Hehe.. Here's chapter 5.. Thanks for the reviews!
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Inside the maze, Mikan shivered as a cold breeze swept past them. "How can there be wind when this whole place is enclosed?" Natsume thought. He had felt something before they went into the maze but was not sure what it was. In fact, he had no good feeling about this mission at all- even though he could be considered as an experienced fighter.
Suddenly, a metal dropped in front of them. " CAREFUL!" Natsume shouted and pushed Mikan away. Mikan, frightened like hell now, was screaming uncontrollably. " Quiet! Shh!" Natsume tried to calm her down bit to no avail. Mikan was scared out of wits. However, she tried to be strong and smiled weakly at Natsume.
Deep inside his heart ache. To see Mikan so afraid tortured him. This place was too much for an innocent and cheerful girl like her. She should not be involve in this mission. She could not! With that, Natsume put his arms around Mikan to calm her down. He felt her freeze for a moment and then settle comfortably in his arms. He tried to make her felt protected and that was the only way he could think of. Obviously, Mikan was calmed down and she withdraw from his arms.
" Thanks.." she said with her face looked down. "She was blushing" Natsume thought.
" We need to go on. According to Narumi, there are five maze to break. I think this is the first one. You have any idea which way we should go?" Natsume asked Mikan when the road they were walking on suddenly split into four paths ahead of them.
" Hmm.. Lets go to the one at the most left!" Mikan said gleefully.
" WHAT.. Then lets go to the one at the most right then. What you said is sure to be a wrong way for a blur girl like you" Natsume teased and walked towards the right. He heard Mikan cursing him at the back and smiled. However, he realized that she was not following him after a while and he turned back. " WHERE IS MIKAN!" He thought, panicking. Immediately, he ran back to where they were just now. Halfway through, he heard Mikan screamed.
" MIKAN!" he shouted desperately. When he reached the place where they were before, Mikan was not THERE. " Oh no! What am I supposed to do now?" Natsume panicked. The normally calm boy was now walking round in circles.
" HELP! NATSUM--" the voice broke off.
" MIKAN! HOLD ON!" Natsume found the way her voice had came from and ran to the path at the most left. " Stupid girl, she must have wander off herself instead of following me" he thought as he ran. Panting heavily, he arrived at a small room. A robot was holding Mikan in one hand and had a razor blade on the other hand. Mikan saw him came and tried calling him.
" Nn..nat..su.. Sme. hel…pp.. argh!"
The robot tightened the grip on Mikan and he could see her arms were bleeding. " A robot huh" Natsume thought, " someone in the anti-academy association must have an Invention Alice to create such robot."
Thinking about the robot made Natsume angry and balls of fire appeared in his hands. He threw the fire at the robot and surrounded the robot in a sea of fire. " Mikan, run while you can!" Natsume shouted. In a split second, Mikan dashed out of the sea of fire. She was unhurt by the fire due to her Nullifying Alice. However, the injury on her arm caused by the robot made her knee down in pain after she ran a distance from the fire. Soon, the fire had burnt away the robot into bits of metals. Natsume heaved a sigh of relieve.
He walked towards Mikan with anger in his eyes.
" Hey stupid girl! Why did you ran off yourself. Now you get yourself in trouble and almost get killed" Natsume scolded Mikan. Mikan cried softly as she held her bleeding arm. Seeing Mikan in such a pain, Natsume's face soften down. He took Mikan's arm and examined her injury. There was a deep gash in her arm, obviously, the robot had slashed her arm with that blazer it had. Natsume's heart ache. He tore off some cloth from his sleeve and wrapped around Mikan's arm. And as he did that, Mikan sobbed uncontrollably, " I am sorry, sorry." After Natsume wrapped finish Mikan's wound, he held Mikan up.
" Now follow me this time" he said gently.
With that, he took Mikan's hand and walked out of the room- with her hand in his. As he turned back, Mikan looked up at him and blushed. This caused him to turn red and he tried to hide it by turning away. They proceed to the enter the path at the most right. ( to be continued)
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Yeah! I am finally done with this chapter. Whew, I had been thinking for a long time on what to write and tada! This idea came out. Hope it is not too plain for you all.
