sayo: thx for those who review :) i'm really really glad ... this might be a short chapter but i think the next chapter might be long?
----Nine years ago----

A young brunette with chocolate orbs that had her hair tie in pigtails was playing at the yard of the house while her mother was in the house washing dishes and her father was gardening.

"Otou-san look" the young brunette said while deciding to help her father in the gardening.

"You are doing a fine job, mikan" the father praise the young brunette.

Suddenly many villagers were caught running around screaming "FIRE". Mikan's father quickly ran out to see that the fire was spreading really quickly and will reach their home within any moment.

"Mikan wait outside I'll get your mother" her father said and ran back to the house. But the fire was spreading too fast and it already reaches their house. Just as the couple was about to make it to the door, the house collapsed. Mikan saw the whole incident and was scare. She was now kneeling on the floor crying.

Meanwhile, a raven hair boy with crimson orbs, was running away from the fire since his family was burn to death inside their house when his out playing with his friends. He, of course, was sad for the lost of his family including his sister. As he was running, he spotted a young brunette with pigtails kneeling on the floor crying.

He quickly run towards the brunette to help her to get out from where she is since the fire is spreading.

"Hey the fire is spreading quickly, run now" he said. The young brunette look up and saw the boy was about the same age as her.

"Demo… otou-san… okaa-san" she continue sobbing.

"Faster we don't have much time" the boy said getting impatient.

"Demo…"

"Just come" he said taking mikan's hand, pulling her up and run towards the forest. Since the fire is highly unable to get there.

The two of them reaches the forest entrance. They look down and saw the whole village covered in flames. The two of them sat down at the foot of the tree, resting.

"Who are you?" mikan started to spoke.

"Hyuuga natsume"

"Nice name… I'm sakura mikan" mikan said looking at her toes, while thinking about her parents.

"Ne… natsume-kun… otou-san …. Okaa-san is gone" she said as tears started to drop from her eyes.

"Mine too… aoi-chan is gone too…" natsume said, as he looked at mikan. He wanted to cry, but as a boy his father teaches him that big boy doesn't cry.

"I'm all alone…"

"Don't worry your not… I'm sure as everything settle down … we will be in an orphanage with children same as us to be adopted" natsume said trying to comfort her.

"Hontoni..?" mikan said as she looked into the crimson eyes.

"Honto" natsume said as he promised.

True enough… the two of them have been taken in by the orphanage. However, every time when someone came to adopt one of them, the adoption would always be not success. Since they would always act like they are bad children, making those who want to adopt them rejected them. The two of them always keep to each other instead of playing around with the other children. Until two years later …

"I don't want you to go to that academy" mikan begged natsume as tears started to pour from her eyes.

"I can't mikan they said that I have to I really don't want to leave you…" natsume said as he emphasizing the word have.

"But if you go we won't meet each other again… I heard they say that academy won't allow you to communicate with me…"

"I promise that we will meet again… they say that they have to do something with my Alice" natsume said, he really didn't want to leave her, he really love her.

"Demo…"

"Polka … I mean mikan … I… love… you…" he said as he turn around preparing to leave with the black limo.

"Natsume… matte… I … love you too" mikan said as she ran and hug natsume. Suddenly natsume hand glow and a small crimson red Alice stone appeared. He quickly took one of mikan's hair pin and smelt it into a small ring with the Alice stone.

"Mikan… this is for you and I promise we will meet again some day" he said as he slide the ring into her ring finger.

"So promise me you will wait for me until than … my fiancée" he said as he ran to the limo that is waiting for him.

"Natsume I'll wait for you" mikan shouted as she wave to him.

(A/N: aw… isn't that cute between a couple that is only 8 years old… too bad they didn't kiss though… and I must say that natsume is a genius for using such a big word 'fiancée' for his age … lol )

Natsume is gone… she haven't heard of any news from him yet. It's been a few month since he left. She decided to escape the orphanage and go to Alice gakuen to find him. It was night at the orphanage… she pray to the ring in hope that she can find natsume. She climb over the fences and ran into the forest that lead out to the city. As she was running in the forest, she was scare at the same time. Suddenly the lightning strike on one of the trees and it falls on her, she scream and she went unconscious, soon after she fell unconscious it started to rain heavily.

"I have to reach the school" an old man said as he pass through the forest yet not wet from the rain. He suddenly heard a scream, as he headed towards the scream, he saw an unconscious girl under a fallen tree.

"Sola... help that girl" the old man said to his familiar.

"Hai"

As mikan was being rescue by the old man the old man decided to bring her to his school. After awhile... mikan woke up.

"So you're awake?" the old man said as mikan look to the sound source.

"Where am I?" she asked

"Sakuraba mahou gakuen"

"Sugoi! A school?" mikan said as the old man chuckle.

"Yeah, a school, but not your ordinary school… this is a magic academy, which teaches magic"

"I see… can I study here please?" mikan begged with her puppy eye that no one could resist saying no.

"erm… you will have to ask your parents that…since I already tell you this much and I am quite sure you have magic potential too"

mikan frown.

"Otou-san, okaa-san died…"

"I'm sorry…"

"Demo onegai I really want to study here… I will study hard I promised"

"Ok… I guess if you really want to enroll in here…"

----Present---

"Mikan, mikan"

"Nani miki?" mikan said as she was snapped out of her train of thought, looking at her familiar.

"I have been calling you for a long time"

"Sorry was thinking of something"

"Anyway Yuri said that hotaru call you to be faster we are setting off soon"

"O…ok … miki turn into staff please"

"no problem mikan" miki smile as she turn into a white staff.

to be continue...

sayo:minna-san hontoni arigato for those reviews :) this might be a really boring chapter for you ... i'm really sorry but please read and review :)
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