Chapter 5 - What Hurts The Most

[One week later…]

[Mikan's POV]

I walk down the hallways, hearing Reo and Z laugh really loud about how their invasion was a success, even though we only collected three stones. After those three Alice Stones they obtained, they sneaked me in to get more and more alice stones.

Now their bag is a bulky 100 stones. Just sitting in the corner like a neglected item which is ironic because it is the most precious thing in the world to them. I wonder what will happen to the people who once had alices, did they get kicked out? I now regained my consciousness back but I kept that as a secret from them.

I sigh, and slump and sit down on the floor, feeling terrible of myself. I am supposed to be at Gakuen Alice having a normal life. I am supposed to laugh and giggle and try everything cute.

I am supposed to learn and get scolded by teachers and get hugged by my best buddies.

I was supposed to fall in love… Will there ever be a day that I am allowed to love someone...I hope Tsubasa-senpai doesn't have a girlfriend when I get back or else I really will lose my sanity…..

My heart clenches. I have the Unlimited alice stone shape yet it took me a lot of work to create one stone the size of a quarter.

I squeeze it, it was hiding underneath the v-neck shirt of my uniform. My nullification stone shines bright orange and reflects my utmost love for him. I want to give this to him when I get back, but then the question probes in my mind…

If he wants to see my face ever again… after what I did to him… I probably broke his heart…I hope I can make amends with him once again… Hopefully he doesn't give me a spanking like the last time (Chapter 32) I shiver at that one moment when he spanked me with a paper fan.

When I hear footsteps make their way down the hallway I am in, I quickly hide the stone underneath my shirt and wipe my face only to find out that I wasn't crying. I was too numb to shed a tear. Too numb from the shock of losing the one who loves you the most once more.

I get up and face the person, who happened to be, Reo-sama, smirking like an idiot.

I roll my eyes at him and glare, "What do you want from me again? We have enough."

He smirked and gave a few chuckles and ruffles his hair. I look up at him with a glare plastered on my face that could kill if glares could kill.

"No not more alice stones. Z said we don't need any more. I just wanted to tease you, my little marionette." he said, trying to make me swoon under the sound of his voice.

I rolled my eyes and swiveled around and muttered, "If all you have come to me is with pure nonsense, then I will gladly go back to my room. Knock on my door if Z has yet another workload to dump on me." I say about to leave him to stand there.

I then began to retreat to my room when a cold hand clamped on my right one, swiveling me around to come crashing into a chest. No it sadly wasn't Tsubasa-senpai's chest. It was his disgusting one, the one who smelt of things that rotted in hell, like his rotten heart and personality.

I tried to escape his caging arms that sickeningly encircled my waist. Gross. Just being in it made my stomach churn and it made me want to throw up badly. His body reeked of heavy cologne.

When I made several attempts to get out of his prison, he cooed in my ear, "Stop denying it, Mikan. I know you have fallen for me." I honestly don't know what to say because it wouldn't be right anyways. A 13 year old with a 23 year old. That's just sick…there is no way in hell that I would love someone like him.

My eyes widened at my real name which sounded like vomit when it rolled off of his tongue. I struggled his grip and thought when he loosened his grip on my back he was really listening to me, but I was dead wrong.

A thumb jerked my chin up and I could see his malicious violet eyes twinkling with the same kind of malice when he first captured me, "Amazing. You are just as delicious as that woman."

I gasped and when his face neared mine, I was constantly hoping, someone, someone, someone please get me out of this hell.

His lips were about to crash on mine and I was on the verge of committing suicide when alarmed voices were sounding from down the hall. Thank goodness because I really would have committed suicide because that was just wrong.

"Those same three intruders have come back! Yukihira sama!" some crazy fat people were standing aghast at this almost scene of PDA happening.

Growling, Reo-sama let go of my chin, and I roughly yanked myself out of his arms, wiping the stench of death on the walls nearby. I shake off the previous dreadful event and run towards thetrouble knowing it could only be the people I wanted to see the most….Thank goodness I didn't get his stupidity.

"Yukihira sama we need you NOW!" the fat people were yelling.

Mockingly I covered up my ears and waved them off with an annoyed, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Knock it off, I'm coming. I got this just go and do something else." He shook his head and jogged off, his flab bouncing with every step. Z needed some more… oh I don't know… fit people to work for him.(A/N: No offence to the people of this world because nobody in this sekai is perfect. Sekai=world.)

Using my Teleportation Alice, I teleport to Z's side, and yelled to Z, "Hey, you okay?!"

"Mikan!" the voice that sounds so warm and velvety that it breaks my heart. It warms my heart making it flutter.

Lifting my head my dark, lifeless eyes widen as big as saucers to see a scratched up Tsubasa-senpai, Hyuuga, and Narumi-sensei.

"YOU THREE!" I yell angrily before using my copied Earth Alice to ground them to the tiled floor.

"I got it! The anecdote!" Tsubasa-senpai yelled, holding up a syringe that undoes the vial that was injected into me from the start of time. His arms and legs full of scratches and cuts.

"GIVE THAT BACK! MIKAN COME AND HELP ME NOW!" Reo-sama appears from behind of him and tries to pry it out of Tsubasa-senpai's hand, but he was sneaky enough to slip out of Reo's angry grabs to get the vial back.

"No… I am not your doll anymore Reo. I will not bow to you anymore." I say gaining my confidence back.

Maybe this is the only way to become the normal me, the one who is kind and cares about people.

I teleport to them and then pin Reo-sama hard against the wall with a thick sheet of ice, pinning his whole body against the wall. Every opening he has is now closed and he can't escape from my clutches. Ready to pounce I say something before I do.

"It was fun while it lasted...but now you have to die...Reo-sama. Get ready to go where you truly belong. No regrets on my behalf…" I say kicking him in the place where the sun doesn't shine. I release him from the ice and I use my copied earth alice and I jab multiple earth daggers into him. Blood everywhere and I hear his screams in agony but I ignore them continuing my torture.

"Reo did you ever stop to think about how I felt? No you didn't just used me and compared me to my mother. Well you are dead wrong I never was and never will be my mother so get over it. I wonder what its like to hear you scream. You didn't care whether I screamed or shouted so why should I give a fuck." Say releasing the bloody daggers from his limp body.

I begin to walk away towards Tsubasa-senpai but a sharp pain was on my shoulder which made me scream. I look at my wound and see a bullet hole that went straight through me. I look away from it and I use my ice alice to pierce his tainted heart. His body goes limp on the large ice shard through his chest, blood everywhere on the ice and floor.

"Well then I know now not to mess with Mikan that way anymore." Natsume says with wide eyes.

"You got that right, damn straight. Glad you learned something today." I say in a mocking tone.

I then undo the earth binding to the three's legs, and look at him with a glare, ready to attack him, when I don't know why. My thoughts are cut off when two strong arms bind themselves across me, pulling me into a middle school boy's uniform front, slightly altered of course. I knew too well who this was.

I was about to question him what is he doing when a needle stabs the upper left arm, shooting in the antidote to regain my former self. I yelped from the sudden pierce of my skin….

When the powerful remedy has emptied out of the vial and into me, Reo screams because he knows that after all of my pain from receiving the antidote, I will return to normal Mikan. The girl that is full of happiness, the girl that smiled even when the odds were against her….

I go limp in his arms, shaking violently as I accommodate to the strong antidote. He looks at me with hopeful eyes hoping a miracle will happen. I feel like I was freed from confinement of being locked up in a cage in the darkness forever.

My vision becomes fuzzy, but then, a few minutes later, I felt lighter, lighter than the skies. He was now holding me in a bridle style and Hyuuga was glaring at senpai with hatred but I didn't care. I began to cry, wrapping my arms around his shoulders and clinging to him like never before.

Weakly I call out, "S-senpai?" I look up into his beautiful deep blue eyes and he wipes the droplets of tears that formed in my eyes.

He smiled at me and hugged me close, "Don't ever scare me like that." He puts his head into my neck and what I guess he is really happy that I am back.

"Oh nice reunion, but I am afraid I will have to take Mikan back," Z said, getting up from his chair.

I said nothing and Tsubasa was saying nothing. I looked at him with determination from his eyes and pulled his ear down to my mouth and said, "Pretend to look agitated while I stab him."

He mournfully nods, now starting this little act I told him.

Z smirked, thinking I said my lengthy goodbye. I then got down from his arms and he made a sad mournful face, trying all his best to not pout. Using my teleportation alice, I teleported to behind Z's back, and he was now maniacally laughing.

Tsubasa, Hyuuga and Narumi were shocked, and I don't think Hyuuga and Narumi sensei heard of the plan so those two were shocked the most.

Giving them a devious smile I pull out a dagger that I hid in my knee-length boots, for self-defense purpose in case if someone tries to attack me, I always was armed minimally.

"You see that? I own her and not you. I don't think that was an antidote you injected into her. I think that was a vile of water! She is my dear little marionette-AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Z screamed.

I had plunged my dagger straight through him.

Looking at him collapse on the ground and take deep painful breaths, I looked at him with cold, unfeeling eyes.

"Sorry, Z, but I was never your marionette to start with," I coldly glared at him.

"You were never any different from that woman, were you? Like mother, like daughter. Traitors."

I kick him in the stomach and he painfully breathes his last breath on the spot.

I then look at Reo who is bounded to the bloody ice pillar and sigh. He was furious at me before he died that is.

Tsubasa senpai, Hyuuga, and Narumi sensei were looking at me in bewilderment. I wince in pain from the bullet wound but that's not important right now.

I smirked at them and said, "One month of intensive training and having to put up with these two power hungry snobs has its upsides. I get upgraded fighting skills."

They looked at me with bewilderment and Tsubasa looked at me and said, "So are you going to come now?"

I shook my head and said, "I need to get a bag first?"

"And what importance does 'the bag' have?" Hyuuga arrogantly air quoted 'the bag' with his hands.

"Hundreds of Alice Stones that I need to return, genius," I coldly glared at him.

His mouth dropped on the ground and I look away in disgust, "Close your mouth, idiot. Flies are making nest in there."

He checked his mouth and I tsk'ed saying, "Gullible, gullible…"

Then the room temperature rose to the point that Tsubasa and Narumi were shifting uncomfortably.

I shrugged him off and created a nullification bubble and found the bag of alice stones behind the desk.

Yanking it, I tied it closed making sure it had the desired content I wanted.

I walked over to them and by the time the shouts were of, "CATCH THEM!", we were gone.

We teleported to the warphole and got in before any AAO workers could find us. Lucky me I am a genius of hiding all traces so they can't find us. Getting out at the High School Division Arc, along with the three, I hurry down to HSP's office to report that I am back for good..

I burst open the door to see my uncle, Shiki-san, and...mom?

She was holding her black wig and asking for another box of contact lenses. She was wearing an icy blue kimono and she was looking...my way. When she saw my uniform from AAO and the badge, she paled considerably.

I smiled at her, catching her off guard, "I was given the antidote. I quit AAO."

She breathed tears of happiness and I came forward and enveloped her in a hug. This whole time I thought mom was dead. Now I am going to, at all costs, protect her. I don't want to lose her ever again, my only mom. Since my dad was gone I had no one else left except his brother and his wife which I hold dear to my heart.

I broke my hug and then face my uncle. I smile at him, and say, "Here."

He looked at me with a look of understanding, "The alice stones, I think?"

I nod happily, "They are, uncle. I will return them after ESP is dead. He needs to be stoppedsometime or another and I think he should die real soon if you ask me. Forcing Elementary kids to do his dirty work, that is unacceptable on his behalf so tomorrow I will kill him, and don't even try to stop me."

He nodded, along with Shiki-san. At least we were on the same page.

I turn to my mother.

"Come, mom. Let's rest at the Hana-Hime Den until tomorrow. I need all the rest I can get," I smile at her.

"Let's go right now." I pull my mom up and I wince in pain from my bullet wounded shoulder and Mom notices. She teleports me to the Hana-Hime Den and grabs a first aid kit fixing up my arm.

When she bandages me up, she hands me a dark blue kimono and smiles at me saying, "Change into this." It looks like Tsubasa's eyes I think to myself but I blush at the thought of this. I shake my head repeatedly to shake away those thoughts. I wonder if he would compliment me how good my outfit was and say something nice to me.

I smile at her back and nod as I turn on my heels and discard my AAO uniform into a trash can even though I want to burn it and wear the soft kimono. I take out the rubber band from my ponytail and smile softly as my hair falls in soft waves giving a huge resemblance to mom's former self.

Mom smiles at me and said, "You let your hair down."

I smile back and say, "To proudly say to everyone that I am only your daughter and no one else's."

She smiles and lets tears drip as she hugs me, "I am proud to have a daughter as kind-hearted like you." Her hug tightens and I accept it even though it's cutting my oxygen supply.

"And I am indebted to have a strong-willed mother like yourself." I choke out those words and she hugs me tighter but I endure it because this is really the first time we really hugged this long anyways. It was nice to be hugged by your own mother every once and awhile.

Sighing, we take a rest for the day and rest on the soft comforting and welcoming futon that she had laid out for us. We face eachother holding hands and exhaustion get the better of me, I drift off into my little dream land, where no one can harm me even if they wanted to. I end up dreaming about me and Tsubasa getting married….. Oh how great that would be….

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(A/N: If she only knew will this dream become reality… who knows…. I know….but you thereader must find out next time….SO REVIEW PLZ!)( By the way if you liked Reo or Z then…. well they are dead so get over it….)

Chi: Who would like those two? Eww…

Eri: Some crazy person or a fangirl who fell in love with Reo….

Chi: Or a hopeless fanatic who will fall in love with anyone? Gross.

Eri: Ikr it would be so awkward loving a 23 year old kidnapper…

Chi: Revolting, in my view.

Eri: *Sigh* If any of you love Reo who is a creepy kidnapper in real life then I ship you to the

Titanic. Die together forever.

Chi: Yeah, beware. I will chuck you off Mount Everest if you PM me saying I am a heartless person for doing two character deaths in one chapter

Eri: So will I, but for those of you who have sanity and hate Z and Reo then you shall live…. for now...

Chi: But if you have a lovey-dovey heart eyes for ESP then I will drown you without a thought.

Eri: Me too that heartless guy thats trapped in a kids body… no I don't think so… I will drown you in lava with no regrets…

Chi: But hey, if you hate the ESP's guts then I will hug you and say, "WAIT FOR THE NEXT CHAPPIE AND REVIEW!"

Eri: By guys, have a safe Christmas Holiday break even though it isn't Christmas yet.

"Electronic presents for all"

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