Gakuen Alice:A Fresh Start Ch5

Chapter 5
  

   Natsume was sitting in his room feeling sad, angry, and betrayed. He felt a tear slide down his cheek and quickly wiped it away. "The Natsume Hyuuga does not cry," he reminded himself. He felt despair sink in, "But she betrayed me. I love her. She said she'd wait but..." Suddenly, he smirked, "Fine. Then I'll just have to win her back...."
----------------------------------------The Next Day---------------

    
     Mikan cringed as she stood in front of the door to her class. It was too much for her to handle, seeing them acting as if nothing had happened. It made her want to shout at them, made her want to tell them to leave her alone.. But Persona would fix that. He told her so yesterday. He'd said that him and Shiro would do something to give them the opportunity to really show the class what they could do and make them fear them. Mikan had decided that she liked Persona. He was really nice to her and always seemed to have her best interest in mind. She didn't see why he was so hated by others. She put a smirk on her expressionless face and walked into class, her head held high. Everyone stared at her, resulting in a glare.

     "Mikan," she heard a familiar voice whisper from behind.She turned and looked at Sammy who's eyes were brown today.

     "Yes?" She queried.

     "Why aren't you wearing your uniform?"

     "Persona told us not to bother remember?"

     "Yes, but I didn't think he meant it."

     "He did. I stopped in to say hi this morning and he approved. He also said that IT will be today."

     "Today? Really? Cool. Can't wait!" and with that she walked to her seat. Mikan went and sat next to her. She was wearing a black Lolita style dress with below the knee stockings and ankle high black boots with her hair down. She didn't usually dress like this but had decided to since IT would be today so she wanted to wear something comfortable that she could move in.  Out of the corner of her eye she saw Natsume starting to come toward her. She tensed, "Any day now Persona. Hurry up please!"

    As if on cue, the lights suddenly went out and the Academy's alarm rang. A voice droned over the All-call, "All students please evacuated the buildings...." I grabbed Sammy and Daisuke's hands and hastily walked out of the class into an open field outside. A minute passed as we waited for the teachers. Of course WE knew that they wouldn't come, that they were just watching the show from afar. We wondered briefly what they would send after us this time, but soon we got our answer. We saw Tetra running at us full speed with a huge dragon behind her.

     "Ok Kids! You're up!" she yelled as she ran past us and tried to keep the other kids back using the Barrier Alice Mikan had Inserted in her. Mikan smirked and walked up to the raging dragon. It had obviously been made using a common Alice. It might have been a Drawing Alice, but it didn't mater. The maker of this dragon had probably died after wards from over use seeing how well made it was and the fact that it had taken a life on its own.

     "I'll take care of this one," she bravely announced.

     "Aw! But you always get to do it!" Sammy whined.

     Mikan sighed, "Fine. How about we all do it then?" Her friends nodded enthusiastically. It had been a while since they'd fought together. They readied themselves as the dragon drew nearer. They could hear their classmates shouts behind them, which were ignored. Daisuke used his Ice Alice to make an ice wall behind it so it could not escape. Sammy stared at Mikan with puppy eyes.

     "Do we have to hurt it? I can just talk to it and ask it to leave..." she said.

     Mikan rolled her eyes, "Doesn't your Alice only work on real animals? This is obviously an Alice-made one. And besides the point of this is for them to fear us, not think we're heroes." Sammy sighed in defeat. The dragon finally reached them and stopped. The class was screaming desperately for them to come back and Tetra yelled, "Hurry up! I can't hold it much longer! Five minutes top now move!" Mikan sighed. And then used her Pain Alice on it.

     The dragon's wails could be hear all over the Academy. Everyone flinched at the sound and Sammy began to cry. Class B stared at Mikan, incredulous that she could do such a thing with a straight, emotionless face. They saw Sammy begging her to stop, but Mikan shook her head and mouthed, "Soon." All of a sudden the dragon lit a fireball and swallowed it, causing it to burn its own self. They watched as the dragon slowly died, it's cries of pain still resonating in their ears even after they had stopped.

      Sammy and some other students (mainly Animal Pheromone Alice ones) were on the ground shaking from crying. Mikan bent down and picked her up Princess style, getting ready to take her to her room when Persona approached them. Mikan smiled at him and some students gasped, resulting in her glaring at them. Persona smirked and said, "That was very well done. Just what I'd expect from my top assassin." More gasps could be heard. He rolled his eyes and continued, "Anyways, you have a mission tonight. Just you Mikan. I'll see you at the usual spot." Mikan nodded and walked towards Sammy's dorm with Daisuke following behind.

     Loud footsteps could be heard running after them. Mikan looked back and she felt her eyes widen. It was Natsume. She glared and then sighed. "I guess I'll have to face him sooner or later," she thought. She handed Sammy to Daisuke who nodded in approval that she was finally facing her past. She glared at him and waited for Natsume to catch up.

     "Mikan..." he began when he finally reached her.

     "Shut up," she cut him off.

     "What?" he questioned, "Mikan, I.."

     "Leave me alone traitor!" she yelled and began to run away but he grabbed her arm. "Let go!" she shouted.

     "No! Not until you tell me what's going on. I'm the traitor? You're the one that hooked up with that guy when we promised each other to wait for each other!" he retaliated.

     Mikan looked confused, "What? You're lying! When did we say that?"

     Natsume looked furious as he said, "On the day you were taken away! Remember? We chased after the car and I told you I loved you! Then you said you did to and that we should wait for each other! How could you forget!"

     Mikan looked close to tears and her voice was hardly above a whisper as she said, "How dare you? How dare you make up a story like that?" Natsume was about to speak but was cut off again, "How dare you lie like that?! And straight to my face too! You guys never came for me that day! You betrayed me! You didn't care! You left me all alone to be used like that..." Mikan was in tears now and Natsume just gaped at her. She turned to run away again, but once again was stopped. It was now raining and they stood there for a while like that. Suddenly, Natsume pulled her towards him and before she could react, kissed her, gently, on the lips. Mikan slowly but gradually responded, feeling the emotion behind it. They stood there for a while in the rain, unaware that they were being watched.