The Daughter Of A Warrior

.8. Poor Little Slave

Picture - Persona

"H-Hitomi?" Mikan yelled. "Wait what?!" Tsubasa-senpai let out a sigh of relief. "I-, Natsume~." I sang. He glared at the mind reader then looked at me confused. "You're a nice friend and won't be mean to me will ya?" I laughed nervously. "Let's go." He and Ruka started walking away. "D-don't worry Hitomi! I'll be with you!" I gave a shy smile. This is not going to end well. "Let's go." Me and Mikan head to the back to change into our regular clothes.

Later~

"Here." Natsume handed Mikan a cracker. "What?" He stuffed it into her mouth. Right mow I was on a leash which Natsume had put on me. Mikan started sounding like a bird.

Even Later~

"A hunted house..." I sighed. "Let's go!" Mikan shouted. "I don't wanna." I said, for the first time since I've been on this stupid leash. "Why not?" Ruka asked me. "Umm, I get scared easily..." I mumbled. "What?" Mikan asked. I look over at Natsume and he smirks. He started walking towards the hunted house forcing me to come with them. "C-can you at least take off this stupid leash?" I ask, tugging at it. Ruka walked over to me and took it off. I laughed and started to run but Natsume blocked me with fire. I let a frustrated sigh as I walked back to them. Mikan pats my back and glares at Natsume. "Lets go." Natsume and Ruka started walking off as me and Mikan looked at the hunted house. "It's not real! So, we'll be fine." I say to Mikan. We soon follow behind Natsume and Ruka. "I-it's not that scary." I say to Mikan and she nods. A loud boom went off. Mikan screamed and I grabbed onto the closest person. I soon let go. "Sorry." I mumble. I look up to see that I grabbed Ruka. He was red as a tomato. "It's fine." He began to walk away. I look over to Natsume and he looked... Mad? I shrugged it off as I help Mikan off the ground. We came across a old woman. "Will you help me across?" Mikan grabbed onto Natsume, and he pushed her off. Ruka, Natsume, and Mikan started walking away. I sighed as I follow behind them. "I'LL DRAG YOU ALL DOWN TO HELL!!" We soon start running away. Mikan was behind Ruka. I grabbed onto Natsume's shirt and closed my eyes. "Oh great." I open my eyes to see that we're trapped. "I'll burn it down." He said. "What?! You can't!" I say putting my hand on his shoulder. "Yuu and his friends worked hard on this." I say. He sighed. "Maybe we could climb up them..." I said. I grabbed one of the heads and then put my foot on another head. I heard Natsume snicker. I jumped down. "What's so funny?!" He smirked. "Strawberrys?" My face became red as I started hitting him. "Why would you do that?! I was trying to help us you stupid boy!" I yell at him. I stop when I hear the walls shaking. I grabbed Natsume. We both fell onto the floor as I heard Natsume hiss. I opened my eyes to see him get off if me. "I'm sorry Natsume..." I said standing up. He was sitting against the wall. I sat next to him. "Are you okay?" I ask him. I heard him hiss so I don't think he is alright. "I'm fine." I glared at him. "Tell me the truth, I heard you hiss." He pointed to his ankle. I looked over to the rumble. Some of it must of fell on his ankle. "..." We said nothing. I gasped. "Stupid Hitomi." I mumbled at myself. My Grimm Alice! I can take his pain... But I'd have to give it to myself... That's fine. I hissed as I felt the pain in my ankle. He looked at me. "What did you do?" I'm not sure if I should tell him... I mean, he's only seen me use it once with Persona but even then it wasn't even that clear. "We don't have anything better to do... I used my Grimm Alice. But I also have a Weather Alice, and Bloodbending Alice. And the one that most people or some people know I have is the Music Pheromones and Blue Fire Alice." He got closer to me. "Do your parents know that you're at the academy?" He asked. I gave a little laugh. "What parents?" He gave me a sad look. I shook my head. "My mom died giving birth to me. And my dad... Well he hates me because of my mom. I haven't seen him in years. My brother taught me how to use my Alices. He would also told me about mom. She was a warrior, and she also went to this academy." I said, I really admire my mother. I never meet her, but I bet that if I had that I wouldn't be at this academy. I heard the walls shake again. I look to see students and teachers. Natsume helps me up as we walk out of the hunted house. Mikan and Ruka ran up to us. "Thank goodness that you're both okay!" She yelled, she hugged me and then hugged Natsume. "We should get Hitomi to the nurse." Natsume said. We all headed to the nurse as he set me down on the bed. Mikan hugged me again leaving and Ruka told me to get better. It was only me and Natsume again. The room remained quiet until we heard the door open. Reveling my brother and Persona. "Hitomi, are you okay?" He asked petting my head. I gave him a weird look. "Yeah, you don't have to pet me through." I told my brother, he nervously laughed backing up as I laughed at him. I felt Natsume hold my hand tightly as Persona came closer to me. "Hitomi, I have news about your father." I gave him a questioning look as I look over to my brother as he sat next to Natsume. "What is it?" I ask him. "He's looking for you, we aren't sure as to why yet. But he says that's it benefits everyone at the academy, including your brother." He said. I looked down. They're going to give me to him aren't they. "Kichiro and I are not going to force you to go. But, we're going to give you the option to go if you want. Natsume will go with you, and three others that you want to go with you. We aren't worried about you not coming back to the academy. This is Takeo Tanaka we're talking about." He looked over to Natsume and then my brother. "I'll be taking my leave. Let's go Kichiro." My brother stood up and followed Persona. The nurse came in ask us some questions right when she left. "You aren't really thinking about going are you?" I sighed. "I'm not sure, I mean, it befits my brother. I'd do anything for him." I told Natsume. "If we do go. Don't ask anyone else to go." I nodded. This could be dangerous and I don't want anyone to get hurt. Natsume would have to go. But that's fine, if he gets hurt I could use my Grimm Alice.