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Summary: A legend that roams the Underworld, full of fear and terror, a killer that roams at night. Rumors say that he wasn't human. But the truth is yet to discover.

Chapter 1

Shisho

"Oi, Mikan! Hurry up or we'll be late for school." a guy called. He was standing near the sliding door that leads to the door outside.

"Matte yo! I can't find my pencil." Mikan was looking under the couch for her pencil.

"Baka, I told you to fix your things before going to bed." the guy stood there, arms crossed while tapping his foot on the floor, clearly showing his impatience. "I'm going."

"Found it!" Mikan sat on her legs, raising her found pencil. The guy, on the other hand, was already opening the door. "Matte, nii-chan!" Mikan quickly stood and ran to catch up to her brother.

Once Mikan caught up to her brother, they walked to school quietly.

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Kring Kring Kring

The school bell signaled the time for lunch break. Mikan Sakura, age: 4, a kindergarten student, sat quietly on the roof top. She looked up at the sky and smiled. "What a wonderful day!" she thought.

Mikan was a happy, cheerful young girl and could easily be friends with her fellow classmates. She would play with them, enjoying every single moment. She smiled with them, laughed with them, and talked to them. She was an ordinary child with ordinary friends. Waking up, going to school, and going home were part of her daily routine.

Or that was before she discovered something very important.

"Oi, Mikan, come play with us." a guy called Mikan who was in a white dress.

"Ne, ne, Mikan-chan" agreed a girl.

"Hai!" Mikan smiled her brightest and joined the game of tag.

"Tag! You're it!" "Tag!" Tag!" the continued game came like bliss to Mikan. The laughers of playing children were like music. They ran all over the playground.

A thunder roared.

The children screamed.

"A rain storm!" one shouted. Then he ran. The other children followed leaving Mikan behind.

"Wait!" she called, but they could no longer hear her. The rain started and Mikan was dripping wet.

A motion behind her made her turn around.

"Who's there?" she asked. Her heart was beating loudly. She tried to look for someone but the darkness made it hard to see.

Another movement…

"W-who's there?" there was another movement. Mikan was so afraid. She knows that she should run but her feet felt like roots grew and she was stuck. "Help" she tried to shout but no words came out when she opened her mouth.

A figure appeared. A tall and scary figure…

Mikan felt like crying. She don't know what she should do. The figure was getting closer. She should run! But she couldn't move her feet. She looked at the figure. It was nearer than before.

It was reaching for her.

She panicked. Her tears were flowing. She was cold. She can't do anything. She must shout. B-but…

Then the figure grabbed her.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Mikan finally managed to shout but the figure has grabbed her. She was a goner. She will die. She didn't escape. Otto-san, okka-san, nii-chan, gomen. Mikan, tired and scared, fell down to a faint and welcomed the growing darkness.

"H-hey, kiddo, wake up." Mikan opened her eyes and saw a blurry figure. Where was she? She couldn't recognize the voice calling her. What's this? She's lying down? Was she in heaven?

Then her memories began to filter in. The playground, her fellow kids, the thunder, the rain, the movement, the figure, the figure grabbing her…

"Ahh! Get away from me! Get away!" Mikan jerked up and tried to yank off the hand trying to grab her.

"Hey, kiddo, relax! I'm not going to do anything to you." the unfamiliar voice said. Mikan froze. Where was she? She looked at her surroundings. She was in a wooden cabin. A table was in front of the bed she was lying on. Adjacent to the table was a sink and a window. The door was near it. The door…

Mikan escaped from the man holding her. She ran for the door. A little bit more…yes! She was outside. She ran towards the trees. Wait a minute. Where was she? She doesn't recognize this place at all.

"Hey, kiddo, wait for me! Where are you going? It's dangerous out there." Mikan turned around.

"Where am I?" she voiced out her thoughts.

The man sighed. He has black hair that was tied into a pony tail, Mikan finally noticed. He pushed the bangs covering his face. "You're in the middle of a forest, kid. Honestly, why did you run away? At first you screamed and fainted. Now, you wake up and ran away. Why did I ever do to you? I got to all the trouble just to lessen your fever…"

"Wait a minute, you kidnapped me?" Mikan cut him off. The man was startled.

"No, no, no, I didn't kidnap you," the man waved his hands in front of him, "you fainted. I can't just leave you there all alone. It was raining!"

Mikan glared. She doesn't believe him at all. Her nii-chan told her not to trust strangers. And she will never anyway.

The man made a step forward slowly as if he was taming a wild creature. Mikan noticed.

"Don't come near!" Mikan shouted. When she did, the wind blew hard and made it hard for the man to move further.

When the wind finally stopped, he said, "Oh? An alice user eh?" The man who looked so dumb awhile ago turned into an extremely different person. His eyes went sharper, and he looked at Mikan with narrowed but curious eyes. "What a coincidence" he muttered to himself, but Mikan heard it. He changed into battle position. Mikan's eyes widened.

"S-stay back!" she shouted.

The man smiled and disappeared. Mikan was dumbfounded. Where the heck did he go? Mikan looked from left to right. No one. Mikan relaxed. Maybe he left already. Maybe he would leave her alone. Mikan let out a relieved sigh.

"You shouldn't let your guard down, kiddo." Mikan's eyes widened. He's behind her! But she didn't see him go there. She swear! He just disappeared and… and… Oh no! She just gave away her only way out of here. She didn't use her chance to escape. If only…

Her thoughts were interrupted when the next thing she knew, she was lifted from the ground. The man was carrying her like she was a sack of rice!

"Let me down!" she punched the man's back. "Let me down!"

The man didn't budge. He just continued walking towards the cabin.

Once inside, the man dropped her with the least of care on the bed and sat down on a stool near the bed. He quietly stared with narrowed but curious eyes at Mikan who sat up, her back behind the wall. Mikan glared at the man trying to scare him if only just a little bit, but it turned out to be a really cute one which didn't scare the man at all, but amused him.

Mikan glared her utmost in silence.

Finally, the man broke the silence, "I am curious, kiddo." Mikan didn't have any clue what the man was saying. The man continued despite that. "You have a great alice, a really strong one." He paused. "The remarkable thing is, you have the same alice as I have. Is it coincidence? Well, I don't believe in coincidence."

Mikan remained clueless and thought that the man in front of her was mad. "You're mad." she glared again. The man laughed making Mikan think that her assumption was correct.

"I see you don't know what an alice is, right?" the man said after he laughed. Mikan just rolled her eyes like her brother used to when he thinks that the situation was really annoying. The man ignored this and continued, "Well, an alice is like a super power." Mikan gaped at the man's stupidity, but closed it when she realized what she was doing. Super powers! The man thinks that it's real?! He's worst than a two year old! The man smiled at Mikan and placed his hand near Mikan. Then after reverting his gaze from Mikan to his hand, a small tornado formed in his hand. Mikan's eyes widen in disbelief. The mini tornado soon disappeared and Mikan gazed back and forth from the hand to the man. "That is what you call an alice. There are different kinds of alice, almost any that you could think of. Super powers are the best explanation for this. Do you understand what I just said?" Mikan nodded not trusting her voice for now. She was still shocked at what she saw. The man smiled. "What you just did outside," Mikan looked at the man's eyes, "it's your alice."

"M-my alice?" Mikan finally spoke, her thoughts that the man was mad long forgotten after seeing that amazing tornado. The man was expecting this.

"Yes, when you shouted and the wind blew hard. That is your alice, the element of wind." Mikan remained quiet expecting more explanation from the man. He didn't disappoint her."Well, now that you know what an alice is, I'm gonna teach you more. The are types of alices…" the man told everything to Mikan from the types of alices to the froms, the masterals, etc.

Finally, the man said, "Well, now that you understand those terms, I'm will make you decide." Mikan raised a questioning eyebrow. "Once discovered that you're an alice, you will be brought to an Academy where you will be trained with your alice. You will be away from your family after entering the Academy." Mikan thought about it and shrugged. She doesn't want to be away from her family. She loves them. "But, there is another option, to be an apprentice of a Master Alice. Of course, you should find yourself a Master Alice to do that." Mikan's high hopes were taken away from her when she heard that. The man smiled inwardly. "But if you want," chocolate eyes met black ones, "I could train you."

"Eh?! S-so you're telling me t-that you're a… a…" she trailed off in disbelief. The man nodded enthusiastically.

"Exactly right there, kiddo. So what do you say?" Mikan stared at the man hard, weighing her options. "Well, you don't want to leave your family behind, right?" Mikan glared at the man and sighed.

"Fine, but I would…"

And that was how her daily routine was ruined when that man entered her life. Mikan let out a depressed sigh. She thought that being an apprentice was easy. What she went through proved her wrong. Endless sit ups and running, her master would throw stuff at her and would ambush her when she wasn't aware. That was the reason why she developed good reflexes and was always on her guard, sort of.

"Oi, kiddo, I knew you would be here." a man talked to Mikan like they know each other. He was sitting on top of the door roof while Mikan was leaning against a wall.

"Konnichiwa, shisho." she said automatically. The man smiled. Knowing what her master has in mind, she jumped up and backed away from her master. Her master on the other hand, expected this and was instantly behind her. "You should really work on your defenses, kiddo." Mikan kicked behind her, but her master disappeared. Now where did he disappear now? He's not behind her, not below. Right? No. Left? No. So that means…

"Prepare for my final attack, kiddo!" Her master was above her and was about to do his favorite trick, but she expected this, so she blocked his powerful blow with her arms. But her master disappeared again. Everything went silent as Mikan tried to sense her master. She looked from left to right and… there!

She turned around and kicked, but her master blocked it. She threw punches and kicks at him while he blocked them all. She was panting and sweating. She focused her eyes and jumped over her master. Then she sent a downward punch. Instead of hitting her master though, he caught her arm and sent her flying to the wall. Her master walked towards her while clapping off the dust from his hands.

"You've improved, kiddo, but you'll never beat me, not ever." Her master smirked and disappeared when the school bell rang signaling the start of classes.

"One day, I'll find out how to do that disappear thingy." with a sigh, she stood with the support of her back to the wall. She walked down to go to her classroom. Oh shoot, she's late again.

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"Tadaima!" Mikan and her nii-chan said at once.

"Okaerinasai" their mother shouted from where she was. Mikan's brother, Shinta Sakura, smelled his mother's cooking and headed for the kitchen while Mikan followed him from behind.

"That smells good, okka-san. What's for dinner?" Shinta moved beside his mother, Yuka, to look at what she's cooking.

"It's curry, Shinta-chan." Yuka answered him as she stirred the food. Shinta scowled at the nickname.

"I'd appreciate it, okka-san, if you don't call me that." Yuka laughed.

"Oh? My Shinta-chan is already grown up!" Yuka grabbed Shinta's neck while holding the ladle with her other hand. Shinta tried his best to escape his mother's clutches to no avail. Yuka laughed harder.

Meanwhile, Mikan smiled at her happy family. She was grateful for them, and she loves them so much. Mikan turned back to go upstairs when her mother noticed her. She motioned her to come closer. Mikan smiled and ran to her mother who leaned down to kiss her cheek unexpectedly. Mikan blushed while Yuka ruffled her hair. "My kids are growing so fast!"

"Ano, okka-san, you could let go now." Shinta said while struggling for air. Realizing what she was doing, she released Shinta who breathed exaggeratedly. Yuka poked his forehead and laughed. Shinta said, "Ow!" and rubbed his forehead laughing with her as well. Mikan joined the laughter.

The laughter died down, so Mikan excused herself to go to her room.

In her room, there was a bed in the middle. Opposite the bed was a cabinet full of books that she either read or was still reading. Beside her bed were pictures hanging over the ceiling and little strings to add design. Opposite the sliding door at the wall was her study table complete with her own computer and gadgets.

Mikan stopped in front of a blank wall beside her bed. She turned her head to her left and saw her flat screen tv and some bean seats. She turned her head towards the wall and said, "Mikan Sakura, apprentice of Akito-sama, the master alice of the element of wind. I am code number: 025162 of the Underworld." Once said, the before empty wall turned into a door and opened. Mikan went inside without hesitation.

Inside, Mikan looked at the room before her. Hanging on the walls were all her clothes and gadgets. Mikan looked up at the ceiling at the center. There were a voice programmed containers up there and will go down when activated. One contains weapons like guns, shurikens, kunai, and bombs. Another contains medicines, others poison. Some are strength pills, but those are extremely dangerous and will give you pain afterwards. Some are relieving pills and are useful for the after effects of the strength pills. It is also useful for times you are extremely twitching in pain. But these pills will shorten your life span, a day per pill.

Mikan moved futher inside and finally approached a big screen. Looking down, she pressed a button and appeared her master.

"Oi, kiddo, go to your playground. You have a mission." Mikan smiled and nodded. Her master raised his brows and Mikan mentally smacked herself for her mistake. Her master doesn't tolerate nods and body movements like that. He wants a straight answer and also respect.

"G-gomen, shisho," Mikan looked sorry. She straightened her back and said, "Hai, shisho."

Her master smirked and said, "Good. I see that you know your place, kiddo."

"Hai, shisho." she automatically answered. Her master is kind and understanding and will joke with her at the appropriate times, but he demands respect and discipline as her master.

Her master closed their connection and Mikan went to get her attire for missions. Mikan grabbed a black dress that ends above her knee and a white mask. Then she went through a secret escape route and she was outside.

Outside, Mikan jumped from tree to tree while remaining hidden from prying eyes. The playground, Mikan thought. Their headquarters was always regarded as the "playground" to remove suspicions from people. They would think that it was just some children wanting to play and so. Said playground is none other that the place where Mikan Sakura woke up from her sleep and saw her master whom she accused of kidnapping. Also, it was the place where she found out that she was an alice. Mikan smirked mentally thinking about that time for the second time around in this day.

The wooden cabin came into view and she landed gracefully to the ground. She walked towards the cabin silently and on guard. Knowing her master, she wouldn't be surprised if she was ambushed once again.

She arrived at the front of the doorstep without a single dagger heading her way. She sighed in relief. Maybe her master finally got tired of ambushing her. She reached for the doorknob when she sensed something. She ducked and heard a stab at the door. If she didn't sense that attack, she would be dead meat. Mikan turned around, but found no one. She reached for the door knob and opened it. Going inside quickly with her facing the door, she felt relief wash all over her.

"You know, you really shouldn't let your guard down so easily." she recognized the voice. It was her master! She tried to move, but a pointed object at her back stopped her from doing so. Oh no! She's dead meat.

Her master released her and sighed. "You need lots of training to do, kid." Mikan turned to face her master and laughed sheepishly.

"Oops?" her master mentally smacked himself. He should really punish the kid for letting her guard down so easily. Maybe a thousand laps of running? But he can't do that now. She has a mission.

"Here, your mission. Do it well, kiddo." her master threw a folder at her to let her read it.

Mikan obliged and when finished, her brow was twitching. "S-shiso, you're telling me that… that…" Mikan wasn't able to finish her sentence in frustration.

"Ahh" her master answered like nothing is happening at all.

"But look at this, shisho!" she pointed at the folder while holding it too close to her master's face. Her master raised an eyebrow.

"So?"

"So?! Shisho, this is a D rank mission. A capital D rank!" Mikan was fuming when she finished her sentence.

"I know how to read, baka. That's your mission. Get over it." Her master went to bed to lie down. He was about to close his eyes when Mikan shouted,

"D-demo! Shisho, a D rank mission! I'm old enough to get a C or a B rank mission!" Her master's brow twitched because of Mikan's meddling in his sweet slumber.

"May I inform you, baka, that you're only four years old. And no, it is not normal for you to be getting missions at all in your age! Be thankful that I'm giving you one now."

"D-demo!" a glare from her master stopped her and she dumped her head in defeat. "Fine" another glare and she was bowing. "I'll complete the mission, shisho. Forgive me for my behavior." at that, Mikan left leaving a satisfied Akito to his sweet slumber.

His last thought was, "Yeah, a D rank mission. I wasn't surprised that you complained. You're too capable for that kind of mission. Maybe I'll just talk to the principal about that. For now, go chase lost pets. Now where was I? Ahh, my sleep…"

TBC…

A/N: Now can you guess who Hitori-sama is? Hmm… don't be so sure though. Lots of surprises coming up!

Okay, the present Mikan met Akito for a year now. When they had they're talk, Mikan duh accepted the apprenticeship offered by Akito with the approval of the said principal. Mikan met Akito when she was three, so she's now four.

For the 'maybe' questions:

What's Akito's surname?

Does Shinta have an alice?

Does he even know that he has an alice?

Why didn't Yuka and Mikan's father (I don't know his name, lol.) tell their kids about alices?

Who's the principal?

How come Mikan is so strong?

How come Mikan's secret room isn't known by the whole family?

Where is the "playground" located?

When will this author be updating?

To answer those questions, read my story! Uhh… I'll be updating when I finish the next chapter. Buwahahahaha!

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