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His face glowed blue, from the light of his computer. His fingers moved over the lettered keys with amazing speed, clicking every now and then. His room was dark—he didn't bother to turn the lights on. All he did in the morning was to turn on his computer.

"Mikan…Sakura…" He said, almost like he was hypnotized, or possibly more like one of those online stalker people.

But, this guy was Natsume Hyuuga. He had said to himself that he'd find out Mikan's past. And so here he was. He had woken up a couple hours early to search.

After about an hour, he finally came across on one particular article. He had hacked into Alice Academy's student files, where they kept record and information on every student in the Academy. They usually kept the information 'locked', so no one could leak information, but apparently, since Mikan Sakura was still a new student, her file had not been locked yet, or the Headmaster was just careless.

No matter how much her search on regular search sites like Google, not a single article on the brunette came up.

He clicked on Mikan Sakura's file and started to read.

Name: Mikan Sakura

Age: 16 Years Old

Description: Chocolate brown hair, hazel eyes

None of these surprised him. I mean, this was all the basic, obvious information. She was the same age as everyone else, including him. He continued to read.

Private Information: Mikan Sakura, currently (Before she was taken to Alice Academy) lives with her mother, Azumi Yuka Sakura. Her father, Yamada Sakura, was murdered by his wife. Azumi Yuka is currently in the AAO. Mikan Sakura, when she was found to be taken to Alice Academy, was found locked up in a small room, dehydrated and extremely malnourished. Her life beforehand still remains unknown, even with the research abilities of the Academy. At the young age, she seems to have lived a happy life, although what led her mother to the AAO among other things remains unknown. Also, with many missing gaps of information, she seems to have witnessed several killings before her eyes, including her father, (by Azumi Yuka), her pets (by unknown), and several of her friends (also unknown, but it was concluded most likely after being sexually harassed). The only remaining friend from her childhood is Hotaru Imai, who was born and with Mikan Sakura ever since birth.

Frozen Sakura/SAGA: Frozen Sakura, more commonly referred to as SAGA, was established by Matsuri Cho Taniyama at the age of 13. The name was previously referred to as 'Frozen Butterfly', but changed to 'Frozen Sakura' as a request from Matsuri, before she was killed. Her last, words were exactly as follows:

"Mikan…I'm sorry to push this responsibility onto you…but you and the members are the only ones that are aware of everyone's past…I'm the same age as everyone…but can I ask…you to take care of these children? I'm no longer the leader of 'Frozen Butterfly' anymore…change the name…to 'Frozen Sakura'…or something…it's not…really formal…but from now on…you'll be taking over in my place…It's my last wish…be strong, don't give up…"

Frozen Butterfly was neither a popular nor a well-known gang. They did nothing outrageous or any crimes, unlike most others. It was mainly just a group of friends with similar family or life situations.

The killer of Matsuri Cho Taniyama was caught a few hours after she was killed by the newly-named 'Frozen Sakura'. He was severely injured and tied up by the gang.

Afterwards, Frozen Sakura became known very well, especially to the police. They did not do crimes, but the opposite. They helped catch criminals, and were especially onto murder cases, because of the death of their leader. Mikan Sakura soon became "The Princess of Death", because she would torture then with words until the police finally arrived. Criminals stated that her words 'bore through them and felt like she was ripping out their ribs", and many stated that "If possible, her torture was even worse than Hell".

There was only one time that several people were injured or dead. Mikan Sakura was to be transferred to Alice Academy, but at that time, someone who knew abut the death of Matsuri Taniyama provoked her, and he Alice, which was always dormant until now, killed several people. More were found just injured.

Despite that incident, "Frozen Sakura' still remains a good friend to the Police.

…

This was what surprised Natsume the most. He had established and gathered members for Hellfire himself. The fact she was friends with the Police was also what surprised him. It wasn't like he went down burning building or stabbing people, but people had always considered them the 'bad boys', and he was fine with that. His thought was probably very childish, but he considered Hellfire pretty strong.

He was also surprised on how many bits of information were missing. Alice Academy's research units' skill was pretty darn good—they even found millions of celebrities' deepest darkest secrets, and yet, for a mere 16-year-old, they had missing gaps? Her past was either top-secret or something (The Academy is not allowed to force someone's past out of their mouths, if students refuse to tell them themselves, they were use the researching unit) because celebrity secrets among other things only took about ten minutes. They had about one day, and if it was normal information they were looking for, they would have found so much information that it would make your brain explode. Several people would think this would be an "Invasion of Privacy", and it was, but they didn't research every single thing. Every student has their own personal, restricted information.

He searched around some more, but he really couldn't get anything else interesting. He shut down his computer, and dressed in the school uniform. It was pretty warm outside, so he dicided to wear his summer uniform. A white , short-sleeve button-up shirt that he never even bothered to button, and a ribbon at the top, which he also never tied and allowed to hang loose, red shorts and black boots was what the uniform consisted of. The girls' summer uniform was a blouse that was a bit frilly, with a ribbon that was to be tied like the boys' on the blouse, and a red skirt and black boots.

He locked the door to his room and walked down the hall, to meet the members of Hellfire.

He had considered telling his members about Masturi Taniyama and the past of Frozen Sakura, but he decided not to. He himself had his own personal information, (aside from the Academy knowing) and painful pasts would hurt like a chainsaw cutting you in half and being made into some kind of human juice in a blender.

Actually, that's just plain disturbing among other words that are similar to 'disturbing' or 'disgusting', but we won't go into that.

"Yo, Natsume." Tsubasa greeted coolly, putting up a hand. The other members nodded and gave grunts or some kind of sign of a greeting.

Natsume nodded.

Nearly every morning, the gang would have a meeting on the top of Alice Academy's roof. Even if there was nothing to talk about, they would stand there till class started. But today, there were lots to talk about.

"SAGA's becoming more popular," Koko stated coolly, as the rest of the gang agreed.

"I don't like it. Who does Sakura think she is, showing up randomly and taking over?" Tsubasa said.

"Shut up," Natsume snapped, looking at the scenery from the top of the roof.

"You guys sound like girls fighting for popularity. And Sakura has been in her gang since she was 13. She would be considered older than us."

The rest of his gang snorted, or shifted uncomfortably.

And it was then a loud argument from below broke out from below.

"Damn it Nonoko, can't you shut up about Matsuri for one second?!"

Anna's voice was heard clearly by Hellfire.

"Then don't tell me you've forgotten about Matsuri?!" Nonoko shouted back.

Both girls sounded furious.

"Guys, guys, stop…" Misaki said, trying to calm her friends down.

"MISAKI!" Anna and Nonoko both screamed.

"Can't you tell her to shut up about Matsuri?!"

"Can't you tell her that you tell HER that I'm just trying to preserve her memory?! No one even remembers our past gang name, so I'm protecting what we have left!"

"We have Mikan, guys! Matsuri is dead! I'm not trying to make you forget her, but remember what she said to us? Or did you not hear?!"

Hotaru, who had been reading a book with Mikan, spoke without looking up.

"Who could forget? 'Don't grieve over my death.'" She snorted.

The raven-haired girl shut her book closed.

Hellfire watched over the scene. Natsume was the only one who understood about Matsuri.

"How come Sakura isn't doing anything?" Tsubasa said, as he eyed the brunette, who was staring nonchalantly at a thick book.

Everyone shrugged at they continued to watch.

"See?! Even Hotaru didn't forget about Matsuri!" Nonoko continued, yelling at Anna.

"No one forgot about Matsuri!!" Anna replied, as Misaki and Hotaru agreed.

"THEN WHY DOES MIKAN NOT REACT AND PRETEND LIKE NOTHING'S HAPPENED?!?!?!"

Anna, Misaki, even Hotaru all recoiled at Nonoko's outburst.

Mikan looked up from her book, closing it quietly. He eyes were cold and icy, along with her voice as she spoke two words that shocked them all.

"Frozen Butterfly."

The rest of the brunette's gang froze at the name of their previous name.

"Dismissed."

After that one single word, the leader walked away and towards the school.

But before she walked into the building, she lifted her head towards the roof, stared straight into the eyes of Hellfire's leader, and gave him an icy stare that made him shiver.

And Natsume Hyuuga does not shiver.

Ruka was the first one to speak after the whole scene.

"Frozen Butterfly?"

"I thought their name was Frozen Sakura." Koko added in.

Yuu stayed quiet, but then decided to chip some info in.

"Back when I wasn't taken into the Academy, there used to be a gang called 'Frozen Butterfly' run by a girl name Matsuri Cho Taniyama around where I lived…it was basically a group of friends with similar family or life situations, like abused children or something."

Yuu paused, digging into his mind for more information.

"And then Matsuri was murdered…and during her final moments she said to Sakura-san that she would be the leader…and to change the name to 'Frozen Sakura' because she wasn't the leader anymore and she didn't want them to grieve over her death…"

"So it's like she wanted Sakura to change the name, like it was erasing her own existence?" Tsubasa butted in, as Yuu nodded.

Tsubasa snorted.

"What the hell? That's just stupid."

"Let him continue!" Koko snapped, hitting Tsubasa over the head.

"Ah! Several resources also stated that SAGA, after the murder of Matsuri-san became an extremely good friend of the police and the like. The killer of Matsuri-san was also caught an hour later, by Sakura-san and her gang. And despite the incident with Sakura-san's Alice being released, SAGA's still a good friend of the police…."

Everyone besides Natsume stared holes into the intelligent boy, wanting more information.

"And…er, that's all I know…" Yuu said nervously.

"…" Ruka, who rarely spoke, kept quiet like usual, but opened his mouth to add a few more words of information.

"I heard that the criminals that were caught by Sakura's gang kept blabbering nonsense when they were taken to jail," He said, as everyone stared at him.

"So?" Tsubasa said. "Don't they always blabber nonsense anyway?"

"No, it was more like hysterics. You know, when people are in hysterics, they cry or laugh like crazy."

Natsume rolled his eyes.

"It was her words. When she caught them, she would torture them with words, which a lot of the criminals said was like ripping out their ribs, or if it was possible, even worse than Hell."

His gang stared at him.

"How do you always get the best information?" Koko asked him, as Ruka nodded.

The crimson-eyed teen smirked.

"I have my ways."

The bell rang, as they all made their way to class, slowly and carefree, not giving a damn if they were late.

Classroom B…

Had a really bad atmosphere.

Like, really bad.

More of like a 'KILL!" aura, all emitting from Mikan Sakura, along with a few hints from the rest of SAGA.

As Hellfire made their way into the classroom, they noticed the tension right away.

"Ah!"

Several fangirls squealed at the sight of them.

And this pissed Mikan off.

She didn't care if her own gang was popular, but just the sound of stupid fangirls or fanboys pissed her off. Big time. She hated the way the girls pretended like they knew the gang so well, and tried to butt into whatever they were doing. She hated their snobby looked, how perfect they thought they were, and everything else.

And this was a really bad time to made The Princess of Death pissed.

"NATSUME-SAMA!"

"RUKA-KUUN!"

"TSUBASAAA!

"KOKO-CHAN!"

"YUU-KUN!"

"WE LOVE-"

"WILL YOU ALL SHUT THE HELL UP?!?!?!?!"

…And Mount Mikan erupts. She and the rest of her gang glared at the fangirls.

"Why, are you jealous?" A random fangirl said, smirking. She was obviously full of herself.

Hotaru gave the girl one of her famous "Ice-Queen" stares, which shut her up right away.

"You're loud, idiot," Natsume said airily, rolling his eyes as he made his way towards his seat.

Mikan directed her killer glare towards him instead.

"What are you trying to say, you bastard?"

"I'm telling you to shut up," He stated as-a-matter-of-factly.

And Mount Mikan Blows up again.

"Listen, Sakura, I know you and your gang had a fight about Matsuri…" Tsubasa said, trying to help.

Misaki glared at him.

"How do you know about Matsuri?" She growled.

Tsubasa felt challenged, and shot back a comment that made the situation worse.

"Well, you don't have to get all bitchy," he retorted, "At least out leader wasn't abused, had her father killed by her own mother, and her mother in the AAO at that!"

Hotaru whipped her head around. She and Mikan were best friends ever since childhood and she was really touchy about the things people said about her friend.

"What the hell have you guys dug up?!" She said, her voice rising.

"Information is free to the public when you research hard enough!" Ruka shot back.

"How did you find out about Matsuri?!" Miskai repeated.

"You never answered her question!" Nonoko added in, as she continued to argue with Koko. Yuu just shrunk into the shadows, trying to avoid a fight.

"I don't care what you were able to dig up about SAGA's past," Mikan interrupted, directing the comment more towards Natsume. "But you, your gang, and your fangirls have made one hell of a big mistake."

"Are we united?!" Anna said angrily, as Nonoko agreed.

The whole fight about the previous leader between them all disintegrated.

The brunette jabbed her finger in the flame-caster's chest.

"You better watch your back."

…

And this is where everything goes ballistic.

And that's the end! I actually finished typing this chapter, but didn't have time to upload it. Tch.

I'm really proud of this chapter, I dunno why.

I also found out that typing two chapters at once when your in different moods are faster…because I started a chapter for manipulated, then I couldn't get into the 'depressing' mood to write it, so I started on this chapter…and about a day later I finished the chapter for Manipulated (haha, yus, cos I got into the 'depressing mood',and uploaded that. And then I started adding more to this chapter, and I actually finished yesterday…well, depending on when you read this chapter. XD But the date is 1/14/07 today) but I got kicked off the computer so I couldn't upload it. D:

Anyways.

The characters are turning a bit OOC. Well, technically, Mikan being all dark and stuff is OOC, but….uh, let's not think about the details.

I have to stay on track!

-determined-

Blah.

My social studies homework won't print.

Dammit.

Not that that matters. XD

Shoooo…

Review, please?!

:D