Disclaimer: Gakuen Alice belongs to Higuchi Tachibana. This story, on the other hand, belongs to me, and is inspired by and dedicated to xxtranscendence.

Hijiri Youichi's Parents

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Chapter One
An Interesting Conclusion

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Written by EzMouse

Four-year-old Youichi Hijiri is a young Class A student in the elementary division of Gakuen Alice. He is known as a genius in the whole of his grade and is part of the Dangerous Ability Types with an Alice capable of summoning demonic spirits. Despite his background and Alice, he is a cute and adorable kid with brown hair, emerald eyes, chubby cheeks that anyone would die just to pinch them, and a height of 3'2".

Despite the cute appearance lies an attitude quite similar to someone we all know.

His so called "father". But no, not his real father.

Youichi has grown attached to the academy and had established friendships with very few people. One of them is Natsume Hyuuga, the known Black Cat, flame-caster, and number one delinquent in the academy.

Youichi made Natsume his official Daddy. We don't really mind when it happened or how it happened. There is this one question we need to know about; Was it okay for Natsume? Being him, you think he'd disagree, right? Well ,he didn't. Even Gakuen Alice's Black Cat had a weakness— a soft side for Youichi Hijiri, now currently known to the whole school as his very own son.

There was oneother incident that happened.

Having a dad was okay, but to Youichi, it wasn't enough. There was still someone missing to complete this picture and little Youichi was clever enough to spot and discover what the missing piece of the picture was.

Who knew that a three-year-old can make such a conclusion in such an unexpected place, in such an unexpected time, and with such an unexpected pair?

Youichi's class was the same as always; their teacher was absent so they had a lot of free time. He was usually bored in class because there was nothing to do and his classmates weren't making it better.

"Youichi, wanna play with us?" a young girl asked, approaching him.

"No," he answered dully, giving the girl this look as if hell broke loose.

"You-chan is scary!" the young girl shouted, tears starting to fall from her eyes as she quickly ran away from him.

Youichi sighed, returning to his cool gazed outside the window and took another sigh. Thoughts about how Natsume was doing started occupying his mind.

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It was all the same in Class B.

"Good morning, everyone!" Mikan greeted, making a grand entrance in the classroom with her usual wide smile and cheerful voice.

"Good Morning Mikan-chan!" some of the students replied.

"Hotaru!" Mikan squealed, charging towards her best friend with her arms wide open.

But of course, being the cunning person that she is, Hotaru took out the famous "Baka Gun" and shot Mikan straight on the head. Shewas sent flying, of course, much to her dismay. Lucky enough, the wall was there to stop her, but it had a huge impact on her face. She slid down the wall, leaving a Mikan-shaped hole on the wall.

"Hotaru, you're so mean!" Mikan whined and cried.

On the other hand, this was an entertaining scene for their other classmates. The others were laughing so hard at the usual antics of these two best friends. Some people resisted, but they all laughed anyway. Hotaru blew the smoke that was coming from the top of her Baka Gun and continued with her business, and Yuu was panicking on how much Mikan got hurt by that one hit. Natsume and Ruka, however, had no interest in this whatsoever. Well, except for Ruka who was a bit worried about Mikan, but for Natsume, he couldn't care less. He covered his face with his manga and went back to Snoozeville.

While all were busy laughing and watching, no one had noticed a certain brunette kid making his way in the room. He was glad that everyone was distracted, and he spotted Natsume right away. As he tiptoed towards him, he was, unfortunately, detected by Sumire Shouda.

"Oh, You-chan, so nice of you to stop by!" she squealed. Luckily it didn't draw any attention.

"Get away from me, ugly…" Youichi replied, ignoring her.

"I'm not ugly…" Sumire muttered, silently crying waterfalls as she retreated to her seat.

"Daddy," Youichi mumbled, tugging on the uniform of the sleeping Natsume.

Natsume peeked from his manga and saw him. "Oh, it's you," he said, taking off the manga on his face while rubbing his right eye. "What are you doing here?"

"That girl keeps on bugging me…" Youichi pointed to Sumire.

"Don't mind that ugly hag."

Youichi tilted his head to the side and asked, "Ugly hag?"

Natsume patted him on the head. "That's what you're going to call her from now on, alright?"

Youichi nodded and smiled.

" Natsume!" a voice from behind called out. "Don't teach a little kid to say those things about other people!"

The two turned and saw one furious Mikan.

"Why do you care, Polka Dots?" Natsume asked.

"Stop being such a pervert!" Mikan shouted, turning her gaze away from him.

"Hotaru-chan, what's that?" the pink-haired girl named Anna asked.

This attracted Mikan's attention and she went over to Hotaru. Hotaru took out a photograph and showed it to Mikan. Her eyes shot wide open.

"Where did you get this?" Mikan asked out of curiosity. "No way! Is that… Natsume?"

The other students gathered around to take a closer look. All were speechless.

"What are you morons talking about there?" Natsume shouted from the back.

It seemed that everyone had been holding back their laughter, afraid of what the Flame Caster might do to them. They were almost successful in holding it in, until Mikan laughed so hard all of a sudden, that everybody finally laughed out as well.

"Natsume, look at you in this picture!" Mikan said, laughing.

Natsume stood up and snatched the picture off her hands. He turned to Hotaru and said, "Where the heck did you get this stupid picture?"

"I told you it was taken by accident. I was actually after Nogi while he was wearing his Cinderella outfit," Hotaru started.

"Hey!" Ruka interrupted.

Hotaru shot him a glare and Ruka immediately kept quiet. Hotaru cleared her throat and continued, "Anyway, he slapped the camera right out of my hand and unfortunately for you, the camera fell in front of the Sakura Tree where your little scene occurred."

It was a picture of Natsume falling down a tree. Careless much? Not on his life. You see, instead of sleeping against the trunk of the tree, he decided to rest at one of the branches of the Sakura Tree. Unfortunately, he got too comfortable and he accidentally slipped and fell. Hotaru happened to be passing by with a camera with her andRukajust so happened to slap it out of her hand? Talk about unlucky.

Natsume slapped his forehead when he remembered that incident. He shrugged off the thought, but then Hotaru Imai just had to capture that.

"Wow! And you got Natsume's funny face! He was going'AHHH!' in there!" Mikan laughed. "His eyes were so big and his mouth was—OUCH!"

Out of annoyance, Natsume's fist made contact with Mikan's head. In a simpler way, he hit her on the head… hard. After that, he burned the picture into ashes with his very own hands.

"No point burning it. I already made other copies—fireproof copies," Hotaru smirked.

Natsume glared at Hotaru and everybody who laughed. His signature ice glare worked as it caused everyone to freeze because of fright, except for Mikan and Hotaru that is.

"Hotaru, can I have a copy of that picture?" Mikan asked, still giggling.

"For Fifty Rabbits," Hotaru answered.

"Why are you asking a copy of that for?" Natsume asked, annoyed.

"It's just that you look so cute in the picture, Natsume! It's not everyday I see Natsume Hyuuga looking so cute like that," Mikan replied, still staring at the photo.

Surprisingly, this caused Natsume's cheeks to turn pink. His reaction was neither a result of Mikan's comment taken either as an offense or not. It happened involuntarily. When he realized this, he looked away and covered his mouth. "Don't go calling people cute, idiot!"

"Why not? You were so cute in here. There's no denying it."

"I said stop saying that, you loud-mouthed girl!"

They hadn't noticed that the whole class was looking at them, more likely looking at Natsume, anyway.

"Well, what are you morons looking at?" Natsume taunted.

All immediately looked away from Natsume. Nonetheless, Youichi noticed something he had never seen before; something unusual about how Natsume reacted that hardly ever happened until she came along. He walked towards Mikan and tugged at her skirt.

"Hey," Youichi called out.

"What is it, You-chan?" Mikan asked, already looking worried. She put her guard up in case he decided to send out ghosts again.

"Come here," he ordered firmly.

Mikan bent down with caution. "Yes?"

Out of the blue, Youichi kissed her on the right cheek. Everybody was surprised of what he did. Mikan jolted up, touching the area where Youichi had planted a kiss on her cheek.

Youichi shrugged his shoulders. "…Mommy."

A loud gasp was heard from everybody in class. Mikan stared at Youichi who was now clinging on to her arm, and then at Natsume who had his mouth hanging wide open.

"W-What did you just say?" Mikan asked, completely dazed.

"Daddy looked weird when you said he was cute. He turned red. You are like real parents," Youichi said, pointing to Natsume.

This caused Natsume to look away at the ridiculousness of the situation.

"See, he's doing it again," Youichi said pointing at Natsume's face. When Mikan was about to look at him, Natsume covered his face with his manga before she could see.

"Natsume-kun, why are you covering your face like that?" Koko teased, a silly grin on his face.

Natsume glared. "Does it matter? She's ugly and I don't want to see her."

"Oh, is Mikan really ugly, Natsume-kun? I think she's pretty cute, don't you think so?" Koko teased some more.

"I think you like each other. Mikan, you should be my mom," Youichi insisted.

"Hyuuga, smile," Hotaru said, focusing the videocam on his face.

"Get that stupid camera away from me!" Natsume shouted in anger.

"You're my mommy now, okay, Mommy Mikan?" Youichi gleamed, wrapping his short arms around Mikan's waist.

Mikan didn't know what to do. She mumbled some incoherent words for the lack of anything better to say and Youichi was staring right at her.

"…You don't like it?"

"She agrees, Youichi. Don't worry about it," Hotaru answered for her, her camera still focused on them both.

Mikan's eyes widened like saucers. "Hotaru!"

Youichi cheered and the class was filled with laughter. Mikan stood up and looked quite puzzled because she hardly understood what had actually happened. As for Natsume, he just hid his face behind his manga and that was probably all that he did.

"I guess you are permanent parents of Youichi now, huh?" Koko teased again, highly amused by the train of thoughts running on either Mikan and Natsume's minds.

"I don't get it," Mikan rubbed the back of her head. "I know You-chan doesn't like me, then all of the sudden he claims me to be his mommy? Has the world turned upside-down?"

"Idiot," Hotaru muttered silent behind her camera.

TO BE CONTINUED.

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