Ending and Beginning
Chapter 8 - Past is the key to the future
The whole Gakuen Alice is now celebrating the Alice Festival.
Mikan and the SA Class impressed the students with their RPG-like challenge. So far, no one had finished all levels. Mikan was starting to get bored. She was the last genie. She is actually the most powerful so she was placed there. Since no one seemed to reach her in any time soon Tsubasa and the others told her to roam around. She gladly accepted the offer. She did not bother to change because she was told that if anyone would get past the other genies, she will be told immediately.
She was really catching every student's attention. She wore a pink and orange tube that intertwined wrapping her chest and exposing her flat stomach and her belly button. Her pants, the usual genie style, orange baggy pant. Her shoes were pointed dark pink flats. Her hair was curled at the ends with. She took away the pinkish transparent veil. Her alice controllers seemed so natural like it were accessories to her body.
The boys drooled over the sight of her. The girls were all in awe and admired her body. She went towards where Hotaru's ability class, the Technical Class, is working. She quickly spotted Hotaru. She was surrounded by rich men that want to buy her inventions. Mikan saw Hotaru's eyes shining, seeing lots of money in front of her. She chuckled. "Hotaru!" she called.
The group turned and looked at her. The men drooled. Hotaru just looked at her.
Mikan went towards her.
"What?" Hotaru asked. "Weren't you helping out with the SA class?"
"No body gets to my level. They offered me a break."
"Hmm…"
"So what were you selling?"
"Invention #804. Flying chicken. It can let you fly around and go wherever you go. It's fast, durable and waterproof. Sold for 1000 rabbits."
"It looks interesting. Ne, I want to roam around and play. Want to come?"
"Too much to do….no."
She sighed. "kay, ja."
Hotaru nodded.
Mikan walked away. She was getting way too bored. She decided to walk aimlessly, buying things here and there. After a while, she felt hungry. She decided to stop by Anna's group's restaurant. She knew that many people went there. The scent of the food served spread outside. She was too mesmerized by its scent that she did not notice a man and bumped to him. She fell and landed on her bottom. She winced. "Sorry, I wasn't looking." She said to the man.
"Hn." Was the answer.
Wait, that voice is…. She looked up and confirming her suspicion it was Natsume. Her eyes went down to the little boy, that seemed like 5 years old, with grayish silver hair and grayish black eyes that Natsume was accompanying.
The boy looked at her.
She smiled and stood. "Never knew you were a child-person." She smirked at Natsume.
"None of your business." She looks beautiful. Then he realized that the men are drooling over her. Of course who wouldn't? He glared at them.
Mikan noticed this but paid no attention. Her gaze fell unto the boy again. "I know that you're rude, Hyuuga, but would you mind introducing the two of us?"
"Mikan Sakura, Youichi Hijiri"
She frowned and sighed. "I give up!" she looked down at the boy. He was expressionless. Just like Natsume. She smiled a little but full with gentleness. "I'm Mikan Sakura, 17 years old and in the DA class."
"Get away hag." He said.
Mikan smirked and raised a brow. "You sure this is not your son, Hyuuga? He acts just like you."
He did not answer.
She shrugged. "Well, ja." She started walking towards the entrance of the restaurant until a hand held her wrists. "What?"
He let go of her.
Youichi stared at the two of them. It seems that his ni-chan had already found a girl that interests him. He shouldn't have called her hag, she was quite beautiful. She seemed kind, gentle and intelligent. A perfect ne-chan.
Mikan went into the restaurant while Natsume just stared at her.
"Ni-chan?" Youichi asked. "I'm hungry."
"Hn." Then he went inside the restaurant.
As they went inside, he saw Mikan talking to Anna. He also noticed the men, again, are drooling. He went towards Mikan and sat at the chair across her while Youichi sat next to him.
She raised her brow.
Anna looked at Natsume with shocked and confused eyes.
"What are you doing here, Hyuuga?" Mikan asked with an expressionless face.
"Eating. What else?" he sarcastically replied.
"Why are you here using the same table as me?"
"Does this table have your name written on it?"
Mikan breathed in and out. Be calm, Mikan. You can do it. She shrugged. "Anna, as I have said, I'll order your best meal."
"Of course, Mikan-chan! You'll definitely won't regret it. I'll be in a moment…uhm…. Natsume-san, what would you like to eat?" she asked nervously.
Natsume looked at Youichi.
"I'll get anything ni-chan gets." He announced.
Natsume nodded. "I'll take whatever she got."
Anna nodded and went inside the kitchen.
Mikan sighed. "What are you plotting, Hyuuga?"
"Nothing"
She rolled her eyes. "Whatever"
They ate quietly. The whole restaurant was quiet. They were observing the table the two most famous students of Gakuen Alice is sitting. The food was really good but Mika's thoughts were in other things. What will happen, I wonder. If the two of them are coming, that means that something will happen. Will it be because of ZERO?
Natsume looked at Mikan. She looked magnificent and magical. However, there is something in her eyes that he couldn't describe. He knew that she was thinking about something but her eyes always held sadness, loneliness, hatred……. As if she lost her everything. Did her eyes always been like that? Or was it filled with innocence and happiness before HE died. I wish to see it…. Her hazel eyes filled with so much naivety and cheerfulness. But….it seems only Natsuki could fulfill that.
The silence continued until Mikan's phone rang.
She answered her phone. "Hello?"
"Shinigami"
Her eyes looked serious, all of a sudden. "Persona"
Natsume's eyes twitched.
Youichi looked at Mikan with worried eyes.
Mikan smiled at him. "It's alright" her mouth said without a sound. Then she stood and went to the bathroom.
"We will have two transferee students from Alice Academy America. I think you know them."
"Hell's Fire and Silver King"
"That's right."
"When will they come?"
"At the night of the Last Dance. Someone will fetch them."
"Why did you tell me this?"
"I just wanted you to be ready when they come. I think they are more than acquaintances to you. You know, I think that they might be able to help you."
She smiled. "Your intuitions are more than accurate but let's see what fate and destiny chose for us."
"Thanks. Then bye."
"Ja." She held her phone close to her heart. She calmed herself and went back to Natsume and Youichi.
"What did he say?" Natsume asked.
"Past is the key to the future." She said. "We'll have two transferee students."