Sadz: I wasn't planning on making an epilogue but… I don't know, after all you wonderful readers reviewed and asked for a sequel or at least an epilogue, my heart moved a bit for how much you guys liked and/or loved my story. BUT I NEED TO MAKE ONE THING STRAIGHT! NO SEQUEL! I'm sorry, but it's not going to happen. I might have been sad that I finally finished this story, but I was also happy and proud of myself so this is definitely the last chapter, no more after this! Period! XD
Mikan: Sadz appreciates everyone who take the time out to review and who like her story~!
Sadz: Ok, I'm going to skip the long dreading Author's Note and spare you people ;) Koko, the last official disclaimer please!
Koko: Sadz does not own Gakuen Alice or the characters or anything, just the story and ideas! Please don't think about suing or doing anything towards Sadz, because I can read your mind if you do! ^^
Sadz: … Why do I find him so cute and awesome…? I wonder… Onwards with the epilogue! ^^
"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Other person on phone line"
(A/N: … or just a random comment)
A Servant's Duty
Chapter 17: Epilogue?
~5 years later from the original story~
"This… is confusing…" Mikan said out as Natsume sighed in annoyance for the umpteenth time. His eye twitched as his wife turned the book around in her hand like she was trying to decipher a hidden code between the lines.
"What is so confusing about it? You were so excited to read a bedtime story to your kids and now you're being all stupid about it!" Natsume shouted out in anger, probably cranky from the lack of sleep, as the five year old twin sister and brother in their separate beds giggled at their mother's pouting face.
"Don't be mean about it…" Mikan whispered as Natsume continued rocking his youngest daughter in his arms to sleep.
"What is so confusing about a children's story? Enlighten me!" Natsume fought back as Mikan pouted determinedly, like she accepted his challenge, but we all know who always wins in the end.
"It's confusing! I mean, the idea of Rapunzel is just so confusing! Why did she grow her hair that long? Didn't she get split ends ever? Wasn't it obvious the witch wasn't her real mother all along? How does everyone conveniently know the code of saying 'Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your freakishly long hair so I can climb it because I know how much it doesn't bother you since I'm practically ripping your hair off your skull'?" Mikan looked determinedly at Natsume as his eye twitched in annoyance.
"It's just a freaking story! It doesn't have to make sense to idiots like you!"
"That's mean, I'm not an idiot!"
"Oh, you're not an idiot at all, what the hell was I thinking of accusing you as one? I mean just this morning you were prancing around the garden singing 'My chicken laid an egg this morning, when hatched there was a chick the size of my wedding ring, so adorable I stopped myself from dipping it in fudge and eating it with frosting, we played so hard we started dancing, and then it grew up and was laying eggs like it was hormonal crazed and lacking my loving, and then it died and I never tasted a better omelet then it's kid Stanley King!' Wow, you proved me wrong, you're not an idiot at all!"
"I was singing it for my kids!"
"They were in a tutorial session, and if you don't understand what that is, I just said they were studying!"
"I know what it means! They were bored and watching me, so I made them laugh!"
"They were on the other side of the castle!"
"Is it against a law that I can't prance around and sing weird songs by myself?"
"You were prancing around and singing with Yome!"
"So?"
"You are truly an idiot if you're not getting the idea of this argument!"
"I don't get it until you tell me straight up, don't you know that by now?"
"You idiot!"
"Fine, I'm an idiot and I admit it, happy now? Now tell me why does it seem to bother you so much that I was dancing and having a good time with my friend Koko?"
"He's jealous, mommy…" the little girl, Nikki, said with a giggle as Natsume blushed.
"Am not!" Natsume argued back like an angry five-year-old denying that he stole a cookie from the cookie jar.
"Am too!" Nikki and her twin brother, Miki (they named him after Mikan's male servant name), said in unison and laughed at Natsume's angry and irritated expression. They both looked exactly like Natsume with raven hair and crimson red eyes, but Nikki acted more like Mikan and Miki was more of a poker face like Natsume, but when he smiled, he smiled Mikan's million dollar smile.
"Am not!"
"Am too!"
"Am not!"
"Am too!"
"Am not!"
"Am too!"
"I liked Beauty and the Beast better than this confusing story…" Mikan said in a daze suddenly as they all looked strangely at her. Natsume felt even more irritated at her for being distracted from the argument, but sighed to calm his nerves. "I liked the idea of Belle and her father having such a close relationship that they would do anything for each other, and also the idea of Belle falling in love with the Beast to break his curse is cool…"
"What the heck? Why did I even marry an idiot like you again…?" Natsume asked as he tipped his head back from his chair in exhaustion. Mikan smiled at him since she knew he already knew the answer to that, she stood up from her chair and made her way over to him. She leaned over him and pecked his lips, smiling at his surprised look.
"Because I love you with all my heart…" Mikan whispered in his ear as Nikki giggled at the love exchange between her parents and Miki faked a barfing sound.
"I thought it was a servant's duty to follow their master's order until death do they part?" Natsume asked with a smirk as Mikan shrugged at him.
"I have no idea~ what's your talking about, hubby!" Mikan said with a smile as she replaced the book back into the bookshelf. Natsume lay back in his seat, rocking his youngest daughter Hime to sleep. She had chocolate brown hair like Mikan, but she still had Natsume's red eyes. Hotaru wanted to name the girl after her, but Natsume wouldn't have that. She was his little princess, and that's where the name Hime originated from. Mikan smiled at the sight of Natsume adoring his daughter to such a degree, she just had this huge urge to tease him about it.
"Do my eyes deceive me? The great King Hyuuga Natsume, ruler of the Hyuuga Region, is cooing his daughter to sleep?" Mikan asked in fawned astonishment as Natsume glared at her. Nikki giggled while Miki just rolled his eyes at this.
"Can you just put the kids to bed already so I can go to bed as well?" Natsume asked through gritted teeth as Mikan nodded with a victorious smile. She tucked Nikki and Miki in their beds and kissed both of their foreheads.
"Sleep well…" she whispered into both their ears. Mikan put her hand under Nikki's pillow and moved it around until she found what she was looking for. "No cookies or sweets before bed, remember?" Mikan reminded Nikki as the little girl blushed and nodded. "It's ok, just don't do it again. Love you guys!"
"Love you too!" Nikki and Miki said as Natsume and Mikan closed the door behind them after exiting the room.
"They probably have more cookies stashed away somewhere in their room…" Natsume breathed out as Mikan shrugged and they continued to make their way toward their own room.
"Alright, time for bed. Hand Hime-Chan over, Mr. Fearless King…" Mikan teased as Natsume groaned, handing Mikan the baby while slumping into bed.
"Do you know how much you piss me off?" Natsume asked as Mikan smiled happily.
"Yup!" she replied.
"I want a divorce…" he groaned into the pillow as Mikan kissed Hime on her forehead, already fast asleep in her cradle, before jumping on top of her husband in bed. "Oh shit! That hurt… you're as heavy as an elephant…" Natsume moaned out as Mikan pouted at him.
"Now you're just being mean!" Mikan whined as he pushed her so that they were in a position where Natsume was on top of Mikan. "Don't even think about it…"
"About what?" Natsume challenged as he dipped his head down and started to kiss her neck.
"N-Natsume…" Mikan moaned out as she could feel the smirk on his lips as he continued kissing her neck. "Natsume… what does epilogue mean…?" Mikan asked suddenly. Natsume moved back and stared down strangely at her, then sighed in annoyance and moved to lie in bed at her side.
"Who else would know how to ruin the mood in a random way like that other then you…? Why the sudden curiosity in the word anyways?" Natsume asked as Mikan pouted.
"Well, Nonoko-Chan and I were talking today and she was talking about a book she had just finished. Then she said something about an epilogue and I don't know what it means…" Mikan explained.
"Epilogue is…"
"Epilogue?"
"I guess you could say the epilogue is what happens after the ending of a story…" Natsume summed it up as she looked even more confused.
"But isn't the ending, the ending of the story? Isn't nothing supposed to happen after 'the end'?" Mikan asked as Natsume thought about how he was going to explain this to his wife in a way she would understand.
"Alright, for example you're reading a war story. Blah, blah, blah it's all action and whatever and then it is somehow resolved in the end. That's the ending, right?" Natsume explained as Mikan nodded. "So let's say there is an epilogue to the war story. The epilogue would be what happens to the two fighting sides after everything was resolved, how everything was alright now between them, maybe they mingle more or the Prince of one side fell in love with the Princess of the other side and that's how the whole thing was settled or… do you understand yet or not?" Natsume asked as Mikan nodded her head excitedly.
"So what would be the epilogue to our story?" Mikan asked as Natsume quirked a brow at her.
"Our story…?"
"You know like, the whole story would be how we met and fell in love. However it was forbidden since I was a servant and you were a prince, but in the end we still got together and got married because I turned out to be a princess! What would be the epilogue to that?" Mikan asked, cocking her head to the side in confusion, but an excited smile was still visible.
"Um… I don't know…" he admitted as Mikan thought of it herself.
"Maybe our wedding day could be the epilogue, the big finale to the story, everything ends happily after we finally got together!" Mikan said in a dreamy way as stars filled her eyes.
"No way…" Natsume deadpanned as a boulder smashed Mikan's spirits.
"But I loved our wedding!" Mikan whined out.
"That's too cliché…" Natsume said as Mikan put her hands on her hips.
"So then what would it be, Mr. Smarty Pants?"
"Like I care…" Natsume said as he got into a comfortable position in bed. Mikan looked down at Natsume and then lay next to him, hugging him from behind. Natsume sighed, turned around and then hugged her as well. "You might not be my beginning, but you're my middle, my end and my epilogue…"
"Aw~! Natsume~! That's so sweet and cheesy at the same time!" Mikan said happily as Natsume groaned.
"I knew I shouldn't have opened my mouth…"
"No, no, no! Natsume! It was cute and sweet! I loved it!"
"Now I definitely know I shouldn't have opened my mouth…"
"Natsume~!" Mikan whined out as she pulled his face down and kissed his lips. "I love you, Natsume!"
"Whatever…" Natsume replied.
"No Natsume! You have to say it to~!"
"What? Why?"
"Because I want you to say it…"
"Isn't it already obvious? I asked you to marry me so-"
"But you have to say it! Otherwise I won't think you do and cheat on you~!"
"Don't even dare to think about doing that!"
"I'm just kidding, but I want to hear you say it!"
"Fine!" Natsume pulled her to him and kissed her long and passionately until Mikan couldn't stand it anymore and pulled away for some air, since her head was dizzy from the kiss that was literally mind-blowing and from the lack of oxygen. "I love you, Mrs. Hyuuga…" Natsume said with a smirk as Mikan put her hands on either side of her head, trying to straighten her vision.
"You'll never get tired of calling me Mrs. Hyuuga, huh?" Mikan asked.
"Obviously…" he replied back, hugging her close as she rested her head on his chest. All of a sudden, she saw something move out her window and gave out a short scream. "What?"
"I saw something move outside!" Mikan stated as Natsume got out of bed to check it out.
"What did it look like?" Natsume asked, looking out the window in a bored manner.
"A flying ghost!" Mikan said dramatically as Natsume looked obviously at her. "What?"
"Try a flying Kitsu…" Natsume stated as Mikan's eyes went wide in realization.
"… Oh…" she simply said as Natsume got back in bed and kissed her head.
"Go to sleep already, baka…" Natsume said as they got back into their comfortable loving position.
"… What were you jealous about before…?" Mikan asked as Natsume sighed.
"Nothing, forget about it, just go to sleep…"
"I want to know…" Mikan replied back stubbornly.
"I don't want to talk about this."
"Are you jealous about how I act like with Koko?"
"Hn…"
"Or that I spend a lot of time with Koko? That's because you're working most of the time…"
"Hn…"
"Or maybe how close I am with Koko that I can act like or tell him anything…?"
"Hn…"
"Natsume, you have to be a bit more specific-!"
"Everything…"
"What?"
"I just don't like how… close you are with Yome…" Natsume said, covering his blush with his fringes as Mikan moved his hand aside and brushed his hair away from his face with her fingers. She then smiled warmly at him.
"I'm sorry…" she apologized as he looked away from her.
"You should be…" he muttered back. She snuggled into his chest and hugged him, drifting to sleep as he dug his face into her hair.
"I love you so much… my epilogue…" Natsume whispered, making Mikan smile in her sleep. She couldn't even think of a better ending-ending to this story then the ending she created with her wonderful Prince Charming and her lovingly beautiful kids.
Sadz: … Ok, I think that was a bit short, but I thought it was sweet enough to be an awesome epilogue! ^^
Mikan: Natsume~! I love you too~!
Natsume: Hn…
Sadz: Oh, and just to make another thing clear! I wasn't bashing Rapunzel or anything, I love the story, especially the movie Tangled, but I thought it was just funny for Mikan to be confused about it!
Hotaru: Why weren't the rest of us in it?
Sadz: Isn't it obvious what happens next?
Ruka: Not really…
Sadz: Fine, for all those who want to know what happens to the rest of these guys! Everyone got together that were supposed to get together, Natsume is the king, Yuka and Izumi didn't get back together and she's still married to Shiki, Misaki ran away with Tsubasa and now they are living a quaint life in the Hyuuga Region, Hotaru and Ruka have one kid and are married, Aoi… I don't know the rest, to be honest here…
Mochu: What do you mean you don't know? Add all this to the story and more!
Sadz: No~! That's too much work!
Kitsu: You suck…
Sadz: Hey! You were in this part of the story! No complaints!
Kitsu: For two seconds! As a pretend ghost!
Sadz: Oh come on, you thought that was funny and cool…
Kitsu: … Yeah… That was cool…
Sadz: Alright then! Thank you all for reading this and again, no sequel, and this is the last of this story for me! I hope you enjoyed this and blah~ you get it! ^^
Everyone: Thanks for everything!
Sadz: Have a nice day now…
The End-End-End!