"Please don't cry on my account. I'm only here to find my father, not to cause your friends trouble." The young girl stood with her hand outstretched to the sobbing teenager.

Laughter emerged from the once sobbing girl. "You think that this little snot is my friend much less that I would help the likes of you. Someone who doesn't even have the courtesy to introduce themselves before addressing the elder." Suzume slapped her hand away and stood on her own. She towered over the small girl.

Her tall slender frame hid the lean muscles she carried around well as compared the smaller girl who had a bony almost anorexic looking body hiding no underlying muscles. Her clothes also unlike suzumes were torn up, old, and brightly colored. While suzume had darker clothes that were only ever torn if that was there style.

"I apologize in all the commotion I forgot to introduce myself." She took a step back addressing the large crowd that had formed. She took a deep bow and said proudly "hello everyone my name is Sakura Mikan." She gave a large smile and went up to suzume, placing a hand lightly on her wrist she spoke again. "I assume since you both" she gestured the boy "mentioned that I have 'his' eyes I assume that you know my father. Could you take me to him? Please miss."

The crowd watched in amazement when suzume allowed this small child no older that twelve to place a hand on her. The only people that ever touched her were Persona-sensei, Totome, or Natsume. Did this mean that there little exclusive group had just added a new member?

"It's amazing." Suzume breathed

"What is miss?" Mikan asked.

"You are. What else?"

"I'm afraid I don't understand, miss"

"I'm not surprised it felt the same when your mother first touched me."

"You know mama!? You must be the girl mama told me to find and give this to." Mikan held out a small package for her.

"Mother never fails to come back without a gift for me. Even now." She sighed. Then turned cold toward the girl. "Let's go you have a lot to learn and you need to learn it fast."

Suzume turned around and motioned for the girl and Natsume to follow her. Mikan looked confused at Natsume. He just shook his head at her. Then said "you came much too soon"

-Lunch-

"Shouldn't Persona be here by now?" Natsume questioned.

Suzume didn't answer

"That's assuming he wants the brat" a small voice said from behind suzume.

"What have I told you about doing that Totome?" Suzume turned and ruffled the little boys blonde hair. Then picked him up and placed him in her lap.

Natsume, Mikan, Suzume and Totome shared one table in the corner of the courtyard under the shade of a tree. It was the only shaded table in the main courtyard. Other students who were sick of sitting in the heat would often try to make them move. No one ever succeeded.

"Hello, Suzume." A tall lanky boy still in his uniform for the weekend was standing at the corner of the table opposite from where suzume actually sat. she knew the boy well enough he and her got along well enough and she would sometimes have him run errands for her but his infatuation with her was slightly annoying.

"Yes Cazune?" she said moving totome from her lap to the seat next to her and handing him a carrot so he would not spoil her fun. She smiled sweetly at him knowing that it would make him stutter and stumble over his words. She knew that toying with his emotions was wrong but she couldn't help her slightly sadistic tendencies.

"Uh-u-uh well you see. Umm y-you k-kno-know." He had started to sweat. Just for fun she let out a small innocent giggle. And looked at him from under her eyelashes. "th-theres this p-p-par-party thing."

"Cazune did you want me to see if one of the girls in science likes you?"

"n-no never mind." He turned around dejected.

She sighed. And looked and Totome who nodded. "Wait, Cazune." He turned surprised when she stood and kissed his cheek. "See you Monday in 1st." he floated away. (His alice was flight.)

"Now suzume that was just cruel. But I have to agree on the fact that it was entertaining. I hope you realize that if you were a bit sweater you could have the whole male population at this school swooning over you just like that."

"PERSONA-SAMA" suzume turned and flung herself at her guardian.

"Ok now suzy now what is so important I had to leave a class?" he asked but before anyone could explain mikan stood up.

"Papa?" Mikan asked.