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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON

Ruka was heading home after doing some much needed grocery shopping. When I say grocery shopping I mean; instant noodles, soft drink, microwave food. Six guys all under 25 living in a house, you get the point. The route he was taking home passed by a small park, though calling it a park was an overstatement and a half. If you blinked you would have literally missed it, it was a square patch of; half brown, shriveled up grass and half dirt, plus it was tiny. No kidding twenty steps and you would've walked the entire length. In the park there was a big oak tree that looked like it had seen better days, much, much better days and one swing set that wasn't even slightly inviting. It's chains were rusted, and they squeaked at the tiniest movement and looked like they would break if they were ever required to hold up the weight of a feather. Basically it was an abandoned park, no one was ever seen there and it had no real purpose. Except for today. Today as Ruka was walking past this particular park he noticed it wasn't abandoned. He saw a girl around his age sitting with her back leaning on the tree. She was wearing a black hoodie with the hood up blocking her face from view with dark blue skinny jeans. Ruka approached the girl hesitantly. She looked expectantly in his direction when she heard his footsteps. She let out a sigh after looking up at him though not meeting his eyes.

"How long hard is it to find one girl geez..." she said airily under her breath once she had turned her head back to facing out in front of her. Ruka had only caught some of it though he caught the drift of what she was saying.

"Looking for someone?" he asked casually.

"Umm yeah, actually" she said, surprised he was actually still there, though still looking out straight in front of. If she hadn't had said anything it would have seemed like she was ignoring his complete existence.

"Well, maybe I could help you out, who are you looking for?" Ruka finally asked after a long awkward silence.

"Do you know a Mikan Sakura?" she asked as if it meant nothing at all.

"Haha actually yeah I do" he said chuckling with a boyish grin on his face. She then stood up dusting of her jeans before turning to him and actually looking at him. When their eyes met he couldn't help but get sucked in. Her eyes looked as though they could see right through him to every secret he kept, to everything had ever felt or thought. He felt exposed. Her eyes were also cold, not a mean, fierce or guarded cold. They were glazed over like she was in a permanent day dream, they were distant like they were constantly looking at something else.

"Good. Your further along then I had expected... Take me to your house-sorry, the place you are currently living in..." she commanded, though not in a cold demanding way. She said it directly as if she felt no need to add unnecessary words or details.

"Umm sorry, what do you mean" He asked clearly baffled by the girls behavior, I mean he didn't even know her!

"I know all about you Ruka..." Huh? Okay, he was not expecting that. "I know about your animal controlling ability and I know about you and your friend's 'quest.' Now please, first I need to talk to Natsume..." He was clearly skeptical and confused so she decided to continue. "Don't worry I'm the same as you, I have a power also..." Like that was supposed to make Ruka take her back to the place he was staying in?

"Umm, sorry, but I don't know anything about you, not even your name" Ruka said clearly put off by her behavior. That or the fact that she seemed to know everything about him like he was an open book.

"We can discus on the way as you see I am running short on time..."

"Short on time for what exactly?" He asked, still not convinced by this mysterious girl, though her having a power made perfect sense. Instead of responding she just looked at him expectantly. He just sighed before walk off in the direction of the place he was staying at. He was really curious with this girl and knew this was probably the only way to get straight answers from her.

"Name?" He asked expectantly whilst walking. She sighed as he raised an eyebrow in her direction.

"I'm not hiding it from you or anything and I will tell you... Though I need you to do something for me and you'll be glad you don't know my name when you're done..." He raised both his eyebrows. This is the most he had heard her say in their whole conversation and something in her voice made him believe in what she had said.

"How do you know my friends?"

"Met awhile back..."

"Ah, let me rephrase that, how do you know them yet I don't know you?"

"You go to school whilst they stay at home..." He blinked a couple times. That made sense in some weird way.

"Oh. How come i've never heard of you then?"

"You don't know my name so you wouldn't know if you had..."

"I guess, how well do you know them, my friends I mean?" She sighed.

"I only know Persona, Natsume and Tsubasa, and hardly."

"Fair enough. Well, why do you want to talk to Natsume?"

"I need to talk about something personal..." He raised an eyebrow in her direction. "Well, that and my distrust of Persona..."

"Okay, well, though you've told me pretty much nothing, here we are" Ruka said chuckling amused at her behavior. She looked up at him without saying a word, he sighed knowing she wasn't going to say anything and opened up the door and let her in. She then turned around blocking him from entering. His mind was screamed at him that trusting this girl was stupid and a big mistake for a few seconds before it was disrupted.

"Don't worry, I'm not betraying you..." She said while looking directly into his eyes. He frowned wondering why this girl could read him so well though they just met. "I said I needed you to do something for me?" She said, well asked. Even though she didn't phrase it as a question he knew it so he nodded. "I asked if you knew a Mikan Sakura?" Again using the same tone and again he nodded. "Good, go bring her here" she said. "Please" she quickly added after a moment of silence. He sighed as he walked off since he has trusted her this far, what's a little more.

Natsume had been watching the exchange between Ruka and the girl from behind. He heard what she asked of Ruka and, unconsciously, a frown appeared on his face. He continued watching until his friend walked off and before the girl could close the door and turn around he beat her to it. He slammed the door closed from behind her with his left hand.

"What the hell do you want from that girl!" He growled none too quietly next to her ear. She didn't even flinch, instead she waited a few second before turning around slowly to face the boy. On seeing her face through the hood of her hoodie he removed his hand and backed up a few inches though still keeping his continually growing frown. Though it was slowly turning itself into a scowl.

"You-" he began before being cut off when she put her hand a few inches from with mouth.

"We need to talk..." she said before walking over to the couch motioning for him to follow.

"I don't take orders" he said stubbornly, turning to face her but not moving from the spot she left him.

"Then listen from there..." she said not turning to look at him, used to his attitude. "The reason I asked your friend to fetch her?" He nodded was as used to her attitude as she was the his. "She is the one your looking for..." she said like it was the most normal thing in the world.

"What" he whispered, disbelievingly. For the first time in a long time he sounded broken, like he was. "How do you know?"

"Remember my powers..."

"Why? It shouldn't be like this..." Natsume said finally moving so he was in her line of vision. He collapsed on the armchair opposite where she was sitting. He ruffled his raven hair though it fell perfectly back in place.

"Must be tough..." she sympathized, though she didn't appear sympathetic as she was still looking past his him and her tone seemed unfazed.

"Anyway the reason I told you this was because I wanted you to be ready for it..."

"I see no reason too do that." He responded, contradicting his earlier actions, with a cool and collected demeanor like that news hadn't affected him.

"You know faking doesn't work on me..." He looked at her annoyed. "I'm the only person who can read you completely read" she paused slightly and laughed airily "And i don't even know you."

"Exactly so don't go pretending you do" he said while leaning in and glaring at her.

"I don't know you... I know three things though... One; You and her used to love each other... Puppy, child love, but love all the same... Two; I know what happened between the two of you... Three; Ironically, you thought after you got what you wanted you would come and see her... In other words you are doing all this for her..." Wow a lot of words for her, but this time she was serious. She needed something from him.

"And" he said, knowing she wasn't here to be his shrink, there was a reason she had said those things.

"Today's Wednesday?" He nodded. "Please leave and return Friday morning..."

"Huh?" She sighed.

"Only because I know how stubborn you are... Her brother Riku?" He nodded. "He was murdered..." his bulged for a slight second before he returned to his indifferent, expressionless facade, though still very shocked and upset on the inside. Riku was his best friend, they were always together before he had left and now he found out the Riku was dead, it just wasn't processing.

"When?" Was all he managed to croak out.

"Eleven years tomorrow..." He gasped internally. At this point too many thoughts were flying through his head.

The fact that he was murdered less than a week after he had upped and left.

That made his death anniversary tomorrow. March 26th.

Did they catch his murderer?

Was it random or was there a reason?

Then Natsume realized the thing he should've realized the moment she had said it.

What happened to Mikan.

Him and Riku were the only people in the world she trusted and understood her. Mikan wasn't close to her parents, she wasn't tantrum yell and scream all the time type of not close, she was just distant. She was always pretending to be someone else around her family and everyone else that weren't him or Riku. She was always pretending to be perfect, like Riku, everyone expected her that way, like Riku. He felt sick to his stomach, he had always assumed she would be fine with Riku by her side, those two were always so close, but he suddenly realized she was not fine. She had been left all alone. He knew exactly how she would've felt. He been feeling that way for eleven years, he never, ever wanted her to feel this way.

"Why does that have anything to do with me going away?" He finally asked in a gruff tone, trying to hide back everything he was feeling though he knew that was a pointless thing to do in front if this girl. She just sighed.

"His death anniversary is tomorrow, and for that day I have a plan and I don't want her to know you're here. She will have enough on her mind. You will come back on Friday and meet her, I will tell her about her power and everything will work out..." She said looking into his eyes and for once looking like her full attention was on this matter.

"Fine" he said neutrally. In what seemed like one movement he was in his room. Then in what seemed like another singular movement he left his room with a bag in his hand and then continued out the front door. All the girl did was sit on the couch and watch him with an amused look as he abruptly left.

Just over ten minutes later the door opened again revealing Ruka and Mikan. The girl then stood up and turned to face the door whilst removing the hood from her head. Mikan's draw dropped to the floor as she looked at the girl.

"Why are you here?" Was all she could say.

Quick question:

Who do you think the girl should be? Do you think i should make it an OC, Hotaru or Nobara. Keep in mind that if it is Hotaru she will be ooc as she will not be money hungry or have any inventions sorry.

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