《Zero Gravity / 無重力(Gakuen Alice)》【Chapter 12】Snow White in the Sleeping Forest, ft. Cat and Bunny Part 1
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"...Natsume-kun, maybe you should go rest for now? I'll call you when she wakes up..." The doctor gently suggested, hoping for the solemn glaring boy to have some rest since he had been sitting in the seat next to Yue's bed for more than half a day now.
Yue was soundly asleep in the infirmary's bed dressed in her white pajama shorts, tank top and the beige long cardigan that went past her knees. The bed sheets are covering everything except her upper body and arms that were out on her side, an IV stuck to her left hand. Her blue thick soft hair was framed in a mess, strands here and there as her naturally pale complexion seemed to whiten even more under the moons invisible rays from the large window that was right next to the bed, her eyes heavily closed and her mind disconnected from her body at the moment. Since some hours ago she had come to the infirmary to take a short rest from that class, and now it has been 12 hours exactly since she's been asleep.
Though nothing anyone tries could awaken her, so the doctor suspected that she's in her 'Premonition State', those moments in which as she sleeps her mind goes into a state of unseen memories in which they may or may not have happened. Simply put, the past or future.
Ruka and Natsume had been visiting her ever since, even Mikan, Hotaru and some other classmates which came with them. Though many of those times they got glared at by the irritated Natsume so they could barely have half an hour with the peacefully sleeping blue haired girl.
"Why isn't she waking up." The fire caster demanded more than a question, a shudder passing by the doctor's back at the suspicious glare the younger boy gave him. The doctor sighed slowly and shook his head before turning around and returning to his papers.
"This has happened many times before Natsume-kun. It's just one of those dreams she has, all we need to do is wait and eventually she'll wake up." Natsume's narrowed eyes shifted to the sleeping girl and they softened with a non-audible sigh, leaning back against the chair with his hands in his pockets.
The doc glanced behind him at the close eyed ebony haired boy, truly amused at the reactions this youngster had with anything involving his patient Yue.
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"Natsume, is Yue alright now?" Ruka asked with his hands behind him for support, his head turned towards Natsume as they both laid on the building's rooftop, the night sky covered in thousandths of bright stars all too tiny but seeming in groups.
"She's still sleeping..." He mumbled with a glance at the worried blonde that sighed and raised his head back to the sky, Natsume with his hands behind his head as they both stared up into the night, the calmness of the dark relaxing to both of them that were in their own thoughts.
"Ne Natsume?" Ruka softly said without turning his head, Natsume making a sound in his throat indicating he heard. Ruka turned his head to his best friend that was still unmoving and staring up at the sky calmly, before closing his mouth and raising his head back to the sky, "Nandemonai."
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"Is this the past or the future now...." Yue softly mumbled to herself, looking around as her hair moved in swift motions with her curious head turns. She was indeed transparent and floating once again, meaning she must be unconscious at the moment. Hope Natsume or Ruka won't worry... Her eyes blinked in curiosity when the blank scenery changed into that of Narumi's classroom, everyone was chatting loudly as usual and just playing around with their alices, -Yue chuckled in amusement when she saw her past or future self-sleeping with a white pillow in the middle between the mumbling to each other Natsume and Ruka-, before she floated to the back of the room close to the walls, wondering to herself why she was seeing this.
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The door suddenly opened with a loud bang and in came singing the blonde feminism teacher with sparks and flowers in his background, Yue tilting her head with a curious small grin. Everybody slowly but surely began to pay attention as he stated very loudly with a broad smile that there were three new students in the same day and that all three were assigned to his classroom for some reason.
Yue's eyes widened slightly at the news, then they frowned in confusement. How strange.....three new students and all in the same class? Why.....she definitely felt an eerie feeling to this future development but she raised her eyes from the floor when she saw unfamiliar bodies walk through the door calmly.
Omo.....her small pale lips curved upwards into a small smile and she tilted her head with a raised eyebrow. How unique these must be indeed.... The first one was a small girl, just maybe a bit smaller than Ruka. Her observing red eyes matched her straight long hair that went below her thighs, quite long. But what was most interesting was that she was wearing a kimono perfect fit for her small body, the pastel pink color being the main while the white floral patterns made her pink skin tone look brighter.
Yue smiled with a strange sense of proudness, how strange. Her calm blue eyes blinked to the next two students, both of them being male. Her eyes twitched and she flinched back a step with slightly narrowed eyes.
Why did she receive such dangerous vibes from those two, it's not normal...... One of them being about the same height as Natsume, if only an inch smaller, his hair was such a darkness blue it looked black and was in a messy shaggy look, his indifferent eyes were of a mix between dark azure and very dark purple as they lazily glanced at everything in the classroom.
The second one was very different and had about the height of Mikan, his hair was straight and very long until his hip with straight bangs across his forehead, narrowed red eyes cautiously staring at everyone in the room as he clung onto the taller boys arm protectively.
They were both wearing the Gakuen elementary Uniform, except the boy with long hair had on the girl's uniform on. Yue blinked in fascination and a small chuckle left her as she stared at the new students. Maybe it won't be that bad, I mean even Natsume and sometimes Ruka would emit such vibes a long time ago. She wonders how long it will be until such an event happens, hopefully nothing bad will come out of it.
Yue was slowly walking forward with a small smile and her hands in front of her mouth to receive warmth from her breath before her eyes slightly blinked in shock when the kimono new student glanced right into her eyes, Yue tilting her head in confusement when her red eyes darted back to the teacher as if nothing happened. Just as they began talking, Yue's floating body wavered and she sighed softly with a shake of her head, then slowly closed her eyes as she felt the pull of her mind, once again the scene changing back to black.
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Yue's eyes slowly flickered open, sleepily closing them again with a long unaudible sigh and a very small smile covering her pale face. She could feel the familiar texture of where she was. Her eyes lazily opened and automatically she knew who it was that was right next to her.
"Natsume...!" Her mouth curved into a higher smile, her light azure eyes gleamed as she stared at the sighing in relief Natsume who waved a hand through his bangs. His hand leisurely reached out and patted her head with affection before his hand moved towards her pale cheek, then staying there for seconds as his narrowed eyes switched to hers and before she could even question what was wrong, his body swiftly came towards hers and he laid his lips right on hers, the soft texture and closeness making her cold body temperature switch a few degrees up. She accepted the kiss with no objection and closed her eyes, smiling into the feeling before the familiar smirk irked her and she snapped her eyes open.
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Even though he had not moved and was still right on her mouth, his smug smirk caused her to scoff lightly in her throat. He moved away and pop kissed her once more before finally proceeding to just lay back in satisfaction at the pink color on Yue's face as she mumbled things behind her breath, something along the lines of 'Boys', 'males', 'such smugness I swear.'
"Ruka's in that play today, Yue." He moved his chair closer and was leaning his back against the chair, one hand on his pocket while his other was softly tugging on multiple strands of her blue silky hair that were spread out.
Yue's eyes slightly widened and she gaped, hoping she didn't miss anything or that the play hasn't started yet. Natsume, as if knowing what Yue was thinking when he glanced at her expression in amusement stated, "It hasn't started yet." She blinked her eyes and chuckled behind her fist freely since she was in a much more comfortable position, sitting up leaning against the upper bed part that Natsume moved up so that she could sit up.
"Is he the princess again?" She questioned with a small smile at the nodding boy. "Kawaii. We definitely have to go see him Natsume." She chuckled again, Natsume blinking at her and thinking about whether to question or not...
"How long was I out this time...? Since the play is today I don't think I've been out that long right?" His thoughts were interrupted and he stayed silent for a second, making Yue turn her head to him and stare at him patiently.
"Just a day." His answer made her sigh in relief. Thank kamisama it wasn't like the last first times when she had to get used to her Alice, she would stay asleep for weeks, the longest time being for about a month and a half.
It was a comfortable silence, Yue in her sleepy state, her hands on her lap while her eyes were closed, slowly falling asleep due to Natsume's consistent of gently brushing his hand through her hair, sometimes softly tugging it or just moving it around.
"What was it about?" His abrupt determined tone made her flinch but chuckle afterwards. He knew that she wouldn't say anything unless he was curious or asked. Her head turned towards him a bit, her sky blue eyes glanced at him as she smiled softly, anticipation hidden beneath.
"New students in the future. In Narumi's class." Her anticipation was perfectly rewarded with the annoyed grunt of Natsume as he sighed non-audible with a wave of his hand through his hair, his narrowed eyes glaring accusingly at the chuckling Yue before he swiftly grabbed her wrist that was closest to him, tugging it towards him as her body followed and her cooler lips met his in a perfect soft ram.
She gently placed her hand that was now free on his chest since both his arms were around her waist, and gently pushed back a bit, Natsume looking down and chuckling deep in his throat at the flustered and embarrassing look Yue had on her face, her features stained with a light pink color. He tightened his hold on her waist and moved his face closer until his mouth was right next to her pink ear that was hidden behind her hair.
"You should know that at least in this stuff am always going to be three steps ahead of you." He whispered closely at the nip, Yue shuddering from the weird contact of skin and rapidly turning her head away with a soft whine.
"Natsume..!" She hissed lowly as he shrugged calmly and went back to his seat, his eyes and smirk never leaving the pouting Yue who would avoid eye contact with him, this was just too amusing for him, especially since she was always the calm one.
There was a noisy racket of the door opening and both exchanged an eye glance before the appearance of the familiar doctor showed up right in front of them.
"Yue-chan! Am so glad your awake now- em......everything alright here..?" He raised an eyebrow while glancing at them both. Natsume turned his head away as Yue smiled softly and shook her head.
"I see.....well do you think you caught a fever Yue? Your face is pink..." He wondered in curiosity and was about to walk towards her to check her temperature but stopped and gulped at the immediate glare the ebony haired boy gave the older male.
Yue blinked and brought her hands up to her face, feeling the very rare warm temperature on her face, she side glared slightly at the smug Natsume who only showed a smirk as he kept his face turned away.
"It's nothing, don't worry." She eye smiled calmly at the doctor, him nodding unsurely. "Thank you for taking care of me as I was here." She bowed her head in gratefulness, the Doc smiling and waving it off. "Am going to take your IV out now alright, you can move since you didn't do anything too excessive unlike last time." He slowly made his way and began to take the IV out calmly, knowing that her 'Guard Dog' wouldn't try to 'bite' this time.
"Ariga-" Yue was about to bow once more at the entrance of the infirmary sliding door but was rapidly dragged off by Natsume grabbing her hand before she could even turn around fully.
The Doc stared at the door in wonder and a slight scoff chuckle let out from him at what a pair has just been made, he could literally see the words floating above the younger boy when they were together, 'Don't you dare touch her', 'She's mine', 'I'll burn you if you try anything'.
He sighed dramatically with a wide smile and began to clean his messy files on his desk.
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"Natsume, remind me to buy Ruka's picture that Hotaru keeps taking." Yue chuckled lightly, watching from behind large props in the background stage, Natsume in front of her with his hands in his pockets, as always, while Yue's white bunny had now mysteriously found her and was hugging her shoulder in affection, sometimes sticking her tongue out at the irritated Natsume who's eye twitched whenever the bunny would look all smug.
"Don't you want to see Ruka?" He questioned, turning his attention back to the smaller girl in front of him.
"It would just distract him. I want him to do his best." She eye smiled softly with a light chuckle, Natsume making a sound in his throat and curtly nodding before patting her head with his hand, then slyly walking closer until he naturally went behind her, his arms around her shoulders as he leaned on her a bit, Yue blinking with a raised eyebrow as she glanced at him from the side, both their faces a lil bit too close for her liking. -Yue's bunny rapidly hiding inside her cardigan pocket due from too much blushing at how close they became.
"What are you doing...?" She mumbled with a soft sigh and brought her cool hands to his arms, now holding them gently before leaning back on his body that was now against the wall, both too comfortable for words. He smirked. She rolled her eyes.
"I swear the readers are cringing right now..." She mumbled to herself, Natsume glancing at her with an amused yet confused stare. He was always sure she was mostly always talking to herself, he was used to it by now.
"They'll be like 'Gyaa, Natsume-kuns soooo OOC right noww~!" and begin squirming or something." She mimicked in a higher tone than hers then chuckling to herself. Natsume now was just giving her a raised eyebrow.
"What are you talking about?" He continued his curious stare at her, even as she smiled in amusement and shook her head softly. "Nothing, nothing."
"Ah! What a cute little boy! He reminds me of Yoichi." She smiled warmly, remembering her lil Yoichi. The little boy had dark brownish reddish spiky hair and had on a green outfit and was staring...at....um...
"Natsume...I think he's staring at us?" Yue tugged a bit on Natsume and walked forward, away from his arms. As she turned around, she sighed with a small chuckle at how sulky and unsatisfied he looked with his narrowed eyes and straight line lips, his arms now crossed while still leaning against the wall. While they were in an amused stare contest, the lil boy fearlessly walked up to the dangerous couple and interrupted them, both looking down at him as his smile widened and his eyes sparkled, "Onee-chan, Onii-chan! Are you both lovers!?"
Yue's eyes widened a tad as Natsume smirked and nodded proudly, the smaller girl giving him a glance that made him turn his head away almost too naturally, then bending down on her knees, eye to eye with the smiling widely lil boy. She smiled softly, "Yes, Onii-chan and Onee-chan are lovers."
Natsume grinned while staring at the ground, while Yue rolled her eyes with a soft smile, knowing how that fire caster would love to hear her admit it with words. The lil boy smiled even wider and nodded before grabbing her hand with one of his, then walking up to Natsume's and grabbing his hand so now he was in the middle.
Natsume and Yue exchanged an amused glance, then glancing back down at the happy boy that kept moving their hands up and down.
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