A/N: Hi everyone! This is my second chaptered fict on here.

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Beta: chococookie-mallow

Rated T: for slight language

Summary: "Why did you come here Sempai?" His voice was ice. Yuka stared back unblinkingly. "Narumi… I need your help." Three hours later, Yuka left. This time, she wasn't carrying the squirming bundle she had come with, tears streaming down her face. AU

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Prologue

She didn't have anywhere else to go – anyone to turn to. Sensei was dead and Yuka needed help. So even though she swore that she would never return, Yuka Azumi walked up to the tall, looming black gates of Gakuen Alice that dark, snowy night. Clutching the squirming bundle to her chest, she snuck through the gates with Shiki and some inside help and trudged towards the boy's dorms.

Shiki stayed back to watch for any signs of danger and told her that he would call her if anything went wrong, but she knew that it was because he knew that Yuka needed to do this alone.

Yuka pushed the door to the boys dormitories open with a shiver, shaking off the cold snow caked all over her face and clothes while checking to make sure that none had gotten on the bundle. She wiped off the little that had with caressing fingers.

A low whine of discomfort was heard from it and Yuka cooed to the thing in her arms, telling it to be quiet and wait.

As she walked through the dark hallways towards the room that she had come to so often to almost a year prior to now, Yuka rubbed some warmth into her numb limbs, humming a soft lullaby that she remembered her mother singing when she was a little girl all the while. When she reached room number 459 she froze and took a deep breath.

Yuka knocked.

And then she waited.

Moments later a light thud was heard following muffled curses and the sound of a light switch being flipped on. She held her breath as she heard the door being unlocked and the handle turn and then the wooden door swung open and tired jade eyes met slowly widening violet.

"Sempai!" the teen at the door hissed in surprise that was quickly turning into anger. He was dressed in a plain white t-shirt with fleece pajama bottoms. His shoulder length blond hair was pulled back into a small ponytail at the base of his neck, a few strands of hair escaping from it and falling into his face.

"Hello Naru," Yuka greeted softly, pulling down her hood. Long strands of brown hair fell down around her shoulders and the runaway tried to smile at him but couldn't manage it. She was too chilled and too tired and just too… overwhelmed. "I-"

"Go away." Muttered Narumi, pain and hesitation coloured his tone.

Narumi tried to close the door on her, eyes cast in shadows, but a frostbitten hand held the door open before he could shut it completely.

"No!" she cried desperately. "Narumi, wait! Just hear me out. Please."

Violet eyes widened slightly in surprise at the pleading in her voice and Narumi swallowed tightly as he was forced to make an agonizing decision.

A keen mewling sounded just then and his blond head whipped down to see his sempai whispering and rocking and cooing to a mass wrapped in a soft looking pink blanket.

"Oh, It's okay sweetie," she murmured softly. "It's okay… go to sleep. Go to sleep…"

"Oh kami. Sempai no. Is that…?"

Biting her lip, Yuka looked up to her kohai with eyes that hoped desperately for him to understand. She was shivering and pale and looked so, so frightened.

"Her name is Mikan," she whispered hoarsely. "I… I named her. For sensei."

Yuka sniffled pathetically, Mikan whined, and Narumi sighed deeply. Painfully. He closed his eyes tightly for a moment before opening them and with it his door for Yuka to walk through.

"Sempai… come in."

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The baby was lying in Yuka's lap, still wrapped snugly. Yuka's jacket and scarf were hanging by the door.

"Why did you come here Sempai?" the teenager asked, feeling extremely tired. Too tired to be angry with Yuka. Too tired to even be considering her request. But he was. And he hated himself for showing such weakness.

Nevertheless he didn't let it show that he still cared. His voice was ice.

"You know why," she told him softly, and returned his gaze unblinkingly. "Narumi… I need your help. It's getting dangerous for me. For my child. The elementary school principal is hunting me down and I have a target on my back that I just can't make go away. I'm going to join the AAO. If only as a cover, and it will be safer. But... an organization pent on destroying the academy and potentially starting a war? That's not the kind of place to raise a child." Yuka explained, looking down adoringly at the bundle in her arms.

He knew that she needed his help. But he couldn't do it.

"No. Just… no."

"Naru, please listen to me!" Yuka exclaimed, exasperated.

"Yuka Sempai, you listen. I haven't even graduated yet…" Narumi trailed off, staring into the distance

"You will soon."

"In six months! What the hell would I even do with a kid until then, huh?"

Yuka was silent and looked down with a pained expression.

Damn him for still liking her.

"Let's just say that I were to keep this… child," the way that her eyes lit up made Narumi want to cringe, "what would I say when asked where I got an infant from, hmmm?"

Yuka gave him an impish smile as she hugged her baby closer to her. She clearly believied in Narumi too much.

"You don't have the best reputation, Naru. What with your Alice and all…" she trailed off and he promptly choked on the tea that he had made for both of them.

The hot liquid burned his throat as he coughed and sputtered and Yuka shielded Mikan from the spray.

"W-what? Are you serious?"

Her silence was answer enough.

"That's crazy! And who would the girl be?"

Why was he even considering this?

"You'll come up with something. I asked Sensei's brother. Prinicpal Kazumi said that he would help with a cover-"

He cut her off with a wave of his hand.

"Why doesn't he raise her?"

Yuka gave him a deadpan look.

"Right. The day that he agrees to raise a child would be the day that hell freezes over, wouldn't it?"

"Exactly. That and she would be in just as much danger because the ESP would try to exploit Mikan's connection to Principle Kazumi."

"But you never answered: what would I do with the-"

"Mikan."

"-Mikan until I graduated?"

"Ah…"

Narumi sighed and ran a hand through his hair.

What. A. Mess.

"You haven't thought that part through."

It wasn't a question but the Alice thief answered anyway.

"No. But you're smart. You'll figure something out," she told him and he had to suppress a laugh at this because she was clearly expecting too much from him.

He voiced his opinion and Yuka shrugged.

"I trust you."

He was a full-fledged idiot, Narumi realized because next thing he knew, he was accepting Mikan into his arms as Yuka explained how to take care of the infant, though she only seemed to know the basics herself. Soon, she was zipping up her thick winter coat and wrapping her scarf around her neck as Mikan slept soundly in Narumi's arms.

"You can't forget her naps because then she gets cranky and cries a lot and make sure to feed her really good food," she explained while pulling the hood of her jacket over her brown locks. "Principal Kazumi will pay for you to get everything you will need to get for Mikan including the cost of her living here – not that you can tell anyone that. If you need anything else, you'll just have to ask. He will probably schedule a meeting with you soon to discuss this. And I wouldn't plan on going to school tomorrow. Not yet. Oh, and Naru?"

The blond blinked.

"Hmm?" he murmured, looking up from the sleeping face of his new charge, wondering what it was this time.

Yuka's green eyes were soft and the heartbreak that she was feeling from leaving her daughter showed clearly.

"Raise her to be a sweet kid."

Narumi's voice was horse as he answered her, "I will." He had mixed feelings about this, because he still loved his senpai and hated seeing her this way.

Yuka smiled.

"Can I… can you give her to me for a minute?" she asked softly in a choked voice.

Narumi couldn't deny her this and looked away as Yuka held her daughter and tears began sliding down her face as she apologized to a person who couldn't even understand what she was telling her. But baby Mikan did know that something was desperately wrong when she awoke to her mothers wracking sobs and slowly her wails mixed with Yuka's own.

"I'm so sorry…" she whispered to her after she had finally calmed her down and Mikan had once more fallen asleep. She kissed her on the forehead before handing her back to Narumi.

"Here Naru," she told him with a melancholy smile. "She's yours now. You're a father."

He just took the baby from her and watched expressionlessly as she opened the door and left his room.

"Good bye, sempai," he whispered only after she was gone.

And with Yuka gone and Mikan sleeping, there was no one to witness that single tear that slid down Narumi's own cheek as his beloved Yuka sempai left for the second time.

A/N: And we shall stop there ;D

Yeah... I wanted to write something different and as far as I am aware this is a first on the site. Tell what you all think! Did you like it?

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