Chapter 35: Natsume's Replacement
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Recap:
Mikan narrowed her eyes and pulled her warm hand from his, "I'm going back to class." She stuck out her tongue at him before she crouched and jumped off the branch.
"You shouldn't do that! Crows will come and eat it!" Natsume yelled down to her as she ran away lifting her middle finger at him. Natsume chuckled and casually laid back.
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"Neh! Neh! Neh! Mikan-chan!" Anna giggled happily down to the still dark figure totally zoned out. "Are you asleep?" Anna bent down pushing her pink hair aside and raised on of her pale fingers and lightly poked the soft part of Mikan's rosy cheek. "Hey…Sleepy head…time to wake up." Mikan groaned and pushed her eyelids together tightly. Anna giggled once again and pulled Mikan's cheek stretching it beyond limits.
"Gahya!!!" Mikan screamed at the top of her lungs, bouncing out of her chair and onto the cold floor below.
Anna along with everyone else laughed highly while Mikan rubbed her cheek, completely confused on what just happened. Slowly Anna strolled over to Mikan and offers her hand down to her, "Sorry Mikan. You were sleeping and well………"
"Ow…I was sleeping?" Mikan asked grabbing onto her friends hand and pulling herself up.
"Yeah." Anna said smiling brightly, "Have you been having trouble sleeping lately?"
Mikan closed her eyes and placed a hand on her chin, thinking, "Now that I think about it I have!"
"So what's been troubling you? You can tell me." Anna whispered over to her making sure if it was ok to ask out loud.
Mikan crossed her arms and leaned up against her desk, "It's probably all the things going on right now…"
Anna walked up to Mikan's side and gently leaned up against the desk also, hopefully trying to keep their conversation private, "Is Persona pushing you around to much?"
Mikan swiped her head around to stare at her. She was stunned hearing someone saying that demons name so casually. She turned her head back forward and slightly glanced at Anna, "Honestly…I think he's just putting me on cases that will destroy me."
Mikan heard a gasp from her side and put her head down awaiting the serious tone that came from everyone when she talked about her missions, "What do you mean?"
"Like mentally killing me. Putting me out on the line that causes so many problems then solving them." Mikan sighed running a hand through her light brown bangs.
Another gasp broke the silence. Mikan smirked and turned towards Anna once more, "Scary…isn't it?"
Anna nodded and slowly put a hand up to her mouth, trembling, "Do you think you might actually…"
Mikan admittedly knew what she was meaning to. That never really crossed her mind even though she's been injured so many times. Death…didn't occur to her anymore. Not like it did when she saw Natsume going through this. Gently Mikan grabbed Anna's trembling hand and smiled efficiently at her, "Don't you worry Anna. I will never let that happen."
Anna smiled and nodded at Mikan's words. Mikan dropped Anna's hands and quickly ran down to Hotaru sitting at her desk reading a book. "Hotaru!!!"
Just as quickly as Mikan got there she was gone…and plastered in the wall. All the students stopped what they were doing and stared at Mikan lying inside the back wall. Mikan shot up and stomped down to Hotaru once again with tears welling up in her eyes.
"Why are you still so mean?!" Mikan asked rubbing her head while crying like a baby.
Hotaru smiled and turned around, "Come here Baka."
Mikan gasped and quickly smiled, "H—O—T—A—R—U!" Happily Mikan flung into her best friends arm and tightly hugged her.
Everyone sighed and laughed remembering the old times.
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"Are you ready for what's coming?" Natsume asked lowly.
Standing across from him was Lee. Covered in sweat and tears. Slowly Lee sunk to the ground and stared up at the boy ahead of him. A quick nod made Natsume smirk and turn around. "Wa…Wait!" Lee yelled out. His red puffy eyes blurred in and out as he tried to stand up.
"You proved yourself worthy. Good job." Natsume answered back emotionless.
Lee got up onto his knees and smiled sweetly at him, "I won't fail you Natsume…"
"You better not or I'll put you through more training." Natsume called out to the broken boy.
Lee laughed painfully and slowly stood up, "I won't let Mikan get hurt. I promise."
Natsume nodded and waved goodbye as he walked away from the blonde boy. Just as he wanted to do, he got someone else to take his place.
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