A/N: Well I'm a grateful person today and blessed, already we should be happy for a lot things and always have a talent in what we can do and the one thing is better fanfiction and well I'll figure out finding some people for my beta reading, so let's Chapter 2 and already I gonna update my profile on sequel project series. Because I'm true to the original series and obsessed to the max. But I'm an old school person anyway.

Disclaimer: Do not own, Mai HiME and I wish that Otome would have never been started in the first place.

FireStarter: Mai Tokiha Chronicles

Chapter 2: Finding Love in Negative Spaces

Nine years ago; after the funeral of Shiori Tokiha, Mai mother...............

As Mai slept with his brother Takumi at thier side, both could hear yelling and sobbing from their father who has been in pain in his heart and mind all day even the funeral who felt everything on the one she loved the most, but now she is gone and has left from the world, all can the Hiro can do is wash the pain away as he started sobbing himself to sleep.

Suddenly, Mai woke up and left the bed, then Takumi hold her by tugging her shirt.

" What are you doing sis?" Takumi worried.

" He's hurting himself Takumi, we are hurting ourselves as well" Mai replied

" But Mai, I'm scared that he'll hurt us, even you."

Mai started to whell up some tears to her eyes and felt like she wanted to hurt herself since that accident made suffer the most even as a child. But still she felt that support was the best thing to comfort the pain.

Mai headed to the parents room and saw a tearful father who crossing his arms and wonder does he have the courage to be a single dad, now that Shiori has passed away because of one incident. But he wonders how could this happened to Shiori the women that he loved so much and adored since high school as his first love even all the great times. He knew that everything was perfect, but that how he thought a lot. Since Mai's birth, he had given his time on working and gaining a lot of ground, not only for Shiori sake but for Mai as well. Since then everything on place then Takumi was born and that's when life became greatly for Hiro as time passes by and suddenly that's where it happened for him. Mai left Takumi for her friends at that river on following day. That's when Takumi mysteriously swept away by the river and only one close was Shiori, she rushed to save Takumi, but in the end. Shiori was gravely injured even Takumi as well from drowning in the river. But suddenly Takumi left unscaved but Shiori came worse than expected. She had developed an disease from the river and causing it spread all over her body and through her system. As she began the illness spreading around her during those last days. Even the doctor told Hiro that the treatment that she's having is making her worse and it wont get heal soon, now that she's dying soon. He couldn't believe that this would happened even he could hate only her daughter for being there to Takumi side.

During those last days of Shiori and the day of her days. Hiro and her spoke one last time, as it draw nears, she spoke calmly to him but he even started to cry, but Shiori couldn't because of the pain is spreading across the body. As Mai and Takumi saw their mother state lying in a close to death state. Then in her last final words, with her hand close to Mai's cheek and said.................

"Mai take care of Takumi" she said those final words.

And she has passed away.

Now as Mai saw her father in tears and trying to go asleep but without his wife. Mai must try to make the seem possible for her life.

Present Day...............................

" Oh boy, this is hard and come to think that summer homework is worse than winter homework, * sigh * this is killing me."

As Mai tried to get her day settled out from doing a "hell in handbasket" worth of homework for school even her job. But all Mai can think about the others things in life even though her lifetimes and hardships. What so much about that everything it seemed to be on the right place again, even though all she can think the best is yet to come, life is still shrouded with unexplained issues even the Carnival. But Mai doesn't think that anymore, but really is it worth all that. Mai believes it though, everything over for now. Deep down she'll never when it will began and when time begins. As Mai finishes her a little of her summer homework, she stretched her arms and heads outside, wearing her Orange blouse and blue jeans, she heads out with an ordinary date with obnoxious boyfriend Tate again and hoping that she will go through with it another night of sex and arguing once again.

Well here I go again......................

Meanwhile at an local airport base...................

An young girl who looks like sixteen years old,

walks out back of the unidentified airplane, carrying a big bag and walks out into the sun and looks upon the sun and smiled.

"Hmph, looks like the new age has begun, time to reclaim my greatness."

A/N: Well, I guess I'm gonna be fired at my job, hope I won't do this late at night again, but I preferred late night anyway and I'll continue Mai flashback as soon as possible, try to gain some insight on it and I know what Mai weaknesses are, but I need time to plight it out. I'll update my profile and do double duty on my upcoming project sequel fanfic and continue on this one. You will love my saga, you will love it forcefully, but I'll kill ya bra!

Ideas, Criticism, come on bring it!