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Italics "Thoughts"

Chapter One: Lost Child

What's that noise? What is it?

Sleepy violet eyes fluttered open as they stared into the dark room. "Mommy?" the little bundle upon the bed stirred and sat up. "Mommy?"

Abruptly the door opened and a woman stepped in. Her steps were hasty and barely audible. "Mommy!" The little figure said, as it's little hands stretched their way up towards the figure.

"Hotaru, shhh, stay quiet." The woman said and picked up the little bundle. A soft smile came to her lips as Hotaru snuggled even closer to her and leaning the dark-haired head on the crook of her neck. " Hotaru listen to me. We're going somewhere far away-"

"Twip?" The little toddler asked with puzzled eyes.

"Yes a trip." Stuffing the bag in her hands with various things she began to hastily pack.

"Mommy don't forget Kuma." the sleeping girl lightly mumbled

"Of course not." Her mother said and picked up the brown bear and tucked it between her daughter's arms. The sounds were getting louder. The woman anxiously looked out the window. "Shit." She whispered and hurried out of the room. I didn't think they'll come here…she thought.

"Keiko, are we almost through?" a man outside asked the woman, halfway out of the door, his face grim and worried.

"Yes, we are- see she's fast asleep again." The woman now known as Keiko said and turned to the man would see the sleeping toddler in her arms. "Is the car ready yet, Soichi?"

The man, Soichi, answered "Yes." he face lightly lit with a small smile. "She'll sleep through anything."

"She gets it from you." Keiko said jokingly, softly laughing.

Soichi's face turned from amusement to a serious mask. "We better mover out, then."

"Here." Keiko said as she handed over their precious bundle.

Walking outside Soichi open the door to the car and began to place his daughter in. Making sure she is safe he then turned towards the house.

"Papa?" The little sleeping girl mumbled softly in her sleep.

"Shh. Firefly, we'll be back soon." Gently patting his daughter's head and placed a soft kiss on his daughter's forehead, seeing that the little one has fallen back asleep he turned and walked back.

What's that noise? It's getting louder... The little girl slowly woke up again as she felt a small tremor that shook the car.

Unexpectedly the car shook with so much force that the little girl was thrown into her car seat hitting her head. Blinking, now wide-awake the girl struggled to sit up. A small hand rubbing the sore spot on her dark raven head. "Wha?" Looking around she realized that she was in the family's car. "Mama? Papa?" She asked, now clearly confused. Wasn't she in the bedroom just a minute ago? A whiff of burning wood floated in the car. Looking outside the window, she saw that it was burning. "MOMMY!" using her small hands she tried to pry herself out of the car seat, the fact that she was on her side made the effort harder. "Urgh…" She clawed at the little red button, but it insisted on being stubborn and not letting her lose. Finally a small click was heard. She lifted the belt over her head, and jumped down landing safely a stuffed bag. Climbing out of the car she ran into the house as fast as her little legs could carry her.

Part of the house was burning. "Mommy house burning." she said loudly. "Mommy?" No one answered only the harsh crackling of the fire was heard. A crack was heard from somewhere in the house. "PAPA!!! MAMA!!!!"

Running around the house in search for her parents she ran into her room. And she found them...

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"We have a male and female- dead," an officer said as he entered the broken, burned down house. "Damn this war to hell." Shaking his head he looked around. By the looks of things the male had attempted to save the female by pushing her...but his attempts were in vain for she died by the falling debris.

"How bad is it?" Another officer asked.

" Almost half the town is destroyed." The officer said, "So far we found no survivors in this side of town."

Looking around he spotted a child, a little toddler to be in fact, clutching a brown bear. She was looking at the burned house. Tears streaking down her face, could this kid live here? About to walk towards the child- "HEY FRED!"

"What?" he turned toward the officer who called him.

"We found something!" And wave a clear bag at him.

"Ok, wait up." Turning around he saw that there was no child there..."I'm working to hard..."

Sniffling Hotaru ran way from her home. There was nowhere to go... she couldn't go to the police.

Flashback

"Never ever go with the police Hotaru. Whatever happens never go to the police." Her mother fiercely said.

"But why mommy?" Hotaru had asked, innocence clearly shone off the seep violet eyes. "Policy are no good peoplo?"

"They are...But you are a Tomoe. And if you tell the police that...they-they might..." Her mother broke the sentence and hugged her. "I don't want you near the police or anything my work involves with, Hotaru. I just wish I could protect you forever. When you're older I'll tell you why..."

End

Wandering around the city streets, the little girl walked into the real world. Within her hands were the brown bear and a little bag.

Two weeks later...

The president of UCD Co. walked over the rubble of the destroyed town. "...and they say that only 20 survivors were saved...the rest of the town is destroyed." The annoying secretary was talking away. He was a man of high stature; after all he is one of the most important people in the world. At the age of 26, he was considered one of the youngest to get involved with politics. Now being one of the richest men in the world, he also held a lot of power.

This is a waste of his time, who cares if this town was destroyed? A sleepy, old, useless town in the out skirts of the city... nothing mattered here. Why should he care? "... We are concern that there will many damages to the population and it's resources after all, this place rarely gets any rain and the part of the town that was destroyed was the side with all the resources. So we need..." There are much more important things.... such as finding the ex spy…and that bastard of a friend that had made his life a living hell for three long years.

"Just tell my council that we'll try to help out on the reconstruction of the town and lend any financial aid that they might need."

"Yes sir." The secretary said and immediately typed down the request. "And Mr. Gary what about-" the secretary halted as she saw a small child sitting in an alley trying to force herself to eat what seemed like a rotten sandwich. Mr. Gray just continued walking...

"Stupid broad...a small child is not important... Maybe I should get her fired..." He mused, as he let his thoughts once again wander. Having seen the child long before the sectary he had hoped that she wouldn't see it and waste more of his time.

"Mr. Gray...shouldn't we help her?" the secretary asked.

"Hmm...If I don't help the little girl in front of this stupid broad then my rep. would go down the line...stupid little brat..." Growling under his breath he turned to the woman. "Oh...there was a child? In here? At this town?"

"Yes si-" the secretary said.

"Well what are you standing there for? Go get the child!" he barked the command.

Walking up to the child, the secretary slowly talked to her. Resisting the urge to roll his eyes, he stood there and impatiently waited. The woman talked to the little child for what seemed to be forever until they began waking back. Without even looking at the dirty, disgusting little girl he patted her on the head and said, "Don't worry everything will be fine." and without another thought he walked ahead. "Get the child into my limo and I'll get her to a safe orphanage."

"Yes sir!" The woman said. "Don't you worry Mr. Gray is a very kind person he'll get you to a safe place."

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Who is this woman? Hotaru wondered as she walked towards the large car. She had ever seen a car this big before... she was soo hungry...This woman said that there would be food here.

"How old are you?" the woman asked.

"3...and...and a half." she answered. "Where we...going?"

"You are going in the car. And Mr. Gray will take you to a safe place." The strange woman said and smiled at her. "You're a very pretty child aren't you? Your mother must be very beautiful."

"…" Tears appeared on the small child's eyes.

"Oh! I'm so sorry!" The woman embraced Hotaru and set her in the car. "I'm sorry…don't cry."

Hotaru sat still her tears ran down her face. Mommy and daddy are gone…Only Kuma and me left… Slowly the soft sounds that the woman was making drove Hotaru to sleep.

"Poor kid. At least Mr. Gray will be able to get her to a safe place." The woman said to herself. With that done she left and went off in search for the rich man, to ask him more about the circumstances at hand.

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Mr. Gray walked back to the white limo, finally able to get rid of the annoying woman. Rubbing his temples he waited as the butler open the door, growling in impatience as the keys slipped from the butler's hand. Finally he stepped inside the cool car. "What the—oh that's right…" The annoying little child that was found an hour ago, was now nestled in the soft expensive black cushions of the chair, with a brown bear tucked underneath her arms. "I'll just drop her off at some street far from here. No one will know..." he murmured to himself not really caring if the child is a defenseless child and stared out the window. "Gotta get the car washed…maybe disinfected, who knows what type of germs and bacteria that kid picked up…"

The said bacteria infected child was waking up. Rubbing her beautiful amethyst/violet eyes, then blinking looking at her surroundings, after awhile she looked towards Mr. Gray. At that moment Mr. Gray felt something like de ja vu had hit him at full force. His mouth opening and closing making a very good impression of a landed fish.

"Uh…mister you ok?" The girl that was sitting on the other side of him asked with a very innocent look upon her face.

"K-K-" He stuttered. "It can't be." He quickly scrambled as fast as he could to the child. "Tell me! Tell me your name!!!!" The little girl backed away from him. Fear shone in her wide eyes, and she scooted even further away.

"Sorry. Little bra-girl. What is your name?" He asked much more gentle then last time, giving her a soft smile. "Come now…I won't hurt."

After a hesitant while the small girl finally answered in a soft hushed tone, "Hotaru Tomoe."

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Click. Clang. Click. Click.

The soft sounds of forks and spoons clicking upon expensive china and occasionally a whish of water in glass as it was being refilled were heard.

"So your mother is Keiko Tomoe?" Mr. Gray tried again.

"…Uh hu." Hotaru said and nodded as she reached for a piece of bread in a near by basket that seemed to brimming full of them.

"And your father…is Soichi Tomoe?"

"Yes." Hotaru answered. Why was this man making her answer all these questions? Why did her want to know about mommy and daddy? The woman had told her that this man was nice…But then why was he staring at her so weird? Why didn't mommy say anything about him…she had never heard of a mister Gray... "Mr. Gray…do you know my mommy and daddy?"

"Hotaru, don't call me Mr. Gray ." Mr. Gray said and yet again looked at the little girl. "Richard. Call me Richard. Mr. Gray makes me sound so old. I'm not really old am I?" He asked her, an eyebrow raised and held a glass of red wine in his hands.

"No Mr- Richard. You're not that old." Hotaru said and smiled sweetly up towards the man who gave her so much good food, although at sometimes he DOES look at her funny…but she doesn't think that he is that bad man…that mommy always told her about.

"Yes…I knew your father…and your mother very well. We were friends! In matter of fact we were great friends, at least we were until I had to move away. But I'm back now. It's so sad that your mother and father died. How about you live with me from now on?" Mr. Gray now Richard asked.

The wide dark amethyst eyes stared back him for a while; uncertainty clearly shone in its owners eyes. "Come now…you don't want to live in the streets do you?"

The head shook. "Well…."

"O…k…" Hotaru said slowly as if trying to make a decision as she spoke. Clearly the girl didn't want to live out in the streets but she didn't really want to live with this man…but he knew mommy and daddy…so maybe he's not that bad.

"Good. I'll have a room set up for you and when you're done with your meal, you'll go take a bath. Ok?" Richard asked. The little dark head nodded vigorously. "Good now finish your soup."

"But…"

"Hmm?"

"Can…can Kuma stay too?" Hotaru asked and pointed at a dirty brown bear sitting at the far end of the table.

"Of course!" Richard said and signals for the maid. "We'll even get him cleaned up, how about that?"

"Yeah!"

Hotaru played with the bubbles in the large bathtub. The maid that was supposed to help her bath watched her from the doorway. "You don't worry I know how to wash." Hotaru said again and waved a little hand at the maid. Still nonetheless the maid is still standing there. Oh well…and yet again the attention of the little girl went back to the colorful bubbles as the floated around her. She liked this smell of roses and lavender…it was mommy's smell. Mommy always smelt of roses and lavender. "Mama said that when I'm older I could use her perfume…but even though she's not wearing perfume she still smells nice." she told the maid for no apparent reason. "Do you think they are in heaven?" The maid didn't answer. Oh well…

As the last rays of the sunset sunk into the dark sky Hotaru sat at her new window and played with her new nighting clothes and hugged Kuma close. "Look Kuma, the stars…they not bright like home...you think mama and papa are up there?" The brown bear's eyes just continued to stare out to the open space. "Fine doesn't answer…Good night stars!!! Good night mommy!!! Good night Daddy!!! I luv YOU!!!!" with that said Hotaru settled in her new bed and went to sleep, still hugging the little brow bear close.

Meanwhile down stairs in his library, Richard sat in front of the fireplace. He stared into the roaring fire, drinking his expensive wine and once his eyes darted at a file in his lap. Dozen of pictures of a woman with long raven hair and amethyst eyes stared at him. The woman, in some pictures, stood with a man who wore glasses and had white hair, although it was quite certain that he was young. Putting the glass of red wine down on the long table next to him, he picked up the pictures containing the man. With sheer hate he tore the man of every single picture into little pieces and threw them into the fire. Then very slowly he began pick a picture of the women, one at a time and slowly almost regretfully at first then at a normal pace, fed them to the hungry fire.

"Keiko…I loved you so much. I loved you even though you tried to kill me. You were beautiful, no, more than beautiful. But you ran off and married that asshole, Soichi!!! I knew I couldn't have you then, did you know that you tortured me everyday? I knew that you were with that- that jackass. You the spy, trying to bring me down. But I loved you so much that I knew if I had the power I could have you back." Richard said to the burning picture, the last, of the woman. Her smiling face slowly burning… "But I have your daughter now…she looks just like you…you know that, just like you! Even have those beautiful eyes… She'll grow up to just as beautiful as you…maybe even more beautiful…She'll make a perfect wife don't you think? I couldn't have you Keiko…but I could have your daughter." And he laughed like a madman, as he did… the picture of the smiling woman burned to ashes.

And the little girl upstairs slept on peacefully not even aware of the evil that will await her in the future, but dreamed of her smiling parents and how things were before they were separated…while the man downstairs had more things on his mind then just taking care of her…much worse things…

AN: Hehe gomen I know I should be working on the other fic…sorry about the bad grammar too... But what do you think? Kind odd? Should I continue? Well Plz leave a review and tell me what you think. -