AN- Wow. I didnt expect so many people to like it. Thanks to all of you wonderful reveiwers. And SangLune pointed out that I didn't mention whose blood was in the vial, I thought I did, it was Natsuki's. So thank you to SangLune. Now before I begin this is a horror story so starting in this chapter someparts are going to be dark and gory, you all should know this but still I decided that for the first "gory" chapter that I would cut back on it a little just incase someone doesnt read this authors note, you have been warned.

Dislcaimer- Idont own Mai Hime/Otome or Prototype. *Sigh*


Chapter One: Rebirth

Pain

That word was the only way to describe her current existence.

And yet it fell short, so very short, in terms of describing her current situation.

Pain, no.

Torture, no.

Torment, again no.

Agony, Suffering, Anguish… again no.

She realized there was no word to describe it, and the pain was slowly driving all thought from her mind there was nothing to hold onto, to hold back the flood.

Just before she succumbed to it, to her rest, a pair of emeralds flashed through her mind.

Natsuki, I'm sorry.

Just before dazzling rubies lost their radiance, a smile crossed her lips. And the last words to reach her ears as her body was rolled over were, "Shit, she's dead… sir s-she f-f-fell-l on the v-v-ial it's cracked all over and chunks of it are in her! What do we DO? We c-could BE INFECTED NOW!"

"Shut the hell up! We've been assured by those squints that it isn't airborne. Just get a hazmat team here to clean up and bring this back to Sears. You recruit, now we have to pay the general a visit."


Natsuki was looking at her computer screen, bored. She had been through the whole database that they had set up for her by the time she was five, she would have hacked into anything to just have something to do but it was hard lined to only the data base, stupid humans how do they not get bored.

Just as she was about to sigh intense pain ripped through her body, but just as soon as it occurred it was gone. Something is wrong. The sudden pain left her shaken, and the monitors conected to her blaring, when the doctors rushed into the room after the guards of course.

After fifteen minutes of telling them she was fine and getting nowhere, she picked up the nearest to doctors and in one fluid motion that took her just seconds, proceeded to throw one into the wall so hard most of the bones in his body snapped loud enough for everyone in the room to know that he was killed instantly.

They all froze terrified, suddenly remembering one very important fact.

Shizuru wasn't here.

And when Shizuru wasn't here Natsuki had a tendency to get overly aggressive. Shizuru was the only person to ever be able to, for lack of a better word, control Natsuki with just a word. But that thought brought them all back to the current problem that she wasn't here. There was one thought that shot through all of their heads at this realization. Shit.

After the initial shock was over the doctors started to creep to the door, trying to become invisible to Natsuki, while the guards were all thinking on how they could save the other doctor currently in her grip.

Just as one of the guards shifted to try and take the doctor from Natsuki's grip, the room's occupants were treated to a scene straight from a nightmare as vast amounts of fleshy tendrils formed all over the angered blunette and began to pull the doctor in her hand into her body while breaking him apart, rending his flesh and bones. His scream filled the room for less than a second as everyone froze.

With her meal finished Natsuki licked her lips then said matter of factly, "Wish I had some mayo with that."

Since that failed, she calmly walked over to her desk and opened a drawer pulling out a little container that read Mayo on the side of it.

Now smirking and holding up the container she said "Alright, which one is the main course?"

Everyone bolted for the door it took a good five minutes for them all to leave since they had to fight at the door for who got to leave first, making her slightly more annoyed but she knew Shizuru would be mad at her already so she restrained herself.

She sighed now that they had left, she let the flood of memories from her meal rush into her…

Attending Med School…

Dating college sweet heart…

Married with kids…

Getting recruited to Sears...

Assigned to the Mother/Hime project...

News reaching the office from the general about Shizuru...

Terror as he gaz…

Wait, what was that. She thought as she refocused on the earlier memory about Shizuru.

he picked up the phone in his office and instantly straightened his back recognizing the General's voice on the other end.

"Hello sir, what can I do for you if your calling for Doctor Fujino I'm afraid she left al-"

"I know, she won't be coming for the next few days. I don't want anyone to let the subject know. Am I understood."

"Yes sir. Is Doctor Fujino alright sir…?"

"Everything is fine and remember to be careful around her since Shizuru won't be there."

"Yes si-" He heard the click as the general hung up on him…

Natsuki, relaxed as all of his memories were assimilated just as he was. In the beginning she hadn't been able to hold back the torrent after she consumed someone and the flood of memories made her freeze for a few seconds, making it a weakness that she had to remove. She hadn't yet but she could hold them back till she was alone, unfortunately everyone connected to the project knew about it. Then she thought back to the phone call.

Well I was going to see the gen in the morning anyway, now we have something to talk about. If someone hurt my Shiz… Crap. Mine, where the hell did that come from.

Trying to shake her thoughts, she thought back to the doctor she consumed, he should have listened better.

That last thought had her smirking till she remembered Shizuru wasn't going to be in for a bit, then how angry she'd be that Natsuki had consumed someone after not doing it since their second week of knowing each other. She then went straight to worrying about her.

Shizuru…


Pain, it ran through her veins like blood.

Her body felt like it was on fire and being jabbed with ice needles, all the while being ripped apart and jammed back together just to be torn again. At the same time it felt like her insides were breaking and moving into new positions, they just couldn't seem to find a spot they liked.

To top off the amazing sensations running through her body she couldn't move no matter what she tried, her limbs didn't move nothing moved no matter how hard she willed anything at all. And to the more disturbing realizations she could feel her eyes were open but she saw nothing, and her chest didn't move at all, she had no idea why but that sent off alarms in her mind. While she was trying to think of why she realized she had no idea where she was or who she was.

God w-what…is…this. I can't think, I…

need to…find out what's going on…

Ok you, I mean me, we have a name what is it… fine where are we… you are useless.

No you are.

Great now I'm arguing with myself.

She was about to return to her musings when she heard multiple people approaching… she hoped and yet part of her feared their approach.

Help me, PLEASE SOME ONE HELP ME!


Four Sears's scientists, all wearing hazmat suits, entered the morgue at Sears' Japan headquarters in Fuuka in morbid spirits.

First, they had been told that not only had someone tried to flee with an active strand of the Hime virus, but that it had been none other than the respected Doctor Fujino ex-head of the Hime Project.

Second, she had been killed during the retrieval of the virus and the virus itself had been lost. Both a great loss, more so on the doctor for her work had been years ahead of anyone else.

Third and what was causing the most discomfort to the team, they had to perform an autopsy on Doctor Fujino for she had some of the virus in her system for a few seconds before she died.

The biggest problem this caused would be with her admirers, of which the city of Fuuka was full. She was something of a saint, beautiful, kind, and always helping those less fortunate; she had become a local celebrity so her death would not be made public.

They had been told all of this and yet, she had been a god among men at Sears and to District One, an entirely sobering thought.

Now they had to cut into someone they had all respected, each one of them had asked her for aid at some point in time during her two years at Sears, they had talked received friendly hellos and goodbyes from her. Now she was gone.

They approached the table in the center of the room that held a crimson eyed goddess who breathed no more...


Whoever they are they're right beside me how do I tell them I'm trapped in my own head?

How do I get them to make the pain go away…?

How do I get them to help me…?

As she thought this the pain lessened, and while not gone she could now hear the people in the room speaking to each other. At first she was hopeful, she even learned her name at least from what they said it was her name, Shizuru, but the conversation quickly went where she didn't like…


The leader of the autopsy team came to a stop right in front of the table first gazing at the pale lifeless eyes, then to his team.

"Alright, I know you're all nervous and dreading this, so let's get on with this. The sooner we finish the sooner District One can have its subject."

"Sir how can you refer to Shizuru like that she was not only one of us, she was head of one of the most advanced bio-projects Sears runs and has advanced the medical community greatly in her four years of research."

The group's leader looked at who spoke, Elizabeth Smith, one of her many admirers.

"She was also a traitor to her cause and now dead so we can't change that, but she can still be useful in revealing how the virus reacts in humans, we don't get many chances to see the effects of it on actual human subjects."

Smith spoke up before he could continue, "She isn't just a subject like that thing upstairs, that Natsuki. That thing is a monster, it did this to her. She was the greatest mind the medical community has ever seen."

She paused, everyone expected her to continue her rant then…

"Let's just get this over with."

"Right, scalpel Smith." He said as he stepped right to the side of Shizuru's body.


No this can't be happening they're going to-

Her thoughts stopped as she felt the cold steel of the small blade begin to slice open her flesh, intensifying the pain that had returned to ravaging her body. Several minutes later the "Y" incision in her chest was finished and her skin and muscles were pealed back, revealing her rib cage.

Through the roaring in her body she heard them speaking, "Sir look at the bullet wounds they look days old but she was just shot about three and a half hours ago."

"Yes, impressive regeneration but all samples that have been introduced with human tissue have under gone horrible mutations, resulting in expiration. But she has no visible tumors or scar tissue besides the bullet wounds. What makes her different, I wonder? Let's remove the organs, time to crack her open."

Shizuru was panicking through the pain then cried out in her mind as she felt her ribs cracked one by one, each one increasing the pain in her tenfold, till her breast plate was removed.

Please… stop… pl-please. She was slowly losing what perception of the outside world she had when her sight suddenly returned in an explosion of pain and light.

She took in the bright light shining down on her body and in her peripherals the four people around her. She couldn't move her eyes yet but she could now see the horror they were inflicting upon her as she saw hands disappear from her field of vision she then felt pain as her heart was removed, examined, and then placed in a container for further study.

Why…

Stop, please stop…

After a few minutes they had removed both lungs as well and were moving on to her stomach. Her pleas were stoping as she became enraged.

Stop it. Stop it! Stop it!

Come on body move, move it.

Her eyes shifted to the man removing her stomach, which didn't go unnoticed by Ms. Smith who had been watching her face.


"S-sir." Smith was a little shaken and not too sure that her eyes were not playing tricks on her.

"What is it Smith." The group leader looked up, to see her staring at Shizuru's eyes, eyes which were on him now.

"We are certain she is died right, sir?"

Right before he responded those crimson orbs shifted to Smith, and all four of them had seen it.

"But how." He looked to her open chest cavity, then to the containers holding her organs, then back to her eyes which were on him now. He could see so much pain in them and underneath it all an intense rage, oh dear lord no.

All of them were watching her eyes now, one of the ones who hadn't spoken yet had moved closer to her and had a scalpel.


If you think I'm gonna roll over and die now…

He raised the scalpel above her throat.

Move body, grab his hand. Throw him away, something.

Right as his hand plunged toward her throat her right hand shot out and knocked him straight into the wall fifteen feet away. The others were dumbfounded and had no time to respond as she jumped onto the floor, the pain racking through her body was quickly replaced with an intense overwhelming hunger, and she was going to sate it now.

She leapt forward and grabbed two of the remaining scientists and threw one into the corner while trying to grab the last one she missed and he ran. She didn't even bother to follow, she looked at the woman in her hand, the only readable expression on Shizuru's face hunger.

"W-w-wait Doctor Fujino, we di-" She was silenced as flesh tendrils burst from Shizuru's body and grabbed her, along with the two deceased on the floor, pulling them to Shizuru and breaking them down.

A new pain ran through her body as she felt her bones and muscles stitching themselves back together, her organs grew back, the bullet holes closed, and finally the incision on her chest closed up. Then to further her amazment her clothing patched itself up like her skin.

After her body finished patching itself together, her mind was assaulted by memories that weren't hers of that she was certain. The torrent became so great she fell to the floor holding her head screaming, her head feeling ready to burst as she was subjected to the images all jumping through her mind at light speed, the entire lives of three different people she had just killed.

Practice…winning team…victory cele-at home playing with children…walking a do-running to class...

After a minute or two she regained sense of her surroundings as the memories finally were all assimilated into her, and to her surprise she wasn't dead since she thought she was going to die, again apparently.

She went back through the memories she had just gained and after discovering that Smith had an unhealthy obsession with her life before she died, learned that most people believed Shizuru had destroyed her career because of a Natsuki.

Ara that is such a beautiful name.

As she thought that a pair of emeralds flashed through her mind, instantly bringing her comfort but she didn't know why.

I must find out who this Natsuki is, but first I need a place to rest and find out what is going on. Normal people can't just do…that…everything I just did.

After checking Smith's memories one more time she learned a lot about who she supposedly is, part of her was greatly disturbed by this, and managed to find her address too, now she was even more disturbed.

Alright, time to go.

She bolted to the door throwing it open, not even realizing that it flew off its hinges at her yank or that she's covering a distance of forty to fifty feet ever second.

She ran through the building using the memories of the team she consumed to get to the exit, but right as she rounded the corner to the straight away that had the door to her freedom the alarms in the building went off.

She bolted right for the door not slowing at all just throwing her shoulder into it.


AN- Alright and there it is, thank you for reading and once again please R&R. Also for any who would like to have some input on the story I would like to have you guys tell me who your least favorite character is from the Mai Hime/Otome, but I would like it to be someone other than the cast already listed so far or Tomoe or Nagi. Those two already have a part to play later. The one that gets chosen will have a significant part to play soon.

Also for any one who is curious I had originally planned on starting this story at the morgue scene instead, same with this chapter. Alright till next time.