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MONDAY AFTER SCHOOL

After School that day Ruka and Tsubasa were with 3 others boys, well 2 boys and one guy. They were walking down an ordinary suburban street that was lined with houses that were in perfect condition with front yards that were perfectly maintained. It was somewhat creepy in a way. When The eldest reached a house with the number 37 on the letter box he stopped and the others followed suit.

"So Persona, I'm gonna guess this is her house, she inside and her parents aren't home right now..." Tsubasa said directing his comment towards the guy who stopped first.

Persona, the eldest, who can be assumed as the leader just nodded in response.

"Well, Usagi ... you know what to do. Good Luck!" Tsubasa said with a big cheesy grin on his face whilst running off after Persona who had already left to go hide behind some bushes not to far off. He was then followed by a boy with grey hair and teal eyes, he looked about twelve though he wasn't running like Tsubasa he just looked indifferent with his hands in his pockets wandering over to Persona.

"Good luck! I'll see you later Usagi" Ruka said while ruffling the youngest boys hair before running off in the directions of all the other boys. The Little boy; Usagi was then left by himself outside the house. Usagi looked like he was most likely around the age of 8, he had golden blonde hair that was neither to short or long and the most adorable, innocent blue eyes. In fact he looked like a miniature Ruka. He was wearing a lose blue tee with some sort of cartoon character on it with grey jeans. Usagi then took a deep breathe and walked of to the front door of the house, he took a quick glance at the other's hiding place before ringing the door bell.

Mikan had just got home from school, her parents weren't home, of course it was like this everyday as her parents worked a lot. She changed out of her school uniform into a faded purple singlet top with light blue skinny jeans. She had been watching T.V. for roughly 10 minutes when the doorbell rung. When she answered the door she saw a little boy standing looking scared and like he had just been crying.

"Are you okay? What's wrong?" Mikan asked immediately as she kneeled down to his eye level.

"I can't find my brother, I'm lost ... I just wanna go home" he said after he had taken a moment to ready himself before he answered.

"It's okay I'll help you, it's going to be okay, I'll help you get home" she said giving the little boy a comforting hug. "I'm Mikan Sakura what your name?" she continued.

"Usagi" he mumbled but she caught what he had said.

"Okay well Usagi do you know where you last saw your brother?"

"Umm we were at the shop"

"And you walked here from there?"

"Yeah..."

"OH! I know that shop I'll just grab some shoes and we can go there okay?"

Usagi nodded so she disappeared inside the house before returning seconds later with shoes. They both walked off down the street hand in hand.

The others who had been hiding across the road came out and wandered back across the road.

"Youichi follow them" Persona said pointing in the directions Mikan and Usagi left in. The grey-haired boy, Youichi the immediately walked off in the direction Persona had pointed in. Persona and the other two then walked up to the front door of the house. Persona and Ruka turned to look at Tsubasa, he sighed and then disappeared into the shadows, after they waited a few seconds the front door was opened from inside.

"Welcome to my humble home!" Tsubasa said grinning wildly as he opened the door. Persona ignored him and walked straight through whilst Ruka rolled his eyes at his comment before also walking through, closing the door behind him. Persona walked straight to Mikan's room and was followed by Ruka. (Don't ask how he knew straight off where is was because I won't tell and you don't want to hear.) When Persona got to her room he started searching around, looking to know more about her. Ruka was of course doing the same just much less 'meticulously' whilst of course Tsubasa was not doing this as he much preferred to wander around her house aimlessly.

"Weird" Ruka mumbled as his sight landed on a picture frame on her shelves. Persona glanced over at him but didn't ask what he was looking at as he assumed if it was of importance Ruka would tell him.

"Hey Persona," and here it comes.

"Why would someone keep a broken picture frame? I mean take a look at this" Ruka said stepping aside to give Persona a good view of the picture frame. The glass was smashed as if it was dropped but was taped together in some places and glued in others. It was't a fancy picture frame or anything special, it was just plain wood around it, easy enough to replace. The actual picture was of three children probably around 6, it was an up close shot of just their faces. On the left there was a boy who had light brown hair and hazel eyes, in the middle was Mikan when she was six as apart from the obvious age differences they were identical. Lastly there was a boy with raven hair and deep crimson eyes. All the children were wearing big, honest and innocent smiles. Smiles of people who did not know the real world and the real pain and torment that came with it. Mikan was wearing the biggest smile of all three of them, this caused Ruka to frown. He had often seen Mikan around school with a big smile but after seeing this smile; her true smile it's like he could suddenly see how fake her smiles really are. Persona walked up to picture frame and stood there silently studying it for a while.

"To remember the pain" Persona said in a hushed, distant tone, answering Ruka's forgotten question.

"Huh?" Ruka said clearly not understanding where Persona was coming from.

"I can guarantee something more than this picture broke that day, something that can't just be replaced. So she keeps the broken picture frame to remember the pain of braking, to remember that what ever it is, is still broken." Persona said as if speaking about himself.

"I think your digging a little to far into a broken picture frame..." Ruka said slightly timidly as he still didn't get what Persona was talking about.

"Perhaps" He replied though it was obvious he thought he was right.

"So who do you think the people are?" Ruka asked as he was feeling like he wouldn't get anywhere on the topic they were currently on.

Persona answered confidently "Well the boys obviously her brother and-"

"She doesn't have any siblings" Ruka said butting in whilst smiling inwardly that he had caught out 'The Persona' making a mistake.

"I can answer that!" exclaimed Tsubasa said walking into the room. Judging from the massive grin on his face as he walked in he had been outside for a while; eavesdropping. He was waiting for the perfect time to 'reveal' his newly discovered information, and judging on the look of the other two's faces they knew it.

"Well," Persona said, once again showing his infamous 'patience'.

"Well, she had or has a twin brother but when they were probably around seven he died or disappeared or something. As there are picture all around of when they he was young and then are no pictures of him older than 7... OH! Maybe he's got powers like us so he took off." Tsubasa said and at the last part-if possible-his grin got bigger.

"No" Persona said flatly. "If he was one of us there wouldn't be any pictures of him around at all, they would tried to forget his very existence." Tsubasa's grin dropped whilst Ruka nodded in agreement to his statement. All of their eyes then showed glints of sadness and loneliness.

"That's why we are here looking for 'her' right?" Tsubasa asked, his grin returning to his face, though it was clearly faked. "So lets go see how Usagi and Youichi are doing!"

Persona just walked past him and out the door without giving him so much as a glance, Tsubasa then faked hurt towards Persona's back. Ruka rolled his eyes at his antics and then gave him a small, faked smile before following Persona out. Tsubasa was then left the house also, but not before remembering to re-lock the front door. The three of them walked through the winding streets of suburbia before meeting up with Youichi. He was leaning on a fence just round the corner from the little store Usagi had taken Mikan.

"About time" he mumbled when he saw them coming.

"Is it time?" he asked this time for them to hear.

"Yep, You know what to do!" Tsubasa said grinning like a mad man. He gave him an annoyed look before pushing off the fence with his leg and walking in the direction of the shop.

Mikan and Usagi had chatted happily whilst walking towards the little shop and once they got there Usagi assured her that this was the place he had gotten lost from. Mikan had asked around but no one had seen the boy or his brother around all day. At this moment they were both sitting on the grass out the front of the shop waiting for someone he knew to come past. Honestly Mikan was beginning to wonder if he actually had any family.

"Youichi!" Usagi called out happily causing Mikan to look up. She looked up and saw Usagi had already gotten up and had run into the arms of a boy that looked about 12. She got up slowly and walked over to the two of them.

"Usagi, don't you dare do that again I was so worried!" scolded the boy

"I'm sorry ... Oh and this is Mikan she helped me find my way back here, Mikan this is my brother; Youichi" Usagi said with a wide smile.

"Tsk..." Youichi said whilst looking her over, he then turned around and walked off without saying another word.

"Wait! Mikan is really nice and sweet...and I was thinking maybe you could show her that thing..." Usagi mumbled out while holding the back of Youichi shirt. Youichi then turned around and looked over Mikan again before sighing and walking over to her.

"Hold out your hand. Palm up." He commanded her, which of course she did, no questions asked. He held out his hands so they were hovering over her hand, palms down. After a few seconds a water bubble started appearing in her outstretched hand so she did what any normal person would do. She gasped and immediately withdrew her hand from shock, unconsciously taking a step back as she did it. This sent the water bubble tumbling down to the ground and ending in a 'splat.'

"You are ... you ... are you?" she mumbled out incoherently whilst staring at both of them as they looked back at her calmly. After a few seconds she broke their eye-contact and looked at the ground as if it were the most interesting thing in the world.

"Typical" Youichi spat in her direction under her breath so only the the three of them could hear. "You're the real monster." He then walked off with Usagi trailing behind.

"Wait!" she called out, Youichi stopped but didn't turn around. "Do you know a Natsume ... he has raven hair and deep crimson eyes ... he has a power like you, it's fire, he can control fire ... do you know him?" She asked in a whispered tone as if afraid of the answer, actually she was afraid as she didn't know what answer she was expecting nor wanted.

"And if I do?" He said, answering her question with a question.

"Huh?"

He sighed. "If I know this Natsume, what would you do?"

"I would- I- I don't know" she spoke realizing she had no idea what possessed her to ask that. It's not like he would want to see or hear from her so what was the point of knowing. After she said that Youichi just continued to walk away, Usagi following him after giving one quick glance back at Mikan.

"Try not to get lost anymore." She said under her breath when she was sure they were out of hearing before shooting a small smile towards their retreating backs. Once they were out of sight she starting walking back to her house in the opposite direction.

Usagi and Youichi walked round the corner and up to the three guys who were waiting for them.

"Well," said Tsubasa the moment he saw them letting his impatience get the better of him.

"Same as everyone else. Pathetic." Youichi said as if the words meant nothing then he walked off down the street with all the guy's eyes on his back.

"Don't pay any attention to him" Usagi said gaining everyones undivided attention.

"So what did happen Usagi?" asked Ruka in a somewhat sweet and gentle voice.

"Well, at first she was shocked and well, I guess if you took her actions at face value she seemed scared of us, BUT! I'm sure she wasn't...really. Then when she looked at us in the eye she immediately looked away at the ground. Youichi then, knowing where it was going, walked away. The she called out for us to stop and when we did she asked if we knew a Natsume and then she described him and told us his ability was to control fire. She was defiantly talking about our Natsume but when Youichi asked her what she would do if we did and she immediately dropped the question. Youichi and me then walked away but when our backs were turned and she thought we wouldn't hear she said; 'Try not to get lost anymore.' Though I only heard because I have unnaturally good hearing" Youichi explained all in one breath.

"Good, I have a fe

eling this girl could be the one, go on home now Usagi" Persona said. "And don't tell Natsume about this okay?"

"Umm sure do you want me to tell that to Youichi too?" Usagi responded

"No he knows when to keep his mouth shut,"

After Persona had answered his question Usagi left, leaving the remaining three to discus what had just happened.

"Question one. Do we tell him?" Tsubasa said, always being one to break silences.

"Well, maybe, we don't have to though, I mean something happened to him along time ago that still pains him now. We really don't have to delve into the topic right now I mean she might not even be the one right Persona?" Ruka asked, knowing only one of them would make the final decision.

"Hmm, yeah, right now he doesn't need to know anything, but I wonder, the other boy in the picture it's probably him right?" Persona said, thinking over his own thoughts though getting interrupted by Tsubasa's wild laughter.

"YOUR KIDDING RIGHT!" Tsubasa finally managed to get out after his laughter had died down.

"How so" Persona said.

"HE WAS SMILING! Like really, honestly smiling, 'The Natsume' doesn't and has never smiled. There is no way!" He continued.

"Time and pain change people, you should now that well" Persona said seriously before walking off leaving the other to in shock before following him.

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