Chapter 8: Truth and Lies

"He's may seem rude and annoying but he's really nice on the inside. He looks like you and it really surprised me." Mikan told told the girl in the cellar, who was known as Aoi.

"Mikan, you really like this person alot don't you?" she asked. Mikan blushed like mad but gave her a small nod.

"That's great, Mikan. I hope you can tell him someday." Aoi smilled.

Mikan smilled back and nodded again.

"I have to leave Aoi. I'll be back tomarrow."

Mikan gave her a last smile before she left out the door. She walked to the field and found Natsume there. He wasn't training, though, just sitting. Mikan smilled and sat by him.

"Hey, Natsume." she greated.

"Hn"

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"Just thinking about my younger sister."

"You have a sister?"

"Yeah. Her name's Aoi. She looks just like me but is a smilling fool like you." He said and Mikan froze when said her name.

"Did something happen to her?"

"She was kipnaped by the school. They told me that if I stay at the school untill I graduate then they'll give her back."

Mikan now knew who she was talking about. How could she forget? It was the girl she kidnaped on her frist mssion. Aoi....

"Natsume." she called him. She had to tell him the truth but something held her back.

"Come back here at midnight. I need to....give you something." she said before she left to her room.

She made a plan. She was to get Aoi and bring her back to her brother, Natsume. She caused the hurt and now she was going to fix them.

*That night*

"Aoi, Aoi." whispered Mikan but Aoi still heard it. She opened her eyes and came next to Mikan.

"Mikan?"

"Shh. I'm getting you outta here. I meet your brother and i'm taking you to him. I caused all this hurt and now i'm going to fix it." Mikan told her when she broke the bars and grabed Aoi's hand, pulling her out.

"Brother?"

"Yeah. You have a brother. His name is Natsume Hyuuga." she told her. They were now outside and Mikan transported to the field, which Natsume stood. Once he saw Aoi, his eyes widen.

"Aoi!? Why? How?"

"Theres no time to explan, Natsume. You have to get outta here and run for it." Mikan told him and gave Natsume Aoi's hand that she was holding.

"You did a very naughty thing Karasu." said a voice that Mikan did not want to hear.

"Persona!" Mikan hissed taking gaurd for Natsume and Aoi.

"Do you want to know who took Aoi away, Kuro Neko?" Persona asked evilly.

"Don't tell him, Persona!!" Mikan yelled but he went on.

"I wasn't the one who took her but I was the one who gave the order."

"Stop it!!"

"The one who took Aoi away is-"

"SHUT UP!!!"

"Karasu, herself." he finished and Natsume went wide eyed and Mikan fell to the floor.

"What?"

"Karasu's frist mission was to caputre Aoi , steal her alice and burn down the village." Persona answered.

Natsume looked at Mikan who was still on the floor.

"It's not true, is it?" he asked but didn't get a reply.

"Tell me! Is it true?"

".....................yes."

Natsume didn't know what to do. Mikan caused his pain and suffering. And yet, he still liked her.

Mikan didn't move from where she sat. Natsume didn't either but then he took a step to her.

"Why?" he asked with anger in his tone.

"Because it was a mission and that's what I do."

"But they were innocent people that you tried to kill!!" Natsume yelled.

"Your weak." Mikan whispered but Natsume still heard.

"What?"

Mikan then stood up and truned around facing him.

"I said your weak. You have too many weaknesses. You aren't fit to be an assassin here. Go! We don't want you!! I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOUR FACE!!!" Mikan then yelled at him.

"Do you really mean that?" Natsume asked.

"Yes I do. I'm tired of acting like a smilling fool. This is the real me Natsume." Mikan told him.

Natsume didn't want to hear it anymore. He had enough. He pulled Aoi's hand and left.

Mikan then felt a tear fall down her left cheek, when she heard clapping. She truned around and faced Persona.

"Hurry and give me my pushiment Persona." she hissed.

"As you wish." and then they were gone.

*With Natsume and Aoi in Ruka's room with Hotaru.*

".....and that's what happened." Natsume explaned everything to Ruka and Hotaru.

"Your stupid." Hotaru said.

"What?"

"I said your stupid. You couldn't see that Mikan was lieing to you."

"But why would Mikan lie to Natsume?" Ruka asked.

"Because if she didn't than he wouldn't have left." Hotaru answered.

"Hotaru your Mikan's best friend, do you know what happened the day she kidnaped Aoi?" Natsume asked.

"I meet Mikan a year and two months after she came to this school. She was already in the Dangerous Abilities class but didn't go on her frist mission yet. 2 years later was when she went on her mission. She was cring the day she came to school. She said that her mission was to capture an AAO spy and burn down the base. But after she burned it, she realized it was a village and saved the people. When she got back to Aoi, who was the AAO spy, she saw that she had a really bad fever. She couldn't just leave her so she brought her back to Persona. Once she told him what she had done, she was puished for defiance." Hoaru exlaned.

No one said anything so Hotaru spoke up.

"Hyuuga you said that your here because the school took Aoi away right?"

"Yeah."

"Well Mikan's parents died when she was 8 and when she was 9 the school killed her grandfather. They told her that she was reason for their death and she believed them. So, the reason she stay's and work's for them is because she believes it will repay the sin she never made."

"Those bastards!!"

"Onii-san?"

"Yes Aoi?"

"Mikan is alone. She told me herself. She said that she is alone in the darkness and is scard. She's scard to get close to someone."

"Dammit!"

Natsume then punshed the wall and felt guilty. He felt guilty for leaving Mikan there with Persona and for not trusting her.

*With Mikan*

Mikan laid bruised and cut on the floor looking lifeless. Her hair was cut past her shoulders and messy and she was covered in blood. A man, the principal, then pulled on her hair and broughte her up to her knees.

"You will forget that boy." he whispered in her ear.

Mikan closed her eyes and tried to forget him but his face still came to her.

"I can't." she whispered.

The man then threw her to the wall causing her hit it hard.

"Then i'll make you forget!" he yelled.

He then left the room and came back with a woman. The woman knelt to Mikan's level and looked at her straight in the eyes.

"You will forget everything." she whispered.

Mikan closed her eyes and saw every person she knew start to fade into nothing but darkness. When she opened her eyes again instead of seeing the wman, the principal, and Persona she saw nothing but people.

"Who are you guys? And who am I?" she asked.