Okay, So here's how it'll be: since the majority of you guys want me to continue, I will. I am going to put a chapter with this note just because I don't want to have two authors notes in a row since that's so boring... but do know that - so I can really get back into writing this - the next update probably won't be until 8/18/2010. I hate writing with no motivation because it just seems dull... But in about two weeks - give or take a few days - I should be back! So get ready! XD

WARNING: this is somewhat spoilerish, so if you haven't gotten to Narumi and Yuka's past yet you might want to catch up in the manga first!

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Disclaimer: i don't own GA =P

Normal POV

"So talk," Narumi-sensei said simply, giving Mikan a pointed look.

She shifted where she sat and looked down.

"Well," Mikan began, in her soft voice, "Elaine was my best friend for starters. In the... facility we both lived at, she was the closest to my age and always helped me out. The facility was an underground medical one. Illegal tests were performed on children with rare Alices - not that I knew that when I agreed to go with them."

-Flashback-

"Elaine!" Mikan called excitedly. "I did good on the test today - the man in the white coat said so."

She had short brown hair that came just past her chin and lively hazel eyes. She was seven years old.

A slightly taller blonde girl the same age smiled at her. "Congratulations."

"Yeah..." Mikan murmured. "I'm so glad that they found me. Life on the streets... well it was hard. I still miss my mom. They told me that they would help find her though, so I'm glad!"

Elaine's smile turned sad. "I'm sure it was." she agreed. "Just... remember this happiness now, because things won't always be this great."

When Mikan asked what she meant, her friend didn't reply.

-End-

"I didn't understand what she meant by it wouldn't always be that way." Mikan confessed, looking down. "Not at first anyway..."

Narumi looked at his student with concern.

"What do you mean?" he asked warily.

"Well, things changed. The people who took care of me began to become rather cruel with their testing methods: shock collars, cages, and they would hit us if we fell behind during training or could not complete the test."

Violet eyes went wide.

-Flashback-

Mikan looked out from behind the bars of the cage she was in with wide and fearful eyes. Her face hurt where she had been struck the other day for refusing to do one of the physical tests. She ended up doing it anyways. Mikans legs still hurt from all of the running she did.

Hazel eyes looked back down at the dented silver bowl that had been shoved through the cages door and was filled with... something green. One of the men in the white coats had said in was a nutrition soup. Mikan didn't think that soup was supposed to be thick and pasty, nor did she think it should taste as bad as it did. But the eight year old was hungry and when the man in the white coat came an hour later, he found the steel bowl completely clean of the "nutrition soup".

She fell asleep that night cold and shivering in the plain white t-shirt and shorts she had been given. Experiments didn't get blankets.

-End-

"That was just the begging of it. As time went on things became worse. Elaine was the only person who showed me kindness. Because of my Alice, they always put me through various experiments; enhancing my eye sight, hearing, speed, strength, and most importantly, implanting various Alices into me... I was their biggest hope and their most successful project yet."

"What was their goal?" her favorite teachers voice was soft and she smiled up at him weakly.

"To create the perfect weapon," she confessed. "They wanted someone who could perform all the dirty work for them from stealing to performing assassinations for clients. It was working, but Elaine was distracting me from that, in a way."

-Flashback-

"Well," Elaine said one day, sighing deeply as she sat beside Mikan in the cold tile floor. They were both eleven. ",we can always try and run away. Sometimes they take us outside and if we try really hard I think we can escape."

Mikan gave a small smile. She wished it were that easy.

"I know what you're thinking," she sang, giving her friend a look. "But it is possible! Just wait and see: one day we'll get away from this place and be free."

-End-

"We did try a few times, but we were always caught of course. And punished badly. Eventually after something major happened, they decided she was too much of a problem and, in front of me, shot her dead..." Mikan's voice had become a whisper and while it looked and sounded as though she might cry, no tears fell. She blinked a few times and composed herself. "Seeing her today... it was both terrible and wonderful at the same time." she looked up at Narumi with large hazel eyes. "Tell me; how does one react when they see an old friend who should be long dead, alive and breathing and trying to kill you?"

The blond had no answer for that and he just shrugged helplessly.

"I don't know."

Mikan gave her own shrug as well.

"I would be surprised if you did."

Narumi chuckled and smiled at his mysterious little student before he remembered something. Blinking in surprise her said, "Oh, by the way, what is your original Alice? You never told me..." he trailed off sheepishly.

Face going carefully blank, she replied, "Alices. I have more than one actually... The first is Nullification and the second the SCE - steal, copy, erase. I also have the Insertion Alice. It's the reason why-"

Mikan cut herself off and looked at her teachers suddenly pale face in surprise.

"What's wrong?" she asked cautiously.

He swallowed. "Tell me, do you know what your mothers name was?"

The Alice had triggered a memory from long ago of a girl with long straight brown hair just a few years older than himself and a young man who had been a teacher fifteen years ago. The girl had creamy, smooth skin and expressive hazel eyes. And now that he thought about it, looked just like Mikan.

"Yuka." she answered easily. "My mother's name is Yuka."

Narumi felt like he had been punched in the gut and his eyes widened even further and his breath left with a whoosh.

"Mikan-chan..." his voice was slightly shaky but covered up quickly, "I think that we need to go see the high school principal now. He has something that he will need to talk to you about."

He stood up and walked to the door, Mikan following close behind him.

Narumi Anjou's thought were racing a hundred miles an hour.

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