A/N: Hello! Well I'm planning on making longer chapters so that this series doesn't take up like 40, 30 chapters like some series do. Any way enjoy! If you have any opinions on how to make the story better I'm all ears. Well, actually in this case, I'm all eyes! c;
Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice!
"Doesn't he ever smile?"
"Who? Hyuuga? No. Why?" she asked curious as to why I would ask.
"No reason. Just wondering." I shrugged.
"Well there you are. Please do not fight any more! If you do it will take a month for you to fully heal!" she said.
"Okay." I jumped off the bed and headed towards the door.
"Oh, Serina-sensei?" I looked back.
"What is it?" she smiled sweetly from her desk.
"Arigatou!" I smiled and ran down the corridor.
"What was that about?" Serina-sensei said to herself.
I now knew why leader didn't hurt me badly and why she saved me. If only it were an easy task to do!
.:Black Sakura:.
.:Chapter Four: The Clique:.
While these two idiots were having what seemed like a lovers' quarrel, I dragged Nogi out the door of the nurses' office with me. Of course I held back my blush when I took his hand. Nogi...He just had this effect on me. I seriously have no clue how I fell for him. Well, maybe I do. A little.
We were in kindergarten and all the kids were bullying me. They were saying that I was such a geek. I was a freak because I was a genius since school started. They hated how all the parents and teachers always paid attention to me, always praising me.
It shouldn't bother me. I mean I'm the emotionless blackmailing ice queen, Hotaru Imai. I should always have a face that showed no expression, a cold-hearted girl, that's the type of girl I should have been. Yet, their words hurt me badly. I didn't show it, but slowly everyday that I faced those cruel jealous bastards, there words were slowly killing me. Sooner or later I would have been thinking about suicide at 6. Then he came.
Ruka Nogi and Natsume Hyuuga were new students to Alice Academy. Even at age 6 they were already popular with the ladies. At first I thought they were some selfish, snobby, little kids, but not until that day.
It was Friday and last period which was gym. The kids were bullying me again. This time I really had cracked. My emotionless face changed into one that showed pain and sadness. All the kids started laughing at how the Hotaru Imai was crying for the first time. They thought it was fun, but it was embarrassing and it hurt.
"Stop it!" said a voice from behind the bullies. "What has Hotaru ever done to you?"
Nogi...The last guy I ever wanted to see. His perfect face, and kind acts. It made me sick ever since I met him. Yet, why did I feel happy that someone stopped them? Someone actually sided with Hotaru Imai. It seemed impossible even to me, yet here was Ruka Nogi coming up to me who was on the ground crying and hugging her knees.
"Are you okay, Hotaru?" smiled Nogi.
"..." I didn't answer. Instead I looked up at him with wide violet eyes. Then I found the courage to speak. "..Why?"
"Huh? Why what, Hotaru?" Nogi tilted his head to the side slightly.
"Why...did you...help me?" I said blushing a little and avoiding his gaze.
"No one deserves to be treated this way!" he smiled brightly.
That day helped me keep on living. Knowing that someone actually cared for me, trying to help me gave me courage to live on. Ever since then I had a crush on Nogi, but I kept it a secret from everyone else.
Soon enough I met Anna and Nonoko, two friends who liked twins. Although they were entirely the opposite of me we became friends almost immediately. I guess it's true when they say 'opposites attract.' They were the first friends I ever made. They didn't fear me. It made me happy but I didn't show it, but they some how saw right through me and knew I was happy. Later on in 7th grade we met Yuu. He was the second guy I liked along with Nogi. Then we met Koko another guy I liked and his childhood friend, Sumire.
Together we had our own clique in our first year of high school. Everyone knew of us. Hotaru Imai the genius, Anna Umenomiya the 4 star cook, Nonoko Ogasawara the amazing chemist, Yuu Tobita the school president, Koko Yume the school clown and troublemaker, and Sumire Shouda the greatest dresser and a real lady in the school. We were all popular. All of us were good looking and geniuses.
Valentine's Day came and everyone told me I should confess to Nogi. Of course I wouldn't do that, but I really liked him. So I almost did. Almost. This was also the day I lost most of my feelings for Nogi.
"Nogi, can I talk to you?" I asked calmly, but inside I was nervous and embarrassed.
"I'll see you later, Ruka." Hyuuga left us alone.
"You're Imai right?" he said smiling like always.
"Yeah..." I was planning on confessing right now until he said...
"You're the girl I pitied when we were six right?" he said smiling still.
Pitied...
The word still ring in my ears. He only helped me because he pitied me? I died that day. No, I did not die physically, but my entire love life was living on a lie. I still like Nogi 'cause somewhere inside me keeps telling me he didn't pity me. I changed entirely that day. No more make-up, no more kindness, no more trying to be sweet girl. I had enough. I became a girl who hated men. I became a tom boy, genius, cold-hearted, bitch. I still liked Nogi, but not as much. Well I only hated all men except Koko and Yuu...And slightly Nogi.
Ever since then I decided to get a little revenge for what he did to me. He lied. He pitied me. Well, I was about to show him what he gets for lying to Hotaru Imai. I started taking embarrassing photos or beautiful photos of Nogi and sold them. I got a lot of money too. Soon I decided to do his best friend Hyuuga too. Yet, I still needed someone good enough to help me create the images.
Then came Mikan. The perfect girl for the job. Not only was she hot, she hated men, was a tom boy, plus she would make a good addition to our clique. Mikan...When I first saw her through the security camera she looked like a little child (A/N: Mikan's kind of short.) who looked lonely and was in pain. I didn't pity her like Nogi did. I wanted to help her. So when I slowly got to know her in one day she seemed like a hyper girl. She didn't smile much, but I know if you could make her smile she would look like a teddy bear, or doll, that you would always want to protect and care for.
"Imai! He-llo?" Nogi was waving a hand in front of my face.
"What!?" I snapped back into reality.
"What are we doing here?" he asked. We were outside the nurses' office. I suddenly remembered that I was going to spy on Hyuuga's and Mikan's conversation.
"Eavesdropping. What else, stupid?" I said pressing my ear slightly to the door.
"You used to be a nice person who always gave everyone space." sighed Nogi and pressed his ear too.
"...People change..." I slightly glared at him, but he didn't see.
"Imai, I really don't feel comfortable doing this." Nogi whined.
"Fine, then go. No one's telling you to stay." I said calmly, but I really wanted him to stay here with me.
"Sigh," he sighed and sat down next to me pressing his ear against the door again. "I'm only doing this because I'm curious."
"Whatever." I smirked a little. He was right next to me and he looked a little uncomfortable being with me, eavesdropping.
We were listening and they just found out we were gone. Really, even though Hyuuga is the top genius in the school he's slow sometimes. I pressed my ear a little harder since their voices became slightly lower. That's when they started talking about yankees.
At first I didn't understand how they came to that subject, until Hyuuga asked if Mikan was one. When he asked that questions and answers raced in my mind. It would explain why she's a tom boy. It explained why she didn't smile a lot. It explained a lot of things about Mikan, but a girl like her doesn't join a gang so easily. Although she acts like one, Mikan's personality and the way she thinks, it doesn't seem like she would want to join a gang.
Mikan responded pretty quickly. What shocked me was she said, "Used to." She used to be a yankee... Another question rang in my head. Why does she look okay? Don't yankees who quit the gang get beat up badly?
Well later Mikan regained her voice and started teasing Hyuuga. I smirked to myself and looked at Nogi who was smirking himself. From the look on his face he knows something about Hyuuga that I don't know. I'll ask him later. It's pretty easy. Show him a picture of himself doing something embarrassing and say you will sell it unless he tells you what you want to know.
I felt someone hovering above us. It was Serina-sensei, the nurse. By the looks of it she heard what Mikan was talking about.
"You guys better leave or they'll catch you." Serina-sensei said.
"Hai." we both said.
Everybody fears Serina-sensei. She's scary. One time a student tried to have sex with her and well let's say it didn't end well. Now everybody is scared of her. Well all the boys that is. The girls are just scared to get caught doing something horrible or get caught pregnant. Lucky for us she isn't the principal.
Ruka and me stood up and left in different directions.
.:.
"Oi, Mikan!" someone pounded on the door to my room.
"Mmhmm." I took the pillow and put it over my head to get rid of the noise.
"Wake up you sleepy head!" Hotaru yelled.
"SHUT UP!" I yelled and pulled the covers over my head.
There was a loud bang on my door and a thump. I knew I shouldn't have looked, but curiosity got the best of me. I shouldn't have because you know what they say, 'curiosity killed the cat.' In this case it killed Mikan.
"Mikan Sakura! Did you just tell me to 'shut up'!?" Hotaru came in with a big cannon in her hands.
"Umm..." I didn't know whether to tell her the truth or lie. I don't think it mattered because I was about to end up in a coffin soon.
"What kind of answer is that!?" Hotaru yelled more now charging the canon.
"I was...umm...dreaming?" I lied. I knew it was a bad lie, I never was a good liar.
"I know you're lying but I'll let it pass." Hotaru glared at me and lowered her canon walking out of my room. "By the way. You're going to be late if you don't hurry up."
"I don't want to go!" I whined and went back under the covers.
"MIKAN!!" Hotaru yelled so loud it woke up everybody in the girls' dormitories.
Boys, girls, and teachers (A/N: students from middle school up can only live in dormitories.) all had their own building for dormitories, so that's already three buildings. Then there's the elementary building, middle school building, high school building, and university building. People who go to a certain building have to go to the same place to eat. For example all middle schoolers have lunch in the same building. What I think is cool is how all the buildings connect to each other by bridges. Don't worry there's glass around it so rain doesn't get in. It's really actually fun and neat to walk building to building without going outside.
"I'm up! I'm up!" I grumbled.
I got out of bed and headed for the bathroom. I took a quick shower and quickly dried my hair. I put on the stinkin' girly uniform. It had a bright white dress shirt fixed with a yellow plaid tie, covered with a black suit, a yellow plaid skirt that went a centimeter past mid-thigh, white knee high socks and black dress shoes. Of course I wouldn't wear this so I fixed to my style.
Okay the dress shirt I had the buttons undone so that a little bit of my cleavage is seen. About three buttons undone. I pulled the dress shirt out of my skirt so it was hanging and unbuttoned the buttons at the bottom that barely exposed my tummy. The tie hung loosely around the collar, the black suit entirely not buttoned. The skirt I left alone since I couldn't do anything to it except add 2 chains around it so they hung loosely around my hips. The socks I left it alone and the dress shoes to boots.
"There. Much more my style." I smiled a little.
I put my hair in two low pigtails again. No ribbon. I had a yellow plaid headband that matched my tie and skirt on top of my head. I looked at my face and I put absolutely no make-up. I put my lucky jewelry on. I put my favorite crescent moon necklace and wrapped it around my neck once and the second time so it hung loosely around my neck, silver rings on my thumb and index finger finger on my left hand with different patterns.
"C'mon! Classes start in 40 minutes and I want to eat breakfast peacefully!" knocked Hotaru.
"What do you think?" I asked Hotaru stepping out of the bathroom.
"Let's go!" she said and grabbed my hand and we ran for it.
We made it to the high school building in 3 minutes. Lucky for us it's right next to the dormitory. We went down the stairs to the lunch room where they were serving everything you would ever want for breakfast. The aroma made my stomach grumble for the delicious food.
When we entered through the double doors to the lunch room the entire place was packed with high schoolers! Freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors all together. Everyone was here! The tables were all circular so about 8 people fitted per table.
"Hurry up and pick your food. I want you to meet the rest of us." Hotaru said. She already picked her breakfast: Seafood.
I quickly looked over what they had. I had no clue what to choose! I mean even though I'm a tom boy I always loved food. It was one of the few things I liked. I decided on something sweet so I just took a pop tart and some milk. I know it's very little, but once I eat sugar I get hyper.
Hotaru took me, or dragged, me to a table in the back. I noticed some girls around there and a lot of boys hanging around the table. When we walked over the boys and girls moved over for Hotaru and me.
"Everyone, this is Mikan Sakura. She's new and will be joining us." Hotaru said looking at everyone sitting at the table.
I looked at the people at the table. There were two girls that looked almost identical to each other. One had pink slightly curly hair with the same headband as me. The one on her left had blue straight hair with a headband too. There was one more girl next to the pink haired one. She had green permy hair. Well I guess I'll be calling her permy. Then there were two guys. One had dark straw hair and he wore glasses. The other one had light straw hair color and a goofy smile on his face. All of them were good looking.
"Mikan these are the people in our clique." Hotaru said.
"Hello! I'm Anna." Anna smiled sweetly.
"Hi! I'm Nonoko!" Nonoko smiled brightly.
"I'm Yuu. Pleased to meet you Miss Sakura." Yuu said politely.
"I'm Kokoro. Call me Koko for short!" the goofy smiling guy said.
"And I'm Sumire. Hope we can get along." Permy drank her tea.
"Umm, Hotaru?" I asked. All eyes from the other students were on me, all showed shock and/or drooling from guys.
"What?" Hotaru said as she began to eat her salmon.
"Why are they all staring at me?" I whispered to her and sat down next to her.
"That's because no one ever joined our clique for over 2 years since middle school." Anna answered.
"Plus, you're hot!" the Koko guy exclaimed.
"Say that again and you won't see the light again." I glared at him and he shrank in his chair. The Yuu guy comforted him.
"And probably because you're the one who hit Hyuuga and some of these people saw it." Hotaru said calmly while Sumire chocked on her tea.
"WHAT!? YOU HIT HIM!?" Sumire stood up, hands on the table and glaring at me.
"Yeah I hit him and I don't regret it." I said with a bored tone, but actually she scared the hell out of me! I mean, she looks like Medusa when she's mad!
"You should regret it, pig-tails." a familiar voice said behind the crowd.
The crowd moved away so we could see who spoke. There was a table next to ours filled with guys and girls. No actually sluts. There were two people I did not want to meet. Hyuuga was at the table and Nogi surrounded by what seemed like guards and sluts.
"Why should I regret it?" I said narrowing my eyes at him.
I probably shouldn't have said that 'cause now he stood up and was walking towards me casually. His hands were in his pockets and he had a smirk on his lips. His eyes showed mischief and amusement. Something told me he was going to do something horrible to me. He came up my chair and leaned down so his lips barely touched my ear.
"I'm going to make your life hell." he whispered in a cold tone. It sent shivers down my spine but at the same time my face was warm. My only guess is that I'm blushing.
"Just try!" I regained my cool composure.
"Fine then." he said and his smirk became wider. "Just wait and see. You'll regret ever coming to Alice Academy."
And with that he left our table with Nogi at his side. Everyone turned to me. Well the guys all had a jealous look on them while the girls were throwing me death glares. I just had to know what it looked like from there point of view.
"It looked like he was nibbling your ear." Hotaru answered Hotaru reading my mind. She looked at her purple phone and then showed me the picture on it. the picture Hotaru took was the picture of Hyuuga and me. From the looks of it, it looked like he was nibbling my ear!
"Sakura," Sumire started to say. "You just made most of the girls your enemies."
"Fuck..." I said softly. "FUCK YOU HYUUGA!!" I yelled even though he was already gone. I knew he heard and was smirking like hell.
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