Ending and Beginning
Chapter 7 - Fate will come to you
"Good morning my beautiful students!" Narumi greeted.
The class groaned. Here comes the gay teacher! They thought. They went to their seats.
"Everyone, today is the start of the preparations for the Alice Festival! So, all of you go to your respective ability class! Ja!" He went out the room.
The class was busy fixing their things for them to go.
Anna went towards Mikan. "Mikan-chan, what will you do today?"
"Nothing. DA class does not participate. Probably, I'll just wonder around."
"Is that so? Then we'll be going now. Ja."
"Mikan, I'll be going." Hotaru said.
Mikan nodded. She watched her friends go out the room. She stood.
"Oi." A certain raven haired man said.
She looked at him.
"Where are you going?"
"None of our business." She went out of the room.
Mikan roamed around the school grounds. She saw different ability classes prepare. She then noticed an ability class building that looked like it was abandoned. She went inside out of curiosity. She opened an old wooden door. What she saw was students playing, sleeping and doing something to be entertained. She stared at them for a minute then someone spoke.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" a man with raven hair and raven eyes with a star tattoo under his eye asked. He was beside a pink haired woman with amber eyes.
The students looked at her.
"Just curious" she answered.
The pink haired woman stood up and walked towards her with a smile. "I'm Misaki Harada, 3rd year high school, doppelganger alice. This," she pointed to the man with star tattoo "is Tsubasa Ando, same year as me, Shadow Manipulation alice…" she introduced the other students after she finished, she took a deep breath and blurted along with the others, "We are in the Special Ability Class."
Mikan looked at them with a small smile she said "I'm Mikan Sakura, 1st year high school, multi-alice user and Dangerous Ability Class."
The students looked at her, shocked in their faces and gaping, except Tsubasa who's grinning, for he too is in the Dangerous Ability Class as well as the SA class.
Mikan looked at them.
They stared at her.
It went on for about five minutes. Suddenly, she giggled and Tsubasa laughed.
The others looked at the two of them with confused eyes.
Tsubasa was laughing loudly.
Misaki's eyebrow rose.
"Please close your mouths. A fly might come." She smiled.
They shut their mouth immediately.
She was invited in the room. It was old and sort of dirty but you can immediately feel the warm atmosphere here. She and the other students conversed with each other. Misaki and Tsubasa immediately became one of her closest sempais.
Then she asked them. "Aren't you getting ready for the festival?"
Their smiles turned into frown.
"Well, not really." Misaki said.
"…?"
"We, in the SA class are students that don't fit with the other classes. In other words, we have one of those rare alice. Since we all have different alices, we can't come up with a theme." Tsubasa explained.
"So, do you want to join?" Mikan asked them.
They all nodded.
She smiled. "Come on, let's get ready and ask for the teachers' permission."
"But we can't." Misaki groaned.
"Oh my, we can and since I have the Nullification Alice and probably would be in this class if I don't have my other alices, I'll help out. Now, come on, start moving."
"What will we do?" asked another student.
She thought deeply. "Since you all have different kinds of alice why don't we make challenges? You know, make them complete the task and they go to the next until they finished the goal?"
"Hmm….that's a good one." Tsubasa ruffled her hair. "But what will they get as a prize?"
"Be their slaves for 3 days?" Misaki suggested.
Mikan nodded. "That's tempting. So we need costumes that are eye catching."
They all nodded.
The others started creating the props, some asked the teachers' permission, and the others thought for the costumes.
"What if we wear bikinis?"
"Nah, too slutty."
"Cats and Dogs costumes?"
"Too childish."
There was a moment of silence.
"What about genies?"
Their eyes twinkled.
"Perfect!"They said in unison.
They worked for hours, shifting with each other but Mikan kept on working without resting up to the point that she was dead tired. She slept soundly that night.
The next morning she was ready to work again but she was stopped by the SA students.
"You've been working real hard! You need to take a rest day! We'll handle this."
She sighed and walked away.
"Don't you think that's a bit too harsh?" Misaki asked Tsubasa.
He shrugged. "Maybe, but you were the ones that said that you want to surprise her."
"Well, she really gave us hope."
"You know, we won't finish anything if we just stand here."
"Alright. Let's go everyone!"
They cheered.
Mikan went towards the infamous sakura tree. She noticed that Natsume was there so she decided to go away.
"Wait" a voice called.
Mikan looked at the speaker. She looked at his crimson eyes.
"Don't go." He whispered but Mikan heard it as clear as a crystal.
Natsume jumped down from the branch.
Mikan just looked at him.
He sat down and patted the space beside him, indicating her to sit beside him.
She raised her right brow but instead of asking, she followed. She walked forward until she reached him and sat.
"What do you want, Hyuuga?"
"Why were you late last night?"
She just remembered that special stars lived at the same floor and his room is beside hers. "I've been helping the SA class in their preparations."
"Why bother?"
She raised her brow again. "Since I should have been in that class if I didn't have my other alice. Besides, I was bored."
He nodded.
Silence engulfed the two as the sakura petals seemed to dance along the wind. The wind lulled the two to sleep.
Mikan dreamt. She knew that this dream is a premonition dream. After HIS death, she activated the premonition alice she stole so that she could prevent bad things from happening. In her dream, a raven haired girl was running along with a silver haired man. She knew these two very well. The girl has bloody red eyes while the man has cobalt blue. They ran towards her in GA uniform. They smiled at her.
Slowly she opened her eyes, finding Natsume reading his manga beside her. She realized that she was leaning on him with her head on his shoulder. She yawned and sat straight.
Natsume glanced at her and returned to the manga.
"I'm surprised that you had not burned me."
He shrugged.
"You'll meet someone special soon, very soon."
"What do you mean?"
She put her forefinger to her mouth. "Fate will come to you."
He was curious but decided to just wait.
She stood up wiping the dust off her clothes. She walked away. When she was far from him she whispered to herself. "Why should I meet your brother?"