NOTE: sorry for who did read this chapter as a two part... i reunited them in one chap... sorry again... and thank you a lot for reviewing it...

Disclaimer: It never belongs to me but to… Higuchi Tachibana

Summary: Mikan is strange lately. Her smile has faded a little but it bright its entire colour now. She's different… who is she now? Please read on to find and RxR plz

Chapter 7: State

Time… no definite… place… everywhere on GA…

One month had passed by since the accident. Mikan didn't remember anything about this day, either the animals or her behaviour. No one could say anything. All the students and the teachers had one thought: she had been manipulated. It made relieved a lot the class B students, but not that much.

During the first week of her absent, no one could see or meet her at the hospital, even using Hotaru's inventions, they couldn't see her at all. They were so worried about her, specially three persons really precious to the little girl, they didn't do anything good either talking. The class B had become the quieter class during this week.

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FLASHBACK

One week had passed since the accident. The weather was gloomy and cold as ever, it was pretty normal since it was the end of autumn in the Gakuen Alice. But the atmosphere was gloomier and coldierin some way in the class B than any other class had. The students there didn't receive any news about her friend, except that she was cured little by little in the hospital, saying by Narumi, but nothing else. They couldn't meet her, every attempt to at seeing her was a failure even Hotaru or Natsume did so.

It wasn't a day as they knew, since Natsume was pretty early in the classroom. But this day might be gloomy, the door of the classroom appeared a shape of someone.

"Ohayou minna-san." Said a little voice with a big smile.

Practically not all the class could hear it clearly.

"Ohay…"

Yuu turned his head greeting back the person. But wasn't expected to see something that would make him to drop the board eraser which made everyone looking at him. They saw his stunned expression looking at the door and they all did so. They were all in the same statement as Yuu. They stopped what they did.

They saw a girl with bandages on her head, neck, her left wrist and her right leg. She was… thin… really thin (AN: isn't it enough? She was already thin after all.). Her hairs were down until her waist, they were curled. They seemed to have grown since.

"Mi-Mikan? Is it you?" Asked Nonoko.

"Ano… did I change that much?" Asked Mikan looking at herself with her big innocent and surprise look, and a little voice which could be described by a whisper.

"huh… it's not that, Mikan, it's just that… you… huh…" Stopped Sumire.

Mikan was looking at them really confused, she didn't know that she was totally unknowledged with these bandages. Her head was practically hidden by the bandages, and her body… it wasn't her at all. She was so thin that even a little wind or touch will break into two. And we could clearly see under her uniform that she had some bandages on her thinest body.

'What did happen to her?' some thought it.

' How come she become like that?' some other thought it.

' Did she eat well?' thought some other with a… terror look.

' And… what the hell are these bandages?' Thought two people at the same time.

'Her smile is so weak… it isn't the same smile I knew, neither warm…' Thought a boy voice.

'What did they do to her? She's not MY Mikan I knew' thought a girl voice.

'her voice… it isn't the annoyed voice I heard everyday nor everywhere…' thought the two voice at the same time.

'Isn't it better for her to go to her dorm room to rest for some time?' Mutturing the two voice worringly enough to not be heard.

"Mi…" Said finally the two voices cutting by the bell.

RIING

'Stupid bell' thought someone.

'Will burn ya someday' thought another one.

(AN: Is it enough for you to guess who are the respective owner voices, right?)

Everyone went back to their seat. Mikan took a long time before regaining hers. She couldn't move quickly because of her right leg, she was injured really badly. Everyone didn't know how it happened since no one can remember seeing her being injure there neither her arms nor her chest, but only her head.

Everyone wanted to help her when Jinno came inside the class and saw Mikan trying hard to move quickly towards her seat. He grabbed her shoulder which stopped her to move more over. Everyone wanted to say something when they saw him holding his crackle stick towards her head.

"I dismissed you from class for today, Sakura." He said kindly to her.

"Just rest in your room until you feel better, I think it's better for you to go back to the hospital;"

Everyone was shocked by his attitude. Never he would let her go easily if she did something wrong even not being at her seat in time. (AN: ehehehe I think he's on OCC mode, but this was an exception as we can see.)

"Iie." Said Mikan while shaking her head slowly. "I feel better and can assi…" cut by Jinno.

"Just rest in your room, Sakura Mikan." Said he menacingly but it was more an order.

Mikan closed her eyes, put down her head and proceeded to go outside of the classroom to her dorm room, slowly. She closed the door really slowly. (like a snail.)

Everyone was shocked by Mikan statement and Jinno treatment towards her. When the door closed, the lesson began.

After 10 min of being torture by full questions, Natsume got up from his seat who attracted all attention on him. He went to the door when…

"Where are you going, Hyuuga?" Asked Jinno looking irritated by his behaviours.

Natsume didn't say anything nor stopped and left the classroom slamming the door behind him. Everyone looked at the door slamming and returned to the lesson.

Ruka was upset. Ordinary, his best friend had called him to go with him and ditching class together, and he was really worried about him, and knew where he would go now. He wanted to go also. There was also a look coming by the front of the class who also was thinking to go with the Kuro Neko outside the classroom but her body didn't want to move even an inch.

During the break, it was too silence in the classroom that was unbearable for none of them. They wanted to run to Mikan's room when the door opened to revealed Misaki, the biology teacher (is it right?), and the bell rung. Everyone went back to their seat and really disappointed.

Hotaru and Ruka didn't say anything. They were too quiet and the classroom was full of their anxious state. They even didn't dare to move an inch from their seat and had their head down looking the table or so the ground. Ruka looked at Hotaru's back.

'I wonder if she's feeling well? She didn't eat much these past 7 days. She's really worried about Mikan-chan… well it's the same for everyone here' Looked at the classroom. 'and also for natsume.' Thought Ruka.

Hotaru wasn't listening to the lesson. Her head was down and her thought was all about her best friend state.

'What did happen to her? And what did they have done to her? Where did they… where has she been these past 7 days and… where exactly in the hospital?' Thought the inventor girl.

Without knowing it, class had dismissed since ten minutes. When they saw it, all of them went to the teachers room to look for Narumi. But they encountered him in the corridor near the fountain where Mikan was one week ago.

"Oh… hi eve…" began Narumi surrounding by an amount of class B students and pushing down on a bench.

"What happened to Mikan?" asked Anna.

"Why did she has many bandages?" Asked Yuu.

"Why is she so thin?" Asked Nonoko.

"Why is she so weak?" asked Sumire.

A question was asked by everyone except two people and one question hadn't been posed. And it seemed that Narumi was relieved by that.

"Why didn't you say us that she was in a bad state?"

Everyone stopped their attack on Narumi, who had automatically an uneasy face. They all turned their face and made a path to who said the question. The path revealed two faces: a blond haired with blue eyes guy holding Usagi in his arms and a raven haired with black eyes girl holding her famous and terrific improved Baka Gun, the version 5.

Ruka and Hotaru voice were heard but there was also a third one that came from above their head. They all looked up, except Ruka, Hotaru and Narumi, and saw someone on the statue of the fountain. The body jumped down just in front of Ruka and Hotaru.

A boy with raven coloured hair was standing just in front of the two persons. He turned around and revealed two peer of crimson eyes. (AN: I supposed you know who is it, right?) He seemed to be really interesting and concerning about their discussion, since his eyes were really deep determinated.

All of three walked towards the teacher, always pale by the question and also by these three students. He wanted to escape from them but knew it was too late to do so, because he was surrounding by too many students and if he did they would have prepared themselves to catch him back without any problems. (AN: that maybe because Koko read his mind?) He sighed and looked at them, as they stood in front of him as stern as ever.

(AN: wow, didn't know that could be true, except for Natsume since it's his own character, and for Hotaru who is know as the Ice Queen girl, and she could be even more than unemotional girl, but for Ruka… cant imagine it at all.)

Everyone was now surrounding the teacher and the three students.

"So?" Said the three of them coldly at the same time.

Narumi sighed and closed his eyes for a moment before opened his month for saying something.

"Well…

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FLASHBACK in FLASHBACK – one week ago, the end of the afternoon or night of the accident…

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH…"

Everyone was covering theirs ears, even the animals. Her voice was so high-pitched that all had closed their eyes and ears. When they opened them, all they could see was a girl lay on the floor with blood coming through her mouth and was surrounding her. It took some time before realizing it.

"MIKAN."

Everyone went to the girl, who collapsed and swan in her own blood.

Natsume was the first person to stand and knelt next to her. He held her in his arms. Hotaru came after, she was crying for her best friend. She knelt and shook her to wake up but was pulled out of her sight by Ruka who tried to calm her down. If he didn't do it, Mikan's situation would have been worse than it was.

"Mikan… Mikan… MIKAN" Shouted she and cried all over in Ruka's arms. He tried hard to calm her down but it made things even worse.

Meanwhile, Natsume took her in bridal style to the hospital. He was followed by the Class B student, her two favourite sempais and some teachers: Narumi, his substitute teacher, Misaki, Jinno, Serena. Hotaru stopped to cry and took one of her invention (I think it's the duck scooter) and said to Natsume to climb in, even Ruka.

Arrived there, the doctors treated her immediately in the operation room while the teachers were consulted at each other.

"So what do we do now?" Asked a middle-aged teacher with glasses and carrying a frog on his head.

"What do you mean Jinno-sensei?" Asked Narumi.

"You know what I mean. I'm talking about that Sakura." Jinno looked at the operation room with a concerned look. "you heard like us, she said some unbelievable words and…"

"But she wasn't herself" Shouted Narumi cutting Jinno.

"That's true, Narumi, It was pretty dangerous back there." Said Misaki.

"We don't know what happened but we saw that Sakura-san had a… how to say it… a spilt personality. You saw it, no?"

"Yes but…" hesitated the pheromones alice teacher.

"Narumi" Said a voice coming from the darkness at the corner behind them.

"You should listen them. We don't know if she is or not a danger for everyone here" walked from the dark corner revealing a man or a woman wearing dark clothes, looked like a dress, dark hair, jewels and long nail (not sure about it).

"Persona." Said the teachers.

"Why don't we look after the little girl here for one week for seeing if she is or not a danger?" Proposed he it while smiling, a vicious one. "And seems that she wouldn't be able to walk neither speak for some days."

They looked at each other and nodded all at this proposition.

"Ok. We all do like that but... it's better to keep it from them." Said Narumi while pounting the students.

All the teachers nodded and evacuated the students to leave.

None of them wanted to but was forced to do or they will trouble the patient and doctors, well the hospital in one word, even Mikan. So they left but some hesitated to do so. Ruka pulled Hotaru out of the hospital and he grabbed her by her waist so she left with him. Even Natsume obeyed them, him who usually rebels to whatever others told him, expect for Persona, who looked at him straight in his eyes, and maybe sometimes to Mikan. Before leaving he looked at the room one more time, and disappeared in the night.

Meanwhile, Persona looked at the scene and smirked to one particular person.

'So it's like that. He seems that he gains some color since she arrived here. Hum, well if he won't listen to me, I think i have another target to use agains him...' Thought himself while smiling really visciously.

"Don't think you could use her for making him work for you?" Said a voice coming from beside him.

"Huh" He turned his head to the voice and saw Narumi angry look.

"Oh. so you know what I would use her, hum..."

"Yes. It was obvious how you looked at Natsume and don't think that I will let you use har as a thing."

"Hum... even if I can't have her because you guys will stop me but I'll find a way to have her and make what I want." Said he smiling even harder. 'And am sure she will do it whatever it cost.' Thought he.

"Well, if she has something that will interest me so I think that will be ok if I use her for the Academy, right?"

He looked at Narumi, when he was about to reply, the door of the operation room opened, and revealed a woman and a man in a white blouse. Narumi came by the doctor for the new when he looked back to Persona, he wasn't here anymore. (surely he disappeared in the darkness.)

"So doctor, how is she?" Asked Narumi.

Some teachers had gone back to the academy to see if all the students, not exception, went back to their respective dorm room. Only Narumi, Jinno, Misaki and Serena stayed at the hospital.

"Hum, it's nothing serious." Said the doctor calmly. Everyone was happy to hear it but to Narumi, he knew that something wasn't a good new, since he or the nurse seemed happy, they were anxious, really anxious.

"What's wrong with her, doctor?" Asked Narumi.

Everyone looked at him and none of them did notice the surprise look of the doctor.

"Narumi... why do you ask something like that?" Asked Jinno.

"Hum... I think I have to say it after all..." Sighed the doctor while looking down and scratching his head.

"So?" Said Narumi really determined to know.

"Well, I assured you that she has nothing really dangerous for her life or her body. But..." Hesitated to continue.

"But she has something that wasn't really determined by us..."

"what do you mean?"

"Well, we can't say it now, we can't figure out the reason for her sudden collapse or her bleeding." Stopped again and took a deep breath.

"We thought at first it was because she uses much strength while using her Alice but it seemed it wasn't that, since it doesn't affect her span life at all."

Everyone listened to him really carefully, especially Narumi who was really worried. He was really concerned about his 'daughter'. Jinno had opened his month to say something but instead the doctor continued his talking.

"It's something that we cant tell now, but a thing is really strange..."

This time the doctor was really anxious and it can tell with the look his has. He was deep in his thought. The nurse has a dark and serious face. She looked down.

"Strangely he blood was practically... well, she has practically lost all her blood..."

"WH-humph"

Narumi was about to yell but was stopped in time by Misaki who had put his hand on his month.

"But she didn't die as we thought." Said the doctor trying to calm down Narumi a bit, who was dying of oxygen. (he can't breathe since Misaki didnt take out his hand from his month)

"Humph"

"Huh... Mi... Misaki-sensei, I think you better let go Narumi, now..." Said Serena pointing to a red (white) Narumi face.

"Oups... sorry" Apologized Misaki looking at the man on the ground trying to regain breath.

"YOU - breath - WANT - breath - TO - breath - KILL - breath - ME OR WHAT - breath - ?" Shouted Narumi all red. Everyone was sweating by his behaviour: he had taken Misaki by his collar and they were inch of millimetres from each other, and their noses were almost touching.

"KYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

Everyone was surprised, shocked, afraid and stunned at the same time, as well waking up. Every light in each room were lit. Each door were opened and revealed head lazily and tiredly. And out of the hospital, all birds were flying wildly and violently. The wind was a... huh... how can i say it... it's scary for sure... coldly, fear, terror wind.

All of this happened in a single second, and the scream echoed in all the hospital and it took around 3 min before it disguised.
When the teachers, the doctor and the nurses, 4 came by to see what happened, entered the room where the scream came. It was from Mikan's.

They saw a nurse on the ground with a terror look. She seemed... no... was stunned. She was shaking all her body and her fear could be seen on her face clearly.

Everyone looked at her and the nurses went to her to see if she was ok but...

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH"

The 4 nurses had screamed in terror which made everyone entered in deep in the room. They approached them and suddenly, something black, like a fog, appeared in front of them or so was surrounding them. The room was totally into black.

SLAM. The door slammed and everyone was surprised.

SPLASH. The sound of the water could be heard and everyone searched the source.

SLASH. The light switch on and off and everyone closed or protected their eyes from it.

Everything was blurred. No one could see anything. It was darker then the night itself.

"Huh"

Everyone came back to their sense and looked at where to mutter came from. It was just at their left. They turned their head slowly, everyone was shocked and afraid at the same time.

Narumi was in front of everyone and had a scary face. Just behind him were Misaki and Serena, who was holding the sleeves of his blouse. Jinno was behind them holding tied his crackled stick (if it's the right name). The doctor was beside him. And the five nurses were now standing and were holding each others.

"COUGH. COUGH."

Everyone startled and realized that it was Mikan who seemed to suffer from a nightmare. She had difficulty to breathe normally.

The doctor stepped in front to look after her, as well for Narumi, obviously worried about her. They totally forgot the existence of the darkness around them.

"Hum. Interesting."

Everyone startled by the sudden voice, coming from behind Jinno. The nurses had fainting and Jinno, him, was too shocked that was stunned on place from it. They all looked at him, except for Narumi who was holding Mikan's hand and was into her 'critical' state.

"What do you want Persona?" Asked Narumi threateningly without looking at him.

Persona had an evil grin... at first but suddenly he sighed loudly, which surprised them and made Narumi to turn his head brutally to him.

"Well. First of all, I'm happy to see so much darkness here." He said sarcastically with a satisfied smile. These words made Narumi to twitch.

"Second, I'm not that happy after all." This time everyone was confused by what he said. It was incomprehensible.

"Third..." He paused. "You had to do everything to make sure she wakes up before she falls 'down' even more."

He had an anxious and concerned look, and with that he disappeared in the darkness.

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Narumi's POV

When Persona disappeared in the darkness, I saw that we were deep in the darkness. The light blurred my vision; the curtain blew and flew in the room by a so-called wind. I could also hear the water splashing on the floor and on some broken glasses. The doctor was looking after Mikan and the nurses were now by our side. Serena, Misaki and Jinno, who was now woken up from his death shock, they were walking to us to stand in front of the bed.

"HUH"

That was what I heard coming from Mikan's month. Her mutter indicated that she was suffering and her mind was disturbing by something that she couldn't bear at all. She muttered so hard that I could hear her voice was about to come out of her throat... month, whatever it was it was really painful, and I could feel it completely.

I was holding her hand when I could feel that hers clenching mine. Her clenching was so hard that I could feel her fear all over her body though mine.

Her face revealed an unsecured feeling plus a scared look. She moved so much that made her sweating a lot. I could see her tears coming from her eyes. Her expression hurt me so much that I didn't know what to do since I couldn't help her but only watch her suffering under my gaze.

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH... HUH"

She suddenly cried aloud and gripped to my hand really hard. Her eyes were not the same... they were widened and darker and all shocked.

"Mikan." I called her.

I saw she was confused and didn't know what happened. She looked all around the room and...

"OUTOU-SAN"

She called me and gripped my neck. She hugged me really strongly. I was shocked at first but... I hugged her after all to comfort her. It was painful to hear her choked and cried loudly, since she tried her best to make it silently and tried her best to be strong but not enough for her to burst out once again.

When her cry lasted, the room became normal while I comforted her. All returned top normal, meant light, curtain, water as if nothing had happened, as if nothing strange had been in the room.

We went out of the room to meet up each others and decided what to do from now on, leaving only the nurses took care of Mikan.

"So... What are we supposed to do now?" Asked Misaki really confused, afraid and hurt.

There was a long silence.

"Hum... just do what Persona told us." Said I finally.

They all looked at me and they agreed to what I said. We then proceed to it.

While the doctors looked after Mikan, we, the teachers, all the teachers, had to make sure that no one could enter to the hospital until she was cured completely. To make sure that none of the student of the Gakuen will enter neither the inventions of someone nor the animal, even the best and dangerous student. (means Imai and Hyuuga)

END OF FLASHBACK in FLASHBACK

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Back to Narumi and the student…(normal POV)

… and you know what happened next… right?" Said Narumi looking down.

Everyone was shocked. It was pretty normal since a friend of yours was suspected as if he/she was a danger for EVERYONE in the world. And also, the friend in question wasn't a danger at all since his/her Alice was not a nuisance. And it was sure that wasn't…

"Doshite… doshite… Mikan… Why does… it have to be… her?" Said a voice. "WHY?" Shouted the voice.

Everyone looked at the one who shouted: it was Hotaru. She was crying, choking, yelling. She was totally broken into two. During one week, she held all of it in her without letting any emotion which showed her TRUE feeling. She couldn't bear it anymore, and everyone could see it. Suddenly…

"IMAI - SAN!"

Hotaru collapsed. She was breathing hard. It was Ruka who caught her.

After that everyone stayed silent. No one could say anything… till the night came.

END OF FLASHBACK

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After that, everything went back to normal, except for Mikan, she was acting like she did: happy, smiling, jumping here and there, called and greeting everyone annoyingly, well her routine. Only that she didn't spend time with her friends ANYMORE.

After class, she always disappeared in an instant and before anyone could stop her and asked her to go to Central Town, she was already outside of the class, even out of their view.

Even Hotaru couldn't follow her… no… she couldn't find her at ALL. Even using her invention, especially her Baka Divice couldn't do it. And it got on her nerves a lot.

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