Author's Note: Hello everyone! This is Chapter one of my Prologue! I hope you like it! I need reviews so I know whether to continue on with the story or not. If you don't review, I'm just going to have to erase it... Can't keep writing a story that no one's going to read, right? Enjoy!

Chapter One

Red Butterfly Flies Again

Tohru Honda started her first day at the new high school, Kaiwaia High. She felt nervous, and didn't want to screw things up like she did at the other school. She winced from the physical and emotional pain that she had endured there. She looked at her arms with the cuts and bruises. The reason why she came here was because she wanted a fresh start with life. This time, she wasn't going to fight and make enemies. Tohru vowed to herself that she wouldn't fight without reason. Her sensei told her after her mother died that she had to change her name. So, her new name, Sakura.

When she entered the building, she found the halls empty except for the sunlight coming cheerily in through the window. She walked down the hall, looking for class 1-D. Her footsteps echoed in the deserted hallways. When she found it, she slid open the door of her homeroom, and all eyes were on her.

"Oh, and here's the new student that I was just telling you about, Sakura Honda." Sensei swept her long hair out of her eyes, and reached over a hand and pulled her gently into the classroom.

"H-hello," Sakura timidly replied. "I hope that we can all be friends," she smiled nervously around. The only people that actually returned the smile was a girl with long, black hair that was braided over to the side. Actually, she raised a hand in her direction in a sign of peace. Another was a blond girl with a punkish attitude.

"Hey Honda, what's up?" she raised her hand and tossed her head to keep the hair out of her face and stared up at Tohru.

The other was a boy with beautiful amethyst eyes who smiled. But, even when he did, it didn't reach all the way to his eyes. It wasn't who he truly was. It was… mysterious.

"You may take the seat next to Yuki in the back. Yuki raise your hand," Sensei directed.

The boy in the back of the class with handsome features, silver hair, and those wonderful eyes! Of course, Tohru didn't even glance at him, but she did look him up and down.

Yuki felt uncomfortable under her stare. He squirmed a bit in his chair.

"Now, class, as I was saying, there will be some announcements…" Sensei droned on and on about the first day.

Sakura may have been looking directly at Sensei, but she didn't hear a THING she said. All that she was thinking was that she shouldn't ruin this chance for herself.

There was a rustle of screeching chairs and people fighting to get out of the classroom broke into her thoughts.

"Come on," Yuki replied. "I'll show you to your next class. What do you have?" he stared at her with his piercing eyes.

"Oh, um, I have math," Sakura smiled at him briefly.

"Really? So do I. We can go to class together," he tilted his head, and led her out the classroom door.

As they made there way to class, Yuki asked her:

"So, what happened at your other school?"

"Huh?" Tohru looked alarmed.

Yuki hesitantly replied, "Well, some of the other teachers were saying that there was some sort of a commotion that caused you to transfer schools. I can understand if you wouldn't want to tell me."

"No." the words had come out of Sakura's mouth before she could even think about what she was saying. I came because I had caused some problems at my other school," she replied vaguely.

"What sort of---" Yuki began but was cut off by a bunch of guys.

"Hey, check it out. It's the new girl."

"Dude, she's SO my type,"

"She doesn't look too bright. She's going to be a pushover."

"Well, then go work your magic,"

"Watch and learn, bro!" one of them walked over to her and before Yuki could do anything to stop them, Tohru had taken action.

She walked over and smiled sweetly before punching them square in the face.

"Ow! Dude!"

"I'm sorry, it seems that you have mistaken me some other slut. I didn't come here to this damn school to be hit on by a bunch of freaks like you, do you hear me?" Sakura held them by the scruff of their necks, and glared daggers at the one that approached her.

He was so scared that he couldn't even nod his head.

Tohru dropped him and let him slump to the floor, and left walking towards her next class.

Yuki stood stunned and looked at the boys who were beat up by a girl in a matter of minutes. He hurried after Tohru.

"Ms. Honda!" he sprinted after her receding back.

"When did you… How did you---" he had so many questions floating around in his head about this girl.

"I learned from the teacher who taught my mother. He was the person I turned to when I had some spare time. Of course, after my mother died, I started to become more serious about martial arts. I wanted to get revenge for my mot----" Tohru hung her head and realized that she had said too much.

"You need to get revenge?" Yuki slowly said.

"N-no, I was just… ummm… Oh! Here's class! We'd better go!" she smiled and tottered into class before Yuki could say anything.

School was out for the day, and Sakura made her way happily through the hallways of people. She had a smile on her face and had forgotten the events of the morning. But, what she was surprised to find out was that she was in every single class with Yuki Sohma. All day, she had spent with him, and coincidentally enough, she was sitting next to him in every class as well! As she walked out someone called her name from behind her.

"Hey, Honda!" The blond haired girl who had said hi that morning was walking towards her.

"Oh. Hello, did you need something?" she turned around and mustered the best face that she possibly could that showed that she was carefree.

"Listen, we heard about why you left. Something about avenging your mother's death?" she smiled at her. "I think that we can help you with that…"

Sakura looked suspicious. "We?"

"Yes. I plan to help as well." the girl with the dark hair came from, so it seemed, out of nowhere.

"I'm Arisa Uotani, and this is Saki Hanajima. You can just call me Uo and her Hana." the blonde had spoken for the two of them again.

"Yes, well, I think that we can be of assistance in your plan," Hana serenely replied.

"You don't know, by any chance, about the Red Butterfly, do you?" Tohru asked quietly.

"Know? She's a TOTAL legend! I mean, she would ride into the night, and her tail lights would look like a red butterfly! It's AMAZING! How is she? Is she the one that we are assisting?" Uo was starting to get excited.

"No, Uo. It seems that we are avenging the death OF the Red Butterfly, also known as Sakura's mother," Hana explained quietly almost to herself.

"How did you know about that?" Sakura was astonished.

"I can read electric waves. And I caught on quickly to what you were about to say," she replied back.

"Yeah, well, your mojo powers are cool and all, but we have some major work to do! Let's get down to business. So, we call ourselves the Red Butterfly and our mission is the capture those who killed her and kill them." On an afterthought, Uo added. "Or make their lives a living hell." She shrugged. "Either way, it works, don't 'cha think?"

"I sense the Prince's waves coming from over… there," Hana pointed towards the corner where Yuki was walking towards Tohru.

"Hello, Ms. Honda," he smiled.

"Hello," she replied in return.

"I see that you have made some new friends," he gestured towards Hana and Uo.

"Yeah, you got that right," Uo muttered to herself.

"Uh, yeah. They're really great!" Tohru said a little too enthusiastically.

"So, um, we better be going now. Thanks so much for showing me around today! See you tomorrow morning!" With a final wave, Uo and Hana pushed Sakura towards the exit of the school, as Sakura waved at Yuki one last time.

"You aren't in love with him, are you?" Uo disdainfully asked.

"No. I'm just curious, that's all. There's something strange about him. He's not like the other boys," Sakura thoughtfully replied to herself.

"Yes, that's very true, his electric waves are almost inhuman," Hana added.

"Yeah, well, human or mutant alien, he's still the Prince of our school," Uo said.

"Really? A Prince? Wow. Then, he MUST have a princess," Tohru jokingly replied.

"No, actually, he doesn't. I mean, come on, with those fan club girls, he would be ripped apart if it weren't for his girl repelling reflexes," Uo scoffed.

"Back to the point," Hana steered the conversation to it's original subject.

"Right," the other two agreed.

"This is what we need to do. I suggest that we go out tonight to see if we meet anyone. And if we do, they great! If not, then we'll do more snooping!" Tohru all of a sudden took on an almost different personality and decided immediately what to do.

"Well, you have the leader thing under control," Uo laughed.

It was 8:30 PM, and there was a full moon. Sakura was wearing her trench coat that had been her mother's. It was quite impressive. It was tight around her torso, but flared out at the bottom, and went great with the black pants and knee high leather boots. She had a black scarf tied around her face. Uo had sported a black tight fitting top with a pair of leather black pants. The look was completed with a leather mask. Hana, had gone to great lengths to make her outfit complete! She sported a tight-fitting mask with a black halter top and over it had a lacy, coat that went only to her chest. Her bottom were black flaring pants.

"Hey! Nice outfit, Hana!" Uo looked her up and down.

"Thank you, the same goes for the two of you," she smiled one of her rare smiles.

"Thanks!"

While the girls were complimenting each other on their clothes, they heard a rustle from outside of the dark alleyway.

Sakura was the first to hear it. "Hey, what was that noise?"

Immediately, the other two fell silent.

"It seems we have company," Hana quietly replied.

"Then, let the fun begin. I've always dreamed of beating up a bunch of thugs in the moonlight," Uo replied sarcastically.

"There they are," Tohru pointed to the shadows that were cast by the intruders.

Sakura did a back-flip onto the building that stood next to them.

"Nice," Uo whispered more to herself that to anyone else.

Before Uo or Hana could take action, a black car came into the alley. It head lights made everything in sight almost unnaturally light.

"I think there's someone over there," Shigure told Yuki. There was a flicker of blond hair that caught his attention.

Yuki commanded Hatsuharu to stop the car, and stepped out to find a girl in a trench coat with her brunette colored hair flying in all directions. She held two knives in her hands that were wavy.

Shigure got in front of Yuki out of habit.

"Protecting your buddy, are you?" the girl scoffed. "You are so pathetic! I'm sure that he can protect himself,"

He still didn't move. Yuki tried to get in front of him, but Shigure wouldn't let him.

"Stop protecting me," he hissed at him.

"Oh. So he can talk. Come on, your not scared, are you? Fight!" her voice rang out through the night. "Fight like a man! You good for nothing scum!"

That did it. Yuki sprang at her. She did a somersault so she was behind him and laughed. "You are slow," she drawled out every syllable. "I know you can do better than that! Give me your best!" she smirked.

Yuki did a side kick in midair in the direction of the voice, but something caught him in the chest and threw him back.

"Is that the best you can do?" she narrowed her eyes at him.

When he tried to get up. She kicked him in the stomach. So raised her right hand to strike him with her knife, but her eyes suddenly grew wide when she saw the thing around his neck. It was a necklace that was made of silver and had a locket. She picked it up with the tip of her knife. She stood there with an astonished look on her face. Before Yuki could do anything, she was gone. It was as if she was never there. The only thing that was left, was Yuki bruised and gasping for breath.

"I can't believe I just got beat up by a girl," he grumbled to himself. "The thing that was keeping her from killing me was this necklace," he felt it with his hand to reassure himself that it was still there. He took it off and looked at the picture within. It was of his childhood friend, Tohru. She was the sweetest person in the world.

"Yuki!"

"Tohru!"

"Happy birthday!"

"Same to you!"

They had gotten each other the identical thing except it had a picture of the other in the lockets. They promised that if they ever grew apart, they would always remember each other by the necklace. Yuki shook his head as if to rid himself of the painful memory of what once was.

"Yuki!" Shigure came rushing over. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah. I'm fine. Did you get a glimpse of that girl's face?"

He looked grim. "No. But, did you see that trench coat? It had the red butterfly imprinted on it. That was the Red Butterfly,"

"That makes no sense," Yuki frowned. Akito disposed of her two years ago,"

"It could just be a petty gang imitating the legendary Butterfly," Hatsuharu replied walking towards them.

Yuki shook his head. "No. The way she fought. She was experienced. That wasn't any ordinary gang," he grimaced with pain as he felt the spot where she had kicked him with her heels.

"That's going to leave a mark," he muttered to himself.