"The 12 Days of Christmas"
Disclaimer: I don't own the song or manga, only the fanfiction.
December 19th
Human Inclination Pheromone, Plant Manipulation and Clairvoyance.
"On the tenth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Ten lords a leaping..."
"How's the case going?" asked the plant manipulator. He had rushed over from his greenhouse to learn about a couple of unfortunate deaths.
The blonde man with shoulder length hair looked up to see his fellow staff member, "Misaki, the suicide incidents. They seem too planned for it to be a coincidence, the resemblance is striking and I'm afraid we're not going to have only two victims. We just might have another one soon."
"Narumi, you can't be thinking that the next victim just might be..."
Narumi's sad voice was apparent, "Just might be from the elementary division, about to graduate, a genius three star and is in the technology class. Who else do you think it is? Do you know any others?"
A woman with a blonde ponytail came in and sat down next to her crystal ball. She rubbed the crystal with a cloth to clean it and then began using her clairvoyance alice with it. "Narumi, you should calm down. If any of the students saw you like this, it would cause a problem," she warned. "We all know that you are worried, but it didn't happen yet, so we don't happen to know if anything will happen to Imai-san."
"Serina, she's the next victim! I just know it, I don't care what you say, but Hotaru will kill herself because of someone's alice!" Narumi argued.
Serina stood up in objection, "Do you have any idea what you are talking about? I have never heard about any alice that could make children want to commit suicide. Never, have we had any documentation in this whole entire academy of anyone with an alice like that or experiencing it."
Misaki broke into their argument and separated the two of them. "Relax you two. How about we have a secret agent in each class to watch over Hotaru. That way no matter where she goes, whatever she does, they'll catch her or whoever in the act. Along with some other technology and three star ranked students," the planter resolved. Misaki put his hand on Narumi's shoulder and told him, "I think your class is waiting for you right now. You better hurry and put a big fat smile on their faces, for you know who."
"Thanks Misaki. Sorry Serina! I guess I better go teach my class!" Narumi ran off to his classroom and slid the door open and greeted the class with a big roar, "GOOD MORNING CLASS!" The class was its usual self, rowdy and Natsume was missing along with a couple of other posses of course.
Miss Pigtails was excited seeing her favorite teacher, "Narumi sensei!" She jumped over desks to hug him tightly. "There's only so many times where I'll be able to do this very often. So I'll give you as many hugs as I can!"
"You always make my day a lot brighter Mikan, thank you. Now sit down everyone, we're going to start class now." There was a hand waving furiously in the back rows. "Yes? Do you have a question?"
"Umm..." the student started while putting her hands in her lap again, "Where is Imai-chan?" She pointed towards the bare seat. Everyone's eyes were dealocked on the empty seat. Hotaru would never miss one day of class for just any reason. Narumi gave out a noticible gasp and called over Fukutan (the hair substitute) to take over the class while he goes on a little errand himself. He ran out of the room and the class went into chaos once more. He found Serina still in the faculty room with her crystal ball.
"Where is Imai Hotaru?" Narumi asked sternly.
"What?" she replied.
"I-MA-I HO-TA-RU, where is she now?!" he shouted this time. "Use your clairvoyance Serina and find her!"
Immediately following his urgent sounding orders, she tapped deep into her clairvoyance alice and looked into the crystal ball. It was foggy and turned clearer slowly. In it an image appeared. Hotaru was with someone, that someone was her brother Imai Subaru. He was telling her something and shaking her, but her eyes were dull and lifeless. She kept repeating words to him, shaking her head and did not change her decision. She left him and he was left hopeless.
"What was that?" Narumi managed to say. "Her brother, he was probably trying to change her mind about something. Perhaps, suicide?" Millions of thoughts flashed through Narumi's head until Serina snapped him out of it.
"Narumi! Enough thinking about that, we need to take some action. What if she does want to commit suicide? We have to stop her before the worst comes to worst." She stood up and they ran towards the location where they last saw Hotaru and almost crashed into Misaki.
Misaki grabbed onto the wall to keep balance and stood up straight again. He rubbed his head in confusion, "What's the hurry?"
Serina held down the anxious Narumi and explained the situation, "Hotaru, we just saw her through clairvoyance. Seen her? We think she was talking about suicide with her brother, but he was trying to snap her out of it..."
"Hotaru? I just saw her pass by!" Misaki exclaimed, "Follow me, I'll lead the way." Serina and Narumi followed Misaki to the his greenhouse. When they entered, it was apparent what Hotaru was going to do. Jinno was there as well. "Jinno?!"
"Don't misunderstand, I saw that Imai-san looked very suspicious and followed her in here. For some reason, she seems to insist that she's not doing anything wrong, but intruding into your greenhouse is rule breaking enou--" Jinno was cut off.
"Hotaru!" Narumi shouted. Hotaru was climbing on one of the plants and had a noose over her head. The plant she was standing on was about to let loose. Disparity was rushing through Narumi's mind and he immediately tried to use his alice of human pheromones. His voice boomed when he cried her name. She only paused for a moment because some people were waiting outside of the greenhouse door. They all turned around, it was the class along with her brother and Sumire's brother.
They all ran over and went into action. Mochiage used his alice to rip out a bed of flurrfler flowers from Misaki's garden and place it under Hotaru's general region. Mikan dashed over and with the help of Kitsuneme, she held onto Hotaru tightly. Kitsuneme backed up and Natsume used his fire alice to burn the Christmas light noose. Mikan's nullification worked beautifully and the two of them fell onto the bed of flowers with a loud thump.
"Don't ever do that again..." Mikan wept sadly. Unfortunately even though they save Hotaru, she was still in the dark. Hotaru did not speak much more than things relating to killing herself and the like.
"I have something to tell you, someone does not like the gifted and high ranked. They hate children who have an alice that fits into the technology class. They do not to give people the chance to move forward because they have suffered it as well. These people work in the Anti-Alice Organization and this person has the alice of voice pheromone," Kokoroyomi read this from Hotaru's deep inner thoughts and continued reading, "These geniuses are being targeted because they will never join their side. The AAO would rather cause fear into the hearts of the children instead of bothering to convert them to the other side. Maybe not all of them, but this particular person has had his heart changed as well." Koko finished, "There's nothing else she can tell us because it's all a blur."
Narumi clenched his hands in anger, trying to control it. Everyone knew the culprit behind these suicides, Reo. Serina patted him in the back, "Don't worry Narumi, we can do something about that if he is the problem. We have a solution to that right here in the academy." She then pulled Mikan closer to her. "Right here," she confirmed. "Do you mind if you stay with Hotaru always Mikan?"
"Of course!" she cried heavily looking at Hotaru obsessively.
A few days after the incident, the school quickly passed new rules to protect the kids from danger of the AAO.
1. We are now reorganizing the rooms so that at least two or more people are in one room for safety precautions.
2. At least one person must be able to be on the offensive and another one is on the defensive.
3. If a person does not meet to either one of those requirements, they shall be added onto a group of two or such instead.
4. There must be at least one of each gender in each room. For reasons that are too long to explain.
5. Until we capture the culprit, it will remain this way.
On a side note - Please refer to your homeroom teacher for any rearrangements in the room.
"It's homeroom kids!" Narumi announced with his feminine voice. The class roared back, excited to hear about the new room arrangements. "Since I'm too lazy to actually announce one by one, what your new room arrangements are, you guys can look at the chart that the academy had cleverly created for the sake of convenience!" The class booed him. "Now now, while you're doing your work, I'll call you up one row at a time to see it." The class cheered again. "Such weird kids," Narumi finally commented, "Now back to work!"
The classroom was in chaos. The students chatting about what rooms they were transferred into. Some were jubilant and some were disappointed. Our favorite students were standing on top of desks loitering and hanging around, but they didn't see who's rooms they were transferring into yet. A couple of troublemakers stole the chart and ran around with it. Until that is, they got the infamous Black Cat annoyed. Natsume used his fire alice and burned them ever so slightly that they kids dropped the chart in pain and fled. Sumire looked at the chart plaintitively, her eyes widened when she saw the remaining people that wasn't removed from the board. (They would take off the information from the chart so they would know where and who to go to.) Here it is:
Imai Hotaru & Mochiage will transfer into Nogi Ruka's room.
Ogasawara Nonoko & Umenomiya Anna will transfer into Tobita Yuu's room.
Kokoroyomi & Kitsuneme will transfer into Shouda Sumire's room.
Sakura Mikan & Hijiri Youichi will transfer into Hyuuga Natsume's room.
All ten kids (excluding the younger Youichi and the composed Natsume), leaped off the tables and shouted in unison, "No way!"
The teachers are probably laughing to themselves somewhere.
As teachers, we plan to take pride in raising our students. Good alices come from happy students and happy students come from Gakuen Alice, taught by teachers like us.
"...nine ladies dancing,
eight maids a milking,
seven swans a swimming,
six geese a laying,
five golden rings,
four calling birds,
three French hens,
two turtledoves,
and a partridge in a pear tree."
Typer's Note -
I finished this chapter earlier today, but couldn't find the time to upload it, so I gave up.
I didn't want to be late and anyways, we're on TEN already?
That's a clear sign that Christmas is coming very soon!
Even though it's getting worse, I know Dx You continue to read it?
Why thank you! Review even if it's bad :P Any languages are accepted!
Besides that, hurray for winter break!