Chapter 18…
Chapter 18…
Chapter 18… "Mikan's choice life or death"
At Mikan's room…
Mikan was staring outside the window w/ blank face… then she look at her watch and read… 1:19 am…
Flash back….
Hiroto fall on his knees… "I suffered so much… I abandon my family my friends and everyone… who was chasing you… I give up everything…" he said as tears started to fall on his eyes… "But why can't you return my feelings… am I that bad…?"
Mikan just stared at him…
Then a man appeared behind Hiroto "Were going…" he said…
Hiroto stand up… "I'll bare a grudge against you for the rest of my life…" he said then the man teleported him somewhere…
End of flash back…
Grudge huh?? She thought as she looks at the pitch black surroundings outside the window…
"How long are you going to hide there…?" she said looking at the dark corner of her room…
Then a man appears…
"Hisoka…" she continued… looking at the man…
"Yoh…" he said…
"What are you doing here??" Mikan asked irritated…
"Calm down… I'm just here to check up on you…" he said w/ a malicious grin fluster on his face…
"Ah… I see…" she said uninterested…
Hisoka sits on the coffee table and pours some tea for himself… "But it seems that you don't want me here…" he said taking a sip on his tea…
"Betsuni… it's not that bad…" she said then look down… her eyes was covered by her bangs… "Since I think this is the last time we'll meet…"
"Why did you say that??" Hisoka asked taking a sip on his tea…
"You know it too… right??... that I'm going to die soon…" she said looking at him…
"And what makes you think that??" he asked taking another sip…
"Because that man is there…" she said her bangs were covering her eyes…
"He'll definitely use him to kill me…" she said gritting her teeth…"He'll do everything to make me suffer…"
"You're right about that… I'm surprised that you know he was a member of aao… you're definitely right about his plan…" he said taking another sip and not bothering to look at the brunette…
Mikan clench her fist… "DAMN IT!!" she snapped and punch the wall w/ all her strength making a small crack… that cause her fist to bleed…
Hisoka look at her…
She rested her back on the wall and let her self fall on her knees… then tears started to fall on her face…
"I'll kill him… I'll definitely kill him!!"
Hisoka stand on his chair… then looked at her… "You won't die…" he said w/ a malicious grin…
Next morning…
At class 2b…
"Ohayo minna!!" mikan greeted them w/ a huge smile… the class greeted back…
"Ohayo hotaru…" mikan greeted her… hotaru looked at her… and notice the bandage on her fist… "What happen to that…?"
"Oh" she said looking at her fist… "It's nothing… just my clumsiness…" she said laughing nervously…
"Is that so…" she said emotionlessly and continue reading her book…
"Anyway where's natsume??" mikan asked…
"Who knows…" hotaru said…
"Then I'll see you later… I'll find natsume…" she said and exited the room…
Hotaru look at the disappearing figure… you work your self too much…
At the sakura tree…
Natsume was sitting under its shade until…
"Yoh… natsume…" mikan greeted him…
"What do you want??" he asked irritated…
"Nothing…" she said happily… "Just wanted to check you out…" she aid then sit beside him…
Then natsume notice the bandage on her hands… her grabbed her wrist and look at her eyes… "What's this??"
Mikan smiled at him… "Nothing much… just my clumsiness…"
"Liar…"
Mikan sigh… "Wakata… Wakata… I punch the wall…" she said… smiling nervously…
He let go of her… "Baka…"
"Mooouuu…." She said pouting…
Natsume look at her seriously… "So tell me what happen to kazama…?"
Mikan paused when she heard this then looked up… her eyes were not visible… "Wakata… I'll tell it to you…"
"Hiroto save me… when I was hopeless… we meet each other after a few days of destroying hinamizawa…" she started…
"I live w/ him for almost a year… we're living w/ his obaa-san… we live in a small house… we're not that rich… demo… our house is always filled w/ laughter…"
"We live in a peaceful life until…"
Flash back…
Mikan Hiroto and their obaa-san are having their dinner until…
Someone open the door and reveal a man in his 40's…
Hiroto jump in joy when he sees him… "Otou-san!!" he said hugging the man…
Mikan looked at the man in horror…
Then the man notice mikan… "The daughter of the devil!!" he shouted "What are you doing in my house…?" he shouted pointing a finger at her…
Mikan backed away from him… her face still show horror…
"Otou-san mikan is not a daughter of the devil…" Hiroto said defending the brunette…
"What are you saying… she abandons her parents… she's the only survivor of the hinamizawa!!" he said…
Mikan looked at him scared and then started running outside the house…
"Mikan!!"
End of flash back…
Natsume looked at her surprised… "Don't tell me?!"
Mikan nod… "He's father is the one that order to destroy my village… in fact… he's whole family is part of it except for his grand mother"
"But that's…?" natsume said but was cut off…
"Absurd… I know… demo that's how fate is…" she said looking down…
"But even thou he's family are against me … when he's father is about to execute me… he appeared and save me… but…" then she put her arm on her forehead…
"He ended up killing his father…" she said… "He's whole family turn against him… and he's life become miserable… he loves me so much enough to give up everything…"
Then she looks at her hands… "But still… I only see him as a brother… so I'm not gonna ask if he hold a grudge against me…"
Natsume look at her…
"It can't be help right?? That's how fate is…" she said…
Then natsume hug her… "Do you regret it??... Turning him down…?"
Mikan buried her face in natsume's chest then she shook her head… "I don't regret it… I can't regret the regrettable… It's just that…"
"It's just that??"
"I feel like I messed up a little…" she said and burry herself deeper…
Natsume pat her head… "Daijobu… everyone feels the same loneliness and scared the same way…"
Then tears started to fall on her cheeks…
"Are you scared??"
She tightens the grip on his shirt and more tears flow…
"I'm also afraid of being alone… I'm insignificant and pathetic…"
He looks at the brunette in his chest and notice she was already sleeping… he tightens his grip… I was envious of you… but all this time you're trembling and crying alone… if I have more courage I would have given you a hug…
6:00 pm…
Mikan was on her room reading a book until…
Mikan sakura… mikan sakura… please proceed to the president's office….
She closes her book and exited her room…
At the president's office…
Mikan opened the door and saw everyone in the room including the chibi president…
"What is it??" she asked looking at them… they all have serious expression…
"Natsume…" said persona… "Has been kidnap…"
Mikan's eyes widen… "Nani?!"
Then reo hand her a piece of paper…
We have natsume Hyuuga as a hostage…
If you want him back…
Bring mikan sakura here alone…
FROM: K.S
Mikan gritted her teeth and clench the paper on her fist her eyes was covered by her bangs…
"I'll send you sakura-san… alone… but we'll have persona-san and reo-san to back you up… be here at 11 pm" said the chibi president…
Mikan just nod then exited the room…
Mikan go back to her room…
"Damn it!!" she shouted punching the wall and reopened her wounds… "Damn it!! Damn it!! Damn it!!" she shouted punching the wall over and over again… tears started to fall on her eyes…
Then someone opened the door and reveals a raven haired girl…
"Mikan!!" she shouted and hurried to the brunette…she hug her from the back…
"What the hell are you doing mikan!!" she said holding her tightly…
"Let go of me!!" she shouted freeing herself to her grip…
"Stop it mikan!! Stop hurting yourself!!" she shouted as tears also fall on her eyes…
Mikan give in and fall to her knees…hotaru was still hugging her from the back…
"Just how many times did he want to make fun of me!!" she cried as she holds the on hotaru tightly… "Just how many times did he want to laugh at me…" she said then look at hotaru tears was dropping on her eyes non stop… "He already take everything away from me… what else does he want??"
Mikan curled into a ball… "That's enough… don't take anything from me anymore…"
Hotaru held her tightly… "Daijobu… we'll figure something out…"
11 pm…
Outside the aao head quarters…
Reo persona and mikan walk inside when they were stopped by the guards…
"Only sakura-san can enter…" said one of the guards…
"Just wait for me here…" mikan said then proceed inside…
Inside the head quarters…
There are no guards inside the headquarters… mikan walk and further then a man appears…
"This way sakura-sama… kazama-sama is waiting for you…" he said…
Hiroto… what are you planning?!
The man walks towards her and teleported to some kind of grave yard…
"Kazama-sama will be waiting for you at the club house… he said then disappeared…
Mikan walk towards the location and saw natsume tied to a some kind of post unconscious…
"Natsume!!" mikan shouted and walk towards him… then Hiroto appears…
"Mikan…" he said looking at her expressionless…
"Hiroto!! Natsume has nothing to do w/ this!! Let him go!!" she shouted…
Hiroto look at her… "He has something to do w/ it… everyone around you have something to do w/ it…"
"Hiroto!! If you want me… I'll do everything you say just don't include them!!"
"No!! I want you to feel the same sadness I feel… loosing everyone you cared for… how it felt to loose someone that supposed to be w/ you…"
"Hiroto!!"
"Now… I'll show you how it felt" he said then a man appeared beside natsume… then he grabbed a knife and stabbed the unconscious natsume…
"Natsume!!" mikan shouted loosing all her composure…
Then natsume turned in to water…
Illusion… mikan though… regaining her cool…
Hiroto looked at her in disbelief… "This is the first time…"
Mikan looked at him confused…
"This is the first time I saw mikan loose her composure to this extent…"
"Eh??"
"Do you really care for him that much?? Why do you care for everyone around you except for me??"
"Hiroto!! That's not true…"
"Liar!! I watch you even before I came here… you're always happy even w/out me… nothing change!!" he shouted… "Then I finally realize that you hate me… that's why you can smile even w/out me…"
"Hiroto… all this time I'm sad w/out you…and… I don't hate you…"
Hiroto smiled at her… "The come w/ me…"
The man w/ the teleportation Alice teleport them to a place filled w/ flowers then he disappears…
Hiroto walks towards the lake then turn to her then smiled… "Let's stay here forever… always… just the two of us…"
He looks at Mikan and was surprised when he saw tears flowing down to her cheeks…
"Mikan…"
Mikan walks towards Hiroto… tears still visible… she hugged him… "Then let's stay here… just the two of us…"
Hiroto looked at her… "You don't hate me??"
Mikan give him a sad smile… "I would never hate you…"
Hiroto hug her back… "I'm glad… I thought you hate me…"
Mikan walks towards the lake and sit… "Come here…" she said smiling at him… holding her lap…
Hiroto smiled back and rest his head on her lap…
"Gomen nee… Hiroto… I didn't notice that I'm hurting you…" mikan said patting his head…
Hiroto shook his head… "I'm the one who did bad things…"
Mikan smiled at him…
Hiroto looked at the scenery before them… "I'm so happy that you don't hate me… demo… it's so sad that it won't last long…"
Mikan looked at him… He was slowly disappearing…
"Hiroto…" mikan said…
Hiroto looked at her…
"I love you…as a brother…" she said her eyes were hidden… and a single tear flow…
Hiroto smiled at her… "It's fine… as long as you don't hate me…" he said before disappearing completely…
Tears started to fall on her cheeks… Hiroto…
Then a man in his 40s appears…
"It's been a while… mikan…" said the man smiling evilly…
Mikan wipe her tears and face the man… "I didn't notice it at first but I realize that the only one who can do this is you… Koji…"
"I'm impressed that you realize that…" he said grinning…
"How wouldn't I… Hiroto is already dead… but how come he appear before me…" she said putting her hands on her waist… "You probably use you're reviving Alice and bring Hiroto to life…"
The man chuckle evilly… "Just as expected from the top alice user from the academy…"
She clenches her fist… "Demo… I won't forgive you… using Hiroto like that…"
"He's the one who wants that… I just grant him his wish to take revenge on you… but he failed… that's why I take his life…"
"How dare you… I'll definitely bring you down!!"
"Don't be like that… It's been a while since you last saw me…" he said ginning evilly… "And don't forget that I have you're precious natsume Hyuuga w/ me"
"Give natsume back!!"
"Calm down… The decision is in you… if you can bring him back… but you know… there's always something in exchange…"
Mikan grin… "Are you telling me to choose life or death??"
"Of course… nothing else…"
"Then I'll choose to kill you…"
The man chuckles… "Kill me??... So you're choosing death aren't you…?"
"Of course… I'll definitely kill you and go home…"
The man laughs… "You never change… but what can you do to me… I hold all the Alice… you don't stand a chance…"
Mikan grin… "Yeah… you have all the Alice… but don't forget… I have what you don't… the nullifying Alice…"
"I admire you're confidence… but I assure you'll die… in my hands…"
Mikan grin… "Don't worry… if I die… I'll definitely bring you to my grave… Otou-san…"
End chapter 18…
The next chapter- It's an all out war...