Hey Back!
So basically I'm sorry not much happens in the chapter but it's because I want this whole thing to be over and it was to long to squeeze into one chapter and i think i got a bit carried away with the talking at the begging so once again sorry because unfortunately Natsume won't actually come back till the chapter after the next hehe sorry :D
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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.
The girl gave a big smile. "I was serious when I said you'd never ever again have to be alone on that day again..." Mikan took a few moments to look at her properly. She had big blue eyes and light blue hair. Her hair was mostly straight but was curly at the end. Exactly how Mikan remembered. Mikan gave the girl a big smile, she unconsciously let everything else go. Her problems, past, present and future all floated away. For the first time in what seemed like forever and a half she smiled a true smile. A smile that wasn't forced, a smile that came from every fibre of her being. A smile that was just, right. She wasn't alone. Someone would always be there for her. Someone cared. It got to the point where she couldn't contain what she was thinking and feeling anymore and ran over the girl and gave her a 'super massive bear hug'. Though the girl had been expecting it she still had to stumble a little to keep them both upright due to the force Mikan had collided into her with. Ruka could do nothing but stand there, still in the door way with wide eyes. He realized how trusting this girl was one of the best things he had done. He knew every time Mikan gave a smile it was fake, a cover-up, he didn't know what she was hiding behind her smiles but he knew that this smile wasn't hiding anything. For the first time he had seen her real smile and it was like nothing he had ever seen. Her smile could light up a room. He started going off on a rant in his head before he realized he still had no idea who this girl was, though he had realized she was right. He was glad he hadn't known her name when he picked up Mikan. After 2 minutes of Mikan's persuasion, begging, what ever you prefer, he would've spilled his guts to her.
Despite him being unwilling to cut short this moment the two girl were having he was getting more curious every second so he did the first thing that came to his head. He faked coughed to get their attention. Don't judge, it did work. They both stopped hugging and laughing, and slightly squealing to look over at him.
"Cliché much?" Mikan said before he could say anything. He just rolled his eyes as she was failing to hold onto her giggles. The other girl just looked in his direction once she had managed to control her giggles.
"Nobara Ibaragi..." She said once Mikan had finally controlled her giggles.
"How do you do that?" He asked as he was dying inside to know if he was that transparent.
"I told you I have powers like you?" He nodded. "It is to be able to see peoples inner essences ... Their 'auras' if you will"
"Huh ... Umm ... Which is what exactly?" He said unsure of what to say. Nobara just laughed airily.
"There just like colored hazy things..." she said before pausing and waiting to know that he understood. Ruka nodded and motioned for her to continue. "They're different for each person... You know colour, shape, intensity, brightness ... All of that changes from person to person ... It's not easy you know ... It all depends on the person ... It took me years to learn how to read them ... I guess I just got use to reading people..." She explained to Ruka who had a confused look on his face though every second it became slightly less confused until he finally nodded in understanding. She smiled slightly, happy that he had understood though she stopped smiling when she looked to her left and saw MIkan with a 'WTF did you just say' look. Nobara giggled at her expression whilst Ruka who had also turned in her direction started shuffling nervously like it was all his fault.
"I'm sorry I never told you..." Nobara said experimentally while bending down and looking up slightly to look Mikan in the eye.
"He he, Nobara! ... It's okay I guess, I can understand ... I mean I wouldn't trust me either after last time ... He he." Mikan replied looking up. She tried her hardest to sound nonchalant about it and plastered a cheery smile on her face but she couldn't stop the disappointment and pain from slipping into her voice every now and then. She also couldn't stop the tears pooling underneath her now glassy eyes.
"Don't lie to me" Nobara said sternly and motherly. "I know your upset with me ... But you know me; 'don't ask, don't tell' ..." Mikan now couldn't stop the tears now staining her usually cheerful face. "I'm sorry Mikan ... Please don't hate me..." Nobara said almost begging and much to their audience's; Ruka's surprise, she actually acted and looked completely serious. Not that she wasn't serious about everything else she had said and done it's just that she never showed it, she always seemed like she was in a permanent daydream.
"How could I hate you silly!" Mikan said cheerily while standing up straight and hitting Nobara lightly over her head. She than gave her biggest grin at both of them, though despite her best efforts, it was a heartbroken smile. Whilst both of them knew this they didn't push her.
"So ... Why did you ask Ruka to bring me here? To his house?" Mikan asked after a long awkward silence.
"Oh ... That well you see ... You're running away..." Nobara answered easily. Mikan laughed halfheartedly as she wanted it to be a joke but knowing her friend, she was probably serious. "Mikan, I'm serious ... You and your mother have never agreed on anything and she has treated you like dirt ... Riku would hate the fact that you're in this position..." Nobara paused at looked towards the unusually silent MIkan to see new tear threatening to fall from her friend's eyes.
"I'm sorry you did all this, but I can't, at least not now, you're right though, but not now. Not now" Mikan said unsteadily while biting her bottom lip and shaking her head. New tears had started falling and she felt pathetic, she still couldn't even stand hearing his name. Who ever said time could heal everything were oh so very wrong.
"Yes, now ... Mikan it's time to take a stand ... Time to stop living in the past ... Staying with them and listening to her demands and criticism isn't living ... Stop playing life safe ... Now is the best of times..." Nobara said comfortingly while holding mikan's hand tenderly, urging her to agree.
"I hate you." MIkan replied giggling, though it didn't really have the desired affect as tears were stilling falling slightly from the corners of her eyes. "Fine, fine, I'll do it, but, I won't return home tonight but I have to confront them before I decide to completely run away okay?" Mikan asked in an excessively exaggerated tone as if it was the biggest ask in the world, which it was.
"Wouldn't have it any other way ... Now here's what we're doing ... Don't contact your parents ... When or if they contact you simply reply; 'I am taking a stand.'?" Mikan nodded while wiping away her remaining tears. "Good ... Now..." She paused while turning to talk to Ruka "please take her to the guest room ... Then come back here with Tsubasa I have something quite important to tell you two..." Ruka raised an eyebrow as if silently asking for an explanation, she sighed but continued nonetheless. "I know who the one you have been looking for is ... I will tell you when you return ... Trust me like you have until now..." Ruka rolled his eyes at her behavior that he has come to expect in the half an hour he has known her. He motioned for Mikan to follow him and left the room down one of the corridors. After a few minutes of waiting he returned with a confused Tsubasa in tow. Tsubasa face cleared up soon though once he saw Nobara waiting for them both in their living room.
"Nobara! It's been so long since me and Natsume saw you last! What brings you this way?" Tsubasa squealed like a little girl all at once whilst enveloping Nobara in a bear hug and spinning her around in the air. It was quite a humorous scene as she was only a few years younger than him.
"Tsubasa! ... Too long ... And I have some important information you probably want to know..." Nobara said, scarily replying to all of his comments once he had released her.
"Should I be sitting?" He replied with a cheesy grin.
"Depends if you trust Ruka to catch you" she replied back and attached it with a small grin of her own.
"Might want to sit then buddy..." Ruka said chuckling to himself as he took a seat on the two person couch. Tsubasa mumbled something under his breath about having terrible friends before joining Ruka. They both then looked expectantly in Nobara's direction.
"You're looking for the girl who certain 'powers' that lets say could mean a lot to you guys...?" They both simultaneously nodded. "You found her ... Mikan is that girl..." They both then gave identical looks that seemed to be a cross between disbelieving and quizzical. "I have the ability to sense auras ... are you doubting me...?"
"So I'm guessing you know what we are going to do now then?" Tsubasa asked still unsure about the matter.
"Yes, ... She will decide to run away from home tomorrow and then we will tell her about her power on Friday...?" She said whilst at the same time motioning for them to point out any questions they had with her plan. As she expected there were.
"What's makes you so sure that kid'll run away?" Tsubasa asked.
"And why on Friday?" Ruka asked on top of Tsubasa question.
"Tomorrow she will face her parents ... She won't get what she wants and will do what she has been contemplating for eight years ... Friday? Easy, because tomorrow is the anniversary of her twin brother's death and the day she will finally stand up to her parents ... Personally I think that is more than enough for one day..." The boys both nodded in agreement but also slight sadness and sympathy was evident on their faces as some of the more sadder parts of her life were revealed to them.
"Hey why are you only telling us this? I understand the little ones but what about Natsume and Persona?" Tsubasa said suddenly remembering his other friends.
"Natsume already knows ... I told him before Ruka returned with Mikan ... Persona? Well, I neither like nor trust him..." They both raised their eyebrows at her motioning for her to expand on what she had said. She sighed "It's his aura."
"What about it?" Ruka whispered unconsciously as if Persona would be listening in on them while leaning forward in his seat. Though because he was concentrating on Nobara's answer he didn't notice Tsubasa rolling his eyes to his right.
"Listen carefully Ruka ... Auras aren't black and white like you make them out to be they are really confusing things ... Colours, shapes and everything else can mean anything about someone ... Their personalities, pasts, futures, outlook on life, emotional state, true intentions anything ... It took me years of experience of looking at different people's auras to learn as much I know now..." She said while visibly trying not to ramble.
"Oh ... okay then, so basically..." Ruka said trailing off, waiting for her to continue.
"Well, I just ... I don't trust it ... It's different and kinda scary ... and mysterious..." She replied shuddering while remembering the feeling of it.
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