Chapter 9: Silent Voices in the Shadows of the hallways.

A/N:

I didn't like the chapter i wrote before. And it was mistake to put it. I'm sorry for confusing you guys.:D please smile.

'Ugh…I feel terrible.' She slowly opened her eyes. She was in the same room she was trapped in when she was captured by non other than the anti-Alice.

'Why the hell am I in here??? And what, Happened...' She was still wearing her costume right now. She was so confused to why and how she got here, it made her stand up and sit in the corner softly banging her head on the wall. On the other side, was her old buddy the skeleton, he didn't really wish to be ignored. After all, he sort of helped her escape before. He shackled his bones ( I don't know of he can do that, let's all just imagine) which made Mikan look up at Mr. Bones. Her eyes widened in surprise and fear, I think that maybe she forgotten of old Mr. Bones, which as always lead to a scream in the end.

"As I've said, a bargain is well kept, right? Ms. Sakura?" Persona says with a smooth and sly voice. He looks straight at Yuka's face and admires how she can still have such a passive face. Her own daughter was being used as a bargaining chip, who knew she would be unfazed by this action. She opened her eyes and stared at Persona, it was a deal she couldn't let go of so easily. She thought Mikan was more taken care of in the Academy , she cursed Narumi for being such an idiot.

"Very well, we will hold off our ransom on Hyuuga for now."

"We thank you Ms.Sakura, it is pleasure doing business with you."

"You may leave by using the portal that Natsume and Mikan used to get here; it is easiest if you do not attract as much attention as you did when you arrived, We will also send the car back to you in a few weeks as well."

Persona stood up, he stared at her. She was really like an ice queen, her stare could kill anyone.

"As I've said, it' a pleasure."

As persona opened the door, a high pitched scream reached the two people in the room. Persona grinned; it would be sure be tough with her, minus one torture tool for the young boy. Yuka, not surprised at all stood up and went ahead Persona towards the other end of the hallway. But as she came to the bend at the end of the corridor she asked, "Are you sure, she will forget everything?"

Persona, who was watching her leave, wasn't all surprised that she asked.

" Off course." He replied as he walked the other hallway until he disappeared from Yuka's view. She still had that piercing Ice look on her face, but as of the moment her heart was beating hard against her chest. She breathes in and out and finally proceeds to Mikan's room.

The sound of the bell echoed in the silent hallway, then followed the opening of doors mixed with the noise of tired people. Dismissal on a Monday never felt better, Narumi who was fixing his things on his table heard a knock on the door.

"You should've come earlier, the sooner the better they say." He greeted them.

Ruka and Hotaru, who have been wearing a façade of no worries all day, looked tired and worried. "You knew this was going to happen?" Asked Ruka, the first one to collapse onto the nearest chair, his looks of self-concern made Narumi smile.

'He really has changed…'

"Well, I didn't really know that they were finally going to do it."

"Do what?" asked Hotaru who also took the freedom of sitting on a free desk beside Ruka.

"You see, news has been lurking around that some anti-Alice groups got tired of chasing after the academy that they've set up a deal, a bargaining chip of some kind."

"So if Mikan was one of them, who was the other one?" responded Ruka.

'The usual really, Natsume and a few other people, they've actually given a whole list. You two were mentioned, I think."

"So why Mikan??", Hotaru said with regret in her voice.

"That, I don't know. But what I do know is that Mikan has a mother. Which gives us another rumor to talk about…" Narumi paused. He hesitated, he was sure that they weren't ready to hear what he about to say. Ruka immediately saw this hesitation and said with great difficulty. "Whatever it is, bad or good; I think we won't hate Mikan for it. Right, Imai?"

He glanced at her from the corner of his eye and Hotaru smiled and added a bit of her own touch. " That idiot has been giving a million problems everyday, whatever you have to say must be just another rumor." She looked up, with a small smile on her. Narumi, then trusted them, they were competent enough, he thought.

'Well you see, they say that Mikan's mother is one of the major leaders of one of the biggest anti-Alice organizations. And it turns out, she wants her daughter back"

Outside, Natsume unaware of this meeting is taking one of his usual walks around campus. His mind was in complex frenzy that he had to release it all into the air which was slowly getting colder. As he watched the fast setting sun, his cell phone beeped. He stared at the sun again, which was now the color of hazy purple. He silently whispered into the air, a promise. Then he turned around and silently walked as he often did when the sun sets into the evening.
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