Catching the Sands of Time: a Gakuen Alice fan fiction.

After being held off by my shopping spree for my friend's party (and the party itself!), my new Gakuen Alice fan fiction is finally up! It's muti-chaptered, and it's all about Noda! Clueless and adorable Noda, the teacher of Special Ability Class. Woot!

Catching the Sands of Time

The young woman stared at Noda, wide-eyed. “It’s you! The pervert who was in my bathroom!” 

Pre-anime series. Set 15 years earlier. Noda-centric.

Fandom: Gakuen Alice.
Title: Catching the Sands of Time.
Characters: Noda, OCs.
Genre: Friendship/Drama.
Rating: T.
Chapter(s): 1.
Status: In-progress.

Like it says right there, the story takes place fifteen years before the anime. And yes, I will hurt you if you dare speak of the Gakuen Alice manga in my presence. Please overlook any inconsistencies with the manga, as I’ve never and haven’t the faintest intention of reading it.

I came up with the idea for this story three years ago (yeah I take my time), and even told everyone reading my Narumi fic about it right here. The original idea was for Kazuhara Shizue (pronounced shee-zoo-eh) to be a new teacher in the Academy, but ditched the thought when I realized it would be more fun to write about Noda and all other Alice Academy teachers as students.

Since I'm not following the manga, I've taken the liberty to create original characters (OCs) to fill in several roles for my story. As far as I've sketched, there will only be three in this fic, although I might alter that if the necessity arises.  Of course, I'm not forgetting about the canon characters like Narumi, Misaki, et al, and they will surely receive their own due frames in the next chapters. In the first chapter I successfully squeezed in bits of Jinno and Misaki, and I had fun writing them out. It's rather difficult at first, since I'm being very careful about keeping them young and in-character. But, I definitely enjoyed it. Character development FTW!

I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the idea of time traveling, especially since Noda defies my beloved Physics by his ability to travel back  to the past. There’s also the question of time paradoxes, which I’m doing a research about. Likewise, I'm rereading Michael Crichton’s Timeline for reference. Hopefully it won’t be necessary to elaborate and be too technical about Noda's alice, but just in case.

I’m proud to say that I’m the first person in the GAFFN archive to write a Noda-centric story. I’ve always wanted to write about him, and I feel really great about publishing this. Hurrah!

Do read and review, everyone! I'd love to know what you think!