Please note before continuing on with the story.
Mikan, Natsume and the group are either 15,16 or 17.
Aoi and Youichi are both 11 years old.
Misaki and the other senpais are around their 20s
They are also more free than the actual manga/anime. They get a choice of staying at the academy or go home when they want. Unless certain circumstances make them stay at the academy.
Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice.
And, I suck at grammar (:
The bell had already rang, and 10B was waiting for their homeroom teacher to arrive. Whilst they were waiting, many were talking about the upcoming event that was soon to come, The Masked Ball. Whilst many were thinking of The Masked Ball, others were wondering where Mikan was, she wasn't usually late, she was often one of the earliest to arrive to class, even earlier than Yuu, the class representative. Minutes later, Narumi skipped in with his usual frilly clothes, though, there was something different he had a bigger smile than he usually did.
"Good morning my lovely, beloved students, as you are aware, The Masked Ball is coming up soon, so, pick your partners you're choosing to go wi-" suddenly, Narumi was stopping mid sentence when the window suddenly opened, Natsume stood up to prepare to a 'welcoming gift' for the intruder, only to see Mikan jump into the classroom. Everyone sweat dropped. Everyone, excluding Hotaru, was thinking one thing, 'What the heckie?'. Though, Narumi just continued on as Mikan made her way to her seat. Natsume couldn't help but wonder how or why she jumped in from the window. But then decided to just focus on his manga, though, still listened to Narumi. "Anyway, as I was saying my lovely students, The Ball is coming up and this year, they decided to have a certain person perform!". Hearing this, Mikan stiffened. Natsume noticed, making him wonder even more. A student put up their hand and asked, "Really? Who's performing? Is that person from our class?"
"Yes, she is in our class. And, she will have to perform no matter what or else lots of people will be disappointed, she will also be something else for the night, not one of the teachers!", Narumi exclaimed, emphasising the 'no-matter-what-or-else-lots-of-people-will-be-disappointed. Then, lots of students started bombarding him with questions of who it was obviously really eager to know who it was. Narumi just waited for them to quiet down, which they did after a few moments, then, he continued on.
"Well, my dear students, you really what to know, don't you? Well, I'm sorry, but you'll have to find out on the day! Now, it's a self-study period!" he said, about to take off but then he stopped then turned to the class again, "oh, and Mikan-chan, would you please m-m-meet m-me…" Narumi suddenly stuttered, all heads turned to Mikan, who was glaring at Narumi, a glare possible to compete with Natsume's, '"Uh, please meet me at the teacher's lounge room please, 5 minutes!" with that, he skipped away for his life.
Mikan let out a sigh, also muttering something along the lines of 'swear for revenge', 'Narumi-sensei', 'kill' and 'better watch it', then stood up from her seat, then started towards the teacher's lounge room, but before she could, a voice stopped her, the voice that belonging to not other than Natsume Hyuuga.
"Oi, why were you late for class today? And why the hell did you enter the classroom through the window?". The class was shocked, THE Natsume Hyuuga asking girl why she was late to class? That's something new, very new.
"Why do you want to know?" she retorted back.
Natsume grunted at her reply before answering back, "I was just asking, let's go" with that, he stood up from his chair, took Mikan's hand and they both started to the teacher's lounge room, leaving very confused students in the class.
"HEY! Why are you going, too?" Mikan hastily asked. "Can't I escort you without you asking so many questions?" Natsume snapped back, patience running thin. Mikan just smiled, knowing he was trying his best to be kind. The rest of the trip was silent, when they finally reached the teacher's faculty room; Natsume went to head to the Sakura tree for a little nap time. Leaving Mikan to deal with whatever it was, he didn't seem to think would be a good idea to know.
[The teacher's lounge room]
As Mikan entered, all heads turned towards her, staring at her for a while before turning back to their own business. Narumi came up and told her to sit down, then, he was about to make his requests (note: requests) Mikan butted in, "No. Way". Narumi attempted doing the puppy dog eye, unfortunately for him, it didn't work out so well, making him receive one comment from Mikan, " Stop it, your eyes will pop out of their sockets from what you're doing. What are you doing anyway?". Narumi fell anime-style from this comment. Picking himself up, he starting waving his arms up and down complaining how his puppy dog eyes didn't work, making Mikan scoff. "Seriously? Puppy dog eyes? HAH!" Narumi just faked a tear before straightening up again and went back to what her wanted her to come to the lounge room in the first place.
[After the 'little talk' with Narumi-sensei]
Natsume was outside, waiting for Mikan to come out. He could hear her shouts and screams from inside, obviously disagreeing with something, he couldn't really make out what it was. Why? The room was meant to be soundproof, but her shouts and screams seemed to be quite useless since sound went pass the wall anyway (can that even happen? Oh well, my story. *insert smiley face*). Natsume just smirked at her as she went out, causing her to let out a groan in annoyance and roll her eyes at him, knowing her heard her muffled screams and shouts. Though, as much as she wanted to ignore it, Natsume didn't seem to want to set it aside, obviously amused by whatever it was that she didn't want to do but had to in the end.
"So… what did Narumi want you for?" he asked mockingly, not know what he was going to receive, very soon if he didn't shut his yap.
"Nothing" was the only reply he received from Mikan. Getting more curious, he decided to provoke her even more.
"Really? Then what was all the screaming and shouting then?"
"Tell me, exactly why were you outside the teacher's lounge for anyway?"
"Why? Couldn't I wait for the ever-so-loud-mouthed girl who wears polka-dot printed panties?", that was the last straw, talking aloud about her underwear so freely was not acceptable. "THAT'S IT! HYUUGA NATSUME YOU ARE GOING TO GET IT!" With that, she ran after him, trying to catch him. They chased each other until it the bell rang for their next class, quickly forgetting her present mission to kill Natsume, she looked at her watch, giving out a squeak saying they'll be late for class. She quickly seized Natsume's hand and quickly ran to their classroom. While they were running to class, actually, scratch that, Mikan was running while Natsume was being dragged along, Natsume was thinking how lucky he was that no one was around to see their chasing or else his reputation would have been screwed.
'Damn, I'm starting to talk more to her now, next thing I know, I'm going to pour out my problems to her' he thought.
When they finally reached their next class, Mikan slammed the door open searching around the classroom to see if the teacher had arrived yet, all heads- most heads- turned towards her, wondering why she was with Natsume, or, more like, wondering why she was hold his hand.
"Mikan-chan", Mikan turned around to see Nonoko giving her a curious towards Mikan, or so Mikan thought, she was actually staring at Mikan and Natsume's hand.
"Yes, Nonoko? What is it?", before Nonoko could reply, she was cut off my Koko's bluntness.
"Why are you holding hands with Natsume?", everyone sweat dropped at the boy's braveness of allowing the class, or building, to go deaf. Mikan just remained clueless for a while until Natsume spoke.
"Mind letting go, strawberries?" Mikan turned around to face him before looking towards where he was looking at, as well as most of the class. Their hands.
"Oh, I forgot, sorry" she said. Natsume then counted in his mind while staring at her expectantly, waiting for her to realise…
5…
4…
3…
2…
1…
"NATSUME, YOU DAMN PERVERT!" Everyone, but Natsume since he was prepared and Hotaru since she had her earmuffs on the whole time, covered their ears from the sudden scream. Sadly for the teacher today, he had no idea about the new girl, so didn't prepare for any sudden screams or shouts. Mikan had screamed as soon as the science teacher walked into the classroom, causing him to have temporary deafness. As well as being scared of the class, he quickly ran out shouting it was a free period. "Damn" they heard two familiar voices say at the same time, turning towards they heard it was Mikan and Natsume.
"I ran all the way here for nothing then!"
"I was dragged all the way here for nothing, then?"
They had both continued at the same time. Their thoughts too, 'damn, and I was having a pretty good time out there, too'. In the corner off his eye, Natsume saw Koko raise a sly eyebrow, obviously knowing what they were doing before they stormed into the class. 'Tell anyone, Koko, and I will personally see it that your life is a living hell, I'll make sure of it, too' he thought threateningly, and demonstrating a fireball near Koko for only him to see. Koko nervously nodded before snapping his friend out of drooling over Mikan.
"By the way, Mikan. What did Narumi-sensei want to see you about?" Sumire asked Mikan curiously. In the corner eye, she saw Natsume lifted his brow in amusement, waiting to hear what she was going to reply to her friend.
"Well, Sumire…" she then leaned closer to Sumire and added in a whisper low enough not to allow Natsume to hear.
"It's secret, okay? No more questions. But one clue, involves the Ball. Don't tell anyone."
Then, she winked before announcing that she was going to her dorm to rest, might as well take advantage of the time given, right? Then, headed towards her dorm, leaving behind an irritated raven-haired boy. 'Damn little girl' he thought 'you're too good' then, he gave out a smirk before leaving the room himself 'but you sure as hell are interesting'.
Natsume was heading to Mikan's room which was next to his down the hall. He stood in front of her door, about to knock when he heard her ranting, wanting to hear more, he stopped himself from knocking, leaning against the door frame to listen more.
"Damn Narumi-sensei! Why couldn't he choose someone else? WHY ME? WHA! I hate him!" She began to punch and kick and march around the room before stopping and said, "oh well, might as well get started", cause Natsume to sweat drop by her sudden mood change.
'Probably mood swings' he thought, having a certain idea of what happens when women have… anyway, he went back to listening to her. He heard her pick up something, then realising it was a guitar as she strum the guitar. 'I didn't know she could play the guitar… then again… I don't know anything about her… apart from her choice of underwear…' he smirked at his last thought, then continued to listen.
"Hmm… What should I play? I song that makes sense in life… a song for the couples... or an encouragement song… and…hmm… what was the last one? Oh well, just get started…" Mikan mumbled.
She began to think… she went over to the piano and pressed a few keys, "Damn, she plays piano too?"
Mikan began to play part of Chopin "Fantasie" Impromptu, Op. 66,
'And she sure as hell plays well, too' he continued as he heard her continue a bit more. After a while, she stopped, what let out a satisfied 'ah!', obviously finding the answer to whatever problem it was she was finding.
"I shall play… 'Haunted'… it reflects a bit on my life… I guess…" with that, she picked up her guitar, strummed it a couple of times before playing and she began…to sing?
You and I walk a fragile line
I have known it all this time
But, I never thought I'd live to see it break
It's getting dark and its all too quiet
And I can't trust anything now
And it's coming over you like it's all a big mistake
'Wow, her voice is amazing' thought Natsume, 'she said it reflects on her life… I wonder what she means?' then, she continued listening to her sing.
Oh, holding my breath
Oh, I'm lose you again
Some things made your eyes go cold
Come on, come on
Don't leave me like this
I thought I had you figured out
Something's gone terribly wrong
You're all I wanted
Come on, come on
Don't leave me like this
I thought I had you figured out
Can't breathe when I know you're gone
Can't turn back now
I'm haunted
Sit there and watch you walk away
From everything we had
But, I still mean every word I said to you
He will try to take away my pain
And he just might make me smile
But, the whole time I'm wishing he was you instead
'Now, I seriously wonder who the hell she's talking about, I am so going to make her talk sooner or later' he thought 'but how? She'll know that I was listening… who cares' he thought 'wait, what the hell? What happened to a man's pride? Tch', then continued listening.
Oh, holding my breath
Whoa, I'll see you again
Something keeps me holding on and I think
Come on, come on
Don't leave me like this
I thought I had you figured out
Something's gone terribly wrong
You're all I wanted
Come on, come on
Don't leave me like this ?
I thought I had you figured out
Can't breathe when I know you're gone
Can't turn back now
I'm haunted
I know, I know
I just know
You're not gone
Come on, you can't be gone
No
Come on, come on
Don't leave me like this
I thought I had you figured out
Something's gone terribly wrong
Won't finish what you started
Come on, come on
Don't leave me like this ?I thought I had you figured out
Can't breathe when I know you're gone
Can't go back
I'm haunted
You and I walk a fragile line
I have known it all this time
But, I never thought I'd see it break
Never thought I'd see it
After she finished she gave out a satisfied sigh, then it was silent for a while until she started shouting again.
"AH! NARUMI-SENNEEEEEEEEEEIII!" she screamed, the whole campus heard her, and so, of course Narumi too, he smiled cheekily to himself.
"Oh, Narumi… You're good at the job" he praised himself.
Hearing her scream out like that, he couldn't help but enter, before he realised what he had done, he tried to get out, only it was too late, he was spotted by Mikan already, who was pacing back and forth with a frown on her face.
"Why the face?" he asked her. She looked at Natsume for a while, as if deciding to answer him or not.
In the end, she answered him, "I'll tell you, but shut your yap about it, alright?"
"Sure, sure"
"Pinkie promise, then" Natsume sighed before holding up his pinkie and joining it with hers.
"There, you happy now?" he asked. Mikan responded with a nod.
"Then start talking, what is it?" Natsume asked 'wow, how ironic, I would usually tell her to shut her mouth… I'm losing my cool'
"Alright, relax, I'm talking" Natsume glared at her, making her start talking immediately.
"Alright, so here's the thing, the thing Narumi asked me to go to the teacher's lounge for is to… be the main… uh … stage… go on stage person, by all means, MC and performing… sadly and-"
"Wait, you've along been here for not long, how the hell can you MC the masked ball?" Natsume asked butting in. It was Mikan's turn to glare, after a while of glaring, she just merrily chuckled and said only one thing,
"Natsume, you would be surprise of what I know" with a smirk. She then continued on. "Anyway, yeah, I have to, mainly perform a song on life, and one for partners to dance with, or, some random thing like that I guess, and… now that I figured it out, Narumi ALSO wanted me to dance… dance… with a partner… doing… partner dancing", Natsume cocked an eyebrow, though, questioningly. "Well, like… tango… I guess…"
"Seriously? Is that all you need? A partner?" Natsume asked, cocked an eyebrow, this time, arrogantly
Heehee, Hello! School's started so, probably later updates. Though, I'll try to update weekly!
R&R (:
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^ video of the song Mikan played on piano.
The song Mikan sang with the guitar was 'Haunted' by Taylor Swift. Next chapter, I feel like making Natsume do a little dancie dancing! Ne?
Tee hee! (: