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Chapter 30

"Rei! Rei!"

Stop calling me.

"Rei, try again! This time you'll be able to control it."

Go away, go far away from me.

"Rei… you… you tried your best… I can sense it…"

No I didn't. I lost control.

"Rei, don't blame yourself…."

How can I not?

"Goodbye Rei."

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Persona shot up from his bed, huffing and sweating as he was haunted by that nightmare. Since his first friend died, he could never rid himself of that dream. Pulling himself out of his bed, he walked over to the window where the full moon's light was streaming in and looked up at the night's sky.

"How can you forgive me? Even in your dying moments?" He murmured to himself.

The moments leading up to Yukihira Izumi's death was etched in his mind.

He walked through the palace gates as usual. The guards all smiled and greeted him, but something inside of him was different.

"Stupid guards, I'll wipe those smirks off yoru face." He thought.

Today, he only had one mission; that was to kill the traitor. Luna had placed so much trust in him, she was like a sister, like a mother to him and he didn't want to let her down. After so many months, she had finally confided in him her fears and her instructions from her partner. Killing Izumi was easy, but Rei wanted him to suffer. To feel the humiliation that he felt when he was first found.

"No, I am no longer called Rei. Luna nee-san gave me a new name, that name is also from my master. I am Persona."

Climbing up the stairs that led to Izumi's personal study, Persona stood at the door and saw the scene unfold in front of him. He saw the sun's light streaming through the stained glass window and down onto the loving couple. Izumi stood facing his wife, one hand on her growing belly, the other on her face.

"How long more?" Izumi impatiently asked.

"Hold your horses, the baby is growing at a healthy rate. Don't coax it to grow at any other rate!" His wife playfully hit him on the arm.

"I can't wait! It's our first child together. I want to see what the baby will look like, I want to spend all my time with him! I want to teach him-"

"Who said it's a him?" His wife now looked him in the eye.

"Er… it should be a him?" Izumi chuckled nervously.

"It'll be a her."

"Him!"

"HER!"

Now both of them stood with their arms on their waist, unwilling to let the matter slide. Then suddenly, both of them started laughing out loud.

"Whatever it is, we will still love him or her fully." His wife smiled warmly at him and looked down to her stomach. "Your papa and mama will love you always and we can't wait for you to be born." She said while rubbing her baby bump.

Izumi turned to look at the door because he sensed someone standing there and his face immediately lit up.

"You're here punctually as usual Rei!" Izumi excitedly exclaimed. "This is my wife whom I've always been speaking of! Yuka, this is Rei, my friend and the boy whom I've been training!"

Yuka bent down to his level and he stared into her brown eyes. Never having someone stare at him so closely, Rei looked away and blushed. "You'll study hard right? My husband here is not very good with children, but he tries his best."

Rei merely ignored the woman's comment and she chuckled. "Well, I'll leave you two to practice." Giving her husband a quick peck, Yuka left the room and closed the door behind her.

"That'll be the last time you see your husband. This is the end for him." Persona darkly thought.

"Are you alone with him now?" His master was communicating with him telepathically.

"Yes I am."

"Remember what you're supposed to do. I'm in the palace with Luna, we're counting on you."

"Yes master…"

"Ok… today is the same thing. Try focusing on your thoughts, and calm yourself down. Then reach into yourself and feel your Alice pooling around you. When you feel it getting out of control just open your eyes and hold my hand all right? You were doing fine a week ago, so your control on your Alice should be getting better."

"Why'd you decide to take me in Yukihira-sensei?"

"How many times do I have to tell you, we're friends! Call me Izumi. And I took you in as a pupil because I felt that no one should be ostracised. Everyone should be happy with their Alice! No one should detest it because it was a gift given to us. There is no Alice in this world that is neither totally good nor bad. It all depends on the user and how the user uses their Alice."

"Did you pity me then?" Persona wanted to know the truth before he killed his teacher.

"Never. I just thought, hey there's a small boy who's lonely and sad but he has a great Alice!"

"Liar. No one liked my Alice because it brought on death." Closing his eyes, Persona reached into his Alice and ensured that he drew up more than usual.

"Kill him now."

Persona opened his eyes and looked at his mentor for the last time. Izumi was looking back at him with a smile on his face.

"I'm sorry." Reaching out to touch his teacher's hand, Persona released all the Alice that he conjured up and made sure that it surged through to his teacher.

"Rei?"

Persona looked up at his teacher to see him in some sort of pain.

"Rei, control your Alice. Even though I can nullify it, I know you can control it if you want to, so I'm not going to use my nullification."

Persona now hesitated, he never expected his teacher to react this way.

"Kill him now! What are you doing?" At that same moment, the doors to the study burst open and there stood Luna and his master, Kuonji. Looking up to his teacher again, he saw how the black marks have engraved onto his teacher's skin.

"Rei, believe in yourself. You know you can do this."

"Persona, remember how you felt when people spat at you on the road? He felt exactly the same. He felt disgusted, he felt fear. He took you in because he wanted to control you, not letting you use your Alice freely. Who could ever appreciate an Alice that brought on only death." Kuonji coaxed Perosna.

"No. I never had that intention. I wanted him to control his Alice so that he wouldn't hurt the people he loved."

Persona however, didn't let anyone affect him. He knew the feeling of being despised. He hated it. However, his emotions caused him to use more of his Alice on his teacher. Suddenly his teacher collapsed and his entire body was charcoal black.

Now aware of the damage that he had inflicted, Persona collapsed beside Izumi and tears started coming out of his eyes.

"It's ok Rei, it's ok… I know you tried your best to control it. Look after yourself and practice what I've taught you all right? How… how I wish… I could still see my wife… wife's face for the last time…" Izumi could still laugh with whatever little breathe he had left.

Still holding on to Persona's hand, Izumi held it tighter and said his final words, "Goodbye Rei."

He regretted all his life that he had killed his mentor, but he never had the time to mourn. After that incident, he was sent on more missions. He was sent to kill more people, people who threatened to destroy the family he had left; Luna and Kuonji. The person he now hated was Shadowfox and Yuka.

After seeing her husband's decayed body. Yuka lost control of her senses and extracted Alice stones from her husband's body and from Persona's own body. Then she got up slowly and inserted both into Luna and Kuonji. They were writhing in pain but all he could do was watch. Seeing Yuka's hurt face, Rei regretted even more, but hearing the pain that Luna and Kuonji were in, he glared back at Yuka with all his might. So what if she was alone with her unborn child, he himself was alone for all these years.

"Never knew you to be a reflective person." A voice was heard behind him. Persona turned around to see his master sitting on his bed. Giving him a bow, Persona walked closer to his master.

"Phase 2 of our plan shall begin."

Hardening his heart once more, Persona pulled on his white mask and nodded to his master.

8 year old Keiko was sitting on the floor allowing her mother to braid her raven locks. Squirming around because she was excited, she was occasionally told to sit still by her mother. In another room not far from hers, 8 year old Tetsuya was also squirming around because his mother refused to let him leave the room unless she could flatten his forever-standing strawberry hair.

Both of them were excited because this was the day where they were going to see the town.

Finally done with their hair, both mothers made sure that their children were dressed well before letting them roam the palace for a while as they got ready.

"Keiko!" Tetsuya called out to his half-sister.

Keiko dressed in a light green sleeveless sundress turned around to face the boy that was calling her. Seeing Tetsuya walking towards her, Keiko put her hands behind her back and skipped to her half-brother.

"Good morning Tetsuya! Aren't you excited?" Her crimson eyes glittered with joy and excitement in the sun.

"DUH! Come on, let's go try and get some titbits from the kitchen before we go." Tetsuya exclaimed while grabbing Keiko's hand.

Both of them ran as fast as they could to the kitchen, avoiding maids that were cleaning and butlers that were polishing silverwares. Tetsuya felt his movements restricted by the light grey pants and vest that he was wearing, but he knew better than to protest as his mother put on the clothes for him. Then from the corner of his eyes, he saw Persona, his elder brother, beckoning to him.

"Why'd you stopped suddenly?" Keiko screamed at him.

"Persona Onii-chan! What are you doing here?" Tetsuya let go of Keiko's hand and ran towards him.

Keiko was confused as she has never met this man, and for Tetsuya to call him brother on top of that. All this information was swirling inside her head and she could not understand it all.

"Hello Tetsuya. I just came back from the town and I see you've made friends?" Persona smiled at his younger brother.

"She's my half-sister. Mama said so."

"Really? My, isn't she pretty. Now now, you're making her wait all by herself. You're on your way to the kitchen right?"

"Yup! We're gonna get some cookies then meet mama and Keiko's mama at the courtyard."

"I see. Here, I got you some sweets, but you have to keep them a secret all right? You know how you're not supposed to be snacking." Persona reached into his pocket and took out 2 different coloured sweets. "The red one is for you and the green one is for your half-sister. Remember not to eat hers all right?"

"Okay!" Tetsuya excitedly unwrapped the red sweet and popped it into his mouth.

"Nice? Here I'll give you a handful more," Persona then took out 5 more sweets of both colours and dropped them into his younger brother's hand, "Don't eat them all at once all right?" Persona gave his little brother a pat on the head and sent him back to his friend. Standing at that distance, he saw Tetsuya give Keiko the sweet and how her face lit up as she ate it.

"Phase 2 is going without a hitch."

Both Luna and Mikan were dressed and were re-reading the note that was sent to them by Natsume's mother.

Congratulations on reaching the final stage of the competition. The instructions below are for your final test which will be held tomorrow at 10am.

Firstly, you are to go to Sono's toy store and collect a specific toy that I have asked him to prepare for you.

Then after, you are to visit the famous Seer that has been living in our kingdom to get her prediction. After that, you are to find a man that is this Seer's partner. After doing so, return to the palace and report on the prediction which was given.

You are only allowed to bring one guard with you.

All the best.

Folding up the note, both of them stuffed it into the small pouch which they were each carrying.

Mikan called for Tsubasa and both of them left the room, ready to take on the final challenge which has been set. Upon exiting the room, Mikan and Luna looked at each other eye to eye, and then moved together to the courtyard. Even though they still had their guard up when they were around each other, both of them seemed to reach a kind of understanding.

Getting into different carriages, Mikan and Keiko were helped into their carriage by Tsubasa whereas Luna and Tetsuya were helped in by a man they have not seen before called Hijiri Goshima. Tsubasa not having seen this guard before felt his defences go up by ten notches, but seeing how Mikan did not seem to be bothered by it, he lowered his guard but promised himself to keep an eye out for that creepy guard.

"Tsubasa onii-chan!" Keiko giggled happily.

"Hey pipsqueak. Haven't been giving your mother any trouble now have you?" Tsubasa closed the carriage door and ruffled Keiko's hair.

"No no no! Don't do that Tsubasa onii-chan! You'll ruin the hair mama took so long to braid!" Keiko defensively tried to protect her head.

"Yeah Tsubasa, knock it off." Mikan mocked her friend.

"Where have you been all this time Tsubasa onii-chan? Keiko didn't see you yesterday and Keiko couldn't feel your Alice as well."

Tsubasa and Mikan looked up at each other immediately. Each day, Keiko ages by a few years, but even though she was a klutz like her mother, she had a strong attachment to the people around her, making the Alice she inherited even stronger. To the horror of all those who knew Mikan, Keiko had inherited the Stealing and Insertion Alice, and now Keiko was a liability to them. To top things off, Keiko could sense the different Alices people had due to her protective and attachment to people.

Due to the change in events, Tsubasa was sent on a mission yesterday to find out possible leads of where Kuonji was hiding. However what he found out by infiltrating their gang was not what he expected.

"How old is this Kuonji?" Tsubasa drawled on boredly to one of the gang memebers, not wanting to seem like he was interested.

"That guy? You could say 150? My dad used to tell us tales of this guy." One of the gang members whispered.

"150? That's not possible… no one lives till 100 nowadays." Tsubasa was shocked.

A few of the older gang members overheard their conversation and decided to join in. The name of Kuonji stroked fear into the hearts of these men because most of them have felt first hand, the wrath of Kuonji and because, most of them have been supporting him for the last 40 years.

"It's possible. You are new here aren't you?" One of the older gang members asked Tsubasa. Nodding in reply, the man continued his story.

"I'm sure you all know that the previous ruler of Nula, Queen Yuka stuffed a nullification stone and the Alice stone of death into Kuonji, that's why he's stuck in at this age and dying at the same time."

Seeing that the group were listening intently to the man's story, the group bent even closer to the story teller.

"Well, the stone was stuffed into Kuonji's child."

At this point, most of the younger members were confused. "Child?"

"Yes. Before the Hyuuga family fought for the throne 17 years ago, the family in ruling was Kuonji. You see, Kuonji has the ability to make clones. However, when he creates a clone, they will be in the form of a baby and Kuonji has to raise them up. Though even as babies, Kuonji is able to transfer his memories into the child, so he is able to live on forever in that way."

Gasped of shock were heard throughout the group.

"Kuonji was able to rule the kingdom the same way for a century because he has been creating clones. To the people, Kuonji's clone was just like a baby being born into the royal family. The marriages that he had were grand and all that, but he never actually fathered any children with his wives. Once he felt he was getting old, he would create a clone. This way, Kuonji could keep the throne for himself and ruled it endlessly. No one knew his tactic except this group whom Kuonji started himself, to keep himself in power and to give him protection."

"However, the Hyuuga family couldn't stand the way Kuonji was ruling. Don't know what they mean though, Kuonji was very helpful to us thugs. He always waved away crimes like robbery and murder, telling the court that we were insane and didn't know what we were doing. By doing so, he allowed us to expand our syndicate and thus this is the network. When the Hyuuga family succeeded in killing the elder Kuonji, they banished his son, not knowing that the child was Kuonji himself. Of course our underground hideout allowed his son to have a place to rest and call home. It was here that he planned all the vicious attacks even though he was a boy of 10. It was when he was 12 years old, did he plan the ultimate plan of killing Izumi."

Tsubasa was caught completely off guard by the new information he had received. They always assumed that Kuonji was Kuonji not a clone of himself. Whenever he asked Narumi-sensei how a 12 year old boy would know of assassination techniques, Narumi-sensei would reply saying that he learnt them in the years before killing Yuka.

"So this is how he knows. He has over 100 years of knowledge in that 12 year old brain of his. That's why he's always said that " Tsubasa thought to himself.

The elderly man continued but this time he was laughing in an evil way, "That stupid queen didn't know of Kuonji's true plan, how he was able to keep his rule for so long and how he planned to do so. Even now no one knows of this fact and this is what we'll be using to bring down the Hyuuga family. This will be the big bang, the ultimate plan to thank Kuonji and to show our undying support."

Snapping out of his flashback, Tsubasa turned to look at 8 year old Keiko. Putting a hand on her shoulder he replied her question, "I was out looking for sweets. You like them right?"

"Yup!" Keiko happily replied. She wanted to tell her mother and Tsubasa onii-chan about the sweets Tetsuya had given her, but she had remembered that this was their little promise. Not wanting to betray her friend, she held back her words and looked out at the scenery, taking in whatever her crimson eyes could see.

"Keiko, we'll be going to a toy shop first. I think we've reached it." Mikan looked at her daughter and pointed to the large shop which they had stopped in front of.

Tsubasa opened the carriage and helped Mikan down first so that she could hold on to Keiko's hand. Pushing open the doors to the toy shop, the loud clanking of the bell alerted the shop owner to their presence. Already standing at the counter was Luna, Tetsuya and the Goshima guard. Surrounding them where many toys which were moving on their own. Toy planes were flying in the air while dolls were singing and dancing. The entire shop was filled with movement and joy.

"Ah Suni-hime, you've finally arrived." The blonde boy in his early twenties looked at Mikan from behind the counter, through the spectacles that he was wearing. He took off his glasses and rubbed his brown eyes while urging Mikan's company to come forward. "Sorry, where are my manners. I'm Kaname Sono. I own this toy shop. As instructed by Kaoru-sama, I shall explain to you're the rules for this test."

"Only your children are allowed to participate. The hime's are allowed to watch and the guards will have to get my lunch as I'll be watching over the test."

The two guards looked at the boy like he was insane, but then Kaname started coughing vigorously till blood came out. Mikan rushed to his side and asked if he was all right.

"I'm ok. It's just that because I give my life for my toys that I can't be too far from them. So could you two please do me a favour and get me my lunch?" Seeing how frail the shop keeper was, both guards nodded and left the shop after Kaname had given them instructions on where to get the food. For a guy his size, he was eating a lot.

Luna caught on to what Kaname was saying and asked, "If you can't be too far from your toys that mean you can't sell them?"

"I can. After the toys are sold, they no longer need to rely on my soul to be functional. They will operate through the love that they receive from their new owners." The blonde haired boy smiled. "Now now on to your tasks. Your children will need to catch Mr Bear. Bear please come out."

A dark brown teddy bear marched onto the counter and the first thing he did was to glare at the children menacingly. Both Keiko and Tetsuya did not seem to be bothered by the glare but wanted to play with him.

"Be nice Bear." Kaname warned the stuff toy. "This bear was created by me, and is one of the first few toys that I have invented. However, due to his stubborn and untrusting personality, he scares away all the customers that have wanted to purchase him by beating them up. This is because Bear has seen many children discarding their toys after a certain age. As such, I need your children to show him that not all children are the same."

"BEATING?" Both mothers exclaimed out loud.

Kaname laughed nervously, "The queen's orders were that you two should not interfere as it is a task needed to nurture the growing stage of these two children. I'll begin now. Tetsuya and Keiko, please step through this door." Kaname opened a section of the counter and let the two children through to an area which was spacious. He then placed bear on the ground next to them and quickly jumped over the counter.

The two children happy to see bear, immediately started chasing the soft toy around. However the bear would suddenly give a flying kick or a punch at either child.

"OWWWW! Stop it Mr Bear! We just want to play with you." Keiko scolded the soft toy but that only caused her to get most of the hits. "Stop stop!"

Tetsuya having got knocked out by the bear, came to his senses and saw his half-sister crying in pain. He quickly pushed himself up and used his body to shield his sister.

"Tetsuya you'll get hurt!" Keiko was crying and pushing Tetsuya away.

Now Mikan felt her heart twist and turn as she saw the toy beat up her child and her supposed nephew. "Kaname, do something!"

"I can't, I'm sorry." The owner bowed.

Keiko suddenly had an idea and crawled out from under Tetsuya's protection. Keiko picked up her sundress and ran as fast as she could to the opposite end of the open space where there was a tap and a bucket.

"Look Mika, your child is leaving mine to get beaten to a pulp. Nice way of bringing up your child." Luna cursed Mikan silently.

"No, I didn't bring her up that way. Look what she's doing before passing judgement." Mikan shot back, never taking her eyes off Keiko.

Keiko filled a bucket with water and tried to push the heavy bucket towards her brother. She knew that the slower she pushed, the more hurt her brother would get, so she used all the might that she could summon and pushed the bucket. Mr Bear, seeing what Keiko was trying to do, stopped hitting Tetsuya and got off him. The soft toy's eyes gave off a little shine, and he turned towards Keiko, running and getting ready to attack. Tetsuya wiped the sweat from his face and saw Bear charging towards Keiko. Seeing how Keiko was trying to push the bucket nearer to him, he figured out what Keiko was trying to do.

Being bigger than the soft toy, Tetsuya's strides were larger than Mr bear and he stepped in between them. Mr Bear did not care who his intended target was and was all ready to hit Tetsuya again, but Tetsuya quickly side-stepped and picked up bear by its waist. Mr Bear tried struggling, all his limbs thrashing, trying to hit Tetsuya. Struggling with the soft toy's violent movement, Tetsuya walked slowly towards Keiko.

"Move Keiko." Tetsuya commanded before dunking Mr Bear into the bucket of water. Tetsuya held the bear in the water until it stopped moving.

However, this was different from what Keiko had intended. Keiko only wanted to douse the bear with water so that it would be paralysed, but her brother went on to drown the bear. Tears started to roll down her face and she accused Tetsuya, "you drowned him!"

"I did not! It needs to cool off after having so much anger in him" Tetsuya hotly replied.

Kaname seeing how the children had stopped Mr Bear jumped back over the counter and pat both children on the head.

"Good job guys. You've stopped Bear from hurting anyone else. I forgot that I haven't given him a bath in 5 years, so he probably can't get rid of all those negative emotions. So you've helped me in that. Now I'll give you instructions on how to dry a soft toy and play with it." Kaname took Bear from Tetsuya's hands and brought it out of the water. He then passed Keiko a small white towel.

"You've killed it!" Keiko screamed as Bear did not move even after being taken out of the water. Tetsuya felt hurt at his sister's accusations and used his bangs to cover his frustrated crimson eyes.

"Bear, stop making the girl cry. Come on, stop pretending to be dead and let her dry you." Kaname instructed the bear.

Then Mr Bear got up and started to wipe its face with its soaked palms. Kaname laughed and passed the bear to Keiko so that she could dry him. Holding him with one hand, Keiko gently used the towel to wipe it dry, even though Mr Bear was still thrashing around.

"I'm sorry Tetsuya, for accusing you. Here you want to dry Mr Bear?" Keiko looked at her brother and offered a half dry Mr Bear to him.

Stretching out his hands, Tetsuya took Mr Bear and also started to dry him. Somehow sensing that these children were not going to do him harm, Bear stopped moving and allowed them to play with him. Both children picked out a bright red ribbon from Kaname's shop and tied it round Mr Bear's neck. Then seeing some extra black cloth lying around, Kaname taught them to make a hat for Mr Bear.

Both Tsubasa and Goshima were back from their shopping spree and struggling to carrying the store owner's insane amount of food. Putting all the food down on a long table, the walked over to their respective mistresses and saw the happy scene unfolding in front of them.

When Mr Bear was all dressed up, it did a little dance to show its appreciation and the children giggled with glee. Then it gave Tetsuya and Keiko a hug before leaping to sit on Kaname's shoulder. Looking at his watch, Kaname noted that it was already 1pm and time for lunch, so he led the children out of the area and onto the large bench.

"Actually, I don't eat that much. The food is for us to share. Come on let's eat!" Kaname joyfully said.

Both princesses helped to set up the table while the guards brought the children to the washroom to clean up. Kaname placed bear on the counter and whispered into its ear, "Watch over them all right? It was instructions from Natsume-sama."

Being the only girl, Keiko had no one to accompany her in the bathroom, but she knew that Tsubasa onii-chan was standing outside waiting for her. Feeling a little hungry, Keiko unzipped the pockets on her dress and took out a green coloured sweet which Tetsuya had given her. She unwrapped the sweet and popped it into her mouth.

Not wanting Tsubasa or her mother to chide her for eating the sweet, Keiko flushed the wrapper down the toilet. She then started to clean up and wash her sweaty face while sucking on the sweet. Feeling that the sweet was small enough, she crushed it with her teeth and swallowed the bits. Then she rinsed her mouth to get rid of any traces of the sweet. Tightening the ribbon on her hair, she walked out of the toilet and held Tsubasa's hand.

Goshima and Tetsuya also left the bathroom at the same time and upon seeing his sister, Tetsuya rushed to hold on to her free hand. Goshima smiled to the little princess and watched how Tsubasa protectively led the children away from him.

"Master, 2 down, 4 more to go."

"Good good, how do you know?"

"Her fingers. They're starting to peel from the direct contact she had with it."

"Good job on impersonating Persona, Goshima."

Hoho, I'm evil. Another cliffhanger. I think you readers are wondering what's up with the sweets. Anyway, I hope you now understand how Kuonji is able to act the way he is. :)

Now for the replies!

Blueberryxn: Sorry couldn't update faster. It's getting harder to try and link the ideas in my head. Also I'm trying to get as many characters into my fanfic as possible.

sapphireangel09: haha. you should listen to a sad song while reading the first part of this chapter then! I wrote it while listening to Fairy Tail's main theme by piano.

Enigmasonatarocks568: Thanks! The story is reaching its climax! But sadly it's ending soon.

RandomDalmatian326: It's all right! As long as you reviewed! Its a way of me knowing that people appreciate the fanfic!

Lessthenthreeanime: Nah it's all right. I also wanna be a mother but the pain and all will be worth it, i'm sure. :) This chap has more mystery though.

Kurumi Himitsura: Thanks for correcting that! I've been watching anime and all i remember hearing was Usugi rather than Usagi. But I've changed them all to Usagi now. Thanks!

StupidityNowOffersWisdom: Yup I'm Singaporean. haha are you serious you cried? Guilty as charged, usually I'm really tired by the time I finish writing one chapter so I usually scan through rather than read thoroughly for mistakes. Hope there's less for this chapter cause I really read through.

Stephy73: The cuteness is ending soon though. Keiko and Tetsuya are growing up pretty fast. Literally.