Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice.

I wrote this chapter a long time ago. Anyway, due to some problems I haven't been able to update. I'm soooo sorry :( well, I wouldn't write a very long introduction like I did on my other story. Here goes :)


Ruka and Natsume sat on the couch in Natsume's living room, with a set of complicated machines that would transmit the conversation from the listening device. Ruka glanced at his watch. "It's almost 12, Hotaru should be going there soon. Just to make sure, I'll try to call her, okay?" Natsume nodded and Ruka walked to the balcony while calling Hotaru.

Hotaru picked up after a few moments. "What?" She asked. She hadn't been exactly a loving girlfriend after the incident with Natsume, primarily because Ruka had been siding with Natsume.

"Wondering if you would like to grab a lunch."

"Goddammit, Ruka, I told you I'm going out with the girls today." Ruka could almost hear her rolling her eyes. "See? Just go with Natsume, you listen to him more anyway."

"Are you… y'know, having the… bloody Niagara fall?" Hotaru had been very moody lately, and Ruka suspect it might be the hormones.

"My what?! Speak louder! I'm driving!" Car honks echoed with Hotaru's voice. "Fuck you, the light is green! Move faster!" Hotaru screamed.

"Your… uh, Satan's sacrificial waterfall."

"Oh. My period? Yeah! I'm having it! But that's not why I'm so fucking angry right now!"

"Absolutely not. Just asking, Hotaru." Ruka backed off quickly. Totally the period. He made a mental note to himself to buy her some crab snacks and chocolate to make her feel better. "You're driving to Anna's place?"

"Yes! How many times do I have to fucking repeat myself?!"

"Alright, alright, easy there." Ruka felt like he was taming a dragon. Except it's harder, he added glumly. At least a dragon doesn't have periods, right? "I'm sorry I forgot, okay? Are you coming back for dinner later?"

"I'm going with the girls." Ruka heard the sound of engine being turned off. "So you can go and fuck Hyuuga."

Hotaru really was beyond mad. "Hotaru, I think you're being too harsh on Natsume. You need to explain to him what he did wrong before he could fix his mistake, don't you think?" Ruka sighed.

It didn't even take Hotaru a second to answer. "I don't want him to fix his mistake," she bluntly said. "Hyuuga can go and rot in hell. Tell him—what's done is done. Let Mikan go." Hotaru seemed to slam the car door shut. "Okay, bye." Hotaru hung up.

"So?" Natsume asked as Ruka walked back in.

"She just arrived there, I guess. Not in a very good mood. She's having her periods." Ruka rolled his eyes. "She's angry all the time now."

"That's why, stop her from having period."

"How?" Ruka furrowed his eyebrows.

"Of course, make her pregnant."

"Fuck you, Natsume."


The first one hour, Natsume and Ruka caught nothing. But a few moments after that, they could hear faint noises. A door was being open, and the noises spilled in loudly.

"…your spaghetti was delicious as usual, Anna!" Nonoko's voice echoed through Natsume's spacious living room.

"Thanks!" Anna sounded delighted. "Alright girls, as usual—gossip time!"

Some noises. "Hotaru, jump on the bed too!" Anna shouted.

"No thanks, I'll behave like a normal human."

A few moments of silence.

"Can't Mikan Skype with us today?" Sumire asked.

"She said she's going to have a tour around the city today. Maybe looking at some cathedrals, or going to the Singer House. The view is picturesque after all," Hotaru said.

"Oh, true! I've heard a lot about Singer House. So her place's around there, is it?"

"Not exactly. She gave me some address, but that doesn't make sense to me. She said she'll join our gossip time tomorrow."

"Cool! Tomorrow at the bar?"

"Sure!"

Ruka and Natsume exchanged looks, smiling.

"What's Singer House?" Natsume asked.

"I also don't know. Go search about it in Wikipedia."

Natsume played with his phone for a while. "It's some historical landmark of Russia," he said. "Located at Saint Petersburg."

Ruka grinned. "So now, we got it narrowed down to a city."

"Which is, uh, 605.8 square kilometers in area. Or 233.9 square miles, whatever." Natsume stared at his screen. "Uh, actually, the area of the federal subject is 1,439 square kilometers, or 556 square miles. Still sounded pretty big to me."

"Hey, hey, but we got a clue now. Better than nothing, right?" Ruka embraced Natsume and smiled.

Natsume smiled back. "Yeah. Thanks, Ruka. Wouldn't have been able to do this without you."

"Anna, what's that? A new pillow?"

Hotaru's voice took the guys' attention back to the machine.

"Oh, yes. A few days ago, uh, Ruka and Hyuuga came to me, and Hyuuga gave me this as a sign of apology."

"Shit," Ruka murmured. "Hotaru's gonna find out."

In a few moments, the sounds turned into constant buzzing.

The guys glanced at each other.

"Hotaru knew these stuffs really well," Ruka said. At that moment, his phone rang. Hotaru. Hesitantly, he picked it up. "Uh, hi, Hotaru."

"It was you guys, right?" Her tone was icy.

Ruka fumbled to answer, so Natsume grabbed the phone from him. "That's right," he answered in triumph. "You were too late. I finally got a clue on where Mikan is, and I'm going to advance from there. You can't stop me."

Even from across the phone, Natsume could feel Hotaru's cold glare. "You might have won the Trojan War, Hyuuga—I'll give you that much—but the real challenge is still starting. The journey to get you back to Ithaca." Hotaru's mysterious voice sent Natsume chills.

"What the fuck are you talking about?! Tell me!" Natsume demanded. "Why did you call me Odysseus last time?! What's Ithaca?!"

"Read your Greek mythologies, Hyuuga. I thought Mikan gave you a clue?" Hotaru said mockingly before hanging up.

Natsume turned to Ruka. "Ruka, tell me about Odysseus."


By the way, those phrases "Satan's sacrificial waterfall" and "bloody Niagara fall" are the phrases I usually use with my close friends. Since they sound funny, I decided to put them up here.

So, yeah. I forgot totally what happened in this chapter, actually. I just know that Hotaru got super pissed at the guys. LOL. She will continue to be pissed in the next chapter, so stay tuned for that! :D

~sassgoddess