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Mikan made her way through the silent hallways with caution. She noted the unusual silence and kept her guard up. Mikan continued making her way out of the AAO doors with extra caution, past the three giant guards near the entrance of the AAO. Mikan almost choked on her own spit when she realised that they were the guards that were watching her and Natsume kiss each other senseless during the mission- or so they thought that it was a mission. She then had to hold in her laughter when she heard them bitching about their boss- Reo Mouri.

'Hah, the sucker. The people that work for him even hate him' Mikan thought, smirking. Then without wasting any more time, Mikan headed out the door to make her way around the AAO.

Just as Mikan was going around the corner, she bumped into something hard. Mikan cursed under her breath and placed her hand over her head where she had hit…whatever it was. Mikan then looked up and cursed aloud. Three guards were in front of her, smirking like the douche bags they were.

"You didn't really think that we didn't see you, did you?" said the bloke that she had bumped into. Mikan held back the urge to roll her eyes.

"Actually, I kind of did. You have the brain now bigger than my finger nail" Mikan replied calmly, holding up her hand to show the three guards her nails. All three guards growled.

"You watch it, Kid, or you'll regret it" threatened another guard. Now, Mikan rolled her eyes.

"Oh, please. At least I don't stand around bitching about my boss" said Mikan with an evil glint in her eyes. The guards stared at her in confusion. Mikan smirked and took out a recorder that she had carried with her and played it, letting the three guards hear what they were talking about earlier on about their boss. Now, the three guards lunged towards Mikan.

Natsume stirred in his bed. He was unable to sleep for some reason. He felt as if something wasn't right. That something was going to happen. Natsume groaned and pulled the blanket over his head, as if trying to hide himself, hoping that he would soon go to sleep. Natsume stayed under the blanket for about 10 minutes before ripping the blanket off him and got out of bed and walked out onto his balcony.

Natsume lay down on his porch swing on the balcony, keeping on foot on the ground and the other on the swing, and heaved a sigh. He used his left leg to swing the swing as he stared at the sky.

Natsume then found himself slowly drifting to sleep. For once in a long time, Natsume was glad of something happening.

Natsume let himself fall asleep, not minding the fact that he will end up waking up to a sore back when he wakes up the next morning.

"Urgh, damn it" groaned a guard.

Mikan smirked at the three big-ass guards lying on the ground in front of her.

"Had enough?" she asked them. They all glared at her, and leaned up onto the elbows, though groaned in pain and gave up, lying back on the ground.

"Well, I'll take that as a yes then" said Mikan, as if trying to rub it in. She then turned around and left, to continue going around the AAO until she found the way out.

Mikan continued to make her way around the AAO for a while, until she suddenly sensed some people nearby, actually, a LOT of people nearby. Mikan turned towards the direction and raised an eyebrow.

"Come out. I know you're there" Mikan called them out. She then heard someone clap.

"Well done, Sakura" Reo applauded her. Mikan kept her place and continued to stare at Reo as he came out, along with his army of people- including Kaito.

"Hello, People" Mikan greeted them in an ill manner, eyeing them, reading everyone as they all appeared from their hiding places. Most of them were probably professionals and have worked for Reo for a long time. There were probably around a hundred of them.

"I appreciate the good bye party" spoke Mikan sarcastically. Reo smirked.

"I'm glad you like it" he replied. His expression then became serious. "Get her" he told some of his men.

"Crap" Mikan muttered. Twenty men charged towards her. Mikan whipped her rod in front of her and whacked the men away like flies that were pissing her off. She then kneed one in the stomach and elbowed him in the back after whispering a 'goodnight' in his ear.

Mikan then made her way to two men and used both of their heads to knock each other out.

'That's three down, seventeen to go' thought Mikan.

This time, Mikan used her Ice Alice to freeze some of the men in place while she trapped some other men in a barrier she created with her Wind Alice, sucking out all the air in it and waited for the men to faint due to lack of air. She then made her way back to the men that she trapped into place with her Ice Alice and knocked them out. It was easily done, since their arms and legs were frozen. When she finished, she turned towards Reo.

"So, next group?" she asked him challengingly. Reo smirked and ordered the next group. Mikan smirked along with him.

As the next group of twenty charged towards her, Mikan made a conversation with Reo.

"So, what exactly do you plan on doing? Kill me? Or injure me to leave a scar so I remember this forever so I can hate you even more?" asked Mikan as she knocked a guy out. She heard Reo chuckle.

"And injure that lovely skin of yours?" joked Reo. Mikan growled.

"Watch it, Bub" she warned him. Reo laughed.

"Uh-huh" he muttered. "Well, if you want a good bye present, I have no probable reason not to give you one" he continued. Mikan slammed two men against a tree and knocked their heads against the tree trunk.

"You sure about that?" she asked Reo. "How about, that fact that I will probably come after you and kill you?" she asked him casually.

"Well then, I guess I'll face whatever I will in the future" replied Reo. Mikan sneered.

"Right…right" muttered Mikan as she elbowed the last guy down onto the ground. As soon as the guy was out, Reo ordered his next group out. Mikan finished the group of twenty men in a flash, and Reo ordered the next group out. Mikan easily knocked them all out.

Then, Reo ordered his last group out. But like it's usually done, Reo saved the best group of men last. Mikan had a bit more difficulty with the last twenty men. She was able to know out five men, but the other fifteen didn't seem to like to stay still.

"These guys don't like to stay still, do they" Mikan commented. Reo smirked,

"Oh, you haven't seen much yet, Sakura" Reo responded. 'Ah, come on, get the weapon working!' thought Reo, eyeing the rod Mikan had been using for a while. The rod had only been in its rod-like state and about as tall as Mikan's height.

Just as one of Reo's men whipped out a gun and shot her, the rod turned into its scythe-like form, and the blade shielded her from the bullet that was about to hit her. Mikan whirled around and glared at the person who had shot her. Mikan then whipped out a dagger from her shoe and threw it at the person.

'Bullseye' thought Mikan. 'Literally'

Mikan turned away from the horrifying sight of what she had created a moment ago and continued to fight off the rest of the men. She had knocked out most of the men and there were three men left. Mikan was busy fighting two of the guards that she forgot about the third guard.

Reo watched as one of his men whipped out his gun and pointed it at Mikan. Reo smirked.

'Game over' he thought when his guard pulled the trigger. Though, what Reo didn't see was when Mikan sensed the gun behind her and dodged.

Mikan growled when she saw that she had been shot and used her left hand to put pressure onto her right arm, where it had been shot. Mikan checked where the bullet was shot. Judging from the angle, if she hadn't dodged in time, she would have died right then and there. Though, any bullet wound can kill you, all that is needed is the time. And Mikan knew this, so she started to worry. It wouldn't be wise of her to started healing the wound at the moment, since she was already worn out, and if she started healing herself, she would just collapse.

Mikan heard someone clap slowly. Mikan turned to look at Reo, who was looking at her, impressed.

"I am impressed" Reo admitted. He then held out a hand, and one of his guards handed him a sword. "Now it is time to fight me" announced Reo. Mikan grinned as she bent down to pick up her metal rod, which she had dropped when she was dodging the bullet.

"Lovely" said Mikan, "You have no idea how long I've waited for this" she told him, her eyes now empty of emotion. Reo smirked.

"As have I" answered Reo. Mikan and Reo then charged towards each other, both holding their weapons in front of them. They both blocked each other's attacks. They continued for what seemed like forever. Kaito stood on the sidelines, watching as the two attacked each other. In the corner of his eye, Kaito saw three guards appear.

Mikan also saw them, and got distracted, turning around. Reo saw this and used it as an opportunity to attack. He held up his sword and attacked Mikan. Mikan wasn't able to dodge, which then caused her to be attacked with the sword. Mikan used her scythe to keep her standing and groaned in pain. Her back was now injured and with every move that she made, it was painful.

"You're good" remarked Mikan. "That was a good one. Good cut" she said, slowly standing up straight, taking deep breathes, trying to hold in the pain. Reo held up his sword and walked around Mikan, circling her.

"Why thank you, I always thought I was good" he said arrogantly. Mikan hissed at the pain in her back.

"Like I said before, Reo- I will come after you and kill you" Mikan spoke in a calm voice.

"I look forward to it" remarked Reo, charging towards her again. Mikan flipped out of the way and tried to injure Reo with her scythe, though Reo barely dodged it.

'Damn, nowhere near' thought Mikan. 'I was only able to rip his shirt' She then tried to attack him again- Failed. Mikan was now frustrated and it wasn't good for her injuries.

Kaito watched Mikan exhaust herself more by the second. She was also starting to lose colour from the amount of blood loss she was getting from her injuries. He then stepped in.

"Reo, stop it. That's enough. You've had enough play" said Kaito, stepping forwards. Reo stopped and examined his blood covered sword.

"I guess so" Reo agreed. In the corner of his eye, Reo saw Mikan panting. He then slashed his sword across her abdomen.

A bloodcurdling scream was heard. Kaito winced at the noise.

"I said it was enough, Reo" he said, his tone evident of annoyance, though Reo ignored it.

"Alright, alright, I'll stop" said Reo like a little child that was now annoyed that his mum kept nagging him. Their attention was now turned towards Mikan, who had fallen onto her knees and holding her abdomen

"I could have gone for the neck, but you would have lost consciousness and died within moment if I had done so. We wouldn't have wanted that, would we? It would have been much too soon of a good bye. I must say, it's a good cut. I also avoided the female artery" Reo spoke to her, watching as Mikan tried her best to stay sitting up, instead of dropping onto the ground like a lifeless doll.

Mikan P.O.V

Blood. Blood. I have seen it many times, but this time, it was different. It was my blood. Lots of my blood. My body started to feel numb. I placed my hand over my abdomen and put pressure on it. I held out my other hand, facing the ground, trying to catch myself as I suddenly found standing up a problem, and fell onto my knees. I wasn't able to feel any pain anymore, which was odd. My body was numb, but I was able to stay sitting up somehow. I looked up and glared at Reo after he told me some irrelevant information that I didn't want to hear about.

"What was that for, you idiot" I spat towards his direction. I saw Reo examine his sword, stained with my blood. I gripped onto my metal rod tightly, enduring the pain that was slowly occurring and worsening by the second.

"I just thought it would be nice to give you an extra good bye present" responded Reo, smirking. I glared at him. The little son of a-

I then saw Reo lean closer to Kaito and whisper something in his ear. I saw Kaito's expression slowly turning into a frown. Kaito turned to face Reo and said something. I saw Reo grin and pat Kaito on the back as he turned around to say something to one of his guards. Seconds later, a guard appeared with something and handed it to Reo. Reo took it and handed it to Kaito. My vision had become blurry, and it was getting difficult to see. I squinted my eyes to see better, but there wasn't much of a difference. I saw Kaito's figure approach me slowly. When he was close enough, I was able to figure out what he was holding in his hand- A gun.

I watched as Kaito held up his hand and pointed the gun at me.

End Mikan P.O.V

Kaito held Mikan at gun point and watched as Mikan closed her eyes, prepared to meet her death. From afar, Reo watched, satisfied that his- who he considered- his brother, doing as he was telling him to. For a second, he thought Kaito was going to turn on him.

"Come on, Kaito, boy" Reo muttered into the tip of his fingers. "Pull the trigger, boy"

Kaito stared at Mikan's peaceful face. Even at a time like this, she still doesn't hate him.

Kaito turned his head around to look at Reo, who gave him an encouraging nod. Kaito turned around to face Mikan's calm face again. Kaito started to count backwards from ten.

"Forgive me for this" Kaito whispered to Mikan, hoping that Mikan would be able to hear him. He saw Mikan smile a little bit. Kaito couldn't help but smile himself.

'5...4...3...2...1..."

Natsume shot up from up from his porch swing. For some reason, he had woken up, feeling that something wasn't right. And that something was going to happen. Natsume started to shake his arms about, loosening them up. He also tried to shake away his thoughts.

'Damn it, what's wrong with me?' Natsume wondered to himself. Natsume went back into his room and checked the time. It was almost five in the morning. Natsume stretched for a couple of minutes before deciding that there was no use going back to sleep. So he decided to go for a run.

Natsume walked over to his closet and changed into his black tracksuit pants and a plain grey shirt. After Natsume put on his joggers, he grabbed his iPod, headed out the door, put his earphones in his ears, turned up the volume and then he was off. Running at full speed, Natsume pushed out all thoughts in his mind and focused on running and the music in the background.

Reo was both shocked and amused by what he saw before him. And without a doubt, he was also pissed off.

"What is the meaning of this?" growled Reo. Reo glared hard at Kaito, who had the point of the gun, facing Reo. Kaito was about to answer when Reo held up a hand, silencing him.

"You know what, never mind" said Reo. He then whipped out two guns and pointed it at Kaito and Mikan. At the same time, Mikan had gone for her gun and was now pointing it at Reo.

"I dare you to pull the trigger" she told him. "And I'll pull mine as well and kill you if I can"

"You think too high of yourself. What makes you think you could kill me?" Reo sneered. He then lowered his guns, confusing Mikan and Kaito.

"Lower your guns, kids. There is no need for them" said Reo, turning his back to them as he handed one gun to one of his guards. Reo took a seat and crossed his legs and stared as Kaito bent down and examined Mikan's injuries.

"You know, as sneaky as you thought you could be, you actually weren't" said Reo. Kaito turned to look Reo.

"What?" he asked. Reo smirked.

"I know what you were planning. You were going to go with her anyway, weren't you, Kaito?" asked Reo confidently. Kaito forced himself to continue looking Reo in the eye. Reo continued. "Honestly, it was given away the second it was said that she wasn't going to teleport away as her escape plan. Why would she bother wasting her energy running around here other than to collect a few extra things?"

Mikan inwardly cursed. She knew that Reo Mouri was known to be somewhat smart, but she never thought he would have that much intellect. How could she have been so stupid? One of the first things Persona had taught her was to not underestimate her opponent. He would so kill her, himself, is he ever found out what she got herself into because of not following his instructions.

"So you got me there" admitted Mikan. "So what do you plan on doing?" she asked him. Kaito's eyes widened.

"Are you crazy? Don't give him ideas!" Kaito hissed towards her direction. Mikan turned towards Kaito's figure.

"Don't worry" Mikan told him. She turned to face Reo's blurry figure. "He already had something planned. But it's our decision as to who does it" continued Mikan.

"Well then, I'll do it. Whatever it is" said Kaito. Mikan shook her head.

"No way. I've already decided. I'm doing it. Not you" Mikan told him. Kaito shook his head and faced Reo.

"What is it?" Kaito asked him. Reo's smirk widened. He then turned to three of the guards, that Mikan fought at the beginning of her escape, and said something to them.

Kaito's eyes widened. "There is no way that I'm letting you do that" Kaito told her firmly.

"You can't tell me what I can do and what I can't" hissed Mikan. Kaito glared at her.

"Well, from your condition at the moment, I beg to differ" said Kaito. "I'll do it"

"Kaito, you can't take up the beating. They'll take advantage of that. At least I'm injured already!" exclaimed Mikan.

"And that's my point exactly. You're already injured, and then adding the beating that they'll give, you'll die" hissed Kaito, looking over his shoulder.

"Kaito-" Mikan began. Kaito turned around, his body facing Mikan.

"Shut up, Sakura" Kaito growled at her, cutting her off. He then turned back around and faced Reo.

"Show me what you got" he told Reo.

"Kaito, you idiot" Mikan muttered, now looking at the ground. When she looked up to look at Kaito, the three guards were already towering over him. Mikan winced as she watched the three guards punch and kick Kaito with all the might. She was 100% sure that they were having their revenge. Now, Mikan wished she had just left them and gone away instead of being so egoistic and show off.

After what seemed like an eternity, they finally stopped, they walked away, revealing a completely different Kaito before the beating. Before the guards beat him up, Kaito had stature, confidence, now, he all he could do was glare, yet, it seemed like it needed a heap of strength to do so. It was a miracle that he was able to get on his feet.

"Are you done now?" asked Kaito, looking at Reo right in the eyes. Reo gave a satisfied nod.

"Go ahead and leave" said Reo.

Mikan immediately stood up and strode over to Kaito, despite the immense pain everytime she moved, and grabbed his shoulder. Within seconds, they disappeared from the AAO, teleporting to the academy.

Reo watched as they disappeared. When they were gone, Reo ordered his men away.

"Goodbye, my brother" Reo muttered as he walked away and headed to his office to finish off some work.

As soon as Mikan and Kaito arrived at the academy, Mikan could barely stand up. Kaito caught her before she fell on the ground.

"Mikan?" Kaito asked her, worried. Mikan let out a small smile. Kaito felt like punching himself. That small smile seemed so hard for her to do, yet she did it for him.

"Don't wear yourself out so much" he told her. Kaito looked around the area, where they currently were. "Damn, where are we?" Kaito muttered. He then looked down at Mikan in his arms and spoke to her with a painful expression.

"I'm sorry, but you're going to have to tell me where to go. I don't know my way around here. And having to call someone for help would create chaos" he told her. Mikan nodded and tried to stand up by herself. Kaito frowned.

"No way are you going to stand up by yourself" he told her. Kaito then wrapped Mikan's arm around his neck and then picked Mikan up bridal style, careful not to touch her wounds, and continued to talk. "Tell me where to go by tapping your fingers on my neck, like that game we did" Kaito told her. Mikan smiled. She remembered when she was bored to death, and Kaito told her a game to play. They ended up exploring the whole AAO playing 'Tell me where'. As weird as the name was, it was fun. She never knew it would be possible to be so close to someone within such a short time.

"We need to…get to my…room" said Mikan slowly. Kaito was about to tell her to not talk, as it would tire her out even more, but Mikan continued to talk.

"But…Kaito…" she continued. "Make…sure…that you…don't…get caught…by…anyone" Mikan told him. Kaito smiled and nodded.

"Alright. Sure thing, honey" he answered her. Mikan turned her head to look at Kaito. Kaito inwardly cursed. What the hell? Did he seriously call her 'honey'? Though, Mikan merrily smiled and leaned her head against Kaito's chest. Kaito couldn't help but smile at Mikan's innocence.

They started to work together, making their way around the academy until they reached their destination- Mikan's room.

HELLO! I updated earlier than usual (:

I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I apologise for my noob-ness. I'm not exactly good at describing…uh…fighting…action…yeah…that stuff. You know what I mean.

BUT, I SHALL CONTINUE READING…and try to improve (:

P.S. I've already started on Ch.26, so if i'm bothered, it should be updated by...Sunday or Monday (18th or 19th- DEC)

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