I don't own Gakuen Alice…oh but if I did (: BTW all weapons are fake and don't exist. They all wear school uniforms to school.
Ages:
Natsume: 18
Mikan: 17
Hotaru: 17
Ruka: 18
Tsubasa: 21
Misaki: 20
Aoi: 16
Youichi: 16
Sakurano, Subaru, and Tono: 23
Reo: 25
Sumire, Mochiage: 18
Tobita (Inchou): 18
Kokoro, Luna, Anna, Nonoko, Kitsuneme, Usami: 17
Time Keep: Day One (the same day as chapter one, where Mikan first meets Natsume)
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I walked into the transportation room, which is really just a giant hangar filled with planes and cars and boats and such.
"Mikan you finally made it!" Narumi sang, although it was hard to hear him with all the noises of transportation vehicles getting revved up and fixed and upgraded. "Is everything okay?"
"Yeah sorry about that, I just needed to clear my head." I assured him with a smile.
I walked up to Narumi, Hotaru, and Ruka, who were all standing by a black stretch limousine, a usual choice of transportation for us. Especially this time we needed to act rich and what better way to scream 'fancy' than arriving at a 5 star hotel in a stretch limousine? I looked around, Natsume wasn't here yet. Ha! Of course he isn't! I left that hopeless narcissist back at the shooting range.
"Alright! Is everyone here?" Narumi asked excitedly. "Good, now let's go!"
"Wait, I don't think Natsume's here yet." I brought up.
"Aw, worried about me are you?"
That…that…CHAUVINIST VOICE. I didn't even bother turning around, I knew he was behind me. But when did he sneak up on me, I didn't see him a moment ago? Maybe he is a good agent-no! I am better than him. He's just too egotistical and makes himself seem great when in truth he isn't at all! And no, I wasn't worried about him. If he ever got lost he could just seduce a woman and get her to escort him anywhere. If he was late then it could've very well jeopardized the mission and if we failed it would've been his fault. Hating him, I probably should have wanted him to miss the mission; I wouldn't have to deal with him and everything would be blamed on him, but I knew that the success of this was more important. Save the world, then myself. That's our motto.
I wanted to say a comeback like 'you would have made us late to start the mission' or something like that but that sounds really awkward and definitely not like a comeback at all, so I settled for an old favorite.
"Heh, you wish." I flashed a quick glare to add to the effect, then turned back around and continued walking toward the limo. It wasn't long before Hotaru, Ruka, and that retard followed me after.
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"Welcome to the hotel, Hana Den, and enjoy your stay in Central!" the worker behind the desk told us, and handed us our room keys. "You are all on the 19th floor." Wow, that's pretty high up!
"Thanks, will do!" Ruka exclaimed happily and took the keys.
We all silently followed each other towards the elevator, like some quiet group of people. Honestly, it didn't really bother me, I was too busy looking at my surroundings. It was an amazingly fancy hotel, it made me start to wonder about our rooms. Would a hotel as big as this even have one bedroom rooms? The entire inside of the building was practically made of all marble and gold. Narumi and Jinno had already sent our bags to our rooms this morning, so it did feel kind of weird checking in without any bags. We found our way to the elevators and stood there in silence as we walked in. There was a person inside standing next to the buttons. Oh, a girl? I always pictured a guy dressed as a bellhop doing something like that.
"What floor?" She asked us. Aw! She had an English accent!
"19th." Natsume replied in a suave tone. I looked over out of curiosity, he was giving her that smothering look.
"O-Of course." Lovely, she fell for it. It was amusing to see her easily sucked in to his charm, and I tried my hardest not laugh. How weak!
Then mentally, I flashed a small glare at Natsume. What's with him? Flaunting his looks around for no reason at all, how indecent! He must have caught my look because his eyes turned to me and he gave me that egotistical look, like he was satisfied or having fun making me mad. That arrogant little…DING! The bell of the elevator rang and I was snapped back into my daydream. I looked into the hallway as the door opened. It looked like a regular hallway, just wider and made of carpet instead of marble flooring. The doors were regular, and my dreams were just crushed.
"It looks like we're in rooms 1902 and 1904." Ruka told us, looking at our key cards.
"Hey, they're right here!" I found them. I looked over at Hotaru. "So, which room do you want?" I asked in excitement.
"Well uh, Mikan…a-actually…" Ruka told me and my attention averted to him.
Hotaru moved slightly, and so my attention averted back to her. She had held up her phone and a message was opened on it on the screen. I looked more closely at the message.
Mikan and Natsume are in one room. You and Ruka share the other. Have fun kiddies (; -Narumi
HE SAID WHAT NOW. My head slowly cranked as it turned bit by bit as I glanced over at Natsume, then slowly cranked back over to the text. He must have caught my glance because he suddenly stood behind me and he was soon over my shoulder. I was shocked speechless and frozen…even though I did expect Narumi to pull something like this. He put his head over my shoulder. It was silent for a while as he was reading the text, but then he whistled in my ear.
"Nice." He commented.
I moved to the side, that was a loud whistle! "You can't seriously like his decision?"
He looked over at me with that egotistical look on his face, trying to charm me again. To add on to that, he also put his arm around my shoulder. "Of course I like it; think of the things we could do." He smirked, the arrogance!
I pushed him off of me. "Do them yourself." I shot back and walked over to room 1902, I honestly just picked it at random. I grabbed the key cards from Ruka and opened the door.
"Well then, I'll be heading into our room." I heard Hotaru said and then I heard the door next door open then close, so I figured she must have entered her room already.
Once I got in I tried to close the door as quickly as I could before Hyuuga could walk in. I shoved it closed without looking behind me and continued to walk towards the couch. This room was HUGE! What was this? I thought it was supposed to be a one bedroom room! Well I guess this is a five-star hotel. When I walked in there was a living room with a HUGE couch that had a mini bed attached to it and probably a 60in flat screen plasma TV. To the left of the living room was the door to the bathroom and to the right of it was the door to the bedroom.
I heard the door shut and I sighed in relief. I succeeded in locking that bastard outside in the hallway! I was about to run onto the couch and take a nap when suddenly I suddenly tripped over something and fell flat onto the ground.
"What the…ow…" I complained, rubbing my butt. What did I just trip over? I sat up and looked back at what I might have fallen over. What's that…black shoes? Shit…there's no way. "H-How did you get in here?"
He simply walked towards our mini fridge and took out a soda. "You left the door open, and I slipped through." He opened the can and plopped down onto our couch with one arm over the back of it. "Some agent you are, getting surprised by me like that." He looked over and smirked after taking a sip, taunting no doubt.
I wanted to nag him about all of his flaws, but it would've been a waste of my breath to fight with this guy, so I settled for a scowl. I stood up and straightened out my outfit and walked straight into the bedroom, ignoring his stare as he watched me leave. He did have a point though, how could I have let him sneak up on me like that? Maybe he's just that much better at sneaking up on people. Alright he's good at being discreet I'll give him that, but just that. We'll see how he handles himself on the battlefield tonight at the fundraiser. I closed the door behind me, sure that he hadn't followed because I heard him turn the TV on.
I turned the lights on. Just as I expected, our bags were in the bedroom. We didn't have much, after all we were only there for one night. I found our small luggage in the walk in closet and our clothes were laid out on the bed. On one side was my dress, shoes, and accessories for tonight and on the other side was a tux; obviously assuming to be for Natsume. Maybe I could ruin them a little? Nah, it would jeopardize the mission.
I picked up the dress and put it against my body in front of a mirror, to see how it looked on me. It was a champagne color and it was ankle length. It was tight all around with a slit on the side that started at the top of my thigh and ended at the bottom of the dress, strapless as well. Should I try it on? No, I wouldn't want to ruin it before the party. Suddenly, I felt sort of tired, so I decided to carefully hang the clothes up in the closet and made room for myself on the bed. I checked the door one last time to make sure it was closed, even asleep I can't let my guard down with the pervert molester only a hallway away from me. Well, I was too tire to think and I just laid down on the bed and practically died.
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Huh? What was that noise? It sounds like shuffling…damn someone turn out that light. I was half awake now, but my eyes were still asleep. I could hear noises that I couldn't make out so I slowly opened my eyes little by little. That light was coming from the open door; the hallway? I couldn't tell because there was someone in the way, a figure somewhere in the dark part of the room.
"Oh, you're awake?"
That voice…my eyes suddenly flew open and I sat straight up. "H-Hyuuga?"
"Well morning to you too." He said in a sarcastic tone, moving to the side a little, stepping into the light and continued…
HE'S SHIRTLESS? As soon as I saw skin I scooted as close to the edge of the bed as possible, scooting backwards far away from him as I could get. He looked like he was in the middle of changing. He had pants on but they were sagged, like he was trying to take them off then just decided not to and let them hang there like he was going to get back to it later. I got a quick glance before he continued to put his dress shirt on, buttoning it from bottom to top. My observations back in class were still sharp as ever, he was really fit. What was that, a six pack, eight pack?
Then I thought to myself, any other girl in my position would probably take the chance to grab him, pin him to the bed and fuck him. I silently laughed at myself. With a personality like his? Those other girls better not because if he gets them pregnant their kid won't turn out great. He's got good looks and a good physique, I'll give him that for now. Is it so crazy to see him like that and still not fall for him? Well, I always was a girl on personality instead of looks.
"What do you think you're doing?" I yelled at him. "I was taking a nap in here!"
He casually took his pants off and threw them on the bed, grabbing a pair of tuxedo pants in exchange and began to put those on. What the hell is he thinking?
"H-Hey! Don't just change in front of me like that!" I closed my eyes and looked away. "Have some decency!" Getting undressed is one thing, but doing it so casually is another thing!
Somehow I could tell he finished putting them on so I gave myself a green light to look back over. "It's almost eight, you should start getting ready." Ignoring my question are you?
Rise above Mikan…rise above…I kept telling myself. So I stood up and walked around the bed and past Natsume so I could get my dress out of the closet. It was a large walk in closet that was actually really empty because we didn't really have any clothes to put into the drawers and onto the hangers. I found my dress hanging right where I left it and picked it up. It looked boring yet high class fancy and sophisticated, I couldn't really describe it, but I loved it. I expected nothing less form Narumi, he always had good taste. I wonder what would happen if I accidentally ruined it tonight? Like if I was fighting and someone ripped it or I spilled actual champagne on it. Well I guess that wouldn't matter because it'd just blend in. Not like I was going to drink anyways, I'm underage!
Then I began to think, do I really know how to carry myself in a first-class situation? I was a spy, yes, which meant I was exceptional at acting and taking on my disguises and talking my way out of situations and things like that, but I was never really trained to behave like a first class socialite. I could act like one that's no problem at all, but when it comes to things like eating properly or waltzing that's what could mess me up because up until tonight I never actually had to be put into one of these dresses; last time I was a server who had to listen in on their conversations but that's a whole other story.
Before I began to change, I walked over to the double doors (a walk in closet with double doors for a one bedroom suite, five star hotel!) so I could close them. Then he got in my way and pushed me back into the closet while walking in. I almost fell backwards again, but I did some fancy footwork that I learned in training and regained my balance. Not really the situation my training was for, but helped either way.
"Come on don't just walk in when I'm changing." I said it more like a nag instead of screaming in anger. I'm sure he would get me mad tonight and I had to begin practicing managing my temper so I didn't blow our cover.
"Oh, is that what you were doing?" That taunting tone again… "You were taking forever and I started to think you were playing with yourself in here so I decided to come in and join the fun." I looked at him in shock. Unbelievable! Who would say that to a girl anyways? That smirk on his face is starting to piss me off again.
"Drop dead." I simply shot back. I grabbed my dress, shoes, and accessories then walked past him and out of the closet.
"Where you goin?" I heard him say as I exited.
"To change." I said as I walked into the hallway and into the bathroom.
It didn't really take as long as I thought to get ready, which surprised me. But what surprised me more was that I was able to change completely without him coming to bother me. Not that I cared anyways, better for me! Honestly, why were those girls in class so hung up on this guy? I bet if they really knew him they wouldn't be. Then there was Luna and Usami, the two who would definitely go for him. Wait-! I'm getting off track. Okay let's see what else I need.
I looked at myself in the mirror. I let all my hair down so I could cover up my earrings, which were actually receptors so I could listen to Narumi and Jinno when they talked to me and guided me. I guess they were microphones too because whenever I talked to them they could hear me, or maybe it was my necklace that did that? They never told me which one, but I put them on anyways. I put on a ring and bracelets just for the extra pizzazz and really play up the rich character. I was really excited for tonight! I got to act like royalty! Then I looked around for the last part of my outfit: my Ultimate.
Once I found it I put the gun into the leg strap. This was by far my favorite weapon to carry, I mean a leg-strap come on! Who hasn't ever wanted to wear one of these things? Since the slit started near the top of my thigh, it mostly flowed out the rest of the way. The Ultimate was one of the smaller pistols, so when I put it on my thigh with the strap it wouldn't bulge out or anything. The weapons specialist back at the lab of the agency figured it all out.
I heard a knock on the door. "Yeah?" I responded, allowing the person to come in.
The door opened and Natsume walked in with his hands in his pocket. "Hey, I have to…oh?"
Did something happen? I looked up at him to see what was wrong. Instead, he was looking right at me with a look on his face like he had just been seduced or something. I looked down at myself, I wasn't doing anything. My leg was just propped up onto the counter so my leg would go through the slit and was completely out in the open. I needed the space so I could strap the gun on my thigh. Oh wait…
Stop looking at me! "You have to what." It was more of a hurry-up-with-whatever-you-have-to-do instead of a question.
He started walking over to me with that mischievous look on his face. What was he thinking? What was he going to do? There was this strange feeling that practically took over all of me except my mind. My head was screaming 'get your leg down!' but my body wasn't responding. What the hell could this guy do to me? I was smooth, a great actress, and downright lethal; but this one guy could take down all of my defenses and make me…a…a…normal teenage girl. And let me tell you something, I am not another one of those lovestruck or nerdy or bitchy teenage girl.
Out of his pocket he took out a knife and continued getting closer to me. At that point I snapped and threw my leg off the counter, taking my gun out of the pocket and pointing it at him.
"Woah woah woah! I thought we were all friends here." He showed no sign of fear as he put both of his hands up playfully, like he was joking around.
"What's with the knife?" I asked him. I was staring him down like a hawk now. With a weapon in hand, I don't care how handsome he is I couldn't afford to let my guard down anymore.
He put it on the counter and slid it over to me, putting both his hands back into his pockets. "You shouldn't carry around a gun in that dress; a knife would suit you more." He walked closer to me and touched my gun. "Let me hold it. There's a pocket inside my jacket."
I pouted at him, and let him wrap his hand around my gun and take it from me. I hate admitting it but he had a point, a knife would be more discreet in this situation, and I was curious at how he would pull off that famous move of taking a gun out of the inside of your jacket. I've never seen it done in person before. Silently fuming, I picked up the knife and slid it in the pocket of the leg strap as he put MY gun inside his jacket.
"My lady." He said playfully in a fake British accent. "I do believe the party is starting without us." He changed his tone with that last sentence, now it sounded more alluring.
I got the hint and grabbed his arm so that he could lead me out of the room, down the hall, into the elevator, out of the elevator, back into another hallway, and finally into the ballroom.
There was a man waiting for us at the entrance. He was like security but he was dressed like a really fancy bellhop. He had a clipboard in his hands and one of those earpieces with the coil running down the back of their ear. When Natsume and I walked up to him, he stopped us.
"Names?"
"Nathan Hyatt, and this is my wife, Mikayla." Natsume said it with such clearance in his voice that it sounded almost professional and legit, almost as if he'd been around the high society lifestyle all his life. I mentally cringed slightly when he introduced me as his wife, the thought was too disturbing. But like the good spy I was, I acted like it didn't bother me, and that instead it made my face light up. I better win an award for this kind of acting.
The security guard looked at his clipboard and lifted up the top paper to check for our names. He crossed off something and stepped aside, allowing us entrance into the fundraiser party. Natsume still had me hold his arms as he led me inside. He nodded at the guard while we walked past him.
"Well, it's a good thing our names were on the list." I commented, while looking around at our surroundings. The ballroom was absolutely gorgeous!
"Well duh, Narumi and Jinno put our names on the list." He said in a rude tone.
"Hey now…don't kill my mood." I warned. "And of course I knew that, how long do you think I've been in this business anyways?" I hissed, so that no one would hear me.
I looked up at him, to see his expression, but he had his chin high as a cloud. "Beats me, I'm just surprised they allowed a kid like you to join." His face was still up but his pupils moved to the corner of his eyes and he looked down at me…SMIRKING.
What the hell's that supposed to mean? I cleared my throat to suppress my anger. "You're starting to kill my mood, dear." I warned again.
He finally turned his head to face me. That action told me he realized I was trying to hold back from screaming. "Well I can think of some things to put you in the mood, sweetheart." He said, trying to hit on me again.
"Sorry about that honey, but this is a mission not a playground." I shot back.
"Oh, so you two lovebirds are on a mission?"
Shit! I think I said that too loud! I turned around to try and convince whoever said that I was just kidding and that our mission was to look for someone we know then get some food and-oh, it's them.
"Well well well, would you look at that. Holly and Russell have decided to join us." I said smoothly, using their fake names.
All four of us shook hands and bowed to each other. Since we all had our microphones and hearing devices on, the superiors heard us and began giving us instructions.
"Yay! You all met up with each other nicely!" Narumi's cheerful voice said from the other side.
"Now remember, Natsume and Mikan are to keep an eye on suspicious activity and watch over the First President." It's a shame Jinno was being more strict than Narumi. "Ruka and Hotaru, give them the information and watch over Natsume and Mikan. The mission ends as soon as the party is over. If nothing happens to the First President, you are free to do whatever but make sure you're up and ready to leave the hotel at 4am for your 5am flight back home. You all have midterms, I believe?"
We all groaned silently, then Narumi continued.
"However, if anything does happen that threatens the First President, you are to eliminate it as soon as possible without blowing your cover to the entire party and you absolutely positively must not fail! Good luck!" Gee thanks for the pep talk.
All four of us walked into a sort of secluded area of the ballroom, where no one could hear us .There was a table and some chairs that the guests were supposed to sit at so they could dine, and we chose the one farthest away from the crowd. We all grabbed some food before taking our seats, so that we looked like we were just a bunch of rich acquaintances who were having a conversation over dinner.
"I'm so excited to eat this!" I exclaimed.
"Idiot, act like you've eaten this your whole life. That's your role isn't it?" Natsume scolded while shoving a piece of steak into his own mouth.
"Why you-"
"OH YES!" Ruka interrupted me loudly. "The Harrison's our giving us a profitable trade! They're already beginning to train their son Silas into taking over their company some day!"
I was confused at first but then as he was talking to me he kind of motioned his head strangely that made me look to the side. A group of real aristocrats were walking dangerously close to our table. Ah! So that's what he was up to!
"Is that so?' Hotaru continued.
"Oh yeah! I hear Silas is supposed to turn into a promising child!" I joined in. Pretending was really fun! It was like we were sitting there making up some complete story.
"I've met him. He has no potential." Natsume said.
Ruka and I just looked at him with our jaws dropped and Hotaru just took a sip of her tea. NATSUME! Did you really have to go and ruin such a good story like that? Even if it was fake we were really getting somewhere! Honestly, how could anyone have the personality to go and just ruin it for us? Really, you're so unbelievable. Just, the nerve of that boy!
He put his arm around me. "Not to worry Mikayla, our child will be even greater!" To continue his joke, he patted my stomach. "I think we'll name him Natsume!"
Hold back your anger Mikan! You're undercover! Ruka and Hotaru just stared, anxious to know what happens next. I could read it in their faces. I took both of Natsume's hands off of me.
"That's a stupid name. I don't want him to be a chauvinistic, narcissistic, rude, stuck up, reckless, idiotic, and unattractive brute who ends up being lonely for the rest of his life because he can't get a girl."
I didn't even bother to look at his face to see his reaction. I could tell be the atmosphere surrounding him that I hit a nerve, pushed a button, broke a straw, you name it. I took a sip of my own tea, feeling proud of this accomplishment. Maybe now he'd stop bugging me and go for the other girls in our class instead.
Oh but I was wrong, instead he put his arm around me again and pulled me closer to him. His free hand went to my chin and lifted it up, putting his face so close to mine we were almost kissing. Why? Why is this making my heart beat so much? I hate him, I was absolutely sure of that fact. Did he plan to make me react like this? And why in this manner? Hotaru and Ruka and a ballroom full of high society citizens were all around us, they might get the wrong idea!
He smirked, making our faces come nose to nose. "Oh, so is that what you think of me?" He said it in that seductive tone that made me want to punch him yet fall for him at the same time. I chose punching him.
He sort of crouched over after I thrust my fist into his stomach, and he now was trying to recover from the pain, acting like he never felt it. That was very noble of him, but he should've known better not to piss of a girl who can make you hit the floor in one shot.
"Hey!" Hotaru caught our attention. Wow, I never notice but when he did that, I sort of felt like we were in our own world. Because when Hotaru called for us it seemed like I had woken up and returned to reality. Can a person have that kind of power? Yes, what was that called, hypnotization. I'll be watching my back from now on, and make sure that molester sitting next to me doesn't try to hypnotize me into going for him.
"Quit dicking around!" Hotaru continued to scold us.
I quickly straightened myself up, but as for Natsume I couldn't care less about what he did. "We have to fill you in on all the details right now." Ruka explained to us.
"Right here? We're so out in the open." I asked.
"But that's what makes this mission so much more fun." Natsume commented.
Hmmm, he had a good point, I'll give him that. But I fumed a little, I hated it when he was right or had any sort of point at all.
"Alright, listen. Here's what happened." Hotaru began.
So my plan was making their ENTIRE mission this one chapter, but it got too long. And the whole time keep thing at the top is to keep time on what day it is and stuff in case it gets confusing and to help keep the mood on how things are going (:
For instance they're undercover spies that still go to school, so I want to keep the feeling that even though they're on a mission right now, they are still students that go to school, hence, undercover.
Please review so I can have motivation to continue!
Dedicated to:
Melyss
Aetherione
Sajesanime
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