Okay, before you throw me forks, spoons, tomatoes or whatever you want to throw at me for not updating this fic sooner, please listen up first. If you have read my profile, you would understand why. (really, you would) I'm continuing VK for those people who were kind enough to leave a review and/or added this fic and(/or) me to their Alerts and Favorites Lists. Thank you very much!

Warning: This fic is beta-ed by me. So I don't know if it's good enough. Sorry. (And if you don't remember where we left of, read the second chapter: Mr. Bear?!)

Disclaimer: Simply put, I do not own Gakuen Alice.

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Mikan started to bite her nails, a sign of worry and nervousness.

"Oi, you."

Mikan turned around to check if it was her who was being called. She saw Natsume's eyes staring at her.

"What?"

"…"

"Look Natsume, if you're not going to say something, you shouldn't have called me." Well, that was a smart remark coming from a very stupid girl.

"I-di-ot." Natsume stood up like nothing happened.

"What?! You jerk, come back here!" Mikan stood up as well and followed Natsume. The whole class watched them and found it interesting. Ruka sighed and found it troublesome to follow them. Since Mikan was with him, Ruka was sure that Natsume would be okay.

"H-hey Ruka."

Ruka looked at his face and saw Koko. He noticed that his face looked rather worried.

"What is it, Koko?"

"You see, I heard Mr. Narumi's thoughts and I think I should tell you."

Ruka stood up from his seat, thinking it was important. "What is it?"

"Mr. Narumi is planning to make copies of those pictures."

Ruka widened his eyes and so does everyone else.

"And he's planning to sell it for a very affordable price."

Ruka turned to stone and so does everyone else.

Sumire recovered and went beside Koko.

"H-hey, Koko… How many copies?"

"He thought, 'I'm going to make a thousand copies of this!'" Koko imitated Narumi's lovestruck voice. Ruka, already recovered from the shock, gulped.

"C-can you repeat that Koko?" He asked with a really worried look on his face.

"Thousand. A Thousand copies." Koko said and deadpanned.

"WHAAATT??"

The whole class screamed at the top of their voices. Obviously, they were quite shocked. But…

"Hey! How much is that?"

"I'm gonna buy one of those!"

"How cute! Who is this girl?"

"I'm gonna marry this cute girl!"

The whole class looked outside and saw a huge crowd forming, getting bigger and bigger by the minute. In the middle of that crowd, Ruka saw Narumi holding out pieces of papers. Those 'papers', were Hotaru's picture.

"Hey! Looked at that!"

The whole class followed what Sumire said and saw another crowd forming, just beside the other crowd. Let's just call the two crowds, Narumi-crowd and Boys-crowd. It seems that the Boys-crowd is full of boys. (Well, figures.)

"3 for 1000 rabbits(1)! Come and get it!" They heard Narumi said.

"I want 6 of them!"

"I want TEN!"

"I'll buy them ALL!"

"No! They're mine!"

The whole classed sweatdropped. Thinking this people were crazy, just for a simple picture. They turned to the Boys-crowd. Suddenly all them were wearing pink cloths on their heads. Written on those were: WE 3 HOTARU IMAI!

..It looks like a new fanclub was formed.

"H-hey, how did they know it was Hotaru?" Yuu asked no one in particular. Everyone wondered as well.

Ruka took a step back and went to the door. All of a sudden he felt angry, although he didn't know why. He had the urge to use his alice on those boys.

"Ruka, take it easy." Koko turned to him with a worried face.

Ruka looked at him with a smile. But it wasn't a kind smile, not at all. Koko gulped at the aura forming around Ruka. It looks like Ruka was really angry. Ruka doesn't know why but Koko does.

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"Haa… Haa…"

Hotaru breathed heavily, her face was red from running. Obviously, she ran all the way to get away from Mr. Bear.

"Oh? Is that you, Hotaru?"

Hotaru looked around and saw Tsubasa.

"You…" Then, she collapsed all of a sudden.

"Hey!" Tsubasa went to Hotaru's body. "Hey! Hotaru!"

With no other choice left, Tsubasa carried Hotaru somewhere safe.

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(1) It is their money… if I remember correctly…right?

Once again, I'm sorry to those who have anticipated this fic. I'll try to update again. And I'm sorry if it's short. Oh, please leave a review (If you care about this fic.)! In addition to that, (since the New Year is coming up) HAPPY NEW YEAR!