Hi there! This took me more time to upload than what I expected actually, but here it is! Finally! Anyways this chapter is not so long… but at the bottom you'll know why… :D

Warnings: Cursing and Natsume will… dun dun duuunn! XD and grammar errors... lots of it…

Disclaimer: I don't own Gakuen Alice.

Now you know why you shouldn't read chain letters

The image showed a grumbling Natsume and a defeated Mikan painting the wall that used to be pink and blue with some scrawls, which were supposedly the kids' friends, back to its original color: white.

"Hi everyone…" Mikan said turning around so that she was facing the camera. "As you can see, Narumi-sensei caught us. It was really weird… First he was surprised, then he got a laughing fit, then he praised us and finally he got hysteric."

"That stupid, idiotic teacher…!" Natsume murmured from his spot on the wall and resumed to paint the wall with much more strength than before.

Mikan sweat-dropped at her friends behavior but continued anyways. "Right… Well Narumi-sensei was worried because he remembered that tomorrow there will be this huge conference and it's really important, and they will use this room."

Natsume turned around and pushed the girl to the side, so that only he could be seen in the image. "If you ever see this, Narumi, be careful in the night, don't you ever think I won't get you for this!"

"As I was saying!" Mikan said and pushed the raven haired boy to the back, where he resumed his painting. "Narumi praised us for what we did, that's because he said that this room is really dull, so he will pass a report asking if we could liven up this place a little and he will let us paint it again!"

"There. I'm done." Natsume said tossing the brush he used to the side and started to clean his mess. "Rather than talk to the camera, you should finish your side stupid, it's time for dinner."

Mikan gasped and went back to the wall to finish her task. "Wait, Natsume! Don't be a jerk and wait for me! Natsume!"

..

The day after, all the kids were playing outside enjoying their free day. Just as Narumi said, there was this big conference and all the teachers had to go, so that leaved the kids to the care of the robots.

Mikan knocked the door of Hotaru's lab and entered before hearing a response, she saw her best friend on the table finishing her newest invention, so Mikan walked silently to her friend's side so that she wouldn't disturb her and stayed there for some minutes.

"Mikan." Hotaru said out of the blue making the brunette jump in surprise. "I need to go to the technology class to get some material, you stay here. If you touch anything I'll make sure that all your allowance for the year will belong to me, got it?" She said giving her friend a disapproving look, knowing that the brunette would most likely look through everything that was in that room.

"Um… can I use your computer? Please, pretty please? I promise I won't do anything wrong to it!" Mikan said giving her best lost puppy eyes.

Hotaru sighed; she was in a hurry and a pleading Mikan would take some time. "Fine." She said and headed to the door. "But don't you dare do anything to my computer." And after receiving a nod from the hyperactive girl, Hotaru left the room.

Mikan went to Hotaru's computer the moment she left. Some weeks ago, she had helped Mikan to create an e-mail account, so she could only see her mails every time Hotaru let her use the computer. She opened her e-mail and clicked on the first un-opened mail. And oh, how she regretted it. It was some kind of scary story about a girl that was murdered by his mad neighbor, but that wasn't what scared Mikan the most, but what was written at the bottom: 'If you don't send this letter to at least 15 friends in less than 20 minutes the murdered girl will appear and kill you.'

What. The. Hell.

She was going to die if she didn't send this mail to 15 friends! But how could she send such a thing to her friends! And she didn't even have so many friends added damn it! To say she was scared was an understatement, in fact, she was hyperventilating.

"What to do, what to do?" The scared girl said to herself while trying to back down her tears, crying wouldn't solve anything! She needed to think something quick. Mikan turned her head to the clock and read 2:25p.m. She had now 15 minutes left.

Screw thinking, she needed to find Hotaru, and fast.

..

Natsume wandered through the gardens of the academy, Ruka said he would use this chance to visit the animals in the farm so he let his friend to take a peaceful walk. The day before had been really tiring, painting that huge wall twice had definitely created a bad mood for the raven boy. So the fact that Ruka had noticed this and decided to leave him to calm down was something Natsume really appreciated.

He walked a bit more, honestly, he didn't know where he was going, but if the place was quiet then Natsume didn't give a damn. That was of course until he saw a running Mikan a bit far away from where he was standing. He kept staring, there was something wrong with her but he couldn't really tell what was it, and for the first time that day, he let a small chuckle escape his lips. Mikan was so concentrated on whatever she was thinking that she didn't notice the small hole on the garden and tripped. But Natsume's amusement didn't last too long after he saw the girl wasn't standing up.

"Mikan?" Natsume said to himself after staring at the girl a bit more, but she just wouldn't stand up. "Mikan!" He said and dashed to the lying girl, as soon as he got there, he realized that the girl was sobbing, which only increased his worry.

"Hey Mikan, what's wrong?" Natsume said helping the sobbing girl to sit, and for once he couldn't hide the worry on his voice.

Mikan stared at Natsume for a few seconds before the tears formed once again in her eyes, and without being able to hold on any longer, she hugged Natsume and started to cry.

"N-Na- Natsume!" Mikan said between sobs while burring her head on the boy's chest. Natsume hugged her and made soothing circles with his hand on Mikan's back. Seeing the usual cheerful girl this way was really heart-breaking, so whenever he saw the idiot that had made her cry he would make sure to burn him 'till his very soul. Unless it was Hotaru's fault… That girl scared him, not that he would ever admit it of course.

Mikan tightened her grip in Natsume's shirt getting the boy's attention. "Na-Natsume." She said between sobs; then she took a deep breath and blurted it out. "I'm going to die, Natsume!"

Mikan was going to die? That couldn't be, right? He must have heard wrong! And why the hell was his heart hurting so much? He didn't want Mikan to die, of that he was sure. He couldn't let that happen, and why was that? Because he liked her. There, he admitted it. He, Natsume Hyuuga liked that stupid, cheerful, innocent girl, and he was not going to let her go away from him! "Wait, Mikan, calm down! Why are you going to die?"

He needed to know what was happening so he could help her, so he tried his best to calm her down.

"I-I…" Mikan said and looked up to Natsume's face, then, she turned her head to the side and saw the giant clock of the academy. 2:35 p.m.

Shit.

"I only have 5 more minutes to live!" Mikan said before breaking down and crying once more.

And that's when Natsume snapped. If he would do whatever possible to keep her alive, then he needed to know every detail. "Why do you have only five minutes? Mikan! Explain yourself!"

Mikan sobbed once more before looking at Natsume in the eyes, she wouldn't be able to find Hotaru in less than five minutes, so she may as well try to tell Natsume. "I… Hotaru lent me her computer so I could check my e-mail *sob* and I opened one of an unknown sender *sob* and the mail said that if I didn't send it to 15 persons in 20 minutes a girl will kill me *sob* AND I DIDN'T SEND THIS MAIL! *sob* AND I ONLY HAVE 2 MINUTES LEFT TO LIVE! *sob* IDON'TWANNADIE! WAAAAAAH!"

Twitch.

Natsume breathed in slowly. He reminded himself that murdering someone was illegal, so he conformed with just hitting the naïve girl in the head and pulling her up. She was an idiot. And he was also an idiot for believing her! He admitted to himself that he liked that idiot! And he had denied it for so long now…

"Natsume?" Mikan said; her eyes red from crying.

"10 seconds." That was all the raven boy said. Mikan didn't get it first, until she realized he was talking about how much time she had left, it was all it took to make the brunette hyperventilate.

"5 seconds." Mikan started to shake, and he turned her head everywhere searching for the dead girl.

"3." That was it, she was going to die.

"2." And she couldn't even say bye to her grandpa.

"1." Mikan closed her eyes and waited for the girl to kill her.

And the seconds passed by. Mikan was still alive, and Natsume was still angry.

"Huh?" She said intelligently and then she turned her attention to the angry Natsume. "I'm still alive?" Mikan felt relief all over her body. She was still alive! She didn't understand why, but she was alive. "Ne, Natsume, why am I still alive? Did you kill the dead girl?"

'Remember, killing someone is illegal. Killing someone is illegal…' Natsume chanted in his head while holding the bridge of his nose. This was going to be a really long day…

"IDIOT!" Killing was illegal, but nobody said anything about exploding. "That was a stupid chain letter! It's obvious that it would never happen!" He said while hitting Mikan repeatedly in the head. "You idiot just know how to worry people! Jeez!" Natsume said more to himself than to the oblivious girl. "Remember we will meet with everyone at Central town at 4:00! And bring that with you!" And that was the last thing Mikan heard Natsume say before he walked to the woods.

"What was all that about?" Hotaru asked Mikan from behind her, apparently she just heard Natsume's ranting.

Mikan turned her head to Hotaru and scratched the back of her head. "I'm not really sure… Natsume is angry at me, but I'm still alive… Ne, Hotaru, can chain letters kill you?"

..

It was 3:50 p.m. of that same afternoon and everyone except Koko and Kitsuneme were already sitting at the appointed place in Central Town. And even if it was a quiet afternoon, all the kids and some passerby's amused themselves with the scene a brunette and a raven were making.

"C'mon Natsume!" Whined said brunette. "Why are you so mad at me? I really didn't know chain letters were meant for scaring people only!"

"Hmph."

"Why is Mikan apologizing to Natsume?" Asked a curious Anna to Hotaru, making Permy and Nonoko turn her way to listen to what she had to say.

Hotaru turned her head to her best friend and sighed, "Mikan thought that she was going to die and made Natsume worry, so now that she's not dead he's pissed because he worried." Well if she was Natsume she would also be mad, especially if someone as special to her as Mikan came running out of nowhere and started yelling that she was going to die. She really was a dummy…

"Well that sounds like a normal fight between those two," Tobita said. "I guess Natsume will forgive her in some minutes."

The kids continued to look at the scene of their two friends before they were interrupted by the arriving Koko and Kitsuneme. When everyone was already there, the fighting duo quieted down and took a sit, Natsume besides Ruka and Mikan besides Hotaru.

"So?" Permy said gaining everyone's attention. "What was that thing you guy's wanted to show us?" She asked eyeing Mikan and Natsume.

"Oh right." Mikan said before taking out the camera Hotaru gave them and turning it on. "Hi there!" She said to the camera. "As you can see, we are all gathered at Central Town, and why's that may you ask? Well Natsume and I," She said turning the camera to Natsume, who just grunted. "Have a surprise for everyone!" And as she said this there could be heard some gasps.

Hotaru took the camera from Mikan's hands and started to tape her best friend. "Alright," Mikan said while taking a piece of paper. "After we re-painted the wall of the ball room, Natsume and I decided to make an acrostic! I wanted to make it of Hotaru's name, but that would've been too easy, so I decided to make it from Perm's name instead!"

Hotaru turned the camera to Sumire to tape her blushing face. "M-My name?" She said with a tone of disbelief in her voice. A small 'yep' could be heard from behind. "Wait a minute! You didn't write anything stupid did you?"

Mikan giggled and shook her head. "Alright, I'll start."

"P is for Pretty, because I think Permy is pretty." Mikan said making Sumire blush, maybe Sakura wasn't such a stupid person…

"E is for Egoist,"

Scratch that, she's an idiot.

"Because last time I asked for her orange marker she went mad and yelled NO at me before giving me a 10 minutes tantrum." This got some giggles from Koko and Kitsuneme, which were soon quieted down by an angry Sumire. "R is for Rabid."

"WHAT?" Permy said stomping her hands on the table and standing up.

"Yeah… when I first got here you were this rabid fan girl of Natsume and Ruka…" Mikan said making Koko and Kitsuneme burst out laughing.

"Anyways!" Mikan said gaining everyone's attention once again. "M is for Minnie,"

"I'm not mean!" Perm interrupted once again.

"What?" Mikan asked, looking at her friend in confusion. "No! I don't mean that! I mean Minnie! Like Minnie Mouse! You like her a lot right?" Mikan asked innocently, making Permy blush in embarrassment. "Okay, as I was saying…" She said but stopped on her words, then she turned to Hotaru and whispered to her in order to not be heard by everyone else (conveniently forgetting that Hotaru was holding a camera and everything she whispered would be taped).

"Hotaru." She said slowly. "In Permy's name, there is no letter E right?"

Hotaru sighed and shook her head making Mikan nod. She was about to continue with her task when a trembling Koko caught her attention, he was shaking uncontrollably and he held his hands to his mouth. "Wha… " Mikan tried to say, but then it hit her. Koko had read her mind! Oh no!

"HAHAHAHA!" Everyone turned to Koko's direction with curious expressions. "What's wrong?" Kitsuneme asked, curiosity getting the best of him.

"How stupid! Hahaha! She thought Perm's name was spelled P-E-R-M-E-Y!" Koko said before laughing once again.

Everyone turned their heads to a blushing Mikan and just as Koko, they started to laugh.

"A-Alright!" Mikan said; her face turning beat red. "I had some difficulties with Permy's name!"

And another 5 minutes passed by before everyone calmed down once again. "Okay, continue Mikan." Nonoko said encouraging the embarrassed Mikan.

Mikan sighed, just one more letter and it would be Natsume's turn. "And Y is for Young."

Everyone stared at the brunette. Young? Seriously?

"Young?" Permy said voicing everyone's thoughts. "Why young?"

Mikan scratched the back of her neck and smiled sheepishly. "Well I… couldn't think of another word with Y… and young was the first thing that came to mind… hehe…"

Everyone face-slapped at their friend sincerity and turned their attention to Natsume, it was his turn to say his acrostic.

"My acrostic is of Polka's name." Natsume said while taking a sheet of paper from his pants.

"My name?" Mikan said with disbelief. "I thought you were going to make it of Hotaru's name."

Natsume shook his head and unfolded the paper. "I never said whose name I was going to make, you were the one that proclaimed that." Mikan blushed and sat still, waiting for her friend to begin.

"M is for Moron."

"What!"

"Shut up, you are. I is for Innocent, because you never understand adult topics." Natsume said with a smirk while looking at Mikan open and close her mouth like a fish.

"O-Of course I understand!" She said with a tint of pink on her cheeks.

"Oh really?" Natsume said with an evil glint in his eyes. Oh, the temptation to make a smartass comment. "Well then, why don't we…" But he was never able to finish his sentence since Hotaru's killing aura was specifically directed at him.

"Err…" Damn that girl was scary… Moving on! "K is for Kind, because you are an idiot, but you are always kind with people. A is for…" Natsume stayed quiet, trying his best to show no emotion in his face. 'Shit! I forgot to change this one!' He thought and hurried his mind to think of another word with A, but with no avail.

"I forgot to write letter A." He said as expressionless as he could, while inside his mind, little Natsume was running in circles.

"What? How could you forget to write a letter of my name! You dummy!" Mikan said with fake hurt in her voice, then she turned her attention to Koko. "Did he really forget?" Mikan asked with pleading eyes.

And that's when Natsume panicked. If Koko read his mind he would know that in fact, he didn't forget to write a word for letter A, but that it was too embarrassing to say out loud! So he decided to go for the safe route. He would threaten the mind reader.

Koko turned his eyes to Natsume and read his mind, and his expressionless face paled. 'If you say that I wrote Adorable on letter A I will definitely hunt you down and burn every limb of your body slowly and painfully, and when you are about to die I will feed your burnt remains to the animals of the western woods, understand?' Yeah, you never mess with a Hyuuga.

"Koko? Did he really forget?" Mikan asked once again after what she thought was enough time for him to read his heart.

The scared boy nodded his head without being able to answer the hyperactive girl, and said girl sighed in defeat. "Well, go on and finish."

Natsume smirked and continued with the last letter of Mikan's name. "And N is for nuisance. There, I'm done."

Mikan puffed her cheeks and everyone but Koko clapped at Natsume's choice of words. "Whatever… I'm hungry; let's go to that restaurant and Natsume will treat us all!" Mikan said enthusiastically and went to the restaurant she mentioned before being followed closely by Natsume. "Why the hell should I treat you ugly girl?"

And so, both kids started to fight once again about some stupid topic. All the kids were following behind while giggling every now and then because of Natsume's smart remarks.

"Wait a minute." Hotaru said grabbing Koko by the collar of his shirt and dragged him to the back, the camera was still taping. "Natsume did write a word for that letter, what was it?" She asked menacingly with a sweet smile in her face.

Koko feared Natsume, but he knew Hotaru was way scarier than the boy if she wanted to, and he appreciated his life, thank you very much. "He did…" He said in a small voice fearing that the raven boy would hear him.

"And?" Hotaru asked hurrying the boy to finish.

"A was for Adorable."

Hotaru smirked, this was going to be fun… "I knew it."

I know… the chapter is short… Actually I wanted to make it longer but decided to cut it in the end because I'll use that for next chapter :D

Oh yeah! Natsume finally accepted his feelings towards Mikan! So now I can finally write about jealous Natsume! Yay!

PREVIEW! "Oi Polka, what's that?" "This? It's a nurse's outfit that Tono-sempai gave me; I'll use it to treat Ruka-pyon because he's sick." "Ah, okay... Wait, WHAT?"

Yep! Next chapter is about Ruka, Natsume and Mikan! Love triangle! Woot!

Please review! Reviews makes me know you want more :D