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Chapter 9 – Messiah

Youichi and Mikan were running non-stop towards the top of the building. Youichi is stepping on someone's dead body that Mikan just killed. They are still warm to Youichi. At last they reached the top of the building. But there is a huge metal door blocking their destination.

"Shiro Neko, can we open that thing?" Youichi asked as they both stared at it for awhile, then they heard noises coming their way, so Mikan acted quickly.

"I'm asking you to back up while I'm figuring out on how to open the door, okay? I will put my guard down, I trust you." Mikan said as she turned her back away from Youichi and started touching the metal door, closing her eyes and muttering something. Youichi did his best to protect them both with the use of all the ghost's that Mikan just killed seconds ago as his army.

After 3 minutes, the door opened, they entered it and closed it behind them. The room was unusually dark.

"At last you came to me." A cold voice of a woman said as Youichi and Mikan looked for the direction it came from.

"I don't want you to work for the academy anymore, Mikan. Come with me…I won't force you to work like them. You can live as a normal teenager under the AAO's roof." The woman added. Youichi doesn't know how that cold woman knew her name like she knows Mikan so well, and offering a place for her in the AAO?

"Just come out, I will spare your life if you go away and let me crash this place down. And I don't fucking need you in my life now since I already forgotten how it feels like to have a mother. We may be related by blood but I never considered you as family Yuka." Shiro Neko shouted.

"I thought we already showed you what happened on the past and my reason to left you in your grandfather's care, and I distinctly remembered that you don't hate me, and that you chose to stay because of Kuro Neko." The figure of a woman with short brown hair came out of the darkness, wearing a black long gown. Youichi was shocked that she looks exactly like Mikan, only older. And Mikan called her, mother. He doesn't understand a thing of their conversation.

Shiro Neko attacked the woman who supposed if Youichi heard her right is Mikan's mother. Then they started fighting, Youichi can't see their moves or who's winning because both of them are very fast for his eyes. They fought with their katanas.

Then they stopped, Youichi looked at Shiro Neko and saw that there is a large cut on her back, revealing her back with a tattoo. What's that tattoo? It looks like black feathered wings.

"I don't want to fight; I want you as my daughter not as an agent, Shiro Neko." Yuka said as she walked near Mikan then she saw the tattoo of black feather wings on her daughter's back.

"You had this deal? You stupid idiot! My daughter, what have you done to yourself? This will change everything in our life, especially yours? You know the consequence, what is your real plan? I knew something is wrong because of your behavior to me, I know that you don't really hate me. Tell me, I may be of a great help." Yuka said as she touched Mikan's tattoo and healed her wound on her back. Youichi observed that she just became soft all of a sudden and why does this Yuka healing Mikan? They are enemies, right?

"I have my own plans. I need the freedom to execute it, that's what made me do this deal, this curse. I will make sure though, it won't be a waste. These wings, symbolizes the curse that I have and it also signifies me being the Messiah, someone who can change the world, either by rebirth it or destroying it. But destruction is my favorite art, and I chose the AAO for my finest work of art." Mikan said as she speak coldly, no hint of Mikan on her feature.

"I don't believe it, I know you have your own reasons and plans but this is not it, you're covering up your real reason by doing this, its something else, I will let you win for now, but I swear I will know what you're up to." Yuka said as she teleported away from the building. Mikan stood up, she is not feeling a wound on her back anymore, even her clothing was repaired.

"Remember our promise; no word will get out okay?" Mikan said as she turned towards Youichi's shocked face. "Now, for finale…" Mikan then raised her hand, she used her x-ray alice as she looked at the computer's data, and memorized everything she needed then the place crumbled due to an earthquake, Mikan touched Youichi's shoulder as they teleported outside. They watched the building being swallowed by soil like it was never there before; it is like a big burial.

Then Youichi sat up on bed, he was sweating hard, it's his dream but it did happen awhile ago, he can never sleep if he thinks about what happened. He was now staying in the guest room of Mikan's house. He immediately dozed off the moment he entered the house. He was kind of tired.

He walked out of bed, he observed the guest room, and it's still empty of other furniture, just the bed. Messiah, the curse, Yuka… there are so much things needed to be discovered, he wondered if Natsume knows about this.

He opened the door and was shocked to see that Mikan and Natsume are sitting on the sala, may be he just dozed off for a few minutes. Because they are still there, Mikan is still wearing her mission clothes. He watched them behind the small space of the opened door and tried to listen to their conversation.

"I really didn't like the idea of you going on missions…" Natsume said as he tends to Mikan's small cuts and bruises.

"You just have to get used to it. Anyway, you carried Youichi into the room right? Is he really asleep?" Mikan asked as she let Natsume clean her cuts.

"Yup, he looks dead tired, dozing off after getting out of the car, definitely still a kid." Natsume smirked. "What is your mission for him to be dead tired?" He added as he eyed Mikan suspiciously.

"Nothing hard, it is just because it is his first time to be in an offense mission, he used a lot of his alice while backing us up, he will be a great agent someday..." Mikan was cut off when Natsume suddenly kissed her hungrily.

Youichi blushed as he saw that they are starting to make a session, he closed the door and proceed to sleep, but he was pissed for Natsume to call him a kid. But he will let it go this night. He thought of reasons why Mikan lied to him about the mission; she doesn't tell him the details. Then sleep claimed him.

Natsume pushed Mikan to lie down on the sofa as he kissed her cheek and her neck. His hands exploring her body, he can't control his hormones, he want to take her here, as in now. He opened Mikan's blouse and saw that she is wearing a black lace bra. He touched Mikan's chest, and Mikan was shocked, no one dared to touch her before then she remembered; only Natsume did ever since they were a child.

"Natsume, what are you doing?" Mikan asked as Natsume kissed her chest in a downward motion, while he tried to open Mikan's black leather pants.

"I want to feel you..." Natsume said as he tried to control his urges and looked at Mikan's eyes. Mikan sat up and was silent for awhile. Natsume stood up away from the sofa, he doesn't want to force Mikan. He went to the kitchen and he took two beers, he knew Mikan has a different part of her now, she even had beers on her refrigerator, he went back to the sala and saw that Mikan is standing in front of the locked door that Hotaru desperately wanted to open. He went beside Mikan and gave her one of the beers his holding. She gladly took it and opened the can, she took a sip then looked at Natsume.

"Before you want to feel me, I want you to know first who I am now; I don't want you to regret having a girl like me as your girlfriend." Mikan suddenly said.

"Mikan, I will never change my view about you, I already told you didn't I? I love you and I will wait for you, ever since you left, I knew that somehow some things will definitely change." Natsume passionately said, he also knows that he sounds so not Natsume but he wants to be part of Mikan's life now, if he has to express his feelings, then be it.

"Lend me your key that I gave you." Mikan asked offering her hand in front of Natsume, Natsume fished it out of his pocket and handled it over to Mikan.

Mikan opened the door effortless with the use of Natsume's key to the house. Natsume wondered what is with his key? Hotaru used her invention on that door and it never worked as Ruka told him.

"I put some of my small nullification alice stones on that key so the barrier alice that I constructed on this door is cancelled with your key. Only me and you can enter this, that key will make you enter this room." Mikan said as she pushed the door open. They went inside and Mikan closed it behind them.

"Mikan, what is this room?" Natsume hesitantly asked as he looked around it, it looks like a coven. It's full of lit candles in trays, on floor, on tables, all around the room! It looks thousands of candles are lit. He wondered why the house is not burning because of this.

"This is what keeps me sane, every time I kill someone, I offer a candle. One candle for each person. If I lost count of how many I killed in one night, I lit a big candle just like the one near you." She said as she pointed on Natsume's side.

"How come the candles are not burning out?" Natsume asked Mikan, curious. But he didn't like her reply at all.

"It will burn out one by one while I'm dying, it will all burn out when I'm dead. I put a spell on it to be like that. I feel that my death will be the only way for me to be forgiven by them." Mikan said while lighting a new candle for her offering for tonight.

"Why did you think you're going to die?"

"Well, you'll never know, right? I just want it to be this way that's all."

Natsume nodded satisfied and walked around the room observing the candles then he noticed a big candle, it is 1 foot tall and there is a big picture of a guy smiling brightly behind the huge candle. Who is this guy? Jealousy is starting to form inside of him.

"I see, you noticed him huh? This is my first candle I ever lit. The picture behind the candle, he represents this candle." Mikan explained as she sat on the floor in front of the candle and the picture, Natsume did the same.

"He... his name is Tetsuya, he was my very first friend in Alice Academy America, I was partnered to him since we are in the same class, he has water alice. He is warm, compassionate, always jokes around. He reminds me of my old self. He helped me a lot to catch on my studies because he knows that I train day and night. When I am too tired to get up from bed, he brings me food and helps me feed myself. He takes missions too but only as a guard. He is already taking missions for 3 years ahead of me, just like you Natsume. When I have extra time, he teaches me how to use a map since I am always geographically incapable, so I tend to get lost always. We went outside and he teaches me a lot, he is also in our racing team, he is the main star racer, I was just new to the team back then, I remember that I didn't managed to beat him in a race until now. He was a great friend, he is like my best friend there, and he can easily read me although I was already trained in how I can control my emotions. He is sweet to always take care of me like his little sister, as you know, I don't have any siblings unlike you, you have Aoi. He was the one who told me to offer something if I had done something wrong, as if to pay respect in return. But I never thought that I will offer something for my first for him because... " Natsume listens with full heart, although he was quite jealous that this man has an effect on Mikan. He knew that this guy must have fallen for Mikan because the guy gives his time and effort for her. Now he is really jealous. He waited for Mikan's next words and he felt Mikan's heart burst when he heard what she said next.

"He is also my first mission."