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Cinderella backwards Chapter 1: The first Domino
„Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."
„Revenge is a dish best served cold..."
Cluelessly Nastume read those fateful words in his favourite manga, unaware of the dread, which was about to fall upon him. He might have mused about this sentence a little longer,
thinking about the irony of life or apologize to all the innocent, yet noisy, little female brunettes, who have ever crossed his way. But unaware of the unfortunate chain of events, he just
flipped to the next page, revealing insignificant„to be continued"- letters to the male the underground often refers to as the Black Cat – Kuro Neko.
He allowed himself a snort as he closed his manga, left alone at the most interesting part of the story.
Natsume Hyuuga, the most celebrated, and most dangerous, being of Alice Academy leaned back against a tree completely relaxed, putting the comic aside and blinked into the sun,
in expectation of a quiet undisturbed day.
But since everyone who knows Murphy's laws know, god just won't allow mankind to enjoy a peaceful day for long, and this time he ruined the raven-haired boy's day in the shape
of a brown-haired girl with the eyes of an innocent deer... and the force of an elephant.
Out of nowhere Sakura Mikan fell out of the sky, breaking through the twigs of the poor tree our noise-disliking hero was leaning against, leading to the final stage of unluckiness by
stumbling in her fall over the very person, who was the worst choice for a breakstopping pillow one could ever make; which was a fact the unfortunate pillow's partner only knew too well.
Paralyzed with shock Mikan stared down at the dark glaring eyes of a bad-tempered Black Cat, whose clothes and hair were decorated with broken twigs and leaves. Half sitting on
his chest, she flailed her arms around in panic, yet the god of Murphy's law will not show any mercy on our arrived heroine.
„Natsume-kun!I-I- I'm sorry, I was just-"
Before Mikan could finish her stuttered excuse, the Black Cat curtly gripped her hips without shame, the girl blushing, with wide innocent brown eyes.
„You're heavy, Polka-dots." The Black Cat stated bluntly, pushing the girl unceremoniously off, who landed unelegantly on her back.
Unconcerned turning his back on the unlucky girl, the usually serious Natsume allowed himself a smirk.
„And besides: Squares are out of fashion as well, Polka-dots."
Her face burning with outrage, Mikan looked down at herself, her dishevelled skirt revealing a part of her clothing, that would block the path of marriage forever...
„IIIIIEEEEEEEEH!!!!!!!"
„HentaiHentaiHentai, Natsume no hentaiiii!!!"
Furiously the normally cheerful girl was having a really impressive tantrum, sugared by a slightly whiny tone.
Impressive indeed, since those words she sent after Natsume were so loud, it must have deafened the whole academy grounds, scaring innocent animals out of the wood. And yet the
very guy, who was supposed to take notice to that horrifying cry, was walking away unaffected, only the twitching vain on his forehead showing the dangerous raise in temperature
around him, of course literally.
„I'lll never be able to get married anymore.", the source of the infliction on his peace sniffed in a way, that could have made a stone melt... but not an ill-tempered Natsume.
„What's all the sobbing about? Since an ugly hag like you will never get a guy anyway, you definitely don't have to worry about marriage."
Piercing his back with fierce eyes at that loathing comment, she turned around to pout.
And yet it was indeed possible for the unlucky chain of events to worsen the situation.
„Hey, Mikan-chan!" a familiar voice called out to the auburn-haired girl.
The newcomer made the bushes rustle, while he was continuing his speech in a most apologizing tone.
„Sorry for making you fall down the tree, but you DID say I shouldn't hold back with my alice. I told you it was a bad idea to train your alice against my shadow control. You ok?"
Tears flowing in floods, Mikan ran towards the approaching guy and stretched her arms out for a hug.
Frowning the Black Cat turned around, as the crying girl jumped at a dark haired boy, the black star under one of his eyes identifying him as Mikan's ...beloved... Tsubasa-senpai.
The vein on Natsume's forehead started to pulsate stronger.
„Tsubasa-senpai, he-he-he did it again!"
Trying to comfort Mikan who was wetting his shirt with tears, the older student lifted her into his arms and, sensing a furious killing intent directed at himself, looked right into the eyes
of a glaring Natsume Hyuuga. Smiling Tsubasa waved with a free hand...and this was the very moment the air definitely started to heat up by a few degrees.
„So that's what happened. Young hormones on loose again..." The sweatdropping shadow alice mumbled to himself, the girl in his arms too caught up in her misery to hear the words.
„I'll definitely get you... for dropping a heavy ugly wingless cuckoo on me..", Natsume whispered in a threatening tone, shooting a last death glare at Tsubasa before leaving the scene casually.
The Black Cat, as scary as ever..., Tsubasa thought, watching Natsume's leave with relief.
Meanwhile his still uncontrollably crying kouhai had drained his shirt completely with water, mumbling incoherent stuff like „can't live a wife's life" „doomed" „stupid pervert" all along
the way.
„Oi,oi..." the older student patted her back trying to calm her down, heading for the girls' dormitory.
„Everything is fine, Mikan-chan, one hentai accident won't stick to you for the rest of your life. You can still get married, really..."
But all his words of comfort were wasted on the girl, who was too lost in dark depressive thoughts to listen.
He has seen my panties when we first met inside the Alice Academy once...has taken a look at my CHEST as well and dared to tell me it's totally FLAT... and now he has
seen my underwear for the SECOND time.., not once but twice??? Now I can never let myself be seen in public ever again for sure. One accidental look might have been
forgiven, but two??? My innocence is lost forever now. My future as a wife, destroyed by a single perverted person...
And thus Mikan cried endlessly, all the way to the dormitory; it made Tsubasa wonder how much water a little girl like her could have in her body.
„Mikan-chan, we have arrived at the dormitory, and you do get too heavy for me, so.. I'll let you down, ok?"
The shadow Alice slowly let go of her... just to notice that she did not do so at all.
„Uhm.. Mikan, are you listening? You can let go of me now."
Reassuringly Tsubasa smiled at her, but the extra weight on his body only shook her head wildly.
„With this shame..I can't let others see me any more ever again!"
Stunned by the unreasonable logic of a girl he started noticing that he managed to get into an uneasy situation, which he definitely did not like.
„Oi, Mikan, it's no problem at all. Nothing has happened- "
„Him taking away my future HAS happened!"
The sobbing girl exclaimed loudly, tightening her grip on her senpai painfully.
Girls! You can never reason with them!
The desperation slowly crawling up his neck, the poor Senpai tried to calm Mikan down, but instead her sobbing became more violent.
„Hey, Nonoko, that noise is Mikan-chan, isn't it?", a girl's voice inquired not too far away from the strange couple.
Smiling nervously he turned to the direction of the voice, which belonged to a girl of Mikan's age, who was shaking her pink, curly, long hair in disbelief. Astonished Anna , along with
her dark haired friend Nonoko, was staring at the miserable Mikan with wide eyes .
„Uhm.. are you friends of Mikan-chan?", Tsubasa asked them helplessly, pointing at the shaking body clinging on to him.
„Yes, we are...", the dark haired girl answered hesitantly, sensing a troubling situation.
„Could you help me with her, please? I can't carry her for the rest of my life, you see..?" Pleadingly he smiled at the two little girls.
„Certainly we will," the pink haired female answered concerned, looking at her companion meaningfully.
„Don't you have a potion somwhere in you laboratory, which could be just right for her, Nonoko?"
Nonoko smiled at her friend „But Anna, the potions I have are only temporary... "
„Mikan looks like she'll never stop crying, so we can't make things worse, can we? So just try it.", Anna interfered her speech impatiently. And she really did believe in her naive statement at that very moment... which will be proven wrong at the very same day...
„A potion? I didn't intend to fill her up with drugs as a solut-" Tsubasa started as a heartbreaking sob, accompanied by a choking grip of Mikan chased all suspicious worries away.
„Just hurry up and get it!", he panicked in a high pitched tone, trying to free himself from Mikan's breathtaking hug.
And with this Nonoko hurried off to the dormitory, digging through her potions hastily, and threw off a few potions accidently in the process.
„Where is it...", the dark haired alchemist mumbled to herself, reaching for the upper shelves she could barely touch, until she finally caught a potion in the very back of her shelf,
which was glowing suspiciously in a bright green. Casting a short look at the glass in her hand, a smile appeared on her face as she headed back to the waiting group outside.
„ This Happily-ever-after-potion is my masterpiece. Mikan just has to become all cheerful again!", Nonoko thought to herself happily, running down the floor to her waiting friends.
Panting hard she handed her potion over to Anna, who was trying to soothe the still crying girl, a small puddle of tears having spread on the ground.
„Hey Mikan, drink this. Everything will be alright again, ne?"
Tsubasa nodded enthusiastically at those words.
„Yeah, just calm down and take a sip. Please, don't cry anymore, ok?"
Sniffing the auburn haired girl lifted her grip on her senpai to take take a short look at the suspiciously growing potion „There's no help for me."
„C'mon, give it a try! It can't make matters worse, can it?", Tsubasa tried to talk the depressed girl into drinking it.
With a dramatic my-life-is-finished-already-so-I'll-make-them-happy-by-drinking-this-gulp Mikan emptied the glass in one swift move.
Curiously her friends leaned closer to see the reaction with eager anticipation.
Silently Mikan got off Tsubasa, who sighed relieved and giving her a grateful smile.
The bangs of her auburn hair were blown into her face, thus covering the expression on her eyes. A bad feeling spread through her audience, who started getting nervous seeing the
normally very emotional girl stand still for a few minutes.
„Uhm...Mikan? Are you feeling better?", Nonoko finally dared to ask the motionless Mikan.
As if she had just woken up, the auburn haired girl looked up at her friends with her typical cheerful smile.
„Better? That's not the right word... I feel so happy I could hug everyone! I feel like I can do everything! But...why only can, I WILL do it!", And with these words, Mikan hopped
away in a most cheerful manner. Sweatdropping Tsubasa, Anna and Nonoko were staring a hyped up Mikan jump away, until she vanished around a corner. Nonoko just shrugged
and smiled.
„Well, seems she's just fine, doesn't it? Let's go and celebrate Mikan's recovery somewhere, ne?"
With a farewell bow towards Tsubasa she grabbed her friend's hand in order to find a nice cafe for her good deed of the day.
Nodding a bit doubtful Tsubasa scratched his right temple.
„Well, she does seem to be ok again..."
And indeed, everything should have been fine... if there hadn't been a shining potion, which had been dropped on the earth lovelessly in Nonoko's laboratory. Unnoticed the glass
rolled over to the corner until it revealed the glowing letters „Happily-ever-after-potion"on the upper part of the glass. And Murphy's undeniable Law took the first step into Natsume
Hyuuga's direction.
Alice! a childish story take
And, at unknown potion's land
Lay it where unfortunate events are twined
In sweet revenge's hand.
As black cats' peace taking a turn
At nearby pretty Sakura trees.
TO BE CONTINUED
Myrwin: puh, done.. After this chapter the real story can begin smile
Natsume: I have only one question: why should a wrong potion for the IDIOT be the end of MY peaceful life?
Myrwin: Well... You would not ask the question if you knew the contents of the potion evil grin
Natsume: ...
Myrwin: you will know soon enough, my little child.. you will get to experience soon enough insane giggle