Yay! New chapter! I'm able to update every weekend, but if I miss one, pls don't get mad, bcuz I didn't want to miss it! I sincerely hope this isn't one of the projects I start and stop halfway. :P I really like this story tho. Anyways, enjoy the chapter! Oh and please do my poll :D

LUCA

The class was quiet for, oh, around ten seconds before they bombarded Natsume with questions. Nobody noticed that Narumi and Persona had slipped out of the classroom to talk. I stood up, pushed through the throng of curious people, and pushed my ear against the door, determined to hear that conversation. I was worried about Noelle. What had Persona done to her?

"You should have made her put her control devices on." Narumi hissed.

"She wanted to make a better impression." Persona shrugged.

"She doesn't have a good impression now. If you made her put them on, she wouldn't have almost lost control. And then you just HAD to activate the punishment tattoo Rui put on her." (Y'know, like Tsubasa's one.")

Narumi paused.

"You never did tell me, where was the tattoo placed?"

"Behind her ear. A rose."

"Why ear?" Narumi wondered out loud.

"Because it hurts a lot there." Persona replied curtly before stalking away.

Now I understood. I wondered if Natsume knew this? I should go back and ask. As if on cue, the door slid open, and Natsume walked out, followed by Mikan. He stomped angrily ahead. I looked at Mikan. She shrugged, and we followed him out of the school to the Sakura Tree. He sat down with a heavy sigh. Mikan decided to break the silence.

"Natsume, who is that girl?"

"Noelle. Hyuuga Noelle." He added after a while.

That explained everything. Natsume wasn't having an affair! Immense happiness rushed over me, and I was momentarily confused. Shouldn't I be upset that Natsume wasn't cheating so I could take Mikan? Why was I so happy then?

"Is Noelle your...cousin?" I asked, that seemed most likely.

"Or long lost sister?" Mikan piped up.

"Cousin."

We were silent again. I decided to be honest and tell him I saw them in the park.

"You know, I actually saw you two in the park yesterday."

Natsume looked up in surprise.

"She was..different. Happier." I went on.

"How she acted was today was, well, colder. Harsher." I finished.

Natsume smiled slightly. It was not sarcastic, like usual, but a genuine one.

"Noelle, that baka. What you saw yesterday Luca, was her real self. Today was her outer character."

Mikan looked confused.

"Go on." I urged.

"Noelle has many alices. And some of them are really dangerous. She thinks that if people knew about her alices and she was all, "No! I'm not dangerous!" would get her teased. So she creates a colder, scarier personality, hoping that people will respect her instead, and think that she wouldn't think twice about using her alices. But she's really not like that."

Me and Mikan looked at each other.

"What are her alices? Are we allowed to know?" She asked.

"Noelle gave me permission to tell you guys she actually exists but I didn't want to at that point. But I'll tell you now. Originally, she had a pretty average amount of alices. Two. Compulsion, so strong she can persuade you to see and hear things that aren't there. But that only works for one person at a time. She also, like you, Polka," Mikan pouted, "Have the SEC alice. And the Insertion alice that comes with it. She is forced to put alices in herself by Persona, apparently, to make her more useful. She now has the Musical Healing and Time stop alice, which is creating music which heals and stops time immediately, the Appearance change alice, to disguise herself in missions, Photographic memory, for missions, and the Teleportation alice." He finished.

"Six alices." I whispered, shocked.

"It's no wonder she can't manage without the devices." Mikan added.

I remembered the conversation I had, ahem, overheard with Naru and Persona. I quickly told them about it. Natsume nodded.

"Yeah, I knew that."

"Why did she have to do missions in the first place if she could have persuaded Persona to stop making her do them? You know, with her Compulsion." Mikan pointed out."

Natume grit his teeth.

"For me. I arrived in the academy with Luca a year after she got captured. She heard from Persona that I was doing missions, and so she does all the hard ones so I don't have to do them." He explained.

"Can't she make Persona stop you doing missions?"

"No. Persona doesn't make the decisions, the ESP does. And she's not allowed to see him for that very reason."

The academy bell rang.

A day went by. Then two. Every night Natsume would go out and wait for her. He'd give up at dawn, go back and get like 5 minutes of sleep before going to class. Finally, on the sixth day of waiting, in which I accompanied Natsume, we heard a noise. We both walked forward hesitatingly, unsure. Out of the woods, stepped Morichi, with Noelle slung over his back. We rushed forward. Morichi growled at me, only letting Natsume through. I tried my alice on him, but it didn't work. Why? Natsume lifted Noelle from Morichi's back before nodding to him. Morichi disappeared back into the woods. I took a closer look at Noelle. She was asleep, and she had bruises and cuts all over. There was a really deep gash on her shoulder that was still trickling blood. Her mask was clutched loosely in her hand. I looked up at Natsume. Unbearable pain showed in his eyes, and this told me exactly how he cared about her. We started heading back to the dorms, but halfway there, Natsume staggered in his step.

"Natsume, you haven't been sleeping much lately. Let me hold on to her, for you."

"No." he rasped, "She's doing all these things for me. This is the least I can do for her. Let me ease my guilt."

We continued walking. Natsume wobbled again, which woke Noelle.

"Natsume, I can walk." She groaned.

She let go of Natsume. She didn't see me yet.

"Stop it." Natsume protested, but he was too tired to say more.

Noelle shuffled forward slowly. One step, two step. And she collapsed.

We rushed forward. I was faster. Her eyes widened when she saw who caught her. She quickly composed her face.

"I'm fine." She said, firm.

I was rather amused at how quickly she switched characters.

"Hyuuga-san, I know."

She understood, and smiled. My face felt like it was on fire. Thank god it's dark.

"Arigato, Nogi-kun."

"Call me Luca."

Her eyes blazed in happiness and she smiled wider, showing her delight.

"Noelle. Call me Noelle."

Aren't you all glad? Answers you wanted, answers u got! Will update...in few days. Or maybe next week. This was a long chapter peeps, so I need a break. Hope u liked this chapter! R&R!