Disclaimer: I didn't own Naruto or Gakuen Alice in the previous chapters, and I still don't own.
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Next morning they gathered at the festival area.
"What should we do today?"
"Mikan said yesterday that we should check out the special ability area, we can do that now."
"Okay, fine."
And so they headed for the special ability area. Once they were there, they were greeted by an overjoyed Mikan dressed as Tinker Bell. In the background were Tsubasa dressed as Peter Pan, Misaki as Wendy and the rest of the class was dressed as lost boys.
"Welcome to Peter Pan's Magic Island!" Mikan chirped.
"What is this all about?" Naruto asked.
"You have to enter the Magic Island Maze. You will encounter a number off lost boys, and they will give you a task. If you can't solve the task you fail and if you solve it you can go deeper into the maze. At the middle you will find Peter Pan's treasure.
You are not allowed to harm any of the lost boys, and you get to pick an item from that sack over there to help you in your quest!" Mikan explained
"Sounds fun!" Tenten exclaimed. "But what is the treasure?"
"It's a chest with gold coins. Each has the name of one in the S.A. class. The one you pick will be your slave for the rest of the day!" Mikan beamed.
"Okay! I'm in!"
They all agreed it sounded fun, and decided to give it a try.
Neji found that his Byakugan wasn't of much use when he encountered a guy who gave him the task to be quiet for 3 minutes. Not even laugh, and that's the keyword, this guy's alice was that he could make everybody laugh with his stupid puns, and of course Neji also broke out laughing in the end. Very un-Neji-ish but that's what happened.
Everyone who encountered Misaki failed to recognize the real one within 30 seconds. The boy with the weather alice was pretty easy to pass, since they were allowed to use their ninja skills. They just hopped over him.
In the end, everybody failed at one point or another except Sasuke and Sakura. The last task was to get Tinker Bell, Mikan, down from a platform without touching her or use your ninja skills.
Sasuke started badmouthing Natsume, Hotaru and all of the other people Mikan held dare, resulting in Mikan getting so angry that she flew on him.
Sakura pulled the trick Natsume had pulled the day before, faking illness, causing Mikan to jump down from her platform and come to Sakura's aid.
They spent half of the day on the Magical Island, some trying over and over again. Sasuke and Sakura picked a coin from the treasure chest. Sasuke got Tsubasa as slave and Sakura picked Mikan's coin, meaning this was the second day of slavery for Mikan, as Natsume had picked her coin the day before.
They eventually left the S.A. area to go explore some more in the other areas. Misaki tagged along to see to that Tsubasa wasn't treated too badly.
When they were exploring some shops near to a stage, an alluring voice called their attention to the stage. On it stood their substitute, Mouri Reo,
"Everyone who is not a student, Fall asleep! Every student at this school, come to me, come to me!" Reo said in a microphone, and his voice sounded from speakers all over the school.
The guests that had been invited to the festival, along with the teachers, fell asleep. The students gathered obediently by the stage.
"Students! I have come to free you all! No longer shall this school bother you! Walk out of the gates, and go home!"
Students nodded their head. Yes, free, of course they were going home, why were they here in the first place? And so the mass of students turned around, and headed for the gates, influenced by Reo's voice pheromones.
"Wait! Where are you going! Why are you leaving! Stop!" Mikan shouted too the people around her. Mikan shook Sakura, her slave master and the nearest person available. Mikan nullification alice worked its charm and Sakura snapped out of her daze.
"W-what? Why are we all following Reo's command?"
"He has the voice pheromone alice, he told us, remember? I new there was something odd about that guy. Turned out he's completely twisted!"
"I thought you adored him!"
"In the beginning yes, but as I said, there was something not quite right about him"
"Doesn't matter now, the damage is done. We have to get everybody to stop before they leave the school grounds! But I need earmuffs or something, in case he starts talking again."
"Good idea, Let's find Hotaru, I'm sure she'll have something."
Mikan grabbed Sakura's hand so she wouldn't lose her in the crowd and set off to find Hotaru. They soon found her, snapped her out of the daze, and asked for earmuffs. Then they ran along to Hotaru's store, which was close by and picked up a box with panda earmuffs with loudspeakers so they could communicate with each other.
"What do we do? Give this to everybody in sight?" Mikan asked
"No, to many people talking in their mouthpiece at one time is very confusing." Hotaru said.
"What if Mikan nullify all the people we meet and give the earmuffs to people in our class, 'cause he is bound to start talking again if the students don't do as he says."
They agreed, and set of to find their classmates. On the way Mikan nullified many people and Sakura and Hotaru walking behind told them to think carefully over what they were doing and find some earplugs if they could.
They soon came across a cluster of their classmates and gave everyone a pair of earmuffs.
"Everyone is leaving, we've got to stop Reo!"
"But how!"
Reo himself had noted that a lot of the students had stopped up and was scratching their head, wondering what they were doing.
"Move!" he said, urging them along again
"He is over there!" Naruto said. "We have to stop him from uttering any more commands!"
They hurried over to Reo, Natsume and Sasuke threw themselves at him and pinned him to the ground.
Mikan took of her panda earmuffs and shouted: "Why are you doing this!"
"I'm helping you of course. My organization is saving you from this terrible school! They can no longer use you and you don't have to live with people who hate you!"
Mikan had thrown a nullification shield around them so they no longer had to wear earmuffs to avoid Reo's alluring voice.
"What are you talking about?!" Mikan said incomprehensively.
"I have seen it! The teachers beating and harassing you, you're suspicious of each other, you hate each other, and the school does nothing about it. They just force you here and train you up to use you for their own purposes."
"Um… I think you're completely wrong!" Hinata said.
"I agree. The teachers may be a little rough, but it's only when we haven't done our homework or other things we deserve a little punishment for," Kiba said.
"And we don't hate each other," Nonoko said.
"Don't hate each other? Don't you sit at separate sides in the classrooms and the cafeteria and throw hateful glances at each other all the time?!" Reo said.
"We may sit at our separate sides, but that doesn't mean we hate each other!" Anna said.
"Yes! Deep inside we have come to respect our fellow classmates. I guess the whole pretending-to-hate business hangs back from the old days, when there was a lot of hate," Tenten said.
"Our 'hate' is just for show. Recent events has brought us understanding and brought us closer to each other, we're just used to sit at different sides like we want noting to do with each other," Yuu said
"We talk a lot more with the different… side, you may say, now then what we did before," Ruka said
"And we're at this school of our own free will, for Christ sake! I don't know how things were when you grew up but at least I entered this school of my own free will." Ino said.
"Yes, how cool isn't it to have your own room away from your parents! It's like a long-lasting sleepover party with your best friends!" Kitsuneme said
"How would life be without my best friend Hotaru?!" Mikan said with stars in her eyes.
"And we get an education, good food, and we get professional help to develop our special skills." Shikamaru said.
"But…but…" Reo stuttered as he looked from one face to another. They liked being here? They didn't hate each other? Was it really true what Narumi had said earlier, that times had changed?
"You can't just decide the students are having a bad time, and get them to go home!" Chouji said
"They can think for themselves! Repeal your alice, now!" they demanded.
"I…I…" All this kids demanding to release his command, going against what he thought was right… He couldn't' stand it anymore. He forcefully shook of Natsume and Sasuke and ran away. The two raven-haired boys were hot on his trail.
They had, however, forgotten to put their earmuffs back on so at the command "Stop!" They stopped, and Reo could make his escape.
"Damn, he got away, Dattebayo!" Naruto cursed when he and the rest had caught up with Sasuke and Natsume. Mikan shook them and they snapped back to normal.
"This means there's more job for you, Mikan!" Tsubasa said.
Instead of walking around touching everyone, Mikan tested the microphone. It actually worked. With the aid of her classmates, who were walking around and shaking and slapping other students, they soon had every student back to their own mind.
Naruto and Gaara had gone off to find their fathers, who had fallen asleep along with the rest of the grown ups. They found them in their office, and with Mikan's voice sounding in the loudspeakers, they managed to shake the principals awake.
Naruto and Gaara explained what had happened. The Kazekage and the Hokage took charge. The Kazekage, Gaara and Naruto went to wake up teachers, the Hokage grabbed a microphone standing on the desk and ordered every student to meet in the cafeteria. And he told Mikan to stop talking.
The Hokage then went to the cafeteria himself, woke up Teuchi and Ayame and told them to cook a good meal for the entire student body.
The students filed in. Like last time they were ushered in here after a somewhat unusual event, alice and ninja didn't bother to sit at their respective sides. But this time, it wasn't because they were too dazed after Akatsuki's spell that they didn't notice were they were sitting. No, this time, it was of their own free will.
The Hokage made class A tell about their conversation. The whole cafeteria was listening and marveling at Reo's odd motives. When class A had finished talking this became the big topic for discussing in the cafeteria.
While the students were talking, eating, and perhaps making new bonds with nearby alice or ninja, the teachers took care of the guests. They covered the whole business up with saying this was a little surprise, they had made them fall asleep to make up for that the festival ended a bit earlier than usual. The guests bought it, and left, still eager to come back next day and enjoy themselves some more.
Back in the cafeteria, the conclusion among the students was, that Reo might have a little point or two; they had perhaps been a little too hostile against the opposite 'side'.
But times had changed the past few months. They had begun to understand and respect each other, and the hostility was fading every day.
From that day on, people slowly but surely started to interact with the other side. Cafeteria at mealtimes did no longer have alice on one side and ninja on the other. Same phenomenon occurred in the classrooms. Alice students sometimes watched their ninja classmates when they were training during their separate alice/ninja classes, and ninjas sometimes joined their alice classmates during their class.
And on the wall on the principals office hung a picture of the class that had initiated this change. It was taken at the end of the alice festival, at a time when the other classes had just about gotten used to the thought about this new and unfamiliar interaction.
Had the picture been taken at the start of their stay at this school it would have shown solemn-looking ninja standing to the right and solemn-looking alice standing to the left. But this picture didn't. You could see alice uniforms mixing with the various ninja outfits. Misaki and Tsubasa stood beside each other, Tenten was behind them, head in between theirs and arms thrown over their shoulders. Naruto had one arm thrown over Gaara's shoulder and the other thrown over Ruka's shoulder, grinning madly. Natsume and Sasuke was busy looking gloomily at each other, like the rivals they were. Mikan was clinging to Hotaru, Sakura and Hinata stood behind them, supporting Nonoko and Wakako on their shoulders. Hinata was also ruffling Yuu's hair. Anna was feeding some of her cookies to Chouji and Ino. Shikamaru and Yome were looking up at Temari and Kitsuneme. Kitsuneme was flying over their heads, closely followed by Temari on her fan. Kiba had Sumire on his shoulders, Sumire was holding Akamaru, and one of Kiba's arms was thrown across Kankurou's shoulders. Lee was doing one of his youthful poses and Mochu was staring at him in alarm. Neji and Shino stood in between all the others. Not looking like it perhaps, but they were as happy as everybody else.
Times had changed indeed.
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A/N: It's the 12th of June 2008, and I finally posted the last chapter of this story. Hope you enjoyed reading it.
I really have no idea how Reo's alice works and if he can do what he does in this chapter, and if Mikan is able to undo it by talking. But in this story it works that way, because I say so.
In the first chapter I said that I'm writing this together with my sister, but after the first chapters she pretty much left the work to me and only did some beta reading. But thank you anyway, little sister
I was wondering... if anyone would like to draw the class picture. Not necessarily as I described it, it's ok if just everyone are in it, the clothing and looks is about right and everybody are more or less happy. I would be so glad if just someone would like to draw me a class picture, post it somewhere and send the link to me. It doesn't matter if you read this story years after it is finished and feel like drawing a picture, I would still be happy to see it.
And please, review and tell me what you think. Even if you came across this story a year, 5 years, 10 years after it was finished, I would still like to know what you think.