My smile fades as I appear before the Academy gates.
-8{
I notice a familiar blonde teacher watching me, and I skip over to him.
"Ne, Narumi- Sensei, how does one go about enrolling in this school?" I ask him excitedly, grinning and awkwardly holding my heavy bags.
"Well child-" He stops, then pulls himself to his feet. He looks away from me momentarily as he does so. In that moment I put a small illusion up- my father standing beside me and my mothers image overlaid mine. "How do you know my— Yuka? Yukihira- Sensei?" I let the illusion fade away and I grin up at the teacher.
"Nope, just me! Mikan Sakura, at your service!" I exclaim dramatically, bowing to the teacher, then nearly toppling over from the wait of my bags "I know you because on my journey I met someone with two Alices- the Alice of Past Viewing, and the Alice of Alice Viewing. She told me my Alice and showed me my parents' past at this school." I explain, making sure to leave out any details about who, where or when I met this person, as well as what Alices I have- or even that I have multiple. Let them think I can only use Nullification. For now, anyway. "I'm not from the AAO like Mom- in fact, I've never met her. She left me so the Academy couldn't ever find me. But now I'm here, running after my best friend. Might as well see why Mother was so eager to save this place! Also," I pause, a grin lighting my face up happily. "My Nii- San is in there some where. I'm sure you've heard of him. Persona is what he goes by now I believe. Apparently when Father was 21 he was trying to deny his feelings for Mother and he ended up getting the lady pregnant. Only, she had a lot of lovers and didn't know which had gotten her pregnant. She was apparently killed by Rei's Alice. He should be about twenty now…" I trail off then begin laughing at Narumi's expression of awed horror.
Narumi opens his mouth to respond but is distracted when part of the wall beside us explodes in a ball of fire. I sigh and rub a hand down my face muttering about the extravagancy of Hyuuga's. "First it was Kaoru, then Aoi, now Natsume? Not to mention Neji and his family in Naruto. Ridiculous. I realize that in face palming, I dropped my duffel bag so I quickly scoop it up and frown at the boy. I notice his mask and squeal, dropping my bags and rushing the boy, jumping atop the fence and into the tree.
"Kuro neko- Chan!" I exclaim, hugging him, much to the boys irritation, especially as he finds he cannot burn me. "Ne, Natsume, Kaoru- San would be disappointed if she knew you were making trouble for Narumi- Sensei." I tell the boy, who turns to me in a rage.
"Don't speak about my mother as if you know her! And get OFF me!" He growls angrily and my face drops as I back off. I was at my limit any way, so I would have had to release him soon any way.
"You're right. I've never met her. But I know her about as well as you do. She was best friends with my mother and because of that, I know her personality quite well. I'm sorry for her passing. She was a wonderful woman." I bow my head in sadness, and feel Natsume's wrath settle somewhat.
"She was." He agrees quietly.
"Good, we agree on something!" I grab his hand eagerly and jump down to Narumi, forcing him to follow me. He glares at me as I land and grab my suitcase and duffel bag. My backpack is still on my back. I grab Narumi with my free hand and nudge him towards the gate before grabbing my suitcase and following him, towing Natsume behind me. I grin back at his blank face, eyes twinkling.
-8{
Soon, the three of us arrive at a room where Narumi leaves us, telling us that he's going to go work out my registration details and get me a uniform.
As soon as he leaves, the surprisingly docile Natsume lunges at me and begins threatening me.
"Tell me who you are or I'll burn your hair, girl!" he growls, one arm on my throat and his other hand holding a chunk of my waist length hair.
My eyes widen in panic and I begin thrashing underneath the stronger boy. "FINE! Burn my hair, just DON'T RAPE ME AGAIN, PLEASE, MISTER!" I shriek, as I slip into a flashback triggered by his calling me girl. Natsume seems thrown off, but also a little concerned. especially when another teacher bursts in the room shouting for Narumi. He takes in the scene and I take Natsume's distraction as a chance to slam my knee up between his legs. HARD. His face scrunches in pain and I push him off me and pinch a pressure point on his neck I learned from the very violent Sakura and her partner in crime- surprisingly enough- Yuki that renders him unconscious. The teacher who came in stares at me in shock as I stand up and get far away from Natsume. "I knew he had problems but I didn't think he'd be a pervert…" I mutter in disgust.
The teacher, recovering from his shock introduces himself as Misaki- the biology teacher. He asks me if I know where Narumi is, and I tell him he's setting up my enrollment.
I know that Narumi doesn't realize that the illusion I used was just that- an illusion. He thinks he was just seeing things.
"So, do you know what your Alice is?" Misaki- Sensei asks and I nod.
"Nullification." Not a lie, just not the whole truth. All will be revealed in time.
Misaki- Sensei's eyes widen slightly. "Do you know who your parents are?" I grin and nod excitedly, then pause. Was it a good idea to tell him? Meh. Too late anyway. I already told him.
Suddenly, Misaki pulls out his phone, apologizes to me and runs out the door. A few minutes later, a young blonde boy crashes through the window.
"Well. That was unexpected." I say. The boy looks up at me and then glances at Natsume. "Oh, you can have him." I step far away from the unconscious boy. "Get your perverted creep of a friend away from me."
The blonde walks over to Natsume, watching me warily and lifts him up, Natsume's arm around his shoulders.
"Ruka!" I hear from beside me as I stumble toward the teachers.
"Narumi- Sensei! Natsume's a perv!" I whine, clutching the teacher's shirt. He looks down at me in confusion as I sniffle and wipe tears from my eyes. "He pinned me down and I thought he was gonna- *hic*" I stop talking as the fear takes me over.
Rape.
It was the spring following my twelfth birthday. There were only a few weeks until I went to the Academy, and I was wandering around our small town trying to find Mae and the other girls. I saw a nice looking man and I asked him if he could help me find my friends.
"Of course I can, child. Why don't we start over here. You haven't looked here yet have you?" I shook my head. I hadn't yet. The man grinned down at me and started walking to where we had decided to start looking. He ducked into a side alley and began calling the girls' names out, and I followed him.
"Yuki! Mae! Sakur-AH!" I yelped as the man suddenly shoved me against a wall and pinned me there. His kind face had suddenly turned leering and terrifying. The man put his hand over my mouth and muffled my voice. When he pulled his hand away, I found myself unable to move or make noise.
"Are you scared little girl?" The man asked, dropping me to the ground. "You should be. I'm gonna fuck you till you're dead, little girl. But it won't be fast. No, you're gonna suffer. Why? Because I want you to." The man smiled pleasantly at me and I shuddered. His hand passed over my face and I couldn't breathe. I passed out and woke up in a dark room. It smelled like urine and something else I couldn't identify. The man was standing a few feet in front of me and hadn't noticed I was awake yet. I took in the table of strange tools before him and shivered. I slammed my eyes shut before the man could see that I was awake.
"This'll wake you up for sure, girly." He passed me and I realized I was naked and tied to a chair with my knees drawn up to my chest and tied there. Suddenly, I felt something strange prodding at an area between my legs. Then the strange thing was shoved into me and I screamed out in pain. Only I didn't- I still couldn't move or make sound. The man laughed and I opened my eyes to glare at him and saw him thrusting a rubbery object between my legs. The thing was covered in blood that dripped onto the man's wrist. "Looks like we've got ourselves a virgin, boys!" It was then that I noticed three more men around us.
The men laughed then hung me by my waist, under arms, and knees from the ceiling about two feet off the ground. One of them grabbed another strange object and a tube of something- he called the object a dildo and I read the tube that said Lubricant on it. He squirted some stuff from the tube and rubbed a little on my butt and the rest on the dildo before shoving it up my butt. I let out another silent howl as the third man pulled his pants off and walked up to me. What is he going to do?! I thought.
I got my answer soon enough as he turned my head to the side and I grunted at the feeling of the two dildos within me rubbing together. He pulled my mouth open and leered at me as he thrust his hips straight into my mouth, forcing me to take his dick- as I was told it was called- into my mouth. Then the man unstrung me from the ceiling and turned so that as he thrust into my mouth he could suck on one of my barely existent breasts.
The final man grabbed my hand and placed it on his dick, wrapping my fingers around it and thrusting into my hand and sucking my other breast. I couldn't move, but I could feel. And this? It felt wonderful. And that terrified me. I felt disgusting, I felt wonderful. Tears began to stream from my eyes and the men laughed.
-8{
I don't know how long it's been. A week? A year? All that exists in my world are these four men and sex. Sex. Sex. More and more of this beautiful, horrible, lovely, and terrifying experience. I love these men. I hate them.
"You know girl, no one has ever lasted this long against my Alice." He praised me! He praised me- wait. His Alice? Then… can I… I activate my nullification barrier and pull myself up. At this moment I heard my friends calling for me outside and I called back, my voice hoarse from disuse.
My friends heard me though and quickly found me. They beat the men senseless and wrapped me in their clothes before carrying me home.
"I- I didn't know it was an Alice. I was so scared! I- I didn't even wonder why it was happening. I just knew it was. I couldn't move, couldn't speak, couldn't scream! I hated it!" I shrieked at Mae and the other girls.
The men never actually put themselves in my pussy, as they called it, or my ass. They said the best was for last, whatever that means. I was grateful though. I didn't want their filthiness in me. When they used their fingers, I hated it. They had seemed to realize this and stopped for whatever reason.
I soon found out I'd been gone a week.
I was so scared.
So scared.
So…
I came back to the present to find Narumi crouched in front of me, Ruka watching my in concern he tried to hide, and Natsume just barely awake. I scramble away from Narumi and cower in the corner. He sighs and leaves my school uniform beside me as he and Misaki go to interrogate Natsume.
-8{
With Natsume-
"What did you do to her?" Narumi hisses quietly at Natsume.
"Nothing, you creepy teacher! But…" Natsume trails off, then looks in the direction Mikan left to go put on her new uniform. "I- I think… I think she may have been raped at some point in her life."
Narumi gasps and his eyes harden. "Are you sure?" Natsume shakes his head.
-8{
"He's right." I state, exiting the changing room in my new uniform. "I was. It was only a few weeks ago actually. The men… they… they used Alices. It took me a week, but I was able to nullify the effects of it and escape alive and unharmed… for the most part." I had sealed up my feelings on the subject to tell the men about my encounter, but some of them still slipped out. Narumi looks at me with kind eyes and reaches for my shoulder but I flinch away violently. Narumi looks saddened, and I whisper an apology to him, and he smiles at me and I grin.
"Well, let's meet your class representatives!" Narumi exclaims, and Natsume and Ruka take the opportunity to escape.
The door opens, and a boy with blonde hair, glasses and brown eyes steps in, followed by a black haired, amethyst eyed beauty.
"Hotaru…" I breathe out, and she stares at me a moment. I grin at her and glance up at Narumi. "Can you tell them the story? I may need help in this school if anyone gets too…" I shudder violently and take an involuntary step back. "Close…" Narumi nods, and I grin then stroll off to grab my bags. When I get back, the young boy looks suitable horrified and Hotaru has rage stirring in the depths of her eyes. She walks over to me and pulls me into a hug.
"Mikan, you're safe now." She whispers to me and I break down in tears.
I wrap my arms around her waist. "Hotaru! It was so scary! He pinned me and I couldn't move well and I thought it was happening again! I kneed him in the nuts and knocked him out but I didn't mean to I was just so scared!"
"I've told you what happens when you cry, right?" I sniff and nod into Hotaru's shoulder. "Well, for this kind of thing you can cry as much as you need to." Hotaru murmurs to me and I pull away to give her a watery smile.
"Thanks, but I'm good for now." I wipe my eyes and nose then turn to the boy who introduces himself to me as Yuu Tobita- or Iinchou. I elect to call him Iinchou. I can see a mix of horror, sadness, and anger in his eyes as he thinks about what those men did to me using their Alices.
We go to class and my friends, old and new, flank me. Hotaru, knowing her, had probably wanted to tell me not to speak to her while we are here, but had changed her mind when she heard what had happened when she left. That made me happy, but also very sad. When we step into class I am awed by the blatant use of Alices- people running on walls, writing on air, floating around, and other strange things. I immediately throw up my barrier, leaving only a portion of my brain susceptible to mind reading- the part where I can control what the mind reader hears.
I'm told where to sit and I immediately realize who I'm next to. I shift as far away from the boys as possible, and I know my fear is obvious in my eyes.
"Hey pervert, you escaped." I state.
The manga falls off Natsume's face and he looks at me, eyes widening a fraction of an inch. He shifts only very lightly closer to me and I flinch back violently, eyes widening in fear as I see Natsume replaced with the man who kidnapped me, a leering grin on his face. I scramble out of my seat and press my back to the wall, holding a hand over my mouth to keep me from screaming. Natsume's eyes widen and he moves away from where I sit. Even the ass hole feels bad for the rape victim. I hear a gasp and turn my eyes to who I assume is the mind reader in the class. I replay the most PG of my memories from being raped as I slowly go back toward Natsume and sit on the edge of the seat as far away from him as I can.
"Girl, I don't-"
"Are you scared little girl? You should be. I'm gonna fuck you till you're dead, little girl. But it won't be fast. No, you're gonna suffer. Why? Because I want you to." The man smiled pleasantly at me. His hand passed over my face and I couldn't breathe.
I gasp and flee back again.
I vaguely hear children in the back ground making fun of my fear of Natsume and trying to make it worse by using their Alices on me. I am also vaguely aware of the horrified stare of one telepathic boy. It's one thing to hear about something and know it happened, and something entirely different to experience it with the person. Hotaru and Iinchou rush to my side and I'm suddenly very aware of a boy with a buzz cut rushing me, determined to force me to tell him why his Alice doesn't work on me. The boy jumps on me, and Hotaru hits at him with her horse hoof glove, but stops as she notices he'll collapse on me and make my fear escalate further. I notice Natsume standing to pull the boy off me- wow, he cares that much?- but he isn't fast enough.
"Please, not again, I can't! DON'T! STOP, PLEASE!" I shriek, curling in on myself as all of my memories from that time run through my head. I unleash a blast of wind from around me and curl into Hotaru as she kneels to cradle my fragile state of mind. The mind reader boy approaches us, head bowed and face pale.
"I am so, so sorry, Sakura- san." I smile shakily at him. Having seen my memories, I know I can trust this boy. No one who's witnessed such atrocities can ever bully someone like that again.
"Mikan." I whisper. "Call me Mikan." Hotaru turns her head to me sharply, questioning me silently and I nod.
The boy nods, understanding my reasoning and agreeing completely. You'd have to be heartless to see someone go through that and not feel horrible.
Suddenly, the classroom door slams open and Jinno- Sensei walks in.
"What is going on here?" He questions, taking in the students crowded around me, my huddled form and frightened face, and the small circle of people who are protecting me.
A girl with a perm speaks up. "The new girl attacked us!" She exclaims.
Suddenly, Natsume and Ruka move to stand by my side, glaring at the girl. The mind reader walks to my side as well, joined by Iinchou. Hotaru pulls me to my feet and coldly states out her opinion. "Only because you were bringing up bad memories and attacking her."
Permy laughs and my group of friends huddle around me. "Of what, a nightmare?" She asks.
I choose this moment to speak up. "When I was a babe, this school killed my father and used my mother. She had to leave me to keep me alive. Otherwise the academy would have killed me. With the help of a friend's Alice I watched my father be murdered by my brother, who was being manipulated by the school. Then, not two months ago, I was kidnapped and raped for a week straight by four fully grown, Alice wielding men. So no, not nightmares, but the stuff of them." Finished speaking, I wobble over to my seat and slide in, collapsing my head onto my desk.
The class looks at me for a moment, stunned, then Hotaru pats me on the head on the way to her seat, Iinchou puts a hand on my slumped shoulder for a moment, the mind reader boy pulls me into a hug that, after a moment of intense fear, I relax into. "My name's Koko by the way. Stop calling me mind reader boy. It's weird." Koko pulls back with a small, hesitant smile on his face and I grin widely before laughing loudly.
"Sorry, but I was a little too busy at the time to ask for a name." I giggle. Incredulous looks are sent my way. I can just hear them thinking, She's been through all that and she can still smile and laugh? Wow.
"That's exactly what they're thinking!" Koko laughs. "Are we sure you aren't the mind reader here?"
I grin. Suddenly, I notice a suitably shamed Permy slinking back to her seat, and two nice looking girls lingering near my desk. I look up at them, effectively dismissing Koko, who understands and walks away.
"Hi, Mikan. I'm Anna, and this is my best friend Nonoko." The girl with the pink hair gestures to her blue haired companion and I feel Natsume sliding into the seat beside me, Ruka following. They both try to keep a healthy distance from me, but they look a little uncomfortable, so I motion them closer. They stubbornly refuse and I roll my eyes, sighing.
"Boys." I sigh, reaching for Natsume's wrist then freezing.
"Looks like we've got ourselves a virgin, boys!"
I shake it off and continue reaching for Natsume's wrist, but he noticed the pause and is trying to keep his wrist away from me so I just grab his upper arm and haul him closer to me. We are now about as far apart as we originally were, but I am no longer shaking as I sit beside him. He notices this, and so realizes it wasn't his fault I freaked out. Ruka glances at us and a small smile graces his face before we all turn back to Jinno- who had been oddly quiet while we were figuring out our… problems.
"Sumire, you and your friends go to the office. I'll speak to you later." The man looks at me sadly, but I grin at him, shaking my head minutely. 'I'm fine.' I convey. The math teacher nods, and begins teaching class. As he does, I do the work easily, and flinch only occasionally as the other boys turn to look at me. Suddenly, hesitant fingers wind with my own, and Natsume gives my hand a reassuring squeeze. I turn to him gratefully, relaxing fractionally.
By the end of the day, however, I am incredibly tense from stress, and I immediately head to see Narumi for my star rating. I find him and Jinno going over my work for the day, looking more and more astonished as they see my accuracy and the results of years of advanced study.
I clear my throat. Turning to me, they smile slightly. "Well, well, Mikan. Someone was well prepared for our curriculum." I smile and nod.
"My... star rating?" I ask, Hotaru having explained it to me before sending me over to inquire about it.
Narumi's gaze turns sad. "Due to your... situation, along with your Alice and grades, you are a special star. You will be put into the Special Class and they will be informed you only use nullification. The ESP cannot find out about your other Alice." I nod determinedly.
Jinno looks at me. "Natsume will take you to your room." A warm hand wraps around my wrist, and I know it to belong to Natsume by my Detection Alice.
I turn, and follow him to my new room.