Sun rays streamed into the hospital room where Kazumi laid. The bright rays awoke her and she slowly opened her eyes to the pristine white ceiling above her. She was confused and didn't remember much of any event that happened before, she did not even know where she was. Not having much energy, she pushed herself up and noticed tubes sticking out of her arm. Her thin hand grabbed them and began tugging them away. When they finally gave in, a searing pin spread through her arm and she felt something warm drop from her hand.

Her dark eyes scanned the clean room and landed on a leaver labeled 'call for help' which was next to a dark blue curtain. Seeing no other choice, she got out of bed and walked over to it, but another thing caught her attention. She peeked though a paring in the curtain to find another occupied hospital bed. Lead by curiosity, Kazumi slipped through the parting in the curtain and walked over to the other patient. The girl wasn't sure where she was or what happened so she tapped the females back to ask her. "E-excuse me? S-sorry to interrupt your sleep. Are you a-awake?" She said and was surprised at how croaky her voice sounded.

The other patient stretched and turned around to face Kazumi. "Well now I am, So what do you want?" she said. Her appearance looked familiar to Kazumi but she couldn't put her finger on it. She was about 13 and had blonde hair and pretty light brown eyes.

"C-c-could you please help me?" asked Kazumi not really knowing what else to say and found it hard to phrase such a simple sentence in her dry mouth. The other girl sat up in her bed and looked at her. She didn't look surprised or tare out them tubes from her arm

"It depends what you need help with. So what is it?" she said in a kind yet grouchy voice. Kazumi was surprised that she agreed without even getting to know her name.

"Well, t-to be honest, I don't know what I need help with. I just want to know where I am, what happened to me an..." Kazumi's sentence was cut short.

"So basically you want to talk, right?" the older girl asked. Kazumi nodded. "Ok then, sit down and I'll get you a drink."

"Thank you," Kazumi sat down on a plastic chair and got handed a plastic cup filled with water.

After making herself comfortable in her bed and with a drink, the older patient began to speak in a much clearer voice now. "So, what's your name? Mine's Yugito Nii."

"Oh right, I-I'm Kazumi... errm..." getting embarrassed, Kazumi scavenges her memory for her last name but can't seem to remember it. 'I just have to make one up then!' "Yamashina."

"Nice name. For a start, we're in a hospital in the village hidden in the clouds, I can't tell you what happened to you until you're healed entirely. So, Kazumi, you're not from this area are you?" asked Yugito looking at her.

"Well no, I don't know where I come from, but I don't want to go back there," she responded recalling all the terrible memories.

"I can see why, look how thin you are!" said Yugito and took hold of her thin wrist only to find it dripping with blood. "What happened?! Did you tare out these?" she asked looking shocked at the amount of blood and she pointed at her forearm. She also had the same thin plastic tubed buried into her skin. "Does it hurt you?"

Nodding, she unconsciously began twirling her hair around her finger from embarrassment. "I-it does hurt a bit."

"Then we should call for someone. You know that leaver over there, give it tug." Yugito said pointing at one next to a gap in the heavy curtain. Kazumi jumped of the seat and walked over to the leaver, she gripped it and pulled it. A loud bell echoed throughout the room and following the loud noise a door slammed and a out of breath nurse ran into the curtained up enclosure.

The nurse leaned over to catch her breath. "That damn old demon! Way to many causalities! I was meant to be at home right now!" she muttered and looked up at the two girls in the room. The nurse's face seemed to fill with anger and her brows linked together. "Help yourselves you wretched monsters!" She shouted and left the room.

Yugito sighed sadly. 'It's just like master B has it. I didn't expect it all to happen so soon though,' she thought and carefully took out the tubes. "Let's go Kazumi, this hospital won't help us anymore," Yugito said quietly getting out of her bed.

"B-but, we can't go anywhere like this," said Kazumi. Confused at the nurse's behavior.

"Yeah, I guess we need to make a quick visit to the stores." Yugito responded and walked over to the door. The two managed to walked out of the hospital without being noticed and into a busy market. They were both bare feet and wore hospital robes, so they naturally attracted attention. But it seemed that it was not the things they were wearing, it was who they were that attracted the attention. 'How could it spread so fast?!'.

A few moments later, the girls entered a small clothes boutique and looked around for some clothes that weren't to expensive and would fit them. "Yugito? I don't know what to wear or what to buy," Kazumi said shortly after a while of looking at the labels and fabrics the clothes had to offer.

"Just take anything that fits you," Yugito said in a hurry. She looked around sharply and found a long sleeved green dress and a pair of white sandals. Just when Kazumi was about to try the sandals on, the shop clerk spotted the two and walked over to the.

"GET OUT!" the man's voice was so loud that Yugito flinched.

"Sir, we haven't finished shopping yet and we haven't paid," Yugito said quietly.

"Take it for free! I don't care! JUST GET THE **** OUT!" the man screamed at them, forcing Kazumi to let out a tear.

Yugito grabbed Kazumi's hand and rushed out of the small store and run across the town to a small residential part of the town. The houses were not big but could easily fit a family in. The girls walked through it until they reached a tiny bungalow which the two entered. They managed to catch the in the empty house and sighed. "why does everyone treat us like that?" Kazumi asked with tearful eyes.

Not seeing another choice, Yugito sighed once again and decided to explain the situation to the young confused girl. "You and I have the two tailed beast sealed inside us."

Shocked, she covers her mouth and finally lets the tears escape her eyes. "Would my brother treat me like this too?"

"I doubt it. Now get changed, I'll cut your hair after you do."

"Thank you Yugito. Thank you for everything. "Kazumi whipped away her tears and received a warm smile from Yugito before she went into the bathroom to get changed. Kazumi got changed into the odd looking dress and too big sandals.

"Are you done?" Yugito asked from the bathroom.

"Yeah!" Kazumi called back. Yugito walked into the living room dressed in a dark blue top and black trousers that fit her perfectly. "You look nice."

"Thanks. So, should we get to the hair?"

"Eerrmm, Yeah!"