As promised, here`s another chapter of my fanfiction, Secret Weapon. :D They`re still in the fair. :))
Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen alice.
As she was staring at the fire balls, sudden pictures went through her head.
Fire. Guns. Men and women surrounding her. A high-classed hotel room. A meeting room.
The pictures in her head went too fast and confusing. After all the suddenness, her mind was filled with black all throughout. She fainted.
Chapter Seven.
Mikan`s mind was filled with darkness. After a sudden burst of different images, her mind might have gone to overload and just shut down.
"Mikan." Mother told me before she was about to leave me.
"Mother?"
Tears were forming in her eyes. She knew that she had one foot already in the grave. Mother belonged to an organization she doesn`t want to talk to me about. She said that if I knew, they might track me down and use me.
"Always take care of yourself." She kissed my forehead. "And remember, never let anybody know of your Stealing Alice unless it`s really called for. Do not let anybody use you."
"Yes, mother." I said. My voice was already getting croaky. I felt a tear on my cheek.
"I love you, Mikan."
"I love you too, mother."
She always had that same dream, over and over again. It kept bothering her since it was the last memory she remembers. What happened after that, she`s really not sure of. How could she forget a whole year? The doctor said she must have gone through a lot of stress, mentally and maybe physically, that it made the brain too uncomfortable and forgot it.
Maybe she learned something about her father? Has she been harassed or taken advantage of? Did those people from her mother's organization finally track her down?
She will never be sure of unless she investigates about it. But how will she ever do that if Alice Academy won`t allow her outside? Mikan would just have to be patient. The memories may just come back to her if she hits her head again or something.
Another image came to Mikan`s mind while unconscious. Several images, actually.
In between all the sudden white-outs of her mind, she sees images of people in black coming to get her, talking to men in suits, being given everything she wants, guns, cries, powerful people.
Baka! Baka! Baka!
Hotaru`s almighty baka gun really came into good use. Mikan was awakened from her unconsciousness and the flashing pictures. Unfortunately, she forgot the images again. She wasn`t sure if they actually happened, or was it all just a dream?
Baka!
"Hey! I`m awake!" Mikan said standing up. Around her, the students that were managing the booth surrounded her, as well as Hotaru, with her infamous gun in her right hand, Mikan`s extinguished fire balls in her left. I must have spaced out. She thought to herself.
"What happened to you?" Hotaru asked, concerned for her friend.
Mikan scratched her head and just smiled. "Sorry, I think I dozed off."
Baka!
Hotaru rolled her eyes while the other students just laughed, some complained about her making such a big fuss. "You made me worried, baka."
"I`m so sorry, Hotaru!" Mikan said, clinging to her arm again. "Planning for the fair must be getting to me just now."
"It`s okay. Don`t you do that again, okay?"
"I promise!" She smiled once more, making Hotaru do the same too.
In truth, Hotaru really liked seeing her best friend smile. Despite all the pain Hotaru`s gun may inflict on her, Mikan doesn`t cease to show how much she loves being in the company of the girl with cold, violet eyes.
~.~
"Hey, I`ll just buy crab brains." Hotaru said while they were walking in the fair grounds. She didn`t have to worry about losing any money. Being a triple star, Hotaru won`t ever have an empty pocket. She gets a high allowance, and with a technical alice, plenty of sponsors give their all for her.
"Mhm, I`ll just stay here." Mikan said while she slumped in a bench under the shade of a tree."
Besides, I don`t want to get caught by any catchers again. Mikan thought to herself. This is a pretty safe place I hope.
She took that as a time to scan the fair grounds once again. The scene was still fairly the same. The octopus still had the longest line, catchers were all over the place, and currently, students were meowing in order not to get caught.
Mikan giggled at the sight of everybody meowing, looking stupid. With her stay in Alice Academy, she started to like it here. She liked the students, teachers, rooms, and a lot more. She has even made some friends more than she made enemies.
It was actually the first time she had any friends. Her mother made sure Mikan was confined in the corners of their house. Her reason was the usual, for protection. Unless she gained friends in the past year, Hotaru was officially her first best friend.
And that best friend of hers was taking long. Buying crab brains won`t take as long as she is. Crab brains are actually not for everybody`s reach. It`s expensive and not many people like how it tastes.
Hotaru was the number one fan of it, though. And like stated Hotaru was rich. She would be able to buy even all the crab brains in the shop.
Mikan decided to start looking for her. Fortunately, the dedication booth decided to change those to be caught. Mikan was safe since they were catching those with glasses on. Suddenly, Mikan saw Iinchou, their class representative, running from some laughing catchers.
Poor Iinchou.
She continued looking for that certain girl. Mikan expected to find her holding another can of crab brains or any food at least.
What she saw, she really wasn`t expecting. At all.
Hotaru, yes she found, but she was with somebody else. She was with Ruka. Another surprise was that both of them were handcuffed to each other. Neither of them seemed to complain, nor look too excited. The feeling was probably mutual.
Mikan sighed. She`ll have to look for somebody to talk to.
~.~
Flashback.
Hotaru was on her way to the shop. Everybody was meowing.
"Baka." She kept saying on and on.
Her strategy was to buy as much crab as she could get her hands on, make a run for it, and drag Mikan to a place where catchers won`t bother them even if meows are coming out of their mouth or not.
Unfortunately, before she even reached the shop, somebody must have caught her keeping quiet and sneaky.
"Aw crap." Hotaru looked at the person that caught her. "Weren`t you the one that caught Mikan yesterday?"
The girl looked at her and thought hard. "Oh! Do you mean Natsume Hyuuga`s wife?" She had a smug look on her face, like she wanted to laugh but she also wanted to rip his wife into pieces for some reason.
"Yes, her." Hotaru said. "That means I`m getting married."
When Hotaru reached the booth, she saw the guy she was about to be married to. It was Ruka Nogi. What a coincidence.
End of flashback.
~.~
Out of pure loneliness, Mikan decided to do something productive or at least talk to a person while waiting for Hotaru`s marriage to "end."
She decided to look for somebody that she knew was alone at that moment. Mikan wasn`t very sociable to other people except to those who she really is close with. She decided to look for that person where she guessed was a spot that he would like. Natsume didn`t really like noise too much.
Ah there, she found him. He was reading his favorite manga under the shade of a tree. The place was far away from all the chaos that came from the fair. It was behind the food stalls so the smell of food lingered in their noses but it was far away that no catchers won`t bother looking for preys there.
As Natsume saw her walking towards him, he knew he was the point of her coming there since nobody else was around.
"What are you doing here, polka?" Natsume asked, not even looking up from what he was reading.
"Do not call me that." Mikan said, trying to add a little danger to her voice. To her dismay, it just sounded so fake and not scary at all.
He just laughed at her obviously trying hard voice. "I`ll call you whatever I want to." He then lay down on the grass on his back and placed the manga to cover his eyes. Probably, he was about to sleep.
Natsume was drifting to sleep when a certain brunette disturbed him and took a peek at his face by uncovering his head. Under the manga was a very annoyed expression that also looked to be shocked with all the sudden sunlight.
"What?" He spat out.
"Why are you like that?" Mikan asked, trying to sound innocent. With that, she was actually more believable.
"Like what?"
"You know," She looked at his face but he didn`t have an idea painted on his expression. "Why are you so cold to me? I mean, I didn`t do anything wrong, right?"
"Nothing." Natsume simply answered and covered his eyes again. He really wanted to doze off.
She really wanted to know the answer, unfortunately.
"Tell me or I use my alice on you." Mikan said, straightforwardly. Besides, having several alices were quite an advantage at some points. Okay, a lot of points.
Mikan heard Natsume slightly laugh under the book. "I didn`t know how sly of a devil you could be." He said.
"Of course." She said with a triumphant smile. She had him in her precious hands.
"Uh," Natsume was actually going to answer her question! What a miracle. "I don`t deserve to have a friend like you. I`m like the opposite of you as a person. I`m not a good person, at all."
Mikan lay on her back, just like Natsume. She started to get sleepy, too. "We really wouldn`t know." Mikan said. "Who knows, I may have killed a lot of people in the past year that I forgot." She patted his head and closed her eyes.
"Probably." Natsume said, finally reaching his sleep after some time. A minute or so after, Mikan follows.
They`re both sleeping, with heads almost touching. Nobody was getting to see whatever is happening to them. They were protected by Mikan`s barrier.
Looks like the alice is useful in your personal life, too.
They`re sleeping beside each otherrrrr. :"D Lol. Hope you liked! Reviews. :)
xox,
Terence.
