Chapter 1

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I heard the door to our room open and was immediately on guard. I didn't open my eyes though hoping they would pick someone else's cage this time and let me rest. I could hear the other "experiments" in our room whimpering and scooting as far as possible from the doors of their dog cages; I can't blame them for being scared, i would be too if i were them, but this is normal to me, this is what i've known my whole life. I could also hear the footsteps coming in our direction. Of course i have no such luck.

"Subject:016732 wake up!" yelled the White Coat, he took the baton out from his belt strap and hit the bars of our cage.

My eyes snapped open. That's Youichi's number. I felt his tiny hands grip the back of my dirty old shirt and hide himself behind my wings. Yep, i said wings people. My brother and I aren't exactly what you would call normal. We're 2% avian (bird) and 98% human. I crouched in our small space that we called our bed and glared at the man who was unlocking our cage now.

"Come on now don't make me get the taser" he warned, holding the door open. I didn't move, just kept glaring. He was a scrawny man. He looked to be in his mid-thirties and what was probably once a head full of brown hair is now a head splotched with bald spots. I could see the attempt he made trying to hide them and it made me want to laugh, but seeing as i'm not the one with a taser i decided to shut my trap. I knew i could take him down, but i looked behind him and saw three big guards who had guns in their holsters. I wouldn't take the chance of Youichi getting hurt. Knowing these bastards they would just let him bleed to death and just kidnap some other kid to use for their horrible experiments.

I saw Narumi come in and relaxed a little.

Narumi, he's the only one i trust here. He teaches us things that the White Coats think is a waste of time and when they voiced their opinions to him he would just smile and tell them how smart we actually were. He treats us like we're human too. When i was thirteen and the white Coats brought in a little crying baby that was to be their new experiment, they dumped him in my cage and told me to take care of it. I had no idea what to do. All i could do was hold him and try to calm him down.

That's when i met Narumi. He walked up to my cage while i was trying to put the baby to sleep. I'd growled at him, but he had just stared at me with his startling blue eyes and asked my name. (At that time the White Coats had only taught me what they thought was necessary for me to learn so i could communicate but i didn't exactly have a wide span of vocabulary). I'd told him the number the White Coats called me and he'd smiled sadly. Then he explained to me of how that wasn't a name and that i could pick one for the baby and myself. All i did was just stare at him, he'd chuckled and suggested the names Mikan and Youichi. That was the first time i ever smiled. Narumi always brought us extra food and stayed with us just to teach us new things about the world we've never seen. He would give Youichi and i a hair cut when we needed it and he even taught me how to braid my tangled mess of wavy brown hair so that it wouldn't get in my way. He gave us birthdays and gave us something special to eat the day it came by each year. That was four years ago, i'm now seventeen and Youichi is four.

"Come on Mikan you can come with Youichi if that would make you feel better" he said in a gentle voice.

He bent down a little and his golden locks formed a halo around his smiling face. He held out a hand to help me climb out of our little prison. I grabbed Youichi's hand the second he came out. Youichi stretched his grey wings and shook his light brown hair out of his eyes. I stayed tense and only stretched my wings a bit and just made sure that he stayed behind my back and out of the White Coats line of reach. I hated when i stretched my wings their full length, the people in the room always stared. Youichi obviously didn't mind.

The White Coat scowled at us then turned to Narumi "I don't know why you insist on naming them, their not even fully human" he spat out and gave us a look of pure disgust; i smirked just to antagonize the guy.

One of the guards walked up to me and i held out my hands in front of me; i knew the procedure already hands out, feet together and cuffs on. I took hold of Youichi's hand again. They didn't even bother tying him up since he was only four, me on the other hand i could do some serious damage. They learned that the hard way when i was only eight and had tried to break out; in the process i broke one guys arm and another's leg. They had to taser me and sedate me just to put me down.

Most of the White Coats didn't like Narumi since he treated us differently, but they didn't directly show disrespect. Narumi had power in this place; i could see the way the White Coats sucked up to him when they wanted something and behind the scenes they would bad mouth him. He had power, but i was positive that he wasn't the head honcho or he would've gotten us out of here by now.

"They deserve that much at least" Narumi replied calmly.

The White Coat just rolled his eyes and started walking away. Narumi, Youichi and i followed with the guards right behind us. We walked through the white maze of the building until we came to a stop in front of a blue door. The White Coat was about to open the door when we heard a ringing, he stopped and pulled out his cellphone to take the call he turned around and held up two fingers to Narumi then walked a few paces down the hall. The guards leaned on the walls and started a conversation that i wasn't to interested about. I felt a hand on my shoulder and went still when i felt Narumi's breathe on my ear.

"Mikan i'm going to get you two out of here" he whispered to me in a rush. I snapped my head to the side to stare at him like he had grown a pair of wings himself. As my hazel eyes stared into his blue ones all i could see was determination. We heard the White Coat coming back and went back to pretending like nothing was said.

I looked down at Youichi and squeezed his small hand he looked up at me with his grey eyes. He didn't show any indication of hearing what Narumi just said, but i new he had. Youichi isn't a big talker, but i know he always listens, always observing others, taking note of what makes them tick. We both always had to be on guard because when Narumi or a White Coat isn't there the guards get bored and think it's okay to "play" with us, with tasers involved might add (not that some of the White Coats would actually care).

"Change of plans" said the White Coat walking back towards us " Subject: 017834 needs to got to lab three we need to run some test on it too." Before i could object two of the guards grabbed me by the shoulders and started pulling me further down the hall while the White Coat talked to Narumi about Youichi's tests. I resisted for a bit until i felt the steel of a gun poking into my back and went with them, not happily may i add. I looked back at Youichi's face and saw that he was keeping his calm face on. I smiled, that's my boy, never shows his fear. I knew he hated being separated from me as much as i did, but he never complains. I saw the White Coat coming in our direction and i was relieved that Youichi got to stay with Narumi ,instead of over here, Youichi would be safer with Narumi.

We walked for a bit longer and stopped at another blue door. That's when i felt the needle in my neck and everything went black.