YOU ARE MINE
Chapter 1: Waking up to the worst day of my life
Natsume
His crimson eyes looked wary as he heard that loud annoying voice.
"Natsume-kuuuuuun where are you? I've prepared some snacks for you."
He closed his eyes and pretended not to hear. Not that anyone could ever find him at their place. Or what used to be their place.
Natsume Hyuuga let out a defeated sigh and just closed his eyes.
'If only that annoying voice was hers…' he thought.
His thoughts slipped back to that day. The day he woke up and felt like he just wanted to die again.
**Flashback**
It had been a week since Noda-Sensei brought him to the hospital back from time space.
They had operated on and off on him for 3 days with the medical team. It took them longer than usual, as the best healing Alice belonged to a person who sacrificed his life along with his sister to save him. But back then he didn't know it.
He could already hear them on day 4. He was too weak to make a sound or open his eyes. He just listened, waiting for that one voice.
Nobody was allowed to visit after the operation. It made him furious.
'These people are all stupid! How can that baka come and see me if they won't let anyone visit?' he thought to himself.
The only people that come and go are the medical team. He listened to their hushed tones and heard some parts of their conversation. He strained to hear but he was still too weak.
" ESP has been relieved of duties.." -so that bastard is gone—he thought gladly.
" I heard he was taken by that soul sucking alice girl" – Natsume felt confused. 'Luna?'
He felt something cool rest on his chest. A doctor placed his stethoscope and jotted down his vitals on his clipboard. Then he heard a door open and footsteps come into the room. He listened.
" Noda-Sensei, it is good that you brought him here when you did. Without Imai, another day more and we would have lost him." The doctor said.
" I did what I could, but I never thought it would be at that big of a price." He heard Noda-Sensei sigh.
" It was their choice, Sensei. Don't blame yourself too much. "He heard Andou Tsubasa say.
'If Kage (Japanese word for Shadow) is here, then she must be here too'
" She was crying the last time I saw her Tsubasa, it was so…. " Noda-sensei couldn't finish his sentence and dropped his head in his arms.
'They must be talking about her. Stupid little girl. She knows we hate it when she cries.' He wanted to roll his eyes at the thought of her crying again over him being hurt.
" Hotaru-chan made her choice when she did that Noda. And so did Subaru. I am sure they will keep each other safe. " Shuichi Sakurano responded.
'What happened to Imai? And her brother?' he wanted to ask. Still all he could do is just lie silently and listen. Waiting…
" Oi, Narumi-sensei. What will we tell him when he wakes up and finds that …"
'that was Ruka.' He thought. 'She must be here then too. Why hasn't she come near me yet?'
His head hurt from all the thinking.
Then a troubling thought entered his mind.
'My God what if she's hurt herself!'
The people in the room were startled when Natsume started fidgeting in his bed and groaning.
"OI TSUBASA! Call the doctor!" Ruka frantically uttered.
He slowly opened his eyes and looked around the room.
6 pairs of eyes were looking at him warily. Noda-sensei, Narumi-sensei, Ruka, Sakurano-senpai, Kage and the doctor.
He looked around the room but her hazel eyes couldn't be found.
"MIKAN!" he tried to shout, ending only with a hoarse whisper.
"MIKAN! WHERE IS SHE?" he tried to lift up a hand to burn those stupid wires on his body but only ended up getting them entangled and struggling.
His eyes were blazing. He wanted answers!
" Natsume calm down." His best friend responded coming to his side.
"Ruka, where is Mikan?"
Ruka couldn't look him in the eyes. Instead he bowed his head and kept clenching both his hands together.
" Natsume-kun… take it easy. You have just come from surgery and must not waste your energy to struggle like that." Narumi said in his still gay-ish but defeated tone of voice.
"JUST ANSWER THE DAMN QUESTION"
Silence.
" Sakura-Mikan was forced to leave the academy and go back to her grandfather as she no longer has an alice."
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN NARU?" He was getting all riled up but the doctor was quick to put in a sedative on his IV to calm him down.
Narumi went to his bedside and sat down. He held Natsume's hand.
" NARU, YOU HAD BETTER EXPLAIN IT NOW OR I WILL LITERALLY BURN YOU TO A CRISP RIGHT NOW."
" You had better behave yourself Natsume-kun, be a good boy , sleep for now and I will tell you the story when you wake up."
He swatted Naru's hand with all the strength he could muster. He could feel the effects of the sedative already taking effect. His mind was getting hazy. But he still couldn't stop thinking about her.
"Mikan…" he mumbled. His eyes closing.
He shuddered as he closed his eyes now. He remembered how Shiki Masachika (acting MSP) came along with Jinno-sensei (the new ESP) and Kazumi Yukihira (Mikan's uncle and HSP) to his hospital room and told him of what has happened and what was to come.
How he used up his fire Alice to my death to defeat the ESP.
That somehow Luna redeemed herself to everybody and took the ESP.
That Mikan came after he stopped breathing and his heart stopped beating.
That she used up the last of her alice to save him.
And that losing said alice, meant she couldn't continue to be here in Alice Academy anymore.
And that her connections to the history of this academy made her a target for the previous factions of the ESP so she had to lose her memories of her time here upon leaving.
And how furious he was.
He was mad at her for saving him when he was supposed to save her.
'Baka, you shouldn't have done that. I told you I would protect you.'
He was mad at himself more, for being so weak. Weak that he couldn't even fight for her and not get killed.
'What are you doing now Polka?'
'Do you miss me?'
'Coz I miss you. A lot.'
'Wait for me coz I will definitely come and save you'
He opened his eyes slightly to pluck a lone sakura flower falling from the tree and onto his nose.
He was under their tree.
Their special Sakura tree.