Anyway, I realised I had a story left hanging: Revelation. I totally forgot about it, should I even continue it? I have the whole plot in my mind for this story though so I guess I'll finish first, in case I forget about it.

Disclaimer: GA doesn't belong to me.

Chapter 3:

She stared at the flaming red stone on her palm, eyes wide open.

She turned to Natsume who is just by her side, and scurried away from him. His breathing was fast, and shallow.

What have I done!?

Natsume leaned back on the rock wall behind him and coughed. He was pale and seemed really weak. He collapsed slightly onto the ground and Mikan rushed over, careful not to touch him. She clutched the stone tightly, not knowing what to do with it. A cold gush of wind blew in and the fire flickered. Natsume gasped and hit his clenched fist on the ground.

"Natsume!"

Mikan held him up, and for the first time, his arms body was not hot like it always was, but cooled. However, Mikan skin was still ice cold to him. She placed the stone in his hands and clutched them tight.

"I'm sorry, so sorry." She said quietly. "Please be alright."

She looked at his handsome face and was glad that his piercing red eyes weren't staring at her. His dark raven hair was messy as usual, and she stroked it. "I promise I won't bug you anymore." She muttered.

A quiet little chuckle escaped his mouth as he sat up straighter. Mikan shifted away and looked at his face, he was still pale light before and the stone was still in his hands.

"Stop staring at me, ugly." Natsume said.

"I, fine." Mikan turned away, pouting slightly. Natsume studied her sight profile, her skin fair and her lips a pale pink. She was shivering again. He lit a fire near her, but she could see it was different from before. It was weaker, and it flickered a lot. What was that stone and what had it done to him?

A faint trudging noise could be heard outside the cave and both of them looked up. They saw a pair of black boots at the entrance. Natsume cursed silently under his breath and looked at Mikan, and then back at the person outside of the cave. Natsume grabbed Mikan's hand and held it tight, pulling her out. He looked defiantly at the person all dressed in black, grasping Mikan's hand tightly. Persona raised his eyebrow and noticed the stone in Natsume's hand. He glanced at Mikan for a moment, brows furrowed but the next moment; a smirk flashed past his face for a second and disappeared.

"No one could find you anywhere, and we tracked you down here. Interesting place to be, Hyuuga. You have work to do, so get back now. You should bring your little interesting friend along, too." Persona wasn't giving him an option.

"No. She is not coming along." Natsume hissed.

He suddenly jerked and collapsed onto the ground and cried out in pain. Persona stepped forward and pressed the stone onto his forehead, and it merged within him.

"Yes you will bring her." Persona mused, speedily disappearing through the trees.

"Natsume-kun, seems like you've proved yourself useful afterall, finding such a treasure amongst so many students from the Academy. Commendable." The person behind the chair laughed, softly. "Get her here, Natsume. This Sakura girl, she could be useful to us. I mean, she is useful to us, isn't it?"

"Yes, sir."

"Now now, go back on your, mission, for the Academy. So what did they ask you to find out about us again? Our archival information?"

"Yes, sir."

A wind sliced across Natsume's cheek, but he didn't even flinch and a disc flew across the room into his hands. You'd better make the AAO's little sacrifice worth it. Now go."

"Here it is, Persona." Natsume's voice dripped with despise.

He threw the disc at him and retreated.

"Your little friend, she's quite a talent you know. That traitor gave birth to quite a child."

Natsume spun around and stared at him. "Lay your hands off her, Persona."

"But she's in the Dangerous Ability class now, which means she, is MY student."

"Just don't go near her, I'll train her for you. So you, stay away from her!" Natsume glared at Persona.

"Make sure you do a good job of it, or else she will be the one that suffers."

Ruka and Hotaru were both stuck together as they too, got caught in the sudden snowstorm. They snuggled close together much to Ruka's embarrassment. He'd never been so close to any girl at all, not to mention the one that he actually really liked. He had held her hand tight and ran all the way to the shelter and hasn't let go since. Hotaru didn't want to either, she felt really comfortable like this. He was never really intimidated by her, but he just didn't like going against anyone so he just agreed to her every want and need.

The snow had slightly lessened up and they decided to make their way back to the Academy, side by side, hand in hand.

Natsume ran towards the hostel building, ready to give Mikan a good dressing down for spending time alone with Persona. Doesn't she know how dangerous he was!?

He burst into her room and found her asleep, curled up on the armchair. She had many bruises on her arms and legs and a cut on her collarbone. What had he been doing to her? Her hair was down, but he could already see she had two rings on her left hand.

Controlling devices.

Natsume sub-consciously reached up to his ear, and gently closed the door behind him. He never knew she was lethal, and his mission flashed in his mind clearly.

This Sakura girl, she could be useful to us.

Of course she was, even Persona felt her a threat and gave her two controlling devices only after the first meeting.

She must be tired out, spending a whole day training with Persona. It must have been torturous for her.

"Stupid girl..." He muttered and exited the room.

The next day, Mikan sat at the park bench waiting for Natsume. She clutched a few accessories in her hands, and was told to pass it to Natsume. He arrived almost silently and knocked her on her head.

"Hey, let's go."

"Wait, he told me to pass these to you."

She held out two new rings. He looked down at the left hand, and the rings were gone. He shook his head and sighed, this was getting troublesome.

"Now, you're gonna start training with me, but you'll not be putting these on. You'll need to start to learn how to control your Alice."

Mikan nodded and followed him into the forest. There, Natsume attacked her constantly with inhumane agility. She had already the natural speed, just not put into use and soon, she was blocking 50% of Natsume's attack. However, when her desire to escape from this torturous training became too strong, her Nullification and Stealing Alice started acting up, throwing Natsume off his feet and forced him to slip a ring onto her finger.

"You've got to compartmentalise! Stop messing up yourself like this. It will do you no good, and you'll only hurt yourself if you misuse your Alice like this. Stop refusing the control. Learn!" Natsume was irritated, he had no patience.

For the rest of the day, Mikan concentrated hard on treating Natsume like the enemy, and tried hard to attack him with her Alice under control.

"Same time, tomorrow. You need alot more practice." He said, slipping the next ring onto her finger. "And don't try to take it off, only I can do it."

"Yeah I figured it the hard way the other day." Mikan sighed.

The next few weeks were absolutely murderous for Mikan, but even Natsume had to admit, she was getting better and stronger. Her movements were almost graceful and her speed was not bad too. She ahd became familiar with the Dangerous Ability type students but they were just mere aquaintances, unlike Tsubasa and Misaki. She missed the rest of them. For many days, she went to class, sleepy and tired with bruises and cuts everywhere. Natsume was still too fast for her. Her classmates were wondering what happened to her, but she did not disclose one bit of information. She was just careless, she told everyone. But she knew Hotaru and Ruka understood something was going on. Ruka had afterall, spent so many years with Natsume in this school.

When Mikan went back to her room, she was surprised to see it empty, except for a slip of paper.

And on it, it said:

Sakura-san,

Oh well, :D I'll just stop here for the moment. Please give me some reviews thanks!