Author's Note: Hi everyone! I wanna say to you all Merry Christmas! And of course happy new year too! This is your christmas present! Hope you'll like it! I'm also very sorry if you find this chapter is shorter than my previous one...

Also, thanks to those who review last time! I really appreciate your kindness!

Anyways, on with the story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice.

Chapter Thirteen: Epilogue Past with Her, Present to Him

"Natsume, you have missions tomorrow, right? Why don't I come with you?" Mikan bounce happily behind Natsume. The class just over so they have the whole evening up for themselves. The pigtailed girl, or so what Natsume called her with many of her nicknames, is giggling about something.

Heading on, they just spent their time in the evening with a stroll around the town and staring at the view from under the Sakura Tree.

Mikan P.O.V

I'm such a dummy sometimes. Those visions that I got, I hope it won't come true.

End Of P.O.V

Normal P.O.V

Without anything, they end the meeting with a simple goodbye, never knowing what will happen tomorrow, or glimpse of it.

[The Next Day

The two Alice users, Hyuuga Natsume and Sakura Mikan, are on their way to accomplish the mission that the academy had set their eyes on. The mission is; to steal a specific file inside one of the quarters in the AAO. Sound simple isn't it. They may not know what inside the file until further notice.

Get in without anyone notice, take the target and get out without problem; is the simple explanation to this mission, Mikan just quietly following behind him.

So far, the mission was doing well since they haven't been notice by anyone yet. It's unbelievable that the information they were after is packed into a small memory card. Much to Natsume's chagrin, his companion even joked about the sized of it because you can swallow the whole thing to hide it.

"We got the target so let's move out"

After all that, Natsume learn that the AAO real target is not protecting the information, but it was to capture the 'intruder' who tried to gain access to it.

The object that HE brought back, revealed information about an incomplete prototyped of a battle machine with sophisticated technologies.

Mission, technologies, weapons, all of this doesn't give a damn to him. He did not feel anything from his previous mission, not even accomplishment, so why does it matter this time?

The academy congrats him for this, but Natsume loathed it, seeing as if they were mocking him for his guilt though it such a loss to the academy that one of their agent was killed,or simply missing in action, just to bring completion to the mission.

The whole class went silent when they found out about what happened to Mikan Sakura. All of them feel bad, three of them felt worse. Two of them were because they couldn't be there in time to save her and the other one because being there but not able to do anything.

Hotaru never showed any emotions when the memorial ceremony held, but later Ruka confront a crying Hotaru behind the school building. She never cried this much in her entire life nor feeling such sadness.

He can't cry since it's already too late, so Natsume only watch from a distant.

People can try to move one, but sometimes their past just caught on to them and confronting it was just as painful as meeting it.

There was a slight heavy laying on him and Natsume was slightly awakened by the fact. What ever it is, it was certainly someone and this someone is slightly snoring.

The person on him sensed his awakening and slowly opens her eyes.

"Mikan"

He was not sure how the word slip from his mouth, but one thing that he knows is she is her.

"Nat…sume…"

He thinks, maybe thing should get better now…she's back, so things will be cheery…

And he is happy that Mikan had come back.

Or…

Should he?

After all, the mess is undone.

He hugged the girl he once knew closer to him.

But…

Why is it that he had these feelings inside him?

Feelings that everything is just a start for something, the beginning of an end…

Why?

Yet, he could not care less. She is here and now.

"Welcome back, Mikan…"

Author's Note: Again, I'm really sorry...A sad thing also that this is the last chapter for this story 'Something to Talk About'. But fear no because next year, I will write the continuation for this story in title 'Something to Write About'.

The second part of this long story will answered many unanswered question left in the first part so watch out!

I'm enjoying Christmas with my brother and Ian. Don't forget to read and review! I'll be more chhery if I get reviews! No review, no new story. -Just kidding- And for those who reviewed from the first chapter of this story, I will appreciate your review A LOT!

Merry Christmas Everyone! And A Happy New Year!!!