Only You Only You

Chapter 27: The Questionable Mission

Mikan gladly skipped up to the Sakura tree hoping Natsume would be waiting for her. Quickly her smiling mouth flipped downwards showing a frown. "Stupid Natsume. Asking where I am and he doesn't even wait for me…tsk." As her eyes scanned the beautiful tree a sudden flash of white stood out of the light brown trunk. Mikan walked to the white object and plucked it off the tree trying not to rip it in the process. She flipped it open and read the small words on the page,

Mikan,

Be careful.

Natsume

"Huh?" Mikan asked folding back into the neat square it was in and pushing it down into her sweat pants pocket, "I wonder what that was about." Mikan quickly ran towards the girl's dorm as fast as she could.

"Mikan Sakura." Persona's voice cracked the peaceful air like a knife.

Mikan spun around in shock as she glared up into the tree's shadows, "Persona! Come out! I don't want to play right now."

In a blink of an eye Persona was standing over Mikan smirking, "But what I heard, you love games."

Mikan straightened up and stared up at him suspiciously, "What do you want?"

"I was wondering where my pendant is." Persona said holding out his hand towards Mikan.

Mikan looked at the hand before sighing and pulling it out from under her shirt, "I don't need it anyway."

"Hn?" Persona asked fiddling with the chain before covering it with his whole hand, "Didn't it do anything good for you?"

"No." Mikan answered before turning towards the dorms, "If you don't mind I'll be leaving now." Suddenly a hand clutched her shoulder stopping her from moving forward, "What is it now."

Persona smirked and whispered before disappearing, "Meet me at the Sakura tree tonight at 11 pm. Don't let anyone see you."

Mikan looked down at her feet in sadness as all her friends flashed through her mind, "Tsk." Quickly Mikan ran to the dorms slamming the door behind her, speeding past Anna and Nonoko talking in the hallway.

"Eh! Mikan?" Nonoko asked blinking down the hallway in shock.

Mikan closed her door fast locking it. "Don't want anyone seeing what I'm packing or they might know what's going on…" Mikan walked over to her bed jumping onto it with a thump and a sigh. "Man this sucks. I haven't had mission in…who knows how long! Why now?" casually Mikan rolled onto her pillows getting a great look at her room. "Maybe Natsume knew I was going to have a mission! That's not good! Crap, crap, crap…."

"Mikan." Anna's voice ringing past her door, "Is something wrong?"

Mikan sat up and pounced up to the door unlocking it so Anna could come in, "Nope everything's alright. Why do you ask?"

"Well you ran down the hallway pretty fast and Nonoko got all worked up." Anna answered smiling.

Mikan smirked, "Thanks for worrying about me! But I'm really ok."

Anna sighed and waved as she left the doorway, "Good. See ya."

Mikan waved as Anna turned the corner and left her sight. Mikan closed her door and walked over to her closet opening it up and pulling out a small backpack with all her weapons in it. "Might as well go for anther walk in the woods." And with that Mikan rushed out of her room. Not going through the door but jumping out her window. Carefully she leaped down making sure to land on her trees branches, "let's get it over with then."

Carefully Mikan pushed past bushes and leaped into the forest not even leaving a trace that she once stepped there. Before going any deeper Mikan spun around and saw just a small piece of the dorm. She pulled up her hand and said, "I promise I'll come back safe and sound." Quickly she turned back and took off.