After a year~

"today we have gathered here to pay our tribute to our late principal of elementary department" HSP announced on mike.
"I understand your feelings if some of you find this ceremony unneccesary. Afterall his deeds weren't all perfect. But with that we also need to realize that after death every man is same. His wrongs, his rights, he lives them far behind. Every man irrespective of his character deserve a peaceful death. So that he can start his new life with renewed hopes and ideals. Remember it students, that no man is born evil. It's the world that make them what they are. So their death shouldn't be treated as one of those of the evils too." HSP continued his speech, desperately trying to get some sympathy for the deceased.

After a year of Luna taking control over ESP's soul, ESP shrunk and shrunk and eventually died the death of a just born child. So this assembly was called to give the tribute to the gone.

"well I believe to actually have his soul to rest in peace, we need to undo the wrongs he did. We need to free his soul of regret. So we principals have thought of showing some lights in the dark life of people manipulated by ESP. We understand that we really can't do anything to make it right for them. But we will grant them any one wish within our power. Anything that they can have without affecting others and the academy in negative way. Irrespective of whether the effects are in long run or short run. So make a wise choice children. You will be grant only one choice." HSP announced.

By the end whole crowd was in "wooow" and "waaaaw"s. But off course most of the people who were to be nominated remain unaffected. They were too old or say mature to be impressed by these.

"okay so I will start the list from elementary division." principal said and the whole crowd shhhhhhed. All leaking curiosity.

"well in class A of pre elementary there is no such student at current. There could have been one but, from some help he was kept out of the trouble so we will move forward to class B of elementary. The first student who has suffered a lot and has lost a lot due to dark intentions of ESP is...
Sakura Mikan."
Claps~ claps~
Students cheered for the brave child who endured it all.
Mikan hesitated a bit. Well she hesitated a lot. It wasnt like any other prize giving ceremony. It was... Well let it be. She still wasn't able to wrap her mind around this concept. What was all this even suppose to mean? And to be the first one to get the tribute, award, prize, respect or whatever it was! Oh boy she sure felt her feet heavy.

But somebody pushed her from behind and she was now out of the line. All eyes drawn on her. Now forced, she slowly slowly moved her feet to the stage.
"okay so next student from elementary school is Natsume Hyugaa" HSP continued the list.

"cht-" natsume mumered "what the hell is this dramma all about?!" he got a little frustrated but otherwise walked his cold walk to the stage.

Behind him people broke into small noises. It wasn't like that they were surprised that natsume wasn't that cold murder they have supposed him to be. All those drama with Aoi and his almost death while killing ESP has destain his image from that. But rather it was that somebody was capable of hurting Natsume Hyugaa! That somebody can actually blackmail him, force him to do things against his will. That strong child with no weak link can actually be manipulated!

"well with these two students we end with the cornered students in elementary division and move towards middle school" HSP said, in return gaining silence again.
"first student from middle school will be-
Tsubasa Andou."
A shocked Tsubasa went to the stage. For him all that was well lost in past. Before Misaki entered his life.
"next is-
Nobara Ibaragi" a silent Nobara joined others on the stage. Well she really didn't feel that bad because she never really knew what she was doing. Persona generally gave her some kind of drugs as she was always reluctant to use her powers. But it still was bad, right?
"next is - Hayate Matsudaira"
Hayate simply walked to stage. After seeing all the dangerous ability on stage he was quite sure by now that he too would be called. Those terrible missions that they were condemned to do could not have been good on anybody's mind.
"here we end with middle school and move on to high school students. So this list is started with-
Rui Amane"
Rui came to stage and behind him followed Hajime. He too, well knew that next would be his name, last of dangerous ability class and so HSP announced next name and as suspected
"Hajime Yakumo".
"next is-
Shūichi Sakurano" sakurano walked indifferently to stage.

People were once again shocked. Student council president was also a victim of ESP!?
"accompanying him is his childhood friend- Subaru Imai."
Subaru was already on the stairs of the stage. He knew HSP too well to think he would let him escape this public display. Eventhough he thoroughly wished for him to do so.

Everyone was struck with realization. No wonder, both student council president and vice president was so strict.

"Finally we end with our students and move on to pass outs and our seniors who were apposing ESP even from outside the school and if not, contributed to this school to their last breath."
"first one on the list is-
Persona, sorry, Rei Serio."
Everyone clapped to motivate new Persona for better life. Rei joined his students on stage.

"following him is Luna Koizumi." Luna too got on the stage and students cheered her too, for her noble act. But she stood indifferent. Due to this hunger of importance and attention she lost her most precious friend. Now it didn't matter to her anymore.

"next is our dear Narumi sensei, that is, Narumi L. Anju"
Everyone froze. They started sweat dropping. Their gay Narumi too! Even Narumi himself was statued. His well hidden past was revealed. That too in front of his students. Principal could have definately atleast have spared him. He was so much like Izumi sensei. Leaving nobody aside. Making everyone crazy like him.

But left with no choice he, a little shakily went to the suggested place.
"moving now, next person is Reo Mouri"

Everyone broke into applause. The super star was a given a deary welcome with all screaming and hooting. Reo ignored it all and went to join his awkward senpai. His company definitely comforted Narumi a little.

"now for those people who could not join us but were also a pawn of ESP-" everyone once again silenced.
"Kaoru Igarashi who later came to be known as Kaoru Hyugaa"

Crowd again broke into small murmurs. While everyone looked at Natsume from corner of their eyes.
"is she really related to Natsume. Their surname is same after all."
"sonna, his mum was also toyed by ESP."
"might be. Don't know"
"he hates ESP! might be because of that only."

Mikan entangled her hands with Natsume. It must be really hard for him to now reveal all dark secrets hidden in his heart. Till this date he was a loner. But now he had to accept all these people in this dark secret.

Natsume only nodded to show he was alright. Mikan smiled, flashing her brilliant teeth and the darkness and uncomfortable feelings around him faded in that light. His lips too, turned slightly.

"ahem..." HSP cleared his throat "next is the human that came in rumors not too long ago
Aoi Hyugaa"
Everyone stoned. What was with this Hyugaa family? Why was everyone of them were targeted like that?! They all pitied Natsume. Finally realising to some extent what he has been through.

"argh" Natsume grunted at the unwanted sympathy. "that HSP..." he blamed HSP for taking it overboard with his history and swear at that moment to burn him alive someday.

Mikan turned more cheerful, sensing usual Natsume next to her.

"moving on from Hyugaa family, next is...
Yukihara Izumi."

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Silence lingered. For those who knew him, they couldn't get over the sadness, over that feeling of loss. They all tried to stabilize their emotions as memory of their life saver flowed in their minds.

Others stood shocked.
"HSP just said Yukihara. So does that mean this guy was related to HSP. And still he was trapped by ESP?!" everyone thought. Their mind in complete jumble.

"next is..." HSP said in a little weaker voice, just a little weaker. That snapped people out of their rear. All knowing people prepared them for the ultimate explosion.
"Yuka Azumi... Who later came to be known as... Yuka Yukihara"
Students gasped.
"WHAT?!"
"Yuka Izumi Yukihara" HSP clarified. But he did just a small mistake. His voice betrayed him a large one. Making it clear to others that there was a lot more importance to this clarification then just resolving the misunderstanding.

Students mind turned into a salmon soup. But knowing that nobody would clear it for them, they buried the curiosities in the back of their mind.

Mikan's eyes were in tears. After listening her mum and dad name together, she didn't know what broke inside her heart but she just simply couldn't stop the warm feeling that was now flowing through her body.

Natsume had a gut feeling to slap his face. Why the hell in the world his girlfriend had to be such a crybaby? But irrespective of all that he gave Mikan a warm hug. In front of whole student body. Which made them further suspicious about this whole Yuka, Izumi and now Mikan's case.

Crowd was unrestful. Mummering and chatterings were constantly going on. Ofcourse, that was expected. They all got quite a few things to think about today.

In between all this HSP exchanged glances with Shikhi. With this they had completed their motive. They had clear the names of innocent lambs. The prey to ESP's prank.

"ahmmmm" HSP demanded for attention once again "now for the promise we made. These people on stage can ask for their one wish and we will fulfill it, if within our powers. It's alright if you all want some time to think about it." HSP continued, looking at the nominees now. "you can ask for your claim later on. So think carefully and dont make haste judgements."

"nhaaa~" Hayate said, again making the crowd curious "I have already decided what I want."
"oooooooohhh" came from the crowd.
"umm I want all anime collections and CDs and mangas of cool sky blue and with that I want Hotaru's autograph on all of that."
Everyone's mouth drop.
"what the hell is he asking for?!"
To not very much surprise to others a horse hoof came flying to his head. Then a camel hoof. Then some balls like structure. And it all continued until he was dead drop on the stage.

HSP smiled. "sure"
He knew it would be easy to convince Hotaru. Just few rabbits should do it.

"well I am also decided." Narumi announced. Everyone looked up to him. Sure their sensei won't make a stupid demand like Hayate. "I want free access to the greenhouse and thus to all the inventions of Misaki sensei."
"he-he-he-he-" everyone uttered. They were quick to jump to the conclusions.

"Baka" came a running and shouting Misaki to hit Narumi with his bean lash. "I would never let you enter my green house ever again!" he screamed as he lashed Narumi and Narumi dogged it.

HSP nodded. This might be difficult to do but he was sure he will work something out.

"ano.." Tsubasa came forward. "can I ask for the permission to have this star mark removed?" a very innocent Tsubasa said, pointing a finger to his cheek.

Everyone silenced. Finally somebody was making sense!

"nooooooo~" came a running Rui. "if that's the case then I want the liberty to let Tsubasa be marked like that by me" he said, gently caressing Tsubasa's marked cheek.

Tsubasa involuntarily took a step back.

HSP sweat dropped. He didn't know his students were that crazy. He had no idea that Izumi had such a long term effect on this academy. They were all talking non sense like him!

Finally he decided to tame them like he used to do with Izumi.
"okay" HSP said. Everyone was confused. Was he supporting Tsubasa or Rui or still maybe was talking about Narumi sensei.

"sensei please take back your seat" he said looking at Misaki. He nodded once and obediently went to his seat.

"Narumi sensei. I will look what I can do in that" Narumi beamed, Misaki dropped as HSP said that.

"Andou san and Amane san, for you both its been decided that Andou san you will be grant one week free from that curse. After that you will be marked again by Amane san. You can choose that one week at your own liberty."

Tsubasa sighed. What was he thinking when he asked that wish. Specifically when he already knew that Rui had same privileges. Rui pouted for a second but otherwise cheered.

"has anybody else decided on their wish?" he asked looking at rest of the nominees.

Pin drop silence-

"wakata~" suddenly Mikan spouted "I know what I want." then she looked at HSP "principal, I would like to have your longetivity Alice stone"

Everybody was dumbstruck. They had lost all hope of hearing any fruitful wish but now they hear it from most insensible person.

After a moment a smile spread across HSP face.
"sure" he said as he joined his hands together. A light emerge from between his hands. As soon as the light faded he opened his hands to reveal a golden Alice stone.

Mikan's eyes gleamed with amazement and she involuntarily moved her hands to get a hold of that wonderful stone. She admired the beautiful stone in her hand for a moment and then rushed to someone very special with teary eyes.

She thrusted the stone in surprised hands of Natsume.
"please use it wisely" she said as she closed his fingers around the stone.

Natsume stood shocked, as did others.

Mikan leaped forward and hugged Natsume. Another shock!
Moments passed.

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Finally a hand came and wrapped itself around Mikan as a smile spread across Natsume's face.
"Baka" he whispered in her ears.
Then pushed her back.
"don't jump on me just because nobody is gonna stop you" he said, indifferently.

Mikan fumed. Literally she was all red and smoke was coming from all around her. "Natsume! You Baka!" she screamed at top of her lungs.

okay another one shot... hope you guys liked it... and if anyone is interested i write fanfictions on maid sama and gakuwn alice. i have also written a poem on maid sama and have all intention of writing one on ga too.. but need some time for that... pls rnr...

ps next chp might be last chap... :p... so wait for it... :)