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Finally the last chapter to my story!

ESP – Elementary School Principal *i used the initials only because it's too troublesome to type it out all the time*

CHAPTER 8

The situation was intense. Mikan didn't know what to do really. She didn't know why she confidently answered the ESP that she would win. Maybe it's just a feeling that rose due to anger. How could she had let her mother be captured by him? She was with Yuka all along but she couldn't protect her own mother. Natsume saw his reflection in Mikan. He was in an almost similar situation like Mikan. That time when his village was engulf by flames, he couldn't do anything. All he did was watch and walk away... He did not want Mikan to feel the same as he had. So he's determined to help Mikan save Yuka because he knew that Yuka meant the world to her right now and so is Mikan to him. He cannot bare seeing her get hurt.

"Mikan, what are you going to do?", asked Hotaru, in a rather worrying tone.

"I... I... don't know".

"What? You're telling me you have no plan at all?", shouted Hotaru.

"Well, I was quite mad just now... so... I ended up spitting out words that I didn't mean to say? Do you by any chance have a plan?"

"At least now I now the real Mikan's back because you're back to being stupid. And what makes you think I have a plan?"

"Ehehehe... you normally come up with a plan that doesn't kill us all. And you're the genius... :)".

"Unfortunately, this happened to sudden and I'm still trying to adapt to the current situation".

Mikan and Hotaru were too into talking, they did not realize that Natsume and Ruka was fighting against the ESP.

"Oi you two! Are you just gonna stand there and watch us get killed or come help us?", said Ruka, already panting from the fight.

"You kids should just give up. You can't win against me. If you kill this body, I'll just transfer my soul to another. No big deal", said the ESP.

"Fat chance. I don't remember ever giving up on anything. Now give me back my mother!", shouted Mikan.

The ESP used another of his alice which was unknown to Mikan and the gang. It was the morphing alice. He just turned himself into a fifty feet tall monster. The gang knew he was not a normal alice from the beginning but now he's just getting scary. They did not know what was in store for them. They were quite terrified by the ESP but they knew they had no other choice but to confront him. They took a glance at each other and then, all of them went all out on the ESP.

Natsume started aiming flamethrowers at him. It did leave a burn mark on the ESP's monster skin but it appeared to have no effect whatsoever. Ruka ordered some of his animals to attack the ESP too. The ESP felt nothing at all when the animals were pecking him like mad. He ended up stepping on a lion and broke it's rib. Ruka was extremely furious when he saw that. His precious animal was stepped on like a bug. He swore to kill the ESP. Mikan was trying really hard to think of a way to kill the ESP. She kept thinking and thinking but she couldn't come up with anything. Then, she saw one of Natsume's flame ball extinguished when it hit the ESP. Suddenly, she remembered that she could use her nullifying alice to get near the ESP and after that, use her stealing alice to steal his alice stones. Now, the problem is she cannot find an opening to get anywhere near the ESP without getting hurt.

"Natsume! Can you make a way for me to get near him?", shouted Mikan.

"What do you want to do?"

"I need to get near him to nullify his alice and steal it from him!"

"I'll try to make way for you! Once you found the way, hurry and run towards it! No matter what, don't stop!"

Natsume tried to make way as Mikan wanted. He used a large portion of his energy to make a flame tornado against the ESP. He left a section of the tornado open to enable Mikan to enter. While she was running towards the opening, she saw Natsume coughing out blood. He did not look like he'll be able to withstand any longer. Natsume might have survived from coma but his lifespan is still getting shorter every single time he used his alice. Mikan wanted to turn back and head towards Natsume but she saw the look on Natsume's face that begged her to move forward and just leave him. Mikan felt her heart aching badly looking at Natsume but she had to do this... if not, they'll all die.

Mikan managed to get near the ESP and used her alice quickly. He seemed to have notice Mikan's presence but he was too late. He started morphing back into his original look.. not Mikan's father. He couldn't do anything to prevent it. By the time he turned back to normal, he tried to strangle Mikan who was about to steal his alice stones. Hotaru saw it happen and shot her inventions at him. It did distracted him for a moment or two but it was not enough for Mikan to steal. Ruka hurried and back up Hotaru. He ordered the gigantic chick to peck the ESP hoping it would buy Mikan some time. Mikan was close to stealing the alice stones... and... done! She did it! She ran back to her friends and telling them it was over. They went towards the ESP to cuff him but he got up to his feet and ran as fast as he could.

"ESP, don't try to run! You won't get away! I took all your alices and now you're just a normal human being. You can't do anything to us anymore!", shouted Mikan while chasing him along with the others.

"You naive fool! I still got your mother with me, remember!"

"Oh no! I forgot about mother!"

Then, they all reached a room at the end of the secret room. The ESP opened the door and hurriedly grabbed Yuka who was tied to a pole.

"I got your mother in my hands. I could just crush her right now or you could give me back my alices. So which one do you want to pick?", said the ESP, with a grin on his face.

"I think she'll pick none", said Narumi who appeared behind them all of a sudden.

"Narumi!", said all of them together.

"What do you mean she'll pick none? She has no choice! Her mother's life is in my hand!"

"Oh really... look closer to Yuka... is that really her?", said Narumi.

The ESP looked at Yuka whom he thought he was grabbing onto. Then, Yuka dissolved into sand. The ESP was shocked by that. How did Yuka became sand?

"How... how... is this possible? She turned into sand!", shouted the ESP madly.

"I thought the kids were suspicious so I followed them but I lost track of them midway until a little while ago when I found the secret room. I saw all of you fighting so I used the chance to look for Yuka instead. The Yuka that you thought had turned into sand is just one of my trick. I already took the real Yuka and sent her to somewhere safe. You're over now...", said Narumi.

"No...NO! IT'S NOT POSSIBLE! I'M THE ESP! NOTHING CAN STOP ME! NOTHING!", shouted the ESP.

Narumi walked next to the ESP and knocked him out using pheromone alice. He then carried the ESP and lead the others back to the gakuen. He handed the ESP to the high school division principal and took the others to where Yuka is. He brought them over to the hospital to look at Yuka.

"Mother! What happen to her?", asked Mikan.

"Don't worry Mikan.. She's just a little worn out and fainted. The doctor said she'll be awake pretty soon", answered Narumi.

"Oh...okay...".

"Why don't you and the others go back to your dorms first and take a rest? I'll tell you when she's awake".

"Sigh... okay. There's nothing much I can do now anyway. Take care of mother for me, Narumi".

"I will, Mikan. You take care too, okay?"

Mikan nodded and she went back to her dorm. She took a bath and rested a little but after that, she felt like having a walk outside. So she took her jacket and walked out of her room. She walked around and soon reached the sakura tree that held a lot of her memories with Natsume. She stood beneath the sakura tree looking up to sky while the sakura petals flew past her. The wind breeze that's so cooling and peaceful. She really missed the times she had been here. She felt guilty for not remembering anything about it. She wanted to reach up a branch to pick the sakura flower but she couldn't reach it.

Then...

"You wanted this?", said Natsume while putting the sakura flower on Mikan's long flowing hair.

"Erm... yea", answered Mikan while blushing.

"I really missed you. Especially the times when you forgot all about me".

"I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to do such a cruel thing to you..". Mikan started to sob and look guilty.

"Don't cry...", said Natsume while wiping away Mikan's tears. "It's not your fault. You didn't want it to happen. It just did. It's fate".

"Natsume... I've always kept my feelings to myself and didn't admit that I actually love you. I bet your heart must be aching because of this..."

"No... you idiot. I don't need you to say you love me to prove that you do. I already knew it. And I do too. I love you... Mikan".

Natsume then held Mikan in his arms and swore to her that he'll never let her go ever again...

Meanwhile... everyone must have already forgotten about these two.

"Hotaru, why are you running away from me?", shouted Ruka.

"Stop following me, you stalker!"

"All I did was confessed to you! So? What's your answer?"

"My answer is... I'm not telling you! Now get away!"

This was what happened...

Ever since the fight was over, Ruka had confirmed that his feelings for Hotaru was real. So he decided to confess. He went over to Hotaru's lab and disturbed her in the middle of her experiment. He was worried that Hotaru might reject him but at least he tried. When Hotaru was about to mix some chemicals together, he said "HOTARU, I REALLY LOVE YOU! WILL YOU ACCEPT ME?". Hotaru dropped her chemicals upon hearing that shocking confession and her whole lab went KABOOM. So she gave him a glare and started avoiding him.

"HOTARU! When are you going to stop avoiding me?"

Hotaru reached her dorm and slammed the door after going in. But Ruka wasn't going to give up just yet. He stayed outside her room for a whole night. She saw him sleeping outside her room the next morning. She looked at him for a while and left... smiling. When Ruka woke up, he realized that Hotaru was no longer in her room but he found a piece of paper beside him. He took the paper and the words written on the paper was...

"YES"

~THE END~

That's all for my story! It finally reached the end. I hope you all liked it and continue to support me if I write another story. Thanks!