An original fanfic by me. Xoxo. –Revised-

Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice or its characters, but gosh I sure wish I did.

A/N: Mikan, Natsume, Ruka, and Hotaru are all around 15-16 years old. Mikan likes Natsume, but Natsume...?

Mikan P.O.V

"Hotaruuu!" I yawned as I sat up on my bed. I looked around our dorm for my best friend/roomate Imai Hotaru.

"Hotaru, where did you go?" I questioned. Hotaru was usually awake before I was, but she would never miss my delicious cooking. Correction, she would never miss pulling out her fire extinguisher after I attempted to make breakfast. Mornings were usually a disaster for us, but Hotaru never left to first period without me.

"Hmmm... that's weird." I decided to get changed when I noticed on the side of my table
It read:

To baka,

Because you're reading this, you have probably forgotten that Jinno asked us to head off to class half an hour earlier because we have testing. I tried to wake you up, but you kept yelling, "Noooo! Don't touch my Howalon!" So hurry up and get dressed bakaaa.

-H. Imai

"Oh shoot!" I yelled in frustration as I threw my uniform. I had totally forgotten that our finals were today.

"Crapp. Jinno's gonna kill meeee." I reached for my boots and ran towards the classroom. When I reached the classroom, I slammed open the door to see my other classmates snickering at me.

"Nice hair polka," Natsume scoffed as I headed towards my seat, which just so happened to be right next to his.

"Sakura-san!" Jinno yelled firmly. I jolted out of my seat and replied, "Hai?"

"Sakura-san. I reminded the whole class yesterday that because of testing, we have to start half an hour earlier. Is that correct?"

"Hai."

"And everyone else in class arrived on time except..." He glared at me.

"Gomenasai."

"Well," he sighed. "Class, we must start testing immediately because someoneee..." He paused and glanced in my direction. "Isn't very responsible."

I bowed my head in apology. I felt awful; the whole class had to wait because of me.

I turned to Natsume, who looked as if he didn't have a care in the world.

"Stop worrying Polka. Just concentrate on your test, and don't fail like you did last year. And the year before that. And the year before that." I blushed at his comment. It's hard on a girl when the boy she likes talks about all her failures.

"Sheesh I get it okay? I'm not the best at math or science. Or history."

Jinno passed by, handing us our tests. He threw me a dirty look. Clearly, he was still mad about me being late.

"Okay class. You may begin. You have exactly," He peered down at his watch. "1 hour 23 minutes and 47 seconds. Go ahead."

I flipped over my test, which was a huge packet consisting of four different subjects, a total of 150 problems. 150 problems that I hadn't prepared for.

"I'm done," another student finished while I was still struggling on my third page.

"I'm done too," another student from the back said, handing his test to Jinno.

"You have exactly three minutes left. Start finishing up," Jinno announced as he went back to playing Scrabble on the computer with Narumi.

"Oh shitt. I'm not gonna finish in time," I muttered as I began circling random answers.

"4th year in a row. Impressive," Natsume smirked as he eyed me guessing. Again. I blushed once again. He was messing with my head.

"Oh shut up. Who knows? Maybe I'll be lucky and get a C-."

"Hn. Or D-." He muttered under his breath, barely audible.

"Okay times up. Pass up your tests." A few people moaned. The few people who decided to procrastinate and study the night before, including me.

Ruka-pyon and Hotaru began discussing their answers.

"Ruka. You missed 4, 38, and 102." Hotaru stated in her usual monotone voice.

"Whaaa. How do you know?"

"Because I memorized all my answers and compared them with your when you were done. We got different answers for those three."

"How are you so sure that I got them wrong?" He looked up at Hotaru who was eating her fancy crab. "Never mind. I missed three."

"How did you do Natsume? Ruka-pyon asked Natsume, who finished third, after Iinchou and Hotaru.

"100."

"Gosh. You and Imai are just so..."

The next morning the test results were posted.

1) Imai Hotaru and Hyuuga Natsume
2) Tobita Yuu

I searched for my name.

250) Sakura Mikan- 34%.

Sigh. Not again.

Once again, I had to have the talk again with sensei about my grades.

"Sakura-san. I've never, ever seen anyone score a 34% before on a test. I've realized after all these years that sticking you in summer school with me just brings torture to the both of us. So I've come up with another idea. One of the top scoring students has offered to be your tutor."

I looked up at Hotaru in admiration. "Arigatou Hotaruuu. I promise I'll do my best."

I jumped towards Hotaru for a big hug. She pushed me away and said, "Not me. I would know better than to tutor a baka like you." She turned away and polished her baka gun.

Oh no! If it's not Hotaru then that means... I turned around to see Natsume flash a smile at me. My heart skipped a beat.

"Natsume will be your tutor this summer. No objections."

A/N: So how was the first chapter of my first fanfic? I hope you liked it. I wasn't really focused on developing their relationship until the very end, so you will see more MikanxNatsume in the next chapter. (which will hopefully be done soon) Any feedback would be great. :) BTW, this was typed completely on my itouch, so it appeared a lot longer than it actually turned out to be. I should really type on my computer next time…

~RingoTart