Author's Note: Finally! I managed to upload another chapter! Sorry for the late update...I've been busy with school curricular and sports day (I did say that I dislike sport a little. It's not that I take part in it, but I was busy RUNNING AWAY from the teachers that were spotting for potential athletes for their team. Luckily I managed to free myself). Thanks for all the reviewers who reviewed my story.

This chapter contains OOC that my sister and I create. I appologies if this chapter did not has the right material, but I'm trying my best. One more thing, Mikan will appear in this chapter...

Disclaimer: I did not own Gakuen Alice

Chapter Four: Memory Of A Faint Distance I – Girl With A Give Of Methuselah –

"Bye…"

"MIKAN!!! NNOOOOO!!!" shouted Natsume from the copter. Tears come streaming down from his eyes as he saw Mikan's barrier had been shut down and she was hit by multiple attacks.

"Live a happy live after this…"

"Na…Natsume…"

A girl with an auburn hair that spread on the bed sheet was mumbling in her sleep. She was wrapped in bandages and in her arms, head, and forehead, and if you see her, she looks almost like being mummified.

Mikan Sakura.

It was the name written on the hospital bed board. Next to the bed sits a little girl around the age of ten.

'Where…am…I?" she blinked a couple time adjusting to the bright surrounding around her.

"If you're asking were you are you're in the hospital located at the Anti Alice Organization Headquarters"

"Oh…So I was held capture here…" said Mikan with a sad smiled plastered at her face.

"Yes…"

"Do you think that my companions are okay?"

"They left the island unharmed"

"Thanks… My name is Mikan Sakura! What's yours?"

"Valkyrie" answered the girl monotonously.

She had a crimson black hair with crimson eyes. Her skin was pale. She had a fine gesture with pale skin.

"Hai Valkyrie-chan!"

Mikan give her warm smile towards Valkyrie. The young girl blushed a bit.

"Mikan, aren't you afraid of me?" asked Valkyrie with a slightly concerned tone. Mikan accepted her as her best friend. They had been the happiest best friend for the past few months.

"Why should I? You were one of my best friends!" she threw herself to hug Valkyrie. Both of them fall to the grassy ground.

"I mean is, you just recover from your injuries and already become a friend with a person who group up with someone that hurts you…"

"I don't mind it at all" a slightly grinned appeared on her face.

"You see you and my friend Hotaru-chan had a same treat to me, cold and monotonously. But both of you really care about me and that is why I trust you!"

"You're weird…"

"So, Valkyrie-chan, what is your Alice anyway?"

This question hit Valkyrie's right to her heart. 'If I show her, it will just turned out liked 'that incident'! No, I must not let her know the truth about me!"

"You don't wanna know it…"

"Oh please!!!!"

"…"

"Please!"

"I just don't want you to know! It's best for you"

Mikan was shocked to hear about this so she shut herself up. She never knew that the quiet and calm girl will react liked this just because she's afraid to show her Alice.

"I…I'm sorry…I've vow to myself that I'll never show my Alice unless it's urgent…I…"

"I'm sorry…for asking so much when you already give me something more precious, friendship. Maybe you're afraid to show it…because you afraid to harmed someone and losses them…"

Valkyrie watches the girl in front of her as she speaks.

"…so do I. When I first found out myself, I'm afraid that my friends will hate me. So I continue to learn about them and in the end, they finally accept me for who I am. I guess… if you don't want to show me, its okay"

"…"

"I guess we better get back now before the lecture will punish us! She's scary when her anger lost control!"

"…"

Mikan stand herself up and start walking to the headquarters. She was happily walking until…

"Mikan!"

Mikan tilt her head to her back when she discovers that her body began to change. After a while, she looks at her mirage on the nearby pond and…

"I'm ten again!" the sixteen years old brunette was staring at her reflection the watery surface.

'I knew she's going to freak out! Maybe I shouldn't let her know…'

"Mikan, I'm sorry…please, don't hate me…"

"Are you kidding?! Your Alice is way cooler than any Alice that I have seen before! So…what is it anyway?"

'She's not afraid…this isn't an act…maybe I can show to her'

"Live manipulating Alice…"

"That is so cool!"

"You think so?"

"Of course it is…Ano…Valkyrie-chan, your Alice is not the type that will reduce your lifespan is it?"

"No, but if I use it too often, my physical appearance will get smaller…"

"I don't really get it"

"Aho… my Alice is a little bit different from the normal Alice. It reversed the effect of this universal Alice so my Alice is limitless"

'The same as Natsume's' thought Mikan.

"I've used it many times in my previous battle and war…"

"Oh I see…so you can transform me back to my original self again…that's good! But…wait a second, you said that you participated in the previous war, when does it happen?"

"237 years ago…it was an Alice war between countries…I fight as the healer for my troops"

"237 YEARS AGO!!! THAT MEANS YOU ARE REALLY, REALLY, REALLY OLD!!!"

Mikan was surprised to see that Valkyrie was over a century older than she is, despise the fact that she looks like a normal 10 years old. She rubs her eyes, blink a few times, and pinch her cheek to make sure that she wasn't dreaming.

"Yes. In fact, I've been living around for 664 years"

Everything went silent. After a few minutes, Mikan open her mouth to speak.

"I still think that you and your Alice are cool and amazing!"

Her smile widen across her face. This kinda sent question to Valkyrie.

"Why do you always smiles, Mikan?"

"Smiling is good. It washes away your problems and sends warm feelings to your heart. Besides, it cheers me and wipe out my sadness!"

"Why are you still happy when you had been captured by the enemy…they even do bad things to you…?"

"…"

"I'm sorry for asking to much question…" she look back at the clear blue sky.

"I was glad that they didn't hurt my friends back at the academy… so they will be safe. The leader said he will not harm them if I traded myself…"

"Why do you such a thing Mikan?"

"…It's not that I was forced, but I felt sorry for them. Hotaru-chan, Ruka-pyon, Inchou, Natsume, and the others, their families must feel worried if they were hurt or anything. I was lucky to have Jii-chan but the academy already said he's dead, so nobody will ever missed me"

"What about your friends? Aren't they going to missed you?"

"I'm sure they will understand, especially Natsume… It's just that, I hope he won't blame himself…He suffered to much already… Natsume will never forgive for doing this to him" she stopped for a moment and takes a deep breath before continuing.

"All I want to do is turned his frown upside down…Besides, I can't be selfish just to get their attention only towards me"

She starts to walk and head towards the headquarter building and yelled towards Valkyrie, "Hurry up! Or are you just gonna stand there like a log, Valkyrie-chan!"

"Get away from here you little bitch! And don't touch me! I don't want to get cursed by your Alice!"

A man around early twenties was arguing to a little girl. It looks liked they were arguing about who suppose to used the shooting training ground.

"Foolish kid, you're the one who doesn't suppose to be here. A newbie liked you should play with a dummy targets instead. Oh, I forgot, you couldn't even shoot any…" said Valkyrie with a teasing tone.

"Why you—"

Just before he had a chance of slamming his fist right in front of Valkyrie's face, she vanished and reappeared at his behind, making him shows his shock.

"Hanoshi-san, for a newbie, you don't know much about me and what I'm capable to, aren't you? Maybe you would like a demonstration…" she had a sly smirk on her lips.

In a split second, Valkyrie smacked Hanoshi's neck hard enough sending him slammed against the wall.

He muttered under his breath and began to steady himself up. Hanoshi withdraws a gun and points it to Valkyrie.

"BANG!!!" a gunshot were heard when Mikan just about to entered the training ground.

"VALKYRIE!!!" screamed Mikan.

Fortunately, Valkyrie managed to dodge the bullet from hitting her straight in the head, instead, only get a small cut on her left cheek.

"Damn it!" cursed Hanoshi. He readies himself to take another shot when…

"Stop it! You're hurting her! Can't you see it?!" yelled Mikan.

She stands in front of Valkyrie acting as a shield protecting her. Valkyrie was shocked to see her doing this to her.

"So, you wanna die huh? So be IT!!"

"Mikan, NO!" too late, the bullet hit her right in her right shoulder. She kneels in front her.

"Why do you do this!", yelled Valkyrie in a very concerned tone. She was aware that Hanoshi was chuckling evilly. "If your little, friend won't get in the way, she might not get hurt. Stupid girl"

"…" she just stares at Hanoshi.

"HA! HA! HA! Urgh! What's happen—Aaaaaaahhhhh!!!! My body!!!!" screamed penetrating the room.

Hanoshi rolled to the ground. His body turns older, his hands start to shake and face wrinkles until his as old as an old man in his nineties.

"Argh…help…me…" his voice cried out for help. Valkyrie stands up in front of him and send him dark look and killing aura that tells she won't hesitated to ripe his head off.

"Now, what do you think about my little 'demonstration' or you would like to try the real thing?" she started walked towards Hanoshi while demolishing the surrounding.

"Please…spar me…"

"No…and now, you die…so much for your young days. Remember this when you in your afterlife, nobody hurts my one and only friend"

Valkyrie was about to absorb all Hanoshi's life when her Alice suddenly disappear, leaving no trace. At first she was shocked but then she knew who's the one responsible is.

"Why…? He was going to kill you and I… couldn't let him do it"

Mikan stands on her feet while clutching her blood covered shoulder. She slowly walks, or rather dragged herself and kneels besides Valkyrie.

"Everyone deserves to live…"

Hanoshi turns into his original self and start running away from both of them screaming curses along the way.

"Get away you bitch! And you…you… that Mukouka girl…you all are a freak of nature!"

Valkyrie gently supported Mikan and takes a look at her injury. She ignored those curses cause for her, their just a nasty words.

"Mikan, are you okay? Next time, don't you do that again... You could get killed"

"I'm sorry...don't worry about me. It's just a mere inch cut... Valkyrie-chan, I..."

"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!!! YOU...!"

"I know...I must be stupid to let go the opponent. But I can't help it"

"That because someone used to say that... We must value our lives and others. Valkyrie-chan, I missed Jii-chan, all my friends back at the academy, my teachers especially Narumi-sensei and most of all Natsume very much!"

"Mikan, you talk too much…"

"Hey I'm trying to tell you something here!"

"…"

"Okay, I shut up…"

'Yet, those words still affect me…'

She stared at Valkyrie for a moment, a glint of happiness showed in her eyes. The Valkyrie she knows in front of her is no longer the heartless person.

'You know what, you acts to me just like Hotaru always do… I really miss you guys…"

Author's Note: I'm sorry if there is any grammar mistakes... If you had any question (but not the what-will-happened-next type of question bacuse I can't answer that...-sorry) tell me about it.

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