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CHAPTER 4: I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU

The dungeon door opened...

"NATSUME-SAMA!" everyone in the room yelled almost in unison.

Wow. Natsume seems popular around here.

"Hi, guys," he greeted quite plainly.

"Ahem," sounded a female voice.

"...and girls," Natsume sighed irritably.

"Who's your friend Natsume?" asked the female voice.

"Mikan-chan," said an oddly familiar voice.

"Eh? Yo-chan, you know this girl! I've never seen her before," said the girl.

"Yeah, when I was little..."

"She's right here, you know," Natsume voiced, speaking my thoughts. It was beginning to feel awkward being talked about while I was present.

"Well then, are you going to introduce her to them Natsume or do I have to do everything here myself?" asked an older, deep voice. It seemed vaguely familiar. "Everyone this is Sakura Mikan, she used to go to this school but had to leave for... urgent...reasons. I'd like you all to make her welcome."

"Who said that?" I turned my head towards the voice. My eyes landed on a young man, about 20 years of age. He had dark hair with a purple tinge. He had a goofy smile... and a star tattooed on his cheek.

"TSUBASA-SEMPAI!" I screamed in recognition as I lunged towards him and gave him an enormous hug.

"What, she knows Tsubasa-sensei too. Who is this girl?" piped up the same girl from before.

"Nice to see you again too, Mikan," said Tsubabsa as he rubbed my head.

"So how long are you going to dismiss the crowd for?" asked Natsume cooly.

"Oh... how rude of me," I realised. I looked at the small group of girls and boys of different ages.

"As Tsubasa-sempai said, I'm Mikan and I'm going to be joining the Dangerous Ability class from now on... Pleased to meet you all!" I said cheerfully.

My bright smile turned into a look of overwhelmed surprise as I got bombarded with questions again.

"How does Yo-chan, Natsume and Tsubasa-sensei know you?"

"How old are you?"

"What's your Alice? How are you in dangerous Ability?"

"How long has it been since you last went to this school?"

"Why did you leave?"

"Is Natsume your boyfriend?"

Aah! So many questions. "Uh... I used to go to this school seven years ago and Yo-chan, Natsume and Tsubasa were my friends. I'm 17 years old in my final year here at Alice Academy. I'm in Dangerous Ability for my Stealing and Insertion Alices. I also have the nullification and teleportation Alices. I had to leave because I was, um, trying to capture a foe."

"Oh! I remember her now, I was really little but, weren't you that girl that made the school go all crazy?"

"Oh yeah! You had that stealing Alice that caused such a raucous," said the girl from before.

"Hehe, yeah..." I replied.

"Cool," she replied.

"Hey! You haven't answered my question yet," said a mischievous sort of boy who looked about in middle school.

"And what was your question?"

"Is Natsume-sempai your boyfriend?"

"Uh...," I felt my cheeks gaining colour and glanced over at Natsume, exasperated. "I think I'll let Natsume answer that."

The students looked at Natsume expectantly. Natsume seemed to ignore this and said seriously, "Hey Polka!"

"What!" I said. What the hell could it be now?

"Will you be my girlfriend?"

My jaw dropped. He just asked me out...? Now? Why! "Are you serious!" I said rather irritably.

"Do I look like I'm joking?" He didn't.

I looked bashfully at the crowd of people who seemed to be just as stupefied as me. "Um.. yeah?"

He turned to the crowd, "Yes, she's my girlfriend."

Natsume walked over to a corner, leaned on the wall and started whistling inconspicuously.

Tsubasa-sempai seemed to recover first. "Well, um, everyone. Now that that's settled, do you guys mind introducing yourselves?"

I was still a little bit stunned when the crowd began to introduce themselves one by one.

"You know me, Yoichi Hiriji, Evil Spirits Alice," said Yo-chan.

"Mochizuki Tomoyo, Shapeshifting Alice," introduced a curly, black haired girl of about 8 years.

"Atsuko Minako, Male Pheromone and Wind Alice," said a pretty girl with long greyish hair and a neatly made-up face.

"Haruka Megumi, Water Alice," said the girl who kept talking earlier. She looked like in junior high with rolled up sleeves and a smug face.

"Noburu Rin, Resurrection Alice..." Wow, a resurrection Alice. Sounds dangerous. This guy must be tough as nails, "...and cooking alice..." ...of course.

"Souta Ryuu, Incredible Hulk/Jekyll Hyde/The Thing Alice... or you can call it the Extraordinary Enlargement Alice." It was the guy who sparked the plug with me and Natsume... I'm torn between ranting at him or thanking him. I decided to just keep quiet and let them continue.

"Shinobu Yumiko, Weaponry Enhancement Alice," said an intelligent, bespectacled looking girl with brown hair and piercing eyes.

"Daichi Hotaka, Plant Pheromone Alice and Earth Alice." It was a guy with almost teal-ish hair and a small, dirty face.

"Jirou Akira, Invisibility and Metal Manipulation Alice." He had black, messy hair. He looked around 12.

"Jirou Nobu, Invisibility and Bone/Plastic Manipulation Alice. An Alice far superior to my brother's." Brothers? Twins, more like!

"Well, hi!" I said as the twins began to bicker. This looked like an interesting bunch. "I can't wait to work with you all."

I turned back to Tsubasa. I was holding back this question since more pressing issues had arisen. "Tsubasa-sempai," I called.

"Hn? Yes, Mikan."

"Am I hearing right when they called you Tsubasa-sensei?"

Interesting bunch, right? I had so much fun thinking of these characters. They'll (one in particular) will be in the limelight the next few chapters. Unfortunately, that's all for now (unless I make a sequel ;)...) because the storyline changes up a bit after this class. But don't fret, I've got 3 good chapters on it, so YAY!

Needless to say, please review. The next chapter will, once again, be up withing the next 3 days (the more reviews, the quicker!).