O.o (Dunno, put that for no reason…:D)

Wait wait! Now I know why I put it. DON'T answer the AAO question…Unless even though you wanna know SO badly how they confess, you can wait. :D I get the impression you people are dying for his confession. IF he's the one who confesses… O.o I can't believe I'm that evil. xD. I know some of you also want to know what happened to the 'confession wrecker', AKA Kitsuneme (xD), and also that some of you are confused. Well…Maybe I could explain this chappie…and maybe not.

And I was going to make this particular fic, but another idea won that's going to be put up first, so if you like Aoi/Youchi (the name I made for them was too short so I'm still looking for possiblilites :D), KoMire, RukaRu (hey, some people take chances on pairs they hate, ok?), YuuKo, KItsuAnna and NatsuMikan, then you should check it out after this. I'm taking a most-likely-less-than-a-year break of BYB. O.o xD. And the main couple is Y/A, actually it shows the order there, but KoMire and RukaRu are probably tied, and same with YuuKo and KitsuAnna. I might have Haina, Mikio and/or Nanami there also. Vote when I'm finished with this fic. I have another OC, Rika Nogi. Yep, the twelve year old who was in BYB! (Did that just somehow rhyme? O.o) Only in that fic she's 16, because when I made her an OC, I meant her to be Aoi's age already.

(So the ages are:

Aoi's age group, girls: 16

Youchi's age group, guys: 16 ½ , 17

Sumire's age group, girls [didn't know which person to pick so yeah]: 17

Koko's age group, guys [same with this one]: 17 ½ , a few 18 yr olds)

I'm not about to change that. xD. So yeah…If you read this, please tell me if you think it's a good idea! 'Cause on the last chappie I'm putting the summary (just made it now), the title (made it also), a preview (got it!), genre, blah, blah-blah, etc, vice versa, you get the idea.

Dude, what am I doing blabbing about the planned next fic? I should be talking about this fic! O.o

THAT'S WHAT I FORGOT TO PUT LAST TIME!!! Being the lazy ass at drawing ever since who-knows-when, most likely somewhere in August or middle of September, I only got to draw Aoi's dress. O.o So when my lazy ass gets up and DRAWS, I will put the links! O.o :D

Anyway, review replies…Oh, and I'm going to correct the other chappies, because when I saw them for the maybe seventh time, my eye twitched more than usual at the mistakes FF made…*(eye) twitch, twitch, twitch* Well…If I'm not going to be such a lazy ass. (Because of that, I just realized the reviewers names (that aren't anonymous or in nickname version) weren't underlined. Curse you download thingy. O.o And I just thought of tunes, FINALLY, so the next song-if there is-might be mine, since I made this totally random song. :D I'm trying to figure out how you guys can hear the tune though…)

S-I-L-E-N-C-E IS B-E-A-U-T-Y: :D O.o Don't worry…It's almost there…I think. Truthfully I didn't plan any of this, just the fact that it would be RukaRu, Hotaru would be heartbroken, and the confessing part, which I figured at like, chapter three when I sort of realized where it was going. O.o Yeah, sort of a combo of all three. Because he's annoyed and upset he became SLIGHTLY aggressive. xD.

xXx .romance. xXx: Ugh, I'm still pissed they won't let me write your penname properly. O.o And I'm still scared… *crawls up as a ball sucking on right thumb* xD xD xP LOL. Hope ya' update soon! Oh, and I don't get how you're confused…well, I think I know, but I'm not really sure I know. Get it? *crickets* O.o xP Have I ever mentioned that I like your penname? xD. I guess not. Well now you know. xP.

Justinne-chan: :D :D xD :D O.o Thanks for the review! O.o If you saw the thingy on my prof in the friends part, you might go like this: O.o. LOL xD. Oh, I read it yesterday on cell, 5:00+, so I'm gonna review it. Wahaha, it was funnniiiee. xD.

animeotakupooh: O.o Glad you liked it! I was outta my mind and wanted reviews, and to let you people know I'm alive. xD. The two week/fourteen delay chapter, the one with 10 123 words (I think the ending is 123…O.o) really killed me. Writing is addictive now. xD. Wahaha, you'll find out what. But in this chappie it's sorta more focused on the rest of the group and Haru…well, not Mochu or Wakako, they didn't really show up here…Just their names. xD.

VioletIsARockstar: On…DA? O.o Somehow I forgot what that is…O.o xD. I'm thinking about where to put it though… O.o I personally agree with what you're implying. THOSE PEOPLE ARE MEENTTTTALLL. O.o Whoo, you go girl! (You are…right? I tend to forget some-scratch that, lots of-things…O.o) If that happens, I'll count on you to do that, so if Tachibana Higuchi-san does that, tell me about your protest. xD. O.o Did you forget her name from frustration at the horror of…of…HayaRu?!?! OMFG…! I don't wanna think about it…Ugh. *shudders* O.o I noticed. xD. O.o Maybe, or maybe more. WAHAHA! LOL xD.

DISCLAIMER: No, I do not own Gakuen Alice. But I'm happy that fanfiction exists, and people like my fanfics. No regrets on this. Besides, I write so much I could publish a book, so I'm okay with not owning it. Reasons for wanting to own it are these: HotaruXHayate…WON'T EVER HAPPEN, it would be RukaRu and NatsuMikan and all those others I like, RukaRu would be equal with NatsuMikan, Hayate will get bad BURNED by his 'cool blue sky' (GOOD FOR YOU, EVIL WIND ALICE!!!), and…yeah, a lot of things…Also, my OCs would exist. :D

*says in sing-song voice* CLAIMER!!! (*normal voice* Is that EVEN a word? I see people use it here though…O.o): I DO own Mikio Yamamoto, Haina Jikumaru, Nanami Miyuki, Aki Hayaku, Tadashi Moriwaki, and of COURSE this plllottt! :D I'm so happy I thought of it. xD.

Oh, one more note. If you people DO read my A/N's, and read that disclaimer and claimer, just wanna say, I used some BYB characters, or would-have-been-soon-to-be characters in here, and one of the characters here is in the latest real chappie of BYB, which is chapter 5.

Oh, and Ruru-chan (Ruka: What the heck?!?! Me: Wow, you didn't see it then. Congrats on being blind, Ruka) was SO whipped about Ru-chan, so effing whipped. WAHHHOOO! O.o

This is a TOTALLY random chappie in my opinion. I dunno…O.o

I somehow go with the flow for Ruka, but Hotaru it's like I actually have to think. xD. I do like to think, okay? I think about random stuff all the time. xD. One of my favourite hobbies are thinking/spacing out…Or you could take out the slash. xD.

And you know how in Harry Potter, (if you watch it or whatever) in Hogwarts the ceiling is bewitched to look like the sky? Well, the ballroom is sort of like that too, only it wasn't bewitched. Say it was…I dunno, like someone had an alice that could help if you were to redecorate a place or something. Do you get me or not? If you don't I'll explain. :D

And now…I'll stop blabbing my guts out. :D

Normal/Author(who's acting very OOC-ish as myself in there)POV

Well, as Mr. Ruka Nogi went over to Kitsuneme, and not for small talk either, we shall focus this chapter on others:

And…Lights, camera-you with me camera guy?-ACTION!

NormalPOV (yes, it's normal O.o)

Seeing that the three guys, (Kitsuneme, Ruka, Koko) were gone, and knowing Mikan was 'chatting' with Hotaru as a cover-up, the other girls 'joined' them to let Mikan know it was clear.

"Soooo-!" Sumire awkwardly butted in, putting her hands on the two girls' shoulders.

"Hi Sumi-chan!" Mikan said chirpily. At that, all the girls, excluding Hotaru, sweatdropped. When you butt into a person's conversation, I don't think your reaction would be that…err…chirp-y-ish…

Sumire wanted to palm-hit Mikan's head, Aoi, Mikio, Nonoko and Anna wanted to palm their own heads, and Nanami wanted to bang her own head on the wall until it made a dent, and Misaki wanted to palm her head and bang it on the wall.

Why? Because they all thought this conclusion, that either Mikan being 'smart' was limited, Mikan was literally being stupid or somewhere along those lines, she couldn't understand that while you could be nice to a person butting in your conversation (at that moment), you couldn't just go out there and say something like that, or the last one, which was that Mikan had to be that bad at lying or her brain's just not working, because otherwise she'd think of something more sensible to say.

Tsk tsk. Mikan, Mikan, Mikan…When will you change…Tsk tsk.

"O-kk…Weird…Anyway…err….whatcha talking about?"

Sumire, seriously, you have GOT to be kidding me, Mikan thought.

Weird much? She's clueless to her own mistake, yet she isn't with others.

With Ruka, his 'diabolical plans'…and stuff…(Ahem ahem…)RukaPOV…

I stalked over to confession wrecker and his best friend who-thank goodness-knocked some sense into him. Though I think he should have shaken him more…But if he loses more brain cells than he probably has already, well, he'll be even more of an idiot.

Seeing me come, Koko grinned widely…and somehow evilly?

Weird…

Eh, I'm here to do my ear-pulling business and whatnot anyway so…yeah.

Kitsuneme raised an eyebrow at Koko as I neared them, seeing his grin.

"Oi, Koko, are you okay?"

"Yeah, I am…But you won't be." Koko pointed behind him, to me. Kitsuneme slowly turned around, and then his face turned white. None of us really understand why I'm being so…I don't know, weird, I guess, but Koko says that it's probably 'cause I'm, and I quote, 'extremely annoyed and upset', unquote, which supposedly leads me to…acting like a drunk bastard who's ambition is to shake the crap out of people. I don't really know.

But who cares? I drag the guy's ear, torture him somewhere in the middle of the year randomly if I still haven't confessed, or Hotaru thinks I'm a weirdo, and…yeah. Maybe I'll go back to my sane state, because right now I'm a cross between a drunken bastard blah, blah, blah, and…myself.

So yeah…You get what I'm saying.

And if you don't, I'm still not sane, so I can plainly say, 'go rot in hell'.

Extreme, eh? Yeah, well, I'll repeat this again. I. Do. Not. Care. That slow enough for you?

Whatever, I shouldn't care anyway.

Hm, a guy driven by…the insane part of his brain.

Weird…again.

I just realized. I zoned out for more than five minutes, staying in the same place. I should have been dragging that guy's ear by now to somewhere secluded.

Dude…Don't get any ideas. That's just sick, even this insane mental part of me (that I never really knew was there, I think the idiot triggered it) can tell that.

"Oi, Ruka, snap out of your fantasises right now, okay? I don't want thoughts of your 'audience' in your brain thinking about not thinking about…eww…you…and my best friend. 'Drunken' state makes you perverted, you know that?"

"Shut the hell up, Koko. Do you know the meaning of privacy?"

"Yeah, but when your perverted 'non-thoughts' get to me because you're so loud in your head, I can't help but try to shake you out of it. Disgusting, I thought you loved Hotaru?"

"Sick bastard. Are you implying that I'd replace Hotaru for someone like that amateur Kitsuneme, who wrecked my confession in the first place and is now dating someone by the name of Anna Umenomiya?" I raised an eyebrow and looked at Koko pointedly.

Koko grinned. I'd like to add the word 'perversely' to the end of that sentence, since he's probably thinking of saying something perverted or just wrong. Sick bastard.

"So, you're saying that if Kitsuneme wasn't dating Anna you'd replace Hotaru for him?"

Ugh, I knew it. Fucking idiot.

"Dude, what part of 'he ruined my confession with Hotaru' don't you understand?"

"Oh, okay, I see what I was missing. You mean that if you didn't love Hotaru you would become gay and love my best friend."

"Ye-No! What the hell, Koko?! Who's the perverted sicko now?!"

"Hm, you are," he said simply.

"What kind of sick shit is that?!"

"Uh---huh," he said sarcastically, looking at me pointedly this time. "Who are you to say that to a mind reader? I don't think you could be Mikan, you know. Too much of a guy."

"That's because I am a guy, you fucker."

"No wonder you have perverted thoughts," he told me. I could feel him laughing like a constipated maniac in his head, even if I'm not a mind-reading alice.

"It's so hard to talk to you!" I raised my hands in the air. "What the hell do you want from me?"

"One, don't kill my best friend. I think he wants to be married with Anna before you can do that."

"Sure thing, after the 'I now pronounce you man and wife', I'll go up there and kill him," I mumbled.

Koko rolled his eyes amusedly. "Yeah, okay, whatever. Two, stop the fucking 'drunken bastard' dramatics and confess to the girl already. I mean, it's like she's calling for you. 'Ruka…Ruka…Ruka…Just go up to me…'"

I passed a hand over my face. "Koko, never, and I mean ne-ver, imitate Hotaru, or Hotaru as someone, for example, the Juliet bit. I mean, what the heck is up with that?"

"Oh, you liked that one? Okay, 'Romeo, Rome-'"

"Dude…Imitate a guy or something. Or better yet, don't imitate someone at all. You suck." I knew he was doing the Juliet thing to one: piss me off, two: just for the hell of it, three: piss me off, four: I think he wanted to act gay (what would Sumire say?!), which leads us to number five: to piss me off. Have I mentioned that already?

"Party pooper. Mate, you gotta stop being so uptight. Loosen a bit, I don't need a second non-idiotic Kitsuneme."

"And what a twist that is," I muttered. "Tch, fine…I'll tell her. Just get out of my head."

"Gladly."

I walked away, cursing the perverted sicko and the confession wrecker.

Now I have alternative names for them. Amazing. (Note the slight sarcasm.)

KokoPOV

Wow, what a nice conversation. "Kit!" I called. My best friend came out from a random table. 'Drunken' Ruka's oblivious to his surroundings. Nice to know. "He's gone, ha, you're lucky I was there."

"Yeah," he said sarcastically. "How lucky I am."

Flashback

Kit turned around and immediately went white. "Aw man! I'm dead! Koko my man, cover for me, pleasssee?" he pleaded. I should have brought a recorder or something. I'd laugh my ass off listening to Kitsuneme's desperate voice. Ha!

"Sure,Kitsu-chan," I told him teasingly. He doesn't really hate the nickname from the gang (especially when Anna says it, he thinks it sounds cute, I read his mind that time, loud thoughts, you know) so I take advantage of the fact I can use it.

"Yeah yeah yeah, whatever! Come on, cover for me man! I wanna live!"

"What," I said to him teasingly again, "you want to live long enough to marry Anna?"

"Sure! Come on…Just COVER FOR ME!!! I'm desperate dude!"

I rolled my eyes. "Scared of Ruka. You got it bad, man. Whatever, I'll cover for you. Hide under a table or a chair or near a wall or something."

"Whoo! You're the best, dude!" I liked non-uptight Kitsu better. No, not that way, sickos.

I walked casually over to Ruka. He seemed to be thinking…or spacing out, however you want to call it.

"Yes, you are. You should have heard what he said." I laughed in my mind. If I told him about the thoughts and whatnot, even though it was only teasing for Ruka, he would have slapped himself unconscious and…yeah. He 's sorta unpredictable, my best friend, I mean.

With the girls, SumirePOV…

"Random stuff, I guess." Mikan played along, shrugging.

"Okay then. So-! Hotaru, can I talk to you for a sec?" She seemed to know what this was about, because she sort of started to tear up. Well, I have to do it, I have to ask her, so…

"Yeah…sure…" I took her arm and walked to an empty table somewhere in the ballroom, both of us sitting on chairs beside each other. Luckily people were far enough to not hear us.

"Tell him…I'm not kidding!"

"You aren't serious," she deadpanned, her face and voice devoid of any emotion, but I knew she was panicking on the inside.

In a way, I understood. It wasn't like Koko or anything like that. This was…well, I don't know how to explain it really. It's more serious than any one of the gang, especially for Hotaru. I'm not sure how it is for Ruka though. I mean, for all I know, he could confess to her right now and she wouldn't believe it.

"Yes…I know what you're going to say but…Maybe this will all end…If you…you know…"

"Sumire, it isn't just that. It isn't just worrying about him rejecting me." She looked down at her arms and the tablecloth. "It isn't just worrying about our weird unspoken friendship. This isn't some schoolgirl crush, or 'love' but then you don't even have connection after graduating two days after. Sumire, I'm serious." She looked at me. "You know I am. They know I am. We all know that I always am, no matter what. It hurts me, you know, to think that it's more serious than the Mikan-Natsume thing, about missions. I don't know what to do! I think I've become a pessimist, I honestly don't know, but all I know is that I got to solve this fast before this consumes me. I don't think…" Her voice was getting softer, "I don't think confessing is…the right choice. I mean…he could love me…and then tell me…and…and I wouldn't believe it…I'm torn Sumire, I…I really don't know what to do…This is the one problem I can't solve…" She laughed bitterly. "For once, Hotaru Imai can't solve a problem. That's a first." She looked back down at her arms. At her little speech I clearly saw the pain on her face the whole time. I wish I could help more. I wish I understood her. I wish I was Mikan, because maybe she'd know what to do. I inwardly sighed sadly. I understood, but at the same time I didn't, not knowing how it felt, not knowing it hurt her more than what showed on her face.

I put a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "Hotaru, it's normal," I said softly. "Love is unpredictable…But you're stronger than this. I know you can handle this. Everyone who knows the truth about what you feel for him knows that you could handle this. Come on Ruru, where's the girl I know? Where's the supposed 'ice queen'? Where's the girl who used her baka gun at least three times a day? Hotaru, I believe in you. I know you won't let it consume you." I hoped my words could calm her down a bit. I was surprised when tear slowly made its way down her cheek. "But what if I can't? What will happen to me then?"

"We'll still be there for you, no matter what."

"I may not be completely convinced," she looked at me, smiling a bit, "but I think I'm okay for now…Sumire…Maybe I will confess…Maybe today…" she trailed off, but started again. "Maybe today I'm confident enough…I'm not sure…But…I will try. I promise."

"You don't have to promise me anything. Promise this for, maybe, your own happiness, okay?" Slowly she nodded. "Come on, let's go back." We walked back to our friends, but to be more specific, the female ones, and as Hotaru walked in front of me, I smiled softly. Hotaru…I know you can do this. I know you'll confess…today.

And CUT!

That's a wrap! Hope you like this weird, sarcastic, perverted, angsty, OOC-ed Ruka chapter! xD.

And now…the BAD NEWS! DUN DUN DUN…

It is August 31 in Canada!

Reviewers in other countries (I think you all are, xD): *crickets*

Oh yeah…I forgot you people probably don't know what it means… *scratches head* Well, drum roll please!

*drum roll*

It's…It's…Oh my god, it's so horrible I don't want to say it…It's-! It's SCHOOL! Yes, SCHOOL! The utter, unimaginable horror!

Now, you may think I'm being dramatic. Well, that depends. Yes, I'm an overachiever, I get all A's and B's/excellents and that other word for B that I forgot. But that's not the case-! What is the case? The case that I AM GOING TO THAT FRENCH SCHOOL FOR GRADE SEVEN, NOT MY SANE ENGLISH-SPEAKING SCHOOL! NOOOOOOOO!!!

All those other drabbles about the horror of French school was just the GETTING READY part. I mean, there is no effing thing such as FSL (French as a second language or something along those lines) there! All French! Well, except for two English speaking subjects, and the hallways or something like that, as the vice-principal said. I can already predict my report card: all C's and under, but Religion and L.A (thankfully. If my best subject was in French I'd just DIE, and feel even more uneducated than I need to be) I'll get probably an A/B and a no doubt A. Oh god, save me now. Uwaahhhh~! *starts crying* No, seriously, I'm tearing up in my mind, I might actually tear up soon. T.T So please please please PLEASE review, maybe they can help make me sane. AFTER I finish my French homework (no doubt I'll finish the English ones at school -.-), I'll TRY to update. Please don't give up on this story! I PROMISE that it will probably only take up to the start of October! No way is it reaching November! I miss my school already…Wahhhhh. And the story I mentioned in the upper A/N, *looks up* will be created after this story is done. I need to read or update or write or SOMETHING that's English to make myself not go insane. Besides, it's not like I'll make a French fic (or maybe when I know enough I will *mischievous smile* for something…you can ask me if you want to know why) any time soon. Or read an ACTUAL book in French…or WRITE in French like THIS. I mean, seriously. OMFG, I just realized how many sentences I've been rambling. I bet I made the words increase like a thousand more…OMFG, I actually did. O.o So, please review, even if it's in-my-standards-again short. PLEASE, I BEG OF YOUUUUU! xD. Ja ne, minna-san! Arigatou gozaimasu! *bows*