Chapter three! I'm super fast-forwarding the training…
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Weeks flew by very quickly. It had already been about four months, and Mikan was doing very well. She had copied every one of the students' and teacher' Alices, improved her reflexes and senses, along with her attacks and such. She tried to keep hidden when she had to walk to somewhere other than where she was training, as there would probably be rumors about some girl sneaking around or something.
"Damn it!" She said, licking her wound. Because Narumi had come out of nowhere so suddenly, she fell from the tree branch she was sitting on and scraped her hand.
"I'm sorry!" He said, coming over to her.
"I'm fine," Mikan responded, glaring at him. "What the hell do you want?"
Narumi recoiled a bit, but responded. "Although you've only been training for four moths, we think you're ready," He said. "You'll be attending class B tomorrow."
Mikan remained expressionless.
"Fine," was all she said, put on her mask and made her way to her room.
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The next morning was super hot. Mikan put on a red tube top, a white mini-skirt and some black boots. She didn't get a uniform or anything, and apparently, all the clothes she had in her house had been delivered here. She absolutely hated uniforms anyway. She put on some of her bracelets, grabbed her mask and left her room.
"Bring your mask, too," Narumi said as they walked to the dorms.
"And make sure to decide on a default Alice. We can't have everyone knowing you have a million different ones."
Was what he had said. She decided that her default would the plant Alice as she found to her to Class B. She waited outside until Narumi told her to go in. He knew that she was already here.
"Class, we have a new student today," She heard him say.
"Please welcome Mikan Sakura, everyone!"
She put on her mask and walked to the front of the room.
"Mikan Sakura. My Alice is the ability to control plants," She said.
"Now…the seat back there is there is the only one free…" Narumi said; sweat dropping, making the class wonder why.
As she looked to the back, she gasped. Holy shit…she would be sitting to Natsume, the guy she fought with yesterday!!
Apparently, he noticed to and said, "Oh…it's the ugly hag from yesterday…" he smirked, waiting for her to get mad.
And did she? No. She managed to keep her cool.
"Bastard," So said, glaring at him. God, she just wanted to send him to hell right now!!
"How DARE you call Natsume-kun that!!" A voice said. Mikan looked at the girl who had just spoken. She had a greenish perm hairdo with green eyes.
"I can call him whatever I want, Permy," Mikan responded casually. "God it's hot in here."
"My name is not Permy, bitch! It's Sumire Shouda!" She screamed, activating her Alice. Ears popped out of her head and whiskers appeared from her cheeks.
"The cat-dog Alice, eh?" Mikan smirked, holding out her hands. She deiced to go pretty easy on her. Thin vines grew all around her, although she managed to dodge them. She tried controlling the vines to wrap around her, but being half-dog, she was fast.
As Sumire somehow managed to get in front of her, and tried to attack, Mikan jumped into the air, bringing her heel down on Sumire's head as she landed.
"Too easy, I barely used my Alice at all…guess hand-to-hand combat is enough to take you down," She said. "You should try to control your Alice better."
But Sumire didn't hear anything, as she was unconscious with a large bump on her head.
"Tch."
Crackle crackle…
Just when Mikan wasn't looking, Natsume had set fire to her mask and burned it into ashes, revealing her face.
"Bastard! What the hell?!" She shouted at him, brushing her hair out of her face.
"Mi…Kan…" A voice said. Mikan looked around once more to see another girl with black hair and emotionless, violet eyes.
"Hotaru…" Mikan said. They were best friends when they were little. But their happy reunion didn't last long as Mikan smirked.
"Hotaru…fancy seeing you here as you left the village quite a while ago," She said, her voice so cold and sharp that some people actually winced a bit.
"W…What happened?" She asked, unsure.
Mikan smiled.
"Oh, nothing. Besides getting the whole village burned down, everyone dying and me being the only survivor and taking care of myself since five, oh, nothing much." She said, twirling her hair around her fingers.
Everyone was shocked to hear this. Even Hotaru, as the "Ice Queen", too.
Silence.
"Mikan…"
"PLEASE GO OUT WITH ME!!"
"NO,ME!"
All the boys (except Ruka and Natsume) shouted, crowding around her.
Well, her mask did get burned by Natsume, revealing her true face, making the guys go even more crazy.
All she did was give them a threatening look before climbing up onto the windowsill. She jumped, gracefully landing on her feet and running towards…well, nowhere in particular.
"Whoa! Did you see that?" One guy asked.
"Just like an angel," another said, looking outside.
Natsume and Ruka said nothing.
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"Damn this school," Mikan said, sitting on a branch of a Sakura tree.
"More like Hell's Prison." Said another voice. She looked down to see Natsume and Ruka standing under her.
"What the hell do you guys want?" She growled, jumping off the branch.
"Nothing. I just want to settle our 'battle' from yesterday."
Mikan smirked.
"Fine by me."
After a little bit, they found a space in the Northern Forest where it wouldn't matter if they did any damage.
"Aren't you going to start?" Mikan asked, checking out her nails.
"Hmph."
Natsume started out with a couple of easy fireballs, which she dodged easily.
"Lame-ass. Can't you do any better?" She said, making thick vines grow all around him.
"What about you?" Natsume smirked, burning the vines.
About 2 Hours Later…
By now, a huge crowd was gathering to watch the fight. Both Natsume and Mikan were panting, with a couple injuries and bruises here and there.
"Bastard…aren't you finished yet?" Mikan scowled, making flower petals fly everywhere.
"Like hell…you're probably just tired…" Natsume replied, trying to see through the petals.
"Hmph,"
"Woow…They're really tearing up the forest…" A blonde-haired guy named Kokoroyomi said. (People called him Koko for short.)
"Yeah…" A girl named Anna said, watching them.
"But something's wrong…" Koko said.
"What?" Another girl named Nonoko asked.
"I've been reading Mikan's mind and she's thinking 'I won't last much longer…'" He replied.
Mikan winced in pain. That's right; she wouldn't be able to last much longer. Ever since she was little, she had some sort of illness that no doctor could explain.
"Ugh…Damn it…it had to be now…" She said, kneeling down, clutching her chest.
"Hey…Mikan?!" Hotaru came out from the crowd, making her way to her friend.
"I'm fine!!" She yelled, pushing Hotaru away.
"No, you're not!! Have you been taking that medicine recently?!?!"
Mikan smiled weakly.
"I told you…everyone from the village died. The doctor that was there was the only one who had the medicine…" She said, now holding her mouth.
"Goddammit…"
She coughed, bringing a lot of blood with her.
"It's gotten worse hasn't it?!"
"I'm not going to die from it or anything!!"
But despite what she said, she kept coughing up more blood. She actually looked like she was going to die.
Natsume came over and picked her up, bridal-style.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" She hissed at him.
"I'm helping you. Be grateful."
"I didn't ask for your h-" But nothing else came out. He voice…what happened?
Natsume looked at her, and she glared back.
Natsume and Hotaru ran with Mikan to the infirmary.
"This is a pain…" Natsume said.
Mikan glared at him.
Well, I didn't ask for your help!! She thought.
Damn it…my voice just HAS to disappear at this moment…
But she softened. No one had really cared for her like this since she was five and the village burned down.
Thank you…Natsume...
Sorry for the late update! I actually wrote half of this chapter, except then I didn't feel too good, so I never finished it…gomen!
Please review, though!!