AN: Hey, you guys! Well, I'm currently working on Taming Temptations but I thought I would drop this chapter by. I don't know with this story, it's like having a new puppy lol. But I hope you guys can enjoy the story and enjoy yourselves.

Warning: Some gore and self mutilation here this story isn't going to be pretty.

Disclaimer: I don't own Mai-hime.

"TALKING"

"THINKING OR P.O.V"


The garden outside turns to desert; the life inside that's drained. A poison of love around the world. The earth itself is stained. The bigger buildings, the loud cars have stopped. Bikes have no riders on seats. A loud siren swells in the air. My heart again begins to beat. Seeing the world through shutters I cannot see it no more. Any beauty around has faded. Buildings have toppled, empires removed. Everything becoming cascaded.

Natsuki held the chestnut haired beauty in her arms. Reito couldn't believe what he just had seen. "What the hell did you do to her?" asked a confused Reito. Natsuki remained silent and carried Shizuru over to her bed ignoring Reito's question. "Answer me! What did you do to my cousin? You, stupid doctor!" asked Reito stepping in the emerald eyed woman's face.

"I helped her ass you, stupid son of a bitch. Now, I suggest you to step out of my way you, idiot dog of the state," said Natsuki in a stern tone, her eyes, now, no longer the color of emerald because of her rising anger.

"Now now, folks lets cool down, Reito come with me so we can fill out the paper work and Natsuki I'll have a nurse send up a kit to help you patch that up," said Tate pointing to Shizuru's damaged finger. Natsuki watched as the two walked out of the room. As Natsuki waited, she took the time to collect her thoughts. "I have never seen this kind of mutilation Ø. If she snapped on just getting her clothes for work what else will she snap on? I mean I read her profile both personal and professional. Her superiors and comrades say that on the battle field she fought like a monster, they say she took part of the slaughter on Titan earning the name of the cursed mortal Kiyohime. General Shizuru Fujino, what kind of person are you, and what happened to make you lose your way?" thought Natsuki looking at Shizuru's damaged hand. Natsuki's thoughts were interrupted by the nurse knocking on the door to hand Natsuki the tools to clean up the wound Shizuru had created.

Meanwhile in Tate's office, a Frantic Reito paced around while Tate calmly sipped his coffee. "Well now, I know you two are defiantly related now, you even pace like she does," said Tate with an amusing tone.

"I'm pacing because I want to know what the hell she did to my commanding officer back there," said Reito in an annoyed tone. Tate laughed at Reito's question earning a confused look from Reito himself.

"I'm surprised for a lieutenant of the Fuuka military of the state to not notice your own technique. It's a pretty old technique but it was used by generals and admirals a long time ago. I know your commanding officer knows the technique but she was in a state where she couldn't notice it." This earned a look of shock from Reito.

"You mean she used…."

"Yes, she used Krav Maga but a more advanced version of it. You guys know this technique as snake or domino effect. Natsuki generated the pressure point in Shizuru's hand, so, pressure went from Shizuru's hand all the way to her pressure points in her arm then all the way to her brain causing her to shut down."

"How does she know that technique? Was she in the army?" said Reito who was now in shock as he sat in his seat. "Huh… Natsuki, heck no, she wasn't in the army. She hates the army but as for the technique someone taught her," said Tate while looking at his now empty cup of coffee as though he was reminiscing about something.

"My question is this: if she hates the military so much, why is helping a soldier right now?" said Reito with edginess in his voice. "Good question my friend. Well, all I know is she used to help soldiers a long time ago, but all of the sudden she changed and stopped helping them. I myself was surprised that she decided to take on this case despite the situation, but don't worry your commanding officer is in good hands," smiled Tate.

The two sat in silence and collected each other's thoughts; it wasn't till there was a knock on the door breaking the tension. Tate walked over to the door and opened it to reveal Natsuki. Natsuki walked in and took a seat in the armchair next to Reito. "So now, I trust that everything is signed and competed so we can move her. I want to begin the treatment as soon as possible so I can get to the root of the problem" said Natsuki in a serious tone.

"Yes, the preparations are done, you can move her anytime you're ready but under the agreement I take her to the faculties," said Reito in a serious tone. "That will be no problem but as you know my regulations of this sort of level of care, there shall be no visitors unless I see an improvement in her levels," said Natsuki in a cold professional tone.

"I can agree with that, but my question is to the two of you: how are we going to move her there? I know from what I've seen earlier today that Miss. Fujino isn't going to be in the best of moods when we tell her she's going to a state hospital," said Tate with a small smile.

"Well now, that's where you come in, you're going to medicate her then Reito and I will take her to the facilities and once we get there I shall take it from that point on," said Natsuki. "I know this doesn't sound right, but doesn't this feel like we are taking her free will to admit herself into the hospital?" said Tate with a worried look on his face. "Well, doctor we both read her records and we had both seen what she can do with her free will. Bludgeoning yourself with a hammer to your major organs is not my idea of free will," said Natsuki in a flat tone.

"Well, as much as I want to disagree with the method we are using to get her to seek help I will take part in this." said Tate sipping on his refilled coffee.

"Then, it's settled, Reito and I will meet here at nine sharp to pick her up. Reito, I suggest you to gather up some belongings of Miss. Fujino," said Natsuki before walking out the door to leave.

The next morning arrived and Shizuru groggily tried to wake up but to no avail. She felt drained of her energy but she could still faintly hear the voices of people talking. "Are you sure you gave her enough?" asked Natsuki "Yes, I gave her enough; she shouldn't be waking up until the day after we get her there. I gave her extra in case that her soldier stamina kicks in. Now, let's get her into a wheelchair, Reito's waiting outside," said Tate. Tate called up the nurse to dress and clean Shizuru. After she was done, Natsuki and Tate lifted her into a wheelchair and rolled her out to the parking lot into the back seat of Reito's car. Soon after, everything was set up, Natsuki sat in the passenger's seat and Reito drove to the Facility, there was a thick tension in the car between the two. Nothing was said until Reito picked up the courage and spoke. "So, what's in this so called Facility we are going to?" asked Reito.

"Well, you must know this is a more extreme facility than what you're used to but, if it eases your thoughts it will be me and your cousin working one on one so I will be working by myself," said Natsuki with a formal tone. "So, you're meaning to tell me that you are going to work with a highly suicidal Soldier of war who won't stop at nothing to hurt herself and others if they get in her way," asked Reito.

"Yes, I am. I have done this several times before and people have been cured," said Natsuki. Soon after the light conversation was over, the two arrived at the facility. Reito was in shock to see that the Facility didn't look much different than an apartment. The two carried Shizuru up to her room, Reito couldn't help but notice that the room that Shizuru was being placed in was pad locked on the outside. The place didn't look any bigger that a normal sized apartment. The two got everything Shizuru needed and set in her room. "I have one question since this is a living quarters that takes on the characteristics of an apartment. Wouldn't that give Shizuru more of an advantage to hurt herself and you with objects such as knifes and other appliances," asked Reito with a concerned look on his face while setting the last of the bags in Shizuru's room.

"I can explain that. Will you come down to the kitchen with me? I'll explain everything." Natsuki closed the door to Shizuru's room leaving her to sleep soundly in bed. Natsuki leaded Reito downstairs to the kitchen. Reito couldn't help but notice that there were pad locks on all of the cabinets except the cabinet that contained food. "Well now, since you have seen everything there is no need to explain to you," said Natsuki while preparing coffee.

"Look Miss Kuga I know you think this building has everything covered but you cannot underestimate the general sh-"

"I know she's a master of combat, speaks thirteen languages fluently and she is a master of strategizing. I can tell you this I'm not a pushover, but I know you're worried that you commanding officer might kill me. According to the agreements that your superiors made, if she wants to keep her job she has to refrain from any acts of violence towards herself and others," said Natsuki cutting off Reito. The two had drunk their coffee and exchanged information about Shizuru, shortly after Reito left for home. Natsuki cleaned up and headed up to check on Shizuru. After punching in the seven digit access code, Natsuki opened the door to find a still sleeping Shizuru. After checking on Shizuru, Natsuki closed the door and headed to her own room to rest for the night.

Shizuru woke up the next morning to find herself in a completely different place. Shizuru looked over to the door to see that it was open. She looked around with her eyes adjusting to her surroundings

And her interest perked up to the smell of breakfast downstairs. She quickly made her way down stairs to see the emerald eyed woman from the other day. Natsuki looked up to see Shizuru standing by the doorway to the kitchen.

"Good morning. I see you're up. Did you sleep well?" said Natsuki. Shizuru looked at Natsuki with cold red eyes. "Where the hell am I and who are you? I know you're not a soldier," grunted Shizuru. "That's a good question Miss. Fujino but you shouldn't focus on where you are but why you are here," said Natsuki looking at Shizuru. "Don't give me that bullshit! Where am I and how can I get out of here? So I can return back to my life!" screamed Shizuru.

"Well, Miss. Fujino I'm afraid you can't go back because you are in Fuuka hospital." Shizuru looked in shock before answering Natsuki. "Nothing's wrong with me! What the hell are you talking about? You bitch, tell me else I'll kill you," screamed Shizuru banging her hands on the table. Natsuki took a small letter out and slid it across the table to Shizuru. Shizuru opened the letter and read the contents, after finishing it she looked up to Natsuki. "You see Miss. Fujino you have been temporarily exempted of duty; it seems that you are being placed under evaluation. The reason why is because of your "little trips" to the hospital it must have caught one of your superiors attention."

"Well, I demand to talk with one of my superiors now!"

"I'm afraid I can't do that, look here Shizuru, you need help and you can sit her and threaten me all you want but that's not going to make you get out any faster nor is killing me. All they are asking is you to complete my program and you will be back to your old life in no time. So, how about this? You make things easier on me and I'll make things easier on you, ok."

"Here's an idea go to hell," said Shizuru sticking up the middle finger before going upstairs.

"Well, not what I was quite looking for but I'll take it," muttered Natsuki.

"Here goes day one."

Despicable motivation adds fuel to the catastrophic fire. The consequences for many will be horrendously dire. Perpetual persecution from warlords and powers, that is. Display unrivalled hostility for the entire world to see. Irresponsible destruction, unforgiving carnage we see. How unimportant and trivial the price of life must be. Financial retribution is the motive, I am sure. To feed the political giants, ever hungry, for a chance of war.


AN: Well, I'm done with chapter three, yay! Well now, I shall return back to taming temptations now. As for the Shizuru meanie thing it will get better, right now, she and Natsuki aren't on the best terms but romance will start to come in towards later chapters. Well people, read and review that's all you have to do lol.

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