A/N: Gomen for the late update…
Chapter 11: When You Need a Friend
At Hotaru's room…
….(sigh)…Now, what will I gonna do now?... hmmm…Why does she have to think like that anyway??? Where is she anyway???
Hotaru get the Howalons in her fridge and get out on her room.
"I hope she's still there…" uttered Hotaru while she is walking at the dormitories' corridor, but then…
"OUCH!!! WATCH WE'RE YOU GOING!!!" Hotaru shouted at the person who bump her.
"Gomenasai…(sob)" the girl said and offered her a hand to help her stand up.
"Oh, it's just you… Mikan… Where are you going?" ask Hotaru and stand up.
"To…(sob)..your…(sob)…room…(sob)"Mikan said, crying.
"Okay, let's go then…" Hotaru said wrapping her arms to Mikan.
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For four years, the two ladies, Hotaru and Mikan have their bonds getting stronger. Strange and violent as it may seem for Hotaru, she still have her baka gun use to Mikan whenever she was late, so it means, almost everyday, but everyone knows that she love Mikan like her sister. She just don't want everybody to see her soft side, or else, all of her fans will be running after her making her life more difficult, and o course, so that she continue her blackmailing to Ruka.
Mikan, now a two star student, have so many fans like Hotaru. She grew up being a lovely young lady but still acts like a baka sometimes. Her smiles still makes her classroom feel so normal even when they still miss their parents. For four years, Hotaru and Tsubasa become her 'brother' and 'sister' that help her to deal with problems, though she can handle simple ones, but when it comes to Natsume, she just don't know how to deal with it.
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When they reach Hotaru's room…
Mikan sat on her couch while Hotaru gave her a glass of water…
"Hotaru-san, why…(sob)…does life have to be…(sob)…like this…(sob)" Mikan said and cries more…
"Ssshhh…cry it all…" Hotaru said trying to calm her down
"My mother…(sob).."
"What about her? Did you meet her already?"
"No! AND I DON'T WANT TO MEET HER AT ALL!!!" Mikan said making Hotaru hug her…
"How could you say that??? Why?"
"She's…(sob)…the AAO's founder!!!...(sob)…and…(sob)…she kills…(sob)…my father!!! Hotaru… I just wish she also killed me… Now, I don't have the reasons to live…"
"Come on! Don't say that you'll better be dead…"
"Why shouldn't I Hotaru?! My family, they're all dead, because of her!!!"
"Hmmm.. so that means you don't consider me as your family ha?"
"Yes, I consider you…"
"Then what the hell are you talking about? Do you think I can survive here in this damn academy if you're not here?" Hotaru said trying to hold back her tears.
"Yes you can! Your strong, Hotaru! And I know you're better of without me!"
"How could you say that Mikan?!"
"Look, all of your inventions are destroyed while I'm beside you… and Natsume… he hates me…"
"My inventions are nothing compared to you… after some time, they also get rusted and destroyed too… unlike you… you're just the best that I got… you're my most valuable treasure Mikan…For Hyuuga-san, he don't hate you… he just belongs to the darkness and he don't want you to be a part of it… he don't want you to be hurt…"
"So if you don't hate me…WHY DO YOU HAVE TO SHOOT ME WITH YOUR BAKA GUN ALWAYS???"
"hmmm.. let's say, your not a youjo anymore! You have to discipline yourself and that's the only thing that I know to let you realize that you're already a teen-ager!! Act like your age!!!"
"Okay… uhmmmm… Arigatou Hotaru!!!"
"You're welcome Mikan… but please… always smile!!!"
"Hai!!" Mikan said gleefully and show Hotaru her sweetest smile and wipe of her tears. Hotaru smiled at her too and hug her tighter…
"And… oh.. I forgot, I also have more things to say to you…"
"What is it?"
"Do you know that ojii-san is also an alice?"
"Hai. He told me that he have the super-strength Alice"
"Then why did you tell me that before?"
"Oh… I thought you also know that… well seeing form ojii-san's features, he's strong even in his old age…"
"Yeah. Right. So do you also know my parent's alice?"
"No."
"They have the Nullification and the Barrier Alice. Narumi-sensei and Persona-sensei told me that I inherit my alices from them, making it the rarest of all the alices…"
"What? You're with them?!"
"Hai! I brought Persona-sensei to the hospital when I saw him bleeding and unconscious when I was there at the Sakura tree…"
"Who stab him?"
"Mother…" Mikan said trying to hold back her tears again…
"oh… I just wish you didn't help him after all…"
"What?! Are you crazy? If I don't do that, he'll die!"
"Well, that means what goes around, comes around?"
"What do you mean Hotaru?"
"Well, he send Hyuuga-san to deadly missions every night at a very young age, then it means he must have to experience that also…."
"You're mean Hotaru…If not because of him and Narumi-sensei, I will not know the truth regarding my mother!!!"
"And you believe them easily?"
"Hai. There is just no reason I will not believe on Narumi-sensei, he already earned my trust and yours too before, right???"
"Okay…"
"Do you also know that I have the Barrier Alice?"
"Nani? I don't see that you use it…"
"Even I am so surprised, but Persona-sensei said that he'll teach me on using it…"
"What?! Persona?!"
"Hai. Hotaru, daijobu! He just act weird, that's all!!!"
"Then why did he assign Hyuuga-san to deadly missions?"
"It is because it is their job to do so… the Academy are the ones who told them to do it…"
"okay…"
"And Hotaru… I'll be going to missions too…"
"NO YOU WILL NOT GO!!!"
"I HAVE TO HOTARU!!! IT'S THE ONLY WAY THAT I CAN MEET HER!!!!"
"WELL, THEN IT'S YOUR DECISION!!!"
"Hotaru… please, don't be mad at me…"
"I'm not mad at you Mikan, but what if you don't come back… what if you…"
"Come on Hotaru, that's not gonna happen to me… I promise, I'll always come back here, safe and sound!"
"Okay… how can I help you then?"
"Your gadgets… pretty helpful…"
"Okay… but I'm not going with you…"
"Yes and I won't let you, I'll be better dead if you will be harmed…and don't worry, Persona-sensei is there to help me…"
"Okay…"
"And ah… I almost forgot… here's your Howalon… pay me 150 rabbits for that!"
"Hotaru.. you're so mean…but anyways, ARIGATOU!!!" Mikan said and hugs Hotaru, Hotaru hugs her back too…
"I Love you Mikan…"
"I love you too Hotaru!!!"
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"Uhmmm… Ruka…I just want to ask you again… do you like… Imai-san???" Natsume ask, trying no to laugh…well, it is really unexpected for Ruka to like Hotaru, but as what they say…opposites attract…
"I'm not so sure…." Replied Ruka, blushing…
"And, if that so, what we'll gonna then with her picture, do we have to recopy it into thousands just like what you say a while ago???"
"No… it's just a joke!"
"Then.. do I have to throw this away?"
"No…"
"Then why keep it?"
"Revenge…"
"How?"
"Tobita Yuu…" Ruka said, grinning
"Hmmm… since when you've become evil ha?!" Natsume said grinning…evilly….
A/N: Arigatou to the following:
angelica marasigan, nesbab, clariecandy, KateDominiqueXAlice, anime-fangirl-o.0-vm, Arahi Sakura, jeje3693
ladalada, nephie-chan, and hannahfinella-chan