I told you I'd update ^ ^

I probably will update daily til it finishes since, I'm not so busy... yet (exams in a couple of weeks)

Anyway... enjoy!

CHAPTER 12: FINDING X

"Waaah, I still don't get it," I cried. I pushed myself away from the dreaded textbook, crossed my arms and started sulking. We'd been at this same topic for half an hour already.

Souma-kun burst into a fit of laughter, "Mikan-san, you really are a piece of work, but you're hilarious." I pouted.

"I was doing fine at maths until they started mixing the alphabet into it," I complained, sending Souma-kun into further fits of laughter.

"Well, that's algebra for you," he said. "Hm, perhaps we should take a different approach..."

"-?" was my response.

"How would you like to play pirates?" he asked mischievously, a broad grin. He was leaning forward with his finger bent in a mock hook; it was a clichéd pose.

I giggled and clapped my hands, playing along, "Aye aye, captain."

"Alright, since we're pirates, we need to find X – the treasure," he stated drawing a large X on the notepad. I agreed with an, "Argh!"

"In order to get to the treasure we sail on our pirate ship," he continued, doodling a simple boat on the pad. "Now, if there's more weight on one side of the ship it rocks to one side, does it not?" I nodded. "So we have to keep it even on both sides so it doesn't tip over, that's what the equals sign does, it keeps it even on both sides so the boat doesn't tip." He drew a big, fat equal sign in the centre of the boat. "As long as that's there the boat can't tip."

I was understanding this. "To keep this balance, whatever we do to one side of the boat, we must do to the other. Like if I take 3 crates away from this side I have to do the same to the other, that's the same with numbers and letters in an algebraic equation. You just have to keep cancelling out the numbers until there's only the x on one side of the equals sign and the equivalent number on the other," he finished.

It all dawned on me now. It was actually so simple, "I understand now! Thank you so much Souma-kun! You really are a miracle worker."

"Don't mention it," he smiled. "Let's go take a break, you did good." I agreed even though I wasn't really doing good, but I needed a break.

"Smoothie and chocolate bar?" he asked. I agreed and we looked around for a vending machine. The high school section offers a lot more conveniences in its hallways.

I felt thoughtful on the walk to the vending machine, when I recalled that Souma-kun had said he had heard about her from his friends. "Hey, Souma-kun, how much do you know about me from your friends?"

"Not much, really," he admitted as he inserted some coins into the machine. "Snickers or Mars?"

"Mars, please." I continued, "Well, what do you know?"

"Here," he said handing me the chocolate. "Well, you were a very bubbly personality, not the brightest, but always willing to help out. Trouble apparently, always seemed to follow you around." I nodded, sweat dropping. "Oh and that you have four Alices: Nullification, Teleportation, Stealing and Insertion Alices, which I find very impressive."

Well, that was still a lot of information. He knew all my Alices too. "Oh, what's your Alice, Souma-kun?"

"My Alice? Well, I have two: Buoyancy and Fire Alices. Pretty cool, huh?" I froze. Fire Alice?... Just like Nastume.

"F-fire Alice?" As far as I could tell, that Alice wasn't very common.

"Yeah," he replied, "it's awesome, haven't you seen it before?" He seemed excited to show me.

"Just like... Natsume," I nearly faltered at the last word.

His face fell a little bit, "Oh, you've seen him, have you? That's right, he was involved in that little riot you caused before." Did he have any idea about our... relationship?

I racked my brain, forcing it to function once more, "Why aren't you in dangerous ability?"

"Well," he began, "Dangerous types are categorised as those who wield Alices so strong they are a threat to the school. Lucky or unluckily for me – you can look at it both ways – I only have an intermittent Alice shape so I'm not that big of a deal. Most of the guys in Dangerous ability have limitless Alice shape."

"I see." But I remembered he had another Alice, "Well, what's the...buoyancy Alice?"

He smiled, he obviously liked the sound of that question, "I can walk on water."

Oh yeah! You heard right, Fire Alice! Btw guys, what DO you think of Kiseki x Mikan so far (I know its all friendly friendly but still...)?

Well, I'll update tomorrow and I'd LOVE reviews for this chapter .