Disclaimer: Don't own anything. I wish I did though.

A picturesque family consisting of middle aged man and woman along with one adorable little girl with raven hair tied at both sides of her head stood at the gate of a very impressive size mansion. They've been standing at the gate for quite some time and didn't seem to have any intension of moving from the spot. The child feeling quite uncomfortable turned to her papa and spoke up.

"Papa, are we going to prison?"

The father scrunched his brow at this question. Turning his head down to face his daughter, he asked.

"What? No! Of course not. Why would you think that?"

The child turned her attention back to the prison, with a focused look and same scrunched brows as her papa she proceeded to enlighten her father with the theory she have come up with.

"Well… This place kind of looks like a prison I saw on TV. Except... it's a lot prettier and fancier and… the fences don't have spiky thingies on them. I thought maybe it was a less scary prison for less scary people. But no one likes prison and and… we've been standing here so long cuz you don't want to go to prison."

Tesuko didn't even know where to start with this so Keiko decided to step in and help her somewhat lost husband with this matter.

"Natsuki-chan, we're not going to prison. And this is not a prison either. It's a mansion. You know what that is, right?"

Natuski nodded with a big smile.

"Then why are we just standing here? Why is papa scared to go in?" asked still not understanding why they have been standing there for hours. Well, not hours but it sure felt like it. Her short little legs were getting tired.

"I'm NOT scared!"

Shouted defiantly which startled the two. Keiko sighed knowing exactly how her husband was feeling. And it is somewhat true that he wasn't scared but rather feeling bit anxious. That's to be expected though. Who wouldn't feel that way when one have been invited to dinner by the owner of the company.

Placing her hand on her husband's left arm, Keiko rubbed it gentle trying to sooth the jittery man. He seemed to respond to this affectionate touch as felt his tensed muscles relax a bit. Receiving a smile from him, she continued to answer the child's question.

"Papa isn't scared Natsuki... he's just… preparing himself. You see, this is the home of Mr. Hanzaku Fujino. Your papas' big boss."

Pondering for a moment and still puzzled, the girl decided it was too bothersome to ask further questions. So with that, she gave a quiet "ok…" and that was the end of that conversation.

After few deep breaths Tesuko pushed the button by the gate. Few seconds later, they heard a soft click and saw that the gate was opening. Keiko grabbed her daughter's left hand and walked inside along with her husband.

Once they reached the main door to the mansion, one of the servant led them to the study where Mr. and Mrs. Fujino were at the moment.

"Mr. Kuga and his family have arrived Fujino sama." Announced the servant.

While Mr. Fujino was sitting at his desk looking over some papers, Mrs. Fujino was sitting on the couch with a book in her hand. Once the Kuga family's' arrival had been announced, Mrs. Fujino requested some tea to be served in the study since dinner was not quite ready yet.

"Kuga san, we are happy you were able to come to dinner." Mrs. Fujino said with such a perfect and polite smile.

"It's our honor to be invited to your beautiful home Fujino sama." Keiko replied back.

The men seemed to be content just looking at each other. Observing this scene with both men and women, Natsuki just came to a conclusion that it must be one of those "men thing" mama talks about sometimes.

"My, what darling little child you are. How old are you?" Ask Mrs. Fujino.

Instead of answering back vocally, Natsuki held out her left hand with all five tiny fingers stretched out all the while partcially hiding her slightly blushed cheeks behind her mothers hand the best she could.

Mrs. Fujino found this site to be just adorable. She came closer to Natsuki and stooped down to accommodate Natsuki's height.

"Well, I have daughter who is a year older then you. I bet you two will get along very well. Would you like to meet her?"

Receiving a shy nod from Natsuki, Mrs. Fujino called in one of the servant and requested Shizuru to come to the study room. After a few minutes, Natsuki heard a child's' voice behind her with the same funny accent that she heard from the older Fujino woman.

"Hello mama, papa. Did you ask for me?"

"Ah, yes Shizuru. I wanted you to meet someone. Perhaps you two can become friends."

As soon as Natsuki turned around, she was met with the most beautiful ruby eyes. She's never seen anything like them before. Not even on TV. Not knowing what she was to do exactly, she just stood there holding onto her mothers' hand just waiting.

Shizuru on the other hand seemed quite taken at first site. For as long as she can remember, she's been told how cute, smart, and beautiful she is. But this had been the first time in her life that she found another being to be adorable. Yes, 6 years is not very long but with that pink blush which adorned her new playmates' chubby cheeks how can you argue with that? Now seeing as her playmate wouldn't be making the first move, Shizuru walked up to the girl and held out her hand.

"Hello, my name is Fujino Shizuru. Would you like to be friends?"

The blush making itself quite at home on Natsuki's cheek, she tentatively put her hand out to meet with Shizuru's hand.

"Kuga Natsuki…. Okay……"

TBC

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Please keep in mind that this story is created by a very simple minded person. I was thinking one shot but that went out the window. I wanted to get to the good part but I had to get this out of the way first. --

It's not beta-ed so… forgive me for any mistakes.