Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Mai Hime. They belong to Sunrise.


The dark-haired figure held up the muzzle of the gun to the chestnut-haired woman's head, who was standing stock-still before her in the dark alleyway.

"Now give me all your money, and I won't have to hurt you," the midnight-blued haired female said as she pushed the other woman before her hard against the wall, deep into the shadows where no one could see them.

The tawny-haired woman slowly licked her lips, and in a voice that lightly trembled replied, "I-I'm sorry. I don't have anything on me. I-I left all my money and bank cards at home."

"LIAR!" The azure-haired female exclaimed, as she pressed the muzzle of the gun harder against the chestnut locks of the terrified woman before her.

"P-please, I'm not lying to you. I really don't have any money on me. I was just...I was just on my way to see my girlfriend...I wasn't planning on buying anything on my way there," the chestnut-haired woman said as her voice wavered with tears, that she was trying desperately to keep in check. Not knowing what would set the woman with the gun off, and not wanting to antagonize her further by crying.

"Tch, dammit. Of all the females I could choose to hold up tonight, it would be the only female in the entire city who doesn't have any money on her," the dark-haired female grumbled, as she slowly began to pull her gun down. Her stomach chose that very moment to growl loudly and angrily, and the girl quickly pulled the gun back up to the head of the honey-haired female before her, and growled lowly as her face flushed in embarrassment.

"Don't. Say. A. Word. Or I will have to use this on you," the indigo-haired girl said in a low whisper, as she continued to hold the gun up.

The chestnut-haired female merely nodded her head 'yes' and kept her lips tightly sealed.

"Okay. Good. Now...I'm going to go now. You better not start screaming or it's going to get very...messy for you. Am I making myself perfectly clear here," the dark-haired female said.

The brunette nodded 'yes' again, and just manage not to let out a sigh of relief as the gun that had been pressing almost-painfully into her head, was once again slowly lowered. The girl who had just held her up began to take a few steps back away from her.

However her relief was short-lived as a new voice, lower and most definitely male intruded into the scene.

"Well, well Natsuki. What do we have here? I am positive that I told you that this was all my turf, and that you were not allowed to work it," the voice said as it came closer to slowly reveal from the shadows a fairly tall male, with two other people coming up behind him, all of them carrying weapons.

"Shut up, Tate. I'm sick of you trying to tell me what to do. Mikoto was hungry...and so...so was I. I wasn't trying to hog in on your fucking turf. I wasn't even gonna hurt the lady. Just take a few bills and be on my way," the girl named Natsuki replied as she half-turned her body towards the guy named Tate, while still keeping one eye on the girl she had been holding up.

"I don't give a flying fuck what you think your reasons were for showing up on my side of town, and trying to score with someone who me and my crew should be. Now get your useless ass outta my sight before I have to make you," the guy named Tate growled, as he slowly smacked a mean-looking steel pipe against his leather-gloved hand. "Oh and that female stays with me and my boys. We'll take what you were going to from her instead," Tate said with a gleam in his eye.

"No," Natsuki replied as she placed herself before the very female she had been planning to rob, the irony of the situation not missing her.

Tate slowly tilted his head to the side and looked at Natsuki, as one would a poor animal that didn't know it was in trouble of being tossed into a lake and drowned.

"No...did you...did you just say 'No' to me."

"Yes," Natsuki replied as she put as much bravado into her voice as she could muster, and then slowly raised her gun towards Tate.

"I will use this Tate. Don't force me to."

To Natsuki's dismay, Tate burst out laughing.

"Oh give me a break, Natsuki. I know your game. Everyone does. That gun isn't real. It's a very good replica of a gun, but it's as fake as Santa Clause. So now just be a good girl and get the FUCK out of my way!" Tate cried out as he quickly began advancing on Natsuki, and the chestnut-haired girl she was now protecting.

For her part, the honey-haired girl had watched all the events playing out before her with a sense of surrealism. As if none of this was truly happening to her, and that this must all be a very VERY bad nightmare.

That idea that this was all happening to someone else and not herself was utterly shattered, when her hand was taken and she was dragged along swiftly by the cobalt-haired girl, whose name she now knew to be Natsuki.

"RUN!" Natsuki cried out as she grabbed the chestnut-haired girl's hand, and began pulling her into the darker parts of the alleyway. Her heart was pounding triple-time in her chest, as the angry shouts of Tate and his crew followed them deep into the night.


To be continued?


AN: Hope you all enjoyed this start to a possible new story. Please let me know what you all thought of it, and if it should be continued =3