"12 Days of Christmas"
Disclaimer: Didn't make the song, manga, only the fanfiction.
December 13th
Shadow Manipulation & Doppelganger
"One the seventh day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Seven swans a swimming..."
Somehow, there was trouble brewing in the middle school division. "Tsubasa! There's trouble brewing in the Middle School Division!" the third year junior high student with red hair cried out.
"Misaki, doesn't that sound a bit...familiar?" he replied.
"No it doesn't...Well, just come with me, we need your help," Misaki rushed. She took his arm and dragged him over to the school building. She led him to the room that the Special Ability class meets in. They could hear bickering coming from inside the room and he slowly opened the room to peer inside. Misaki stood with her arms crossed waiting for him to go inside.
"Why can't I get a refund on this video game on the eighth day that I decide to return it?" one kid shouted out.
Another person answered it, "That's because you have only seven days to return it, it says so on your receipt."
"Oooh that's right! I see it right here!" he pointed out.
"Like spam? Got rice?" a third child tried to challenge.
"Like ham. Has milk," he answered again.
"Damn, he's too good!"
This is when a wave of random questions crashed into the kid and overflowed the room that even Tsubasa was knocked out of the doorway and fell on his rear. He never saw this kid before, but he seemed to be satisfying everyone's questions with his answers. "Who is he Misaki? Is this guy that trouble you were talking about?" he asked curiously.
"Essentially," she answered simply.
"And he's a problem, how?"
Misaki thought about it, why did she call Tsubasa over again? She thought long and hard until she found her answer. "He's in our class now and he is getting into arguments with Nodachi! Since Nodachi travels, he sees a different history or future, but this guy doesn't like his answers and keeps changing them."
"So maybe that might be a little problematic..." Tsubasa figured. "What's his name?" he asked.
"Well, he's a well educated exchange student from Học viện Alice. His name is Tommy Nguyen," Misaki explained.
"This guy is Vietnamese? You mean...he is from the Vietnamese school of Alice? Though his first name is American too...so?" Tsubasa reasoned.
A boy with black hair came over and put his hand on Tsubasa's shoulder. "If you want an answer, then here it is, I transferred from Alice Academy to Học viện Alice, and now I'm an exchange student at Gakuen Alice. Nice to meet you...Andou Tsubasa and Harada Misaki. Would you like to know anything else about me?"
Misaki and Tsubasa jumped at his sight. "H-How did you know our names?" they both asked in sync.
"Nice question, I heard you guys talk to each other using them and recognized your names on the class list," he answered.
"O-Of course," Tsubasa stuttered. He sign languaged over to Misaki, asking her 'How the heck does his alice work?' Misaki replied with a shrug and they faced the Vietnamese boy once again. She elbowed Tsubasa, he needed to do something about the problem. "Well, yeah, I heard that you're having some troubles with the Special Ability Class teacher, Nodach- I mean Noda-sensei," he finally said.
"Perhaps a little. I understand that his alice is time tripping, but it kind of annoys me how people spend all this time studying about one thing, only to be found out that it is wrong. Also, it's hard to give clear evidence of it if you weren't an alice to understand it. It's difficult to explain," Tommy finished.
Misaki waved wildly to someone behind Tommy, "Hey Nodachi! Welcome back!" Everyone looked towards the general direction and saw their favorite teacher.
"Hey, what's up?" Noda asked with his carefree voice.
Tsubasa replied shortly after, "I've gotta go get Mikan, so just hang around with Misaki and the others until I get back. Later!"
Misaki failed to convince Tsubasa otherwise, "Err...darn," she snapped. Deciding it was futile, she headed back into the room with Tommy and Noda. The special ability class was murmuring with excitement and voices flooded the room more than usual. "Is it because of the arrival of the new kid?" the doppelganger thought to herself. She shrugged and took and seat next to one of her many friends in the class.
In the middle of their conversation, Megane (the spirit hopping guy with glasses I believe) came over and greeted her. "Hey, Misaki, we kind of placed a challenge with you as the prize. Do you mind?"
She stood up in shock, "What did you say!? What's this challenge?"
"Well," he paused, "you see, we were all asking the new kid a bunch of questions because of his alice. Which reminds me, he told us that the chicken came first. Finally, one of life's mysteries solved!"
"Megane!" Misaki shouted.
He stopped and got back on track, "Right then, umm...like I was saying before, then one person asked him how do you bend time. Surprisingly, he couldn't answer that particular question and we all gasped in amazement. It was funny, we did it in syncro, you should've seen it." Misaki gave him a glare before he could continue. "Haha... Sorry again. So then we made a challenge, if someone could answer that question, they would get you as their girlfriend (boy) or friend that is a girl (girl.)"
"Megane...." she twitched.
"Hey! I'm just relaying the message to you! Not like I made it up or anything," he argued.
"Whatever..." she sighed. Then her eyes sparkled a bit, "Did Noda-sensei answer yet? He's a time tripper, he could save me!" They looked over to Noda, who was ironically about to attempt an answer at this weird question.
One kid looked very eager, "So sensei, how do you bend time?"
Another kid next to him looked interested as well. Surprisingly he was Tommy, waiting patiently for the teacher's answer, the answer that the alice of answers couldn't even answer. If that made sense at all... "I don't know," Noda answered simply. "I trip time, I don't bend it, that might be dangerous wouldn't you know?"
A third student shouted in complaint, "Come on sensei! You can tell us. Isn't their like this formula or special technique where you can bend time by like using some magnetic force or black hole or something?" Noda laughed, these kids read too much make believe stories, aka, TV.
Eventually, the whole class was asked the question, and no one had an answer that seemed to satisfy the majority's hunger. Misaki sighed a sigh of relief. That was until a certain someone noted something very true, "Tsubasa and Mikan haven't answered yet, so there is still a chance for them to win Misaki!" Misaki didn't like the sound of being someone's prize, but since it would either be her best friend or her favorite little kouhai, it seemed beneficial is either got the question right. Luck was in her hands until it hopped away when the same person noted one more thing, "If no one can get Misaki with this question, we might have to make up another question that will be easier to answer!"
"That idiot," she thought. The door opened and it was Tsubasa and Mikan walking in, greeting everyone at the same time.
Tommy immediately hurried over to them, followed by many other eager students. "You must be Sakura Mikan," he welcomed.
"I am. And you are?" Mikan asked curiously.
"He was the guy was telling you about Mikan. He has the alice of answers, an exchange student from Vietnam and his name is Tommy Nguyen," Tsubasa butted in.
"Nice to meet you!" she exclaimed. Mikan shook his hands vigorously and awed at his appearance.
He was a bit shooken up, but he regained control and got back to business. "Umm do you happen to have an answer to this question?" he asked. The two looked at him confused and wanted Tommy to continue. "How do you bend time? Mikan do you happen to have an answer?" He asked an awful lot of questions for someone who had the alice of answers. It's a complicated alice, don't ask, please.
The brown haired girl gave a good long thought to it. Then she shook her head, "Sorry, I don't have a clue." Then she looked towards Tsubasa.
"It's easy," he said bluntly. Everyone was all eyes, even Noda and Timmy, I mean Tommy. No surprise, how would someone declare bending time, easy? This was a sight to see and a bold statement to match. The whole room glued their eyes on Tsubasa as he walked over to a table and ripped out a piece of paper from his notebook. He scribbled something on the paper and put it up to show everyone. "All you have to do is write 'time' on a piece of paper and bend it." Over and over he bended the piece of paper and showcased it to everyone.
The room in complete silence. The idea was so simple and they thought up so many complicated theories. In the end, they were satisfied with this king of simple answer. Megane broke the silence, "That means Tsubasa gets Misaki as a girlfriend?"
"Say what?" Tsubasa and Misaki inquired at the same time. Mikan gasped. Her two favorite senpais, together?
Viet boy made things a little more edgier, "Kiss, kiss!" He stuck out his tongue a Tsubasa. The noise cheering for a kiss grew louder and louder.
Misaki gave up hope and nudged Tsubasa shyly, "Let's make it a quick peck okay? Just to calm these guys down..."
He found it kind of cute, but didn't note it as he usually would have done. Tsubasa was kind of thrilled, but he still didn't really know how Misaki felt about him after all this time. "Sure," he finally replied.
The two of them got close up next to each other, face to face. After the room had quited down, both of them swallowed hard, first kiss, here we go. Misaki was very hesitant and didn't budge an inch. So, Tsubasa took initiative and closed in for the kiss and held her shoulders with both of his arms. She was still as a rock as he finally reached the desired action. Then she closed her eyes and enjoyed it for a bit. It lasted for a few seconds before quickly ending. The room was flooded in cheering.
Misaki was the first to talk in their moment of awkwardness. "Does this mean we're boyfriend and girlfriend?"
Tsubasa was confused, "What do you mean?" He scratched his head and Misaki stepped on his foot. Shadow manipulator was hopping around on one foot in pain. "Oww! What was that for?"
"Who's the slow one now!" she yelled angrily. He ended up being chased all the way into a pond, where there happened to be seven of Hotaru's Swan machines that hovered and stuff. Misaki laughed at him in satisfaction. "You deserved that you idiot!"
He pouted, "Yeah whatever."
Mikan whispered something into Hotaru's ears, "And to think they had something going on for a second!"
Shadows are the equivalent to mysteries, thus, I am full of them. That's why we just keep on swimming a long.
Swans are elegant creatures, but you wouldn't happen to know that until you read stories about them. My point? Even the same kind of things are very much different from the original.
"...six geese a laying,
five golden rings,
four calling birds,
three French hens,
two turtledoves,
and a partridge in a pear tree."
Typer's Note -
Oww, huge stomachache, in the morning too...
And so anyways, I've got a busy Saturday, so here's your promised update.
Thanks for reading this far and by the way...
(Puts up victory sign and upside down victory sign) VN Pride! Muahaha...
Err anyways, review if you can! I need to go to the bathroom, thank you very much. xP
December 22nd Note -
Forgot to thank my friend Justin for one of the random questions he made up.
So yeaaah. Thanks again!!
