A/N – I'm going to backtrack a little during this chapter but we'll end at the finish, so when you hit the first divider we backtrack from night to dusk then continue from there. Okay? Good.

I DON'T OWN GAUKEN ALICE

Chapter 3

Natsume dreamt that night. He was in what appeared to be a prison cell. It had only one small window, barred, near the ceiling, only big enough for an arm to fit. The room was made out of some type of grey stone and the door into the cell was made of heavy, thick steel with no window. He was lying in the middle of the room on his side, his hands and feet tied with his legs tied so that they bent at the knee and his feet touched his bum. His crimson eyes took in the room as he recovered from shock, then he focused on trying to use his Alice to burn thru the ropes binding him. It didn't work, he couldn't even feel his Alice's presences, it was as if he didn't even have an Alice. So he lay there, he couldn't do anything.

Noise outside the cell drew his attention, it was muffled by the door but he could hear people talking and then the crackle of a radio as someone was communicating to them from a different part of the building. The radio was then silent and the shuffle of footsteps could be heard coming toward his ceil door. The guards laughed and then unlatched the door and pushed it open.

Natsume looked at the guards and they smirked. "The Boss wants to see you" One of the guards said as he grabbed Natsume by the arms. The guard threw Natsume over his shoulder and left the ceil. They walked down a long hall that had nothing in it, it was just a hall the same stone that was used in creating his prison was used to create this hall and his ceil was the only one in the entire hall.

They passed thru another heavy steel door and preceded into an interrogation room, again made of grey stone with no window, there wasn't even a two way mirror. The only things in the room were a chair, in the middle of the room, and a single, bare light bulb hanging above it.

The guards stopped in the room and one withdrew a pocket knife. He then turned to Natsume and cut the rope that held his legs in their bend position. Once his legs where free and dangling their full length he was thrown into the chair by the guy that carried him in. He grunted and the guards snickered as they exited.

He waited, and waited, and waited. Just to change the tune he waited some more. Finally after what felt like hours, and probable was, noise was again outside the down. The voice he heard chilled his bone and he shifted in the chair with creaked and shifted too. His eyes stared at the door. The bolt was thrown open and the latch turned. The heavy door groaned as it opened to reveal a tall figure in a dress like cloak, his face hidden by a mask, his nails painted black, his body adored with Alice controlling devices.

Natsume Screamed.

Mikan had stood under the Sakura Tree for an hour after Natsume had left her bewildered and confused. 'Why had he kissed her?' She was still searching for the answer to her question when the darkness drove her indoors. It wasn't any better, she was now in confined to the same dorm as Natsume. Worse yet was that her room was on the floor under his. Even Worse STILL was her room was directly under his.

She avoided her room like a plague only going in to grab a towel and a nightgown before going down the hall to the two star bathrooms. She entered the one assigned to her and turned on the hot water, filling the bath tub and adding bubble syrup to it. By the time she turned off the water the bubbles where formed above the lip of the tub and water was starting to spill over the edge.

She stepped in and lowered her body into the suds as water dumped over the edge onto the tile floor that sloped slightly toward a drain. She moved the bubbles away from her face and then messed around with handfuls blowing them off her hands. She continued playing till the bubbles started to fade and disappear.

When she started to see an outline of her body under the bubbles she stood and then, making sure that she opened the drain to the bathtub, moved to the shower. She turned it on and then entered let it spray chase the left over bubbles that still clung to her skin down to the shower floor.

After standing around wasting time washed her hair and then her body before turning off the water and stepping out as she wrapped a towel around her body. She changed into her nightdress, brushed her hair, washed her face and left the bathroom her used towel slung over her arm.

Mikan entered her room and walking over to her bed flung the towel into the hamper before sitting on the edge of her mattress. She could still feel his lips probing against her own wanting a response, almost demanding it. She sprawled out on her bed the edge of the mattress hitting her knees, her arms straight out palms up. Why did it matter to her so much?

Mikan suddenly sat straight up and then looked toward the ceiling, she had just heard an enormous thump as if a body fell off a bed. She stood and ran out of her room toward the stairs that led to the Special stars corridor, in her 6 years of being a two star and having a room under Natsume's she never once hear him fall out of bed.

She took the stairs two at the time and entered the corridor moved to Natsume's door and tried the knob, it was locked. She looked around frantically and seeing no one around used the key that Natsume didn't know she hide on the top of his doorframe. She had stolen his when he ended up in the hospital after the incident when they were ten. She had it copied and returned the original before he woke up.

She took the duplicate and shoved it into the lock turned it and opened the door. Her eyes widened.