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Chapter 6: Plans
"Wait, so you're telling me that I have to marry Natsume Hyuuga for your own benefit?" Mikan stared at Youichi who sat before her after explaining about the Fire Bending.
Natsume sat next to them on the other chair, they went to Aikawa Sakura's office and sat in the living room. "Yup, only because I want to conquer the world." Youichi smiled.
"You're one twisted kid," Mikan thought. "So what do you have to say about this?"
"Hey, all I want is to gain the power of the sun, I'll marry you but if you wanna have an affair, go ahead." Natsume said.
"How could you?! I can't marry two people!" Mikan shouted.
"My definition of an affair is that you'll be my wife and you can go around and have other boyfriends. I never said you're allowed to have another husband," Natsume said and Mikan glared at him.
Just when I found out I have the cutest boyfriend and brother, all my plans became ruined due to his ex-majesty! Mikan thought. This guy is like a curse hanging on to me. "Fine, if it'll make You-chan happy, I'll marry you."
"Sweet! Here's comes the sun!" Natsume punched his fist in the air.
"I have multiple conditions though," Mikan sat with her legs crossed and Natsume stared at her. "One; no matter what happens, you will never EVER interfere with my affairs be it your enemy!" Mikan said sternly.
"That's done." Natsume shrugged his shoulders.
"Two; after the both of you conquer the world, I'm gaining 50 percent of it."
"WHAT?!"
"NO WAY!"
"May I remind you that I will be the one that ties the bond between the both of you? I can just divorce you and your powers shall be eliminated" Natsume bit his lips and glanced at Youichi.
Youichi looked like he doesn't mind. "Fine, whatever," Natsume huffed.
"Three; those so-called bitches that are your fans, you two will prevent them from EVER getting their hands on me! I wanted a normal high school life, I guess for the next few years will do," Mikan thought.
"Just when do you plan on marrying me?" Natsume asked.
"25th of December, when we're twenty," Mikan grinned.
"THAT'S FOUR MORE YEARS!" Natsume cried aloud.
"Hey, the least thing I want to have is having a husband who looks twenty forever instead of this child-look-a-like!" Mikan muttered. "I do have standards, you know." With that Mikan stood up and grabbed Youichi's wrist. "I'll say this once again, I'm only doing this for my baby brother."
"That 'Queen's actually a serial bitch," Natsume muttered. Then he licked his lips. "I must be one hell of a bastard!"
"You agreed?" Hotaru asked while toying with her recent experiment that changes the emotions of one person due to temperature.
"I only told them my three conditions, but I made up four-years worth of time to think of more," Mikan grinned.
Hotaru smirked and placed her hand on Mikan's shoulder. "You Mikan are my prized pupil! I'm glad I followed you here," Hotaru said.
"Well today's my official day as Queen who has a King. I'm gonna go play with Koko for a while, I'll catch you later," Mikan waved and left the door.
"You can come out now," Hotaru muttered and Ruka merged from the curtains. "Have you fully heard her story?"
"Yeah, and I've done a pretty hell a lot of research on Natsume and Youichi," Ruka said.
Hotaru gestured Ruka to take a seat. "Tell me," Hotaru said.
Ruka looked out from the window. "For one thing…they're possessed," Ruka said. "When they get related, it's not that they're going to conquer the sun and get super powers. Darkness will roam the Earth instead. Mikan is actually their sacrifice," Ruka said.
"This has turned over fully from the first time I met them, when I met Hyuuga, I felt an eerie aura…like mine," Ruka laughed as Hotaru stared at him.
"So you can sense evil because…you're one?" Ruka asked and Hotaru smiled.
"No, I meant that his aura is a manipulating one. So continue," Hotaru said.
"Well, all I know is the dominating demon is the one in Youichi, that's why he can recognize his other half faster, Natsume's slower. Youichi manipulated Aikawa Sakura and Yuka Azumi into adopting him."
"Do you know of a way to kill them?" Hotaru asked.
"Their weakness is actually the emotions of the host," Ruka said. "If the real Natsume and Youichi can feel…something like love or happiness and I mean pure happiness, the demon will leave the host and die under the sun," Ruka added.
"So our plan for the next four years would be…to make Natsume fall deeply in love with Mikan Sakura," Hotaru smirked. "Thank goodness she has a brain to extend time."
"Ne, Koko," Mikan rushed up and caught up with Koko outside of his class. "What do you have right now?"
"Physics, why?" Koko asked and flustered when Mikan grabbed his arm. He's still not used to having Mikan as his girlfriend.
"No reason, just wondering, you know about the whole GK and Fire Bending thing, there's something fishy about it," Mikan said and Koko stared at her.
"You've only figured it out?" Koko chuckled. Mikan stared at him.
"OK, so I'm new here, what's up with everyone and this…King and Queen rule and why aren't either of you surprised to see fire coming out from someone's palm? I was shocked!" Mikan muttered.
Koko sighed and held Mikan's wrist. "Come here, I'll show you something," Koko said and pulled Mikan to the back of the school building.
"Close your eyes and just let me hold your hands," Koko said and Mikan silently closes her eyes. "Think about something, anything."
Mikan kept quiet. What is he trying to do? Oh my gosh! He's holding my hands! I think I'm starting to really like him. Mikan giggled.
"What is he trying to do? Oh my gosh! He's holding my hands! I think I'm starting to really like him," Koko said in a monotone voice and Mikan's eyelids fluttered open.
"You…you…" Mikan stuttered. He…read my mind!? Wha-how?!
"He read my mind?! What, how?!" Koko repeated and Mikan covered her mouth from screaming. "Everyone in this school is special," Koko said. "Some was admitted here due to their powers, some with outrageous talents and some like you who get here by connections," Koko said.
"Then that means my dad's a…"
"Yeah, your dad's the principal here," Koko said. "He's the most powerful Alice here."
"Alice?" Mikan asked.
"It's a general name to state our powers, mine is mind-reading," Koko smiled. "Ruka can make animals get infatuated to him, your best friend Hotaru is an inventor, a non-Alice but outrageous talent," Koko said.
"You asked how your father could just choose random people to be your King, that's because he has the power to seek loyalty and qualities in a person by just looking into their eyes. He chose the best four guys in the school to be yours," Koko said.
"Natsume's a Fire Alice, he's one of the Elements Control students like Kitsuneme whom controls air and that's how he can fly and such," Koko said. "Since Aikawa Sakura married your mom, one of you must've had an Alice."
"That's impossible," Mikan chuckled. "I'm the third party, the one who gets into the school by connections."
"That's unlikely. Aikawa's duty is to search for Alices and combine them together, he wouldn't marry anyone out of the Academy's reputation so simply," Koko said. Koko then grabbed Mikan's wrist once again. "Let's go get answers from your father."
………………..In the Principal's Office……………………..
"Why I married your mother?" Aikawa asked. "Well she's beautiful of course, what other reasons could there be?"
"You know…intellect…personality…powers maybe?" Mikan giggled and Aikawa frowned and looked over to Koko.
"You told her about Alices?" Aikawa asked and Koko shrugged his shoulders. "Well since you're officially King and Queen of the Academy you have the right to know about my job." Aikawa stood up.
Mikan and Koko sat on the red leather chair. "I'm a principal of Alice Academy, an Academy that secretly trains other students whom possesses extraordinary powers called Alice. We enhance their powers to increase the chances of awareness in others that we 'Alices' are not 'strangers'. We are a community of Extraordinaire."
"You mean like the 'X-Men'?" Mikan giggled and Aikawa smiled.
"Did you know the campus they used in the X-Men movie is a United States Branch of the Alice Academy?" Aikawa asked and Mikan's jaw fell wide open. "It's true, Alices…are everywhere. It's just a matter of time for all the heads of the Alice Academy campuses to gather all the Alices in the world."
"It's also a matter of time before Darkness rules the world," Hotaru barged into the room.
"Sir, I tried to stop her," Aikawa's secretary breathed heavily outside the door from chasing Hotaru.
"Miss Imai, what an unexpected presence," Aikawa said.
"I'd like to have a word with you…" Hotaru said and glanced at Mikan and Koko. "…in private if you'd please." Mikan stared at Hotaru in a confused manner.
"Is it of such importance that you needed to barge into my doors so rudely?" Aikawa asked.
"It's a matter of life and death…of your 'Queen'," Hotaru said and Mikan looked at her.
What's wrong with mom? Mikan asked in her head. "Mikan, Yume-kun, I'd politely ask you to go out, but in this case, just please leave," Aikawa pointed to the door and they left with Mikan's wavering eyes flashing back and forth between her father and her best friend.
"What's wrong?" Aikawa asked.
"Ruka, come in," Hotaru said and Ruka dropped from a hole in the ceiling cleverly set up by Hotaru. "Ruka Nogi will be following Mikan constantly without fail as long as Natsume Hyuuga and Youichi Hijiri are nearby," Hotaru said.
"The Demons Persona created is on the move," Ruka said and Aikawa said. "They've taken possession of Natsume and Youichi claiming they need to conquer the sun to get supernatural powers."
"Well that's absurd! They only need to devour a willing human to gain those powers," Aikawa said.
"That's what your Queen is for," Hotaru said.
"B-but Mikan couldn't be willing to sacrifice…for darkness…Youichi?! How'd this happen?" Aikawa asked and sat down on a huge chair.
"Well, you can ask Ruka, he's been investigating Natsume for almost four years now," Hotaru said and Ruka cleared his throat.
"The Demons that Persona left twelve years ago before you and Yuka-sama disposed of Persona, one of the two Demons possessed a three year old Ghost-Control Alice student. Youichi Hijiri," Ruka said.
"As far as my father has known, you tried to protect Youichi from meeting the other Demon," Ruka said. "In the end, the Demon in Youichi manipulated your mind into adopting him."
"Adopting? I didn't adopt anyone," Aikawa said and left Ruka's face dumbfounded.
"But, you adopted Youichi Hijiri yesterday, Mikan just had her new brother…" Ruka said and Aikawa's face was in confusion.
"There's a new demon on the loose," Hotaru mumbled.
OK, I know it's confusing, ok I'll explain it down here.
The first quarter of the chapter, Youichi was there, just staring, while Mikan and Natsume have an argument.
In the earlier chapters, it was stated that Hotaru knew Ruka due to some business function when actually, she knew him when he spied on her, I'll put this info later in the next few chapters, I'm just so sure one of you is going to ask why and what so I'll just explain it here.
When Ruka stated that Aikawa and Yuka-sama worked together to dispose of Persona, there's no mistake there. Mikan's actually the biological daughter of Aikawa but neither of them knew. Aikawa and Yuka knew each other for a long time and Yuka ran away, when Aikawa met her again, he proposed to her.
Anymore questions, I'll answer it in the reviews section.