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How Far Can Idiocy Go? Part II

by: Sorrowful Princess

Genre: Humour/Romance

Pairing: NatsumeXMikan

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Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice and I do not have as much geniosity as Higuchi Tachibana has. But I'll do my best to satisfy the readers.

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It all happened because a certain brunette carelessly and stupidly interpreted the article she happened to read in a magazine. If it wasn't for her lack of knowledge and annoyingly huge amount of innocence, everything must be peaceful and going along just fine. But no. When she asked that undesirable question, it instantly meant war, especially to the fan girls since Mikan asked none other than their beloved Natsume-sama.

- "Ne, Natsume," Mikan called in a sing-song voice which annoyed the hell out of the fan girls.

"What do you want, idiot?" Natsume responded nonchalantly.

"Say," Mikan started and it piqued Natsume's curiosity a bit while the fan girls practically grumbled. "Can we make love?" the brunette asked out, loud and clear.

Yes, she asked him to make love with her inside the cafeteria, in front of everyone, and with her voice ringing like tones that were unmistakably meant to torture. She asked him to make love, and to everybody's shock and bewilderment, the flame caster agreed with such an annoying look plastered on his face.

- Natsume smirked evilly. "Sure, darling." he said sexily. He looked at Mikan enticingly, "Where do you want to do it?"

Mikan, who was overly esctatic, failed to notice the way Natsume called her 'darling', and instead, beamed at him.

"In an open area!" she exclaimed and everyone sweat dropped.

Natsume sneered. "Oh? Why in a place like that?"

The brunette brought her finger to her chin and pretended to think of an answer. "Because I like the sun! It will give us energy!"

And what in the freaking world will everybody make out if you told flat out that you'd want to make love in an open area, under the blazing heat and glare of the ferocious sun, and use it as something like a battery to give you enough energy? Enough energy from the sun to make love?

People were horrified. It was as if an epidemic, contagious disease has infected them all. It was a matter of survival and the power to reserve for yourself.

But honestly, what is there to reserve?

- Ruka felt sick with all the noise. But he, himself, just can't process what's happening around him this very moment. Well, his crush and his best friend are going to make love any minute by now, so how do you expect him to react? He was freaked out, yes. But he was more freaked out with the fact that his best friend willingly accepted Mikan's offer.

And he was more and more freaked out when a fan girl grabbed him by the collar and tried to kiss him.

"If I can't have Natsume-sama, I'll have you instead! I won't let that Mikan have her way on you when she's done with him!" the girl
who tried to kiss Ruka screamed right before she pulled Ruka's collar.

"Yeah! Who knows who her next victim would be? We better make reservations or else we'll...!"

And with that statement, all of the desperate fan girls made a go with Ruka. They flung themselves on him and tried to hug him, kiss him... some even tried to undress him!

It was a total chaos.

Who knew the sweet and talented and skillful and extraordinary students of Alice Academy would react this way and would drop their dignity just to ensure themselves that they'll have someone nearly as popular and as hot as Natsume? Poor Ruka, but dear readers, I am happy to inform you that he somehow managed to escape the bloody slaughter with the aid of his pet bear.

But then on the other side of the canvas, Mikan and Natsume were sitting under the shades of their Sakura tree, while the brunette kept on pestering that they should do it immediately because she's oh sooo bubbling with excitement. Dear readers, if only you knew-and I'm sure you do since most of you have read have the Part I of this story-Natsume looked as if he had been submerged in a vinegar tank. His face had been drained of color and mind you, he kept telling himself to get a grip of himself. Yet even as he tried his best, Mikan kept on saying words she hardly even knew that meant more than it seems. Words with double or triple meaning, I mean.

- "Ne, Natsume, let's make love already!" she whined, and Natsume paled. Here she goes again.

"I think we should start now, while the sun's way up high. It'll be fun!" Then she stood up and grabbed his hand. "C'mon! We must get started!" she said, and he turned even more pallid.

Natsume grumbled.

"Let go, idiot. Who says we're going to make love?"

She twitched her eye brows. "You said! You, yourself, agreed to make love with me, right? It'll be so much fun, you know! It will be-"

"Stop it, idiot! You're making me think of improper things! Don't taint my mind with your - argh!"

Who, in their rightful mind, would say that making love is fun in times like this? Making love-fun. Sounded pretty nasty, actually. But to hear it coming from Mikan's mouth is another story. And you know what I mean.

Desperate as Natsume was, he resolved into breaking his innocence and explaining what love truly means and how it is being taken into action. However, despite all the trouble and stutters he has suffered, Mikan remained unabashed and untroubled, as if what Natsume told her were only about the tale of two little bunnies hopping merrily through the forest.

- Suddenly, the bell rang. Break time's finally over.

"Oh! We should get back to class now!" she said.

Natsume grumbled, still exasperated. "You go back. I don't feel like going there and wasting my time."

"Mou, Natsume! Let's go!"

"No."

She sighed. "Fine! I'll leave you here if that's what you want!" then she turned around, stomped her feet and started to walk off towards the classroom.

Before she fully vanished on his sight, though, she turned around and shouted: "Natsume! Continue your explanation later, okay? And oh! Let's make love tomorrow instead, but I'd like to do it with my clothes on, alright? Ja!" and then she continued on skipping happily like a rabbit as if he hadn't revealed any hideous information to her.

Natsume was downright on the verge of being deranged. It seemed that, despite the fact that he told her what it meant, Mikan still didn't get it nor grasp the picture of the whole thing. But that's not the only reason why he was close to being insane that time.
Wonder why he felt so damn frustrated, shocked and flabbergasted?

Well, he just found out that he was inlove with the girl.

He's in love with Mikan Sakura.

But then nobody knew the biggest factor why this chaos within the academy had erupted. No one knew. Everyone thought Mikan was acting and saying things intentionally, yet not a soul except Mikan herself has the knowledge as to what caused her to ask the flame caster and as to who urged her to do it.

Who is her mentor?

Of course, it's none other than the sweetest best friend there is, the purest and the kindest girl who we know is not capable even of the slightest deed of evil.

Who is she?

It's none other than...

Hotaru Imai.

And that, my dear readers, is the end of Part I and of my short recap. We should go on to the next events, because as you have told me, the story doesn't necessarily need to end there.

That afternoon, a lot of people is unusually absent in their classes. Natsume, for one, is nowhere to be seen. Mikan knew he's by the tree and she even persuaded him to come to class but then again, is Natsume ever the type attend classes? No. And the fact that he and Mikan made quite a scene in the cafeteria that lunch time is only adding up to the mounds of reason why he finds it unlikely to attend and sit there, staring at the teacher like a moron. Okay, so that's an understatement. Nobody thinks Natsume is a moron.

Aside from Natsume, Ruka Nogi, his best friend, was nowhere to be spotted either. After that ferocious escape with the bear, it is said so by certain witnesses that he has gone to the Northen Forest to hide and protect his being from the fan girls who intented to rape him. However, no one's sure if that piece of information is precise or just a made-up story. So basically, he has just gone missing.

Hotaru Imai, the master mind of this disaster, was not present as well. No one has got a clue what she's up to, and nobody seemed to dare meddle or spy on her since she could be as dangerous as the well-known T-rex dinasour. She could even be safely called as Satan's spawn, but oh well, let's not call the sweetest and kindest girl with impertinent and improper names.

Also, every fan girl in class has vanished. Gone. As to their whereabouts, no one's sure. Who knows, they might be huddled together and forming plans of revulsion.

And Mikan, despite all of this unusualness and out-of-order stuffs, seemed quite oblivious and she remained cheerful and smiling.
However, her classmates aren't in the same mood as her.

The moment she sat on her chair, all eyes turned to stare at her, cautious and wary. Of course, Mikan is not so dense to notice this, but the problem lies in her lack of analyzing things. She merely beamed at them in return.

"I wonder w-whether Mikan-chan a-and N-N-Natsume-kun have done it," Yuu stuttered as he, Mochu, Koko, Anna, and Nonoko were huddled together in a corner. "S-She's such in a g-good mood. L-Look at h-how she's b-b-beaming at us." and he sneaked another glance at her which the brunette didn't fail to catch, but then replied with another of her bright smile, as if something really wonderful happened to her at lunch time. This made the group more suspicious.

"Isn't it obvious? Of course they have done it." Mochu's voice was cold but somehow horrified. "That slut, she really did enjoy it,
huh? Maybe that's why Natsume-sama isn't here. He must be exhausted."

"Stop! Don't you ever call Mikan-chan like that! And I know they didn't do it! Look at Mikan-chan's innocent face! She can't have done it, and I have the faintest feeling that Mikan-chan isn't even aware of what making love meant!" Anna defended.

Nonoko looked at her. "What do you mean, Anna-chan?"

"Well," Anna started, "Do you remember the last dance when we were mere ten year olds? We told her about how dancing with a guy at the last dance is so romantic, that it will blossom love and such. But then, she just gave us a confused look which clearly stated her innocence of these things! And I mean, if Mikan isn't even aware of romantic love, how much more of making love?" and with her last words, the group submerged into their own contemplations.

"But that was almost two years ago! Obviously, she learned and acquired a couple of dangerous stuff with that amount of time!" Mochu persisted.

Nonoko twitched her eye brows. "Shut it, Mochu! Anna's right. Think straight, will you? Mikan-chan is never the type to flirt on people. And if you want to make sure, maybe we should just as Koko here as to what her thoughts are. I know she's innocent!"

They spoke as if poor Mikan had committed a crime, going on about whethere she's innocent or not; whether she's guilty of sexual harassment or not. Soon, it came to the conclusion that if something indeed happened between them, they should just get married when the time comes. Mochu greatly showed his disapproval of this. Apparently, he couldn't let his precious Natsume-sama married to a girl like Mikan. But then again, who are they to decide who marries who? It's crazy, I know.

Koko remained silent in the midst of this all. He knew Mikan's thoughts perfectly well, but when he was asked about it by Yuu, he merely shrugged and said that the brunette's protecting her mind with her nullification alice. Why did he lie?

Tsk, tsk. Wrong question. The right question is: Where would be the fun if he spilled the beans?

Oh, how Koko is enjoying this. The slow torture of the fan girls, the fuss it made, Natsume's extremely hilarious thoughts back at the cafeteria, Hotaru's silent feel of victory, Ruka's inability to speak, and most of all, little Mikan's innocent thoughts of a vast clearing with a couple of friends enjoying which, according to her, is the meaning of making love.

Of course he was shock at first when he heard Mikan's abnormal question, but gifted as he was, he was able to drift to everybody's minds and hear everything-every secret and every information.

But he has no intentions or whatsoever to tell anybody what he knows. He'll keep all the secrets in his mind nice and tight, until the beans would spill on its own accord. And when the time comes, everything would be quite spectacular, he knew it.

"...said stop it! Mikan's innocent, I bet my life on it!" Anna almost screamed. She was glaring hard at Mochu who seemd very uncaring.

The argument went on, until someone curtly barged in the classroom with a toad croaking loudly on his shoulder.

"Silence," he said coldly. He looked pretty stern and in such a bad mood.

Every student zipped their mouth shut and turned to listen to Jinno, who looked as if he might commit murder at that very moment.

"I will not greet 'good afternoon'," he started, "Because apparently, nothing good happened this day." he stared at everyone with his piercing eyes, his toad still croaking madly as if it had been forced to eat dung. "I know you are aware that something fishy happened at the cafeteria this lunch time. The side of the said place was partially in such a state which will give you the impression as if something big went toward the cafeteria straight through the wall. Witnesses say a huge brown bear did so the offense, and I was wondering, what made that bear smash and almost demolish the cafeteria?"

His eyes roamed across the room, examining student after student. Then he stopped at the sight of Hotaru Imai's vacant chair.

"Imai is absent?" he asked and there's some kind of suspicion in his tone.

Mikan stood up. "She's ill, Jinno-sensei," she lied.

"Oh, ill is she?" Jinno sneered. "That seems unlikely." Then he continued on examining each of them. A lot of people are sweating, obviously because they undoubtedly know what happened back in the cafeteria and they don't have the least intention to confide it.

"Hyuuga is not present as usual," The spectacled teacher muttered. His eyes fell to the seat behind the flame caster, which was also empty.

"And yes, Nogi is not here, too. Wonder why that is? Of course, he must be with Hyuuga, cutting classes again. But I feel that seems unlikely. Maybe," a smile with cold fury flashed across his face, "he's with his little friend, bear, strolling across the Academy grounds for a little moment of enjoyment."

Nobody uttered a word nor dared to contradict him. After all, what he said is true. Ruka's with the bear.

"Self-study today." Jinno muttered, turning towards the door. "And I expect 10 pages of essay tomorrow about what we discussed yesterday." And with that, he left the room.

As soon as he was out, everybody drew breaths of relief. Everybody's looking at Mikan like they are expecting her to say anything, which she did.

"Ten pages of essay! Mou, how am I ever going to get through it?" she began screwing her brains as she thought of a way, worrying about the essay while everyone else is worrying something much and much more worthy.

Where is Ruka Nogi now?

What will happen now to the mess they left at the cafeteria?

And most importantly, did Mikan and Natsume really made love?

They were supposed to go to their designated ability type class. Mikan, so excited at the prospect, practically dashed from the room and ran eagerly to her Special Ability types class. Along her way, Natsume saw her from the corner of his eyes and noticed that strangely ecstatic look on her face.

His heart thudded.

What could possibly make her beam so much? She looks vibrant!

Of course, she has always been enthusiastic about everything-she's like a child. But there's obviously something different. She seemed, she looked, and she certainly is determined about something.

Wait, determined?

And without warning, Mikan's words that lunch time flashed on his mind.

- "You jerk," she snarled. "Who do you think you are? You think you can order me around? Ha! As if, Natsume. As if! Why should I listen to you? If I want to make love with Hotaru and with Tsubasa-senpai, I will make love!" she said stubbornly.

- "Bleh! I will make love! I will make love! I will make love! I will make love! I will make love! I WILL MAKE LOVE!"

And she also said she'd very much like to do it with that Andou.

Natsume felt a sudden struck of lightning as realization hit him.

That look on her face, that determination, it could only mean one thing.

She's planning to ask Andou to make love with her, just like she asked Natsume.

Irritation bubbled inside Natsume. Didn't he warn her about not asking anybody else about it? She's putting herself in mortal danger-a different kind of danger!

But still, she's going to ask him, oh yes, undoubtedly.

And Natsume can't let her, certainly he can't. He then sprinted off after her.

Meanwhile, as Mikan's running, she thought again of that vast clearing, and thinking that there won't be another time when she can ask his senpai again, it must better be now. Oh, she knows they'll both have fun. It only raised her excitement.

As she approached the door, she felt suddenly exhilarated. She knows her senpai would be glad when she invited him to have fun with her. With that thought in mind, she wretched the door open and beamed at everyone.

"Tsubasa-senpai!" she called enthusiastically.

Tsubasa looked up, smiling. "Yes? You looked quite excited, Mikan."

Mikan beamed even more as she hoisted her voice. "Tsubasa-senpai! Make love with me!"

Gasps.

Gasps.

Gasps.

The whole scene was suddenly drained of color as something like a vase clattered to the cold floor.

Certainly, the scene is pretty much familiar except for the fact that behind the brunette, Natsume looked as if he could commit murder right on the spot.

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to be continued...

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A/N: How was it? Hmm, disappointed? Well, I guess whatever you feel, you should tell me by reviews. It'll be great, you know! Hope you liked it though, despite the dullness. So yeah, this is the sequel.

Thanks for reading!

Review lots please!

Lovelots,

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