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Chapter 5. [Sane]
"Ruka, we're going back." My eyes were narrowed into ruthless slits, ready to attack at any given moment, ready to diminish those who are my enemies...and this time, I will not hesitate to burn.
His lips stuttered, peering guiltily at Polka.
"But..."
"The game's over." I pronounced, my tone darkening. Flashing my gaze to the transfers shocked features I went on. "She's disqualified." Lowering my voice she gasped, sweat trailing across the paleness of her face. "Hurry and get the hell out of this school!" I can't control it anymore, restraint, or whatever, all I can think of is Ruka. A numbing darkness hazed my conscience, feeling a rekindling emotion of emptiness devour my thoughts. Lunging forward, I clasped the front of her brown hair into my grip and pressed her into the hard bark of a tree. She swallowed her screams and stared at me with eyes resembling captured prey. I'll make her reveal the truth of her Alice, whether it be a stupid game, or by brute force.
"You ignored my rules..." My hand steadily clutched her hair, the sound of her fear echoing into my ears. "And on top of that you took advantage of Ruka..." Growling out of spite, my teeth began to grit. "I've had enough of your damn nonsense!" My eyes scrutinized hers, my face seen from the view of the window to her soul. I looked hateful, murderous...and as I searched for a specific meaning within her, all I could find was fear. Shaking my mind of those useless wonderings, I began to summon the flames, feeling my composure almost break until Ruka stepped in.
"Natsume, stop! I'm totally fine, really!" I turned my attention to him, my strength still pinning her dazed, trembling form to the tree. The glisten of his platinum strands shook against the rays of the sun, clear eyes that were iridescent and flecked like the ocean. Still, they held an oblivious innocence that contrasted greatly next to mine, a part of him that never left, a part of me that I never knew. "You told me, Natsume. That this game was to determine her Alice, right?" Judging from the careful look on his face, I knew that he knew of what I might take action upon. Setting my jaw, I trudged my stare deep into his wavering pupils.
"Ruka...I have no mercy for my enemies, and those who disobey me." Turning my scowling orbs to her petrified frame, I scrunched the glob of her hair into a tighter fist. "Besides, I don't have the patience to figure her out anymore." Her breathing grew heavy, the soft air she blew following the clench of my wrist. "I'll use whatever means is necessary to figure out what she really is." Her soppy eyes glared up at me in distaste, struggling arms vying to push me away out of pure resilience. Through her futile disagreement, my ears suddenly detected Imai's grunt of annoyance, the trail of my eyes quickly meeting the movement she made as a bomb of some sort erupted into a cloud of pink smoke around the base of my feet. In a mere second, fogs of pale fuchsia clouds swarmed my vision and smothered my throat. Coughing, I flinched at the push she jabbed into my ribcage, my lungs gagging in discontent. The ends of her ponytails befell upon my sight, taunting my animosity. Coughing out of lack of oxygen, I lifted my hand and summoned a line of thrashing flames before she could make it any further, earning a frightened response. Class Rep recoiled back in astonishment, cringing at the twitching fire circulating amidst him. Stepping across the swirling mist, a stunning crunch of leaves and twigs snapped beneath my boots. Escape is no use, baka.
"Didn't I just say I've run out of patience to expose you?" My fingers stretched a flair of moving flames, scorching and ever so docile to my command. Holding back my chagrin I planted my feet to where they could all glorify my presence. "So, spit it out. What is your Alice?" Polka gaped at me with a certain awe, horrific terror aflame in her eyes. I waited for a response, staring her down, breaking her bit by bit. I felt the bore of Ruka's withered contemplation, and I knew the memories of that time was replaying through his mind like a broken cassette tape. Taking a quick glimpse at his worried face, I struggled to continue the fire in my yield.
"S-Stop the fire!" A pleading voice bellowed like the ring of a tower clock. I stood without movement. Her endless scrambling was useless, she'll have to show me the truth of her Alice, if not..."Hotaru, don't you have a fire extinguisher?!" Confronting Imai, she shook with a recurring desperation, her shoulders trembled violently, shaking.
"It's no use. His fire can't be put out with that stuff." With her response, Ruka intervened.
"Natsume, stop..." Hesitant from the hostility in my eyes he lowered his gaze.
"All she has to do is show me her Alice." Turning toward her shaking form, I knew her worry was beyond my acknowledgement. But if she doesn't show me her Alice, I won't lull over, I'll use mine instead. "Hurry up," I bit, a tinge of ice flaking my words. "Or he'll die." Her lips quivered, her face scrunched in spite of nervousness and guilt.
"If I had the power..." She went on, stuttering her characters. "I would've used it by now if I could! Please, stop the fire!" Bitterness torched my mouth, exasperation fuming my thoughts. Deceiving lies.
I congregated a flaring holocaust, setting the fire ablaze around Imai's stoic demeanor, a cautious reaction emitting off her face.
"Hotaru!" She screamed, absolutely lost for words as she followed the flames with horrified eyes. Scrunching my brows together, annoyance flared within my gut.
"Why should I believe anything from someone that Naru brought here? If you won't show it, I'll just choose another victim." Realisation dawned across her face, clenching fists swung by her sides. She scorched her eyes against mine, daggers pierced through my skull, her hatred becoming utterly conspicuous.
"Stop..." Was all she could say, before blowing a full out shout. "They have nothing to do with this!" Staring at her with wary eyes, all I felt was the blood beneath my veins boil. "Stop the fire!" Twigs and tree branches snapped behind me, my hand extinguishing the flame that exuded from my fingertips. I caught a glimpse of Ruka running into the innings of the Woods, a brush of trees clearing him from where I could see.
"Ruka?!" I questioned aloud, my voice coarse and desperate. The dangling sound of hair flipping pounced in my ear, the sight of anger and mutiny glaring in front of my widening orbs. Her hand gripped the material on my shoulder, the angle of her body soaring in midair as the pigtails she so stupidly flaunted, came almost undone. The huff of her cheeks had blotches of tomato red stains imprinted aggressively, tears hanging onto her long eyelashes like loose threads. A face that I've never seen on anyone in the entirety of my life.
"Stop the fire, you idiot!" She cried through falling tears, my mind rushing back to reality as soon as we tumbled toward the ground, a rustling of old leaves flailing beneath my back. My eyes widened mercilessly, unable to comprehend the situation.
"What?! You...!" Sensing danger I clenched my teeth, the feeling of a thousand light rays obliterating my senses into a dull nothing. Everything was scattered, clear yet blindingly numbing. My energy felt as if it slowly seeped back into my body, the taint of my fire dissipating until it was finally...gone. As if nothing happened, and all five of my senses came back to me like a bucket of ice cold water. Yet the force of the blinding light sent her tumbling a gradual meter away from me, my heart taken aback to the point where I almost forgot my name. All my wits and saneness had been evaporated and forgotten as I stared dubiously at the girl across from me.
"What..." I muttered, feeling all the breath in me leave. She groaned in pain and flinched slightly, my heart holding without a beat for one still moment.
"Natsume just...used a strong Alice..." Tapping her head I continued to stare, unaware of what to do exactly. Until a delicate jolt sent my head leaning back...
Like a sea of death and Hell, lips pressed against my forehead and knocked me away from the minute that I left the world. My heart sharply cracked against my chest, blood gushing out abnormally around my system and to my cheeks. A loud exasperated gasp blew from my mouth, the caps of my knees shaking uncontrollably as that stupid Naru continued to inflict his perverted Alice upon me. I grew weak, my mind not being its own as I let out an uncontrollable moan. Death may follow you soon Naru...sooner than you think...damn you to Hell!
It felt constricting and unreliable: the darkness. My chest heavy as I strained to see beyond oblivion, as the cold bone chilling hopelessness of the dark tainted me, like always. But something seemed different, somehow. It was like the sense of being...normal...the feeling of small self reliance. Somehow...I felt sane.
A/N: Hello again reader(s)! Small chapter, but I want to follow the amount of chapters that the original author wrote for Gakuen Alice. Which is like...180? Haha, anyway thank you for reading! Please review/follow/fave! Remember that I appreciate your thoughts as well, and hopefully I can get another chapter up soon! Thank you for reading once again, and I hope you'll check back soon!