Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice or any of its characters. All credits go to the creator, Tachibana Higuchi.


When Mikan and Hotaru got into their room, a sudden ring came from Hotaru's phone.

"Hello?" Hotaru said, "Oh. We just got back" there was a short pause. "Yeah. I guess you can come over." Another pause. "Okay. Wait, Anna. Bring food over. If you're coming over, you might as well cook dinner" Another pause. "Yeah, okay. Remember to bring crab ingredients. See you later"

"Who was that?" Mikan asked

"Anna. Apparently, the people you met today during the afternoon wanted to spend more time with you" Hotaru said with an eyeroll

"Really?" Mikan happily squealed, "This is going to be so much fun"

There was a knock on the door.

"Hm. They must have been pretty excited to come over" mused Mikan

There were more knocks on the door. "Hold on, I'll be right there" said Mikan

As Mikan was walking over to open the door, there were still repetitive knocks on the door. "Geez… people have no patience these days" she muttered.

When she opened the door, she was surprised when she came face to face with Natsume Hyuuga.

Mikan's POV

"Natsume?" I asked, "What are you doing here? OH. Are you here for the dinner?"

"Nope. Didn't get an invite" he said

"Oh… You can come in if you want" I said brightly, "I heard Anna is going to cook dinner"

Natsume just looked at me. Then suddenly, I felt myself being picked up and lunged over his shoulder as if I was weightless.

"NATSUME, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" I shouted

"Mikan? What's going on?" Hotaru asked, while walking to the door

"CAN YOU NOT TELL, HOTARU?" I said while pointing to Natsume

"Hyuuga" Hotaru said

"Imai" Natsume said evenly

"What are you doing" she said finally

"Please Imai, just let me spend some time with her" he pleaded

"UH DID YOU GUYS FORGET THAT I'M HERE? DON'T I HAVE A SAY?" I exclaimed

"No" Natsume said flatly

Hotaru sighed, "You better bring her back safe and sound" she said

Natsume nodded before he turned around with me on his shoulder.

"HOTARUUU, WHYYY?" I cried out


Anna, Nonoko, Mochu and the gang were walking into the dorms when they heard a girl screaming down the hallway, "LET ME DOWN, YOU JERK"

The person holding her just walked past them. "Don't you think that looked like Natsume?" asked Koko

"Nah, that person was holding an annoying girl on his shoulder" said Mochu

"Natsume would never do that, he'll think it's too much of a hassle" said Kitsuneme

Everyone nodded their agreement to that statement.


"Natsume, let me down this instant" I demanded

I felt him stop his stride and proceeded to let me down. "Thank you" I said, "Wait, what are you doing?" I said as he was still clutching my wrist. He got something metal-y from his pocket. I had little time to react when he placed the metal-y thing over my wrist and over his own wrist.

"A CUFF?" I yelled, "YOU'RE REALLY GOING TO CUFF ME?"

"Well, I really don't have any energy to run after you if you decided to run away" he simply said

"Don't you think this is a bit overboard?" I asked, "Get this cuff off me" I demanded

"Maybe later" he said while smirking, "Cmon. Let's go"

I had no choice to follow him since technically, we were stuck together.

I grudgingly followed him from behind. "Where are we going" I finally asked

"Chinese or Italian" he asked

"What?" I said confusedly

"Do you like Chinese or Italian?"

"Chinese…" I said slowly

"Okay then, cmon. Don't just stand there, let's go"

After 10 minutes of walking in silence, we were in front of a Chinese restaurant, and it made sense to me why he asked me that questions couple minutes ago.

"We're going to eat?" I said gleefully

"No, I'm going to eat. You're going to watch me eat" he said, with a smugly expression

"That's not fair" I said, pouting, "Chinese is one of my favorite foods"

"That's great, really" he said

He put his free, non-cuffed hand into his pocket. And he came out with something sparkly, the key I presumed.

"THE KEY!" I shouted as I reached over to grab it

Unfortunately, his reflexes were faster than mine since he raised his arm into the air. I couldn't jump up and grab it, so I kept on swatting his arm. I was so close on getting the key into my hands when he suddenly moved his hand as I slapped it. I heard a clink on the ground, and I saw the key disappear into the gutter.

"…You idiot" he muttered, "you just lost the key"

"It's not my fault you had a weak grip on it" I said defensively

"Oh yeah? Who was the one that kept on smacking my hand like there was no tomorrow?" he said evenly

I decided to ignore his question as I turned, or well attempted to turn towards the restaurant.

"Well, I guess-" Natsume said, but was interrupted when my stomach started making loud grumbling noises

He looked at me for a moment then sighed. "Cmon, let's go inside" he said

When we got into the restaurant, he immediately ordered food.

We were seated awkwardly since we were still cuffed together, and when the waiter came by with the food, he set it down on the table. But not without saying, "Young love. How cute, can't even bare to be separated for a short time" he said chuckling

"We are not together!" I said

"Yet" Natsume added, smirking

The waiter smiled at us again, saying "Young love" before he walked away

Natsume looked at the food for a while before saying, "I can't eat"

"Why?"

"I'm right handed"

"That's great, but why can't you eat?"

"You idiot" he said, "My cuffed hand is my right hand…"

I looked at my own hands, my right hand was the free one. "Well, if you can't eat the food, I guess I will" I said smugly

I started to get my fork to spin my noodles and put it into my mouth. It tasted like pure heaven. I was about to spin another forkful when I saw Natsume stare at the food from the corner of my eye. I sighed, after I spun a forkful I motioned it towards him.

"What are you doing" he said warily

"Do you want to eat or not" I demanded

His eyes widened slightly. "So are you going to feed me?" he said, bemused

"My conscience won't let me enjoy the food if you just sit there moping" I muttered, "Do you want it or not?" I snapped

He opened his mouth and I moved the fork into his mouth. I pulled the fork out when he opened it again, "This is some good noodle" he admitted

"I know" I offhandedly said.

For the next 20 minutes, there was a routine of me eating, then having to feed him. Truth be told, it was kind of fun doing it. He looked kind of cute at the same time as well.

When we finished eating he paid for the bill and we went outside.

"Did you just drag me out of my dorm just to take me to a Chinese restaurant?" I asked

"Nope, follow me" he said

We walked in silence as the sun started setting, and the sky started getting darker.

We walked for about 15 minutes until I couldn't take the silence anymore.

"Natsume?" I asked

"What"

"Nothing, I was bored" I said giggling

"You're so dumb…" he said

"How come you never laugh?" I asked

"Cause there's nothing to laugh about"

"There's always something to laugh about"

"Not for me" he said

The way he said it, it seemed like there was a deeper meaning to it. I was about to say something, when Natsume suddenly said, "We're here"

By then, it was already dark. The only light sources were the several street lamps on the sidewalk. But even with the street lamps, most of them were flickering so it wasn't much help.

"Where's here?" I asked. I looked around. I made out images that looked like swings, slides, and other attractions. "Are we at a park?"

"Yup" he said

"Why are we here?" I questioned. It suddenly dawned upon me that this was the same park that was in my dream. "Déjà vu…" I muttered

"What?"

"Oh, nothing. I just had this park in my dreams before" I said sheepishly, "So it seems familiar"

He nodded, "What was in your dream?"

I didn't want to tell him that he was in it, so I just said "None of your business, hmph"

"Tell me" he said, unfazed

For some reason, even though I was reluctant to tell him, it didn't feel wrong to tell him.

"In the dream, I was on the swing and you were pushing me" I began, "And then you stopped pushing me and asked me if I would ever hate you. Then I was like "never!" and then you hugged me and walked away and then cars started coming and then you went towards the cars"

Suddenly, I heard tires screeching on the pavement, just like the dream. It was exactly like the dream. I was with Natsume, and we were at the park.

"Shit" Natsume muttered, "we gotta run, Mikan. Let's go"

"THEY'RE GETTING AWAY" I heard

"Wait what?" I said, but nonetheless I began running behind him

"Where are we going, Natsume? Who are those people?" I asked, panting behind him

I heard tires continually screech alongside the pavement.

He didn't respond. "Natsume! Answer me" I demanded. Still no response. I stopped running.

"What are you doing?" Natsume shouted, "We don't have time for this. We have to get away from those people. I'll explain later"

Even though I didn't really understand what was going on, deep down, I felt that I could trust him. I started running behind him again, with the cuffs keeping us together.

We ran for a while until I heard no sounds behind us anymore. Natsume suddenly stopped and I bumped into his back.

"Fuck, it's a dead end" he said

"Hello Natsume. It's nice to see you again" said a voice that came out of the dark.


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Author's Note: I had a fun time writing this chapter! I hope you guys enjoyed it ^_^