Chapter 8: Everything is revealed

"Midnight is trying to end Mikan's life,"

"What? Why?" Ruka asked, confused. "Is it because Sakura-san is Midnight's opposite?"

Reiji shook his head. "If that were the reason, alot of you guys and our guys would be fighting. And I would be trying to kill Hyuuga-san here,"

Ruka lips curled upwards. "So... You're... Natsume's... Opposite?" He stuttered, trying to not laugh.

Natsume looked horrified at the very thought.

Hotaru took out her camera.

"Correct. In fact, my name's not Reiji Kitsuhara. But Raven Hyuuga," Raven replied, grinning at Natsume's discomfort.

A 'click!' was heard as Hotaru used her camera to take a pictured of Natsume's comical face.

"So, you won't mind if I call you Natsume, right? It'd be weird to call my own name,"

Natsume put on his clear, blank facade again and just said "Hn,"

"Anyways, back to business," Raven said, his face determined and no more tears ran down his cheeks. "There are a lot of things I have to explain here. So let's go to a more... Suitable place," he said, and clicked his fingers. They appeared in Raven's bedroom, a three star, beautifully decorated. Natsume's nose cringed at his tastes.

"Make yourself at home,"

Everyone glared at him. "We're here to know what happened to Mikan, Kitsuhara. Not for a leisure chat," Hotaru said.

Raven sighed. "Listen. Midnight Sakura is trying to kill Mikan is because Midnight was banned from The Opposite World, Htrae. She got angry. And after some thinking, she decided to kill her opposite, Mikan, to get more power to get revenge,"

"You're her boyfriend. If you're against it, why the hell didn't you stop it earlier and stop this mess from coming here?" Natsume demanded.

"When I heard about Midnight, she was already at Gakuen Alice. Fighting you guys. Of course I went to stop her. If I didn't apear when I did, Mikan and all of you wouldn't be here. You all will be six feet under,"

"You said red haired girl before this. Midnight has black hair and red eyes," Natsume stated.

Raven smiled. "The Midnight that had attacked Gakuen Alice has power. While the Midnight you saw is almost powersless. That is why she has to borrow Mikan's body to stay at Earth. I'm not really sure why her eyes and hair changed colour though,"

"First, Raven, you're Midnight's boyfriend?!" Ruka said in disbelief. "And you met Midnight after the incident, Natsume?"

Natsume noded.

"That explains..." Hotaru said, thinking deeply.

"Explains what, Imai-san?" Raven asked.

"We overheard Narumi and the doctor saying something. About Mikan's condition.

"Overheard?" Raven asked, smirking. Ruka couldn't help but notice how much he looks like Natsume.

Hotaru ignored her. "Had been under some kind of curse alice. Like someone in inside her, stabbing her internally,"

Natsume's eyes widened as he as recalled the memory back to his mind. "But who has it happened too?" Natsume thought out loud.

"I don't know," Raven said, thinking back of the History of Htrae. "I haven't heard of anything like this happening before,"

"Ummm... Hy- Raven-san. Why do you have to act umm... mean to Sakura-san?"

Raven looked up, pained. "I really had too," He turned to. "You see, Midnight thinks you're me, Natsume. And since Mikan is close to you, Midnight is jealous," Raven explained. "At first, Midnight's goal is to steal Mikan's power, to strengthen his own. But now she thinks that Mikan is trying to steal me from her. So she changed her goals. She is trying to kill her,"

Everyone went silent digesting the information they had just received.

"Is-Is there anyway to stop... Midnight?" Ruka questioned.

Raven gave him a wry smile. "We have to snap her out of the state. We have to make her realize that she doesn't need power. I'm just guessing here, but I believe she's been possessed. And so, we have to defeat Midnight to make her realize,"

"Midnight only comes out in Mikan's body," Natsume said at once. "Would Mikan die if we kill Midnight?"

Raven's smiled. "I never said we had to defeat Midnight here, did I?"

"Explain," Hotaru said.

"We go to Htrae. We defeat Midnight there. If we accidentally kill her, she'll revive,"

"You guys are immortal? Wouldn't the place be overpopulated?" Ruka asked, trying to get his mind around the concept.

"Nah! Of course we aren't. Well depends. If you just kill the body, you'll return. But if you kill the core, basically the heart, than you die," Raven explained. "Of course, there are a limited times that our body can regenerate, so after about 3-5 times, you'll die for good. I died once already,"

They all looked at him in disbelief.

Suddenly, there was a soft timid knock, and everyone froze, except for Raven. "Come in, Mikan-chan,"

A small, quiet brunette entered the room, with her head down.

"I presume that you heard everything," Raven said in a matter-of-fact tone.

Mikan nodded. Hotaru, Ruka and Hyuuga just stared at her. They had never seen her like this before. It was too pitiful for Ruka to bear, so he ran over to Mikan and hugged her. Natsume looked at them, and felt as if Ruka gave him a slap in his face. Jealous? Of Ruka? Natsume tried to erase the feelings against his best friend.

"So, when are we going?" Mikan asked in a small but determined voice.

Raven smiled warmly at Mikan, and at once, the temperature shot up.

"Now," he said and snapped his fingers. Everyone's heart beat in anticipation, but they ended up appearing under the Sakura Tree. Raven looked at their faces and laughed. "We can't get there with teleportion. First, we have to go to the point where Htrae is closest to this world,"

Hotaru glared at him.

"Then we teleport there," Raven laughed.

BAKA BAKA BAKA.

End of Chapter 8

I. Am. So. So. So. Sorry. To everyone. That I hadn't updated. Not only that, this is a really boring chapter (Though needed). :'( I'm Soooooo sorry. So. So. So. Sorry. I hope you all can forgive me. I MIGHT not be updating that often nowadays, but I shall try my best. I hope that the chapters will get better soon. I will definitely try my best. Until I write the next chapter...

Ja-ne!
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