Disclaimer: I have never, still do not, and will never own Gakuen Alice.
From now on, if I'm talking about America, it'll be all English... And Japan would be Japanese.
Previously:
"AHAHAHAHA! Everything is so funny today. Aa... Such a good day..." Mikan coughed while wiping away the tears from laughing too much.
"Okay... Back to studying. I'll sleep at night."
A week later in America:
"I can't believe this," Fang stared at Mikan as if she were an alien.
"See, I told you. Mikan learned English on her own in a week. And she doesn't even need to work on the pronunciation of the words," Nao replied smugly.
Mikan flushed from being complimented indirectly. It had been a week of hard work, reading and understanding the new and foreign language. It was... an awesome accomplishment.
Placing a hand on Mikan's shoulder, Fang blew her nose and said, "Mikan... This isn't fair. It's either you're really smart, or you have a good memory."
"Thanks..."
Suddenly jabbing his finger towards Fang, Nao cut in, "I just remembered. We made a bet that if she could actually do it, you'll give me 50 rabbits, Fang."
"When did we ever make a bet?"
"When you said that she couldn't do it. A silent bet."
Without questioning the subject any further knowing that it would just go on and on and on (and on and on and on), Fang threw a 50 rabbit coin, in hopes of hitting Nao in the head. He squatted down to tie his shoe, and the coin flew over his head hitting the wall behind. He then turned around to pick up the coin and gently place it into his wallet.
Mikan stood to the side. It felt weird seeing rabbits flying in the air. Not an everyday occurence. Now... If another one flew by, and she could just intercept it...
Throwing her hands up in the air, Fang started saying in a sing-song voice, "You can start the training today! A reason to skip class!"
Mikan gasped. "Why can't we celebrate that I learned it all in a week? I've been under so much pressure just memorizing all that gibberish."
"But if you start early, you'll be able to finish early and go back. The stress and pressure would be gone for a long time," Nao stated.
She grimaced, sniffled, glared, thought, sniffed, muttered incoherent things under her breath, and finally decided. "Fine."
In a room somewhere in AAA: (A/N: I'm just gonna use AAA to refer to American Alice Academy o.O Lazy me...)
Mikan, Fang, and Nao arrived in a humongously ginormous room that was dimly lit. The walls were a dirty white with scratches, dents, and holes here and there, showing that fights had occurred.
"This is the place where the people from the DA class come to train. The walls are supposedly immune to Alices if they're weak enough, but if you hit it, it'll get damaged. When that happens, just get someone to fix it," Nao shrugged while telling the purpose of the area.
Mikan nodded, signifying that she understood. "So if I get angry, I can just come here, kill the walls, and then get someone to fix it?"
"Exactly."
"I'll be the first one to be your training partner," grinned Fang as she seemed to be having lots of fun.
Staggering backwards a bit, Mikan choked out, "W-what? But your Alice is Elemental!!"
"That's the reason why."
The brunette sniffled a bit. Life sucked.
An order was shouted by Fang, "Run along that wall to the left. It's a mile long, the training takes agility, and we have to know how fast you can run right now. Therefore, right now, go run a mile as fast as you can."
Mikan took off to fulfill the order. After a few minutes, she returned with her hands on her knees, beads of sweat rolling down her face, and panting as if there were no tomorrow.
Pressing a button on a stopwatch that came out of nowhere, Nao wrote a few things on the clipboard and held it out for Fang to see. "7:52 (Minutes:Seconds). That's not bad. For the first few days and weeks, you will be running for a designated time at the fastest pace you can go or sprinting short distance, and then we can get into the real work."
Life wasn't fair. "Oh yes, and you still have to go to school, but today was an exception. Everyday after dinner, we will meet here. That's all, so you have the rest of the day off."
Yup. Life was cruel.
In AA: (A/N: AA refers to the original Alice Academy)
"Do you think it's possible that Mikan-chan has a serious disease that is very hard to cure? Could she be lying in bed in pain right now?" Tsubasa gasped at the thought.
Misaki winced, and gonked him on the head, "If you say that, you're going to curse her, and then I'll have to curse you."
He shriveled in fake fear, which earned him a hug with the wall.
The two had noticed that Mikan didn't come to the Special Ability Class meeting for two weeks in a row, and were becoming worried. At the moment, they were searching for her.
"Can't you be more serious about this?! Anything could be happening to her right now!"
The rest of the trip went on in silence. Right when they turned a around a corner, they bumped into Anna and Nonoko. Tsubasa yelled, "Hey! You're Mikan-chan's classmates! Do you know where she is?"
The two girls turned and walked away silently as if the mood had been ruined. Misaki rubbed her chin, "How strange... They ignored us like they refused to talk about her."
"Let's just find someone else to ask..."
Continuing their search, the two walked through the halls of the dorms, the school buildings, the outside, the roofs, the attics, the ground, the hospital, the people, and finally... the trees.
Sure enough, Natsume was sitting at where he always sat, near the Sakura Tree with the latest volume of D. Gray-Man stuffed into his face.
Tsubasa emitted a soft squeal and pointed at the book, "I've recently become addicted to that series, and I couldn't find that anywhere. And here it is just sitting on someone's face, do you think he'll let me borrow it?"
"Go ahead and try. I'm sure you'll get burned."
The navy-blue haired boy gently lowered his hand down to pick up the book. When he was sure that it was at a distance that could be snatched away, he pulled it behind his back quickly and revealed the flame caster's face. His eyes were open and openly glaring at Tsubasa. "Shadow-freak."
Tsubasa's sleeve suddenly caught on fire. He dropped the book while trying to un-flame the flame, and when he checked to find it again, he found it in Natsume's hands.
Misaki smiled smugly but quickly reverted back to a serious face, "I told you so, but we're not here for the manga today. We came to ask you something. Where is Mikan?"
"Another continent."
"Stop joking around. We're serious here."
"I am, too."
"Then... You couldn't mean... She's been transferred?"
"Hn." Natsume had just walked away.
Tsubasa twitched, "Hey... Remember Mikan-chan's other Alice? The Stealing Alice? I think they're going to make her a Dangerous Ability Class member..."
"There's nothing we can do though..." sighed Misaki.
"I think that that Emo Corner in Ruka-chan's classroom sounds really comforting right now..."
"Agreed."
The two sempais walked off to join Ruka in the Emo Corner.
Author's Notes:
First of all, I'd like to say -SNIFF- I'M SO SORRY FOR UPDATING SO LATE! You must hate me now... I suck... -Cries in a corner-
Thanks to omgwho.amiagain for being such an awesome friend, an awesome editor, an awesome human, an awesome pillow, an awesome stuffed animal, and an awesome huggable and lovable and adorable person :)
I do not believe in making the characters able to run like a mile in 2 seconds unless if they have the Speed Alice or something :) It just feels... awkward...
I've also realized that even though I have an obsession for sadness and pain, and that I'm a sadisticly sadistic sadist, I cannot write depressing moments very well. Shucks.
I kinda want Mikan to go back soon... So I guess I'll try to make her go as soon as possible. :D
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