My Treasured Flower

Disclaimer: I don't own Mai-Hime.

This is about the story of how I see with Shizuru and Natsuki, though I'm gonna have this flow like the ZabuzaxHaku arc from Naruto which is one of the most saddest I've seen in anime. Well here goes chapter 1 and hope you enjoy here.:)

Kuga Natsuki, 15 is a prowler on the road digging around trash around late night in the streets of Kanagawa prefecture. Mostly everyone was asleep and the slums were almost dead silent.

"Why mom did you let me go? Why did dad beat up on you?" She wondered in tears, as she headed to a small alley holding a trash container.

She had much to cover herself, with only a brown jacket covering her tanktop and a short skirt which barely offered her protection from the cold. Natsuki then examined a nearby trash bin and caught herself a bitten sandwich, with no bugs around it.

There Natsuki went over near a wall and slumped down, smiling at the little nourishment she could get. Biting bit by bit of the sandwich, she pondered on. With it she reminisced of the trouble she had earlier at home. With her father of all people.

Flashback

"No…No! I didn't do anything!" a woman's voice rang. Her mother.

A man slaps her upside, it would be her father's doing. "You shut your trap, whore!"

"Did you really cheat on me huh? Did you?" smacks still rang over the room

"Stop it! Dad please!" Natsuki protested but she was shoved back by him.

The beating still continued. Natsuki was horrified with tears. Her mom is bleeding all over her face.

Natsuki then grabbed a piece of a small knife and went over slashing her dad's right cheek. The dad then punched her straight across the eyes. She had a bruise around her socket.

"Run Natsuki. Go to aunt or grandpa and grandma!" Her yelled.

She runs never to return. The beatings then continued…tears were flowing from Natsuki's eyes.

End Flashback

The blunette was slowly biting her garbage snack, but in tears. Then she looked over the shadow coming to her, exposing another woman. She had chestnut hair, with crimson eyes that sparked Natsuki's intrigue. The woman looked no more than 18 years old, and was wearing a small black overcoat and a skirt ranging to her knees.

"Ara, you seem to be lonely little one. I'm just like you here in these streets, running from the past." The woman said.

Natsuki was speechless to the fact this woman spoke to her. Looking straight at her face.

"Who are you?" Natsuki stated, as she lowered her sandwich.

The woman approached once more towards the blunette and extended her hand. "My name's Shizuru, and I'm here to help you find us a home." She exclaimed with a smile.

"I'm Natsuki, nice meeting you there Shizuru." The young girl said with a little smirk.

"Let's go find our home then, Natsuki?" Shizuru said.

"Sure." Natsuki stated with a slight conviction. The two then head out into the outside and went about to see whatever to find where this new home they would think of.

TBC