Summary: A 12-year-old Mikan Sakura suddenly found an abandoned baby in front of her dorm room. And the next thing she knew, she is forced by Narumi-sensei to take care of it, along with a certain crimson-eyed guy! What will happen then? NxM
Disclaimer: I don't own Gakuen Alice, but I do own the plot.
The large white door had been opened and a thick cloud of smoke began to make its way out through the gaps in the door. Mikan closed her nose and coughed, so did Hotaru and Ruka. She tried to open both of her hazel eyes which had closed due to the smoke. But alas, she couldn't see anything. All that was in front of her eyes looked gray until a sprinkling fire created a small light and got rid of that smoke.
Once again, she tried to open her eyes.
Her eyes widened when she saw a sight that she certainly had never seen before. In front of her eyes, she saw a very large hall, but at some point had been destroyed, might be blown up by something. The ruins of the walls filled the floor, so were some people lying on top of it.
She also saw Natsume—who had a figure of 12-year-old boy—was kneeling while holding something in his hand. He looked out of breath and his face was pale, but he still looked straight ahead with his piercing crimson eyes. Mikan's eyes then diverted to something in his left hand. She concentrated her eyes to see more clearly what it was.
A baby—Natsuki.
Suddenly Becomes 'Mama'
by Yuuto Tamano
Chapter 5: The Strongest One
"Natsuki!" Mikan shouted, echoing throughout the hall. She immediately ran towards Natsume who appeared to have several wounds on his body. She also saw the sweat running down his temples, wetting his pale face.
"Mikan! What are you doing here?"
Before he could hear her answer, Mikan's hand flew quickly and slapped his cheek. His eyes widened, especially after he saw the tears streaming down her flushed cheeks.
"Seriously what do you want? After you kidnapped Natsuki, and now you're even seriously injured like this... You're making me so angry and worried, Natsume..." she sobbed, rubbing her eyes.
Natsume raised his right hand, wiping her tears with his fingers. "Mikan—"
"My, my... Who do we have here…" interrupted a husky voice that came out of the smirking mouth of a man in front of them. "How intimate. You two didn't even realize I'm here watching."
Mikan turned her eyes and caught the figure of a middle-aged man wearing a black suit. She noticed a face that somehow seemed familiar in her hazel eyes—his black hair was thin and his smooth, soft eyes seemed so threatening. He had the wrinkles on his forehead and a peculiar smirk on his thin lips.
"I think that that stupid girl does not recognize you. How impolite." said a woman standing on his left side, who had a blonde hair and thick make-up, obscuring the actual wrinkles that had been formed in her beauty face.
"Tsk." responded another man on the middle-aged man's right side. Rei Serio, or better known as Persona, was just crossing his arms across his chest.
Natsume glared at the people in front of him. He then stood up and pulled her behind him, intending to protect her. "Just go to hell, Koizumi."
Mikan's eyes widened at the fire caster's words. "Koizumi? You mean, she is Luna Koizumi?"
"Damn you, Hyuuga!" Luna yelled as she ordered two of her subordinates to attack Natsume and Mikan. However, the two men were hit by a unique weapon which was infamous for its sound.
Baka Baka Baka
"I think I agree with him. You also seem to forget us, Mikan." Hotaru commented coldly after she knocked down the enemies by her Baka-Gun. Behind her, Ruka was also running, following the Ice Queen. They both putted themselves besides the Black Cat.
"Hotaru!" Mikan immediately hugged her best friend's arm. "Ha! It's now 4 versus 3, Luna! You can't underestimate us, and also—wait a minute, Hotaru, where's Natsume?"
"I'm here, baka." Natsume answered coldly. He just shook his head, not understanding why Mikan asked something stupid like that.
"Not you! But Natsume who—hold on a sec…"—Mikan stopped for a moment when she seemed to realize something—"…why there are two Natsumes?"
"He disappeared," Hotaru answered quickly.
Ruka then went on to explain things, "He seems to disappear when there were clouds of smokes back then. Hotaru and I had a hard time to find him so that's why we're late joining you guys. I can't help because Hotaru is so curious about who that Natsume is—"
"Who the hell are you talking about?" Natsume interrupted his best friend in confusion.
Hotaru just rolled her eyes, "I'll explain later because now we will be very busy." she said as she filled her Baka-gun's ammunition and glared at the dozens of black-glasses men who were about to attack them.
"Arrest them! Although they are just kids, do not ever give mercy!" Luna gave a command to her slaves who were under control of her Soul-sucking Alice.
However, the middle-aged man next to her glared at her. "Don't harm the baby, Luna. You know how precious he is for us."
Luna just rolled his eyes. "Okay, okay, Kuonji-sama."
The black-glasses men then nodded and immediately activated their alice on Mikan and her friends. Actually they were the Fuukitai group from the future. One of them cast out the Wind Alice and attacked Hotaru and Mikan. The Ice Queen simply avoided it and shot her Baka-Gun towards the attacker. Then she dragged Mikan into a safe place, in behind some large debris piles. Meanwhile, a flock of hawks suddenly came through the ventilations of the hall and attacked the Fuukitai. One of the hawk then perched on Ruka's arm. The Animal-lover caressed the bird with a smile before he joined Mikan and Hotaru.
Duaarrr
A quite big explosion suddenly exploded, causing almost three-quarters of the Fuukitai flung away and fainting. The explosion apparently came from the Hyuuga Natsume's fire Alice, as well as the three previous explosions. The explosion was very effective in crippling the Fuukitai and making Principal Kuonji, Luna, and Persona went backwards to find a safe place. But it also made Natsume fell on his knees before he coughed up blood. Sweat began flowing again through his temples.
"Natsume! Natsuki!" Mikan cried hysterically from the distance. She was about to run to the Black Cat when she was suddenly detained by Hotaru who shook her face.
"It's too dangerous if you get there, Mikan! Hyuuga surely will be able to protect himself and also the baby in his hand!"
Mikan just frowned. Taking her palms together, she prayed and hoped that Natsuki Natsume could survive.
Meanwhile, Natsume activated his white alice stone contained Healing Alice around his neck after he made a wall of fire that surrounded and protected him and Natsuki. Then his crimson eyes stared at Natsuki who also looked back at him. He felt strange. Why didn't Natsuki cry even though the fuss here was extremely noisy? Yet while he was still in the academy, he was always crying. And also when they both were in isolation room, he was also crying for a while.
But Natsuki just looked at the Black Cat with both of his big and innocent crimson eyes. Natsume then placed his finger to that baby's chubby cheek. The baby only smiled, not laughing, and then clasped his tiny hands on Natsume's big and long finger. Seeing that, the fire caster committed and promised to himself that he would protect this baby no matter what.
Indeed he had made that promise, even before the principal Kuonji and Luna came from the future. Nothing but Natsuki's innocent face made him changed his mind so that he made such a risky promise. The important thing was that he wanted to and would protect the baby of the girl who was very special for him even though his own father and sister are at stake.
Even if he wasn't the father of the baby.
"Just hand me the baby, Natsume, and then you, your family, and Mikan Sakura will get out of here safely." said Principal Kuonji, who walked slowly approaching the circle of Natsume's fire, followed by Luna and Persona.
"Why?" Mikan shouted from behind the ruins of the wall which was located quite far from Natsume and Principal Kuonji. "Why do you want Natsuki so much?"
Kuonji just smirked, "Maybe you don't know yet, but that baby has very rare alices and much, much stronger than Luna, even stronger than Rei." Hearing that answer, all of the listeners were widening their eyes in surprise, except Luna who just rolled her eyes.
"Nullification, Stealing, Insertion, and Memory Processing Alice,"—he continued—"are the strongest Alice combinations and most useful for me. Just imagine; disabling the enemy's Alice, taking his Alice out, turning it into Alice Stone, and then putting it on my body, and also the ability to search for any information, anywhere and anytime. Isn't that incredible?"
Natsume then turned to Natsuki in his arms with a disbelieving look plastered on his face. He never expected this fragile little baby turned out to have four rarest and most powerful Alices. He shook his face—he shouldn't have shocked that much, he thought, because it was natural Natsuki would have those Alice considering Mikan was his mother. But… Memory Processing Alice?
"However, his ability is even more than that..." Kuonji said in a very low tone so that nobody could hear him. A smirk formed on his lips seemed to grow wider.
Mikan bit her lower lip, feeling annoyed, "So you're saying... You're going to make my son as your slave? I absolutely can't let it happens!"
"You're so noisy, Mikan Sakura!" Luna snapped as she held out a hand towards Mikan, ordering some Fuukitai who had Teleportation Alice to teleport themselves to Mikan, Hotaru, and Ruka to capture and confine the three of them. "You and Yuka are the same, never wanting to be given mercy by the Principal, and thus the consequences. Your baby is much more powerful and more obedient than the two of you, bitches!"
Natsume's crimson eyes widened to see Luna's action. "Leave the three of them alone, Koizumi! They have nothing to do with this!" he shouted, and for the umpteenth time, he coughed up blood.
"You are very strong but also very weak, Natsume." Kuonji said with a smug smirk when he made his paces getting closer to the Black Cat's wall of fire. "So, quickly hand the baby to me, or else you do want your family and your friends being threatened."
"No! Natsume don't! Mmft—" Mikan shouted, trying to get away from people who grabbed and covered her mouth, but unfortunately failed.
"What else, Natsume? Hand me that baby!"
The Black Cat swallowed hard and stood up straightly, wiping his mouth which was filled with his red blood. He looked at Natsuki for a moment before removing his fire wall. He made his steps toward Principal Kuonji who was smiling with a sly smile, then glaring at it. When he was about one meter away from him, the principal immediately stretched out his hands, intending to receive the baby. His sly smile widened when he saw Natsume was also stretching both of his hands out to hand Natsuki to him.
But suddenly, some flames appeared on both Principal Kuonji's palms.
"No way in hell I would do that."
Seeing that, Mikan smiled and her trust for him started to form again.
Natsume immediately withdrew Natsuki back into his arms just before he stepped away from the principal. Seeing both his hands burnt, Kuonji quickly wagged his hands, intending to kill the fire. His expression on his face showed that he was very upset, "Rei, Luna, quickly grab the baby from that brat's arms!" he commanded by shouting.
Hearing the order, Persona and Luna promptly ran after the Black Cat. However, before she even succeeded in making her paces, Luna was secretly pulled by an unknown man toward a large pile right next to them. Both of her hands were gripped by a large, muscular hand while her mouth was closed by his other hand. Luna tried to release herself, but unsuccessfully failed. Her eyes widened to see who that man was.
"You won't go anywhere, Hag." said that man's husky voice with his infamous smirk and threatening crimson eyes.
Meanwhile, Natsume was trying to once again create a wall of fire when Persona caught his right hand. The half-masked man took out an aura of coldness when he said, "Your mission failed, Black Cat." And he instantly activated his Mark-of-Death Alice which started spreading onto the fire caster's right hand.
'Shit' Natsume cursed silently when his hand began feeling incredible pain. The pain was causing both of his knees turned weak until he couldn't move nor tried to escape from Persona. 'Am I gonna die here?'
Oh no. He will not, will he?
Because the baby starting to feel some vibration penetrated into his veins, waking up his Alice which was no longer asleep. And when he widened both of his crimson eyes, a blinding beam of light appeared throughout the room.
The surviving Fuukitai, Ruka, Hotaru, Mikan, Luna, Principal Kuonji, Persona, and Natsume, were blind for a moment because that light.
"What's wrong—"
When Natsume regained his eyesight, his eyes widened when he saw a big black Alice Stone floating in the air and then falling down to the floor, followed by the sound of other Alice Stones which were also collapsing to the floor.
And, strangely, the pain in his hand was gone, the moment after he saw the black spots in his hand disappeared.
"W-What is this? I can't use my Alice..." Persona muttered confusingly.
After that, came a laugh—a loud laugh filled with pride—from the lips of a middle-aged man with his pale face. "Alice Stone... That baby just pulled out the Alices of all people in this hall and turned it into Alice stones!"
The situation inside the hall suddenly became silent and awkward—because everybody was still in a state of shock—until Mikan, who had been freed from the clutches of a man who was also surprised, broke it, "I-Impossible..." she said incredulously, shaking her face.
And it was also destroyed by a shout of an unknown man from God-knows-where, "It's time, Natsume! Your Alice is okay! Use your Alice now!"
Natsume blinked for a while and without further ado he immediately used his fire Alice around Persona, Principal Kuonji, and the Fuukitai. "Mikan! Run! Run away now!"
Mikan blinked her eyes and nodded. She then turned to Hotaru and Ruka who were also nodded. And a few seconds later, the three immediately ran towards the door to get out of that place. Before Mikan stepped out of the door, she glanced at Natsume.
"Natsume, what about you and Natsuki?" she cried anxiously.
Natsume simply smiled just before he raised his fingers to form the symbol 'ok' which meant, 'Don't worry, we'll be fine. We will soon catch up with you guys.'
Mikan nodded before she ran out of that hall. "I trust you, Natsume."
To be continued
Author's Note: Not my best chapter, I know. But I hope you like it. These days I'm not in a good mood because of some unpleasant thing happened in my life. For those who know my Facebook should have known it if you read my status. Oh well, anyway please do REVIEW because it will surely make my day and bring my good mood back. Thank you all.
Oh, FYI, I'm gonna end this fic in chapter 7.