-Sigh- I finally got around to typing chapter 7. Sooooooooo busy. DDDX Anyways, enjoy~ -falls onto floor-

~ Sakura-chan

Writer: Sakura-chan

Editor: Kyoko-tan

Disclaimer: We don't own Gakuen Alice.


"Natsume! Natsume!" I cry as I saw him on the floor in his own blood after he was beaten until he was unconscious. I see a pair of arms pick up his body.

"DON'T TOUCH HIM!" I screamed louder than I ever thought I could.

Anger was burning inside me. Persona picked up Natsume's body and carries it towards ESP.

"Give him back to us!" I growled.

I burst awake, my heart beating ten times faster than the normal speed against my chest, and sweat formed on my face. Thank goodness it was a dream, a dream that was reality 6 years ago. I shook my head to get rid of that image.

I tried to go back to sleep, but can't, now that I was awake. I shuffled out of the bed.

"Ne, Youichi, I can't sleep."

No reply.

"Youichi, hello?"

Still no reply.

"Youichi?" I approached towards his bed, only to see the bed empty.

Where is he? Was he abducted? I shook that out of my head too.

"YOUICHI!" I called silently around the hotel room that we rented for a couple of nights. I looked through all of the rooms we had: bathroom, bedroom, closets, and even the hallway.

Now I was getting really nervous. Where the heck could he be?

I went back to his bed. From looking at it, it seemed that he got out of bed himself. He must've gone outside to take a breath of fresh air…

I putted on my shoes and grabbed a sweater and walked out of our hotel room.


"First things first though, nii-chan. What happened? What's with your arm? Why is it black?"

"That's irrelevant to what we're talking about now."

"Basically ESP and Persona planned to get rid of Natsume to get Mikan on their side." Nobara blurted out in one breath.

"…." I glared at Nobara.

"Hehe…he… sorry." Nobara sweat dropped.

"You should get that arm treated, onii-chan."

"I know. Back to the main topic. How can you arrange Mikan and me to meet?" I wanted to get out here fast; I've started to feel dizzy.

"Umm… I don't think that's a good idea…" Nobara disagrees.

"Why?" I obligated.

"Because, apparently, she's not happy with the rumors she heard around the school."

"What?"

"I mean, she heard that you ran away, and the ESP persuaded her to join by showing the Alice stone she gave you a while ago."

"That son of a bitch." I mumbled to myself.

"Wait, how do you know all of this Nobara?" Youichi questioned her.

"Narumi, Sakurano, Imai-san…" She replied by counting her fingers as she said their names.

"Oh, well, that makes sense…" Youichi mumbled to himself turning his head to the left. Nobara sweat dropped again.

"So what do we do now?" Nobara asked.

"Well… I think that I should get back, in case Mikan wakes up. She's been having these random nightmares lately."

"…" 'This doesn't apply to me at all.' I thought to myself. I just wanted to get back to our cottage that we were staying in for a few weeks.

"About you, Natsume."

"So? Are you saying everything's my fault?"

"No, not at all!" Youichi voice cracked, as if he's afraid of me all of a sudden. "I just thought you wanted to know that she still thinks about you."

"Youichi, stop going off topic." I said.

"Okay okay. I think that we should… get you guys back to Gakuen Alice. Natsume has to get his arm treated before it gets any worse."

"How though?"

"Bullet train."

"But didn't you say that you and Mikan have a mission to find Nobara? If she returned as if nothing had happened, ESP and Persona would get suspicious, and then Narumi and the others will get in trouble."

"Make up some excuse. I'll try to get you guys out of here, without Mikan knowing."

"Won't she get punished for not having a successful mission?"

"This is her first real mission. ESP just wants her to get back safely, hence the reason I'm here with her."

"…" I've never felt so clueless in my life. I guess being in contact with Gakuen Alice is always a good thing.

"Okay, have any ideas on how to get out here?" Youichi and Nobara looked at me. I have to start getting used to this…

"Okay, where are you staying." I asked Youichi.

"Uhh… at a hotel a few miles away from here." Youichi points in front of us.

"We live only a few kilometers north, opposite from you guys. I think that Nobara and I will escape through these woods tomorrow night, when it's dark."

"What about Mikan and me?"

"… Weren't you supposed to tell what we should do instead of me?" I glared at Youichi.

"Uhh… I did have an idea, but yours always better."

"Okay… anyways." I continued, "Keep her distracted. As much as I like seeing her, getting back to Gakuen Alice and beating the crap out of ESP and Persona is our first priority."

"Get a cellphone first Natsume, we have to stay in contact."

"Sure… since I was knocked unconscious unexpectedly, got locked up in a jail cell, ran for 7 kilometers, and almost had Persona kill me with his Alice," I replied sarcastically. "Was out for a couple of weeks because of that, I can totally walk for a few more miles to get to a store to buy a cell phone."

"Okay change of plans. I'll give you mine… and I'll get another one…"

"No. I'll just stick with Nobara. Plus, Mikan will start asking questions when you tell her you have to go buy a cell phone."

"Makes sense. Okay, ready to put our plan into action?"

"Go."


I walk outside into the fresh cool breeze, after walking about 10 flights of stairs because the elevator was not in service. Boy, all that training has really got me fit right before the mission. I didn't break a sweat walking all of those steps. I just walked very slowly, since there was not much need to rush. It's been a while since I've felt this relaxed.

"Natsumee~"

"What."

We were sitting under the Sakura Tree, under the moonlight. We were 15 at the time, and we had finally confessed our love to each other. Natsume had been too busy, and so we made an arrangement for us to be together, not letting anything get in the way.

"I can't wait until we get out of those gates, into the free world. I really couldn't wait. Now, that dream has shattered." I lift my head off of Natsume's shoulder, and looked at him, tears threatening to pour out.

"Hey, remember, I have to stay in Gakuen Alice too, idiot." He replied back.

"That's true," I sat up, trying to be optimistic, "we can have lots of fun, I guess. We can go to Central Town together, we can dance together, and…" a tear rolled down my cheek. "We can do all of that outside of Gakuen Alice too! We can go together to the movies and stuff outside too!"

"Hey idiot." He grabbed my shoulders. "Don't forget, we can look under the moon together like this every day, under our Sakura Tree, but we can't do that outside of Gakuen Alice. There's no other view like this, no other quietness like this." He wipes a tear from my face.

"Yeah," I wipe the rest of my tears. "Yeah! There's no other Sakura Tree like this too!" I got up and suddenly started prancing around the Sakura Tree.

"Hey, idiot, what are you doing?" He stared at me.

"Umm… do you want to dance?"

"Pfft, no."

"Hmph, that was rude, Natsume! Come on! This is the perfect scene!" I gave him the puppy dog look.

Natsume got up, and walked toward me.

We look into each other's eyes, and just let our bodies go, and laughed and teased each other on the random fumbles we made. Most of the time though we stayed in sync, under the falling Sakura petals, the moon in the dark blue sky.

"Yo, Mikan, what are you doing?"

I noticed that I was holding Youichi's arms, ballroom style.

"AHH!!! SORRY! I WAS THINKING OF SOMETHING ELSE!!" I let go of Youichi's hands.

"… I see…." Youichi sweat dropped. "I'm guessing you're thinking of Natsume?"

"… no I wasn't," I lied, "I was thinking of the…. weather outside! Yeah! It's really nice, isn't it?"

"Uhh…sure… we better go back in. It's getting cold out here."

"Okay." I walk back in with Youichi.

"Where were you? I was looking all over for you."

"Oh, I was walking around the area, trying to get familiar with it."

"Oh, okay. Did you see any sign of Nobara?"

"Nope. We should get into the next town soon."

"Did you check everywhere?"

"Yep. Where do you think I was the whole time?"

"Are you sure? I think I saw a mini cottage up a few miles from here."

"I checked there."

"Really? I don't think that you can walk for about 30 minutes and get there, I'll check."

"Wait, no!"

I started up the tree, and jumped from one to the other. I noticed Youichi behind me, yelling at me for some odd reason, as if he were keeping a secret from me…


RINGGGGG!!

"Who is it." I asked bluntly.

We were back at our cottage, and I was finally taking that disgusting medicine in order to keep the poison from spreading.

"It's uhh…" Nobara fished out her cell phone. "Ahh… it's Youichi."

She read the message. Nobara's eyes grew big.

"What?" I got up and walked towards her. My eyes widened too.

Get out of there, fast. Mikan is coming towards the cottage.

I look at Nobara, who had her hand over her mouth, scared of what to do. I too was wondering what we should do. I did my split second thinking again.

"Okay, we have to leave now, that's for sure. There not much here that we need to pack, so get the tickets Youichi gave us for the bullet train, we going to commence the plan now."


We finally arrived at the cottage, faster than expected.

"Mikan, there's no one-" He looked into the window also. There was no one there.

I see on the corner of my eye Youichi breathing a sigh of relief. That's when I knew something was up.

"Youichi, what's up? I know you're keeping something from me."

"No I'm not."

"Yes you are."

"No I'm not."

"Yes you are. Tell me NOW!"

"It's nothing!"

"Then why were you trying so hard to persuade me from coming to this cottage?"

"No reason. Because we should be getting some rest instead!"

"Well, I don't think that's the reason! I know you're hiding something from me, so I'm going to figure out what! Nobara is around here, is she not?" I gave him a death glare.

"No, she isn't!"

I didn't listen to him, instead, I grabbed his phone which happened to be in his hand, to see a text which he sent about an hour ago.

"I see… so Natsume and Nobara were here…" I said behind my bangs.

I stood up, threw the phone back at him, and ran towards where the station was, as fast as I could, not caring if Youichi followed me or not.


BIG PROBLEM! MIKAN FOUND OUT WHERE YOU GUYS ARE. WHAT SHOULD WE DO?!

"… Youichi screwed up big time." Natsume growled between his teeth.

"What should I say to reply back?"

"Tell him to get his ass down here before our train gets here."

"Uhh… okay?" Nobara typed into the phone, and put it in her pocket. All we do now was wait, and wait.


We waited, and waited, and waited. Youichi didn't show up, and our train was here.

"W-what should we do?" Nobara whispered to me.

"Get on the train."

"O-okay."

We were about to board the train, until I turned around, and my eyes widened once again. "Nobara, look."

We turned around, to see Mikan running towards us, and Youichi trying to persuade her to stop.

Uh oh.


Ahaha, there's chapter 7. We're sorry for the occasional bad language in the past few chapters, and being really honest, we don't swear like that in real life. Really. D:

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