Argh. I'm having a very hard time updating my fanfics. Blame my brother! *glares accusingly at younger bro* He won't let me use the computer. He wants to keep it all to himself! Waah~I have a selfish brother. And I don't know why the younger one is dominating over me. I really pity myself. :-(( Poor me.

DISCLAIMER: Ask me if Gakuen Alice is mine. My answer would be; Of course....NOT.

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Chapter 11
Change and Mystery

"Ohayou students!" said a blond-haired man that's usually mistaken as a gay.

He stood in front of the class with a big smile plastered on his face, wearing a bright pink t-shirt and skinny jeans complete with pink converse shoes. Wow, maybe Sharpay Evans would find his outfit cute. But not the students, definitely not them.

A weak "Good morning" was mumbled by some of the students who were attentive enough to hear their teacher's greeting. A certain brunette sat at the back, staring mindlessly outside the window. She was bored out of her mind, and she was wondering why the seat beside her was empty. She used to annoy her seatmate a lot.....

In deep thought, the brunette's mind drifted to the handsome raven-haired boy who went in her hospital room and told her they were secret lovers. Can she really trust him? But she needed to grasp unto something. To know something about her forgotten past. She felt like she was blind, and she was desperately fumbling for something to hold on to. Then, HE came. But, love? She almost puked by thinking about the idea. It was just sickening for her to have N-Natsume as a...(gulp)...boyfriend. Just look that! She's stammering in her mind! She can't even think of the word...boyfriend.

Narumi continued on despite the knowledge of having inattentive students in class, "Announcement! In relation to the Academy's Foundation Day, we have to choose one student in this class to present our section." He looked around. "So, who wants to audition as the class rep?" The class was silent.

Back to Mikan...But he sure is gorgeous, she thought, recalling Natsume's striking features. What? No no no no no...I can't think that! Yes, I can. He's MY boyfriend! She argued with herself. Can you believe it? Now why am I thinking about that perv

"Mikan-chan, do you want to audition?" A question that involved her name brought her back to Earth. It was Narumi-sensei. Her memories weren't restored yet, but she heard many things about the eccentric person that was her adviser. Many people think he's a homo, but he really isn't. Not out of the closet yet, maybe.

She had to look up to say, "Huh?"

The students looked at her with worried faces. They knew that Mikan was always paying attention, but now she's changed. She wasn't listening anymore 'coz she was dozing off. They knew, that the old cheerful girl who brightened their day respected Narumi enough to listen to his boring lectures. She even participated actively in them. But now...she acted like she hadn't been there all day. Like she was invisible.

The gay-ish teacher repeated, "Do you want to audition?" He had said the words very slowly, like Mikan was some kindergarten who knew nothing but ABC. This insulted the brown-haired girl. "No," she spat coldly. "Why would I?"

Surprise was visible in each of her classmates' faces. Some, like the seaweed-haired girl who looked familiar to Mikan, gasped. Iinchou shook his head, thinking about the fact that Mikan never talked back to a teacher. Well, maybe she would if it was Jinno-sensei, but Narumi? She treated him as a father! What kind of daughter are you if you talked back to your father? Ruka shot a look to Hotaru saying "It's not your fault." And the amethyst-eyed girl nodded despite the tears threatening to fall from her eyes.

Narumi didn't seem to mind that his favorite student in class talked to him like that. He understood. He also knew someone--probably Natsume--would change Mikan back to her usual self. Not because of some alice, but because he was always there beside her. "Well, I was just wondering if this activity sparked your interest." Mikan snorted at this. He turned to the rest of the class. "Okay then, I'll be the one to choose the class rep, is that okay with you?"

Before the students could protest, the bell rang. The students groaned before scrambling out of the classroom.

Three students were left behind, with the blond teacher still standing up front. Hotaru made the first move, as she inched her way towards her bestfriend. Unknowingly, Ruka followed suit. The raven-haired inventor grabbed Mikan's arm and bluntly said, "Let's go." While the brunette just allowed herself to be dragged by the one person she trusts in this place. The gay-ish teach shot the amethyst-eyed girl a knowing look when they passed by him, which freaked out the animal boy.

A certain raven-haired boy and a brown-haired woman sneaked in the gates of Alice Academy without breaking a sweat. They were both experts in their own way, and entered the school's premises in stealth. On the way to the kuro neko's room, Natsume asked the elder lady, "So can you heal Polka now?"

"Who's Polka?" Yuka blurted. The flamecaster looked away. What would be her reaction if he'd been peeping into her daughter's underwear almost everyday? Well, it always happens by accident, so technically, it wasn't his fault. So he simply told her, "Nothing. It's just something I grown accustomed to calling her."

The brunette said like a love-sick high school girl, "Aw, how cute! You even call each other nicknames!"

Oh great, now I see where she gets it from....He snapped, "Forget it. Answer my question."

"Ohhh, but you're a killjoy! That's minus 2 points..." The brunette got a piece of paper with and scribbled down something (chibi mode). Natsume is in the background, wearing an is-she-crazy? kind of expression.

Yuka's face became serious before saying, "We have to bestow this to a non-alice person before it could be used to heal Mikan." Pfft. Women and their mood swings.

"How the heck can we find a person with no alice in this place specialized for alices?!" Natsume asked with a hint, no, annoyance thick in his voice.

The woman beside him became quiet all of a sudden, her eyes scanning the place.

"Wha-" her hand covered his mouth to cut off his question. She shushed him as distinct voices neared their direction. The brown-haired adult dragged the boy to hide behind some bushes nearby. The moment they were hidden, she let go of him. The flamecaster took a sharp intake of breath, then he spied the two figures approaching the spot they were just seconds ago.

A blonde-haired girl with mellow midnight-blue, almost violet eyes with a bulging duffel slung on both her shoulders came into view. The light breeze swayed her waist-length hair as she put a hand over it to stop it from being shuffled. She wore a thick cotton sweater, the same shade as her eyes, and really skinny jeans. She had the looks of a sophisticated model, with the grace of a well-trained royalty. But at the same time, the girl shown innocence, as she was about the same age as the sneaky kuro neko currently lurking in the shadows.

A few meters behind her was a familiar blond-haired teacher in Gakuen alice, wearing a rare frown in his face. Narumi-sensei was known to be very enthustiastic, but now he looked so sullen. "Don't leave, please, I beg of you!" He said, running towards the young girl who mirorred the same expression he had on his face. Somehow, they look identical, mused Natsume.

"I don't think I belong here, Narumi-san. I think I would just visit you once you find some free time," the girl spoke softly, but firmly. The not-really-so-gay teacher shook his head, a wistful smile on his face. "But you do belong here, Angel-chan," Narumi had said in a tender voice. It almost made a crimson-eyed boy throw up all over. What's with him? He tried to listen more, and he heard the person he often hated for whipping him say, "You're a half-alice. Although you have the body of a non-alice person, I know you still possess an Alice, though I doubt you can use it fully, though."

A moment of silent. She sighed. "Okay, I'll stay."

The Black Cat was shocked at the discovery. A half-alice?

He was about to tell Yuka Azumi the idea that popped up in his mind, but he only saw an empty space beside him. Where'd she go? He stood up and cocked his head from side to side. No sign of her. She got away. Shoot. She better be not a spy, or else, he would really take the blame on himself. He brought an enemy inside their home base, so he should be obligated to watch her every move. But he lost her. Damn!

"What are you doing here, Hyuuga?" A monotonous voice broke off his thoughts.

In front of him, stood Hotaru Imai who had Mikan by her arm, with his bestfriend, Ruka following closely behind. The Ice Queen had asked the blunt question, of course, in case you're wondering. He side-glanced to the two people that he was eavesdropping to, but they were gone. He put back his attention to the trio in front of him and tried to look as impassive as possible. He was never gonna show them a trace of guilt because he 'overheard' the conversation that took place a while ago. "None of your business," he replied immediately.

How did he get so handsome? was the brunette's first thought the moment she saw her so-called boyfriend for the second time. Realization dawned on her, and her cheeks raidated. What am I thinking about? And oh no, my heart is palpating, I might get a heart attack! She thought as she took in all his freakishly, insanely, good features. She drifted away to La La Land...

The kuro neko noticed Mikan alongside the stoic inventor. Her face was flushed, for a reason he didn't know. He already rejected the theory that she could be blushing, because that isn't possible with her cold attitude in her state right now. Maybe she had a fever? That thought worried him. But why is she looking - dreamily, if I may add - at me? I'm smirking right now, am I?

Hotaru followed to where his smirk was directed at, and found out that it landed on Mikan. Stupid Hyuuga, lying to Mikan when she was the most vulnerable, she thought. She yanked her bestfriend away, with one angry look on the ruby-eyed boy before stalking off.

If you hurt her, Hyuuga. I'd torture you until you forget yourself. I swear.

Natsume was lost in his thoughts as he took fertive glances at the girl he really loved, that became his girlfriend because he told her she was his secret lover before she got amnesia. It wasn't my fault, really, he consoled himself to save himself from the guilt that he had tricked Mikan Sakura. The idiot was too dense to believe...

A tap on his shoulder crashed him down to Earth. "What?" he said annoyingly.

It was Ruka, with a worried expression written all over his face. "I'm glad you're okay." Was the first thing his bestfriend said to him after not seeing each other for almost two days. The next thing his blonde-haired friend said was, "So...did you find what you're looking for?"

He was about to nod but he remembered about Yuka in the loose. Yes, he did. But it got away. In reply, he just grimaced to show that he has somehow failed. Both had learned to understand each other through silent actions. If one of them scowls or expresses anger or sadness, it means they were having a bad day and chooses to be alone. However, if they show a smile (or a smirk, in Natsume's case), it means they have done something fulfilling for themselves.

But this wasn't one of those times.

Golden eyes snapped wide open.

"Yuka ran away from the Black Cat," a purple-haired girl said out of the blue. She was just sitting with Niji Yuuki, the leader of Anti-Alice Organization, drinking some tea when she had this vision. A brunette woman jumping over the tall fences of the Academy she was against. And the crimson-eyed boy's baffled expression when he found out that the woman wasn't beside him anymore.

The pale-faced blond man who was lounging around suddenly tensed up. "What? Why'd she do that? Where is she going, Regina?" Niji desperately asked questions, wanting to make sure the safety of his beloved.

"Right now, she just wants to get away from everything. Her mind is set on spending some time alone in the city," the young girl massaged her temples, closing her eyes to concentrate. "But she doesn't know what to do with your alice. She's hesitating between using it on her daughter to make up the time she wasn't there for her or just go back to Alice Academy with the intent of spying the enemy."

Niji's azure eyes were thoughtful when he heard the young girl's psychic seeings. He knows Yuka very well, and knows that she's the one to break rules just to follow her instincts, or her own heart. To him, helping her daughter to risk her chance to remain in the Organization would be likely what the woman would do.

But who knows? Maybe she will change.

Perhaps this time she would do what she's supposed to do.

"Everything changes, and then the change becomes a mystery," he said absent-mindedly. Regina turned to him. Her boss really has this tendency to talk to himself about things that only his crooked mind can realize. But his words are very useful to her, too. She often list down some of his quotes and tease him about it. The blond-haired man would lightheartedly chuckle every time, not offended by the very least.

He suddenly stared straight through Regina's golden orbs which made her jump up. I tell you a little secret, she's rarely suprised, what with all her foreseeing the future and everything. But this time she was really caught off-guard. Niji Yuuki has his way of scaring people.

He said, "The mystery becomes the change."

Is it too short? I apologize if for you, it is. Really, I'm having a headache right now that's why I can't pour out more ideas from my head. I do know where this is all going, I've already kinda planned it out. But who knows what kind of crazy idea would suddenly pop up in my mind one of these days? Especially that I'm bored.

So what do you think? Review, ne?

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