Wail of the banshee~ casus unio
There will be more action in this chapter (and in the next one) ! ^-^
And woah, today I had a very scary nightmare, I guess the crime-genre is kinda getting the better of me if I always make up twisted side-plots with violence and action and stuff : O
Remark: uh no, I should be learning my English-vocab for a test tomorrow, now : D
Flashback:
"After I had averted my gaze, Natsume eyed me suspiciously. Rick had been assigned a seat in the first row, and I was glad that he didn't look at me anymore. Natsume shuffled his feet, but I ignored it. Shortly after the bell rung, I put yesterday's newspaper on Natsume's desk and wandered towards Hotaru. I felt his stare in my back, but I didn't look back."
"Hoo-taaa-ruuuuu"; Mikan squeaked happily right after the lesson ended. "Mind if you accompany me? I wanted to visit bear-san [A/N : I actually forgot whether they called him bear-chan or san, gomen!] !"
Hotaru frowned and looked at Mikan questioningly. "Since when do you visit bear-san? And what will my reward be if I accompany you?"
"You remember that Kaname-senpai told me to look after bear-san, don't you? Bear-san must be very lonely in the woods! And by the way, why do you always demand rewards for helping your best friend out, Hotaru? That's not fair!"
Mikan pouted with teary eyes and got immediately shot by Hotaru's baka-gun. The brunette moaned and rubbed her forehead which was now decorated with the imprint of a dear-hoof. Why could Mikan never understand Hotaru's reasons? Money money money...
[A/N: remember ABBA's song? Lol]
"Baka. Time is money and money is time. The time I waste to help you might earn me some money as well, so you have to compensate me for the time I waste with you - with an appropriate payment." Mikan sulked and tried to hug Hotaru, but the dark-haired girl dodged easily and hit Mikan with another shot of her baka-gun.
Sulking, Mikan desperately promised to treat Hotaru crab later, and Hotaru's eyes sparkled.
"Okay, that will do".
After all of the lessons ended, both of them –Mikan and Hotaru- made their way to Bear-san's hut. You could hear bear-san cutting firewood from afar.
When Mikan and Hotaru arrived at bear-san's hat, they saw a gory glint in Bear's eyes, until the bear realized that it was them and not some random-intruders.
Fortunately, the bear dropped his axe before greeting them, and Mikan was glad he did, since she still respected bear-san very much.
"Bear-san! Tsubasa-senpai told me that he visited Kaname-senpai at the hospital! He told me Kaname senpai's condition is stabylized at the moment". Bear-san nodded in appreciation, he was glad to receive messages about his master's condition.
"May we come in to drink a tea with you bear-san?" Mikan's suggestion was interrupted by Hotaru.
"I still have to write my essay, Mikan. Remember you already spoilt my "best-student-award" last year? Sorry, but I haven't got that much time. I'll come back to get you in an hour, you'll meet me in front of this hat". Hotarus whole attitude and the way she suggested her suggestion didn't allow denial at all. "But Hotaru! You can't wander off alone!"
Mikan sounded so desperate that Hotarus expression softened. Well, that was so typical of Mikan to always worry about others in the first place. "Baka, don't worry. You see I can." Hotaru turned arround without another word and vanished beetween the trees.
Mikan sighed and led Bear-san into the hat, where she helped him with cleaning and cooking.
But after a while, Bear-san became impatient and led Mikan into the woods. He extended his arm to give Mikan an axe. "Um, what do you want Bear-san?" He pointed at the axe, then at Mikan and a tree."Uhm, Bear-san, I don't think that's a good idea", Mikan exclaimed, but she saw a murderous glint in his eyes and began to do her work immediately.
Bear-san was still Bear-san after all, and his threatening-techniques resembled Hotaru's techniques very much. Although he was surely more dangerous than Hotaru; he could threaten people without words but only with glares, and he had the perfect camouflage to attack little children
.When the work was done, Mikan clasped her hands and looked into the sky.
"Uh-oh, it's late already. I gotta go Bear-san! See you later!"
More than an hour had already passed, and Mikan was afraid that Hotaru didn't wait in front of the hat anymore. She speed up, but the darkness, the uneven ground and the snow made her stumble a few times. When she arrived at the hat, there was no one. Mikan assumed that Hotaru already made her way back to the academy; perhaps she thought Mikan went back to the academy alone. Meanwhile the sun had set completely and it was very dark. Mikan's heart was beating against the cage of her rips violently. She couldn't stay here in the forest for a night, so she had to go go back to the academy. Even if that meant to go alone.
Mikan wished she had a telephaty-alice. But she hadn't.
Well, actually she had a telephaty alice stone, but it was in her dorm –and therefore it was no use for ehr in her current condition
[A/N: I know Sakurano's telephaty-alice stone is already gone, but let's just assume it would still be there, kay? ] .
The decision to go back through the forest wasn't easy for Mikan, since she could neither see her hands in front of her face, nor her feet on the ground. The bumpy ground made her stumble a few times. Whenever an animal made a noise, or when a branch broke, Mikan almost got a heart attack. But after a while, her eyes got used to the swallowing darkness the trees and everything else seemed to omit.
When Mikan had already left the forest, she felt revived. She inhaled deeply and danced arround happily,; Mikan had yet to discover that some one or something observed her. In the next moment, she heard something rustling behind the nearest bush.
Her mouth opened in shock and her feets stuck to the ground, refusing to move. That noise she heard a moment ago was different from the other noises she heard before. It didn't belong here. It didn't belong to the forest.
Mikan tried to back away from the bush, but her feet were barely moving. Her brain seemed to refuse performing it's duties and her body was tremling. In front of her was terrain, and behind her there was the forest. The terrain in front of her was wide and uneven; it was a long distance until she'd reach Gakuen alice, but she had to try.
Trying to flee was better than to be cought without resistance.
Mikan's stomach was throbbing, and her heart was pumping steady portions of adrenaline through her body.
She tried to calm herself down, because in a condition like the one she was in now, she would stand no chance against the thing behind the bush. She knew it was no animal.
And she knew that it had already noticed her. Mikan had steadied her breath; in her head she began to count up to three, before she began to run for her life.
After a few metres, her lungs threatened to burst already, but Mikan continued to speed up. In the corners of her eyes, she could notice a black shadow following. It started to follow after she had already run a hundred metres; as if it wanted to mock her and tell her that it could still catch her however fast she might run [A/N: I think the grammar is terrible here, sorreh]. Mikan gasped for air; it was difficult to run in an uneven terrain like this if your legs were trembling like a leaf. The thing behind her still continued to lessen the distance beetween them. But Mikan didn't dare to look back.
It would only slow her down more.
A high-pitched scream leaked out of her lungs as "the thing" grabbed her leg with it's cold hands and made her fall to the floor. The impact pushed every bit of oxygen out of Mikans lungs and she gasped for air. Her head met a rock and she felt blood running down her forehead. It mingled with the desperate tears which ran down her cheek. A foot shoved under her torso and forced her to roll arround. What Mikan saw made her gasp in shock.
Today, when I looked up my emails, I was really surprised. So many reviews!
Thank you very much Hannah and L's apprentice
( L-chan: Uh uh, some of your assumptions were almost correct, but I won't tell you further details since I don't want to spoil the reading-fun! : ] )!
You made me so happy that I even updated today, though I planned to update in a week.
Y'know, I got the next three chapters planned in my mind, but updating every day would be errr.. kinda strange? xD
And lol, I was surprised that so many of you like you-chan x mikan; and I'm glad you do! That means I can insert more Mikan x you-chan action *inserts evil laughter*
I hope you liked it! Let's see what happens with Mikan in the next chapter! : O (ok lol, it's already planned).
Stay tuned!
And yay! Isn't it great that Japan won against this other team in the wm today? The moderator pissed me off since he was obviously supporting the other team from Africa, grr -_- .