Please note before continuing on with the story.

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

Aoi and Youichi are both 11 years old.

Misaki and the other senpais are around their 20s

They are also freer 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 anything. Only... Watanabe, Nishimura and Arakaki.

And, I suck at grammar (:

It was a usual early school morning. Everyone was still in bed, sleeping soundly, having wonderful dreams- or nightmares.

Mikan had woken up early as she does every day- at 4:30a.m. She hoped out of bed, lively as ever until she remembered Watanabe would be joining her class soon. She didn't know when he was going to join, but she had a feeling it was going to be today. Mikan heaved a depressed sigh and went to get ready for a hardcore running session.

Mikan came out in tights and a grey hooded jacket and went into her living-room-in-her-bedroom, suddenly thinking whether she should try some yoga. In the end, she decided to stick to go running to take out all her stress. She would have gone for boxing, but there wasn't a punching bag for her to imagine Watanabe's face. She did some quick warm ups before making her way out of her room and pulled her hoodie over her head and ran as soon as her feet touch the pavement.

After finishing 3 laps of the whole school, she looked at her watch on her right hand and shrugged. "Hm, less than two hours, good enough... still need to be faster though" she said to herself as she made her way to her room. She checked her watch again to see what time it was- 6:15a.m it said.

Making her way to her room, she stopped walking when she was in front of Natsume's room. Hearing him awake, she let out a smile, suddenly remembering how he reacted when he realised that she had kicked Watanabe down the hallway. She then remembered to start walking and continued on to her room. When Mikan reached her room, it was already 6:25a.m. Mikan decided to do one more activity. She turned and went to her walk-in closet and changed into a red tank top and grey shorts that had a light blue outline. She went out and walked onto her balcony and started what she wanted to do, and stood on the balcony railing. Before she started, she closed her eyes, let go of the railings and breathed in the fresh air. Finally, she started what she wanted to do.

Next door, Natsume had woken up at 6:15a.m, only, he wasn't bothered to get out of bed. He had woken up when he felt someone walking by. Natsume heaved a sigh and turned his head to his right to check what time it was. "6:25... hmm... might as well get out of bed" he murmured to himself. He got out of bed and decided to have a quick shower.

Five minuted later, he came out, hair went, in his school uniform [A/N: Blehhhhh, not half naked- or in only a towel. Maybe next time (:]. He walked around his room for a while until he decided to go out onto the balcony. When he went out onto his balcony, a sudden string of curses were heard, only for him to realise it came from himself.

"What the hell are you doing?" Natsume asked Mikan, trying to keep his voice calm. Though, what Mikan was doing wasn't really help. On the balcony next to him, Mikan was upside down, doing a handstand on the fucking balcony railings while doing the splits. You try acting calm with that- not to mention they were quite a few stories off the ground. One fall would make you go bye-bye.

Mikan turned her head towards Natsume and replied casually, "nothing much." She then let go of her left hand off the railing and started doing push ups... on the balcony railing, upside down. She then continued, "You want to come over?" she asked. Natsume gave a nod and jumped over to her balcony, keeping a keen eye on her, ready to catch her if she were to fall.

He continued to watch her as she swapped arms every now and again. Though, Mikan started pushing his patience to the limit when she start leaning her body over, off the balcony. Having her body facing inwards, Natsume was able to see her face. He was amazed by how calm and confident she was that he could help but comment. "You seem to be very confident in yourself, doing that, I mean, bending off the balcony... doing the bridge with your feet in mid-air... not seeming to be afraid to die... You don't know how to land if you fall, you're not a cat." Mikan then went back into a normal handstand, this time, to leaned her body towards her room (feet pointing towards her room), she then replied. "Well, I always do this. This is one of the things my older brother taught me."

Natsume stared in astonishment. Was her brother a psycho or what? He stayed silent for the rest of the time while she bent back and forth, worrying over every movement she made. Natsume shook his head, as if trying to get back into reality- he was worrying over her like a mother duck.

Finally, much to Natsume's unsure-about-why relief, Mikan stopped and set her feet back on the ground and made her way back into her room, with Natsume following. She walked into the living room and told him to make himself at home. She then asked him if he had breakfast yet, who replied that he had not.

"Alright then, I'll go into the kitchen and make pancakes. You okay with pancakes?" she asked. Natsume nodded, and spoke. "You know, often, a normal being wouldn't refuse to such an offer- Free food if often the bonus of the day, for most people." Mikan laughed and made her way to the kitchen.

She looked through her cupboards, swiftly collecting all the ingredients needed to make the batter for the pancakes. Within minutes, she had finished making the batter and had started pouring spoonfuls of batter onto the already heated pan.

Mikan was on her way to making the second plate of pancakes when Natsume entered the kitchen, standing at the doorway. Noticing him standing there, she spoke.

"Ah, Natsume, why not go watch some TV or something? Make yourself comfy, I'll be out in about 5 minutes" she told him. Natsume ignored her and made his way to Mikan and took the pan out of her hand and flipped the pancake. Mikan looked at him, confused.

"Eh? Natsume, what are you doing?" she asked. Natsume merrily shrugged and poured more batter onto the pan before turning around to face Mikan.

"You should get ready for class, I'll finish making breakfast" he told her, and turned around to flip the pancakes over. Behind him, Mikan beamed. She leaped onto Natsume and gave him a kiss on the cheek, thanking him before rushing to her closet to get her clothes and hurrying to the bathroom for a quick shower.

Mikan closed the bathroom door and leaned against it and slowly slid down onto the ground while placing her hand over her mouth. "What the hell did I just do?" she murmured to herself, blushing. She then let the topic go and prepared to take a shower.

In the kitchen, Natsume was frozen. Did Mikan just kiss him on his cheek? His thoughts were cut by a sudden smell of something burning. He looked down at the fry pan and flipped the pancake over, only to see the pancake was burnt-horribly black. Natsume sighed and threw the pancakes into the bin and quickly poured more batter onto the pan to make new pancakes.

15 minutes later, Mikan came out of the bathroom wearing her school uniform with hair tied up in a pony tail, as usual, and joined Natsume at the living room. Mikan looked at the two plates in front of her for a moment, wondering which one was made by whom. She turned to Natsume and asked him which plate was the plate that he made. Natsume frowned, thinking that she wouldn't want to eat the plate he made. A little heartbroken, he pointed to her plate in front of him. Mikan nodded and took the plate, making Natsume die a little more inside- heartbroken.

Though, what Mikan did next, had him confused. "Here, take the plate" she told him. Mikan had taken the plateful of pancakes she made and had given it to him, and took the plateful made by him for herself. Natsume looked at her in confusion. Mikan grinned cheekily. "You don't think I'd let the chance to eat something cooked by you pass, did you?"

Natsume smirked as Mikan started digging in. Natsume inwardly smiled and started eating as well. 'Damn, these are good' he thought as he ate. He looked at Mikan and mutely asked her how the food was. Mikan beamed in reply- obviously a response. Natsume nodded, satisfied.

"How about you? How are your pancakes?" Mikan asked, curious.

"Horrible" replied Natsume, inwardly smirking.

"Mou, Natsume, you meanie!" Mikan exclaimed, putting her plate on the table and started slapping and punching his arm. Natsume couldn't help but chuckle a little bit, while blocking Mikan's attacks.

"Alright, alright. I was kidding! Relax, the pancakes are alright" said Natsume as he turned his body around to face Mikan. He could have sworn he saw an evil glint in Mikan's eye.

"Really?" she asked him, leaning closer to Natsume. Natsume replied with a stiff nod, feeling a little uncomfortable with her leaning over him. Mikan grinned and took the fork out of Natsume's hand and took a bite out of the pancake. Natsume's eyes widened and protectively held the rest of the pancakes away from her.

Natsume and Mikan had a small war, stealing each other's pancakes until all were gone, and they decided to make their way to class.

On their way to class, Natsume asked when Hana and Daichi were going to join their class. Mikan replied that they weren't going to join until next week. The rest of the trip to class was silent until they reached their class. They arrived to class only to realise they were half an hour early, so Mikan suggested they go to the Sakura tree to pass the time. Natsume nodded, agreeing.

Mikan and Natsume were heading towards the Sakura tree when they bumped into Ruka. Mikan looked at Ruka strangely. Ruka looked at his surroundings, wondering why Mikan was staring at him in such a way.

"Uh, Mikan-san... why are you- what are you looking at?" Ruka asked. Mikan slowly pointed to the thing in Ruka's arms. "What-who-uh... this is?" she stuttered. Ruka and Natsume looked at where Mikan was pointing. Ruka finally realised what Mikan was talking about and held out the rabbit in his arms, and introduced it.

"This is my rabbit, you haven't seen him because he's been sick these past few days, as well as lazy so, I didn't carry him around. I usually do." Mikan let out a small 'oh'. She was about to ask a few more random questions when she saw Hotaru, Anna, Nonoko and Sumire.

"Alright, I'm going to go now, see you in class, Natsume, Ruka-pyon!" she announced, as she made her way to her friends. Next to Natsume, Ruka's colour went a bit pale.

"Ruka... pyon?" Ruka asked himself. Natsume chuckled and patted Ruka's back.

"Don't worry, the nickname is, uh, cute..." said Natsume. Ruka glared at him for a moment before heaving a sigh, not bothered to bother anymore. "Yeah, whatever. Hey, Natsume, who do you plan to go to the Masked Ball with?" asked Ruka, suddenly. Natsume stayed silent, obvious that he never thought of it.

"Oh, come on Natsume. Its next week!" cried Ruka. Natsume glared at his sapphire-eyed best friend. "You asked anyone out yet, Ruka?" Natsume shot back.

"I- uh- well, you know... with all the...stuff and..." Natsume raised an eye brow at Ruka, causing Ruka to look down at the ground and answer a quick no. Ruka then looked up and turned to his left. Natsume raised another eyebrow.

"But?" Natsume asked. Ruka looked down again, fiddling with his fingers, twirling his thumbs around each other and started sulking.

"I can't ask her! I think she'll say no... Or-or... she might have a date already anyway..." he sulked. Natsume let out an 'oh' and checked his watch, as if his friend wasn't creating puddles of tears on the ground.

"Come on, Ruka. Stop sulking. We should go, class is about to start" Natsume announced. Ruka stopped sulking immediately and nodded. They then headed towards their classroom.

"WHAT? SERIOUSLY? AHH, MY GOD!" exclaimed Mikan, Anna and Nonoko. Sumire had just told them the news about Mochu asking her to be his date to the Masked Ball. Mikan pulled Sumire onto her feet and started doing a happy dance, jumping in circles.

"I'm so glad for you! Congrats, Sumire!" cried Mikan. A sudden 'BAKA' was heard. All heads turned towards Hotaru.

"Shut up, idiot. You're making it sound as if the girl's pregnant. Now, we should get to class. I don't want to be late. Class starts in 7 minutes." All nodded, and quickly made their way to class, scared to face Hotaru's wrath. Though, they still giggled and squealed in delight, obviously still thinking of the Masked Ball.

"Ne, Anna, Nonoko, who do you want to go with to the Masked Ball?" asked Mikan. Anna and Nonoko blushed at Mikan's sudden question.

"Well, I'm- I... no idea" Anna replied. Nonoko replied that she was the same. Mikan let out an 'oh' and pushed the topic aside, even though she already knew what her friends were thinking. They had reached the classroom and had opened the doors when Anna and Nonoko asked, "how about you, Mikan?" Mikan was about to answer when someone else spoke.

"What about Mikan?" All headed turned to the owner of the voice. Mikan stepped forward with a questioning look on her face.

"Eh? Ken? What are you doing here?" she asked. Daichi grumbled at the name Mikan called him.

"Stop calling by that dang name, woman" he told her. He then held up a clip board with sheets of paper clipped on it. "I'm going around giving the teachers this to sign, so they're informed that they are going to have new students" he said, nonchalantly.

Inside the classroom, all eyes were on them. All girls were staring at Mikan in envy, asking themselves why Mikan always got to hang out with the good looking guys.

"Ah, alright then. Get going you black haired, green-eyed, 185cm (about six feet one) tall, idiot" Mikan spoke, with her voice a bit louder than it was a moment ago. Daichi raised an eyebrow, though started to sweat drop as he realised what Mikan just did. He slowly turned around, and started too inwardly sulk as he saw the scene before him. All the girls, apart from Hotaru, had taken out a book or some sort and were writing in his name, as well as the details Mikan had just called out.

"Yay, I haven't even started yet and I've got girls going creepy over me, thanks" said Daichi, sarcastically. Mikan grinned at him cheekily before hugging him and bid him goodbye. Daichi murmured under his breath about Mikan being such an idiot as he waved back at Mikan.

Gracefully, Mikan made her way to her desk and sat next to Natsume, took out a book, and started reading, ignoring the stares from her fellow classmates. Feeling someone next to her, also staring at her, she removed her eyes from her book and looked up at the lad next to her.

"Yes?" she asked Natsume. Natsume shrugged and looked away for a moment. Mikan waited patiently for him to speak. "Nothing, just, you seem quite close to the Daichi guy" he said. Mikan smiled, for some unknown reason.

"Yes, we are quite close. Ken and I knew each other since we were 10, well, I was. He was 11...and a half, he always added the half in" Mikan added in, chuckling. She then continued, "He was there for me when... that happened" she said.

Natsume stayed quiet for a moment. "Wait, isn't his name Daichi? Why do you call him 'Ken'? Do you have pet names for each other or something?" he asked, with a small feeling of jealousy burning inside of him just by the thought of it. 'What the hell is wrong with me?' he asked himself. He had asked the question for the 50th time every since Mikan and him started dancing together.

Next to him, Mikan laughed. "No, no. Nooo, you'll find out why I call him Ken when Hana and he come to our class" she said. Before she could say anything else, Narumi came in.

"Good morning my lovelies~ how are you this wonderful morning? Are you all well? I hope you are, now, stop talking and listen~" he said all at once. Mikan leaned in closer to Natsume and asked him quietly.

"Does he always act this way when he's about to make an announcement?" she asked, curiously. Natsume gave a nod, and stayed silent. Mikan then moved away and sat straight, preparing for the announcement, calming herself down, so she doesn't tear the school upside down.

"Alright, class! I have a special announcement~ we... have a new student!" Narumi announced. Students started calling out questions.

"IS IT A BOY?"

"IS IT A GIRL?"

"ARE THEY PRETTY?"

"GOOD LOOKING?"

"SMART?"

"It's a damn fucking asshole" Mikan murmured.

Next to Natsume, Mikan was breathing in and out, pretty much meditating, trying to calm her mind with nice thoughts. Natsume turned to look at her, obviously amused. Mikan then opened her eyes and stared straight ahead. Natsume also turned to face the front.

"Let's all see for ourselves. Come in, please~" Narumi called out. The doors swung open as soon as Narumi called out. Slowly, someone walked in. Many of the girls in Mikan's class gasped at the god before them. Mikan quietly growled.

"Ok, everyone, this is Kattie-chan! Please introduce yourself fully" said Narumi. Watanabe sweat dropped at the name Narumi just called him.

"Uh, ok..." he said, awkwardly. He then faced the whole class, though, his eyes only locked with Mikan's, though, she wasn't really looking at him, she was facing him, but in her own world of 'pretty images'.

"Hello, I'm Watanabe Akatsuki- 17 years old. I'll be a new student here at Gakuen Alice from now on. Please take care of me."

Mikan broke the staring contest between them and looked at Natsume, asking him to save her for the next 10 minutes. Natsume looked at her, confused. Mikan did lots of random hand movements, hoping for Natsume to understand. Unfortunately, he didn't. Mikan sighed and used her thumb to point at Watanabe, then her, then, she then put up her left hand with her index finger up, and held up her right hand with her index finger up, making sure Natsume was looking at her hands. She then entwined her two fingers together. Natsume finally understand, letting out a small 'oh'.

"You could have might as well said so, yeesh, just tell me that you want me to save you and be your knight in shining armour and keep you away from being Watanabe's partner..." she heard Natsume mutter under his breath. Mikan quietly chuckled. Natsume looked at her, mutely asking her why she chuckled. Mikan waved her had, telling him not to bother, and looked back at the front of the room, waiting for Narumi to state something, and hope Natsume will save her.

"Alright, Kattie-chan. You will need to choose a partner" said Narumi. Watanabe grinned- making the girls, most of the girls, in Mikan's class put the back of their hands on their foreheads. Watanabe made his way to Mikan, slowly. Mikan showed a calm façade, though inside, she was going insane. She gave a quick glance at Natsume, who nodded and went back to reading his manga he had been reading ever since Watanabe walked in.

When Watanabe made his way next to Mikan, he put his arm around her and spoke. "I would like Mikan to be my partner, if there isn't any problem" he said, coolly.

Many comments were made, though, one stood out most.

"Actually, there is a problem- she's my partner." All heads turned towards the owner of the voice and were surprised when the realised who had said that.

"Eh? Mimi-chan is Natsume-chan's partner?" Narumi asked, dumbly. Natsume mentally rolled his eyes and, "Well, no shit, gay man. And don't call me with the dang 'chan'"

Everyone sweat dropped, while Narumi sulked at what Natsume called him. After a whole lot of awkward staring around the room, Narumi let out an awkward cough, catching the class's attention.

"Alright then, um, Natsu-cha... uh, Natsume, I'm sure she can have an extra partner for now, rig..." Narumi trailed off, suddenly scared shitless out of himself. At the moment, Mikan was glaring at him, a glare that might even be able to cause Persona to cough in order to get rid of some of the suffocating air around him. Narumi's knees were shaking and he had no idea what to do. He then looked at Mikan again, to see her using her eyes to communicate with him. After multiple attempts to make him understand, and not succeeding, she finally gave up.

She put her elbows in the table and put her head in her hands and murmured to herself, low enough so no one could hear her, "Ah, fuck it..."

Next her, Natsume watched her. He sighed, seeing he was unable to help her. 'How useless I am...' he thought to himself. He then turned back to Narumi when Narumi coughed again to gain their attention,

"I'm sorry, but I will have to put Kitty-chan with Mimi-chan" he said quietly. Mikan let out a depressed groan. Narumi sweat dropped and started fidgeting. There was something about her aura that made him feel guilty about putting Mimi-chan and Kitty-chan together. Narumi then snapped his fingers.

"Ah! How about this, Mimi-chan, Kitty-chan and Natsu-ch... Uh, Natsume with be partners. Together" and with that, Narumi quickly ran off, not skipping like he usually often did, after he announced a free period. Mikan let out a frustrated sigh before standing up. Watanabe and Natsume stood up also, ready to follow her outside. Though, Mikan turned back to them and held out her hand and pushed them down on the chairs- Watanabe sitting on Mikan's chair. She then turned away and started walking.

The whole class was silent for a moment, looking at whoever made a slight noise. Natsume sighed and stood up, catching the whole class's attention, and walked out to find Mikan. After a few minutes, Watanabe walked out, too.

'This is going to be interesting' the whole class thought.

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