Natsume's P.O.V
There has always been a side of Mikan that most people didn't know. A side that was sneaky, and sly. A side that could lie with a knowing smile on her face. I side that was reserved solely for me when we were locked in my room.
A side that was one of the best actresses I knew.
The past couple days, she was using that side.
I knew that she wasn't getting any better. She was getting sicker and sicker, her face getting more sunken in. Her skin becoming a sick shade of paper white. She might be able to fool those boys on her team, but she couldn't fool me.
I knew that girl inside and out. Lying was useless.
'Natsume, you have to sleep in your own bed, you have to sleep for your flight tomorrow. Don't give me that look, ill be coming back home in just a little bit. Promise." she had told me. There was more behind her words that what they seemed. She was dying and nothing could fix that .
It was breaking my heart. Maybe if we had listened to her and never hurt her then she wouldn't be here. Maybe if I had went back to my dorm with her, then she wouldn't have heard. Maybe, maybe, maybe.
Maybe its my fault that she is dying. I cringed at the thought of it.
"Natsume, its time to go. Say goodbye to Mikan and meet us there," says Hotaru. She has been acting weird the last couple days. Keeping conversations short. Not looking me in the eyes. She was hiding something and that something involved Mikan.
"What about you guys?" I ask.
"We did it yesterday. She told us that she loved us all and forgave us. That she would see us soon," Hotaru said, still avoiding eye contact. I nod, and head toward her dorm.
When I opened her door, what I saw made my heart stop. I knew that she was sick, but I never knew it was this bad. I saw her, clinging to her sheets, gasping for breath, eyes clenched together and teeth grounding against each other. She was sweating heavily, and her hair was clinging to her skin and clothes to her body.
She was dying right before me and there was nothing I could do.
I put a hand on her face and saw her relax slightly at the coolness of my hand.
"You're going to be okay." I whisper to her. "I am so sorry for everything I have done. If it weren't for me, im sure you would be perfectly fine and not on your Death bed right now. I-I know that I wasn't the best boyfriend, and that you deserved so much better, but….I loved you. I didn't say it as much as I should have, and I know that, but I always have and I always will. I promise you that." I say to her.
She is barely aware that I am there. With a heavy heart, I got up and left the room, giving her one last lingering glance, and I left.
I walked over to where my friends where waiting by the plane, and saw her friends waiting there. I nod towards them, Hate and I sharing a knowing glance. He walked over to me, and without stopping whispered, "You better take care of Thief." and walked toward his room with Greed and Silver on his heels.
Hotaru gives me a small shrug, and I let it go. Everyone is loading, and im the only one who wasn't on. I look into the eyes of all my friends, and shake my head.
"Natsume, come on, we have to get going." says Narumi. I look at him.
Im not going home.
"I'm staying." I say. They all look at me with bewilderment.
"Your willing to stay in this…hell just for her?" asks Persona. I nod.
For a second, everyone was silent.
"Take care of her," says Narumi, finally, his eyes hidden behind the bangs.
I don't even respond. The plane starts, which makes Persona's eyes go wide and a look of pure rage contorts his features.
"She would never let them stay here." I say, watching as the plane goes higher and higher into the air. When its out of sight, I head back to Mikan's dorm. I just stand at the end of the bed, watching her cough, knowing that sleep is fading and she will wake up soon. I can sense a power building inside the room.
Then, her eyes flutter open, taking in her surroundings as she sits up. Her eyes meet mine and go wide in shock. Then shock contorts into anger. Then anger fear. But I don't understand why.
But I know its something big.
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Mikan's P.O.V
"Natsume." I say, fear and anger in the core of my being. He needs to leave, and he needs to leave now.
"I couldn't leave you," he said.
"GO. NOW." I say, hyperventating. I can feel my power building. I cant control it.
"Im not leaving you to die by yourself." he says, his face twisted in pain. Im silent.
"This place is going down." I say quietly, looking up at him.
He goes over and hugs me. "I know." he says.
"Then leave! Save yourself!" I say, tears trickling down.
"My life without you isn't worth it and you know that. If you leave," he says, tucking a strand of hair behind my ear. "Then I might as well follow," he finish's.
"I want you to live," I argue. By this time im frantic.
"I want us to stay together. Its not your choice, Mikan, im coming with you. Im one use of my Alice away from being just like Thief. Im not going to become like Persona because what I love has been ripped away from me." he says.
"Deal with it," I hiss. Its painful by this time. I need to burst. As suicidal as this sound, I need to die.
Natsume latches hands lips with mine for a whisper of a kiss, electricity still jumping between us. He looks into my eyes, and I know that he isn't leaving. I get off the bed, and walk into the center of the room.
He comes up behind me, wrapping his arms around my waist.
"My Alice is building up, and if I release it, this whole place is going to be destroyed. Everyone will have a chance to get out, well, I think they will, but the strain from releasing that much Alice at once will kill me." I say, closing my eyes and leaning against him.
"We will be together, no matter what," he says. I turn around, tears trickling down my cheeks, and heart full for the first time in forever.
I my power start to leak and the room becomes full of flames, ice, plants, even Death. I lock lips with Natsume, I pull back and stare into his eyes.
"I love you," I say.
"I love you too, " he says.
Then I let everything go and we are both consumed in darkness.
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Persona's P.O.V
Mikan, oh, Mikan.
How the dying girl still protected her friends, I don't know, but she did.
I was absolutely furious. If that Alice thing didn't kill her within the ten minutes, I sure as hell would.
I was marching toward her room, ready to open the door, when I was flung back, a multitude of forces coming towards me.
She was dying. Faintly, I saw two figures, hugging each other with there lips locked, until I turned around and fled out of the building. By the time I was at a safe distance, coughing, the whole building was crumbling. Everyone was standing outside, watching there 'home' burn to ashes, lots with smiles on there faces.
Nothing put the chaos out.
It wasn't very long before the whole place was nothing but ruins.
We all just stood there.
What the hell where we going to do? Then, five planes land on the 'concrete beach' of the island.
Mikan planned everything out. We all boarded the plane, each one being sent to different places, and for some reason, I found myself thanking her. That place, a hell to everyone, was gone. All the hatred was gone. And as much as I hated those kids, they all looked a lot less ugly without constant anger and Hate contorting there faces.
"Good job, Mikan," I hear Silver say as tears stream down his face. Hate and Greed sit next to him, all of them crying. Whether tears of happiness or tears of joy, I don't know.
Yeah, good job, Mikan.
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Hotaru's P.O.V
When we land at Gakuen Alice, I send a silent prayer. We all look at each other, and somehow, we know where we need to go.
We head over to the Sakura tree, Natsume and Mikan's Sakura tree, and sit under it.
"Mikan, Natsume, you did it. Where home. You made sure that we could leave. We all want to thank you so much. You saved us, all of us, not just from Hell, but from the ESP. From all those emotions that we felt. You saved us from so many things. We love you guys, and we hope that you guys are happy, because we will be happy too." I say.
Everyone smiles, though we are all crying.
We don't know what is going to happen, but we do know something. They gave their lives for us, and we are going to live it.
Though the future is uncertain, we know that we are going to live it the best way we can. Because that is what Mikan would want, and Natsume just wants Mikan happy. Whether in life or Death.
So we will cry for now.
But tomorrow is a new day.
We will always be watched, by Black Cat and his Lovely Kitten.
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Hate's P.O.V
Four years later
Hello, this is Hate. I found this book in my bag, and found a story in it. It was Mikan's story of her life, all kept in a leather bound book. She never got to finish is after she fixed the plane and laid in her bed, sick.
Well, Natsume came, and decided that he wasn't going to live without her, and they died together, Mikan's Alice destroying everything.
They saved everyone on the island from there life of destruction. She saved them all.
We were transferred to Gakuen Alice and for the first time in a long time, we live normal lives. Thief is still sick, but he has proper medical attention, so he is better. Even found a girl.
We built them a memorial and filled it with beautiful things, knowing that Mikan would love it.
Everything is okay.
We all miss them, both of them, but its okay. We live with smiles, knowing that's what they would want.
I guess there really isn't much to say. This book is going to be published, even if I have to kill people to get it out there.
Mikan and Natsume's story needs to be told.
They lived, they loved, and they raised hell. But though there story is sad, there together and that's all that matters.
THE END
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