Another Life Journey -7
Chapter 7 --Narumi finally entered the classroom and the students fell into their rightful seats. Mikan didn’t bother to greet anyone today; she didn’t even try to hug Hotaru.
“I’m sorry I’m late, class” he apologizes after greeting them, “the teachers just had a meeting about out guest. Mr. Kai Lee, he’s a great adviser to our government and this is his old school” he smiled “He came to visit the school and see how it’s doing, and I want you all to behave properly, will you?”
“Yes, Mr. Narumi” the class answered in unison
“Good, now I think he mentioned visiting classes, and he mentioned your class, so be prepared” he stated, “Now, let’s study!”
Mr. Narumi’s class is twice a day ( A/N: made it up) and on his second class Mr. Kai Lee was with him. Mr. Lee has long black hair tied on a loose ponytail, eyes brown as a trunk of a tree. The class greeted the two adults and proceeds to their lesson. All the time Mr. Narumi was discussing, Mr. Lee was observing each child. He kept a close eye on Hotaru, Natsume and Mikan. The three noticed it but they didn’t give it a second thought. What Mikan and Natsume thought was, why he glared at Aya in an almost ‘I’ll get you’ way. When the class was at the middle Mr. Narumi gave them an activity. He grouped the students and told them what to do.
“I want you and your group mates to make a graph of your life so far, the ups and downs, to be passed tomorrow morning; I want everyone participating on this project”
The students quickly grouped themselves and talked about the project. Hotaru walked at the back as her group mates were all seated at the back. Mikan, Natsume and Ruka were all quite when she arrived, Hotaru wondered why.
Time passed and no one from the group spoke, they were just doing their own work. Mikan tried her best not to complain and ask help from her friends. While they were working, Mr. Kai Lee approached their group and eyed each child.
“This group is the most quite of all” he commented squatting beside Mikan, “what’s your name?”
“Mikan Sakura, sir” she answered with a small smile, feeling quite happy to have her voice out again
“And you Madame?” he asked Hotaru on his left
“Hotaru Imai, sir”
“Ah yes, Hotaru Imai, the one with the invention Alice, yes, yes, you’re always talked about in companies, you and your inventions” he grinned, “it’s nice meeting you” he offered his hand to shake, Hotaru looked at it first with a look almost calculating but seemed to make up her mind and shake hands with him nonetheless happy.
Mr. Lee smiled as he saw visions of her in the future; he almost smiled evilly when he saw the room number she was sleeping in on this Academy. He let go and turned his attention on the blonde sitting across Hotaru. “And you sir?”
“Ruka Nogi” he answered nodding at him casually
“Ruka Nogi, the best friend of the black cat, I heard” Mr. Lee stated looking at Ruka waiting to see his reaction. Ruka of course was shocked but didn’t react as what the adult expected instead he just smiled. “Nice meeting you” he shook his hand smiling.What he saw was the face of a very angry Ruka Nogi, a glimpse of him sitting on a chair on a deserted room.
Then he turned his attention on Natsume, “and you must be the black cat of the school, yes I know all about you, you’re the one helping the school”
“I wouldn’t exactly call it helping, but if you say so” he answered, more like drawled; he stared at his eyes for awhile and saw he’s a very powerful man on the city. Yes, he has the look of a powerful man on his eyes.
“Nice meeting you, Natsume Hyuuga” he said offering his hand for him to shake. Natsume shook his hand the briefest moment and released the hand, but that was enough for Mr. Lee to look on his future. What he saw made him mad. He saw Natsume burning lots of trees on a very familiar place, his manor.
He was just about to leave the group when a voice stopped him, “is it not a pleasure to meet me, sir?”
He looked at the owner of a voice, Mikan Sakura, she was almost pouting but she clearly limited her actions to that. “Of course it was a pleasure to meet you Madame Mikan”
“It was also a pleasure meeting you, Mr. Kai Lee” she answered stretching out her hand for his to shake. To say Mr. Lee was appalled was a lie; he was more than appalled on Mikan’s actions. He never expected a child of this age to act so mature.
“It’s also my pleasure meeting you, Ms. Sakura, you’re a very polite little girl” he complimented shaking her hand.
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“DAMN IT” he cursed loudly inside his room. He was seated on his black leather couch with a drink on his table. Mr. Kai Lee was mad, he didn’t see it coming. How could he not see it coming when he has visions of the future? That was what made him mad.
Glimpse of future he collected earlier was now gone, he knew it’s in his head but he can’t seem to reach it. He concentrated real hard, it was there, glowing on its shiny blue light, he tries to release it but he can’t.
“That girl” he hissed, “the nullification Alice girl, Mikan Sakura, she’s going to pay, oh yes, you’re going to regret you ever touched me”
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Mikan sat on a tree’s branch and watched the moon on its highest; it was 3 days before full moon. And she’s starting to dread that night.
Mikan sighed and looked at the window she’s guarding, Hotaru’s and Ruka’s. She was afraid that maybe something will happen to her best friend and her blonde friend. She knew Mr. Kai Lee was giving Hotaru and Natsume close looks during the class and she started to worry about her friends’ safety. There’s something in his eyes she doesn’t like, she hated it, but she knew there was something in there that’s just being clouded by the thing she hated. And when he mentioned that Ruka Nogi was Natsume’s best friend, she also began to worry about him. No one should know who Natsume’s best friend is from the outside that will put Ruka in danger.
All of the sudden, Ruka’s light opened in his room. She saw shadows and soon Natsume looked out the window, searching the view as if he knew Mikan would be watching Ruka. He started to turn his head on her direction and she hid on the other side of the tree, blocking out the view of Ruka’s room. She glanced at the window and Natsume was gone but the lights were still on. She resumed her former position but there was someone there.
“What are you doing here, Mikan?” Aya asked
“I should ask you the same thing” Mikan answered sitting on the branch
“Watching our friends, you?” she answered casually
“Watching” Mikan answered avoiding the word ‘friends’
The two watched the two windows quietly and Mikan began to wonder why she suddenly felt that she must touch Mr. Kai Lee earlier.
“Did you feel something strange about Mr. Lee?” Aya suddenly asked “He seems kind of familiar”
“Really?”
“Yeah, I think maybe I saw him during my kidnapped on my house before” Aya recalled, “yeah that was definitely his eyes and hair, his eyes held something most humans can’t and it was so familiar to me”
“He did glare at you in a way of ‘I’ll get you’” Mikan said
“Oh yeah, I felt that, I didn’t dare look at him though, you never know what he’ll do, even in a room full of students” she answered
“Yeah…” Mikan started worry “so if he’s in the anti- alice organization, then all of us here in this academy is in trouble?”
“Maybe…”
“You know I suddenly felt the urge of touching him earlier, I don’t know why though” Mikan confessed
“It’s because of your nullification Alice senses” another voice answered, the two girls looked at their new arrival and saw Natsume sitting on the other side of the tree. Mikan looked at Ruka’s room and the lights were off already.
“How did you get here?” Aya asked
“You know, if you were to apply for a job watching your prey, you’re probably not going to be picked” Natsume answered, “as I was saying before, it was your senses due to your Alice that you felt the urge to touch him, I thought you knew that”
“Oh yeah, that makes a lot of sense, I, too, sometimes have the urge to use my Alice on another Alice to strengthen it or weaken it, it’s kind of freaky in way” Aya said
“So what did I do to him when I touched him?” Mikan asked
“My guess is that, what he gathered from the people he touched or seen the future of this day, he probably can’t have the access of recalling it, you nullified it” Natsume said, “in short, if he really is involved in the wretched organization you protected us for the day”
“You saved us, Mikan” Aya smiled at her
“But you aren’t protecting yourself” Natsume said “I know what you’re doing Mikan, I know why you’re here outside instead of the inside, warm in Hotaru’s room, you’re avoiding everyone you love” Natsume suddenly felt anger rise within him, how come she isn’t watching over my room, “I told you once it’s not right, it won’t do you or any of the ones you’re avoiding any good”
“You’re avoiding us?” Aya asked Mikan
Mikan didn’t answer; instead she bowed her head, her hands clenched in a fist on his lap. Tears suddenly fell from her eyes, falling to her hands. “Natsume, its three days before full moon, you know what that means do you?”
Natsume felt lost at first, then he remembered her words on the dream, it was midnight with the moon on its fullest and highest as well as the stars. “Yes”
“Then you understand why I’m doing it”
“But don’t you remember what I told you before? Everyone will be fine, just believe in them”
“But believing in them isn’t good enough!” Mikan cried
Aya started to wonder what they were talking about, then she suddenly remember Mikan having a nightmare. It really wasn’t a nightmare, wasn’t it? She asked herself, its dreams of the future. Now she understands why Mikan didn’t want anyone to know she’s having those kinds of nightmares. It just shows she’s having a trouble leading life.
“But you need to believe, Mikan” Aya told her putting a hand on her shaking shoulder, “everyone will be troubled if you don’t help yourself, no one will feel happy about it”
“But—“Mikan tried to protest
“Try to put it this way,” Natsume said “Keeping them in the dark will endanger them more, you need to live life the way you did”
“But can’t I just leave—“
“There is no other easy way than that, Mikan” Aya said
Mikan cried loudly and her body shook more violently. That dream must have been terrible, Aya concluded. Natsume wanted to do something to comfort Mikan. He glanced at Mikan, he saw Aya gave him a look and said to him, more like told him by doing it, to him that he hugs Mikan.
He approached the brunette and hugged her. At first it was light, but then he felt her shaking so badly that he begun to hug her tightly as if she’s going to disappear any moment. He knew Mikan needed help to everyone who can.
He knew he have started to fall for this girl hard. Yeah, if only she can feel the love he has for her, if only she can hear me shout her name. If only she can feel the hurt he feels inside when she’s sad, not talking to him or in danger. Yeah, if only. Now there’s a part of his heart he can feel that’s empty without her. Feeling like its to empty that it will soon fall to his digestive system and forever will he have no heart. He closed her eyes and hugged Mikan, who stopped shaking now but still crying.
Mikan was shocked when she learned that it was Natsume who was hugging her. She thought it was Aya. But then she smelled the sweet yet spicy smell of Natsume. She knew how she must have look to Natsume crying, a little girl helpless and unguided. But the moment she felt Natsume’s arms encircle around her, she knew she was safe and will never be alone.
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The next morning, Mikan, Natsume and Aya all have dark circles under their eyes. Mikan’s old self was back and everyone was happy again.
“What did the three of you did last night?” Ruka asked the three
“Nothing much, just doing something really important” Aya answered
“Oh, what is it?”
“Secret!” Aya teased
The whole day passed by and soon it was night again. Mikan and Natsume were to do again another mission. Mikan didn’t want to; she wanted to watch her friends. She wanted to guard them and make sure nothing will happen.
“Don’t worry; I’ll take care of them” Aya assured the stressed brunette
“You know, I think we should have told Mr. Narumi that Mr. Kai Lee is from the anti-Alice organization”
“Come on, I want to get this over with” he said jumping out of the tree and heading to do their mission. They told Aya they’ll be coming back in two hours.
Three hours have passed and they still haven’t arrived yet. Then, lights opening on both rooms she was watching caught her attention. She jumped to see what was happening on both rooms and saw that one guy on each room was carrying the student on the bed. She quickly broke the window and headed for the baka-gun on Hotaru’s table, she started shooting the guy and he soon let her down. On the mess she was making, she was sure students were starting to wake up. Hotaru was let down on the floor and she started to punch the guy.
“Hotaru! Do you have something loud enough to wake Ruka up? He’s also being kidnapped!” Aya asked Hotaru
Quickly, Hotaru opened her drawer and turned on a radio. She opened it and it released a very loud scream of a girl. The guy in front of Aya tumbled back on its sound. He fell on a hip of invention. Hotaru pressed a red button on the hip of invention he fell on started to tangle themselves around the intruder. Aya quickly entered Ruka’s room, she saw that Ruka was up and was fighting the guy, but the
Guy was using his Alice on him, invisibility.
Ruka called on his dear friends, animals. He called the bats and the owls, best for nights. The birds began to crowd an invisible form. Soon, he was forced to show himself. Aya fired the baka gun on him. And animals Ruka called soon attacked him. He fell on the ground, beaten.
Mr. Narumi entered the room and ties him up with his whip; he began to pull him to Hotaru room. What Narumi saw made him laugh. Hotaru was simply having fun testing her invention on her intruder. Narumi’s laugh made Hotaru stop and have her invention tie the intruder tightly with the other intruder.
“Are you three okay?” Narumi asked
“Yeah” the three answered
“Wait a minute, what brings you here Aya? Isn’t your room upstairs? On the special room?” Narumi asked
Aya began to stutter, she simply scratched her head nervously.
“What are they doing here, sir?” Hotaru asked
“I don’t know”
“How did they get in?” Ruka asked
“I think they got in by a inside man” Narumi answered
“Oh” he said
“Where’re the other students?” Aya asked
“These two are the only one planned to be kidnapped” Narumi answered
“How do you know that?” Ruka asked
“I’m a fake” he said, and then his appearance of Narumi began to shift into a woman’s form. She has red hair, pink eyes and stands 5’9.
Ruka began to call his animals, making the room be filled with crows but it suddenly disappears. Now they saw, a man with big muscles. He began to carry the three out of the room. Hotaru drew out a tiny blade and cut the man’s skin, blood soon zoomed out. She got a small vial and filled it with his blood. The man began to howl in pain now that he felt the cut he received. Hotaru quickly dropped the vial on the floor label with, enemy’s blood.
On the way out of the dormitory, fire greeted them. The man’s appearance began to shift back again on its woman form, making her body petite and weak. She dropped the children and began to throw daggers in any direction. Hotaru crawled to her side and sliced open her skin on her leg. Aya began to strengthen the power of the fire and soon she controlled it to envelop the woman with fire. She screamed inside the fire, but Aya made sure it did not touch her. She began to wonder why she screamed.
“No! Snakes! No! Get away!” she screamed
“Huh?” Aya looked at Ruka who just had a dumb look on his face. She searched the place and saw Yuu concentrating very hard.
Soon, Persona arrived and he took the woman who was still murmuring snakes under her breath. Persona nods at Natsume for good work and left the place.
“Where did you come from?” Aya asked Yuu
“I heard the ruckus from my room,” he answered “don’t worry, I made sure everyone is safe before I got here”
“Cool” Aya smiled
Ruka went to Natsume and asked if he’s alright.
“Yeah, just tired from the other mission”
“You mean this isn’t your mission?”
“Nope”
They heard a gasped and that was soon followed by a sigh. The four of them approached the lying form and saw it was Mikan around her was her own pool of blood. She was hit by the daggers the woman threw, one on her arm and one on her leg. Natsume quickly carried her and ran straight to the hospital. The other three quickly catch up on him using Hotaru’s invention. He quickly joined them. Natsume whispered calming words to Mikan and to himself, to stop himself to follow Persona and hurt that woman badly.
“Come on, we’re already here” he whispered “hold on”
When they entered the emergency room Narumi was already there, the doctor quickly put Mikan on a bed and operated on her. He made the others wait for him to fix her up.
“What happened?” Narumi asked
“Hotaru and Ruka were being kidnapped, then I helped them, then you—another you—came in we thought you were you but you weren’t so she got to us and she tried to kidnapped the three of us then fire was downstairs then she began to throw daggers then Yuu came with his illusion then Persona came and got her then we heard Mikan, then we brought her here” Aya explained in a manner were Narumi needed to open his ears to understand every word.
“How about the other students?”
“The woman said, we were the only ones planned to be kidnapped” Hotaru answered
“How many were there?”
“3 including the woman”
Narumi excused himself and talked to the nurse on the table; he dialed something on the phone and told the person on the other line that intruders are on the loose.
“How come you and Mikan were together?” Ruka asked
Natsume looked at Aya, who didn’t know what to answer as well, he looked at Mr. Narumi who had the look of it’s your choice. “I bumped into her”
“Where?”
“I was walking around the school when she came running saying, the two of you were in trouble” Natsume lied
“How did she know we were in trouble?” Hotaru asked
“Ask her, not me” Natsume answered
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An hour has passed and the doctor finally allowed them to see Mikan. Mikan was lying on the bed sleeping, her hair was brought down, and she was wearing one of the hospital gowns. Her skin was pale and she wasn’t moving. It was as if she was…
Natsume shook his head in the thought and cursed himself for thinking that.
“I was surprised when I got to her body, you know. Aside from the daggers there were also broken bones” the doctor stated “where was she before the dagger incident?”
Natsume began to recall their mission. IT took them an hour to end that mission. They were nearly beaten; luck was just on their side that time. But before that, Mikan was thrown everywhere, she can’t fight back. Once, Natsume saw her flying to wall then to the ground.
“We were on a mission” Natsume answered thinking its best to let the doctor know the truth.
“Well, I think she’ll be staying here for a while” the doctor said and left the room.
“Mikan do missions?” Hotaru asked
“Yeah, her first mission was to rescue Aya, this is only her third, the second was to make sure Kai Lee arrives safely in this Academy.” Natsume answered “and Mikan will really want to tell you guys herself so don’t tell her you know”
“By the way, Mr. Narumi,” Aya said “there’s something important we need to tell you about Kai Lee, he’s with the anti-alice organization, I saw him during my kidnapped before”
“Thanks for informing me, Aya” Narumi smiled, he looked at his watch and saw it was midnight, “come on you guys, I’ll be watching Mikan, you go to your rooms, you have classes tomorrow”
TBC
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Did you like it? Pls. review. And I know I’m not good at fighting scenes. I think this story will be near at its end, I’m not sure but thanks anyway for reading it.
Thank you everyone for reviewing. I hope my reviews reach up to 75 with this chapter. I just wish. Not demanding though.
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