(A/N: This is a joint chapter story by me (chi chan) and animewriter808p (Eri desu). This story is a TsubasaxMikan story, so if you are a NXM love, please get out and do not flame, because Eri and I do not like Natsume and Mikan pairing)
Mikan Pov
*Dream*
I awake to see myself laying on Reo and I flinch in shock making him wake up. His eyelids open up and I see his violet eyes….. the color of dark lavender. His hand reaches out to touch my hand but I slap it away and give him a fierce glare. He chuckles and gets up leaving me on the edge of the bed, he faced the window.
"Just like your mother, quick to reject me. But soon you won't defy me," He mumbles and turns to face me.
"Oh, good morning Mikan. Did you get your nullification alice back?" Reo said using his voice pheromone to infatuate me into telling him but I felt nothing so I just stared at him.
"I see… well I hate to do this to Yuka's precious daughter but I have to shoot this suppressor medicine into your arm." Reo says but to me it doesn't look like he means mercy to me at all.
He shoots a green liquid into my bloodstream, the once cold liquid flows into me and suddenly I feel my body burning. I feel pain shoot through my head and I feel like my head is being split into two. Reo laughs and makes his way towards me, a look of something I couldn't describe make me cower in fear.
"STAY BACK!" I say but my desperate scream remained futile and Reo put his hand on my face.
"Help me…...Tsubasa-senpai…." I say slowly falling backwards and hitting the ground going unconscious once more.
"Help me….Tsubasa-senpai….." I say gasping and I wake up being in my room with tears in my eyes. I blink and look at the time, it read 7:55. I rushed out of bed and in a hurry like fashion changed into my uniform. I look at the clock and it read 7:58 so I grabbed my bag and rushed outside to school.
I am running through the halls and I barely make it to homeroom. Panting heavily I walk to my seat next to Natsume and Ruka-pyon. I plop down and sigh, relieved that I made it just in time. I look over at Natsume and see he is asleep so for once he isn't insulting me.
"Hi Mikan you made it just in time too. We are going to work on the School Festival," Ruka-pyon says leaning over to speak to me.
"Eh… we have a school festival?" I ask and Ruka-pyon shakes his head. Natsume then begins to wake up and he looks over at Ruka-pyon then to me.
"Good morning Natsume," I say with a slight smile.
"Were you late again strawberry panties, your such a sloth." Natsume says leaning back in the seat. Man, this guy right here really agitates me so.
"Your wrong about my panty pattern Baka." I say turning the opposite direction to ignore his look.
"Oh I am huh, well lets see what it is today." Natsume says and swiftly lifts up my skirt. I blush about to explode but I feel a jolt of pain sweep through my body making me cough up blood into my hand.
"Oh its laced white pattern huh, interesting." He said making me blush furiously. My cough spree ends and I clench my now blood-covered hand. They worked me too hard for that last mission with my partner Tsubasa-senpai but I have to keep it a secret because no one knows about our missions.
"...S-shut u-up N-Natsume….*cough,cough*...Ugh…" I say and I put my head down falling into a deep sleep until….. *Bang*
I wake up to see Narumi-sensei enter the room making all the students go quiet to see what he wanted. I raise my head up and look over in Narumi-sensei's direction.
"Good morning everyone, I have some important news to share with you. For the Alice Festival you all will be working with each other on a booth. Mikan-chan can you come up for a second, I need to tell you something." Narumi-sensei says waiting for me to come over there.
"Hai Narumi-sensei." I retort and I walk up to him and he bend down to my ear to whisper to me.
"Mikan you are going to work with the middle school with Tsubasa because we might need you to nullify somebody's out of control alice. Don't forget to have fun and not to use too much of your alice because I can see it's taking a toll on you." Narumi-sensei says making me go stiff that he can tell so easily.
"Hai Narumi-sensei I'll be more careful. Can I go back to my seat now?" I ask and he shakes his head in response. I walk up back to my seat and I feel that all eyes are on me but I ignore them all and sit down in my seat to put my head down.
The bell ring signifying that it is time for me to go to the special abilities class. I walk through the empty courtyard and I hear footsteps so I turn around but in the end I see nothing. Becoming nervous I walk faster and hear those same footsteps again but this time I don't turn around, just sprint. I run only for my pursuer to run as well, I suddenly feel a cloth on my mouth and when I inhale I smell chloroform making me thrash about in the man's arms. I feel a cold metal pierce my arm making my fear increase as I feel all my power being drained from my body. My alice is being temporarily being erased from me and I can't do anything about it.
"MIKAN!" I hear someone yell and I can't make out who it was. The man holds me tighter n his arms giving me very little chance to breathe.
"You will bow down to me Mikan Sakura forever." I hear the man say and undoubtedly I know it is Reo. I try to fight back but I can't and I feel myself lose my composure, my body obeys. I feel myself being dragged away from campus and into the car. We reach what looks like an abandoned building but its a AAO hideout and Reo throws me inside an underground chamber with cell bars. He comes inside with me and closes the bars shut locking the door for my escape.
"Bend down before me, let me see your face in pain. No one will hear you scream." He says beginning his torture, and my body bends down before him no matter how much my mind doesn't want it.
I was forced to bow down, against my will, before the red-headed jerk. His purple beady eyes smirked in amusement when I cried out in pain when my limbs bended in odd degrees.
"You can't even make a run for it even if you so desired to," he maniacally laughs, as chains whip out of nowhere, tying me down to the ground, at his feet.
I gasped. Now all of my attempts were drained in water. There would be no way to escape! Tearfully I eyed the room. Reo, seeing this, smirked to himself before satisfying my dying curiosity.
"No, Mikan-koi, we aren't in your precious academy right now. You are in the torture chamber, an underground dungeon of one of AAO's hideouts," he smirks when I strain against the chains, which seem to get heavier by the second.
"A perfect time to use my alice against you," he sneers, and activates his own power, singing one of his songs I have heard on his famous cd's, against me. The voice activates the drug he injected into me, and instead of being completely unfazed by his charming voice, I begin to fall hard, very hard, for the traumatizing lullaby.
My body becomes rigid, and my eyes darken. My heart almost becomes icy. And then, for a few minutes, unbelievable pain shoots through my body. It is too much to take. I can't use my alice because of the drug and I cough up blood every time.
"You are now my marionette, my jewel. You will work for me now, Mikan. Your loyalty is to AAO. Got that?" Reo raised a whip and wasn't showing no sign of mercy.
Somehow, I felt so sinister inside, and I loved it. Looking up, I gave him a smirk and said, "Of course, Reo-sama."
He smirked, and let the chains go. Ruffling my auburn hair, he grimaced, "Twin pigtails and a split in your bangs is so distasteful. Get rid of it."
"Yes Reo-sama." I obliged and began to take my hair down from their ties, and brush my bangs together. For some reason there is this part of me that wants to resist him because it is not right but the other half wants to obey him forever. Which side is right I wonder.
"You look just like that woman." Reo-sama says smiling for a split second but that smile changes.
He smirks once again, those sickening smiles, and then goes out to hand me my lab clothes to wear while I work at the AAO.
Then, all in a flurry, a huge heavy but bulky clothes is thrown in my arms almost making me jump backwards. When I look at him with a huge question mark he scoffs and says, "Your lab clothes, genius."
I look at the bundle: A v-neck t-shirt, cargo pants, black socks, knee-high laced brown boots, an oversized lab coat, black fingerless gloves, black beret, and a black mask (like all of those creepy student police).
Reo scoffs again and clears his coat out of my little dazed state when I remember: this is the exact outfit my mom wears. Yep this is what she used to wear. Mom...somewhere between the depths of my icy heart, I am tearing up inside.
The brave lady that looked at me with cold auburn eyes was the same person who almost died trying to shove me out of the academy.
I humorlessly chuckle, as I go into a changing room to change into the uniform. The memories mean nothing to me, as far as I know she's dead to me, literally. For all I care, she could be a lady with a weak heart.
An impatient knock sounded on the jail bars, and I looked around to see Reo-sama turned his back to me so I can have my decency to change out of my pathetic elementary uniform for girls and into the comfy AAO lab tech uniform wear.
"You done?" he calls turning around slightly.
"Yes, Reo-sama," I smirk.
I come to where he is and put a hand on his shoulder to signify him I am ready. He turns around and re-activates my alice by touching my forehead.
"You have your nullification and SEC alice abilities restored. And will use it to Z's convenience in accumulating unlimited storage of power, understood?"
I nodded, a cold smirk gracing my face.
When he got my acknowledgement, he pinned a star about the size of my palm to the opening of my jacket. The embellishment of AAO was in bright red letters.
A hand, large and cold, came and caressed my head. It wasn't comforting and kind-hearted like Tsubasa-senpai, but it did for now. Thinking about Tsubasa-senpai makes my heart hurt but I just ignore it. I feel like myself but then again I feel like I am not the person I once was.
My heart tore in half. I know I am cold and a puppet on the outside, but on the inside, I am still me.
My heart crying out loud, I used my Telepathy Alice, and screamed with all my energy:
Tsubasa-senpai, please save me! I'm so scared! I don't know what to do!
My feet were a mind of their own, obliging in following Reo-sama wherever he went, I followed like a little lamb.
Please...please...senpai…
Save me before it is too late… before…..I….lose...myself…...
Xxx
[Normal POV, Alice Academy Tsubasa POV]
I felt my blood chill when Mikan was being taken away by force and I couldn't do anything about it. Mikan, is just my kouhai, but this kind of worry I had for her lately is beyond all.
And then it clicked. AAO's boss, Z, is ESP's 'other self'. He is created from Kounji's Clone Alice, the ESP was behind all of this.
I wanted to take all my anger out on that old man trapped in a child's body. But if I did, who knows the punishment will be? I don't care if I get it, but seeing as he views me as a masochist, he will take it out on Mikan.
My face heats up at the mention of her name. What can I do? I feel so useless about this, just think she could be dead or worse. I then remember the red hair of the man that was carrying Mikan…..Reo...
My blood ran cold.
It was none other than Reo, the famous singer with voice pheromone alice. He has methods of making even Mikan bow down to him if he can't directly do it.
I know that ESP wouldn't care, but I needed to tell somebody, anybody at that. The first person that comes to mind is HSP. He would listen, and would care, because Mikan is his niece, and he cares about her as much as he cared about his little brother, right?
Making my mind up, I dash down the hall.
On my way to the HSP's office, I had an encounter with my three kouhai's: Natsume, Ruka and Hotaru.
Of those three, only Natsume had the guts to speak to indignantly to his senpai .
"Where are you going?" he lifted an eyebrow, and sent me an annoyed glare.
"Oh you don't know," I sarcastically shot him a double glare. I thought he would know since he is stuck in the same ability type class as I am even though he never shows up to class.
"Hear what?" he is now getting irritated.
"Reo has Mikan." I throw my hands up in the air in flustration. I am losing precious time people, and this dense idiot isn't making it feel better! Mikan may be in grave danger and they are stalling my actions.
Hotaru almost drops her Baka Gun, and I point an accusing finger at her, "And don't you dare play innocent! You are her closest friend and are sharp! Did you know all the times she coughed up blood?"
Ruka was getting worried, "Where are you going?"
I glared at them all and coldy spat, "She was getting abused by the ESP mentally and physically to the point that she coughed up blood and had mental breakdowns! She is breaking down, and going insane, her health is deteriorating! As her partner I care for her unlike you all."
All of them froze in uttermost shock and I am going half-insane.
"Stand there like statues, or scream around like idiots, see if I care. I am going to get some REAL help, not psychiatric counseling from you guys." I scoffed and ran down the hallway.
The shocking thing was, they didn't care enough to follow me. And then I wondered, are they her real friends or what. Just when I decided they were traitors to Mikan, a huge fireball blasts down the hallway, nearly skimming my legs. I turn to see Natsume glaring at me with full force it takes me back.
"And why didn't you save her if you care for her?" Natsume glared at me, poised with a pair of new fireballs to chuck at me if he hates me at any given second. One grabs a piece of my blue hair pulling out a lot of my luscious blue hair ...oh the horror but this isn't the time for a fight.
"There wasn't much lighting where they were, besides he could also turn me into a puppet and no one would ever know this incident ever happened," I shot back at him, "Someone had to know. It was me."
His grip on my hair tightened, and I winced in pain. He jerked my head down and with his piercing ruby eyes glared straight through me, "Just know because you have valuable information, I am not going to kill you. I love Mikan and I am not giving her up to the likes of you, someone who isn't going to save the person he loves."
My face heats up, but I shoot back, "How charming. Go out there, play 'knight in shining armor' for your princess, consequently die, and leave the rest of her life to grieve because we all know it is un-ladylike to die and cowardice to commit suicide. Thankfully I want to live for her and save her. I win."
Grabbing his hand out of my hair and flung it off of me. Glaring at him I said, "Let's go. We won't get anywhere if we argue."
And with that, I spun on my heels and went towards the HSP's office along with an egotistical, perverted Natsume trailing behind me like a spoiled cat.
"Tsubasa-senpai, please save me! I'm so scared! I don't know what to do!" I hear a voice shout in my head and no mistaking it was Mikan.
My heart clenches.
I will get you, Mikan, I will get you out of the hell hole, no matter what. I promise to save you from that monster.
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DUN DUN DUN! (First chapter done, so much thanks to Eri-chan (animewriter808p) for working late hours for this chapter. She is a hardworking girl and an awesome partner to write with!)
Until next chapter, ciao!