A.N.: Wah! Sorry for another late upd8! :(( I blame school assignments... T.T

-GAKUEN ALICE-

TITLE: SWITCH I

Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice! I'm just a simple fan girl who wants to write about them so much. FOR THE LOVE OF MIKAN x NATSUME

flashback

Mikan is already ready to face the one and only, PERSONA. And here in this chapter begins the step towards Mikan's struggles for her friend that may someday... lead to love for Natsume.

It was a panicking moment for Ruka at Chapter 9. Mikan is also about to start some trouble she never would've thought.

"Hello there. It looks like your ready. Aren't you?" Persona said mischievously. He crossed his arms and a glint of spark in his eyes shimmered in the middle of the darkness.

"...Hmp. What now? What do I have to do?" Mikan asked keeping her nervousness inside her, but still Persona, being the most genius teacher in the academy, he knew what Mikan felt.

"Let's first start with a simple training." Persona stated seriously and he turned around to face an old oak tree that was at the right side of the cabin. "Follow me."

She gulped and said to herself, 'Okay... This is it Mikan! You have to do this for... wait a minute... For whom am I actually doing this for?!' An image of a young raven-haired boy entered her mind. '...Uh, What the heck am I thinking?! Argh! BAKA NATSUME!' She closed her eyes so tight that she slowly felt her heart beating so fast. It wasn't just a normal fast heart beating after a long run. It was something different because it made her cheeks hot red.

(A.N.: There! Mikkahell, here is your suggestion that you adviced me to place in one of my chapters. Hehe. Hope you'll appreciate it! )

Persona turned around to see what's going on behind him and there he saw the innocent girl's heart feeling confused and frozen. "Hey! Are you going or not?" He sounded like a strict teacher that made Mikan feel alarmed that also made her trip on a stone that was just a few millimeters away from her right foot.

"Ou!" She held her sore head and looked at Persona who was already glaring at her with an evil aura effect surrounding his body. 'Wah! He sure can sometimes look scary... Argh! I got to fix myself.'

"Uh. Gomen. I-I-I just thought about something." Mikan timidly said as she scratched the back of her head.

"Tch. You got to keep your mind focus starting from today especially in training or else."

Mikan felt so frightened about the thought of what Persona would do to her if ever she makes another mistake that she slowly backed away a few steps from him.

She inhaled a mouthful of air and closed her eyes and out of the blue she lost sight of Persona. "WAH! Where did he go?!" She ran left... right... forward and backward with her panic expression glued to her face. And suddenly she didn't notice a hole in the ground that made her fall into a metal silver hole that was actually a secret passage to a secret place. Duh?

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" She freaked out as she felt her butt slowly getting hotter and hotter and then a fire can be seen surrounding her butt. The reason why her butt was flaring was because of friction. Yes, it is friction like in the science subject. All Hail SCIENCE! It was pretty helpful today. HAHA. XD

After a few hot seconds, she dived into a large bath tub filled with cold water. This cold water is really COLD! Because it is actually filled up with ice cubes!

"WHAT THE-" She hardly saw that bath tub because of the cold fog that met her eyes.

Splash!

Suddenly a boy in an ice went down the kiddy-style-like slide at the corner of the bath tub.

Persona, who was just in front of the frozen child placed his hands on his hips and confirmed to himself, "This is gonna be a pretty serious training." He then pushed the large block of ice in front of the campfire. And after minutes the ice melted and the shivering 'Natsume' started to sweat like hell.

"WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU?!" Mikan complained loudly in front of Persona's face.

"T-R-A-I-N-I-N-G." Persona spelled each letter bringing him closer and closer to poor Mikan's face that made her blush a little.

"Tch." She looked to the right to avoid Persona's evil glares.

"So then... Shall we start for the REAL training...?" Persona stretched his arms and fingers.

"HUH?! So the one I went through awhile ago wasn't a training?!" Mikan said furiously.

"Let's say it's just a simple introduction. And please don't ask too much questions Natsume. If that really is you name..." Persona looked at her by the corner of his eye; emphasizing the phrase, 'If that really is your name...'

Mikan's heart suddenly skipped a beat that made think that maybe Persona already knew about the switch thingy... But then she thought again that it was impossible... is it?

Without noticing that Persona already started to train her by throwing stones at her, Mikan suddenly felt something heat up in her hand and then she realized that a fire suddenly flamed her whole body. It only confused her about the thought that she wasn't feeling any burning pain. She felt calm and immune to the heat. And so she exclaimed to herslef, 'Gyaa! So does this mean... –gulp- I have the power of fire while Natsume has my notifying alice?! WAH! This is so hard!!'

"What's wrong Natsume? Forgot how to use your fire alice?" Persona began to mock.

"Uh... Uhm... Of course n-"

"Not? Sheesh. You got to stop telling lies Natsume. I know the real Natsume would never lie..." Persona said as he placed his hands in his pockets.

"...R-really? Uhm.. Okay then... So you know...?" Mikan asked tensely as her body started to shake not so normal. Her shivers were like shocks of electricity that had flown all throughout her whole body.

"Hm. Gotcha." Persona placed his pointy finger on Mikan's forehead. "Guess I was right about you. Heh."

Mikan's face was now full of confusion. "Huh?"

"Tch. Just stop lying Ms. Sakura. I know everything."

"WAH!! YOU KNOW?!" Mikan's eyes suddenly grew as large as her fists. And she thought of a frightening thought, 'WAHHHH!! This is bad. What will I tell Natsume?! I'm such a BAKA!! Argh!'

"Well then. Basic training will be tomorrow morning. Same time. If you're late, you know what will happen." Persona warned as a large sparkle shimmered at the corner of his eyes.

"Ah... Okay...?" Mikan does admit that she kinda felt good after telling the truth even though it turned out to be deadly for Natsume is the next person she must face about what happened. 'I'm totally dead meat...'

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