Two Worlds

GOMEI! So sorry for the long wait, but I've been having trouble putting my ideas into words. But after hours reading fan-fics, I've finally finished it.

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[NOTE: All illness mentioned in this story are fictional. There are some facts in here but are quite rare]

World 4: The Awaiting Light!

Still waiting, still hoping for someone to come and save me from this world of mine. The lighthouse is still shinning, but it has no one to guide. No one to be guided toward me. I was born alone. I am living alone. Will I die alone too? Someone…anyone…? Please…come save me! SOS…Hyuuga Natsume.

~Natsume's POV~

My vision blurred as I opened my eyes. After a couple of blinks, the picture in front of me began to clear. The image was unfamiliar; I couldn't remember what had happen to me. I tried to sit myself up, but my arms were like jelly, too weak to hold up my body's weight.

I lay on the pillow, scanning the unfamiliar room. My throat was still hurting, but the pain had lessened. I didn't know what was going on. I tried to speak, to ask if someone was there. But nothing came out. I was beginning to worry. What was happening? What's going on here?

I tried to record what had happened before this time. But it was as useless as me trying to speak. I grabbed onto the rails on my bed, pulling myself up. With a lot of work, finally I was in my sitting position. I glance around the room. Just as I thought, it was not my room.

The door opened, Ruka and a man in a white coat stepped in. It couldn't be, this is impossible. Am I at the hospital?

"Natsume, you woke?" Ruka asked. "Daijoubou?"

"Hyuuga-san, I am Misaki-sensei. You have just come out of an operation, so you must rest." The doctor stepped toward me and attached something to my left temple. "This is a voice-over. It was invented by a student at the Alice Academy. You can move your mouth like you are speaking normally and the chip will produce what you want to say. Please give it a try."

I did as the doctor instructed. "Why can't I speak?"

The voice sounded similar to my original voice, but it had a robotic side to it. The brown-head doctor took a deep breath before answering my question. This wasn't a good sign, whatever that was going to come out of that mouth of his was not going to be the news that I'll want to hear.

"Hyuuga-san, the pain you have been experiencing in your throat was caused by a small ulcer. It's normally not life threatening, but because you have been stressing your vocal chords too much, the ulcer had bleed. We had no choice but to perform the operation due to the fact that the blood was travelling into your lungs. Unfortunately the location of the ulcer was near your voice box."

I had a hard time processing what he was saying. I had a check up at the doctors only two months ago and nothing was wrong. Will my voice come back? Will this stupid ulcer that grew in that two months time frame destroy everything I worked for? It was like the doctor could read my mind, because he went on explaining. "The chance of your voice returning isn't very high. However if you undertake the …"

"Shut up!" I demanded.

"Hyuuga-san, please remain calm." The doctor pleaded.

I set his left sleeve on fire. While the doctor frantically tried to put out the fire, I started detaching all the wires that were attached to me. I pulled myself of the bed and tried to make my way toward the door. Not even bothering to wear my slippers. I've only taken some steps, but sweats were pouring down my face. The operation had taken a lot of my strength away, but I had to get out of here.

Something pulled my arm back.

"Natsume, where are you going? You have to …" It was Ruka. He tried to pull me back to my bed, but I used as much of my strength get away from his grasp. He gripped tighter on my sleeve, but I continued to fight back with the little energy I had. "You must rest or you won't…"

"Won't what? Get better? Rest isn't going to bring my voice back. I'm not going to get better. I never wanted the operation; this hospital had no right to take away my voice." I shouted, well the chip shouted. I felt Ruka loosening his grasp. "If you tried to stop me, I'll burn the entire hospital down."

I ran out of the room. Down the hallways, passing people after people after people. I didn't know where I was going, nor did I know how to get out of this building. Despite the fact that I had no idea what I was doing, I kept running. Turning corner after corner. Descending stairs after stairs.

When I turned a corner, I bumped into someone. The force caused me to lose balance and fell face-first. The other person seemed to have done the same thing. I couldn't care less of who it was, or whether they were injured or not. I pulled myself up and kept running.

After a couple of steps, something made me turned my head back to check who it was that I sent flying to the ground. The person had long brunette hair was sitting on the ground. It was probably a girl, but then guys these days have long hair too. Their back was toward me, so I couldn't see the face but something told me it was a girl. She was probably a patient because she was wearing the hospital's patient uniform. I was about to return to help her stand, when she pulled herself back up with the help of the rails next to her. She continued walking in the same direction, not even turning back to see who it was that had knocked her down. I couldn't careless, and continued on with what I was doing.

Finally I saw it. The beautiful exit sign. I slowed my pace down, my energy was almost gone. When I was about to walk out of the automatic sliding doors, something grabbed hold of my arms. I turned around, ready to burn the person into ash.

"Where do you think you're going?" asked the Blond-head man. I saw that he too was wearing a white coat. I was about to burn him when something happened. My head began to spin, and all my anger disappeared. My feet gave away, and I started falling to the ground. The doctor caught me before I met the ground.

"Oi Narumi! Did you get him?" shouted a voice from behind us.

Narumi huh? I wasn't going to forgive him for this. Then I blacked out.

~Normal POV~

~Mikan's Room~

"EHHH!" Mikan shouted. She couldn't believe what she just heard. How could Misaki-sensei say that to her, how could he even think that and ask her to do that? "What…what did you just say sensei?"

"Please Mikan-chan. You are good with people like him. Just think of him as a 5 year old lost boy ok?" Misaki-sensei tried his best to make his voice and persuasive as possible. Since Mikan couldn't see, his deadly puppy-eyes were useless.

"Sensei, but he isn't 5 year old. He's 16 like me. It'll never work. NO! NO! NO!" Mikan refused. She was determined. She had made up her mind, and placed her foot down. She was solid as a rock, and no matter what the doctor do, she will not budge.

- "Mikan-chan, please! You are his only hope. Help him out."

- "Why me? There are heaps of other people. PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE! People who have those Ph-D for these kind of situation."

- "I know. But unfortunately due to his Alice being categorised in the dangerous type, it is too dangerous for the professionals."

- "EHH! Sensei, did you just hear what you just said? He's dangerous, but you are willing to put a blind girl in the same room with that maniac. NO! 100% NO!"

- "But Mikan, because of your nullification it makes you completely safe. Please, help sensei out. I'll beg on my knees if I have to. I'll do anything."

"Sensei seems really desperate; maybe I should help him out." Mikan thought to herself. "He's the same age as me, so communication shouldn't be difficult. And sensei has a point about me being completely safe due to my Alice."

Mikan let out a small sigh and nodded her head in agreement. The doctor gave her a hugged to thank her. "He's in room 1993. You know where that is right?"

"Yes sensei. Oh since you said you'll do anything. Can you give Narumi-sensei a bean-whip?" Mikan got off the bed and went to her wardrobe to get a jumper. Misaki-sensei was about to object but agreed knowing what he had asked was a big favour. "Fine, just one."

"Arigato sensei." Mikan gave her most beautiful smile to the doctor. The doctor was about to leave the room when he notice something.

"Another bruise? How many time are you going to travel around this hospital without your cane Mikan? It's dangerous." Said the doctor when he noticed a purple bruise on the girl's left knee. He wasn't surprise at her injury, because it wasn't the first time she was injured. Considering how clumsy she is, it's amazing she hasn't fractured anymore bones after her accident.

"It wasn't my fault this time round. Some baka bumped into me and ran off. People these days, no manners whatsoever." She gave a small pout before passing the doctor out the room.

~Outside room 1993~

"Why am I doing this? I really need to learn to say no, and make sure I don't change my mind." Mikan told herself as she stood in front of the door. She was hesitant to enter, afraid of what might lie beyond the door. "Ah…I forgot to ask sensei what was his name, I'll just ask the boy himself."

The door slide open, and the brunette stepped in cautiously. "Ohayo…?"

"What do you want? Can't you people leave me alone?" The boy answered. He was pissed off. Mikan knew why due to the sound of his voice. Due to the fact that she had lost her eye-sights, her ears have become sonic. The pitch was not of a normal human being, it was rusty and computerised. Sharp and emotionless, not completely but not as much as it should be. This was without doubt, the voice from one of her best friend, Imai Hotaru's invention – the-voice-over.

*Hotaru Invention Corner*

Invention #30- the-voice-over. A computerised chip that is placed near on the human's temple. It connects itself to the person's nerve system from the brain to the mouth. When the person moves their mouth to speak, the chip will transmit what they want to say into sound. The computer voice is adjusted so it slightly resembles the owner's voice.

"Um…My name is Sakura Mikan. I'm here to…" Before Mikan could finish introducing herself, and wave of heat rushed toward her. No doubt, it was the boy's Alice.

"I told you to leave me alone!" The boy shouted. When he retreated his flames, he was surprised to see the girl unharmed. Not even a slight bit of soot was on her. Confused and annoyed, the boy set the flames at her again. The same result.

"You might have your fire Alice. But I have my nullification Alice. Your Alice is useless against me." Mikan replied with a smirk. She now understands why Misaki-sensei wanted her to meet this boy; he was desperately in need of help.

Mikan stepped outside the door for a bit, she felt around on the left-hand side of the door and return back inside the room. "Ohayo! I'm Sakura Mikan, nice to meet you. I'm here to help you out…Hyuuga Natsume."

"Even though I didn't know who it was, I still felt comfortable with them"

~End of Chapter 4~

Disclaim: I don't own Gakuen Alice. Only the storyline, some characters and my imagination used in the story. :D

Author's Comments:

Does the throat have anything to do with the vocal-chords? I have no idea, I was just making it up so please don't believe anything I wrote in here. They're just there to help the story become a story.

This chapter is much longer than the others. Take it as an apology for the lateness.