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Don't even ask. I beg you. The guilt's been eating me up since...

Yeah, I know, I suck.

Chapter 8: Ty

It took three men, Mikan and the hotel manager to pull Natsume and Ty apart but with difficulties. Ty was supported minor injuries to his head; on the other hand Natsume looked almost fine. Natsume wanted to continue despite all that but Mikan's grip on his arm stopped him.

"No, don't..." insisted Mikan, tugging at his arm.

With anger, Natsume shrugged Mikan's hands off. He ran his hand through his hair with frustration, unable to understand why he lost control at the sigh. He didn't know why, but after he saw him on top of Mikan and tears coming from her eyes, he wanted to rip that guy's head off.

The motorbike came to a halt, which made Mikan's eyes pop open. She raised her head and looked around her. Her eyes fell on the familiar building she lived in. Mikan popped herself into a sitting position after she realized she was leaning on Natsume so closely. She quickly let go of Natsume's waist and got off the motorcycle.

She stood awkwardly by Natsume. "Um..I want to tha-"

But before Mikan had chance to finish her sentence, Natsume stormed off with his ride. Mikan watched in surprise as Natsume disappeared from her sight. After a second or two, her eyes squinted in annoyance. That idiot! He didn't even give me a chance to thank him.

Mikan's expression softened as she remembered what happened earlier. He had actually saved her today and she was really thankful for him. She wondered how he found her, because it turned out that she was outside the academy campus. And how she ended up there, she didn't know.

Mikan walked to the porch of the building and she sat on the stairs, the bag that contained her outfit secure in her arms. Her face darkened as Ty's face flashed in her face. She sure hated him before, but the hatred she held for him at this moment wouldn't compare to anything in the world. How could he do that, after all the things he did to her, why would he want to hurt her so badly?

Mikan felt a sting in her eyes and her throat began to pick up that familiar sensation. Hastily, she rubbed her eyes. It's not time for her to cry right now. But very time she wiped her eyes, fresh new tears well up in her eyes. After she got tired, she gave up and let the tears fall. Se cried in silent, her mind replaying the events before her eyes.

After what seemed like ages, Mikan finally stopped crying. She stood up and headed for the door. As soon as she opened the door, she was faced with someone.

"Mikan-chan!"

It was Yuu.

"Hey.." mumbled Mikan.

"What has he done to you?"

Mikan blinked. How the hell does he know? Did Natsume tell the rest of them what happened? Not long ago he was with me, how did he manage to do that? She wasn't actually planning on telling anyone not even the teachers. And now they all know.

Oh man.

He told them. He told them everything. This is so embarrassing.

"Mikan-chan, are you ok?" asked a concerned Yuu.

"Yes…" answered Mikan, dragging her words. "It wasn't serious…"

"Come in," Yuu made a space for her to enter the house. "You must be really tired."

Yuu led Mikan to the living room where, to her misfortune, the rest of the dorm mates were waiting. Mikan flinched when she noticed them staring at her. Then her eyes fell on Natsume who was sitting on the far corner. His blood red eyes were avoiding hers.

He told them.

Mikan was sure of it. With the silence filling the room, she quickly turned on her heels and left the room.

Mikan laid on her bed motionless, she replayed the events that happened to her from the day she entered this house. Each incident was worse than the other. Maybe it was better for her to leave. She should've listened to Marques and Anthony when they warned. Even Natsume warned her. But now it's too late. She can't leave, because of what Persona has whispered in her ears…

Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

Mikan groaned inwardly, she really didn't want to see anyone at all. Before she could answer the door swung open anyways. It was Yuu.

"Mikan-chan, I'm sorry if I'm intruding but I wanted to see if you're really okay."

"im ok, thanks," answered Mikan with a fake smile. "I'll be fine."

"Do you need to go to the infirmary or shall I call the nurse?"

"Yuu, im okay," affirmed Mikan. "he hasn't done much anyway, if it wasn't for Hyuuga, things would've been probably worse…"

"huh…" muttered Yuu in confusion. "What do you mean? wasn't Natsume the one who did that to you?"

Now Mikan was in confusion. She stared at Yuu, trying to make sense of what he said. "what..?"

"Natsume said that he used strict and painful training on you. He sent me here to tell you that you don't have to come to training tomorrow."

Omg….Mikan smiled in amazement. he didn't tell them. He Didn't…

"that bad huh? Is that how much you hated the training?" smiled Yuu in sympathy.

Mikan came back to her senses but the smile didn't vanish. "No that's not it. But thank you for telling me. Where is Hyuuga now?"

"In his room."

"It was a mistake."

"No, Ruka," Natsume cut him off, anger present in his voice. "The fact that she escaped under my eye, pisses me off."

"It was just a mistake."

"That mistake could have been fatal and it was not meant to happen," Natsume clenched his fist to the point his knuckles went white. "Ever since that girl stepped in this dorm, I've been really pissed off. I don't know what it is, but something about her pisses me off."

"Ok," answered Ruka, surprised by his best friend's behaviour. Actually he was quite amused. He doesn't remember when was the last time he seen him like this. A small smile played on his lips as he weighed the possibilities that there's a hidden feeling behind that hate.

"You should give her a chance," suggested Ruka. "She's trying her best."

"She is not meant to be here."

"Why are you so against her?"

"Because she's going to ruin everything.."

They heard a noise coming from the door way, both turned their head only to see Mikan and from the look on her face they knew that she didn't miss much of their conversation.

"Mikan.." started Ruka.

"I just came here to thank you," said Mikan, looking straight at Natsume who averted his eyes away. He didn't appear to acknowledge her so she sighed and began to leave, but she came to a halt and turned around.

"Why do you hate me so much?" asked Mikan bluntly.

"Mikan...he doesn't hate yo-"

"I do," smirked Natsume, before fixing his amber orbs on her face. "You're an eyesore, and I want you out of this academy."

"Well I don't like you either," said Mikan, in defence, crossing her arms. "You think that you're all that and everyone is scared of you. Well I'm not. And what you did for me today doesn't change the fact that you're still an ass-hole."

It took Natsume a split-second to remove the surprised expression that masked his face, he expected to leave weeping.

Mikan continued, "I told you before, I am not leaving this academy, I don't care what you do."

And with that, Mikan turned her heels and left, but not before she threw a smile towards Rukas direction.

Mikan formed a fist. That idiot! She will not be affected by his attitude towards her, she has to remain strong if she wants to survive this. It was getting dark, so Mikan considered going back to her room to sleep but she fought against it and headed for the lift. When she reached the ground floor she was greeted by a plate crashing on the wall right next to her head. Rooted in her place, her mouth dropped open. A laughter pulled her from her shocked state.

"Omg, I'm so sorry Mikan-chan!" exclaimed a voice.

"I hope you're not hurt, this stupid robot is getting a little cranky, he started throwing plates around."

Miksn instantly recognized the twin's voice, she glanced at the said robot who was whizzing round and round. The place looked like a mess, broken plates and food everywhere.

"Sorry, we didn't see you coming," smiled marques, sheepishly.

Mikan furrowed her eyebrows.

"We don't always see everything that happens in the future," explained Anthony.

"We just get snip shots of what could happen and it doesn't always come true, so we don't rely on it too much," added marques.

"The future changes," said Anthony.

"Always," concluded marques.

"Which is a bummer really, we thought with this alice we could ace the exams or something."

"But we're not even lucky enough to see what evil plans jinno has for us this year," said marques, his face resembling her math teacher Jinno.

Mikan couldn't help but laugh.

"You should laugh more, mikan-chan," said marques smiling.

"Yeah," agreed Anthony. "You're way cuter when you smile."

Mikan's smile widened. "Thank you guys, you're really sweet."

They walked together towards the living room. The twind ordered the robot who now was functioning normally and piking up the broken glass to get some tea and biscuits to the living room.

When the reached the living room it was empty.

"Where's everyone?" asked Mikan, taking a seat near the window.

"Probably gone to sleep, preparing for the mission tomorrow."

"A mission?" asked mikan, puzzled.

"Yes," answered marques. He gave mikan a couple of papers. "when to find missing students."

Mikan glanced at the papers but before she started reading them, she glanced at the twins one more time. They were play-wrestling. Mikan smiled at the sight and then her smiled began to disappear when she started to wonder why they were in this kind of organisation that sends students for missions, she's even more surprised why someone like Yuu was involved too.

"How long have you guys been in this..Black Cat organisation?"

"Pretty much since we started the academy," answered Anthony.

"So were you forced in to it or did you join out of free will?"

"I wouldn't exactly say forced.." prompted Anthony. His bright blue eyes wondered around the room as if trying to weigh what he's suppose to say. He sighed and continued. "Our father practically dumped us in this academy. We, as he puts it, are not good enough to be his sons," he smiled bitterly.

"Why?" asked mikan, surprised.

"he never really approved of us in the begining, but it got worse when he found out that we have Alices. He freaked out thinking that there's something's wrong with us."

"Honestly, we think its the best thing that ever happened to us," grinned marques. "We never been happier."

"So he found out about this special academy that takes in students with Alices, so he signed us up almost immediately. He probably thought it was a facility for mental people," laughed Anthony. "Then persona took the advantage of our old man by making him sign us in what he described to him as a boot camp, but really it was Black Cat organisation."

"At first, it was nice. Natsume, ruka, tsubasa, and Himukai were already here and they've been ok to hang around with. We get this cool dorm that's different from the rest of the school and people were generously nice here. But then it got complicated and it was too late to opt out."

Mikan was listened intently to their story, she didn't notice the robot placing tea and biscuits on the table.

"But do you want to opt out?" asked Mikan curiously.

"To be honest we don't know, I mean what else could we do besides this? "

"What about you're…mom?" mikan wondered whether it was the right thing to ask this question.

"We don't know much about her," said anothony, biting in to a piece of biscuit. "according to dad said she left us when we were three."

"We never seen her since," added marques. "She probably just went back to Portugal."

Mikan sensed that they didn't want to continue talking so she stopped asking questions and looked back at the papers she was reading, she flipped the page and looked at the pictures of the missing students. Suddenly, mikan rose to her feet, her eyes glued on one particular picture. It was of a boy with glasses, he had black hair and dark brown eyes.

"Mikan, what's wrong?" asked one of the twin in a worried voice.

Mikan's heart began thumping wildly. She's seen him before. It was the same guy who kidnapped her. the same guy Ty saved her from. Sure, he wasn't wearing glasses at the time and he didn't have hair either, but the scar was still there, she could recognize that scar anywhere. It must be him. She has to tell Natsume about this.

"Um..I'm ok, I just remembered that there's something I have to do," said mikan in a breathless voice. "I'll see you guys in the morning then."

And with that Mikan dashed out of the room, she couldn't wait for the lift so she sprinted for the stairs. When she reached for Natsume's room, she kicked the door open, only to see a girl sitting on his bed, taking her shoes off and Natsume was nowhere to be seen.

"Who are you?" asked mikan. "Where's Natsume?"

She didn't say anything, but smirked at her. The bathroom door suddenly was thrown wide open and mikan whiped her head towards it. She saw Natsume emerging out of the bathroom and Mikan instantly noticed that he was shirtless.

"Tut tut Natsume," purred the girl that was now starting to take her blouse off. "Did you double-book over me?" she stared at mikan, up and down. "Couldn't you have booked her another night?"

Mikan was so lost. She didn't understand what the lady was talking about. Is she his girlfrind? She looked over at Natsume, who started putting on a shirt he grabbed from his bed.

Natsume gave the girl one look and said in a low voice, "leave."

The girl tossed her blond hair angrily behind her. She glared at mikan and said. "Are you gonna choose her over me?"

Mikan blinked in confusion

"I'm not going to ask twice," said Natsume in a dangerous voice. He then tossed a couple of gold coins at her.

The blond snapped her mouth shut, then after a moment she began buttoning back her blose and putting back her heels on. After a minute she grabbed her bag, that was on the bed, angrily and she shoved the coins that Natsume threw at her in the bag. She then left the room, slamming the door behind her.

"What do you want?" snapped Natsume.

Startled by his voice, mikan almost forgot why she came to him in the first place. But who the hell was that girl? From what happened two minutes ago, she didn't look like she was his girlfriend. But why was she undressing in his room as if she was a…then the realization hit mikan hard, then she looked at Natsume with disgust.

"What do you want?" asked Natsume again. He started walking slowly towards mikan, who unconsciously started backing away.

"Ever heard of knocking, polka-dots?" said Natsume, edging more closely towards her. He then placed either of his hands on then wall behind mikan, trapping her.

"You ruined my night," he smirked. "are you prepared to make up for it?".

What the hell?

A/N

Omg guys I really miss writing this story, I am so sorry for not updating sooner, if it weren't for your encouraging reviews and semi-angry messages, I wasn't even sure of coming back haha. But I really love this story and hopefully I will finish it *fingers crossed*

There's probably a lot of mistakes here, its 4 in the morning here haha and i think my brain stopped functioning. I could've just looked at it more in the morning and posted it then, but i wanted to send it as soon as possible. Thanks for not giving up on me guys especially sapphireangel09, hope you guys enjoyed it

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