illutia mist: Okay!! Here we are!! New piece!

Jacklyn: (Rolls her eyes) What an annoying author.

Natsume: (Glances at Mikan) Yeah. She's like someone here.

Mikan: (Glares at Natsume) I don't like that glance.

illutia mist: (Hands are on hips) Nah. Don't protest! I'm the author.

Natsume: An extremely annoying freaky author.

Jacklyn: I agree.

illutia mist: (Cries waterfall) Jacklyn, since when you agree with him?

Mikan: It looks like she's starting to turn into second Natsume in the chit-chat room from piece to piece.

illutia mist: (Nods) Agree. Do you think I better hit their head again?

Mikan: Um, illutia, I don't think that's a good idea.

illutia mist: (Arches an eyebrow) And why is that?

Mikan: That's the reason. (Points to behind illutia)

illutia mist: (Turns her head) Wha-AAAAT?! (Shocked)

Natsume: (A fire appears on his palm) You said you want to hit me?

Jacklyn: (Lifts up her sketchbook) And you said you want to hit me too?

illutia: (Gulps) Ehehe…RUUUNNN!! (Runs away)

Natsume & Jacklyn: Halt there, you freaky author!! (Chases illutia)

Mikan: Why is this scene always repeating in the chit-chat room? (Sighs)

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Small Pieces of You

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6th Piece: Angel for a Day - part 1

"What is this about?" Jacklyn glanced at the wavy-black haired girl in front of her.

"I'll teach you a lesson if you're messing around with Marika Houji," Marika said as she flicked her fingers.

All the girls there made a circle around Jacklyn, preventing her from escaping. Jacklyn sneered at them. Marika twitched at her reaction.

"You're such a short-tempered girl, you know. I don't remember that I have any problem with you," Jacklyn said calmly.

Marika could feel a fire burning her from inside. "You know you have a big problem with me!" she said angrily.

Jacklyn raised an eyebrow. "What is it?" she asked, adding more fire into the black wave-haired girl's anger.

"First, you insulted me! Second, you're messing around with my Natsume, our Natsume!" Marika stated angrily.

"First, I didn't insult you. You're the one who insulted me. Second, I'm not messing around with that cocky boy. It's not that I like him either," Jacklyn corrected her statement, making her face redden because of the angriness.

"Don't call him 'cocky boy' all you want, non-alice girl! GIRLS!" Marika had lost her patience.

A girl pushed Jacklyn from behind, causing her to fall forward. But instead of meeting the ground, she was pushed again by another girl in front of her. And being pushed again, and again, and again until she got enough and charged herself to Marika.

Marika fell on the ground and so did she. Her sketchbook fell beside her. The small paper slipped out from her sketchbook. All girls stood in front of her. Some of them helped Marika to stand up.

Jacklyn sat up and grabbed her sketchbook. She saw a small paper falling from her sketchbook. She took it. It was her drawing when she was at the cafeteria. She held it in her right palm as she glared at the fan girls in front of her.

"Scared, are we?" Marika sneered as she stood in front of the fan girls.

"Why should I be scared?" Jacklyn said as she bent her eyebrows.

"You still have the nerve to fight against me?" Marika asked with her coquettish tone.

Jacklyn smirked. "No need to use that tone. It's no use to me. You just make me shiver here," she said, mocking the other.

Marika twitched her eyebrows, showing that she was angry. Jacklyn looked at her with an expressionless face. She looked at her drawing on the small paper, wondering she should use it or not.

'If I use it now, it will disappear tomorrow, at noon too. I can't attend classes with this. It'll be a big ruckus,' she thought hardly.

When she was aware, the girls had surrounded her once again. Marika showed her alice, the Ice alice. She made the ice barricade around them, preventing Jacklyn from escaping if she succeeded in breaking through the fan girls' barricade. The only way out was to fly.

"You're trapping yourself and your friends here?" Jacklyn asked stupidly.

"I'm trapping you, little devil," Marika smirked.

Jacklyn grinned slyly. "No, you're not," were the last words she said before she slammed the small paper in her hand to her chest.

And something appeared. Marika and the fan girls were wide-eyed. A pair of big white wings appeared on Jacklyn's back and she flew to the sky and disappeared, leaving the girls in their shock state.

"What the heck is she?" Marika said in her shocked state.

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Jacklyn flew to the random direction, but the journey wasn't as smooth as before. She flew a little limply. She felt tired all of a sudden.

'I feel exhausted. Is it because the drawing that I made alive is too big?' she thought as she tried to keep her balance.

She couldn't stand it again and almost fell, but she quickly regained her balance.

'Darn! It's because of those fan girls!' she thought, irritated.

She kept on flying until she couldn't move her wings again. She clutched her sketchbook closely as she started to fall down.

'I hope I don't crash the ground…' was her last thought before she lost her consciousness.

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"Onii-chan!" a little boy with gray hair searched for someone that we-all-know-who-that-was. He approached the Sakura tree. He looked around but found no one there, so he looked up because the person that he was searching for usually lay there on the branch.

And how surprised he was when he found someone lying on a branch of the Sakura tree.

No. It's not the person that he was searching for.

It was a girl, a black-haired girl. Her black hair covered her face. A group of white feather covered her body. It's a pair of white wings. There were a few Sakura petals on it. It looked like she fell from the sky. She lay there helplessly. She was unconscious.

The little boy was fascinated at the sight before him. "An angel…" he murmured.

He stood there and admired the lying angel for some time. He was afraid that she would be gone if he left her even for a minute.

But time kept on moving. The bell rang.

He felt a little annoyed. He must go back to attend his class. He looked at the angel for the last time and then ran to the Elementary School building. A smile crept onto his face.

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After two hours of unconsciousness, Jacklyn finally woke up. She opened her eyelids and saw that she was lying on a tree branch. She looked up and found that it was a Sakura tree. She flapped her wings to change her lying position into the sitting position. She lay her back on the trunk and sighed.

'Fortunately, I didn't fall to the ground,' she thought in relief.

She looked at her white wings. 'Now, what should I do with this thing? I can't remove it,' she thought again, confused. Then a light bulb appeared on her head. 'I'll search for Narumi-sensei. Maybe he can help me to get the permissions for not attending the class from today until tomorrow noon.'

She flapped her wings and flew to get the gay teacher.

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"Onii-chan! Onii-chan!" the little boy from previous scene called the crimson-eyed boy that was walking alone in the corridor. Natsume turned to his back and looked at the younger boy who ran approaching him.

"Youichi? What's wrong?" he asked as he patted the little boy's head.

"I have searched for you everywhere at lunchtime. Where have you been?" Youichi asked.

"I was at the cafeteria. Sorry, Youichi," Natsume said as he started to walk to his class. Youichi followed him.

"Onii-chan! When I searched for you at the Sakura tree, I found an angel!" Youichi said excitedly.

Natsume stopped and arched an eyebrow. He looked at his so-called little brother confusedly. "Angel?" he asked weirdly.

Youichi nodded. "I thought you're the one who lay on the branch. But it's an angel who lay there, not you," he said.

"Are you sure, Youichi? Maybe you're just dreaming," Natsume said as he started to walk again.

"I'm very sure, Onii-chan!" Youichi defended. "I have stared at her for a quite long time until the bell rang!"

"Her? A girl?" Natsume asked.

"Yes, Onii-chan!" Youichi nodded enthusiastically. "Let's go to the Sakura tree, Onii-chan! We see if she's still there!"

Natsume was silent as he stared at Youichi. After a few seconds, he nodded. Youichi smiled and they went to the Sakura tree.

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Jacklyn flew from window to window carefully. It would be a ruckus if there's any student seeing this. She was trying to find the window that connected to the teacher's lounge.

"Not this…Not this…Not this one too…Not…" she mumbled as she peeked inside the windows.

She finally felt tired, so she landed for a while and hid behind the bushes.

'Geez! I still haven't recovered from the exhaustion. These wings are really draining my energy just to make it alive,' she thought as she sighed. 'I wonder if I slept for a long time yesterday because I used my alice too much too.'

She stood up and flew to a branch of a tree, not a Sakura tree. She was afraid if there's anybody finding her in the bushes, so she decided to rest on a branch.

"I'm tired…" she mumbled as she drifted to sleep again. She hoped inwardly that no one noticed her presence there.

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Mikan was in biology class that was taught by Misaki. She was wondering why Jacklyn hadn't come back. She was also wondering why Natsume hadn't showed up in the class. She took a glance at the two empty seats. One was in front of her and the other one was beside her.

On the other side of the empty chair beside her, a blonde-haired boy was sitting there.

Mikan called him. "Ruka, do you know where Natsume is?" she whispered.

Ruka shook his head. Mikan sighed.

'Jacklyn-chan said that she would see us later at the lunchtime, but she hadn't come to the class,' she thought sadly. 'I wonder…'

Mikan glanced one more time at the seat beside her. 'Natsume too…What's wrong with him? Does he have a mission again?' she thought worriedly.

Mikan now knew about the missions that Natsume did. She ever saw him injured when he came back from his mission. He was injured badly that time. She shivered every time she remembered that time.

'Natsume…please be okay…' she thought worriedly.

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"Come on, Onii-chan!!" Youichi ran excitedly.

Natsume got wondered at his junior's hyper behavior. 'He likes the angel, huh,' he thought as he smirked inwardly.

The two of them finally arrived at the Sakura tree, but Youichi was staring sadly at the now-empty branch on the tree. Natsume approached him.

"The angel has gone…" he muttered sadly.

Natsume looked up and found nothing on the branch. He then jumped to the branch to find any clue, proving if Youichi didn't have any daydream. He looked up and found a few of white feather stuck on the twigs. He took a feather from a twig and observed it.

'Soft…This is real…' he thought as he rubbed the white feather.

"What's wrong, Onii-chan?" Youichi shouted from under the branch.

Natsume jumped down. He showed the white feather to Youichi and the little boy took it.

"Wow!! This is a real feather! There's really an angel here before!" Youichi touched the feather as he smiled.

Natsume was silent. 'Is there really an angel for real?' he thought while staring at the branch.

"Too bad she has gone…" Youichi said sadly.

Natsume looked at him and patted his head. "At least, you have seen her," he cheered his junior up. Youichi looked at him and smiled. "Let's go back to the class," he said as he walked away. Youichi followed him from behind.

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After two hours, Jacklyn woke up from her deep slumber and yawned.

'I better look up for Sensei again,' she thought as she started to fly.

She continued to search from window to window. Finally, she found the teacher's lounge, but no one was there.

Fortunately, there's a window that wasn't locked. She went in from there. She sat down on the couch, waiting for the gay teacher to appear from behind the door. But no one appeared from the door for a few minutes forward.

'Maybe they still have classes,' she thought silently.

She looked around the room. She had ever been there before, bit she was unconscious back then. The room was so big. It's white everywhere. In the middle, there's a huge chandelier hanging on the ceiling.

Her head was blank for a while before something struck her all of a sudden.

'What if there's someone besides the teachers coming in? I'll get busted!' she thought panicky.

She opened her sketchbook and drew a hairpin that had a pair of little wings on it. She drew a mask too. The mask had white color and had golden ornaments on the left and right side. The mask was designed to cover her face from the eyes until above of the nose. She touched the wings hairpin and clipped her long bangs up. Then she touched the mask and wore it. Now, no one would recognize her.

Then something popped up in her head. 'Why don't I leave a note to Sensei? Agh! I'm such a stupid one!' she thought.

She torn a paper from her notebook and started to write then she left the note on the random desk. After she was done, she flew out from the opened window.

Not long afterwards, Narumi came into the teacher's lounge. He spotted a note an on a desk. Being a naughty and curious one, he read the note.

To Narumi-sensei

Sensei, I can't attend the classes from this noon until tomorrow noon.

Big problem.

Please get the permissions from the other teachers for me.

Thank you for the attention.

Jacklyn

"Can't attend classes for 24 hours? Big problem?" Narumi wondered. "I'll better check her out later."

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Jacklyn flew to the roof. She rested on the secluded place for a while and looked at the view.

'Wow! It surely is beautiful from here!' she thought, admiring the view. It was dominated by green color. There were a few buildings that looked so small from up there.

Jacklyn started to fly again. She intended to go back to her room, but she suddenly felt tired once again. She spotted the Sakura tree easily from up there and decided to rest on one of its branches.

'Maybe it's because I used my alice again. Plus, I'm flying,' she thought, sighing.

She looked around from the branch and remembered when she asked Natsume how he got there. She giggled to no one.

'Now, I'm the one who got here…with these wings,' she thought, a little happy.

She swung her feet happily while humming a song. The wind blew gently, bringing some Sakura petals with it. It's a very calm moment.

"Miss Angel?" a little boy's voice startled her. She looked down and found a little boy with gray-colored hair staring at her. "You came back!" he said happily.

Jacklyn, who was panicked because someone had seen her, decided to tag along with it.

"Who are you, little boy?" she asked kindly as she smiled.

"Hijiri. Youichi Hijiri," he smiled back at her.

"Have you seen me before?" she asked him, curious.

"Yes. I found you unconscious on that branch before. What happened?" he asked, concerned.

"Tired of flying. It's okay. I'm fine now," she answered, smiling.

"It's good then," Youichi muttered in relief. "I want to show you to Onii-chan, but you have gone back then."

"Sorry. I looked round at that building," Jacklyn said as she pointed the Junior High School building.

"Too bad. I'm in the Elementary School building," he said sadly.

Youichi then observed the 'angel' and he realized something.

"Are you a student in this school too? You wear the same uniform with Onii-chan," he said as he pointed at her uniform.

Jacklyn was panicked inwardly. 'Oh no! What should I say?' she thought in panic. "Umm, I'm in disguise!" the words blurted out just like that from her lips. 'Ha-ha,' she laughed sarcastically in her thought.

"Disguise? Cool!" Youichi was excited.

"By the way, who's your Onii-chan?" Jacklyn asked, changing the topic.

"Hyuuga. Natsume Hyuuga," Youichi replied as he smiled.

'So Natsume's surname is Hyuuga,' she thought. "He's the person that you repected the most. Is that right?" she guessed.

"Yes! How do you know?" Youichi asked curiously.

"I'm an angel," she said playfully.

"Yeah! Of course!" He laughed.

"What are you doing here? Has the class been over?" she asked the little boy.

"Yes. But I have to go back a few minutes again. Another class will get started," Youichi answered, a little disappointed.

The wind blew again, dropping a few of Sakura petals on them. Jacklyn smiled at the disappointed boy and said, "Look, Youichi! The Sakura petals are trying to cheer you up!"

Youichi looked up and saw the Sakura petals falling onto his head.

"Don't be sad. Come on! Cheer up!" Jacklyn cheered him up.

"Miss Angel, can I see you again later or tomorrow?" Youichi asked sadly.

'Is he sad because of that?' she thought. "I can promise you. Maybe yes, maybe not," Jacklyn said.

Youichi bent his head down. He felt a little sad that he couldn't meet the angel again. Jacklyn thought hardly. Guiltiness appeared in her heart.

"If you want to meet me again, come here before noon by tomorrow," she finally said.

Youichi lifted his head. A smile appeared on his face.

"I will! Thank you, Miss Angel!" he said cheerfully.

"Remember. Before noon. I have to go back before that," she reminded him. 'Actually, maybe these wings will be gone when it's noon,' she thought.

"I'll remember it! Before noon! When will you come here?" he asked, excited.

"Maybe around 8 am," she replied simply. She was happy to see him smiling again.

The bell rang. Youichi grunted.

"Don't be so upset, Youichi. I'll meet you here tomorrow," Jacklyn convinced him. Youichi smiled. "But please don't tell this to anyone. Plus, if there's anyone here, maybe I won't appear," she added.

Youichi was a little upset when he heard the last sentence because he knew that his so-called brother always came to that place. But then he came up with an idea. He just had to forbid the fire wielder from coming to the Sakura tree until noon. His face lit up.

"Okay. I understand. See you tomorrow, Miss Angel!!" Youichi said as he ran back to the Elementary School building.

After he disappeared from her sight, Jacklyn let out a sigh, a tired one.

'Tomorrow will be a tiring day,' she thought as she stood up and flew back to her room, wondering if tomorrow would be just fine.

--To be continued--

Mikan: (Mutters as she taps her finger on her cheek) Now, where's that troublesome author?

illutia mist: (Crawls on the ground) He…here…

Mikan: (Wide-eyed) Oh my God! What happened to you?

illutia mist: (Sits up) To avoid them, I've been running around the world for several hours.

Mikan: Nah. You're kidding me. No way can you explore the world in just several hours.

illutia mist: (Sighs) Fine. I ran to a hill and jumped down to the sea of the tree.

Mikan: Again?!

illutia mist: (Arches an eyebrow) What do you mean with again?

Mikan: You ever did it in When I Met You chit-chat room, in case you forget.

illutia mist: I did?

Mikan: (Glares) Yeah. You left me behind back then. And now I feel like to hit you.

illutia mist: (Sweat drops) Uh oh, someone wants to get revenge here.

Mikan: Yeah. And it's me!! (Lifts a board)

illutia mist: No!! I've turned a cheery girl into a monster! RUUUNNN!!

After ran for a few meters, illutia stopped.

illutia mist: And please review, okay? Thanks for reading!! (Runs again)

Mikan: Stop there, you freaky author!!