Disclaimer: Gakuen Alice isn't mine

Prologue

Kazumi Yukihira was panicked and, believe it or not, beyond terrified. He couldn't remember the last time he was this scared. Although his pose was calm and collected as always. His mind was whizzing with possible scenarios happening right now to his niece.

Images played in his mind, with his only niece bloodied, bruised and in the brink of death. He couldn't shake the image out of his mind and he knew the only thing he needed right now was to assign a team and assured him of her safety.

The slamming sound when the wooden door opened and crashed to the wall quite surprised him. He directed his sight and found Hyuuga and his gang flanked by Narumi and Jinno-sensei were marching down to his desk. Their face were stretched from worry to furious.

As soon as the fire wielder entered the room, the temperature rose. Kazumi was no fool, behind Natsume Hyuuga's calm composure he was furious. The dark haired teen's pointed look was enough to know that he wanted an explanation and he was appreciative he didn't start shouting or worse.

"What the fuck, Yukihira?! What the hell were you thinking?!"Jinno-sensei marched with his lightning webbed around him. Truly, if it was because of other circumstances that made him like that, it would be funny. He was never once lost his composure and surely as a teacher, swearing in front of students were clearly prohibited. Nevertheless, humor was lost in the current situation.

"Are you trying to kill her?! Sending an eighteen year old girl to AAO as an intel when she had no memory of her past?! Are you out of your bloody mind?!" This time, it was Narumi Anjou. His anger matched Jinno's perfectly.

"Silence!" Kazumi replied. He was already standing behind his desk. His brows were taut and his body rigid whilst his eyes glinted with fury as well. He used the moment of silence to regain his breath as he was already huffing in anger. "I never sent her to AAO. She volunteered herself."

The shock was evidence in their expressions as silence hung in the air. Kazumi once again filled the silence with his forced calm voice. "She came to me a month ago, after her shocking revelation that she had never forget a thing. She stored some of her remaining power to nullify my alice when I was detecting her alice and used some to undo the memory wiping alice."

Silence once again filled the room, until the fire wielder decided to break it. "Didn't she used all of her alice to try and save me from death?" He questioned. The disbelieving tone filled his voice. The High School principal sighed. For once, his emotions were bared.

"I asked her the same question, in which she answer that she will give some explanation when the time is right." He responded weakly.

"So, you just let her go like that?!" The Hyuuga shouted furiously. Kazumi knew his answers hadn't justified his action in allowing Mikan to be an intel at AAO. Nevertheless, he was tired and a worried parent. "I didn't let her go like that, Hyuuga. If you must know, I kept her confined for almost three years in Kyoto. Carefully controlling her by deploying spies so I can always keep an eye on her. Don't you dare accuse me to neglect her for one second." The principal said sternly with his hands flat on his desk and eyes glinted with fury. "I let her go because she offered me a very good argument. She knows AAO want to manipulate her, taking charge of her lost memories by filling her mind with their own fabricated ones. They want to make her turn against us. She also knows AAO had developed a new kind of chemical they dug out from the earth. This chemical is very similar like the amplification alice, but better. It strengthens the alice and made it almost unlimited. She knows they are planning something enormous. So, she volunteer to once again selflessly in saving everyone and I couldn't reject her." He finished, somehow hotly, as if he was angry with himself. Along with his speech, his anger subsided a bit. Natsume cursed quietly, still unsatisfied with the answer.

"Still, you could send someone more qualified in this field." Natsume said adamantly. "She's the one they want, Hyuuga and do not play stupid. If I sent someone from the academy, AAO would know they are from the academy." The Principal responded hotly.

"Funny isn't it? They hate alices and want to eradicate us from the face of the earth, yet to achieve the goal, they are using alices too." The respond came from Kokoro Yome who had watched the entire exchange in silence.

"Well, that is the best plan. They slaved us alices to kill each other until we are nothing but myths. They wouldn't want to dirtied their hands in, what I think, is a bloody ordeal. When the time is right, they will emerge as heroes. Eradicating us completely from the face of the earth." Tsubasa Andou piped up whilst looking satisfied with his explanation.

"Yeah, but to what end? What do they want? And why do they hate us so much?" said a curly haired girl, Sumire Shouda. Natsume clicked his tongue at the question. "It doesn't matter what they want in the end. But, Shadow is right. The ordeal will spread terror among ordinary people. What I don't understand is that Alices were never derived from genetics. They are no specific mapping of genetics to create a person with alice. It is why we're unique and branded as a different race altogether. How will they stop alices being bred?"

"With my kind of alice." Said the principal. He was now sitting with his arms resting on the armrests. His eyes were unfocused as if he was lost in his thoughts. "You see, that is why I am a priceless asset for the academy. I have a very rare alice, which with my mastery and almost unlimited type, I am a valuable jewel for the AAO."

"Makes sense. But, what's bugging me is why Mikan?" Anna Umenomiya questioned. "It's her nullification alice. They will use her like some kind of a shield, if somehow we, alices, decided to fight back. She can block any alices." Ruka Nogi explained calmly.

"It doesn't matter. Can we get her out now? She has been there too long, surely she already got her intel." Natsume asked worriedly. His breath was now came in short intake of oxygen.

"I'm afraid not. If you get her now, not only she who will be in grave danger, but also the entire population of alices. Yet, her intel isn't enough. We have to be patient, Hyuuga and trust her. That is only thing to ensure her safety." Kazumi said whilst stared imploringly at the young Hyuuga who countered with his own fierce glare.