Chapter 3
Author's Note: I hope you enjoy this one. Truthfully who knows how long this story will take. It may end soon though. Oh I'm sorry if it's boring. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice
"Ok…just breathe!" was what Mr. Narumi told Mikan over and over again. It just wouldn't get through her thick skull. Mikan just couldn't control what was happening to her. It was getting hard to breathe not to mention to talk about what just happened right before they were in this situation.
"Was it really that bad" Mr. Misaki said as he looked at the distressed Mikan but also at the startling faces of the rest of the group who were beside her, sitting on the sofa in the teacher's lounge. The group all had the same face from Yuu to Hotaru. It seemed as if they have experienced a certain trauma and in the process, their face showed signs of devastation and surprisingly the one who showed the most expression of devastation on her face was none other than the calm and cool-headed Hotaru.
In fact if one were to enter this room right now you would feel the tension and it would have seemed that disaster has struck. You would focus your attention and feelings of pity so much on the group of students that you might even miss this one boy who was separated from the group and simply was leaning in one of the far corners of the room. Unlike his friends though, this young boy didn't bother to show emotion and instead it seemed he had spaced out to think things through. One would even think that he was actually in some deep trance.
The room was still and quiet wherein the only sound would be the repetitive and continuous sound of Mikan's breathing. You see Mikan herself couldn't believe what close of a call that could have been. She just couldn't help but remember everything and how all that information came rushing as if she was downloading things way too fast. It just happened so fast as she remembered how big the crowd was, how they were running and they were forced to retreat inside the building, the way the fans with super strength smashed through the door narrowly missing her head, how they tore up Hotaru's invention and not to mention the net launcher that almost hit Natsume. They had gone through all of that and for what reason? Well they were all after one thing, her boyfriend.
Right now the group of students was inside a room where the teachers decided to set the kids down. It was actually the nearest room because of the moment the majority of the students seemed to have a small and tiny breakdown. When they entered the room though the group of students collapsed on the couch in the middle while Natsume rushed to the windows and pulled the curtain closed on it then quickly went to the corner where he continues to lean on. Of the moment, only the students and two teachers are inside the room. The teachers wondering what went wrong even sent out people to investigate the situation that could have caused the reactions of the students since they can't talk right now.
Mr. Narumi was starting to get annoyed by such a silence that he took a deep breath and decided to talk softly so not to startle them. Mikan wasn't helping so he decided to try it with someone else "Yuu?" he started with Yuu jolting a little at the sound of his name "Can you tell me what happened?"
Yuu simply just widened his eyes and tried to speak "Well…it's confusing…um…they chased us…then they…oh" in the end that was all he could speak as he too was trying to fix his thoughts. Like Mikan, things like that need time to ponder on.
"Well that didn't work…" Mr. Misaki said as he sighed "Maybe we can ask Serina to see it for us." He suggested as he continued to look at the downcast group.
Before Mr. Narumi could react to Mr. Misaki the door burst open revealing Mr. Jinno standing right outside the door. Mr. Jinno was actually panting for some reason. After his entrance and taking in his appearance Mr. Misaki and Narumi turned to Mr. Jinno in wonder of what happened.
Mr. Jinno suddenly took a deep breath and then scanned the room. He then had his eye landed on the boy in the corner who was spacing out. "You!" Mr. Jinno said in the process breaking Natsume's deep thinking "Would you mind telling us what is going on?"
"What do you mean Jinno?" Mr. Narumi said shocked by Mr. Jinno's sudden actions.
Mr. Jinno simply looked at Narumi then explained "When we went to the elementary building we saw that the door was broken as in there were holes and it was torn form its hinges and found actually far from where it should be. It looked as if somebody threw it." Mr. Jinno said looking at Natsume
"So what does it have to do with Natsume?" Mr. Misaki said as he was confused with what Mr. Jinno was talking about. Why would that be important right now when we have these students who are frightened to death right now in front of us?
"Well when I tried to figure out what happened I contacted the other teachers who were on the look out." Mr. Jinno continued "The problem is I can't contact them."
This ended up shocking not only Mr. Narumi and Misaki but the group of friends too. In fact it was what snapped all of them back to what was really happening.
"What do you mean?" Mr. Narumi asked with his eyes wide open "How can you not contact them? Did something happen to them?"
"It appears so…" Mr. Jinno said but he ended it with a tone that made it seem like there was something else more to it.
"What do you mean by that tone" said Natsume who was now standing straight and facing Mr. Jinno. His sudden speech shocked everyone.
Mr. Jinno then straightened up even more and looked Natsume in the eye "When I contacted them I could hear some kind of interference. It was as if there were some high-pitched noises but multiple. Anyway one word that kept on coming up was none other than your name Natsume."
After Mikan heard this she looked up and gasped "Does that mean they got them?" she said this with fear in her voice
"Who are they?" Mr. Narumi said in reply to Mikan "Can you guys care to explain to us…everything?"
All the group of students suddenly looked at Natsume. "Well…I'm guessing this problem definitely has something to do with you." Mr. Jinno said
In reply to this Natsume simply sighed and sat down on the couch right beside Mikan. He then looked at the rest of the group and they nodded along with him. With this they then turned towards the teachers and decided to explain what had happened and the situation they were currently in.
"So I guess it started with me and Natsume making a bet" Mikan said
It was hard to explain it to adults who were very critical of what they were saying especially Mr. Jinno who seemed to be always in a bad mood. It took long. Luckily they didn't interrupt the story and all they got were certain faces and small expressive sounds once in a while.
"So…" Mr Jinno started "Let me get this straight. You guys are in this shape and are all devastated because of a bunch of fans."
This sadly was the wrong thing to say to the group who experienced too much today. It was like pulling the trigger to a loaded gun.
"Excuse me!" Mikan shouted as she stood up "May we remind you that it was half of the student body! Not to mention that this school is full of students who have freaking stupid super powers. Did you see what they did to the door? Did you know one of the holes was caused by a fist that was an inch from my head!" Mikan shouted then took a breath. Surprisingly Hotaru stood up to have her go.
"Mikan's right you can't joke around like that. They tore down my precious invention just because a 'friend' of Natsume built it. Can you imagine what would have happened if they came in contact with us? We had to run away from crazy fans that could teleport and if it wasn't for Mikan we wouldn't be here right now."
Natsume not standing up simply looked at the teachers and explained "Do you know how it feels like to have a crowd of fanatic girls running after you and they have powers and a machine that had a net launcher. You definitely should not underestimate this problem. After all, right now some members of your team are missing."
What the three students suddenly pointed out made the teachers be able to understand them more. At first they thought it was some joke that they were scared by such a crowd but when they explained the fact that they had super powers, tore metals for souvenirs and even was willing to catch people with nets surely made them take it more seriously.
"You guys are really startled and exhausted by this." Mr. Narumi said as he glanced at all of their tired and stressed faces.
"You would be tired too if you ran as fast as we did." Ruka said as he took a deep breath "We literally had to run for our lives."
"Well right now we have to find some kind of protection for you guys. Especially Natsume" Mr. Jinno said "We might even have to implement some rules and even punishments so that things will not get too far. In fact some of the girls need to be punished right now since they broke school property."
"Ahh…but" Nonoko said attracting the attention of everyone "Shouldn't you guys worry too?"
"Huh" Mr. Misaki asked curiously "What do you mean? Worry about what?"
"Well" Nonoko said "If they tried to hunt us down isn't there a possibility that you guys will be hunted down too. After all you guys are Natsume's teachers."
"Well…" Mr Narumi said now hitting him "We need to think about that…but that will wait. Natsume is the one who is really in the spot here after all."
"It's funny though" Anna said
"What's funny?" Yuu asked as he turned to look at her.
"Well it's funny how they kinda attacked those teachers that were reporting but never decided to take attack on the faculty building. If they didn't because they would get in trouble then why did they hurt the teachers if it would cause them to get in trouble too?" Anna said as if pointing out something funny.
Surprisingly nobody replied and in response the whole room was quiet. It seemed that Anna made a lot of sense and it could mean bad news to them.
"Why is everyone so gloomy" Anna asked "It's not like we're under attack." She said trying to cheer them up.
Suddenly a huge explosion followed by the floor shaking came. Everybody was now on their feet and on the alert.
"What could that be?" Mr. Misaki asked with shock once the shaking had come to a stop.
No one actually knew what that could have been. The only one who reacted fast enough was none other than Natsume. Natsume jolted straight to the window and checked behind the curtains. The others waited to see his reactions and to their dismay his reaction wasn't what they wanted to see. Natsume face has turned pale and his eyes grew in surprise but Natsume acting like he always does slowly tried to remove the expression of surprise from his face by taking a long and deep breath.
"Um…Natsume…What is happening?" asked a scared Mikan who was trying to peek behind Natsume and see what could have caused the flame caster's horrid expression.
Natsume suddenly faced Mr. Jinno and said "We either need to evacuate really quick or get some back-up."
"Why?" Mr Jiinno asked as he checked at what Natsume was talking about. When Mr. Jinno had reached the window he too had paled. "I don't believe it. I thought you guys were exaggerating!" he said as he took a step back from the window in disbelief.
"Mr Jinno? What do you mean" asked a worried Ruka who had his suspicions on what Mr. Jinno could have meant but Ruka hoped with all his might that his assumption was wrong.
Mr. Jinno suddenly faced the rest of the group. His appearance was shocking with his eyes wide and a paled and frantic face. "It's the crazy mob of fans." Jinno said "It's incredible. The number of students outside there is unbelievable."
"Why couldn't my assumptions been wrong?" Ruka complained as Mr. Jinno's words sunk in. "Now what can we do. They might break this building down."
"Come on now Ruka." Mr. Narumi said calmly after taking a peek behind the curtain to see what Mr. Jinno was talking about. "I don't think they would break the whole building down. They might break doors and bones but surely not the building."
"Well then what do we do?" Hotaru said "Because I'm not willing to be killed by fan girls because of my best friend's stupid boyfriend" she said this as she glared with full force on Natsume.
"Imai" Mr. Misaki said calling Hotaru's attention and in the process breaking her glare full of hatred "This isn't the time to be fighting. If we fight, how can you get out of this mess in the first place?"
"Mr. Misaki is right" Yuu said addressing to everyone "I guess all of us have to do this no matter how annoyed or scared we are. We just have to deal with this chaos whether we like it or not."
Just as Yuu finished his sentence the building had started shaking once again. When Mr. Jinno had looked at the window he discovered it was caused by many attacks of the students who had joined forces and attacked all at once.
"Funny…" Nonoko observed. "Why is it that they're attacking all at once and all it does is cause the building to shake. It should have caused much more damage than that with all of their destructive powers together."
"I think it's because of Mikan's power." Mr. Narumi answered to Nonoko "Although Mikan's power is to nullify, I guess her exhaustion affected her power's strength not to mention the fact that her power is being used on all these people causing it to be dispersed unevenly."
"So you're practically saying that Mikan's power can't handle all these people and it can only weaken the powers." Ruka summarized it all in all.
"Great! Now we're going to get killed." Hotaru said plainly as she took in a deep breath. She then turned to Anna "This all your fault. You just had to say something like there were worse things in the world. Well guess what those things are happening to us as we speak." This in the process hurt Anna in a way. Now she felt even worse then she was feeling when she found out the students were indeed attacking.
"Hotaru!" Yuu exclaimed coming to Anna's defense "Just because you're having a hard day doesn't mean you have to take out on Anna."
"Well, whatever happens I guess Hyuuga should be in charge of getting us out of this mess!" Hotaru exclaimed as she gave Hyuuga another glare. "Whatever it is you better hurry and try not to put us in even more peril. If you need me, I'll be over there, on the couch, away from all of you." She said this with as much hostility as she could have put. With saying this she then left to sit on the couch.
"Well…" Mr Misaki said while looking at Hotaru "What should we do now?"
"Don't worry…" Mr. Jinno said as he went towards the wall which had a phone attached to it. "Although I never thought it would be used for such a crazy and outrageous reason for this, desperate times call for desperate measures. I don't think that punishments and some new rules could save us now. We need more."
"Mr. Jinno?" Nonoko asked in confusion "What are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about a special task force that is only used for times when things get too out of hand." Mr. Jinno explained "They will help till things will settle down. It means that they can get us out of here and also give you guys some protection from this mob in the mean time. We just have to wait little bit longer. I'm sure the fans won't be able to get too far by that time."
"Ah Mr. Jinno" Ruka then said "You said 'till things settle down'. What if…well what if they don't settle down."
"Then I guess you guys have to deal with this everyday" Mr. Narumi said in reply to Ruka "I'm sure you'll get used to it in no time if it annoys you so much maybe you guys can figure out what really brought on this whole thing."
"True…true" Mr. Misaki said thoughtfully "What could have caused all these girls to react this way. This behavior is certainly unbelievable and astounding really."
"Actually I'm pretty amazed that Mikan can exert that much power." Mr. Narumi said "It could probably be caused by an adrenaline rush or you just have an amplification alice stone with you."
"No…she couldn't actually have Tono's stone. We didn't visit him for quite some time." Natsume said as he answered Mr. Narumi
"Well…actually" Mikan spoke up catching Natsume's attention. Natsume had noticed that Mikan was looking away and at the process rubbing her head. "I kinda visited him all alone."
"You kinda?" Natsume shouted as he took a step towards Mikan and looked at her straight in the eye. "What do you mean you kinda?" Natsume continued with his voice raising.
"Well…" Mikan tried to say. "You were busy that day and I was really bored. Suddenly I remembered that Tono-senpai wanted to see me so I decided to go. At the end he gave me his alice stone as a small remembrance."
"So you just decided to go to this all alone? Huh?" Natsume exclaimed as snapped at Mikan "Didn't we decide that whenever you go out to see some certain people we should go together. Not only did you do that but you also never even bothered to tell me anything about this visit at all."
"Well if I told you, I thought you would be barking and get horribly angry at me!" Mikan said deciding to stop being such a coward. She stood up straight and raised her voice "And you know what? I guess I was right!"
"Oh, so you're making me look like I've done the bad thing here!" Natsume snapped at Mikan once again in response to Mikan's anger. "It was an agreement that we made Mikan! You know how I feel about you going alone especially with those men you're so close too!"
"Well Natsume! It is definitely your fault for being jealous" Mikan said now irritated and stressed "In fact ALL of this is YOUR fault! If you hadn't been so jealous we probably wouldn't be where we are right now. We probably wouldn't be running for our lives because of your stupid fan girls!"
"Okay! Guys! Quit fighting!" Ruka said trying to break the tension between his friends.
Sadly Ruka's words fell on deaf ears because Natsume responded to Mikan's accusations. "Excuse me!" Natsume shouted "My fault! Honestly you think I wanted to be chased like this! Do you think I planned all of this?"
"Well I guess Natsume that your plan backfired!" Mikan replied now screaming
"What plan?" Natsume replied angrily
"Oh please Natsume!" Mikan said as she smiled "It's so obvious you had this entire fan encounter planned. You obviously did it so I could be jealous and you can be right once again! Well, this is what your pride got you boy! It all backfired so now our lives could be in mortal danger!" Mikan and at the end of it all she was reduced to more shouting.
"Wait Mikan!" Ruka said quickly "Let's not jump to any conclusion shall we?" Ruka said this because he knew what would happen when Mikan said those accusations.
"You think I did all of this? Just for a stupid bet!" Natsume said now even more furious then he was earlier. "You think that I would plan this thing just for some pride! Do you think that lowly of me?"
"Well…," Mikan said as she narrowed her eyes at Natsume "I don't think, I know how you're like!"
"Oh is that so!" Natsume said "Please, you're the one with the whole pride complex! It's pretty obvious that you're jealous and you can't take the fact that you are! You're taking out your anger of jealousy on me!"
"I knew it!" Mikan exclaimed "You were just trying to make me, Jealous! It's so obvious Natsume especially since you're so held up about it!"
"Oh, there you go again!" Natsume shouted "Pointing it towards me. Will you ever admit it!"
"Me! Admit?" Mikan said in shock "Why would I have anything to admit? You're the one who brought this horrible experience on us in the first place. You're the one to who needs to admit!" screaming Mikan
"I didn't do it!" Natsume said furiously "But since your STUPID pride and your STUPID imagination won't budge at all then there is no use fighting with you! In fact its better that we don't talk until you clearly get into your head about what is really going on!"
"And what could be this 'thing' that is going on huh?" Mikan asked mockingly
"How about, you figure it out yourself!" Natsume shouted with all his might now frightening Mikan.
Natsume was now really on the brink of losing all of his patience and he knew at this rate he can even get violent. He then just glared at Mikan but refused to say all of those things that were coming across his mind. He didn't think he could control himself if he went too far.
"You can think of me all you want" Natsume said "But you're only fooling yourself." With that Natsume left Mikan's side and went outside the door of the room. There he simply leaned on the wall right outside waiting for the special reinforcements to come.
Mikan on the other hand felt nothing but guilt once she saw Natsume walk out the door. Once he closed the doors shut, Mikan then walked slowly to the corner of the room and sat there. She didn't care about the stares of pity her friends were giving her. There she just simply wept silent tears.
Author's Note: Oh by the way I might not be able to update fast anymore! I'm going out and then school starts again! Hope I can finish it quickly though! Thanks for reading!