...And Katarasan41 comes back with yet another chapter!!

xXTomokoXx: Yeah, that's one of the VERY reasons why I need constructive criticism. XDD I tend to forget to type words, be in the wrong tense, type the wrong words, and be in the wrong POV when I'm not fully concentrated/dizzy. XDD I already corrected it, so thanks a lot!! hugs

And thanks to all my reviewers!! You don't know how much 10 reviews mean to me!!

Oh yeah, the following title is partially random. All my titles were actually, except they made more sense than this one. Feel free to suggest. I also didn't plan to put the recall./memory thing of Narumi in every single chapter (sorry 0) since I really planned for it to become shorter and shorter until it becomes his POV as of present time, then it would disappear at the start of the chapter. Sorry if it seems so wrong.

Well, I won't keep you any longer!!

Chapter 5 - Discovered

Mikan was standing there. Outside my room. Listening to every word Misaki and I said. She heard it all. She found out that I'm leaving tomorrow. We both stood there. Speechless.

"Well.. I'll.. excuse myself..." Misaki walked away and went to his own room.

Mikan was in front of me. Staring at me. Trembling.

"Mikan..." Narumi started to walk towards her, when Mikan suddenly ran towards him and cried.

"Narumi-sensei!! I.. I don't understand.. I don't understand this at all..." She sobbed loudly and clutched Narumi's shirt tightly.

She was crying uncontrollably. She was also hitting my chest with her weak fist like a child who didn't want her father to neglect her. Does she hate me now?

"Mikan.. Please... Please don't hate me." Narumi held her tight. She was hiccuping in between her cries.

I became a very special person to her. I was the one who was responsible for letting her enroll in this "unique" academy. Yet, even if I promised her that I would always be at her side and support her, I'm leaving her already. I made her feel betrayed and lied to like I did before.

"Narumi-sensei... Don't leave me!" Mikan tried to raise her voice and hugged him. "I really, really don't want you to leave!"

"Mikan..." Narumi faced her and cupped her cheek. "Please don't cry." He handed her a hankerchief.

She accepted the handkerchief and cried a little more, probably feeling sorry for herself because she was so frustrated at what she heard. She didn't exactly know the whole story yet, did she?

"I..I'm sorry!" Mikan furiously wiped her face. "You shouldn't remember me as a crybaby! I should be smiling!" Mikan forced a smile, but it ended up looking like a twisted facial expression.

"No, I'm sorry, don't force yourself. Let out your cries, Mikan-chan. If it'll make you feel better." She looked at Narumi's worried yet sad face and continued crying herself out.

What do really want? I didn't want her to cry, yet I'm telling her not force herself. I didn't understand what I felt, strangely because I was confused for no reason. It's strange. After all the things I've gone through in my life, this is one of the most painful moments I've had to endure.

Narumi shed a tear.

"Hotaru, is there really no other way for the sound to work?" Yuu looked worried as they all watched Mikan cry, like the time when Narumi lied to her about sending her grandpa's letters. Ruka caressed the bunny he held and laid it on his lap. "I really don't think Mikan would cry that much if he was simply going on a vacation." Hotaru tapped the projector and some sounds were heard, though only the words "leave" and "cry" from it.

Natsume stood up, looked out of the window and whispered to himself.

"He's leaving for good."

Narumi made a pitcher of warm milk and let Mikan sit down comfortably on a chair.

"Are you okay now, Mikan?" he poured the milk on Mikan's mug and sat down with her.

"Yes, I'm fine Narumi-sensei..." She drank the milk and noticed the present she put on her lap. After all she went through, she almost forgot to give her teacher his present.

"Umm.. Narumi-sensei?"

"Yes, Mikan-chan?" He smiled and straightened his back.

"This morning... I forgot to give you your birthday present..." Mikan looked at his teacher, then looked back at the present. She blushed nervously and scolded herself mentally for crying earlier.

"I.. I asked Kaname-sempai to teach me how to make stuffed toys during his last visit, then I finally learned, only that when I made one for you it was smaller than I had originally planned... And so..." Mikan showed the present to him.

"A birthday present? Why, thank you, Mikan-chan!" Narumi smiled at her with a very gratified expression, making her forget all that had happened a few moments before. "May I open it?"

"Sure!" Mikan brightened up as she watched him untie the ribbon and unwrap the box.

He saw a small plushie which somehow looked like him. It was wearing a purple shirt with a butterfly, and black pants. The hair was simply yellow yarn stuck on the head, and the face had sewn eyes, which were in the shape of concaves, and lips, forming a smiling expression on it.

"Hmmm... I look a bit fatter as a plushie..." Narumi laughed as Mikan pouted.

"Narumi-sensei!"

"No, no, I'm only joking. It's really cute. Suits me perfectly." Narumi held the plushie to Mikan and pretended to make it talk. "Thank you, Mikan-chan!"

At the corridor of the teacher's dormitory, Misaki saw Serina go out of her room.

"Misaki-sensei? What are you doing here at the middle of the night?" Serina closed the door behind her and questioned Misaki.

"I came from Narumi's room. Well, unfortunately..."

"Sakura-san found out?" Serina looked into her crystal which revealed Narumi and Mikan talking in his room.

"...Yes, she did."

"Actually, I'm not particularly sure if it's my Alice, but a while ago, I saw a very blurred image of what happened in Narumi's room. It was strange since it wouldn't be blurry if the situation happened in a nearby place. I was thinking that maybe..." Serina faced Misaki.

"Maybe it was the Nullification Alice which caused the image I saw to be blurry."

"Well, she is full of surprises."

"But... Misaki-sensei.. If this continues... If her Alice will work by itself without the user's intentions and it nullifies all the Alices used on her... Then..."

Haha, cliffhanger XP.

Yes, school is very near, and I'll be "flying" next week, so don't expect fast updates.

In fact, I'll probably HAVE ACCESS to the computer WEEKLY, so you probably can't expect an update in less than weekly. Yeah, that's life. XP