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Author Note: Okay so here is the next chapter. A bit late but I hope I will be forgiven. Its a bit more violent then my usual stuff. Just figured I should warn in advance.
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"What's wrong Natsume?" Ruka said as way of hello when he answered his phone.
"Why would something have to be wrong?" Natsume asked.
"I know you. This is the first time you are calling me after I came here. Usually you're fine with just talking to me when Mikan does. There is something bothering you. Now spill." Ruka said all that in a deadpan voice.
Natsume sighed.
"Right. Well I just have a bad feeling, like I missed something important. I was hoping you might be able to see it." Natsume said.
"Okay, so what happened?" Ruka asked curious.
Natsume told him everything that happened last night. Right from the moment he had entered the house to find the two men, to when they had left after threatening the Hyugga's.
Ruka whisteled low when he finished. "Wow, they had guts to say that to Granddad." He said.
"Yeah, but that makes me worry more." Natsume replied.
"Natsume, they threatened our family and they saw Mikan before that. Thats the link. If they go after the Hyugga's, they'll go after her." Ruka said coldly.
Natsume scowled. That made too much sense. Why hadn't he thought of it earlier?
"You still there?" Ruka asked.
"Yup. I am gonna double her security, and I'll be the one picking her up and dropping her off to school from now on." Natsume said coldly. He was already calculating how better to protect Mikan.
"Make sure she is fine." Ruka almost snapped.
Natsume shook his head, now he would have to give hourly updates to Ruka about Mikan.
"I will. She is first priority." Natsume snapped back, then more quietly he said "Thanks man. I just wasn't seeing that. I will keep texting you with updates. Now gotta go."
Natsume hung up, and then headed to see Narumi to make sure he knew what might happen. By the time he was done, it was almost time to get Mikan from school. Natsume just hopped in the car that the driver was about to take to get her, rather than getting his own and drove off. He reached there with hardly anytime to spare, Mikan was waiting at the door.
She got in and then looked in surprise when she realized Natsume was the one driving.
"What am I doing here?" He asked her amused.
She nodded then pointed to the car. Natsume laughed as he started moving through traffic.
"I wanted to pick you up but I was late. I literally stopped the driver at the last minute and jumped in. If I had gotten my car, it would have meant me being even more late." Natsume explained.
Mikan scowled at him, then typed on her phone and showed him. "Why was the driver leaving so late to begin with?"
"You do know that it is illegal to read texts while driving right?" Natsume asked teasingly, then continued, "I changed some security measures for you. Thats why he was late. Bear with more security okay, it'll gimme some peace of mind and stop Ruka from killing me."
Mikan chuckled.
After a while Natsume said in a very gentle voice, "Mikan, please check your seatbelt."
Mikan gave him a dirty look, then checked, and then gave him a thumbs up.
Natsume nodded, then said in clipped tones, "We're being followed. I am gonna try and get rid of them. This is gonna be bad driving. Send Narumi a text asking for help and tell him I am heading for the fort. He'll know what I mean."
Mikan nodded and then started typing. Natsume swerved the car through traffic at breakneck speed, keeping his eyes on the black sedan in the rearview mirror.
Natsume finally found himself surrounded at a secluded area near the docks. His eyes were narrowed and fury was coming off him in waves. Where the hell is Narumi? He thought furiously as he eyed the 5 cars surrounding his.
They were totally outnumbered. His eyes landed on Mikan. Her face was expressionless but he could see the trembling in her hands.
Three men got out of one of the cars and headed for them. Natsume sat there, tersely waiting. When they were right near his car, Natsume suddenly shifted gears and flew the car around the other cars, two wheels had been off the road and over the edge into the water as he had pulled this off. The chase would have started again, but they shot at his tyres and took them out. The car went screeching to the right. Mikan screamed, and Natsume threw himself over her.
Mikan opened her eyes. They were sticky. She blinked and realized Natsume was over her. They were in the upside down car and he was cradling her, and she was covered in sticky red blood. Natsume's blood.
She screamed, trying to get her hands free. She got several cuts from the broken glass but she hardly cared as she freed herself from her seatbelt and tried to check on him. He was so pale. Oh God. Mikan whimpered. Then suddenly someone grabbed her.
She looked up with horrified eyes into the face of the man she had seen before at the mansion. The ones Natsume had warned her about. She fought him as he pulled her out, fought him with everything she had, all the while gasping to call out to Natsume.
He was still there. He looked hurt. So hurt.
The man was amazed at how much the little girl fought him, and for the bloody silence in which she fought. Hell he could almost respect such determination. Too bad it stood in his way. He paid no heed to the driver lying bloody in the car. Small fry were not his thing. But god it was hard to hold on to the girl. He caught her and slapped her hard. She ignored it as if it had been a tap and kept on fighting.
He dragged Mikan, kicking and not screaming to his car. Her eyes were focussed on the figure in the car. He was not moving. She would not, could not leave him.
"NATSUME!" Mikan screamed at the top of her lungs.
Natsume regained consciousness to the sound of someone screaming his name. Again and again his name rang out.
And then in one jolt he knew.
He wriggled out of the car, at the same time grabbing or the guns from his shoulder holster. His eyes landed on the man dragging Mikan as she fought, as she screamed his name, again and again. Then he started shooting.
Author Note: I am SORRY for the cliffhanger. My best defense is that its not that bad of a cliffhanger. I will try my best to update as soon as I can. But I had to end the chapter somewhere soon coz otherwise it would have been too long and this seemed like a good spot. Ah well I figured it wasn't that bad.
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