Dark Angel: M14G8
Chapter 5: The Reunion
ZUKI: I'm sorry but you won't expect me to update this story that much anymore. The following reasons are: I don't know what to write next to keep this longer. Much like fillers; I also lost my inspiration of the story.
SV: That's true, and I've been kinda bored.
ZUKI: I'm truly sorry but please continue to support; I'll try my best to keep this story alive.
SV: Well, my mood is wasted since you're not updating that much so I'll just say that this baka doesn't own GA or its characters.
ZUKI: Beware because I might speed things up. Oh I forgot to add this, Mikan and co. are 15 and please pretend that Tsubasa and the others already graduated. I might not be able to make them appear in the story. Sorry Minna! And Youichi will be appearing again soon.
Recap
A painful shock went to her from the chains but the woman did not gave him the pleasure of seeing her suffer, "I was merely protecting her as her mother."
The man chuckled, "Did you really think that she still thought of you as her mother after you betrayed her?"
The woman gave a pained look on her eyes and kept silent.
The man ordered, "Continue searching her whereabouts and look for the code, she still blocks the location transmitter."
The navy blue-haired with glasses looked at the man sternly filled with hatred and left after that.
End of Recap
Hotaru's POV
I woke up earlier in the morning than the usual and quickly prepared for a long day ahead of me. I walked to the drawer and got the lock I found. I began to scan and investigate it. After an hour of analysis, I looked at the papers one by one.
'So this lock is supposedly has data of some sort.'
I paused to think some more as I continue to read.
'Wait…the lock was made 10 years ago? It couldn't be coincidence.'
I continued to read, 'I am right, the time she disappeared, was the time this lock was made.'
'If there is a lock, then there's a key but where? Does that humanoid have it? What purpose is this lock? If it unlocks what's going to happen?'
Many questions swarmed in my head. I kept them aside as I went to class.
End of Hotaru's POV
Hotaru arrived in the classroom; she opens the door and found the class in havoc once more except Natsume, who was sleeping, Ruka, feeding his Usagi, and Mikan, sitting by the window sill again.
Hotaru quickly went to her seat as she adjusts her Cat Bell DM Projector.
After the adjustments, she spoke bluntly, "Mikan, I investigated the lock that I found on my bed and I assume you have the key."
The whole class turned away from what they're doing and listened intently.
Mikan turned her head to Hotaru's direction, "So you have the lock huh? That lock is just a remembrance for me, being once a human. It isn't valuable. You can have it."
"What if I told you that it might be connected to your memories?" Hotaru replied.
This caught the attention of the two most popular boys.
"How so?" Mikan asked.
"I scanned it and took an analysis, it contains a transferred data. Like a medium or holder of some sort," Hotaru answered.
Mikan refused, "I want to finish the nightmare first and besides, the data might also be irrelevant, it may just be a data structure or blueprint."
Mikan thought, 'Why am I hesitating? This is a chance? Could it be that I'm afraid of my past? Why would I be?'
Ruka stood up, "Why are you refusing when Imai is just trying to help you Mikan?"
Mikan.
Mikan.
Mikan.
Mikan.
Mikan.
This was repeated in her head like an echo.
She clutched her head in pain and fell sidewards. She pants, closes her eyes and tried to get the pain go away.
Hotaru rushed towards her, "Baka, what's wrong with you!"
Yuu and the others including Ruka and Natsume loomed towards them.
Mikan panted some more. Hotaru puts her head on her lap.
"Mikan daijobu ka?" Nonoko and Anna asked her simultaneously.
Mikan opens her eyes once more and instead of the normal brown eyes, they saw them glowing.
Hotaru gets the lock and it was glowing, the same way her eyes were so she looks for the key in Mikan's clothes.
After finding the key, she unlocks it and the light coming from it blinded her eyes.
Meanwhile in Mikan's head, memories or flashbacks flooded her head
Flashback no.1
A crimson-eyed boy was walking by the park near the sakura trees. While he was walking, he heard a sobbing noise. He went towards the noise and he came upon a brown-haired girl in two pigtails, clutching her knees to her chest, crying. He walked closer and kneeled down in front of her.
"What's wrong?" He asked in wonder.
The girl looked at him and he was astonished at her beautiful and mesmerizing brown eyes, "Go away…go away please…"
"Huh?" he said.
"Don't come closer…I'm a freak, no one likes me! So go away!" She shouted.
He had an urge to hug her so he did and he felt her flinched, "Why would anyone call you that?"
She pushed me away, "They make fun of me because I have no father so wh-when I got angry a sudden blue glow surrounds me…and they ran away from me, calling me a freak…a m-monster, so after knowing that …you'll run away too right?"
He smiled at her, "Don't worry, I won't run away from you because I like you! We're just the same! See?"
He showed her his fireball and she was amazed but he quickly stopped it. Then, she hugged him, "Arigatou, for accepting me…"
He hugged her back. After that, he lets go, "What's your name?"
She smiled cheerfully, "Watashi wa Mikan Sakura Desu!"
"Natsume. Natsume Hyuuga…" He said
End of Flashback no. 1
Flashback no. 2
The brown-haired girl went to the park the next day and met the crimson-eyed boy again but the boy was not alone. He was accompanied by a blond-haired boy.
"N-Natsume, who is he?" The brunette asked nervously.
He replied, "He's my best friend."
The blond-haired boy smiled, "Hi! You must be Mikan that Natsume was talking about. I'm Ruka Nogi, nice to meet you"
The girl smiled back, "Yep! I'm Mikan Sakura, nice to meet you too."
Then, they became friends instantly and played for a few more days. In their meeting, the girl kept talking about her best friend and promised them that they can meet her after she came back with her family.
End of Flashback no.2
Flashback no.3
"Hotaru, let's play again by the swings!" A brown-haired girl in two pigtails said happily.
"Baka, I'm near. You don't have to shout." A raven-haired girl replied.
"Mou Hotaru, meanie!" The brunette stuck her tongue out and then smiled.
She continued, "You know Hotaru, I just wanted to talk to you. It's about me since you went out with your family for the past few days."
"Did someone bully you again?" She looked at her still on her emotionless façade but with concerned-looking eyes.
"Yeah, demo while I was crying that day someone helped me and he had powers like us too! He also introduced me to his best friend! Therefore, I need you to introduce you to my other two friends. I know you'll like them!" Mikan smiled.
She answered, "Well, I'm grateful that they did my job of comforting you because you're really a handful.
"You're being mean again!" Mikan pouted.
"Remember to smile aho! I told you to smile more, you look 10x uglier when you don't smile," She said.
"Hotaru!" She hugged me tightly like there was no tomorrow.
"Get away from me. Those baka germs…" She struggled playing with her.
End of Flashback no.3
Flashback no. 4
After playing with her best friend, she went home. She opens the door expecting her favorite maid's greeting when she comes home but that was not the case. She trembled as she saw the bloody scene in front of her.
"Sakura-sama! Run! Don't let them get you!" A black-haired woman said as she was clutching her stomach and coughing blood while being held back with her hair by a long white-haired man.
"B-but I can't leave you and father behind Risa-nee-chan! You both need to come with me so the hospital can tend your heavy wounds!" A brown-haired 5 yr old girl cried.
The mysterious man smirked and thrown the black-haired woman, known as Risa, straight into the wall and leaving her unconscious, "You should've listen to her, little kitty."
"D-Doushite? What did we ever do to you?!" The little girl yelled, sobbing endlessly.
"Simply nothing, your mother just owed something to me," The man walked towards her.
The girl panicked, "Don't come near me! I said don't come near me!"
Then, a sudden force overthrown the man and the girl took this chance to escape to her friends' house.
End of Flashback no. 4
Flashback no. 5
The girl ran as fast as she could. She planned to go to her best friend's house but her house was too far away so she went to her crimson-eyed friend. She knocks on the door and saw the blond-haired boy open.
"Mikan, what are you doing here? It's pretty late already," the blond said.
"Please help me! Onegai!" Mikan pants and gasps for air.
The crimson-eyed boy appeared at the door, "What happened?"
Before she could reply, men in black suits appeared. They started to grab Mikan.
"Natsume!!" The girl screamed while she was struggling from those men.
He yelled back angrily, "Let go of me! Mikan!!"
"Mikan!!" the blond-haired boy also yelled.
We all yelled each other's name while struggling from those people until we were knocked unconscious.
He whispered, "No…Mikan…" Then, tears flowed on his cheeks.
End of Flashback no.5
End of Mikan's mind.
Each flashbacks and memories were returning. As it finished, her glowing eyes returned back to normal.
"Mikan? Are you alright now?" Yuu asked.
Mikan slowly gets up and holds onto the wall.
She muttered, "I remembered…"
"I remembered it all!" Mikan continued.
She smiled at her best friend and tears were running down her cheeks. She hugged Hotaru tightly, "I remembered it all Hotaru…I remember…"
Hotaru hugged her back and a tear was threatening to fall, "I'm glad Mikan…"
Hotaru pulled back and gets her baka gun.
BAKA! BAKA! BAKA!
"Baka, making me invent the Cat Bell DM Projector. Sigh, I'll forgive you, but you me 2000 rabbits." Hotaru spoke.
"Mou, Hotaru is the same as always," Mikan smiled.
A voice interrupted, "Oi. When are you going to stop ignoring us?"
Mikan widened her eyes and looked at the voice's direction, "Natsume! Ruka!"
Mikan ran towards them and hugged them both to the ground, "I missed the both of you."
"You're crushing us Mikan," Ruka sweatdropped.
Mikan stood up, "Gomen, Ruka-pyon."
"So this is the two persons that you were supposed to introduce," Hotaru said.
Natsume replied, "And she's the best friend that we suppose to meet."
The both of them glared at each other intently.
Mikan scratched her head, "Yeah…"
Then, she looked down, "But I'll never be the same…I'm not human anymore."
Ruka reassured her, "But you'll always be the Mikan we knew."
Mikan smiled, "Arigato minna."
The class was shocked by the revelation.
"I knew the three of you had a past with her," Koko smiled cheekily.
BAKA!
"It's because you were reading our minds, idiot," Hotaru glared at him.
Anna and Nonoko squealed in delight, "What a tragic past! With Natsume and Ruka, it can be romantic too! Love triangle from the past brought to the present again!"
Ruka blushed furiously, "W-What are you talking about?"
"Tch. Whatever," Natsume's only reply as he blushes slightly, his eyes covered by his bangs.
-CLICK-
"Nice blush you two," Hotaru comments while taking pictures of them.
Kitsuneme shrugs, "Back to normal…"
Wrong Kitsuneme. It's not yet back to normal, it's just getting started.
SOMEWHERE FAR AWAY AGAIN, OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY,
"Master, a blast of energy was reported from Tokyo headquarters near Gakuen Alice," An underling reported.
'So she was able to figure it out, but regaining her memories will do no good,' the man smirked.
The man replied, "Send XD230 in."
Knowing who he was talking about, he called 'XD230'.
"Master, why did you send me for?" A silver-haired person asked.
"Ah, XD230, I want you to get close to this person inside the academy," the man ordered as he gave him a folder and a picture of a raven-haired person.
The silver-haired person smirked, "Understood"
The man reminded, "Use your real name this time…not your code name in the corps."
END OF CHAPTER…TBC
ZUKI: Thx for reading…Please read and review
SV: You know…I can feel your sadness right now.
ZUKI: How would you know?
SV: Your tone of voice…
ZUKI: Well, it's none of your business.