Not fated?

Chapter 1: Mikan arrives!

Disclaimer: I do not own Alice Academy/Gakuen Alice and I never will.

Note/Warning: Rated for safety. Expect OOCs and bad English. I'm assuming you know all the char. Natsume, Mikan and the gang are the same age.

Sum: Natsume Hyuga and Mikan Sakura meet for the first time as normal people but are they really normal people? Nope! One is a vampire and the other is a vampire hunter, seemingly not fated to be together. And why does the vampire hunter hate vampires so much?

Sorry, I'm terrible at this. Anyway, enjoy the story! R&R plx! I need at least 5 thumbs ups for this chapter. Btw, the first few chaps might not be about vampires and such. They're just like prologues.

"Mikan, are you sure about this?"

"Hai, okaa-san. No one will suspect me to be among humans."

"Why do you have to be so powerful?" Yuka said in a sad voice. "Now you have to leave me and keep a low profile... among humans!"

"I know you're faking it." Mikan sweatdropped. "You can't change my mind. I'm sick and tired of those challenges. Besides, I won't be gone forever."

"Alright, fine. But I want Hotaru-chan to accompany you." Yuka said seriously this time.

"Hai." Mikan smiled.

Mikan was about to walk out of her room when her mother spoke again. "Oh and you will go to a school called Alice Academy."

"Eh?! Why?"

"We may be pureblood vampires but everyone in our family was also an alice, so we're like pureblood, purealice vampires. Chuckles Anyway, everyone in our family has been there before. Alice Academy can help you with your alice and it doesn't let just anyone enter, only alices."

"Ano... alices? You mean those powers that aren't gotten from being vampires?" Mikan asked as she tilted her head and put a finger on her chin.

"Yes. Like your Nullification and Steal alice that you inherited from your father and I. I think you might have inherited your grandfather's Copy and Erase alice."

"What makes you think that?"

"Nothing. Smile I was just hoping."

"Oh, okaa-san, what about Hotaru? If the school only let alices enter, then-"

"Ah, Hotaru-chan is also an alice." Yuka interrupted.

"Honto?!"

Mikan was very excited, she never knew Hotaru was an alice and was wondering what Hotaru could do. Yuka just nodded.

"Her alice is the alice of Invention."

"You mean... t-that baka gun she made... was because of her a-alice...?"

Mikan sweatdropped, the baka gun was made just for her and it really hurts... for the first few times, anyway. Mikan was used to it now and she seemed to have developed a hard head. Yuka smiled and nodded.

Next day

"Ohayo minna! Today, we have two new students!"

The class couldn't care less so Narumi turned to the door.

"Come in!"

Two girls walked in. Everyone took a quick glance at them and returned to whatever they were doing. They neither like nor dislike new students, they just couldn't be bothered.

"This is Mikan Sakura and Hotaru Imai, both are Triple stars."

The class finally showed interest, they were whispering. No one has ever entered Alice Academy and got Triple stars straight away. Narumi looked at the girls. "Pick any seats you want. Jinno-sensei will be here soon. Ja ne~!"

Narumi left the classroom in haste. Mikan and Hotaru took the two empty seats at the front row.

"I blame you for this." Hotaru said plainly.

"Eh? For what? And why, Hotaru?"

Jinno entered the classroom. Everyone started being attentive. They sat up right, tried to keep awake and put away their unnecessary stuff.

"If you didn't train during lessons, you wouldn't be the most powerful and have to hide... and you would be at least twice as smart as you are now."

Hotaru kind of hates humans so she is clearly unhappy right now.

"But you're an alice too, even if I did pay attention to va... Stops and looks around to make sure nobody heard Okaa-san will still get us to come here. Anyway, I'm not that dumb!"

"Oh really? Then you wouldn't have any problems with the question." Hotaru said, looking in front.

Mikan gave her a questioning look.

"What question?"

She traced Hotaru's gaze and saw Jinno's angry face. She got a shock and became speechless.

"You must be one of the new students."

Narumi had told Jinno about Mikan and Hotaru when the met along the corridor.

"Hai..." Mikan said nervously.

"You must be Sakura, or is it Imai?" Jinno still had his cold voice.

"I'm Mikan Sakura, sensei."

"Very well then, Miss Sakura. I am your maths teacher, Jinno-sensei. Since this is your first time, I won't give you detention. But this is not how a new student, let alone a Triple star, should behave... Solve this question!"

Jinno pointed at the question on the board.

"!"

Mikan's mouth dropped open; she didn't understand a single thing written. She looked at Hotaru.

"So that's the question you were talking about." Mikan mumbled.

"Miss Sakura, I'm waiting."

Mikan slowly and reluctantly stood up and walked in front. The class just watched with bored expressions and a few of them had bobbing heads, still trying to stay awake. Mikan bit her lower lip as she started writing what she thought was the solution. When she was done, she went back to her seat. She saw Hotaru smirking. "I must've done the question wrongly."

Mikan slowly turned her head to face the front.

-+!!+-

"Finally! Detention's over! I can't believe that I did the question so bad that Jinno-sensei gave me detention! And on my first day, too."

"It's all your fault, anyway. You deserve it."

Mikan pouted but suddenly cheered up. "Let's go home now!"

"Baka, we haven't found a place to stay yet."

Mikan froze. She had totally forgotten about the very important necessities. Oh sure, vampires could just live anywhere without getting sick or anything and get their meals by drinking blood from any creature... But now, there are a few problems. If they are strong enough, any vampire can seem like a totally normal human. Mikan, being deemed the strongest of all vampires and Hotaru, who is also very strong, erased their vampire characteristics... easily and temporarily. So that means that currently, they do not possess any vampire abilities while in that form, so they need shelter or they'll get sick. Another problem is that they will stay as humans for five days but if they stop the transformation midway, they'll need about 24 hours to recuperate.

"Ano, we could change ourselves back for the night and change to human again in the morning."

"Baka. Then what's the point of keeping a low profile? Besides, we'll be fried by sunrise."

"Oh yeah... Oh no! What will we do?!"

Mikan started panicking and ran around and around in circles. They were walking just outside the school walls.

"Mikan, Hotaru."

Mikan stopped running and looked towards the direction of the voice. "Misaki nee-san! Why are you here?"

Mikan ran up to them and smiled.

"Well... Your mom sent me here. She prepared everything, knowing that you're forgetful."

"Oh. Arigato onee-san~!" Mikan smiled.

"So let's go to our new home, then. Your mom said your family used to stay there."

Misaki winked and led them to a dark street.

"Ano, onee-san... What did you do to this place?" Mikan asked as she looked around.

The street was crowded with gangsters. It was very noisy a few minutes ago but the moment everyone saw Misaki, they kept quiet. They were obviously pissed off and some were actually sweating in worry. Misaki just smiled and continued walking. "Hm? Nothing much. When I got the house, I just threw out some useless stuff and went to look for you."

Misaki thought Mikan was referring to the house.

"I meant 'what did you do to the people here?'. Everyone's staring at us and they seem angry."

"Well, I would be lying if I said I didn't do anything to them."

"What did you do?"

They stopped walking as Misaki started to explain. "I told you I threw out some useless stuff, right?"

Mikan nodded in reply while Hotaru remained emotionless and motionless.

Flashback

"That's the last of them." Misaki said as she threw some plastic bags into the dumpster near the house.

"Oi! Watch it!"

One of the bags had hit a guy on the back. The guy was obviously a gang member, seeing his 'friends', completely black attire and tattoos. The dumpster was in an alley and the place was filled with gangsters so it was no surprise that there were people camouflaging in the dark alley. Misaki looked at the guy and walked off. Being a vampire, although under a disguise as a human, she did not see the need to apologize to an actual human, who hid in the dark while expecting to be seen.

"Oi!"

The guy and his gang members surrounded Misaki with smirks and grins on their disgusting faces. "Did you actually think that you can get away with that?"

"With what?" Misaki asked calmly.

She was trying to keep her cool.

"With hitting me with that thrash of yours."

"I didn't hit you on purpose. It's your own fault for standing in a dark alley. You wear all black and you expect people to see you?"

The guy smirked even more. He ignored what Misaki said. "You'll have to be punished."

He glanced around at his gang, they were smirking and chuckling.

"So what shall we do to you?" The guy asked, he obviously had evil intentions.

"Let's go easy on her since she's a girl." One of his gang mates suggested.

"Let's just play with her for a while." Another said.

"Good idea."

The guy grabbed Misaki wrist. Misaki immediately kicked him in the face. Of course, this made the others lunge at her. She easily started beating them up, enjoying her little workout. She was planning to exercise later, anyway. In about ten seconds, they were all defeated.

"Thanks for the fun but I gotta go now."

Misaki walked off, leaving the streets covered with bodies. She had only walked a few steps when other gangs started charging at her for no reason. Again, Misaki happily defeated all of them.

End of flashback

"Oh, so you've been training in your human form, too?" Mikan asked enthusiastically.

"Yep!"

"Me too~!" Mikan started smiling very widely.

"Let's go now. I've got stuff to do." Hotaru said.

She grabbed Mikan and started dragging her off. They were stopped by everyone who was staring at them just now, aka all the gangs in that street. The gangs had come to a temporary truce to defeat Misaki. To them, losing to a single girl was almost worse than death.

"You!" A guy pointed at Misaki.

"Oh, you're that guy from the alley just now. We were just talking about you."

Misaki had a mischievous grin on her face. "Are we going to play the same game?" She slightly smirked.

"Mikan, let's see whether you're as good as before."

Mikan nodded as Hotaru and Misaki walked over to the side. Misaki wanted to see if Mikan's human and vampire form were of the same strength. Hotaru wanted to find out too so she took out some chips and started to eat like eating popcorn in a cinema.

"Heh. Smirk Sending a sacrifice?" The guy said.

The gangs started to charge towards Mikan.

"1... 2... Mikan!"

Misaki ran towards Mikan. Mikan was motionless.

"Mikan."

Mikan snapped out of her trance and looked at Misaki with a questioningly look. Then she realized what Misaki had just asked and replied. "That was no fun."

Misaki had a blank expression for a while then she smiled. "Oh, Mikan. You're just too strong for them. I guess you're as strong as your vampire form, you knocked all of them out in two seconds. Smiles But how can you be so kawaii at the same time?"

Mikan just smiled in response. She turned to Hotaru. "Hotaru! Let's go!"

Home

"Wow! This place is really nice!"

Mikan was admiring the place. Every room was fully furnished and looked brand new.

"There are three floors. The second and third floors have three bedrooms each. Each bedroom has at least a double bed, a table, chair and laptop, a closet and a huge bathroom." Misaki said.

"Ano... what did okaa-san need so many bedrooms for?" Mikan asked as she tilted her head slightly.

Hotaru had already went up and chosen a room.

"Maybe your whole family used to stay here or something."

"I see."

"Oh and this floor has the usual rooms... living rooms, kitchen and dining room. But there is this secret, big, empty room. Your mom said it was indestructible although I don't know how and why she put it there." Misaki said.

"It must be for Hotaru to test her inventions and for us to train in our vampire and human forms... I'll go pick a room now."

Mikan ran up the stairs. She chose a room on the third floor, right next to Hotaru's. Misaki took the last room on that floor.

11pm

"I'm not used to sleeping at night..." Mikan mumbled to herself as she sat up in bed.

Hotaru and Misaki were very adaptable so they had no problems sleeping but as for Mikan, well... she always had problems in a new environment. Mikan got out of bed and changed out of her nightgown. She left the house quietly.

As she walked along the street, the gangs were still there but this time, they avoided her in fear. Mikan didn't seem to notice, either that or she didn't care.

"Hotaru said something about a forest behind school... The Northern Woods?"

Northern Woods

"This is nice."

Mikan was seated under a sakura tree. Her eyes were closed and she had a contented and happy face as she tilted her head upwards, enjoying the breeze and serenity. She opened her eyes when she sensed something. "Subaru nii-san? What are you doing here? How did you find me?"

"I got one of Hotaru's tracking devices." Subaru said plainly.

"Hotaru..." Mikan sweatdropped.

"And I've got some bad news."

"Eh?"

Mikan looked up.

"It's about Kuro Neko."

Mikan's eyes widened. "Wha...? What happened to him?"

"He suddenly became really weak. He can't even eat now."

"But if he doesn't eat... he'll die!" Mikan said as she suddenly stood up.

Her eyes were filled with tears. She could barely see anything, her vision was all blur and foggy.

"I'll go back and take care of him!"

"No. That would waste everyone's efforts. I'll watch over him and currently, we're injecting food into him." Subaru said.

Mikan nodded as she rubbed her tears away.

"I have to go back now."

"Hai..." Mikan smiled, or at least tried to.

Subaru ran off and disappeared. Once he was out of sight, Mikan broke down and cried. Kuro Neko was very precious to her. They had always been together, until now, that is. She cried for a few minutes.

"Hey, why are you crying?"

Mikan looked up and got a shock. She was too busy crying to notice that someone had been watching her.

"Who are you?" She asked, rubbing away her tears.

"Answer my question first." The guy asked nonchalantly.

"...My friend's sick and might die."

Mikan started sobbing after she said the last word.

"That's it?"

Mikan nodded.

"So it wasn't because of a vampire. Damn it, it must've left by now, I don't sense it anymore. At least I've got thirty today." The guy thought.

Mikan was also in her own thoughts. She suddenly looked around but he was gone! She stood up and saw him walking a few meters ahead. "Hey..." Mikan said as she ran up to him.

She wasn't crying or sobbing anymore but her eyes were still teary. He stopped and turned around.

"What?"

"Ano... You're leaving this place, right? ...Can you take me to Alice Academy? I... forgot my way back but I can find my way from Alice Academy."

Mikan was rubbing her head nervously. She's always forgetful when she's excited, anxious or upset.

"Follow me." He said, emotionlessly.

He continued walking but this time with Mikan following behind. It was very quiet for a while and Mikan, being Mikan, couldn't stand it. She tried to keep herself busy by enjoying the breeze like before and admiring the huge trees in the forest.

"Ano..." She suddenly said. "I've answered your question but you haven't answered mine. Who are you? And why are you here?"

"You only asked me who I was just now." He said without turning behind.

"Okay. Then who are you?"

"Natsume Hyuga."

To be continued.

Hehe, so are you wondering who Kuro Neko is? I'll give you a little hint... he's not human! It's quite obvious, actually. Anyway, should I continue the story? Like I said before, I need at least 5 thumbs ups for this chapter.

Mikan's Bio: Mikan is a 16 years old vampire. Although she is young, she's the most powerful and gifted vampire. All of her close friends, except Misaki, are the same age as her and they're also very powerful and some are also gifted. She's forgetful when she's excited, anxious or upset.

Mikan comes from a pureblood family, meaning that her family members were all born as vampires. It is also said that everyone in her family were alices. She currently has the Nullification and Steal alices.

'Gifted' meaning having an alice or alices.