Yume…ka…?
A fan fiction by Aoi Kitsukawa
Disclaimer: Gakuen Alice is belongs to Higuichi Tachibana-sensei, I only borrow the characters in the manga. Please enjoy reading it!
Author's Note: After I send the first part of this story, then I realized that I never mentioned about Kuroran no Kimi's existence in the previous chapter! I have to confess that it's not easily to complete the sixth chapter, especially when I made Himitsu to investigate what exactly his niece was doing. Suddenly I was in the end of the brink when I made the story like that.
Besides, with the latest chapter been release (Chapter 137-139) revealed that 'Tsubasa' was really Goshima, Yuka finally passed away in tragic way and Mikan decide to stay in the academy (much to my annoying!), it made me to think that I have to make revision for the next plot! Then I realized that I don't need to change everything; just keep it on going. The changes can be doing in the next story of this trilogy.
Forgot to mention about this (or did I already mention it?), Yume..Ka? is the first trilogy of Gakuen Alice Trilogy, so after this story there will be another sequel but not too much, so don't worry about it.
I realize that my second short story-Time to Say Good Bye, only been visit but nearly no review. It's not that I want reviews that much, just to know what everyone's opinion about this story. Since I never make a story starting with first person point of view, so I really want to know people's reviews about my story.
Also, thanks to Rhea in rural for mentioning my mistake again (huhuhu…) Izumi supposedly born in first August, not November. First November was Kazumi's birthday!
Hahaha, trying to make some kind of 'sentimental' chapter! I just felt that time; it might be alright if I made some kind of other characters' POV. Unfortunately, I only made Tsubasa-Misaki moment, Goshima and Natsume! I really don't know what to write after I made this characters' moment! Maybe because I was in desperate since when I finished last chapter, I was about to go home for my break!
Really troublesome.
In this story, the journey will be lead by Himitsu. I'll try to make the story as to reveal Kazumi-san's pasts. Please enjoy yourself!
Hints:
Italic-Past events
Normal-Current events
Summary: After the ESP was captured, the school finally in peace, but several people had to pay a heavy price for the freedom. And the worst is Principal Kazumi Yukihira! Between life and death, he suddenly had a dream. A dream from the past…
What are you exactly thinking of, alone?
What burdens are you bearing, alone?
The dreams that haunting you…
A little bit will do.
Hold onto my hands,
If you scare…
Because…
You are not alone…
Dream 7: Travel into Dream Part 2
A dream sometimes can show us the past, the present or the future…
"We're, already inside the dream?" Asked Mikan as she held her mother's torso.
They were inside of some strange dimension. There many warp holes around them, lightings and resonations went passed them. The whirlpool that was surrounding them was dark, and at the same time, they could see many dark things like a serpent jumping out above their feet.
"Not yet, but right now we're passing the warp hole of the dream so don't get yourself lose your grip!" Himitsu said.
Mikan, Natsume, Hotaru, Ruka, Subaru, Tsubasa, Tonouchi, Sakurano, Yuka, Jinno and Narumi, each of them were holding hands, did not want to let go. Both Yuka and Sakurano held on Himitsu's arms, but suddenly a black shadow appeared and flew towards Sakurano. Sakurano was shock and nearly lost his grab when suddenly Himitsu pulled himself in front of Sakurano and raised his left hand.
"KAGERYU!"
Suddenly other shadows appeared and attacked the other shadow until it was destroy. All of them were shock to see the scene in front of them. Himitsu breathed heavily as Sakurano went to his side.
"Sensei, are you alright?" He asked, worriedly.
"I'm alright. Sorry that I make you people scare," Apologized Himitsu.
"No, it's not that enough shock to kill us sensei," Joked Narumi as he laughed a little. However, his act had leaded him into wrong situation. Both Yuka and Tsubasa punched his face, Ruka stepped right left foot and Natsume kicked his left foot.
"Ittteiii~! It hurts guys!" Cried Narumi.
"Serve you right for doing idiot thing!" Growled all of them except Mikan who was speechless with the current situation.
Narumi cried in pain as everyone scolded him for making IDIOT joke at that time. Luckily for Narumi that Hotaru did not shot him with her Baka Canon, Jinno with his lighting, Natsume with his flame (but he DID kicked him) and Subaru with his Pain-transfer Alice. If they really did, he must be dying already!
"That power…" Said Tsubasa.
"I'll explain to you later, sonny. Right now, held my hands because we're going to enter for real now," Said Himitsu.
"Now?" Asked Mikan.
"Yes, so please be careful," Said Himitsu as suddenly all of them started to feel a fast speed on them. Everything suddenly turned fast and brought them away from the strange dimension, far at their back…
"!"
"What's wrong?"
A woman in kimono was looking over her left shoulder as the companions in front of her; both were men but one of them was asleep, the other one was awake; looked at her. He immediately knew that his time has come, judging the way she was acting that time.
"I guess the time has come," He said as he slowly lifted up the man in his arms and gently put him down on the grass.
"Isn't it? Kuroran no Kimi?"
A silent before Kuroran no Kimi nodded her head.
"They already entering the dream so it's time for you to go," She said.
"Izumi-sensei."
"Talking straightly like that. Are you a perfect melancholic or what? Too perfect!" Joked Izumi.
His joked was answer by Kuroran no Kimi's fist hit his head!
"Stupid sensei! Do you want me to kill you?" She hissed, as Izumi was creep out.
"Woaa~! Easy, girl! I'm already dead, right?" Said Izumi as he tried to escape from Kuroran no Kim's wrath.
"This isn't the time we want to chit chat now, sensei," She said, as her eyes look serious.
"Huh?"
"It seems that there's some kind of disturbing inside the brain wave of your brother. I need to go and check it out," She said as she turned around.
"Wa…Wait! What do you mean by disturbing!" Shouted Izumi as he realized something bad was about to happen.
"Aniiki is still alright, right?"
"What you protect right now is his soul, not his body. His brain especially has been invaded by something. It seems that some invaders are trying to escape to this world by using Kazumi-san's brain wave as a cover!" She quickly grabbed his hand as she flew towards the sky (remember that both Izumi and Kuroran no kimi were in Kazumi's dream).
"You say, invaders! Who are they? What exactly they want to do with Aniiki?" Screamed Izumi as he felt that the woman kept increasing her speed.
"Wait until I make a power shield (barrier)," She said as she turned around.
Right now, both of them were leaving the HSP's dream, but as they reached the boarder of his dream, Kuroran no Kimi let go of Izumi's hand and clasped her hands. She enchanting a spell that made Izumi stared at her with disbelieved.
Gules, Sable, Azure, Argent, Or!
The Symbols of these Solar System that blessing us, the Guardians!
Lend me your powers,
Protect this area of mine!
Suddenly lighting appeared and encircled Kuroran no Kimi's hands, much to Izumi's surprise. She then let go of her hands, slammed the lighting right in front of the boarder, and encircled the whole place where the lying HSP was inside. Kuroran no Kimi breathed deeply as the breath came out from her mouth, her face sweating.
"Hey…Are you alright?" Asked Izumi as he grabbed her shoulder.
"Don't worry; it's normal to use your powers like this. I have no choice but to create different type of kekkai (barrier) since my uncle and the others are already in Kazumi-san's dream," She said as she wiped her sweat away.
"Different?"
"I'll tell you along the way. Right now, would you like to follow me across your brother's past?" She said as she turned around.
Izumi was silent for a moment. When he heard that his student was about to across the dreams, he realized that she wanted to take him together with her, viewing his brother's pasts. Something rare and hardly to find out. It was his chance to know more about his elder brother; who was silent and rarely spoke about his life since childhood until he met with Izumi.
Although when he was alive, Izumi knew that, his aniiki was always trying his best to not speaking about his past life. Even as a student until he became the principal of High School Division, he always managed to avoid it.
Could it be that there was something bad or sad happened in his life that time?
Even if it is true, why his brother did not want to share his sadness or pain with him? Why he must bear it all alone by himself?
Why?
It was a question that he could not able to answer it all by himself, unless he needed to figure out the way to find the reasons of his brother's stubbornness!
"I accept!" Said Izumi, full of determination in his voice.
Kuroran no Kimi smiled as she looked at the tall man in front of her. Just like Mikan then, she thought.
"Like father, like daughter, huh?" She said as she grabbed Izumi's hand and took him away from the boarder.
Izumi just smiled as he slowly glanced at the dream that they was about to left behind. He narrowed his eyes as he spotted his brother's figure lying on the grass, still sleeping. He turned his head around and looked at the front as both of them became invisible, and slowly disappeared.
Mikan and everyone widen their eyes, as what they saw in front of their very eyes were so…
Magnificient!
Several broken glasses were floating everywhere, up, down, right, left…Everywhere! Even Natsume and Jinno were also shock and seemed amazed with their surroundings. The lights reflected beautifully as they were colour glasses; like a rainbow. They could heard people's talking and saw movement in the broken glasses as well!
"This is the memories of Kazumi Yukihira, the one that we went through his dream," Said Himitsu when suddenly he felt a little pain on his right hand. He raised it up and looked at it a little bit longer. His act had attracted Tsubasa's attention.
"Sensei, what's wrong?" He asked.
"Nothing, son. Just feel a little bit pain," He said as he narrowed his eyes, glanced at his right side. As everyone seemed fascinated with their surrounding, Shiki, Tsubasa, Tonouchi, Natsume and Jinno looked at him with curiosity that boiling inside them.
'Did something happen but he did not want to tell us?' That was what they thought that time.
Himitsu glanced as he kept on thinking, "Did that girl…?"
Mikan looked at one of the glasses and raised her hand, trying to touch one of it. She did and suddenly the glasses were glowing, causing her to gasp. Hotaru and Yuka looked at her and yelled, "Mikan, what are you doing?"
"Hohoho, don't worry. This time, we can let go of our hands. As I said before, during this journey we can watch the person's pasts or his point of views throughout his life as witnesses, but we're not allowed to involve or even interrupt the memories."
"But, I did touch the glasses?" Asked Mikan.
"It's true that by disturbing the memories would give bad impacts on Kazumi-kun and will disturbing the time flow of his memories and can cause his memories to be change too."
"But if you touch the memories just in case you want to see it, it can react and shows the memories to us. Still, do not invade the memories or disaster will happen. There will be many slide shows of Kazumi-kun's memories flashing everywhere around us so be careful. Please never left this barrier and go outside to the wave flow," Explained Himitsu.
"Oh," Said everyone. Then all of them saw the memory of the HSP when he was 8 years old, as his father Satoru came back from military duty with injuries on his body, (Please refers to Chapter 2 for full story of this past) and also the memory of him two years later (refers to Chapter 3).
"So, that's my grandparents…" Said Mikan. "Satoru and Akari Yukihira."
"My grandfather was a soldier, and Uncle Kazumi really resembles him," Mikan said as she looked at the memory of her uncle.
"Same as your father, Mikan-chan, but his personality is more on your grandmother than your grandfather," Said Himitsu as he sighed a little.
"But unfortunately, Kazumi-kun wouldn't able to meet them anymore…"
Everyone looked at Himitsu with wide eyes, as they thought that he was saying something that he should not to say.
"What?" Asked Jinno. "What do you mean by that Himitsu-sensei?"
Himitsu looked down as he looked at the crying Kazumi in his memories, as he closed his eyes.
"His parents passed away two years ago," He said, as he looked everyone. "It's an old age sickness."
"And I believe that Kazumi-kun DID receive the letter that told him about this." He said when he saw Jinno shook his head, much to his surprise.
"No…He didn't' say anything about it," Said Jinno as he stared at Himitsu with disbelieve.
"Are you sure Jinno-sensei? I was the one who send it to him," Said Himitsu.
"If he did receive it, I should know about it as well," His words made Himitsu hissed with anger.
"That bastard! He must be hidden the letter!" Hissed Himitsu with anger that caused everyone looked at him with disbelieved and fear.
"If you want my help, why don't you ask me for it sensei?"
Everyone's eyes minus Himitsu were wide as they heard the voice. That voice was belongs to Hii-sama, but where on earth she was in that dimension?
"Hohoho, Himitsu-sensei, you should told them before. All of them seemed confuse right now," Said the voice that came from Himitsu's side. Himitsu quickly took out a Barrier Alice Stone that he tied it with single necklace and saw it glowing.
"Indeed, I was totally forgotten about this!" Claimed Himitsu with shock in his voice.
"Isn't that Hii-sama's Alice stone?" Asked Shiki.
"Indeed, it is belongs to Hii-sama, and Hii-sama has mine. It can be consider as a method communication between the real world and us. A real Yumemi can communicate with others just by using his or her telepathy, but a Borrower like me needs to have something as an attributor," Explained Himitsu.
At the same time, Hii-sama was sitting next to Principla Yukihira's bed as Goshima sat next to his side as well, holding his hands. He looked at the MSP as she kept on talking to Himitsu.
"By the way, Hii-sama. Could you please do me a favor?" Asked Himitsu.
"My pleasure, sensei. What is that you want me to do?"
"Can you please send someone to the ESP's office and try to find a letter for Kazumi, dated 2 years ago?"
"Principal Yukihira's letter?" Asked Hii-sama, as she, Kakitsubata, Goshima, Shiki, Misaki and Amano-sensei looked at each other.
"I'll go get it!" Said Goshima as he was about to stand up and leave the room when Hii-sama stopped him and asked him to stay with the HSP. She ordered Kakitsubata to ask one of the Dangerous Ability Students-Hayate Matsudara to go and get the letter. Shiki volunteered to go as well but he also was prohibiting by Hii-sama to go along. In the end, Misaki-sensei and Serina-sensei (who were call by Amano-sensei), alongside with Hayate to go and look for the letter.
After all the commotion was over, Hii-sama looked at the silver metallic Alice stone on her hand; it reminded her of the same metallic blue Alice stone that once she had seen before. It was belongs to a young girl with black, mysterious eyes that always shown with mystery.
Could it be that both Himitsu and that girl were related to each other?
"Maybe we should go and read some of his memories," Himitsu said as the stone on Hii-sama's hand glowing and then showed the image of the people in the dream.
All people in the HSP's room were now staring at the small glow that appeared on Hii-sama's hand.
Little Kazumi looked at the whole corridor with heart that was beating faster. He was enrolling into the academy for two weeks now, and this was the first time that the ESP called him into his office. He just followed the man who brought him to the office, before he asked him to enter the room all alone.
"What is he doing there?" Asked Tonou.
"Apparently, Kuonji had start to give him mission after he was staying here for two weeks," Explained Himitsu. "Although he was a new student, but, as you people know what kind of person the ESP is, even Kazumi was not able to escape from him."
"I was the High School Principal that time, but I was not allowed to interfere with the Elementary School Division's matter."
"What kind of mission, sensei?" Asked Mikan, innocently.
Himitsu silent for a while; he actually felt so heavy to tell her about it. However, he knew that eventually, they would know about it at all.
"Kazumi's mission…"
"Was to give or provide his Longevity Alice to certain people; mainly the politicians or people who are in connection with the ESP. It was in order for them to be able to provide help to the ESP, and to make sure that the creator of the clones in safe position."
Everyone was shock to hear Himitsu's revelations. They looked at him with wide eyes, as they heard something that might rip out their heart at the same time. Even Hii-sama and the rest who was in the HSP's room were shock as well.
"But…but I thought that he was taken here in order to increase the enrollment of other Alices! How on earth we don't even know about this?" Asked Jinno in disbelieve, as well as Shiki and Natsume.
Himitsu just looked down as he looked at the conversation between Kazumi and the ESP. Somehow; he felt like to punch the face of the ESP who was smirking that time, as he said something to the young boy. He, the former High School Principal of Gakuen Alice, felt so angry every time he remembered the incident that happened to the man that he loved, as he was his own son.
He knew the time for 'that' incident will be reveal in any time, so he glanced at Jinno and said to him with flat tone.
"Because of his rare body and Alices…"
"Kazumi was taken interest by the ESP because during that time, to find any rare Alice just like us was too hard and difficult. Since Kazumi's Alice Detection was able to look through the photos and not only by looking at the people, he had been taken liken by Kuonji."
"But I'm a coward; I was unable to realize that his first mission was totally…a nightmare to Kazumi-kun," Said Himitsu as he closed his eyes, his face looked sad.
"A nightmare?" Asked Shiki from the real world when suddenly they heard a sound of slamming door and realized that the scene in front of them was change.
Inside of a gloom, medium size room, Little Kazumi was trying his hard to create his Alice stone. He had been trained by the teacher from Special Ability Class on how to create an Alice stone. After half an hour, he finally finished creating the stone.
The client who was waiting patiently in front of him was an old man who wearing an expensive robe, sitting on the chair. His eyes glanced at Kazumi as he handed the small stone to one of his men. He then took it and looked at the silver-yellow stone in his hand. His creepy smiled had make Kazumi shivered a little.
"I don't like this old man," Said Tonou as he held his body. "He's reminds me of someone else!"
"Same with me," Said Ruka as he also held his body.
Narumi looked at them with HUGE VEIN on his head, "Are you talking about me?"
"Nope!" Said everyone at the same time.
Although the truth was that, they were thinking the same thing!
Sakurano observed Himitsu who was looking like intense and angry. He did not know why at first, until when they saw the next scene in front of them, then he understood why Himitsu was acting like that and in such bad mood.
"Come here my boy," He said. "Don't worry; I won't hurt you as long as you do what I ask you to do."
Kazumi stared at him as he felt that his heart was beating faster, faster enough that he felt like it was enough to kill him immediately that time. He tried to escape from that hentai old man as he kept his distance away from him. He kept on slipped back until he stumbled against the corner of the wall.
The old man quickly grabbed his hands as he leaned and started to lick his left ear. Kazumi was so shock that he struggled to free himself. However, it seemed that the bastard seemed 'ecstasy' with his action that he begun to lick his neck, causing Kazumi to cry and screaming on the top of his lung.
"No! Stop it!" Kazumi screamed as his tears were non-stop, as he desperately tried to break free of the old man's arms.
The old man pressed his body to feel as much of Kazumi's flesh as he can. "Aaah…it feels so good…don't stop kid!"
Tonou and the rest were so shock as they watched the scene in front of them. Yuka quickly held her daughter and Hotaru, avoiding them from watching the terrible scene. Same with Narumi and Tsubasa; both of them quickly grabbed Natsume and Ruka and held them, preventing them from the awful scene in front of them.
Kazumi, of course was too scare that he struggled as much as he want. As the bastard was trying to touch him more, Kazumi accidentally hit his face strongly. His action had made the hentai looked at him with furious in his eyes and causing him to slap his face harder. Kazumi felt a terrible pain on his cheek as his mouth was bleeding on the left side
The sadist's hands started to touch Kazumi's thighs as his other hand trailed the outer part of his body. Unsatisfied, he ripped off Kazumi's shirt as he ran his hands through his chest. Kazumi screaming as he tried his best to stop him. However, the bastard was not satisfied yet as he held Kazumi to the small bed on the corner of the room and threw him hardly on the bed. Kazumi felt that everything was about to break; his head felt aching but he was totally freak out.
That old man was on the top of his small body, ready for the next move!
"Hey! What's going on? What exactly happen to the principal?" Asked Tonou as suddenly another resonation happened.
Himitsu quickly raised his shield as suddenly another shadow wave came and covered the scene in front of them. Himitsu was not able to prevent it; it was too dangerous. He was covering for the others who came into the dream, and it was his responsible to protect them from any harms.
Everyone could swore that time Himitsu was so tense and angry; they knew the reason why. They could heard the painful screams coming from a small child who was so hopeless against the sadist man that was about to destroy his future.
Mikan could felt the tense that her uncle was facing that time. She shut her eyes as she could heard another screams that terrified her very much.
"NOOO! STOP IT! STOP IT! NOOO~~!"
"ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH~~! STOP! AAAAARRRGGGHHH~~!"
"HAHAHA! MORE! MORE SCREAMS! SCREAM MORE SO THAT I COULD FEEL THE ECSTASY FROM YOU!
"NO! STOOOPP! FATHER! FATHER~!"
"HELP MEE~~!"
At the outside of the room, the guards just chatting as they already knew their boss's habit. It was a calm situation when suddenly they heard footsteps coming to them.
WHACK! THUMP!
"Hey, who are you? You're not suppose to…ARGH!"
"What is going on here? Waarrgghh!"
A sound of broken door was hear and a gasp was also heard; it was belongs to the old man.
"What is it? Huh? Who…Who are you! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE IN MY PLACE!"
"I come to take that young boy away from this place…"Said the mysterious guest.
SMACK! WHACK! THUMP! BINN!
Screams of pain could hear at that time. After the voices were gone, sounds of walking footsteps were heard as the mysterious guest seemed to walk to the young boy who looked like a half-dead man. A sound of fabric being dragged away was heard as the young boy made a little cried. The mysterious guest however, making a 'shoo' voice as he said gently to the boy that made him silent.
"Don't worry. I'll take you away from this place so close your eyes and calm down," Said the mysterious guest as he tried to calm down the traumatic young boy, as his shoes made the sounds that he walked away from that awful place…
The last scene of the memory slowly blurry and the memories was gone. All of them were so shock; even the people in the real world as well. None of them, except for Himitsu knew the real pain in the HSP's life. It was so terrible, so bad that they also believed that if they were in the HSP's place, they might be commit suicide!
At the same time, they finally knew the hidden secret that the HSP kept deep inside of his heart that even he did not dare to tell everyone, even to his younger brother…
The High School Principal was a victim of child and sexual abuse!
"YOU BASTARD! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO YUKIHIRA-KUN!"
A man in brown suit was clenching his hands on the other person who appeared to be the ESP-Principal Kuonji. It was Himitsu, and to others' surprise that the HSP was totally mad with the ESP; he went to his office and neglected the other staffs who tried to stop him, he used his Kotodama to destroy the office's door, much to everyone's surprise including the ESP.
Except Kuonji, none of the staffs or the students knew who exactly Himitsu was. Came from the family with samurai and priest's background, Himitsu was the next successor of inheriting the role of Priest of Seiryu of Seiryu's Temple. His Alice was already considering as rare and unique, but the powers that he possessed was very different.
His powers were not Alice; it was stronger and mysterious. He was able to do anything that usually evens the Alice-users unable to do it. Kuonji was not sure what kind of powers that he had, but it was enough to scare him to death!
Now, stood in front of him, the High School Principal was choking him for the young Longevity Alice boy who was hospitalized at the hospital, after his first mission. His eyes were wide with anger; he seemed like to break the ESP's neck anytime that he wanted to.
"How dare you do that to him? He's still a kid for God's sake!" Screamed Himitsu furiously.
"Calm down Principal Himitsu, at least the child's still alive," Said the ESP.
"Still alive you said?" Stared Himitsu with anger.
"That boy was nearly rape, torture and then left in front of our hospital lobby without anyone with him! He's looks like nearly death; you say that I need to calm down!"
"That's why I told you to calm down. It's not that he's going to die anyway."
"BULLSHIT!" Screamed Himitsu as he threw the ESP away from him and hit the table. Some of the staffs went to the ESP's side, very afraid with the furious Himitsu.
"Listen you damn principal. That boy is under my supervision; I'm the moderator of Special Ability Class so if you want to use him, you have to face me first!" Said Himitsu as once again he grabbed the ESP's collar.
Suddenly someone was entering the room; it was a female high school student when she suddenly gasped. Her acts made everyone looked at her with curious; Himitsu was furious when he realized that it was his student after all. He let go of the ESP's collar as he rose up and looked at her.
"Miaka, what is it?" He asked.
Miaka looked at him with a little bit uncomfortable; she actually never saw Himitsu like that, and said to him, "There's some problem at the hospital. That young boy was in hysterical state again."
Without saying any words, Himitsu walked away from the office as his student went along with him. Kuonji, at the other hand, was gasping for air since the HSP grabbed him too tight that he felt like he was out of air.
Himitsu quickly went to the hospital with Miaka, when suddenly he heard a loud scream that came from the pediatric ward. It was full of pain and suffering; it felt like the scream of death.
It was Kazumi!
"NOOO! STAY AWAY FROM ME!"
Himitsu quickly went inside the room when the doctor in charge approached him and told him what had happen. Himitsu looked at the poor child who was sitting at the corner of the room, next to his bed. His condition looked worse; it was reflected in his eyes. The nurses were ready to catch him and one of the doctors was ready to inject him with sleeping medicine when Himitsu slowly grabbed his hand and shook his head.
"Let me handle this," He said.
"But…"
"Don't worry, I know how to handle that child."
The doctor only nodded his head, since he knew Himitsu was really concern with the child.
Kazumi held himself as his mouth muttering something that nobody could hear. He looked so afraid, and he twitched when he saw Himitsu slowly went to him from the crowded people.
"Yukihira-kun?" He said.
Kazumi started to cry as he waved his hands frantically, trying to avoid Himitsu from coming to his side. He felt so terrified, so disgusting from being touching by anyone. Himitsu at the other side, just ignored the fear that child was having and made his way to him, grabbing his hands.
Kazumi was so shock that he started to scream hysterically. Himitsu could swore that time, that child was so afraid with him. The experience that he had that time had traumatized him a lot; he was so scared to be touch.
"No! Let me go! Let me go~!" He screamed.
"Yukihira-kun, calm down! It's me!" Said Himitsu, trying to calm down the boy.
"NO!" He screamed. "Let go! Let goo!"
"Yukihira-"
"DON'T TOUCH ME! FATHER~!"
"Principal Himitsu, please let us handle him," Said one of the doctors. "Nurses, get ready to-"
"FATHER! HELP ME!"
"KAZUMI!"
Himitsu's scream had make Kazumi's scream lost immediately. He looked at Himitsu with his wide eyes while Himitsu stared at him with anger. He let go of his hands but slowly grabbed his shoulders, trying to calm him down.
"Kazumi, calm down…It's me," Said Himitsu, trying to calm down the boy and himself.
Kazumi looked at him with wide eyes and heavy breath. Slowly, tears were gathering in his blue eyes as he said to Himitsu with cracking voice.
"Fa…father?"
Himitsu was shock at first, but then he slowly sighed as he looked the child in front of him with gentle eyes and nodded his head. His action had shocking everyone in the room except the girl named Miaka.
She immediately understood that under that circumstance, Principal Himitsu was trying to calm the child down by acting as if he was the father of Kazumi. She raised her hand to the doctors and nurses as they looked at her and nodded their head.
"It's alright Kazumi-kun, it's alright," He said as he hugged the child. Kazumi was startled a while, before he asked Himitsu again.
"It…It is…?" He asked.
"Yes…" He said. "Calm down OK? I'm here."
His soft, gentle words had made the traumatic child cried as he held him tightly. Himitsu stroked his hair and patted his back, trying to calm him down. Miaka then came by and patted his head, with Himitsu looked at her with question on his face.
Although Kazumi did not look at her but he knew that the person who was patting his back was a good person. Slowly, his cried begin to slow and then, he was asleep.
Himitsu carried him as he placed the poor child on the bed. Miaka looked at him as she pushed his stray hair away from his face. She could saw the bruise on Kazumi's left cheek; a sign that he received while fighting to release himself from the danger.
"Nee, sensei…" She asked.
"Are you sure that he will be alright?"
Himitsu looked at her, the young girl in front of him. She was a lovely young girl with long dark brown hair that really matched with her dark eyes. Tall and slim, she had the criteria of a grown up woman. Himitsu just sighed as he said to her.
"If you help him."
"Then what's your role of being his teacher anyway? Don't tell me you also afraid with that 'bastard'?" She said as she pushed her hair back.
"Hmp! That sadist had stole his freedom; he can't leave the school ground due to his unique Alice. Do you think I want to sacrifice Kazumi-kun just for the sake of that glutton man?"
"Well, I can help him out…"
"STOP IT!"
Miaka was stepped back by Himitsu's burst.
"I don't want you to kill yourself; remember what kind of Alice type you are, Kusuga Miaka," Said Himitsu sternly.
"At least this is all I can do…"He whispered, but enough for Miaka to hear it.
Miaka just silent, as she stared at the child who was sleeping with tears in his eyes, and the man who was sitting next to the poor child…
Everyone in the dream stared at the vanishing scene in front of them. Mikan was already sat on the 'floor' (since I don't know what to say it), looking shock, as well as the others. Jinno and Shiki looked at each other; they too were shock with the scene in front of them.
"What's…that?" Asked Tonou as he looked at the shocked Mikan.
"What exactly happened to uncle?" Asked Mikan as she looked at Himitsu.
The old man (but he was in his youth form) looked at her as he sighed and sat down with the others. He stared at the colourful glasses that floating around them, thinking what should he said to them.
At the outside of the dream, the young Goshima Hijiri stared at the scene of the young Miaka Kusuga, who was appeared in the HSP's past. He stared at the scene as he unconsciously held his grips on HSP's hands. Hii-sama realized that something might have caught the attention of this young man; however, she did not say any of it.
"What are you looking at?"
Izumi turned his head around and saw Kuroran no Kimi looked at him with her usual, cool eyes. Izumi shook his head as he looked at the floating glasses that represented his brother's memories.
"They already here," He said.
"Yes," She said. "I know about that."
"Together with your wife and daughter."
"HUH!" Asked Izumi.
"Stop fooling around sensei," She said as she turned around and grabbed his hand, took both of them away from the main stream of the dream wave.
"Just checking this wave stream is enough to cause my blood boil!" She said as she flying across the wave.
"Why?"
Kuroran no Kimi looked at him and said, "Invaders."
"Invaders?"
"That's right." She said. "Now, hold my hand or you'll left behind."
"Alright…"
"Nee, what's your name kid?"
"…"
"Come on, I'm not scary you know."
"…?"
"My name is Miaka. Kusuga Miaka, age 18. Nice to meet you!"
A young girl in high school uniform stood next to Kazumi's bed. She was a lovely young girl with long dark brown hair that really matched with her dark eyes. Tall and slim, she had the criteria of a grown up woman.
Kazumi looked at her, before he looked down on his hands. Miaka sighed as she placed the flowers that she brought that time. As she placed them in the vase, Kazumi looked at her and then looked at the purple flowers that gave him a strange comfortable feeling. Miaka glanced and smiled to him, as she picked one of the flowers and handed it over to Kazumi.
"Smell it," She said, which he did.
"Do you know what are this flower and its meaning?"
"…No…" Finally, he talked, which made Miaka's smile grew wide.
"Lavender is devotion…and faithful."
"Really?"
"Of course, Kazu-chan! If I didn't know the meaning of these flowers, I can't make my own ikebana you know!" Claimed Miaka as she pinched Kazumi's nose and Kazumi shrieked a little.
"Ka…Kazu…chan?" Asked Kazumi as he stared at his sempai with wide eyes.
"By the way, I'm the representative of Special Ability Class and you're also my kouhai in this class so, again, I'm Kusuga Miaka! Nice to meet you!" She said as she handed her hand to Kazumi.
Kazumi looked at her, before took her hand and shook it, "My name is Yukihira Kazumi, nice to meet you sempai."
"Kyaaa~! You're so cute!" Said Miaka as she hugged Kazumi, much to his surprise!
"Neee, Miaka-sempai! That's not fair! We also want to hug him too!" Said a boy with dark blue hair with a pair of dark blue eyes, entered the wad with several students. He wore the middle school uniform, and he appeared in his 15s.
"Get lost Takumi! This boy is still traumatic you know!" She said as she stuck out her tongue, as Kazumi was sweat dropped.
"Geez granny! I know that!" He said as he rolled his eyes.
"WHAT. DID. YOU. SAY?" She asked with hiss.
"Yo! Your name is Yukihira Kazumi-chan right? Then I'll call you Kazu-chan too!" He said as Miaka smacked his head.
"NO way! Kazu-chan's mine!"
"No! Mine!"
"Mine!"
Both of Kazumi's seniors were fighting with each other while the others just sweat dropped, when suddenly the door opened and revealed Himitsu. Kazumi saw him and he quickly ran to him, hug him tightly.
"Sensei!" He said as Himitsu chuckled a little and held him up. This young boy always reminded him of his younger brothers at home, since Kazumi was a gentle child. He carefully held him as Kazumi leaned his head against his neck, and he was still injured.
"Principal Himitsu!" Said all of them.
"So, you people pay some visit to Kazumi-kun?" Asked Himitsu.
"Indeed, sensei! We're worried about him ever since that incident," Said Takumi.
"Sounds too worry about him, Andou?" Asked Himitsu, smirked.
"Of course! He's the only elementary kid in our class so he's so special!" He said when suddenly he saw Kazumi looked at him with fear in his eyes. Takumi slapped his forehead when he realized that Kazumi just stayed in the wad for two days only and was not recover yet from the trauma that he had.
"Hey kid, sorry about that," He said as he rustled Kazumi's hair. "I'm Andou Takumi, Middle School Division student. Three-stars student! Nice to meet you!"
Kazumi just smiled shyly when Takumi suddenly took him from Himitsu's hands, much to Kazumi's shock. He nearly started to cry again, when he felt Takumi held him gently, causing him to calm down.
Everyone could sense that Kazumi was slowly attracted to Takumi, as he smiled 'victory' to Miaka who has said 'hmp!' to Takumi. Himitsu just laughed his head off before he said to Kazumi with gentle smile and eyes.
"Kazumi-kun, I would like to welcome you…"
"To the Special Ability Class," He said with a smile.
Kazumi looked at Himitsu, and then Miaka before he looked up to Takumi. Slowly smiled, Kazumi said 'thank you' to them, as everyone cheerfully smiled and some of them patting Kazumi's head…
Mikan and the others were staring at the scene, which was slowly blurred. All of them realized that, among those people there was someone's name that they really knew very well. Slowly turned around, all of them were now staring at the wide-eyes Tsubasa, as well as the people at the real world.
"What?" He asked, nervously.
"That… Andou Takumi…" Asked Tonou. "Did he have the same surname as Tsubasa?"
Himitsu sighed as he looked at the people in front of him. Mikan's question still unanswered by him, and yet, another question was raise up. In addition, he knew for sure, someone from the real world would also want to ask him something.
"Tsubasa-kun, do you have a relative by the name of Andou Takumi?" Asked Himistu.
Tsubasa scratched his head as he said, hesitate, "Well then…Actually, that person MAYBE my grandfather…"
"WHAT!" Shouted everyone.
"Tsubasa-sempai's ojii-chan?" Asked Mikan.
"Well…if we're looking at him back, he does looks like Tsubasa a little bit," Said Tonou.
"His attitude too," Said Sakurano.
"Except that guy didn't have the tattoo star and not as idiot as this shadow," Claimed Natsume.
"Who's idiot? You brat!" Said Tsubasa as he tried to smack Natsume, which he was able to avoid it.
"By the way, why are you saying 'maybe'? Asked Goshima from the real world.
"Well, I don't really remember, honestly," Said Tsubasa as he looked at the confused Goshima through Hii-sama's Alice stone.
"And how can you forget your own grandfather, Tsubasa? Geez, you're the terrible person I ever met in this life!" Said Misaki annoying as she rubbed her temple.
"Misaki, you're mean! How could you say like that if both of us were been taken by the academy when we are three years old? Kids couldn't remember all of their early life as young as three years old, damn it!" Cried Tsubasa as he cried at the corner of the barrier (?) looked so gloomy.
Everyone was sweat dropped.
"Interesting info," Said Hotaru as her eyes showed a sign of '$'. All of them except Himitsu and Shiki turned around in shocked and saw Hotaru held a record tape in her hand. Tsubasa chased her as she also ran away from him, causing everyone sweat dropped.
"Talking about relatives," Said Himitsu. "Both Takumi and Miaka had some of their family members enrolled into this academy after them. I don't know what happened to Miaka after she married since she followed her husband to overseas due to his work, but I did meet with Takumi several years ago."
"Sensei," Said Subaru, as everyone looked at him. "What is Andou Takumi's Alice?"
"Takumi's Alice…" Said Himitsu after he paused for a while. "Is Alice of Shadow Manipulator."
"It's the same as Tsubasa-sempai!" Claimed Mikan, shocked as well as Tsubasa.
"But after his last mission with Miaka and Kazumi, both him and Miaka lost their Alice and had to drop from school," Explained Himitsu.
Himitsu's words had shocking everyone, and Tsubasa slowly raised his head and looked at Himitsu with serious expression.
"Now that you say like that sensei…" He said. "Maybe this Andou Takumi INDEED my grandfather after all."
"Really?" Asked everyone.
"I can't remember it clearly, but before I was taken into the academy, I did hear from my mother about my grandfather and I had the same Alice. Then I heard that even he had lost his Alice when he was young and strangely, my father was a none-Alice, the genetic that ran through my body still had the potential that I will be born as an Alice. He also mentioned that sometimes the child will be born as Alice, can inherit its ancestors or relatives' Alice as well."
"Your grandmother and parents were a none-Alice?" Asked Misaki.
"If I'm remembering about them, yes they are."
"That's why Takumi is in Special Ability Class, the same as you young man," Said Himitsu.
"Then, when uncle was sick…" Asked Mikan.
"As you see that time, Mikan-chan, Kazumi was in unstable emotion, I have to pretend to be his father so that he will calm down," Said Himitsu as he seemed to read Mikan's thought.
"I believe he's so close with your grandfather, so he's attaching to me when I claim myself as his father in that condition. I'm not a pedophile, but it's a natural when you're fond with children especially if you're a teacher," Explained Himitsu as he realized everyone's face was changed.
"Then, sensei," Asked Goshima as everyone looked at him included at the real world. "What about Miaka-san's Alice?"
"Eh?" Everyone stared at the young man who looked calm.
"Why you ask about her? And it seems she sounds familiar to you," Asked Himitsu as he smirked.
Goshima just looked down, not saying anything. Himitsu however, could sense a miss feeling coming from the young boy who was sitting next to Kazumi, held his principal's hands with hope that all of them would find him and returned safely; a wish that was obviously could seen on his face.
He already knew that the young girl named Miaka had something with Goshima. The way he looked at her, listening to her voice showed that he missed her so much that he nearly wanted to cry. Of course, the others did not realize it, but as a man with a family, he understood Goshima's reaction at that time.
Could it be this child…?
"Did Kazumi have show you people something at the high school building?" Asked Himitsu.
"EH?"
"Something?" Asked Subaru as he and Sakurano looked at each other.
"Something that been protected from the ESP, something that only Kazumi-kun and the people that he trust know about it. Something…"
"That letting you escape from being detected."
Himitsu's words had caused everyone gasped as all of them realized what exactly Himitsu was talking about. Both Sakurano and Subaru looked at each other, and then both of them said together in shock when they realized what the 'something' that Himitsu was said at all.
"The warp hole at the music room?"
"Exactly," Said Himitsu with grin. "Kusuga Miaka is the creator of the warp hole that been placed at the abandon music room in the high school building. Her Alice is the Time-Slip; she can create a warp hole anytime, anywhere and her ability is considered as unique and rare, as well as special."
"No wonder why she said that she can help uncle to escape…" Said Mikan.
"But Miaka's form Alice is Limitless," Explained Himitsu. "It's true that her Alice is Limitless, but at the same time, it harms her life span if she keeps on using it without thinking of her own life. She was chosen as the representative of Special Ability Class also because of her Alice."
"She's a Special Star?" Asked Narumi.
"Yes, and she's a genius, aside the fact that she's the daughter of millionaire," Said Himitsu as he sweat dropped.
"A millionaire heir but having damn relatives is something that I'm not agreeing with," Said Goshima in hate, shocking everyone.
"Wait, did you say…relatives?" Asked Tonou.
"As I thought," Said Himitsu suddenly. "You're Miaka's nephew, isn't it?"
This time, everyone including Hii-sama, Kakitsubata and Shiki looked at him with wide eyes as they shouted.
"WHAAAAT!"
Izumi was looking at the memories of his brother with his student-Kuroran no Kimi inside the glasses dreams, when suddenly a strong resonation came across the brain wave. Both of them quickly stuck together, as both of them knew something was not right.
"Damn it! Another 'resonation'! It's seems 'it' happen again!" Shouted Izumi as his student grabbed his hand.
"Hey!"
"Come! This resonation isn't the ordinary one!" Said Kuroran no Kimi as they few against the wave with speed.
"Why we have to go against the wave?" Screamed Izumi, when all he felt after that was a strong wind against his face.
"GYAAAA~!"
"Your daughter and others are still in the previous location! We need to pull them to another side or otherwise the resonation is going to crush them apart!" She screamed.
"But where?"
"There's only one place, and I need your help on this matter!"
"WHAT?"
BAAAM!
"KYAAA~!"
"What happen?" Screamed Natsume as he grabbed Tsubasa's hand.
"Great! Another resonation! Everyone hold each other now!" Shouted Himitsu as he quickly grabbed Sakurano and Yuka's hand.
"Kyaaa~!" Screamed Mikan as she tried her best to hold her mother's body.
"Mikan!" Said Yuka. "Hang on!"
BAAM!
DUM!
Other resonations came across them again and this time it was too late for them to avoid the impact that came to them. All of them were hit by the suddenly wave; all of them felt like their heads were about to explode, their ears felt like they already deaf, and even some of them like Ruka and Subaru felt like they wanted to vomiting everything out from their stomach.
Himitsu was the worst.
The waves that crushed against his barrier not only made all of them in pain, his body even felt like been shock by 1000 volts of electricity. His left side mouth was started to bleed; this had make Sakurano who was holding his left hand stared at him with wide eyes.
"Sensei!" He shouted.
"Don't worry about me! Just don't let go of your hands!" He shouted.
DUM!
"UWAAAAHH~!"
"KYAA~!"
"MIKAN!" Screamed Yuka when suddenly Mikan's grips let go accidentally and flew away from Yuka.
Luckily, for her, Natsume was able to catch her hand once again, but the resonation was so strong that he nearly let go of it.
As from the people from the real world, all of them were panicking when suddenly the heartbeat of the HSP suddenly went down. Shiki quickly pressed the buzzer as the others watched the comatose man in horror.
"Yes, sir? What is it?" Asked a nurse.
"Call in Amano-sensei! Tell him it's an emergency!" Shouted Shiki as the nurse quickly searched for Amano-sensei.
"What happen?" Asked Misaki as Hii-sama shook her head, she was also worry.
"I don't know," She said, her face pale.
Goshima quickly checked on the pulse and realized that it was nearly stopped! Gratefully, Amano was there with several nurses and Ishihara-sensei came in with him and quickly doing some quick check. Goshima glanced at the Barrier Alice stone on Hii-sama's hand and realized that the vision was gone!
"All of them…!" He said.
"On no!" Said Shiki. "We're lost contact with them!"
Principal Yukihira, although in coma, he was still able to cry in pain. Amano realized that something was not right; somehow he also could felt some kind of…
Strange powers within the HSP.
'Oh God, please help us…' He prayed as he glanced at his friend's pale face…
"MIKAN!" Screamed Natsume.
"Natsume!"
"Just don't let go of it, OK?" Said Natsume as he tried to pull Mikan back into the shield.
BAAM!
"WHAT!"
"NO WAY!"
"NO! WE CAN'T STAY UP LIKE THIS! IT'S TOO STRONG!" Shouted Himitsu as all of them saw a very big wave suddenly came to them.
Mikan felt like her hand was about to torn apart when suddenly, she felt someone was grabbing her hand, along with a voice that gentle like a sun…
"MIKAN!"
Which she was familiar to.
This voice is…
Father?
Suddenly, she felt a pair of strong but protective arms wrapped around her waist and pulled her stronger at the back. Natsume, who was holding Mikan's hand suddenly, felt a strange heat came across his arms and body, before they were spreading throughout the entire barrier. As he was about to say something, suddenly he could felt another impact fell on his body and realized that all of them were being pulled away to the back. Everyone's screamed as all of them fell into another part of the dream, when Mikan saw a glimpse of…
A woman?
"KYAAAA!"
DEBUK!
"ARGH!"
Everyone fell on each other's body, in the middle of a grassy green field. All of them were moaned in pain as they fell on the ground, which unexpectedly, soft as cotton. Mikan and Natsume fell on the top of Tsubasa's body, Hotaru on her brother's chest, Ruka on Jinno, Yuka fell right on Narumi and Sakurano, while Tonou was under Himitsu.
All of them quickly sat off from each other, not to mention that some of them quickly fell back due to the impact of the sudden resonation that across them before.
Himitsu was the worst.
He coughed many blood from his mouth as he clenched his chest. Everyone, although still in pain, Sakurano and Jinno quickly came to him.
"Sensei! Are you alright?" Asked Jinno as he stared at the bleeding grasses.
"It's alright…" He said.
"This is the price that I have to take as being a Borrower."
"But…" Said Sakurano.
"No need to worry, young man," He said as he rustled Sakurano hair, much to his surprise.
"Sen..sensei!"
Everyone just chuckled a little while Sakurano's face was red. Mikan, on the other hand, she felt something strange right before they were pulled into another part of the dream.
Where are they just now?
She could felt the same feeling of someone pulled her from the back; arms that were strong and protective, as well as the same voice that she heard during her time-travel journey.
'It is father who save us just now? But…how…?' She thought when suddenly her eyes spotted one figure lying on the grass, under a sakura tree.
She quickly stood up; much to everyone's surprise as she ran away from them, but Tsubasa quickly stepped on her shadow and caused her to fall down.
"Ittai! Sempai, what are you doing?" She said, annoying.
"Where are you going to, Mikan?" Asked Tsubasa.
"Over there," She pointed. "Someone's there!" She said as she stood up again and tried to run, only was shot by Hotaru's Baka Canon.
BAKA!BAKA!
"Mouu~! Why are you shooting me, Hotaru? AND WHEN DID YOU BRING YOUR BAKA CANON WITH YOU?" She screamed as once again Hotaru shot her, causing everyone sweat dropped.
"Baka, try to figure out where we are, and I did bring it with me all the time," She said as she looked at her surroundings.
"Now that you mention it," Said Jinno. "Are we in the other parts of the dreams?"
"Probably," Said Himitsu. "And the reason why we're here because someone or something DID pulling us here, using Mikan as the main point. I could sense another living soul other than Kazumi-kun, and yet, I still can't trace the sign of it."
It's because you're the one who help him saving his daughter right?
Kuroran no Kimi.
Mikan just looked around, when once again she saw the same figure lying on the grass, but this time, it was a very clear view.
Lying peacefully on the grass, his light blonde hair fell to his side as his eyes closed tightly, showing that he was in his deep sleep. His face resembled the only sibling that he had; although he was a serious man, but he looked so peaceful…
Which causing Mikan to run away from the group and calling the name of her family that she had been missing for such a long time.
"UNCLE KAZU!"
It was Yukihira Kazumi.
Finally, it's done! DONE! DONE! I finally finish the seventh chapter! Sorry for the very,very late updates! I really sorry for it!
The next chapter will be update after 19hb November 2010; I'm in the middle of examination week so everything will be send right after my exams ends and after Aidil Adha Celebration.
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Hanamaki: Hahaha~!Sorry for that. I was so busy lately that I don't have time to continue it. Besides, I'm having exams now so sorry for the late updates.
Lily: Sorry Lily, I'll explain to you on the next chapter. Sorry for that.
Marrylissa: Umm…I'll try to explain your questins next chapter OK? Sorry for it.
LesZure: Thank you for your review although you PM me through it. Anyway, please enjoy your reading here!
Luchia-chan: MA HAHAHAHA~! I'm sooo cruel! Hehehe! This chapter answers your quriousity. Yes, his neame really fits perfectly!
