Disclaimer: I have never, still do not, and will never own Gakuen Alice.
Previously:
The gates opened after the driver showed his license. The three Alices exited the vehicle, while Natsume went to the trunk to lug the suitcases out.
Suddenly, Narumi popped out from nowhere.
"Welcome" he exclaimed, and added a bit lower in volume, "back, Mikan-chan."
Narumi's face was frozen in place. Nobody spoke. Nobody moved. Nothing at all. The only sound was the leaves being blown around in the background.
This is what Natsume heard. "Welcome! ... ck... kancha..."
What kind of a name was that? His face remained covered by a mask, so he could twist it into any type of emotion he wanted to. Right now it was in major confusion, and it showed all of his wrinkles... From stress... But nobody knows that...
He turned his head over towards the orange-masked female, "Your name is Kancha?"
She in turn replied curtly, "Lucy Apricot."
Natsume just stared. Stupid hearing.
"Er... Natsume-kun, why don't you bring their things to the Special Star floor? I'll take you guys for a tour..." Narumi said.
Silence.
"Hello?"
Silence.
"Hey... Say something..."
Natsume finally left with the suitcases in his arms.
As soon as he disappeared, the two masked ones started cracking up, but it stopped abruptly just like how it started. Mikan AKA Lucy Apricot turned towards Narumi, "Haha, he really thinks I'm this 'Lucy Apricot.'"
Nao nodded in agreement, "True."
Narumi started weeping and sobbing as he blew his nose into a handkerchief and muttering something about why she would want to trick her beloved teacher that she hasn't seen for so long. "But it's great to have you back, Mikan-chan."
Mikan plastered a fake smile that looked genuine to Narumi on her face before replying softly, "Of course."
Shoo, bad memories!
"Now, about the tour..."
"We don't need one. This place hasn't changed much, and Nao has his Alice."
This earned an odd stare from Nao, but he just shrugged and went back to staring at the leaves.
"Ah... They told me that you two need to go to see the Elementary School Principal afterward, which would mean now..." Narumi mumbled.
At this, Mikan narrowed her eyes, "We're not in Elementary anymore, so why do we still need to go to him?"
"I don't know..." But Narumi's paternal side suddenly kicked in, "Eh?! Did he do anything to anger you?"
"No... I just don't like him. He gives off weird vibes," the brunette answered with a shudder, "Anyways, why don't we start walking?"
They walked and talked. Well, Narumi did most of the talking as Mikan nodded at the right times, and Nao stood off to the side to let the two have their reunion in peace.
Once they arrived at a door with a 'Elementary School Principal' on it, Narumi smiled nervously, wished them luck, and took off.
"What's up with him?" Nao asked with confusion.
"I don't know. You're the one with the Knowledge Alice," Mikan shrugged.
At that, the onyx-haired boy grunted.
The two entered the room to be met by a person who looked around their age. His eyes and hair were both dark blue, and he gave off an aura of superiority.
The person was sitting behind a desk that seemed just a bit too tall for him. His arms were folded in front of him, and he coolly gazed at the people that just entered.
"I was expecting you."
Mikan wore a stoic expression and said with sarcasm, "When do you not, Oh-Almighty-Elementary-School-Principle?"
The little principal paused, appearing to be in thought, "Hm... Never."
He then started spouting about how successful Mikan's training was, and had a smirk on his face at all times. Nao cut in with a cough, "I think we all know that, seeming as she is here right now, so please just get to the point."
The ESP (A/N: Elementary School Principal abbreviation :D) glared at him for interrupting his rant. He shrugged then began, "Well, you and Sakura will now be in the Dangerous Ability class-"
"We already were."
The ESP coughed loudly, and continued, "As I was saying before someone interrupted, you and Sakura will now be in the Dangerous Ability class. Both of you will be Special Star and will go on missions for the academy."
"I have a request," Nao said.
Glancing at the boy, the ESP asked, "What might it be?"
"I want a payment for the missions in advance. Meaning right before I go on the mission, you will give me the money."
"No."
"Then I refuse to do missions."
"We'll see about that."
Lifting up a finger, Nao looked like he just remembered something, "Ah! Right. Might I tell you that I am fully capable of protecting those around me?"
Just like Fang, the ESP knew that if he said something, it would just go on and on forever. Instead, he just sighed, "Fine..."
"Then, I believe our business if finished here. Have a good day," Nao replied then proceeded in leaving the room with Mikan.
The next day:
The school newspaper was scattered across the classroom. All of them were opened to the page for their little class.
"Ice Queen vs. Newbie: Who will win this war for money?"
Hotaru had a stand, frantically selling pictures of Ruka in a bunny suit. Fang calmly sat on one side, sipping some hot chocolate that she had brought with her.
Even if the pictures that Hotaru was selling were old, she making some money at least. The Elementalist, on the other hand, sold new and rare photos. The kind you thought you would never see...
Turning towards Nonoko, Fang asked, "Hey, Nonoko-chan, is Imai obsessed with money?"
"Y-yea... I supposed so," the blue haired girl replied meekly.
"I see. So that's why."
When Narumi burst into the room wearing a panda suit complete with paws and a panda head, Hotaru's stand instantly disappeared. He and Fang locked gazes, and the blond teacher remembered a recent incident that somehow made her ticked off, causing him to smile nervously.
Seeing as the class had already settled down, Narumi began his speech, "Class, we'll be having two transfer students. Please be nice to them."
The class murmured quietly.
"We just had one a few days ago!"
"Hopefully they won't be like Fang-san."
An eraser was tossed at the fool who said that. Courtesy of Fang herself.
The blond teacher coughed loudly, catching the class's attention again. "They are It-"
Two people walked into the room, masks on. A black werewolf with black hair as well, the boy, and an orange with chocolate colored hair, the girl. The boy cut Narumi off with a bow, "I am Frederick Diggory."
"I am Lucy Apricot," the girl bowed, bending her body so that it was parallel with the boys.
The name caught Natsume's attention.
"We are both from France," the two straightened up at the same time.
Narumi's eyes widened a bit, being caught completely off guard. Frederick flicked his fingers and said, "My Alice allows me to shift my weight."
"Mine allows me to shift my voice," Lucy said.
"Allow us to show you," they simultaneously took out tools.
Frederick pulled out some weights that looked small, but in reality, they were frighteningly heavy. Lucy pulled out a voice changer. They strapped them onto themselves, before the two started to hop around or talk. Lucy's voice changed with every word, from high to low, from perfect to static-ish, making everyone cover their ears. Frederick started to hop around, sending vibrations through the entire school with the heavy weights that were tied to him. Everyone's jaws detached from their skulls and hung to the ground.
What the heck was wrong with them?
"Narumi-sensei! Quick! Stop them!" a random student yelled.
The blond teacher swiftly used his Human Pheremone Alice on Frederick to make him give up his weights. Narumi stumbled once the weights dropped into his hand, before completely falling to the ground, unable to lift up his arms.
His breathing became heavier as he dragged himself towards Lucy. He took out a ginormous pair of scissors to cut the voice changer off as the sound waves caused him to have a migraine. Once the voice changer came off, he sighed in relief. Everyone was safe.
Narumi-sensei saved the day!
He stood up shakily, as his breathing was ragged. Another random student yelled, "Frauds! You don't have any Alices! All those were weights and voice changers!"
Lifting his hand up to silence the random student, Narumi took a deep breath before saying again, "They are actually It-"
Frederick asked in a confused voice, yet his mask gave off an eery aura, "What do you mean? We are ourselves, nobody else."
"Please. Just tell them the truth. I almost had a stupid heart attack, and I'm only in my 20's!" Narumi tried to pull at his hair, but his panda suit got in the way.
Lucy shrugged and said, "Fine. Ruin the fun. But a heart attack or two won't hurt right?"
Flabbergasted, Narumi started crying, "How could you? Do you want me to die? A heart attack can kill!"
Silence spread across the classroom. The teacher broke down, there were two impostors that were frauds that just confuzzled them using their ultra un-Alice-ish abilities that were horrid that almost gave someone a heart attack that could kill... Wait... What? Forget it.
Natsume's outer facade seemed unaffected by the previous scene, but deep down inside, we all know that he was curious. The one deemed to be Lucy Apricot wasn't Lucy Apricot. What was there not to be curious about?
'Frederick' started off, "I am actually Ito Nao. Transferee from America and am in the Dangerous and Technical Ability classes."
"I am Sakura Mikan. Transferee from America and am in the Dangerous and Special Ability classes."
Slam
They were interrupted before they could start talking about their Alices.
"Mikan... Is it really you?" Hotaru asked, and to the surprise of everyone, there seemed to be happiness mixed with her usual stoic expression.
Ruka added to the question, "Is it?"
Natsume's eyes widened, although nobody noticed besides Mikan and Nao since he was at the back of the room.
"No," came the blunt reply.
Heads twisted in confusion. She just contradicted what she said.
With an ever blunter voice, Mikan said, "Who else could I be?"
The entire class swarmed to the front of the room in hopes of tackling Mikan in a bear-group hug, however, she merely took a big sidestep and the class landed in a heap of dead bodies. Ruka was at the bottom, Sumire was somewhere in the middle, Anna and Nonoko were sandwiching Sumire, Yuu was second to the top, and Hotaru was at the top. Natsume, however, was paralyzed in shock and remained seated at the back of the room. And Luna (A/N: I almost forgot about her! XD) was off to the side, unhappy because Mikan was back.
Narumi screeched, "They're both Special Stars! No need for partners!"
And he ran out of the classroom screaming for mental aid to Misaki.
Hotaru refused to move from her position of highness, leaving everyone underneath, especially Ruka, to feel the crushing weight of the humans, the whole entire class in Ruka's case.
The pile started quivering, causing Hotaru to topple over, as each individual started getting off. Continuing from before, one person after the other were shot straight at Mikan for a bear hug, however, she just walked out of the room with Nao and Fang and closed the door, flattening everybody's faces.
"You don't want to greet everyone else?" Nao asked.
"If you want me to be crushed like how they did to each other, then I will. Otherwise, I'm going to wait until they calm down," Mikan replied curtly.
He shrugged as they headed off.
"Oh my gosh! There's a door here!" someone yelled.
Natsume snapped out of his paralyzed state when he saw Mikan leaving with Nao and Fang. With Nao. Oooh the jealousy.
Someone was smart enough to open the door, as the entire class started pouring out. Natsume followed as well, in hopes of getting to burn a certain someone. Luna? They ditched her.
The leader of the mob suddenly halted, causing everyone to smash into each other and lay in another dead heap on the ground. "What the heck?! Why'd you stop!?"
"Hey... What was Nao-kun's Alice? And why did Mikan-chan leave?" Anna inquired out of the blue.
"Agh! They never said anything about it!" Nonoko replied.
"Then off we go again! Bombard them with questions! And hugs, too, at that!" the pink haired girl started running again.
And off they went with Natsume stalking them all. He wanted a hug, too... Aw, but that would just be out of character, no? Anyways, the mob had rope to tie up the people in question.
"There they are! I see them!" a finger was raised in the air high above the heads of the people making up the mob.
All heads turned into the direction, as the short midgets that were pitifully stuck in the middle screamed, "Eh! Where, where?!"
"Over there, you fool!" would reply the tall dude next to the pitiful short midgets.
The ropes suddenly became lassos and went around Nao and Mikan then tightened. Fang stared where she was as they were dragged towards the scary mob but followed soon after.
The two were swallowed by the group of people as a circle formed around them. Anna, the mob leader, and Nonoko, the vice-mob leader, took out a list of questions that they had made while running.
"Okay, first things first, what is your Alice, Nao-kun?" Anna went first.
Nao just stared, "You went through all of that trouble to just ask some questions?"
"Just answer it already, so they could untie us," Mikan elbowed him as much as she could as she was tied by a lasso.
"Fine. I have three Alices-"
"Hey! You told me you only had two!" Fang yelled, suddenly appearing right next to Nao.
"Oh right, there was one that I didn't want to talk about yet."
"Go on!" the mob roared, raising their pitchforks and torches high up in the air as a threatening gesture, obviously becoming impatient with all the interruptions.
"Okay, I have the Alice of Creation, Alice of Obliteration, and the Alice of Knowledge. And yes, with the Alice of Knowledge, I know all of your fears and embarrassment, so if you happen to not want me to scare or embarrass you, please do not test my patience," Nao said, and although his face could not be seen, everyone heard the tint of malice etched into his voice.
Shivers ran down everybody's spines, for he was not someone you would like to mess with.
"You have the Alice of Knowledge? I understand why you might not want to tell me about it, but I'm your frigging sister for Pete's sake!" Fang screamed.
"Sister?" the class gasped.
And thus the story of their childhood, which was actually only a few sentences, spilled out of Fang's mouth yet again. Anna passed the list to Nonoko, only to have it stolen by Sumire, which in turn was snatched by Hotaru, but was ripped out of her hands by Sumire again, and everyone started to launch themselves at the vulnerable little piece of paper, but it seemed that Sumire remained in possession of it.
The girl with green and permed hair laughed haughtily before turning back to the captives, "Hey... What? You call this a list!? It only has one question!"
Anna scratched her head, "Ah. That's right... There was only one question I really wanted to ask though... Anyways, HUG TIME!"
Bodies flew through the air as they landed on top of Mikan and Nao, who was sadly dragged into this because he was tied to Mikan which made Natsume cringe at the closeness which angered angered dramatically which made the temperature increase by a few degrees but nobody really noticed that, and a bloodcurdling scream rang through the air. Mikan's scream went unnoticed as everyone was too busy crushing her body under all of their weight.
All the joyful tears were splattering every cubic centimeter that they could. Soon, if they kept it up, the entire hallway would have been flooded. Yes even Mochu, the guy with the extremely short buzzcutt, and Hotaru, who was smushed somewhere in between everyone, were crying.
"Welcome back, Mikan-chan! We missed you so much!" were the only REAL words that were spoken and heard above all the squeals from the other people.
Mikan gasped out a "Thank you all except some" before both she and Nao fainted with a last "Curse you, body-crushers".
Author's Notes:
Woooot! I'm happy~ Haaaaaaappy! And part of the reason is because of all those nice reviews that I got =) Thank youuuuu guys~
Aaaaaand I've become an official Chinese to English translator! Whereas I just finished my first project. =P And started my second one~ Woot!
K... Lol... Smiling like an idiot in front of the computer XD
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