Karin-chan: Do you have any threes, Natsume
Karin-chan: Do you have any threes, Natsume?
Natsume: Go fish
Karin-chan: You're lying
Natsume: Am not… how do you know I have threes anyway?
Karin-chan: Cause I'm smart… wait, you just admitted you had threes! Hand them over!
Natsume: Shouldn't you be introducing the chapter instead of accusing me of cheating?
Karin-chan: Oh right! Hello everyone! Here's the forth chapter to Sui Generis! I hope you like it! (Turns to Natsume) And don't think I forgot about those threes! Give them up already!
Natsume: No! (Runs away with the threes)
Karin-chan: Come back here! (Runs after Natsume and leaves the readers to read the chapter)
Disclaimer: If I honestly owned Gakuen Alice, do you think I would be here?
Replies to Reviews from Chapter 3:
Princessofcrown101- the answer to your question is because when you're a child, you're more caught up in ignorance and innocence. Usually around ten or so, you begin to catch on to what's going on around you. I thought it would be better if Mikan was younger to help portray she's still an innocent child just caught up in this battle between alices. Also, I thought she would be so adorable if she was eight!
AznBeauty18- You're wish has come true for I am updating soon.
Blizzel- yes, Ruka should be ashamed for being mean to an eight-year-old who was only trying to be friends with him. I also can't wait to write the chapter where Mikan will meet Natsume, which will be very soon I might add.
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Sui Generis
Chapter Four
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"No! Go to the left! The left you moron! Argh!" a frustrated Shiki yelled out as the football player of the team he was cheering for didn't score. Reo and Ishimori groaned and threw back their hands in hopelessness. As you can see, the football game they were watching was not in their favor.
Mikan sat Indian style on the floor eating a piece of pizza as she watched the game. Kyon was playing with a ball of yarn beside her.
"Stupid morons" muttered Yuka as she watched the males mope about the game. It was Friday which meant football night. All the males in the AAO—not including Medusa—were present to watch the game in the den while the women went to hang around in the kitchens to catch up and talk while watching a chick flick on the little TV in the kitchen.
Mikan being the only child in the AAO was free to do as she pleased on Friday nights. In which she took pleasure in watching the football game with the males instead of the chick flick with the females. She didn't understand all the fuss and drama anyway. Football was much more entertaining in her opinion.
Mikan then felt herself being picked up. She gazed into the eyes of her mother whose look to her meant that it was time for her to go to bed. Mikan made a little whining sound and began protesting.
"Mama, it's only ten! Can't I have five more minutes?" Mikan pleaded to Yuka. While anyone would've caved in from Mikan's cuteness right away, Yuka had enough self-control to shake her head.
"It's an hour past your bedtime, missy. I let you stay up an hour because it looked like the game wasn't going to end, but now you need your sleep" Yuka told her.
"You know Mikan-chan," Reo began as he took a sip of his soda, "I read somewhere that staying up late is bad for a child's brain development. Do you want to be a stupid girl, Mikan-chan?" he asked her. Mikan stared at him for three seconds before sticking her tongue out.
"You're making that up" Shiki whispered to Reo, who shrugged in return. "I haven't heard that anywhere"
"That's because you never pay attention" Reo replied earning a whack on the head from Shiki.
"Enough, whether it's true or not, she's going to bed" Yuka snapped at the males who flinched.
"Fine, take our favorite chibi away, Yuka" one male said. "We'll tell you how it ends, okay kiddo?" he told Mikan.
"You better" she said threateningly. That child had the capability to be as scary as her mother, if not scarier when she wanted to be.
With that said, Mikan let her mother take her away from the den and towards her room. Kyon followed behind them quietly.
"Hey Mama," Mikan called out. "Is it really true that'll I'll be stupid if I go to bed late?" asked Mikan earning a chuckle from Yuka. It's been about two weeks since she had began staying up later than usual do to the fact that she's been visiting her silent playmate.
Mikan didn't know whether or not he would ever talk to her, but Mikan couldn't just let him stay all alone. Even if he didn't like her, he seemed to like Kyon and Kyon liked visiting him too. It was the least she could do for her feline partner who had grown attached to the blonde boy.
For the past two weeks, Mikan had been sneaking out of her room and sneaking food down for him. At first, she found out that he would eat as soon as she left but now he starts earlier when she's about to leave. It seems he had somewhat become accustomed to her presence enough to eat in front of her.
Kyon liked him very much. As soon as they arrived with the boy's food, Kyon would slip through the bars to sit at the boy's side. Mikan wasn't used to Kyon's behavior with acting friendly to someone else besides her, but she kept quiet because the boy seemed to enjoy Kyon's company in the cell.
Mikan's thoughts then drifted. What was he doing in a cell anyway? It was the first time she had questioned herself like this. Did he do something bad? It didn't seem like it because he probably would've done something bad to her by now, right?
Then there was the other dilemma. It appears that the other boy was being kept somewhere else from the blonde boy. She pondered on how she was going to find him, and if so, would he not like her like the blonde boy? It made her sadder just thinking about it.
"Goodnight, sweetheart" Her mama said as she kissed her forehead. Mikan didn't even realize that she was now in her pajamas and was tucked in bed. She waited for her mother to exit the door and waiting at least ten minutes before getting out of bed and leaving to the kitchens to retrieve food.
Her steps made little sound as she traveled. Kyon was fast asleep back in her room and Mikan didn't have to heart to wake him for he must've been more tired than she was due to their nightly escapades.
She crept into the kitchen aware of the female voices chatting on the other side of the kitchen. Her chocolate brown eyes flickered back and forth between the females and the open pizza box on the counter. Once she had retrieved a piece and a paper plate, she snuck out of the kitchen with relief and proceeded to her destination.
The path had become so familiar to Mikan that she didn't need the assistance of Kyon or a light anymore. Her mind seemed to be on autopilot as she walked down the stone steps the keys still in her possession. Once Shiki had realized his keys were missing after the first night of her adventures, he just simply shrugged and got a replacement pair. No one had suspected that the little eight-year-old would steal a pair of keys in which she was grateful for.
However, she was having problems with remembering to lock the door once she left the cell. Lately, she had been accidentally leaving the boy's cell door unlocked even though she closed it. She wondered if the boy had figured out she constantly left the lock unlatched. He probably would've walked out if he did so Mikan had to force herself to believe he didn't know.
Still, suspicions were rising among the AAO. They didn't know who, but they were suspecting someone else at the boy's cell besides them and were trying to help him escape. She shuddered as she remembered when Shiki had come in a week ago with a horrible cut on his cheek for being a suspect by the snake-man. She felt guilty, but she couldn't stop her nightly antics.
She finally opened the wooden door where it led to his cell and walked passed all the empty cells straight to his. He was there; awake as if he was waiting for her to come.
"Hey" she greeted quietly with a shy smile. She then proceeded to unlock the cell and walk in, never shutting the door behind her as she always did. She took her usual spot in front of him and sat.
His blue eyes flickered before turning back to her with a slight question. Mikan gave him an apologetic smile realizing what he was asking.
"He's in my room sleeping. I think all this running around was making him exhausted" she said and placed the plate of pizza beside him.
"Today's Friday, which means it's football night" she started. She then launched into an explanation on what goes on during football night and that she usually has pizza on Fridays while watching the football game with the males. Her shyness disappeared as she used her hands for gestures to describe her male comrades while watching the game. She laughed at a couple of parts and she caught his eyes light up a little as if he was laughing with her. Mikan also discovered that through her visits that he never smiled, as if he refused to smile. She never asked about it knowing he wouldn't like that question and he wouldn't answer her anyway.
Through her visits with the blonde boy, she hadn't asked him questions like she had on her first encounter with him. Instead, she told him stories about her life. How she met Kyon, incidents at Christmas that Uncle Reo had forbidden her to say even though she tells others anyway, what pranks she had done and what the results were. He seemed to enjoy them so she made sure to only tell him funny stories.
"They always mope when their team doesn't win" Mikan said to him with a grin, "Mama says they're all idiots for getting worked up about some silly game, but they always counter by making fun of chick flicks. I have to agree with them because I really don't get all the drama that's spewing out. Personally, I find football to be more fun to watch" Mikan explained.
The boy kept his attention on her. His once tense posture was relaxed when she came to visit him. At least he was making eye-contact with her now instead of ignoring her as she talked.
As she was telling another story, Mikan noticed that he had picked up the plate with the piece of pizza and began to timidly eat it. It made Mikan very happy that he was eating her food since she noticed he never touched the stale bread that was left for him. She had convinced him to drink the water though for his sake.
"—and that's when Uncle Reo said that if I stay up late, I'll get stupid because it's bad for my brain development or something. I don't know if he was lying or not to just help mama out with taking me to bed, but I'll have to ask someone else, preferably someone way smarter than Uncle Reo" Mikan chuckled as she said that.
"Nn, did you know that my mama and Uncle Reo went to the same school together?" Mikan asked excitedly as she stood up. "My mama was Uncle Reo's senpai and he was the first person besides my mom and the doctor to hold me when I was born" she beamed. Uncle Reo had told her that story many times and often bragged to the others that he was the first to hold Mikan after Yuka, which they would respond by throwing things at him to get him to shut up.
It was a moment of silence before Mikan spoke again.
"I wonder what real schools are like. I don't know since I was home schooled all my life, but mama says it's not anything special" Mikan said in a solemn tone. She then let out a sigh and sat down again. "But that doesn't mean I don't stop thinking about it"
He kept his eyes on her as she said that. Her chocolate brown eyes stared at the floor. She was too absorbed in her thoughts that she didn't hear the shuffle of movement until she felt a hand on her shoulder causing her to jolt. Her eyes looked up in surprise.
The boy was now kneeling in front of her with a hand on her shoulder in comfort. He looked upon her sadly with lesser dim blue eyes. Mikan had noticed that his eyes had become slightly brighter during her visits with him.
"Thanks" she mumbled shyly. She didn't know why she did it, but she had reached up and patted his head. "Onii-chan is very nice" she told him with a soft smile. He looked down at the ground embarrassed and she caught his cheeks tinted red.
It was a moment of silence before Mikan had rose up and dusted off her pants.
"I better go now, Kyon might've woken up and is probably wondering where I am" she said to him with a sad smile. She then turned away and began walking to the cell door.
Nonetheless, though, something jerked her back and she turned with wide eyes towards the blonde boy who was currently gripping her arm.
"Wait," his soft voice croaked for not using it in a long time, "I need your help"
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Karin-chan: Hah! I got the threes! In your face Natsume!
Natsume: Shut up
Karin-chan: Moving on, I'm ending the chapter here. Oooh, what's Ruka gonna ask Mikan? Find out next chapter
Natsume: Have any fives?
Karin-chan: Erm (shifty eyes) …no…
Natsume: Hey look over there!
Karin-chan: What? (Turns around to look where Natsume pointed)
Natsume: (takes Karin-chan's fives and runs away) sucker
Karin-chan: What the--? Natsume! Get back here with my fives!
See ya next time!