Chapter 20….
Chapter 20…. The beginning of the end….
At the head quarters…..
The siren was heard all over the place….
"Close the gate!! We're under attack!!" shouted a man from aao…
"It's too late they already broke in!!"
"Call the chief!!"
At Mikan and other's place….
"Now!! Everyone take you're position!!" said a certain man in masked…
Everyone took their respective position…. The students are outside dealing w/ the guards while the teachers and the strongest students invade…
"Mikan to the graveyard!" ordered persona…
Mikan and narumi followed persona to the graveyard… while knocking down anyone who interfere…
They reach the grave yard and found no one…
"Don't let you're guard down… they must be hiding…" said persona…
Mikan and narumi nod…
Mikan approach one of the grave stone and touch the ground….
Persona looked at her…. "What's wrong??"
"Something is coming…" she said then the earth begun to shake… zombies come out of the ground…
"Tsk…. Zombies…" Persona said in disgust…
"Mikan!! We'll hold them back… Hurry and save natsume!!" Narumi said…
Mikan Hurried inside the headquarters… after a while of searching room to room she still can't find natsume… then she notice ants walking in line several inches away from the wall…
"That's weird… the ants are avoiding the wall…" then mikan walk nearer…. "No… It's not that their avoiding… it's because they can't pass…" she said then she close her eyes… "There's a barrier…" she activate her nullifying Alice and broke the barrier the a black door appeared…
"Bingo…" she said smiling…
She opened the door and found natsume having an evening tea… mikan sweat dropped…
"What are you doing??" she asked… "Drinking tea… what else do you think…." He said taking a sip…
"At a time like this??" she said… "Yeah… at a time like this…" he said I expressionless tone…
A vain popped on Mikan's head… maybe I shouldn't have bothered to save him…
Natsume stand wiping the dust on his shirt… "Let's go… polka…"
"Don't order me around I jus save your life… you should be grateful…" she said in a demanding tone…
Natsume stopped in front of her… "Arigato for saving me…"
A small blush was formed on Mikan's face…
"Sore ni… (And then)" he said looking at her eyes… "And??" she asked…
"Its pandas today…" he said smirking at her… "Eh??" 1…. 2…. 3… 4… 5….then she realized….
"NAATTTSSSUUUMMEEE HEENNNTTTTAAAIII!!"
At the grave yard persona and narumi are fighting the zombies back to back….
"I'm worried bout squirt…" persona said… knocking down a zombie…
"Don't worry about them… Maybe… she already saves natsume… and they are having lovey dovey now… ah… so good to be young…" narumi said in a girlish manner
Then a fire appeared on persona's background… "Love you say?! NATSUME!! UNFORGIVABLE!!" persona shouted knocking down several zombies…
Narumi sweat dropped… "Natsume… I'm praying for your soul… amen…"
Inside the headquarters….
"Achoo…" natsume sneeze….
"Cold??" asked mikan…
"No… maybe some hags are thinking of me…." He said wiping his nose…
"Or some scary man cursing you…" mikan said laughing…
"I doubt it…" Natsume replied confidently….
"So nee… I guess it's impossible…" she said sighing in defeat….
After a while of running and knocking down guards….
Mikan paused… "Don't you think it's weird…" she said looking at the surroundings…
"What are you talking about??"
"For one hour" she said looking at natsume…. "We're running in circle…"
Natsume looked at the surroundings…"Now that you mentioned it…"
Mikan closed her eyes and feel the surroundings…. "It's an illusion…" she finally said…
"Then do something about it…" natsume demanded irritated…
A vain popped on Mikan's head… "I'm not you're maid you know!!"
"Whatever…"
Mikan activated her nullifying alice nullify the illusion…
The illusion slowly deactivates and revealed an open area…
"Just as I expected from my only daughter…." A man said clapping…
When mikan heard the voice her body shivered she looked at the man in extreme anger…
"Yare yare…don't look at me like that… aren't you happy to see me…" he said smiling evilly…
Mikan gave him a deathly smile… "You're still sarcastic as ever… Kojii Sakura… Or should I say Otou-san…"
Kojii laugh evilly… "You're still amusing as ever… mikan… but what I want to see the most is you're cold dead body… just like Hiroto backed then…"
"Kisama!! I'll kill you!! For taking away Hiroto from me!!" mikan said really angry…
Kojii laugh again… "sore wa tanoshimi na…(I'm looking forward to that)… but… you're not the one I need now…"
"Eh?!" she said confused…
Then a barrier suddenly… separates her from natsume…
"Natsume!!" she tried to reach him but too late….
Mikan was looking at natsume who was just standing still he's eyes are covered by his bangs…
"natsume what's the meaning of this!?" she asked…
Natsume looked at her then smiled… "Gomen I made a bet…"
"Eh?!" Mikan stared at him in shocked…
Flash back…
Natsume was sitting on a chair inside an empty room… in front of him was Kojii smiling evilly…
"Mikan will probably come… to save you..." he said…
"Yeah… surely… that girl is an idiot that's why…" natsume said smiling…
"But it's useless you're all gonna die here..." Kojii said grinning evilly…
Natsume smirked… "I won't let you… even if I die…"
"That's impossible… you're just digging your own grave…"
He smiled then looked at him… "Then let's make a bet…"
Kojii laugh… "Iio (al right)… I love bets…"
End of flash back…
"BAKA!! YOU'LL DIE!! He's not someone weak!!" mikan shouted…
"Shinpai suna… (Don't worry about it)… I'll deal w/ it somehow…" natsume said smiling at her…
"Doushte (Why)…" mikan asked her eyes was covered by her bangs… "Why do you always throw your life just like that… always… when I'm in danger… when something bad happens… itsumo, itsumo… (Always)… how can you give your life for me easily when I don't deserve it…" she said her eyes are worried and about to cry but managed to keep her cool…
Natsume looked at mikan "isn't it obvious… because I love… I love you so much… more than anyone in this world…" he said smiling at her…
"Eh?"
Natsume smirked at her reaction… "Don't worry… I'll definitely win" then he looked at Kojii who was waiting for the lad… "Oji-san… I'm ready…" he said taking a step forward…
Kojii grinned… "Well that's good…" and then they began exchanging blows…
Mikan's pov…
I was watching my father and the most important person in my life fight… just a moment ago I was so scared of loosing natsume... but… just by his words… he take away all of my doubts…
Normal pov…
He two continued to fight… while mikan was watching outside the barrier… until…
"mikan-chan" said narumi breathing really hard… beside him was persona…
"What the!? Isn't that natsume" persona said in shocked…
"Nani?!" narumi said… "Stopped him mikan-chan!! Natsume will die!!"
"It's all right… don't worry… natsume will win…" she said smiling forcefully…
"He right mikan!! It's a god he's up agai" he said but was cut off when he saw Mikan's trembling hands and knees…
"Daijobu… Natsume said he's going to win" mikan said watching the fight in front of her…
Narumi hugged her from the back… while persona hold her shoulder and nod… "You're right it's going to be fine…" he said looking at mikan… then to natsume…
After an hour of exchanging blows…
Natsume is already exhausted and has some several bruises… while Kojii is still fine not even breaking a sweat…
"What natsume-kun… tired already…?" he said mockingly…
"Tsk, mind your own business…" natsume said wiping some blood on his lips…
"That's why I warned you already… you can't win against me…" Kojii said laughing evilly…
Natsume smirked… "I guess I have to use that…" he said then a dark aura engulfs his body… his yes changed into black and yellow…
Kojii looked at him in shocked… "Nani?!"
At Mikan's place…
"What the hell is that…" mikan said looking at natsume terrified…
"It's the darkness Alice…" persona said looking at natsume seriously…
"Darkness alice?? Never heard of that…"
"It's a cursed alice…" narumi said looking at natsume…
"Cursed Alice you say?! Isn't that a type of Alice that requires compensation to the user!!" she said in shock…
"Curse alice…" persona started "a type of Alice that is strong and invincible but takes something in return… in natsume's case it gives severe pain to him every time he uses it…"
"Natsume…" mikan looked at him worriedly…
Natsume and Kojii still fighting… but this time it's a fair fight… Kojii is also exhausted and received some bruises from natsume…
"I never know you had that kind of ability in you…" Kojii said grinning evilly…
"Of course… I can't let you win can I??" natsume said smirking…
Kojii then shot him w/ an energy ball… natsume dodges it swiftly…
"Are you sure… you're going to dodge it…" he said smiling evilly…
"Nani?!" natsume looked at the direction of the ball… w/c is headed towards mikan…
"Mikan!!" He hurriedly to its direction and stop it by receiving the attack from his back…
Mikan looked at him in shocked… but in her eyes fear can be seen…
Natsume notice it and it hurts him so much but didn't say a word… then he continues to fight w/ Kojii…
Mikan's pov…
I was looking at natsume's eyes… I was scared… I'm scared that he's not the natsume I know… I'm scared that he's changing to someone I don't know… I'm scared… that he's changing…
I fall on my knees hugging my trembling body… until…
"Mikan-chan!! Snap out of it!!" Said narumi sensei holding both of my shoulders... I was shocked of his action…
"What are you acting like you're so scared of natsume!!" he said… "Natsume have to put on that deathly aura!! He has to use that cursed Alice!! He did all of that even if it change him just to save you!! Of course he'll be hurt!! Natsume's also a human!!"
I look at narumi… then to natsume who was fighting my father… no… I'm not scared of natsume because he's changing… what I'm scared of is loosing natsume… a single tear fall from my eyes…
"Don't die…" I barely said…
Natsume stopped and looked at me…
I stand up… "Don't die natsume…" I said this time loudly…
"You don't have to win…"
"You don't have to keep trying…"
"You don't have to do your best…"
"Just don't die… natsume…" I barely said more tears flow from my eyes…
Natsume looked at me and smiled at me in relief…
His smile takes away all of my fear…
I looked at him in horror when I noticed my father about to stab him w/ a knife….
"NATSUME!!"
End chapter 20…
I got some ideas from bleach… and don't worry no one will die…
Next chapter… just a little bit more… I want to live….