Every night for 3 years Mikan kept hearing the same voice, calling out for her. she's curious on who owns that voice 'cause every time she had the chance to see the face of the girl everything turns blurry and then awakens.
not until one day where...
"I believe in strong women. I believe in the woman who is able to stand up for herself. I believe in the woman who doesn't need to hide behind her husband's back. I believe that if you have problems, as a woman you deal with them, you don't play victim, you don't make yourself look pitiful, you don't point fingers. You stand and you deal. You face the world with a head held high and you carry the universe in your heart."
― Joy C. Bell
Mikan
Everything happened so fast! Well I didn't see exactly how it happened because I shut my eyes the moment the guy charged towards Ichigo. When I closed my eyes, the guy made the Spartan like scream; there were ooh's and awe's from the crowd then cheering! I even did a little prayer for my twin's safety. The moment I opened my eyes I took in the scene, the bored looked from my sister was visible as she flexed her muscles and the guy lays on the ground completely defeated.
I shook my head with a smile, I can't believe I was worried for nothing!
"Any other willing opponents?" she asked but no one answered, maybe she had proved herself worthy of respect or maybe they just want to move on and proceed to the reason why this training is essential. "No one?" she looked over, "Good. You may have the podium again professor." She said to Persona-Sensei which earned a nod.
"A simple reminder, those bracelets given to you before entering this class serves as an Alice nullifier. As of now, you will be wearing the bracelet whenever you enter this class or any training from your team leader." He pointed to Ichigo and Harry, "It will restrict you from using your Alice while doing your training."
I stared to my bracelet; clearly it was useless for me since I can nullify the nullifier bracelet—Hah! I'm awesome like that!
"The group will be divided by gender, Harry for the boys and Ichigo for the girls. They will provide you the basic learning and asses, each and every one of you—if you can proceed to the next level. Harry will explain that later. This defense physical training will serve as your defense for yourself once you graduate, or even on certain unavoidable events." I can really sense a person looking through me when he said that. "Questions?"
No one dared. Seriously it's obvious, they are scared of him!
"No one?" he asked again, then gave a nod to my twin. He excused himself and left us with the team leader.
"Don't you think they are too stiff Harry?" Ichigo asked Harry which earned a chuckle. Crossing her arms she face us, "Basically If I was not a team leader I would've asked, but I am. So'll I'll be asking the questions then you answer."
She smiled, "The bracelets. Why are you restricted for using your Alice? For it to be fair, Harry and I will be using it too when we spar with you." She grinned and showed the bracelet and wore it. "Most of you might think this is useless because you are of course studying here to learn how to master your Alice, then nullifying it for training is completely absurd! Why nullify it? Why can't we just train with our Alice? This is a complete bullshit because I'm being trained like a normal person!"
She shook her head and there are a few nods from the crowd. "Bloody Hell, you're all gonna die if you think that way. First! I gave the proposal of training without the Alice, because you have become dependent to your gift and that is very crucial when you are in the outside world. If you think the Academy is hard, then it'll be horrifyingly hard in the real world. Alices are considered treasures and therefore, there is a good amount of people who would want to take advantage of you. Use you, manipulate you, and threaten you, and involve people whom should've never been involved, family, love ones, even strangers. Name every possible trouble, because I am afraid it can be made possible."
Harry placed a hand on Ichigo, a small gesture which my sister immediately understood, "Think of this as your, 'Survivals Guide in The real world." The blond continued, "Now there will be a tournament after a month of training, don't feel lazy and don't even think of skipping! The winning team will a token of appreciation, it will not be disclosed yet to keep you thrilled, in addition the top 10 students will be given awards, the top 5 raise a star and probably be given a chance to go to the UK branch to visit then given a chance to visit their families."
A chance to see the Family?! I looked around, everyone sure is listening and every reward mentioned their eyes glistened.
"Oh and money."
I looked at Hotaru, the mention of money seems to have pleased her, and most students will be aiming to be on the top 10
"Now now, everyone, time to say goodbye to your lovers and best guy or girl friends, cause we're going to start!" Ichigo announced then turned to her brother with a smug look, "It's on brother, may best group wins!" she smiled sweetly, she went down the stage and run towards us, We shared a knowing smile as she ran towards me, but she then look over Ruka, I noticed Ruka stiffened and walked away, dragging Natsume. What's up with that?
"Hotaru!" she called out since the training area was starting to get a bit noisy, she stood in the middle and waved which of my best friend's attention, "As the Class Representative, you'll be my second in command. Got it?" Hotaru gave a nod, "I'll go with her then." she said when she turned to me, I gave a nod and shooed her while she gave me a reactionless expression.
I gave one last glance to my Natsume not expecting our gaze to meet.
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