Gakuen Alice 72

Mikan was walking and she seemed to be seeing this stone on the floor. She tried ignoring it the first time but it seemed to be 'following' her. Then she decided to keep it. She felt a bit bad for taking something that does not belong to her so she announced to the whole class that she had picked up something because it seemed to be telling her to keep it~ Then after checking it with Narumi sensei, he said that the possibility of that stone to be an alice stone is high.After which, it was the first lesson for the Elementary students to learn how to make an alice stone. Over here, the colours of various teachers' alice stones were revealed.

Misaki sensei = Blue-green

Serina sensei = Rose-Purple

BlueNoda sensei (unfortunately he was not present...) = Light Green (close to green tea color)

Narumi sensei = Pink-purple

So because Noda sensei was absent, Tonouchi senpai was asked to relieve him. Sadly, he was not very well-respected by the students... Hotaru greeted him: "Hi, Baka Tono", Kokoroyomi-kun greeted him: "Perverted Tono" while Natsume greeted him: "Idiot Tono, Shitty Tono". Proceeding on with the lesson, Sumire told Mikan to let Tono senpai have a look at the stone that she had picked up earlier to further confirm if that stone was an alice stone. She agreed. Tono said that it was indeed an alice stone. That stone has the ability of teleportation. However the colour was not very much of a teleportation stone because it was Aqua Marine. He then further added that perhaps that person who created that stone was thinking of someone he loved deeply that was why he was able to create a stone with such a pretty colour. Immediately, his words went into both Natsume and Ruka's ears. They were curious to know who made that stone because Tono said it was some fate that had brought Mikan and that stone together. On the other hand, Sumire asked Natsume that why was he not making his stone, Narumi answered that he had already learnt that. All the other students were not happy about that. So then it was time for Mikan to make her stone. Before that, Tono taught her that to create a good stone, one must thought of the person's feelings when he or she used her stone. The amount of feelings that the maker put in, the better the alice stone will become. On that, the other students were discussing some lengendary stories that has been passing on in the school. One of them was the alice stone story.That is, the meaning of exchanging one's alice stone with another person means that the two of them will be together and that the person who gave his or her stone is proposing to another. Upon listening to that, Mikan was shocked because she remembered the promise she had made with Ruka by the lake on exchanging stones when they grew up. She became conscious of what she had said much earlier (on vol 7) to Ruka and she was afraid that if Ruka had known about the story on the stone, it would have become a love promise that she made with Ruka. Unconsiously, she looked at Ruka with a shocked expression that attracted the attention of Tono, Natsume and Hotaru. And she had also recalled what Natsume said to her the other time at the lake when she was about to tell Natsume that she would give her stone to him. At this point, both Hotaru and Iinchou had their stones done. Their results had impressed the other students. Hotaru's alice stone was purple while Iinchou got Emerald green. Upon seeing the two of them with their stones, Mikan thought she should brush up on her stone too. However, besides Hotaru and Iinchou, none of the students were able to create a stone. All the others got a fragment only. Then one of them suggested that the students should exchange their stones with one another as a souvenir. Then someone suggested to do the exchange the stone by playing the "Dark Alice Stone" game. That is, to turn off the lights in the room and grab somebody in the dark by random, and when the lights were turned on again, whoever that a person grabs, gets to keep the stone of that person caught. Mikan was totally into the game but the rest like Hotaru were not. Then, Tono gave some examples to 'encourage' participation. He said to Iinchou; "For example, if you want to see the effects of Kokoroyomi using Ruka's animal alice stone..." And over here, Iinchou used his illusion alice to show what might happened, some students began to show interests after seeing Iinchou's illusion. He continued; "for example, if Hotaru used Nonoko-chan's alice (chemical making) stone..." And lastly; " for example, if Ruka used Sumire's stone..." What Tono said had also interested the teachers (Narumi to be specific). Everyone started to eye on the people that they wanted to see the kind of results that will appear around them. Ruka was heavily targeted by Sumire. Everyone but Mikan was targeted. Mikan was depressed because she thought that no one would want her Nullification alice. She then began to think who would need her alice most, and she concluded that it has to be Natsume. She could not care less about how she had made the stone (she thought that her feelings for the person might be using her stone was not strong enough), she wanted to find Natsume in the dark. Just then, the stone that she had picked up earlier began to work. That someone who had made that stone had made a wish on it that said; "May the road that you would be taking would be less bumpy". And that wish was coming true as Mikan searched for Natsume. In Mikan's heart, she was praying hard that she would bump into Natsume and true enough, when the lights were on, Natsume was right beside her. Natsume was surprised to see her. While Mikan got Natsume, Sumire got Ruka, and Tono was caught by Hotaru.

Mikan held Natsume's hand and told him with a smile; "My intuition, BINGO! I know that nobody would want my alice stone anyway, but at least it could control your alice." And she handed her stone to him. And she continued: "My stone is just like my name, it's Orange. You can't tell because it's small though” Then she remembered the words that Natsume told her by the lake that she should only put her concentration on making her alice stone for Ruka only. So she added that it was not that kind of exchange thing, and with her strength, that was all she could make.

Natsume clenched Mikan's stone in his palm. That marked the end of the alice stone making session. On to the High School department, two students were talking about Sakurano's alices. Two of them were teleportation and intuition but they could not remember the other. (so the maker of the stone is clear that it was Sakurano. Maybe his third ALICE is 'Wish/Prayer' or something. On the next day when Mikan wakes up, she found a package by her window. It was that present that Natsume had prepared for her birthday but because of the many things that happened, he had no chance to give it to her.

Mikan was surprised and she opened the package even to find herself more surprised to receive a red alice stone. (people scream) She suspected the sender to be Natsume but she dare not confirm. Anyhow, she thought that the stone was pretty.