friend hug her, for a while that is.

"Oh yeah! Hotaru do you know where the T.M.D Dorm is?" Mikan asked her friend as she proceeded to walk.

"Yeah. I'm in that one too." Hotaru said non-emotionally.

"Really! This is great! let's go!" Mikan said very excited that Hotaru was going to be in her dorm. She proceeded to drag Hotaru to get to their dorm. The two girls walked quite a while. Mikan wondered why it was so far away since the other dorms were so close by. The eventually got there and Mikan was surprised to see how small it was compared to the rest of the dorms. It was a nice building but only had three floors, and only two of those were where the students lived.

"Mikan you have your dorm number don't you? I'm going ahead to my room I'll see you for dinner." Hotaru said as she went on to her own room. Mikan was saddened by the fact that she was on the second floor not the first as Hotaru was, but she continued on her way anyway. Mikan was surprised to see there wasn't anyone in the hallways as she walked up the stairs and into the huge hallway. She passed a few doors and stood in front of her own. Mikan was startled when she heard the door beside her own open. To her horror the one boy that had irritated her walked out. Natsume.

"What? This is a co-ed dorm!" Mikan asked furious.

"Great, polka dot panties girl is beside me." Natsume said staring at Mikan. When Mikan didn't say anything from the shock he continued, "you still have to pay me for the manga you ripped, polka-dots," he said nonchalantly.

Mikan snorted. "Wait polka dots? PERVERT! How? When? Where?" Mikan asked realizing what he was talking about.

"It's not my fault. You shouldn't where a mini skirt on the first day of school while sitting beside me." Natsume said coolly and started tugging on her hair.

"Quit it! Why don't you just leave me alone!" Mikan said annoyed with his arrogance.

"That's the thing I can't. Your my partner remember?" Natsume replied and continued picking on her.

Mikan slapped him across the face. "Just because I'm new here does not 't mean I'll get pushed around by an idiot like you!" Mikan said staring at Natsume with anger.

Natsume was surprised this had been the first time someone had talked to him that way, and that first time he had been slapped by a girl.

Natsume didn't show a hint of weakness as he said, "don't think you can do whatever you please just because you a celebrity. No your place here!"

"Look here Natsume, I won't be intimidated by you, and I will never pay for that manga no matter what. You got what you disserved!" Mikan said still angry. She was about to pick up her things and leave, when Natsume pinned her against the wall. "OUCH!" Mikan exclaimed.

Natsume stared at her in that face and said, "don't mess with me. You don't know who you're dealing with, just stay out of the way!"

"Let's see, your Natsume Hyuuga. You live in the room beside mine. You think you all that, you don't have a clue how to treat other people, and you are a complete, idiotic jerk!" Mikan said furious.

"Little girl you testing my patience!" Natsume said annoyed as he fisted his hand, giving her a sign that he was going to hit her.

"I'm not going to be afraid of you no matter what. Go ahead and hit me if that makes you feel better!" Mikan said, not even a bit afraid.

Natsume was very tempted to hit but pulled back a little.

"What's the matter can't hit a girl?" Mikan asked pulling herself away.

Natsume didn't really care about the manga anymore. There was something about this girl that made him shiver, was it because she was the first one to stand up to him with such courage? He didn't know. He walked away saying, "just back off."

Mikan watched Natsume leave, she was going to say something back but instead ignored him and decided to put away her thing and take a quick walk around the place before it was dinner, which was when she was going to get to meet the other dorm students. Mikan just hoped none of them would be like Natsume, but she also guessed there was a reason for him acting the way he did.

"That jerk, Natsume! Who does he think he is?" Mikan said to herself as she passed by a park near the dorm. She suddenly heard a noise from behind the bush that made her jump.

"Waah! Waa!" The something said.

Mikan motioned to the other side of the bush and looked to find a young boy crying. "Um, little boy what are you doing out here? Are you in the T.M.D Dorm?" Mikan asked hoping to be heard over the crying.

Instantly the boy who looked to be about three looked up and nodded. "I'm lost, can you please help?" The little boy said worriedly.

"Of course! Come on! I'm in the dorm too now! Let's be friends!" Mikan said exited that she had met someone else in her dorm other the Hotaru and Natsume. She picked up the little boy in her arms. "You're so cute. Here have this, and please stop crying, I won't leave you alone, promise!" Mikan said handing him a lolly-pop that she pulled out from her pocket. The little boy finally smiled while taking the lolly-pop.

"Thank you Onee-chan!" The little boy said to her before licking the lolly-pop.

"So cute! The way calls me Onee-chan-chan!" Mikan said to herself. "Hey what's your name?" Mikan asked him forgetting that she hadn't asked him that yet.

"Yoichi Hijiri," He told her in a sweet voice.

"You're so cute, Yo-chan!" Mikan said, but with all the talking she didn't notice someone came in front.

'Thump' Suddenly Mikan fell to the ground with Yoichi in her hands. "Oh I'm sorry! " Mikan said noticing she bumped into someone else.

"Sakura?" A familiar voice asked.

Finally Mikan came to her senses to see Ruka in front of her. "Oh hi Nogi-kun! That is you right? I saw you with Natsume at school." Mikan said smiling sweetly.

Ruka's heart started to flutter, and his face turned red. He examined the young brunette for a minute not noticing the little boy in her hands. "Yes, that's me Sakura, but you can call me Ruka." He said hoping she wouldn't see him blush.

"What are you doing here?" Mikan asked him questionably.

"Just taking a walk before dinner." He managed to say. "You, Sakura?"

"Same with me, well until I found this little Yo-chan crying." Mikan said smiling.

Ruka finally noticed the little boy who was still lying in her arms but had now fallen asleep. "Oh Yoichi?" he asked recognizing the little boy.

"You know each other?" Mikan asked.

The two nodded. "We live in the same dorm!" Yoichi said giving his Onne-chan a warm smile.

"What really? Ruka you're in the T.M.D Dorm too?" Mikan asked excitedly.

"Yes I am Sakura, I hope I can show you around sometime!" Blushing a little, Ruka answered.

"That would be great! Thanks so much Ruka, you're so kind!" Mikan said as she noticed a little rabbit lying in his arms. "Kyah! So cute! So cute!" She pointed out.

"His name is Bunny," he told her as he patted the rabbit's head. "Want to hold him?"

The two exchanged Yoichi and Bunny. "Hold on a minute Yo-chan okay?" Mikan said eagerly taking the bunny, Mikan really loved animals.

She was immediately taken over by the rabbit's cuteness. She hugged the rabbit tight, giving it kisses and twirling it, as she chanted "So cute! So cute!" Over and over again.

Ruka sweat dropped. "Sakura I think you're suffocating it." Ruka said hoping she would hear.

Thankfully Mikan heard. "Oh sorry! I got a little carried away." Mikan said blushing.

"It's alright, as long as he's alive, anyway lets walk back it's almost dinner." Ruka said smiling.

"So Ruka-pyon, what floor are you on?" Mikan asked doubtfully.

Had Ruka just heard right? She had just said 'pyon', but Ruka decided to ignore it since it was probably because of the whole Bunny incident. "The first, and you Sakura?"

"The second." Mikan answered with a sigh.

"Wow really, It used to be just Natsume but now it's both of you." Ruka said kindly.

"Wait! What? Just us to? How about the rest of us?" Mikan asked shocked.

"Well of course they're only a few of us to start with, so that's how it is." Ruka answered reading Mikan's expression.

The two of them talked for a while and got to know each other better, until Mikan suddenly said "that Natsume." Mikan sighed and went on, "he's so rude! What's wrong with him... I mean there must be something. I know it was wrong of me to rip his manga away, but he was being so rude!"

"Natsumes just Natsume I guess." Ruka said.

"He's a nice guy in his own way." Ruka added.

"Wow. You must know him well, huh?" Mikan questioned.

"Well, because I'm his best friend."

"HUH?" Mikan said shocked. "I didn't even know Natsume had one, not to mention one like you."

Ruka blushed. "He's really not that bad."

"Is that so? Hm, Ruka?"

"Yes?"

"Why is Natsume such a rebel? I mean I heard he is a genius, and a good athlete, so why be the way he is?" Mikan asked curious.

Ruka hesitated to answer. "Let's just say he just can't let go of his past."

Mikan's hatred for Natsume maybe decreased a little because of what Ruka said.

They had finally made it to the dorm when they realized that Yoichi had fallen asleep, the two had completely forgotten about him. Yochi started to wake up as they walked in for Mikan to meet the others.

Mikan opened the door to the dining room. She expected to see so many people but instead only saw around five more students other than her, Ruka, and Yochi.

Mikan nudged Ruka. "Where is everyone?" Mikan asked.

"This is it." Ruka said. He started naming unfamiliar names. "Natsume, Imai, Aoi, Kitsuneme, Koko, and of course you, me and Yoichi."

Mikan was amaze. She knew there was only a few, but this was ridiculous. Now she understood why it was such a small dorm.

Mikan soon met almost everyone. Kitsuneme and Koko were great she thought. they didn't really obsess over her and they were almost like twins. Then a girl walking in caught her eye. She had shoulder length raven-coloured hair that matched Natume's and a pair of scarlet-coloured orbs. It was as though she was a girl version of Natsume. the girl immediately ran over to Mikan.

"Mikan Sakura! I'm so happy you're in my dorm! I heard you were coming to our school but I didn't know you would be in my dorm. I'm so happy." The girl said.

"Hi! Please call me Mikan and I hope we can be friends, um?" Mikan said asking for the girl's name.

"Oh sorry, I'm Aoi, nice to meet you, and I would love to be friends with you Saku- er, I mean Mikan." Aoi said with a smile.

Just then Natsume passed flicking Mikan on the head. "No need to obsess over polka-dots, idiot." Natsume said talking to Aoi.

"Onni-chan, don't be mean to Mikan-chan!" Aoi said.

"Onni-chan!" Mikan asked shocked.

Sakura: Sorry I really wanted to write more, but I thought it might get to long if I continued, and I need to start my homework, and I still have to spell check, and go over the whole thing again.

Natsume: I feel bad for all those people who have to read this stupid story.

Sakura: BAKA NATSUME!

Mikan: Natsume's just mean! Your story is great Sakura-chan!

Sakura: Thanks Mikan!

Aoi: Wow! I got to meet Mikan already!

Sakura: Yes! you can talk to her more in the next chapter!

Aoi: Thank you!

Natsume: Quit being so loud, Idiot. Polka dots isn't that great.

Mikan: NATSUME BAKA!

Ruka: Please try to get along you two!

Sakura: Anyway, I'll try to update next week, so bear with me! Please review and give me some suggestions if you like and no flaming. I'll update soon!