"Now please enter~" the beautiful man said while opening the car- no, limousine's door. Ichigo was about to enter the dark interior when they both heard a boy shouting and Ichigo stopped short.
"Get away from me! I told you I'm not some Hatter!" The boy yelled while some guards are trying to restrain him.
"I thought I told you, it's called Alice!" One of the guards said exasperatedly. Suddenly, the boy plowed forward and landed in front of a startled Ichigo and Narumi. Ichigo gave a start once she realized who it was.
"Kashino?!"
The boy, suddenly looked up, but cracked his neck in the process. He winced, but then his eyes landed on Ichigo's surprised face. "Amano?!"
"What's going on? Why are you fighting them?" Ichigo asked.
"Because that idiot just kidnapped me!" He yelled and pointed an accusing finger at the blonde man who was watching the scene amusedly. "And he probably just kidnapped you too!"
"Actually, your parents agreed to let you in the school. I didn't 'kidnap' you." The man smiled knowingly.
"Shut up!" Kashino growled. "What did he say to you? That you're accepted in some mad school? That you have some mad powers? He told me the same too, and I think it was all a bunch of crap!"
"Oh... this couldn't continue. We're already way ahead of schedule." The man said and leaned close to Kashino while the guards held him down.
"What the hell are you doing?! Get off of me you-!"
But Ichigo didn't get to know what the man is, because said man suddenly kissed Kashino's forehead, making him slump across the seat, unconscious. The guards then let go of him and returned to their spots in the front of the car.
"Ahh! Kashino!" Ichigo knelt over Kashino's limp body.
"He's alright. I just used my Alice on him." The man said. "Now, we really should get going. Or else the gates will close without us in it. Are we all here? Okay back there? Okay. Then let's go~!"
Ichigo didn't get a chance to respond to any of those questions before the limo runs off.
"Sooo… You never told me who you were." Ichigo said while snuggling to get a comfortable seat. Except it's so hard because Kashino is draped over the whole thing.
"I am a teacher at Alice Academy. Narumi L. Anju, at your service." Narumi replied and took a small but formal bow.
"You said you made Kashino fall asleep with your Alice. So what is it? The sleeping Alice?" Ichigo asked curiously.
"No, far from it. It's actually called the Human Pheromone Alice." Narumi said.
"Human... pe..ro..mo..." Ichigo stuttered with a clueless face.
"Human pheromone." A male voice suddenly said. Ichigo jumped and looked around, but the interior of the car was too dark. "It is a kind of Alice where you can make anyone fall in love with you, and even set you on a dead faint."
"Close enough, but people only faint when they never experienced love yet." Narumi corrected.
"W-Who are you?" Ichigo asked as she squinted hard.
The invisible boy laughed. Then followed by another voice. Ichigo started as she realized that she was surrounded by four boys in a dark car. Panic began to set into her.
Wait, no! Kashino's here! He can help her if things turned bad. But who knows when he'll wake up?
"Look closely Ichigo." The second voice said. Ichigo started when she found out that the boy knows her name. She then squinted and looked carefully. She could see the outline of the face, and bright green hair…
Wait, green?!
"H-Hanabusa-kun?!" Ichigo gasped as the boy leaned towards the window to let the light shine on his face to reveal that it was indeed Hanabusa-kun.
"And me," the second voice said and Ichigo didn't have to be a genius to know that it is Andou-kun.
"Hanabusa-kun! Andou-kun! You got admitted to the school too?" Ichigo felt her eyes moisten, but only slightly. This situation's easier to handle if she got all of her friends here.
"Yep. We took the situation more calmly than Kashino over there." Hanabusa nodded to where Kashino still lay oblivious to the world.
"But why did he panic if he knew you were there too?" Ichigo asked, more confused than ever.
"Well, he didn't know that we're here. But we were planning to let him know soon. The whole interior's so big that it wasn't hard to hide from him." Andou said with an amused smile.
"But then it's too fun to watch him getting worked up over nothing, so we just watched him while laughing ourselves silly." Hanabusa looked up as if he was reminiscing the entire thing.
"You two can be so mean sometimes you know that?" Ichigo smiled.
"Nah, it's all Satsuki's idea. I just tagged along." Andou said with a shrug.
"Whoa! Is this it? This is soo much bigger than St. Marie!" Ichigo said while peering out the window and at the school in wonder. "It's also a lot more beautiful!"
"I agree!" Vanilla said after she got out of Ichigo's bag. "By the way, thanks for squishing me into that bag the whole ride Ichigo."
"Oh! I'm so sorry Vanilla!" Ichigo whispered. "But can Narumi-sensei see you?"
"I don't think he could…" Vanilla said as she watched Narumi carefully.
"Well, it's much bigger inside. Follow me." Narumi said as he went outside the car and lead the way to the school, no trace of hearing or seeing Vanilla. At that indication, all of the Sweet Spirits emerged from the three boys, (Chocolat started upon seeing Kashino still unconscious) each looking around the school in amazement.
Ichigo snapped away from her thoughts when Narumi opened a huge door leading to the guest room.
"Please wait here while I fix your transfer papers and send you your school things." Narumi said, then he turned to close the door, leaving them inside all alone.
"Wow! It's a very big room!" Ichigo said while going around the room. It was elegantly furnished, the kind of room Ichigo would mostly see on a rich man's house or in her dreams. She started walking around.
"WHERE AM I?!" a male voice suddenly screamed.
"KYAAA!" Ichigo yelped as she tripped and landed hard on her bum.
"Kashino!" Chocolat cried in surprise.
"WHAT HAPPENED!? Did they succeeded in kidnapping me?! Why do I feel so dizzy?!" Kashino continued to yell, ignoring Ichigo and Chocolat.
"We're at Alice Academy." Hanabusa said in his spot on the sofa.
"WHAT?!" Kashino said while running to the door and starts banging it. "I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE! I WANT TO GO BACK TO ST. MARIE ACADEMY, DAMN IT!"
"I think the doors locked." Andou told him.
"Narumi must have locked it because he knows this would happen." Cafe said while hiding a smile.
"I like Narumi already~desu!" Caramel grinned innocently.
"Damn that guy! I don't even know how I fell asleep in the first place!" Kashino screamed again and continued banging the poor door down. It won't budge. "I know I'm yelling at him, then suddenly everything went black! I- Wait..." He stopped abruptly as realization sets in. They all watched as he slowly turned around and stared at them in shock.
"W-Wait a minute.. Hanabusa?! Andou?! What the hell are you two doing here!? Don't tell me…"
"Yeah, we were, in your own words, 'kidnapped' too." Andou covered his mouth to keep from laughing as Hanabusa and Ichigo (who was still on the floor) sniggered.
"You three…" He glared at them all. "Fine! I'm leaving! You stay here for all I care! I'm going to go back to St. Marie." He said and started gathering his things.
"Wait Kashino! Where are you going to escape from?" Chocolat asked in disbelief.
"That idiot forgot to lock the window!" He told her while tying all his clothes together to make a crude rope. "Last chance to come with me!" Kashino said as he started to climb down.
"Wait for me!" Chocolat cried as she flew away in a hurry after her companion.
"Oy Kashino!" Andou said while running towards the window.
"Don't follow him, he will go back later for sure. Besides, I'm sure the people here would at least notice that he's climbing down a window and trying to escape." Hanabusa said calmly.
The moment Andou saw Kashino reach the ground, the door to the guest room suddenly flew open.
"I'M BACK~!" Narumi said in a sing-song voice. "Here are your uniforms!"
While Narumi gave each one of them a uniform, he asked, "Where is that little guy?"
"Oh, Kashino? He left." Hanabusa said while pointing at the window.
"Oh no! Why did you let him!?" Narumi dashed to the door.
"Why? Is that bad?" Andou asked.
"Of course! The school has strong electric barriers!" Narumi replied in a panic. "He could be subjected in a deep shock. Plus, the Middle School Principal's Barrier Alice!"
No one knew what that meant, but they all understood the urgency. "We should be able to catch up to him. He just landed seconds ago." Andou told them and they all turned and ran frantically after Kashino.
"Hey brat! This ground is off limits! Go back or you'll get electrified!" A guard said while attempting to block the gate from a raging Kashino.
"Get outta my way!" Kashino started to prepare to run the guard over when he saw something that almost made him trip and fall face-first to the ground…
Tons of translucent 'somethings' appeared out of thin air and chased the guard, and the thing he's scared about is that they're coming from him.
"What the-?" Kashino and the guard yelled in disbelief and shock, and immediately, the 'somethings' disappeared. Before he could contemplate this, he was seized and brought down to the ground by many hands. He immediately writhed and resisted, but the guards held him down. He vaguely heard Chocolat screaming his name, but he was knocked out by one of the guards' hands.
And that's how he was found later on by Ichigo and the others.
I know, I know, Kashino always gets knocked out. But hey, the first one was done for his health. And the second one was because of the shock of seeing those 'somethings'. But we'll get to that later. ;)