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There might be awkward moments with Natsume here...

Please note before continuing on with the story.

Mikan, Natsume and the group are either 15,16 or 17.

Aoi and Youichi are both 11 years old.

Misaki and the other senpais are around their 20s

They are also more free than the actual manga/anime. They get a choice of staying at the academy or go home when they want. Unless certain circumstances make them stay at the academy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice.

And, I suck at grammar (:

Any hows...

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Mikan let out a goofy grin. "Hey, Natsume?" Natsume looked at her, curious of why she was grinning. "What is it?"

"You a fan of waltz?" Natsume's eyes widened from her remark. "What?"

Mikan let out a giggle. "I'm guessing that you're not so much of a fan?" she half-asked, half-stated. When Natsume didn't answer, she waved her hand in front of his face. "Hellooooo, Is anyone there?" Natsume snapped out of it. He looked around as if checking to see where he was. When he finished looking around, he looked straight at her and replied,

"Hell no. No waltz. No way" Mikan pouted upon his reply. "Aw, come on! Please!"

"No"

"Please! Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, PLEEEEEEASEEEEEE?" Natsume raised an eyebrow, rolled his eyes and smirked.

"You know..." he started off, "we could do this for the whole week, you do know that, right?" Mikan pouted again, though didn't give up. She tried to convince him into to doing it, though gave up after a few goes.

"Fine then. Hey, let's do that dance we did in my room last time. Do you remember it?" Natsume nodded in reply. Mikan nodded back two times and then took out her iPod that she brought with her. She scrolled through a few songs before playing a song. And they then got ready to recreate and perfect their dance.

"Alright, so you remember the dance, right?" she asked. Natsume replied that he remembered and that he also had a few ideas to add to the dance, if it worked with the dance. Mikan nodded, as if satisfied. Then, they discussed on what to dance what moves, what music, etc.

Mikan and Natsume danced within the night. They had been practicing since half past 9 and it was now midnight. As late as it was, the two teenagers felt as lively as ever- even the cat. They had finished their dance and were practicing it again. Perfecting it better every single time they danced, even if it seemed as if it was not even possible. They finished the last bit of their dance, bowed to each other and decided to take break. Mikan let out a happy sigh.

"Ah, we finished creating our dance... we practiced it, literally, more than 50 times... in... about 2 and a half hours. We still have no song though. But I guess that'll be least important since I've got an iPod full of songs." She said, smiling. Natsume replied with his usual 'hn'. He was about to ask her about how many performances she had to do altogether on the night when they heard footsteps coming towards the auditorium. Mikan looked at him in panic.

"We're not allowed in here" was all she said, but it had a huge meaning. 'They were so dead if they were caught in the auditorium because...

1) the auditorium is out of bounds, [A/N: Ah... reminds me of my primary/ elementary school days *smiley face* ] and,

2) no students are meant to be out and about at this time of night'. Natsume let out a sigh before picking Mikan up into his arms, making her let out a small squeak, and went out to the balcony of the auditorium and leaped out.

He landed with a gentle 'thud'. When they landed, he did not put Mikan down. Instead, he walked towards the Sakura tree, still carrying her. Then, at the Sakura Tree, was when he put her down. Both parties stayed silent, standing and leaning against the tree trunk. From a third person's point of view, Natsume and Mikan looked nice and calm, though, up close, Mikan looked somewhat depressed. Natsume, sensing this, and not being able to take anymore of her being depressed, and also knowing that she was depressed of the idea of not do a waltz for the opening of the Masked Ball, he decided to do something about it.

Natsume leaned off the Sakura tree and stood up properly, catching Mikan's attention. He then spoke something that would have possibly given even Hotaru Imai a heart attack.

"May I have this dance?" asked he. Mikan was stunned for a moment, then, on her face appeared a true, cheerful, bright, heart warming, beautiful smile that even the glowing moon wouldn't be able to compete with the beauty.

"Yes, it would be my pleasure, good sir" replied she.

They waltzed around and danced randomly with Natsume leading and Mikan following. They looked into each other's eyes, evident that both of them were enjoying it. Within the middle of the dance, Mikan started to hum for them to dance to. Natsume let out a small smile, though Mikan didn't see it since she closed her eyes at the time to enjoy the moment.

They danced on for what seemed like an eternity under the moon, illuminating their stage. They ended their dance and sat down to rest, leaning on the trunk of the Sakura tree. They looked up at the stars as well at the bright moon. They gazed at the brilliant night sky in comfortable silence until it was broken by Natsume.

"Oi, how many performances do you have to perform altogether, anyway?" asked he. Mikan looked at him questioningly, curious on why he wanted to know. He merrily shrugged at her mute question. She let out a smile, happy because he was actually trying to start off a conversation.

"Well... I have the dance with you, sing the first dance song, last dance song, three songs in between, and two more dance somewhere in between" she replied. Natsume's attention was caught by her last statement. "Two more dances?" he asked. Mikan nodded in reply. "Yes. I have to dance two more..." Natsume stared at her for a moment before speaking again. "And you didn't tell me because...?" he questioned her in a deadly-like tone. Mikan sulked due to the tone Natsume used. "I just didn't want to bother you!" she squeaked out. Natsume leaned back and stared up at the night sky again, Mikan followed.

"Well then," spoke Natsume, "I guess we'll need to work on two more dances then. Shouldn't we?" Mikan's eyes widened.

"What?" was all she was able to utter out. "Why? I can't bother you anymore than I already have" she replied, in a way as if pleading him not to offer, even though she was dying for him to offer and as well as to accept his offer. Natsume merrily shrugged as an answer, mutely saying that he didn't care about doing another dance. "Anyway, you're going to have to perform way more than me anyway."

Mikan thought for a while. "I guess so... I think I forgot to mention that I'll be the MC for the whole night as well..." she murmured while going into a thinking position, her chin on the palm of her hand with her index finger tapping her cheek. If they were sitting on a chair, Natsume probably would have fallen off it. "What?" he asked, though, he didn't mean for it to be answered. But Mikan didn't know, so just replied anyway.

"I'm going to be hosting the whole night." Natsume stared at her in daze.

'What the hell was the gay teacher Narumi trying to do to her? Have her go into performing business? I thought it would only be for about 2 hours...' thought Natsume.

He let out a sigh and decided to let the topic pass. Both stayed quiet for a while until Natsume felt Mikan shiver next to him. He decided to take her back to her room since it was cold- and not to mention late. Mikan agreed and both headed to their rooms. They bid each other goodnight and headed for bed. Though, when they lay in bed, they stayed awake for a moment longer, thinking about their dance together under the Sakura tree, with the moon illuminating up their stage. Both fell asleep happily, and dreamed on about their small show that night.

For 2 weeks, they practised their dance, also creating two more dances. Natsume offered to help Mikan pick songs for her to perform on the night though she politely declined the offer, saying that she wanted him to enjoy the night as everyone else instead of knowing what was coming up next and what not. Their friends were pleased that the two were getting really close and spending a lot of time together, especially Ruka, since he noticed Natsume starting to interact to people a lot more than he used to.

Mikan and Natsume were in the middle of practicing their last dance to perform lunch time when a sudden knock was heard at the door, abruptly stopping them. Mikan hurried to turn off the music before the person came in. Who was to come in but Narumi. Natsume let out a grunt when he saw Narumi. 'What does the gay teacher want now?' he wondered to himself. Narumi, hearing Natsume's reaction to his presence, let out a cry.

"Mou, Natsu-chan! You're so mean!" Besides Natsume, he heard someone giggling, obviously about the name Narumi just gave to him. He sent a glare to both Mikan and Narumi, effectively shutting them up. Mikan then stepped forward and walked to Narumi.

"Hello, Narumi-sensei! What I can I do for you?" she asked with a cheerful smile. Narumi lunged for a hug, though, Mikan stepped to her left, making Narumi fall flat on his face. Seeing this, Natsume scoffed and muttered out "idiot" low enough for Narumi not to hear, but Mikan did. She raised an elegant brow at him. Natsume raised his hand up into the air, acting innocent. Mikan turned back to Narumi.

"You really shouldn't do that, Narumi-sensei. Next time I could..." she then leaned of to Narumi and whispered something that Natsume couldn't quite make out. Though, from Narumi's expression, probably something pretty harsh. "Ok, Narumi-sensei? Just be careful. Now what can I do for you?" Mikan asked in an all-too-sweet voice. Narumi let out a stiff nod before continuing.

"Ah, I was just wondering how your performances were coming along" stated Narumi. Mikan replied that the performances were coming along great and all will be a surprise. She was about to shoo Narumi out the door when he said something. "By the way, Mikan? Please go to the Headmaster's office at the end of lunch. Don't worry about telling Jin-Jin, I'll tell him for you. Well then, ADIEU~" and with that, he skipped out and slammed the door shut. Mikan and Natsume sweat dropped. 'What the hell?' both of them thought. They then shrugged it off and went back to work.

Outside, Narumi let out a shudder, recalling what Mikan had said to him.

"You really shouldn't do that Narumi-sensei. Next time I could... take out a knife and just...oh... I don't know what could happen next. You take a guess." He shuddered at a thought and hastily left and went to the teacher's lounge room to have some tea to calm him down.

After half an hour of rehearsing again, they had figured out which song to dance to. Mikan then suggested Natsume to go out and eat, since he hasn't been seeing Ruka much. Natsume asked her if she was sure about it. She merrily smiled, said that she would join him later and ushered him out. Natsume and Mikan bid each other goodbye for the moment. Mikan watched Natsume's retreating figure until it was gone. She quickly closed the door and collapsed onto her knees.

"Oh shit." she wheezed out. "This isn't going to be good" was the last thing she quickly went to the piano and lay on it to rest.

Natsume had reached the group and was greeted by them all. He replied back "hn". The girls then went back to what they were previously doing. The guys turned towards Natsume, mutely asking him how rehearsal went. He merrily answered that all was good. He then went into deep though on why Mikan suddenly wanted him to go out and join the group. Not only that, she was in a hurry for him to get out as well. He then recalled how she usually looked like during rehearsals and how she looked like today. He decided to let the subject go for a while, but after 20 minutes, he went back to the topic of how Mikan looked previously. After a few seconds, his eyes widen in realisation.

"Holy shit!" he called out, catching the group's attention. He then jumped up and ran towards the room he last saw Mikan.

The group looked at each other and quickly followed suit. They were not far behind Natsume and saw him stop suddenly at a room, most likely the rehearsal room the group thought. Natsume banged on the door calling out Mikan's name. When the door didn't open, he took a step back and smashed the door open and quickly caught the door before if fell onto the ground, in case Mikan was lying of the floor just in front of the door. When Natsume didn't see her, he quickly looked back and forth, searching the room. All eyes then laid on a figure on top of the grand piano. Natsume rushed to her while the rest of the group was stopped by Hotaru. She mutely told them to get out, which they did and Hotaru then followed suit, closing the door behind her.

Natsume pulled Mikan into his arms and onto his lap and shook her gently. Mikan stirred a bit and then slowly opened her eyes. A few muffled sounds escaped her lips before she could actually say anything clearly. But before she could say anything, Natsume glared at her, making her inwardly shiver. Mikan pouted.

"Mou, I'm sorry for not tell you then?" she half-asked, half-answered.

"You sure as hell should be sorry, kid. Why the hell didn't you tell me?" he asked her, still glaring. Mikan gulped before answering.

"I di-"

"And don't you dare say you didn't want to bother me because I swear I will rip someone's head off and burn it." Natsume said, cutting Mikan off. When there was silence, Natsume let out an exasperated sigh. "Oh well, at least you're not dead. That's one good side. But the bad thing, you're sick and..." before he could say anything further, Mikan leaped off him and twirled around.

"I'm fine! See?" she twirled around again. Natsume narrowed his eyes. "How? You were full-on looking like a zombie sick just a moment ago..." Mikan frowned.

"Hey! I didn't look like a zombie!" though, she then grinned like an idiot. "I wasn't only sick today, I was sick for two days already. I just needed a final rest and then- bam! All healthy and good agai..." Mikan's voice trailed off, seeing Natsume's glare again.

"Oh crap..." she whispered out. She then decided to make a run for it and rushed out the door with Natsume right on her tail, chasing her. While running, Natsume called out,

"YOU WERE SICK FOR TWO DANG DAYS ALREADY AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ME, LITTLE GIRL?" Mikan's only reply was sounds of laughter. She turned around to look at Natsume with a big, cheerful expression. She then turned around again to try and run quicker. After a few minutes of running around the school, Natsume did a few big leaps, effectively catching up with Mikan. He then grabbed her by the waist and swung her around. Mikan continued to laugh and at the same time trying to tell him to let her go between gasps, though he didn't listen and just swung her over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and walked away at the same time glaring at the students around the area- having to be about two-thirds of the population of the school..

Students that were around the incident were forever traumatised, being the first to witness Natsume Hyuuga having a 'fun', 'cheerful', 'happy' time. Even though his face wasn't showing anything 'fun' and 'happy' his eyes were evident of life in them, as well as cheerfulness.

Mikan was still trying to get off Natsume for the whole way where Natsume was planning to go.

"Mou, Natsume! I need to meet the Headmaster soon! The bell is going to ring at any second now!" she cried out. With that, Natsume let out down gently. As soon as he let her down, the bell rang. Mikan let out a squeak and was about to run in a random direction, only to be stopped by Natsume. She gave him a questioning look. He rolled his eyes, making Mikan glare at him. He then pointed at the door in front of them with a huge sign saying, HEADMASTER'S OFFICE. Mikan sheepishly scratched the back of her head and bowed to Natsume, thanking him. Natsume replied with a 'hn' and bid her goodbye, and will see her in class. Mikan watched his retreating figure. When it was gone, she closed her eyes and went into business mode. She then knocked on the large doors three times. The doors opened and Mikan gracefully walked in. Ready for what was going to be told to her.

Oooooooh~ What could be happening here?

Ah screw it. I'm not good with all the 'What will happen next' stuff.

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