Writer's Notes: Yay! It's chapter three!

Ah, and Mikan & co. are in high school. Everyone's 15, with exceptions.


-/MyLadyWolf/-


"Hey…look. It's Mikan Sakura."

"The one who attacked Luna-chan?"

"She's such a freak…"

Mikan closed her eyes as she walked through the groups of people.

She could hear the whispers, the insults, the jeers.

Her face showed nothing.

As she opened the door to the classroom, all the chattering stopped, and the insults started again.

"I can't believe she attacked Luna-chan!"

"She's a total wild animal; I don't know why the Headmaster even let her in."

"Hey, freak," Luna said smugly, slamming one hand onto Mikan's desk as she sat. "What do you think of the rumors?"

The brunette stared at the blond-haired girl, her eyes similar to Hotaru's-emotionless.

"I've told you before, haven't I? I am what I am, and nothing can change that."

Natsume glanced at Mikan before going back to his manga, listening to the conversation.

"Just make sure you stay away from my Natsume-kun," Luna growled, and then smiled. A confident expression.

"Will you ever listen? I already said it would be best for you to never return to the forest. In case that we too subtle, I meant that it would be best if we stayed away from each other," Mikan said simply, flipping through the pages of a thick book. "If you please, could you leave me alone now? I believe everything has been made clear."

Luna narrowed her eyes, but walked away without another word.

"Na-stu-me-kuuuuun!" She sang, now flinging herself at the fire-caster.

He paid no attention, of course, dodging as Luna, who, unlike most girls, caught herself in a perfect flip.

"Wow! Did you see that?" One girl asked her friend, who nodded.

"Luna-chan is the best after all!

The door slid open, as the blond-haired teacher came in.

"Alright, everyone!" Narumi said, clapping his hands for attention. "We have two new students today! Well…one isn't exactly new…it's kind of hard to explain, but, please be kind to them!"

And again the door slid open, two girls walking into the room.

One was a taller, older girl, dressed in the yellow high-school uniform. She had very long, seaweed-green-colored hair which was curled, matching her green eyes. She was very pretty, somehow reminding everyone of a cat.

The other girl was shorter, and younger, her medium-length blue-grey hair also slightly curled, with pale blue eyes. She wore the regular blue middle school uniform.

"K-Konnichiwa, minna-san…" the younger girl said timidly. "My name is Nobara Ibaragi. I have the Ice Alice, although I can't control it very well…p-pleased to meet you!"

Luna scoffed, a disapproving look on her face. This girl was way too timid. And 'pleased to meet you'? No one said that these days. But, several guys thought she was pretty adorable.

"Sumire Shouda, I'm older than you guys, 17, a junior in Alice Academy's High School Division. I've been away a lot, so I'm just here to meet someone." the older girl said, smiling.

She got more of a reaction, several guys with hearts in their eyes.

Luna examined this older girl, and then nodded in approval. She decided she liked Sumire Shoda, and walked forwards.

"Sumire Shoda, I'm pleased that you came to Class B just to meet me—"

But the green haired girl just stared at her weirdly.

"…Who the hell are you?"

Sumire turned to face the brunette 'wolf-girl', as every pair of eyes, including Velvet Rose members, followed.

No one ever rejected Luna Koizumi.

"And? Aren't you going to say 'Hi', Mikan?" Sumire said, hands on her hips.

Mikan continued flipping pages of her book, speaking without looking up.

"Well, you're just going to attack me, aren't you? Why can't you make the first move for once?"

The book was shut closed softly, as the chocolate orbs met emerald ones.

"You're the same as usual. Have you ever noticed it's always me making the first move?" Sumire sighed, before shooting forwards, launching a fist at Mikan, who caught it effortlessly, and throwing the older girl across the room.

Exactly like a cat, she landed perfectly, whilst Mikan was now in front of the girl, her foot just missing Sumire's head. She grabbed the brunette's foot, to slam her onto the ground, but Mikan merely did a backwards flip and freed herself of Sumire's hands.

"Hmmm? You seriously haven't changed. But guess what? You know why I brought Nobara with me to America?"

"You mean forced," Mikan corrected. "Nobara was against going to America. You just didn't want to go alone." She crossed her arms.

"Ano…" Nobara mumbled shyly, holding out hands.

The room was colder now, clear, shiny ice forming on the floor, covering it.

Sumire smirked triumphantly.

"Sumire-nee, you need to remember I live with wolves. And if I remember correctly, you can't skate."

"Ah-ah-ah, you missed a lot in America, Mikan-chan."

Mikan sighed as the older girl threw her a pair of white skates.

"You're kidding. People are getting cold."

"They'll live."

Within seconds, the skates were on, the two girls gliding gracefully across the ice.

"This is incredibly stupid, Sumire." Mikan told the junior.

"I have Nobara on my side. You wanna call a wolf, that's fine by me."

The brunette sighed again, opening the window and whistling loudly, calling.

"Kaede-chan!"

The same wolf that had attacked Luna the first day, a female with a light-gray coat, immediately jumped through the window, scaring a few students.

"Oh, god, not this again…" someone complained.

"See? You're making me cause a disturbance, not to mention you're causing everything," Mikan told Sumire. "And there's not enough space. Now get out of my classroom and stop forcing Nobara to do things with you."

Sumire played with her hair, pretending to not have heard a word Mikan said.

The brunette sighed, before whistling to Kaede and jumping into the air.

Sumire smirked before also jumping into the air, above Mikan.

"Sumire-nee, you're lucky I'm nice enough to not jam the blades into your face!"

The brunette flipping in the air, as she used to knee to hit the green-haired girl in the stomach.

Kaede safely caught the older girl as she fell while Mikan landed on the ice gracefully.

"…How come your trip to America didn't help?" the brunette said, smirking a little, as the rest of the class watched, stunned.

"Shut up. I'm going back to class."

"About time," Mikan muttered. She glanced at the wolf and nodded, before Kaede took of to bring Sumire back.

"Nobara-chan, mind getting rid of the ice?"

The gray-blue haired girl nodded, closing her eyes as the ice disappeared.

Mikan took off her skates, sliding her feet into her regular white boots.

She was the only one who didn't wear the school's uniform.

"Sumire wasted my time….how was America this time, Nobara?"

"Well…um…it….wasn't too bad….I suppose." The girl stammered.

"That bad, huh?"

No one else said anything—they were still too stunned by the girl's performance.

"Well?" Mikan said, holding out her arms.

Nobara smiled before crashing into the other girl, into an embrace.

"Mikan-chan! I'm so glad I got to see you again!" she bawled, out of happiness. "…And Sumire's…kind of scary…!"

"Ahahaha…" the brunette laughed nervously before patting the girl on the head. "…I'll train you later, 'kay? Tanpopo's going to happy to see you. She's gotten pretty big, so you might not recognize her…but she does have an unusual coloring, so…"

"…Mmmm…"

The class finally regained composure, while someone mumbled,

"What the hell was that?"


"NOBARA-CHAN! Come play with us!"

"You're so cute!"

"Hey, show us more of your Alice!"

The class was crowding around the new girl, showering her with nice comments.

"Nobara, I'll see you later, okay? You can take the time to get used to the place," Mikan told her friend, walking out the door.

"Ah…Mikan-chan…" Nobara trailed off.

"Don't worry about her, Nobara-chan. You shouldn't hang out with her…she's a freak, anyway."

"Yeah! Someone as cute as Nobara-chan shouldn't be with people like her."

"…"

The pale blue eyes girl's eyes closed for a split second, and once they were open, her personality was totally different.

"Shut up dumbasses! You're lucky that Nobara let me out! Mikan and I have been friends for a long time, so don't talk trash about her, idiots!"

"…"

The girls and guys that were talking to her stood there in silence.

"Oh!"

Sumire popped in, as everyone turned to her.

"The Ice Lady came out?"

"Oh, It's Baka Sumire," Nobara said, sighing. "Where the hell is Mikan?"

"Eh? She's outside. We supposed to start are training now."

"Look at this…you dumbasses held me up…"

Sumire sighed, before whacking Nobara on the head, hard, saying, "All right! Time for the Ice Lady to disappear for a while!"

The younger girl's eyes closed again, before opening them and looking around, slightly confused.

"…Ah…gomen, I just…" she mumbled.

The emerald-eyed girl grabbed Nobara's hand, pulling her to the door.

"Alright! Let's go!"

The class watched in silence.


Mikan was perched on top of the boulder yet again, and it became her permanent spot.

"Wasuretai demo wasurenai

Konna omoi wo nanto yobu no kai…"

"…Mikan-chan?" Nobara said quietly, approaching the brunette.

"Nobara-chan! Ah, Sumire's here too…"

"What do you mean, 'too'?"

Mikan sighed yet again, before turning to Nobara.

"Are you ready?"

"Uhm, if it's not too much trouble, a….song….?"

Mikan smiled and nodded, as ice encased the ground, the wolves backing away.

Sumire handed the blue-grey eyed girl a pair of white skates, as Nobara glided over the ice without effort.

"Okay…well, first let's try this," Mikan suggested, as millions of button-sized water droplets appeared everywhere over the ice.

"Try turning them to ice…blindfolded, of course." The brunette told Nobara, as Sumire smiled and tossed Nobara a blindfold, which she tied on.

"Ready?" Sumire called, as Nobara posed, like she was reaching for the droplets.

Velvet Rose, although Mikan had said not to come back anymore, was hiding behind trees.

"…Hey…did we ever find out what kind of Alice Sakura had?" Ruka asked Hotaru, staring at the brunette.

"…No. Her information is pretty concealed..."

"Four minutes," Mikan called to Nobara. "You'll have to try your hardest."

"And…..start!" Sumire shouted.

"Yoru no machi wa shizuka de fukai umi no you

tsudzuku michi ni tada ATASHI hitori dake

tooi koe o tayori ni aruite yuku no

zutto sagashiteru sotto hikaru aoi hikari…"

About half of the water droplets turned to ice already, falling onto the iced ground with soft 'plinks'.

"Nee ATASHI o mitsukete

soshite yonde KOKORO de

donna ni hanareta toshite mo kikoeru kara…"

Nobara was breathing pretty hard now, her speed of turning the water droplets into ice decreasing.

"Gin no akari ga tomaru sorezore no heya

kitto doko ka niha iru to negai nagara aruku…"

About fifty droplets were left now, but time was running out.

"Nee ANATA o mitsukete

soshite nido to wasurezu

donna ni mune ga itakutemo soba ni iru no

tsunaida te o

hanasanai kara…"

Twenty-four droplets left…

"Nee ATASHI ga ANATA o mitsukete

soshite nido to wasurezu

donna ni mune ga itakutemo soba ni iru no

zutto

zutto…"

"Done!" Sumire shouted, Nobara collapsing onto the ground, panting.

Six water droplets were still suspended into the air.

"Not bad," Mikan said, smiling, sliding her way over to Nobara. "But we've got to keep doing this until you get all of them."

"Mou! Mikan-chan, you're better at this…" Nobara said, wiping her sweat on a towel Sumire have brought for her.

"Oh, that reminds me. Why don't you show us a little show?" The emerald-eyed girl suggested.

"No."

"Oh, come on! You haven't seen us in a while!"

"That was your fault for going to America."

"…Ano…I would really like to see Mikan's performance…" Nobara mumbled quietly.

The brunette sighed. She couldn't fight against Nobara.

"Fine, fine. I'm not in a good mood, so don't expect it to be anything special."

Sumire threw a pair of skates at Mikan, who caught them and slid them on. Nobara thickened the ice as and climbed onto the boulder.

As Mikan posed, her formation the same as Nobara, and the frozen ice buttons turning to liquid again.

The brunette looked irritated as she spun on the ice, light reflecting off of the droplets, creating a rainbow. She did a triple lutz, followed by a double-toe loop, and finally a spiral, skating back to the middle of the ice. She was still irritated, and then everything with ice was lit in flames.

"Natsume! What did you do?" Ruka practically screamed.

"I never activated my Alice, Ruka!" Natsume snapped.

Ruka stared at the fire, shocked that Nobara and Sumire watched without doing anything.

"But that was so short!" Sumire called, as the flames disappeared, the brunette walked out, unharmed.

"Shut up. I'm not particularly in a good mood…"

The girl turned to the trees,

"After being spied on."

"Enjoyed the show?" Sumire smirked.

The three members stepped out, busted.

"You're a multi-Alice user, aren't you?" Hotaru said immediately, as Mikan tilted her head and smirked.

"Oh my, did I forget to use the right word last time? 'A single human who can barely control her Alice'…I should have said 'a single human who can barely control her Alices, no?"

Natsume narrowed his eyes.

"…Who are you?"

And the brunette froze, the wind creating a silence between the six students.

"…That's right...who am I?"


~./End Chapter Three/.~

And that's all?


Writer's End Notes: Wooooow. This took me forever to write. I have no clue why.

This chapter is just basically the introduction of Sumire and Nobara. Nobara Ibaragi is a manga-only character, so if you haven't read the manga, you won't know her. She has a split personality, which Persona brings out for missions. Otherwise, she's a very good-natured shy character who really likes being friends with Mikan.

Sumire's a good person here, although she still competes with Mikan a little.

This chapter was a little random with all the ice skating stuff. I don't ice skate much, so sorry if I typed something wrong. XP I can only skate in a straight line, lol.

Ummm…yeah. I kind of got slightly flustered with this chapter…the ending didn't turn out how I wanted it to, but I'm not sure how to re-word it…D:

I kind of messed up Mikan's mysterious personality a little, mixing it with the defiant ones like in Love is Just Plain Hell. (Which I will update soon)

At the end, it's not like Mikan forgot who she is, but she never had any memories except the wolves, remember? Why she knows Nobara and Sumire will come later.

The lines "Wasuretai demo wasurenai/Konna omoi wo nanto yobu no kai…" are from the song "Order Made" by RADWIMPS. The song Mikan sings for Nobara is "Ningyo Hime" by Rie Tanaka.