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Chapter Nine

"This, this has to be some sort of joke," Sumire said nervously. The whole class stared at Mikan, shocked. Narumi put a hand on Mikan's shoulder, squeezing it gently.

"Now Mikan, I know that you and Sumire haven't necessarily gotten along in the past, but this is going too far." He scolded. Suddenly, everyone sniffed the air. "Is something burning in here?" Narumi asked, and then Mikan pointed to Sumires hair.

"You're perm is on fire, spy." She spat/

Sumire quickly put it out with the tips of her fingers and resumed staring at Narumi and Mikan with a frightened look on her face.

"Oh kami-sama!" Anna suddenly shouted. "Mikan's right! That's not Sumire! She's not running around whining about her hair!" Narumi's eyes widened.

"Go to sleep." He commanded using his alice. Everyone dropped to the ground, not including Mikan. She had her Nullification barrier up. "Mikan." He said, turning to Mikan. "How did you know?"

"She proclaimed that Ruka and Natsume weren't worth her time." Narumi nodded.

"And she's the president of that ridiculous fan club." He said, understanding. "But where's the real Sumire then?"

"I left her with Persona." Mikan said. "I kidnapped her back last night from the AAO headquarters. It looks like they know my identity, Otou-san." Narumi looked at her with a sad face.

"We have two options now Mikan, you know that." Mikan nodded slowly.

"Fight or Flight." She told him before pulling out her Shiro Neko mask. She pulled it over her face before moving over to the AAO spy. She stole the spy's alice then attacked without hesitation. Disgusted, Narumi looked away.

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Later on that day, Narumi with the help from Mikan moved all the students back into their dorms, so they could rest peacefully in their own beds. After that, Narumi had moved Mikan to his room as quickly as possible. He stood studying the girl that he had come to care for, possibly more than he had cared for her mother, while she washed her hands of blood. He remembered when she first asked to call him grandfather, then shortly after father. The first time he saw her determined, yet terrified figure standing outside of Gakuen Alice.

And now, he admitted that he was worried, about her. It was his own fault, he supposed that he hadn't tried harder to keep her from the greedy hands of Persona and the academy. He didn't agree with Yuka on many things. Her marriage and child with Yukki, betraying the academy, joining the AAO, but he did agree with her wish of Mikan wanting to be as far away from all of it as possible. That, he agreed on. But now it had backfired. After all those years, Mikan had willingly come to the world that Yuka had worked so hard to protect her from. She had just waltzed right in. And now she was stuck, being sucked even father into the darkness than Natsume ever was.

Narumi wanted to take her away from all of this mess. He wanted to so badly, but he knew Mikan wouldn't put up with it. Not at all. She was determined to protect her friends, her family, and the academy. She knew what she had gotten herself into, and she knew that she wouldn't be able to get out without help. But who would help? The people that she was trying so hard to keep her secret away from, of course.

"Well, what are you staring at Otou-san?" Mikan asked, almost coldly. Narumi frowned. He hoped they would save her soon, before her once shining personality shattered.

"Did you really have to get rid of her so… brutally, Mikan?" He asked, and Mikan sighed, leaning back in her chair.

"Persona's orders." She told him dully. "Gomen, Otou-san, I was in mission mode, I forgot you where there for a moment." Narumi nodded at the apology.

Truthfully, looking back at when Mikan first pounced on that AAO spy so mindlessly, Narumi felt scared. Scared as hell. What was Persona filling in her head? What caused Mikan, the eponym of innocence, just mindlessly kill? "It's just fine, Mikan." He lied, trying his best to assure the girl that he wasn't traumatized, which of course, he was. "Why don't you sleep here? You've had a tiring couple of weeks. I'll take care of getting Sumire from Persona."

"You don't mind? Me sleeping in your room and all?" Mikan asked curiously, and Narumi shook his head.

"It's not like you've never done it before." He kissed her firmly on the forehead. "Goodnight Mikan." He said before walking out of the room. Narumi could've sworn he heard the faintest 'Idiot, it's still morning'.

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Natsume looked up at Hotaru, dumbstruck. "You mean, when you went back to the classroom, the only thing in it was a janitor moping up a large pool of blood?" He asked, and Hotaru nodded.

"No classmates or anything. I think we missed something big."

"You think?" Natsume mumbled sarcastically, earning him a hit from the baka gun.

"Watch the way you speak to my Hyuga. Did you come up with anything that makes sense about Mikan's alice?" She asked, and Natsume nodded, pushing a sheet of paper forwards.

"The… steal/erase/copy alice?" Hotaru read aloud. "Interesting… very interesting indeed…"

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"Someone's going to pay for not getting back Mikan and killing one of our best agents. The shape shifter alice is very rare…" A woman growled. A man who had just walked into the room frowned.

"But, from our resources, Mikan herself killed Agent: 1288884." The man informed her, and the woman pounded her fist into the table.

"She's just a girl! How hard can it be to capture her?" She cried out.

"She's also the school's top agent, mistress, she's replaced all members of the Dangerous abilities class. But, with the right agent… she'll be easy to take down." He assured her. The woman laughed bitterly.

"Fine then, if you're so sure about it. You bring her to me. Alive. It doesn't matter if she's conscious or not." The gulped before rushing out of the room, desperatly racking his brains for the perfect plan.

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I don't want to leave everyone… I want to stay and fight. But… I remember once of the first things that, that bastard Persona taught me was when I was stuck in a jam, I need to run, run until I'm safe. Fighting is only when I have no other choice. I have two choices right now, but then again, I'll never see my friends, my Otou-san, or…. Or Natsume-kun again. So maybe right now I only do have one choice. Maybe that one choice is to stay and fight, no matter how much trouble I'm in. But then again, are my friends really worth more than my life?

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Oh, oh, oh boy do i have some new found respect for all of the authors of completed stories at ! I mean, wow... i happen to be a procrastinator, so trying to finish this story is so hard for me, you cannot believe! But, I'm trying! The reviews help too ;p. but yes, i think i just came up with an ending in this crazy mind of mind... possibly. it would most likely lead to a sequel haha, i already have a name for it and everything. but, let's not get too far ahead now... next chapter i'm going to try to work in some nxm time along with a rxh confrontation there. this story is coming to an end... really soon, i hope.

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