Story: From her past, she runs

Okay, for everyone's information, Mikan, Hotaru, Ruka, Koko, Kitsuneme, Anna, Yuu, Nonoko and Sumire are all three stars with Natsume as the Special Star of the group ;)

Story: From her past, she runs
Authoress: SpringFairy15
Dedications: To all of my lovely reviewers who have read thus far. I thank you all
Chapter: The day it fell apart…

You look so innocent
but the guilt in your voice gives you away
Yeah you know what I mean
how does it feel when you kiss when you know that I trust you
and do you think about me when he fucks you?
Could you be more obscene?

So don't try to say you're sorry
or try to make it right
don't waste your breath because it's too late, it's too late.

You can tell me that there's nobody else
(But I feel it)
You can tell me that you're home by yourself
(But I see it)
You can look into my eyes and pretend all you want
But I know, I know,
Your love is just a lie
(Lie)
It's nothing but a lie
(Lie)
You're nothing but a lie

-"Your love is lie" by Simple Plan (Waah!! I love this song!!)

Recap (even though it's not really needed xD)

"Hey Sakura-san, my name is Yuu Tobita, I'm the class president." Said the boy with the glasses

"Anna." Introduced the girl with the sugary pink curls

"Sumire," Permy simply stated.

"My names Kokoryomi, but you can just call me Koko and his name is Kitsuneme," said the boy with the dirty blond hair as he pointed to his twin like friend.

"And my name's Nonoko, nice to meet you," smiled the blue haired girl from earlier.

"It's nice to meet you all to. I think I'm gonna like it here," replied Mikan as she thought, 'Yes, I am going to like it here. A new school, a new start and a new life. Just forget everything that happened in the past. Only look toward the future. Be strong Mi-chan, be strong and smile.'

End of recap. Now… read on fellow fanfiction-er!! ;)

It had been two years since that day. The day Mikan came into the lives of those in the academy. Two years since Mikan had run away from a past she thought she'd never escape. But Mikan will learn one of the best known facts of life. The past eventually catches up with you. But what will happen, when this part of the bubbly brunette's life comes to her sanctuary? Only time will tell…

Knock! Knock! Knock!

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Knock! Knock! Knock!

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KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!

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Click!

"5, 4, 3, 2, 1…"

BAKA! BAKA! BAKA! BAKA! BAKA!

The poor mahogany door never stood a chance. As soon as the first shot of the incredibly infamous gun of a certain raven-haired genius was fired, the door was thrown off its hinges and propelled three feet away, whereas the proceeding four shots flew directly towards their target, the bed. To be more specific, the lump, also known as Mikan Sakura, in the bed.

BAM! CRASH! KA-POW! THA-DUMP!

Thud…

"HO-TA-RUUU!! YOU MEANIE!! You still haven't changed in the last two years! Couldn't you at least try to wake me up gently for once?" Screeched

"I did try to wake you up gently before. It was your second day here in the Academy. This proves to be the most effective way to get your idiotic lump out of bed." Was the monotonous voice of her best friend, as she went toward the curtains to open them to the bright and beautiful day that lay ahead, "You do realise we're going to be late going to central town to meet the others right?" She added as an after thought.

"Oh shi-zzle, you're right! Oh, what am I going to wear, what am I going to wear?!" And the worried brunette got up off the floor and started running around in her pyjamas as she looked for suitable clothes to wear. Finally, after choosing the right outfit, she ran into the bathroom and started her daily routine. A quick five minute shower, two minutes spent brushing her teeth and washing her face and lightly applying make-up, only having light blush, eyeliner and mascara on, taking only three minutes to put on. She then changed and stepped out of the bathroom door.

As she did, Hotaru looked at her with satisfaction. She had to admit, Mikan had a good sense of fashion. She wore a pair of white skinny jeans, white trainers (1), a gray top and a very light green, almost yellow, top over that. She had a big cross with intricate patterns and jewels. There was a mother of pearl at each end of the cross, two diamonds going down towards the bottom and four white diamonds enclosing a diamond that reflected all the colours of the rainbow. Her hair was tied up, with only part of her side fringe let down, falling over her right eye. All in all, the bright colours of her outfit suited and complimented her personality to perfection.

"Oh Hotaru, you look absolutely stunning!!" Mikan commented, as she completely forgot what happened ten to twelve minutes ago. She was never one to hold a grudge anyway, especially if it involved her best friend.

Hotaru was wearing a plain white top with purple lettering saying "Some say Boys are better then Girls…" on the front and "… those people are idiots." on the back. She had a short, black skirt with purple going along the hem with purple and black stripped leggings and black ballet flats on. She wore a pair of diamond earrings that Mikan got her for her last birthday and a silver necklace with the letter 'H' encrusted with unique purple amethyst. She also had five bracelets on her left arm, two silver and 3 black.

"Thanks, idiot, you don't look too bad yourself. I guess even baka's like you can put something decent together every now and again." Hotaru half insulted, half complimented. She hadn't changed over the past two years really. She had softened up just that ever so slightly, but most of the time it wasn't even recognisable because of the fact that most of the time she was hiding her emotions. She'd gotten too used to that from the past five years before Mikan came to the AA.

"Come on Ho-chan, let's go! The others must be getting impatient by now," and without further a due, she grabbed the hand of the innovator Alice user and started running out the room and down the halls, inventor in tow.

After ten minutes of solid running, plus another three because of Hotaru's reluctance to being dragged around the academy and then another two because of the amount of times Mikan ran into a door frame or tripped over thin air, they reached the bus shelter and found that everybody was already there. They'd all paired up, seeing as some of the guys from their group had decided that it was time to find a true girlfriend instead of being the players they once were. Not all at once of course.

Yuu and Nonoko had been the first to get their feeling out in the open. They'd been dating for about a year and a half now. After extensive talks with Mikan, Yuu had finally gathered enough courage to ask Nonoko out. Funny story that actually, but that's for another time and another place.

Koko, after being spurred on by the success of Yuu, had asked Anna to be his girlfriend which she had said yes to once she realised he had the Alice limiter she'd requested for him after hearing about the sever headaches he was getting because of mind reading. She'd secretly given it to him for his last birthday. They had been going out for just under a year now.

The most recent, and most shocking, couple in the gang had been Kitsuneme and Sumire. About three months ago, Kitsuneme had come up to the gang while they were under the sakura tree like usual, with this big grin on his face. Whenever someone had asked him what was up, he would just chuckle and say "All will be revealed in due time my good friend" and leave it at that. A half hour later, Sumire turned up in one of the best outfits they'd ever seen her in. Kitsuneme got up, walked over to her and, at this point everyone nearly died of a heart attack, kissed her. But the fact that he'd kissed her wasn't the scariest thing. Oh no. What was, I hear you ask? It was the fact that Sumire was kissing. Him. Back!! Yes, dear reader, Sumire Shoda. President of the Natsume/Ruka fan club, a fan club dedicated to the two best looking, single men on the planet, was kissing Kitsuneme. What a day that was.

As Mikan looked at everyone at the bus shelters, she couldn't help but smile. She loved the fact that they'd kept the dating in the group. She didn't have anything against the girls or the guys having a partner outside of their inner circle of friends, it's just she trusted the guys with the girls. She knew that they'd never want to purposely hurt each other. They'd been through so much together in those past two years.

Two months after arriving at the academy, a teacher had been revealed as a spy of the AAO. It shocked her. She'd felt so close to that teacher. Torino-sensei had been like an older brother for Mikan. Whenever Hotaru, Tsubasa-senpai, Misaki-senpai or Narumi-sensei was busy, she'd go to him for comfort when she was feeling down in the dumps. When she'd heared about his betrayal, she ran to his office to find him, to make him tell her it wasn't true. She didn't even make it to his room, when she bumped into him and he tried to kidnap her, but Hotaru and Ruka were running past at the time and had delayed their departure enough to give Natsume and the others time to get there and by then Torino and his men were out numbered and eventually defeated.

Four months after Yuu and Nonoko got together, they'd had a huge argument. Something about how Yuu was being too nice and Nonoko was being too demanding. Anyway, they didn't speak to each other for months on end and then, after having enough of the cold shoulder treatment from her boyfriend and guilt trips from her friends, Nonoko apologised, only to find out Yuu had been planning a candle lit dinner in the Southern Forest as a way of apologising to her. Apparently the cold shoulder treatment she'd been giving him and the guilt trips his friends had been making him go on had had a similar effect to hers.

Two months after Koko and Anna had gotten together, another kidnap attempt had been made except this one had been to kidnap all five of the girls. Apparently their Alices were of use the AAO in some shape or form. Anna was going to be used as the cook, Nonoko was going to be a researcher, Hotaru was going to be used to have new and improved fire arms for the men and woman of the AAO, Sumire was going to be used for when fire arms weren't enough and Mikan was going to be used as the defence by nullifying the enemies Alices when the AAO decided to attack somewhere.

The guys didn't like the thought of their girls being used like disposable cameras so they'd created a rescue plan. Let's put it this way. By the next day the girls were safe and sound and tucked up in bed whilst the AAO members involved in their kidnap were in excruciating pain, lying in some far off dessert praying that the vultures had just eaten and weren't looking for a snack.

And finally, a month after Sumire and Kitsuneme had gotten together, Natsume, Ruka, Mikan, Hotaru, Anna, Nonoko, Yuu and Koko had a fight and a pretty bad one at that. It started off with Mikan being burned by Natsume after she was yelling at him for looking at her underwear for the billionth time that week. Then Ruka got involved, trying to calm down the bickering before it got out of hand. Natsume had then turned around and said that the only reason Ruka was getting involved was because he had a crush on Mikan. Hotaru, after getting so pissed off with all the noise the three of them were creating, got out her Baka Cannon and started shooting them each five times. Mikan and Ruka got hit and were sent flying across the room whereas Natsume had dodged ever single bullet. Yuu then came over and started saying things about how Hotaru should stop hitting people with the Baka Cannon because it wasn't good for their health. Then Hotaru started arguing with Yuu saying he had no right to tell her what she can and can't do.

Nonoko then got involved, saying that Hotaru had no right to have a go at Yuu when all he was doing was worrying about his friends and that Hotaru should lighten up because she was always dull and mean. That's when Anna stepped in and started defending Hotaru by saying that she had gotten a lot better ever since Mikan came and that she was a good friend, she just showed it in different ways. Then Yuu said that the argument had nothing to do with her and to butt out. Then it was Koko's turn to defend Anna. He told Yuu to leave his girlfriend alone because he had no right to speak to her like that. He said that she was just defending a friend in need and stated the fact that Nonoko didn't have any right to butt into the argument either. In the end, it ended up Natsume wasn't speaking to Ruka or Mikan. Ruka wasn't speaking to Natsume or Hotaru and was too embarrassed to talk to Mikan. Mikan wasn't talking to Natsume or Hotaru and Ruka had been avoiding her so she couldn't talk to him. Hotaru wasn't speaking to Mikan, Ruka, Natsume (no change there), Yuu or Nonoko. Yuu wasn't talking to Hotaru, Anna or Koko. Nonoko wasn't speaking to Hotaru, Anna or Koko. Anna wasn't talking to Yuu or Nonoko and Koko wasn't speaking to Yuu or Nonoko either.

Poor Kitsuneme and Sumire, they had to run around delivering messages to the ones that weren't speaking to each other. After a month of this, they suddenly forgot what had happened and were the best of friends again. Apparently, someone had spiked their drinks with some sort of drug that changes the mood of the person taking it as a prank and because they had been jealous because of the fact that they were so close. It's lucky Mikan possessed the Nullification Alice, or else the poor student would have been burned, mauled by animals, embarrassed beyond belief, forever confused because of things he thought had happened but in fact hadn't, have his clothes forever disappearing and then reappearing on the roof whenever he took a shower, mauled by a mysterious creature whenever he was out in the dark alone, poisoned (not seriously though. Just enough so they'd be unbelievably ill) and then, as an added bonus, he would have been bludgeoned to death by the Super Deluxe Baka Cannon Version 2.0.

Yes, it was incredibly lucky for that poor boy that Mikan had the Nullification Alice as well as a kind, forgiving heart. But, he was unlucky enough to mess with someone who was superbly excellent at taking revenge. The next day, he had been unlucky enough to find out every single female in the school thought he was gay and to this day had homosexuals hitting on him.

"Hey Mikan, you there?" Anna asked with obvious concern in her voice as she waved a hand in front of her brunette haired friend who had been spacing out for the past three minutes, "The bus is here. Hurry up or you're gonna be left behind like last time!" And she ran up into the bus, smiling and laughing like there was no tomorrow. Mikan ran in after her.

Everyone sat in their pairs. Yuu and Nonoko were at the front of the bus with Anna and Koko sitting on the other side of the bus. Hotaru was behind Anna and Koko with a seat ready for Mikan, although she'd never admit she was saving it. Behind Yuu and Nonoko were Sumire and Kitsuneme. Right at the back of the bus was Natsume and Ruka, making out with some random girls they just found sitting there no doubt. Unlike Yuu, Koko and Kitsuneme, they didn't appear to be ready to settle with one girl just yet. They'd had a series of kind-of-sort-of-not-really girlfriends since they hit sixteen and had been changing girls every week for the past year. They were slowly working through their fan-club, which Sumire had handed to the vice-president. It saddened Mikan to know that they were simply using those girls for entertainment until they got to Central Town, but then she brightened up once she remembered that they were just going to fall in love with Natsume and Ruka even more and brag about being good enough for them being the sad, demented girls they are. They were giving females a bad name. They deserved the heartache that was inevitable.

"So, what do you want to do when we get to Central Town Hotaru?" Mikan inquired.

"Idiot. We're doing what we usually do. We're all going to 'La porte ouverte' for lunch, then we're splitting up with the you me and the girls going shopping for what we want and the guys doing what they usually do when we split up. Then we're all going to meet up at four and spend sometime under the Sakura tree in the park and then we're going to head back to the Academy at five so we can get ready for dinner. Don't tell me you forgot the routine? We've been doing this for the past two years dummy."

"I didn't forget! I was just wondering if we were having a change of plans is all! Honest!" Mikan defended.

"Sure you were," Anna and Nonoko said in unison as everyone else started laughing. Mikan started to blush from embarrassment and Ruka and Natsume came and sat in the seats behind Mikan and Hotaru.

"What're you all laughing about?" Ruka inquired, noticing everyone, minus his personal blackmailer and a beet-root red Mikan Sakura, laughing their hearts out.

"Nothing of any importance, Mikan just forgot about the usual routine… again." Hotaru answered in her infamous monotonous tone of voice.

Natsume raised an eyebrow at Mikan and smirked. "Again, Polka-dots? You know, you seriously need to work on your memory skills."

"Shut up you pervert!! As if you have anything to do with this," Mikan pouted. "Besides, isn't your little girlfriend getting lonely over there, all by herself?"

"Why? You jealous, little girl? I knew you had feeling for me, but I never knew you were this confident that I'd return those feelings," he replied, his smirk widening.

"Oh please, you wish I was jealo-"

"We're here." Sumire cut in before the argument between the two gave her a headache.

Mikan turned round and looked at her friends getting up and going out of the bus doors. As the last person stepped off the bus, she realised if she didn't get off now then she was going to be sent back to the Academy and she knew that Hotaru wouldn't let the others wait for her to get back so she ran full speed off the bus.

"Hey! Wait up guys!!" Mikan panted, as she ran to catch up with the others.

"Hurry up slowpoke." Hotaru said as she walked in front of the gang, heading in the familiar direction of their favourite café-come-restaurant.

"Well if it isn't my favourite customers! Have I ever told you how much good you do my business?" asked a young-ish man with blond hair and blue eyes. He could have been the older version of Ruka, except his eyes had a twinge of green in them, and the colours were much, much darker.

"Only every time we decide to drop by Antonio," replied Anna.

"Ahh, it gives me great pleasure to see such beauties and their partners frequent my humble restaurant. You young men will do well to keep them, or I might have to steal them away from you."

"Oh Ant, you are too sweet." Mikan blushed, as she made her way over to their usual table, closely followed by Hotaru, then Natsume and Ruka, and then the couples.

They new it was a joke, but the guys tightened their grip on their girlfriends' waists and pulled them closer towards them. Sumire glared, Anna squeaked and Nonoko smiled at their respective boyfriends.

They got to the table, which was always free because if you chose to sit in that spot at the wrong time you risk being burned, eaten alive by animals, poisoned, and so on. Once they sat down, they ordered their food and got chatting. Well, the girls got chatting while the guys just sat back and listened to the girls gossiping. Half way through their meal, a group of five guys came over.

"Hey there cutie," the one that appeared to be the leader started as he winked towards Mikan. "Why don't you and your friends ditch these losers and hang out with some real men."

"Yeah, come on sweetheart, we know you want us. We can show you a fun time, if you know what I mean." Another guy added as he placed an arm around Hotaru.

"Who are you calling loser-" Kitsuneme stopped as he saw the glint in Mikan's eyes as she smirked at the other girls. She got up and headed towards the one that winked at her earlier and leaned towards him as she whispered huskily, "You promise to show me and my friends a fun time?"

"I'm a man of my word, sugar."

"Come on girls. Let's 'ditch' these guys. I was getting bored anyways." She said brightly as she turned back to her friends. At first, the girls had a confused look on their faces but once they got what Mikan was implying, the all stood up from their seats and headed towards the door. As Mikan went to close the door behind everyone, she raised her hand at the guys to signal they'll be back in three minutes.

"Koko, start the stopwatch."

"Already started it," Koko mumbled at he munched on what was left of his meal.

……… 2 minutes and 59 seconds later…………

"Hahaha!! Did you hear him screaming like a girl? Man, its times like these that make me so glad I was born a girl." the shrill voice of Sumire was heard as they all stepped back into the restaurant/café.

"MAN! That must have been painful. Remind me never to get on the bad side of those girls okay guys?" Koko pleaded, as he grimaced from the thoughts of the girls who had currently re-seated themselves.

"I don't wanna know." Kitsuneme muttered as he stared at his girlfriend, who was currently finishing off her meal.

"Come on guys! If we're finished here, why don't we go shopping??" Anna joyfully suggested as she noticed most of the girls had finished their food.

The girls got up, kissed their partners on the check (excluding Mikan and Hotaru of course) and headed out the door with their boyfriends credit cards in hand after sneaking it out their pockets during the kisses.

After four hours of shopping

"Hey guys! Do you think it's about time we start heading back to the guys?" Nonoko suggested as she finished paying for a pair of blue strapless wedged heels.

"Yeah, you're right. Last one to the Sakura tree pays for the bus ride home." Mikan shouted as she ran ahead of everyone else.

"That's not fair!" Anna shouted after the brunette, but she ran after the girl none-the-less, a huge grin obvious as she sprinted past the leader, taking first prize for her self.

As the girls got to the aforementioned tree, they spotted the guys on the opposite side. Skidding to a halt, their joyous smiles turning into nervous ones, they slowly approached their partners, heads bent low. Yuu had an exasperated expression on his beautiful face, his hand out stretched. Koko was in a similar position only he had an amused look on his face at having been out smarted by his girlfriend… again. And Kitsuneme… well, he wasn't even bothered too much. He just casually asked Sumire for his card back.

"I don't know why you guys put up with them." Natsume muttered, shaking his head from side to side in disbelief and still keeping the emotionless look on his face. A little boy with silvery white hair and emerald green eyes sat in his lap.

"Hey Ichi-kun," Mikan smiled at the boy. The child simply looked at her as everyone else had a confused expression on their faces. Mikan, noticing the quizzical looks she was receiving, answered "Well, we have Yuu-kun and if I call Youichi You-kun, people might get confused." It seemed fair enough reason.

"So, Hotaru-san, Mikan-chan, mind if I ask two simple questions?" Sumire asked.

"Sure!" was Mikan's response.

"If you must," guess whose emotionless reply that was.

"When are you planning on getting a boyfriend and who are you hoping it'll be?"

Mikan chocked on the Fanta she had just taken a sip of and Hotaru just looked at Sumire, but you could almost feel the shock radiating off of her. They were not expecting this question. They weren't expecting it at all. Not even the slightest bit.

"Wh-wh-why do you a-ask Su-mire-ch-chan?" Mikan spluttered as she gulped for air. Hotaru was just sitting on the ground, leaning against the Sakura Tree, a can of diet coke in her hands.

"No reason. Just curious really." No one had realised that, once the question had been asked, Mikan and Hotaru weren't the only ones to stiffen from shock. A dark haired flame caster seated on the opposite side of the Sakura Tree and a blue eyed blonde perched on the lowest branch of the aforementioned tree froze, waiting with baited breath on the poor girls answers.

"Tamaki Itzumara," Hotaru answered in her forever infamous monotonous tone that she is endlessly using and, as an after thought, added, "Only because he's rich."

"Fair enough reason," Sumire shrugged," but I want to know who you would like to go out with. Not who you want to marry."

"Mikan, it's your turn!" Anna squealed, literally shaking with anticipation.

As all eyes turned to the brunette, she visibly reddened. She started squirming under the intensity of their gazes and her eyes flickered between her friends faces.

"I don't… really… wanna…"

"Come on! Hotaru didn't seem to have a problem with saying it," Mikan looked from Hotaru to Ruka to Sumire and finally settled her gaze upon Natsume, whom she could only see a little bit of because of the tree blocking her view.

"I guess if I had to choose, it would be… Na…" Everyone's eyes widened in expectation, all hoping she'd say the name they thought she was going to say.

'Was I about to say Natsume? No way, I'd never wanna go out with that jerk! Commitment isn't even in his vocabulary!' Mikan took a deep breath before continuing, "If I had to choose someone, it'd have to be…" 'Think Mikan, think! Who else do you know whose name begins with Na…?' "…Nabukir Ayame."

As soon as Mikan had uttered that name, everyone's shoulders slumped visibly and muttered a slight curse at the aforementioned mentioned boy. They had all noticed Natsume's fondness for Mikan and the way he chose girls that utterly pissed Mikan off to make out with. They had all suspected that Mikan felt the same way towards Natsume, but just didn't notice it. She was, after all, considered rather slow when it came to emotions. It was as if feeling anything for herself was alien to her and when she'd first come to the Academy, it'd felt like forever before she even started smiling properly.

Suddenly, Natsume got up, turned his face upward towards Ruka and simply looked him in the eye. Ruka sighed in reply, took a side long glance at Hotaru, looked at Mikan disappointedly and jumped off the low branch. Then he headed toward Natsume, who had Youichi on his shoulders by now, and they headed off toward their desired shop.

"What's up with them?" Mikan questioned, completely unaware of the looks of incomprehensible wonder on her friends faces as she stared at the backs of the raven and blonde haired boys disappearing into the crowd. Although Mikan was completely unaware of her feelings towards the flame caster, she wasn't completely stupid. She did have some brain cells, as shocking as it may sound. It was obvious. Ruka had been in love with her best friend ever since before she came to the Academy. But what was up with Natsume, she did not know. Guess only time will tell, huh?

Koko decided to break the slightly tense atmospheric silence, "Hey guys, do you wanna head back to the Academy? It's getting kind of late and it's almost time for dinner."

"Sure why not? I'm getting hungry anyways and I heard there's gonna be a new student tomorrow. Wouldn't wanna be late for class now would I?" Mikan smiled, now completely distracted from Natsume's problems… for the time being.

So, they all got in the next bus to the school, had there dinner soon after arriving and then got themselves ready for bed. In a certain tangerines room, a teenaged girl sat on her window sill, thinking of the past and what her future has in store for her.

"Grandpa, what would you think of the way I've run my life since you've passed away? I've let myself be abused, ran away from my problems, played miss ignorant and tried to forget what it was that made me what I am and now? Now I'm being selfish by refusing to leave my friends when that could put them in danger. Have I really become such a bad person without your guidance? Should I accept the position the Academy had offered me? They say I have another Alice you know? They say it could help them win the war against the AAO, and rid the world of the darkness that's threatening to over power the light. They said that I need to train that Alice before it gets out of control and to do that, I need to leave this academy and go to one in a far off country… but what about what I say? What about my friends… my teachers… my life? What should I do Grandpa?" The twinkling of the stars was all the answer our poor little brunette got. She sighed, "I guess this is another problem I've got to think over then, huh?" She raised the glass of water she had in her hand, "Here's to another day that has passed, and to whatever awaits me tomorrow," another sigh. "Well, goodnight, Jii-chan."

The next day in class 2B

"Well, good morning class!! I hope you're all fresh and ready to have another fun filled day of learning!" A blonde teacher with startling purple orbs came prancing into the classroom.

"Good morning Narumi-sensei," the class sighed.

Once the said teacher had taken the morning register, and made a note of a Miss Mikan Sakura's tardiness, he called for the classes' attention yet again. Of course this, it being class 2-B after all, was no easy feat. However, once he had gotten his pupils to quiet down, he had his usual gay-ish grin on his face.

"As most of you may have heard, we have a new addition to our wonderful class. Please make him (insert girls squealing with delight and guys groans of disappointment) feel welcome. Now, without further a due, here is Mister Takanashi." In came an outrageously handsome male with a pair of wonderful dark green eyes that you could instantly get lost in and hair that begged you to touch it, yet you feared the slightest touch might mess it up. It was styled in a 'just-got-out-of-bed' look, but managed to look sexy and sophisticated both at the same time. He was one hell of a sexy god. A rival if ever there was one for Natsume Hyuuga and Ruka Nogi. Natsume instantly hated him.

"Good morning to you all. I hope we can all get along nicely." He smiled to the class, but he didn't bow, as was appreciated by class 2-B. This class has a simple rule. Treat them with respect, and they'll treat you with respect. Disrespect them, and you'll find yourself in a world of pain. This guy was swinging more to pain them to respect. Well, with the guys he was at least.

Suddenly there were sounds of disgruntled students being crashed into, hurried thumping of high heeled boots, then the skid of someone trying to stop after running full pelt a few meters and then, for the grand finale, the loud, resonating crash of a petite teenaged body thumping against a brick wall. Ouch. Then the said teenaged body came thundering through the door and into the classroom.

"I am so sorry Narumi-sensei!! I didn't hear my alarm go off and then Hotaru-chan didn't wake me up like she usually does and then I couldn't find my books and then-" She got cut off by her teacher as he stopped her from bowing apologetically, "Mika, Mikan, Mikan. What are we going to do with you?" Narumi chuckled, "Please take your seat and we'll carry on introducing the new student."

"Long time no see Mi-chan."

(1) Okay, I live in sunny ol' Britain, as some of you might have realised after reading my profile, and over here, we call what the Americans refer to as sneakers, trainers. Some people might call them rubber soled shoes as well (although, I don't get why that is) but that is what I've grown up to call them. Case closed.

Waah!! I'm gonna stop it there because I covered all I needed for this chapter. I am so sorry for this very late chapter. For three weeks straight I had writers block. Do any of you know how frustrating that is?? T.T I feel soooo incompetent :'( And I'm sorry it's pretty lousy. I'm just a bad writer ¬¬ I hope I didn't bore you with catching up with what the gang have been doing for the past 2 years. Can anyone remember how old the characters were?? Well, if not then lets stick with the idea that they're 16. -Sigh- I hope you can all forgive me for OOC-ness. As one reviewer pointed out, Mikan does have multi-personalities. Oh! And I'm so proud of myself for one thing :D the word count for this chapter is about 5483 (if I remember correctly). That's the most I've ever done. Aren't you so proud

To starblastz: I'm sorry!! I said I'd put your idea in didn't I?? Well, I deleted the scene because I realised it'd take even longer for me to update and I'm a very impatient writer. I'll fit it in when I can okay? Again, really sorry!! -Bows repeatedly-

Oh, and I think it's only right that I tell you all now that I have my exams in just under three weeks so it might be a pretty long while till I update again -- so yeah, sorry again -bows apologetically-