Yuki: Hi guys. My brother -yes, I have one- stupidly deleted word document and I'm using wordpad to actually type this out now. It's not that wordpad render me unable to write, it's just...hard. And I'm not used to it.
Mikan: Besides, Yuki came to a decision.
Yuki: Oh, yes. I did. I'm going to work harder on these two incompleted fics, Betrayed and uh, Forget-me-not. Yea, I know. I changed the title for this story. Also, I'm going to do my best to lift the emotions up a little after this chapter. I'll try, because I realise that my fictions are too depressing. I think I should change the genre to angst.
Recap:
"What do you want?" She hissed, using the same tone Natsume had used earlier.
Persona chuckled, impressed. "You've just made things worse. Come to the D.A class after school. You shall immediately proceed with your mission."
Natsume'e eyes darkened visibly as his rage grew out of control.
End of recap
Mikan's knees trembled slightly as she closed the door of her dorm room, dirty and bloodied. Jeanne and Daisuke hovered above her, slightly angry and worried.
Mikan gasped and panted as she slid down the wall and fell to her knees. She brought her hands to her face and whispered, horrified. "What is wrong with me?"
The mission had went well. No, in fact, too well. Too well that it had scared Mikan.
She had no idea of what she was doing. All she knew was that she had went into the D.A class, promising herself that she would freak out and she would not do anything ridiculous as killing.
But what? Once she received her mission, got ready, and about to begin, she felt strangely comfortable.
She was silent throughout, expressionless and stoic. Whenever Jeanne or Daisuke asked her a question, she always replied curtly, and it seemed like she had all the answers to everything and had everything planned out.
Daisuke and Jeaane did not looked surprised. In fact, they looked as if they knew what was about to happen and was dreading it.
It was almost as if she was in a trance. In other times, she would immediately ask what was going on with them. But, at that time, she noticed, but did not care. Focusing on her mission was the top priority.
During the mission, she was careful not to alarm any guards and made her presence unknown. And she did exactly that fantastically well.
Her mission was to retrieve a disk from the AAO hideouts. The moment she was there, she felt a thrill ran up her spine and felt at ease. Almost as if the place itself welcomed her.
When she retrieved the disk with fairly no trouble at all, she decided to 'sight see' and 'tour' around the AAO hideout. The normal her wouldn't do that, no matter how brave she was. The normal her would straight away leave, and hand back the disk to Persona without any bloodshed.
Yet there she was, walking around, feeling perfectly safe and comfortable. And strangely nostalgic. The place seemed familiar, almost as if she had lived there before. Hell, when Persona told her that the disk was in the control room, she didn't have to go kicking down any doors or forcing any guards to spill the beans. Instead, once she got there, she walked straight ahead, letting her instincts guide her, and ta-da! The disk was right before her very eyes.
Back to the point, while she was happily strolling around, and humming to herself, a guard attacked her out of the blue. And she managed to catch the dagger being thrown at her without a hitch. It was aimed straight for her heart.
And she didn't expect it to happen, the one thing she didn't planned and wanted to happen, happened.
She killed the guard, even when he had begged her not to. And she took pleasure in that.
That one thing she swore to herself before that she would never, ever do. Yet, she did.
A few moments after staring at the lifeless body on the ground, something clicked in her head. And she regained her self control of her actions and mind.
It was almost as if someone took control of her body and mind, almost as if someone possessed her. Almost as if it was not her. But hey, in this case, Mikan knew exactly what she had done, and knew precisely how she had felt; superior. No tint of fear.
She wasn't able to think clearly at that point in time. Her only thought was to escape, get out of the AAO before...before anything else happened.
She teleported instantly back to the Academy, stumbling her way over to the principal's office to return the disk. And, despite being horrified by her actions, she managed to conceal her anxiety behind a emotionless mask.
"Very good, Sakura Mikan. You've killed them all, didn't you? Not a single one alive? Yes, leave no one alive when they have seen you, or felt your presence. Keep this good work up, Sakura, and you'll be the top assassin in this school! Even better than the Kuro Neko!" The elementary principal's voice kept on replaying in her head like a broken recorder.
"...You've killed them all, didn't you?..."
She clutched at her head desperately. "Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. I didn't kill them. It wasn't on purpose. That wasn't me!"
"Mikan..." Jeanne murmured. She knew this would happen either sooner or later. Mikan would have to remember, and fast. That was the only way to settle things...right?
"Don't hesitate now, Jeanne. You can't afford to do that. We have to train ourselves. We have to prepare for the fight..." Daisuke hissed.
"B-but! Look at her now! She-"
"-She can pull through, Jeanne. She will. Who do you think she is? She's rose, after all."
Jeanne stayed silent, before sighing. "It's going to get messy."
"Yea..."
The guardians, who were at the other side of the room, hovered in the air slightly, before flying out of the window silently.
Mikan was trembling and shivering. She promised, didn't she? To herself, and to Natsume that she wouldn't kill a single soul.
Flashback
"Oi, polka."
Mikan whipped her head around, to find an obviously pissed off and worried Hyuuga Natsume with his bracelet on his arm.
"Natsume? What are you doing here? Classes are over, you should be hanging out somewhere else, not here; in the classroom." Mikan stated, surprised.
Natsume chose to stay silent and walked over to her desk.
"Natsume?"
"..."
Mikan sighed. Natsume wasn't going to say anything anytime soon.
"Fine then. Take a seat or something. I'll be leaving soon anyway." She went back to her writing that Natsume had interrupted. Her plan for the mission that the dressed-in-clad-black guy gave her later.
Her plans consisted of a 'do' and 'must not do'. Currently, the 'do's had the list of : being quiet, not wasting time, nullification barrier on at all times, in mystical form with Daisuke etc etc.
The 'must not do' consisted of alerting the guards, failing the mission, getting the wrong disk, and dieing.
Mikan was pondering over which form would be better, Ribbon Angel or Black Devil when Natsume finally spoke up.
"Polka. I want you to promise me something."
"Eh?" Mikan looked up, her train of thoughts breaking.
"...Don't get tainted. Don't kill anyone. Don't be... like 't fall into Darkness."
"Natsume?"
"Please, Mikan." He ended softly.
Her eyes widened. Hyuuga Natsume saying 'please'? He definitely wasn't one to show emotions!
"Okay, Natsume. I won't. Promise," She soothed, smiling faintly.
"You better keep it," Natsume threatened, but Mikan could see the relief in his eyes.
Mikan grinned, before secretly adding a 'do not kill' under the category of her 'must not do'.
End of flashback
Killing a person was one thing, but killing a person and feeling thrilled is another. Suddenly, Mikan eyes dilated. "W-What?"
"Yes, yes what?" The girl with brunette hair snapped impatiently.
"Now, now, now. Don't be impatient, my darling. You know the deal." A blue haired guy in his twenties said, chuckling.
"Yes, I do. Just hurry up and spit it out. What am I supposed to retrieve?"
"My, my. Alright, don't get your panties in a bunch, Rose."
Said girl, Rose, growled lowly.
"Retrieve this disk in the AA headquarters. Together with Fire."
"Okay. Exterminate all enemy, I know."
"Oh and, Rose. I'm warning you first. This mission isn't easy and you might die. Be careful, even if you're the top assassin here."
Rose rolled her eyes. "Yes, yes. Like a bunch of guards can kill me. I'm so afraid that I'll die, boss."
The boss chuckled, and smirked. "Well, if you're that confident..." He nodded, implying for Rose to leave.
*scene change*
"Like I thought, the guards here are useless. I mean, if they want to protect this place form invasions, couldn't they at least get a better protection? Right, Fire?" Rose sneered.
Fire grunted in reply, holding the disk in his hands.
"Boss overestimated them. They couldn't even lay a finger me and-"
"-Stop talking. You're irritating." Fire replied monotonously.
Rose mouth was left hanging open as she stared at Fire, wide-eyed.
"You know, Fire," She said in disbelief, "If you weren't my boyfriend, and I didn't love you to a puddle of goo, you'll be dead a long time ago."
Fire smirked. "You love me too much to do that, boyfriend or not."
Rose huffed, cheeks pink. "Whatever. Let's just go back."
*scene change*
"Man, Fire! Why did we have to bloody walk back when we could just teleport?" Rose whined.
"Exercise or your lazy bum will get fat."
"HEY! THAT'S WAS MEA-"
All too suddenly, an arrow was shot from the trees, aiming at Mikan.
Fire reacted instinctively, pushing Rose out of the way.
Rose was stunned. Fire didn't had time to doge the attack himself. The arrow pierced straight through his chest.
It all happened way too fast. Rose couldn't, and didn't wanted to register what had happened.
"F-fire?" She whispered inaudibly as she watched him fall to the ground with a thud, his blood soaking the ground.
"Fire," She repeated, on the verge of crying. She fell to her kneed, her hands trembling. She reached out the cup his face. "O-Oi...Don't tell me you're dead... Fire, open your damn eyes..." Tears leaked out of her eyes. When Fire lay on the ground, not responding, Rose screamed in agony.
"Ara, it seems like we missed."
Rose whipped her head around, eyes red and puffy, to find her boss and his assistant emerging from the trees with a bow.
Bow. Arrow. Missed.
It only took those three words for her to understand what exactly happened.
"I've told you to be careful, Rose. I did say that you might die. Although poor, innocent little Fire took the shot for you. How romantic." the boss continued.
Rose's eyes blazed in fury as she stood up with shaky knees. Her eyes flashed red. "How dare you...I won't forgive you. Daisuke, switch over."
Her outfit promptly changed, as her tears flowed down her cheeks endlessly.
"Aw, how scary! Someone help, I'm going to die by my cute little Rose!" The boss laughed.
Rose lost it her sense of reasoning then.
*scene change*
Rose Pov
(you don't have to read this part if you don't want to cause you've read it in chapter 10.)
I was running away. Away from something. I don't know. I kept running and running and I couldn't speak nor think. I couldn't see anything. I had my eyes shut tightly. I passed by many bushes and trees that were clouded with darkness. I couldn't see where I was going. I was just running—forward. Butterflies were in my stomach and a lump of fear grew in my throat.
"What am I doing? Why am I running? I have nothing left, he's already gone. What more can I do? Running won't solve anything. Everything has already been solved; I have already lost everything. Why should I even escape from the clutches of someone I do not even know?" I thought as my running slowed down.
"Why?" I echoed into the darkness.
"Hmmm, Black Rose, I see you're still here…Kind of stupid, don't you think? You had the chance to escape, yet you are still here. Are you hesitating, Rose? You have to go. They'll kill you. Run. Escape." A figure hidden behind the trees said softly.
"I have nothing to live for, soul. They killed him; he was my everything." I murmured back.
"Escape, rose. You have to. And then, come back here and take your revenge. You can live for that, don't you?" Another voice said.
Revenge. Exactly what I wanted from the start. Revenge. I nodded stiffly. "I rather do it now, Ice."
"You're too weak now, Rose. I want you out of here now. Before I see Rei—or that son-of-a-bitch— you better have escaped. I don't know what I'll do with you if you hadn't, Rose. Do it for us."
"Soul…But I"
She rolled her eyes, but straightened her back, with Ice doing the same. "Go now, Mikan," Ice urged. "They're…coming." My eyes widened. That fast?
"…I…I want to fight, let me fight."
"No, rose. I know you're practically boomz and all but right now you're not up for it."
"But—"
"—Having a nice little chat here, aren't we? Hehe, not scared at all Black Rose? You want to fight that badly, huh? I gladly accept." A dark figure loomed over us.
I glared hard at him. Soul ran in front of me. "Uh uh, you motherfucker. You fight me. And Ice. We don't need the best of best to fight a piece of shit like you." Soul snarled, while Ice stood beside me.
"Mikan. Survive. You have to. For him. For us. Mikan, we'll be waiting. Remember that we're with you if anything goes wrong. Ne?" Ice's eyes were starting to get teary. "Teleport. 3…2…1…" I wanted to refuse, object, but I couldn't. I wasn't in time to, and I was too shocked.
Out of the corner of my eyes, I saw soul and ice getting blown away by that bastard's attack. Blood spewed out everywhere as they landed onto the ground, not being able to move.
"Mikan," Soul murmured, reaching a hand out to me, but was never ale to even touch me. "I hope you'll one day…remember us…Sorry for having to make you…for—" Soul dropped her hand to the ground. My eyes widened in fear. I wanted to scream, but there was no sound. I wanted to see her once more, but I was already gone from there.
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"Good morning, class! It's good to see you perky today!" Narumi sang.
"Morning, Narumi Sensei!" The class chorused.
Our brunette today was tired, exhausted, frustrated, irked, and shocked mildly. Her mind was occupied with too many thing; things that had happened just yesterday. "This is getting ridiculous. I mean, just think about it! What the hell is up with me with the assassin thing? If that wasn't a flashback of my old memories that I've lost, then you can just go die. Seriously. Okay, if I think logically, it all connects and make sense. Unlike those stupid dumb people who's in the same situation as me, I'm not going to be an idiot and think that this is all my imagination. Who would imagine that anyway?"
Mikan had always wondered, why couldn't she remember anything else before she was in the hands of her grampa at age 14.
She knew that gramps was not her real grandfather. She remembered lying at his doorway, dirtied and bloodied, and had started living there ever since.
If that flashback happened, most likely she had been 'Rose' and she had been transported to Grampa's doorway.
"Well, today, we'll be having two new transfer students!" Narumi continued, smiling brightly. "Please welcome them!"
As two female students walked in, the class wondered, stunned. "How is it possible to have TWO transfer students after Sakura?"
Alright, I'll be frank. Those who was dumb and had no logic, didn't felt shocked at all at having three transfers coming one after another. Instead, they just swooned at their beauties.
"My name is Koizumi Luna," The transfer student announced. She had short, strawberry blonde hair and cold blue eyes. Holding an aura of confidence, she continued, "My guardian is Moon, and my form with her is Dark Fairy. Yes, I am a stuck up bitch, so don't approach me."
"I'm Ibaragi Nobara," the other transfer student spoke up. She had ice blue, wavy hair, and soft blue eyes. "My guardian is Stars. My form with her is Light Fairy. It's nice to meet you."
After finishing their introduction, Narumi clapped, smiling."Thank you, that was a very pleasant introduction." He got a scowl from Luna as a reply. Sweatdropping at Luna's expression, but hiding it nevertheless, he continued. "Well, you two can sit with-"
"-Mikan." Luna interrupted.
"We'll be sitting with her," Her guardian, Moon said proudly.
"But she's sitting with-" Narumi began.
"-We'll sit behind her," Nobara smiled, a little creepily.
"Any other problems, Mr?" Stars said, her eyes glinting.
"U-um, no. Go ahead."
The class was speechless, until a brave soul spoke up. "Who are you to decide all of this? And please state clearly! What are your Alices, star ranks, and ability class!"
Both of them stopped walking, and turned around.
"I'll don't think you'll want to know..." She advised slowly, her eyes chilling the class.
"Heh. Why not tell them, Nobara? Let's cut the chase." Luna snapped. Facing the class, she spoke, void of any emotions. "I will sit damn well where I want, and nobody is going to change that. Nobara's alice is Ice, while mine is Soul Sucking. If you don't know what that is, don't ask, get your lazy hands moving and search the dictionary. Our star ranks are special, and we're in the D.A class." Her voice rang with authority.
The class stayed silent, not daring to speak another word, as they duo walked to Mikan's table.
Said girl, who had just recently woken from her daze, was confused. "Wait. Why is it so quiet? What's with this tension? Huh? Who is these two girls? Well, they're familiar..."
Luna and Nobara stopped at Mikan's table, staring at her directly in the eyes.
"Wait. That strawberry blonde hair...Wasn't she that crazy bitch in the forest?"
As they stared at each other, Mikan's mind flashed to that flashback she had before. Luna's and Nobara's eyes visibly softened as they watched Mikan.
Their eyes widened in suprise when they caught sight of Natsume who was sitting next to Mikan.
"Fi-" Nobara blurted, shocked, but Luna was quick to cover her mouth.
"Hi, er, Mikan. Good to see you." Luna said awkwardly, her hand still placed over Nobara's mouth.
Mikan stared at them, mouth hanging, in surprise.
That same voice.
"Hmmm, Black Rose, I see you're still here…Kind of stupid, don't you think? You had the chance to escape, yet you are still here. Are you hesitating, Mikan? You have to go. They'll kill you. Run. Escape."
"You're too weak now, Rose. I want you out of here now. Before I see Rei—or that son-of-a-bitch— you better have escaped. I don't know what I'll do with you if you hadn't, Rose. Do it for us."
"Uh uh, you motherfucker. You fight me. And Ice. We don't need the best of best to fight a piece of shit like you."
"I hope you'll one day…remember us…Sorry for having to make you…for—"
Nobara painfully wrenched Luna's hand away from her mouth. Panting, she gasped, "My god. Luna, are you trying to kill me?"
That voice, too.
"Escape, rose. You have to. And then, come back here and take your revenge. You can live for that, don't you?"
"Go now, Mikan," "They're…coming."
"Mikan. Survive. You have to. For him. For us. Mikan, we'll be waiting. Remember that we're with you if anything goes wrong. Ne?"
Fate was really messing with her now, wasn't it? She just had to recollect her forgotten memories the day before and ta-da, two person from her lost memories appeared.
Mikan felt like screaming, right there and then.
"S-soul? I-ice?"
Nobara's and Luna's jaws dropped.
"What the fuck."
Yuki: How was it? I tried to pick things up a little, but not too much.
Mikan:Oh my gosh. This is way too cool. Now I'm having some sort of lost memories and all.
Yuki: You're my favourite idiot. I tend to make things difficult for you. But ASIDE FROM THAT. This chapter was bloody long. Tell me what you think! XD
Mikan:REVIEW!