Here's my Chapter 3. R&R ne?

Chapter 3: Against Miss Aniya

Natsume's POV

I lied on my bed after stomping off from me and Strawberries' argument. It was absolutely meaningless without the answer that I want.

I shouldn't have walked off like that! Not without an answer! Strawberries was right, I have change! If I know myself better, I would've threatened her until she spills, and all I did was asked her to spill and left without an answer! What kind of idiot am I?

Crap! I left the Ignoring Potions in Strawberries' room. Now I have to live another day with that Sumire walking around me. Ugh!

Tsumetai taiyou ni tera sare te ta…( DNAngel OP theme song; True Light)

(Background; Kai narasa reta jiyuu gatta

That's my phone...Who could be calling me at a time like this?

I got up then turn around and reached for my phone on my bedside table.

Kagami ni, utsutta ki seki……BIP!

"Moshi moshi?" I said after pressing the 'answer' button.

"Hyuuga-san! You left your potions didn't you?! Mikan called me and asked who left the bottles in her room. She called me because it says 'Property of Imai Hotaru'. You shouldn't have left it. She was not supposed to know that I'm still making potions. She thinks my potions have 'Negative Intentions' though that may be true."

"Gomenasai Imai-chan. I didn't mean to. Her jumping out of the window surprised me! I forgot about the world around me. I thought she would've rather die than tell me about what happen to her the night before. She surprised me even more when she broke her fall with an invisible shield down there. She nearly gave me a heart attack. I just ordered Ruka to chase after her then rushed downstairs," I said. "And I totally forgot about the potion bottles."

"I accept your apology though I wish you'd stop asking Ruka to do stuffs for you. You know how much that pisses me off," Hotaru said giving a little 'tch…' at the end of her tone then hung up.

I should've known that she might fall for Ruka in the end. It's too obvious to ignore anymore. I thought; pressing the 'stop call' button.

2 years ago, Ruka's fans (the seniors) were graduating and giving their phone numbers to Ruka to keep in touch with each other. Hotaru said she'd help and took out her notebook to jot down their numbers.

The seniors were pissed when she took their numbers instead of their adored idol Ruka Nogi.

They thought she might throw their numbers away somewhere in the dump. Well, she did do it, only with a dash of fire. Ruka just smiled and slapped a high-5 with Hotaru.

How could my best friend Ruka end up with the evil-money-making Ice Queen? It's just not right.

Come to think of it. Me, Natsume Hyuuga, (former Black Cat / troublemaker of Gakuen Alice) ending up with Sakura Mikan, (adorable, innocent, and a clueless person) is just the same as when Hotaru's with Ruka. It doesn't match at all.

I sighed at the thought of it. I wonder if it'll ever happen.

Mikan's POV

I hate him! I hate him so badly! How could all this happen in a day?! ARGH!!!! I screamed to myself. Shouting every cursed word that I know out loud until my neighbor, Kimiko knocked on the door to tell and asked me to be a slightly bit more quiet because Miss Aniya is patrolling.

Kimiko has the Psychic Alice but at a low state. She doesn't really enjoy using it. She just has common visions flowing thru her mind without her wanting it.

Anyway, I wonder what was on Natsume's mind when he pushed me and asked me questions just now. Oh, but who cares, I'll just leave it up to him.

Now for my sleep before tomorrows practice.

End POV

Natsume went to his homeroom early the next day because first period is with Miss Aniya (Academy's Chairman) (member of the anti-Alice)

(Enjoys seeing people suffer as her Alice is the dangerous type; not only because it reduces life spans but also because it's the Vital Alice which means that people with weak Alice points will die of suffocating or something that has to do with inside of the body. She threatened the Academy to make her Chairman or else each of them will die. No one knows of this).

That's the other reason why the Academy is training Mikan to improve her Alice to prevent any more tragedies between the Academy and Miss Aniya.

Natsume sat at his usual place in the back corner of the room. Ruka was already in class talking to Hotaru.

Hotaru glared at Natsume as he passed by her table. Ruka just said 'Ohaiyo' and turn back to Hotaru.

Some things will never change. Natsume thought and stared at his manga.

"Ohaiyo minna-san," said Mikan cheerfully. Then she looked at her seat and saw Natsume. Then as she passed by everyone who greeted her she frowned as Natsume was the last and only person who didn't.

So she just sat next to Natsume and put her bag down and stared at her shoes.

This feels SO awkward. They thought (Mikan and Natsume). On the same second they looked at each other and the next they faced back to what they were doing just before.

Mikan stood up. Natsume just looked up to see her eyes. She looked away and starts searching for something in her bag.

I guess I really did push my luck yesterday. Natsume thought.

"Here, your Potions if I'm not mistaken," Mikan said handing over the two bottles looking away from Natsume's face. Natsume just looked up at the Potions, grabbed it and start reading his manga again.

knock knock

Miss Aniya stepped into the classroom and everyone was silent. She just smiled and walked through the classroom.

"I won't be asking you to study today and I'm hoping that you'd be on your best behavior. I'm having an oral test on class 6-B. So you better shut up," said Miss Aniya pointing to everyone.

"Haaaai!" echoed whole class not facing her. "Tch…" was all Natsume said.

6-B? Isn't that Tsubasa's class? Oh YAY!!! Finally I'll be able to see him again. He's been in detention for too long. Thought Mikan.

"So it's that freak boy's class isn't it? I'll be wondering what's going to happen to him in the test, hahah!" whispered Natsume to himself.

Mikan heard what he said and glared at him. Natsume realized the glare and looked back at his manga again.

He doesn't seem to be reading anything. He's been on that page from the time I stepped into the class if I'm not mistaken. Said Mikan to herself.

Then class 6-B stepped into the class, Tsubasa saw Mikan and gave her a little wink.

Miss Aniya saw that 'little wink', "Tsubasa, why don't you start first. I see that you have something to say," she said.

Darn this witch! Cursed Tsubasa. Mikan gave Tsubasa the sorry look since she thinks it's her fault that he has to do it first. Tsubasa gave her a reassuring look that says 'it's OK. No big deal' then gave her a little evil smirk.

Tsubasa stepped in front of the class and spoke, "Dearly beloved, we have gathered here today to pay our respects to Miss Aniya who died in a terrible and TRAGIC accident," he gave a little snicker when he said 'tragic' so did the class.

Miss Aniya looked pissed that she wished that she could just use her Alice to kill him.

"She's been the WORST chairman of the school, ruined our Alice Festival, Alice Concert. She doesn't even have an Alice. Seriously, who has seen her Alice?" the whole class giggled, Mikan just shrugged. "And she also has bribed for money from the government and…" as he continued Miss Aniya was already in front of him holding a knife and clutching his shirt collar.

"How dare you insult me? I could just kill you with my Alice you know. Oh yes, you don't know what my Alice is don't you? I'd prefer to let you suffer," she shouted as she held her hand up high to stab Tsubasa.

"TSUBASA!!!!!" Mikan screamed as she was about to stab him. Everyone was shocked and scared, so was Natsume (face pale). Some girls were hugging each other, some closing eyes and ears.

Then, Miss Aniya stopped moving.

"Ha-ha! Have you forgotten what my Alice is, Miss Aniya?" said Tsubasa as everyone saw that he was actually stepping on her shadow. Everyone give out a relieved sigh.

Miss Aniya spread a huge smile on her face and everyone saw it.

"TSUBASA!!!!! She possesses the Vital Alice! GET OUTTA THERE!!!!" Mikan shouted as hard as possible.

Tsubasa looked as though he'd seen a ghost. No, worse, as if he knew the time and date of when he's going to die.

Miss Aniya looked at Mikan with sympathy face. Mikan turned white when she saw Tsubasa gasping for air and dropped on his knees. (Miss Aniya doesn't need to move any part of her to use her Alice)

"TSUBASA!!!" Shouted Mikan again. She ran through the whole classroom and sat next to him.

"Don't die! You can avoid her Alice! TRY!" Mikan shouted holding Tsubasa's head from the ground. "Please, come on!"

"So you're the girl the Academy is training to fight against me?" she asked. Mikan just nodded.

"It seems so, since you happen to know what my Alice is. So let's be fair and show me what your Alice is, shall we?" she said putting a grin on her face handing her hand over for a little shake.

"I accept your challenge," Mikan said putting down Tsubasa's head and stood up. "Only if you stop torturing Tsubasa."

"Granted," as she said that, Tsubasa returned to normal breathing. "Now let's fight." As she said that, the class window cracks and breaks into billions of pieces.

She jumped down from the building's 13th floor and landed on the ground safely and looked up to Mikan grinning as if she already won the battle.

Mikan nodded. She faced Tsubasa as he grabbed hold of Mikan's sleeves and whispered "You don't have a chance against her. No one has a chance against a Vital Alice."

"I won't know till I try," said Mikan giving a reassuring grin on her face then jumped down from the window.

Everyone screamed.

"Shut up fools! I can't read. Look at where she is. She's fine," Natsume said glancing out of the window.

He was exactly right. She was on the ground without a cut.

The whole school saw that incident and ran down stairs as fast as they could to see the battle.

Mikan's POV

I can't lose to her. NO matter what! She nearly killed Tsubasa just then. This is for him and for all my hard work with Persona.

"Be Prepared for the worst LITTLE GIRL!!!" said Miss Aniya.

Blood rises through my veins when she called me that.

"WHY IN THE WORLD DO EVERYONE CALL ME A LITTLE GIRL?!?!?! I AM 16!! 16, I TELL YOU!!!!!" I screamed out loud.

"Let's begin, shall we?" she said placing her hand on the ground

Persona said something about her Alice. She can control things from the inside. But what does it have to do with the ground?

As I said that, the ground moves. It feels like an earthquake, only lighter.

I realized it. She is controlling the ground from below.

I jumped to a branch on a tree nearby. I made the Nullifying net around me like a dome to avoid Miss Aniya's Alice hitting the students.

"BIG MISTAKE!" she said. Smiling slyly.

What did I do wrong? It's right that I make a Nullifying dome. I mean…

OH NO!

I saw her evil smile. And to me, it really looked evil.

I dropped from the tree branch and fell on my knees head first. Blood came oozing out from my forehead and elbows.

She's torturing me. How'd she know that I forgot to put a Nullifying Barrier around myself?

"The answer's simple 'little girl'. I try an error. You always have to have a back-up plan for your ultimate plan. You seem to have the Nullifying Alice. I expected that from someone who accepts a death wish. I thought you might have an Alice like that Hyuuga boy or something like that. Perhaps maybe a genius like Imai-san. But no. You are neither powerful nor smart. You're an amateur. A weak one I might add. Ha-ha! Now I can finish you and the whole school off, so DIE!!!" she said.

As she said DIE, my throat, lungs and heart feels the need to have air, at least water. I lied down on the ground, grasping all the grass, twigs that I could and break it! I need air!! I need air! I MUST HAVE AIR!!!

I start to feel faint, I could hear people calling and shouting my name but I only concentrate on one.

Natsume's voice.

"MIKAN!!! GET UP!!! YOU CAN'T DIE NOW! I HAVEN'T SLAPPED YOU FOR NOT ANSWERING ME YESTERDAY!!! MIKAN!!!! GET UP!!! GET UP!!!!!!"

I heard him screaming and shouting those things.

I shut my eyes close. Feeling happy that at least his voice was the last one I heard.

Natsume's POV

I kept on screaming and screaming her name. She couldn't hear me. Not here. She's too far. How can I break this darn barrier?

Just as I said that, the barrier vanishes. People started looking confused. I found Hotaru's face a slightly bit different. She looks frightened and…crying?

NO WAY!!! NO!!!

She can't be dead…She's too stupid to die.

I ran towards the place where Mikan's lying down. Miss Aniya is just sitting on the log crossing her leg, amused by the fact that her opponent is weak and suffering.

"Mikan! Come on! It's me. Don't you wanna slap me or something? Get up! Please! DON'T DIE!!! MIKAN!" I said, shouting next to her ear.

Mikan just stood still. I could hardly see her breathe an inch.

NO!!!

I got up and faced Miss Aniya.

"Oh. Are you trying to avenge your 'little girlfriend's' life? That's useless. You see how she died. Even with her Nullifying Alice, she failed to stop my Alice. You have no chance," she said.

"You're going to die! Die, I tell you! You will suffer the way she did! I'll make it worse," as I said that. Fire flames surround her.

"You little brat! You really ARE trying to kill me!" she said. "No matter. I still have my Alice."

I fell down. My body feels numb. I can't speak. She must be controlling my throat. Not letting air pass through and not letting any voice come out.

"NATSUME!!! G-get up! Y-you mm-must not let he-her def-feat you! Aargh!" I heard Mikan shouted.

Hey? I can breathe again. I looked back at Mikan. She seemed to have used her Alice on Miss Aniya to avoid me from being suffocated.

"Natsume…Th-this is still my fuh-fight. Get out of the way," she said standing up. Holding her chest.

"I seem to have found your weakness and weak point," Mikan said. "So be prepared for a new duel."

"Very amusing. You're just tricking me. I have no weakness. You have plenty. Imai Hotaru, Nogi Ruka, Tsubasa, Yuu, all those damn 'friends' of yours," she said grinning wildly.

God! How I wish I could turn her to dusts right about now.

"Even this boy, Hyuuga Natsume. You're protecting him even more aren't you?" As she said my name, I looked up to Mikan. She seems to be very confident and smiling.

"Mi-kan. WH-what are you protecting me f-from?" I asked getting up.

"Stay down!" Mikan ordered. I stayed. Still looking up at her for an answer.

"I'll tell if I live. The choices are that if it's a lose-lose combat, or a win-lose combat. More or less, both of us die (referring to Mikan and Miss Aniya) or she dies and I live. Only those two options. But I'll assure you again. She won't breathe after this day. Not ever again," Mikan said confidently facing Miss Aniya like it's a battle of life and death.

"You really are trying to get my blood rising aren't you' little girl'?" Miss Aniya said.

"By calling me that, aren't you doing the same?" Mikan said.

"You're funny. But I guess you haven't been told that I might just have TWO Alices," when she said that, fire surrounds Mikan, just like what I did to her a few moments ago.

Mikan didn't look surprise nor shocked. She looked…impressed.

End POV

"You don't have two Alice at all. It's just a side effect isn't it?" Mikan said. Stepping forward into the flames.

"I have no idea what you're talking about. I definitely have two Alices. No doubt about it. Or else how could I do this fire then?" she asked Mikan.

"Simple. When you use your Alice to someone else, it's as if exchanging energies isn't it? You put your Alice in Natsume and you take out some of his Alice from his body into yours. Did I get that right?" Mikan said grinning and stepped out of the fire.

WHAT??? I don't feel any changes in my body at all. What does she mean by exchanging energy? Thought Natsume.

"Tricking me again aren't you? Why'd I bother having his Fire Alice when I have my own?" she asked, shrugging a little.

She looked as if she has surrendered.

"Like I said. A side effect. You didn't want it, so you said you better use it or it'll go to waste. But you do realise, even if you use and replace your Alice energy, your life span keeps on reducing and reducing. Doesn't it?" Mikan asked again and sat on the log where Miss Aniya sat.

Miss Aniya got up. Afraid, as if being threatened like her child was being kidnapped and held hostage.

"How do you know this? This wasn't supposed to be all clear. I didn't expect anyone to realise until a year or so. How did you? I didn't even use your Alice to let you figure it out," she said, taking steps by steps backward.

"That was absolutely easy to figure out," Mikan said standing up and clapping her hands together.

"You step on the tree's shadow when I was on the branch. I didn't feel any vibration from your accident with the ground earthquake because the tree can't move. So I suspected your side effect straight away. Since you took Tsubasa's Alice," Mikan said.

"Oh, and you proved my theory perfectly after your demonstration with Natsume's Alice," Mikan added.

"I didn't prove it perfectly. How about your Alice then when I put mine in yours?" Miss Aniya asked and grinning.

"No one knows how to control a Nullifying Alice other than the Master itself. So you don't know how to control mine. Besides, I felt your Alice merging with my body, so I was lucky," Mikan said putting her hands behind her back and spread a huge smile on her face.

"Now, for you to die," Mikan said.

Mikan concentrated on herself. Her mind and body glowed yellow and it released a huge net which captured Miss Aniya. More or less surrounding her. Then Mikan use her Alice and drained Miss Aniya's Alice from inside the net.

Miss Aniya is losing energy. Everyone crowded around the net and realized it.

Suddenly Ryo appeared in the net.

"I'm sorry Mikan. But if she's going to die, she needs to die in my hands. Ta-ta!" Ryo said, vanishing with Miss Aniya with him.

"Darn it! I was getting to the good part where she turned to dust. Stupid Ryo!" Mikan said looking mad but in a cute way that Natsume blushed.

"So what're you protecting me from exactly? You said you'd tell me after you win," Natsume stood up and asked Mikan.

"I would, but the OPTIONS clearly stated that she would die then I tell you. But she didn't die. So deal's off. Bye-bye!" Mikan said skipping over to Hotaru, Yuu and Ruka who were running forward to congratulate her.

"MIKAN YOU LIAR!!!!!!!!!!" Natsume screamed his lungs out.

Mikan just did a face where she pulled her eyelids and stick out her tongue.

"SUCKER!!!" Mikan shouted.

That's the end of my third Chapter. How'd u like it? Pls review kay?