Chapter Two – Hysteria
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[Tsubasa's POV]
I ran down the long corridor with Hyuuga hot on my trail with a fireball in his hand in case if I decided to chicken out and hide in a corner, which was highly unlikely. I had my man pride to protect here.
Reaching the sleek door with an elegant golden handle, I hurriedly twisted it and barged in, completely oblivious to the fact that Shiki-san was talking to HSP.
When the both of us barged in, they stood up from their meeting. They knew that we were kind of desperate to get the attention somehow and if nothing was the matter, we wouldn't be wasting time here.
HSP and Shiki-san looked at us and sat down, but gave us full attention. HSP sighed, rubbing his forehead and looked at me with a tired expression, "What do you need?"
"Mikan got captured. I saw it happen," I hurriedly blurted out the words.
That was enough to make him turn anxious and Shiki mirrored his thoughts, "What? When? Where is she? Who took her?" Man he sure is asking a lot of questions, but it shows how much he cares for her.
"Mikan got captured. A few hours ago. She is probably taken to the AAO, and Reo took her by force," I was growing impatient, and Natsume slapped his forehead in frustration when all they could do was freeze into ice cubes.
"Come on! I think by now, she is probably manipulated by Reo! We have to save her!" I urged them to move a limb at the least.
"But that is impossible. Mikan has nullification alice. There is no way she could be affected by his voice pheromone alice," HSP was arguing now. Oh dear heavens, does this guy ever think outside of the box for once.
"Heard of drugs? Well, even the most powerful alices can't save you once the drugs you with any of his synthetic selection," I sarcastically rolled my eyes. Missions aren't so bad when you get to infiltrate the AAO multiple times.
Shiki rose and I wanted to sing hallelujah on the spot. Someone moved finally!
"We need to send the fuukitai," he just picked out of the blue.
"That brainless student police who are created by the ESP? I don't think so they're worthless for this rescue mission. All they can do is summon animals and where will we get animals from at this point?" I say digging my hands into my hair and I know I am fully frustrated. My dear Mikan under the clutches of the evil narcissist… I….don't think so….
Silence passed.
I slapped my forehead in frustration, "OR... me, Hyuuga, and Narumi-sensei come and try to infiltrate the grounds," I throw my hands in the air. How can HSP act like an idiot at the time where his niece needs him the most.
From behind me, a voice weakly spoke out, "Let me come as well."
Surprised, I knew this voice. It sounded like a grown up version of Mikan. Whipping my head around, I saw Yuka in a battered state, crumpled to the ground. I thought she was dead!
Yuka saw my surprised look and weakly shook her head, "I escaped my funeral, I was in a coma, and when I woke it seemed everyone thought I died, and were planning my 'funeral'. So when I recovered, I took the chance to flee." She says but I still can't believe she's alive even the way she portrays herself she looks like she was revived from the dead. Will Mikan be glad to have her mother back so they can get along now? I hope so because I love to see Mikan happy and that is all that matters to me because I love her.
I was stunned and Natsume looked like his mouth could drop to the floor. I think he might be nice to Yuka-san only to get Mikan's hand in marriage or something like that. But from the time-travel, she is not the type to get fooled by false facades and cheesy lines. She will see who is well suited for Mikan: me or Natsume. But for now that is not important, I will worry about that once I hold her tightly in my arms to reassure myself she's okay.
I shake my head. I think Natsume was shooting me a glare because he wanted to take this as a chance to melt Yuka with cheesy lines and fake muscles and looks of a fake Romeo, all the reasons to fool her into handing over Mikan.
I kept my firm stance and told Yuka, "Yuka-san, I do not think Mikan would like to see you strain yourself to the point that you fall into a deep coma that you never recover from. Please try your best to chip in information but do us a favor and for Mikan-chan and recover. She will be so happy to know her mother was never dead." I say and she looks over at me, Shiki, and HSP for an answer but the all nodded their heads in reassurance to me.
Yuka wanted to protest, but Shiki-san cleared his throat. Yuka looked at him with clear worry, and he looks at her with understanding eyes. Her affection was motherly, and understandable.
"He's right. Mikan won't be able to handle it if you really do die. She might be controlled right now but we can always find a way to bring back her sanity. But recover for her, because the biggest gift you can give her is staying alive for her sake," he smiled softly. Yuka sighs heavily showing her defeat and plops down on the nearest seat due to exhaustion. She still shows a hint of agitation and looks just like how mikan looks when she's agitated. So cute….. she looks like an adult Mikan.
I smile when she agreed to our pleading. I walked over to her, and put a hand on her shoulder, making her look at me in surprise. I really am not trying that hard to win her over because it seems she's taking a liking to me…. thank goodness.
"Yuka-san, don't worry. I know Mikan-chan is all you have left, so that is why Narumi-sensei, Natsume and I are going to get her, and bring her out of the clutches of AAO. In the end, you will be with your daughter, no matter what. I will make sure at all costs she is back in your arms," I smile. I mean each and every word. She looks into my eyes with the meaning of trust and I gaze into her wonderful eyes. I now know where Mikan gets her beauty from.
She smiles at me, and doesn't flinch when I said Hyuuga's name. She probably is aware with the fact that she and Kaoru made a bond, but she wants someone who will love Mikan for who she is, not an arranged marriage through lineage and family name. Being bounded to someone by fate is a different story it is an everlasting love two people will share not some forced marriage.
"You called me?" a girly voice came, and Narumi sensei came in with a girly attitude until he saw Yuka and gagged his eyes out. Narumi blushed profusely as if remembering a embarrassing memory.
"Yep, sensei, we're going now." I declared.
"But I'm hungry!" Natsume accentuated his point when a loud growl cut the pregnant silence in the room.
"What, you're worried about your hunger more than Mikan? Hell I am hungry too you know but my love for her will overpower it," I glared at him and he shuts up, "We have no time for food right now. If you're so worried about eating then go eat and forget about this mission."
He stayed silent, and I blushed when everyone snapped their heads towards me in shock. Oopsies daisies...indirect confessions…
I awkwardly scratch my head. Me and my big enormous mouth. I re-adjust just my beanie on my head, and then look at Narumi-sensei who is still gaping at Yuka-san. I snap my fingers in Narumi-sensei's direction trying to get him under control. God that man really needs a leash or something.
"Oi hoi ya comin'? I'm gonna leave you if you stand there," I teased him.
Narumi sensei snapped out of his daydream and nodded at me quickly. I smirked in Hyuuga's direction, and said innocently, "Let's go."
I walked out and the two of them followed. We needed to go to the high school section to take the warp-hole to AAO hideouts
We walked towards the high-school section, to the second floor, north corner of the western dorms.
One thought passed through my mind as the three of us went.
I am coming for you, my kouhai, my only love… I love you and I will protect you even if it means using my last resort.
[Yuka's POV]
I stared in shock. Was that Kaoru Hyuuga's son? It was! But he isn't so worried about Mikan too much like the other boy, oooh what was his name?
"Tsubasa Andou," Kazumi answered my silent question.
"Do you like him better than Hyuuga-san for Mikan?" Shiki asked and brother turned his head interested in the conversation. How can I tell? Well when he turned he had one of those creepy smiles plastered on his face. (OOC-ness, no?)
"I thought...that I had to complete the bond…but I want the best for Mikan…" I trembled, recalling the middle school boy's words, "if Andou-san can prove to me that he is more trustworthy than Hyuuga-san in protecting Mikan and rescuing her, I will hand her over to him. And the final decision comes down to Mikan...who to choose...because this is her life, not mine. I already decided sensei would be the only person I loved."
Shiki looked at me with understanding in his eyes.
Kazumi looked at me with a hint of a smile, "I understand and agree with your logic."
"Who do you favor right now?" Shiki asked.
"Don't push her," Kazumi scolded him, and he muttered an inaudible, 'sorry'.
I smiled, at Shiki-san's persistence, and Kazumi's strictness. It felt really good to be back again because I have my family back again.I replied to their question with an ambiguous answer.
"Only time can tell. Only time can answer my undying thirst. Time will reveal who Mikan should be with. So let's be patient and watch what unfolds. As for me, I must take the kid's advice and rest, so I'll be doing that now." I smiled.
"Go in a disguise. ESP is still alive. And rest in the Hana Hime Den as well. Himemiya will gladly offer you a refugee until Mikan is safely returned to the academy. You still have teleportation powers, right?" Kazumi ignored Shiki and asked me because I was on my last thread.
"Yes, but I can only use it once because I am at my limit." I respond.
"Good then hurry now. ESP will not be permitted to go in the Hana Hime Den, so you will be safe there for the time being," Shiki broke out of his creepy aura and started to talk professionally which also creeped me out on how quickly he can change moods. Is he moody by nature now?
I nodded, and don a disguise to a woman with long curly black hair and ice-cold blue eyes. The contacts were designed to wear 30 straight days so that does me good since I can worry less about having to change my lenses.
I put on a blue kimono, with a blue fan and a citrus shaped clip in my hair, for my name is a pun for citrus fruits.
I then teleport to the Hana Hime Den, to rest momentarily and most of all, stay alive for Mikan, my gemstone of the world. I drift off into sleep and I had a dream of me and Mikan smiling and laughing with one another. The thought of this moment made me burst into tears as I engulfed my precious daughter in a hug. Never again will I glare at you with icy-cold eyes, so when you return I will give you all the love that you deserved in the beginning.
I will meet you again, Mikan, I will see you again. Have faith in your friends.
[Mikan's POV]
After Reo-sama gave me the basics, he told me that Z wanted to see me. I felt a little nervous but the mind control instantly clouded my mind once again leaving my body to do all the work.
I went to the door down the hallway, and entered the door when I heard a deep seductive, "Come in, Mikan."
I almost puked, but kept my icy cold mask on, and emotionlessly entered the room in my lab gear, my long hair pulled back in a high ponytail. I walked over to his side and knelt before him even though my mind screamed no.
"Why don't you take down your hair to look like your mother?" he smirked at me when I made no facial expressions.
From my knelt position, I wanted to amputate both of his legs then and there. But I lifted my head when two cold fingers tilted them up, "They will get caught in the wind if I do, and that is a nuisance for the mission, since I want my long hair."
Z nodded and sighed and said, "You can stand now." I obeyed but stayed as I was.
"I have a mission for you, howaito suwan," he smirked.
I raised an eyebrow at my new code name but kept silent. I nodded, asking him to go on in a 'polite' manner.
He smirked once again and made me wish if I was Kami-sama, I would make produce a spear and kill him on the spot. I tried very hard to let a snarl slip out of my throat.
He handed me a manilla folder, and said, "I have a list of the students whose alices I want you to steal their alices and produce the stones to me. Got it."
I nonchalantly shrugged to cover my urge to strangle him. Skimming through the list, I froze.
Victim number 88: Tsubasa Andou. NO! Anybody but him please….
My heart wanted to cry for mercy. I don't want to steal his! And going down the list, I saw everyone else's names on there! This is terrible!
I guess I was sweating and Z snarled at me with a smirk, "What's wrong? Can't do this easy mission? Or shall I make it a genocide?"
"You bastard how dare you attempt to take their alice stones…" I mumble low so he couldn't hear but apparently he did.
"I don't care. All I care if you are my marionette, and you will do as I wish. You are going to do it and fulfill it," Z ignored me. I drop to my knees and shaked trying to fight back the urge to kill him on the spot, making him him beg for my forgiveness.
I icily glared at him, but there was nothing to do.
Standing up in a millisecond I coldly spun on my heels and didn't move until he said, "You will perform this at the Alice Festival in a month's time. Fail me and I will make sure to annihilate Tsubasa Andou."
My heart wanted to cry. Why the person...out of all of them...the person who protected me from 'perverts like Natsume' and therapy session talks when bear and when Natsume ignored me, to when he cared for me in the missions we were sent to by ESP, giving our lives for each and every one of them. Why him?
Senpai, I'm sorry… I don't want to take it but I am forced to….. Forgive me soon
I have to do this, or else you will die…
Silent tears dripped down, and I stiffly nodded my head and dashed out of the room. Reo-sama caught up with me, and he casually remarked, "So what was the mission he gave you? That is a thick folder he gave."
"None of your concerns. I would tell you but there is a big word called 'CONFIDENTIAL' written on it in the shape of an X," I ignored him.
"How interesting," he smirked, "I wish I could join."
"It is indeed messy one in my view. It will take a lot of time to capture my target." I grimly looked at the floor as I walked.
"Then it is official. I will be coming with you, whether you like it or not. " he smirked.
I rolled my eyes. Reo-sama is such a load to deal with, and I do not get how he is the subject of adoration, even in my thoughts. Why am I adding -sama to his name? Disgusting.
I ignored him completely, but inside I was tearing apart.
"Fine. Do as you please," I whispered. I then speed walked, until he stopped abruptly in my tracks.
"What?" I sent an annoyed glare at him.
"This is going to be your room, ingenious scientist," he rolled his eyes with sarcasm dripping in his voice. I gave a frustrated sigh and just stood there waiting.
I then curtly nodded, and he produced a key for my room door. I formally accepted the key and then watched him walk away. When he was gone, I unlocked my room, and found it larger than I thought it would be.
It had a huge kitchen, a shower with a hundred different shower options, water pressures, shampoos, conditioners, baths, and scented oils. There was a jacuzzi and a normal bathroom, a huge bedroom, with a king sized blue bed. I am surprised because from one day I was moved from a worn down torture chamber to a luxurious room. If only I wasn't kidnapped and forced here I would love it.
Too tired to do anything, I just changed out of my uniform, put it for washing in my private washer and changed in a simple pair of pj's. Plopping down on the bed, I let tears spill.
This morning I woke up in my dorm. And tonight I sleep in an unknown place.
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