Title: My Return to You
Summary: What if she left? What if she left after their trip back in time? What if she left without telling anyone? What if she came back years later? After years of separation, Mikan is back at Alice Gakuen. However, there is a bigger purpose for her return and who is this Izumi Sakura?
A/N: Firstly, exams are over!!! Many many many explanations in this chapter! I'm scared to re read it a final time to make sure it's ok. It's been sitting on my computer for a weekish already. I'm trying to write another chapter but I'm getting too many ideas. This chapter is also longer than chapter 3, so I hope that makes you guys happy. Some concepts might be a little confusing, or it might just be me! Sorry guys!
P.S: SO SORRY GUYS FOR THE MESSED UP CHAPTER! I spent about an hour trying to fix it, seriously! I haven't had internet for a while and they finally fixed it today! I was out yesterday at an Internet cafe like place so I just did it there without really checking. I ended up having to manually enter all the spacing! x_x took forever! I need to really figure out what happened! Again I'm sorry about it all!!! :(
Disclaimer: I don't own Gakuen Alice!!! =(
Now on to the chapter!!!
~DIFFERENT LOCATION~
"Took you long enough to arrive." A voice was heard from behind the desk.
Mikan has just arrived in an office looking room. She appeared in front of the doors and made sure to lock the doors before walking towards the voice.
"I'm sorry that I kept getting questioned by them." Mikan sighed and took a seat in the chair infront of the desk.
The back of a chair was facing Mikan but it turned around when they heard Mikan sit down. Mikan smiled at the person, "Long time no see... uncle."
Infront of Mikan sat the High School Division President, Yukihira Kazu. Not looking a year older than a man in his 20s when he was actually something in his 60s. The mystery behind his young looks was the Longevity Alice which grants him a long life and the ability to not age.
Three years ago, Kazu was someone who had kept a close watch over Mikan when she was at the academy, 3 years ago. He also helped her before she had left the academy and he still continues to help her today. He had helped Mikan and her mom escape the school and helped Mikan enter the school again.
[A/N: Don't know his appearance 'colours'? So I can't really describe him. I don't even remember how he old he was supposed to look in the manga.]
"I never got the chance to thank you, uncle. For 'finding me'." Mikan grinned.
The reason Mikan was about to come back to Alice Gakuen was because of Kazu. They changed Mikan's appearance and gave her a new name, Izumi Sakura. Kazu held another Alice which gives him the ability to tell whether a person has an Alice or not by simply seeing their picture. Since Kazu was one of the people who picked candidates to come to the school, they planned to let Izumi Sakura attend. Kazu got a hold of a picture of Izumi Sakura and told the school that she possessed an Alice. While the school thinks Izumi Sakura entered the academy because they discovered her Alice, in reality Sakura Mikan still only possess the Nullification and Stealing Alice.
[A/N: DUN DUN DUNNNNN!!!! Her Alice(s) are finally revealed!]
"I see you have 'gained' many new Alices." Kazu looked over at Mikan.
"You mean these?" Mikan reached down her shirt for something. She tugged at a necklace that was around her neck and hung down to her abdomen. It contained various sized and coloured Alice stones. Mikan sighed, "You know how long Okaa-san and I spent trying to look for useful Alice stones in her collection."
Mikan took the necklace off and held one of the Alice stones. "Not all of them are compatible with me. Okaa-san yelled at me for using them but I didn't care. They could come in handy." Mikan held onto one of the Alice stone and tightened her hold.
She closed her eyes and concentrated on the Alice stone. After a few seconds, a small fire started to glow in Mikan's other hand. Bear, who was sitting in Mikan lap looked at the fire in awe. The fire started fading away.
"Uh.." Mikan groaned in pain and let go of the Alice stone. As soon as she let go the fire disintegrated. "I don't know why but Natsume's stone makes me exhausted." Mikan was breathing heavily, trying to catch her breath.
[A/N: I don't think Alice stones actual give that affect but it's for my story! :D]
"Don't be so reckless. You have to save your energy for more important things." Kazu turned his chair around again and looked out the window. "There's something bigger to deal with."
"I understand." Mikan knew they were about to have serious conversation.
The mood of the room changed into a serious atmosphere. Bear could even feel the air around the room change. All he could do was stay still and listen for now.
"You have to keep that barrier up on you at all times, remember? Or else, you'll get discovered." Kazu warned Mikan. "You also shouldn't be wasting your other stones for little things. I know you used the teleportation stone your mom made you to come here. I hope you have a few at hand since that will be how you can reach me from now on."
Mikan has one specific Alice stone active at all times. It's a stone made by Shiki for Mikan to 'hide' her true presence. It's an Alice stone which lets her project a barrier around her. It's a barrier that takes shape of her form so no one would enter it or feel it as it gives a faint sense. The barrier gave her the 'luxury' of walking around freely as no one could spy of her without her knowing and that her Alices would be kept hidden too. She couldn't afford getting discovered by people with authority, especially a certain president.
Mikan nodded even though she knew Kazu couldn't see her. She was taking out a piece of string from her pocket. She tied the brown Alice stone that she gave Bear to the string. "This is for you Bear." Mikan placed it around Bear's neck.
Bear stared down at the stone hanging on his neck. "From now on, whenever I need your help I can teleport you to me." Mikan smiled at this. "We can be together whenever we want. If you want to come to me, just concentrate and I'll feel it."
"Mikan..." Kazu called out.
Mikan looked up at the back of the chair. "Now isn't the time to be playing around. We have to start our plan as soon as possible so we can end it quick."
"We have a slight setback though."
Kazu turned to look at Mikan with an emotionless face. "What kind of setback?" Kazu's tone was cold, not liking what he was hearing.
"Well, for starters Natsume and gang are suspicious of me. I gave those letters telling them to just trust Izumi Sakura. I didn't mention that I would even come back to the school anytime soon. Hopefully, they'll start to understand a little more and not come after me again." Mikan leaned back on her chair, sighing from exhaustion.
Kazu raised his eyebrow, "Is that all? Because that isn't a major set-back. They won't do anything unless they have real proof that you're Sakura Mikan. Seriously, I think the name you picked was a little careless. Nonetheless, I'll be keeping an eye out on them. I just hope that they don't interfere with our plan but I'm sure you're determined to not let them get involved. Just be exact careful when you're around them."
Mikan met her uncle's intense eyes. She gulped, scared of what his reaction would be upon hearing what she had to say. "There's more..."
There was silence, signalling Mikan to continue, "Narumi-sensei knows..." Mikan barely whispered.
Kazu's eyes widened at Mikan's news. "What?!" Kazu nearly screamed for the whole building to hear.
"Shhh!" Mikan hushed her uncle as she turned to look at the door. Not sensing anyone near the door she sighed in relief. "I'm sorry. I really am. I couldn't help it. I tried resisting all day but..."
Kazu sighed, "I guess it couldn't be helped."
Kazu rubbed his temples from the stress building up. After a little thinking, Kazu rethought things over. "Narumi could become useless in part of our plan. Having a teacher close by is better for us and safer for you." Kazu scratched his head at their predicament. "Have you told him about anything yet?"
"Not everything yet. I was interrupted by Natsume and them. I went to look for Narumi-sensei before coming here but I couldn't find him."
Kazu tried thinking of a plan. "I think we should bring Narumi here so we can both explain to him what's happening." Mikan simply nodded, "Well I think you should get going. We'll talk tomorrow with Narumi."
Mikan started getting up but remembered something, "Here's your letter from Okaa-san. I don't know why she needed me to deliver it when you guys had contact before."
Mikan handed Kazu an envelope.
"Our method of communication is not as safe as this." Kazu took the letter and started opening it.
As Mikan was about to leave Kazu thought of something. "Oh yes, before you go. What are you going to do about your abilities class? Which one are you going to be joining? You have a choice since you have many Alices on hand. I'll be the one that assigns you to them."
"Well in our plan, I have to enter the inside and to do that I need to get into the Dangerous Abilities class right? Only a selected few know my actual Alice, right? So I'll be able to join the Dangerous Abilities soon enough. Well, as soon as a certain someone decides to come get me." Mikan stopped, knowing what would lie ahead of her for revealing this Alice to the school again but that was all part of the plan.
"It's only to my classmates that I've said I have the Mind Reading Alice... for now. People have already been spreading around that I have multiple Alices. My Teleportation stone can come in handle for that." Mikan replied, thinking hard about what she was saying. "But sooner or later, people will find out that I have the Stealing Alice. More connections will be made and it'll only be a matter of time before I'm found out." Mikan started worrying about the success of their plan.
"Well, your Stealing Alice is supposed to be kept a secret to the entire school. Only the headmaster and the presidents know about it. We've label this Alice as a dangerous one so I think the school also thinks it's wise to keep it a secret. With the two incidents that we've had already, relating to a Stealing Alice, it's best to keep the Alice a secret from the school. They especially don't want the events that happened 3 years ago to repeat. So as long as you don't say anything, it'll be fine and the school will try its best to keep it a secret too. As for your abilities class situation, I think there's a way for you to be in two classes without everyone knowing. However, I think the only problem would be the people in the Dangerous abilities class." Kazu had to rethink their plan over again. The more they thought about it, the more flaws it seems to hold.
[A/N: That is actually the situation I'm in right now! The more I thought about my plan for them, the more flaws I saw! x_x]
"You're going to have to put up an act to pose as a different person in front of those people. You can cover your face with a mask too when meeting in the Dangerous abilities class. There won't a be a problem with you seeing Natsume or Yoichi or Tsubasa since it seems that people that were associated with you had been demoted."
"Which is a good thing." Mikan sighed in relief. "I don't want to see those that I care about on outside missions anymore." Mikan then remembered someone else that was in the Dangerous Abilities class. "What about Nobara-chan?"
"It seems that she was demoted out of the group too. Natsume and Yoichi joined the Latent Abilities class and Tsubasa went back to the Special Abilities class. So you can be sure they're safe from the Dangerous Abilities class."
Mikan was glad that they all got demoted out of the Dangerous Abilities class. "But that means that Natsume's star rank went down? Natsume isn't considered a favourite anymore either nor is he a principle right?"
"His star rank did go down since Natsume isn't a favourite anymore. He's a three star now and he's not part of the student council either. Of course the Elementary School President will be glad to make you his new favourite upon hearing about your Stealing Alice." Kazu wasn't happy with the fact that his niece was going to join the underground group of Alice Gakuen, especially to be under the hands of the Elementary School President.
Mikan had taken everything into consideration before coming back. She knew of the dangers that would await her and all the consequences of getting caught. It would be another wild goose chase if everyone found out she was actually Sakura Mikan like three years back. Mikan had prayed that when she was back, her friends would be out of dangers way and her prayers were answered. Mikan hadn't heard all the details about the school from her mom, who had contact with Kazu. She didn't know their means of communication but she knew it existed in some kind of form because she was able to safely enter the school.
The dangers of revealing her Stealing Alice were high. People would connect her to her mom or herself but they made sure that all their records were clean and that they were no connections at all. It took a lot of work but the school believed them and enrolled Izumi Sakura. A fake past was made up for the school to find so no suspicion would be made about Izumi Sakura. It took time to make up this fake past for Izumi Sakura but in the end it was worth it.
"Well, I'll be in the Dangerous Abilities class of course and the Latent class for my Mind Reading Alice. However, there might be a problem since Natsume is also in the Latent class. It just calls for more opportunity for him to keep an eye on me."
Mikan looked up at his uncle wanting an answer. Kazu thought about this problem.
"Well, act normal and nothing will happen. Natsume won't take any interest if he doesn't find anything about you."
Mikan nodded her head in understand and got up from the chair with Bear on her head. "Alright, I should get going since it's getting late."
"Alright. I'll be sure to tell the school about this." Kazu got up and walked towards the window, starring at the setting sun. "Mikan.."
Mikan looked up at her uncle's back. "Hai?"
"Be very careful. Tomorrow will be the day you're going to be coming face to face with him. I have a feeling he's going to send someone to come get you. I need you to be very careful not to let him know your real identity or else who knows what he'll try to do to you. As a new student, he'll think you're clueless and play right into his hands. His guard will be down which is when we'll attack. I will meet with you tomorrow after school and bring Narumi with you too."
"Hai hai, uncle. Don't worry too much about it. I've been trained these past 3 years and I have no urges to reveal myself infront of the Elementary School president. I'll be extra careful around him and the Dangerous Abilities class. I will make them pay for all the sins they've made." Mikan stated, confidently.
Kazu turned back to look at his niece. She wasn't the same Mikan he remembered that entered Alice Gakuen for the first time four years ago. The Mikan infront of him was a more confident and strong girl. He knew their plan would work one way or another. He trusted her. He nodded at Mikan, understanding her words.
"With that, I'll take my leave uncle." Mikan bowed to him before vanishing.
"I pray for your safety tomorrow." Kazu turned back towards the disappearing sun outside.
~Mikan~
Mikan opened her eyes to see that she teleported to her new room. She looked around seeing that it looked up like Hotaru's old room. She scanned the room and saw a bed in the corner with a night stand beside it with a lamp. In the other corner for the room there was a dresser with a mirror. To the left of the dresser there was the closet and her luggage was sitting outside the closet door. The corner in front of her bed was a desk and a small drawer next to it for her studying. In the middle of the wall in between the bed and the dresser, there was a big window from floor to ceiling. Mikan quickly ran over to the window to look at the view of an orange coloured sky with no sun.
Mikan turned around to look at the other side of her room. Nothing special about her room except that in the middle of the room there was a round small table atop of a small round carpet. On top of the table there was a folder that caught Mikan's attention. Before Mikan approached the table, she felt a slap on her leg. Not knowing what it was, she looked down at the ground and saw Bear.
"Oh my gosh Bear! I'm so sorry! I totally forgot you were with me during the whole serious talk I had with my uncle. I'm sorry! Sort of zoned you out." Mikan bowed at Bear knowing he was angry. "Well, you heard most of what's happening during the conversation with my uncle right?" Mikan picked up Bear and placed him on her shoulder.
Bear nodded at her and pointed to the folder on the table. Mikan walked up to the folder and opened it to see the contents.
"Welcome to Alice Gakuen Izumi, Sakura-san." Mikan began reading the letter on top of the pile of paper. "Welcome package? Didn't get one of these last time?" Mikan looked over at Bear, who had gotten down from her shoulder and was sitting on the table.
Mikan sat down on the floor and scanned the letter not seeing anything significant. She flipped the page over to look at the rest of the package. She stopped when she saw the paper with 'Star-ranking' on it. "I guess I got my star-rating already." Mikan quickly read the information to see if she really did get a star ranking already. Finally the word Mikan was looking for caught her attention. "Three-star." Mikan read out loud. "Three star?! How am I so high?" Mikan read the rest of the context trying to find an answer.
"Reasons to star-ranking," Mikan found her answer after reading another page of worthless information. "High entrance exam score." Mikan sweatdropped at the reasons she obtained a high star-ranking. "All thanks to Shi-kun."
It's true. Mikan has been taught by Shiki to keep up her grades. Therefore, during the 3 years she went to a regular school, she was taught how to study better for her exams and that's how Mikan has become smarter. The entrance exam wasn't hard for Mikan since it was based on many things she learnt last year at school.
Mikan looked at the words in confusion. "It hasn't even been a day yet and they gave me such a high ranking based on my exam score. Then again, I didn't take one the last time I came into the school and they want people with Alices so I guess it was just a way to see my level of knowledge. Since, 3 stars is a little too much. I also have a feeling both uncle Kazu and the Elementary School President had something to do with it seeing as a have a 'unique' Alice." Mikan concluded to the confused Bear.
Mikan tossed the rest of the package onto the table. She looked around her room and decided she should start unpacking her stuff.
"Well there's no point in dwelling over such a good ranking. I'll just take advantage of it." Mikan walked towards her luggage and laid it down to the floor. "Might as well start unpacking."
Bear got down from the table and followed Mikan. He helped her unpack her things as she instructed him. As Mikan was unpacking she came across two picture frames. "Ji-chan..." Mikan smiled at the picture of her grandpa and herself hugging each other outside their home back in the countryside.
When Mikan was back in the outside world, she went to visit her grandpa with her mom. She learnt that she was adopted from her mom but that didn't change the fact that her grandpa raised her up. She still treated him like her grandpa and loved him very much. She spent time with him before she had to go live with her mom and Shiki. She wrote to her grandpa like she did back at Alice Gakuen and made regular visits every month. During her last visit she told her grandpa that she wouldn't be able to keep in contact with him for a while and for him to take care of himself. She didn't tell her grandpa anything about their plan and the truth behind Alice Gakuen and Alices. Before entering the school again, she told her mom and Shiki to take care of her grandpa so she didn't worry too much about his health. She knew her grandpa was in good hands.
Mikan walked up to the dresser and hugged the picture close to her heart before placing it on top of the dresser. The other picture frame she placed beside the first one was a picture of Shiki, Yuka, and Mikan. It was a recent picture of them outside their house. She smiled at it remembering the happy memories they made. "I miss you all..." Mikan was kneeling on the floor with her head resting sideways on her arms.
Mikan looked sideways and saw Bear, "But I missed you a lot during my leave Bear." Mikan scooped Bear up in her arms and hugged him tightly.
"Now Bear, I have to explain a few things to you and set a few rules too." Mikan suddenly got serious and sat on her bed.
She placed Bear beside her and he looked at her nodding for her to continue.
"I need you to keep everything you've heard a secret ok? I need you to stay away from mind readers too. When Tsubasa-senpai asked you where you went, tell him it was a prank from me ok?" Mikan stopped to see if Bear was following her. After seeing him nod she continued, "I know you can keep my identity a secret. I told you everything because I'll be needing your help in the future Bear. I need you to help me watch over everyone as in Tsubasa-senpai, Hotaru, Natsume, etc." Bear tilted his head sideways signalling confusion.
"Well, I have a feeling that the Elementary school President has had his eyes on my close friends since I left and he's waiting for some kind of sign to find me. He could possibly figure out half way who I really am without me knowing it and try to get me to spill everything to him. He'll scoop low and try to threaten me with my friends, I have a feeling. Or maybe overall I have a bad feeling about this and that my friends might be in trouble so I need someone to help me watch over them." Mikan explained sadly.
"Not even the stones I left everyone 3 years ago could help them this time." Mikan tightly grabbed the comforter making fists with her hands.
Along with the letter Mikan had left for Hotaru, she left a small box of her Alice stones for her friends. She wanted to protect them, knowing that they would have to be punished. The night before leaving, she asked Yuka about making Alice stones and spent all night making them for her friends. Each person that received a stone cherished it, especially Natsume who wears it around his neck. However, Mikan doesn't know this.
She had made the Alice stones focusing on her Nullification Alice in case her friends were put under danger from any Alices. (Example Persona's Alice) After hearing from Narumi that they didn't undergo harsh punishments, she felt relieved.
"So Bear, I need you to help me watch over them for whatever reason it is ok?" Mikan started forming tears in her eyes.
Bear looked at Mikan and saw a tear slowly roll down her cheek. Her head was lowered to the ground so he didn't know he had started crying until the tear formed. He walked onto her lap and wiped the tears away from Mikan's eyes. Mikan looked up at Bear and smiled at him. "I'm sorry for being like this. I promised myself to be strong from now on."
Mikan wiped her tears away and hugged Bear, "Maybe another reason I wanted you to know everything because I wanted a friend close to me. I can't think of an actual reason for me to tell you everything, Bear. You weren't part of the plan to tell you the truth. I think truthfully, all I wanted was a friend whom I could trust." Mikan felt Bear hug her back tightly hearing her words. "Thank you Bear."
~Natsume~
After Bear had disappeared, everyone got worried of his whereabouts and split up to try to find him. Natsume had given up after an hour of searching and decided to get rest. His body was starting to act up again and he needed to take his medicine.
As soon as Natsume entered his room and closed the door he clenched his heart in pain. He struggled walking towards his night stand trying to open the top drawer. He searched through his drawer in haste not caring that he was throwing everything out of the drawer. He finally found the white paper bag the he was searching for. He grabbed it and threw the paper bag away and ripped open the plastic bag holding the medicine he required. He swallowed two pills without drinking any water.
After a few minutes Natsume calmed down. His breathing was slowing down and the pain was going away. He was sweating from all the pain before and decided to change out of his clothes. He got up and got out of his uniform into a black t-shirt and black pants. After he walked over to his dresser to get a cup of water. As he was filling out the cup he heard a knock on his door.
'Who the heck is it?'
Natsume walked over to the door in a pissed off mood. He didn't bother asking who it was just wanting to beat whoever was on the other side to take out his rotten mood.
"What do you want?!" Natsume yelled as he forcefully opened the door.
As soon as he saw who was standing at his door, his anger fell.
~Mikan~
A few minutes after talking to Bear, Mikan went back to unpacking her stuff. Bear was cleaning around the room when they both heard noises coming from next door.
"Who is that?" Mikan looked at Bear in curiosity.
The noises were replaced by silence within minutes. Mikan went up to the wall and pressed her ear against it, trying to hear if anything was wrong. Not hearing anything, she started to get worried about the person next door. Mikan thought she should check up on the person to see if they were alright.
"Bear. I'm going to check on the person next door, you stay here ok?"
Mikan had changed out of her uniform and was wearing black pants with a blue and pink stripe t-shirt on. She had white sneakers on and her hair was put up into a high pony tail since she was unpacking. Mikan headed for the door after seeing Bear nod in understandable. She turned the knob when suddenly she heard a voice from next door.
"What do you want?!" Came the outburst from next door.
Mikan froze from turning the knob any further. She recognized that voice anywhere. "Natsume." Mikan whispered.
~Hotaru~
Hotaru had also given up on finding Bear and decided to look for the others. She was walking towards the dorms when she caught sight of someone.
"Ruka!"
[A/N: I don't really remember what Hotaru calls Ruka. So we'll pretend they've gotten pretty close in the past 3 years.]
Ruka was walking towards the dorm to look for Natsume, figuring he would have given up on looking for Bear. Just when he was about to open the door to the building, he heard his name being called.
The rabbit in his heads looked over his shoulder to see who it was. The rabbit poked Ruka's shoulder to signal him to look back. Ruka looked up and saw Hotaru running up to him. "Imai."
Hotaru stopped infront of Ruka, out of breathe. "What's wrong Imai?" Hotaru calmed down and looked at Ruka. "Are you looking for Natsume?"
Ruka nodded, "I'm pretty sure he's given up on looking for Bear and I'm worried about him. Judging from everything that's happened today, he's not feeling too happy about it." Ruka looked towards the dorm.
"I'll come with you. I was looking for you guys anyways. I think we need to discuss what happened." Hotaru started walking into the dorm building with Ruka following her lead.
The two walked up the stairs and down the hall towards Natsume's room. Before they reached their destination they heard an outburst near his room.
"What do you want?!" Was the yelled heard down the hall. The two recognized Natsume's voice and ran towards the figure standing outside of Natsume's room.
"Ando-senpai." Hotaru called Tsubasa as they reached Natsume's room.
A/N: I think I left this chapter at a pretty decent place right? Many possible outcomes though from that last sentence. I hope you guys enjoyed it and remember to R&R!! Next chapter will be the conclusion of DAY ONE!!!! Finally! It took FIVE chapters to get through ONE day. I hope I don't keep this up or else I'll be dead but you angry readers! Lol Well I'll keep it at a minimum. I have a feeling this story will end up getting pretty long. Hopefully I still have lots of ideas for future chapters. Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I hope it answered at least HALF the questions lingering in your minds. ~Yumemi~