Chapter 3
Unaccustomed Routine
Author's Note: Here you go guys. Sorry it was late. I was busy with exams so here you go. I hope you enjoy it. I promise the story will get better though.
Disclaimer: I don't own Gakuen Alice, Digimon or Shaman King
Who could blame them for getting lost? I mean it was a pretty big campus. Scratch that, it was an enormous campus. You would be a fool if you didn't think it was huge.
Inside the big intimidating gates the campus had forests surrounding all of it. The forest spread from north, south, east and west. It even had forests between the 3 branches, the elementary, middle and high school buildings. Other than those the academy also had the other building such as the dorms, labs, gyms and many more structures. I mean come on! It even had a town right in the center thus it being named central town. People even had to take buses to go to the other parts of the campuses.
You can expect so much for the new students who came to the campus with no knowledge with only so little help. The only help they got actually was Mikan since after all the other three didn't bother to care. They didn't want any help from the oh so frustrating Natsume, Ruka always tagged along with the him and that would be useless too. Hotaru was always so distant and was no help since if they annoyed or disturbed her in any way, they would expect some lumps on their head from her infamous baka gun. They thanked Mikan and she was really a great help but to take care of 7 students all at once is a hassle. How could anyone be with all of them every time they needed help? It's not like she has a teleportation alice.
Knowing that she can't help all of them they had to struggle with the campus for some time. People like Tai Chi ended up running frantically saying he was going to be late when in the end he realized he went to a building which was all the way on the opposite side of the middle school building in the campus. Yamato was also angry because he had to search for his brother for a whole night because Hikari told him that Takeru went inside the forest and he didn't come back out. Little did Yamato know that when he was looking for Takeru, Takeru was already in his room. In the process Yamato was the one who ended up being lost in the forest and had to call for help to escape the forest.
Another incident was when Chihiro was looking for the library but ended getting lost. She lost hope when Yoh showed up. She was happy to find out he was going to the library too. To both of their dismay they both didn't know the way to the library. This ended up causing the rest of the new students, Mikan and Yuu to look for them because apparently both of them ended up in Central Town.
"Honestly!!" said Hitomi while she hit Chihiro's head "How in the world did you end up in Central Town?!?!"
Everyone was stressed out since they spent half of their free day looking for their friends to find them eating ice cream. They had to skip their lunch because they were worried about their friends so much and in the end they find them relaxed. It took a lot of time to hold down Hitomi and Mikan and keep them from strangling Chihiro and Yoh.
"Come on Guys!!!" pleaded Chihiro "How many times do we have to say Sorry before you forgive us??"
"Trust me" said Sora who was also in a bad mood "You have a looooooong way to go"
"O…kay" said Yoh in submission. He knew along with Chihiro that they wouldn't hear the end of this until who knows when.
~At the Canteen~
"FINALLY!!" shouted Mikan "FOOD!!!" she said with a hunger in her eyes
The new students sweat dropped to see their supposedly "role model" act in such a way.
"You know Mikan" said Tai Chi calmly "Just relax"
"But I'm hungry!!!" whined Mikan "We couldn't eat lunch because of the two idiots"
"We're not idiots!!" defended Chihiro "Right, Hitomi?"
"Are you seriously asking the person who gave you a lump on the head?" asked Hitomi
"Less Talking!! More Eating" interrupted Mikan who was clearly not in the mood to be stalled any longer.
Mikan sat down with her friends and invited the rest of the new students to eat with them.
"Hey there" said Nonoko and Anna with cheerful and friendly faces showing that they were excited to have more friends added to the table.
"Hey guys" said Mikan who was apparently trying to call over some other people. The new students wondered who it was and looked to where Mikan was looking at. To their surprise it was none other than Natsume and his friend Ruka. Tai Chi and Yamato weren't still over his rudeness and just looked at him.
Natsume looked at Mikan after hearing her calling them over. He scanned the table noticing the new students who were eyeing them. He didn't have to be a genius to know that they think badly of him.
"Hmph…Ruka, I'm not hungry I think I'm going to skip dinner." Natsume said once he finished his scan over the table.
"Uh…but Natsume…are you sure?" said Ruka with concern on his face
"Go ahead. Eat with them. I'm going to get some fresh air." said Natsume who didn't want his friend to be isolated from the group.
"No it's ok! I'm coming with you" said Ruka and with that they left the canteen.
"Huh? I wonder what all of that was about?" asked Mikan.
"Honestly Mikan. Why would you be friends with a guy like him?" asked Yamato
Mikan then giggled and smiled at the new students "I know he can be annoying at times but as a person told me before. Natsume can be cruel to his enemies but he really does his best to protect and help his friends."
Mikan then sat down and continued eating her food. The new students sat down then that's when they noticed something. They noticed that Hotaru's food was different than Mikan's. Hotaru's and Yuu's food looked bigger in comparison.
Hotaru noticing that the new students were looking at the food with confused faces then sighed. "Hey idiot" she addressed to Mikan "I think you forgot to explain to them about the star ranking"
"Oh yeah!" said Mikan who stopped eating
"Star Ranking??" asked Sora
"Well…You see this school ranks students by star systems" she replied knowingly "Our rooms, meals and allowances depend on our star ranking."
"So…how do they base the star ranking?" asked Yoh
"They base it on the grades, alice level, behavior and etc." replied Mikan who was starting to sound like a know it all.
"Ok…Miss know it all…Then what is our star ranking?" asked Hitomi
"Well…" said Mikan. Then silence just continued.
"How am I supposed to know??" Mikan exclaimed leaving them to sweat drop.
"Well considering that you are their guide" replied Hotaru who was still eating her food
"Well maybe if you helped me!!!" shouted Mikan
"Honestly Guys!" said Yuu trying to call Mikan down. "If we keep on fighting how will the new students know their star ranking?"
"Don't worry kids!" said Mr. Narumi
This surprised all of them. "Since when did he come?" Anna whispered to Yuu.
"You see kids we're still deciding you star rankings and it will be given to you tomorrow." continued Narumi who was clearly unfazed by the reactions of his students. "Well…See yah!" and walked away from them
"What a weird person" said Tai Chi
The Next Day
"Well class!!" said Mr. Kouji, the art teacher in alice academy. "Welcome to art. Here in this class we like to go with free expression. So go ahead paint something inspiring." He said leaving the class.
"Well…Now what to paint" thought Chihiro. She scanned the room and noticed that everyone was starting. To her surprise even Natsume was already putting paint on his palette
"Great…." She continued thinking "I have nothing" she looked at Yoh and checked his work. It seemed kinda creepy to her because it looked like some weird spirit ball. She needed help and then turned to someone for help "Psst…Meruka…Psst…" she called out
"Yeah?" Meruka replied not removing her sight from her drawing her painting.
"What should I paint??" asked Chihiro who was clearly lost
"Paint something that relaxes you" Maruka replied while erasing a part of her drawing.
"Something that relaxes me huh…I think…" said Chihiro "I think…I GOT IT!!...I got it!!" she exclaimed while putting blue paint on her palette.
"It got it! I got it" she exclaimed while almost putting the paint brush now covered with blue on the canvas. "I…….lost it…"
"Hitomi!!" Chihiro exclaimed "Hitomi!!!"
"What!?!?!" Hitomi replied who was annoyed because she was distracted from her work.
"Help me!!" said Chihiro "I can't think of anything!"
"Will keep quiet!!" Hitomi replied "I'm trying to do my work"
"Well help me!!" insisted Chihiro
"Will you quit it" said Hitomi "Honestly you are so annoying."
"Excuse me!!" said Chihiro who was clearly annoyed with what Hitomi said
"Yes, you are excused" replied Hitomi who was trying to go back to her work. She needed to concentrate again or else she'll lose the track of her artistic ideas.
"LOOK HERE!!" shouted Chihiro flicking her paint brush to point to Hitomi. Sadly she forgot about the paint she put on the paint brush which the flung onto Hitomi's face.
Hitomi then remained quiet giving off an evil aura.
Chihiro then frantically tried to apologize "Um…Look Hitomi…I didn't mean it! I'm so so-" She was interrupted when Hitomi then flung some red paint which landed on Chihiro's cheek.
Meruka who was watching then laughed so hard. "You guys look so silly"
Chihiro and Hitomi then looked at each other giving each other looks. They both nodded and got some of their paint tubes and aimed at Meruka. Meruka was then squirted with blue and red paint.
"Oh no you didn't" said Meruka
"I believe we did" said Hitomi mockingly
"You guys are so funny" laughed Mikan who was another observer of the fight. It was clear that it was a wrong move to do that because in the next moment Mikan was covered with paint. This then caught the whole class' attention.
No one knows what happened but the next thing they knew everyone was in a paint fight. People were throwing paint for revenge or just for the sake of throwing paint. Everyone was having so much fun that they forgot the task that they had to do. Hitomi, Chihiro and Meruka were about to splash Mikan with paint when she dodged. To everyone's dismay they hit the person who just entered the door. Expecting it to be Mr. Kouji they braced for some shouting. Instead of shouting they heard a crackle of electricity.
"Please tell me no!!" thought Hitomi hoping it wasn't who they think it was.
"I was here to give your star rankings" said their dreaded teacher Mr. Gino "but apparently some changes need to be made."
"I have a very horrible feeling that I know where this is going" thought Mikan
"Seems like the three of you need to be taught a lesson" said Gino who was clearly angry "I guess I just have no choice but to make the three of you…No stars"