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Recap: Peeps died. Hotaru was going to interrogated but due to certain circumstances, she has been exempt from questioning. Mikan is a sadist, Persona is not as hard as you'd think, and guess what? Tsubasa gets to get his arse whooped!
Chapter Seven: Simpler Beginning
"Well, hurry up, I haven't got all day." Mikan tapped her foot impatiently and propped her hand on her hip, examining her free hand and blowing on her nails lightly. The DA classroom quickly cleared to the edges of the class, desks being shoved aside and lights being flicked on. They all flinched when glaring white light came on, illuminating the floor.
Tsubasa pushed off of the furnace and headed towards the middle of the classroom, shoving down his nerves and focusing as best he could. For such a funloving guy, he was easy to focus and quite smart in the head. But, as he peered around, he saw the lights glaring in every direction which might prove problematic to him.
"Hey, somebody hit the lights." Mikan called out, eyes on Tsubasa, as if she sensed his thoughts. He raised his blue eyes up to hers and paused at the.. almost human look in her eyes. Was it just him or was she actually looking like a pleasant girl younger than him.. heck, he could imagine himself picking her up on his shoulders if she'd allow it.
The corner of Mikan's lips twitched. The light clicked off, and they were submerged in darkness. She sighed. "Idiots. Not all of them. Obviously there needs to be some shadow here. Don't you know anything about Alice?"
"No, it's fine like this." Came Tsubasa's call from the side across from her. Mikan twtiched, and peered across towards his aura.
It was different from what she'd encountered with Shadow Manipulation. Normally she was used to younger children who only distributed their shadow to control people. After taking a closer look at his manipulation, it seemed like Mikan was wrong. Not like he could beat her, but definitely it was something new. Mikan smirked.
Somewhere else in the room, Natsume was stunned, beside him was Youichi, and all he could hear in his head was 'Who is this woman?' Clearly Mikan Sakura was not the person he'd thought she was. Especially if she was the teacher for the Dangerous Ability class. If only it wasn't so dark in the room, then they could actually see what was about to go down! Natsume growled a curse to himself and sparked a flame on his fingertip to the light something.
The others in the room breathed a little seeing the small flame so they could adjust to the darkness. Persona's attention flicked there for a moment and then back to Mikan. Her form looked so relaxed that Persona wasn't even sure if she would be fighting this round, only doing self defense, or heck, not doing anything at all.
Mikan's eyes adjusted quickly and she absorbed the boy's aura and his overall appearance. Messy black hair, dark blue eyes that almost looked black, with a star on his cheek.. the Curse Alice? A familiar one at that. He wore a beanie and a messy uniform.. eh. She didn't care about that.
The few moments before the practice would begin, Tsubasa was doing the same to Mikan as she was to him. He hadn't expected someone of her stature and physique to be so strong and capable. He couldn't feel the aura he had felt earlier, and yet it was just rumbling below the surface. Not rumbling, humming. The shadows encasing her shrank back as if she was her own pillar of light in the darkness. Tsubasa stuffed his hands in his pockets and almost laughed. No way was he winning this, no way was he even going to try unless she killed him.
"Here I go." He mouthed, sending out his personal shadow meshed in the darkness towards the younger girl. Mikan closed her eyes and felt. The shadow stretched and bent in a curve, not directly towards her. It came to her left. She stepped backwards three inches and it passed her feet by mere inches. Two seconds later, it would come round behind her, she predicted. Mikan lifted a foot and placed it a foot to the right and two feet forward. She skipped past the shadow and continued similar dancing movements around the shadow manipulation.
Tsubasa grit his teeth. At least show him a little pity and get caught! It wasn't like he'd do anything to her. He wondered how she was so narrowly avoiding his shadow without using any alice whatsoever. The thought passed as quickly as it came however as he concentrated on fixing his shadow to outline.
The rest of the class could barely see what was going on in the dark. Natsume held the flame as low as possible so he'd be able to see, and it cast his shadow. Youichi swung his legs on the box behind them, bored out of his mind. He understood that the old lady was important and all, but he was better off doing schoolwork or ditching classes.
"Don't just use one shadow. Try to surround me from all sides." Her voice came as a whisper against his ear, and Tsubasa's eyes widened at the noise. No one else seemed to have picked up on it.
When going on in missions, it was important to stick to the plan until all hell broke loose. On missions, you were trained to go wth the second option, and improvise with whatever you were given. In the time that Tsubasa had been transferred to the Dangerous Ability class from the Special Ability, he'd become adept at maintaining that mentality. So. Continue with the failing plan, or give in to the advise that he was handed by his enemy?
Yeah, you chose right, smart guy.
He took a hand out of one of his pockets and fisted it by his side. All goes for nothing. Mikan stopped her movement and smiled a small smile, unseen by everyone. Shadow was forming around her like a bubble, not allowing even a pocket of light to get out from top or bottom. "Don't forget to seal it." She whispered, eyeing the visible line of where the sheet of shadow connected to its end.
She had powerful eyes. An Alice she picked up, similar to that of her Uncles where she could detect Alice, but instead see the shapes it formed. It was quite interesting how it worked. So the game was already over, since she had lost with her using her Alice. No doubt Aniki was probably cheering that she'd used her Alice when she normally wouldn't. But what normal person could see perfectly in the dark? Psh, not her. She preferred light and firelight over anything else.
Tsubasa opened, flexed, and then closed his fist. The shadows surrounded her figure and he could feel the power, superiority in having control of anothers body..
... except then the lights flipped on.
"I SWEAR TO GOD." They both yelled in exasperation. The class jolted in energy and all turned towards the light switches.
Mikan held her hand extending in a threatening close prod to severe pressure points at the persons neck, barely touching them. Tsubasa held a knife, probably the one he'd hidden in sleeve, against the person's personal area. ... Low blow on that one.
Persona growled low in his stomach and moved ever so slightly so he wouldn't be in as much danger with Mikan's strike while Tsubasa was present. His hand arrested in the air above the light switch next the door. "Aniki.." Mikan began in a sickly sweet voice. "You know I don't like it when you interrupt my practices."
Tsbuasa was surprised at his own movements, and he pulled out before Mikan did, pocketing the knife. "Yes, I do, Squirt. But we're running out of time. There are other students, you know." Persona replied as monotonously as he could, blinking away the shining dots of light against his eyes as they adjusted to the change in light.
Surprised, Mikan looked towards the clock. It already passed twenty minutes, and she had less than that to practice with the other students. "... Oh." She grinned. Letting go of Persona, she pushed him aside and turned towards the rest of the class. Her big grin sent a chill down certain peoples spines.
"You heard the man, people! I gotta practice with all of you before the day is up. How about you all form a circle and attack at once? I love me a good gang up." She smirked deeply, a wicked gleam in her eye. "I'll tell you what you do wrong and fix you up with a decent training schedule. I expect you lot to abide by it, or else you'll face my wrath." Her smile deepend in exaggeration.
She let them prepare themselves and heard the distinct crash of someone who wasn't paying attention. Turning to Tsubasa, she leveled him with a brown eyed stare, and a light smile. Tsubasa startled, almost stepped back, but regained his cool and shot a grin back. He kept thinking positive thoughts that she wouldn't harm him if he didn't piss her off.
"You're good with your Alice, but you need to let loose more instead of restricting it." She began. "Shadow Manipulation starts with shadows but can consume a room in darkness. Try practicing in a fully light room and work with the shadows of other things, not just yours." He nodded, mouth open. With a wink and final smile, she turned away and waltzed back to the center of the forming circle.
On the edge of the room now, Tsubasa stared at her figure. Suddenly, the class didn't seem that bad, not nearly as dangerous as it was made out to be. He still had yet to encounter the girls true potential, but surely she wouldn't.. kill them all.. unless.
No. She was still dangerous. She'd killed those girls earlier today.
Natsume had been thinking the same thing, glaring ferociously at the girl who attacked the other classmates with such easy, defeating their Alices in one move, or even none. Her movements told him that she knew all that was happening and was so at ease with fighting that he stood no chance. He considered stepping forward but a cold hand on his shoulder stopped him.
"She has banned you from practice, Hyuuga." Persona mumured down to him, watching with intrigues eyes at Mikan's every movement. Youichi snapped back and almost fell off the box, looking at Persona.
"What do you mean?" the red eyed boy growled. "How can I do missions if I'm not properly trained" He fisted his hands to his sides, temper ignited. First, she betray him with her weird disguise, second she kill people, and third she bars him from practice and expects him to go on suicide missions..!
"You're not doing missions unless specifically told to. You're off, Kuro Neko, of the official lineup."
Mikan smirked inside her circle and, with a quick whirl of her body, sent all the students flying into the walls, hard. She clapped her hands together to clean them off and brought her head up to stare directly into the red eyed gaze of the Flamecaster. He glared back at her. "Got a problem with my orders, Kitten?" She teased. Her eyes narrowed in case he had.
Natsume scowled and turned to exit. He beckoned Youichi to him, and they took off.
"He doesn't know?" She murmured to Persona. "No, I didn't get a chance to tell him since he got all annoyed." Persona replied, rolling his eyes. Mikan linked her arm in his and turned back into the room where the students were mumbling in pain, trying to get up. Tsubasa was still by the edge, cracking up at the spectacle. The students were growling about how she'd taken advantage of them.
Mikan said nothing more and went to dismiss the class as the bell soon rang. What Natsume didn't know wouldn't harm him. He'd probably be happy to be released from his missions. She could still remember years ago what it was like for Natsume to be at the school, undergoing what he had to..
Memories were useless. She didn't even know why she started remembering. She no longer had any need to cry tears for Natsume Hyuuga.
END CHAPTER.
A little more tame than the last couple of chapters but I guess you guys deserved a break from the sadism. I'm actually running low on muse too, I've basically hit the point of the story where I can make up whatever I want. What do you guys think I should do with the story?
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