A/N: Dear anonymous reviewer, thank you!

I told myself I would wait for two more reviews... all it would take was two more and I'd continue.

But yours was enough for two. :)

And yes, eventually NatsumexMikan moments will happen! Just with patience.. You think that's why I haven't been getting reviews? Or is my story really just THAT crappy?

A parody is taking a story and fusing it with the plot of another story (something like that) which is what I'm doing, making a Gakuen Alice/Nothing parody.

Disclaimer: I still don't own either.

Enjoy, my now two known readers! Hahah... /that was just sad./

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I shrugged on my jacket and stepped out into the breezy, sun-setting afternoon that would surely be a chilly night by the time I got back. The path I took would always cross that damned tree as much as I tried to avoid it, so that of course he would spot me when I carefully crawled by, leaves crunching beneath my hands and knees as much as I shushed them. There was no hope anyways, Natsume had been trained by the best and often in the midst of battle that had taught him to be alert and aware. Always sleeping with one eye open.

"What the hell are you doing, Polka?" There was slight amusement in his voice. He was rarely amused at anything.

"Nothing!" I replied sarcastically.

"Good. That's how it should be." He said with enough sarcasm to challenge mine. I opened my mouth to spew some insult or another, but was distracted by a glimpse of something, that was perhaps nothing, as he turned his head. He noticed my hesitation.

"Have you become marginally more intelligent in the last 3 seconds and finally decided to shut your mouth?" He then yawned to display his disinterest in the conversation.

"We'll get you out of that tree Hyuuga, we have a plan!" This seemed to interest him a little, and he raised a short black brow at me.

"Oh really? I don't know why you all care enough." He scoffed. I didn't have an answer. Maybe it was because we didn't want him to be right, didn't want to believe nothing mattered and that we were wasting our time here in the school. That we'd rather be wasting our time somewhere else, doing something else.

We won't be tempted by Natsume!

I turned and ran, feeling his eyes bore into my back, as if even his gaze emitted physical heat.

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At the shed we killed time talking while we waited for everyone to get there, and when everyone was there, all of us were still killing time talking. We ran circles around the reason we came here until finally..

"So how do we do it?" Nobara-chan questioned in an almost whisper that rang loud in our ears (ironically 'breaking the ice'). Except for Wakako who was a bit hard of hearing and yelled "What?" in the silence that followed. We all knew what Nobara-chan was talking about.

"We could wait 'till winter. It'll be cold and he'll come down." Was the first of the hopeless suggestions to follow, provided by Nonoko. I could see Ruka shaking his head in my peripheral vision as Tsubaki-Sempai spoke up.

"Natsume's Alice is fire. You really think that will bother him?" He smiled in order not to offend her, but still shot down her idea.

"Besides, for that we could use Nobara's Alice, and he would still easily melt anything she threw at him." Misaki-Sempai backed up his argument. Nobara-chan's eyes flickered and I could tell she was fighting the urge to flinch at her words. Not many people liked poor Nobara-chan for her Alice, although I knew Misaki had no prejudice and meant no wrong by it, I still shuffled closer and placed a hand on Nobara's shoulder.

"You boys could just force him down. You'll just have to fight him." I suggested, trying to inch the sudden spotlight away from Nobara-chan. A lot of the guys paled at this. They shared uneasy glances and soon most were shaking their heads in vigorous disapproval, even if it made them look weak in front of the girls.

"Not a good idea.." Mochi muttered. He was one of the boys who liked to act toughest, but it was understood that Natsume was a dangerous ability, he was the only dangerous ability in elementary, and now one of he rare few in junior high. Have I mentioned his Alice is Pyrokinesis?

"We can pray." Kitsuneme contributed timidly. We discovered he was religious last year when he had a "near death experience" where his Alice faltered and he felt what it was like to fall for the first time in a long time. Apparently he prayed and he floated once more. Even if it was Mochi who kept him airborne with his telekinesis.

Mochi was now yelling at him to "Just shut up!" and trying to punch him before someone held him back. Yuu and Kaname didn't seem to think it was such a terrible idea.

"We could complain to a teacher like Jinno-Sensei." Anna committed social suicide at that moment.

"What? The teachers? Jinno?" Someone gasped.

"Jinno would rather fry us individually to a crisp than listen to us or care that Hyuuga's in a tree, it's not his problem to deal with." Sumire scoffed.

"Then how about the principal?" Anna finally set her death sentence.

"Th- the principal?" Mochi sputtered after an awkward silence before his words echoed around the room in whispers and exclamations of disbelief, and we had to stop him from going off on Anna. Koko stepped in between them as Anna squealed and embraced Nonoko as if it would hide her. Meanwhile Ruka's face had gone from normal, to paper white, to sickly green so fast that you could tell he was absolutely horrified at the prospect of telling them about Natsume.

"Natsume is wearing a an anti-mind reading device!" Koko said calmly with the same carefree smile that's permanently fixed on his face. "This alone tells me he's hiding something in those thoughts of his, and I think he's just playing mind games with us."

There was quiet.

"...Everyone go home. We'll meet again and settle this tomorrow, same time, same place." Ruka was pinching the bridge of his nose and sitting on a cardboard box of old Christmas lights, and didn't notice the looks on our faces when he said 'home'. We shrugged it off and dispersed without complaint.

I couldn't face Hyuuga now.

I walked the path that would always lead me past his tree, having made absolutely no progress since I walked by before the meeting. I would just run past as fast as I could, and I would have all night and morning to come up with a better excuse than "I was being chased by bees".

I rounded a corner and could see it now. As I neared it, I tried not to look at the distinctly shadowy figure up in the murky darkness in the tree, and crouched tensely as if I was a lion about to pounce. And I ran.

I got about 5 strides until I tripped on a step I didn't see and face-planted into the stone floor.

The pain burning through my right cheek bone paled in comparison to the devastation as I watched my dignity sprout wings and fly. Fly far, far away from me.

And whatever was left of it disintegrated at what could have passed as laughter from the heavens above, as if the gods themselves were getting kick out of my misery.

"Plums?" I heard him call. My face went impossibly red with added embarrassment and freshly forming bruise as I shot up like a loose plank whose end was stepped on, covering my exposed panties and almost tugging my skirt too down.

"Shut up!" Oh, great come back, Mikan. I glared up at his figure and I just knew he was smirking.

Natsume Hyuuga was no god in the sky. He was just a kid up in a tree.

"I appreciate your impaired judgment of running in the dark. It makes for quality entertainment." He said in a somewhat more normal tone of voice instead of calling down, and since everything was so quiet I could hear him perfectly. Save for the crickets.

"So, have you found the antidote to my apparent insanity?" His sarcasm and intellectual way of speaking were pissing me off like no one ever could before.

"Yes!" I lied.

"You're not looking too enlightened down there. What was the name of that card game? Bullshit?" He called me on my lie. I wished he didn't have to be so witty about it. I wanted to climb up there and push him off his tree. Everything he said bothered me. It bothered me too much. Like..

"Why did you say people only live 9 years?" I changed the subject. He hesitated, but couldn't help but take the bait.

"From the moment you're born, you begin to die. Even if you live to be 80, which us Alices rarely live too long, you'd have spent 1/3 of your life sleeping. You've already spent at least 6-7 years of your life being a little kid- or in your case, all 13-" (I so have grown up) "- and then you spend at least 18 years taking care of your own kids. Even if your kid is an Alice and ends up getting shipped off here-" (I winced) "You'd still have spent X amount of years working, for the organizations and other Alice-related things in our case, the time spent doing chores, the time spent doing things that are pointless or that you don't want to do or are a waste... Well, in the end when you calculate it, you got 9 years to truly live. So I'm going to start living my 9 now." He finished.

But I couldn't hear it in his tone. I couldn't hear the satisfaction of 9 years to yourself, of 9 years of life. This wasn't it. At this particular moment, I didn't know what 'it' was exactly.. but I would find out.

"No moment in life is spent wasted.." I muttered, and I never knew if he heard because immediately after I yelled, "We're going to get you down from that tree, Hyuuga! You'll see what we'll prove to you and you'll eat your words!" I got up and sprinted away, his eyes boring into my back like they do, and I think I wasn't the only one who noticed that my words were not laced with aggressiveness or unreasonable anger, but with a certain determination that matched Nogi's.

Right now, there was a lot I couldn't understand.

Except that right now, I really needed an ice pack and an Advil.

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I'm sorry it took me SO long to update this time! I truly am! I'll be good. Except that now school is starting in 4 days and I'll probably be super busy. But I love this story.. even if the rest of the archive doesn't. -.-' (this is my baby, screw you guys.)

And if you are reading, please throw me a line? I have to know there are others out there and that I'm not alone..? (Like the world has ended and I'm a survivor. Pft.)

So for now, thank you my two readers. R&R.

~Yasu