Disclaimer: I have never, still do not, and will never own Gakuen Alice.


Previously:

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.


AA:

It had officially been two months ever since Mikan disappeared.

"Why are you two following me?" Ruka snapped at his sempais who were tagging along behind him like lost puppies.

"Because we want to," Tsubasa offered.

The animal lover turned his head away and silently continued to search for Natsume. These past two months, the flame caster rarely showed up in the presence of other human beings. Nobody knew whether he was on a mission or just somewhere dozing off except the teachers and the higher authorities.

Then again, there was the other problem. Imai Hotaru. She had been One Hit KO-ing any human that walked into her sight, leaving a path of unconscious bodies behind. Ruka recalled the one time when he was unlucky enough to walk right across the hall in front of Hotaru's face. Ooo... Bad memories. Shoo.

After a while, Ruka peeked back to make sure Tsubasa and Misaki's guards were down as he dashed off before they had a chance to react.

"Ah! Ruka-chan! Wait!"

Ignoring the cries, the blond ran until his sempais were out of sight. Another embarrassing thought barged into his mind. That day when Tsubasa and Misaki suddenly appeared in his Emo Corner... He screamed like a little girl. The bad memories were coming back. Shoo!

For 54 days, Ruka searched high and low, side to side, corner to corner, and all those other directions just for one flame caster. He was supposed to be at the Sakura tree, but noooo. Natsume just haaaad to create such a hard time for his best buddy.

The blond started pulling at his long hair before shoving his face into his hands.

"NATSUME! Where could you be?" Ruka sighed as he slumped down with his back pressed to the wall.

Suddenly the boy MIA (A/N: Missing in action, if you don't know) appeared out of nowhere in front of the animal lover. He sighed again and slapped his face physically, "I'm so desperate that I'm even hallucinating now."

"I'm not a hallucination, Ruka. Last time I checked, I was pure flesh and blood."

"See? Now I'm even hearing things. Stupid Natsume."

Pain went up Ruka's shin. His head went up and stared right at Natsume. "Look. I'm real. And what was that about me being stupid?"

"Now I'm even feeling things... What's wrong with me?"

Shaking his head in disbelief, Natsume stared down at Ruka and burned the blonde's sleeve. Who could be more stupid?

"You just disbelieved three of your senses."

"That must means they're useless now. Wow. I'm even having a conversation with the Natsume I'm hallucinating that burned me."

"... Ruka, I'm seriously going to murder you."

Finally snapping back to reality, Ruka blinked, "Oh it's you! I've been looking for you for two months!"

"You finally realize?"

Sheepishly, he scratched the back of his head, "It's not my fault that you disappeared and caused everyone to worry and send me to look for you. So... Where were you?"

A small smile found its way to Natsume's face. Hey, it was good to know that people cared about you when you were in an emotionally challenged situation, but he was only going to show it to his best friend. Sorry everybody else.

"A few missions that were two weeks long each. I came back a week ago."

Ruka's eyes ogled at Natsume in worry, "You didn't hurt yourself, did you?"

"No."

"Good."

"Hn."

"Hey, let's go to Central Town. Maybe it'll help you with 'You-Know-What.'"

"Hn."

And thus continues their friendly little conversation.


With Luna:

Even with all the wounds from the vicious assails by Natsume, Ruka, and Hotaru, Luna still was able to look as beautiful as ever. Although her arm and legs and stomach were still bandaged up, her face had fully applied make-up.

Flipping open a mirror, she glanced at her face one more time before dabbing the finishing touch and snapping the mirror shut.

A smirk formed on her face, "Everything is going according to plan. They should be pretty weak now. I can ruin her life even more just like how your sorry excuse for a mother ruined mine."

Luna walked away, leaving a crushed mirror lying helplessly on the floor.

'I didn't do anything wrong! I don't deserve this!" the mirror hopelessly cried its last cry.


AAA:

Mikan smiled defiantly at Fang, "Ha! You think you can kill me by making me run so much every day?"

"Not really... But hey, with my training, you can now run a couple of miles without breaking a sweat, and once we find a Speed Alice for you, you can run even faster!" giggled the black-haired female.

"How are you going to find a Speed Alice?"

"Oh, you don't need to worry about that. Focus on your training."

Suddenly, a stream of water show right past Mikan's head. She slowly turned her head to the right, staring at the space where the water was.

"So... You're trying to kill me now because you couldn't kill me during running?"

"You can think of it like that. I'm not going to go easy on you. Try to steal my Alice," Fang cackled mischievously.

As a ball of fire hit Mikan directly, she flew into a wall creating a dent, while the inflammable objects on her kept burning. Panicking, she started flapping at the fire.

Her friend sighed and slapped her forehead, "Do you need a hint? ... Nullification..."

"Oh right!"

In the commotion, Mikan had entirely forgotten that she had the Nullification Alice. The fire soon vanished, but her hair and clothes were somewhat charred and now black. She grimaced as an image went into her head but didn't even have to try to ignore it.

As the colors of red, blue, green, yellow, bluish-clear, and clear flew through the room, Mikan literally died. At long last when Fang was sighing, she received the chance to sneak up and try to steal the Alice. Putting her Nullification Alice on max power, she advanced on the Elementalist and grabbed her arm.

Nothing happened.

Waiting...

Waiting...

Still waiting...

"WHAT?! How could you have nullified your own Alice?!"

"I don't know!"

"What kind of an excuse is that?"

"I don't know either..."

Sighing and slapping her forehead for the umpteenth time, Fang mumbled, "You should know to control both of them at the same time so that one doesn't destroy the other. You'll get used to it as time passes. We'll be able to move on after you can steal my Alice at least once."

Mikan gasped in exasperation, "There's more?"

"Of course. You couldn't have thought it would be just as simple as that, now did you? There are times when something goes wrong and the enemy is smarter than the average enemy."

"The tactics. Uh huh."

"Yup. I'll send some things to study over on the computer and you can have the rest of the day off now."

With that, the two girls went through the doors together, and after a while finally parted to go in different directions.

Mikan went back to her room to change her clothes and then wandered through the halls as her brains sublimated into the air to return back into its original form when something snaps it back.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeee

The body of a girl named Mikan bounced around as the brain returned to its original position. She bumped into something. Looking up, she found out that the something was actually a someone, and that someone was actually... Michael Jackson! Okay fine, it was actually Yao Ming. Sorry, seriously, it was... Nao.

"Wow! It's you!"

"Yes... It's me."

"Okay. Bye!"

"Bye..."

The two people went to their businesses again and forgot about the incident.


Author's Notes:

Yay another chapter! :) O.o How was it? I do hope you guys enjoyed reading it, as this story is written for the sake of entertainment for my readers -Huggles-

So... No editor. I used spell check but the grammar might be off. Gomen... omgwho.amiagain has become LAZY! -Pya! (Slaps!)- NUU! Well she would have edited if I asked her to, but she's sleeping... -Sniff-

My brains dying off and I've been obsessed with drawing stuff lately. My sketch book for school is filled with drawings from the manga I love... -Huggles too-

And a new nickname for ME! :) Chris the CONCEITED! Yea!

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