So thanks for reviewing my previous chapters! YAY! This is my let's see, 14th chapter. I just uploaded my Blacklite Wings fic. I couldn't believe it only took me 5 days to finish that chapter. Now it's time to write for this chapter. I'm sorry, since my dad took my internet privilege; I can only use the internet ONCE a month. So it'll take time for me to post the chapters for my fics.
Chapter 14: AAO's First Warning
Mikan's POV
"How could you do that to me?!" Mikan shouted in rage as she slapped and hit Natsume's face after their accidental kiss a few moments ago.
"What do you mean? We've done that plenty of times before. After all, you did come into my room last night and we had LOTS of fun. After those things we did, you want to complain about it NOW?!" Natsume smirked and gave out a small victory chuckle. He crossed his arms over his chest and waited for Mikan's reaction.
The whole student body that was present in the incident stood shock. Their eyes were wide and their mouths were open. They stood still and thought about the situation between Mikan and Natsume.
Sure the two of them have been the talk of the school since they've been awarded as the best couple dancer in the school festival 4 years ago, best partner teammates, most powerful and very skillful in handling their Alice types and even the most beautiful and the most handsome among the members of the school.
But to think that they're already dating and staying in each other's dorm room is totally unexpected. Even Satoshi couldn't say anything to defend Mikan. If he starts defending her, it'll be as if the whole 'you came into my room last night' thing actually happened. Mikan-san, you have to make sure this boy does not get the best of you. You have to deny everything with all the proof in your voice.
Natsume's smirk didn't last very long, only until he saw Mikan smiled seductively.
She bent one of her knees and put her hand on her chin and a finger touching her lips and her other hand on her hips. Her lips formed a wide smile. Mikan playfully threw an orange pebble to Natsume which he caught. So this is just for revenge, huh? I'm sorry Natsume, victory has always been mine.
"You know, we sure did have fun last night, didn't we?" Mikan smiled at Natsume. That sentence took everyone off guard. Even Satoshi. Natsume's eye pupil shrunk at what she said.
"Oh, and don't forget about meeting me tomorrow night. And bring Ruka along, we have lots of things to talk about, Tata," Mikan blew an air kiss to Natsume and walked away. Satoshi ran after her and kept up with her pace.
Natsume stood dumbstruck. He watched Mikan and Satoshi left together and they disappeared into the woods.
"What in the world just happened?" Satoshi asked. He was shocked that's for sure, but surprise is a better word to describe it.
"Just watch what will happen. That tree branch looks good. Let's go," Mikan smiled and jumped towards a 'Y' shape branch on a tree. Satoshi followed her cue and jumped as well. Mikan created a portal vision where they could see Natsume and everyone else in the Central Town Park.
"HYUUGA!!!" Mikan's fan club roared. "You dare touch Hime-sama's virginity!!!"
"This will be the best TV show yet!" Mikan squealed.
"Exactly what are we watching?" Satoshi asked curiously.
"The day when Natsume Hyuuga will finally feel pain!!!" Mikan laughed evilly and snickered.
"But Natsume-kun can burn them whenever he wishes," Satoshi replied.
"That's where you're wrong, Satoshi," Mikan smiled and the both of them paid all of their attention to the portal of vision.
"Heh, so what?" Natsume smugly replied.
"We'll kill you!!!" The whole army of Mikan's Fan Club approached Natsume with rakes; some will use their Alice, some with knives and even some with baseball bats.
"Those things aren't going to hurt me one bit," Natsume grinned as place his hands on his sides preparing to make a heat impact on the fans. As he was casting the spell to do so, nothing happened.
"What's going on?!?!" Natsume said in panic, he tried to make fire by snapping his fingers. His Alice isn't working, none of it are. His eyes stared at the mob of crazy fan club members running in rage to hit him.
Then a thought strike him, THE PEBBLE!!! He took out the orange pebble which turned its color into a normal grey color.
Damn it! She placed some of her Nullifying Alice inside the rock and my body absorbed its power! That stupid strawberries and yet she's clever. Natsume cursed.
"DIE!" The mob shouted.
"I can't runaway from this. What do I get from running anyway?!" Natsume started to panic even more. Then a gust of wind blew all the fans away. The impact of the wind threw them away from Natsume.
Natsume looked up and saw Ruka with his Eagle flying down to him. Ruka jumped down from the eagle and landed on his butt. His hands were still tied up because he just escaped Hotaru's surveillance.
"Thank god my eagle flapped its wings to land perfectly well timed," Ruka relieved a huge sigh.
"But you didn't make a perfect landing, you always drop. Why didn't you ask your eagle to cut it loose?" Natsume asked as he went over to Ruka to help unwind the rope of Hotaru.
"If you haven't notice, eagle's beak is HUGE! Not only will he cut the rope, he'll even eat my hands," Ruka said sarcastically.
"Whatever, there you go," Natsume released Ruka's hands from the rope.
"Thanks Natsume," Ruka smiled and started to adjust his hands. "So what was going on?"
"Mikan placed her Nullifying Alice in me and her fan club started to attack when I'm in a disadvantage. That was seriously unfair," Natsume pouted.
"You did the same unfair thing before too, Natsume. You stole her first kiss and all her other kisses," Ruka chuckled.
"Heh," Natsume snorted. "Whatever."
In the mean time…
"DRATS! DRATS!!!" Mikan continued cursing. "I should have used the Time Alice to prevent Ruka from coming over to save Natsume's day!"
"Mikan-san, don't take it to heart. It was just coincidence though I still object the fact that you're using violence against someone in a lower rank than yourself," Satoshi said.
"He stole another one of my kisses!" Mikan cried. She was in her room all alone. She stared at the picture of her grandfather and started to make a warm smile.
"I wonder how you're doing Jii-chan. I can't wait till the end of the war is over. Then I can stay with you all I want. I can stay with you, Otou-san, Hotaru and everyone else, peacefully. Even if I'll stay with you for a short time," Mikan said and tears welled up her face. Continuously flowing down.
"Within less than a month, I can predict that the Alice War will be over. Then Okaa-san will die, and sooner or later, I'll die as well," Mikan whispered.
"It's time," Mikan got up and took her brown jacket. She transformed herself into a boy and wore fake glasses and somewhat of a detective hat.
"I have to discuss the plans for tomorrow with Persona and Satoshi," Mikan jumped down from her window and used her stolen Alices and flew to the boys' dormitory.
In class…
"Mikan Sakura, please be aware of your position as a special star student," Jinno sensei said.
Mikan got up from her sleep on the table and faced Sumire and her posse chuckling. Then fire burnt bits of Sumire's hair, but only half way.
Mikan turned to her side and faced her 'partner'. Natsume had a frown on his face and looked back at his manga.
Mikan sat up straight, Sumire was looking at her evilly so Mikan grinned. As she stretched her arms she put it back on her sides. Then she leaned over to Natsume and slept on his shoulder. She whispered a small thanks and actually did fall asleep. Natsume smiled unnoticed under his manga.
"Oh yes, we have a new transfer student today," Jinno sensei announced. "Please come in."
All the girls in the class had their eyes bobbed out. Mikan only opened a tiny fraction of her eyes to see what was happening. There she saw Satoshi.
(A/N: OK, Satoshi honestly looks EXACTLY like the Satoshi in DN Angel. So imagine him in Gakuen Alice's High School Uniform with the beige pleated checkered pants.SO CUTE!
"Welcome Satoshi Sakura," Jinno sensei said.
"HEY!" Koko waved to Satoshi. Satoshi smiled and saw Mikan lying down on Natsume's shoulder and he grew a little bit jealous.
Mikan felt Satoshi's jealous aura and sat up and waved at Satoshi and smiled at him hoping that he'll forget about his jealousy. Without knowing anything, Natsume put his hands on Mikan's shoulder and pulled her back to his shoulder. "You're staying like this here until class is over."
Satoshi clenched his fists and punched the air which made a power wave heading for Natsume. Mikan saw this and stood up, "SHIE…" She was about to shout 'SHIELD' until she realized she can't use any of her sorcery powers. Without any second thoughts she received the wave like a huge punch on her stomach and chin.
"MIKAN-SAN!" Satoshi shouted. Natsume's eye shrunk in disbelief and faced Mikan flying backwards. She hit the wall hard and fell on her legs straight making her left leg fractured. She fainted with no other options.
"What the hell just happened?" Sumire asked.
"What was Satoshi's Alice?" Anna asked.
"MIKAN!" Ruka and Natsume shouted and jumped over seats and tables and grab hold of Mikan.
"Mochu, use your Alice and carry Mikan to the infirmary," Ruka ordered.
(A/N: Ruka doesn't know that Mikan can heal herself even if she's unconscious.)
"I don't follow anyone's orders other than… Na…Tsu…Me," Mochu shivered as he saw Natsume glaring at him. Mochu nodded and held his hands out to control Mikan and carry her.
"DON'T TOUCH HER!" Satoshi shouted from the front of the class and transported him self to the end side of the class and sat next to Mikan.
Satoshi held Mikan's fractured leg and straightened it out.
"WHAT'RE YOU DOING IDIOT?!" Ruka shouted. "YOU'RE HURTING MIKAN MORE!"
There was a huge bruise on Mikan's leg which clearly showed that she has fractured it.
"NATSUME! TALK SOME SENSE TO THIS GUY! HE'S GOING TO MAKE MIKAN NOT HAVE A LEG ANYMORE!" Ruka continued shouting.
"Let him do as he pleases. She doesn't even belong to me," Natsume grunted.
"Exactly right. She belongs to me," Satoshi smirked. That sentence took Natsume's attention fully.
"You've hated me ever since you met me at the dungeon. What's your problem?" Natsume crossed his arms and asked.
"Because the fact Mikan-san has a crush on you is utterly despicable! She even made a clone of you to comfort her do you know that!!!" Satoshi stood up and shouted.
"Clone?" Everyone asked.
"Is she that desperate to have Natsume-sama?" Sumire's posse asked. "We're not that crazy to even do that."
"You're making everyone know Mikan's secret! SO SHUT UP!" Natsume shouted
"I DON'T CARE! MIKAN-SAN CAN JUST ERASE THEIR MEMORIES. IT'LL BE THE END OF THAT!" Satoshi shouted.
"Yamete kudasai, Satoshi-kun (Please stop, Satoshi)," Mikan slowly said as she pulled on Satoshi's sleeve.
She stood up naturally and dusted her clothes.
"Mi…Mikan?" Sumire muttered. "But you have a fractured leg. How did you stand up like that?"
Mikan sighed and buried her hand inside her hair on her head. "Jinno-san?" Mikan asked.
"Go ahead. This doesn't seem to be my class any longer. You have free period," Jinno sensei said and left the classroom.
"After I tell you this, I'll erase your memories," Mikan said.
"Then what's the use of telling them anyway?" Natsume asked.
"Shut up, Natsume. Just go with it," Mikan said and faced the class. "I'm laying my trust on all of you, one blab of me to anyone; you'll either lose your life or just lose your memory."
"Lose our life? Since when did you become so important?" Sumire snorted.
"Since I'm the cause for all of you receiving Alices," Mikan said.
"WHAT?!" The whole class shouted.
"Satoshi and I are one of the members of the Sakura Scent clan. A clan of magic and sorcery. Until one of my great grandfathers broke one of the laws of the community, marrying a human," Mikan started. Mikan pointed to a chair and an orange light zapped out from her finger and the chair glowed. She zapped all of the chairs and transported them behind all of her classmates. They all sat down.
"When they have a baby, the child will receive some of the Sakura clan's power. But only a mere fraction of it. The power is mixed with the human emotion and the sorcery power. The power is as all of you know, Alice," Mikan continued.
"Since I'm the heir to the clan, I have the full entire power. You all only have small fractions which are separated by Dangerous, Somatic, and Technical and so on. This Academy is created by my clan to fully make sure that everyone has mastered their Alices to lose their human mix and join the Sakura clan," Mikan said.
"What do you mean human mix?" Mochu asked.
"Emotions. None of the Sakura clan members have any emotions. We just marry the opposite sex to continue our living clan. Love does not exist within us. Until this lady married my great grandfather," Mikan cursed.
"She was a half Trance," Mikan said. "In the world of sorcery there has two clans, one created by heaven and one created by hell. Heaven is the Sakura Scents clan and Hell is the Star Trance clan. If you break the rule of the Sakura Scents, your power will decrease around 80 percent. But if you break the Star Trance law, you will be turned into a human."
"Some of you are from Half Trances and some of you are Half Scents. Either way, you all belong to the Sakura Scents clan. The lady who has turned into a human showed my great grandfather the true affection of love and joy. That's when my clan started to crumble. The Star Trance clan no longer exists because each and every one of them can't live by a rule, they must not accept freedom," Mikan said.
"But with me around now, you all have a choice," Mikan said. Everyone looked at Mikan.
"You can either help me win the Alice War or you can just let me steal your Alice and become a normal human," Mikan sighed deeply.
Everyone thought for a long time. They started to discuss with one another.
"You don't have to answer me now; I'm going to report everything to the chairman today. And then I will announce about your choices tomorrow. See you then," Mikan said. "Satoshi, come."
Mikan held Satoshi's hand and disappeared.
Natsume and Ruka stood up from their seats and made their way to the door.
"Natsume! What are you going to do?" Mochu asked.
"You have to ask?" Natsume glared.
"We have no intention of losing our Alices. We stick by Mikan," Ruka answered and they left.
"And I use to think Natsume would do anything to get rid of his life sucking Alice," Mochu said.
"Actually, Natsume's curse of the life threatening Alice has been dissolved by Mikan," Koko said.
"What do you mean?" Sumire asked.
"I accidently read Natsume's mind two months ago, his life span has been returned to normal. The curse has been broken and Mikan was the one who did it," Koko answered.
"After six years of knowing Mikan, I honestly have no grudge against her anymore. What's more is that she helped me control my emotions and my Alice as well," Mochu said.
Koko and some of the boys which used to bully Mikan when they were 10 started to nod their heads in agreement.
"Like you said, after years of realizing who she is, she's like a perfect rival for me, and either way, even how bad I treated her, she manages to top me," Sumire said. And the girls agreed.
"I'M NOT GIVING UP MY ALICE! I'm staying by Mikan's side," Koko shouted.
"Same here," One of the boys said. Then the boys roared in agreement.
"I LIKE MY ALICE AND MEETING YOU GUYS, ESPECIALLY NATSUME! I'm fighting," Sumire shouted. The girls start to cheer Sumire and Koko and clapped their hands.
"We're fighting for the Academy," Sumire smiled and laid out her hand.
"We're fighting for Mikan," Koko said and placed his hand on Sumire's and the boys did the same.
"FOR NATSUME!" The girls shouted. The boys sweat dropped.
"Satoshi, what do you think will happen in the future?" Mikan asked Satoshi as they were walking towards Central Town.
"You know your curse for killing your mother as a Sakura clan member. You'll only be able to live for another 3 years," Satoshi said.
They walked towards a small café. They sat down and received the menu. Then Mikan gave out a small giggle.
"What? Something wrong?" Satoshi asked.
"No, not at all! You look cute in that!" Mikan continued to giggle pointing at Satoshi's uniform. Satoshi blushed.
"You must be joking. These pants are so itchy. And their design has seriously no taste," Satoshi complained. Then the waiter sent their orders. Fries and chocolate milk shake for Mikan, and a small pineapple and cheese baguette and black tea for Satoshi.
"Are you OK with the conditions for tomorrow? There are a lot of people who's going to be against the war and demand you to absorb their Alices. Can you handle their energy's?" Satoshi asked as took a small sip of his tea.
"It is their choice, I have nothing against them. It was our family's fault that they're like this," Mikan said. "But I had fun for the last 6 years in this Academy."
"Can I ask you a personal question?" Satoshi asked.
"Depends," Mikan said as she starts to dip her fries in her milk shake and chomp on them one by one.
"How far do you love Hyuuga Natsume?" Satoshi asked.
"That question is not that personal honestly," Mikan looked outside of the window of the café. "Probably as far as the galaxy stretches. Until the end of the world, until my life ends, I'll never forget about him. Not even in heaven."
"What's so important about him that makes you want him to be with you?" Satoshi asked.
"It's not something that is important, it's just, I'm not trying to be possessive, but I always think that I'm the only one who can save him from the darkness he has. God that sounds so cheeky!" Mikan chuckled. "It's because he thinks that I'm important that I feel that he was important to me."
"Just because of that and you think he's important?" Satoshi asked.
"If you haven't notice, as far as I have grown up in Kyoto, only Jii-chan and Hotaru has acknowledged my existence and considers me as someone precious. Jii-chan treats me very nicely and gently while Hotaru treats me like an experimental hamster and yet she still cares for me. Mom left me alone to Jii-chan and joined the AAO while dad didn't even realize I existed," Mikan said.
"I honestly never realized the heir of the clan to truly exist. Then I met Sinori-san and she brought me to Underworld Central and started my training. Then Master Kirian found out that I was a Full Scent clan member. Then I was supposed to be a spy undergoing a mission in Gakuen Alice to protect Hyuuga Natsume. Then when I'm on the missions, you always seem to be around as well. When Hyuuga's in danger, you seem to stop the time and change the courses of fate. You turned the whole incident upside down. Instead of Hyuuga's being in danger, you positioned Hyuuga in a victory scene," Satoshi said.
"He's always arrogant about that," Mikan giggled. "But yeah, it's true. I always save him when he's at his limits. I have no choice, as the heir, I should know my position to protect and lead my own clan."
"But some of the clan died years ago and the only people left are the ones living in Underworld Central. And everyone there are Full Scent members, I just don't understand one thing. Are you supposed to fully pay your attentions and protect the Full Scent members or the Half Trances and Half Scents?" Satoshi asked.
"I only live by one rule in the clan, 'never kill without a reason to do so'," Mikan said. "Actually two rules, the one I just said and also the 'avoid human emotions' rule."
"But you can't fully lay your life on the second rule. Our clan has been mixed up by the human emotions, it's impossible for you not to feel any affection towards anyone," Satoshi said.
"The thing is I really just have to try. To lose these emotions, is my number one priority!" Mikan smiled.
"Let's hope so. Come on, we have to prepare to inform the Academy," Satoshi said and stood up. He held Mikan's hand and pulled her to stand from her chair. She left some rabbits on the table and left.
"That's why we need your help," Mikan said. She was wearing a formal pink yukata with a butterfly clip to clip her bun. Satoshi and Persona was there to witness it as well. Ruka and Natsume just arrived.
"As far as I have stayed with this Academy, no one has told us about any clan establishing the Academy. Are you lying?" The chairman, Kitsuno-san asked.
"Do you wish for me to demonstrate how I could easily destroy this Academy as well as remake it?" Mikan said in a serious tone and glared at the chairman.
"Do your best then," Kitsuno-san snickered.
"Gladly. I'll start by destroying your precious 'secret' room," Mikan smiled and held her hand out. Satoshi placed a small stone on her palm and she started to chant. She closed her eyes and clasped her hands together. After that she smiled and opened her eyes, with her hands clasped together, she smashed the stone. Then there was a huge explosion behind the chairman.
"NO! The Alice Stones!" Kitsuno-san shouted and faced back to see fire eating up his precious treasures.
"Do you believe me now? I'm not forcing you or anything, but you just said that you don't believe a word I said so I had to show of less than a percent of my power to you," Mikan smiled.
"The Academy is going to be attacked soon. We should be well prepared about this," Mikan said.
"But we've been attacked for over 5 years and our status is growing simultaneously. We don't need anyone's help when it comes to the AAO. Go ahead and asked everyone about war and stuffs like that. We as the Academy's top people wouldn't care with whatever you will do," Kitsuno-san said.
"Fine, you'll regret this whole thing soon enough," Mikan glared and left the room with everyone.
"That really didn't go as planned," Ruka sighed deeply. Then he spotted Mikan with both of her hands on her ears and her eyes shut tight. "Mikan, you OK?"
"Shh," Satoshi whispered. "Mikan-san is watching their conversation."
"So what do you think chairman? Do you think we should be on Mikan Sakura's side? Our status may have grown, but we are losing more and more spies and powerful Alice holders," The treasurer of the Academy asked Kitsuno-san.
"Her Alice is truly wonderful, as I was here, not only did I realize did she destroyed my Alice Stones and actually recreated it, she even nullified the whole Academy grounds," Kitsuno-san placed his finger on his chin.
"I've heard of her a lot of times from Narumi, her power will multiply when the person she knows and cares for is in danger. She stops time to save everyone, but I realize that to her it's taboo if she travels to the past and changes it," The secretary to the principal of the Elementary Division said. "So her mother was the legendary holder of the Nullifying Alice, Yuka Azumi."
"I know that girl, she a troublesome pest. She always says things about justice will prevail and such nonsense. I first came to believe every word she said, until she turned her back on the Academy and joins the AAO," The principal of the Elementary Division said.
"But either way, her daughter seems to speak the truth about the outcome of the school, we should trust her and lay our hopes in her hands," The chairman said and everyone agreed.
"But I've been too attached to my Alice, that I have to disagree when she said if she dies Alice is no more than a mere memory," The principal for the High School Division said.
"Just because your Alice is to manipulate female's thoughts, doesn't give you the right to have them all. Just as long as you don't take my wife, I'll talk to Sakura-san to not retrieve your power," The principal of the Middle High Division chuckled.
"So it's settled? Our lives are truly in the boundary of that small petite girl," The chairman said.
"I don't mind," The Elementary Division principal said. And the other people present nodded their head in agreement.
"Well someone hurry up and call the girl back. She might just destroy the Academy before we get to her," The High School principal ordered.
"If you want to do something right, do it yourself," The chairman stood up and adjusted his tie. Then he walked to the door.
"Phew," Mikan relieved a sigh. "Everything is going exactly according to plan." Mikan smiled. Then she stared at the lot behind her. Natsume and Ruka were whispering to each other and Mikan heard everything.
"She's a monster ain't she? Listening to other people's conversation, what a peeping tom," Natsume insulted.
"Honestly, it was for a good cause, so I guess it's OK," Ruka denied.
"You numb skulled idiot!" Natsume knocked Ruka's head. Mikan gave out a small chuckle then she saw someone running in the hallway towards them, and it's not the chairman.
"Youichi?!" Mikan shouted in surprise and Natsume and Ruka flipped their heads back and found Youichi running towards them.
"Ah, Sakura-san…," The chairman arrived and started to announce his agreement until…
"AKANE-CHAN WAS KILLED BY REO! REO SHOT HER DEAD! MIKAN NEE-CHAN! YOU GOT TO SAVE HER!" Youchi ran and hugged Mikan and shouted everything out.
Mikan stood in a daze to what Youichi told her. Natsume pulled back Youichi and Youichi hugged him. Natsume just patted Youichi's head.
"So they've released their first attack. Youichi, bring Akane's body to my room, I'll treat her later. In the mean time, let the war begin," Mikan cracked her knuckles and glared. Youichi nodded and left.
"The…war…has…started?" The chairman nervously spoke. "Ano… Sakura-san,"
"Save it, I've heard your conversation already. I have no time to explain anything, Persona, Satoshi, clear the High School and Elementary Division grounds. I'll take on Reo's challenge at the Middle School Division," Mikan snickered.
"Natsume, Ruka, go along and help Youichi. Corner everyone outside of the dorm and ask them to remain hidden within my barrier. Natsume," Mikan said. Natsume looked over to Mikan. "Aoi has arrived."
So how do you like my 14th chapter? I CAN'T BELIEVE I FINISHED THE SECOND LAST AND LAST CHAPTER OF MoA ALREADY! There's going to be a total of 20 chapters in my MoA. Please review and give me your comment about the story so far. Thanks so much.