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

Disclaimer: I do not own anything. Only Arakaki, Nishimura and Watanabe.

And, I suck at grammar

Italics are flashback (I might tell you beforehand, but at times… yeah…)

Natsume had quickly shut the door and thrown his mask onto his bed as he made his way to the couch where the television was. Letting out a sigh, he grabbed the remote and aimlessly flipped through the channels, finding nothing fit for his liking to watch. Not bothered to bother himself with flipping through channels on the television, he turned off the television and made his way to his mini library across the room.

"Geez, this room should be more of an apartment… it could even pass for a house" Natsume murmured to no one in particular. He picked out a random book and flipped to a random page and stared at it. He then looked around his room. His special star room was, without a doubt, huge. No argument there. Natsume slowly walked around his room, with the book still in his hand. He stood by the door and looked back it his room.

His room was messy, yet neat. From where he was standing, in front of the door, on the left side, had the 'living room' as anyone would call it, then, there was another door at led to another room, on the left side, a few strides away from the television, where Natsume had left is vacant, not knowing what to do with it. A few strides away from the couch in the living room was his 'bedroom', on the right side of the bed was the bathroom, which was also huge, the left side was a mini library. Then, there was the kitchen, which was around where the living room was. Natsume frowned, realizing he hadn't been in the kitchen for a while. Not that he needed to go in there anyway. Natsume slowly headed towards the kitchen and placed the book he was currently holding, on a glass table that was next to the kitchen door, as he entered the kitchen.

Natsume headed over to the kitchen bench and leaned on it. He looked around when he suddenly remember when Mikan kissed him on the cheek. Natsume smirked at the memory, though it slowly disappeared when he remembered what happened a moment ago. Heaving a sigh, he stood up properly and made his way out the kitchen, deciding to go take a shower before heading to Mikan's room.

After Mikan went into her room, she wondered if Natsume was going to come back. She had seen him walking up the hallway, though he had immediately made his way to his own room. She aimlessly walked around her room, looking around. She walked around for a few minutes until she reached the living room and went into the extra room that was on the right side, a couple of strides away from the television, and entered the room where all her instruments were. Slowly walking in, she looked at all the instruments around her. She gracefully walked over to the flute, picked it up and looked at it for a moment. She then set it down again and made her way to the grand piano, then to the cello that was near it, then to the guitar.

Mikan walked into the middle of the room and looked around her. "Well, I guess I might as well start figuring out what songs to sing for the Masked Ball…" she thought to herself. She then exited the room and moments later, came back in with her iPod. Mikan sat down on the piano chair, grabbed a paper and pen and started scrolling through the songs, every now and again writing down songs she thought might be suitable to sing.

After making a list of songs for what she thought would be reasonable, she started figuring out which songs to choose. She needed to choose 3 songs for herself, and wait for Natsume to discuss which song for them together. Mikan slightly smiled at the thought of singing with Natsume. Though, she quickly shook it off and looked through the list of songs.

'Hm, which song would be for the first dance song…' she wondered to herself. She stopped when a song caught her eye. "Hm, I guess this will do" she spoke to herself. She took out a small notebook and wrote the song next to the subtitle 'Song first dance'. She then continued doing that until she finished finding her three songs. When she finished, she picked up her piece of paper and looked through it again, re thinking. Finally satisfied with her songs, she smiled and placed the piece of paper back on the table and went to have a quick shower.

Natsume came out of the bathroom with his hair still wet. Making his way back to the book that he had left on the table next to the kitchen door, he went back on his bed and leaned his back on the frame of the bed and started reading. When he finished the book (which was only about 3 minutes later…) he slid off his bed and decided to go back to Mikan's room.

Making his way down the corridor, he went up to Mikan's room and knocked on it. When he didn't receive any reply, he suspected her to be asleep. He tried the doorknob and realised that it wasn't locked. Natsume almost face palmed himself because of her stupidity. Here she was, one the most popular girls in the school, surrounded by perverted guys who would do god-knows-what if they realised that she doesn't lock her door. Letting out a sigh, he opened the door and let himself in. Closing the door behind him, he realised where Mikan was, hearing the sound of the water from the shower.

Deciding to make himself comfortable, Natsume picked out a book from her mini library and made his way to Mikan's bed and lay down on it and started reading. Minutes later his attention was moved over to the bathroom, where he heard the door opening. Moving his eyes away from the book, he turned to look at the bathroom, only to see Mikan having only a towel wrapped around her body, and her hair typed up in a pony tail as usual.

'Whoa' he was the only thing he could think before Mikan started to scream her head off.

Mikan was looking at the floor when she stepped out of the bathroom. When she looked up, she saw Natsume on her bed, holding a book and looking at her. She eyes widened and she inwardly cursed, trying to calm herself. Only, it didn't turn out so well. In the end, she ended up screaming her ass off.

"AHHK! NATSUME! WHAT THE HELL? TU-TUR-TURN AWAY, PERVERT!" she yelled out, unconsciously hugging herself. Natsume being Natsume, he turned back to the book in front of him and tried ignore her as she continued to rant on.

"Why the hell did you let yourself in? Couldn't you have waited a couple of minutes? You damn pervert! Oh, god! I'm so glad I came out in at least a towel… if it were any other day when I didn't bother…" she trailed off. Natsume, hearing this, blushed, though he covered it with his bangs.

'She usually comes out of the bathroom in nothing?' he thought, as he watched Mikan from the corner of his eye. He saw Mikan walked over to the other side of the bed, grabbing a pillow and leaned over. As curious as he was, wondering on what she was doing, he tried his best to face the book. He was having a difficult time when something suddenly knocked him over. Coming back to his senses, he realised Mikan had hit him with a pillow.

"Oi! What are you doing, Polka?" he called out, obviously irritated. Mikan poked out her tongue childishly at him before replying.

"Well, you were looking. AND DON'T CALL ME POLKA, PERVERT!" she yelled.

"Well, whose fault is it that I look? Seriously, you have time to tie your hair up, but not enough time to bring clothes with you into the bathroom" he stated, with a raised eyebrow. He lowered his brow when Mikan scrunched up her nose, crossed her arms over her chess and replied,

"Well, I like hot showers… and it gets all steamy in the bathroom… and then, if I bring clothes in there, it ends up feeling weird…" she told him. Natsume raised his eyebrow again and smirked.

"Is that the best excuse you have in order to show yourself in only a towel in front of me?" said Natsume, calmly as he looked back at the book in front of him and started reading, inwardly smirking widely.

"WHAT? NO WAY, PERVERT!" Mikan shrieked, giving him a glare before she stomped over to her walk-in closet and slammed the door shut. As soon as the door slammed shut, Natsume put down the book and chuckled humorously to himself.

"Geez, what an idiot..." he muttered to himself as he picked up the book again and continued to read where he left off.

As soon as Mikan slammed the door shut, Mikan heaved a frustrated sigh. "Damn, that jerk!" she mumbled to herself. She then walked further into her closet and started looking for clothes. Just as she was about to get her clothes, a sudden announcement was made through the speakers around the school.

"Students of Gakuen Alice, your ability type classes will start in an hour. Lunch almost served, so feel free to make your way to the cafeteria. And again, Ability type classes will start in an hour"

Mikan sat on the ground. Ability type classes, she hasn't told anyone which class she was in, apart from Hotaru. Heaving a sigh, Mikan stood back up again and placed her clothes back onto the rack and got out different clothes.

Minutes later, Mikan came out of her walk-in closet in a red tank top, black skinny jeans and black converse shoes. Natsume looked up from the book he was currently reading and raised his eyebrow. Mikan looked at him questioningly. Natsume closed the book and stood up and commented, "Nice shirt" and went over to the book shelf and put the book back.

"Hah, your favourite colour" Mikan stated. Mikan suddenly noticed how Natsume's eyes seem to look different than they were about an hour ago. 'What's wrong with him?' she wondered. Before she could ask him what was wrong, there was a knock at the door. Both heads turned towards the door as the door opened.

"Ah, hello, Hana, what brings you here?" Mikan asked as she made her way to Hana. Hana whispered something in her ear and left without another word. "Hmm" was all Mikan said as she stood by the door. All was quiet until Mikan broke the silence with, "Hey, ability classes are about to start...so... how about we head out now?" she asked. Natsume gave a stiff nod and headed towards the door. Mikan walked out first, followed by Natsume who closed the door behind him.

Both parties walked in silence. Feeling uncomfortable, Mikan tried to start a conversation, "Ne..."

Before she could continue, Natsume cut her off. "What ability class are you in, anyway?" he asked. Mikan stayed silent for a moment. 'Damn... I was afraid this would happen' she thought.

"Oi, Polka... did you hear me?"

Mikan glared at Natsume before facing forward again. "I'll tell you later" was all she said. They continued to walk in silence again when Natsume started speaking again.

"You're... you and Nishimura... what's going on with you two?" Natsume asked, his face void of any emotion. Mikan looked at him, confused.

"What do you mean?" she asked, stopping in her tracks. Natsume stopped in his tracks as well and turned around to face Mikan.

"You and Nishimura, are you two dating or something?" he asked, starting to get irritated. Sensing his irritation, Mikan started getting irritated as well. "Why do you ask?" she shot back. Natsume shrugged his shoulders and leaned against the wall behind him and answered, "You seem to be close to him that's all. What was with the kiss a while ago? What's the occasion?" he asked. Mikan slightly narrowed her eyes.

"What? Where...kiss?" Mikan trailed off. Then, something struck her. Natsume must have seen her kissing Ken on the cheek and vice versa. Mikan inwardly grinned inside. 'How cute' she thought.

"Right... when I kissed Ken. No, I'm not going out with him. And why I kissed him... it's a long story..." Mikan explained, her voice slowly trailing off. Natsume leaned off the wall and continued walking after answering with a "Hn". He was somewhat glad that Mikan wasn't in a relationship with the Nishimura guy.

"When do Nishimura and Arakaki join our class, anyway?" Natsume asked, digging his hands into the pockets of his school trousers.

"Ah, they join on Monday" Mikan replied, a couple of steps behind Natsume. "So, where do you want to go?" Mikan asked when she finally caught up with Natsume's long legs. She may be 170cm tall, but this guy was 185cm tall, by all means, 15cm taller than her. She hated that. Heck, she would have to wear about 6 inch heels just to reach his height! 'Well, the shoes that I've been thinking of buying recently are about 12cm high... so it will add 12cm to my height. I'll only be around 3cm shorter. Should do' she thought. Natsume's voice suddenly snapped her out of her thoughts.

"Oi, I've been calling your name for 10 minutes already, are you deaf?" Natsume grunted. Mikan poked her tongue out at him.

"I'm not deaf!" she exclaimed, "I was just thinking about something" she added. Natsume raised a brow, curiously, before dropping it. Mikan inwardly started laughing. 'He acts so much like a cat' she thought. 'He often acts so cold, now, he's so different' she noted.

"I wasn't thinking about much. Just..." she slowed her paced down to take a good look at Natsume. Natsume also slowed his pace down, "What is it?" he asked her.

"You're tall" Mikan stated. Natsume raised a brow again. "State the obvious much?" he said, sarcastically. Mikan playfully slapped his arm. "No, seriously... you're tall. Doesn't it bother you that girls continuously stare at you all the time?" Mikan asked, curiously. She turned to look at Natsume when she heard him scoff.

"I would be asking you the same question. Doesn't it bother you that boys keep staring at you all the time, fantasising about god-knows-what, while the girls glare at you?"

Mikan stayed quiet. Yeah, it makes her uncomfortable, but she has to deal with it, doesn't she?

"Yeah, it bothers me every now and then. I try to ignore it. How do you deal with it?" she asked, curious how the annoying, perverted, impatient jerk managed his fans. She sweat dropped when she heard Natsume's reply.

"I burn them, of course" Mikan stared at him as if he were a freak. "Seriously? That's so mean!" Mikan exclaimed. Natsume shrugged his shoulders. "You do what you got to do" he said in a bored tone. Mikan continued to stare at Natsume for a while before softly laughing and shaking her head.

It wasn't long until she realised that they were heading towards the Sakura Tree. They both sat on opposite sides of the tree trunk and sat in comfortable silence until it was time for ability classes to start.

Mikan closed her eyes and thought about her Alice. She could feel herself getting stronger. Sooner or later, the control devices won't help so much. She was going to need something else to hold back some of her power. Suddenly, Mikan felt something rip inside of her body. Mikan stopped breathing and closed her mouth shut, making sure not to make a single sound until the pain went away.

As soon as the pain went away, Mikan took a deep breath and exhaled. She really needed some help.

Natsume was looking up at the sky blankly, wondering about what had happened ever since Mikan arrived at Gakuen Alice. Natsume leaned his head onto the tree trunk and took a deep breath. He knows he hasn't been acting like himself ever since. The girl's got a huge impact on him, without a doubt. But, he, no way in hell, is going to admit that he's in love with her. There is no possible way. He's only known the girl for a month, yet, he still doesn't know anything about her. Heck, he doesn't even know her last name!

Natsume slowly opened his eyes and searched for a clock around the area. The school always had multiple clocks around for the students to keep track of time. Seeing that ability classes was about to start in less than twenty minutes, he got up and told Mikan that classes were about to start in less than twenty minutes, and he had to walk all the way to the Northern Forest for his class.

"Ah, alright then..." said Mikan, "see you later" she added as she got up. When she was on her feet again, unaware that Natsume was in front of her, still having her eyes closed she took a step forwards and crashed into Natsume.

"OOOF! What are you still doing here? I thought you left already!" Mikan exclaimed, while rubbing her head, muttering a small 'ouch'. Natsume couldn't help but roll his eyes. How stupid can this girl be?

"Well, either way, I'm still here. Because, it's either I walk you to class, get you to go to your room or... as much as I hate to admit, I'll need to find Imai to look after you" spoke Natsume. Mikan popped a vein. "I...am...not...stupid..." she slowly spoke, glaring at Natsume.

"Sure thing, Polka dots" was all Natsume said as he dug his hands into the pocket of his pants and proceeded walking, while ignoring Mikan ranting on about being such a pervert, etc. When she finally stopped lecturing, she realised that they were in front of her room.

"Why on earth are we back here?" she asked, confused.

"Well, I need start going to class now, while you still have some time to... do whatever it is that you need to do" replied Natsume . He was about to walk away when he stopped, remembering something. "Oi, Polka, you still haven't told me what ability class you're in" he stated. Mikan looked down at the ground. Natsume heard her let out a small sigh before answering with,

"Natsume... you'll find out soon. Trust me, you will. I can't tell you, sorry" was all she said as she quickly opened the door to her room and went inside, quickly closing the door shut, leaving a confused Natsume behind.

'Why did she apologise?' Natsume wondered to himself, confused. He set the thought aside and made his way to the Northern forest. Class was about to start in about 10 minutes.

As soon Mikan closed the door, she heaved a sigh, and listened to Natsume's footsteps faded until she started getting ready to go to her ability class. She quickly went into her walk-in closet, picking up a watch and wearing it on her wrist on the way, and grabbed a black leather jacket and wore it as she made her way to the draw where she kept all her mission equipment.

Concentrating, Mikan opened the draw and stared at it. Natsume was bound to know if she wore any of the jewellery. Searching around in the draw, she saw something that she was sure that Natsume's had not yet seen her wear. Mikan grabbed the necklace with small pendants of the crescent moon and a star. She then grabbed a white mask that covered most of her face, not covering her mouth. Hana has secretly sent her the mask when she came in to tell her something.

Quickly wearing it, she made her way out the door and ran towards the Northern forest, where the dangerous ability class would soon start in less than six minutes. As soon as she was sure no one would see her, she jumped up onto a tree branch and started leaping from branch to branch, gracefully. In less than four minutes, she had arrived at the Northern forest, and was less than a few metres away from where the class was held. Deciding to wait until Persona called her, she kept her distance from the rest of the class. Occasionally, watching Natsume, though, most of the time, she was having conversations with Hana and Ken through telepathic messages.

As soon as classes started, Mikan carefully leaped closer. She was also aware that Hana and Daichi were doing the same thing. 'Right... they're joining the class as well...' Mikan realised. She continued to go closer until she met up with Hana and Ken, where she gave them a small nod, greeting them, who nodded back, and all turned to watch below them, where Persona was about to make an announcement.

Natsume was leaning on a tree until he saw Persona come towards them. Natsume leaned off the tree and slowly made his way towards the rest of the class, taking his time. When he reached the class, Persona started making an announcement.

"Dangerous ability class, we have three students who will join us" announced Persona. Upon this announcement, the class started talking to one another. Natsume had a good idea on who the two of the new students were going to be. He was sure it was going to be Arakaki and Nishimura.

Getting annoyed that his students were not listening to him, he simply told them to shut up, which they did, immediately.

"The three students, two are female, one is male. That is all I am to say. You way come out now, new students of the DA class" announced Persona.

Then, as said, two people tall people with black masks jumped down from the tree that was above the class. The girl had blonde hair, which was tied up in a pony tail. She walked over to the guy who was not so far from her, who had messy black hair. They gave a stiff bow, and stood back up and introduced themselves. Well, the girl introduced them...

"I'm Hana Arakaki, 16 years old, soon turning 17, and this is Daichi Nishimura, 17 years old" she introduced, gesturing towards themselves. "We hope we all get along"

"Wait, there is only two of you... didn't Persona say there were three new students?" a student called out.

"Good job for picking that up" Daichi said, sarcastically as he rolled his eyes behind his mask. He glanced at Persona, who nodded and spoke,

"Come out now" instructed Persona. Suddenly, a brunette jumped down gracefully, landing without a sound. Landing with her head down, no one was able to see who it was, but they saw her wearing a white mask that covered most of her face except her mouth. Though, Natsume had an idea on who it was, remembering the red tank top, the jeans and the black converse shoes, the person who he had last seen not so long ago.

"Hi, I'm the last new student joining the DA class" the girl said. A student asked them to take off their masks. And as asked, altogether, all three took off their masks. All of the Dangerous Ability class student's eyes widened at the beauties in front of them. 'Whoa' they all thought.

Natsume's eyes widened further when his suspicions were correct. 'Mikan' he thought. 'So that was why she said sorry... the hell...' he added as he saw Mikan look at the students.

Mikan started scanning her eyes across the class, avoiding Natsume's eyes, after scanning the class, she spoke.

"I am Mikan. I will be the... uh, co-handler... in a way to say it, of the Dangerous Ability Class from now on. I hope we will... all get along" she announced.

Natsume's eyes slightly widened upon the announcement, while all the other students, apart from Hana and Daichi who remained perfectly calm, secretly amused by the shock of the rest of their fellow students, were frozen.

'What the hell is going on?' all the students thought.

HIYO~

Chapter 15 is up~ (Of course)

Recently, I realised how much I started to write... I don't know if it's too much... but, i often get carried away in writing so, uh, I apologise if it's too much (:

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