yeO my gosh, I just noticed I never posted the last chapter even though it was mostly completed! Well, I roughly patched it up, but my English might be a little rusty, and also the text format is messy. I did not exactly go through the trouble of leafing through dictionaries to find the perfect words or phrases, since this sort of IS something I've completely forgotten about (and I got some art to work on).

Oh well… better late than never… So with (OMG) 3 years delay: Enjoy the Grande Finale of 'My sweet Alice' (Although I think most who wjere waiting will probably have given up on me by now XD)

Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice, I just want to have my way with the characters!

Ohhh by the way, I changed the ending of chapter 03, since it seemed to fit more like this, so you might wanna reread chapter 3 before reading this.

Chapter 04: My sweet Alice

The Masquerade

The main event of the month every student at the academy had been waiting for has arrived. Students, clad in creative and colourful costumes, decorated the ball, along with laughter. On the dance floor, the blushing faces of the couples indicated, that the festive mood indeed supported potential romantic interests, according to the legend of the 'My Sweet Alice'-Ball. Yet a certain young lad, who was clad in the normal school uniform of the Alice elementary school, only a black cat ears hairband distinguishing him from his normal attire, remained unaffected by the whispers of romance and laughter surrounding him. At least so far.

Impatiently the crimson eyed Black Cat was checking his watch, looking out for his date to get over with. Natsume let out a long sigh of deepest boredom and his crimson eyes wandered looked around the crowded ball room to find and end to his predicament, defying the rather festive mood the others were emitting.

He spotted Ruka on the other side of the ball room, clad in a full bunny costume, which Natsume deemed appropriate for a five-year old. Yet the girls swooned at the sight of his blushing bunny friend, who kept his rabbit pet as close to him as he could at the sight of the girls crowding around him. For some inexplicable reason his closest friend seemed to prefer keeping his distance from Natsume today, even if that meant to have fan girls accumulating around the Animal pheromone Alice more than usual. Whenever Ruka's eyes accidently caught his gaze, he would find the ceiling or the floor a much more captivating object of interest. Natsume had no clue as to why his friend should avoid him, but due to his appointment with a deer-eyed idiot, this would have to wait until later. If hanging out with a stupid Polka Dot panties wearing noisy girl would not succeed in driving his sane mind crazy.

The Black Cat took out his previously injured hand, looking at it accusingly. He did have it previously mended in the hospital wing by Imai, the principal of the student council, who – if he recalled correctly – was the genius Hotaru's older brother. He frowned at the memory and ruffled through his messy hair with the very hand which had saved a stupid female's head from loosing the little reason she had to a tree if not for his trained reflexes.

It had NOT felt soft and warm when he had touched her chest... It had not felt good to feel her sweet breath against his skin when she had fallen down on him. He had felt absolutely nothing at all when he had opened his eyes just to look at the curves of her body, promising to become a real beauty's-

He shook his head wildly at the recollection of that certain memory. No, he could not permit this kind of thinking to linger in his mind: he would definitely never, ever like that ugly stupid hag of a girl...

At least that was Natsume's thought until a slender, magnificent being entered his sight. He rubbed his eyes at the appearance of a young girl as he had never seen her before – he had never expected a Polka-Dots Mikan Sakura to be… a feline. A very cute feline. The kind of cat girl with cute fluffy ears, popping out of her head and, if he was not mistaken, a long elegant tail was protruding from behind her, moving in interesting curves. A pair of sand coloured ears twitched, as they caught sight of the infamous Black Cat, who could not help but notice the tail pointing upwards similar to a cat who was about to pounce her prey. And neither did the brown furry tank top help covering her slender belly nor the hot pants of the same material cover her long smooth legs, which were occasionally stroked by her intriguing cat tail. It is needless to say that the latter captivated the Black Cat's gaze with its apparent life of its own. The light sound of clinging little bells accompanied the nullification's alice approach, which were both adorned to her neck and tail with ribbons. With a slight tilt of her head, the bells stopped their melodious enchantment

"Hello Natsume! Have you been waiting for long?"

The Black Cat could not help but glare at the adorable cat girl, refusing to even acknowledge his own awe at the most favourable effect of his alice partner's attire.

"To be expected with your retar-"

He almost choked at the 'dedness' as Mikan, the very girl who cried at every little teasing of his, licked her lips, wetting them slowly. A light smile danced at the corner of her lips while doing so, as though to dare anyone to test their softness and taste.

While the Black Cat was wondering if his alice partner's lips would taste like sweet oranges, Mikan took his hand and swiftly lead the poker-faced young boy on to the dancing.

"Ne, Natsume…"

With no more than curt blinking implying his distracted thoughts, he noticed that Mikan had put his hand on her hip, gently entwining the fingers of his other hand with her slender ones. Belatedly his ears started focusing on the sweetly spoken words.

"I just wanted to thank you."

Perplexed he stared at the apparently brain-damaged cat girl. He was unable to see her expression, as she was circling around him. All he could see was an uncharacteristic mysterious smile on Mikan's face, as opposed to her usually cheerful one. The effect was rather stunning… and a little unsettling. He could not quite get rid of the feeling of losing his composure to her different charm this evening. He blinked to shake that thought away, as the feline Mikan finished the circling and returned to his arms, smiling brightly at Natsume.

"Thanks for what?"

"Well, all the things you have done for me."

The chestnut haired girl in front of him smiled at him from under her long eyelashes, her cat ears twitching as if listening to his thoughts, ignoring the dancers surrounding the two of them. Her innocent gaze was intently focused on Natsume, as if the world only consisted of the both of them. Needless to say, that the Black Cat was quite puzzled, although his fuzzy feelings might partly be caused by a cat girl's playful cat (and really soft) tail occasionally sweeping over his legs.

He raised an eyebrow. Thanks… for everything he had done? He could remember setting her hair on fire, teasing her, which made her cry. And even though he counted the 'sexual harassment' also as a way of teasing her, he would not exactly count that as something, Mikan would be thanking him for. And yet her eyes were filled with… mystery and emotion, he could not figure out.

Now he was sure that something was definitely off about Sakura Mikan. She never emitted an air of mystery.

"Well, I think instead of thanks you should be sorry for being noisy and -"

Suddenly the dancing cat couple was blinded by lights, focusing on the two of them.

"And the 'My sweet Alice' goes to the cute Cat Couple consisting of Mikan Sakura and Natsume Hyuuga! Very well matched costumes, if I may say so!"

Startled the dancing couple stopped at this announcement. It seemed while they were dancing, Narumi-sensei had held a vote for a contest while they were not paying attention. He waved a microphone, adored with a ribbon, at them and waved them over to the stage.

"May I ask the both of you to enter the stage?"

Reluctantly the female winner of the My Sweet Alice contest had his hand grabbed and an overexcited Mikan dragged the stunned Black Cat unto the stage.

Meanwhile a young inventor was fumbling with a camera, a hint of incredulity clouding her eyes, while she was chewing on an orange coloured dessert, which had a gum-like consistence. After Mikan had left for the party, she was yet unable to cast away her suspicion of her best friend's true intentions. Even though her behaviour towards Hotaru had not implied any unusual plans she might have, she was still intrigued. So the genius alice followed her to the party. She hid behind a pillar close to the buffet, but this was not the best place to have a close look at the stage. She could not really spot what was going on at the stage. She wondered if this had been part of some major plot. It could not be a coincidence that her friend had chosen a cat girl costume of all things, as the best possible match to Natsume. How could she have known though? Was all this really due to the potion she had taken? Did she really have the very wish to confess her feelings to Natsume?

„Come on! A better picture...", the young inventor was thinking desperately as she was watching the young couple entering the stage. Finally her invention no. 74 picked up the picture, a camera which was able to take images around corners.

Narumi-sensei had apparently tried to hand the microphone to a highly uncooperative Natsume, asking him about his opinion about winning the contest.

Natsume just glared at the teacher, before he stepped away with a snort, intent on just leaving the stage.

But Mikan took the opportunity to grab the microphone and hug him with no hesitation at all. Natsumes eyes widened with his astonishment, as his dancing partner's cat tail also curled around his legs, taking him captive.

„Thank you all for voting us the cutest couple at today's Sweet Alice contest! So I want to use this opportunity to give every girl outside there an advice first. The best way to hold a man, who is special to you… is in your arms...", Mikan whispered into not only the microphone, but also the Black Cat's ears and gently stroke over his thick black hair. For the first time in his life Natsume was able to blush, too startled by her sudden forwardness to act otherwise.

„.. So I want to confess to my dear dancing partner Natsume Hyuuga. And I want for everyone to see the nature of my deepest wish.", slowly her hand touched his stomach, which was tingling at the light touch of her hand.

Some protests could be heard by the Natsume Hyuuga fans, while others could only stare at what Mikan was about to do in public with pure incredulity in their eyes. The Black Cat though was too dazed by this kind of Mikan to care about the staring eyes.

"So let me show you…"

Her face was so close to his… Natsume held his breath, intent on hearing her next words.

„THE HUMILIATION I have felt all the times you ruined my future as a happy bride!"

With one swift move Mikan Sakura, known for her naivety and sometimes even retarded thinking, the person who was always laughed with (and sometimes behind her back by less tolerant people), slipped off the Black Cat's pants.

This was one of those magical moments in history, when everyone was thinking the same.

All those revolutionists at the French Revolution, who were screaming „No monarchy" with one voice and charged the Bastille were of one mind when they were making way for a new era.

All those people in America, who declared their independence at the Boston Tea party, were screaming 'Freedom' in their hearts in unison, also knew this feeling of union the Alice Academy students were experiencing now.

In the case of the Alice Academy students, it was the following:

„Oh my god."

The most different kind of people, even those who used to be enemies, would forever have this shared emotion in common, like the Permy, the emotionless inventor, the messy alchemist, the cute animal pheromone Alice, even the Mind Reader – who had begun to stare a second before the actual event.

Dozens of possible outgoings were racing through the audience's minds, as they saw a pair of pants slowly slipping down.

Having lost hold, the pants dropped to the ground.

But noone would have ever suspected of the famous, intimidating Black Cat to wear something so unexpected and yet… so very fitting.

Even the cat girl attired cause of this commotion stared at the guy in front of her in a state of utter shock.

„Kittens...?"

There they were. Underpants patterned with little black kitten heads, smiling at all who dared set their eyes upon them.

„OMYGOSH THAT'S SO CUTE!", the fangirls cried out, despite their shock at Mikans dare, jumping in their excitement.

Luckily for Mikan Natsume seemed to not have yet realized what she had done.

After having snapped out of her shock, she could not even dare guessing WHAT the Black Cat was going to do to her... So she bailed. (Of course only after taking a picture as a keepsake of her victory) Just in time she managed to avoid a dangerous flaming heat radiating from the young boy in the kitten underpants.

In a slow motion, resembling a panther preparing to jump his prey and bite its head off, he stepped down off the stage in pursuit of a certain sandy coloured cat girl. The dangerous aura was indeed so strong, noone dared hindering his path and spread out, until he had left the ball room, which should ever since be known as the Black Cat's hall of shame or the nullification's alice unexpected memento of triumph…

And thus the story of the only time Mikan managed to get back at the Black Cat has found its conclusion at the 'My sweet Alice' ball.

Epilogue

Later on Mikan Sakura has returned to her normal state of air. Although she did issue a complaint about the mysterious disappearance of the snapshot she had taken of legendary kitty pants.

Copies of the missing photo were later on found in the possession of every member of the Natsume Hyuuga fan club. Also some videos about this incident were spread at the Academy.

Around the same time rumours say, that shortly after this incident a certain genius girl has accumulated quite an impressive amount of money.

The legend of the 'My Sweet Alice' proved to be right in some ways. A never ending war of humiliation between Natsume Hyuuga and Mikan Sakura (including mostly the undressing part) is yet to be decided until this very day…. So they did sort of end up being united in this matter.

END.

Myrwin: Well, it did take me 3 years to rediscover this lost chapter and have Natsume get a well served dish of his own deeds back at him.

Natsume:…

Mytwin: Aw, come on, kitty pants are cute!

Natsume:….

Myrwin: Noone's probably gonna read this chapter anyway since I only updated this after three years.

Natsume:…

Fanfiction plus author burn up in flames, and thus the career of a crappy author ended.