Chapter 1: The Forest

"Why, Mother? Why is my hair different from everyone else's in the village?" asked a young, albino girl with red eyes to her mother. The grown lady looked down at her 6 year old daughter, biting her lip. She and her daughter had been living in a village where everyone has the most beautiful, vivid green hair. All except for them, the maiden and her daughter with the white hair. Not that their white hair wasn't beautiful, but it made them different from everyone. "Why do you ask, Haku?" she asked her daughter, returning to cutting vegetables for dinner. "Well, because, when I was at school," she began, "there was a boy who asked me." She stopped cutting the celery. She would always feel comfortable answering her daughter's questions, but this one?

Now, she had raised her daughter to love herself no matter what, even if she did have white hair. When they had first moved to the village, everyone had always stared at them; always asking them why they wanted to live in a village where everyone-except them-has green hair. She knelt down to her daughter and tousled her shoulder length hair, causing her to smile. "Haku-chan," she said, "Your hair is different because God made it that way for a reason." Her daughter tilted her head in a coy, childish manner. "That reason being that we live in a village where everyone has the same hair colour makes us both different from everyone." her loving mother explained. "You love your white hair, don't you?" she inquired; Haku nodded. "And God loves your white hair, too."

Haku giggled.

10 years later…

The now 16-year old Haku Yowane made her way through the village, her groceries slipping out of her hand slowly. She didn't notice they were slipping; she was too busy crying. Her mom had died two months ago, leaving her to live alone. Since she was sixteen years old, she didn't have to live alone, because sixteen is the legal age in the village to live alone if you don't have your parents with you. (A/N: Audience: WHAT?! Me: What?! You all know this takes place in the medieval times! Fuck it, I'm just winging it!) Without her mother here to guide her and remind her how unique she is with her white hair, people have just kept on laughing and despising at her for her hair. People would point and say to their friends/neighbors "Look, there she is! The Daughter of White." and "Nobody with hair like that should be welcome here." Haku would hear all the whispers and tears would well up in her eyes. Even the marketplace workers would stare at her before, after, and during selling her the goods she asks for when shopping. "Daughter of White" was now her nickname.

"Oh my!"

The goods had finally slipped out of her arms, spilling on the dirt road. The spilling groceries incident made the albino break down and start to cry again. "I'm sorry for being alive…" she whispered to herself. For two months now, saying that was a bad habit and thereby convinced her that she was living a meaningless existence.

"Are you okay?"

Haku's red eyes looked down to see a boy with yellow hair in a short ponytail and blue eyes; he was holding up her groceries in his arms. He appeared to be about 14 years of age, wearing a black and yellow suit bearing the crest of a royal family of some sort. He was only a few inches shorter than she, but she still felt somewhat "outnumbered" by him. She still had her mind on how she longed for green hair. Then again, what was a boy with yellow hair doing in the Green Village? "You know, Miss," the boy said. His voice was a little more high pitched, but still had the flow of an average fourteen year old boy's voice; "You're the only one in this village I've seen that doesn't have green hair."

Haku sighed; the blonde boy sensed what he had said was rude and immediately said sorry. "It's fine…" the albino replied, "My name is Haku Yowane." she added, curtseying. Blonde gave her a pleasing smile. "Len. Len Kagamine." They shook hands. "So, what is your business here, Kagamine-kun?" Haku inquired. "Please, just call me Len." he said shaking his hand, "I'm on my way back to the Yellow Kingdom after running errands for my Princess Rin." he explained. Haku nodded in understanding.

After bidding farewell to Len, Haku started out for home as it was starting to get cold and dark out. She put her groceries away and stared at her hair. "God loves your hair too…" Those words from her mother's lips never left her head or her heart. However, she still was an outcast with her white hair. She decided to go to her special place.

Haku's special place was deep in the woods, where an old tree stands. It supposedly was the first tree that God ever put on the Earth, thereby giving people a place to pray when in time of sorrow, need, or loneliness. However, many people have long forgotten about it; it was abandoned. One time, when Haku was ten, she and her mother when hiking in the woods looking for herbs that only grew in the forest. Then, Haku-being a curious little kid-wandered off in search of a butterfly that was flying away. After she finally caught the butterfly, she soon noticed that she was standing in front of a large oak tree. Afterwards, her mother had told her the legend behind this tree. Now-ever since her mom's death-she will come to this legendary tree and pray to God.

"I wish, I hope, and I pray to God… Please, anyone just be my friend. I feel so alone all the time. Please… Please… Please… Amen…"

First chapter done! I noticed that there weren't any Daughter of White stories out there, so, I should make one!