-Beginning Play-
I want to start the story because I KNOW I will forget what just happened. Even then, I'll need to get the last chapter open cuz I need my Plays and...
I can't keep track of all these characters! DX
Natsume: You're stupid.
me: Why thank you
Ruka: Not only is it weird to respond like that, but you added a refined, British accent.
How on earth does that make any sense?! DX
Natsume: NOTHING she does makes sense.
me: How many people are there?! Fifty!
Hotaru: Actually, there's ten people, including you.
me: I was being sarcastic.
Hotaru: I know.
me: But seriously? Ten? o.O That isn't what it feels like- it feels like twenty! DXXXX
Natsume: You're an idiot.
me: (gush) Thank you!
Ruka: She is REALLY odd...
me: I take that as a compliment, Ruka.
Kree: And yet when HE called you 'weird', it really hurt you.
me: ... (doom and glooms in the corner)
Teacher (worried): Was that necessary?
Anna and Nonoko: Obviously NOT! That was rude!
me: (looks up with tears in wide eyes)
Koko: (snickers) FireFaithe's really happy that you are all sticking up for her.
Natsume: (holds up flag that says 'Against FireFaithe- down with the stupid author') I'm against her all the way.
me: (heart breaks and returns to sulking)
Kree: I was only stating a fact, that is all.
Ji-chan: I believe that was entirely unnecessary. We should take her to the kindness police, along with Natsume. YOU WON'T EVER DATE MY GRANDDAUGHTER!
me: There's such a thing as 'kindness police'?
Natsume: WHY are you asking us? YOU'RE the one who creates this.
me and Natsume: (waiting in anticipation)
Gunther: Heikai?! EDDDD
me and Natsume: Geh! (ruffles hair) That stinking idiot...
Gunther (smile slowly fades into frown: Eh? Where's Heikai? That girl with the brown hair told me Heikai would be here... (tear forms in corner of eye) Is he not here?
me (emotionless): Mikan just got herself in a whole lot of trouble. Gunther's good at sword fighting and... (holds up chains and whips) I won't let her get away.
Natsume (eyes glowing with fury): I will DRAG her here and do things that WON'T be teen rated.
me: (still emotionless) I'll help, but it won't be triple anything. (smirks) I'm just going to help with the whole torture.
me and Natsume: BECAUSE I AM SICK OF HOW MIKAN KEEPS BAILING!
Ruka: Oh my gosh, poor Mikan. She's really in trouble.
all except me, Natsume, and Gunther (worried and sweat dropping): T-The Beginning Play is out...
Gunther: That liar!
-Beginning Play out-
After lying in the dirt for a few seconds, Hepare gritted his teeth and swore...
That he WOULD get his alice back.
The next day at school...
Ruka and Hotaru were STILL confused, and...
Mikan and Natsume had forgotten to inform them about where they may be going in who knows how long.
Tonight was a concert though. Natsume was creating a song for it.
And he wanted, more than anything, for Mikan to be there.
The song was to his fans, but it was ALL about where the four of them may be going.
"Mikan, here," Natsume said as he handed Mikan a slip of paper. Scowling, she took it, and her eyes widened in fury at the sight.
"I'm going to sing a song about where we may be going. I want you to be there." More of his bangs crowded his eyes, and just as Mikan was about to tear the ticket to his concert up, he said something that caught her attention.
"If you want to sing with me... I'm coming up with the lyrics right now."
That made Mikan's heart skip a beat.
She could think of MILLIONS of lyrics for a song about the place they're going.
And she could show her talent to the world.
It was hard for her to breathe, but she asked, "You have to try out."
"Nope. Everyone knows I've got skills to tell if others have skills." He grinned at her. "You get to sing with me if you want."
Her heart kept beating fast as she stared at him. Her mouth curled into a creepy smirk.
She could teach those judges what a mistake they made.
She nodded, "I'm in." He smirked in response.
He'd gotten Mikan to spend time with him!
His heart was beating miles a minute.
And so was hers, but for a different reason.
So the rest of the day, when they had time, they made the lyrics.
There was a trade off- Mikan was back singer first, and then Natsume, and then Mikan and so on. The one that wasn't back singer was lead singer. Throughout the song, they'd trade their spots.
Both Ruka and Hotaru realized how much time they were spending.
Ruka was jealous and...
Hotaru wondered if Natsume had brainwashed her somehow.
She was astonished that MIKAN was talking to a singer, and a famous one at that.
She could not believe it.
All the other girls, including Sumire were jealous.
But Anna and Nonoko, however jealous that they were, were also happy for Mikan.
But once the concert started, it all made sense to them.
Mikan had dragged Hotaru to Natsume's concert, and boy, was she confused...
Until Mikan got on the stage, her smile reaching the edge of her face.
Hotaru smiled, happy for her friend.
Ruka laughed, thinking how ridiculous it was that he thought they were spending time together because they were friends or dating.
And all the fan girls got even more jealous.
But Anna and Nonoko were amazed.
Why was MIKAN up there?!
Her grin as wide as a whale (but not really), and Natsume's grin wider than ever, they began singing.
"Hey you all," Natsume started. "I know you've known me for a while.
But in fact, I may end up leaving soon."
Mikan traded, her voice passionate, "You see,
We're too special to stay.
As much as we don't wanna leave,
We gotta go~"
They sang together, "We don't have a choice."
"I know all you care for me,
But trust me,
I'll be okay."
"Our friends are coming.
They're just like us."
"So no matter what we face, we'll stay together," Natsume winked at Ruka. "Don't whine, I'm sure you can find someone else~"
"We don't know
When we'll be comin back"
"But we know it's sometime soon
Cuz we can't stand
Being confined in a tiny
Room~~!"
"We really have no idea
What it's like.
All we know is that we can't get out.
We can't escape.
It's a new life,
A new chance.
A new beginning~" she winked, "And I'm sure to take advantage~"
"Pretty sure,
Whatever this is~
It's all the best for us," he winked at Mikan who was too into singing to realize. He chuckled.
"I'm pretty sure I'll miss the people here..." Mikan sang, gazing in front of her.
"I'm not sure
If my family'll make it through," Natsume sang, looking at the ground like someone who had been hurt enough times to not fight would.
"We don't know what the future will hold," they sang, staring the same way they were.
"Negatives and positives
Every time it has them
Just like right now,
we may not know what's in store,
But what we do know,
Almost balances out.
I can't stand," she glared at Natsume, "To be with someone like you.
But I don't have a choice." She smirked proudly and wide, "But at least you'll have to start over~"
"I'm always confused
At just what happened to you.
To make you hate me this way.
But maybe you'll stop," he looked at her.
They sang together, "We don't know what is coming.
This place that we don't know.
All we know is the name and a few hints
Sounds like a prison."
Mikan sang, "It just
Creeps into my dreams
The dark, damp~
Cage
That I may be in."
"It tears my heart apart,
Bit by bit,
But I can't show it-
I have to be strong~!"
"What will it be like?" they sang in chorus, "I don't know.
We don't know.
Will we have freedom?
We have no clue."
Mikan sang passionately, "Can we sing?
Nobody knows~~"
"Can we love," Natsume asked, looking straight at Mikan. "Nobody knows."
"It's an unknown place. We have no clue~" they sang, "What we're getting into.
Yet we have no choice.
Whether we like it or not," Mikan held her bandaged hand up as they continued singing, "Someone's bound to find out.
Who will be first?
Who's the unlucky
Yet lucky one?
Who will set off the bomb?
Who will take us there?
Who will get caught first?
And lead us all there?
We're all together now.
The four of us will go together,
No matter what one doesn't want.
But who
Will be the one
To lead us there?
Who will set the bomb?
Who will be found first?
When will that be?
We don't know how much
Time we have left
The clock has started
But it's hidden
No one knows
What time we have left~~
Nobody~!
Has any clue!
Nobody
Can have a clue
How much time we have before we are found out
No one knows when that bomb'll
Go off.
Nobody
Has any clue.
This is our hidden bomb~
When will it go off?
When will we leave?
When will we be forced
To go to our cage?
Nobody knows
Nobody knows
Nobody knows," they breathed in and out as Natsume began his guitar riff.
But they weren't finished.
After Natsume's guitar rift, Mikan began singing,
"Sorrow
Emptiness
What will we leave with?
What will we gain?
What will we
What will we
What will we
Do?
Lonely
All alone~
Nobody
But ourselves
What will
Who will
What will we face~?
Nobody can know
Even a fortune teller won't know.
Nobody has any clue
What we will face~
Cages?
Chains?
What will we come in contact to?
Slaves?
Masters?
What will happen to us?
What will we become
When we go to this place?
When the hidden bomb goes off,
What will happen to us?"
"I don't know
You don't know
Nobody does
Nobody knows what
We are talking about
Only we do~
Maybe it won't affect you
Maybe it will
We don't know
Nobody does
We don't know
When this hidden bomb
Will detonate
I don't know
You don't know
Nobody does
Only time will tell~~
What time left do we have?
What is going on?
When will
We leave
To go somewhere else?
How will
It affect
The people around
Us?
Will it break their hearts?
Will they hurt themselves?
Only time will tell
Will minds break
Because of our loss?
Will everything
Crash down
When we go?
Who knows!
Only time
Can tell
When this hidden bomb will go off
Nobody
Even us
Even the people that'll take us to our doom
They don't know."
"What's awaiting us there?
Is it doom and destruction?
Is it empty and lonely?
Or is it a new beginning,
A place where our dreams finally come true~?
What's in store for us
When we go to this new found place
What'll happen to us
When this hidden bomb
Blows up in our face?
Will we even know when it's here~?
Will we know where we're going?
Nothing can be sure right now~
This hidden bomb,
Oh, everyone's dreading
But no one dreads
Anymore than us
We freak out-
What are we going to?
What will we face~?
This hidden bomb won't hurt anyone
Worse than it'll hurt us
We're leavin our families behind,
Who can blame us
When we want to stay~?
We're going into a deep unknown
Nobody knows
What's to come~
Who wouldn't be scared
Of what's ahead
When this is what they face~?
Where are we goin
When the curtains fall?
What are we facin
When the secret goes out?
Oh, nobody knows
Nobody knows
This hidden bomb holds too many secrets!"
"How on earth do you expect us
To know our own destruction?
All we know
Is soon enough or not,
We'll be trapped somewhere
Nothin else
Do we know
Oh, it's so depressing~.
What's to come of us?
What's to come of the people around us?
We don't know
Nobody does
We won't know
Until the time comes
And the bomb goes off." And the song ended there. Many eyes were wide- they couldn't comprehend. Anna and Nonoko were some of these.
Ruka was tearing up on accident.
And Hotaru was trying to figure out what the HECK they were talking about.
Bright as the sun, Mikan left the stage with Natsume following.
They were acting NORMAL! Like they HADN'T just sang a song that sounded like they were going to die!
Natsume was whistling casually, his mind all on Mikan as Mikan was giddy as the moon about singing on a stage.
"Natsume, you're going to die?!" Ruka yelled at Natsume.
"What? When?"
"Ahhhh!" Ruka screamed.
"Ah,, wait, of course I'm going to die, Ruka- EVERYBODY does."
"OH MY GOSH, OH MY GOSH, OH MY GOSH!" Ruka ran all around, INCLUDING the stage.
"What's up with him? Thought it was all rainbows and unicorns? Live forever? Baka."
"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" Ruka cried like a little kid on the stage.
"Ruka, what the h*** are you doing?" Natsume picked him up by the elbow.
"You said you're going to die!"
"Yeah- EVERYBODY does. I'm going to get old ONE day!"
"But you sang a song!"
"I always sing a song!"
"Not about DEATH!"
"Case in the what now? Ruka, I've never sung a song about death."
"You just did!"
"..." Natsume thought back and became pale-faced. "I WASN'T FRIGGING TALKING ABOUT DEATH, IDIOT! THE BOMB WAS A FRIGGING METAPHOR! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! YOU THOUGHT I WAS SINGING ABOUT BEING BOMBED?!"
"Seriously? Ruka-pyon," Ruka blushed at Mikan's nickname, but she didn't seem to notice, "Death has nothing to do with it. Well, we may die there, and we may WISH to die there, but the whole point of the song was that we have no idea what the place we're going to is like..."
"Oh, really?"
"Duh," Natsume and Mikan said together, and then Mikan slapped him.
As he rubbed his injury, Mikan helped Ruka up.
"Why the h*** did you slap me, Mikan?" She just glared intensely at him.
"I guess it just has nothing to do with anything I DID but your hatred of singers. Alright then." And they walked away.
And Mikan, Hotaru, Ruka, Natsume, and all the other workers left early, or I mean, on TIME, while everyone else, after a few hours, left LATE.
They were too dumbfounded to move.
{Ending There! Just kidding :P}
The next day...
Boys were googling at Mikan the next day as she stared at the window. {Hello? Notice the NON-change of her attitude? ;P }
Natsume was p***ed, but being him, nobody knew.
Ruka was also jealous, his cheeks puffed, not noticing the fan girls squealing at him.
Supposedly crying like that yesterday made him get more crazy fan girls.
Sumire was also jealous, but for a different set of people. {Um, is Mikan a set? o.O Just kidding, you know what I mean ED }
She glared intently with her cat eyes when...
Slam!
Rush, rush, rush, rush.
Mikan and Natsume gulped.
"Hotaru Imai, it has come to our attention that you are extremely smart."
"Eh?" was both Natsume and Mikan's reactions.
"We would like you to go to Alice Academy." Mikan and Natsume's eyes went wide in serious-ment. {Oh my gosh, that isn't a word o.O lol XD I think I'm a bit too manic _' }
"We are, too!" Mikan and Natsume shot up at the same time, and Mikan slapped him. Mikan undid her bandage.
"See this?" she held it up. "It's a BURN! I stopped this burn!"
"That sounds absolutely ridiculous, Mikan," Natsume said. "Here, let me say it. I have the fire-"
"WHAT ON EARTH IS WITH YOU CRAZY KIDS?! JUST 'CAUSE YOU WANT A GOOD SCHOOL OR THINK YOU'RE SMART-"
"YOU'VE GOT IT WRONG!" Mikan screeched. "It was PROVED! His mom told us we had alices!" The guys in suits went blank.
"I have the nulfination alice! Or something like that..."
"Nullification," Natsume corrected.
"Yeah, that. Hotaru has the-"
"Alright already! You can come, but we guarantee NOTHING!" Their faces lit up.
"Come on, Ruka, let's go. Time to be kidnapped," Natsume took Ruka's arm.
"What?"
And they all went away.
"Show us your alice."
"Ah..." Natsume tried to think to the time he'd burned Mikan, and he got angry again about how guarded and all she was.
"Whoa!" he heard murmurs of content and opened his eyes.
H-He'd shot flame at the person across from him...
"Show us your alice."
Ruka squirmed, "It's embarrassing..."
"SHOW US YOUR ALICE!" they bellowed.
"H-Hai!" he screeched. "A-Animal pheromones..." he said quietly.
Suddenly, mice started coming in.
Ruka looked at them. They stared back.
"Can you see how Natsume is doing? Also, ask him what I should do 'cause I have NO idea what's going on." The mice chirped in agreement and ran off.
"Animal pheromones, no doubt."
"Show us your alice."
"Um... It's nutifilation."
"What the c*** is that?"
"I don't know! I can't pronounce it!"
"What the f*** is she doing?"
"I don't know..."
Natsume, Ruka, and Hotaru were watching Mikan get interrogated.
Or rather, they were watching her try to say 'nullification'.
She was failing MISERABLY.
"Nuficapa."
"That's nowhere even near!" Natsume snarled.
"What the f*** is wrong with this girl..." the guy had his hand in his hair. He peeked through his hair, and still, Mikan was trying to get the word right.
"Nulipa...cape? Um... Na... I totally forgot the word..."
"Mikan Sakura, was it?"
"Yeah..."
"Supposedly, you announced that you had the 'nullification' alice."
"Yeah, that's right! That word!" she exclaimed, pointing at him.
"Well then, let's try an experiment," he rose up from his chair.
"Huh?"
"I have what you call voice pheromones. I'm Reo Mouri." He took out his earring and put it in his pocket. "Mikan, take off your clothes."
"HUH?! WHY WOULD I DO THAT? PERVERT!" His eyes were wide with amusement as Mikan threw everything she could at him at the same time that she was trying to open the door.
"Alright, you're an alice alright. A stupid one but an alice nonetheless. Hey girlie," he hovered over her, and she backed into the door. [Just so you know, outside, Natsume is burning the building with jealousy as Ruka is accidently commanding animals to break the room out of jealousy.]
"I think I want to be your trainer. What about it?"
"M-My trainer?"
"Yeah... You seem pretty good at nullifying my alice. All you need to do is be conscious of it, and viola, you'd be done with the first step. Now Mikan, why don't we get to know each other? Your friends will be receiving trainers soon as well."
"Wha-wh-wh-KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
And all nightmares began.
Persona became Natsume's trainer.
Narumi became Ruka's trainer.
Subaru became Hotaru's trainer.
And Mikan, poor Mikan...
Actually DIDN'T get Reo.
HUH?!
She pleaded and pleaded SO much, they finally gave in and now she has a trainer by the name of Tsubasa while Ruka gets a second trainer- Reo.
What will this new trainer be like? How will Ruka deal with these TWO crazy trainers? Will Hotaru and Subaru get ANY work done, or will they just stare each other down every second?
And what is this mysterious Persona like?
Oh, wait, he isn't necessarily Persona...
HE'S A CREEPY-AS-H*** PERSONA!
-Ending Play-
me: (breathes deeply, in and out) I'm pleased with my work today.
Ruka: We came into Gakuen Alice abruptly...
Natsume (scowling): Mikan now has more excuses to bail with.
me (depressed): I know...
Reo: Good morning~
me and Natsume: Ah, the pervert! (looks at each other then looks back at Reo as if they hadn't looked at each other) The pervert is attacking!
Reo: I love innocent little girls, and Mikan said if I went here, she'd do some DIRTY things for me.
me and Natsume: LIES!
Gunther (eyes glowing): That girl is a liar...
me: Mikan will do no such dirty things with you.
Natsume: Yeah, she'll only do those with ME.
me: TOTALLY, NATSUME! XDDDDDDDD POLKA X PERVERT ALL THE WAY!
Natsume (annoyed): 'Pervert' could refer to Reo.
me: I mean... POLKA X FIRE ALL THE WAY! XDDD (imagines Mikan's panties getting burned) Whoa... *0*
Natsume: You're a f***ing idiot.
me: (glares) don't cuss, Natsume. (gets out whip and snaps it, smirking wildly as eyes glow creepily) Or~
Natsume: Urk!
Hotaru: There's only twelve characters here, and you STILL can't keep track.
me (depressed): I know...
Teacher: From now on, I go missing... ToT
Koko (patting my teacher on the back): There, there, FireFaithe's planning to put you back in soon.
me: Don't worry, teacher, you'll come back soon!
Kree: But you won't. UNLESS you finish my story.
me: Scary...
Anna and Nonoko: Ditto!
me (happily): Ditto!
Ji-chan: I remember when Pokémon came out in... I don't remember what year it was...
me: That's cuz I have no idea what's so ever.
all except Ji-chan (Kree, Hotaru, and Natsume bored; Gunther scowling; Koko normal; me, Anna, and Nonoko cheerful; Ruka cutely smiling shyly; Reo hypnotyzing): The Ending Play is out!
me: Kree, Hotaru, and Natsume, be more energetic! Reo, don't be so creepy! Ruka, amazing! (gush) X/D
Kree, Hotaru, Natsume, and Reo: I d-
-Ending Play out-
And so is the chapter!