Higuchi Tachibana owns GA…not me…..
A Faded Rose
"Jii-chan, im home!" cried a ten year old girl, running towards the elderly man. He smiled.
"What took u so long, mikan?"
"Gomendeh, I was playing with Hotaru" She hung her head. "Ne, mikan, its okay…but don't do it again, na?"
"Arigatou, Jii-chan…..i wont do it again" she hugged him. He smiled.
BOOM!
A blast echoed the house, shattering the glass as well as evaporating the door. Mikan and her grandpa were thrown backwards. Amidst the smoke entered a tall , hooded figure, with his face covered with a white pearl mask. Mikan looked up from the rubble, coughing slightly. "Nice job, Hayate" a voice said." Now go round up the others."
"N-Nani?" she asked, a bit scared.
"Sakura Mikan, am I right?" the cold voice asked.
"H-hai?" she replied. "Come with me" it commanded
"W-Why s-shoulldd I come with u?"
" Because I discovered a talent in u" the figure came closer." Why are u coming closer? Back off!"He paid no heed to her cries. HELPPP!" the girl screamed. No answer." HELLP!" She tried again. "Foolish girl, no one can hear you!"
Mikan got scared ."Why isn't anybody coming to help me and jii-chan?" she thought "Oh no," she suddenly remembered "JII-CHAN!" she cried out loud, looking towards the rubble and dust.
"Jii-chan, where are u ?" she called
"Jii –chan?"
"Hush , little girl!" commanded the voice. "Enough of your wailing…come with me!"
"But jii-chan!" she said through tears.
He picked her up, resisting her kicks and endless wails, smirking. "Somebody, anybody , come here!" she cried
"You…..LET ME GO!" she thrashed her arms around his shoulders and tried to bite him.
"Dont u understand?" his hands held her tighter, revealing HIS talent. "WHA..?" Mikans life seemed to drain out of her eyes…."whats happening to me?" she thought. She tried to fight back, only to experience a more cruciating pain. She winced slightly and collapsed, unused to such shocks. "Lets go" he commanded to the students waiting outside the tea shop.
"Hai Hai…Persona…"
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"eh?" Mikan opened her eyes to the irritating glanced at her surroundings and sighed
"It was just a dream…" she mumbled, wiping sweat off her forehead…it had been 5 years since that event has took place. She adjusted herself and looked at the clock….
"Oh crap…its way past my wake-up time" she got up quickly glancing at the mark she had received just a few weeks ago…
"It'll fade…eventually" Persona had declared after examining it…"But be careful, kitten..lest it stay permanently"
"Good Morning, Shiro Neko"
The voice cut her trail of thoughts.
"Yea…you too," she replied back, emotionless and cold. He touched her hair.
"Go, get ready and meet me in the lawn." She pushed his fingers out of her head and exited towards the bathroom. "Still angry, I see?" he smirked , examining a pendent at the bedside table.
Meanwhile, Mikan got dressed, wearing a blank tank top along with matching jeans and her shiny black shoes. She grabbed her mask and gracefully jumped out the window, landing on her feet. With a blink of an eye, she entered the lawn.
"I see you woke up quite late in the first place. Why so, I may ask?" Persona announced, appearing from the corner of the bushes.
"I…I slept late"
"I hope it may not happen again, Shiro. You know how much I respect punctuality"
"Yeah, so?"
"So…...It looks like….. u haven't received punishment for a while…." He said, smirking, "Well then, we will attend that later on….."
She muttered a thousand curses under her breath.
He carried on. "Assuming we have lost much time on your 'behavior', I will see you 6:00 sharp at the abandoned storehouse…Meanwhile…let's see your skills, shall we?" He flashed an evil smirk, descending to fight.
Mikan chose this opportunity to knock him out but barely missed him by 2 inches. "Still ahead, I see" His eyes narrowed.
Next, she threw a wind distortion at him. He blocked it with a flick oh his hand. "Tch tch….that's all you got?"
This fired Mikan up. She threw icicles towards his direction which he dodged by jumping up.
"It's my turn now." he said, an evil smile escaping his mouth.
He released daggers which she easily dodged and produced fireworks, causing her to lose balance and fall down. He reached her was about to touch her, but then she kicked him and got up quickly, produced a tornado and blew it towards him. He ducked, only to be thrown backwards. A blue flame erupted , which instantly surrounded him.
"I've got you now" murmured Mikan.
He got up, smiling. "Well done, Shiro. Looks like you are becoming fast. I'll see you at six."
He left, walking through the blue flame and into the woods. "Puh…" she said, rolling her eyes.
"I better get going..it's already 7:00" she mused
After reaching her room, she went towards the mirror to examine her right shoulder which had black bruises all over it due to the fireworks.
"Damn you….Persona" muttered Mikan as she used her healing alice to remove the marks.
The bracelet glowed in her left hand, as she used her alice. She quickly changed, grabbed her bag and ran out of the HQ.
She teleported inside the school building and figuring that the class had already started, strolled nonchantly.
"Miss Sakura san! Care to explain why you are late?" asked Jinno, the math teacher.
"Don't want to" She said, yawning as she proceeded towards her desk next to Hyuuga Natsume.
The class looked at her and then back towards the frog-controlled sensei, scared. He closed his fist and turned to face the cupboard.
"Man, will this class ever end?" Mikan thought as he droned on and on. She had got accustomed to the usual stares given by her classmates. Since the day she had come here, she was known as "Natsume's successor" because she was just as cold-hearted as he was and lacked social bonds between each and everyone. Both of them had a fan club- Sumire Shouda for Natsume and Tobita Yuu for Mikan.
"Class, this is Sakura Mikan. She will be studying with you from now onwards" Narumi-sensei said.
Everyone looked at the 15 year old girl standing infront of them.
"My alice is Nullification, Stealing and Insertion. Please don't suck up to be friends with me or you will pay highly for your acts."
Natsume looked up towards the lifeless cold eyes which were glaring back at everyone.
"Humph…looks like persona has found a favorite."He murmured.
"Shiro…you were late"
"So? What if I was?" she answered, chained to a chair.
Persona walked towards her. "Do you remember what I told you in the morning?" Mikan drew a sharp breath but managed to stay calm.
"You respect punctuality…"
"Ah yes…And what made me say that?" He smirked.
Mikan clenched her fists. "You know why, Persona…" she said in a dangerous voice.
He placed a hand over her shoulder and pressed hard. Pain shot up her arm, but she kept quiet.
"Firstly, Mikan Sakura, when I ask u a question, I expect an honest answer…" he said, tightening his grip on her. She winced. He smiled.
"Secondly, call me sensei….You ought to know that by now…" His hand slid up to her head, bringing head-hammering aches. She let out a soft moan.
"And, last of all, I hate late-comers."
A small gasp escaped her lips as he caught hold of the silver bracelet and pressed it hard. She clutched the wooden chair, composing herself again and again as the painful beat continued up till her shoulders.
"So you haven't have had enough, have you?"He boomed, looking at the tiny figure crouched in the chair. The pain was more intense, as it cruised through every part of her body, barely missing her heart.
"I wonder when you will scream….about time you did too…."He smiled, looking at his watch whilst holding her hand.
Blood trickled down her mouth as a vein burst. Tears flooded her cheeks and her body seemed to give away. She fell limp, unconscious.
He wiped away the tears with his long, cold hands, smirking.
"Did you forget so easily?" He said as his fingers ran through her cheekbone. "I made you…"
Cautiously, he pulled her out of the chains and teleported the scraped girl to her room. He laid her on the bed and locked something around her hand.
Persona threw a bottle containing a shiny, black liquid. Then jumping out of the window, sprinted towards the Northern forest.
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