Disclaimer :

The characters in this story aren't mine, they belong to Rumiko Takahashi and other publications… I'm only here so I can practice my writing…lol… I do not own any of the characters and gains no profit from writing this story… so again please don't sue!!!… I already have enough problems managing bill payments…..

( ) Means Chinese

Italics Means thoughts


Nabiki coughed violently. She coughed up large amounts of water from her lungs as she struggled to breathe. She felt the sun's stinging rays on her back. She slowly opened her eyes. She was at the beach. She was probably washed up to shore. She looked around her surroundings. Sand and a lot of debris left by the storm surrounded the area.

"That's right there was a storm." she said to herself. Absently she reached for her chest. She was relieved to feel a heart shape pendant.

"Good, I haven't lost it." She said to herself as she began to get up. Still holding the pendant.

"Where am I?" She asked herself. She began to walk around. She didn't know where to go. She just kept walking trying to find someone, anyone.

She tried to remember what had happened to her. Only pieces of her memory flashed, images of people flashed before her eyes, she doesn't know them but somehow she knew them. She tried to remember.

There was an image of a woman,

Then a child and then a man.

Two girls

A ship

Blue ocean

A white casket

Dolphins

Laughter

Lightning,

Violent storm

Dark room

Loving arms

Her falling

Darkness

Struggling to stay afloat

Bright light and image of a woman

Loving feeling

A voice. A voice calling out.

Nabiki.

Nabiki?

Is that her name?

Her head began to hurt. She also began to feel dizzy. She must have hit her head on something.

Why cant she remember?

Has she lost her memory?

She checked her head, which was throbbing in pain. She was caught in surprise when she had checked her hand. There was blood. Finding nothing else to stop the bleeding, she tore a portion of her shirt. Her sleeve. Then began to apply pressure on her wounded head. She sat there on the sand for quite sometime before deciding to seek help.


She continued to walk. Her hand to her temple. Her head was pounding. She didn't know how long she was walking for. Her legs began to ache. She realised she had walked a great deal, when she began to study her surroundings. She was no longer at the beach nor could she hear the water. She was now surrounded by trees. Up ahead she can see a small trail.

She began to follow it. Her head still pounded. But somehow she trudged on. Despite her aching legs. She knew she had to find a way to get back home. Someone was waiting for her. She was quite sure of that.

But who?

She doesn't remember.

She finally managed to see a clearing. She was exhausted. Her legs ached and she felt weak. Her stomach rumbled. She was hungry and her head won't stop hurting. But she willed herself to continue walking. She needed to find people. What she saw in the clearing was a dusty road.

"A road! That means there will be people nearby!" She cried out ecstatically. With renewed hope. She began to yet again follow where the road leads.

It had began to grow dark. She was tired, hungry and alone. Her headache never ceased. It only intensified. It hurt so much that she had passed out.


She was awaken when she felt a sharp jab in her stomach. She later found out it was an obese man speaking in another language. Kicking her still.

(Get up) The man told her. He was only given a blank look by the girl.

(Get up!) He commanded and kicked her. When the girl didn't get up he grabbed her by the shoulders and hauled her up.

Nabiki was terrified. The man didn't look nice at all. He looked mean and nasty. He grabbed her and hauled her up. Looking at her. Examining her. Talking to her in a strange language.

(Who are you? Where did you come from? ) The man asked her. All he had in reply was the fear in her eyes as the girl began to struggle from his grasp.

"Let me go!" She struggled to get away from the man. She then heard another voice. The man was not alone.


Panic overwhelmed her.

She then reacted almost automatically. She winded her arms in front of her and with all her strength, she put her hands down on the man's elbows, in a chopping motion. The man released her as he lost his grip. She then thrust her palm against his nose. Breaking it. She then began to run. She didn't get too far when she heard a whipping sound. She then felt a rope wrapped painfully around her ankles, making her fall and the air knocked out of her lungs.

Looking back she saw the other man. While he was slender than the obese man that had held her moments ago, this man look fit and more dangerous than the other. He also held the other end of the whip that was around her ankles. She tried to get away, only to be stopped by the obese man who angrily grabbed her by the hair.

(You fcken brat! You broke my nose! I should kill you right now!) He yelled at the girl only to be stopped by his partner.

(Stop Yun. Let her go. She maybe useful to us.) He told him.

(What do you mean Jin?) Asked Yun. Still holding Nabiki's hair while she struggled to get away from him.

(I heard that they pay good money at the black market for brats like her.) Jin explained as he looked at the girl.

She looked foreign. She will definetly earn them a lot of money in the black market.

(What are we suppose to do to her in the mean time?) Yun asked.

He wasn't really used to picking up waifs on the road. He preferred robbing people and animal poaching.

Jin was used to dealing with the stolen goods at the black market. Trade Slaving was nothing new to him. He has heard a lot of money can be earned selling children and underage females in prostitution rings. The idea itself wasn't too bad especially after what the girl had done to his nose.

(Tie her up and then tomorrow, we make our way towards Qing Hai.) Jin told him.

(Qing Hai? But that's near Joketsuzoku. The land of the Nyanichiczu Amazons!) Yun gasped.

(Even better maybe we can nab one of them as well.) Laughed Jin. Then casting a glance towards his partner.

(Don't worry too much Yun. Trust me. I know this roads like the back of my hand. Besides it's the fastest way to get to the Qinghai without getting caught.) He assured his partner.

With that, they began to tie up the struggling girl and put her in the cage meant to be for a panda. Nabiki kept struggling but due to extreme fatigue and hunger, all her struggles where futile. She was untied before put in the cage at the back of the horse carriage. She decided to stop struggling until she got her strength back before attempting to escape.


They had finally stop and made camp. Her captors taunted her but at least threw scraps of food to her. She didn't really have a choice, but eat what ever scraps of food the threw at her. She was hungry. She was also all alone with dangerous men.

Her captors drank and laughed all night. All the while talking to each other and looking at her direction from time to time. She needed to escape. She could tell from the look they were giving her that they had something nasty instore for her. But until then she had to plan her escape. It was way too dark to try now and she barely have strength. She will need to store her strength up.

She will need to get her strength up in order to escape them. She also noticed they carried guns. The more reason she needs to plan her escape. One false move and she knew she will be dead. She drifted in troubled sleep. Clutching her knees and crying. Praying to the Kamis above to protect her.


Author's Notes:

Hope you all like it. It's a bit short I know but its hard since I'm a bit distracted with the Holidays coming up. But please bare with me on this. I promise to make up for it on the next chapter.

What will happen to Nabiki now?

What do the men have planned for her?

Please review.

Ja Ne,

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