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September 7-Mikan's House-7:20 a.m.
"ACHOOO!" Mikan sneezed and rubbed her nose, "ah..."
"Bless you,"said Youichi.
"Arigato... Nii-chan..."replied Mikan weakly. Mikan walked toward the door slowly and put on her shoes. She got up then slipped and fell.
"Mikan!"shouted Youichi. He hurriedly ran over to Mikan to help her.
"Nii-chan..."said Mikan while rubbing the bump on her head. "Oww..."
Youichi noticed Mikan looked unusually red today. He touched Mikan's forehead. Mikan flinched.
"Mikan! You're burning up! You have to stay home today!"scolded Youichi.
"I'm... fine... Youichi-nii... I promised... my friends that... we'd... do... the science poster... together..."replied Mikan.
"But Mikan! Just look at you! You're face looks so red!"
"Just...this once... please? Nii-chan..."pleaded Mikan. Mikan looked at Youichi with her puppy face. Youichi knew he could never oppose to that.
Youichi gave in, "...Fine, in one condition."
Mikan gave her brother a hug. "Yay! Arigato... Youichi-nii...wait... a condition?!"asked Mikan.
"We walk to school TOGETHER today so I can catch you if you fall."
"Fine... but won't your fangirls get the...wrong...idea? Cause not a... lot... of people know... we're brother and sister... ya' know..."
"Your health comes before my pride! Come on Mikan!"
"Hai, Hai..."
'Sheesh, why do I always fall for that puppy dog face?!'thought Youichi.
-Natsume's and Ruka's Apartment-7:21 a.m.
Natsume swallowed his pills as he watched Ruka finish eating his breakfast. "Ready to go?"asked Ruka as he wiped his mouth with a napkin.
"Yeah, anytime,"replied Natsume as he grabbed his messenger bag for school.
Ruka grabbed his backpack and raced down the stairs as Natsume followed. Soon they were walking down the streets toward the school grounds.
"Look, we're here! Five minutes early too!"said Ruka.
Natsume looked to his left and spotted Mikan holding hands with a gray haired boy. 'Who is that?'he thought angrily.
"Natsume...Ruka-pyon! Ohayo!"said Mikan.
"Who are you?"asked Natsume rudely as he glared at the boy holding hands with Mikan, 'What's a strange power coming from him...and he looks somewhat like Youichi in the Alice World...just way older than Youichi should be now...'
Ruka was thinking exactly the same as what Natsume was thinking, but it couldn't be Youichi. If it was Youichi, he should only be seven years old right now.
Then Youichi looked at Natsume and sighed. "Well, that's pretty rude to someone helping their own girlfriend,"he replied.
"Girlfriend?!"said Ruka and Natsume in unison. All of Youichi's fangirls glared at Mikan.
"Nii-chan!"said Mikan who was feeling sick enough.
'It's probably not them, they just look the same...'thought Youichi.
"Haha! Just kidding! I'm her brother, nice to meet cha'! I'm Youichi!"teased Youichi.
Everyone in the school stared at the siblings, after all, only their close friends who have been to their house never came to school together. Until now that is.
'It can't be the same Youichi… This is Mikan's brother after all...Plus… he's super annoying.. unlike Youichi in our world...And the last name is different...'thought Natsume.
"Whoa! The hottest boy and girl in the WHOLE school are actually siblings?!"cried a boy in the crowd staring at Mikan and Youichi.
"KYAHHH! Kawaii!"said another girl in the crowd.
"Look! Look! Natsume-sama and Ruka-sama are talking to them!"cried a girl.
"We'll take Mikan from here,"said Natsume sternly. Mikan blushed as she heard her name being spoken by Natsume again.
"And why would I let you do that?"replied Youichi with a smirk.
Natsume glared at Youichi,'This guy definitely does not act like our Youichi does...'
"It's...ok...Nii-chan...They're my friends,"replied Mikan weakly.
"Fine. Take Mikan,"said Youichi.
Natsume and Ruka took Mikan by her hand and started walking out of the crowd to get to class. For a second Ruka thought heard a camera but ignored it.
"Oi, Polka dots, are you sick today?"asked Natsume.
Ruka touched Mikan's forehead, "Whoa, you're burning up!"
"What are you talking about?! I'm... fine..."replied Mikan who turned even redder.
"Your face certainly doesn't match your words..."said Ruka in concern.
"No really! I'm... feeling.. grea-" Mikan felt a thug on her head. It was as if someone pulled her shadow down. Mikan almost fell but Ruka and Natsume caught her.
'Damn it, I was so close...'thought the black hair college student, 'She's sick today so this should be easy for me!'
"No wonder why your brother walked you here today... We're sending you to the office!"said Natsume. 'An alice's presence?! Ruka doesn't sense it so whatever... just my imagination...'
Mikan didn't want to be sent to the office. She wanted to keep her promise with Hotaru, Ruka, and Natsume to work on their science poster together. "Wait!"she cried.
"What is it, Sakura-san?"asked Ruka.
"At least let me stay until we finish to poster,"she said with the same puppy face she gave to Youichi.
Like Youichi, Natsume and Ruka couldn't refuse to that face.
"Fine,"said Natsume, "Just go home when we're done with the poster ok?"
Ruka opened the door as Natsume and Mikan walked in.
"Mikan! You're late again today! Hyuuga-kun and Nogi-kun too?! That's unusual,"said Narumi-sensei.
Narumi-sensei was wearing yet another weird outfit, but it wasn't as odd as his other ones. He wore a faded blue fedora on top of his blond hair and hot pink pants with royal blue dress shoes. For his shirt he wore a light pink dress shirt with a white blazer over it.
"Gomen, Narumi-sensei..."said Mikan.
"Now let's start my English class!"exclaimed Narumi-sensei.
"Hai!"said all the students in unison.
-After class- 8:40 a.m.
"Ok! Class is over! You're all dismissed!"exclaimed Narumi-sensei.
"Oi, Polka dots...,"Natsume poked Mikan's cheek,"Polka dots...POLKA DOTS...MIIIKKKKAAAANNNN!"said Natsume.
"Huh, where am I?"asked Mikan who just woke up from her nap.
"Hurry up or we'll be late for science class!"exclaimed Natsume.
"Oh shoot! I fell asleep! Let's go!" Mikan attempted to run but toppled over. Luckily, Natsume was there to catch her.
"Clumsy... I'm only doing this cause I promised your brother to help you, you know..."said Natsume.
Mikan could feel her temperature go up, 'If I get even more sick... it's gonna be your fault Natsume...'
Natsume let go of Mikan and started walking to their science class together with Mikan.
As Mikan walked towards the science room her head started feeling heavier. She started getting dizzy.
When they got there Natsume was about to open the classroom door until he heard a loud thud.
"MIKAN!"cried Natsume and Hotaru, who was behind them.
"SAKURA-SAN!"shouted Ruka as he watched from inside the science classroom.
Those where the last words Mikan heard before she blacked out.
-Nurse's Office-12:14 p.m.
Mikan opened her eyes as she saw the light blind her. Slowly she pictured six faces looking at her.
"Where am I?"she asked for the second time.
She looked at Ruka who was smiling back at her, "You're in the school infirmary, Sakura-san."
"Mikan! Thank goodness!"shouted Youichi as he jumped to hug her.
"Hey, just because you're her brother, doesn't mean you get to hug her..."said Natsume.
Youichi looked at Natsume with a scowl then realized something. He laughed for a second then smirked, "Haha, someone's jealous."
Natsume's face went bright red. He quickly looked away so Mikan and the others would not see his blushing face."I'm not jealous of idiotic people like you…"
"Natsume! That isn't a nice thing to say!"said Ruka.
"Sakura-kun, would you take Sakura-san home today?"asked a nurse with blond hair.
Youichi nodded, "Sure Yamada-sensei! I don't mind!"
"Don't worry about missing your afternoon classes. I have already called your teachers about your earlier dismissal,"said Yamada-sensei.
"Hai!"he said.
Koko glared at him out of jealousy. He wanted to ditch his classes too.
"Mikan… Get well soon…"said Hotaru.
Mikan tried to put up an energetic smile."No worries… I'll...be...," Mikan yawned in the middle of her words, "fine…." Then she fell asleep.
"Figures, she IS sick after all,"said Koko.
"Mikan-san…"said Yuu with a worried look on his face.
Youichi took Mikan by the arm and swung her around his back, "Man this girl is heavy…" he sighed, "Don't worry, I'll get her home as soon as possible!"
Natsume scowled.
Youichi with Mikan on his back head out for the door as Hotaru took out her camera to follow them to sell pictures of the most beautiful siblings in the school.
"I hope Mikan-san is okay..."said Yuu.
"I thought Mikan told you to call her Mikan or at least with a -chan honorific after her name,"Koko pointed out to Yuu.
Natsume and Ruka immediately scowled when they heard that Mikan wanted Yuu to call her "Mikan" at the same time. Ruka looked at himself in shock. He never scowled at all in his life... Until now that is...
-Youichi and Mikan- 12:30 p.m.
Youichi sighed and looked at Mikan, "We're almost there Mikan!"he told her.
Mikan opened her eyes slowly. Her brother looked burly to her. "Mmhmm..."
Little did Youichi and Mikan knew they were being followed by a certain black hair man.
'See Persona? It wasn't that hard to find her!' Tsubasa yawned. He was up all night yesterday looking for Mikan. 'Now I just have to wait for that gray hair dude to get away from Mikan Sakura so I can kill her for Persona...'
Youichi heard a sound behind Mikan and himself. Tsubasa quickly hide behind the closest vending machine. He quickly turned around to see nothing there. Just a couple of everyday birds.
Tsubasa hesitated, 'I can feel an immense power from that guy... just what is it?'
Nii-chan... What's wrong?"asked Mikan in a tired voice.
Youichi gave Mikan a reassuring smile, "Nothing, just checking on some stuff." Youichi sighed and kept walking on to get Mikan home before her fever got worse. 'Must be my imagination,'he thought to himself.
-Afterschool in Sakurai High- 3:30 p.m.
Ruka stretched his muscles. "Natsume, wanna check up on Sakura-san together?"he asked.
"Me? Sure... but tryouts are continuing today. Let's go afterwards,"Natsume replied.
Natsume and Ruka were about to go to the gym when they bumped into a crowd crowding Hotaru's picture stand in the hallway.
Ruka looked at Hotaru, "Imai-san, what are you doing?"
"Selling pictures..."replied Hotaru.
Ruka's and Natsume's curiousity made them look at the pictures. Natsume didn't say a word.
Ruka just stared at the pictures for a second. Soon his face grew extremely red, "IMAI-SAN! WHY ARE YOU SELLING PICTURES OF IINCHOU, SAKURA-SAN, SAKURA-SEMPAI, NATSUME, AND ME!?"
"I'm sorry everyone but they're all sold out..."said Hotaru to the crowd.
"IMAI-SAN!"shouted Ruka.
"Don't worry... I saved copies for you and Natsume..."said Hotaru while giving Ruka and Natsume each a set of pictures.
"That's not the problem here, Imai-san!"said Ruka while taking the pictures anyway.
"I gave a set to Mikan too..."said Hotaru.
"..." Natsume didn't say a word. He was just staring at the picture with him and Ruka holding Mikan each with one hand which was taken this morning. He decided to scan though the other pictures. 'Man, there's a lot of pictures of Mikan in her..'
As he scanned through the pictures, one of them caught his eye. There was a picture of him and Mikan talking to each other. Natsume felt his face grow hot.
"Are you alright Natsume?"asked Ruka in concern for his best friend.
Natsume covered his face with his bangs, "Y-Yeh, fine..."
"Let's go Natsume, we're going to be late for basketball tryouts!"exclaimed Ruka.
"H-Hai..."
-After Tryouts- 7:35 p.m.
"Koko? What's wrong?"asked Yuu surprised to see Koko frowning.
"Nah, my parents need me home by eight today. I got grounded so I can't visit Mikan,"he replied.
Yuu gave Koko a reassuring smile,"That's ok, I can't go either... Student council is deciding on which class should do what for the winter school festival in three months and I'm already late to the meeting,"he said, "Besides, I'm sure Mikan-sa, I mean, Mikan-chan will understand!"
Koko smiled like his usual self again, "Yeh! She probably would!"
"What is this ruckus about?"asked Natsume as he wiped his sweat with his t-shirt.
"Oh! Hyuuga-san! Nogi-san! Are you going to Mikan-chan's house today?"asked Yuu.
Ruka took his towel and wiped off the sweat on his forehead."Yeah, of course,"he replied.
"Oh! Then tell Mikan-chan Koko and I said get well soon!"exclaimed Yuu.
"Sure, let's go Ruka,"Natsume said while walking off.
"Wait for me Natsume!"shouted Ruka, "Um... Bye Iinchou, Koko!"
Koko and Yuu waved goodbye as they watched Ruka run towards Natsume.
Ruka and Natsume started walking in silence, none of them said a word until Natsume said something odd.
"Ruka..."
"Yeah? What is it, Natsume?"asked Ruka.
Natsume looked around suspicously. Then he turned back the Ruka, "I feel a familiar presence..."he said.
Ruka rolled his eyes while laughing a little, "Come on Natsume, it's not like someone from the Alice world can be here."
"... I guess you're right... It's probably my imagination,"replied Natsume.
"Obviously!"
"... Ruka... what do you think of the human world so far?"
"You mean Earth? Well, there are certainly a lot of weird people and it's kinda fun not being stuck in an academy for years straight. It's... interesting... a world without alices... I wonder why they call alices magic?"said Ruka.
"Well, it's like them asking us why we call magic alices..."replied Natsume.
"Well, you got a point there...Oh! Natsume! Look! We're here!"exclaimed Ruka.
Natsume sensed a immense power inside the house. The same one he sensed this morning. "Let's go in..."
Ruka rang the doorbell and waited. Soon enough they heard footsteps racing toward the doorstep. Natsume watched the door slowly opened with Youichi's face looking through the ajar door.
"Oh! Sakura-sempai! Can we see Sakura-san?"asked Ruka.
"Sure, and just call me Youichi, it's hard to tell the difference of my sister's name and my own,"replied Youichi.
Natsume glared at Youichi madly. Something about him was ticking him off.
"You can come in too Hyuuga-kun,"said Youichi.
"...Thanks..."said Natsume. Natsume stepped into the house. 'That's strange... there are two alice presences here... but if Ruka can't sense it... it's probably my imagination...'
"Where are your parents?"asked Ruka.
"Business trip, always on one... So I look after Mikan a lot,"replied Youichi, "It WAS her turn to buy groceries today and my turn to cook but she's sick and I can't get out of this house without her. Plus, if she gets out of bed now she's gonna get even more sick..."
"We can look after Polka dots for you..."said Natsume.
"Polka dots? You mean Mikan?"asked Youichi.
"Yeah..."
"Really? You would?! That's great! I'll leave Mikan and the house to you then! After all you ARE Mikan's friends aren't you?"
"Yep,"said Ruka.
"K', thanks! See ya in about half an hour then!"exclaimed Youichi as his put on his shoes, grabbed the shopping bag and ran off.
Tsubasa hide in the shadows as he watched Youichi run off, 'Now that her guardian is gone here's my chance… Besides, it's only Ruka and Natsume in there right now, if it's only them this should be easy... If Natsume doesn't take off his limiters...'
Right when Youichi ran out of the house Natsume noticed one of the alice presences faded away.
'That's strange… I thought there were two presences here...'thought Natsume.
"Let's go up Natsume!"exclaimed Ruka.
"Right…"
Natsume and Ruka went up the stairs of the Sakura household and knocked on Mikan's bedroom door. At least they hoped they knocked on the right door, because they just looked at the sign on her door that said, "Mikan's Room" written on a board painted pink.
"Come in,"they heard Mikan say weakly.
Natsume opened the door to see Mikan lying on the bed. Ruka followed Natsume.
"Ehh? Ruka-pyon? Natsume? Where's Youichi-nii?"asked Mikan.
"Shopping… He told us to look after you…"replied Natsume as he and Ruka looked around Mikan's room. This was the first time they saw a real girly room. The girls' dorms in the academy were dull and boring with only one or two posters on them.
Natsume glanced at Ruka for a second only to find a familiar foot about to step on Ruka's shadow.
"RUKA!"shouted Natsume as he pushed Ruka away from the familiar foot.
"Hmph. Of course Natsume. You have known me for too long,"said a familiar voice.
"Tsubasa! What are you doing?"asked Natsume as he glared at Tsubasa.
"Hmmm, let's see... I'm here to kill Mikan Sakura instead of you two and take you guys back to the academy. Persona is pretty mad at you guys... I'm surprise you guys are still alive..."replied Tsubasa.
'Kill me?'thought Mikan in fear. Mikan didn't want to die yet. She still had so many dreams to accomplish in her life.
Ruka looked up at Tsubasa in disgust,"Persona sent you huh, Tsubasa-sempai? I'm sorry but I won't let you kill Sakura-san! She is an important person to us!"shouted Ruka as he got up from the floor.
Tsubasa sighed and frowned, "Listen, I'm only doing this because I don't want to see you and Natsume get killed. I'm sorry but I'm going to kill her... For your sake..."he said with a sad face. His hair covered his eyes. It was obvious he didn't want to kill anyone.
Mikan's eye went wide. She knew Ruka and Natsume were suppose to kill her but she was never told they will die as well if they didn't kill her. 'Why?'thought Mikan, 'Why are you doing this for me?!'
Right at that moment Tsubasa took Mikan by her waist and carried her out the window and started to run.
"Help me!"screamed Mikan. 'No...no! I can't die now! I'm only sixteen!'
Natsume and Ruka immediately ran and chased Tsubasa. As they ran they looked at the sky. The sky was dark and gloomy. It was bloody red and dark black, just as how they fought that beast about a week ago.
"Man, we lost him!"said Natsume.
"N-Natsume... Look at the people around us..."said Ruka.
Natsume looked around, everyone was frozen. No one could move. Not even the birds were flying, they too were frozen in the air. It was as if time was frozen itself.
"Frozen... More importantly we have to look for Mikan!"exclaimed Natsume as he started to run again.
Ruka nodded and ran to look for Mikan, "I can't believe I couldn't sense Tsubasa-sempai's presence!"
"I sensed it but you didn't so I thought I was imagining it..."replied Natsume, "He probably used to presence spray you can get at Central Town."
"Anyway, since I figured it out so it wore off!"
Natsume knew that for some reason, Ruka was one of the best students at Alice Academy for sensing others yet this time he couldn't sense it... until now...
Natsume watched Ruka close his eyes. He knew he was searching the area for
"Got it! At the park nearest to the school!"shouted Ruka.
Natsume and Ruka began to run as fast as they could toward the park. Meanwhile at the park...
-PARK- -:- -.- (time has stopped)
"So this is the Mikan Sakura Persona wants to kill..."said Tsubasa while he examined the picture and the real Mikan Sakura, "Yep, this is it."
"Wait! Why... Why are you doing this?!"screamed Mikan. All the sudden she began to cough. She was still sick after all.
"I'm doing this for the sake of Natsume and Ruka, they are my dear kohais. If I kill you and bring them back to Alice World, their lives will be saved. And I have to do this for Persona or I'll get killed with Natsume, Ruka, and you,"replied Tsubasa coldly.
"Wait... Can't... Isn't there another way to deal with this?"asked Mikan in a weak and frail voice.
Tsubasa smirked, "Fine, I'll give you a choice. Either get killed right now here in this park so Natsume's and Ruka's life will be spared, or wait for your year limit to live and get killed along with Natsume, Ruka, and I."
"Wait! How do you know this Persona will kill me? Natsume and Ruka are more powerful than you think!"exclaimed Mikan. Mikan started coughing again, 'Ugh, it's getting hard to breath...'
Tsubasa sighed, "Of course he will, after all, he IS the teacher of the dangerous ability class."
"Dangerous ability?"said Mikan, 'What the heck is he talking about?! But still... dangerous ability... sounds dangerous... Persona must be extremely powerful...'
Tsubasa smirked again, "The dangerous ability section of Alice Academy has all the must powerful and dangerous students. You can also get in by doing something extremely bad with your alice but only powerful alice users can even make damage anyway, so basically a class for people who are powerful alice users."
Mikan stared at Tsubasa, 'Could it be that Natsume and Ruka-pyon are in this section of this Alice Academy?'
Tsubasa answered her question as if he read her mind, "Oh yeah, that includes Natsume and Ruka. Well, Ruka was in the somatic class but he did something really bad in eighth grade that put him to dangerous ability class."
Mikan stared at Tsubasa, "Ruka-pyon did? W-What did he do? And what about Natsume?"
Mikan was scared. She was scared of people of the dangerous ability. Ruka to her was the nicest person in the world. And Natsume was so quiet, how could he cause trouble?
"Ruka will tell you if he wants to. I'm not sure if my dear kohai wants to tell anyone. Natsume was just too powerful. You know how he wears earrings and necklaces?"
"Y-Yes,"answered Mikan.
Tsubasa walked around Mikan, "Those are limiters. If he takes one of those limiters off he is much more powerful. You could say without them, he could even be stronger than me. But I've never seen him take the earrings off before. Apparently he could set a whole city on fire if he wanted too without the limiters."
Mikan gasped, 'Natsume... Is that strong?'
"Anyway, back to the point, so what's your choice? Death now and save Ruka and Natsume or will you be idiotic enough to face Persona, the strongest alice user in Alice Academy?"said Tsubasa with another smirk on his face.
'Actually if Natsume took off his limiters... he'd probably be just as strong as Persona... But I won't say anything...besides, if he did take off his limiters, he might go crazy. Even he can't control his own alice...And I don't want to risk losing both of my kohais...'thought Tsubasa.
Mikan couldn't think at all. All she could think of was, 'What should I do? Natsume... Ruka-pyon... are you really bad people?'
-End of Chapter 6-
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