OH MY GAWD. I'm so sorry for the late update. I got so distracted with watching anime and reading manga! _ I already had a few chapters written during my free classes in school... I just got too lazy to type them up. _ Gomen nasai!!!

Well I hope you like this chapter. I'm really sorry, and thank you for the reviews(Before I deleted and re-posted it) from

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Ah Hael


Chapter 2

A beautiful Friday morning.

It has been 5 days since Mikan met Youichi and Kaoru. She's currently sleeping in her room, tired from yesterday's party at the crèche.

On the other hand, Mr. Yukihira is quietly sitting in his office. Organising the new profiles of students enrolling for the upcoming school year, when his phone started to vibrate. He leaned on his leather chair, flipped his phone and started reading.

Kaoru: Hey Kazu! How would you like to have dinner at our house? ;)

Kazu: What's this all of a sudden? I smell something fishy... _

Kaoru: Psh. That's probably you :P! Haha. Anyway, Hiro and I are free tonight. We thought it would be nice to catch up on things. Oh, bring Yuka's cute daughter. I was only able to talk to her for a few minutes last Monday. :D

Kazu: Ah... So I've heard. Sure, dinner would be nice. I'll tell Mikan once she gets here.

Kaoru: Great! See you both at 7p.m.!

He closed his phone and proceeded to his unfinished work.

Yukihira's residence

Mikan has just opened her eyes. She sat up and stretched her arms.

'Uwaa... Yesterday's party was so fun. Too bad the crèche is having a 3-weeks break.' She thought as she slipped on her slippers and headed down stairs. Karin, their only maid, has already prepared breakfast for Mikan. After serving the breakfast, she carried on to do the laundry.

Finished with her breakfast, Mikan brought her plate to the kitchen and washed it herself. She didn't want to give Karin too much work. Besides, it was only one plate. She opened the fridge and got herself some strawberry yoghurt. When she closed the fridge, she noticed a note hanging on its surface.

Mikan, come to my office in Gakuen Alice. I'd like you to get used to the school grounds, and you might see Hotaru there. Ok? See you then.

-Kazu

"Eeeh! I haven't seen Hotaru for a month." Mikan said. Her eyes sparkling non-stop. "Hotaru~"

Not wasting another second, she dashed into her bathroom. Thirty minutes later she came out with a towel wrapped around her and another one holding up her hair. She opened her walk-in closet and changed into a long hooded T-shirt, a pair of black shorts and black boots. She tied her hair in low pigtails and wore a pink bonnet.

After changing, she went down stairs to look for the driver. Unfortunately, he was nowhere to be found so Mikan decided to ask Karin.

"Karin-chan, have you seen Takato-san?"

"Ah. He's resting in his room. It seems he's caught a cold." A worried Karin said. "Shall I call him for you?"

"Ara! It's okay. Let him rest. I'll just use the bike!" Mikan replied as she went inside the garage. She hopped on her white bike and said, "Karin, take good care of Takato-KUN~" emphasising the driver's name. Mikan winked and started cycling towards the school. Leaving a flustered Karin.

After 20 minutes of cycling, Mikan finally arrives right in front of the school gates. She took awhile looking at the size of the school. 'Sugoi! It's so big!!! I wonder where Oji-san's office is...' she thought. Lucky for her, the moment she came in the two-door entrance she saw Narumi-sensei.

"Mikan-chan! Your uncle's waiting for you at the office. Come~" Narumi said and started skipping.

Mikan sweat dropped and followed him at the back. "Sensei, is Hotaru in?"

"Hai! The students have 5 minutes of class left. You'll see Hotaru after you talk to your uncle. So come on!" Narumi smiled and paused for a while, waiting for Mikan to catch up.

"Honto?! Yey!" Mikan said as both Narumi and herself started skipping merrily while chanting

[Italics = Mikan, Bold = Narumi]

"Hotaru~"

"Yey~!"

"Oji-san~"

"Yey~!"

"Narumi-sensei~"

"Yey~!" and so on...

Mikan is now with her uncle in the office. Narumi has gone back to the teachers' lounge.

"So what do you think of the school so far?" Kazu asked.

"It's huge!" she replied, "but I haven't seen the rest of the area though."

"No worries. You can have one of the students give you a tour. They'll have free classes after lunch anyways." Kazu said. "Oh. By the way, we'll be having dinner at the Hyuuga's at 7p.m. So make sure to be back here by 4p.m."

"Hai! Oji-san, can I go look around a bit more?" Mikan asked.

"Go look for Hotaru at the canteen first. I don't want you getting lost." He chuckled.


1st floor – Teachers area & Principal's office. The younger ones are also found there. (Kindergarten)

2nd floor – Canteen.

3rd floor – Junior high school students.

4th floor – Senior high school students.

Roof top. :D

There's also Central town, the Gym, a small park and a few more sports fields. ;]


Mikan went up to the 2nd floor and opened the doors to the canteen. She expected it to be cramped with students since there are a lot of students studying here. Much to her surprise, the room was quite spacious. No wonder they used the whole 2nd floor.

All eyes were on her. The brunette walked straight ahead, looking for a certain raven haired girl. She started to feel awkward with all the people looking. Fortunately, she saw a familiar face, but not the one she was looking for. He has a star on his left cheek, and he was sitting far off the corner of the room with 4 other guys. The guy seemed to have noticed her and waved. She smiled and headed for their table when she suddenly felt something pulling her hair.

"Itai! Let go!" Mikan yelled. She felt the grip loosening and turned around to see the culprit. 'Oh joy! It's her.' She thought sarcastically.

"Well-well. How'd this trash get in here?" Luna scoffed.

"Tch."

"Why are you here? You're not allowed here. Get lost!" Luna said.

"Why? Do you own this school? I believe you only ENROLLED here." Mikan retorted.

"At least I study in this school. Not like some poor person who can't afford to study here."

"Psh. Not for long, if you don't stop..." Mikan mumbled soft enough that only she could hear it.

"Why am I even talking to trash like you. I'm sick of looking at you." Luna continued.

"Well. I felt I had a life-threatening cancer meeting you just once." Mikan stuck her tongue out. Luna was furious and slapped Mikan, who was caught off guard and fell.

"Ugh... How gay." Mikan looked at Luna with disgust while rubbing her cheek.

Luna was about to kick her, but fortunately, a guy grabbed her from the back preventing her from kicking Mikan.

"Damn it, Luna. Must you go and hit everyone else?" the guy said. "Apologise to her."

"But Tsubasa-kun... It's her fault! She doesn't belong to this scho –"

The door slammed open, revealing a man wearing glasses with a frog on his shoulder.

"Luna Koizumi. Principal's office. NOW!" Jinno said. Luna cursed and hesitantly left the canteen.

Mikan pouted and said, "Hmph. Arriving a minute earlier would have been nice..."

The guy held his hand out and helped Mikan stand up.

"Are you okay?" Tsubasa asked.

"Hai. I'm fine. I just need some ice." Mikan said rubbing her aching cheek. "Geez. Does that girl take anabolic steroids or something?"

Tsubasa gave out a chuckle. "Hah. Where'd you learn how to say insults?"

"Hmm... sources." Mikan replied as she giggled.

"Okay. Get back to your own business. Nothing to see here." Tsubasa announced to the gossiping students, while he led Mikan back to his table.

Mikan's POV

I looked at Tsubasa's friends as we approached their table. 'Hm.. Wasn't there 4 of them?'

"Guys meet Mikan Yukihira. Principal-san's only niece." Tsubasa introduced. "These are my friends. The two over there are the twins."

Both guys had short, brown hair and have the same height, but they're quite identical. The other had narrow eyes and the other didn't.

"Hey! Name's Kitsuneme. Kitsu for short." Said the twin with narrow eyes.

"Mine's Kokoro. I prefer being called Koko though." The other twin said as he winked seductively then winked several times.

'I see. Must be the class clown.' I laughed, "Pfft."

"Blondie over there is Ruka." Tsubasa said, pointing at a boy holding a bunny.

"Hi. Nice to meet you, Yukihira-san." he said.

"No need to be formal. Just call me Mikan." I said. "Ne, can I call you Ruka-pyon?"

The guys started to laugh, except the embarrassed Ruka of course. 'I don't see anything funny about it. It's cute.' I thought.

"Gomen na–"

"It's okay, Mikan." Ruka smiled, but still blushing.

"If you say so..." I replied.

The guys started asking questions like her age, birthday, hobbies, and talents and when they asked about why she lives with her uncle, she told them her life story from her parent's death till the present time. Of course, she left out some personal issues.

After talking for 30mins, a raven haired boy came into the picture from behind Mikan. He didn't seem to notice Mikan since he just leaned on the table with one hand, not even noticing that there was a girl looking at him.

"Ruka. Have you seen my brother?" he asked.

"Hmm? No sorry." Ruka said. "Why? Everything alright?"

"Uh. Yea. It's just that I can't find him and Mom told me to get both of us some clothes for tonight's dinner." The boy groaned.

"You're having a party?" Ruka asked.

Koko and Kitsu looked at each other then back at the boy, "You're having a party and you didn't invite us?!"

"It's not a party. Just a normal dinner with Mom's friend..." the boy's voice trailed off as he finally noticed the brunette.

He smirked as he said, "You should take a picture. It'll last longer."

Mikan's eyes twitched.

"Natsume..." Ruka rubbed his forehead as if in pain.

"No thank you." Mikan tried to calm herself.

"You sure? It's free." Natsume was still smirking.

"Yes. I'd pity the paper if it had an egoistic jerk printed on it."

Natsume was about to say something back but Ruka stopped him.

"Natsume. Stop causing trouble." Ruka said.

"Well, it's her fault for staring at me with those big eyes."

"What?! How rude. I wasn't staring. I was only surprised since," Mikan continued. "I, too, have dinner with uncle's friend."

Both thought for a while.

"No way! You're the principal's niece?!" Natsume yelled.

"Woah. Relax man." Kitsu said. "Wow, never knew Natsume could explode like that."

"Gah! Of course! How could I not notice...?" Mikan said, talking to herself. "You fit perfectly... Same eyes, hair colour and good-looking like Kaoru-san..."

"Hah. So you do admit that I'm attractive." Natsume proudly stated.

"Shit! Did I say it out loud?!" she began to panic.

"Oy. Stop shouting, baka." A girl who entered a few moments ago walked towards their table.

Mikan turned to the girl approaching. Her smile grew bigger and bigger. Until...

"Hotaru!!! I've been looking for you!" Mikan shouted as Hotaru came to their table.

"Obviously not hard enough. I had to find out that you were here from that weird teacher." Her best-friend said.

"You mean Narumi-sensei? How mean. He's not weird... just... Unique." She tried convincing her that Narumi, who was fond of frilly blouses and twirling around, wasn't weird. Lol.

"Too unique, that it's weird. Anyway, this boy here heard us talking about you and said he knows you." Hotaru stepped to the side to show Mikan the little boy that was behind her.

"Ah. Mikan-nee, it's you!" Youichi walked towards Mikan, who gave him a hug.

"Hey, hey. So not cool. Stop touching my brother. You might spread your stupidity on him." Natsume pulled Youichi to his side and smirked.

'Ugh. I think I've seen too much of that smirk for today...' Mikan thought.

"Youichi, I'm afraid I have to go take a look around the school for now. I'll see you in dinner, okay?" she said.

"Hai, Nee-chan."

With that, Hotaru and Mikan exited the canteen.

"Wow. It's been a long time since I saw you teasing someone." Ruka said as he looked at his best friend.

Koko gave a light chuckle. "Well who wouldn't tease someone who reacts so much. Besides, it's not like you see a girl refusing Natsume, everyday. Right?"

"Well other than that pink haired girl and Imai that is." Kitsu said.

"Oh yeah. Anna." Koko smirked. "And don't forget your loyal girlfriend, bro."

Kitsuneme blushed. "Stop it. Of course Nonoko wouldn't." Then he smirked. "She already has me."

"Well. Speaking of who has who." Koko said. "I wonder if I should ask Sumire out next year. Maybe then she might break that fan club again."

"Ugh. Please. I'd be happy by then." Natsume said.

"Really? Nat-chan~?" Koko joked.

"Stop calling me that. You know how much that childhood friend of yours stalked me during elementary..." Natsume shivered from the memories of the girl following him around school.

"Yeah... If only I was more good-looking than you." Koko said

"Hah. Yeah. Keep dreaming that." Natsume smirked

"Though, you shouldn't worry. She did already give up. It think it's just respect that made her re-make that fan club." Ruka told Koko.

"Whatever. I don't care. I'll see you guys around." Natsume said as he turned around. "C'mon, Youichi. We gotta go get you something to wear."

"Bye Natsume!" Kitsu said. "Enjoy you're lovely date."

"It's not a date!" Natsume growled.

When he got in the car, he reached for his pocket and took out his phone.

Natsume: Ruka, you're staying at home till next week right?

Ruka: Yeah. Why?

Natsume: You can come to the dinner too. Right?

Ruka: Hahaha. Nervous? ;)

Natsume: Hell no. I'm just asking. -_-

Ruka: Yeah. School dorms aren't open yet so. Yeah. I'll be staying in your house.

Natsume: Ok. I'll see you later.

Ruka: Okay. Oh. Koko wishes you to have a lovely dinner with Yukihira-san.

Natsume: Hah. Tell him I will. :P

At the Canteen

"Omg. Is he up to something???" Kitsu asked as he was looking over Ruka's shoulder reading the text message.

"Wtf, dude. I wish I could go to the dinner too." Koko said as he ate his lunch.

"Haha." Ruka sweat dropped.


There done!

Again, I apologize for the inconvenience. ;_; Please review if you have the time. ^^