Natsume's POV

What could've been different if she never met me? Everything.

She was my light in the darkness that I was constantly consumed in. She was a swan in a poisoned pond. She was an angel sent down from heaven, only to fall for Lucifer himself. She was Mikan Azumi Sakura Yukihira. Also known as my downfall. That's the exact reason why I'm willing to distance myself from her. Her name alone holds power that would make everyone bow down. Including me, even though I wouldn't admit it.

She was an unreachable person to the nobilities. Imagine the lower standard? Impossible. So how come I know her? Because she is Mikan. She's dense, and a moronic idiot. She's also a incredibly smart, and incredibly powerful for an idiot.


And me? Oh please. I'm born of an ex-nobility family. Hence the word "ex." My mom, Kaoru Igarashi and my father Ioran Hyuuga, and me, Natsume Hyuuga. A "nobility" of the former nobility family Hyuuga. This isn't a story you would understand if I didn't give you an explanation, listen well, and I'm not repeating myself.

In Japan there are rankings of families. As you already know, a nobility is a high class family, another term for an aristocrat. The second highest is a Court family. A semi-high class. They bow down to anyone above (they kiss asses is what I'm say I'm saying). But to the lower ranks, they're pride soars through the sky. Unlike nobilities, Courts are actually snotty brats, rather the nobility, they have no time for such things. They start working on business at the age of 15. Whereas the Courts rely on they're parents for money and don't work until 20+.

The lower ranks are called Class. They are the second to lowest rank. They have pride and are semi-rude to anyone, including the nobilities. Classes are separated from the higher power because of they're low income. You see, nobles and courts have special high end schools with the most latest education and technology money can buy. But the price is a problem, a BIG problem. Getting into the school itself is a problem, 1,014,7200 yen (10,000 US dollars) to become accepted to the school. Absolutely NO scholarships. If paying for the entrance is enough, talk about the monthly pay for the dorms. 456,624 yen (equals 4500 US dollars). For a freaking month! The courts could barely pay for each month, because the entrance is enough to dent your bank account. For the nobilities, its an okay deal. Although, their children have to work as hard as they can because their parents are paying for everything.

The nobilities have no choice but to work their asses off, or else they can be disowned by their own family.

As I was saying about the rankings, the lowest ranking is called the Forbiddens. Forbidden families are the families that were exiled from their rankings, even the nobilities aren't safe from becoming a Forbidden. That's where my family comes in. I really didn't get any details from why our family became a Forbidden, but they just said its a long story.

The last ranking; the Pures. They are a special ranking, not even on the charts anymore. They're family is the purest of all rankings. Let me give you some light about "pureness." The nobility can marry other nobilities, the courts can marry nobilities or class. Even if its frowned down upon to marry a lower rank than yours. Forbidden can marry whomever they like, but if anyone is caught with a Forbidden, they are executed at the spot. No explanation, only by death. The Pures are families that intermarry with siblings (A/N: Nothing is wrong with incest, I mean if you like/love that person, go for it. But to me... just don't show that in public and tell me your siblings. No offense to people who love they're siblings like that, its just.. you know)

The pure families are unknown to everyone, but they're considered "royal" to everyone, and powerful to everyone. There are rumors saying that the Pures are families who have "special" abilities. Another rumor is that if you ever make a pure fall in love with you... you'll be granted special abilities like them. Noblilities would give up everything to marry a pure and so would anyone. Other rumors are that if you see a pure, their brilliance of beauty is unimaginable. They have beauty of the goddess Aphrodite themselves, and some even say that they are children of Aphrodite. People always tried to see if they can hunt down a pure.

But hunting down a pure is impossible. The Pures are also a very mysterious ranking. They live in a secluded area that only a pure would know where to find. But maybe your asking a simple question.. how do you know that they exist? Because they send messengers to us, only average people of course. People who were chosen to be a messenger for the pures. But they say that you can only be a pure messenger if you have been seen and judged by a pure. A lot of those messengers were actually captured and questioned... to find that when they are captured, they disappear. Just to come back again for financial reasons. They pay and support everything, including the big companies. If the Pures would drop their support, Japan would obliterate into a third world country. That's how bad it is.

So of course, anyone who's not a Pure or a Pure Messenger, absolutely bows down to the power of pures. Including the exiled.


"Oi, Natsume!" a voice called out

I didn't listen, and grabbed my dirty old pillow over my head to block the noise.

"Nat...su...me!" the voice shouted, emphasizing every syllable in my name. It was then I felt cold. water. splashed. in. my. FACE.

I bolted up in a absolutely pissed off, "What in the naming pure do you want Aoi!?"

I looked at my little sister. Her raven hair disheveled, her wide and innocent vermillion eyes shined in amusement. Her clothes known as a ripped up hoodie, with dirt across the sleeves, a tank top that looked like it needed washing, and her ripped pants that were also smudged in dirt. What did you expect? A clean set of clothes while being exiled? Your joking.

"I called your name about ten times, and you didn't wake up! It's time for work, remember? We need the money," she put her index finger and middle finger together and rubbed it with her thumb.

My response was to grunt, and pulled thin blanket out of my way so I could get up. I heard Aoi mutter something like "finally" and she left the room with a small bang on the door. I sat at the edge of my hammock, looking at my room. Well.. it was not exactly a room... The compartment is the size of a big bathroom, and a dirty hammock with a dirty pillow. Basically, we lived like shit. All because of being exiled. Wow, talk about life.

I sat up from my hammock, to the semi-clean wooden floor. Sure it had some creaks and chips, but I kept my "room" clean as possible. I turned around to my hammock and folded my thin sheet of blanket. I put my blanket over my tossed up pillow to the middle of the hammock. I went over the corner where I put my "clothes". Basically, I have two outfits. One for sleeping, and one for working. I kept my working clothes as intact as I could. I grabbed my navy blue tattered shirt over my head, I set the poorly materialized in my hands to fold it. I set it down next to my combat boots. When I say combat boots, I really mean combat boots. My father used to be a nobility solider before we were exiled. That's one of the things we weren't stripped off of.

I slipped my navy green combat boots on, and left the room


Excuse me for not having a shirt on, I'd rather work shirtless then have my shirt covered in mud like Aoi. I slipped out of the small house to the outside, where a neighborhood of Forbiddens tried to organize a civilization. Forbiddens were left to fend for themselves, and were kicked out of the city into the wild forest. So to maintain life, Forbiddens have made some small towns around forests. We used the nature around us to build small homes, shops, and that kind of stuff. While the city had technology and could possibly do anything, we had no technology to do anything. But what we did have was people who came together to survive.

I stepped onto the dirt road and looked at the Forbidden children run around playing catch. I smiled to myself, this is one of the reasons why the Forbiddens live, to ensure a future for the next generation. I set my eyes up again and looked at some buildings. They were all man made by mixes of courts, nobles, classes, and of course, born Forbiddens. The buildings were kind of battered up from the low protection of nature. But we struggle to rebuild again and again for our families. In the Forbidden cities, we actually don't care what you were ranked before, everyone is equal and you either volunteer for a job or your assigned one. You work for your ration of clothes, food, and money.

Our money is consisted of little rhinestones, gold, silver, copper, and all of that kind of stuff. We just have very little to go around. I get three pieces of copper each month to work construction. Its fine, my family survives because everyone works. Aoi works with babysitting children, and gets one piece of silver each month. My mother works as a gatherer and it pays one gold a month. My father works as a councilmen and works for two silver pieces a month. Which is very good and considering the situation the Forbiddens are in, that's a lot of money.

As I trailed off, and eventually arrived at the construction site. I looked at the half made school. The pillars of wood were chipped but sturdy enough to hold a class. I looked up to see Tsubasa Ando on the half constructed ceiling with no roof. He sat on the base of wood and waved. His white-yellowish teeth shining at me. Forbiddens hygiene are issues but we clean ourselves as best as we can. His blue beanie stuck on his coal hair like a taunting target. I really wanted to wipe that smile off of his face.

"C'mon Natsume, we gotta work. Do you want Aoi to live without an education?" He shouted, cupping his hands together over his mouth so his message could reach me. I rolled my eyes and jogged into the entrance of the school, it wasn't very good but we did as much as a school can resemble. It was a small rectangular building made of up of entirely wood. As I was climbing the wooden ladder Tsubasa screamed out,"Oh shit, I forgot, we need some water for the incoming volunteers Natsume!"

My eye twitched with annoyance, I shouted some pretty words at shadow freak and I jumped off of the ladder and walked to the forest well.


I smelt the forest air surround me as my presence was surrounded by nature. I started to reminisce and closed my eyes. I breathed in and out slowly. Until I felt weight smashed onto my chest.

I widened my eyes in alarm as I saw a girl with auburn hair rub her head. She glared at me. I observed her slowly, and almost wished I didn't. She was a goddess. Her heart shaped face was perfectly carved by a god, and her lips pursed at me, but it was practically begging for me to ravish it. My eyes strayed to her eyes, my holy pure god, it was practically sucking you into a hazel abyss and not letting you go until you fall in it. Her hair was neatly combed into wavy locks and curled into perfect wave at the tips.

"Itai," Her angelic voice muttered, I blinked. Am I hallucinating? Is she real?

"Stranger-san," She waved her soft hand in my face. I blinked again, when did she get up?

"Watch yourself, you'll get hurt idiot," I immediately replied, why did I say such thing?

She fumed and pouted. My eye twitched, it was so adorable. I looked at her clothes, she was wearing a strapless white dress and it stopped at her mid thigh. Her sleeves weren't attached to her dress and started at her mid bicep. But to put it short, she looked like a really really adorable. I can see that she has nice sized breasts, C cup at most. Also, her legs, long and delicious looking. Did I mention that she had metallic curved shoes that went to her knees? Pure gold. I licked my lips.

"Mou," she fumed, I looked at her again.

I looked at her again, she pouted even more. She crossed her arms. I blinked.. how did this goddess get here?

"Ah.." I drooled, I looked at her intensely. She blushed beet red. I looked at her confused. She pointed her perfectly manicured nails at my chest. I looked down, and saw that I was shirtless displaying my rock hard tan abs and shaped pecks.

I smirked, "Like what you see?"

She blushed ten shades of red, "N-no! Y-you p-perverted c-crimson e-e-eyed f-freak!"

"There's nothing to be embarrassed about, your wearing a short dress and I'm wearing no shirt, I think that's fair enough," I snorted.

"Y-You-!" She stomped towards me and get this. She tripped.. on solid flat forest floor.

The impact was quit painful, and even more painful on my lips. I opened my eyes and could see that her front set white teeth kissed the corner of my mouth. A teeth kiss.. disgusting.


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