The Orphan
101 Dalmation x
Hello,
So this is a new story from me which I prefer over my last two. Unfortunately I ran out of steam for them and I got bored with them, so they have been deleted. But I have many more stories that are better, such as this one. This story is based off a song for the Musical Les Miserables in fact the song is one of my favourite from the musical. The song is called Castle on a Cloud. I have loved this song since I was six years old and I never get tired of it, or the musical Les Miserables. So I hope you all enjoy this story.
101 Dalmation x
Trudging through the streets of London was a young woman, with short brown hair, dull blue eyes and a pale complexion. In her arms was a bundle wrapped in blankets of light pink and white. The woman was dressed in a long brown trench coat and wore brown shoes on her feet. Beside her was a man.
This man was a lot older than the woman and was much taller than she was. He had silver blond hair and bright hazel eyes. He too was dressed in a long brown trench coat and brown shoes. He had one arm wrapped around the young woman while his other hand was in his pocket. His usually happy hazel eyes were filled with sadness but what he and this young woman were going to do is the right thing. The young woman looked down at the bundle in her hands and cried. The man rubbed his hand gently up and down the woman's arm as he kissed her head and said
"It is the right thing Yuka!" The woman looked up to the man with tears flowing from her eyes as she replied
"I know, I just didn't think it would be this hard Izumi!" she sobbed and the man embraced both Yuka and the bundle in his arms as he said into Yuka's hair
"We will see her again, when we know she can live safely with us without any worries!" Yuka nodded against his chest. Before they started walking again.
Eventually they came across a house on the edge of London. The parents walked up the path to the house and realised that it wasn't a house it was an inn. Izumi knocked on the door and put his arm back around his wife. Yuka looked at the baby who was sleeping peacefully.
Yuka took her time to memorize the pale skin, the mop of brown hair and those beautiful hazel eyes that were behind those closed lids of hers. Yuka moved to the baby's neck and fingered the necklace that was fastened around the baby's neck. It was a golden heart set on a golden chain. The heart was a locket and in the locket were two pictures one of Yuka and one of Izumi. Her mother and father, so she would always know who her parents were.
The door opened and revealed a tall, slender man with black hair and green eyes. He looked at the two on the door step and said in a drunken state "Can I help you?"
Yuka didn't like the look of him and saw a ray of hope she turned to her husband "I don't trust this place Izumi! She can stay we will keep her safe!" she pleaded, desperate not to let go of the child. Izumi looked at his wife in sadness, for they both knew they couldn't keep her safe, not while she is this young.
"We have no choice! We can't even protect ourselves let alone a child! When the time is right Yuka" Yuka felt that little slither of hope disappear and she started crying again. Izumi looked to the man and asked
"Sir if you would be so kind as to look after our daughter…" Before Izumi could finish he heard a voice come from within yell out
"Who is it?" The man turned back to the voice and replied
"Nothing dear just look after the kids alright!" The voice had now come to the door and Izumi noticed it was a woman who the man was talking to and she said
"Well you are letting the heat out and nobody in so whats the commotion?" the man pointed to Yuka and Izumi. The woman was also tall, she had permed hair which was tinted slightly green, she had cold dark blue eyes, very different form Yuka's dull blue eyes. She also had a little girl with platinum hair and ice blue eye's hug her leg. Izumi introduced himself
"I am Izumi Yukihara, and this is my wife Yuka Yukihara, and we have a bit of a problem" the two at the door stood wide eyed and then bowed or curtsied as the woman straightened herself out to make herself look more presentable as she offered for them to walk into the inn, but Izumi politely declined the offer
"Oh my, what would bring two people such as yourselves right to the edge of London?" Izumi looked at his wife who was clutching the bundle tightly as he continued
"Well you see, my wife and I just had a child, which is great, but she needs protection, that is something we can't give her, so will you please take her in and raise her as your own until the time is right for us to collect her and bring her to where she belongs?" The woman shoved her husband back into the inn and replied
"We would be honoured to take care of such a precious load, wouldn't we Luna" The little girl who was clinging onto her mother's leg nodded as her mother continued "may I see the child?" Yuka held the child out to the woman and the woman cooed over the tiny bundle and said "She is a lovely baby" Yuka smiled a sad smile
"Thank you for the compliment" The woman held her arms out and said
"Shall I take her?" Yuka looked down at the bundle and gave her a hug and a kiss and whispered
"I love you Mikan Yukihara and always will, I will come and get you, mummy promises" after Yuka had said her bit Izumi took the child and gave her a kiss and a cuddle and let out a small tear as he too whispered
"Mummy and Daddy will come and find you again one day, when it is safe! Stay well my precious" and with those last words said Izumi handed the baby over to the woman who took the baby carefully and held her close. The woman looked at the baby with a pan forming in her mind
"Would you like her last name changed, so she doesn't get discovered?" The two parents looked at each other and Izumi spoke to the woman
"She shall be known as Mikan Sakura, until the time when we come to bring her back to her original home" The woman nodded
"Very well Mikan Sakura it is" Izumi thanked the woman and agreed to pay for the couple keeping the child which the woman didn't object to. After exchanges were done Izumi and Yuka walked back down the path and into the alleyways of London.
Once the couple were out of sight the woman ushered little Luna into the inn and followed behind as she called out
"Robert we have a scullery maid!" The man looked up from his drink and said
"The kids a little small aint she Shizune?" the woman rolled her eyes and walked over to her husband, Luna following behind, before giving him a clip around the ear
"No you nitwit! When this child is old enough she will sweep and mop and clean until she drops to the floor, I don't care what status her parents have she will be our maid"
"She sweep!" came Luna's small voice from beside Shizune. Shizune lowered her free hand and patted Luna on the head as she replied with
"Yes she will Luna, and she will mop, and clan the bedrooms, and the bar, she will clean the whole place" Luna smiled and let out a little giggle, just then a cry could be heard from the cot not far away. The woman handed Mikan to Robert and he took Mikan and looked at his wife as she attended to their second child. He looked at the child in his arms and wondered what he was meant to do with her
"OI! What am I meant to do with this thing?!" Shizune looked over with her child with a bottle in its mouth and said
"Find a box and make it into a crib then leave it there to sleep until it wakes up!" she said as she mumbled "Moron!" Luna heard the naughty word that her mum had said and repeated
"Daddy is a moron!"
Robert gave his eldest a stern look and Luna hung her head and apologised before Robert stood up and found a box, he filled it with straw and blankest before putting Mikan in the makeshift cot and leaving her there to go and see his own child. When he was by his wife he asked
"So whats the Orphans name?" Shizune looked at the box and said
"Mikan Sakura"
