Disclaimer: I don't own either Naruto or Gakuen Alice.

Sorry for the long period of no updating. It is ridiculous, I know. I last updated July 11th, 2012… so bad.. Anyways, if you go back, you'll notice I've made some changes to the other chapters! Check them out!

"Talking"

Dreams/Emphasis

'Thought'

'Kyuubi/Inner talking'

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"I never give up... I never go back on my word... that's my ninja way!" ~ Uzumaki Naruto

Naruto and Natsume were standing across from one another in a grassy field not far from the Elementary School Building. They were both glaring at one another – neither of them was willing to break eye contact with the other. That would just be a show of weakness.

Everyone from Class B had followed them outside to see the fight, wanting to know who was going to win – though most of them thought it would be Natsume, of course. They had formed a large circle around Naruto and Natsume so they would have a lot of space to have their fight.

'I'm going to kick is ass!' Naruto thought determinedly, clenching his fists.

"Okay… this battle will begin once I finish counting down from five, okay?" Kitsuneme announced, stepping into the distance in-between Naruto and Natsume. He looked at the both of them, and they nodded their heads. Then, using his Flying Alice, Kitsuneme flew into the air – so that he wouldn't be in the way – and began counting down, "Five… four… three… two… one!"

The battle began…

'Shadow Clone Jutsu!' Naruto thought, performing the clone seal so quickly that no one had time to see it. Thousands of Naruto clones appeared, surrounding both Naruto and Natsume.

Natsume's eyes widened in shock, but quickly he composed himself. 'So… he has the Doppelganger Alice like Harada Misaki-san… though he can create a lot more than her…'

Naruto grinned at Natsume. "C'mon!" He shouted, charging forward with all his clones.

Natsume moved smoothly to dodge the clones. He began to engage them in hand-to-hand combat, but – much to his annoyance – all of Naruto's "doppelgangers" seemed to be much better at hand-to-hand combat than him, and so he was having difficulty even trying to land a single hit on them.

'Crap…!' Natsume thought as he managed to dodge another attack, though just barely. There were so many freaking doppelgangers. 'I might actually have to use my Fire Alice to defeat them all… but if I use it to much…'

Natsume spun on his heel, moving away from an attack. He narrowed his eyes and set the "Naruto" that had attacked him on fire. Much to his surprise, the doppelganger disappeared with a sudden puff of smoke instead of burning up. 'His Alice isn't like Harada-san's Doppelganger Alice… his doppelgangers disappear when you hit them…' He smirked. 'I should be able to defeat them all…'

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Sakura was seated at her desk, yawned tiredly. She had managed to make her way to Class C, though it had taken her about another fifteen minutes after she had run away from Tsubasa. The teach had been quite angry with Sakura for being so late, however, seeing as how it was her first day – and probably because she was the "daughter" of the High School Principal – she had been left off with a stern warning to not be later again.

Anyways, Sakura was currently on her way to falling asleep as she just barely listened to the teacher go one and on. Due to her level of intelligence, Sakura already knew most of what the teacher was talking about, and so she was extremely bored with the class.

Suddenly, there was a flare of familiar Chakra.

Sakura's head snapped up, her eyes widening. 'That's Naruto's Chakra!' She thought, looking over towards the window. Out of the corner of her eye, she could see Tsubasa staring at her, having noticed her suddenly strange behaviour

Without saying anything, Sakura jumped to her feet and headed over to the window.

"Y-Yukihira-san, what are you going?!" The teacher demanded angrily, stopping his lessen to turn and glare at Sakura. "Return to your seat right now!"

Sakura simply ignored the teacher – she didn't have time to deal with him. She opened the window and propped herself up on the windowsill, and then she looked over her shoulder – directly at the teacher – and grinned. Sakura's gaze also – for some reason – shifted over to Tsubasa, who was looking at her with an amused look. Shaking her head, Sakura jumped out of the window without a second thought or glance at anyone else. Just before she was about to impact, Sakura bent her knees a little and landed stealthily on the balls of her feet – absorbing the shock of the jump – and then she leaned forward a bit and rolled, coming out in the perfect position. She then straightened up and stretched a bit.

Behind her, Sakura could hear people gasping in shock and clapping. She turned around and looked up at Class C's window. She gave everyone who was watching – Tsubasa was amongst them – a smirk and thumbs up. And with that, Sakura took off running.

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'I wonder what that idiot did…' Sakura thought, feeling very annoyed. She was running through Alice Academy's school grounds in the direction she'd felt Naruto's Chakra flare. 'I'm going to fucking kill him!'

Sakura sensed another flare of Chakra from Naruto again, and she growled.

"Ugly," Sai said, suddenly appearing at Sakura's side.

"Sai,"

"Dickless, right?"

"Yup,"

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Naruto's head snapped back, his nose now bleeding from Natsume's punch. Naruto couldn't believe it. The bastard had actually managed to punch him – and he was shinobi! 'That was just luck!' Naruto couldn't help but think, not willing to accept that Natsume would actually be able to land a single hit on him. 'I was distracted…!'

"You bastard!" Naruto shouted, dispelling most of his clones and shooting forward. He went straight up to Natsume, engaging him in a direct fight.

Naruto and Natsume dodged and swirled around one another, both attempting to land a hit on one another. Natsume shot forward with another punch. However, Naruto managed to dodge and jumped over Natsume, landing behind him. Just as Natsume quickly spun on his heel, Naruto punched him in the cheek.

Natsume grunted and fell backwards, losing his balance. He quickly rolled back onto his feet, though. He didn't want to give Naruto any sort of advantage.

"I'll beat you," Natsume muttered to himself, forming fireballs in his hands.

Naruto created another couple hundred clones. He grabbed one of his clones and began swinging it – he then released his clone, sending it straight at Natsume.

Before Natsume could send his fireball at the clone, someone – a teenage girl with pink hair – appeared in front of him. She pulled out a kunai – Natsume recognised it because he would sometimes use them on his missions – from somewhere and met the Naruto "doppelganger" in battle. She stabbed the kunai into the stomach of the doppelganger and it disappeared with a puff of smoke.

A pale-face teenage boy showed up beside the girl. They both stood back-to-back, staring at all the Naruto doppelgangers/clones. Suddenly, the both of them moved and began attacking all of the clones. Within minutes, all of the clones were gone. Once they were done, Natsume noticed that the pink-haired girl had a long cut on her left cheek, and it was bleeding a lot.

"Sakura-chan!" Naruto shouted, rushing over to the pink-haired girl.

"It appears I am considered as chopped liver to Naruto-kun…" Natsume heard the pale-faced teen mutter.

The moment Naruto reached the pink-haired girl – or Sakura – she smacked him in the back of the head, glaring furiously at him. "You baka!" She shouted at him. "What the hell were you doing?!"

Naruto glared at Natsume and said, "This bastard started it!"

Sakura glanced at Natsume, and then she looked back over to Naruto. "I don't care who started it – you shouldn't have even gotten into a fight in the first place." She snapped at him. "Now apologize!"

"B-but, Saku –" Naruto attempted to protest.

"Naruto."

Naruto gulped and faced Natsume. "I'm sorry," he apologized, though he didn't mean it at all.

Natsume stuck his hands in his pockets and said nothing. He wanted Naruto to apologize to Mikan, but he wasn't going to say that out loud.

"How amusing… Dickless is apologizing." The pale-faced one smiled. It looked fake to Natsume.

"Shut it, Sai." Naruto grumbled.

Sakura rolled her eyes and faced Natsume. "I'm sorry, too." She told the young boy. "Naruto," she glared at him, "is an idiot and overreacts to everything."

Natsume still remained silent. Instead, he studied the teenage girl. She had a petite stature and a heart-shaped face. Her shoulder-length pink hair appeared to be silky and soft-looking. She also had large and amazing green eyes. She had pale skin – though it wasn't sickly-looking – with a "milk and rose" complexion. She was very, very, pretty – even Natsume had to admit this. And from her uniform, he knew that she was in the Middle School Branch. Also, Natsume noticed she had a single star on her collar enclosed in a circle… was as a Special Star.

"You're bleeding," Natsume finally spoke, gesturing to the cut on Sakura's cheek.

"Oh… I didn't even notice." Sakura said, placing a hand over her cheek. It began glowing a nicely-coloured green, and when she removed her hand, the cut was gone.

"Here you go," Mikan said, having rushed over to hand Sakura a handkerchief. Following behind her was Hotaru, Ruka, and several others. They were all curious about Sakura.

Sakura smiled at Mikan. "Thank you very much," she said, using the handkerchief to wipe the blood away from her cheek. She then folded it and placed it in her jacket pocket. "I'll wash it and return it to you later…"

"Mikan," Mikan said. "My name is Sakura Mikan."

"Okay then, Mikan-chan," Sakura nodded her head. "My name is Yukihira Sakurako, but you can call me Sakura. I'm Naruto's step-sister." She gestured to the pale-faced teen. "This is Yoshida Sai; he is our adopted cousin."

'She's the daughter of the High School Principal…' Natsume crossed his arms. Knowing this, he wouldn't be trusting this girl anytime soon.

"Is Healing your Alice?" Mikan asked curiously.

Sakura nodded. "Yes, it is one of my Alices."

'One of them…' Natsume thought, narrowing his eye slightly.

Mikan smiled. "Cool!" She exclaimed happily, not catching what Sakura said. Though some of the others did.

Sakura glanced at a watch on her left wrist and said, "Sai and I really must be leaving – we just left out classes. However, I'll see you later Mikan-chan."

"Okay, Sakura-chan!" Mikan said, still smiling.

"Naruto… don't cause any more trouble. Got it?" Sakura's nice and sweet expression turned deadly.

"Hai, S-Sakura-chan," Naruto said right away.

"Good. C'mon, Sai." Sakura said, walking away with Sai.

Natsume watched her walk away. He was both interested – and suspicious – of this girl. As well as Naruto and Sai. How come they were all so good at hand-to-hand combat… and how come this pink-haired girl was a Special Star? And what were her other Alices?

'I'll find out…' Was all Natsume thought as he – and the rest of Class B – returned back to the Elementary School Building…

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I actually updated! Sorry for such a long wait! Anyways, I tried my best with the fight scene, though I am not amazing at them.

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