Summary:

The Alice Academy sends six students (Mikan, Ruka, Natsume, Yuu, Koko and Hotaru) to Seigaku High for six months to pursue a Student Visit Program, where the appointed students can improve their social skills in the outside world, but must limit the use of their Alices and make it a secret. There, they meet Ryoma Echizen and the gang… will hell break lose? Prince of Tennis and Gakuen Alice Crossover! Ryoma x Ruka x Mikan x Natsume slight Sakuno x Ryoma

Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice. It is owned by Tachibana Higuchi. I also do not own Prince of Tennis. It is owned by Takeshi Konomi. All Rights Reserved to them. Thank you.

Chapter 12: A Day at the Park!

It was already 3 days (Saturday) after Tsujimoto-sensei assigned the Baby Egg Projects to the students of Class 1-B, a rather much easy-turned-complicated task of taking care of an egg which will represent the baby of two students; either the partnership is a boy and a girl or a boy and a boy or a girl and a girl. If your situation is the option in the middle, the gods pity you.

But before we continue on to the story, let us find out more about the project being given. As Tsujimoto-sensei had stated in the last chapter, inside an egg is a device that is capable of measuring the 'love' and 'care' given to it. The 'love' and 'care' being talked about here are the actions that should be executed that are elaborated on the handout Tsujimoto gave to the students 2 days before. Failure to do in any of the actions involved will automatically decrease the group's points. Of course, the egg has an installed sensor in it so it can detect such acts. One failure -2 pts. If the egg is happy, it will shine a red color. If it's sad, a faint yellow one, if it's angry, it will shine a green one and it will shine violet if it's impatient.

Even though the eggs are made of modern technology, like any ordinary chicken/duck/goose/whatever egg, it can easily break into shattered pieces if you're not too careful. Now, since that the project is properly explained, let us continue on to the story.

It's already 8:30 in the morning, and the Echizen family just ate a healthy breakfast of Japanese foods. Sakura Mikan, a 13 years old girl with warm chocolate eyes and auburn-like hair, walks inside her room wearing a pink spaghetti-strap dress her Nanako-onee-san gave her a few days before. The happy-go-lucky girl looks around and finds her egg on a soft cushion with a matching white sheet over it.

"Good morning, Aoi-chan!" Mikan greets happily to the quiet egg (as if it'll talk) as she opens the curtains to make the room bright with a light scarlet brush. She walks to the egg and then picks it up, exclaiming, "With a nice Saturday like this, we should go to the park and play to our hearts content!" Saying this, the egg turns red, making Mikan flush. "You like that, don't you, Aoi-chan?"

"What a coincidence… it's stated that we should bring him out to a park and let him lie down on a sandbox or something…" a familiar voice says behind the bubbly 13 year's old Alice user. Mikan turns around and sees Ryoma leaning on the door wearing a red with blue strips shirt and faded blue jeans holding the handout with one hand. Ryoma looks at her and then reads out loud, "'Go to the park at 8:45 A.M. and have your baby egg play on a sandbox. Caution: Do not put out under the sun for too long for fear it might turn into a roos—"

Pausing, Ryoma stares closely at the handout for a while and then closes his eyes with a sigh, not bothering to continue any longer. "Let's go," Ryoma says as he turns around, his hands on his pockets, thinking Stupid Tsujimoto… I don't know if he's serious or just joking around…

"Where are we going?" Mikan asks as he carries their baby egg on her arms, making sure that their Aoi-chan won't slip from her loving embrace. "Are we really going to the park?"

Ryoma rolls his eyes and continues walking out to the door. "Of course… unless you want our points to decrease, we can just sit around here and gawk at nothing…" he sarcastically remarks as he and Mikan exit their house towards the street. He hears Mikan giggle at his reply and then thinks to himself, I'm scolding her and she's laughing… there are actually that kind of people in the world.

"Look at our baby, Ryoma-kun!" Mikan exclaims happily as they cross over the street. She picks it up with one hand and shows it to the dark-green-haired Tennis Prodigy. "Isn't she so cute? So shiny and so white!"

"You talk as if it's really our baby…" Ryoma mutters to himself with a low tone as they walk nearer to the park. Ever since the day Tsujimoto-sensei gave them their assigned eggs, Mikan had been seriously acting as a mother. A childish mother at that, but that was to be expected. Of course, he, the Tennis Prodigy Echizen Ryoma, can't actually keep up with her pace and just let the Alice user do all the work except when he's needed as detailed by the handout.

Well, Ryoma doesn't really mind his noisy partner. It's been a while since he was able to see someone this cheerful and optimistic. And, of course, this way, he'll be able to make his rival, Hyuuga Natsume, jealous and heated. Seeing a cross look on the already crossed-face raven-haired newcomer makes Ryoma feel excitement in every part of his body.

And no, this isn't yaoi or shonen-ai, so if there are any circumstances out there, please do not think such "male-to-male love!" thoughts.

At last, the two of them finally enter the park which was filled with children playing in the playgrounds, couples having lovey dovey moments, and joggers… well, jogging, what do you expect? Ryoma and Mikan walk toward the playing field without saying a word, just a smile on the Alice user's lips. Of course, this is the first time Mikan ever got to visit the park, since she was always in the house every time they go home from school.

"Here!" Mikan happily smiles as she puts down their Aoi-chan on a sandbox, much to the surprise of the other children also playing there. The bubbly auburn-haired girl gently wipes their baby egg with her handkerchief and lightly places it in a location quite near from the confused Japanese children. Mikan turns to them and asks, "Can you play with Aoi-chan? I think she wants to play with you!"

The Japanese kids look at each other with a puzzled look, thinking if this woman is crazy or something, asking them to do such an outrageous and childlike act. First of all, why would they play with an egg? Eggs are used for cooking, not for playing!

"Onee-san, why are you talking to your egg?" asks one black-haired Japanese child with the age of 7, who was just making a sandcastle out of the sand. "Are you putting it here in the sandbox to roast it under the sun? I think the kitchen is more fit, onee-san."

"W-why would I cook Aoi-chan?" Mikan asks with a terrified look, quickly taking their baby egg in her arms, as if protecting it from someone dangerous. Seeing this, a sweat drop appears on each of the children's heads. Mikan points to the watching and bored Ryoma and exclaims loud enough for the world to hear, "This egg… no, Aoi-chan is my and Ryoma-kun's baby!"

Soon enough, it seems everything in the world stopped moving. The kids look at the determined-faced Mikan with blank looks. The other children stop moving and turn to her. The couples' blush at her remark and are even considering having a baby, too. The joggers, who were, well, jogging, stop their morning exercise to stare at the dense and oblivious chocolate-eyed 13 years old girl, who just yelled out she's the mother of an egg.

As for Ryoma, well, he, too, was surprised with the sudden outburst of his partner. He never expected that she'll go as far as to tell the whole world something as embarrassing at that. Soon enough, Ryoma finds himself surrounded by criticisms among the crowd.

"What a disgraceful girl, exclaiming to already have a baby with a boy…" a mother whispers to another woman, staring at the unaware Alice user. "They're still too young… good grief, children these days don't know how to control their urges… they at least could've used contraceptives!"

It's just an egg, woman… Ryoma thinks to himself, sarcastically replying to the comment in his mind. Humans don't give birth to eggs… does she look like a freaking bird to you?

"Onee-san, you're crazy!" one child snickers as he puts a hand over his mouth to cover his laughter. "An egg couldn't possibly be your baby… ha! Ha! Ha!"

Mikan blushes deep red at his remark. H-how rude! The orange-named girl thinks to herself as she hugs Aoi-chan tighter. She opens her mouth to fight back verbally, but is interrupted when Ryoma holds her other free hand. Mikan turns around and mumbles, "R-Ryoma-kun?"

"Don't mind them, let's go somewhere else," Ryoma nonchalantly tells her. Mikan hesitantly nods and follows him to somewhere else, her hand still being gripped by the hazel-eyed Tennis Prodigy, much to the murmurs and whispers of the crowd behind them. "Idiot, you shouldn't shout unnecessary things like that in front of so many people. It would make you look bad."

Mikan stares at Ryoma's hand holding against her own and blushes scarlet red, replying, "Y-yeah… thanks, Ryoma-kun." As they walk on further, Mikan thinks to herself, Ryoma-kun's hand… I didn't know it would be this warm… The chocolate-eyed Alice user giggles and then smiles secretly.

Soon enough, they find a bench that is quite far from the playground. As they sit down, they notice Hotaru and Horio together with Natsume and Katsuo, Ruka and Kachiro approaching. Mikan stands up and waves her hand high in the air, "Everybody! Here! Here!"

Ruka looks up and sees Mikan waving and smiling at them. "Mikan!" he exclaims loudly. Almost immediately, he notices Mikan is wearing a very cute pink dress that somehow makes his crush much cuter and appealing to the eyes. So… so cute… he thinks to himself with a slight blush.

Natsume glances to Ruka and thinks; He's also calling polka-dots by her name… he puts his hands to his pockets and continues, well… I really don't mind… Then, he notices Ryoma sitting on a bench near Mikan. Natsume frowns at this and thinks to himself angrily, that bastard… what's he doing so near to Mikan?

"Ah, Mikan-chan, Echizen! So you're here, too?" Horio says as the group nears, his one hand behind his brown head and the other holding a small basket with his and Hotaru's egg on it. "What a coincidence! The handout said we have to put our egg on a basket and take a walk! And then we found Kachiro and Katsuo and then decided to go to the park and then we found you here!"

"What a bother…" Ryoma mumbles as he looks away with a bored look plastered on his face. "This project is so annoying… instead of practicing Tennis for the Ranking Matches next week, I'm stuck babysitting an egg and got myself humiliated, too…" Mikan turns to him with an apologetic face, her façade filled with guilt. Ryoma sees her changing mood and then sighs. "Well… I guess it's alright… for now…"

"Hmm… I smell something fishy…" Hotaru, wearing a white dress with sunflower designs with a matching white hat, emotionlessly mumbles as she looks at Mikan and Ryoma. Horio looks at her and chuckles. Then, out of nowhere, Hotaru pulls out a Baka Gun from her pocket and then pulls the trigger three times at Horio.

Baka! Baka! Baka!

"AHHHH! NOT AGAIN!" Horio exclaims as he flies a few meters away, surprising and scaring away some of the kids playing there. Horio awkwardly sits up straight with stars on his head. He roughly shakes his head and angrily yells to the purple-eyed brunette, "Damn you, Imai! Do you really need to punish me for every thing I do?! And how did you put that Baka Gun in your pocket, anyway?! And don't just shoot me with that, don't you care about our EGG?!"

"What about our egg?" Hotaru coolly replies and she pulls up her right hand, revealing the basket with their egg safe and sound and uninjured from any casualties. Hotaru looks at her with a surprised look, wondering how she got the basket from him. "And I shot you because you were about to comment that maybe I smell something fishy because I have the monthly period girls my age usually experience…" she gives a small smile and adds, "… right?"

H…How did she know? Horio thinks to himself with a scared and dark face, trying to inch himself away from the more-terrifying-than-Inui's-juice girl in front of him. And besides… isn't that something you shouldn't say casually in public?!

Hotaru then turns around and faces the Sakura-Echizen pair and asks, "Let me guess… something happened between you two… right?"

This caught Natsume and Ruka's attention. Many days had passed since their arrival in Seigaku High, and it seems that Ryoma's and Mikan's relationship have developed. If yesterday they were only acquaintances, they're friends now. And if anything should happen between the two that would result into love or any like-like circumstances… there will be hell to pay.

Mikan remembers the commotion she caused earlier by saying that she and Ryoma-kun have a baby and then blushes to herself. "N-nothing really happened!" she stammers, not convincing her three Alice friends. Mikan turns to her partner and asks, "R-Right, Ryoma-kun? Nothing happened right?"

Ryoma scratches his cheek with one finger and replies with a bored tone, "Hmm… maybe… maybe not…" He glances to his left and sees Hyuuga Natsume secretly glaring at him. He sees this as a chance to provoke the ruby-eyed newcomer and then adds, "… but… we did hold hands."

WHAT?!?!?! Mikan, together with the Ruka and the others, well, except for the emotionless Hotaru and the moody Natsume, think to themselves with a shocked look, practically stepping back because of shock. Ryoma observes their reactions and gives a conceited lop-sided smile. Ryoma… held hands… with MIKAN?!

"Echizen… you're finally becoming a true man!" Horio exclaims with tears of joy as he takes one of Ryoma's hands with his own, a happy love song on the air. "A while back, you looked so serious about Tennis that I almost thought you were going to marry your tennis racket and have many little tennis balls as babies… but… but… hurrah! You're now entering the stage of puberty! Alleluia! Alleluia!"

"Don't you think we should stop Horio from overreacting too much?" Kachiro whispers to his good friend, Katsuo. "People are staring at us… it's so embarrassing I almost want to say that I don't know him…"

Katsuo nods but replies back with a smile, "True, true… but Horio indeed is right…" he turns to the infuriated Ryoma and continues, "Ryoma-kun in the past few days have been so absorbed in playing tennis that it seems he doesn't have time for anything else… a few romance here and there won't hurt, right?"

Kachiro stares at Ryoma and then says, "But… Ryoma and romance… it… doesn't quite fit… don't you think?" He scratches the back of his head and continues, "I mean… it's just well, weird, and I'm not used to it… I'm used to seeing Ryoma-san getting serious and playing Tennis almost everyday, and imagining him saying 'I Love You' to a girl… is… quite… far-fetched…"

"In short," Katsuo awkwardly laughs. "… it's kind of comedic? Ah, let's just see what happens next…"

Mikan turns to the smirking Ryoma and then blushes deep red herself. "Mou, Ryoma-kun, you didn't have to say that we held hands! A-Although we did held hands earlier… but, but, but!" Mikan cups her cheeks and exclaims, "It's so embarrassing! You didn't have to say it out loud!"

Hotaru puts a hand on her chin and gives a small smile and says, "Interesting… something is really developing here…" the brunette turns around and faces the quiet and almost frowning Nogi Ruka, a fellow Alice user with golden yellow hair and blue eyes. "So, what are you going to do now, Nogi? It seems that someone else beat you and Natsume to it."

"Stop teasing me, Imai-san… this is a very serious matter," Ruka darkly replies, obviously not in the mood for any kind of jokes. Hotaru stares at him with slightly surprised eyes. In these kind of situations, Ruka would just usually stay quiet and observe or just smile whole-heartedly. But now, a different kind of aura is enveloping around him. An aura that is somewhat similar to a very angry raven-haired Alice user right now.

Natsume glares at the smirking Echizen Ryoma in front of him, both of his hands on his sides, one hand holding his and Katsuo's egg. His ruby eyes are flaming because of anger and jealousy as if when someone will look at him in the eye, they might burn because of his fiery gaze. Somehow, that hazel-eyed Ryoma seems to enjoy making him mad.

That bastard… Natsume thinks to himself as he clenches his teeth. Do you really want to die that much?! Soon enough, his hands starts to tighten and forms the shape of a fist, making the egg in his other hand to shatter to pieces, making the egg yolk splatter all over the place with the device installed in it.

"Ah," Hotaru starts, her finger pointing to the smashed egg, getting Katsuo and the other's attention. "It broke."

"NOOO! OUR EGG!" Katsuo exclaims with a fearful look as he tries to stop Natsume, but, alas, cowardice prevails, as the poor boy steps back when he notices the visible angry aura surrounding his partner. The slim boy then turns around with tearful eyes, chanting, "Hyuuga-san… angry… scary… egg… broke… to pieces… grade… failed… hope… gone…"

"Ah, it seems you automatically failed the project, Hyuuga… congratulations," Ryoma sarcastically smirks, putting both of his hands behind his head. Natsume looks up and gives him a dark glare. Ryoma looks away and comments, "That's why people shouldn't let their emotions get the better of themselves… like jealousy, for example." He gives another arrogant smirk and says, "Mada Mada Dane."

Natsume arches an eyebrow and then quietly wipes the yolk off his hand with his handkerchief with a visible frown on his face. "You bastard…" He mumbles to himself as he throws the dirty hanky into a nearby trash can. He looks up to show his dark killer eyes. "… you're having a death wish, you know that?"

W-what's up with this dangerous atmosphere? Mikan thinks to herself as she swallows hard, stepping back with her Aoi-chan in her arms. Natsume is… up to something again. Then, she remembers the events that happened 3 days ago, when Natsume suddenly punched Ryoma on the streets. Oh no! Don't tell me he's going to do that again!

Soon, she also finds her gentle friend Nogi Ruka also approaching Ryoma with a very much dark face similar to Natsume. Mikan almost jumped in surprise at the sight of this and thinks with a panicked look, Oh no, even Ruka-pyon, too? Just what is going on here? I need to stop them before anything happens!

"Kachiro-kun, please hold Aoi-chan for me," Mikan asks her classmate, the timid and idle Kachiro with a smile. Kachiro, although confused, nods back hesitantly and takes the egg from Mikan. "Thank you, please don't break it and be careful!"

"H-hai," Kachiro replies. He stares at the egg and thinks, Aoi…chan?

"You're really starting to get on my nerves, Echizen…" Natsume darkly warns as he takes a step nearer, his fist ready to make a bloody punch. "Back in my school, I would beat up anyone who tries to oppose me… even some teachers are afraid of me." He looks at Ryoma to the eyes and threateningly says, "It seems like you picked the wrong person to mess up with."

"Ryoma-san… how could you…" Ruka starts with an emotionless tone, his head down, making the upper part of his face being shadowed by his golden locks. "I…"

"Stop it, you two!" Mikan exclaims as she runs in front of her two Alice friends. Ryoma looks up to her with slightly surprised eyes. Mikan stares at her two shocked friends and then gives a smile. "Ryoma-kun and I are going to continue doing the tasks of our project, so, please don't interfere for a while, okay?"

"Mikan…" Ruka mumbles as his killer-like side fades away to his usual gentle personality. He looks down to his scared bunny and realizes his actions. "I… I'm sorry, I'm really sorry… I didn't know what has gotten into me." Ruka gives a boyish smile and steps aside. "Pardon my rudeness, Mikan."

Mikan blushes slightly and nods, "Um, y-yeah…" then she turns to Ryoma and thinks, Phew… that was close, really close! She then gives a bright smile and asks, "Ryoma-kun, may I see the handout, please?" Ryoma stares at her and then gives her the paper without saying a word. Mikan gladly takes it and says, "Thank you!"

"Let's see… the next task is…" Mikan says as she unfolds the paper. She looks at the Saturday column and then reads out loud, "Go out to the park… check! Put him on a sandbox… already done! The next one is… hmmm… 'Daddy and Mommy kiss the… egg… together'?!"

What the? Natsume thinks to himself as he looks up to Mikan with a rather much surprised look.

Mikan lets go of the handout and then looks around to Ryoma, who's also surprised, and then to Natsume, who's staring at her with wide eyes, and Ruka, who's blushing red with a slight frown, and to Hotaru, who's currently holding a camera.

What… what should I do?! Mikan thinks to herself as she cups her warm cheeks.

Dear Grandpa,

I'm in a really complicated situation today! I'm in a park together with everyone else because of the project, and somehow, I need to kiss the egg together with Ryoma-kun! MOU! It's as if we're also kissing each other! Grandpa, help me!

Mikan

To be continued…


Alright, that's the 12th chapter, people. So what do you think? I'm sorry if it's quite boring or if it has less humor than usual… so many things are cramped inside my mind today that I did it in a rush. There's a long summative test next week and I have to cram… again. Well, not really, but somehow like that. Oh well, hope you enjoy it the same!

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