School is OVER. FINALLY! X3
ZOMG! I am soooooo excited! huzzah!
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Anyways, sorry for not updating in so long. I feel really bad about it because I know that I hate waiting for people to update their stories and I haven't been doing mine as often as I would like too. I had exams and all, but now it's summer and updates should be quicker. I hope. I really don't know... we have family coming to my house and I have dance, my sister is graduating, I am going to dance nationals... yeah. BUT I WILL TRY! ^^
Anyways: enjoy!
Disclaimer? Why bother? You all should know by now ;D
Normal POV
"The first team will cover the front entrance to the main building. All of the students will be kept there, so don't let anyone in or out - that goes for all teams responsible for guarding students! Team 2 will..."
Natsume tuned out the rest of the DA teacher's words. Persona and Natsume had already discussed the role that Natsume would be playing during the invasion. Instead, he opted for glancing around the room and at the faces of everyone there. As it turned out, the DA class was completely willing to help out. As much as they hated the school, they had friends that they wanted to protect and would sacrifice themselves in the battle to save them. Even Luna was present. The fire caster idly wondered if it was a characteristic that was developed in all of them over their time in the Dangerous Ability Class and as an agent for the school.
Natsume grinned slightly when Imai stepped to the front to give her part on the defense line and different strategies. She seemed very in tune with what she was doing and Natsume thought that she made a good tactical planner with her mind, though he would never admit it.
All in all the meeting passed by in a flash; the first official meeting for the Alice Academy Invasion Defense Army or the AAIDA for short. A lame name, but it would have to do. Natsume supposed he should be grateful they weren't the Alice Academy Defenders of Justice, or something stupid like that.
"So are you ready for this, Hyuuga?" a monotone voice asked him. Natsume glanced to the side.
"As ready as I'll ever be I guess, Imai."
"Two weeks," she murmured, more to herself than anyone else. The room was pretty much empty save for the few lingering students and Persona.
"Yeah..."
"Do you really think we will be able to do this when it comes time?" Imai asked with a rare show of worry.
"We'll have to, Imai. We'll have to..."
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Mikan hummed to herself, the picture of nonchalance as she lay on her stomach using her elbows to prop her up and looked over the plans for the AAO's invasion splayed out in front of her in her room. Earphones were stuck in her ears and she was listening to some mainstream pop music. She didn't particularly like the band she was listening to, but she was bored, and it was better than nothing she supposed.
"If I could write you a song to make you fall in love
I would already have you up under my arm
I used up all my tricks, I hope that you like this
But you probably won't, you think you're cooler than me..." she sang softly to herself.
"You like that song?" A man asked from behind her.
"Not really..." Mikan admitted without turning to look at whoever had spoken. She already knew the owner of the voice and she silently hit the pause button on her Mp3. "Did you need something Aki-kun?"
He laughed sotfly, "No, I was just seeing how you were doing. Don't forget: we have a meeting at 9:00pm with the AAO spies today. Don't be late."
Mikan shot him a look of disdain over her shoulder.
"I know," she snapped. "I'm not stupid."
Akihiko held up his hands in surrender, a mocking smile on his face. "I know, I know," he assured her, " I was just reminding you. And you might want to fix up that window of yours - it's much to easy to get in through it."
Mikan huffed in annoyance and went back to reading where she left off, clicking play on her Mp3 as she did. Akihiko chuckled from behind her and left her dorm.
... you are to kill any and all persons who get in your way on your way to assassinate the high-school, middle-school, and elementary-school principals. If the Black Cat is seen, steal the Alice before commencing termination...
"You got designer shades just to hide your face and
You wear em' around like, you're cooler than me..."
The Next Day...
"Kokoro Yome?"
"Here."
"Sumeri Shouda?"
"Here."
Mikan watched with well disguised boredom as her once favorite teacher called out role.
"Mikan-chan?" Narumi asked with a smile in her direction.
She immediately put on her signature grin that everyone knew and loved but made Mikan's cheeks hurt like crap and annoyed her to no end.
"Here!" She exclaimed happily.
Everyone in class reacted, some grinning to themselves or laughing while others like Sumeri roller their eyes but grin slightly despite themselves. Five names later and the purple-eyed teacher closed the role book with a snap and went to the center at the front of the room.
"Okay, class," he began cheerily, completely unaware of the on-goings of the school and how in a matter of weeks the Academy would be torn apart. "Today we will be..."
Mikans eyebrows rose minutely as she tuned the over exuberant blond out. So he would be teaching today? That was a rare one...
"... Cinderella!"
Mikan blinked and looked up in surprise.
What?
The whole class was in an uproar, chattering among themselves excitedly.
"Oh, I would love to play the part of Cinderella!" one girl said wistfully to her friend.
"Ooh! Me too!" her friend squealed in reply.
Huh?
"Natsume-kun should totally be the prince." Sumeri said with hearts in her eyes.
"You know, I would like to be the princess," Anna said thoughtfully, "But I think that Mikan should be her."
Nonko nodded. "Yeah! She's pretty and nice, and would make a wonderful Cinderella."
A few of the guys and girls around the two nodded and eventually the idea spread throughout the whole class.
"We should nominate Mikan-sama for sure!" one of her fanboys declared.
What the hell did she miss?
"Quiet!" Narumi shouted. The talking died instantly. "Now, This play will be going on in time for the Alice festival next month, so we have to work really hard for this! I know that you all have been discussing roles, so any suggestions for each part?"
"Mikan-sama for Cinderella!" one boy called out. The entire class agreed immediately.
"Wh-what?" Said girl sat up quickly. "I can't be Cinderella."
'Aki-kun would not be happy,' she thought with slight irritation. 'I don't have time for this crap.'
"Oh, but you have already been nominated, Mikan-chan. Besides, everyone agrees, so you have the part." Her teacher chirped happily. "Now, anyone else?" he asked, turning to the rest of his students.
"S-sensei!" Mikan interrupted, trying to look as desperate as possible. She knew that normally Mikan would not act like this and for sure it would raise questions, but she didn't have the time to be the lead role in a play that would never go on. "I really can't be her! I have school work, and- and, uh..." 'Crap. What else to say...?' "I have to go in for tutorials with Akihiko-sensei because I don't understand the current topic! So that would take up time after school and I can't go in the mornings because he doesn't do them then..."
The class was all staring at her now, and Mikan noticed that crimson and amethyst were especially probing as she pled her case.
"Oh..." Narumi said, looking slightly deflated. "Is that so?"
Mikan nodded her head rapidly.
"Well, if that's the case, then I guess that-"
"I'll teach it to her." a monotone voice interrupted. "Hyuuga will help as well."
The brunette double agent whipped around to see Hotaru Imai standing up, raising her hand as she volunteered. On the opposite side of the room, Natsume looked ticked off at being thrown into her plan, but didn't say anything.
"Hyuuga and I currently have perfect scores in his class and I believe that we are more than qualified to teach this moron. She can learn after play rehearsals from us, right Mikan?" she asked haughtily. "After all, it's not like you have anything else to do, no?"
The challenge in her eyes was obvious and the tension in the room rose instantly with those words.
Mikan responded with a chilling grin and steely hazel eyes. Her hands were relaxed at her sides but the urge to lash out and attack her was very strong at the moment. Hidden wings shifted unnoticeably underneath her blazer and dress shirt. "Of course not, Imai-san." she said sweetly, her words like shards of ice, "Nothing at all."
She gave her "best friend" a sweet smile that to everyone but the three who knew the truth seemed adorable and angelic but was actually cruel and promising a painful death. The ice queen suppressed a shiver.
Narumi cleared his throat uncomfortably, not exactly sure what was with all of the tension, but eager to remove it. Putting on his best smile, he said, "Oh! Thanks you two! See? It all works out Mikan-chan. You don't have to worry."
The center of attention averted her eyes from the stoic inventor and directed her gaze at her teacher then. "Oh, yes." she agreed. "I am so happy to have friends like these. I just love them to death!"
"Aki-kun" Mikan hissed into her cellphone. It was in between passing periods and she had teleported to the school roof. "We have a problem. That freak Imai and that bastard Hyuuga got me signed up for some stupid play. I can't get out of it - it's a sealed deal. I don't even know why we have to put one on anyways... It's stupid and a waste of time... yeah, I know... I promise not to kill anyone before the designated time, but what do I do about training and planning? Send a clone?"
She was slient as she listened to him talk on the other end of the line.
"Uh huh... Yeah... Yes, sir... Bye."
She snapped the cell shut and shoved it into her blazer pocket.
"Those two will be the first to die," she told herself, with a bored look on her face as she looked over the edge of the the roof to view the students milling around. "They have caused one too many problems for me to spare them - not that I was going to in the first place."
Dun dun duuuuun... ^^
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