Maa, maa.... Sorry it took so long. School's killer since its so close to the end of the year and I had a Dance comp. last weekend. Gomenosai!!!!
Thank you to my Beta: AvengedRomantic
Disclaimer: I do NOT own GA, as surprising as it may seem ;P
Normal POV
"Narumi-sensei," Hotaru called.
The blonde haired, purple-eyed teacher looked up from his papers to see the expressionless face of the ice queen looking down on him.
"Ah, Hotaru-chan," he greeted, breaking into a smile, "What are you doing in the teachers lounge? Do you need something?"
Hotaru snorted.
"Of course."
She said it like it was obvious, but then again, it was. Why else would she be there?
Narumi waited expectantly. "Well...?" he prompted.
"How does your Alice work?" she asked. "You can out it in an object, right? Since you can control a person's emotions, does that also mean you can take them away? And if you put an Alice enhanced item on, let's just say a bracelet for example, how would you take it off?"
Her teacher just blinked when she finished her onslaught of questions, taking a moment to process them all and come up with the proper responses.
"Well, yes: I can put my Alice into an object if I want, but it takes a master Alice to do so." he began with a smile on his face, answering the first of her questions. "As for the question of if I can take them away? I have never tried that but I don't think I could. That takes another Alice: Emotional Lockdown. With it you can remove certain emotions, while adding or enhancing others. If you change someone's emotions around with it, then you can essentially control someone that way. And you can take most Alice items off like you would anything normally, but some are made to be permanent."
Hotaru cursed under her breath.
"How would you take off something that is supposed to be permanent?" she asked icily.
Narumi tilted his head to think for a moment.
"Well..." he said slowly. "I don't really think you can, unless it's cut off or something happens to make it break, but that takes a very large amount of force to do that..." he said, trailing off. "Say, Hotaru-chan, why-?"
The blond stopped, realizing that he was talking to thin air now.
"Where did that girl go...?" he wondered aloud. "Is she in trouble or something? Psh! Nah." he exclaimed, dismissing the notion as soon as he thought of it.
Narumi looked down at the papers that were strewn across his desk again, reading the small black words with boredom.
Mikan POV
I had watched their conversation from afar, cloaked in invisibility by one of my many Alice's, and now sat in my room on top of the large bed.
'Emotional Lockdown?' I wondered. 'Why was Imai asking Narumi-sensei about Alice enhanced items and things like that?'
Looking down, I brought a hand to the bracelet on my wrist, running my fingers along the smooth beads. Did she think that the bracelet had something to do with it? I supposed that if I still had the emotion of amusement I would have laughed at the absurdity of the thought.
'It's been a while since I've done that...' I mused.
But this little piece of jewelry was helping me. All that it did was made it so that I wasn't like I was before. Daichi had been the first person that I'd ever lost before who was close to me and it hurt. Bad. But now it was all better because Akihiko. So yes, I suppose that perhaps I was a little bit more violent than I was before. Maybe I could be a little caustic with my words sometimes... but that had nothing to do with my bracelet. Hotaru must actually think that this was forced upon me.
"How would you take off something that is supposed to be permanent?" she asked icily.
Narumi tilted his head to think for a moment.
"Well..." he said slowly. "I don't really think you can, unless it's cut off or something happens to make it break, but that takes a very large amount of force to do that..."
But I could take off this bracelet.
I closed my fingers around the beads-
If I really wanted to, I could take this thing off.
-and began to slide them down my wrist-
I had a choice. Akihiko gave me one. Hotaru was defiantly wrong.
-when it got to my hand I began to notice some resistance, and it glowed dully. The moment that I got the green beads to the beginning of my thumb, they wouldn't budge. I knew that it wasn't because it was too small: actually it was kind of large, and should come off with ease. I tugged on it but it didn't move past there. Its only response was that that the dull glow got brighter.
After about five more minutes I stopped and looked at my wrist with wide eyes.
Shock.
That, I knew for sure, is what I should be feeling at this time.
But still, nothing.
'There has to be a good excuse for this,' I reasoned. 'He must just want to make sure it didn't fall off or something. The bracelet IS rather large...'
But the more reasonable part of my mind disagreed.
"I'll just ask him tomorrow morning." I decided my voice dropping to a low hiss. "There is no way that I'm being controlled. I made this choice all on my own."
I refused to believe that I could be manipulated.
I knew this was the moment where I would feel a tug of irritation, but nothing came.
Natsume POV
"Persona, I have something I need to tell you." I said in a low voice.
The two of us were in the DA room. He sat behind a large mahogany desk, fingered laced together in front of him, her chin resting on them. He quirked an eyebrow and I could feel his eyes burrowing into me from behind his mask.
I stood directly in front of him, dressed in my school uniform. I had come directly from Imai's lab.
"I'm listening...." he said slowly.
"First you need to swear not to say a word to anyone until I say so. When I begin, do not interrupt: just listen."
Persona snorted.
"Fine. You have my full attention."
"Mikan is working with the AAO." I saw Persona stiffen. "Akihiko-sensei, the history teacher, is also with them and the two are helping to lead a full army of AAO agents to the Academy and destroy it. They know that I know, but they plan to launch the attack anyways. They are conceited enough to think it won't matter." I ended.
From behind his desk, Persona had gone completely still, his fists were clenched together tightly and he was no longer resting his chin on them, and instead was sitting up straight, all attention on me.
"The implications that you are making are very serious, Hyuuga," he practically snarled. "I would like some proof."
"Hotaru Imai was the first to figure it out. She planted some bugs and saw their conversation herself. I also saw it today... I'm not wrong."
"Mikan would never-"
"She isn't the girl you once knew." I snapped, slamming my hands down on the hard wood. "She's different. So yes: she would do it. But it's not because she just changed- it's because of that bracelet."
Persona, though I couldn't see it, narrowed obsidian eyes behind his white mask. "That green one that she always wears lately?"
"Yes. It must be enhanced with an Alice of some sort."
The DA teacher took a deep breath to compose himself.
"So what do you need me to do?" he asked. He sounded exhausted and I knew that this had to be killing him inside.
"I need you to convince everyone in the DA to help fight. But we need to keep this secret. We will stay in the shadows for now, preparing to fight until the AAO arrives..."
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