"Are you paying attention, Sakuraba-kun?" asked the teacher, distracting the redhead from staring out the window, scanning the school grounds out of sheer boredom.

"Uh, what was that?" Neku asked, lowering the volume of his MP3 player, pulling his headphones down to his neck, and looking to the front of the class where the teacher was speaking. He heard a few of his classmates laugh at him but ignored them. He didn't care.

"The principal wants to see you," his teacher called, holding out a hall pass.

Neku groaned and walked to the front of the classroom, ignoring as his friend Beat nudged him in the side and muttered something stupid about getting in trouble. He took the pass from the teacher and headed out the door in a very grumpy manner.

He walked down the empty school halls, as he normally would, but no matter which way he turned he couldn't seem to find the room he was looking for. In fact… none of these rooms were familiar to him. The hallway was different, now, too, the floors bearing a deep violet instead of their normal sickly pale yellow.

Normally Neku would have questioned this sudden change of scenery, but he trudged on, placing his headphones over his ears again. After some more walking he began to notice that the doors around him were now missing as well and he thought about turning back, but decided against it. Anything was better than sitting in class, listening to another one of Fujita-sensei's boring lectures.

Neku turned down a few more halls, feeling very lost. Again, he thought about turning back. He shook his head. Why bother? He'd probably just get even more lost if he tried to find his way back, so why not keep going?

"Nekuuu~"

The boy jumped as he heard his name called from behind, but he recovered quickly, turning around to see who was looking for him. His gaze was met with an empty hall, the corner he'd just came around suddenly replaced with a long stretch of purple floor.

He shivered. This was getting weirder by the second. He turned back around and caught the glimpse of a boy around his age, dressed in a black and purple bunny parka it seemed, dashing around another corner. Was that who'd called out to him? Neku couldn't see how, seeing as the boy was running away from him now but he shrugged and followed him anyway.

He peeked his head around the corner, but the boy was gone. The space ahead of Neku was a dead end, with a black and hot pick checkered wall that matched the rest of the hallway blocking his path, with no way to continue. Or so it seemed.

The sound of footsteps could be faintly heard and Neku looked down to see the boy from before, now about three inches tall, dash across the floor and up to a little brown wooden door. He said something to a girl his height who was standing next to it, nodded, opened the door, and entered.

Neku walked over to the wall and sat down on the floor, waving to the tiny girl in front of it. "Hey, how do I get in there?" he asked, pointing towards the little door she was guarding.

The girl, who was dressed in a pink shirt, green skirt, and sleeveless yellow jacket, took off her brown and white hat and looked up at Neku. "Oh, I'm afraid you're much too big to fit through the door," she shouted, setting her hat back on her head as Neku leaned down closer to her.

"How'd the other guy get in?" he asked.

"What other guy?" asked the girl, tipping her head sideways, clearly veryconfused.

Neku sighed. "The guy with silver hair. You know… he was wearing a bunny parka?"

"Oh. You mean the white rabbit." The girl said matter-of-factly, giving a determined nod. "He got in just like everyone else does."

"White?..." Neku muttered to himself, thinking that that name was a bit inaccurate. It should be black rabbit, right? Or was the name referring to his hair?... He shook his head. Now wasn't the time to be worrying about the guy's name. "So how doeseveryone else get it?" Neku asked.

"Why you shrink, of course!" The girl shouted at him, as if it was the most obvious statement in the universe. When all she received from Neku was a blank stare, she sighed and then continued. "You brought a bottle with you, didn't you?"

"A… bottle?" Neku murmured, having absolutely no idea what was going on. "Why would I have a bottle?"

"Check your pocket." The girl demanded, her hands on her hips.

Neku blinked, but did so, pulling out a small glass vile that contained a strange sort of green liquid. "Um. This isn't a bottle." He informed the girl stupidly, staring at the little label that dangled off of the cork.

Drink me, it stated simply in large, friendly blue letters.

He showed the label to the girl. "Should I?" he asked nervously.

"If you want to enter," she replied, pointing to the door.

"….." Neku pulled out the cork and drank the liquid. It didn't taste as awful as he thought it would. True, it tasted a bit odd and left a ramen-noodle after taste, but at least it didn't kill him or anything.

"Okay. You can enter now."

Neku jumped at how much louder the girl's voice seemed and he looked up to see that he was now roughly the same height as her. He blinked. "Um. Okay." He walked up to the door, turned the knob, and pushed. Nothing happened.

"I think it's locked," he said, turning back to the girl.

She slapped her palm to her forehead. "Of course it's locked! Don't tell me you went and forgot your key?"

"Key? How was I supposed to know I needed a key?" Neku shouted, getting very frustrated. What the hell was going on? What wasthis place?

"Oh, wait." Said the girl with a slight giggle. "I see it! It's right around your neck!"

"It's… what." Neku muttered, looking down to see that he was wearing a brown string around his neck with a simple silver key dangling from it. "…Oh." He said simply, removing the string and handing it to the girl.

She gave him a slight nod and unlocked the door, holding it open for Neku.

And so he entered.

"Neku is about to go through a door into a world where nothing makes sense. This could have been all avoided if he had a sassy gay friend. Oh wait. He does." - My good friend Brandon

Anywho. The Cast So Far: Neku as Alice, Joshua as the White Rabbit, and Eri as the Doorknob. And I didn't get a chance to mention it above, but Neku's teacher was supposed to be a girl.