Author's Note: Yeah! THANKS FOR THE REVIEW!!! Update...(Hide inside a capsule, fearing the incoming attacked consist of shouts in a form of arrow from the reader)

I'm dead!!! Oh dear god! It's been three months since I last updating my story!!! (Rai: -Poking Ai head to wake her up from her near death state-...you're alive kid?) Enough with the note now, I present to you my story. This will continue at the end of this chapter! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I Do Not Own Gakuen Alice.

Chapter Twelve: Angel With Bleeding Wings (Part Three) – I'd Rather Fall In Love With You, Than Feel Nothing At All

"She is…"

"Your beloved…"

"Sakura…

"Mikan…"

Reo let go of Natsume who kneeled in shock. "Why I'm telling you this, because you're going to die" and he disappeared using a teleportation.

And when the prince found the girl her truly love, the one he vow to protect, he showed her the proof of her existence.

The prince is no longer cold-hearted.

He asked the girl, the peasant girl, to be his wife.

Sadly…

The one who he truly love…

Didn't know who she is for the spell takes her memories…

And so…

As the fairy tale goes on, the prince will truly find his princess but the question is, will she remember…

That she was the princess…?

"Natsume-kun, I'm sorry…"

Reo left the battle site with a satisfied smirk. Natsume was left with puzzle words repeating in his head

'She…she is…Mikan…is a…'

"Weapon. Sad isn't it?"

The older version of her, or 'Mikan', answered him as if reading his mind. Hotaru is still unconscious and there's another big threat in front them, 'her'.

His inside was swelling with various emotions, part of him was glad that Mikan is alive, while another one felt threaten by her present in such wrong place, on a wrong time perhaps. Natsume will not let the world around him crumbled, yet. He needs an escape route.

And an answer.

Ruka was not an easy opponent and he will give a few punches if needed. His attacker was cloak in darkness and wearing an Alice control mask which seem unfair. But this is not the time to judge things because Ruka will need every chance available.

"I will not use my Alice on you. So don't worry" it's a male voice.

Aware of his opponent, Ruka brace himself, "are you one of those who attacks us?"

"Maybe. You may use your Alice, make a run. Either way, I prefer having hand-to-hand combats, that counts for something"

"By the way, my order is to prolong your job and I will not kill you", although his wearing a mask, Ruka had the feeling that he was smirking behind them.

Grabbing Hotaru by her neck, 'Mikan' seems to suffocate her with her death-grip. Natsume lay on the ground beaten up, and this time he didn't have energy to stand up or lift a finger although his will against it all.

For the first time in the battle, Natsume felt completely pointless. He can only watch the one who close to him strangled by the one whom he was close to.

Still being held, the black-haired teenager struggle to free from her attacker. She saw Natsume lying, unconsciously maybe, and hope that Ruka manage his escape.

Somewhere during Reo was talking about someone to Natsume, Hotaru heard the last sentence, few words that make her leapt with joy and shock in horror at the same time.

This…this person, who held her in a choking grip and stare directly as if those eyes of hers want to prove that they were truly empty, is her best friend. Tear droplets fell from her eyelids, which contain her joy for meeting her friend and her sadness for finding out that she about to be killed by the same person.

Somehow, Hotaru know that both her and Natsume have the same mutual feelings.

"Ba…baka…where have you….been all…this time…" another drop "we missed…you so…much" and another.

Having a sudden realization in him, Natsume was sure, no, he knew what words comes after this and this two little words is something that he feared the most when in comes from the same voice and the exact same person.

"I'm sorry…"

'It happened again, just like that time! I can't, no I won't let her say it again this time! If only I have some power, even a little, I can stop her!

Please, I really need the power! I…'

"Can you hear me…?"

Natsume suddenly snapped from his semi-consciousness and the temperature around them rises slowly. He broke the seal, and his fire Alice was swirling around him in a defensive ring.

Sensing a new danger a head of her, 'Mikan' tossed someone in her grip away. Just after Hotaru was at least few feet from her, numerous fireballs launch directly toward 'Mikan'.

'He…he got his Alice back, but how?'

Sure Natsume got his back but the more his Alice burning the more his stamina lessens. In fact, Natsume life was burning away and this tripled the burden that he had now.

"I must say Nogi-san that this was an interesting fight although in the end you lost"

That was a short fight and Ruka could still replay the images in his head.

He gathered the bats to form a shield and distraction using his Pheromone Alice. Ruka was sure that his attacker might be having a little trouble handling those bats around him, at least. The blond teenager slipped into the crowd and throws a few punches towards the masked one.

Unfortunately, those attacks were not enough as he caught every punch.

With a hit, twice, on his stomach, Ruka falls to the ground. The enemy sure knows where his weak spot is.

"I don't think you could stand up with that injury. You're a bit of a weakling don't you?" he said in a mocking voice.

"Narumi-sensei, we have a report from a student with Translating Alice found a message from a squirrel. He said that somewhere in the forest, three students had been attack. We have confirm that and three of them is your students"

The person reads at the report again, "Some of the security channel in that area also being shut off!"

Taken by the sudden information, Narumi had this feeling inside him that the AAO had something to do with it.

"Send a search party. I'll be going too!" he said with a high concern.

"Ye-Yes!"

'I have a bad feeling about this'

The situation inside the hospital operating room was panic. They had just received a patient who was badly injured and need recovery, fast.

"He needs healing fast!! The patient is loosing blood!!!"

"Doctor, his heart rate is dropping!" shout a nurse who was monitoring the patient.

And so they busy themselves…

She opened her eyes only to find out that her arms and legs were confined to the bed by Anti-Alice chains. Much to her dismay, they won't come off and hesitate on clinging to her limbs. In attempt to free her self, electric shockwave coursed through her body.

Then she heard it, a faint whisper, a sound…someone's voice…calling for help…

Her vision blurred with the sight of fire burning around her in a choking grip. She knew this. She knew who it was. It's just that she don't know how…

"Natsume…"

Ruka was sitting out the patient room. His bruises and a cut on his left cheek already being treated and what worries him now is the condition of his other friends, Natsume and Hotaru.

He saw Subaru, Hotaru's older brother, entered her room. He had a worried look on his face. The nurses said that she will be alright and only need assistant in her respiratory system. The blond was glad to know that.

His major worries now are Natsume, who was put into the E.R. right after the rescue team arrived at the hospital. He can't come in. His best friend is in critical condition.

All Ruka can do now is pray for his safety and hoping that he will not loose his best friend.

The guards were down, not dead but unconscious.

She walks slowly, trail of blood following her steps. They managed to make an open wound on her stomach and thighs when metal meets flesh. Thankfully, the Nano inside her does not allow wound to stay around.

The metal chains also a useful mechanism to hold someone off since it manage to left few bruises on her hands and legs. Yet, they weak point is shock resistant. Banging them for some time should make them wear loose.

Cast that aside. Now, she had important matters to handle.

Dragging her self to the room, the one 'he' was treated to.

"Natsume…"

Nurses passed by nearly scream in horror but was knocked out. She should make this as silent as possible. No one should know.

Finally, after a long way of dragging her body and trailing blood behind her, she came to the room. It stated that this room was undergoing a critical surgery and from the looks of it, the doctors are loosing their hope to save their patient.

She can't let it! Some part inside her yelled to save him, to not let him die.

With only her thoughts, the event inside the room suddenly turn to halt. Doctors still have their serious faces while the nurse assisting them had fear in the eyes. Everything paused, as if the time had stop.

And in the middle of the room, the patient is dying.

She opened the door and led her way inside, a light forming a wing figure on her back. Levitating her self right above the one on the bed, it's a sight of someone having an encounter with an angel.

Her hands silently move to each side of his face, as if holding them altogether…

And then…soft lips made their way to a colder one, bringing warm and life to the others.

He saw himself fading away. With not much care to the world, he wished it will just end.

Noises, there were too many noises.

Silence…

The room came to a halt while he found himself able to react when the time inside it had stop.

He saw her entering the room. They are wings behind her and…blood trails. Someone who's dying might say that this is an encounter with angel themselves, but this girl, she is no angel.

She levitated above him. Her smooth delicate hand touched his cheeks.

He wanted to snap those hands. If this is reality, it's far too unreal. She tried to kill him before. What makes a different? And then…it happened.

Natsume felt a pair lips on his. They were warm, the opposite of his own and with those touch they brought life to his body…

It was weird, these feelings, and these emotions.

Nonetheless, he closed his eyes. Letting those feelings get into him.

Subaru was checking on his younger sister who lay unconscious on the bed. He was one of he doctor in the Academy Hospital since his healing Alice is a major asset for them. At first sight, he might not believe that among all the people he knew, she is the one who he tends right now.

Just an hour before, he was receiving phone call that he was needed in the hospital room. He had expected that things like this will happen but the whereabouts of his patience had not crossed his mind. Hotaru Imai, his younger sister was saved by the rescue team. They report that there was an attack by the AAO and his sister is one of the three victims.

The attacker was caught, also injured in the process.

It is a good thing that she only had minor injuries and cuts. It was the lack of oxygen that made her passed out.

"Doctor Subaru, we really need you to assist in the operation room right now. There's a patient in a critical condition!"

With one last look at his younger sister, Subaru walked out from the room, saw Ruka outside in the waiting corner, and he might put himself for a surprise.

They sleep together, both hands tangled together in a slight grip showing togetherness. His face already calmed down. The seventeen year old teenager didn't realize that he's holding onto someone.

While he's in his teen, she is still the same.

The same 13-year-old Mikan, the perfect face he saw when they first meet, and torn apart…

Author's Note: And that's for this chapter! I'm really sorry if it's too short... T-T and I'm typing it the whole night. The reason for my long gone is because there's a nasty writer's block stuck on my head!!! (Reality needle flying out of nowhere stab her right in the head...comically) I'm doom!

I also did not deny the fact that I was lazy to write anything and my health is catching up to me. I frequently faint due to my lack of blood body...there's a time I even faint in front of the computer...T-T Thank goodness Nii-san helped me.

Okay, back to my story. In this chapter, I decided to make it more complicated and the time line is disturbed (by me). If you guys were confused by this, there will be an explanation in the next chapter (this time, I tend to use the anti writer's block bug destroyer I found on the market...-just kidding-) And Natsume got his Alice back. It's nice isn't it(?)

I guess this episode had more angst...I got a review that said the same thing. (Rai: Don't be tricked by the sweet plot she wrote. Inside she love(?) angst more than the ones you watch on the movie)

If you found out what I'm going to write next, hold it back because the next chapter is the last chapter I'll be loading for this story. Sorry...

Last but not least, I would like to say THANKS TO ALL THE REVIEWER WHO REVIEW MY STORIES!!! Read my profile and you might see the epilogue for this story. Don't worry, I won't let it end just like this. -Jeez, I'm blabbering too much in the A/N-

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