The stormy clouds had gathered as Ritsu was returning from one of the mindless tasks Shigure had asked him to perform. As usual Shigure asked Ritsu to go and get him some jelly rolls. Like always Ritsu bought more than needed and is fighting off the cat that lives down the street. Making him promises of jelly rolls in the future. He finally gives up after the continuous persistence of the cat and hands him one of the treats. Crying he makes his way home. He did not see what is lying ahead on the ground until he tripped over it and fell to the ground. Crying while he picked up the spilled jelly rolls he turned to see what he had tripped over. It was a girl. She was lying across the side walk like she had passed out there.

"Ahhh, I am so sorry please forgive me I didn't see you there and..."

He sees that she is unconscious and ponders on the thought of whether to take her to Shigure's house or to leave her there. After amounts of worrying and crying he decided to place the jelly rolls on her and take her to Shigure's house. Kyou was sitting on the roof so he was the first to see Ritsu walking home with the stranger. He jumped down and started yelling at him.

"You idiot you know we can not have strangers coming into our house!
More importantly she is a female and she would get in the way! And
let's not forget Shigure's infatuation with girls! Can't you do
anything right? :: Sigh:: Just take her in and ask Shigure what we
should do."

Ritsu walked in the house trying not to cry in fear of dropping her
and he headed towards Shigure's work room. He hesitantly knocked on
the door to ask for help.

"Um Shigure, Uh I have the jelly rolls you asked for. And I need you
to give me a hand with her she is kind of heavy."

"Her?"

Shigure walks out of the door to find Ritsu struggling with the girl. With the help of Shigure they lay her on his bed. Her clothing was soaked and worn down like she had crawled a long distance and her skin was cut all over like someone had attacked her. They both knew that her clothing had to be changed while Shigure was trying to calm the hysterical Ritsu Toru heard the commotion and walked in. Ritsu was so upset about the girl that he ran through the door.

"I guess Ritsu is upset but what happened and why is there a girl in
your bed Shigure?"

Shigure looks down and sighs. He gets up and pulls out an extra Kimono.

"Here put this on her and I will bring some tea for the both of you."

After dressing her in Shigure's kimono, Toru looks at the girl and decides to go and get a wash cloth to clean her face with water because it had dirt and blood on it. As she walked to the kitchen, Yuki spoke softly to her asking what had happened to upset Ritsu. She looked into Shigure's room and hurried back to the room with water explaining to Yuki what had happened. As she was wiping the blood and dirt off the girl began to wake up.

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Hi (waves ) this is the first chapter of my fan fic called Mizuhiki Hateshi and I wanted to say that please read it and tell me all of your thoughts and I would appreciate any comments good or bad^^. Well I hope you will like my fic and I hope you will like my story when it fills out. Well Jaa ne! ^^