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Chapter 4: At the dangerous ability meeting
"We have a new recruit amongst us today" said Persona. Megumi entered wearing a white feathered mask with blue colored design at the borders. "Welcome Megumi Igarashi. Her code name will be White Princess and she will be taking over as your leader and you all are to listen to her in my absence" said Persona.
"What the hell? We are to listen to an elementary student?" said Hayate.
"Get real Persona." said Rui.
"Yeah Persona who are you kidding?" said Hajime.
Just when Persona was about to reply Megumi stepped forward "If you think you are better than me then you can defeat me and take my position" she said. " That is if you are even alive after I'm done with you" she said.
"Why you little………." Hayate charged forward and tried to hit her in the face she dodged and appeared behind him in a flash and twisted his right hand to his back. "Hmph!! You're a pushover" she said as she pushed him away.
Hajime charged forward and called all the insects in an instant Megumi was in a rain of insects. But Megumi just dodged them all and reached Hajime "You gotta do better than that" she said as she pinned him to the floor. Just then Rui charged forward "Wait" she said before Rui could even do anything. "It's boring to take you on one by one. Why don't you try all three together?" she said smirking.
Hayate, Rui and Hajime came together and looked at each other once and then began their attack. Hayate tried to push her to the wall using his wind alice while Hajime called all insects and tried to cover her in them Megumi was just smiling as she dodged all their attacks but suddenly she realized that their main intention was not to take her down just like that as she saw Rui casting a thick black cloud of smoke all over her. "Ha ha ha …" they all laughed.
Just then a bubble of flame appeared out of nowhere and surrounded her. Rui turned towards Natsume and said "You know your flame wont work against my alice" he said smiling. "Oh yes!! His won't but mine will. My flame can burn anything including a material alice" Megumi said grinning as they all saw Megumi's white flame absorb all of Rui's black smoke.
"Enough playing around" she said as she enclosed the three of them in a wall of flame and turned towards Tsubasa. "You wanna go next?" she asked. Tsubasa just gave her a wary look.
She smiled and took down the flame around the others and walked back to Persona. "From now on the white princess will be your leader in all missions and you are to listen to her" Persona said. "Hai!" they all said except Natsume. "And I'll be the one to decide who does missions with me and what they'll be doing" she said. "That will be all for today" Persona said.
Everyone piled out, at last only persona and Megumi remained. "You did well" Persona said as she removed her mask. "Hmph!! You send these guys to do missions? They must all be pretty petty then" she said. "You haven't fought the best of us yet" Persona said with a smile. "Oh don't worry I'll will" she said and left.
As she was coming out some one caught her wrist Megumi tackled them to the ground. "ouch!!" they shouted. "Oh!" she said as she let the person go. "What do you want Nobara?" Megumi asked. "I ….. nothing…I just wanted to talk to you" she said. Megumi just gave her a weird look and left saying " Go bother someone else"
Natsume was watching all of this. He just followed Megumi from the shadows. She was almost at her room when she stopped "When are you gonna stop following me?" she said. "I know you're there. Come out " she said. And Natsume came out.
"Why are you doing this? Why are you even here?" he asked her. "Oh! So the almighty Natsume Hyuuga hasn't figured it out yet" she taunted. He caught her shoulders and shook her " What's wrong with you?" he shouted. "Let go of me" she said calmly as she hit a ball of flame toward his hand which he dodged. "I want to know why you're here." He said albeit angrily. "That's right Hyuuga. You want to know but you don't need to know" she said and left.
"I'll know what you're doing here even if it's the last thing I do" he thought as he walked away. "You'll never know anything Hyuuga" Megumi thought as she went to her room.
Natsume went to his room and lay on his bed thinking….what is she doing here? What does she want? I have to find out and soon he thought before drifting off to sleep.
One photograph lay clutched in his hands. It was a picture of children burning crackers, laughing and enjoying themselves.