Title : Kittens, Cats...and Him

Pairing :Natsume Hyuuga X Mikan Sakura (...yeah, what else)

Rating : T (for safety)

Summary : On her way to the pet shop, she meets a young boy. According to the young girl, this boy...is a stray cat. Here begins the life of the stray boy, er, cat...and the young girl.

Note :This was intended to be a oneshot, but for some reason, it ended up becoming more than one chapter...

Disclaimer :I don't own Gakuen Alice. If I did, I wouldn't be here.

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Kittens, Cats...and Him

01

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"Your grandpa agreed?" Hotaru asked one more. Mikan nodded, once again, to the question. Her friend couldn't believe it. Was Mikan's grandpa in his right mind? He actually agreed to trust a pet to such a careless child?

"Yep. He said a small cat would be fine," Mikan smiled with pleasure.

Hotaru did not make a change in her facial expression, as always. But in fact, she was very worried. It wasn't that Mikan was an irresponsible child. She was the kind of girl to take care of a pet to the best of her abilities...But she was a very careless person, making strange mistakes.

"Here we are," Mikan smiled as she walked in to the pet store.

"Do you know how to take care of a pet?" Hotaru asked.

"Eh, Ruka-pyon promised me to help me take care of it. He's very good with animals," she giggled, glancing at the petite puppies and kittens. Hotaru sighed. Ruka wasn't a good enough solution to fix Mikan's careless mistakes, "Aw- This guy is so cute..." Mikan mumbled.

Hotaru glanced around the store. Wait, what was that? Through the glass walls of the store, she could she a faint figure outside in the dark alley. Although she could not make an exact prediction, it was obvious that the figure was staring at Mikan.

Mikan looked up, to see what was bothering her friend. She realized that there was a strange figure outside as well.

"What's that..."

"Wait, don't go alo-" before Hotaru could stop her, she was already running to the alley by the figure.

"Oh?" Mikan smiled, "Are you lost? Oh...I'm not going to hurt you."

Hotaru came out right after Mikan started to talk to the figure. She predicted that the figure was an animal of sort, inferring from the conversation. But to Hotaru's surprise, the living thing in front of Mikan...

...Was a human boy.

"Are you hungry?" she asked the boy. His eyes were sharp, as if they could pierce through walls, but Mikan seemed to not care, "I'm not going to hurt you," she smiled. The boy slowly tip-toed over to her. Hotaru was glancing at this strange scene. First of all, she was talking to the boy as she would talk to an animal. Secondly, this boy was acting like...a stray cat. Hotaru soon realized that she had to stop Mikan from interacting with strangers.

"He's a stray. Probably ran away from home. Don't mingle with him," Hotaru warned her friend.

"Oh!" Mikan gasped and her gaze saddened, "You ran away from home? Why?" the boy still was looking around her, but slowly crawled out from the alley.

"Mikan. You know he's not...a real cat," Hotaru twitched an eyebrow.

"Ah, Hotaru, he's a stray cat. What are you saying?" she replied very quickly, "I want him! I'll take this one home."

"...Mikan, are you...okay?" she stuttered, shocked by her friend's...stupidity, "He's not a cat. He's a HUMAN."

"...Oh, I know that. But he's like a stray cat. No where to go...We have to help him!" she turned her gaze to the boy, "What's your name?"

"...Like the hell I'm going to tell you."

Hotaru was shocked. The boy talked. It was faint, but he talked. He actually talked. So, he was human. The boy stood up, like a normal person.

"Don't be that way," Mikan whispered. Hotaru was getting worried. She really shouldn't be so close to the stray boy. Mikan held out her hand to the boy, "If don't have any place to go, you can come over to our house. Your name?"

The boy glared at her, as if he was defying her. But to everyone's surprise, he replied, "Natsume. Natsume Hyuuga."

"Natsume, if you don't have any place to go, why don't you come over to our place?" she offered. Natsume glanced her hand.

He has never had a place he could call home. Technically, just as Hotaru and Mikan said, he was just like a stray cat. He was lost, with no place to go. But he figured that he could trust this girl, lending him a hand. She looked a bit stupid, but not a bad person.

Natsume stepped out of the alley. Mikan beamed happily, "Our house is this way!"

Hotaru groaned. This...was just the start of a horrifying story.

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Chapter 01

fin

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Ahahahahahah. I've got this thing for Natsume X Mikan...It's just so cute. It's a pairing that makes me feel all cozy and fuzzy inside...I was planning to write a oneshot of the same storyline about Ikuto X Amu is Shugo Chara, but I figured I've never written Gakuen Alice, so I went with Natsume X Mikan.

But then...it ended up longer than I planned it to be. God, it is my first NON ONESHOT fan fic...I'm not sure if I'm doing it right;... I've read some Gakuen Alice fics for prep, but...I don't know if it's gonna help me...

Well, I hope you enjoy the crazy life of the 'stray cay' Natsume Hyuuga and his owner, Mikan Sakura.