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I'd like to thank my beta reader, Ariisha-chan, for beta reading this. She's so patient with me on my stories. I love that about her. She doesn't care how long I take to write a chapter as long as she gets to read it first XD Well, without further ado, Discovery of an Alice!
Discovery of an Alice
Chapter Four
*Mina's*POV*
When I woke up, the sun was streaming through the window of my bedroom. I blinked and rubbed my eyes, not quite wanting to get out of bed. It was warm there, and the house was cold that morning. Half of the time the house was too cold, and the other half too hot. It felt freezing, that morning.
Then I remembered: Gakuen Alice. Every morning since that night, I'd woken up, forgetting that Gakuen Alice was looking for me and Kai-chan, and every morning, once I remembered, it was like ice crept inside my veins in the from of fear.
As soon as I remembered, I didn't feel like staying in bed anymore. Instead, I jumped up and ran downstairs for breakfast.
Mommy was in the kitchen, with her fake smile on. She'd had it on for the past two weeks, ever since she and Daddy got the letter from Gakuen Alice. I didn't like Mommy's fake smile. I didn't want it.
"Good morning, Mommy! What's for breakfast?"
"Cheese omelet, your favorite."
"Yay!"
I sat down to eat, not feeling the least bit hungry. Lately I'd been feeling too nervous to eat when I woke up. I expected Gakuen Alice to bust down the door at any second. I wondered who they'd have come evaluate us.
I hoped it wouldn't be Persona - Kai-chan had heard Daddy talking to Mommy about him, once. He'd killed Mommy's real daddy, Grandpa Izumi, and hurt Daddy. He'd tried to hurt Mommy, and he'd hurt and killed a lot of other people, too.
Kai-chan came down just in time to eat, and after we'd finished, Mommy took us upstairs to help us get dressed. I wore my favorite pink skirt with black lace on it, along with a white T-shirt, and Mommy put Kai-chan in a pair of shorts and a button up T-shirt. My hair stayed down, as normal.
Kai-chan and I played outside with Grandma Yuka for a while, and as the day went on, I started feeling a little better. I started thinking that Gakuen Alice wouldn't come yet. That they'd wait until the next day. Just like they'd been doing for two weeks.
Then, someone knocked on the door.
Grandma Yuka froze. So did Kai-chan and I.
"Mina-chan, Kai-chan, stay here." Grandma Yuka's voice was a harsh command. I didn't like it.
She went inside, and as soon as she disappeared from sight, Kai-chan collapsed. I wasn't worried, though. He'd probably followed her with his soul - which was usually invisible.
I heard someone open the door, and Grandma Yuka's voice saying "Yukihara-san! And, my goodness, Kokoroyomi-kun! We didn't expect you two. Come in, come in..."
Yukihara was Mommy's real daddy's last name, but I remembered her mentioning an Uncle Yukihara once…he was the high school principal of Gakuen Alice. He'd never visited us, but I'd seen his picture once, and Kai-chan had told me that he'd overheard Mommy and Daddy talking about his Alice. He could see if a person had an Alice or not. That's what he was here for. To see if Kai-chan and I had Alices. Kai-chan, hurry back! I thought fervently.
And hurry he did, but not because he'd heard my thought. Mommy was coming outside. Kai-chan just managed to get back into his body before Mommy opened the door.
"Mommy, what's wrong?" I asked, partly for confirmation, and partly to disguise Kai-chan's acclimation back into his body.
"Nothing's wrong, Mina!" Mommy answered too quickly. "My uncle, Principal Yukihara, is here from Gakuen Alice. Mine and Daddy's old friend from school, Kokoroyomi-kun, is here, too. I've told you and Kai about them, right? He wants to talk to you two."
Mommy had the fake smile on her face again. I hated the fake smile. I wanted her real one back.
"G-Gakuen Alice?" asked Kai-chan.
"Yes, Uncle Yukihara works there. He's the principal of the high school division."
"I don't wanna talk to them! They'll take us away!"
"Kai-chan, what are you talking about? They only take people with Alices away, and we don't have Alices, remember?"
Kai remembered our ruse, then, and Mommy didn't find anything strange with either of our behavior. Again, my doing. I'd told her a week ago that we weren't acting strange, and so, suddenly, we weren't.
"Now, Kai, Mina, come talk to Uncle Yukihara and Kokoroyomi-kun."
We went into the formal living room, a room we barely ever used, and sat down on the love seat. I assumed that Uncle Yukihara was the older of the two. He didn't look anything like Mommy, but it was his brother who was our grandfather, not him, so I didn't find too much strange with that. Kokoroyomi-san was...a little creepy. His smile seemed too big for his face, and it never left. No matter what he said, the smile didn't leave.
Uncle Yukihara and Kokoroyomi-san talked for a long time to Mommy and Grandma Yuka before Daddy came home. Mommy must have called him.
"Hello, Yukihara. Koko," said Daddy when he came in. "I didn't know you work for Gakuen Alice now, Koko. I wouldn't have expected it."
"I don't. They told me they needed me for a specific job, and I couldn't exactly say no to Persona…"
"Ah. I, um, understand. Now, as to why you're both here…?"
"It has come to the attention of Principal Kuonji that your children seem to have Alices," said Uncle Yukihara.
"And since when have you answered to Kuonji, Yukihara-san?" Grandma Yuka asked scathingly.
"Again, Persona…"
I heard Grandma Yuka mutter something that sounded like a swear word under her breath.
"Um...Uncle Yukihara?" I asked.
"Yes...Mina-chan, right?"
"Um, yes. But, Uncle Yukihara, neither of us have Alices…"
"She's lying," said Kokoroyomi-san.
I stared at him, aghast. No one had ever been able to tell the truth from one of my lies before.
"I can see that, Kokoroyomi-kun. Please don't yell it out loud."
"Well, it's not just that, though, Principal. It's the nature of her Alice. I have a feeling she'll be a Dangerous type, sir."
"What?" yelled Daddy, standing up. "No! I won't allow it! Yukihara, she's related to you, for God's sake! Do you want that for her? You know what happened to Yuka! To me! To your brother! Do you want a life like that for your own blood?"
Mommy was whimpering, "No, no, no," to herself quietly beside Daddy. Grandma Yuka had gone white, and wasn't moving.
"Thank you very much, Natsume-kun. No, I do not want that for my family. I didn't want to come here today, even. I don't want to subject yet another member of my family to a fate similar to that of your's or Mikan-chan's, or anyone else who has been at Gakuen Alice, for that matter. However, I value my own life, and Persona has seen both of their supposed Alices at work. Now, Kokoroyomi-kun, what is her Alice? You read it in her mind, yes?"
"Yes, sir," said Kokoroyomi-san with an apologetic glance towards Daddy, who was still standing. Mommy had his arm, and was trying to calm him down enough for him to sit. Flames started to lick his fingers as Kokoroyomi-san spoke.
"She has the ability to make anyone believe something that she says, if she wants the person to believe it. That seems to be how Natsume and Mikan didn't know about their Alices, sir."
I was really scared, now. Kokoroyomi-san's Alice was a mind reading Alice. He knew exactly what kind of Alice I had, and he knew what kind Kai-chan had, by now. "And the boy? Kai, right? What's his Alice?"
"He...his Alice is the soul moving Alice. He can move his soul within space, and is able to use all five of his senses as he does so. It's quite an amazing Alice, really. Although it can be hard to notice, sometimes."
"PLEASE!" yelled Mommy, interrupting Kokoroyomi-san. "Please, Koko, don't take my babies away from me. Please-" she broke down into tears, grabbing Daddy's arm and hugging him to her in the process. The fire disappeared from his hands immediately, and he began comforting her. I'd never seen Mommy or Daddy act like that before. It scared me that they'd lost control of themselves like that. I didn't like it. I didn't like it! I DIDN'T WANT IT!
"WE DON'T HAVE ALICES!" I yelled, putting as much force behind the words as I could. "WE DON'T HAVE ALICES! WE DON'T HAVE ALICES! WE DONT-" Kai-chan grabbed my sleeve, and I stopped. He motioned towards Uncle Yukihara, who could tell if someone had an Alice, and towards Kokoroyomi-san, who could read minds. I understood. It was useless. Even if my Alice deceived them for a short amount of time, the combination of their Alices made my Alice a nonentity. It wouldn't work on them, at least with the lie I needed to tell that time.
"I'm so sorry." Uncle Yukihara said. Kokoroyomi-san's smile still hadn't left his face. It was creepy. His eyes were sad, though. When I looked at his eyes, he looked about to cry. "We'll both die if we don't report this to Persona or Principal Kuonji. I'm sorry, Mikan-chan, Natsume-kun. I'm sorry, Yuka-san. I'm...I'm so, so sorry, Mina-chan, Kai-chan. This was why I stayed away so long...I-I'm so sorry."
With that, he and Kokoroyomi-san left. They saw themselves out, seeing as Grandma Yuka was nearly catatonic, Mommy was crying, Daddy was comforting her, and Kai-chan and I were sitting together, my head hung low, Kai-chan's hand still clutching my sleeve. We all looked broken, which was no coincidence. We all felt broken. Or, at least, I did.
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