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Another Life Journey -4

Chapter 4 --


*summary:
Two different people together in a mission where dangers abound and feelings developed. Face with a difficult situation, what will she choose, to live in a dream where there's no pain or to come back to reality where somebody is waiting?


Persona and Narumi was the one who greeted the three children back to the academy. It was already quarter to 5 when they arrived and Mikan was feeling really sleepy already. She mostly tripped around the woods on the journey and sometimes tripping on her own foot.


“Good morning, Mikan, Natsume and Aya” Narumi greeted cheerfully in his usual clothes


“Good morning” Aya bowed politely at the two elders in front of her


“G’ning” Mikan mumbled her eye lids dropping already


Narumi just smiled at her and said “Why don’t you and Aya share rooms for the day, I’ll be talking to her later after she gets rest”


“Okay” Mikan nodded smiling at the thought of sleeping. She began to lead the way towards her room while Aya watched Mikan carefully as if she’s going to drop dead sleeping on the ground.


Finally they reached the room and Mikan quickly lend Aya a set of pajamas and her a nightgown. She let Aya used the bathroom for her to change and her to change on the room.


Aya emerged from the bathroom looking fresh. “Hey Mikan, you can use—“. She looked at Mikan who was already lying on her extra blankets on the floor, sleeping peacefully. Aya smiled and fixed the blankets around Mikan and put an extra pillow beside her.


Aya looked at the clock and saw that it was already 5:30 in the morning; Mikan still has time to spare before Aya wakes her up. Aya looked around the room, and it was neat and clean. She sat on the bed and looked at Mikan. Mikan was obviously tired and sleepy. Aya smiled and closed her eyes, but she opened it in a flash. She let out a sigh and stood up walking toward the window. A memory just entered her mind.


When Aya was little, her Mom and she went to the carnival. They just finished eating their lunch and she found a really colorful table where an old lady is sitting opposite it. She approached it excited.


“Hello!” Aya waved


“Good afternoon, young lady” the old woman replied, giving her a smile


“What do you do here?”


“Give me your hand, young miss,” she instructed “And I’ll show you”


Aya gladly obeyed curios at her job.


The old woman turned over Aya’s hand making her palm face the two of them. She began to trace the lines on her palm, her eyes closed. “Close your eyes, dear and clear remove everything from your mind”


Aya did what she was told and after a few seconds something suddenly entered her mind.


She was in a room, colored in white and a window showing the fall of rain. There was a bed and someone resting on it, covered in sheets. Aya couldn’t see who it was because it was all blurry but she knows that she was a she and has brown hair. She heard something against the rain drops on the roof and the window, she heard a sob. Aya noticed a boy with a violent shade of violet hair sitting beside the bed, his chin resting on his folded arms and tears silently flowing. She knew he was talking but she can’t hear him, it was like he was so far away. All of the sudden the boy looked at her, confused. Aya turned around to see something really blurry.


In a flash, the white room disappeared, and instead the old women dropped her hand and began to hastily pack her things.


“What happened?” Aya asked


“That was just a glimpse of your future, young miss” she replied


“Where are you going?”


“Away, I finally understand it,” she said with a click of her suitcase “Be careful and take care of everyone around you, Aya Gamei”


“How do you know my name?” Aya asked as the old woman walks away


She smiles at Aya and said “Your mother is looking for you, take care now Aya”


“Aya!” she heard her mother shout her name


Aya sighed again looking at the raising sun. The school was enormous. Suddenly she heard Mikan mumble something, “No pls. don’t… let us go”


Aya stared at Mikan when she began to mumble again the same words, and her body began to releases cold sweat. Aya immediately walks toward her and shakes Mikan up to wake.


“Mikan wake up” she said “come on Mikan, you can do it… it’s just a dream… a nightmare… wake up Mikan”


A few more tries and she finally woke up, panting and sweat covering her body. Her eyes were wide open and were shocked to see Aya beside her but then she remembered the night’s event.


“What happened?” Mikan asked standing up with the help of Aya


“You had a nightmare” Aya replied, she saw the confuse and terrified look of Mikan and added, “You were begging to stop and you were all covered in cold sweat”


“That’s bad” Mikan murmured


“What was the—?”


“Pls. don’t tell anyone about this, pls. don’t” Mikan said playing with her hands, “Pls. don’t I’m begging you…”


“O-Okay” Aya agreed “Why are you so terrified about it? Everyone have nightmares”


“Oh that’s right…” Mikan said ignoring the question, she headed at the bathroom door saying “I think I’m going to start the morning early then I’ll show you around”


Aya just stared at Mikan entering the bathroom, confused. She lie down on the bed and slowly she was falling asleep getting used to the sound of the shower.

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That dream, Mikan thought, it’s been coming more and more frequently. How come I have that dream? Is it a warning or something?


She ducked her head under the spray, rinsing out the shampoo and the sensation. As she washed out the soap, the feeling reminded her of something in the dream, a new piece that she'd nearly missed. Before the only thing that was focus was her and only she but now it became clearer, she was with someone else. And she was begging and begging.


Who is that? She wondered who would be with me. Suffering with me? Kidnapped with me?


All of the sudden a picture of Natsume entered Mikan’s mind. She just sighed and said out loud “It does make sense… but Natsume? Suffering with me?”


She turned off the shower and wrapped the towel around her body. She quickly wore her uniform and put on her coat and a hat. Even though winter was still far, every morning she feels real cold.


Mikan goes out the bathroom and saw that Aya was sleeping peacefully. Mikan watched her sleep for a while and sighed. No matter how tired she is, she won’t risk having a nightmare again. So Mikan decided to try and study the lessons for that day and so she sat in front of her study table and opened her book. Time pass by and she eventually got to tired and fall asleep, her head on her open Math book.


~~~~~


“Finally she wakes up!” Aya cried exhausted after shaking Mikan up for almost 10 minutes. Mikan’s alarm went off fifteen minutes ago.


“Huh? Wh—what?” Mikan asked lifting her head from the book looking at Aya confused “what happened?”


“Ummmm, your alarm went off like 15 minutes ago…” Aya replied


“HUWHAT?!” Mikan burst standing up and ran inside the bathroom. Clearly she forgot she was already in uniform. She ran out of the bathroom seconds later muttering to her how stupid she was.


“Here Mikan, I fixed your bag for you” Aya said handing Mikan her bag


“Thanks” the hurried brunette replied grabbing the bag at the same time removing her coat and hat, without much success. She fell on her butt and groaned “Idiot Mikan”


“Just calm down and you’ll get there,” Aya said helping her up “I promise”


“Thanks, hey,” the other said standing up removing her coat and hat “you going to be alright here alone?”


“Yeah, I’ll just have to wait for Mr. Narumi to call me” Aya said smiling ”Come on hurry up, you’re going to be much late if you don’t go now”


“Yeah” Mikan sighed and ran out of the room “See you later!”


“Okay”


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The moment Mikan went out of her room she ran toward her class room. She was already 15 minutes late. She shouldered her back pack and winced. She stopped from her tracks and fell down on her knees. She was holding her shoulder in pain hoping to make it numb so as to not feel the pain.


She winced more when she fell down. Her wounds from the papers were finally taking effect on her body. She looked at her legs and saw numerous cuts, some were bleeding, some were just scratches but some were also painful even though it wasn’t bleeding.


She sighed and crawled toward the wall to her left. There she rested her back on the wall, but that too, was painful. She got out her hanky and wipes the blood off her legs and arms. She stood up with the support of the wall and continued her tracks with the help of the wall.


On the way to the class room, Narumi came into view. When he spotted her, he came running toward her just as her legs were giving up. Narumi catches her just in time before her fall.


“Mikan!” Narumi screamed “What happened to you?”


Mikan just smiles at him and sat on the floor, “Wounds I got yesterday finally showed up…I was beginning to wonder…” she chuckled


“Are you alright? Is there anything I can do?” he asked


Mikan smiled again and said “Yeah, can I enter before you come in the room? I don’t want to be late”


Narumi just nods concern in his eyes. He helped Mikan stand up and ushered her to the room.


“Okay, I’ll be entering in a few minutes” he informed her


“Thanks, Narumi-sensei!” Mikan beamed and entered the room.


She entered the room and greeted everyone and hurriedly went to her seat.


“You’re late” Hotaru stated


“I overslept again” Mikan reasoned with a nervous laugh.


“You’re lucky the teachers got an early meeting today” Koko said


“Yeah, lucky” she murmured glancing at the door. She caught sight of Natsume reading his manga at the back of the room, Ruka sitting beside him, while petting his bunny. “Hi Ruka! Natsume!” she waved at them


Ruka waved back at her with a smile and a tint of pink showed when he saw Hotaru staring at him with the same emotionless eyes. He lowered his head making his bangs cover his face. Natsume, however, lifted his head up, only a little to acknowledge Mikan.


But that fraction that he lifts his head up, she saw he has a small scratch on his right cheek. It wasn’t really bleeding but it was really red. She wondered how come nobody notices.


Minutes passed by and Mr. Narumi still hasn’t entered the room. Mikan began to wonder what he was doing outside. Soon he entered the room and the students kept quite and seated.


“Okay class, we have a new student arriving today,” Narumi cheerfully, “You can come in now, Aya”


The door opened and Aya entered the room in school uniform. She stands in front of the room with a smile plastered on her face. Some of the boys whistled and mumbled while girls gazed at the pretty girl in front.


“Hello everyone, my name is Aya Ganeku” Aya said shyly but smiled broadly when she caught sight of Mikan smiling to her and giving her all the courage she needs for the day.


“What’s her star rank and Alice, Narumi-sensei?” Yuu asked


“She’s a Special Star and she has Power Alice (I made it up. hehe. If you’re wondering what it is, refer to chapter 3)


“Wow” the class murmured


While the class did this, Mikan and Natsume took it as a chance to examine the girl in front. The two noticed that she has lots of cuts on her legs and arms, but only few were really visible. However, the two didn’t notice that Hotaru was also giving the new girl a closer look.



“Who’s her partner, sensei?” someone asked


“Um... Is it okay with you Mikan if you’ll be her partner as well as Natsume?” the blonde asked the brunette


Mikan beamed at excitement and nodded.


“Good,” he continued “you can sit at the chair beside Mikan, Aya”


Aya smiled and said “Thanks”


“Okay class, see you” he said leaving the room with a smile “Free period for now”


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At a far away place from the academy, a pool of water illustrates the actions of a certain brunette who keeps the missions of the anti-organization a failure. They were observing Mikan Sakura.


“We really need to take her out, or make her join our side” a deep voice stated from the dark.


“I agree” another said “She’s the reason why most of our missions are failing”


“We need to make a plan on how to get her” the 1st one said stepping out of the darkness capturing him. His name Kai Lie. He has long black hair tied up in a low ponytail and bangs covering his enticing eyes. Yes, he is a villain but he was a loving and cheerful person. Only an incident changed all he was into a treacherous villain. And now he is here for revenge.

The pool of water glowed and showed Mikan and a girl with raven hair. Mikan was running toward the other girl. When she suddenly got blown to the corner of the room, by the gun the raven haired girl shot her.

Kai Lie smiled remembering his days, and it disappeared as fast as it appeared. “That’s her best friend; one way to lure her to us is to get her love ones”

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posted by ~*april*~ @ 9:49 AM