Sammy's back!! Hallelujah! people...i present to you...the sequel and final installment of 'Don't Want To Forget You Again'. thundurous applause Please please...settle down...dont jump off the roof or something. okay, so, when we last left our favourite charactars, we left them hanging. Natsume is now Persona's successor, Youichi is following in Natsume's footsteps, Mikan is still running, Hikari is...well...dense, James is their adopted brother and...this might the end of Teppe Mori and the new beginning of Kayo Aori. In this new installment, we shall meet new charactars.

1.Hikari Sakura---taking up her mother's name, we introduce Mikan's half sister and Heart Manipulator. She can read your secrets like an open book and well...let's just say she puts Hotaru's blackmailing skills to shame. she is intent on matchmaking Mikan and Natsume back together, even if they can only be together in death. gives 'till death do us part' a whole new meaning doesnt it? and what is with her and Youichi? do we sense another 'mikan-and-natsume-love-hate' relationship?

2.Hirai Itoshi---as said in the last chapter whose name escapes me, he plays the role of Kayo Aori's backup apprentice, he has it in for Mikan. he doesnt like being the whole 'backup-just-in-case-sakura-fails' plan. but, what happens between him and Hikari? or will he continue his rampage? will he follow the path Kayo Aori laid out for him?

3.Teppe Mori---sought all around the world, he has the rarest, most dangerous and most wanted Alice: Revival of the Dead. the AAO will do anything to get their hands on him. and will this be the end for him? the only way to revive the dead, is to give up your own life. and his life is the only one that can.

4.Kayo Aori---not new. Just...reborn. what will take place??? will this sinister spawn of the devil live again? and if she does...can she be killed?

Chapter 1: Reunion

Hikari knew she was in deep trouble. There were these two guys holding her but her hands and her hazel hair. One, with his silvery hair and eyes was so beautifully haunting. And the other…his description was flawlessly familiar. As Mikan had once said to her about her life in the Academy. The life in a dream.

"My best friend, Hotaru Imai, was sometimes cold and mean but she has a heart of gold. And her mind could challenge a super computer's," she would start, a dreamy look occupying her eyes. The nullifier was rarely playful and unthinking of what would the consequences be if they didn't find Teppe Mori before the AAO. "And Ruka, oh, he was so gentle, just like the wind. And Koko with his sense humor, Sumire with her shrill voice, Anna and her crazy concoctions, Nonoko and her magical brew, Mochu and his rebellious side and Yuu with his kind face."

She would begin to jump up and down giddily like a child on Christmas when she reached the part about her teachers and sempais. "Tsubasa and his smiling face, Misaki and her sassy copies. Narumi and his ridiculously hilarious outfits, Jinno and his fear of haunted houses, Serina was always so kind and Misaki and his always ready advice." Then, her eyes would lose their childish gleam. They became sad, regretful and longing. "And then, there's Natsume."

Tears would well up in her eyes and slowly trickle down her face as she smiled. "Always so cold. But that coldness, that coldness is just another one of his many masks. Inside, I know he's crying. Those eyes of his…unimaginable. Like rubies sparkling in embers. They are the only evidence of emotion in him. In his arms, you feel warm and safe. As Ruka once said, Natsume would protect anyone he considers a friend. And his face was handsome, always downcast when you looked at it.

"And if you ever asked me who I thought was the biggest jerk or pervert I ever met, I would say Natsume Hyuuga. You'd laugh at me for sure. And if you met him, even you would think he was just another handsome jerk. That's why…I…" she would stop there and just chatter about another subject as though she never brought it up.

Hikari would then think and think for hours on end, trying to figure out what Mikan was about to say. She would relate her story to the tone she said it in until she finally snapped her fingers five hours later, her revelations tear jerking and sorrowful. She found the reason behind her sister's quiet but fiery personality. The reason she fought against the AAO as an ally the Academy knew nothing of. She found the reason why her sister was so intent on finding Teppe Mori. The reason she never wanted anything to do with either side but to just ensure Kayo Aori never saw the light of day.

She was in love with him. Mikan was in love with a guy who seemed to constantly tease her and call her names. She loved him for as long as she could remember and that love was spawning a forbidden longing for him. Hikari knew.

Now, that very man was standing in front of her, his eyes reflecting a pain he had to endure for so long. "You're Mikan's sister," he breathed. Her burned the ghosts binding her. "Where's Mikan!?" Hikari jumped back as soon as he croaked out those words. She didn't want to leave. She as wanted to see what could be made from this. Maybe her sister could find the bliss she so right deserved. "Please," he pleaded.

"Uh," she stammered. "We're living in Kyoto, currently. I came here on…special reasons."

"She doesn't know you're here, does she?" drawled Youichi as he leaned against the Academy wall.

Hikari blushed furiously and pouted.

"Thought so," he said. "The hag never was all that…alert."

"Hag!" screamed Hikari. "Okay, spirit caller, you can mess with me and you can mess with my freedom. But no one, and I repeat no one, messes with my sister." She as Mikan's sister alright. She had a voice that could wake the dead.

"Cut the arguments you two. You want to wake up the whole Academy?" snapped Natsume. "Hikari was it? Can you take me to your Mikan? I'll provide you with a place to stay tonight if you will."

Hikari looked at this man with her experienced eyes. Her Alice came in handy at times like this. Her Manipulating Alice was in work. The Alice would reveal whatever was in a person's heart and allowed her to manipulate the person. (A/N: cool eh?) This man's heart told her all its secrets. No one would guess how much she knew by just looking at them. "I'm hurting, Hikari. Please take me to Mikan," his heart begged. "I love her so much. Please say you will."

He loved her. The man that Mikan had described with such care and sadness was also in love with her. James, her adopted brother, had proposed to her before taking up his brotherhood. Mikan had adamantly turned him down she had heard her say, "You don't need to comfort me and replace him. No one can ever replace him."

Hikari asked James why he had proposed to her. He simply said, "To relieve her of the world of pain a flame caster caused her." And Mikan knew of only one flame caster besides herself.

"You're Natsume," Hikari breathed. Everything matched perfectly. The raven hair, the red moons that he called eyes and the chiseled face that was said to have been carved by an artist. This was Natsume Hyuuga. This was Mikan's Natsume Hyuuga.

"And you're the one I didn't need to know about," he said quietly. "So, will you take me to her? For me? And for her?"

"For Mikan? Anything."

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Teppe Mori ran through the dark and dank alleys of New York.

They were after him. The black coats were after him. After four years of frantic chase, they had found him. He had searched for one person that could supposedly save him: a Mikan Sakura. But he never got to Japan to search for her. He hadn't been to Japan since this whole thing started.

"Wait!" he screamed as they cornered him. "What do you want from me?!"

"Simple, Teppe," a man with red highlighted hair and startling violet eyes. "We want your Alice."

"No! If I use it, I'll die."

"Live we care." Rio smirked. Teppe Mori was theirs.

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Hotaru and Ruka watched as Natsume paced up and down the room, over and over again. They had put Tamaki to sleep and now wished that their child's godfather would do the same. He had been muttering the same thing over and over again. Silent things, scary things…nearly impossible things. "I found Mikan."

Hotaru nearly died of a heart attack when she heard those incredulous words. Her best friend wasn't there alone in the cold world. She had James, she had…a sister?

"A sister?" stuttered Ruka, his voice incapable of forming other words. "Since when? How? When? Who?"

"The guest at the Academy."

"Hikari? Wait…what was her last name?"

"Sakura."

Ruka smacked his forehead. It was a stupid mistake for someone from the administrative office to forget. He let Natsume offer a girl a room. His reason was 'to see if she was an Alice'. But now, he was glad he let her have a room.

"I don't believe it," the animal lover said. "How can Mikan have a sister? It's…"

"Possible," said Natsume. "Kayo Aori apparently married someone else after she left Mikan with her grandfather. Must have killed the father."

Ruka intertwined his hand with his wife. Natsume felt a pang of jealousy and pain. How he wished he could do the same with Mikan. But she let him go. And he was going to get her back.

Natsume walked to the door. "Hyuuga," Hotaru's cold voice stopped him. "Mikan had been through a lot. Go easy on her. Just, being her back to us. And tell her. Tell her what you forgot to tell her."

"I will."

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The trip to Kyoto was quiet. Natsume let himself go through the world his mind had created. Hikari played with her hazel hair and Youichi…well…Youichi just teased her till her mind practically burst. Natsume smirked. They reminded him so much of his past days. With her.

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James scrutinized the man that now sat before him. He had only met him once for the brief time a month gave him. He had the crimson eyes that he had heard so much about but his frozen persona was…melted. He now radiated the kindness a human was capable of.

They waited for Mikan to return from her friend's night club. Her 'friend' was an informer, paid to give Mikan the info they received on Teppe Mori's whereabouts. She wasn't back and was due around eleven. But now, James just watched as this man anxiously watched the whitewashed door. Boy, this guy was desperate.

"So…Natsume," James said. The flame caster turned his attention to the Mind Manipulator. "You're here. In Kyoto." Because of his British accent that he still kept, he pronounced Kyoto as 'Kee-yo-toe". Natsume could have burst out laughing. But laughing was the one thing he didn't do much around strangers.

"Yeah."

"What for?"

"Who else? Mikan."

"Yes. And I see you brought…" he said, gesturing to Youichi. Hikari had disappeared up to her room. Ever since she went upstairs, Youichi seemed to have this…grin on his face.

"Youichi. One of my students."

"Ah, yes, of course. You're the Academy's new dog I see."

"I'm no dog. I only do things I see…fit. Nothing else."

Youichi moved his eyes to the door. "She's here."

True enough, the door opened. Mikan bounced in, her hand balancing a margarita in a glass. "Hey, James," she greeted. "Why you up so late? Is Hikari home yet? I swear, that girl with be…" She stopped her chatter. Her eyes were focused on a pair of scarlet irises that held so much meaning for her.

"You," she whispered. She dropped her margarita and let it smash on the ground. She ran out the open door, Natsume tight on her heels.

A/N: so...didcha like it? my second fic...gtg nite!!

Disclaimer: yeah, i noe its late but I DUN OWN GAKUEN ALICE!!!