Chapter 10 – gone but not forgotten
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A/N opps I called her Ichigo Hana in the last chapter, instead of Ichigo Sakura like I originally planned to, I really am an idiot, really don't understand why anyone puts up with me…
(Hana was the name I was thinking about using in a different story)
And speaking of putting up with me, I wanna thank my reviewers – when I looked I was all OMG I have reviews, I'm new to the whole writing for others to see and have just got the up loading down, I don't check my email often, I figured if it was reviewed it would only get flames, since I'm very good. Not that I care about flames to each their own, and I will still upload, But I got a happy surprise when
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"What happened while I was out" I shook my head to dispel the last fragments of unconsciousness.
"Well, like predicted all hell broke loose." I raised my eyebrow at him, surely it wasn't that bad. "No kidding, once what's his name shoot you, and your uncle arrived, Reo got his face smashed in, and your uncle took your body away, while the other guy carried the girl out, she was still screaming your name." I grimaced if I ever got to see Hotaru again I was going to have a lot to explain. If I didn't get maimed I would count myself lucky.
"Anyway your uncle carried your body here, where myself and Jii-san were waiting, he made sure you were comfortable gave a letter to me and left shortly after" I nodded glad my uncle was keeping in with the plan. Getting up I looked at Koko and smiled.
"So Mikan Yukihara is officially dead…" I waited for him to clarify with a nod.
Good so the plan worked, well my plan did at least, as I knew the other wouldn't fix things properly, let me explain, I told you I was plotting something with two people. Well those two as you probably have guessed were Mr. Imai and my uncle. I needed the Koizumi's to believe that Mikan Yukihara had died. So that I could get into that school of theirs.
This way they wouldn't be as suspicious, I told them that they were going to need to find some way to shoot me, whether I got hit by a stray bullet or died saving someone else. They were carrying two guns, one was filled with normal ammo, so they could defend themselves, whereas the other, was filled with blanks I had packets of fake blood strapped to various parts of my body, and each was filled with an antithetic that when in contact with skin, it would make the heart slow and decrease the rate of breathing so much that, it would appear you were dead, they came in useful when small groups were cornered by an enemy, some may say its cowardly, but when your with your wife and children and there's no escape, by pretending to kill them so they didn't suffer, you could save their lives and they could live and grow, become strong and defend the family.
I used them to make everyone think I was dead, I had let Koko in on the plan, and it turned out Jii-san also wanted to help protect me, I told him that it would be dangerous and I didn't want him involved, but he put forward the fact that I would need an adult/guardian to make my story believable, and he wasn't going to let his granddaughter face vulnerability alone. He almost made me cry, since like I said I never had a grandfather, and his kindness and selflessness was more than I could ever ask for.
Koko handed me the letter my uncle had left for me, successfully pulling me away from my thoughts.
Mikan
I'm sorry I couldn't say goodbye to you properly when you woke up, but I had to get back to the family. After this, it's likely we will have to go into hiding, the old headquarters will be empty, so there will be no point in going back there, it will only put you at risk, you may not be able to contact us for some time but I will always keep you save, and so help me god if you get yourself injured doing this, I will tape your hand to my office door, for 3 days.
Be safe, you have made a good friend there, and maybe one day when this is all over, he can become part of the family, don't forget all you have been taught, and the end always justifies the means when your one of us, so don't be afraid to knock some heads together, or rub someone up the wrong way. I set your new life up, Ichigo Sakura– funny name choice, but it's as good as any. – your parents recently died leaving you with a fortune, and in the care of your grandfather, Kokoro Yome is to be your twin brother, only his last name needs to be changed as the Koizumi's have no information about him. And speaking of parents we can't find your mother…
Good luck, and come home soon
Shiki.
"Koko, we have work to do, so let's get to it… brother." I smiled up at him.
It took a few days, and eventually we found a place in Tokyo that screamed money, but wasn't over the top, it was a 3 room penthouse apartment and was only a short distance away from the boarding school we would be attending also known as Gakuen Alice. Koizumi senior was the chairman there, so he had complete control of all three divisions, whereas Koizumi junior aka Luna Koizumi would be attending my year. Good if I befriend her I might be able to snoop around easier.
I had a week before the start of the new term, to prepare myself and Koko for our role as sibling, we slipped into it extremely easily, after all we already treated each other like family and we were both only children. In fact Koko really was an orphan, his parents abandoned him, when he was only a baby, so he was staying it the village under the school's care, which of cause they hated since he never tried, and was happy to breeze though school. I'm surprised I never mentioned it before, it never really seemed important, so when Jii-chan said he would take Koko off the headmistress's hand she jumped at the chance. And that was before she knew he was leaving with Koko so she never had to deal with the trouble maker again.
My funeral was held a couple of days ago, well Mikan Yukihara's as for Mikan Imai, well her stepfather got a transfer and they were now living in the city.
But the point was that Koko and I could really be twins now, the first thing I did was invest in a sandy blonde wig, it really looked like real hair, I couldn't do anything about my eyes. But hazel eyes are pretty common, and as long as I can keep up a good act there shouldn't be any problems within school.
Speaking of school it's not long now, before I enter another unknown place. I hope I make more friends at this one than I did the last time around. Although I wouldn't trade Koko in for a 100 friends. It would be nice to make a friend who I can talk about girly things to once in a while. I started to realise a couple years back that I really did like pretty things like dresses, and jewellery (Not in the way my mother did, but still…) but by that time I had already got my name as a tomboy and the girls tended to avoid me. So I have to act like the ditzy, happy go lucky type that the Koizumi's wouldn't put together with their most hated rivals.
I didn't unpack anything into the apartment, after all what was the point in a few days I would only have to repack so I could move into the school dorm.
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"Koko lets go, we are going to be late." I screamed at him from the door to the apartment. He ran out of his bedroom with toast in his mouth shirt un-tucked and tie caught round his ear, I laughed out at his appearance, I couldn't help it his looked so funny, he just gave me his best death glare with made me laugh more.
"Sorry, Miss. Perfect we don't all wake up at first light, hell you don't even need to now, and you could have woken me." He said round his toast, while slipping his trainers on and fixing his tie.
"I did wake you! 8 times! it's not my fault you kept going back to sleep until I threw water on you." I huffed at him, now I'm going to have to run to reach school on time. And I so wanted to look like a normal girl too. I grabbed my bag and flung it over my shoulder marching out of the building not waiting for him to catch up. I heard him scuttle behind me, trying not to be left behind.
As predicted we had to run the last couple 100 meters so as not to be late. The receptionist gave us our matching time tables (Thank god) and told us to wait for the homeroom teacher to retrieve us.
He has got to be gay, I glanced at a snickering Koko who was next to me, and knew he was thinking the same thing.
"HI, I'm Narumi. I'll be your home room teacher, Ichigo and Kokoro right" the object of my disgust bounced over to us, he was dressed head to toe in a PINK ballerina outfit, pink tutu and all… surely he knows only girls wear those… Maybe he is a she, I mean the long blonde hair and earrings are not helping this confusion… I swallowed the bile that was rising in my throat; I HAVE to act un-Mikan like. So jumping up, I ran to greet him.
"Sensei, it's so nice to meet you, you guessed right I'm Ichigo, and I will be in your care from now on." Oh god I'm going to hurl… Koko just sat there holding back his laughter, now I can't have that.
"Nii-san, why don't you come and say hello properly" I grabbed his arm, with enough force to leave a bruise, and pushed his head down into a formal type bow. Satisfied I released my killer grip on him.
"Shall we go." I looked back to Narumi expectantly, lucky he was quite oblivious to just how much force I used on Koko. I smiled sweetly and waited for him to lead us into the classroom.
Waiting patiently outside the door for him to introduce us, I heard the deathly silence fall upon the room as he mentioned new students. That was our queue.
"hello it's a pleasure to meet everyone my name is Ichigo Sakura, and this is my brother Kokoro Sakura, please take care of us." I smiled my biggest smile at the class and waited for the questions to fly.