Prologue
The frosty breeze rustled through the leafless trees. The cold snow fell on a young woman who was running through the forest with a crying baby in her arms.
She could hear the sound of people's feet chasing after her and she didn't dare stop or look behind her for fear of slowing down and being caught. She ran as fast as her legs could carry her while trying to stop her baby from crying, she stopped and the woman took that chance to hide behind a bush.
She ran and once she was close enough to the bush she jumped behind it and looked down at her baby. The baby in her arms was a little girl with big chocolate brown orbs and hazelnut coloured hair, and on her back were small barely noticeable feathered wings that was the same colour as her hair. Her pale skin lightly illuminated by the moonlight.
The woman heard rustling above her and looked to see what it was, there above her was a small tree house and she vaguely saw 5 women, one of which was lowering a ladder to her. The woman grabbed hold of the ladder, though she as hesitant, with one hand and the 5 women at the top of the ladder pulled her up as quickly as they could. The women lead her inside the little tree house noticing the baby in her arms and told her to put the baby in the corner of the room where she spotted a large wooden cot, she walk over to the cot and saw 5 other baby girls inside of it.
Each baby had unique hair, one had reddish hair and another and light pink hair, the baby next to the one who had light pink hair had navy blue hair. The next had a dark green shade of hair and next to her was a baby that had raven coloured hair. The woman imagined each baby to have unique eyes just as they had hair, she notice that somewhere on their body they had a certain feature similar to that of a mythical creature or animal just as her baby had little wings on her back that were sure to grow.
She placed her baby next to the raven haired girl and headed back to the women who were now seated at a table, they motioned for her to sit down and she complied. That was when she studied the women seated at the table.
One has raven hair just as the baby girl, another with a lighter blue then the baby in the cot, one a navy green, a woman with redder hair than the red haired baby in the cot and the last woman had pale pink, with a slight hint of peach, straight hair.
"What's your name?" the red head suddenly spoke.
"And why were they chasing you?" the green hair woman joined.
"Yeah tell us, tell us" the pink haired woman and the blue hair woman chorused.
The only one who didn't say anything was the raven haired woman who seemed to be getting agitated at the women asking the questions. The woman noticed this and quickly answered.
"My name's Yuka and they were chasing me because they wanted to take over my husband business if you must know" the woman named Yuka stated.
"If they wanted to take over his business they shouldn't use his wife to get to him especially if she has a child. Despicable." The raven haired woman finally speaks.
"Hina we know." Said the green hair woman, then she turned her head back to face Yuka, "but why didn't they just talk to your husband about buying the business?" the woman continued.
"Okay, slow down, first what are your names? Second they killed my husband then went after me and our daughter to secure it in their possession." Yuka stated.
"Sorry for making you remember" the blue haired girl and light pink haired girl chorused.
"It's okay, it only happened a few days ago. Anyways what are your names?" Yuka said emphasising the words 'your names'.
"Oh sorry, I'm Kana and this is Nina." The pink hair woman, known as Kana stated pointing to her blue haired companion.
"Hina" The raven haired woman stated bluntly.
The green haired woman and the red head woman laughed awkwardly. "Don't mind her, I'm Sukio and she's Alice." Sukio, the green haired woman said cheerfully pointing towards the red haired woman known as Alice.
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The 6 women had chatted for some time and explained how they met each other, turns out they had only met earlier that night, and each had experienced something to what Yuka had experienced and their husbands were dead as well. They had migrated their table next to the cot with the 6 babies sleeping peacefully.
"So your child's name is Mikan huh, that a very wonderful name" Sukio said excitedly as Yuka just nodded. "My little girl is the one with green hair and small dragon wings, Sumire." With that statement Yuka look towards the green hair child and smiled.
"She cute and I'm sure she has beautiful green eyes too." Yuka stated looking at the child. Then Alice spoke.
"My baby's the one with red hair and tiny fairy wings. Ooh isn't she just the cutest?! Her name's Misaki" Alice exclaimed excitedly, "I wonder what she'll look like completely grown up? Oh and she has the prettiest magenta eyes"
"She'll probably look almost like you, that you could be mistaken as her older sister but her with wings" Yuka told her while smiling a big smile.
"The girl with pink hair and pointed ears, like that of an elf, is my child Anna. Her blue eyes are almost like diamonds." Kana stated enthusiastically.
"I'm sure they are" Yuka stated smiling brightly.
"My little girl, Nonoko is the blue haired one with a short blue fox tail. She also has the most enticing sapphire eyes." Nina stated with a warm smile.
"I would love to see them when she wakes up" Yuka said with and equally warm smile on her lips.
"The girl with—" Hina was starting to say before she got cut off.
"Mother?" a boy's voice interrupted and all eyes turned to face the boy. The boy looked around the age of five and had raven hair and pale violet eyes.
"Yes Subaru what's wrong?" Hina questioned looking at her son, ignoring the questioning looks being sent by the other 5 people in the room.
"I heard people talking and wondered who it was." Subaru answered then look at the other 5 people in the room. "Who are they?" Subaru asked pointing at the 5 women.
"They are people who when through the same experience as us and lost their husbands due to people who wanted their business in their own possession. And thus had to flee not to get killed just so they could survive and not have their husband's killers take over their business by killing both wife and child." Hina said shocking the women because they didn't think that Subaru could take in all of that info and large words.
"Names" Subaru questioned making the 5 other women in the room stare as they had gotten the point that he understood all of what Hina just said.
"Sukio, Kana, Nina, Alice and Yuka" Hina said pointing to each woman as she said their names. Subaru just nodded and walked over to the cot and observed the children inside.
"So as I as saying before Subaru interrupted, the girl with raven hair and jackalope antlers is Hotaru." Hina continued, "I know she's going to be the smartest out of all the children except Subaru."
"I'm sure she will be Hina-chan" Yuka exclaimed sweat dropping slightly.
"Hey, don't you think it's kind of risky for us to go around with our names like how they are?" Alice asked and everyone looked at her, including Subaru, with questioning eyes. "What I mean is that if any of us go into town with our names now we would be immediately targeted and we would put each other and our children in danger."
"You're right we should change our last names just to be safe, but what to? Argh I'm terrible with names!" Kana pouted, waving her arms about.
"Excuse me but what are your last names? I know Mothers, Hotaru's and my name is Imai but I don't know yours" Subaru questioned, face void of emotion.
Everyone just stared at Hina surprised by what Subaru said—except Yuka—but snapped out of their surprised state as Yuka spoke.
"Well Mikan's and my last name is Yukihara, so I think that is reason enough for Mikan and I to change our name from Yukihara to something else." Yuka stated, everyone in the room stared at her, including Subaru, wide eyes. "What, say something?"
"That's surprising, anyway Sumire's and my last name is Shouda" Sukio said breaking the silence.
"Anna's and my last name is Umenomiya" Kana stated.
"Nonoko's and my last name is Ogasawara" Nina said in a serious tone.
"Well, that leaves me last to announce Misaki's and my last name, which is Harada" Alice sighed. "I guess we're all pretty important huh?" Alice questioned although it was more of a statement than a question with the way she said it.
"Yeah" everyone sighed at the same time. Then the women heard their children sturing, the women looked over into the cot and saw each baby slowly waking up. They had noticed that Mikan hadn't woken up yet and Yuka sighed, "She's a heavy sleeper just like her father, typical Mikan" she said as she picked her up and walking over to the others who each were holding their respective child.
"Hey don't they somehow look like some sort of rainbow?" Sukio asked.
"Kind of, but I think they look like a Sakura of some sort too" Hina added.
"Sakura, hmm oh I got it, how about we use Sakura as our name?" Kana exclaimed excitedly.
"Hmm, that might actually work. How about it?" Yuka questioned
They nodded in agreement.
And this is where we start our journey of love, adventure and a little bit of action.
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