Looking over my reviews/ides/such I came across one that really was great in it's simplicity. Koodos to XxmotojixX

"When there is trust, betrayal isn't far behind."

And that's exactly what Mai found.

When I look back at my childhood, there was an equal balance of good and bad. Sometimes it shifted one way, and another the opposite way. On one of those good overpowering occasions, I felt as if I was under some sort of a trance.

Ten years earlier

Roaring cars and empty playgrounds was all that a six-year old Mai could find. Lost in her tears and fright from being separated from her family during the Cherry blossom festival, she wandered aimlessly looking for some clue.

A clue that could point her in the right direction; one that would guide her back to her family. But all she had found was a dime, face down in the dirt. What had her mother said? "Life starts on the dime"? Well she certainly couldn't pay for bus passage with a dime, but the shine that coin gave off in the dimming sky eased some of her fear. Some. Dimming sky meant dimming light, which meant that darkness would soon follow; a thing that had been drilled into her head since birth.

And as a boy stepped around the slide that she sat on she really began to worry about its meaning. This being that stood before her held a look of surprise and looked as if he was having an internal battle about something that Mai couldn't even begin to imagine. This boy was and angel. A too beautiful angel, with straight, lengthy black hair and too blue eyes.

"Hey little girl. You lost?" The boy-man-teenager- crouched down so that his face was level with hers. "Hey don't be scared, Ryushi will get you home safe and sound."

He ruffled her hair as he smiled sincerely at her.

"I want mommy." Mai stated. She crossed her arms and pouted, trying to look firm, but tears began to fall from her eyes as soon as this boy/man responded, saying, "Of course you do" with such warmth, that she couldn't help but let the tears fall and wailing be heard.

He picked her up gently and rocked her back and forth as she grasped his shirt in that death grip that babies and toddlers are only capable of.

"Alright your okay now sssshhhhh. What's your name baby-face? Where do you live?"

"On sixty-six street in a brick house with my mommy and daddy and br-brother.."

"Uh-huh ok what your name though hun?" Mai just looked up at the stranger. She was told never to give her name to anybody especially her real one; especially in her case with their family curse and all. A side note :in the case of hunter families, they created so many aliases that at times they forgot what their birth names were. But Mai was young, and still knew her real name along with how to spell it. And so she gave it to the stranger.

"Mai Taniyama." She felt the man come to a complete halt, and his arms held her tighter now. She looked up at the man who had his "internal battle" face back on and started to cry again.

"Taniyama you say? Hmmmm cute it fits you well." He smiled at her and began to walk again. Though his face was kind and caring his eyes told a different story. His eyes held hers where they were. She was frightened and began to squirm in his arms, her heart doubling its pace; a sound that was deafening to her ears. The man's eyes widened and he blinked in time to her heartbeat for several seconds before her shook his head and said,

"Come on, let's get you home."