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Mikan: 14
Hotaru: 14
Ruka: 15
Natsume: 15
Most of the characters of the same gender are the same age
Koko Prov: ' ' and italicized words are people's thoughts
I was thinking about how wonderful my ice cream was until I remembered something. Mikan has been at the bathroom for a while now. I wonder if she's ok. I thought to myself just as Natsume came back from where ever he was. He seemed to have a confused look on his face so I thought I would use my Alice and just take a small peak at his thoughts. I normally wouldn't dare to do this out of fear of being burned to a crisp by the notorious Natsume. I decided to take my chances and peek anyways.
'Where could that stupid girl possibly be?' I heard him ask himself in his thoughts.
"Hey Natsume can I talk to you?" As I said this I got many curious stares and thoughts sent my way. I knew that every body thought I was crazy for asking Natsume to talk to me alone. The only person who would dare do this and not be afraid of getting hurt is Ruka. As if to prove my thoughts I heard Sumire's thinking.
'Ugh, how could Natsume possibly go talk to Koko with out even using a little bit of his Alice? When I asked Natsume for some money he practically burned all my hair off.' I heard her scoff in her thoughts.
Next to be heard was Ruka. 'I hope everything is okay with Natsume and Koko, people usually tend to stay away from Natsume but that's only because they don't know the real him like I do.' I was slightly confused by what he said but decided to not dwell on it.
Yuu, Anna, and Nonoko's thoughts were pretty much the same. They were all worried that Mikan got herself into trouble again, which I didn't think was that far off of an assumption.
The person who I thought would be the most worried about Mikan wasn't even paying attention to Natsume and I. 'Hmm I wonder if they sell fresh crab legs at the supermarket section of Central Town.' It wasn't surprising that those thoughts came from the ice princess Hotaru.
"Oi, if you wanna talk then you'd better hurry up and come talk." I heard Natsume say.
I ran over to where Natsume was currently standing and told him about Mikan going to the bathroom. He sent me a glare as if to say that I didn't need to bother him with such information because it was none of his concern.
"You don't understand Natsume, she left about forty-five minutes ago and I don't think it takes that long to go to the bathroom."
I saw realization flicker into his cold eyes, as he finally understood what I was saying. I was about to read his mind in order to find out what he was thinking, but I think he knew what I was going to do because he sent me a nice ice-cold stare.
"Why don't I tell everyone that you'll be back at school because this place is boring you to death." I told him as I walked back to the group. I turned around just in time to see him rushing off. With a small smirk on my face I told everyone that he went back to the dorms.
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Mikan's Prov:
I don't really know how long I was unconscious in that room but when I woke up it was pitch black inside, and for the record I am not one who likes the dark. I slowly stood up to make sure I didn't run into anything and felt my way over to the door. It took me at least ten minutes to locate it, but when I did find it the door opened.
The light shining from the hallway hurt my eyes and I had to cover them with my forearm. Judging from the features I was able to see, it was the same person who pointed me to this room that opened the door.
"I thought I heard someone moving around in here." He said turning on the lights, which caused me to shy away from the light even more.
"Where am I, and who are you?" I asked eager to figure out what was going on.
"I work for the Outsiders, the only reason why I am able to work within the Academy grounds is because I am a double agent of sorts." He explained while moving closer to me. It was then that I noticed he had two pieces of rope in his hand.
The man must've noticed me looking at the rope because he told me that he was going to tie me up using it.
"Don't you think that you shouldn't be telling me this? You're not a very good bad-guy are you?"
"I'm telling you this because if you say a single word about any of this you won't live a very happy life and you will be begging for death when we are finished with you."
For the first time in my life I actually feared for my life. The reason for that was because I knew nobody knew where I was. The only hope I had of getting out of this place is if Koko realizes that something is wrong and tells Natsume. I thought that if I kept playing along and asked more questions I might be able to prolong my demise.
"Why was I the only one in here, and how do you know that I am the person you want?"
"I have the Barrier Alice, which means that no one can get in here unless I let them is if they have the Nullification Alice, or a very strong Alice that can cause a lot of damage. I know that you are the person I want because only one person at Gakuen Alice currently has the Nullification Alice, and that is you my dear."
"What are you guys going to do with me once you have me, isn't my mom you wanted in the first place?"
"Ahh yes we did want her but after certain discussions we came to the conclusion that you would be better because if your mother finds out we have you she will surely come running to save you."
"So all I am is bait to you? Boy, you guys sure do know how to treat a girl specially."
The phone in the main room started ringing and the man got up and left to go answer it. I was glad that the man who held me captive wasn't the same man as before, but I was still scared beyond comprehension. I took the chance of him leaving to study my surroundings. I noticed that the ropes that were tied around my ankles were loose. Using my feet and the legs of the chair I was able to undo the knot. Just as I got finished the man came back into the room. The rope was still around my ankles even though they were loose so he didn't notice.
"I have good news, people from the Outsiders organization are here so be a good little girl or else you're going to get yourself hurt."
Sure enough as soon as he was done speaking a bunch of men wearing black suits and glasses came walking into the room. Oh yeah, because a bunch of men wearing suits isn't suspicious at all. I thought to myself.
One of the men came up to me and whispered in my ear, "We are going to take you back to headquarters."
The more the man kept talking the more tired I got. I quickly figured out that he must have some kind of Alice, so I used my Nullification Alice to wake myself back up. The man looked like he was surprised that I figured out his little trick so I stuck my tongue out at him, which of course earned me a slap across my face.
After that, it turned into a competition of sorts to see who was going to give up first. I was pretty confident in my abilities but so was he. After about ten minutes I started to feel myself getting sleepy. The man had a smug smile on his face but little did he know that I had a secret plan up my sleeve.
Just as I was about to slip into sleep I loosened the rope more and swung my foot up to kick him. I didn't mean to but I wound up kicking him where no man wants to get kicked if you know what I mean. He groaned and fell over while I tried to stand up. I forgot that my arms were still attached to the chair and I almost fell over. I started to swing the chair around using it as a weapon of sorts. I think I managed to hit a few people and I was glad, there was no way I was going down with out a fight.
I was almost to the door, which meant I was almost home free. There were only two problems standing in my way. First off, I completely forgot that I couldn't turn the knob on the door with my hands bound. Second, the men were slowly making their way towards me. I was about to start swinging my chair around again when there was a large explosion that came from the front of the store. The surprise of the blast made me lose my balance and fall over. With my arms tied to the chair on my back I was unable to get up off the ground. Luckily for me, someone came bursting through the wall in a fiery rage.
"Natsume!" I cried in joy. I never thought I would be excited to see him but here I am yelling out his name.
He didn't look at me but I thought I saw a quick smirk flask across his cold features, even though it was gone in the blink of an eye.
"Nobody touches that idiot except for me."