~My Alices, My Pain~
Author's Notes: You guys know my new review rule for my new fanfics? This fanfic broke the record! I had my minimum of 5 reviews in two days!I wanna thank all of my reviewers so far! You guys made my day, totally! I was amazed to see there were already quite a few hits and some reviews.
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Let's continue with Chapter Two, then…NOTE 2: PAUSE! Sorry for the interruption, but later you'll see the nickname Kisaki appear in the story. Kisaki means queen in Japanese as far as I know, so the name means, well, Queen! Let's carry on then.
CHAPTER TWO
'Stop struggling! It's useless! Stop it, you disgusting piece of sh-' The girl tied to the chair had tears streaming down her face while the man in the room with her brandished a leather whip, the type used to hit animals like bulls. The man raised the whip high in the air, and then brought it slicing through the air downwards.
The whip crackled and snapped against the brunette's back, causing the girl to cry out in pain. 'AAH!' A new, bright red line appeared on the girl's back, crisscrossing with the hundreds of others already on her back. She was wearing nothing at all, not even a pair of underpants.
'Serves you right, you horrible child,' muttered the young man. 'All the freedom we give you, and you lose our trust in you by attempting to escape again? Huh? What's so good about the outside world anyway? Isn't this building your only home? It's happiness for all who are in this organization of ours, Kisaki, and you'd better realize it soon and stop trying to escape.'
The man put his whip inside his pants pocket, and then strode out of the dark, cell-like room with utter disgust and contempt clearly showing on his hardened face.
The brunette left alone inside the room struggled to stop herself from laughing out loud as she pretended to continue crying. Her face twisted into a slight sneer. 'What a stupid old man. Did he really think that I was really in pain? With that stupid training they gave me for so long, this pain is nothing.'
The girl, who was about fifteen years old, suddenly released a small flame onto the ropes binding her to the metal chair. The ropes broke immediately, charred ends falling swiftly to the tiled floor.
The ropes reached the ground with hardly any noise, and the brunette smirked, and then got out of the chair, stretching her body as much as she could without stressing it.
'That is much better,' thought Kisaki. 'Now, where's the exit? Time to escape again. It'll only be about my 27th time, after all…'
Kisaki went over to a corner of the room and felt about on the floor. Her hands felt cloth and the brunette knew she'd just struck gold. Perfect.
'My clothes and my stuff,' thought the girl. 'Luckily this organization, for all the smartness they claim to have, can't think of people's skirts hiding stuff. Hmph. However, they are smart sometimes. They give me a Gakuen Alice uniform to wear. If I'm ever spotted by Gakuen Alice operatives during a mission, they'll think I'm part of their number, which helps the organization a lot. I hate wearing it though, and I hate this organization!'
The brunette pulled her skirt on and checked that all her belongings were intact, before she sprinted towards the open door. Time to try and grab freedom again…
'AAH!' gasped a certain patient in Ward 23 on the seventh floor of the Alice Hospital in Gakuen Alice. The brunette sat up in bed wildly, eyes observing her surroundings. When she saw that she was still in the hospital, she gave a huge sigh of relief and sank back against her pillows.
The door to the ward burst open and a very harried-looking nurse rushed in, accompanied by Doctor Subaru. 'What happened, Mikan-san?' asked the nurse quickly. 'We heard you screaming while we were in the corridor,' added Doctor Subaru.
Mikan raised an eyebrow. 'I'm fine, thanks for your concern. I just had a bad dream. What time is it?'
The nurse gestured to the clock on the ward wall. 'It's 8.30 AM, and today's Saturday and it's time for Mikan-san's breakfast. I'll bring the tray in, alright?'
Mikan smiled and nodded. 'Thank you. By the way, Doctor Subaru-san…' Imai Subaru looked at his newest private patient and sister's best friend and said, 'Yes?'
'Could I possibly have my belongings in that box in the corner of the room put on my bedside table? I can't get out of bed at this point of time but I need to check my things.' Subaru nodded. 'Very well.' He went over to the corner and brought the box back to Mikan's bedside table. 'Thanks, Doctor!' grinned Mikan, and she immediately delved into the brown cardboard box.
The nurse and doctor smiled and went out of the room while Mikan rooted around in the box searching for her things. She pulled out the tiny electronic device, her necklace, and the envelope from inside her school skirt pocket and the knife that had been cleaned by her private nurse. Mikan laid them carefully on the bed in front of her, and then picked up the electronic device.
The electronic device crackled when Mikan pressed a tiny button on the device's left side. Mikan felt distressed when she saw that the device was not working properly.
'Oh no,' thought the brunette feverishly. 'I thought Hotaru's devices generally work? Why isn't it working now? Was it damaged by the rain?'
Mikan had bought this device about two weeks ago from an Imai-Incorporations store in a prefecture of Tokyo. It was Invention No. 12789, the Mini-Handheld-Shrouding-Device. It protected the holder from being tracked by anyone who the holder did not wish to meet. Mikan had specially configured it to hide her tracks from them. When Mikan opened the device's battery casing, it was rusted, so it had been ruined from the heavy rain the night before.
Mikan was very worried now. The device was failing, meaning them would be able to track Mikan very easily. And once they found out Mikan was hiding in Gakuen Alice…
Mikan shuddered at the thought. It would mean an all-out Alice War. Just then, someone knocked on the door to Mikan's ward. It was the nurse. 'Mikan-san? I'm here with your breakfast. Can I come in?' Mikan quickly put the device, the envelope and the knife into the box, covering them with her clothes. Just in time. 'Yes, of course,' she replied.
The door opened and Mikan's private nurse came inside the room pushing a trolley laden with a food tray. 'Here's your breakfast, Mikan-san. It consists of a bowl of Special K cereal with low-fat milk, a banana for fruit – or you can cut it up with your butter knife and add it to your cereal if you want – a slice of toast and a butter pat. Or would you prefer strawberry jam too?'
Mikan smiled. 'Thanks so much! Yes, I'd like some strawberry jam too, please.' The nurse grinned. 'No problemo, oh yes. Doctor Imai asked me to pass this envelope to you.' Mikan took the envelope from the nurse's hand, puzzled. 'Thanks.'
'Well, I'll be leaving now, but I'll come back in five minutes with your strawberry jam. Hope you enjoy your breakfast, Mikan-san!' The nurse was very happy to serve Mikan, as she had, though an upperclassman, admired Mikan very much when Mikan had still been in school, so now she was terribly excited and more than willing to serve Mikan as a private nurse.
'I will, thanks!' Mikan smiled as the nurse went out of the room, and then she ripped the envelope in her hands open. A piece of writing paper fell out of the envelope.
'Please ask the nurse for a wheelchair, sit in it, get the nurse to take you and meet me in Visiting Room No.7 on the fifth floor of the Alice Hospital when you have finished your breakfast. There's someone you absolutely need to meet. It's imperative that you meet this person. Yuka, Shiki and I will also be present. Narumi is busy though he wanted to come. Thanks. – Dr. Imai Subaru.'
Mikan frowned and put the paper back inside the envelope, then stuffed the envelope under the clothes in the cardboard box on the bedside table. She then put her necklace onto her neck, thinking over Subaru's request. 'Who am I meeting?'
She finished putting her necklace on and decided to shelve the matter till later, trusting that the adults would not decide for her to meet someone unless it was absolutely necessary. Mikan picked up her spoon and started eating cereal, deciding to wait for the nurse to come back with her strawberry jam to ask for a wheelchair.
MEANWHILE, AT THE SAME TIME MIKAN WOKE UP
'Ah! Look over there in the corridor!' hissed a random fan-girl of Natsume Hyuuga's.
'What?' snapped her best friend, who was with her. 'KYA!' squealed her friend back. 'Natsume-sama, Ruka-sama!' The friend whipped her head around and the whole corridor of girls started drooling at the sight of the two eighteen year old heartthrobs.
Natsume Hyuuga glared at all of them, who cleared off in a matter of seconds, deciding that they were going to be late for class. Just then, Hotaru appeared and dumped a whole lot of files in her boyfriend's arms. 'Hotaru!' complained Ruka. The rabbit in Ruka's arms jumped into Natsume's.
'Bunny boy. Do not make me angry. I feel surprisingly happy today for some strange reason,' said Hotaru slightly emotionlessly, before beckoning to the two boys to follow her to their classroom.
The two guys looked at each other. Rolled their eyes. Decided to preserve sanity and followed the Ice Queen down the corridor. Ruka was moving rather slowly because his arms were full of Hotaru's files, but he didn't really mind.
'What's up with your girl today, Ruka?' asked Natsume while shifting the rabbit in his arms slightly as his left arm was getting tired of carrying the rabbit. 'She seems to be truly happy this morning, and she hasn't been that way since…'
'Yeah,' agreed Ruka, 'but it's better than her being in a terrible mood, so I don't care much.' Natsume nodded slightly, fully agreeing. Man, the times when Imai Hotaru, the school Ice Queen, was mad! It was terrible.
Hotaru opened the classroom door and went in, followed by the two guys. The moment they appeared, the noise in the classroom died down, and everyone immediately started whispering.
Hotaru looked around, and then went to her seat, which was at the back row, closely followed by Natsume and Ruka. Some girls attempted fan-girls squeals, by Hotaru blasted them with her Baka Gun and then they all shut up, but the whispering died down. Everyone was staring hard at Hotaru Imai.
'What?' snapped the Ice Queen. Anna bravely spoke up. 'W-Well, you haven't used your Baka Gun even once ever since-' Anna didn't dare to finish her sentence but everyone understood.
'I know,' said Hotaru, softening her tone, since she was Anna's friend. 'Today I feel happy though so I will use it as much as I want.' The class froze. Imai Hotaru was happy?
Anna smiled. 'Well, if you say so, Hotaru-chan.' She went to her seat with Nonoko. Ruka put Hotaru's files on her desk and Natsume gave Usagi back to Ruka, then the two guys sat down as well.
Ruka, Natsume and Hotaru's seating arrangement had been changed since six years ago. Now, it was like this:
HOTARU – RUKA - NATSUMESo that's how it was. No teacher dared to change the three's seats. The bell for first period, Homeroom, rang and the students pulled out their laptops.
Students in the High School Division used same-model laptops during class. They inserted a CD into the CD drive of the laptop. Each CD was different for each lesson. For example, English was a yellow CD, Math was blue, Science was green, Japanese was red and so on.
The Homeroom teacher, Fukutan, came in with shaky legs. The class rolled their eyes. Every year, all the teachers of this class came in with terrified legs, as they were terribly scared of the Trio. The Trio consisted of Natsume, Ruka and Hotaru.
It was already a daily occurrence for senseis to let students do whatever they wanted. So, this morning, as usual, Fukutan slowly sat down in the teacher's chair and pulled out a magazine about cars. The class erupted into their own talk and began doing their own things.
Hotaru pulled out a screwdriver and began fixing a file holder to carry her files instead of Ruka. To tell the truth, Hotaru would never admit it, but she hated having Ruka carry her heavy things all the time as she thought that it inconvenienced Ruka, so she liked making things to carry her stuff for her instead.
Ruka gave Usagi a carrot to munch on, then turned to talk to Natsume, who was reading his manga as usual with his legs on the table. Most of their fan-girls were staring at Natsume, since Hotaru had enforced a rule over the years that Ruka's fan-girls were not to stare at him too much or harass him in any way, especially during Valentines' Day or they got the brunt of Hotaru's fury. This was unfortunate for Natsume as it meant that most of his fan-girls now had their attention directed to him instead of him sharing the burden with Ruka.
Natsume glared at them and they hurriedly dispersed. Ruka sighed. Suddenly, the classroom door swung open and Shiki strode in. He whispered something to Fukutan, who went a little pale then nodded.
Koko, who was reading Shiki's mind, suddenly gave a little gasp. Sumire, who was his girlfriend and was sitting next to him, wondered what had happened but said nothing.
Shiki walked over to Koko and said, 'Please come with me now, Yome-kun. It is important.' Koko slowly got out of his seat, his nerves inside shaking. His best friend who was sitting on his other side, Kitsuneme, looked at him worriedly. He could tell that something was worrying his best friend.
Koko and Shiki left the classroom, everyone staring at them. Then they dismissed the matter and continued doing their own thing, though some of them were a little puzzled as to why generally well-behaved Koko was taken out of class for no apparent reason.
Hotaru stared as the classroom door slammed shut. She was confused as well, but dismissed various thoughts from her mind to concentrate on her invention.
Ruka and Natsume talked about stuff like their favourite manga series (Ruka had been influenced by Natsume over the years and had given to reading manga as well, but he didn't read them as much as Natsume did).
Koko did not appear for the rest of the school day, even after the bell rang for Ability Classes. Those who went to Koko's Ability Class later reported that Koko had not shown up. Apparently he had had some excuse to not attend the class.
The class was getting a bit worried about Koko. When it was dinnertime though, Koko finally re-appeared in the cafeteria. His classmates surrounded him and started asking him what had happened.
Koko looked a bit worried and confused, but his friends' questions made him remember what had happened the entire day.
KOKO'S FLASHBACK
'Where are we going, Shiki-sensei?' asked Koko curiously as Shiki took him out of the school building and they got into a waiting black limo. Shiki sat next to him and said, 'The Alice Hospital. Someone arrived yesterday and was warded there. You need to meet her.'
'So it's a female,' thought Koko. 'Wonder who?' (A/N: You guys can probably guess whom Koko's meeting by now right? Yay! The story's finally getting underway!)
The driver drove off. Ten minutes later, the sleek vehicle reached the Alice Hospital driveway. It went up the driveway and stopped at the main entrance. Shiki told the driver to wait till they came back out. The driver agreed and Shiki and Koko got out of the limo and went into the hospital's lobby.
'Wha-' thought Koko, observing nurses and doctors and patients everywhere. A nurse at the front desk spotted Shiki and went over. She was dressed in a blue uniform, unlike all the other nurses in the area, who were dressed in green.
A senior nurse? wondered Koko. The nurse nodded slightly to Shiki and Koko, and she led them through a couple of hallways, then into an elevator to the hospital's 5th floor. The three of them alighted from the lift there and the nurse led them further down another hallway. They finally came to a stop outside a room that had a brass plate on the door proclaiming it to be 'Visiting Room 7'.
The nurse knocked gently and Koko heard someone say 'Come in,' and the door opened a small crack, barely large enough for Shiki to enter through. Shiki told Koko to go inside, and then he followed Koko in. The nurse shut the door softly and stood outside it.
Koko's first impression of the room was that the lights were all turned on, and the windows were shut with the curtains drawn.
His attention was caught by a large rectangular glass coffee table in the middle of the room. There was a person in a wheelchair sitting not facing him, at the end of the coffee table. At the head sat Azumi Yuka, and on her left side sat, Koko knew, Hotaru's onii-san, the Alice Hospital's current head doctor, Imai Subaru in a two-seater couch. Koko immediately felt a little uncomfortable. So many higher ups in the room with him…
Shiki and Koko walked over to the people seated around the coffee table. Hearing their approaching footsteps, the person in the wheelchair shifted slightly. Koko noted this and tried to read the person's mind. To his surprise, he found that he couldn't do it.
At this point, Shiki had sat down on the two-seater couch on Yuka's right side. He told Koko to sit next to him, which Koko did. Then he caught his first glimpse of the person in the wheelchair. And nearly had a heart attack. In fact, he nearly jumped out of his skin.
'Please do not read my mind again, Koko,' said the girl in the wheelchair with a huge grin. Koko's eyes widened. He simply could not believe his eyes. 'A-Are you a ghost or something? Or am I just dreaming or hallucinating that you're sitting right in front of me…SAKURA Mikan-chan?'
Mikan laughed. 'You're not dreaming, Koko-kun. And no, I'm not dead, so I can't be a ghost.' Koko still couldn't believe it. 'What are you doing here, Mikan-chan? I-I thought you were dead!'
Mikan sighed. 'I'm not dead, Koko. I am clearly alive to the 3 adults here,' she gestured around. The 3 adults laughed. 'B-But how did you get here?' asked Koko wonderingly, as he sat back on the couch.
'That's a long story Koko. The reason Shiki-san wanted you to meet me was because he felt that you could help us.' Koko glanced around. 'Help what?'
'I'll explain,' said Mikan. 'Yesterday, I fainted at a roadside in Tokyo and some woman nearby sent me to a hospital in Tokyo. Then I was sent to this hospital after doctors found out I had Alices. I've been trying to escape from many people who want my Alices badly all these six years. You can't tell how worried I am about being back here. If my enemies find out I'm here, the school will most likely be attacked. I have to leave soon.'
Koko gasped. 'But you can't leave right now, surely? Do you know how much Imai-san, Natsume and Ruka have been worried about you? The entire school was worried about you! We searched for you for four years and found no leads! They'll be so happy to see you again! Why don't you go and meet them before you leave at least?'
Mikan shook her head, though her chocolate eyes were already filling with tears. 'I'm sorry, Koko-kun. I'd love to see them all again too, see how much they've changed, make everyone happy, but Koko, I can't! Shiki said getting you to help us was best. You see, if you happened to read their minds, you'd have found out everything, and you might have gone and said stuff to the others and our plans would have been ruined. Not that I'm saying you'd definitely spill everything of course, but you might have been unsure of what to do. Anyway, your Alice is great to help us gather information, but you don't have to help us if you don't want to, Koko. It's okay.'
'No,' said Koko. 'It's fine. I'll help.' Mikan's eyes widened. 'Really?'
Koko grinned. 'Really.'
Mikan squealed,' Thanks so much, Koko-kun! You have to remember though, please don't tell anyone else, especially our classmates, about our meeting! I know Natsume and Hotaru might be beastly to you when they find out, but when they do, please try not to say anything! If in the end you do say everything, it's okay.'
'Right,' replied Koko. 'Hey, could you tell me what's happened the past six years? I'm totally clueless! Okaa-san and the others can't tell me much!' Koko grinned again. 'Sure, Mikan-chan.'
BACK TO THE PRESENT'Nothing happened,' said Koko. 'Shiki-sensei just wanted to see me because he wanted to ask me whether I wanted to help the Powerful Alices Ability Class by gathering some secret information with my Alice. Nothing much, really.'
This was the excuse Shiki had instructed Koko to give to his classmates when they asked him the inevitable question of where he had gone for the whole day. The class was not fully convinced. Surely a talk like that could have lasted at most only an hour?
Sumire however didn't think of this fact, and she asked whether Koko had said yes. Koko said he had indeed said yes.
'It's only a little lie, and even then it's not really a lie,' thought Koko, sweat dropping.
Sumire looked worried. 'It won't affect your health right?' Koko nodded. 'Well then,' said a relieved Sumire, 'let's go eat dinner. You must be hungry, Koko.'
Koko had spent most of the remainder of the day telling Mikan mostly what had happened while she was gone, so it was true that he was hungry.
'Let's go then.'
Out of the corner of his eye, Natsume glanced at Koko suspiciously. What on earth was happening with Koko? Hotaru was also feeling slightly suspicious of Koko but she said nothing.
A FEW DAYS LATERKoko was walking down the school corridor with Sumire. He was thinking of what Mikan had said the day before.
'Koko, when you come to see me, could you please tell me what is going on in the school? I need to know what's going on.'
'Okay,' he'd responded. And that had been that.
Sumire noticed her boyfriend was thinking very deeply but said nothing. They went on into the classroom where suddenly a whole lot of students were talking very excitedly. Some were brandishing the day's copy of the school newspaper, Alice News, in their hands as they chattered loudly.
Kitsuneme, who was dating Nonoko, came over to the two of them with a copy of the paper. 'Have you seen it, Sumire?' asked Nonoko excitedly. 'Seen what?' said Sumire, confused.
Kitsuneme showed them the front page of the newspaper. The headlines flared out, big and black and in huge fonts.
'Mysterious patient in Alice Hospital! Is Sakura Mikan BACK?' read out Sumire. Koko gasped and turned pale. 'Nurse tells all in anonymous tip-off conversation with editor of the Alice News!'
'WHAT? Lemme see that report!' Koko grabbed the newspaper from Sumire and started reading feverishly.
' 'I was walking down a corridor in the hospital, though I can't say which level, and I saw a ward that had a name on the door. The name on the ward door was '?Sakura Mikan?' That puzzled me a whole lot, I must say!' ' Koko was horrified. 'Oh no!'
'What?' said Sumire, still confused. 'So is everyone happy because they think the new patient is Mikan? But I thought Mikan was dea-'
The classroom door crashed open. 'Don't you dare finish that sentence, Sumire,' warned Imai Hotaru, storming into the room with Ruka and Natsume. Hotaru held a Baka Gun in one hand and a copy of the newspaper in the other.
Hotaru went to the front of the classroom and yelled, 'Alright! Anyone knows who is the nurse who gave the anonymous tip-off?'
Utter silence immediately. 'OK,' grumbled the Ice Queen,' that answers my question perfectly.'
Natsume glared at the newspaper. 'We are going to the hospital right now,' he said shortly. 'Who's coming?' The whole class raised their hands, except Koko. Everyone glanced at him.
Hotaru shot Koko with her Baka Gun.
BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA
Koko smashed into the wall. He staggered and got up. 'Why don't you want to go and see if Mikan is back?' said an annoyed Hotaru. 'I thought you were her friend?'
'Erm…' Koko was at a loss. He couldn't possibly say the truth yet! 'It's not allowed! We can't leave school premises until-' Hotaru aimed her Baka Gun at him again. 'I'll go,' Koko gasped.
'Good,' said Hotaru, putting away her gun. She led the class outside, and on the school lawn, Hotaru pulled out a toy-sized school bus. She tapped a tire on the bus and quickly put it on the pavement, then hurriedly backed away.
The toy bus expanded and became as large as a normal school bus. 'Get in,' ordered the Ice Queen. She herself got into the driver's seat, Ruka and Natsume in the seat behind her. Across the aisle were Anna and Nonoko.
The rest of the class spread out on the seats. Hotaru shut the bus door and revved the engine. Suddenly, the class heard yells. They looked out of the bus windows to see Fukutan and Jinno-sensei yelling at them. The class was apparently caught trying to leave school premises. 'What are you all doing?' thundered Jinno. 'You DARE to skip school? Open the door!'
'Not a chance,' smirked the Ice Queen, and she revved the engine. The bus shot off at the speed of light or something. The senseis were left far behind to eat their dust. (A/N: Don't ask me how a toy bus can have a working engine here. It just does, OK?)
The class screamed in terror as the bus hurtled along like crazy. Barely a minute later, they reached the hospital, which was being mobbed outside it by…oh great.
The 'Mikan Fan-Club' was trying to get inside the hospital lobby, which was barricaded. Apparently it had been revived after 6 long years of silence. Natsume was pissed when he got off the bus. He burnt the members' hair. They screamed and ran away to stop the fire. Hotaru pulled out her Baka Gun.
BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA
Inside the hospital, Mikan was in her ward, sitting in her wheelchair. With her were her private nurse, Dr. Subaru, Narumi, Shiki, Yuka and Kazu. 'What am I going to do?' murmured Mikan. 'Oh no…' A copy of the morning's newspaper was clutched tightly in her left hand.
The crowd of over a 1000 people downstairs outside the hospital's lobby made a deafening noise. Mikan and the adults high up in the seventh floor could still hear the screams of 'Mikan-sama!' even with the curtains drawn and the windows shut.
Just then the screams of 'Mikan-sama!' turned into 'KYA!!!!!' and 'AAIIIE!! MY HAIR'S ON FIRE!!!! HELP MEE!!' Mikan gasped. She immediately asked Narumi to push her to the window and open a tiny crack of the curtain. Mikan's ward overlooked the front entrance seven floors down, and Mikan believed that, judging from the 'HAIR'S ON FIRE!' screams, a certain person had just arrived, and though she didn't want to meet him face to face, she wanted to at least catch a glimpse of him.
Narumi did so, and the whole lot of adults and Mikan carefully peeped out of the curtains and looked seven floors down and gasped. They were looking at…
Complete, utter pandemonium. The hospital's front garden was going to be completely destroyed sooner or later, what with all the trampling of feet on its grass. 'AH!' gasped Mikan. 'Someone stop this! I can't let the hospital garden be ruined just because I'm here…'
'There's one way to stop that happening,' said Yuka. Mikan stared at her mother. 'What's that?' Yuka looked at the floor slightly. 'You go downstairs.'
'But Okaa-san!' protested Mikan immediately. 'You know full well once my enemies hear I'm here they'll attack the place!'
'There's no other option – Yuka's right,' said Shiki stoically. 'AARGH!' groaned Mikan. The brunette thought awhile. 'How about you guys dump me outside the school then? I leave today. I'm pretty much healed anyway. I get out somehow and everything is solved! Then I won't inconvenience everyone.'
'If I know fan mobs,' said Narumi, 'they're gonna stay there till you appear. If you go out in a vehicle it'll be super obvious. They'll start chasing the car, and I think your friends won't be pleased, Mikan-chan.'
'Aahhh,' went Mikan. 'What do I do?'
'I think it's safer if Mikan agrees to see a few people,' said Subaru suddenly. 'I know this is very difficult to decide Mikan, I know you will not let anyone get hurt right? That's what you told us from the beginning, but I'm sure those people can help us.'
Mikan nodded, her brunette hair shaking slightly. 'Right,' she said confidently. 'Today. I'll see them today.'
Outside, the situation was not good. Hotaru and the class had made for themselves a special zone right in front of the hospital doors. Hotaru had used Invention No. 367, The Instant Open-Air Barrier, to divide the class and the rest of the mob. More people were arriving every second, and it wasn't just students. Even faculty members, Mr. Bear, Tsubasa Andou, Harada Misaki, Youichi and Aoi (who are in the same class, let's pretend that for this fic and they are dating by the way) had arrived to try and see if the rumour was real. After all, the whole school knew Mikan.
Aoi and Youichi spotted the class B. Hotaru allowed them into the special zone. The entire crowd had just increased by a lot, and currently there were roughly 4500 people, with more people coming. Tsubasa and Misaki got into the zone too somehow.
The screams were still continuing, but a moment later, from inside the hospital, there was a loud scream. 'OI! ALL YOU PEOPLE OUTSIDE! CLEAR OFF THE GRASS! Patients are trying to sleep, and you're disturbing the peace!' The crowd got a bit scared and moved to just outside the hospital grounds. Except for Class B's group of course.
'OI! DIDN'T YOU HEAR ME THE FIRST TIME! MOVE OFF!' thundered the person, who was actually Mikan's private nurse. 'WE ARE NOT LEAVING TILL WE SEE MIKAN!' yelled back the whole class. The nurse rolled her eyes. 'HAVE IT YOUR WAY!'
'Huh?' went the class. Moments later, the hospital doors swung open. A group of four
The whole crowd stared at the group. Hotaru's eyes narrowed. She pulled out her Baka Gun and shot the group.
BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA
'Oh crap!' The whole crowd heard Narumi say as he got hit. Eventually the adults lost the Baka Gun battle and crumpled to the floor.
'Listen up, people,' said Yuka. 'Where are Hyuuga Natsume, Imai Hotaru, Nogi Ruka, Mr. Bear-san, Andou Tsubasa, Harada Misaki, Hijiri Youichi and Hyuuga Aoi? Oh yes, and Yome Kokoroyomi? These people follow me. The rest of you go away. If you don't leave in five seconds, all get a full semester of detention.'
Everyone fled except for the named people. 'Come along,' muttered Shiki. Koko asked, 'Are we going to the visiting room?'
'No,' said Shiki. 'We're going someplace else.' Hotaru looked annoyed. 'What's going on here?'
Yuka glanced at her. 'We're going to see someone important. Now move it or I'll change my mind about it.'
Everyone's eyes widened. Maybe it was Mikan they were going to see? 'Hurry up!' shouted Hotaru immediately, attacking Narumi to get him to move faster. The group went down the two hallways, up the lift to the seventh floor, down a corridor and then finally arrived at a certain ward.
'Ready?' asked Kazu. The group nodded, very excited. Natsume was half-hoping it was Mikan they were going to see, like everyone else.
Yuka knocked on the door. The nurse inside said, 'Come in.'
Yuka opened the door and the whole group trooped in hurriedly.
The group's eyes widened. There was someone seated in a wheelchair facing the window, which was open for once. The breeze came in through the window and the place was cool.
'Welcome to my hospital ward,' said the person in the wheelchair without turning around. 'I hope you enjoy it here.' The person got out of the wheelchair and turned around. The group noted that she was wearing hospital wear and was rather tall. Then their eyes traveled to her face.
Thy all gasped and moved closer immediately, especially Hotaru and Natsume.
'My name is Sakura Mikan. I'm eighteen years old.' The brunette grinned, and flashed them her trademark smile. 'How do you do?'
The group stared at her for a second more, and then they rushed forward and enveloped her in a tight group hug. 'MIKAN!!!'
Najika-chan's Corner:
OK guys, before you scream at the fact that Mikan suddenly decided in this fic to see her friends even though she wasn't supposed to let them know she was here, I'll tell you all why: Mikan will need their help if she's going to stop the AAO and save herself. She can't do it alone!
Anyways, Chapter 3 will show Mikan explaining her past to her friends and the adults, and the gang planning their next move. Also, I promise a NxM scene! OK? Please continue to support me; I know this chappie probably sucked! =(
~GAKUEN ALICE MANGA NEXT CHAPPIE COMING SOON! EEE~
~Najika-chan